Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1874 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1874.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 6.

Seeing as how Williams can't have it and Conkling don't want it, Oliver and Roscoe are said to be devising a plan for the abolltion of the Chief Justiceship. After the arduous duties ot the summer campaign, Lieutenant Colonel Fred Dent Grant, has been ordered to Washington as disbursing and mustering officer. One consolation left for the rejected Williams -- the president will write him a letter, stronger than Murphy's and warmer than Colfax's, and earlier than Carpenter's. Minister Sickles' correspondence with Secretary Fish reveals much delicate sensibilitis on the part of the General which his countrymen never suspected. He had heard that these pesky papers had criticised him severely, and, unlike General Butler, he don't like newspaper criticism. Hence his incontinent vacation of his diasagreeable mission. The Californian papers relate with some complacency the fact that Gov. Booth's translation to the Senate will give a real California the place of Governor for the first time since the erection ol the State. This official to the manor born is the Lieut. Gov. Romanoldo Pacheco, born within the State, and allied to the native Spaniards and Mexicans. Twenty-one millions of the forty-four millions of legal tenders, called reserve by Secretaries Richardson and Boutwell, have been expended. That is, the currency of the country has been increased to that amount. These millions, however, have not gone into the business of the country. They are absorbed in Robeson's fool naval squander ings. A late dispatch says there is a likelihood that all chances for an extended international squabble between Spain and the United States, in regard to the vexed Virginius question, are pretty definitely settled by the sinking of that noble filibustering old craft, somewhere off the Atlantic coast. At all events the Ossipee, which had the Virginius in tow, arrived at New York late Saturday night all alone, and though rumor was busy with her many tongues, no definite information was received up to the hour of going to press. That was a wise thought which suggested a reunion of the school teachers, principals, superintendents and presidents at the capital during holiday week. If comparisons are a safe guide, these annual meetings are growing in popularity. There are in the crowd of school people present last week three distinct organizations, or wheels within wheels. First, the General Association of State Teachers, second, the Collegiate and High School Section, consisting of presidents and principals, and third, the County Superintendents' Association. The last two bodies met last Tuesday at the building of the High School, while the first will continue its sessions at the Y. M. C. A. hall. At two o'clock P. M. the Rev. Dr. Cyrus Nutt, President of the State University, will deliver his inaugural address as President elect of the Collegiate Section, at the High School Building. The city is visited by a perfect avalanche of educational literature, yet if persons give no attention they may miss it all and lose some very good things. A very pretty complication is now threatened. President Castelar, having quietly submitted to the bullying of the Washington war makers, and released the Virginius, now comes forward to demand indemnification tor the insult put upon him by the unfounded charges and unjustifiable demands of this Government. He will demand the return of the Virginius and money indemnification for all the trouble the Spanish Government has been put to during the complication. Thanks to the bungling management at Washington he has the matter in his own hands, the opinion of the Attorney-General alone giving him the needed groundwork for his demands. This position on the part of the Spanish cabinet has revived the rumors of war so assiduously nursed a few weeks ago, and it is intimated that General Grant will be nothing loath to put the country at war in order to regain some of his waning popularity. He will, consequently, refuse any reparation under the Spanish demands, fearing that anything like a concession would be recognized by the country and the world as an admission that the recent war preparations were assumed without a shadow of cause. A very spirited meeting ot the District Grange of White, Tippecanoe and other counties, was held at Lafayette last Saturday. The farmers came out with a platform of principles that ring as sharply, and perhaps, a little more so, than any expression that has been made in the State before. They distinctly say that they do not aim to speak for the Order in this or other States, but the platform is the declaration of that district. They assert the first object in view is close and thorough organization, so that they may act in concert for one well defined purpose; they will keep their own counsel, and hold a sharp eye on applicants for membership, to see that no wolves in sheep's clothing get inside the Order. They deny emphatically that they are a political party, organized for political purposes, but the object of reform is in "the monster monopoly, railroads," and other lesser lights of that kind. Dishonest men in office are warned that the day of retribution is at hand. Resolutions were passed oposed to all land grants and subsidies, the usual sentiments as to public carriers and transportation are endorsed; also, that legislation be had that will add more currency to the country; the pet narne of 'hay seed," "fools," "oxen smell," ''chinch b'ig," etc., they joyfully accept ; equity to all is their motto. Resolutions on the banking question were adopted which condemn the present banking system as oppressive aud ruinous to the mechanical manufacturing and agricultural interests, and demanding of congress a banking sys-

tem that will equalize labor with capital,

and give confidence to the people. The Hons. G. S. Orth and T. J. Cason, representatives, are to have a copy of these resolu tions. The plow makers are attended to, and pledged that until they take back their odious resolutions passed at Chicago, the grangers will not buy of them or their agents. This district grange is located in the richest agricultural portion of the State, and includes a powerful community of farmers Their combined action will set aside entirely the significance of the old party organizations, and whether they so intend or not, will put a new complexion on politics in the old seventh and new ninth congress district. It is utterly unjust to the officials of the city and State to represent anything like mutinous, murderous or riotous feeling in or about Indianapolis. (Governor Hendricks and Mayor Mitchell have acted with consummate tact and propriety. They have done all that becomes prudent officials in such an emergency; to have done more, would hare boon simply superserviceable -- to have done leas, would have been to invite the turbulent elements to outbreaks more or less mischievious. The tone of the city is as quiet and unapprehensive as it ever was, and any attempt to create an opposite impression is an incendiary appeal to the lawless to revolt. The great body of the striking engineers are quiet, law-abiding men, bent only upon a passive protest against what they consider -- and justly too, a grievous burden, put upon them by the railroads. It is the duty of these men, however, to uphold the lawful authorities by coming to the assistance of the legal authorities, and frown down the extremest element among them which siezes this opportunity to indulge in depredations against the public peace. Tbe city and State authorities having taken all precaution against lawlessness, should be as vigilant in punishing those who have been guilty of any attempt on the lives or property of the companies. Acts of this sort can not be too severely or promptly punished, and the decent men of the brethern, and by far the greater majority are civil, decent men, should point out tbe criminals and aid the hands of justice to sieze them. The situation for last Monday may be summed up briefly. At Logansport it was found engines had been tampered with -- boilers filled with water mixed with oil and soap -- one engineer injured by stone thrown by striker -- sixty engines tampered with -- depot crowded with men and boys -- Gen. Macauley calls for Chief Thompson and twenty picked men, and 100 Spencer rifles -- sent -- the guards all on duty -- Gen. Macauley calls on the Mayor for help -- Mayor issues proclamation for dispersing riotous assemblies -- to-morrow expected to be the crisis. With the close of the year 1873, it may be interesting to take a rapid retrospect of the relations which this country holds to the different nations of Europe, aud also their relations with each other. Since the settlement of the Alabama claims, Great Britain and this country have got on smoothly an amicably. The Joint Commission for the settle ment of the claims of British subjects against the United States, allowed, a little more than two millions out of an aggregate claim of about ninety-five millions. Great Britain's foreign relations are in the main peaceful, if the Ashantee war be excepted, which though it can have but one issue, may entail the loss of many lives and much treasure, which might have been more profitably expended. In Arabia, likewise, there seemed at one time a possibility that a collision would result from the encroachments of the Sublime Porte on the territory of the Sultan of Leheg, one of Great Britain's allies. Her dominions are so wide-spread that collisions at the outposts with jealous powers are well nigh impossible. Notwithstanding the character for steady-going conservatism and inflexible integrity which Great Britain has hitherto enjoyed, the Canadian railway developments have shown a state of legislation on the part of the crown and its agents almost unequaled for corruption. In Germany, the vexed question of Church and State has absorbed every other. The expulsion of the Jesuits has been followed up by legislation which tends to bring the whole of the ecclesiastical machinery under the surveillance of the State. The prosecution by the government of Archbishop Ledochowski, shows that the legislation of May last is not a mere form. The late elections resulted in large liberal gains, and corresponding losses to the ultra-montanes. The course of the Pope, too, has had the effect to alienate German Catholics, who are Germans first, and Catholics afterwards. The late exactions of Ger many on the French government, in regard to the French bishops, while it is an evidence of Germany's animus, and her power to dictate terms, is yet to be regretted, as the act will not be forgotten in the day of wrath, which sooner or later will come for France. The entente cordiale has been strengthened between Germany, Austria and Italy, by the conferences which have taken place during the year between the sovereigns of those States. Austria, like her neighbor Prussia, has bean restricting the ultramontanes within narrower bounds. They have been beaten at the polls at every turn almost, and this policy has formed the basis of Anstro-Hun-garian legislation. The great international exposition at Vienna, however, has, more than anything, called public attention to that country. That this enterprise was not a success, is due to several causes. First, came the panic in the Vienna bourse in the early part of the year, the depressing effect of which was plainly fell all over Europe and its outer waves of agitation touched the shores of American finance. Then came the outbreak of cholera which raged with terrible severity in Vienna during the progress of the fair. Notwithstanding these bad features, the result as a whole, to Austria, was beneficial. The impetus given to industries of all kinds, by the exhibition of the best products of the world, can not fail to be invaluable. Russia is destined to figure more

and more prominently in the drama of European history. Her record for the past year shows no event of a startling nature. The chief incident was the Khivan expedition, which was coolly planned and deliberately executed with the most signal success. Whether the motive which impelled Russia to the subjugation of Khiva, a petty Khanate in Central Asia, was conquest aud the consequent aggrandizement of the territory, or only a desire to clean out a nest of robbers, who from time immemorial have been the terror of the table lands, and a barrier to commerce between Europe and

India -- the event, in the opinion of most, will Justify the means employed. The approaching nuptials of Marie Alexandrovna, daughter of the Czar, to the Duke of Edinburg, second son of Queen Victoria, may be said to be the only other event of general importance in the history of Russia, for the year which has just closed. The country seems to be eminently prosperous, with the single exception of a famine which is raging in the province of Archangel. The people of that section have appealed to the general government for aid. This will involve an expenditure of not less than eight millions roubles, which is equivalent to about the same number of dollars of our currency. With France, the year has been full of events. It Is a country which is great in literature, science, art and arms, and it is not strange that its varying fortunes and shifting policies should be closely watched by the whole world. The administration of M. Thiers came into unpopularity in the beginning of the year. The Extreme Left became alienated from the Government. The contest between Barodet and Remusat for the vacant seat in the Assembly, inaugurated a series of defeats which ended in the virtual deposition of Thiers and the establishment of McMahon as as the ruler -- one might almost say -- the sovereign of France. For though but a tool In the hands of the Right, he is the exponent and representative of monarchial ideas: The by-play, during the recess of the Assembly, between the Counts de Chambord and Paris, and the ultimate rejection by the former of the propositions made him, are interesting and puzzling The blow to the Monarchists was sudden and terrible, but they had the tact to meet it by a clever dodge, and McMahon's term Avas prolonged to bridge the hiatus and give the representatives of feudalism time to gather up their resources and perfect their plans. Yet with the apparent triumph of monarchical ideas, republicanism has made vast strides during the year. The present arrangement can only be regarded as a sort of truce. Long before McMahon's nominal term expires, the inevitable contest win recommence a Voutrance. The German indemnity has been paid, and the invader has left the soil, which speaks well for the energy and enthusiasm of the French people, who have borne their burdens joyfully to compass this long wished for end. Tbe banishment of Marshal Bazaine, the hero of Metz, forms a rather dark setting to this otherwise fair picture, for a feeling of sympathy will follow the unfortunate victim of the fickle chances of war. Spain, of all the European States has seen the most vicissitudes. Nearly a year ago King Amadeo declined longer to wear a crown that chafed his gentle brow, and almost immediately the new republic was heralded with Senor Figueras as its President. His ascendency was brief, and Salmeron and Pi y Margall followed in rapid succession. The terrible uprisings of the communards, or internationalists, which culmiuated in the massacre of Alcoy on the 12th of July, demonstrate the insecurity of a republic based upon centuries of almost absolute monarchical rule and the long sway ot a bigoted hierarchy. The people, steeped in the most benighted ignorance, mistook liberty for license, and gave loose rein to it. The insurrection of Cartagena followed Alcoy, and the conflict of Malaga followed a few days later. Meanwhile the Carlist armies swept the northeastern provinces with fire and sword, and left ruin and desolation in their track. Though the insurrections in the south have been suppressed, Cartagena still holds out, and the Carlist cause shows no signs of weakening. Intimately connected with events in Spain, comes the atrocity at Santiago de Cuba, in which the greater part of the crew of the Virginius were mercilessly butchered by the volunteers, nominally in the service of Spain, but really an irresponsible mob of ruffians, a terror alike to their friends and enemies. The whole history of the terrible affair is so recent, and has been brought home so forcibly to the attention of American citizens, that any recapitulation here is unnecessary. Suffice it to say that complications with Spain which at one time seemed probable, are now happily averted, and the Virginius, the apple of discord, went down in a gale off Cape Hatteras, while being towed to New York by the Ossipee. The battle inaugurated In Germany, also engrosses Italy. While Pius the IX still fills the Pontiff's chair, the secularization of church property still goes on, and the priest party grows daily weaker. It is a curious anomaly, that in Italy, the cradle of Catholicism and its stronghold for many centuries, the influence of the clergy is less than in any other European country. All this, notwithstanding protests from the Vatican and encyclicals without end. The Pope gives no signs of giving out soon, notwithstanding his great age and late feeble health, and it is likely that the end of 1874 will find him still filling the chair of St. Peter. In Asia, as has already been noticed, Khiva has fallen under Russian rule; China has admitted ambassadors to an interview with the Son of the Sun, which is certainly an advance in 'the light direction. Japan has introduced many American improvements in educational methods and in modern machinery for the advancement of industrial interests, agricultural and manufacturing. In British India, a great famine has overshadowed the country like a pall. The remedy will entail an expenditure on the part of the Government of not less than ten millions sterling. The home events of the year may be summed up in a sentence, not that they have not been important to many, but becauso they have each made such destinctive marks on

the minds of the country that their formal enumeration is not needed. The Credit Mobilier investigation which took up the entire session of Congress until the grab supplemented its corrupt revelations worked a great change in parties. The confession of Oakes Ames, and the leading Republican Congressmen began the work of disintegration, the full meaning of which was exhibited in the fall elections. Meantime, while the dominant party was shattering itself into fragments by its exposures of past criminalties and present baseness new organizations were springing

up all over the West. The hardy workers of the agricultural regions, impressed with the hollow mockery of partisan struggles, of party pledges, had been for a season quietly banding together and finally the strength of the movement began to be felt. Formed at tirst for self defense against home monopoly, the farmers' organization came in time to stand for an opponent of the bunded partisan power which, in the course of a few years, has succeeded in robbing the farm of its profits and the farmer of all but his mere subsistence. In March the Congress adjourned, with a whirlwind of public execration beating upon it. The record from the first day of the session to the last had been a shameless parody on law making. The atrocious lawlessness of the Louisiana outrage, alternated with the developments which each day put some leading Republican prostrate in the mire of robbery and chicane. Wilson, Colfax, . Kelley, Dawes, Garfield, Bingham, Logan, Carpenter and the rest were in turn inculpated of taking Oakes Ames' bribes and the tribunal of their fellows after full proof of their guilt dismissed the scandal with a censure on two of the guilty. The heat of public indignation cleared the atmosphere, however, somewhat and gave a chance for clear vision when the October elections came on. Meantime the natural sequence of Boutwell's financiering came to pass. He had drained the treasury of all the available gold to put in the New York market during the campaign to make the specious pretense of paying the public debt, and instead of holding the gold and retiring so much currency. A tremendous crash was the consequence. The government bankers, Jay Cooke & Co., went to the wall with a crash, and the government was a great many millions the loser, directly and indirectly. With this crash came the panic, from the results of which we are still suffering. But the crash brought something more than the panic. It enabled the country to get a glimpse at the mismanagement and ignorance prevalent at the national capital. It revealed a depth of peculation and incompetency in all the great offices, for which the opponents of the administration were not prepared, and it gave an opportunity for such houest elements as as still remain in the Republican party, to set to work with the knife to cut out abuses., This is the rapid epitome that the historian would give to the past year in this country, the mere events of striking interest to attract public attention. The Modoc massacre and murder of General Canby; the campaign in the lava beds; the fierce contest with the monopolists in California and the unexpected triumph of the Independants. The Cuban excitement and the attempted repeal of the salary. These however, are events which do not necessarily leave permanent results. The others will extend their influences in many years and re-appear in new forms in other and later chronicles of dying years. The action of the greater number of rail roads centering in Chicago is at once a justification of the action of the striking engineers and a criticism on the conduct of those roads which have refused to be bound by the terms of their contract. If the great roads mentioned in the dispatch see no necessity to ask a reduction of the wages of the engineers, the public can see no good reason why a great and rich corporation like the Pennsylvania Central and its flourishing branches should ask these hard-worked and poorly paid men to accept less than the average scale. If the road found it necessary to reduce wages, it could have been made known to the men in time, and consultation could have been held, so that the mischievous alternative of a strike need not have been forced upon the emgineers. They are not men who delight in impairing the industries of the country, and from all the expressions they have made thus far, it does not look as though they were either malignant or blood thirsty. As to the merits of the controversy the public may properly hesitate to give opinion, but that the railroads are disregarding the terms of their charters in stopping public traffic, there is no sort of room to doubt. It is the business of the postoffice authorities to demand at every point why the mails are not carried, why the contracts with the government are not kept, and it is further the business of those who are put to inconvenience and loss to prosecute the railroads in the civil courts. It would be just as well to learn whether the railroads are above the law. As the present case stands, the railroads simply declare. We will run so long as we can do it to suit ourselves -- when we choose to try experiments in disciplining our employes, we hold the right to do it. If they strike we shall let them hold out as long as they choose, and let them go to work when they feel so disposed. If we can stand the loss it is no affair of the public That is virtually the present attitude. An attitude, which rightly forfeits the charter of every road be unable to carry out its agreements. Striking is an unreasonable and outrageous thing in itself, ,but is very plain that however much the engineers may be at fault, the companies stand before the country as grasping tyrants, who neither keep faith with the employers or the public. The companies claim sympathy and support in this contest, clearly they can not have it -- they are law breakers, and anwerable to heavy penalties as well the forfeiture of their charter.

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WOMEN AND GIRLS. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE STATE REFORMATORY.

RESULT OF THE ENTERPRISE FIRST GENERAL REPORT OPINIONS AND SUGGESTIONS .Or THE HOARD OF VISITOR.- THROUGH FXOOVERSOR BAKER A Q RATIFYING: KXH1BIT. The close of tbe year, which has brought about the completion of this new enterprise of the State and the beginning of its operations as a public institution of great importance, gives interest to what niy now be sam aoont it, ine board or visitors appointed by the Governor, consisting of Ex(Jovernor Baker, Mrs. Rhoda Coffin and Mrs. Addison L. Rosche, have made to the Governor a report, of which the following is a copy: REPORT OF THE BOARD OF YlMTOItS. To J fin fCrrt-Urnc?, 77tfi. ,1. JlendritrJbr, floccruor of Indiana: The undersigned, one of the members of the Board of Visitors of the Indiana Reformatory Institution for Women and Girls, by direction and on behalf of said Board, begs leave respectfully to report that the Board recently visited the Ileformatory and inspected the "building and examined into the affairs of the institution iu the Re form a to rv, as well as the penal, department thereof. There are twenty prisoners in the penal department,nearly all of whom were on t heopening of the institution, on the eighth day of October last, transferred from the Southern Prison at JetTersonville. It was very gratifying to those members of the Board of visitors who had seen some of these same women in the prisou at JetTersonville, to observe how greatly their condition and surroundings have been improved by the transfer. In the short time of less than three months they seem, judging from their appearance and deportment, to have made considerable pYogress toward the regaining of their own self-respect, which is the first step in the reformation of their lives and characters. The unwomanly vice of tobaceo smokhig, to which they were all addicted to excess, was at once prohibited on their admission to the Reformatory, and although much murmuring was for a time the result, the prisoners now seem to be reconciled to this measure ot compulsory reform, and we believe it will be the forerunner of other voluntary reforms that will, in not a few instances, lead to a restoration of an effaced or lost womanhood. Tbe cells and workrooms ot the prisoners are comfortable and well ventilated, and the women themselves are constantly under the influence of pure womanly'exampies, and the best moral and religious training and influence. There is every reason to hope and believe that not a few of the prisoners will, with such surroundings and under such influences as are now afforded them, be thoroughly reformed and fitted for usefulness in the world when they shall have regained their liberty. It is already demonstrated that woman is competent to govern tbe depraved and desperate of her own sex by womanly measures and appliances, without a resort to tho rigorous means which are generally supposed to be necessary in prisons governed by men, and intended wholly, or chietly, for male convicts. There are in the reformatory department twenty-one girls, whose ages range froniQen to fourteen years. It is believed at least four-fifths of these can be completely reformed, and become worthy members of society when they are discharged. A part of the time of each girl is employed in the school room of the institution, and a part devoted to industrial pursuits, the object being to impart the rudiments of a good elementary education, as well as industrious habits I o every inmate. rUACIICAL RESULTS. The institution has been too recently opened to say much about practical results; but thus far we have discovered nothing in its management to provoke or justify censure. As long as there are so few inmates, the expenses of the institution must unavoidably be comparatively high, and it is to be hoped that the different counties will, in view ot this, avail themselves of the advantages of the Institution, by committing to its guardianship some, at least, of the girls which are to be found in every community, who need and are entitled to such guardianship. It is believed that the people, as yet, do not generally understand that a girl need not be an offender against the penal laws of the State to justify her committal to the guardianship of the reformatory department of this institntion. If tho fact could be generally made known that vagrancy, or incorrigible or vicious conduct on the part of a girl, coupled with the fact that from moral depravity, or otherwise, her parent or guardian is incapable or unwilling to exercise tbe proper care over her, or that she is destitute ot a suitable home and adequate means of obtaining an honest living, or that she is in danger of being brought up to lead an idle or vicious life, will iustify her committal to the guardianship of the institu--tion, it can not be doubted that many girls, some of them mere children, that are now on the sure road to ruin, would be placed nnder the saving influence of tho reformatory department of this institution. There is one defect, as the Board of Visitors believe, in tho law governing the reformatory department of the institution, which ought to be remedied by amendatory legislation. We allude to that portion ol the act which requires a girl to be under tbe age of fifteen years to justify her committal to tbe reformatory department of the institution, and which compels her discbarge when she attains the age of eighteen years, whether she is reformed or not. In the judgment of the Board of Visitors, the law should be so amended as to allow the committal of girls up to the age of eighteen years, and so as to justify their detention until twenty-one years of age, if not sooner reformed. In this regard, a reformitory for girls is very different to a reformitory for boys. At the age of eighteen, many boys can not be governed in a reform scnooi witnoui convening it inw a prison, and thereby destroying its reformatory character; but with girls the case is very different. We therefore submit for the con sideration ef your Excellency the propriety of an amendment of the law governing the institution such as we have suggested, to the end that the attention of the General Assem bly may be directed thereto, if the suggesion should meet your approval. Respectfully submitted, Conrad Baker, By direction and on behalf of the Board 01 Visitors. December 27, 1873. The reports of the Superintendent, Steward and Physician of the Institution have been made to the Board of Managors, and will be incorporated in their report to the Governor, required to be made Dy them today. They are as follows: superintendent's report. To the Board of Managers of the Indiana Ite formatory Institution for fromcr and Girii: On receiving the appointment, tenth of seventh month, I vislt'jd the penitentiary at Detroit, the better ta understand the workin ns of a model nriFon. Manv similar insti tutions had been visited in Englacd; yet the American character, life and habits einer so widely,' I thought best to have a precedent riatir rmr finM rtr nnsntlnn. - On thn 18th we occupied the unfinished building, the better 10 lupruiicaa Home newwary i-imutjs, buu nrenaro fiMi.lnmotao Tim twelfth of ninth , tlJ .UAVK. - month the Reformatory Department was opened, to case two gins oui oj jan, a moy could be more profitably employed clearing the rubbish from the new building. The

prison department opened on the eighth of tenth month with seventeen prisoners received from Jeffersonville Penitentiary, accompanied by the Warden, Chaplain and Matron, all of whom feared we would have trouble, as the moral character of some was below hope, and two were dangerous. Our first great trial was the suppressing of tobacco. When told they could not use it in any form, gloom and sadness settled like a pall upon them, which taxed all our ingenuity to dispel. Our superior accommodations sank in utter insignificance, and with little exception they wished themselves back to "old Jeff!' We soon got to work, having reserved washing, sewing and housecleaning tor them, and, though our rules seemed hard, they have complied more willingly and cheerfully than we anticipated. There have been four added to the number, and am glad to state after the completion of the laundry, we were able to procure washing to keep those able employed. Sewing and knitting have been furnished others. Several have been on the sick list since their arrival. There are twenty-one girls in the reformatory taught half the day in a well

organized school, the other half devoted to cane-seating chairs and household duties in rotation. Some of the girls are committed for larceny, or incorrigible conduct, and the change in some of the worst is striking, convincing us, that many of these little waifs go to ruin from surrounding circumstances. We regret to find the age -- fifteen -- is preventing a large number from entering the reformatory. Having received letters from several counties rnaking the inquiry what steps to take, to commit over fifteen, stating they must go to ruin if not admitted. The only can be given, "The law forbids," and the girl on the brink of ruin is robbed of the care, restraint, education, and proper training the State has so wisely provided for her rescue, and our expenses are necessarily much larger in proportion to care for a small family. Our daily religious exercises have been greatly blessed. Sabbath school enjoyed, and regular services on the Sabbath conducted by the Young Men's Christian Association, who express themselves highly gratified by the apparent change from week to week in the family, and we feel that it is a problem no longer unsolved; that the power of kindness with the religion of Jesus is sufficient to subdue the most hardened. A library is much needed. As the reading prisoners had been supplied with the New York Weekly, interesting and profitable reading is wanted to supply its place. I can thankfully record that in both departments I am assisted by earnest Christian workers, who labor faithfully for the temporal and spiritual improvement of those under their charge. With gratitude for the kindness with which my many wishes have been responded to, Respectfully, Sarah J. Smith, Superintendent. REFORMATORY DEPARTMENT. Counties from which girls were received since the opening of the institution: Marion, 12; Wayne, 3; Parke, 5; Perry, 1; Floyd 1; Johnson, 1; Vigo, 1. Total 21. CONDITION OF INMATES. Number of orphans, 8; number of half orphans, 10; number of parents separated, 2; number whose parents are living, 1; number who can not read, 5; number who read indifferently, 11; number who read pretty well, 5; number who can write, 5. Then follows a tabular statement giving the name, county, where convicted, when received, crime, term and date of sentence of each of the convicts remaining in the penal department at the close of the year. The number in the department is twentyone. Seventeen of these were brought from the State Prison South, on the 8th of October last. Their names were published at the time. Of the four since received, one came by sentence of the Bartholomew Circuit Court, and three are from Marion county. All four were convicted of grand larceny. Two were sentenced for eighteen months, one for two years, and the other for three years. STEWARD REPORT. The steward's report shows the following account current of the expenses of the institution for the past six months: Receipts From State Treasury. $4,074 86. Disbursements -- Expended in July, $167 85; August, $282 98; September, $360 87; October, $1,250 11; November, $940 29; December, $,02 796. Total -- $4,030 06. Balance, $45 80. It also shows the payment into the Treasury yesterday of $77 90, on account of earnings of the prisoners as far as collected. A SUGGESTION TO GUARANTORS. To the Editor of the Sentinel; -- Sir: Thinking it about time something was done toward preparing for the management of an Exposition for 1874, allow me to make the following suggestions, in view of the fact that the regular meeting of the delegates to the State Board of Agriculture is to be held next Tuesday. Taking the success of our first attempt in the way of an Exposition, the benefit arising from it to the city and city and citizens generally, and the necessity of holding it again; feeling as we all do that to reap the full benefits of the enterprise and outlay of money that a united effort should be made by the citizens generally in connection with the State Board, I would suggest that the Board of Trade, or the guarantors, select seven gentlemen from the city, two of whom to be selected and recommended to the delegates for election to the Board, and the remaining five to be appointed as an Executive Committee to act with the State Board as an Exposition Committee, who will begin the work of preparation for the Exposition at once, and continue it until the opening day. Success in this way will be certain. Unless there is such a movement on the part of our citizens, the chance for a successful show next fall will be very small. We have no doubt but that the State Board will readily admit such an accession to their management, as the whole State is especially interested in the success of the Exposition another season. There is not a business man in this city who is not more or less benefitted by this yearly gathering of people and products. Nor can we afford to lose interest in the enterprise. If the panic had not interferred at the time it did, the praise of the Exposition, with its splendid buildings, would have been in everv man's mouth. They would have scarcely allowed the thirty days of the Exposltion in October to close before they would have been making preparations for the next one. Our people have been panic sick, but the new year will find us all fully recovered and ready for anything that will build up and make attractive our beautiful city. Expo. Indiannapolis, December 30. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS OF 1873 -- ASTOUNDING EXHIBIT. During the year 1872, there wers filed for record in the Marion County Recorder's Office, 6,056 real estate trnasfers, having a total consideration of $16,326,350 73. During the year just closed there were 8,756 deeds filed, with an aggregate consideration of $32,579,256 76, giving 1873 an excess in number of transfers of 2,700, and in consideration, $16,252,906 03, only $73,444 70 less than one hundred per cent. The computations are made from a daily record of the year, kept by Messrs. L. R. & Dan Martin, real estate dealers of this city, and are perfectly accurate. Columns might be written upon this result, but figures are facts and speak for themselves. In 1872, Indianapolis transactions exceeded those of Chicago by $3,000,000, and St. Louis by$7.000.00. It will be interesting to make comparisons this year also.