Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 109, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 April 1885 — Page 4

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Is the largest and best newspaper published la Indiana, CONTAINING 104 COLUMNS. frte fr a rartlssa rJItlti al Seftariaa L!u. On all saV.ects of presses its opinions public interest it ex according to it3 best Judgement, with the a view only of promoting BEST INTEREST OF SOCIETY. It contains the cream of the news from quarters down to 4 o'clock Sunday morntrig, excluding only that which is prurient or Immorally sensational. In few wordj, the Scjdat Sejvttsix Is defoted to that class of news, literary and miscellany, proper and necessary to make it what it is, THE PAPER. FOR THE PEOPLE, special j adapted to the home. The SniDiT Szrmnix'e influence will be given In aid of the Kl eT alio n and Adrancera? at of Woman to the true position which Is hers by virtue of natural justice. Price, 2 per year; twenty cents per month, delivered by carrier; five cents per copy. SIXTEEN PAGES. - BUND A. Y, ATKIL la. OFFICE 71 and 73 7eit Market Street. CONTEXTS OF TO.DIY'S PATER. Pice. Latest Telegiaph news. Second Pjgi. Chicago's Great Opera Festival. Amüsements. Chicago Markets for the Week. Washington Letter." Third Page. Woman's World. All Around the House, Fashion as it flies. Religious Intelligence. Focith Pace. Editorial, etc. Fikth Page .Local. Advcrtisments, etc 8rxTnFaoE. Our Social Lile. Social Gossip and Personals From Our Neighboring Cities, .Miscellany, etc. Seventh Pag a. Wit and Pleasantry. Trentlce's Kind Xleait. Gossip, etc. Curious, Useful and Scientific Eighth Page. Local and Advertisements. Simh Page. New Vork Letter; also adververtisemeate of wants, rents, for sale, etc Testh Pace. Cbarlea Resvde's great story of "Lore or Honey" continued. The opening chapter be;an In the Sunday Sentinel of April S. Eleventh Page, The Miser's Bequest. Rica Men of Both Countries. Small Chuck. Social locality. Reads Like a Novel, etc., etc. Twelfth Page. Tannage's Last eermon. English Home Life. Little Folks' Department. Tkieteenth Page. The Home Guard. Varieties. Knotty Problemcs, etc. ForaiiENTTi Page. John's Train a Story. The Czar's Bastlle Pictures of the Unfortunates In Fortress of 8 ts. Teter and Paul. GettinjRld 0! Blemishes. An Ex-Burglar, etc FifTEESTH f age. Reporters a hsrd-worked class, st ho usually receive more blame than j ay. Prolin In; the Marriage Benediction. Doctors and Doctoring. Going to 8cbool, etc Sixteenth Page. Byron and Caroline Lamb, , The Wheel The stupendous Undertaking of Stevens the Cyclist Home and Yoang Folks' , Department. - Eviry man has need to be forgiven. It is said that there Is more than 40,000 persons in New York City who depend upon gambling for a living. The voices of both the British and the Ilissian press are still for war. These are often the true voices of government Genius is naturally selfish and capricious, and he who possesses the "divine lnrlitus" i3 maally a hard man to live with. EtrrosE, save as exchange, all the werld went to bed at sunset. Oh. well, the world's gaa bill would be i est as big at the end cf the quarter. A soiT answer turneth away wrath, but if it be a woman on the rampage, what'say you to a new spring hat with the privilege of exchanging for a nicerone if she can find it? Frequently the best thing a man cm do for his life is to resolutely cut adrift from old associations and occupations and make a fresh beginning, as though he had been born anew. It is predicted that the English langusga Trill ultimately become the language of mankind, and that four-fifths of the human race will trace its pedigree to Eagiish fore fathers. Ds. H. Wardnsh, of the Hospital for the Insane at Anna, 111., sajs that numerous experiment condacted with hit patients show teat regular occupation is a great aid in restoring mental equilibrium. Ax Eastern minister is preaching on the subject, ' Is Satan S3uc2cij?' We venture tha opinion that he Is not any way we pre dict the "hi JMh" will have a hard time 0! it under the present administration. . i. Five wars are now in progress. The Soudar, the Afghan, the British American, the Central American and the Polo. Another hza'juit got under way the base ball war. Evidently the millennium Is not due this year of grace. Hox. B. W. Haaxa has received the Fersltn Mission. The appointment will be greeted with pleasure by Mr. II-ana's many friends in Indiana, and doubtlesj the affairs cf the Government in Persia will be looked cXUr creditably and satisfactorily by Mr. Einna. The Sanday Seniinel is in entire accord Tfiih an esteemed exchange which ia moved to ray: "Do cot laugh at ths drunken man ittllss throcgh the streets however lädieren the sight may be; j aat atop to think. Hab going boxe to some tender heart that Trill throb with intense agony : some doting xrtlrrt pfha ps, who will grieve over t!ie ilZTTzlzll ct her once sinless I (? ;or it may be a fcd clfa, whose heart will always burst :iD aha viewt the destruction of her I liJ.crUtTsy be a loving alster who will j dl2 t::tn tcra over the degradation of htr j trailer, tira cf his manliness and talf r- j rrC- tr drc? a ttzi la silent eynpathy j M::o :irti to keenly terriUva and)

tender, ytt 10 proud and loyal that they can sot accept sympathy tendered tbera la cither words, looks or acts, although it might fall upon their crushed and wounded hearts as refreshing as the summer dew upon the withering plant1

AFGHANISTAN. After rchool dajs one forgets all about tuch eeemirgly uninteresting countries as Afghanistan. As scon, however, as a war Is talked about in connection with it the eyes cf the world are attracted to it Something a tost Afghanistan is now in order. It lies between north latitudes 2i and CG" and embraces great variety of climate, the heat in the eestern pan being intense In snnimer, the thermometer rising as high as 12) in the ehsde, while in the mountain regions the enow lies all the year. The difference in the elevatien of different regions is so great that it has been said of Cabool, its cipital, that at a daj's journey from it the enow never falls, and at two hours' journey from it enow never melt!. At Kandahar and Girihsltthe summer heats and the simooms render life almost Intolerable. Its agricultural resources are naturally fine, but the people being more given to war than the peaceful pursuits of grlculture, have failed to devebp all its resources in that line. Though a large part of the country is mountainous and rocky, with large areas of arid deserts, there are well watered, fertile valleys, dotted with violets, thjme nnd clover, and remarkable for picturesque beauty. In the arable regions grain grows in abundance, and fruits of all kind?. The most extensive of these valleys and plains are Cabool and Feshawer, besldss a rich plain in the vicinity of Herat A large portion of the eouthern and southwest ern part of the country for a space of 000 by 100 miles is a desert waste. The winds are generally from the west, and cold, and the east winds are hot, but the climate on an average is cooler than that of India. The country is about G00 miles long and 400 broad. Herat, in West Afghanistan, is one of the chief cities, is strongly fortified, and is the key to the present situation. It is nearly 400 miles west of Cabool, and before the Fersian siege, in 133 its population was estimated at 4.3,000, but it Is supposed to bs now about 30.000. Herat has been a grand central. mart for the products cf India, Chins, Tartary, Afghanistan and Persia. It manufactures carpets, cap?, cloaks, shoes, etc. For a long time it was capital of the empire founded by Tamerlane in the fourteenth century. In the southern part of the country the sugar cane and cotton are grown, and in the cases of the sandy regions the date palm grows abundantly, and forms an Important part of the food of the people. Wheat ia the staple, and rice, corn, barley, millet, lentils and tobacco are grown for home consumption. The mulberry tree grows in the cool valleys. The sides of the mountains are covered with great forests, which lumbermen have not disturbed as yet Wild animals wolves, bears, leopards, tigers, lions are found in the warmer parts of the country. The great chain of the Hindoo Koosh mountains, on the North, rises from the lower regions in four distinct ranges. Thick forests of pine and wild olive, with a variety of other tree?, and valuable herbs, with a profusion of flowers, cover the lowest range. The second range is still more densely wooded, nearly to the top. The third is almost bare. The fourth forms a range of the stupendons Himalaya system, and rises in bold, spire-like peaks, which are clowned with perpetual snow. The clearness of the atmosphere is remarkable, and it is claimed that the ridges and hollows of these mountains may be seen at a distance of 'jQ miles. The government is a monarchy, and the country divided into provinces, with a tax colector in each. The tax collector never fails to show himsalf in all countries under sun. The tribes .are ruled by sirdars (chiefs); and in towns, jastice Is administered by the cadis, when the Afghan dees not take the law into his own bands, which he generally does. Estimates of the population very from 2,600,000 to 5, COO, 000, the most recent estimates placing it at a little over 4.000,000. Of these cearlv two-thirds are Afghans and Fathsns, who are Mohammedans. They are idle, vicious, violent, and have a deplorable tendency to commit robbery. The Afghans are very ancient, and believe themselvesjdeecended frosa the ancient Hebrews. In Fersian history they are said to date their 1 came to Afghan, son of Eremia, son of Saul, King of Israel, whose posterity, carried away at the time of the captivity, was settled by the conqueror in the mountains of Qhori, Cabool, Candaha and Ghlzni. The country was successively a part of the Fersian and Greek Empires. The name "Afghan" is not recognized by the natives, but is applied to them by their Persian neighbors. Their proper name is Pooshtana, plural Fashtauneh. Ihe Hindoos call them Paitans, Fatans, or Paetans. They are generally thought to be of Arabian parentage, In the ninth century, the Afghans became subject to the Persians, and up to 17C with intervals of independence, the country has been an appendage to some neighboring empire. It wee long divided between ths monarchs of Persia and Hindostan. The history of 1 Afghan indeoendsnce dates from 170. bnt I .. ... . .... wars ana insurrections, ana me downfall 01 one power and the uprising of another mark its history from the beginning. In 183S Dost Mohammed, the reigning sovereign, became involved in hostilities with a Hindoo Pince of the Pun jib, ana in alliance with Persia, and this led to the invasion and conquest of the csuntry by the British, who left garrisons in some of the larger towns. But a few years later the Atgbans rose in insurrection and drove out ths British troops with terrible slaughter. In IS 12 the British invaded the country a second time, committed great ravages, and destroyed the gaeater part of the city of Cabool, with many other towns. Bat tbsy were driven oat again, having gained nothing except the release of some British prisoners who had been retained since their last defeat. THE OSOWra OF AlErHOOISH. Statistics show that the Methodist Ep's:opal Church In the United States has had the Urse growth of 3:0.401 communicants sines l?7p, or an average yearly Increase of 27,83. There are ;i0,0C0 churches, the number Inere aüng at the rate of five for every working day in the year. These will accommodate about 10.C00.CO0 worshipers. It is estimated that there are S0.C00 Sunday school, with over 300,000 teachers and 3,000.000 pupils, Tbe Methcditt Church has from its beiia-

niag fostered liberal and popular education. It has been raid that It starte 1 on its work from the gates of an old nnlversity. Its first preachers were learned men or lovers of learning. John Wesley planned Klngswooi School in 1739, the first year of Methodism. A theclcgical school was formed in ITH at the first conference in America, and the General Conference in 123 recommended the organization of seminaries and schools in ths conference s. At a Utile later period colleges were projected and organized. The denomination now controls about seventy universities and colleges, with at least as many classical seminaries, nearly a hundred schools for girls and ten theological echools. The M. E. Church resolved at the Centenary last fall to raise at least ten millions this year as a centennial offering, which will be used mainly for educational purposes.

THE SAVAGERY OF NATION3. . Ecgland is trying to make it appear thst the Russians are to b'ame for precipitating the rocent battle near Fenjdeh, and the Kassians are endeavoring to create tha belief that the English are to blame. Neither wishes the reputation of having provoked or begun war. Each desires ths ej mpathies of the nations of Earope, and is consequently doing all in its power to proye tbat but for the duplicity of the other the relations between the two governments would be as serene as a beautiful May morning. This apparent deference to the Christian sentiment of the world is, of course, a mockery. Although nominally Christian nation?, neither England nor Russia has any scruples about shedding bleed. They care Infinitely less for the sacrifice of human life than for the object to be gained by the eacrlf.ee, and their attempt to create a belief that they view war with horror and are solicitous of avoiding it, is sheer hypocrisy. In the event of a conflict neither will be entitled to any sympathy whatever. The English will fight to retain the possesions they obtained from the East Indians by means which, if practiced by an individual, would be highway robbery, and the Russians will fight to rob the English of what the latter has stolen. One cation has just as much right to India as the other, aad neither has any right to it at all. The country belongs to the people to whom God gave it as an inheritance, and ia case of a struggle professors of Christianity, if they have any sympathy to spare, ought to extend it to these poor unfortunates, rather than to the Russian or Briton. It is the fashion to claim that the world has attained and is cow experiencing a higher degree of civilization than ever before, and the c!aim is not without foundation. Bat in some respebt3 oar civilization is little in advance cf savagery. Individual rights are more secure than formerly, but as a rule nations are j ust as greedy and as prone to act upon the barbaric dectrine that might mskes right as they ever were. When a European empire, monarchy or republic desires to aggrandize itself at the expense of another nation, it never stops to consider whether its desire is just. It simply inquires if it has the power to accomplish the object wished for, and 11 it is safe to exercise the power, and if the replies are in the afhrmative it enters upon a war of conquest. This is exactly what nations have been doing since ths dawn of history, and in this respect, therefore, the powers are no farther advanced in civilization than was Pert! a under Cyrus the Eider, Macedo nla under Alexander, Carthage under Hannibal, Rome under C; :ar or France under Napoleon I. Though veneered with learning and politeness tbe Eavsge instinct is still powerful in the Caucasian race, and all that is reqiireJ for its development is occasion. The French are making a display of it in China and Madagascar, the British in the Soudan and in Ireland, tbe Germans on the west cosst of Africa and in Papua, the Turks in Albania, the Guatemalans in Central America, and the half-breeds and white settlers in Northwest Territory; and although they are endeavoring to deceive the world into the belief tbat they prefer peace and good will, the English and Russians may be reasonably expected to make a display of it in Afghanistan, THE WOMAN WHO WORKS AT HOME. A Chicago lady says that in ail of the talk about what is designated as woman's labor the tvery-day routine werk of the housekeeper is ignored. There Is no reference to the work of the women whose lives are passed in home-making and home-keeping. They are not considered as active workers. They are regarded as a negative, non-productive class. Yet the profession of the house-keeper Is regarded as the most natural and proper avocation ef women. There is no other trade so complex. None more difficult. Add to this the cares of motherhood, and what ehe can a woman engage In which will as completely absorb every energy of which the is capable? To be a good housewife and mother is by no means the occupation of an idler. Perhaps my notions are obsolete, but I think the woman who creates a comfortable home and raises children worthy manhood and womanhood is the noblest work of God, and is quite as much of a producer as the woman who writes a book, invents some machine, or follows a profession. YOUTH'S ESTIMATE OF ITSELF. Dr. Oiiver Wendell Holmes, writing recently to a fricd; eaid: "Thirty years ago I considered myself a very old man much older than I do now." ReadingDr. Holmes' remarks, tbe other day, another amiable old gentleman paraphrased it by saying: 'Fif ty years ago I considered iajself wise wiser than I do now." Mcst men who have attained to years of prudence and retrospection will echo the last observation. ,4At twenty" we quote from a distinguished echolar 'I thought I knew everything; at thirty that I knew only a litle; et fr rty tbt I kn-w nothing." The man who fcai been cuffed about by years cf experience and who confers to many errors of judgment, looks with an Interist not ucrnixed with compassion at the blissful confidence the aversgs youth reposes in his own abilities, attainments and wisdom. His estimate of whatever subject or object is usually formed fro oat oipulse rather than from reasoning. He has not learned to discount po:sib'.e disadvantages or demerits In whatever is alluring in either pleasure cr business. His educational

acquirements are so recent as to be still striking to bis appreciation. He considers himeelf scarcely in need of advice, and flatters himself tbat he only need3 to be turned loose In the world to compel It to yield to his desires and aspirations. But as he surtcs his self-satisfaction grim old disappointment is smiling at him and holding out a foot to trip him, the very first attempt he makes at walking out alone into the field of affaire. Experience is in waiting with her finger already raised for pointing oat to him the first of his inevitable succession of miit&kes. Later, when he has met real knowledge and genuine wisdom, he will look back and blush at the follies of early presumption. But it has always been thus with, youth, and will ever be so. It is not usually susceptible to counsel or restraint. If it were how many braises of heart aad parse it nrght be saved.

MUST PAY UP. Mr. War Secretary Endicott does not propose to have any dead beats around his department. If any of the young gentlemen contract debts, those debts must bs paid or the clerk loses his position. This must have grown into quite a gigantic evil to have attracted Mr. Endicott'a attention in so prenounced a shape. Some would think that it was none cf his bu?inc3S what were the amount and nature of a clerk's debts, so tbat ths clerk was promptly at his desk day by day and performed hts duties satisfactorily to all concerned. However, few will object to this high standard indicated by the Secretary of War. It he is particular concerning this' seemingly small personal matter we may look for a rigid scrutiny into those details that affect the weightier matters of his Department. In connection with the debV-paving order of Mr. Endicott a contemporary is reminded of an anecdote in point which occurred during President Jackson's administration. There was an impecunious lawyer In Nashville, but a warm iriend to General Jackson, who followed the old hero to Washington In 1320, end was given a clerkship. ThU clerk contacted debt after debt with boarding-house keepers, and often forgot to pay their bills. At last a lady to whom he owed $100 went to General Jackson and spread tne ca?e before him. "Why don't you take his note?" asked the President. "That will do no good," she replied, Mfor he will never pay it." "Yes he will," rejoined the President; "go and get his note and bring it herd to me." The clerk, on being informed by tbe lady that the wanted his note, very readily gave It. On her retnrn io ths Presidential mansion with the nets the President took it and wrote across the back in large letters, Andrew Jackson. Whereupon he told her to present it to such a broker and he would give her the money fcr it. She went, and wa3 successful. Some days thereafter she let the clerk know tbat ehe had got the money on his nots. He opened his eyes in astonishment, and exclaimed: "How did you get money on my note? ' "Oh, I had a good indorser," eaid tbe. "And who was such a fool as to indorse my note?" he inquired. The response was "General Jackson." The note was promptly paid. Perhaps Mr. Endicott does not care to adopt Jackson's plan, hence his recent order, which" will perhaps stop the evil and save money to honest tradespeople, or pertaps poor and hardworking laundry women. A GIGANTIC EVIL. The amount of watered railroad stock: in the United Stated is estimated at four thousand million dollars. As a result of the strangle to pay dividends upon tbis vast amount of etock which costs nothing, there is imposed a needless aggregate annual tax of $200,000,000 upon the producers andconsumers of the country. It ought to be legated out of existence. Verily the producing and consuming masses who are wrongfully taxed therewith owe it to themselves as a patriotic dntv to make haste to cast it overboard even as the British tea was emptied into Boston harbor. We have no doubt a popular movement m tbat direction would receive the hearty support of all such rail way companies and the honest corporations as have placed no watered etock on ths maikets. Thi New York papers are particularly severe on the builders of such rotten death trsps in the shape of dwelling houses, tbat fell to pieces the other day in that city before they were finished. The Herald reflects the general sentiment when it says: "The destruction cf life by the erection of a sham and fraudutent concern like the enormous death trip that has just tumbled down is a crime. Morally it !s murder; legally it is manslaughter. The guilty may bs prosecuted and punished under the Penal Code. If the unscrupulous speculator who appears to have made it a business to run up cheap and dangerous tenements without regard to the security oi life is found responsible for this catostrophe, let him be made to pay the full penalty of his crime, if there are others who share his guilt, let the law bs rigorously enforced against them also. Criminal prcsecution of every offender in this case is a needed warning for tbe future as well as merited punish men tfor the past." Ik legislation looking to the elevation and advancement of women is an index of a State's progress in civilization, and it undoubtedly is. North Cirolina is preparing for large advances in general enlightment. The Legislature b&s been struggling with a bill reducing the rates for marriage licenses, protecting the victims of wife b?a1ers, and broadening the financial rights and privilege of married women. The reviled edition of the Old Testament will bs issued in May, and it is said the orders for tbe first edition already exceed these given for the revised edition of the new. It certainly requires more revision than tbe modern and more scholarship to eecure its understanding. The 10.C03 landlords ia Great Britain, without toll, receive fioni tDe soil more tnan twice as muclisstte total wa?ei paid to SV),Q)0 labrcr for working twelve hoars tarough tae eren Qy ia evcrj week. Just as sure is there is a God of Justlcs a God of the toiling pocr such monumental wrongs will not alwajs go un righted. A stort is going the rounds of the papers to the effect that a Dsmocratic 8enator, while calling on the President, asked for a map of the United States. After tha Senator had scrutinized it for some time, the President

asked him what he was looking after. "I was seeing if my State was still in the Union," replied the Senator. "How is that?" inquired the President, 'Oh, as you have given it no attention, I did not know Low it was." Both smiled grimly.

WAR DATS IK THK SOU TU. BY K0n P.0V. 0. il. It is no digression from my subject to refer to incidents shortly preceding the opening cf hostilities between the two sections. For months before the breach occurred there was almost passionate controversy between the Union and die -Union elements in the South. Georgia furnished the two mcst notable champions of the two sentiments in the persons of Robert Toombs 'and Alexander II. Stephens. Both were giants in the arena cf debate. In the acrimonious abolition discussions in Congress Mr. Toombs had won the applause cf Southern slave owners. But without this source of popularity, his remarkably handsome face, courtly manner and resplendent eloquence would have challenged admiration from any audience he might have stood berore. On the other hand, Mr. Stephens had a peculiar hold apon the confidence of the people. He was esteemed wise, conservative, and entirely honest. He had the esteem and trust of the people ai did no other Boutbern publicist. Toomb3 represented the aristocracy of the South, Stephens the masses; Toombs was a Senator, Stephens a Representative as he liked himself called, a "commoner." The election of Mr. Lincoln was held by Mr. Toombs an overt act on the part of the States North againtt tho States South, ne and his political confederates and followers at once appealed for secession from the Union by the slave holding commonwealths, and the establishment of a separate and independent general government. In November, 1SG0, the Legislature of Georgia was in cession. The eeat of State government was then at Milledgeville. a small town in the eastern part of the State. Information was spread that an effort would be made to have the Georgia Aaiembly pa 39 a resolution favoring the secession of Georgia. Upon receipt of this news my father, an earnest Union man, repaird to Millidgeville and did me tbe kindness to take me with him. I was then a boy of ten years. We reached Milledgeville un the 13th of November, to find excitement rife over the question of union or disunion. I well remember my father's calling, almost immediately, on Mr. Stephens and the interview between them almost painful because of the apprehensions of both that the country was on the eve ct a great cvlamitv, if not of destruction. That night Mr. Tooms spoke in the Representative Hall to an overflowing audience of legislators and citizens in advocacy of secession. It was a firey and inflammatory de nnnciation of Northern abolitionism and of tbe administration of government that was to follow. I The glittering passages were greeted with rounds of applause. Bat in the mist of the acclamations my eyes rested on two faces that never lost an expression of solemnity the faces of my father and of Mr. Stephens. On the next evening Mr. Stephens spoke in the came hall, and, largely, to the same audience. The contrast of sentiment between him and the speaker of the night before was not greater than the contrast in their manner and personal appearance. For tbe stalwart figure, jocund face and dazzling rhetoric of Mr. Tooms we bad the slender frame, thin and sallow face and conservative words of wisdom of Mr. Stephens. It was tha difference ce between the hero and the hotspur between the Etatesmaa and the fanatic. Mr. Stephens, face indicated the seriousness of the discussion he was about to enter upon, even before he opened his mouth to speak. One who was present eaid of him: "He manifested that deep solemnity which the man of God feels, or which he ought to feel when he rises in the pulpit to address dying sinners upon the salvation of their fouls." I introduce here one or two extracts from that speech, which, by the way, was entirely extempore. "Fellow-citizens," was his beginning: "I appear before you to night at the request of members of the Legislature and ethers to speak upon matters of the deepest interest tbat can possibly concern us all of an earthly character. e Never since I entered upon the public stage has the country been so environed with difficulties and dangers that threatened the public peace and the very existence cf our institutions, as now. "The consternation that has come upon the people is the result of a sectional election of a President of the United States one whose opinions and avowed principles are in antagonism to our interests and rights, and we believe, if carried out, would subvert the Constitution under which we now iive. Bat are we entirely blameless in the matter, my countrymen? I give it to you as my opinion that but for the policy the Southern people pursued this fearful result would not have occurred. "The first question that presents Itself Ii, Shall the people of Georgia secede from the Unicn in consequence of the election of Mr. Lincoln to the Presidency of the United Statte? My countrymen, I tell you frankly, candidly and earnestly, that I do not think that they ought. In my judgment the election of no man, constitutionally chosen to that high cflice, is sufficient cause to justify any State to separate from the Union. It' ought to 6 land by and aid still in maintaining tbe Constitution of the country. To make a point of resistance to the Government, to withdraw from it because any man has been e'ected, would put us in the wrong. We aie pledged to maintain the Constitution. Many of us have sworn to support it. Can we, therefore, for the mere election of any man to the Presidency, and tbat, too, in accordance with tbe prcioribsd forms cf the Constitution, make a point of resistance to the Government without bscomicg breakers of tbat sacred instrument cniEf Ives by withdrawing ourselves from it? Would we not be in tbe wrong? Whatever fate xney befall this country, let it never be laid to the charge of the South, and especially to tbe pecple of Georgia, that we were untrue to cur national engagements. Lst the fault and the wrong rest upon others. If all our hopes are to be blasted, if the Republic is to go down, let us be found to the last moment standing on ths deck, with the Constitution of the United States waving ever cur bead." Applause

Seated in front of and very near ths speaker was Mr. Tcomb, who at intervals interjected questions or brief comments, which might have made another speaker impatient, but Mr. Stephens gave every interruption a respectful attention, and answered all so happily as finally to silence Mr. Toombs. He argued against the possibility of Mr. Lincoln, as President, committing any act or even making any appointments

objectionable to the National Democratic I party, which was then, ana would be for at 1 least two jears to come, in the majority in both the House and Senate of Congress. He showed that, with Democrats controlling the Senate, the President would be compelled to select only Democrats for not only all other offices, but even for his Cabinet, if the Democrats in tbe Senate should so decree. He plead for a continuance cf the Union, pointing to the prosperity and greatness the Rspublic had attained to under its wholesome institutions. Here are passages worth quoting: 'My countrymen," lie said, 4 1 am not of those who believe this Union has been a curse up to this time. I will not undertake to say tbat this Government of our fathers is perfect. There is nothing perfect in this world of human origin; nothing connected with human nature, from man himself to any cf his works. You may sslect the wisest and best men for your Judges, and yet how many defects are there In the administration of justicf ? Yoa may select the wisest and best men for your legislator?, and yet how many defects aro pparent In your laws? And it is so in our Government. But tbat this Government ot our fathers, with all its defects, comes nearer the object of all good governments than any other on the face of the earth, is my settled conviction. Contrast it. now with any on tbe face of tbe earth. Compare, my friends, this Government with that cf France, Spain, Mexico, the South American Republics, Germany, Ireland, Prussia; or If you will travel further East, to Turkey or China. Where will yon go, following the sun In its circuit round cur gTobe, to find a government that better protects the liberties cf its people and Eecures to them the blessings wo erjoy?" Applause Continuing, Mr. Stephens referred to tbe rapid development of our resources and great wealth of the country under the administration of our form of government, and then said: "It was only under our institutions as they are that they were developed. Their development is the result of the enterprise of ear people under operations of the Government and institutions under which we have lived. Even our people without these never would have done it. The institutions of a people, political and moral, are lac matrix In which the germ of their organic structure quickens into life, takes root and develops in form, nature and character. Oar institutions constitute the basis, the matrix from which spring all our characteristics of development and greatness. Look atGreece! There is the same fertile eoil, the same blue sky, the same inlets and harbors, the time .Kgean, the same Olympus there is the ssrre land where Homer sung, where Tericles speke it is in nature the came old Greece; but it is living Greece no more. Applause. Descendants of the Bame people inhabit tbe country; yet what is tbe reaion of this mighty difference? In the midet of preeent degradation we seethe glori- I ous fragments of ancient Proras of art tern- ' pies with ornaments and inscriptions that ! excite wonder and admiration, the remains ! of a ence high order of civilization which . have outlined the language they spoke. Upon them all, Ichabod Is written their : glory has departed. I answer this, their ia- - etitutiens have been destroyed. These were ! tke fruits of their forms ot government the I matrix from which their grand developments ! sprung. And when once the institutions of .' our people shall have been destroyed there is ! no earthly power tbat can bring back the Promethean spark, to kindle them hsre ; asain, any more than in that ancient land of eloquence, pcetry and song. Applaise. The same may be eaid of Italy. Where is Rome, once the mistress of the world? There are the same seven hills now, the same soil, ' the same natural resources; nature is the 1 same; but what a ruin of human greatness ; meets the eye of the traveler throughout the length and breadth of that most down-trodden land! Why have not the people of 1 that heaven favored clime the same spirit ; tbat actuated their fathers? Why this sad ! difference? It is the destruction of her insti- ! tutl.nstbat has caused it. And.myoan- i trj tuen, if we shall in an evil hour rashly! poll t own acd destroy those institutions ' which the patriotic tand.'of our fathers , labeled so long and so hard Jo build up, and . which have done so much for us and for the world, who can venture the prediction that ! similar results will not ensue? Let us avoid them if we can. I trust the spirit is amongst 1 us that will enable us to do it. Let us not j rssbJy try the experiment of change, of j pulling down and destroying; for as in Greece and Italy and the South Americsn ; Republics, and in every other country, J wherever our liberty is once lost, it may i never be restored to us again." j But tbe malcontents were stronger than the conservative Union men before the conventions that were called, and secession was forced where, had the decision been made by the ballots of the reop'e, I believe it would have been against disunion. TLat is a mistaken Idea held by mar.y at tbe North that tbe firing npon Fort Sumter was bailed with universal rejoicing in the South. I recall tbe day and the spirit with which the tidings of the event was received. I remember a group of twenty or more sabetantial citizens assembied at the railroad station, and the controversy between a minority cf them, who believed tb war boded good for the Smth, and tbe majority, who deprecsted the overt act. I remember it waa tben I first hf ard quoted Talleyrand's famous criticism upon one of Napoleon's acts. "It is a crime," eaid the c nicer, reporting information of it "Worse than that," repl et the treat diplomat; "it is a blunder." D.-Iving homeward tbat evenirJg at tbe tide ot my father his me!ancholyimpre8sed the dar the mere firmly in my memory. Hs prefigured the dreadful war that was to follow, an 1, with his intimate acquaintance with the resources cf the Government, rightly predictel its results. But wherT a few months later Bolt Ran and Manaisas had been fought, and the country thos irrevocably planed into coaibat, with, kinsmen and friends eniistel on

tbe Southern side, very nearly all tha Unioi rren accepted the situation, and, having accepted It, were as v1oroIn arms as those who had originally preferred eecersion. But there were some whs throughout the war period declared their allegiance to the Union. Ose of these, ia response to a hooting serenade from bays, made them a well tempered speech in which he said: "Since yoa live in tbe Confederacy you are privileged to favor it. Bat, bovi, I live in He Union. Some time ao I boabt and paid for this farm. Iiis mtr.e. And here are 10O acres of land that has never speeded from the Union and never will." Continued ia next Sunday's Statine:. i

A FAIU OF &USlEM)ERS. A Xtro Cansht In a l'ettj TlieU Llett Arrt and 1 Killed. Tom z-t Ga., April K rrlac: Elsutin. wi livti two miles from tais place, came it towa purcbanrg proviibas. Wbile la the store of G. A. McPaatel, Triuce pocketed a pair of itpenders. ibe Manual bid any eye 0:1 hluisal informed Wricht. Trlnce narchel down street at fall ipecd. Wright aal tbe J!anlil following close behind. Hnftlly Prince reached a skirt of woods anlief: bis p ursner. The Marshal, with two i)eputie. went to the Loase of Alex. Tharmand. wnera Prince was Hopping, determined to capture hint. Tbe door of the house being cloed, the o2icerj succeeded in aurroundla: the house before an alarm was given. Prince, hearing footsteps ontslie. seenel to ualerstand the aitnation, opened a door aat spreng out. ard, saying to Wright. "Look out. G d d-n you," fired a heavy loid of aiiot from an old army gun as fce spoke. The load pae-l near enough Wrliht's bead to burn Mi fire. Wright immediately returned the fire iron a double-bene! ed shotgun. About this time another Deputy tired lour shots at the retreating negro. Ihe negro had sained about twenty steoi. . . m . . t V. I 1 M . ...... Wiien ngui ana toe jairtuai ru aim iue:r gus in his direction, and he immediate ;y threw hUe jTi down and his hands up. He Is now dying. The Chicago Musical Festival CI-ed. Cnirit.o, April IS. Tbe Opera Festival caoi endsd to-night with one of the largest a u Hence present at the fourteen performances. The patronage was pfccnoxalnally large throughout, ths average attendance exceeding 7,0l) upon ear a opera making the total attendance exceed 100.000. fjuring the present week the weather has teea very bad, but it in no wise rt minis hed the crowds. This was illustrated on Tuesday nizht. whea Tatti and Scalchl suns. The night was very stormy, but with tetwcea 10.C03 and 11,000 in th 1 auditorium fully 3.0J0 were turned from the doors. For choice seats on the Patti nigats premiums of 125 were paid. These nisbti the nnmoer of single admission tickets told exceeded the natural capicity of the hall, and tbe aJ nils Ion money was refunded to thoee who could not secure eTea comfortable Handln room In tho lare foyers an l aisles. It was a peculiar sight a thousand people clamorin? o pet lu and 5,uoo more taking their money back at another door and struggling to get out. The manasement. In recognition of tha woilc performed by Mile Scalchi. and the evident lnor in which she wes held by tbe public, presented her with a magnificent testimonial last nUM. Tbe management of the festival ia naturally exceedingly well pleased at the success of the undertakln?, and ibera is a promise of an early presentation of an opera on a larger scale, with ths pcsiibllity that a cornmodiouj Opera-house will be conttnioted with a special view to its presentation. The crofs receipts of the present festival will be about f 135,CQ.' aad the avt receipt ry liSbt. . Died In Seeming; Poverty. New York,. April 15. Last Tuesday an oil woman named Siuls, died oa a small farm in Westchester County, She was supposed to be poor. When her effects were exarninel today therewaa found sewed up in au old petticoat $30,000 iu greenbacks, her bank book showing deposits of SUO.CüO and floo.oOO iu bonds, ia addition to this Mr. tnd left real eKite in various parts ot this city, and the farm npoa which fce iesidcd. The bulk of the estate will go to her four nephews, if ortimer brown, of this city, James and William Purdy, of Port Cnester, aat another in Chicago. The Kallroad Miner' Strike Again Itrokeo. riTT-i i F., April K-The striking coal miners ot Primrose. Brian Ulli, Jumbo and Mil ton Grove pit, on the Pan-Handle Railroad have returned to work st two and a bait cents per bushel, tbe price c ffered by the otseraiora. The mine named are among tbe largeVt on the Pau-ilandie route, emplojing about 2.C00 men, and the newt of ths miners surrender occasioned considerable surprise. Tbe break In tbe trlke practically briru to a close the long fought battle cn the ral'rot l, sad there will probably be a general resumption next week at the redac tion. The L!ght Infantry. To the Citiens of Indianapolis; In view cf tbe recent action by us as ai organization we deem it due to you, t9 whom we owe whatever of sopport bai been given ns from outside our membership, that we should inform yon of such action, etate the reasons therefor, and deflne oar present states. The Indianapolis Light In far, try has besn In the service of the State of Indiana for eight years past under a law which aSbrded its members no protection for acts done in the discharge of their sworn daty, and which compelled them to give time and labor to euch eervice, not only without adequate compensation, bat at an actual expanse to tbe organization and thereby to yoa. As part of the Indiana Lefon we joinod in asking the last General Assembly to provide some remedy for this state of things by passing a bill prepared for that purpose, sapporting our request by petition of 17.000 voters of the State. Tbe General Assembly, appreciating the inetice of the desired action, did pass the bill. WiU w hat result jon aie well aware. So far as oar organization was concerned, we were nst asking any favors bnt simply tbat what we were justly entitled to, bat de med in the past should be guaranteed us in tbe fntnre. Again denied oar rights, we fetl that we are not justified in asking you to farther contribute to oar sapport as State militia, who;e only service 89 far has been (and in the fature bids fair to be) tbe projection of life and property in communities, the representatives of which clamored most loudly against rxaking us secure In affording such protection, cr compensating us therefor. We Lave, therefore, withdrawn from the militia eervice of tbe State; bnt In order tbat we may be in a position to aifjrd yoa tbe security ycu are entitled to by reason 01 your past appreciation and sapport of oar organilation, upon tbe petition of sudry citizens, we bav6 been enrolled as a Metropolitan militia reserve, by tbe Honorable Board of Police Commissioners, and assure you that sbcn'd occasion arie w will do our whole duty rrr?rrtJ and faithfully. Very reepectfnlly, Tjtjt Oi n eks ad Members or THE IIIl?f.U'OIll Ll'HIT IS WASTRY. Nip and Tuck. The paue of polo last niht between teams selected from tbe best players the "city ever had" was intensely exciting. As there were seven on each side aLd both sides co-n-prstd of the same equality of material, it was deemed highly proper to style them Nip aDd Tuck, and when the famous fourteen eppeared npoa tbe door in all of their dszz'irg splendor it was tbouzht tbat tie Tuck side would win tbe game. Bit the resnlt was only a esd illustration of the fact that rmklerators have no right to thi: k for in about fonr minutes th ncn fatorites Nip-ped a goal. Then folhwel tlaihcs cf the rxo:t brilliant T''vinE erer witnessed by those wha have not been guilty of ttajiLg outside o: the city limits since the seating craze bran. Ia tuetty minutes, mere or less, (we were ot there, ro rar.'t sav poit!vly) th tVr side Tuck the next oal, which mad a the garxe a lie. Tbe Mac's ' were erest'.y faVjzcfd. bat thC'Uld tbey rt-cuperate sufficiently to play tbe tie or!" before the c'.o of tbe season another excitir game way poesibly be witcesMd rioalo; Oat eoir e Itoys' Polo Caps at onlv fifteen ca's, worth dcub'e, and the bay' caps we o2sr at eight cents are cheap ai twenty ave.