Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1881 — Page 2

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4. 1881.

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Thk thing most needed now is to keep taxesdown in this city, and thus invite en-

terprise and capital to locate here.

It is an easy thing to say that if the people of this city could save fonr or five cents a bushel on all the coal they used, they could well afford to build a railroad. Yea, and if they coold get flour for a dollar a barrel, they could build another one or two. Bat there is no certainty that a railroad will make coal any cheaper than

it will flour.

Every railroad that is really needed here trill come of itself. If it is not needed it will be of no benefit. Indianapolis is a place of too much importance and its buainess is of too great value for any railroad to pass it by, if bnilding in this field. Ten yean ago the township voted $60,000 to a road from Illinois. The money never was paid, but we got the road anyhow. A nd so t it will be with any other line that has a

substantial basis of advantage.

The Washington Star says Senator Sharon rushed out through the senate lobby the other day, and “seeing an employe said to him: 'Somebody wants to see me in tb»4ea#er*tic club-room. Where is the democratic club-room?* ‘It’s the democratic cloak-room you want senator, 1 replied the employe. ‘Well, where is the democratic cloak-room?' then asked the senator, fkttntor Sharon has been at the capital ho rarely during his six yean of senatorial 'service’ that he has never got the hang of ^ the place." But he knows where to find the room of the financial secretary. If the record is oorreot he connects with it every pay day with the certainty of fate.

The retention of Sherman in the cabinet would at once strengthen business confidence and silence criticism. It would be popular in the party and outside of the party- It would emm the fesn of those who are likely to "be disturbed by too much Blaine or Cockling in the cabinet, far Bhonaan la large enaugh to give tone to itto administration with which he is associated.—{Boston Herald. There’s the rub—possibly. Sherman as Garfield's secretary of the treasury, con^ tinning the policy he has begun, would be more even than he has been under Hayes virtual president sa far as finances are concerned. Whatever success should be attained by the new administration in this particular would be distinctively and individually Sherman's. We fancy Garfield peelers to be hia own president and to have the credit of whatever measures his administration may carry out. He is quite aa clear-beaded upon monetary matters as Sherman, If not a wee bit clearer,and doubtkas if he shall succeed in purging our financial system of the destructive and aaomalous depreciated silver factor and make it thoroughly aonud and healthful, he Will choose to do it himself and get the credit of it Tat history of the telegraph in this country i| one of consolidation and oomblaatioa, so that this recent great movemeat of the monopolyJs simply a step in tha onward march begun over thirty years ago. The “Weatern Union” as it stands to-day is the result of sixty eonaolidstioBS. In 1861 the New York and Mississippi Talley Printing and Telegraph Company was chartered in New York with ar capital stock of $360,000 and authorised to construct lines from Bufihlo to St. Louis. In 1809 its name was changed to the “Western Union,” which bad an authorize! capital of loOO,000. Up to 18«4 the lines owned by this company were all we»t of Bufislosttdthe chief offices of the company were at Koeheater. At thk time the capital stock of the company, by steak dividends, consolidations and various issues of stock in all tbs different methods of “watering” had grown from the original $900,009 to 122,11?,009, Ir im Ike chief oficee were

removed to New York eity and three years after this the capital stock amounted to $41,063,100. It had doubkd in five years. Before the recent consolidations the Western Union had 233,000 miles of wire, over which were sent 29,000,000messages through 9,000 offices. The receipts of the company, last year, were nearly thirteen million dollars, and the profits nearly six million. Fob more than tea years the people have refused by popular vote te subsidize any railroad projects. They have done wisely. There is no more reason why a railroad should be helped at the expense of the the tax-payers, than a cheese factory, or boiler shop or dry goods store. It is a vicious plan of forcing growth which in the long run is damaging. New the people are asked to vote aid to a coal road, which they have refused to do twice before. One hundred thousand dollars are asked this time, and it is fair to say that the indneements offered are greater than were given before. The road if built is likely to be a good one, not so much for coal,, we think, as for general purposes. But seeming so good, that is a reason why it should not be subsidized, for if it is likely to pay, private funds can be had to build it. Aside from all this, however, shall the people add to their heavy taxes and drive the entering wedge to break down all the buttresses against excessive taxation. If this is voted, what reason will there be to refuse two others which have applied or will apply for a subsidy? What reason to exclude the half dozen more that may come during the year? What reason to exclnde the manufacturing eterprises that may appeal for assistance in locating here? There is no end to the evil if the door is opened. The first step will be fatal. There are more than three thousand pieces of property in this city now on which the owners can not pay the taxes. Is not the burden heavy enough without increasing it? The Irish leaguers seem to have come definitely to the resolution to separate from England, by force if they must, but to separate anyhow. They could hardly have gone to the length of defying parliamentary law and common sense as they did in the house of commons yesterday, unless they meant it to be a step towards a final rupture. There is no other rational explanation. To expect to maintain any political relations with England at all, and by oatraging all English traditions and sympathies to deprive themselves of English support, would be idiotic, and the leaguers are not fools, if they sre headlong and inconsiderate. Whatever may be the outcome of the present unprecedented condition of parliamentary proceedings, there is no mistaking the fact that the violence and obstinacy of Irish resistance to the measures of the government, have alienated almost the entire English sympathy that had profusely been given to land reform. Bright and other radicals favor the priaeiple, but they will not endure senseless and irritating delays which have lately become so marked a feature of Irish parliamentary policy. If a contest,whether of words or weapons, comes now, or comes soon, the league will have hardly a friend east of the Irish Sea, an ominous destitution for a people so apt to run into revolt only to be crushed, and to expiate it by a generation of safiTering. If Parnell and kis associates had meant to force Ireland out of all sympathy and support into a war in which she would need tenfold more, they could not have taken a more direct road to that end than they have done by their conduct in parliament tnis week.

Thomas Carlyle. Probably before this meets the eye of the reader the spirit of one of England’s greatest writers and one of the greatest thinkers of the ago, will have passed away. A cablegram tbis morning say* that Thomas Carlyle can not live the day out. A feeble, worn out old man, the sign for departure will be welcomed gladly by him, his days have been lived out conscientiously and usefully and there are no ties here to hold him back from the other side. Thomas Carlyle was born near Ecclefechan, Dumfrieshirc, Scotland, in 1795. He was the eldest child of a poor fanner, and received his first education in the parish school of Haddam, afterwards attending a school at Annan, and finally, at sixteen, going to Edinburgh with the intention of fitting himself for the ministry at the university there. His coUegiata studies are said to have been capricious, but when pursued at all were pursued with a Jfierce avidity, like intellectual starvation, that compensated for lack of method and persistence. At the age of twenty or there about, be was tutor in the family of Mr. Charles Bailer, afterwards a distinguished lawyer and statesman. This was his first resort after deliberately deciding that the ministry was unsuited to his disposition or. abilities, and that he would make literature his business. A taste for mathematics had been cultivated at the university, and his first work was a translation of Legendre’s geometry, the work, in Prof. Davies's translation, which for years was a text book in the schools of this country. He prefaced it with an original essay on “Proportion/’ and here ended his devotion to science. In 1823-4 he published a “life of Schiller” in the London Magazine, and gave in it abundant promise of the genius, hut none of the acridity that his later life developed. About the same time he published a translation of Goethe’s “Wilhelm Meister,” the first thorough translation of a work of genius ever made into tha English language. It was not u mere “oversetting,” as the Germans call it, into equivalent English words and gramatical constructions, but u transfusion into English form of the German spirit, a complete clothing of the German substance in an English garb. And the fashion of it waa’not the fantastic, ragged, gorgeous, uncouth, ungraceful fashion of his origuui works, It waa

not much different from any good English style except in being more vigorous sometimes, and more suggestive frequently. In 1826 he married a Miss Welch, a descendant in the eighth or ninth generation of the old reformer John Knox, and after the publication of “Specimens of German romance,” in 1827, he went with his wifetoaa estate of hen at Craigenputtock, a place that he describes in> letter to Goethe as “the loneliest nook in Britain,” among “granite hills and black morasses.” His gloomy picture of it is as characteristic of bis saturnine temper as Sydney Smith’s of Foston le Clay, whs of his hospitable and genial nature, “eight miles from a lemon.” In this congenial savagery of scene and climate he lived for seven years, during which he published in the Edinburgh Review his essay on Jean Panl, that on German literature, and grandest of all, great among the greatest, his essay on Burns. It fixed the place and fame of the poet for oar time if not for all time. Near this era of his life he published his essay on Sir Walter Scott, which was the first direct and vigorous attack ever made on the “Wizard of the North.” It was no impeachment of his genius, but of his abuse of it, in making books for money and social station. It is only within a year or two that the judgment of that essay has been displaced fully by a thorough examination and refutation of its censure. Both illustrate the profound insight and keen analysis of the critic. One effaced forever a harsh popnlar judgment, the other fixed for a whole generation an unfavorable estimate of a part of the career of the most popular author that had then ever lived, or probably has ever lived at all. It waa this same power that turned the ignorance or indifferenee of English culture to German literature, and made it study German authors, till then hardly known by name, as it studied its own great works of genius. He made an epoch in English literature by throwing the element of German thought and force and subtlety into it. While still at Craigenputtock, in 1833-4, he published in Fraser’s Magazine, his “Sartor Resartus” or “Tailor Done Over,” taking the latter from an old Scotoh song. Literally the name means the “Tailor Resewed.” In this work his wild, abrupt, contorted style first showed itself conspicuously, and suited well enough the odd, savagely humorous speculations of the old vagabond philosopher whose name means “Devil’s Dirt,” and who lived at “1 don’t know where,” Weissnichtwo. It is said that when he went to London in 1834, and tried to sell his work to the publishers there, they thought there was no chance for such a queer confusion of conceits and reflections, distorted sentences and odd compounds of words. It made its way slowly, but is the idol of many profound intellects now, while many no way inferior dislike its gigantic affectations of style and its occasional common-place covered up in chaotic language. Three years later his “French Revolution” came out and completed for his literary position all that the “Sartor” left undone. In some respects it has no equal in any language. There are portions af Dickens’s “Tale of Two Cities” that are as graphic and more pathetic, and lay hold on the reader’s mind with a grasp unfettered by barbarities of phrase and unmeaning or half meaning epithets; bat as « whole there is no other such picture of a dreadful scene, so fittingly land and frightful. It is authentically reported than he loaned the manuscript of the work to John Stuart Mill to read, and an ignorant house maid of the latter burned nearly the whole of it to kindle her fires, and Mr. Carlyle was forced to re-examine alitor most of bis Authorities and sources of information. He is said to have told a friend that the published book lacked the force and freshness of the lost one. But there is no reason to doubt that the later one profited by improved arrangement and more effective investigations, that the world has lost nothing worse than Carlylisms, which it can well afford to lose. Three years after removing to London, in 1837, he began a series of lectures on “Gerjnan Literature," “History of Literature,” “Modern Revolutions,” and “Heroes and Hero Worship,” the last of which has been published in book form. It develops a morbid view of the power of individual resolution and force of will, and introduces prominently the philosophy so thoroughly smashed by Buckle, that *the great movements of the world have eome of the will and energy of its great men. Its style is, to say the least, no mitigation of that of the “Sartor” or “Revolution.” These lectures lasted until 1840. In 1845 he published his “Letters and speeches of Oliver Cromwell,” the first systematic attempt to vindicate the character and motives of the “Protector,” ever made, or at least successfully made. If it did not silence the traditional detraction of the only great man that has filled the English throne since Henry V. it at least startled the settled feeling of the mass of the people into inquiry and reflection, and it has down for Cromwell very much what the earlier work did for Borns. The general opinion of the enlightened world sets Cromwell pretty nearly where Milton puts him. The “Life of John Sterling,” 1851 and of “Frederick the Great” in 1858 complete the list of his regular works. Neither of the latter sustains his reputation fully, though Hie “Life of Frederick” contains some descriptions recalling the “French revolution.” The “Latter day pamphlets,” in 1850, exhibited a vigorous but not profound treatment of political, or rather politico-economical questions. The faults of style, and thought and temper are exaggerated. Portions of them were republished here by the newspapers as specimens oi barbaric English, of the power of genius to make itself ridiculous as weU as useless, by extreme or faatastic notions srot abroad in diatorffi|Bpiiguage. The disposition to “heio worship” prob-

ably increased, if it did not create, Carlyle’s antipathies to this country and everybody in it. A popular government was not bis ideal of government, and he had no faith in any virtue of will or brains that waa not a virtue of individual character. He did not believe the mass of a people could be anything rational or do anything creditable. So when our war broke out he gave ns his opinion of it In wbat he called the “American Iliad,” the meanest and most malignant lie ever published by any man, big or little, against a whole nation. He no doubt thought it true, but the nature and temper most be fearfully deformed by habitual misplacement that can see any savor of justice in the opinion of the “Iliad,” that the north had begun beating the south because the latter hired its laborers for life and the former hired them by the year. Probably nothing exhibits his unreasoning antipathy to Americans more characteristically than bis remark to an American some years ago, that “he should like to write the life of Washington to take him dawn a little.” He was frequently unpleasant to admiring visitora, and usually was to Americans. He didn’t want to sec them, and let them know it. He was a man of rare and great abilities, profound scholarship, vast knowledge, crippled by unbending and irrational prejudices of earnest but bigoted religious feelings; of acute and vigorous but unbalanced understanding. His character like his intellect was strong, rough and repellant But it is said that there were occasional exhibitions of a strange simplicity and almost childish tenderness in his life, as sometimes an unsuspected opening among mountain cliffa may lead to a little dell of wonderful beauty and brightness. For the last forty years or more he has lived in a plain house in Chelsea, London, with less pretension than any other eminent literary man in the world, probably, and with less social allurements and alleviations of labor than any who coaid so well afford them.

He Knew When to Laugh. At mid-forenoon yesterday a man who was crossing Woodward avenue at Congress street suddenly began to paw the air with his hands and perform strange divers antics with his feet, and after taking plenty of time about it he came down in a heap. More than fifty people saw the performance, and there was a general laugh. It had not yet ceased when a man with a funereal countenance pushed his way into the crowd and asked: “Who is he?” “What’s his name?” “It’s Jones,” answered a voice. “What Jones?” “Thomas Jones.” “Sure?” “Yes, I’ve known him for over twenty years.” “Then I’ll laugh,” said the solemn-faced man, and he leaned against the wall and chuckled and laughed until he could hardly get his breath. One of the crowd remarked on his singular condnet, and the laugher wiped the tears from his eyes, and replied: “Gentlemen, nothing tickles me all over so much as to see a man fall down. Ten vears ago I was salesman in a wholesale bonse, with a fine chance for promotion. One day a man just ahead of me fell down and I laughed. It was our old man, and he discharged me oh the spot. Five years later I was enraged to a rich girl. As I came out of the paatoffice one day a man sprawled out on the walk, and I laughed till I was sore. It was my Angelina’s old

day have a place in the custom house. I have learned wisdom. Now when I see a

man fall I ask his name and find out if he has any influence to pat me out of my clerkship. If he has 1 look solemn and pass on. If he hasn’t I la-laugh—ha! hal ha! Janes is it! Jones ean’t do me any barm, and ha4 ho! ha! ha! I wouldn’t have missed this for a month’s sal—ha! ha! ha!

The Character of a Newspaper.

L Address of B. Peters, editor of Brooklyn Times.]

A recent magazine article has discussed

at length the subject of “Power Centers,” and has described the press as one of these power centers. The writer in commenting upon the press declared that its editorial power had measurably decreased, but that its great power was the giving of the news to the people, thus famishing them an intelligent basis upon which to fora opinions on current topics. Mr. Peters took stand against this view declaring it to be bis opinion that the power of the editorial department in the press of to-day was still inherent. But this power could only be attained and held conditionally. A newspaper, like a man, nad an individual character, and it was well known that the extent of a man’s influence in he midst qf the community in which he i. red and wife known was measured by the known qualities of the character he possessed. If he was known to be intelligent and honest his word was as. good as his bond. So a newspaper conld not be pnb-

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becoming known to its readers and the public. If it was known that it was under intelligent and honest direction and bad worthy purpose to inspire it, It was sure to be a potent factor in snaping public opinion—and it did tbis not only by publishing the news and thus giving to its readers an intelligent basis bn which to form their opinions and shape their conduct, but in its editorial discussion of current events and the great questions that must necessarily pass under the review of its ken, it will wield a mighty force in giving direc-

tion to the publie thought.

High Regard for Each Other. [Julian Hawthorne.] Those who were in the habit of being present at Geo. Eliot's evening receptions In the Priory at North Bank will remember how Lewes, in the midst of conversation with his friends, would suddenly break off and make « signal for silence: “Hush! hush! Mrs. Lewes is going to speak.” And again, when the two happened to be discussing any question, and I.-ewes had expressed any views with which the great novelist aid not entirely

what you say is true. Yes—but still, don’t you think that, perhaps”—and so go on to state her side of the argument.

»■. The Pacific Coast Flood.

Rain continues throughout the northern and central portions of California, extending from the Sierra Nevadas to the Pacific ocean. The rain-fsll increases as the storm continues. In Shasta county this season’s rain-fall amounts to seven and a half feet. The situation at Sacramento is critiqal, and today may see the place under water. American river is rising fast, and Sacramento river is going up slowly, and as the country all around Sacramento City is already under water, the immense floods coming from the Upper Sacramento,: Yuba and American river will, it is feared, be enough to overflow the levees that «ur-

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The Irrepressible Cantllct. [Blebmoad PalUdlum.1 Ground-hog dav, which comes on Ash Wednesday, which will not put in an appearance untifMarch 2nd, all other statements to tkl contrary, notwithstanding*

The Coming Years. It needs no msgic glass or mystic muttering^ To read the plirophecy oi coming years; No sage Interpreter, to solve the utter logs Of Father Time, the patriarch of seen. If all the world’s s stage, and life’s a drama. Whose actors eome and go, but eome no more. Then Is the future but a panorama Of scenes to be, bat seen in thought before. Let the bright play flash on, but do not anger In contemplation of Its changing hues: Follow instead where Time’s prophetic finger Points, and behold the picture that be views. A decade henoe—nay, two, it does not matter— Here is the self-same stage, the same old play; New actors counterfeit the hollow clatter Worn out long since by actors passed away. Here vice looks mockingly on virture slain; There youth and beauty plight tholr troth together; Here sorrow sits, and there broods cruel pain; There shadow chills the friendship of fair weather, Sincerity still sows the seeds of hate: Candor and truth go cautiously in mask; Honesty plods: corruption rides in state; Labor still bends, complaining to his task. “Stay!” yon exclaim in accents discontented, "Is not your catalogue complete at last? This future, so minutely represented, Is but the present, tempered with the past!” Aye, so it is! Youth dreams of bright successes! Manhood begins to doubt, perhaps to fear; While age his weakness flattering, confesses; And so the world rolls on, rear after year. Year after year beholds the same endeavor Of puny men for wealth or fame, and sees How history repeats itself forever And fortnnestill from her forever flees. One life there is worth living, and its beauty Transcends all charms that hopes fulfilled can bring; He who does truatrully his honest duty, Alone is happy, be be serf or king. —{Forney’s Progress. SCRAPS.

Mardi Gras cornea this year on March 1. Peter Cooper will be 91 years old on the 12th. Mrs. Woodhull has changed her name to Woodhall. Eight Brooklyn pastors haye resigned since last October. In 1830 the taxes on the present site of Chicago were but $7. “Wbat is fame?” “Fame is the result of being civil to newspaper men.” Twenty-^ve hundred dollars worth of flowers at a formal banquet is not thought extravagant.—[Ex. Atlanta. Georgia, is a large horse and mule market. The receipts since September have been 14,548 horses and mules. The entire debt of the Cazenovia (N. Y.) seminary has been paid off during the last year. The largest subscriber was James Callanan, of Des Heines, Iowa, who gave $12,000. About four yean ago Senator-elect Platt was poor. He was elected the head of the United States Express company, and was a shrewd speculator, and is now worth about $200,000. The great schools to be established in England by the Jesuits will not be permitted to receive English scholars. This is according to an Euiscopal rule for the protection of Engfsh Catholic schools. Controller Joshua Yansaut, of Baltimore, has held positions enough, if each were counted separately, to make his public service 114 yean. At one time he held ten different offices, only one of them having a salary attached. The demand for George Eliot’s books has been so great since her death that the London publishen have not been able to meet it. One thousand readers inquired far “Adam Bede” in one week at a leading circulating library. Judge Slote, the member from the Cohosh district, bos an imitation in a servant girl at Marshall, Iowa, who has been arrested fer poisoning the boarders. She kept a diary with such records as this: “At 8 o’clock p. a. t. c.” put arsenic in the coffee.” Nothing more forcibly illustrates the value of an incessant supervision of every mile of railroad track in times of extreme cold than the report of a track walker on the Chicago and GrandTrunk railway,who, going east from Yieksburg, found nine nroken rails on his beat. Mr. John Bright seems to be discouraged

preacbeti to tanners tor nearly forty years,” he says, “with but little result. American competition may speak to them and to our landlord class with more effect.” The Rev. Charles F. Worrell, D. D., one of the oldest Presbyterian ministers in New Jersey, and pastor of the Manasqnon congregation for the past twelve years, died at Perrineville, last Friday, aged sev-enty-seven years. He was a graduate at Princeton college, and had been in the ministry over fifty years. A famous surgeon advises one of his par tients to undergo an operation. “Is it very severe?” asks the patient. “Not for the patient,” says the doctor; “we put him to sleep; but very hard on the operator.” “How so?” “We suffer terribly from anxiety. Jnst think, it only succeeds once in a hundred times.”—[Figaro. A woman near Easton, Pennsylvania, caught her husband kissing the domestic, when she seized a pot of hot coffee from the stove and dashed the contents into their faces, scalding them both severely, and then ran for a doctor for their relief, compelling the domestic te remain in the house, where she nursed her, leaving the husband to care for himself. Tobacco culture in Wisconsin has been confined hitherto to a small part of the state, bat it has already assumed large proportions as a commercial iactor. The value of the crop harvested in 1880 will be reach nearly or quite $1,500,000, and the time is not far distant when it will be expedient to provide proper legal forms lor assuring the markets of the world- of the grade and quality of Wisconsin grown tobacco. Last year 13,350 acres were raised, one-half of which was seed leaf, the remainder being Spanish, of fine, silky

texture.

It is remarkable that the working classes of Germany have taken little part in the anti-Jewish agitation. At a stormy meeting in Berlin the other day, in which the Jews were denounced as people “unfit to mix with other races,” a workman had the courage to state that “seventeen years’ hard work in Berlin, although a Christian himself, his experience was that Jewsish employers haa, as a rule, treated him far better than his co-religionists.” He accordingly proposed a resolution “in favor of religious liberty." The result was that the meeting hissed him and turned

him out.

A Texas savant, John B. Strong by name, has from bis inner censeieusneos evolved this startling’ theory as to the origin of epidemics: ‘Tolarized organic bodies in arctic and antarctic latitude* attract and repel the same as the magnet. The brown races of the Sonth sea possess the vital lifefire of phosphorus in the passive state, while the white races possess it in the active state, being positive and active. By amalgamation of suoh races their offspring become polarized; and when in certain latitudes and under certain circumstances they can be and are made to pass off a life infection which attracts to each other, causing contagious epidemics. Vaccination restores polarization in deficient or partially .polarized bodies; therefore the vaccination of 750 lazzaroni subjects from Naples that landed at New York December 22, will go far to help murder the American people next summer. On-this 10th day of January, 1881, we so to record as discoverer of the irrefutable truths through which intelligent man is now enabled to antidote, and which municipal authorities prevent and stop the spread of all the epidemics without the aid of quarantine.” The Hair* of Oar Head*.

A gentleman lately counted the hairs on the heads of three damsels; one was a blonde, the other a fashionable Titiens (rod or gold), the third a brunette. The victims were aB of the same age, and most have been equally strong-nerved to submit to such a trying ordeal. The result of his industry was: Blonde, 14(^099; tko brunette, 109,000, and the red-haired belle could only boast of 88,000, whiak proved that fair hair is the finest and red hair the coarsest, a fact, by the wap, which has long been

known.

SUPPORTING THE OUN8. Scene on n Battlefield-Carnage and Glory—Or Is It Plain Murder?

[San PrancHsoo Argonaut.;

Did you ever see a battery take posi-

tion?

It hasn’t the thrill of a cavalry charge, nor the grimness of a line of nayoneta moving slowly and determinedly on; but there is a peculiar excitement about it that makes old veterans rise in their saddles

and cheer.

We have been fighting at the edge of the woods. Every cartridge box has been emptied once and more, and one-fourth of the brigade has melted away in dead and wounded and miming. Not a cheer is heard in the whole brigade. We know that we are being driven foot by foot, and that when we break back once more the line will go to pieces, and the enemy will

break through the gap.

Here comes help!

Down the crowded highway gallops a battery, withdrawn from some other position to save otm. The field fence is scattered while yon could count thirty, and the guns rush for the hills behind us. Six horses to a piece—three riders to a gun. Over dry ditches, where a farmer would not drive his wagon, through clumps of hashes, over logs a foot thick, every horse on a gallop, every rider lashing his team

and yelling—the sight behind ns makes us forget the foe in front. The guns jump two feet high as the heavy wheels strike

rock or log, but not a horse slackens his pace, not a canonneer loses his seat. Six guns, six caissons, sixty horses, eighty men race for the brow of the hill as if he who reached it first would be knighted. A moment ago the battery was a confused mob. We look again and the six guhs are in position, the detached horses hurrying away, the ammunition chests open, and along our line runs the command: “Give them one more volley, and fall back to support the guns.” Wc nave scarcely obeyed when boom, boom opens the battery, and jets of fire jump down and scorch the green grass under which we fought and despaired. The shattered old brigade has a chance to breathe for the first time in three hours, as we form a line and lie down. What grim, cool fellows those cannoneers are! Every man is a perfect machine. Bullets splash dust into their faces, bat they do not wince. Bullets sing over and arouna; they do npt dodge. There goes one to the earth, shot

’ through the head as he sponged his gun.

That machinery loses jnst one beat, muses just one cog in the wheel, and then works

away again as before.

Every gun is nsing short fnse shell. The ground shakes and trembles, the roar shuts out all sounds from a battle line three miles long, and the shells go shrieking into the swamp to cut trees short off, to mow great gaps In the bashes, to hunt oat and shatter and mangle men until their corpses can not be recognized as human. Yon would think a tornado waa howling through the forest, followed by billows of fire, and yet men live through it—aye. press forward to capture the battery. We can hear their shouts

as they form for the rush.

-Now the shells are changed for grape and canister, and the guns are fired so fast that all reports blend in one mighty roar. The shriek of a shell is the wickedest sound in war, but nothing makes the flesh crawl like the demoniac singing, purring, whistling grape-shot and the serpent-like hiss of canister. Men’s legs and heads are torn from bodies, and bodies cut in two. A round shot or shell takes two men out of the rank as it crashes through. Grape and canister mow a swath, and pile the dead on

top of each other.

Through the smoke we see a swarm of men. It is not a battle-line, bat a mob of men desperate enough to bathe their bayonetsin theflame of gnns. The guns leap from the ground, almost as they are depressed on the foe, and shrieks, and screams and shouts blend into one awful and steady cry. Twenty men on the battery are down, and the firing is interrupted. The foe accept it as a sign of wavering, and come rushing on. They are not ten feet away when the guns give them a last shot. That discharge picks living men off their feet, and throws them ihto the swamp, a black-

ened, bloody mass. •

Up now, as the enemy are among the guns! There is a silence of ten seconds and then flash and roar of more than three thousand muskets and a rush forward with bayonets. For what? Neither on the right, nor left, nor in front of ns a living foe! There are corpses around us which have been struck by three, four, and even six bullets, and nowhere on this acre of ground is a wounded man. The wheels of the guns can not move until the blockade of dead is removed. Men can not pass from caisson to gun without elimbing over winrows of dead. Every gun and wneel is smeared with blood; every foot of grass

haa its horrible stain.

Historians write of the glory of wt Burial parties saw murder where nietoria

saw glory.

The Result of Negligence.

The floods in Holland have eansed widespread devastation and suffering. Dykes at Nieuwkuyk that resisted storm and wave for eighty years succumbed to the tempest of this wild winter, and a vast area, containing hundreds of thsuaands of acres, and a population of ninety thousand persons, was flooded. Add to tnis severe cold, and it is easy to form a conception of the suffering that ensued. Many houses were torn from their foundations, others fell ia, and in many the imatea were made prisoners in the garrets and on the roofs, where they were subjected to the pangs of hunger and exposure. The catastrophe was owing to the neglect of the government to maintain the dyke in proper oonditien.

Haw Ha Found tha Spot.

When the committee located the stone that marks the spat where fell the great rival of the Uncaa, Miontonomo, at Norwich, *61.. an ancient man suddenly stopped, and, striking his cane into the greuqd said: ‘.Gentlemen, here is the where the great Narragansett chieftain fell.” Upon that spot it was decided to errect the memorial stone, but at a later date, when a son of the discoverer asked his father haw he had been able to fix upon the exact

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of us anxious to discover the

exaoi spot.”

▲ Tame Goose Story. [London Truth.] Here ia a fact for naturalists. There is a goose at Littlecoto farm in Wiltshire (adr joining Mr. Popham’s famous park,) which is known to be nearly 90 yean old aad maybe a geed deal elder. It was presented to the father of the present owner (Mr. Russell) on his tenth birthday, in 1808, aad it was then considered an aged bird. A Monopoly’s Trick. It is said that the iee-dealers ef San Francisco annually buy up the crop of the Alaska lee Company to the amount of 10,000 tons, which is left to melt where it is cut, while San Franeiseo and California ia • served with ice artificially made at an exorbitant price. Paring the Wav. [Oiueinnsti Commercial.] The Hen. Levi P. Morton once "upcu a time “tailored” for a living in Win " county, Vermont. The shingle norral the fact is still in the possession of a 1< admirer. [Beginning of a boom for 1884 or 1888.] fSngland's Imports. The total value of England’s imports for 1880 waa £409,900,000, an increase of about £40,000,000 over 1879. living animals were imparted to the value of £10,242,903. The number of eggs imported was 747,412,440, worth £2,441,300.

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STATE NEWS. Mr. R. Timons, of Benton county, has recently lost seven cattle out of a herd of fourteen, by the disease Jknown as mad Itch. The residence of Sylvester Pollard, near Campbellsburg, and that of the late Archibald Lynn, near Livonia, wore burned Tuesday night. J * A farm residence four miles east Wf Mitchell, belonging to Dr. J. S. Shields, of Seymour, burned Wednesday night Cause s defective flue. W. E. Smith’s residence, near Shiloh church, Sullivan county, with entire contents, burned Wednesday night, during the absence of tbe occupants. The twenty-two cigar manufactories in tbe second division of the first collection district report an aggregate of 2,267,993, an increase over last year of 315,591. William Jones and James Hellam, suspected ceunterfeiters and thieves were arrested at Neblesville, yesterday. Counterfeit coin was found in their possession. John W. Piper, of Orange township, Rash county, has fallen heir to $4,000 by the death of an uncle near Lexington, Ky. Piper has been a paralytic for years, and a county charge. Jamezr (). Stool, of Porn, and Charlie Baker, of Wabash, bad an altercation in Melohor’s saloon in the former place, aad afterward in the street in which Baker was shot in the thigh. Steel is in jail. Physicians have pronounced insane Geo. W. Flowers, the colored man, who twice attempted snicide by banging in the Muncie jaw. He will be removed to the asylum for the insane as soon as arragements can be prefected. The New Albany and St. Louis Air Line company has secured $2,700,000 in cask from Boston capitalists, to complete and equip the road from New Albany to Mt. Vernon, Illinois, where it forms a junction with the SL Louis and Southeastern road into St Louis. Dr. Fred. P. Auat, the murderer of James Humphreys, at Wiuslow, Pike county, on the 10th of last November, is now confined in tbe jail of that county, having been returned from Clifton, Canada, where he was arrested after wandering through various eastern cities. Nate Morgan, a farmer living near Plainfield was hauling wood and had a large load piled upon his wagon, part of which rolled off, throwing him to the ground and almost scalping him, severing several arteries ef the bead(and fracturing the skull. His recovery is not probable. Q Edward Sanders, a colored employe of ike Jeffersonville oar-works, was engaged in boring a bole in one of tbe car-trucks with a red-hot iron, when his apron caught fire. His overalls and apron Ming saturated with grease were also ignited, burning his clothes and body terribly. His injuries are considered fatal. Last spring the barn of Richard Nixon, near Kokomo, Howard connty, was supposed to have been burned by a tramp, and part of a human body was found in tbe debris. Last night tbe new barn was burned. Four horses and a large amount of grain and agricultural implements were destroyed. Loss, several hundred dollars; partly injured. Judge Hord in the Catholic contempt cases on trial at Shelbyville yesterday delived an opinion in which he rebukeo the spirit manifested by the defendants in marching in a body to the court house to answer to tbe rule against them, and ordered all subscribing to the answer, being forty-four in number, attached for contempt of court. Tbe census report shows that in the total poputation of 1,978,362 in Indiana, there is an excess of 42,990 males, the foreign population is 143,765, and of the 39,268 ranked as colored there are 33 Chinese, 4 Japanese. and 233 Indians and half-breeds. Of the Chinese 14 reside in Indianapolis, 3 in Fort Wayne, 4 at Newcastle, 2 at Lafayette. 3 at Evansville, 2 at Terre Haute, 2 at Richmond and one each -in Logansport, Peru and Crawfordsville. The fonr Japanese are students at Aaburr. About half the Indiana me m Miami county. Brown, Jasper and Starke have neither Chinese, negroes nor Indian* within their borders. Next to Marftm county (8,045) Vanderburg baa tbe largest colored population (3,533), Clark next (2,631 ),then Wayne,Floyd,Vigo,Spencer aad Gibson in the order named each having over 1,000. Orange eountyhaa the saurJlest foreign population only 48, ia a total af 14,363, and next to Marion, (14,715) Allen has the largest (9,182,) followed by Vanderburg with 8,508, Laporte with 7,174, aad St. Joseph with 5,507. Trouble AbeoA. When the appetite fails, aad deep grows teawless and unrelreshiug, there is trouble ahead. The digestive organs when healthy crave food.

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