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THE DAILY NEWS. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4. 187*.

The IndiBitapoIls News has^ bona fide circulation more than ene-half latter than that of any Other dally paper In Indiana. E*-Goveknor Baoley has the best start in the race for Chandler’s senatorial shoe*. '

The Louisiana rice crop is short on account of lack of water, although the acreage ia greater than la*t year. The motto of all New York politicians seems to be “claim everything.” Everybody professes confidence of success. After to-day Ben Butler will know whether he is the crested jayhawk of the mountain or only the bald-headed snipe of the valley. If Conkliag is elected in New York to* day there will be a large amount of pity bestowed upon the scratchers—and it will be a waste of raw material; better bestow it upon Sam. Tilden. . _ Ik the south is in a state of tumult, how does it happen thai the cotton crop is the largest ever r&iSed? How can agriculture be pursued to such an extent, if there is neither peace not safety? “Costing events cast their shadow before.” A dispatch in regard to General Grant’s movements says, “After leaving Council Bluffs breakfast was served in aroyai manner I” Yesterday at Ked Oak— suggestive name—Iowa, a German “proposed Three cheer, for the American king.” . t,. - The Journal says Mr. Hendricks was demanding the repeal of the resumption act fifteen months ago. It is less than fifteen months ago since the Journal was calling upon congress to repeal the resumption law, and saying that the man was a fool who said that resumption could be maintained after January 1. It is said that last year about 114,000 persona of London’s four millions were admitted to the reading rooms of the Brit* ish museum library. In all English libraries there it less use made of them and fewer facilities afforded than attend Americaalibraries. In the British museum -library, for instance, the doors are closed at five in the afternoon, and at nd' time is any one under twenty-one years of age admitted. Luring last year abont 800.000 volumes were taken down from the shelve* and used one way or other. The cost of the catalogue for this library is estimated to be $400,000. It will fill ninety-six quarto volumes with 80,000 closely printed pages. The additions to the library go on at a great rate; last year they amounted to 47,000 volumes, besides 16.000 other objects of historical and literary interest. The people who are “saving the country” with so much teal these fine days seem to forget that the country is saving itself, even after their own notion of such salvation. The solid south is as hollow a shell as the southern confederacy was, and already the independent movements in local politics are spreading the cracks that soon will seam the whole circumference. Meanwhile empire is steadily taking its way westward, or northwestward. The growth of Nebraska from 1870 to 1875 was 218 per cent., a rate almost without parallel in the growth of American statea. Kansas, Colorado and Minnesota show^a heavy growth, in abort there is hardly a region of the west that is not filling up rapidly. The census of 1880 will probably show a population of 50,000,000, an increase of 12.000. 000, or about 30 per cent, in the last decade. Of this fully 10,000,000 will be found in the west, and not more than 2.000. 000 in the south. And much of this is in Texas, which, while growing rapidly is doing »o in part at the expense of the other aouthern states. The reapportionment that will be made under this census, it is estimated, will take tea or twelve members of congress from the 108 that now represent the south^ while the gain t® the “north;” in contradistinction to “south” is put at about 17, which, added t® the 185 she now has, make 202. On the same basis which assumes that the number of representatives would be put at 300, (they now number 293,) the number of presi-

dential eleclora in 1884 would be 328. Of these 253 would com® from the north and 124 from the south. 8o the solid south would have to get 65 vote® from the north, a® it would then take 189 to elect. Those who are really afraid the “confederal® brigadiers" mean to run away with the country can rest easy. The country is too big to be carried ofT rapidly. It has outgrown its 1870 measurement* wonderfully. In the sectional questions of the future the solid south will aot exist

Twenty-Five Years After. If Dumsajrere alive he might write a story of the “Mysterious K. N.’# f ” and follow it up with the “Secret A. A.’t; or, Twenty-five years Uter: A sequel.” It is said, seriously, that a secret order with principles clesely identical with those ef the know-nothings of 1854-5 has been recently formed in New York and put in course of diffusion, through the love of mystery as instinctive in human nature, as the love of pawpaw* in a’possum. It is, or is to be, called the “Americanalliance,” and its. aims are to slop the naturalzation of foreigners, so far as that precess confers the right of suffrage, and confine electoral privileges to natives or the children of natives bora abroad, and the honors of office wholly to Americana bom; to resist and thwart interference of the Catholic church and its affiliated organizations in political affairs, and to oppose all political organizations ef foreign bom citizens exclusively. This goes beyond the ( know-nothings. They were willing to allow foreigners full citizenship after twenty-one years residence,“just what is required of a native,” they pathetically pleaded,” for he can’t vote till he is twen-ty-one.” The new order will not. allow foreign bom voters at all. They must be sons of the soil, or natives accidentally born out of their native country. In other respects of opposition to the Catholic church and to foreign political association, the alliance is “knownothiogism” over again. The elder order was especially hostile to Catholics, and the mobs that painted some of the election contests of that time with ugly patches of blood in spots, invariably made victims of Catholics. In a modified form, and under the name of “American,’! it tangled up the organization of congress ia 1855, and left both its name and influence to disturb, but net seriously, the election •ef 1856. It was pretty mu<^h identical with the “old whigs.” Colonel Dick Thompson, of Terre Haute, was the head and front of the new party in this state, and there are seifie living .yet who may remember bis appeal to the old whigs and Americans to vote for the Fremont electors. - f? Now the affair seems to have shifted its party location. The knownothings were chiefly whigs naturally and_ justifiably irritated at the servility of the democracy to foreigners, and the unwavering adhesion to that party of voters who knew no more of the government, of their duties, or of the matters in controversy between parties thsn they knew of the difference between John Stuart Mill’s and Henry C. Carey’s notion* of political economy. They were not much better fitted for citizens than the stupidest field hands in slavery, and they were allowed as muck political power—after a year’s residence and a promise to become citizens, which they could retract at pleasure—asi the most intelligent native, while yet aliens. It was infamous and remains infamous, though lees mischieyous now through a better class of immigration. In these abuses the knownothings took their rise, and were naturally hostile to the democracy who fawned on the foreigner*. They ran riot soon and became an unmixed evil, and were pretty much killed for political purposes by the defeat in Virginia in 1855 by Henry A. '\Yiae. Now, however, the affair seems to be democratic, and, it is said, has endorsed Robinson in New York. This is so strange a change that it looks to us quite as probable that the order snd its work are an .‘^invention of the enemy,” ascribed to the democracy to offset their foreign auxiliaries. It is quite in the Tammany line to stir foreigners against Robinson, for every Tammany candidate of fourteen in New York, is a foreigner. It wouldn’t be a bad electioneering trick to makeahe Irish and Germana believe that Robinson was supported by a body pledged to hate and fight Catholics, for all the Irish and mauy of the Germans aro Catholics. So this new order of k. n.’s may be, after all, a dodge adapted to the meridian of New • York.

The OoTernnient** Funding Operations. On the last day of September the payments of the assistant United States treasurer of the balance on hand in depositing banks ended the refunding work which was begun in 1871. The acts of congress of 1870-71 authorized bonds at 4, and 5 per cent, for refunding purposes, with the promise thAt they should not be sold below par ia coin, and sppropriating X per cent, to cover all expenses of preparation, sale, etc; and this limit has never been exceeded in any instance. To Secretary Chase belong! the credit of the wise provision by which the government reserved the right to redeem the A-20 and 10 40 bonds after five and ten years respectively, and it was daring his admiaiitration of the treasury that these bonds were issued. In 1871, under Secretary Boutwell, the 6 per cent, loan was put on the market and about $50,000,000 of it was taken in this country in the first six months. European agencies had been opened for the previous loans, bat the fact that the 10-40 5 per cent bonds were selling for about S>5 per cent in gold made it impossible to consummate large sales in the foreign markets. So there were no sub* scriptious at home and no demand abroad. To regulate in a certain sense the marXet prise of our bonds and remove the obstacle of previous issues coming lower in price, it was necessary to have e systematic management of the sales and to this end in August of 1871, Mr. Boutwell accepted an offer from a combination of banks in this country, then called a syndicate for the first time, to take $10,600,000 A per cents at par and have exclusive control of the home and foreign markets till April

I8ti, with the right to take within that dite an aggregate of $200,000,000, meantime taking no lea than $5,000,000 per month. The banks or the syndicate were to have three months from ths date of each subscription to make their pavmeats in, but during that time the proceeds of the alee were to remain on deposit in any government depository designated. This was to prevent the with4rawal from clrcnlation of money which oould only be put out in payment of called bends, and because time was required for the operations abroad, and further because the oommissien was so small, after deducting first-costs, that the syndicate, which took the risk of the first subscriptions, must depend for their profits on the use of the money deposited and its final conversion into called boads, by which many of their final settlements were made. iTbil measure met with a good deal of opposition bn£ its effect!veuea has been conceded, and it has been adhered to since. Its justification was that with each issae of bonds congrea had provided that the secretary should issue a call for corresponding amounts of 5 20‘fl, giving their numbers and announcing that interest thereon should cease within three months from the notice® As therefore the government had to pav interest on them till then, and as the money from the sales of the new bonds could only be used to redeem the bonds in question, the use of the money meanwhile by the syndicate to farther insnre the sale of the mew bonds, was no loss to the government; and as things were then perhaps without some such measure ns this, the loans would not have been floated, for the government's credit was not what it is now. The first syndicate sold about $140,000,000 of bonds—$75,000,000 abroad and $65,000,000 at home. Here they were taken mostly by United States banks as substitutes for the 5.20’s called in. Abroad, especially in RugIttud, they were taken by new investors chiefly, so that the settlements had to be made almost entirely in money, and this was ^ped by the syndicate to purchase the called bonds on the continent. These operations were made simultaneous as far as possible, and, to help them, payments for the four per cents were received in irstallments, so that the syndicate, in advance of the delivery of the fives, had funds with which to buy the called bonds, only on delivery of which to th« treasury could they get the five per esuts. “It should be said here,” says the New York Evening Post, from which this review is rewritten, “that from the beginning to the end of the funding operations the treasury has never in a single instance delivered the new bonds except upon payment of their value in money, or upon receipt of a corresponding amount of other United Statea bonds to be held as security.” The large operations between this country and those abroad resulted, at the time of the final deliveries ia London,in December, 1871, in a cash balance of Ilf*,000,000, which tha agent was obliged to receive and deposit for the time being in London. There being no warrant for holding a cash balance in a foreign country, Boutwell called a further amount of 5-20'g for redemption, and in th* end closed the account by baying several millions of uncalled 6-20's, which could ■ever be had on favorable terms. This ended negotiations until Jannary, 1*73, when Mr. Boutwell make a new contract with a syndicate that included several prominent foreign houses, on the same conditions as the former contract, by which about $100,000,000 five per cents, were sold before the paoift which came ia the autumn of that year. Under Bristow’s administration a contract was made in July of 1874, which was the same as Boutweli’s contract except that it required the payment of the interest accruing on the five per cent* until the maturity of the called 5-20’s, for which they were issued to pay. This contract was renewed once or twice, and finally cleaned up the five percent, loan. Under Secretary Morrill in 1876, a per cent, loan wa* started under the same conditions prescribed in Mr. Boutwell’s contract.®, and this negotiation was in progress when Sherman came in. He decided to discontinue the 4J* per cent, loan, believing that the credit of the government wonld float one of 4 per cent, and in June, 1877, a contract was made for the sale of these bonds on the same terms of the sale of the 5’s and 4>4’s. By January of 1878. $75,000,000 of these 4's were sold. Early in this year Sherman abandoned the contract system and offered the bonds to all the banks alike, sufficient to wipe out the remainder of the 5-2§’s. During that year $100,000,000 of the 4’s were taken. January 1,1879, specie payment gave such an impetus to the market that in that month the sale of 4's amounted to $ 132,000^000; in February to $76,000,000; in March to $43,000,000. On the 4th of last April, the last if the 5-20's having been called, thesnbscription was stopped. Two weeks later 4 per cents, were again offered to retire the 10-40 loan. But the price was advanced to 100)4, and the commission reduced to l /i of one per cent., the three months allowance for payment continuing. In one day there we e sufficient subscribed for to retire the $194,000,000 of the 10 40's, and a large amount of subscriptiois were rejected. The refunding certificates which had been made part of the 4 per cent loan, for the benefit of small investors, Sherman refused' to award to large bidders, by limiting the amount each one was allowed to purchase, and we all remember thezobterfugea resorttd to to get them. To show the improrement in the giverament’s credit: In 1860 $1(^010,900 U. S. one year notes were sold. Of which $70,300 were taken at 6 per cent, and $4 810,000 at 12 per cent., while there were offers to take some for 15 and 20 per cent, which were declined. In 1861 United States C per cent twenty year bonds sold at an average of $89.10 per $100, and in the doubtful davs of the war, the 6 per cent. 5-20's sold In Europeas low as 38 per cent, m gold. Now our four per cents are sought after at 100Jd(, with less than of one per cent commission, and they are quoted in New York this week at $ 102,1a. The government has now retired all the bonds it can. The next issue falls due October 31,1880, being $18,000,000 sixes. The government’s refunding operations, briefly stated, is the issuance of $500,000,000 5 per ceats, on which the annual interest is $25,000,000: $185,000,000 4 J4 per cents, annuel interest $8,325,000; $711,022,000 4 pir ce-us, amual interest $:-'8,440,88#; total, $1,396,022.000 bonds, for which annnal interest of $61,765,880 is paid These bonds were used to retire $1,201,455,700 5 20 six per cents, on which the annual interest charge was $72,087,342, and $194,566,300 1#.40 five per cents, on which the at-nual interest was $9,728,315. making a total annual interest of $81,815,657. Thus the annual saving in interest by the refunding is $20,049,777.

• CI KRKNT OOMMfcX F. The men of Europe whose restless ambition is disturbing the peace ©I millions, the New York Times remarks, are all old; hardly any of them being young enough to realize the fruits of their scheming. Gortschakoff, the present chancellor of Russia, is now in bis eighty-second year. The czar himself is already close open sixty-two. Gen. Todieben, his most distinguished officer, is only a few days younger. Lord Beaconsfield will b« seventy-fonr on the 21st of December. Prince Bismarck is less than ten years behind him.. The latter’s right hand Ban, Count ven Moltke—the tacitnrn strategist, wjio “can bold bis tongue in seven languages”—dates back to the 26th of October, 1800, and is thus on the very threshold of his eightieth year. The Emperor William himself is now nearly eighty-two. There is something of a shiver among managing republicans whenever it is suggested that the democrats might nominate Bayard and McDonald. “That’s ike only ticket I fear,” aid a working republican

from one of the northwestern states the other day. Generel Armstrong’s school at Hampton Va., for Indians and negroes, employs more than fifty students on 500 acres of fine land. The mechaniral department is being started with n sixty-horse power Gorlim engine, the gift of George H. Corliss. They here also a saw-mill and planer, and daily there are 6,000 to 8,000 feet of lumber Bade, which relit well. Ten colored and five Indiaa atadents under two skilled hired hands de all the work. The Indians work half e day after merning recitations, end the negroes the entire dey, and attend a night school. They expect to ears enough in one year to eater the junior dam in October, 1880, and by their work and wages while in achool to complete the three-years’ coarse. When the permanent industrial building and its oetfit is completed, the number of work students can be doubled. Gen. Armstion* wants $15,000 to finish this undertakii g, which has proceeded thas far on a loan of $5,000, the only debt the scbofel has. Gen. Armstrong believes ih education of the band, with that of the tongue and brain, for the negro and the Indian. Only one thing could possibly elect Butler, and that is a neglect to vote. A full rote will bury the old fellow below the hope of resurrection.—[Boston Herald. If it shall happen that Governor Robinson carries the day next Tuesday the defeated republicans may comfort themselve* with the reflection that will insure the nomination ef Mr. Tilden by the democrats next year, which would he equivalent to a republican “walk over” in the presidential race. Indeed Governor Robinson’s re-election -•ight easily be regarded by the republicans in other states, if notin this, a* a most important victory, an fififnrauce to .them of success next year by fastening upon, the democrats the weakest candidate in all their list. Prom the expressions of democratic Journals all over thg South and West it is evident that very few desire the nomination of Mr. Tilden, bat all confess if the Robinson ticket carries New York next Tuesday Tilden will be inevitable next year, and they themselves very generally ■gree that Mr. Tilden’s nomina-ion will be equivalent to a democratic defeat.—[New York Herald.

Deliberate golctde. [New York Herald.] “So you won’t iedd me a dollar and a ticket to New York?” “No, William. 1 can’t.” “Then I will go into the cut and have a racket all to myself.” The above conversation occurred about seven o’cleck on Wednesday evening at the depot at Clifton, a small village on the Erie railway, near Paterson, N. J. The first speaker was Wm. Du Quette, and the second Mr. Kinne, the station agent. "Goodby,” said DuQuette, walking a short distance down the track, to a point near where it cuts through a small hill. A freight train was approaching, and he placed himself in front of it, not moviag even when the engineer gave the danger signal. In another minute his mangled aud lilelcts body was picked up a few yards from the station. Du Quette. was a printer by trade, and at one time managed a small paper in Passaic, but of late years bad been employed as compositor and pressman. Formerly he was very industrious, but for the last few years had been addicted to drink. The Ktettauer Fall are. Rumor pets the liabilities of the StetUner Bros, k Co., at Chicago, at over $1,000,008. The failure caused considerable excitement in New York. It is reported that the firm invested a ouarter of a million in mines in ban Juan country, but this is declared improbable. It is reported that on Saturday a transfer amounting to $150,000 was made to a mother in law of a member of the firm, aud that withih five months a relative named Rosenfield was paid $500,000. Among (be indettedneaa i* a claim of Claflin Ik Co., New York, for $100,000; another of George Richardson k Co., New York, for $50,000, and of Col. Strong, New York, for $25,000. The supposed indebtedaess exceeds $1 000,000, and may reach $1,500,000. The firm is composed of David Stettauer, Charles Stettauer and George Einstein, the latter of New York. The great bulk of thecreiitors are among the large commission aud jobbing houses of New York.

Wooing with Walnut Forattare. | A handsome black walnut chamber set ws* exhibited by a Pateison furniture dealer a* the Hohokns, N. J. fair. II was much admired, and in the group of admirers were a yout-g man and the young woman he had to the fair. He had been courting her for a long time, but be had never succeeded in getting his courage up to the point of asking her to be bis. While admiring the walnut set he inquired, doubtless without any ulterior motive, “How do you like such a set as that?” The young woman promptly answered that she would be almost willing to be married if she could begin housekeeping with such furniture/ “I will buy it if you will marry me,” the young man said, with the air of one who had found a long Bought opportunity. The answer was decisive and businesslike: “Toucan not close the bargain any too soon.” The wedding invitations are already sent out. Why Not KnglUh First? [CS»rk Co. Record.] The name of Hon. William H. English U balng mei'tioned freq -ently la coiumntoa with th* iimiotratie nomination for vice president. Tiiilta and English would make thing* nttle In 1SS0.—jCorydou Democrat. Why not English and Tilden? English is a much purer and better man in every respect than Tilden, aud would make a mure popular candidate for president. Tilden and English would be another democratic blunder. English and Bayard would,' indeed, make the most available candidates for the democracy in 1880. A Know Sterm East. A severe snow storm prevailed throughout (Tntario Sunday night and yesterday morning. In some sections there wu one foot of tnow on a level. The storm commenced, throughout New England yesterday. Fifteen inches of snow fell at Keene, N. H., twenty at Brattleboro, Vt, and twelve along the western shore of Lake Champlain. Holler Explosions. A boiler exploded. Monday, in the sugar house of A. Lailiug, in 8t. Charles parish, Louisiana. Two men were killed and four wounded. The boiler of Garnett’s saw mill, at Delaware, Ontario, exploded yesterday, killing Edward Johnson, engineer, and’injuring three others.

Available Force~of the Army. General Sherman’s report chowsffihat after deducting the number of men engaged in hospital, post signed service and other duties, the effective force of the army is only 20,799. The grand aggregate of the army roil is 2,187 officers aud 24,262 men in service, and 368 officers retired.

The Cm War. General Sherman.in summing np the troublee with the Uua, says; “Thu* far we hare loet eleven citizens, two officers, and twelve soldiers killed, and forty-one wounded. Tn* Indians admit 'be loss/d thirty-nine warriors kiDed. so tha* they have not much reason to boast.”

Liability far 1-oat Baggage Tbe supreme court of the JJnitedStates has decided that in the absence of specific regulations, distinctly brought to the knowledge of the passenger, a railroad or other common carrier is tiabie for the full amount by baggage lost. Wearing Awa’, Jean. f Bloom In gw* Courier.] The national party is daily losing strength, aot only in this county, but all over the land.

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TDK COOTY1TCWOWAL AMKJfDMKNM. What Rapraaemailf Oavernhav* la-The Change* that Must Cooae tram Uha ogwd CeaAltlana—The Ha dot, and How 1| BhoaM Be Gaarkted. NO. *. T© Ihe BSMm af Th* ImHiaeeH* Hewm A short time since yon published an article of mine calling attention to tbe preposed constitutional amendments. I propose in e short series of brief articles to consider those amendments, and for convenience will call this No 2. In oomiderirg the qnestioa of voting for or against the proposed constitutional amendments, logically we should have a premia, an argument and a conclusion. To reaaon at all we must take facts as they exist for it is with them we bare to deal It is te them and their combined operations and effects that we must adant onr own action in evecything we do or suffer. First, then, as to existing facts. We have e government and we have property, end they have grown into existence in the aggregation of mankind into eommunities. Without pqblic order there can be ne protection for the person of the individual, uor can there be enjoyment of property. There can be eo liberty of any kind. There can be no fixed laborer reward for labor or enjoyment of the fruits of it. The object and end of the government then, is to maintain public order. In this couatry the object and end is to preserve public order, end still leave to each individual complete persona] liberty as far as possible and have that public order: To allow each to think for himself and act on bit own judgment so long as he does not interfere with the same right in others. To allow such to labor unmolested and acquire and use tbe-fruits of his own labor, to exchange with others, to go and come at his will, so far as his labor and acquirements do not deprive others of the same privilege. When the acts of one operate to deprive another of equal riirhts, then disorder begins and government operates to prevent disorder by defining the limits within which each shall be .free to act. and > nf >rcing recognition of those limits. The theory in this country is, the greatest possible personal freedom to each consistent with tbe rights of others and have public order; and this constitutes the perfection of civil liberty. Second. In this country we have no gov* ernment except the law and that law ia established and enforced by representatives chosen by the people, under certain modes of procedure. The forms of proceeding in making the choice is part of the law, and in pursuing those forms public order must be preserved- If we do not observe these forms we so far overturn the government; so far move toward the establishment of anarchy; and the effect is to weaken public confidence in tbe form of government and invite a stronger and more concentrated form, where power can be more directly exercised and efforts to overturn any part of thegovernment be prevented. Our peculiar form of representatrue government is an experiment. The rules that can successfully control its operations must grow out of itself in administering i\ It is like any other new piece of machinery projected and put together on a theory as to it* operation. Everything cannot be foreseen and provided for. and when oace pat in operation time and experience demonstrate necessary changes, additions and modifications, and the owners and operators mu-t make them or the experiment will prove to be a failure. The attempt to force it—make it work—by projecting new theories instead of acting on the neeessities time and experience have demonstrated, will multiply evil* instead of curing them, and government under our existing theory will end in anarchy. To return now, we have the existing facts of a republican, representative theory of government that has Ween in operation as an experiment for a century.. Time and experience have demonstrated necessities Tor changes and modifications, both ia its fundamental laws and modes of administration. In Some instances the necessary changes hurt been made; while in others new theories bare beea put forward and new experiments bare teen entered upon in practice, instead of making th® chaages indicated by experience. Altered eurreundings and unanticipated conditiors that have come from general progress ; from the changed condition of other nations and our intercource with them; the growth of new andimproved lines and modes of transportation: the growth and investment of capital ; the acquisition of territory and changed state and territorial relations; the influx of foreigners and the varied privileges granted them by different states; foreign and internal wars; the growth and decline of political parties; aud many other thtrgshave brought a>out a state of facts that materially affect us as a nation, as states and as individuals, whether we consider them ia our law-making or not; and the results to us are of vitd consequence. That which was ample as a fundamental prorision ono hundred, or fifty, or twenty-ire years ago, is aow, in some cases, wholly inadequate. That which was sufficient in details a generation ago is now wholly inapplicable in some cases. These facts we must recognize and, in oar form of gorernment, must adapt ourselves to them; and if we would preserve our representative system and have government by law, we must modify the constitution ia such way as to guard against the evils which time has developed, as a result of past experience and practice. We have a constitution, supposed to contain a full explanation of the power* which the people have delegated to the state, to be exercised for the purposes of government It provides for legislative, executive, administrative and judicial departments, with certain detail* under each; specifies certain rights reserved to th« people, certain limitations upon the privileges to be enjoyed by tbe citizens as well as upon the powers entrusted to the several departments. It is now proposed to modify the privilege of the citizen in exercising his reserved right to eeltet representatives. Every act of government is performed by a repre*entative, whether he be supervisor, town trustee, county commissioner, constable, justice, •heriff, judge, legislator or governor. Each department is conduced by representatives chosen hr tha people to fill that particular place, either directly or bhosen by some other which the people first choose. Under the constitution adopted nearly thirty years ago, every native male white citizen of lawful age, could vote in the $ precinct where he lived at (he time ef election; and every male adult of foreign birth who had lived six aaontbs in the state, and had declared his intention to become a citizen, could vote in the precinct where he lived at any election. The change proposed is to strike out the word‘white,’and to require sixty days residence in the county and thirty day* residence in the precinct immediately before election, to be admitted to vote; and if there is a registry law. that he sbail be duly registered. Tbe question now is, ia this chan««• necessary? Have the changed circumstances and surroundings brought about ig a century of practice under our experiment, made this change in our state constitution a necewity in order to better secure civil liberty and preserve public order, by better protecting tbe use of the ballot ? Efficiency, honesty and true allegiance in the administration of government, depend wholly on the selections the voters make ia voting for officers to carry out the law in every official position. On the voter rests tbe entire responsibility for acts of government. If tbe laws are bad or inefficient or impractical or unequal in operation, there i* bad or oppressive goverment; the person is not protected ; property is uncertain; and the fruits of its acquisition and maintnance—on which labor depends for its pay and tbe laborer depends for the necessaries to support lifedrifts into the hands of tbe few while tbe great body of the people become general sufferers and dependents. If the laws are wisely formulated, are practical, and are honestly enforced, there ia good gorernment with ail its eqnality of protection, personal freedom and general prosperity. Which shall exist—good law* and good government or bad—depends on the voters; who votes and what kind of men the votea pat into office. A rule that would work well with three millions of poor people having e half million of voters, with only roads and wagons, rivers and flatboata, sea coasts and schooners as means for transportation, would not do for twenty million* of people, having two millions of voters, with car ale, ships, steamboats, a large commerce and extensive manufactures; while a good rote for the latter would he inefficient for fifty millions of people, haring eight or ten

millioBf ef voters, with railroad*, staamihips, mines, Wmufactura, no limited oosmaree with all parts of th® world, ®nd th® contiagencia that hare arisen under a century of almost unlimited Beans® to citizens and official*. - j An unrestricted ballot in the firet com might be safe and wise. Ia the second case It would gfcre the baianc® of pow«r into the hands of thoe® who ought not to have • ballot. It giva a privilege that should b« thehighest—and should b® held to b® the most evstiy and sacred—to a class who regard it a a matter of purchase and sale and who will use it for personal gala, regardless of tha , question of good or bad government. Thar® is alwaya a “floating vote” that can control any election where the contest is sear equal, and that vote is cast by persons who are wholly irresponsibls, in every sense of the word. The universal ballot has been confounded with “equal rights,” ®nd “universal equality before the law,” by ignorant per ions who know no distinction, and by domagogua who mirieed the people for corrupt ends, temporarily beneficial to themselves only; for this reason (with others) every attempt to show the proper use and power of the Oallot U mat with an outcry from tbe same sources, of “treason to liberty“opression of the poor man,” and other like expressions *6 prevent inquiry or consideration of real facts. Canital is able to take care of i’self. It is the poor man of ail men who nee lf-to have the right to vote in wise and responsible hands, and to hav® it refnsed to such a* would abuse it. I shall attempt hereafter, to show briefly, why the people should more faily guard themselves against tbe abuse of the ballot and why the proposed amendment is a necessity in Indiana and a step in the right direction to aid in protecting them againat that abuse. 1 trust that those who commence reading these articles will continue them until concluded. C. H. Raava. PLTMorra, October 31,1879. A Peetn with a Point. Only ■ pin; yet It calmly l«y Oa (be tufted floor in tbe light of dav: And it abown aerenelv fair and bright, Refiecting back the noonday light. OeIv a boy; yet be saw that pin, And hi* face ivcunird a fli-odish grin. He etooped for awhile with a look intent, liil he and tbe pin alike were bent. Only a chair; but on it* seat A w<4! bent pin found safe retreat; Nor bad tbe keenest eye discerned * That heavenward it* point was tamed. Only a man; bnt he chanced to drop Upon that chair, when fizz, bang, pop! Be leaped like a cork from out a bottle, And opened wide bis valve de throttle. Only a yell; though an honest one. It lacked tbe element of fun; And boy and man, and pin aad chair, In wild oonfofldn mingled there. . SCRAPS* FraacC'has penny savings banks for rchooi boys. Cleveland is to have a pips lige laid to the oil region at a cost of $500,000. Robert Bonner pays his horse doctor twice the salary of any college professor. If you have wroeged a man doa’t hesitate to go to him and ask his forgiveness. A false balaace is an abomination; except to the bank cashier who is off for Europe. Girls who tattoo may find that there is but a short space of time between tattoo and taps. Why is a grocer who civea short measure like an ambuecade? Because he lies in weight. Defective drainage has produced aa epidemic of typho-malarial fever iu and about Worlhvillei; Ky. Columbus made the egg stand, bnt Italians of less renown have made the peanut stand. -{New York World. To bake potatce* quickly pour boiling water over them and let them stand a miaute or so before putting into the oven. Cabbage, when cooked hr boiling, should be boiled in two waters. This destroys the “essential oil,” which is unwholesome. Baldheaded persona are recommended by one who knows how iti* himself, to hava a spider painted on the top ®f their heads in fly time. A woman goes abont Grand Rapids at night, with a lantern, declaring that she is* bride of heaven, and exhorting sinners to repentance. The active metropolitan police of Paris is composed of 6,000 men, chosen from the ranks of the army. The qualifications are tested during one year prior to being pat on the force. The Rev. Dr. Starkey, the new Episcopal bishop of northern New Jersey, is very tall and thin; and is high church without being extreme. He is fifiy-fire year* old aud is a Philadelphian. Sweet milk rubbed on the surface of any pastry before baking, such a* biscuit, gem-i. shortcakes, or even pastry for fruit pies, will make them brown nicely and giva them a tiakyappeurauce. The wool transactions in Connecticut this year were larger than for a decade back, th® sale* in Hartford for one week recently, amounted to 1,500.000 pounds. The price has advanced fully 25 per cent since last April. * “Silver cloth” is tbe name of a new stuff for which women are indebted to Louisiana and to tbe Argentine Republic. The material is manufactured in Germany, and is oouposed of wool and a substance called vegetable silk, which comes from the localities mentioned. Mrs. A. H. Bender, ol Hohokns, New Jersey. whose fnneral ceremonies were performed on Wednesday, was the victim of a dUeaw: contracted by th® us® of poisons in making wax flowers. Some beautiful specimens of her work were exhibited at tbe recent Bergen county fair. An indefatigable mamma, who hu succeed^ in getting her own seven daughters "well off her hands,” has determined to ex tend to others, th® benefit of her system. She is going to open a class for the instruction of young ladies in«the art of husband catching. It is to be called the “School of Design.”—[New York World. A young woman at Smyrna, N. Y., had a dream many years ago, of eight men standing in a row before her, with outstretched hands. She interpreted this to mean that she would have eight husbands. Her seventh husband died lately, and, although she U now 84, she is confident that the dream will be fulfilled. Perhaps the eighth is the undertaker. There is a young man in Cadiz, Kentucky, of such a niscepUbl® and sympathetic physical composition that be was forcetftat one time to abandon a position in a drug store fur the novel reason that he could not handle any kind of medicine without being affected with all the consequences it was calculated to produce on the party for whom it was intended. Eight thousand two hundred and fifteen miles of railroad are now open in British India. Daring the present year tbe very important Indus Valley line, connecting with the port of Kurrachn in Bcinde with the Puojaub railroad at Moultan, ha been completed, and thus, with the exception of the crossing of the Indu* at Suk Kur, a continuous commnntcatioa by railway via Lahore, Delhi, Agra, and Benares to Calcutta, about 2,126 mile*, is established. Tbe lines in upper India proved of great service in the recent campaign. The Proof of the Padding, lMadison Courier.] The way the Indianapolis News U scissored by its exchanges proves it to be the favorite paper.

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