Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 January 1885 — Page 4

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MONDAY, JANUARY 12. OFFICEi 71 and 73 West Market Street. RATES OP SUBSCRIPTION. Indianapolis Dentinal for 1881 Dally, Ban day and Weekly Edition Delivered by carrier, per wee I 25 Dally, including Bnadaj, per we Daily, per annua, by cuIL Oelly.yez aonnm, by mall. InCladlnt BUndlJ, by da!! M-MMUMM.MM . Dally, deUvered by carrier, per annnn Dally, delivered by carrier, pe annum. Indall32 8 an day Dally, to newsdealers, per oopy . 12 03 12 00 II 00 t SUNDAY. an lay edition o! eighty-four columns. Bun day Sentinel, by carrier -.,1J 00 2 5C Ta newtdoalen, per copy. WXXXLY. weekly, per annnrt 1 1 00 The pcsUse on rnbscrifUonj by nail la prepaid er the pubuAhe? newsdealers supplied at three ccati per copy, Postage or other enjarea prepaid. Katered u iccond-clau matter at the FoatoSloe at lallanapol!, kid. AN IMPORTANT SUPPLEMENT. As soon as Governor Gray's inaugural i delivered, on Monday next, we will be prepared to famish a supplement, to our friends of the State press, containing that address together with Governor Porter's last message, and the full proceedings of the recent Democratic Editorial Convention. Price per 1,000, $3.50; for 500, $2. A new Governor to-day. Round-trip tickets to the inaugural will cost $17. The Democratic flag floats over the entire State of Indiana to day. The flap and flatter of the bloody shirt belong to the past. It is -well. Tin New York World made an increase duriDg 1881 of 3,093 columns f advertising over 1SS3. Within eighteen months the World increased in circulation by oyer 60,OCX). Lit the first levee of Governor Gray be well attended to-night. The Governor and his estimable lady will be gratified to see all who care to see them at the Bates House tonight from 1) until 12. TnE investigation ot the Springer Committee at Cincinnati is developing how wise was the decision ot the country to "turn the rascals out." Many a neck has been stretched for less crime than Lot Wright, United States Marshal, has been guilty of. Ir the business of failing continues thrifty among theatrical companies as for a month past, the theaters will have to fall back on amateur local talent in "Romeo and Juliet" and "Julius Caciar." Amateurs scorn to tackle plays leas weighty than Shakspeare's. "Giercsalem!" Read this: It is said that the? Commissioner from Indiana to the World's Fair at New Orleans has distributed 25,000 maps of Indiana purporting to show the railroad system of the State, and Eransrille is omitted entirely. Give us air! Air, etajl! Fifties United States Senators are to be elected during January. The interest will center in Illinois with New York as a side show. It looks as if Morton will win in the latter. It seems to be an affair of money. and should be quoted on the "tickers" of Wall street brokers. The Cleveland Plain Dealer says: Governor Hoadly, in his message, treats the liquor question as one of the most important that will come up for legislative action at this session cf the Legislature, and treats the subject exhaustively and clearly. He points out that the overthrow of the Scott Jaw by the Supreme Court leaves the whole Uestkn open for legislative action. Tns Missouri Republican, at seventy-six years of age, is a remarkably buxom old lady. For strength and wholesomeness its editorial psge has few peers, its mUcellany is always choice, while it is np to the highest mark as a newspaper. Good as the Republi can has ever been, there hai been a decided improvement in it within a few months Mark Twain (Mr. 8. L, Clemens) writes of Rob Roy's story, "Uncle Ben's Cabin," pub lished recently in the Sunday Sentit el, as follows: "I enjoyed the story much. The old negroes are true portraits; they and their ways, their feelings, their speeches, their belongings and surroundings are put upon the paper with a deft and sure hand. You did not ask me for my opinion, and therefore I feel all the more free to give it" Referring to the New York Senatorshlp the New York World says : Morton's success is certain. The legislative shgrpers will make him pay a high price for theomce, but he has made up his mind to bny it at any cost. It is disgraceful to the country that such an illiterate booby should be a Senator of the United States. But it would be as easy to drive a lot of hungry cozs from t well-tilled trough, u to prevent a Republican Legislature from electing a candidate who oners them a well-filled money-bag. Tbk New York State dairymen are opposed to the election of Mr. Evarta to the United States Senate. They have issued a circular to the members of the Legislature of that State, which concludes in the following vig orous language: Now. as Mr. Evarta has reo. nested your honorable body to elect him to represent the people of this State for s'.x vears in the United States Senate, it become the duty of tnis association and every one of its mem bers to ask that yea will permit him to remain in the enjoyment of bis private practice as counsel lor the "teer nets nozfat cotton-teed oil-both butter interests," and to express tue hone taat to a will be enabled to salect tome man who will not

ittnd np In hfs place in the Federal Senate as an insuperable barrier to each Federal legislation as this association, with the aid of its co-operating granges throughout the United States, designs to promote for the pnrpcfe of suppressing the manufacture and tale of the villainous, deleterious com pounds known as oleomargarine, batterine ar;d mine.

INDIANA. There is entertainment, on this day of the inauguration of a Chief Magistrate of ths State, in a contemplation of the history, the growth and the present greatness of Indiana, Dating from her admission into the Union (131G) the State is less than seventy years of age. Then her population numbered bat 03,000; now it is more than 2,000,000; then it was a wilderness ; no w it is, comparatively, a vast garden; then it was a Western border State and a field of frequent combats with Indians; now it is a central State and one of inviting peace. Twenty years after her installation into the Union there was not a foot of railroad within her borders to day her mileage of railways exceeds 5,000, at a valuation of $ö3,OCO,000. Fifty years ago there was no manufacturing in Indiana. In 1S31 there were probably 13,000 manufacturing establishments, employing about 75.003 hands, engagirg 70,000.000 of capital, paying nearly $25,000,000 in wages and turning out over $150,000,000 of products. Ia agricattute she leads in some respects every other State. There are 21G.000 farms, the productions of which aggregate annually nearly $250,000,000. This is a brief of Indiana's industrial progression, but the social and educational advancement has fully kept pace with the industrial. There are 4,479 church boildings in the State, with a combiEed membership of nearly 500.000 ; 21,000 Sunday-school teachers and 200,000 Sundayschcol pupils; 9,8 G9 secalar school houses, 13,058 teachers, 500, CCS enrolled pupils and an annual revenue for public schools of $ 1,458,000. There are two State Universities, a State Normal School, instutions for the Deaf and Dumb and for the Blind, an asylum for Feeble Minded Children, a Soldiers' Orphans' Home and a Reform School for Boys. There are ICO banking establishments in the State, 420 newspapers, 5C3 Masonic Lodges and 550 Odd Fellows Lodges. More than $100,000,000 of life insurance policies are held in Indiana. In public roads there Is invested $21S,SG5,411 ; in school and college buildings, $15,000,' 42C; in church buUdings,$10,8G9,473;in public buildings,;$12,978,420; in bridges, $3,473,290, and the amount of the permanent public school fund is $9 271,910.73. There are 2,700,C0 volumes in the public libraries. More than 10,000 pianos and more than 19,000 organs are in the houses ot the people, and thepeople own 240.080 carriages and buggies. Some of our friends of the "culchawed" East are wont to refer to the "Hoosiers" as a crude people, given muchly to hog and hom iny, ungainly of manner, awkward of speech and sloucby of attire. But we challenge even "the heavenly kingdom of Massachusetts" to a .friendly tilt with the Hoosier Slate in general intelligence, politeness of social intercourse, honorable character istics, womanly women and manly men. Among our earnest, vigorous people there is, we confess, an absence of the "dude" and "dudine" elements. Ours is a sturdy, in dustrious and independent population jast the people to develop the magnificent natural resources which contribute so largely to the wealth of the State. Verily our3 is a good commonwealth with fertility of soil, breadth of intelligence, earneatness of enterprise and ability of statesmanship of which to be proud. THE ST. JOHN "DICKER." The very elaborate manner in which Mr. St. John "sold out" to the Republicans, or offered to eell "through a friend" his chances for the Presidency, was duly heralded a day or two ago by several Blaine organs. The etcry originated in an Iowa paper edited by a party named Clarkson. In Saturday's issue of this paper we intimated that the en tire ttcry had a very "fishy" odor. It was one of thote circumstantial sort of lies that usually depend for existence upon the preju dices and political blindness which aßlict partisans in campaign times. As soon as Mr. St. John saw the story he caid to a Chicago reporter in regard to it: "It is of the same character as all of the rest ot the unfounded accusations. At first they said I demanded $35.000 of the Republicans to withdraw, and afterward drove another bargain with the Democrats by which I remained in the field upon being paid $33,C00. Forced by me to abandon that position, and driven from point to point, they have reached the vague position that I did not make the proposition personally, but through some mvsterious middle-mas. enjoying certain confidential relations that forbid the production of the proof, Now, this I challenge them to do. They are at liberty to publish every letter, telegram, or document of any character or kind in relation to political matters, ever written or signed by me, not only during the campaign, but in any lormer year. They have made specific charges. Now is the time to bring specific proof, and not hedge and dodge and sneak Denina some creature or tnelr imagination whom they term a middle man." This "middleman referred to by Mr. St. John, cays Mr. Clarkson, who published the last story in his Des Moines, Iowa, paper, last Friday, was "a friend of Mr. St, John." "Now." says the latter, "ia the time to bring specific proof." We say so, too. If Mr. Clarkson says that this "friend" negotiated the details of the rascality, now is the time to' prove it. The Blaine bloody-shirt organs, of which the Chicago Tribune is a distinguished type, have been charging this bar gain and rale on the part of Mr. St. John for weeks. Now is the time to prove it. We suspect the Republican National Committee did their dirtiest beat, as usual, to remove St, John out of the contest, and probably were defeated. Let us have all that there is in this story. The following recent conversation, held by a Chicago reporter with Mr. St. John, throws some farther light on this anbject : "Mr. 61 John, did any member of the Democratic National Committee, or any one acting as the agent, or any xerson In authority in the Democratic party, at any time

during the Presidential campaign, approach you or make you a money or other offer by which you would receive a benefit, or attempt to bribe you in any way for any political tervice to be rendered during the campa'gn?" "No, sir; no such thing ever occurred, nor was there any offer made or bribe attempted on behalf of the Democratic party. You can answer that in the necative just as emphatically as you can write." The reporter then put the same Question substituting the word "Republican" for 'Democratic" as the latter occurs in the foregoing, and Mr. 8t. John replied: "I do not care to answer tbat question; I da not want to discuss it now. I wish you would say nothing about it. There are such things as hints, and winks and nods. I may believe that there are men now downstairs in the hotel lobby, in fact, I am sure there are, but I can not positively assert it. I do not donbt but there were attempts to reach me. The formation of the New York State Temperance Assembly was one of these, and it did, but not exactly as anticipated. But I do not wish to discuss the subject further." Mr. St. John here intimates that there were attempts made to reach him by certain parties. He denies emphatically that any Democrat approached him. We hope the truth will come. We believe that St. John is tellirg the truth. lie accepted no bribes, but if the facts ever get to light, It will be found that some of the Steve Elkins gang are at the bottom of this entire business.

SCOTCH THE SNAKE. Leading Democrats of West Virginia have information of a coalition of Republican and Democratic monopolists and protectionists which under the lead of bam Randall is going to fight the Carlisle-Morrison idea of tariff reform. So strong is the impression that Mr. Randall is in the conspiracy that a call bas been issued for a mass meeting at Wheeling on the 14th inst. of representative Democrats from all over the State, to take steps to counteract a vigorous effort that is being made by the monopolists and protectionists to form and consolidate a party within the Democratic ranks for the purpose of controling the Democracy and thwarting its efforts to bring abont the much-needed revenue reform legislation, and to perpetuate the present destructive tariff system. The call urges prompt and efficient organization of all elements opposed to monopolists. The alarm of the West Virginia Democrats is sounded none too soon. It stands the Democracy of every State in hand to organize for vigorous defense against the assaults Sam Randall and his Republican forces are preparing to make upon the interests of the country. Their purpose is, for the benefit of the manopolists cf the New England and Middle States, to strangle every attempt at legislation for reducing the oppressive tariff under which the country is groaning. Sam Randall and his following are determined to maka more than 50,000,000 consumers suffer merely to further enrich a few thousand capitalists engaged in manufacturing. Let West Virginia Democracy meet in force and give forth an utterance of no uncertain sound against the Randall-Rennblican combination, and then let the party of every other State follow the lead of West Virginia. The people of this country on the 4th of last November issued a demand for a reduction of the tariff. Now, let the people see to it that their representatives heed that demand! MORE LIES SENT FORTH. Last week we exposed the conspiracy of terrain unscrupulous Indianapolis correspondents of Republican newspapers in St. Louis and Chicago to ruin the fair fame of our city. One of them had the brazen impudence to telegraph to the Globe-Democrat of St. Louis that a vigilance committee was tarked of to protect Indianapolis property. Now comes another "daisy" in the same line of unscrupulous, illimitable and unadulterated "swash.' The New York Times of recent date contains nearly a column of it from an Indianapolis correspondent, who is supposed to be an attache of a Republican paper in this city. Read: The benevolent institutions will add te the internal troubles of the Democracy. They have been eo conducted under the method conceived and executed by the last Legislature as to arouse the utmost hostility on the part of the people over their partisan and scandalous management. While there has developed a serious difference of opinion in the party itself, Dr. Joseph Rogers, the former bnperintendent of tne Insane Asy lum, who was removed by the present beard without cause simply to give place to a better party man, Is heading a movement to oust the President of the board, and his impeachment is talked or. Dr. Rogers publicly squelched that part of the lie that refers to him several days ago, and es to the "impeachment' of his succes sor, it is evidently part and parcel of the same prolific imagination that caw a vigllance committee forming in the city ten days ago. Does the New York Times demand this sort of nonsense from its corre spondent here? Unless the demand) is very heavy, there need be no trouble about the supply. It is only a question of paper, pencil and endurance of the liar and those he Res about. HYPERCRITICAL. "Executive Chamber, Albany, N. Y., Jan. 6, 1&& J "To the Legislature : "I hereby resign the office of Governor of the State ol Kew Yerk. . "Gbotxk Clkyilakd." The message should have read, after the date line and address: "I resign the office of Governor of this State." The date line showrd that the State was New York. The "hereby" was wholly superfluous. Our public men Insist upon drowning themselves in words. Commercial-Gazette. The Blaine editors allow no occasion to pass without exposing their sore toes. Some have one mode and some another. The "C. G." manifests its soreness by being severely hypercritical of Mr. Cleveland's every movement. We would , suggest to the President-elect that the next time he has occasion to resign the office of Governor ot New York that he take an official abeet of paper similar to the one uwd 4 noted In the fore going and simply

write "I resign." Everybody, Including the C.G.editors,would know that he was the Governor of New York, and that he could mean nothing else than that be resigns the Governorship of that State. Another great point would be gained economy. It would not take so much paper, thus illustrating that brilliant and frueal feature that the Republican party introduced into the administration of the Government of this country.

Tde Troy Telegram give3 Rome astonishing information concerning campaign secrets of the late g. o. p. The Telegram says: The most foolish thing that we have heard of committed by the Republican National Committee was the giving of $10,000 to Murat Halstead to print his New York campaign paper, the Extra. It never had anything in it that did any good, and the ' bovs" called It "the Extra Dry." Yet Murat Haliteadfajs "it was a very good little paper, and edited with a great deal of ability." Had the money thrown away on the Extra been put in this Congressional district it would more than have elected Blaine. , PERSONALS. Gladstone is a sufferer from insomnii. Arthur and Blaine do not speak as they pass by. Magoik Mitchell "called" on Maud S. in Cincinnati. Mr, Cleveland's hand-shakes are estimated at 3,000 a week. TnE late Asa Packard, of Pennsylvania, br queathed 0,000 to the Virginia Military Ii stitute. Mr. Matthew Arnold celebrated on Christmas eve his sixty second birthday anniversary. Pkesidext Arthur will, it is probab'e, give two public receptions daring the present rxonth, and one daring February. Professor Alex Graham Bell, of telephone celebrity, says the service will never be satisfactory until the wires are laid underground. David Davis says his worst enemy is a woman whose poetry he laughed at. That was twenty-eignt years ago, but she still hates him. Mrs. J. W. Mackey has paid f 3.0C0 for a tiny canvas of Gerome, the sizs of which is described as "almost as big as a pockethandkerchief." Miss Susan B. Anthony will remain in Washington until after the meeting ot the Women's Rights Association on January 20, after which she sails for Europe. Glneral Fremont, gray as he is, again be comes a "pathfinder." He is to head a large party to eurvey a tract of 13.000.000 acres in Mexico, bought by large capitalists. General Harney demonstrates that Gen eral Jackson did not uso cotton bales at the battle of New Orleans. But the ingenious youth of all ages will be taught differently. A special from Washington brings the news that Chief Justice Waite is said to be insane from an attack of erysipelas. His friends have no hopes of his living beyond a few months. It is a little singular that a man who took defeat with as much calm philosophy a3 Mr. Blaine is said to have done could not get up magnetism enough to make one or two New i ear's calls. The selection of General Hancock as Chief Marshal for the inauguration was most judicious, but the veteran will head the pageant with a sore heart this year. His married daughter died some time since, and the death of his son Russell, whom he idolized, leaves him childless. The sympathies of the Nation attend the gallant soldier. Ex-Governor A bn er Co burn, of Maine, whose death at the age of eighty-one years and ten months has just been announced, was a poor farmer's boy, and by his own efforts and astuteness accumulated a fortune of $G 000,000 or 7,000,000 He was never married. He was the last of eight brothers, no one ot whom left a male heir, the last of them, Stephen's son, haying been drowned with his father a few years ajp. NOTES AND PRESS OPINIONS. It might be a good plan to pay premiums to married couples who dwell together more than a certain number of years. Providence (R. I.) News. The agitation of the Prohibitionists for a conststutional prohibitory amendment arousing the winemakers. The Vacaville Reporter urges organized opposition. San Francisco Chronicle. We think that a state toward which modern journalism must inevitably move is the substitution of larger sizes of type for the minute agate, nonpareil and minion, in which newspapers are now so frequently set, Penn Yann Chronicle. A yocng lady teacher in one of our city Sunday-schools, whose class is composed of yourgsters. after drilling them on the plagues of Egypt for some time, asked one of them "What was the third plague ?' After a slight hesitation, he answered, "The people were all turned into fleas." Kingston freeman. There seems to be quite a boom in some quarters for Hon. William M. Springer for Secretary of the Interior. The probabilities are that the President-elect will not give great weight to booms iu the formation of bis Cabinet, though on the question ot fitness it may occur to him that the suggfstion is one worthy of grave consideration. Boston Post. A letter from James A. Home, of this city, dated Belle View, Fla., December 30, sajs everybody he has seen thus far has land for sale and large stories to tell of enormous quantities of oranges from one tree. One hundred and ten thousand is the largest yield yet from one tree, but he expects larger stories as he gets further into the country. Dover (Ii. JA.) Democrat. It is rumered that over 100 pairs of ladies' shoes were recently found among the effects of an old bachelor who -died not far from Norwich. There were dainty, stylish little boots and ehoes in all the styles of a quarter of a century, not a pair of which had ever been worn. He was a collector of women's gaiters, and in that line he was a success. Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin. In ao far as the black man is the victim of any form ot oppression, he deserves the sympathy of all men. Wherever he Is refused educational facilities and religious advantages, wherever he is incommoded nnneces sarily, as a traveler in public conveyances, there is urgent demand for reform in hii interest. We can go that far with Mr. Cable: but we can not advocate the degradation of the white race for the sake of the questiona

ble elevation of the black. New Orleans Picayune. 3 Wx do not look for any tariff legislation now from Congress, and we do net know if it be any more advisable than it is possible. Congress is too ignorant, wiggling, and timid to shape a wise and statesman-like tariff bill. Columbia (S. G) Register. While the newspaper man believes the pen is mightier than the sword when handled by men entirely great, still he believes in the potency of the sword and such other contrivances as the arts and sciences have provided for disposing expeditiously of an ugly customer. Beware, therefore, how you assault a newspaper oüice, and be provided for any fate in case you do. Commercial Gazette. The difficulties attending the proper delivery and reception of the certificates ot the Electoral vote of South Carolina remind one irresistably of the familiar story of the Irishman and his tobacco-box. This tobacco box was a present, and was so peculiarly made that it could only be opened by means of a certain crooked sixpence which was presented to the gratified Irishman with the box. Appreciating fully the value and beauty of the gift, and seeing the importance of preserving carefully the only means of opening it, the Irishman, when he had admired tbe open box to his heart's content, put the crooked sixpence in it and closed the box. Whether he was ever able to open it tbe story does not tell. In South Carolina's case the credentials of the messenger were placed in the package with the certificates of the vote, and the package was then carefully sealed. Charleston (3. C.) News and Courier. State Librarian. To the Editor of the Sentinel: Sir Allow a Republican toexpress through your columns the hope that the Legislature will continue Miss Callis in her oüice. Sue has been as efficient and courteous a Librarian as I have known, and I have been a frequenter of the State Library since its foundation under "Little John Cook," fortyfour years ago. It takes a stranger a good part of a year to become familiar with the places and character of the books, and a' full third of the whole term is made more less inefficient. An office whose occupant must be in some measure an "expert" should have a longer term, or the incumbent, when as competent as Miss Callis, should have a second term. B. R. S. January 10. ST. JOHN AGAIN.

His Recent Rejoinder to the Latest Batch of Lies From Clarkson, of the Dea Moines ILegihter, Chicago Times, Sherman House, Jan. 9, 1SS5. To the editor: I have just read what purports to be a letter written by J. S. Clarkson, of Des Moines, in which Mr. Clarkson says: "Ti my knowledge he (myself) did have overtures made, through a friend from his own State, by which he offered, if paid 25,000 in cash, to withdraw as a candidate altogether or to stay in tbe field and 'feather his speeches (as it was put in the Kansas phrase) to the help of the Republicans. He was a'ked, in order to prove the sincerity of his offer, to withdraw from Ohio the last week before the October election in that State. He did this under the plea, which he (aid he wonld give, of getting a sore throat, and, with the friend I have mentioned, went first to Pittsburg, next to Philadelphia, and finally to New York, where he honed to meet some one on the part of the Republican National Committee who would be ready to make the deal and pay the cash." Now, Mr. Clarkson has either been deceived or he willfully lies. No human being was ever authorized by me to make any proposition to Mr. Clarkson or his committee, nor did I "withdraw from Ohio," as stated, but I filled every appointment made for me by the National Prohibition Committee, and one more. Nor did I get. or pretend to get, "a sore throat;" nor do I intend to get a sore throat, if I can help it, so long as there is a dram-shop in this country and a political party to apologize for it, I closed my campaign in Ohio at Oberlin; went directly from there next day to Adrian. Mich., where, at 2 o'clock, I addressed 10,000 peo)le, and then went to Detroit and spoke to a arge audience in the evening, and continued to speak for several days until I had filled all the appointments made for me by the committee. I have not been at Pittsburg for over a year. I went from Michigan to Philadelphia in company with my friend, George R. Scott, of the New York Weekly Witnetp, who joined me at Oberlin, and remained with me nearly three weeks. My campaign was made solely nnder the ontrol of tbe National Prohibition Committee, and I filled every engagement (except, possibly, one, and that not in Ohio), made for me by that committee. If I had desired to have reached tbe Republican Committee or Mr Clarkson it would not have required the intervention of a middleman to have done so. Mr. Clarkson has been challenged time and again to produce his evidence, and each time he speaks behind the plea of "confidential relations," when he knows that he has no confidential relations with me, nor has he formed any such relations with anybody eUe at my request. Now let Mr. Clarkson give to the public the name of this mysterious individual with whom he has been dealing, together with all letters, telegrams and other documentary evidence, including all communications from himself and all other members of the committee or its strikers relating to this matter, and thus enable a fair-minded, impartial public to jud?e as to whether rje or myself has been mixed up in an attempt to bribe somebody. Very respectfully, John P. Sr. John. At Fifty-lr Below Zero. iRocheater (Minn.) Letter.l This morning the thermometer registered 569 below zero. The air was heavy with frost, and the smoke was falling to the ground in a dense cloud. One peculiarity of our climate is its extreme dry new in winter. On account of this a person will freeze and be almost unconscious of it. You will think, perhaps, that we must have suffered intensely upon exposing ourselves to the airthis morning, but I have just been conversing with a gentleman who, in company with his wife, rode a distance of fifteen miles, and who said he never rode more comfortably 4n winter. The amount of oxygen in the air was very noticeable. A person could not have exercised very much without becoming exhausted. All complained ot feeling tired after walking a few blocks. At this time of writing, the thermometer stands 2 below zero, a difference of 54 in twelve hours. The oldest inhabitant has been interviewed, and acknowledges himself beaten, but thinks Providence is punishing us for tolerating a Republican administration for so many years. Had the wind blown this morning as it often does here, no living creature, whether man or beast, could have walked a quarter of a mile without perishing. It is proposed to hold a meeting in Portland Me., oa Longfellow's birthday, February 7, to unveil the bust of the poet, which is coming; from England to the Maine Historical Society.

NEW ORLEANS.

Letter From the Sunny South by Oar Correspondent. Dakota's Dtplay Kansas Iowa Nataral fcclence-A Dig Whale Skeleton, Etc (Special Sentinel Letter.l New Orleans, Jan 9. To-day ths Banny South is voted to be a fraud by all Northern visitors, and the city is full of them. No warm sunshine, no delightful, refreshing breezes nothing but dark, dismal rainy weather. But while all out-doors is 93 uninviting, THE EXPOSITION is daily and hourly growing more beautiful, more attractive and nearicg a complete display of the products of the world. Every day we find new and more inviting displays of man's skill and industry. Tbe disp'ay made by the Territory cf DAKOTA is enough of itself to pay for a thousand miles tour. If you would like to see a forest with green grass and beautiful shrubbery, made into a huntsman's paradise by the stately elk, the mountain sheep, mountain lion, lynx, antelope, deer of all kinds and sizes, the cinnamon bear, white buffalo, beaver, otter, wild cat, panther, wolves, badger, dogs, pelicans,1 loons, turkeys, quails, etc., come to the exposition and look at Dakota's artificial forest. By tne aid of a taxidermist these animals and birds are made to appear as natural as life. Near this park stands a pyramid fifty-five feet high with the great king of birds perched upon its top, surveying the animal and bird show beneath, KANSAS bas an exhibit that attracts much attention. Sorghum sugar as pretty and sweet as ths beet made from sugar cane is a new industry that will doubtless exert a very favorable Influence on the agricultural interests of Western States, where that species of corn grows luxunently. The silk cocoons in tbe Kansas exhibit are the largest I saw, and an enterprising gentleman in Silkville is making this raw silk into beautiful ribbons, thread, and other fabrics. The exhibit of fruits and vegetables, dried by the evaporating process which retains all the strength and flavor of the original, is quite a success in Kansas. There are new industries which demand careful study from all farmer, fruit growers and gardeners. If our farmers can have new and better methods of transforming the crude products of their farms into articles that will become more valuable, and can be preserved for a greater length of time, they nave certainly gained an important point In the direction of better profits and success. FLORIDA has an exhibit of spinners of jute raised on her eandy soil, that shows a possibility for a new Industry in that State that will add greatly to her prosperity, as she needs something besides oranges, bananas, pineapples and other fruits. Jute is now being used largely in making many of the finest fabrics. Tbe city of Dunaee, in Scotland, uses 10,000,OCO worth of it annually. A ton to the acre is an average crep and it sells as high as $150 per ton. IOWA in her educational exhibit, excels anything I have seen eo far in the way of an educational display. The State exercises in the primary department is atrickingly meritorious and worthy of imitation in other schools. The inventive drawings by children ot six years cf age is very remarkable, and calculated to advance their education in several directions. The specimens of penmanship and drawings combined, from the Barlington schools of the third graie,are very creditable. Drawing seems to receive more than ordinary attention in the Iwa schools. The ' schools are fully represented from the primary department up to the hiehest braucees in the University. Professor T. H. McBride, of the State University, is in charge of the exhibit. ward's natural science exhicit. This is the largest private exhibit in the Werld's Exposition, and is intensely interesting to ail students of zoology, paleontology, anthropology, mineralogy, ethnology and all the other ologies in natural science. These specimens are from Ward's great establishment in natural science of Rochester, N. Y. He has many specimens that are new which he has lately collected himself in his travels through foreign countries. To illustrate the anthropoid type be has a family of curang-outaegs from Borneo, in their native forest, feeding on the fruit of the dnrion tree, which is well represented. Of the extinct animals there is a splendid exhibit. The representation of the great mammoth found imbedded in the ice in Siberia, which had no doubt Iain tbere thousands of years, preserved by the intense cold, is a great curiosity. It is covered with long black hair, and tha tusks are immense. It is sixteen and a half feet high, and twenty-six feet from tail topoint of tctks. Mr. Ward went to St. Petersburg and made an exact copy of the original specimen. The Japan crab is a monster, having a spread of IVA feet. The South African ostriches were found there by Mr. Ward himself. The Irish elk is the largest known, having a spread of horns 11 feet. The skeleton of his great whale is 55 feet in length, and has in its mouth the baleen through which the water is strained bo that tbe animal can get the animalcule upon which it feeds. The mmeraiogical cabinet is probably the most com plete in America, showing specimens from all parte of the known world. The Btllllte, from the Tyrol ; the Hämatome, from Scotland, and the Natrobite, of New Jersey, may be seen !n perfection. The Stibirite, from Japan, is a beauty, and is the only one ever brought to this country. Meteoric Iron and stones are profusely represented. That beautiful precious stone, the lapis lazuli, from Chili, may be seen in this collection. All the celebrated diamonds and their values may be seen correctly represented. Every known fossil from the lowest acioula up the highest formations are in the collection. Mr. Ward is a firm believer in evolution, still he does not deny the truth of tbe Bible except on that point. Naturalists are very prone to doubt the truth of tbe Bible, as geologists, anatomists and physiologists used to be. But after these scientists learned more of the laws which preside over tha earth'8 formations and the animal economy, most of them have abandoned infidelity and become firm believers in tbe divine origin of the Bible. They now find a beautiful harmony between the laws of nature and revealed law, as must of ceceesity be as they are both divine. Bat tbe question ot evolution is cot settled yet by any means. Books enough have been written for and against this new doctrine to fill np one entire page of tbe Sentinel to give the titles only, nd still the discussion goes on with vigor and determination. Professor Ward's nitcral science) establishment In Rochester, N. Y., is the largest of ,thekind in the world, and he supplies universities, college! and other schools all over the land. He haa stents in all countries collecting niatsrai for the gnat enterprise, A. Patios