Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 25, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1874 — Page 3

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

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THE POOR MAN'S SABBATH DAY. BY GERALD MASSEY. The merry birds are singing, And from the fragrant sod The spirits of a thousand flowers Go sweetly up to God; While in his holy temple We meet to praise and pray, With cheerful voice and grateful lay, This summer Sabbath day! We thank thee, Lord, for one day To look heaven in the face! The poor have only Sunday; The sweeter is the grace. 'Tis then they make the music That sings their week away; O, there's a sweetness infinite In the Poor Man Saboath day. 'Tis as a burst of sunshine, A tender fall of rain; That sets the barest life a-bloom, Makes old hearts young again. The dry and dusty roadside With smiling flowers is gay; 'Tis open heaven one day in seven -- The Poor Man s Sabbath day! 'Tis here the weary pilgrim Doth reach his Home of Ease! That blessed home called "Beautiful," And that soft chamber, "Peace." The River of Life runs through his dream, And the leaves of heaven are at play! He sees the Golden City gleam, This shining Sabbath day! Take heart, ye faint and fearful; Your cross with courage bear; So many a face now tearful Shall shine in glory there: Where all the sorrow is banished, The tears are wiped away; And all eternity shall be An endless Sabbath day! Ah ! there are empty places Since last we mingled here; There will be missing faces When we meet another year! But heart to heart before we part, Now all together pray, That we may meet in heaven to spend The eternal Sabbath day!

NEWS MISCELLANY. GENERAL NOTES. The city of London expended $63,147 In entertaining the Shah of Persia. That would go a Iong way in a poor family. The Interior asks if it was ever known of a congregation who went heavily in debt for a new church who did not soon thereafter snub and ship their pastor. A church debt, it saya, makes a people cross, ill-natured and critical, and the pastor is usually tne target at which they discharge their arrows of discontent. George Hyde, of Bridgeport, rested his gun, at full cock, against his breast, while hunting, last week, and then held a squirrel out for his dog to jump at. The doctors say that, although one rib is cut in two and the jugular vein grazed, if the builet can be extracted from the jaw bone, Mr. Hyde may be around in a few months. A correspondent of the New York Tribune just arrived at Havana writes back: In paying for permission to land, I was boldly defrauded out of $2 50 in change. I reminded the official of it, who acknowledged the swindle, but did not offer to make restitution. This seemed to me to rise way beyond mere crime into the high atmosphere of subtle humor, and I smiled. I looked at him in amazement, but he smiled on. In short, he smiled and smiled, and was a viilain still, and I have seen the last of my $2 50. A correspondent of the Graphic in Washington writes: The President of the United State, who has at present no other known property in Washington than a house now occupied bv Judge McArthur, announces his intention of fixing his permanent residence in that city, and will buy and build there. He will be the first President since John Adams to take that interest in the Capital as a superior place of pleasurable abode. It was General Grant's intention to settle in St. Louis on his retirement, but he has felt the contagion of the social changes of Washington. The progressive party in the Indian Territory are inaugurating a new movement. It is to have Congress organize all that part of the Indian Territory which lies east of the 98th meridian, west longitude, into a Territory, make the civilized Indians citizens of the United States, and let that part west of this line remain for a reservation for the wild Indians where the experiment of civilizing could be applied to the raw material. Tho country east of the 98th meridian is about as large as Indiana, and would soon have the requisite population to become a State of the Union. Marshal Bazaine's wife is only twentyeight years of age, and is a heroine. She was only a poor girl, without any fortune whatever, when Marshal Bazaine married her, but the Emperor Maximilian gave her a small property for her dot, which was afterward confiscated by Juarez. Mme. Bazaine is a beautiful young woman, an excellent mother, a loving wife, and a devoted friend, and she has pride enough to carry her through these trying circuminstances. When told that the Marshal might escape bv military degradation, she cried. "Jamais! the Marshal would never consent to that. If you propose it even I shall soon be widow." And making her preparations for a last interview, Mrs. Bazaine wrote to say that she would enter the convent at once. The way in which Hosford, the last defaulting cashier in New York, obtained the $11,000 tor which he has taken to himself wings is explained by the New York Sun: "While Mr. King, the proprietor of the bank was in the Exchange, Hosford sent him a blank check for signature, saying that the money was needed at once to adjust a balance on 600 shares of newly purchased stock. Mr. King signed the cheek, and Hosford filled it out for $10,900. In case King should see the check book before Hosford's escape was assured, the amount written in the margin was $10. Hosford took the check to the Union National Bank, had it certified, and then went to the office of White Morris & Co. and offered the check for $10000 in gold. He was well known as King's cashier, and the gold was given him without question. Mr. King had funds in the Union Bank sufficient to meet the check, so that he is the sole loser. The lines in the Hoosac tunnel, says the Hartford Courant, were measured Sunday, and the variations in the lines of working were ascertained. In both casas the error was greater than the meetng east of the shaft last year, but the differences were nevertheless so slight as to be absolutely insignificant. The error in alignment was but nine-sixteenths of an inch; in level it was one inch and a half. Last yeai the error of alignment was seven-sixteenths of an inch, and in grade one inch and quarter. In the history of engineering there has been justly proud. Lines that might be run with absolute accuracy in the open air are only run with difficulty in a moist, rough, smoky tunnel; and when at one end the starting point had to be carried up the side of a mountain, and then vertically for more than a thousand feet, one may well wonder at the singular skill and patience with which the State engineer corps has performed its duty. The Boston Herald gives thes little sketch of Mr. Daly's new Fifth Avenue Theater in New York, which was opened Saturday night: The prevalent colors upon the walls are French gray, light green, and sea-shell

pink. The hangings are of crimson silk.

Mirrors upon the walls are framed in walnut and crimson satin. There are twelve proscenium boxes. There are two galleries. The house will seat about 1,500 persons, and will contain about 2,000. The lighting is from above. The drop curtain of crimson rep and silk, and parts in the center, so that its folds drop gracefully over each stage picture. The miscellaneous decorations are of black and cold. There are six cosy boxes at the back of the parquette. The opening exercises began with music, after which Miss Fanny Morant came before the curtain ana spoke the first half of an original address, in verse, written for the occasion by Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. At a certain point the curtain parted, disclosing the entire company ranged upon the stage, and Mr. Daly came forward and bowed in acknowledgment of the vociferous call and the hearty public plaudits. The other half of Dr. Holmes' address was then spoken with excellent spirit and discretion by Mr. Frank Hardenburgh. The assembled company rereived emphatic recognition and welcome. There were twenty-eight persons upon the stage, conspicuous among whom may be named Charles Fisher and William Davidge. The play was Albery's "Fortune," which the critics damn with one accord. A Washington letter to the Graphic, gives a pen picture of Caleb Cushing: He is a bachelor, with the blackest eyes, the ruddiest cheeks, and you can no more guess his than you could that of a golden winter apple. He is a millionaire, so that it can not reasonably be supposed that he wants any more "stocks." In Indian language, it can be said that he has "run the gauntlet" be tween a row of women, the length of which describes the circumference of the whole earth. He has kneeled on the yellow sands of the Bosphorous to the languishing hennastained Oriental; his beard has brushed the frezen limit of Siberian fashion and beauty; hand in hand with our sisters of the Rhine he has trampled the musty sweets of the vinevard: Paris and London have been exhausted; Washington was a squeezed orange long ago. Alas, when not engaged in international affairs. Mr. Cushing is brooding because there are no more worlds to conquer. Spiritual Vision. -- Man has faculties by which he perceives God. duty and immortality. But these faculties must be exercised, or they lose their power. If one should live in a dark room, and cease to use his eyes for a long time, at last he would lose the power of discriminating objects. To distinguish objects by the sight is an art. To the infant all things seem painted on the retina, and the moon seems as near as his mother's face. He learns to distinguish sizes and distances by practice. If one eye was not used at all, it might at least shrink up and disappear, like the eyes of the sightless fish in the solid darkness of the Mammoth Cave. So, if a man does not use his spiritual powers at all, he gradually loses the power of distinguishing between matter and spirit, time and eternity, nature and God. -- James Freeman Clarke. Necessity of Prayer. We must have both a personal God without us, the object of awful veneration -- a personal God within us, the object of childish love. Awe and love combined are perfect adoration, and in that adoration the soul is satisfied, earth is glorified, heaven is in our hearts, and all our human love raised into something more intense and pure when it breathes this awe ot the eternal. Prayer is the expression of this adoring love, as necessary to man as this adoring love is necessary; and till awe ceases to exalt the soul, and love to be its food, the soul of man must pray. Men may call prayer an absurdity, deny its work, banish is influence, but nature and God will be too strong for them. These men will glide into the absurdity they laughed at when their heart is passionate with sorrow; and as to banishing its influence -- they must banish veneration and love from the heart, and then tear away the heart itself, ere they can banish prayer. Its force is here, within us, here in the depth of our want. -- Stopford Brooke. Old Letters. -- Never burn kindly written letters; it so pleasant to read them over when the ink is brown, the paper yellow with age, and the hands that traced the friendly words are folded over the hearts that prompted them, under the green sod. Above all, never burn love letters. To read them in after years is like a resurrection to one's youth. The elderly spinster finds in the impassioned offer she foolishly rejected, twenty years ago, a fountain of rejuvenescence. Glancing over it, she realizes that she was once a belle and a beauty, and beholds her former self in a mirror much more congenial to her taste than the one that con-, fronts her in her dressing room. The 'widow indeed" derives a sweet and solemn consolation from the letters of the beloved one who has journeyed before her to the faroff land from which there comes no message, and where she hopes, one day, to join him. No photographs can so vividly recall to the memory of the mother the tenderness and devotion of the children who have left at the call of Heaven, as the epistolary outpourings of that love. The letter of a true son or daughter to a true mother is something better than an image of the features; it is a reflex of the writer's soul. Keep all loving letters. Burn only the harsh ones, and in burning them forgive and iorget them. Putting in the Knife. -- For years past, says the Washington City Star, it has been the custom in the different bureaus of the Interior Department for the head of each bureau on Christmas, to present to each employe either a knife or gold pen or both, these presents being purchased with money from the Contingent Fund. Quite a sensation was created among the quill drivers of the Patent Office this morning by the appearance of the following circular, signed M. D. Leggctt, Commissioner of Patents, on the bulletin board: "When I came to the Patent Offlce I found that it had long been a custom to present at the close of each year a gold pen and pocket knife, purchased with public funds, to each employe of this oflice. I have searched in vain for any legal authority to warrant the Commissioner in making such use of any portion of the public funds entrusted to his care. I am fully aware that many in office are poorly paid for their services, and I should regard it as a great privilege to be able to compensite them properly; but not one such person, I presume, would desire me to make an illegal use of money placed under my control to thus reward him. It was not my intention that such presents should be made lat year, but the articles had been purchased before my attention was called to the matter. The practice of making such presents will, from this date, be discontinued during my administration of the office. When in the discharge of official duties, it becomes necessary for an employe to have a knife or gold pen, on proper application, approved by the Commissioner, the same may be furnished." There is considerable feeling among the clerks in consequence of the determination of the Commissioner, and many of the clerks argue that he is altogether too conscientious on this point. At a meeting of the tills ntornim;, clld hy tiio r ;' tft : Interior, Gbtieral Lesctt r - T ; f i bo allowed to tn ni i t n'U !ir--'M r. clerks as usual ur1r-'tb r.oMM m, Chris mas and N'?r Vw-rt'H-ftf 'A -,-arV tho business of hi oillre wooTrt' w nTrt' wiffk rrfUt jrislly by any in erruptiön. A running on half tijv it is mer fare, no wort is accouHHisnea.

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CHRISTMAS TIMES. Tis Winter' reign, and winds are sizbing O'er the city and the plain. And the unownakes thick are flying, , Born upon the storm amain ; And ihe poor are lowly creeping. In their cheerless dwellings sleeping. And thlr eye re red with weeping, Had with want and cold and ralu. Tis Winter's reijrn, and bells are ringing. Pealing forth llie Christmas chimes. And blithe, buoyant hearts are singing Of the nierrj'i festive times. In the hall the lights are gleaming. Aud bright even with glad lies beaming. And each breast of joy is dreaming. As they chant their Christmas rhymes. Tis Winter's reign, and the soul's peering into brighter realms afar; Where its pilgrimage is noarin?, Far Iteyond each sun and star, Where are lasting Joys forever. And whtre kimlreds never never. And whf reborrows never enter, In those blissful rt-glons lar. THE CHRISTIAN STATESMAN, CUMBACH.

HINTS OK FLTURB WIRK PULLING HOW OLIVER IS TO FIX TIIINtt. FOR PRATT S SUCCESSOR. A Cincinnati correspondent of the New York Sun writes: In Indiana, both parties are pipe-laying in a quiet way. Neither has the upper hand in State affairs; but the Republicans have so gerrymandered the State thate it is next to impossible for the Demo crats to get the Legislature next year. The State might go Democratic by 20,000, yet the Legislature be Itspublican. A year hence a new United states Ssnator is to be elected, to succeed Pratt. Morton and his party will press Will Cumback for the place. He is now a colhsrtor of internal revenue. William was the nominee of the caucus in 1369, but iell inglonously in the Legislature. He had played it tine on the Sunday schools and the M. K. Church, and the teetotalers, and with Morton to back him, he was sure of plain sailing into the Senate. A little letter turned ' up just then, and all his hopes were nipped in the bud. The kind heart of Useless S. Grant was moved, either by William's discomfiture or that little letter, and hence he was soon appointed to a $12,000 revenue office, which he continues to run. As h Is a civil service employe, and is to be administration candidate for United Slates Senator soon, a plain unvarnished explanation of his defeat in 1869 may be entertaining. As I said, he was the nominee of the Republican caucus in Indianapolis in l.vl'J. About a dozan Republicans refusel to go into the caucus, some of them, including Judge Jim Hughes (lately deceasel) and Col. John A. Stine of Lafayette, bcinz amang tho ablest debaters of the Senate. There was a square bolt, and the bolters rf lued to support the caucus nominee. It soon lHj;;in to be noised about that the truly holy William had written to Gov. Baker a year previously A L1TTI.K LETTER. Much urioi!y was aroused. It had long been known that a coldness existed between Baker and Cumb.tc-k, but people only con ijP4'1" red the causa. During the Senatorial content a resolution was introduced and passed c.- 'linc upon Governor Biker to lay oefore tl i L jjislmure the correspondence referred to. Turnback had been elected on the ticket with Btker, Biker Governor ani Cumback Lieutenant Governor and ex-ofllcio President of the Spnate. Hughes, a good parliamentarian, aided by a dozen sharp and experienced bolters, and of course by all the collective wisdom of Hoosier Democracy, made it very hot for the caucus and the caucus nominee. Finally the little corresjondence came forth, in answer to the resolution calling for it. It read as follows: (jRKkxsburg, Ind., Jan. 6, 1868. J Ootrrnor Bixkert 1'kak Friend: If I had not a thousand things to demand my attention this week I would come up and see you. I will therefore venture to make this nugestlon: 1 think Hendricks will be chosen by the ItemocraU, and he will Certainly. If he iutendi to Inspire success among his triend, resigu his position. The person aplointeJ by you will, ether thing being equal, ;and the best chance of being chosen by our ljegixlaiarA. If you will assure me of the appointment. I will withdraw from the contest tor a ay position on the State ticket, and take the position of elector at our State Convention. If ihis propoMitiou dw pot meet with your approbulou nleiwse return till- letter to me. Let me have your reply at au early day. I do most ear nestly hope lor the unity of the Republican party. I atn, a ever, your friend. Will Cumback. AN ANORY OOTERKOn'S REPLY. Indianatolis, Jan. 8, 186. Jb tht Hon. Wi'l Cumback, (Jret'n.'burg, Ind.: . Sir: Your communication of the tub was received, but abs-uce from the city prevented an immediate reply. Ihe proposition is corruDt and Indecent, and I feel humiliated that any hu man ixmiir "Mould i uea -ure me by ko low a stan dard of common morality to make lt. 1 have Wie honor to be, etc. Conrad Uakxk. A little explanation will make it clear what "proposition is corrupt and indecent." Hendricks was then in the United (States Senate from Indiana. He was to be nomi natod for Governor by the Indiana Democ racy in tue campaign oi livv. miter was a candidate for renomination for Governor be fore the Republican State Convention to meet February 22 that year. Cumback was also a candidate before that Convention for nomination. Hence the proposition of Cumback to Baker (who was then serving as Governor; was interpreted to mean simply this: If Governor Biker will placate me with the appointment to the United States Senatorship, to be mad3 vacant by the resignation of Hendricks, 1 will withdraw from the cbinpaix" lor t lie Gubernatorial nomina-j won, auu leave a cieat aam ior natcer." il was a ciever attempt at political bribery, ana linker saw that ne had cumback 8 scalp in his ting' rs. He sliced it loose from the ambitious gentleman's skull with the grace of a Modoc. . of course the friends of Cornback were in a rage at what they called Baker's meauue-ss m exposing private cor respondence from a friend." Bat Baker was implacable, aud the feline quadruped was at lanr-v Tne Indiana legislature tnen spread upon its lecords tlu following bit of political moralizing, viz.: Jtrx'dved, 1'Lat, in the opinion of the Senate, the letter ol the Hon. Will Cumback, the present Kkuteuant Governor of the State, d.ued J unary ti, lStkS, and addressed to Governor Uaktr, embraces a corrupt and indir-ct utUMuoi. to ta noer with the integrity an I dev.-ov t'.iu independence of the appom in,; seit 'L of the Governor. U..li. ;i. Further, that the action of the Go r-.ur, in repe'lhit; the dishonorable propositi. r.i cMiiai.'i .d in "aid letter of WillCumbt'jk, C iu M3i: i i ii.e!f to all good citizens as a ju-t iiuVn itf th'j conduct which should ever cinrcvt rM th appointing power In our sys in of government. Cumback's nomination by the caucus proved a d.-lu-ion and a snare. After days of vain eir.irt, t i sick and mortified chamEioLs ghuüy actpied any excuse to abandon im. and ihi boilers and tho regulars finally coiiiOrom;e J n D. D Pratt, who ww chosen t'ti-iior. Cumback, helped by Morton and irtlwix, is "setting things up" to pot Prutl's hr.a:, a.d lie expocts to joiu the host of (JUr v ian si .".omen in Washington a jear - - . , .-i.- ... i h V. . ., uate i a fit arociato ot the . V. are now there; but ill to elect him? i-HJ lelt that lnlLIs i will bo dulled or aiir i vv e Arever. We do jf.t shines still, and f-at round world rflSLer hear ihe peine forte Ttjt duiif tHO u? ttjusolini'-apatby that euc-!

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ceeds it. But time has no mercy on our delusions. Grass grows over all our graves -- whether they be the mounds in the consecrated ground of God's acre or the graves whereof no one knows, in which we have buried hopes that were fair once, and dreams that were dreamed only, and joys that fluttered, like sun-suffused butterflies through some single summer. -- Mrs. L. C. Moulton. CLARK COUNTY LUNATICS. A FAMILY OF FANATICS -- A SICK WOMAN CONCEALED TILL THE NEIGHBORS INTERFERE -- CANDIDATES FOR THE INSANE ASYLUM. Mention has been made repeatedly of a little community of Mormons, or idiots, in the

south part of Clark county, whose performances rival the howling dervishes. James Scott is a minister of the Latter-day Saints, and with his family, consisting of wife, two daughters and a son, appears to be little better than a raving maniac. Since September last he has confined his wife in a dark room, and refused everybody, including her brothers, admittance to the house. A rumor finally got started that the woman was dead, which determined the brothers and neighbors to make an investigation. The visit is described by the Ledger-Standard : Some thirty-six men joined the expedition. When the party arrived at the place of destination they espied quite a commotion in the back yard. The father, in company with a son and a daughter, walked rapidly to meet the party, and with a faltering effort at military display, commanded the van to halt, but the van merely said "good morning, sir," and passed on. He then ran frantically toward the house, yelling wildly to the men, "For God's sake to stop and reason a moment." The spokesman, turning to him, said: "Mr. Scott, this foolery has been carried far enough, and we have come here to ascertain the facts in the case. We are not going to commit any depredation, or harm any one in the least; but we are going into that house to see that woman, if she it there, and if she is not there, we are going to know where she is; and, now, sir, if you have any valid reasons for practising such an outrage on this community; we will hear them." Scott then delivered himself in substance as follows: "Men and brethren: my soul is filled with the love of God toward you all; and the word of God Is now burning in my heart. Hear me, O, men of the world, hearken unto my voice, and hear ye the living God, the word of the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. I have a command from the great God of Gods, to keep my wile shut up in that room tor a certain time, and allow no human being to see her, except myself, my son, and those two unmarried daughters. The great God, in whose pres ence I now stand, in fear and trembling. tells me that if I faithfully keep this command, my wife shall be restored to new life and perfect health, and that she shall not taste death. It is constantly revealed to me by the living God that whenever this command is broken my wife will instantly drop dead, and her soul will instantly sink into perdition; and whoever dares to break that command will fall dead immediately on crossing the threshold of that door, and their souls will sink instantly into everlastin woe. Hear my voice, now, I pray you, ana heed the warning of the living God; for in the self-same moment that ye enter in through that door, the flaming sword that hangs above it will fall upon you and cut you down as cumberers of the earth; and this day shall ye all become as dung upon the ground. Thus sayeth the living God." At the close of this preposterous harangue, the son, who had stood like a statue, gazing vacantly at the distant west, without moving a muscle of the body, responded, "Amen and amen, and amen." The father then turned to the daughter, saying: "Daughter, you speak." THE PROPHETESS. The girl slowly raised both bands above her head, turned her eyes toward the heavens, and tor a moment gazed vacantly into the immensity of space, while the father called the attention of the crowd telling them "to listen now to the word of the living God." The prophetess began to quake and tremble from head to foot, at the same time uttering unintelligible verbiage in the wildest and most incoherent manner: her voice gradually growing into a series of frightful and deafening screams, and her gesticulations growing wilder and more vehement until they terminated in convulsions ceasing from complete exhaustion. Here the spokesman remarked that that was enough of such insane absurdity, and asked Scott to open the door. Scott replied that he "was in the hands of the liv ing God, having neither power to resist or assist them." Whereupon the self-consti-tuted investigating committee made their way into that mysterious room, and beheld there, in front of the old fashioned fire place the object of their search, sitting upon a chair looking stolid and stiff as a marble bust, perfectly motionless, and her countenance entirely void of expression. Her brothers approached her one at a time, saluting her kindly; but she remained perfectly quiet, until the fourth brother attempted to take ner hand, when she withdrew it with a sudden motion. As the party passed into the house, the father, the son, and prophetess all fell upon their knees in the chip yard, the three abreast, facing the west. The old man and the girl prayed fervently to their God to pour out his wrath now; to send thunderbolts from heaven and destroy from the face of the earth these Gentiles; the son constantly repeating his usual chorus, "amen, and amen and amen." During this prayer a second daughter distinguished herself by running back and forth across the yard, moaning piteously, her hands quivering and flying rapidly aoout in every direction, her head bobbing up and down striking the chin against the breast with such violence as to make the beholder involuntarily look to see her head fly off her shoulders. The father and son were dressed in blue jeans coats ot a peculiar pattern, buttoned up in front, with a single row of old fashioned brass buttons, presentIng quite an eccentric appearance. The mother's face is overcast with a deathlike pauor, that makes one shudder while looking at her. The girls have an unhealthy appearance, and their complexion reminds one of the clay eaters of the Carolinas, The most striking about the females is the insane expression of their eyes. There were two physicians present, and they unhesitatingly pronounced the mother and the two males seriously demented, the girls almost hopelessly insane; and gave it as their candid opinion that if the mother is not provided with light air and exercise she will soon die. When Mrs. Scott was first taken ill, she claimed to have a manifestation that she would never die, but would be translated as Elija of old; and after sifting the matter, it is pretty clearly ascertained that Scott intended to keep tis wife concealed until she died, then conceal the body, and give out to the world that she was translated. Integrity is a virtue which costs much. In the period of passion it takes self-denial to keep down the appetites of the flesh; in the time of ambition, with us far more dangerous, it requires very much earnestness of character to keep covetousness within its proper bounds, not to be swerved by love of the praise of men or official power over them. But what a magnificent recompense does it bring to any and every man! Any pleasure which costs conscience a single pang is realIy a pain, and not a pleasure. All gain which robs you of your integrity is a gain which profits not: it is a loss. Honor is infamy if won by the sale of your soul. But what womanly and manly delights does this costly virtue bring into your consciousness, here and hereafter. -- Theodore Parker.

THE UNEMPLOYED. CHICAGO'S COMMUNE. WHAT IS DEMANDED -- THE SITUATION IN THE CITY. Reviewing the demand of the workingmen in Chicago, the Times sums it up thus: Threatening indications now force the inquiry upon us: Are we to be soon required to face a like alternative? Is Chicago fallen into the hands of La Commune? The incendiary utterances of certain irresponsible wretches that assume (it is hoped falsely) to be the leaders of some large crowds of unemployed persons, appear to indicate that

such is the case. These wretches a -- specimen appears in the person of one F. A. Hoffmann -- talk as if they were already masters of Chicago, and had, in virtue of such mastery, a right to break open the vaults of treasuries and banks and the doors of ware houses, and distribute among themselves whatever "accumulated wealth" they may find. The language of the person Hoffmann, the language of a person called McAuliffe, and of several other communistic blatherskites, is the language of the enemies of society whom the government of Paris executed on the plain of Satory. After some violent abuse of the Relief and Aid Society, the creature Hoffmann said to the Mayor: "We demand of them that they turn over this trust. Let them come prepared now that they are notified. We shall now demand that the money, every cent of It, shall be turned over, whereas heretofore we would have been satisfied with a portion of it. Let them come prepared for the issue. They have given us an opportunity to expose this close corporation which has been fraudulentiy formed with the money of the people. I myself will rip the intestines out of that infamous Board, and show that it is a fraud and a curse. These gentlemen will come with an opinion from Judge Drummond, that the money can not be taken from them. But I, while I am no prophet, can tell them this, that the people will no longer tolerate this outrageous conduct. Woe will come unto them and theirs who have allowed woe to come upon oth ers and theirs. It will come on Friday night, if they do not come prepared to yield to the just demands of the people." These incendiary and threatening words were addressed to the chief executive of the city government, and therefore are understood to be addressed to the city itself. That the mavor listened to such language without administering to the disorderly speaker a proper rebuke, is a matter for surprise. The mayor should know, just now, that the city government is not a charity agency, nor an eleemosynary organ of any kind whatever. It has no power to assess taxes to furnish employment to anybody, nor to raise money to distribute in the way of alms. It was not created for a public almoner, and has not by the law of its existence any power or authority whatever to set up as an administrator of charity funds. It exists for an entirely different purpose. It exists to quell and punish lawlessness, to put down riots, to seize and punish law-breakers .and disturbers of the public peace and order. Before and pending the November election, the leading spirits of the popular conglomeration that elected Mayor Colvin proclaimed very loudly that they and their followers constituted the "real party of law and order." If the pretense was true, then they can not sympathize with the sentiments and declared purposes of these lawless and orderless ringleaders of La Commune. If the pretense was anything more than a display of demagogical hypocrisy, then the new administration in the tender affection it manifests toward such creatures as Hoffmann and McAuliffe, takes a bad way to demonstrate the fact. It has not escaped public observation that for a "law and order" administration the new city administration is in great danger of a pitiable BREAKDOWN AT THE START. The Mayor knows, and the creature Hoffmann, who professes to be a lawyer, also should know, that the Relief and Aid Society has no more lawful right to turn over to tne city any charity funds that may be in its treasury than the city has to turn over to the Relief and Aid Society any remainder of the sewerage or other funds that may be in its treasury. The corporation called the Relief and Aid Society exists, as the corporation called the City of Chicago does, in virtue of a law ot the State of Illinois. Each was created by the State for a specific purpose pertaining to the exercise of its own sovereignty, and the purpose of neither comprehends in any way the purpose of the other. One exists as an administrator of charity only; the other exists only to administer the functions of the city government, to maintain law and order in the community. The scalawag Hoffmann is right when be says that the Relief and Aid Society will not willingly surrender its treasury to a committee of communists or of city aldermen. It can not do so, except to violate the law. The function of the Mayor is to maintain law and preserve order and not to demand or suffer any violation of them. If the city government, at the head of which is the mayor, can not fulfil its appointed functions, then it becomes the imperative duty of the Government of Illinois to intervene, and with all the civil and military power of the State of Illinois to put down communism in Chicago, and if need be to deal with such creaturesas Hoffmann and McAuliffe as their lawless compeers were dealt with on the plain of Satory. How near we are to a realization of this violent necessity can only be a matter of conjecture. But the incendiary declarations by the ringleaders of La Commune, and the seeming hesitancy in the local administration in a matter where its only lawful function and duty are as plain as the light of day, warn us that it is always the part of wisdom to anticipate the worst that can happen. It Is not to be supposed that the Governor of Illinois will not take note of the disorderly threatenings by these lawless ringleaders of the La Commune, nor that he will not stand prepared to meet with the cannon and musketry of the State this threatening spirit of La Commune at the first sympton of failure on the part of the city to put down violence by superior violence. If the new city administration, which came in with professions of law and order on its tongue, shall not make good its professions by executing government of law against the lawless spirit of communistic scoundrelism, which finds Its instruments in such wretches as F. A. Hoffmann and his confreres, then the superior authority of Illinois must and will intervene to execute law and crush out disorder by the military power of the state. If the scoundrels of La Commune choose not to obey the laws and respect the local authority, or if the local authority shall fall in the fulfillment of its appointed function, they may as well know the inevitable alternative. If Chicago is in the handsof La Commune, then La Commune and not Chicago must perish. Whether it die peaceably or violently rests in its own choice. THE DEMANDS OF THE COMMUNISTS. Says the Chicago Tribune: The following are understood to be the demands of some of the leaders of the workingmenen, and a rough draft of a manifesto to be issued by them: The Relief and Aid Society must either turn over the relief fund to the city and county authorities, or the Managing Board of the Relief and Aid Society must consist of one-third Americans and two-thirds Irish, Germans and Scandinavians. The public schools, bridges and the conduit in Fullerton avenue to be undertaken by the Board of Public Works or by contractors immediately. Who would dare to enjoin the city for doing its own work? Legal help for thoe who are In danger of losing their homesteads by land-sharks and greedy land-grabbers; the mayor to designate a lawyer to devote an hour or two a day for the purpose ot legal advice, etc, to

the owners of lots who owe installments they can not at present pay. Legal expense to be paid out of contingent fund. It would

last a month or two, and might cost $500 or more. Committees should be appointed to visit the different shops and manufactories now idle, for the purpose of arranging the opening of the same at a rate of wages satisfactory to the bosses and the workingmen. The movement is gathering strength, and may reach the Irish masses, that were not even touched before the call of the mass meeting. The leaders are enthusiasts, while the mass of the followers are not paupers; in fact, they have never felt actual starvation, or even poverty, but they are afraid of losing what they have got. and of being delivered to the tender mercies of a relief and aid society whose managers are strangers in feeling and understanding to them. They desire a reorganization of the whole relief business of the city and county, and the fulfillment of the promises of the last general election that public improvements should be pushed all over the city. They can not be made to realize that the city authorities could be stopped or prevented by any body from commencing and finishing public works without advertising for bids from contractors and letting them to the lowest responsible bidders. SMOTHERED. SEVEN MEN BURIED UNDER A PILE OF GRAIN -- A HORRIBLE DEATH. The Ottawa, Canada, Citizen tells of the terrible death that befell seven laborers there: Mr. Murray, a lumber dealer, had hired seven men to go to his mills on Blue River, a tributary of Lake Huron, and work his timber lands. He heard nothing from them, and the report of a traveler, who had just came from the river, increased Mr. Murray's fears, and determined at once to proceed up the stream and ascertain what had become of the boat's crew. He found the batteau as described at the landing, and then proceeded to the shanty, or depot, where the provisions were to have been stored. He arrived there at nightfall, but no sound greeted him. All was still as the grave. He lifted the latch of the door, and as he entered a horrible stench of putrid flesh greeted his nostrils. He struck a light and at once proceeded to investigate the premises. The storehouse was a square block house, scooped shanty fashion, but without the bunks that are generally found in a regular lumber shanty. The remains of the fire were visible in the campboose, and the only thing unusual in the appearance of the place was the horrible stench and the oats which he had sent up with the men, thrown in a disordered heap. some of it loose and the rest in bags, on one side of the floor. From this heap the foul smell proceeded. He placed the light on one side and commenced to remove the oats. The odor grew almost unbearable, and he had only lifted two or three bags of grain when a human hand met his gaze, and sent his blood curdling through his veins. Horror-stricken, he continued to remove the grain, and discovered one of the most terrible sights that it has ever been the lot of man to witness. The seven men had arrived at the depot safely with their lead, and it is supposed they worked with a will until they got their charge safely stored. The pork was packed in one corner, the flour in another, and the oats, in bags, was piled from the floor to the scoops in a high, narrow pile. The men then, tired and hungry partook of a hearty supper, after which they spread their blankets on the floor and then, with their heads on the pile of oats, and their feet to the fire, they fell into a heavy sleep -- a sleep from which they never rose. During the night one of the bottom bags of oats burst from the pressure above. The grain began to run out, until one side of the pile was undermined, and when the tired workers were enjoying their soundest and most refreshing sleep, the pile of srain fell over on top of them. God alone knows how soon death overtook them. Six of the men did not appear to have been able to move. They were found lying on their backs in a row, with their heads covered. The weight of the grain must have been so crushing that they could not move hand or foot, and they died of suffocation. The seventh man must have had a fearful struggle for life. Lying near the end of the pile, he was not caught with such weight as his comrades. He must have lived for some time after being trapped, and being a man of powerful frame he died hard, as was evidenced by the fact that he had worked his way upward until his hand was near the surface, but his own struggles only hastened his death. The bags became torn and the grain, filtering down, filled his mouth, eyes and nostrils, and effectually choked him. These were in effect the facts in the case as related to Mr. Rowan, and a more ghastly and horrible incident we have never heard of. Four of the men were from the township of Ashfield, in Huron; the others were Frenchmen. They had only gone to work in the woods for the winter. Mr. Williams, who was in Goderich when he heard of the accident, immediataly left for the mill. THAT STAND PIPE. IT IS TESTED AND PROVEN SATISFACTORY, AND THE HON. SCHUYLER COLFAX MAKES A SPEECH. The Chicago Inter-Ocean gives an account of the test of the Stand Pipe at South Bend on Christmas day. After the test the crowd assembled in front of the court house, when Schuyler Colfax was called for and responded in a ten minute speech. The assembly then adjourned to the Studebaker Wagon Works, where very amusing ceremony took place under the following circumstances: Mr. Leighton Pine, is, and has been, a standpipe man, and Mr. J. Molar Studebaker has gravely doubted the efficiency of the system. Between these two a wager had been arranged of a cow on the .part of Mr. Studebaker, and a lunch on the part of Mr. Pine. The former was to participate in the practical test by standing in the belfry of the building, ninety-five feet from the ground, while the water was being thrown therein from the stand pipe hydrant across the street. If he got wet be was to lose the cow, and vice versa. The Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Chief Engineer E. Nicar, of the Fire Department, and J. C. Knoblock, Esq., were appointed judges, and the four, with Mr. Pine, ascended to the belfry. At the signal from the Chief Engineer, a stream of water was brought to bear upon the five, and Mr. Studebaker got a good wetting and beat a hasty retreat. The judges, of course, decided in favor of Mr. Pine, and the cow was produced, the head and tail gorgeously caparisoned in red, white, and blue ribbon. In his remarks upon receiving her, Mr. Pine said his only regret was that she couId not hold as much milk as the stand-pipe water, but if she only could he would "set 'em up for the boys right lively." Th cow was escorted to the residence of Mr. Pine by the South Bend Cornet Band and a procession in carriages. On the way some villain pulled off her chignon (false tail). The offender was caught, but broke away from the officer and made his escape thorugh a dark alley. In the afternoon the Studebakers presented Mr. Colfax with the Colfax buggy exhibited At the Chicago Exposition, and which cost $600 to manufacture. In reply to the presentation, Mr. Coifaix spoke of the Studebakers' progress from a start with $68 capital. The depression in the lumber industry of the United States it very marked. Firms in Minneapolis which last year sent out 2,000 men will send only 900 this season. There was cut last season about 300,000,000 feet. The amount of the present season will not exceed 135,000,000.