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

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

THE EGOTIST. FAUSTINE. He comes before you with unbidden tread, With furtive eyes, half-way he appears; He nothing cares for aught that may be said. Demanding only that you be all ears. 'Lend me your ears," he cries, and asks no more, Though Iong he wants them -- (let this likeness pass.) The listener waits to hear the lion's roar, And hears intead the braying of an ass. With brow of brass and gutta-percha throat, In which a tongue, three-pronged, is deftly hung, He sounds his bugle to a single note--"A flat" -- the key in which his song is sung. You hear the thunder of his mighty tones, Recounting wondrous deeds that he has done;

About almighty "I," like circling zones. The currents of his conversation run. He knows not if the day be hot or cold. His solar system centers in himself; The robe of wisdom round himself is rolled, And to his porcelain soul all else is delf. Narcissus-like, he worships his own form, In firm belief that he no grace can lack : If toward you for a space he seems to warm, 'Tis only when himself you mirror back. He sees no glow of genius in your speech, No shaft of wit can cut his coat of mail, No brilliant play of words his senses reach, And e'en the sword of sarcasm here must fail. Wrapped in self-consciousness, his presence lies Like some dark incubus upon your soul, Till all the sunshine from your nature flies, His selfish shadow has obscured the whole. HOME AND FARM NOTES. The farmer should have something to sell every week in the year. To make men happy requires a great deal. Dumb brutes require only bodily comfort. Give them warmth and food, and they are blest. Western farmers are demoralized by too much good land. They hardly know the pleasure there is in reclaiming and making fruitful sterile soils. Yet in this very thing both enjoyment and profit may be found. Farm stock is more likely to do badly in an open than a severe winter, because the farmer trusts too much to warm weather. Wintering stock means waste with a great many. Because a man is a farmer it does not follow that he must necessarily ignore personal decency, cleanliness, genteel habits, and a regard for good manners. Some part of his work requires a coarse and strong dress, but he has as good a right to use soap and water as the President of the United States. Speaking of bees at the late convention in Louisville, Gen. Adair made some very instructive remarks in regard to the wings of bees. He shows that besides being organs of llight, are in reality lungs. The blood in the wings, however, is not confined to those tubes, but circulates like the sap in the leaves of plants to all parts of them, and it is likely, is thus also aerated. He argues that the practice of some in clipping the wings of queens, to prevent them from flying away, is pernicious. CONVERSATION. -- The Springfield Republican laments the decline in the art of conversation, which, it urges, should be cultivated in families. This would tend to develop attachment to the home which is sadly wanting in many households, besides promoting the education of children. Conversation, as Lord Bacon says, makes a ready man, but what we want is not the glib fluency of mere talkers, but the expression of knowledge and ideas. If intelligent and thoughtful conversation were studied and practiced in the domestic circle the effect would be healthy upon all the family. Many good rules of conversation are laid down, but two are indispensable, viz: Do not monopolize more than your share of the time to the exclusion of others, and, secondly, when views differ, do not be offensive by impeaching the motives, intelligence or character of your opponent. COFFEE IN LARGE QUANTITIES -- Mrs. Lyman, in the Tribune, has given a valuable hint how to make good coffee for festivals and large parties: Parch and grind the coffee and put it into flannel bags, each holding about half a pound, sew them up tightly all round. When the festive time comes heat in a clean wash boiler as much water as will be required for the first making of coffee; when it boils throw in one or two of the bags and let them boil ten or fifteen minutes, more or less, according to the strength desired. Then take them out. Add boiling water when necessary and throw in another bag of coffee, allowing it to remain ten or fifteen minutes as before. In this way the beverage will be kept aromatic as well as strong, and the bitterness of long boiled coffee be prevented. WINTER ORNAMENTS. -- In Moore's Rural New Yorker this direction is given, which is a nice experiment for children to try: A pretty mantlepiece ornament may be obtained by suspending an acorn, by a piece of thread tied around it. within half an inch of the surface of some water confined in a vase, tumbler or saucer, and allowing it to remain undisturbed for several weeks. It will soon burst open, and small roots will seek the water: a straight and tapering stem, with beautiful glossy green leaves, will shoot upward and present a very pleasing appearance. Chestnut trees may be grown in the same manner, but their leaves are not so beautiful as those of the oak. The water should be changed once a month, taking care to supply wate of the same warmth ; bits of charcoal added to it will prevent the water from souring. If the little leaves turn yellow, add one drop of ammonia into the utensil which holds the water and they will renew their luxuriance. BUTTER SCIENCE. -- In a late discussion David Moore, who has been a butter buyer for twenty-flve years, in New York, said: There are many essential rules to be observed in making fine butter. We must have good cows, good pastures, good clean water, clean stables, clean milkers, clean dairy room and utensils, milk kept at proper temperature, skimmed and churned in time, butter thoroughly washed so as to remove all impurities, then salted with pure Ashton salt, and no other. Avoid slops about the milk room, either out doors or in. Cream is very susceptible to foreign flavor. Cows teal should washed, not with milk, but clean.water, and allowed to dry before milking. If properly cooled, milk may be allow- ed to stand thirty-six hours in dry weather, and be pure, but not in wet weather. To keep butter through the seanon, make a bag large enorigh to cover the top of the package; fill with salt, Iay it over the butter so as to exclude the air thoroughly, moisten when put on and moisten once a week as long as you keep the butter. WHEN TO CUT TIMBER. -- Dr. Hartig, who made numerous experoments to determine the point, states that March and April are the best months in which to cut timber for building purposes, as it then contains its lowest per cent of moisture, which, he states to be forty-seven per cent. During the three previous months it has fifty-one per cent, and in the three following months fortyeight. He further states that properly seasoned timber should not contain more than twenty to twenty-five per cent of moisture, and never less than ten per cent. If the moisture is removed to a still greater extent the wood loses its strength and becomes brittle. An English authority states that if trees are felled as soon as they are in fall leaf and allowed to remain undisturbed until the leaves dry up and fall off, the timber will be found well seasoned, the leaves hav-

ing exhausted all the moisture in the wood.

Closely related to this is the question of wood for fuel, concerning which the Prairie Farmer remarks: To make the most of wood with the least expense, it should be cut and split when green, thrown in a loose heap, where the wind can pass through it, and when tolerably dry, piled under cover. It should not lie directly on the ground, for the water will not only wet the lower sticks but will extend upwards through several layers. It is not well to pile wood in a building while in a green state, for it is almost certain to pass into the condition of partial dry rot. In case there is no wood house, it should be closely piled on supports and covered by a temporary roof of boards. Winter is the time to prepare wood, and enough should be prepared for an entire year. TRADE NOTES. Virginia has forty blast furnaces. The machine shops at Chillicothe, Ohio, ave all they can do. All the mills at Fall River, Massachusetts, will, it is thought, be running on full time by New Years'. The Canton (Me.) toothpick factory has just contracted for five hundred cords of wood for its business. The Surveyor General's report of Maine shows that 179,000,000 feet of lumber were surveyed there this year, against 246,000,000 last year. In consequence of the heavy government orders, the woolen mills at Lawrence, Mass., have started again on full time and with increased force. Indianapolis, Ind., congratulates itself that it has almost entirely recovered from the slight blow its business interests suffered. -- St. Louis Times. Savannah, Georgia, is to have a one-wheel street railway, and passengers will be expected to part their hair in the middle so as to preserve an equilibrium. In reducing the wages of employes to the extent of ten per cent, the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company treated all alike, from Superintendent down to the lowest man. It is said that quite a number of coal miners, recently at work in the Pennsylvania coal regions, are returning to their native land and collieries -- hold h'-England. A company has been organized at Denver, Col., to construct a canal from Platte River Canon, in the Rocky Mountains, to the eastem border of the State, at distance of 250 miles, at an estimated cost of $10,000,000. As an evidence of the ill effects of "strike" among laboring men, it is estimated by the Troy, N. Y., Press that each of the eightyfour striking puddlers at Burden's Iron works have lost $555 through their idleness. The tobacco crop of Connecticut of the present year, though less in quantity than in previous years, owing to the smaller area devoted to the cultivation of the plant, is fully equal in quality to the famous crop of 1864. Newburyport, Massachusetts, employs a large number of men to catch frogs for the frog eaters. One man has taken 1,000 and another 600 this season. They are kept in tubs and fatted with meal and shipped to order. The falling off of Northern orders for lumber, owing to the financial depression, has led to an increase of foreign trade in Florida. There are now six or seven vessels loading at Jacksonville for West India and South American ports. The coasting trade in Alaska is rapidly increasing, and complaints are made that there is no correct chart of the coast. As there are upward of 20,000 miles of coast line, the work of surveying, if undertaken, will necessarily last several years. Cotton and woolen mills throughout New England are very generally resuming operations, and there is a brisk holiday trade. This revival is attended for the most part by a reduction of wages of from ten to twenty per cent. To this reduction, however, there are some exceptions. The London Grocer reports a scarcity in the market of cloves, caused by a hurricane that swept over Zanzibar in April, 1872, and destroyed the whole of that season's crop. The clove plant requires several years to mature, and it is not expected that the losses of 1872 can be met by new crops for some time to come, but fortunately the world can do without cloves for a season if speculation should materially increase the cost of this one of many spices. Among the thousands who wear alpaca cloth, very few know what it is made of. The alpaca goat is a species of the llama, whose home is in the mountains of Peru. It lives on the coarsest fare, the scanty herbage of the rocks, and has a beautiful wavy coat of light chestnut brown wool, which is nearly a foot in length, very solt and elastic, and nearly as fine as that of a Cashmere goat. This is sheared off and sent to England, where it is sorted, woven, dyed, steamed, singed and turned into the market. THE GRANGERS' MEMORIAL. THEY ARE TO PETITION CONGRESS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF RIVER TRANSIT. The following memorial, says the Chicago Times, is being sent out by the State Grange of Wisconsin, in pursuance of resolutions passed at Watertown, Wisconsin, August 26, and at Keokuk, Iowa, last month. The same form of memorial will also be issued by the executlve committees of all the other States in the Mississippi valley, in a few days. Accompanying the memorial is a circular addressed to the secretaries of subordinate Granges and county councils, urging the immediate signing of the same, the signed document to be returned to the secretary of the State Grange by February 1: To the Honorable Senate, and House of Representatives, in Congress Assembled; -- The undersigned, citizens of the State of Wisconsin, would respectfully represent that ample means of transportation at a rate so moderate as not to be a burden upon the producers of the country has become an imperative national necessity, and justly demands such attention at your hands as will afford adequate relief; that the improvement of those national water channels which nature has provided would secure such relief to a very great extent; that the delay to make rivers of a national character available for pubic use has thus far acted and will continue to act, not only as an obstruction to commerce, but in the nature of a subsidy to private railroad corporations, at the expense of the public; that Congress, having complete control of these natural thoroughfares, is justly responsible if they are not in a condition to enable the public to avail itself of their entire usefulness; that we desire to confine our requests strictly to what we believe would not only contribute most largely to the general convenience, but which are considered to be the unquestioned right and duty of Congress to provide for. We therefore respectfully petition that you will promptly make such adequate appropriations as will secure the following results: The speedy improvement of the Mississippi at its mouth and at such other points upon it as work had already been commenced at by the general government and also the speedy improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers.

A BLOODY EPISODE. A DIREFUL HISTORY. A BACKWOODS FAMILY OF THE OLDEN TIME -- THE LEWISES OF LIVINGSTON COUNTY, KY., WORSE THAN THE BENDERS. A writer to the Princeton (Ky.,) Banner gives the following wonderful history: Sometime between the years of 1805 and 1809, a gentleman by the name of Dr. Charles Lewis, with his family, moved from Virginia and settled on a military tract of land on the Ohio river, some five or six miles above the town of Smithland, in Livingston county. His family consisted of his wife, three sons, Lilburne, Charles and Isham, two daughters, and some ten or more slaves. That part of the county was then a wild, and its population sparse. The Doctor selected the place to build, cleared away the forest, and erected log cabins for the whites and blacks of the family, opened up a farm, put it in cultivation and gave his residence the name of Rocky Hill. His eldest son, Lilburne, was also a married man, he and his wife residing in his father's family at Rocky Hill. In 1807 the Doctor's lady died; soon after her death Mrs. Lilburne Lewis also died; they were buried at Rocky Hill; their graves were inclosed by a post and rail fence. The whole of the white family in their intercourse with the inhabitants had made the impression that, in point of literary attainments, elegance of manners and accomplished demeanor, they had no equals in the county, and had occupied as high a position and as great social advantages as any in their native State. It was thought, however, that the slaves were treated with cruel severity. In 1809 Lilburne was married to a young lady of the county. Miss Lettie Rutter, her family of high standing, and herself reputed faultless in form and beauty and of prepossessing accomplishments. The Doctor about that time left Rocky Hill with his daughter, and went to Salem, or that neighborhood, leaving the farm and most of the slaves with his three sons, Lilburne having taken his bride there. It was soon reported that the marriage turned out to be an unhappy one, Mrs. Lewis from some cause becoming extremely unhappy; it was supposed on rccount of the barbarous treatment of the slaves. In the year 1811 she gave birth to a son. On the 16th of December of that year, she noticed unusual deportment and private consultations between her husband and his two brothers. George, a half-grown boy, a waiter about the house, who had repeatedly run away when whipped, that evening was waiting on the table at supper, and let some article of furniture fall and break. Isham Lewis looked at the other two brothers across the table with a significant nod, and said, "That will do." This was noticed by Mrs. Lewis. Immediately after the meal was over, it being dark, the brothers left the house, repaired to one of the negro cabins, had A LARGE HICKORY LOG FIRE Made, and summoned Goorge and all the rest of the slaves to that cabin. When all were in, the object was explained to them by Lilburne Lewis, to the effect that their disobedient conduct had become such that it had become necessary to kill one of them that the rest might know their fate unless they acted better in the future; told what George had done, and that they were going to kill and burn him up. An ax was brought in, George tied and laid on the floor and one of the negro men directed and forced to chop off each hand and each foot, then each arm and leg half way to the elbow and knee, and so on. until the body was reached. The brothers stood around with pistols in hand to shoot the negro with the ax if he failed to obey. The horror commenced when the first blow severed a hand, and the shrieks of the victim reached the ears of Mrs. Lewis. She became panic stricken with terror, until her cries were heard by all in the house where the murderous butchery was going on. The amputation proceeded as directed; each piece as severed was caught up and thrown on the fire. Before life was extinguished the head was chopped from the body; then it and body committed to the flames. All remained in the cabin until the entire mass appeared to be consumed effectually. The door was then opened, and the servants admonished that if any of them should ever whisper what had taken place they would be served in the same way. About two o'clock the three brothers left the cabin and started to the dwelling. On their way they were startled by what appeared to them to be the heavy sound of distant thunder. In an instant the earth beneath their feet heaved and swelled, and shook with such violence that the parties could with difficulty keep from falling. Charles cried out, "Oh, brothers, the judgment of God is upon us!''

This was the first shock of the great earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 in the valley of the Mississippi. They hurried to the house, and found Mrs. Lewis lying on the floor stupefied with terror. George, being a house boy, was soon missed by persons in the habit of visiting the family. Answers to inquiries about him were not satisfactory. The other servants when interrogated expressed by looks that were interpreted to mean that they knew something that they would not tell. Eventually, in a month or so after, a dog was found gnawing A HALF CONSUMED HUMAN FOOT Near the premises. A gentleman by the name of Josiah Hibbs, with others of the neighbors, in the absence of the three brothers, searched the cabin where the tragedy was committed and found the burnt bones of a human frame. The Lewises were arrested and gave bail for their appearance at the ensuing term of the March Circuit Court, at which Lilburne and Isham were indicted for the murder of George. In the meantime the relations of Mrs. Lewis, learning she was living in great fear for her safety, went after her and took her and child to her lather. The two Lewises indicted were again allowed bail by the Court. It seems shortly alter Lilburne and Charles agreed to commit suicide within the enclosure surrounding the graves of their mother and Lilburne's first wife. On the 9th of April following, Lilburne made his will, and after disposing of his property, be made at the end ot it the two following requests: Rocky Hill, April 9, 1812. I have fallen a victim to my beloved but cruel Letitia. I die in the hope of being united with my other wife in heaven. Take care of this will and come here, that we may be decently buried. Adieu, G. B. & L, L. Within this enclosure myself and brother request to be interred in the same coffin. Rocky Hill, April 10, 1812. My Beloved but Cruel Letitia: Receive this as a pledge of my forgiveness to your connection. The day of judgment is to come. I owe you no malice; but die on account of your absence and my dear little son James. Adieu, my love. Lilburne Lewis. A servant was immediately dispatched with this will to Smithland, and delivered it to 'Squire McCanley, who, on its reception and reading the request to him hastened with others of his friends to the place designated and found Lilburne dead within the enclosure, shot through the heart, surrounded by a pool of blood and Charles on the outside with two rifles. He stated that Lilburne had accidently shot himself while making preparations for the fulfilment of their purpose for both to die at the same time and that the sight of his brother struggling in death had deterred him from his purpose. Lilburne was buried beside his wife. Charles and lsham fled from the

country. Isham wrs never heard of after; Charles but once, then among the troops at the battle of New Orleans.

THE SCHOOL REVENUE. INTERESTING STATISTICS FROM THE OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION THE APPORTIONMENT FOR 1873. The apportionment of common school revenue for tuition made by the Superintendent of Public Instruction on the 1st day of January, 1S7, is given in the following table, showing the enumeration of children in each county, the total amount collected and ready for apportionment, and 'the amount appropriated to each county. The amount apportioned to each child in 1869 was fifty-two cents, in 1870 it was fifty cents, in 1871 it was fifty-two cents, in 1872 it was fifty-two cents, in 1873 It was fifty-eight cents. no. of Total colhlldien lectedand Coutles. bet. and ready lor years apporAmount to each count 12,80 62 11,012 04 4,4)1 .TO 17 92 1,410 .-i6 5,041 ) 1.960 40 3,42. 74 4, W7 94 312 4.1 4,414 96 3, !J dO 2,4 VI ÖÖ 4.041 41 5, ti9 76 4.129 60 3,543 80 4, 1M3 76 3:53 60 5,! CK) 5o 1, !i 81 6,076 08 3,816 98 4,5X2 58 2,7!ö 02 414 04 4.5.S9 83 4,427 48 4,4-jO ! 3,170 2 4,492 10 4,193 98 4.4-vl 82 :i,743 90 3.961 2U 458 Vi 1.619 36 3w"72 12 5,51 96 3,469 56 3,606 10 4. H1S H) 514 78 2.8T) 62 2,710 92 ,o.)4 1 3,5.0 10 5.118 50 1 1.1 4 :;o 4,K-i 2 2,451 56 4.5.V1 00 3,112 91 3,741 50 3,ii!tti 31 1..374 trj 4.25.S .'Hi 1.075 32 2, 71 fS 3,115 62 3, M7 5ti 3,719 12 :5,ir22 :is 2,7xi b'2 4,319 42 1.8.-56 28 J4.278 0 4.7tr7 28 4.527 48 3,5!ii 00 1.5KS 62 4, X27 92 p,14! 82 951 68 5.40 18 2,7ä (W 4.361 i0 2, tr22 76 7,526 66 2,7Xi 28 1,419 84 9,0:7 56 2,1.52 38 7,778 0 4,738 02 2,220 82 3.4.S5 02 3,872 08 7,424 58 3, ÜW 9 2,347 84 3,W2 5 7jOO 00 of see. tioument. Adams 4,; $i,lll 73 5,1m. S9 3,oso 14 l.böö 4-5 4!1 23 3,177 17 715 35 2,531 73 5X1 as 7,371 4;l 1,!CS 22 1,403 3.335 95 2,143 76 3,21 5i 1,61 3 2,317 2) 1.4S 12 3..W0 7 liHl 06 3,6 W 3S 2,4-m 2,076 13 1,21 13 3,731 2S 2,825 25 4,65s 42 '2.013 34 2 KM ttj 2,3.S3 2 2,018 2 3,219 69 3,1:57 10 2,563 37 1,925 70 2i5 09 1,43 H XjZii K5 2,160 5 2,963 IS 55fi 24 3,41 23 1,189 32 2,111 51 3,1! 71 2,557 00 2,7k.) 31 11,558 98 2,855 2 mi 26 1,900 S3 2.237 90 4.32 -yii 3,211 S 1,243 18 2,659 61 613 7."i 2,671 . 1,972 61 2,671 "ns 2,2ii2 7 2,3"l 49 4,M2 10 9)6 13 2,312 27 4.273 M 2.2N 57 2WI 0 l.Otil 01 8.S!t 4S 1, t3J 2 m 3; 2,4U5 :W lvlt 1KJ '2,180 12 1.670 41 4,i 20 1.37Ö m 1,321 1 5,599 5ö 211 NS 2755"r 27fi 61 2, H4 :5S 2,315 M 61 69 1,257 61 3,22 :5M l,s68 01 Allen Hurt holomew...... lien ton Blackford ... Koone . 19,0:fc 7, ti7.T 8,7:i 5,!H H,:m 5,U68 7,612 ,7i 4,2fc! 6,11 H,t72 7,l:i) ,110 ,972 V"10,225 8. 73 Brown - Carroll ... Cass Clark C1av Clinton Crawford - bavless Dearborn 1 K-catur... DeKalb . Delaware Dubois H Ithart......... Kaveite Floyd , 10,47 Fountain vi hTanklin ................. 7,572 Fulton 41 Gibson 7,4;W Grant Tti Green . 7, Hamilton 7,t74 Hancock 5,4 llanison 7,7t) Hendricks 7,211 Henry. 7.H7! Howard Huntington.. Jackson Jasper Jay Jefferson Jennings........... Johnson Knox Kosciusko Lagrange Lake.. Importe Iawrence Madison ...... Marion Marshall Martin 1 i&rn i Monroe. Montgomery Morgan Newton Noble hio Orantte Owen Parke Ferry 0.4Ö.J 7, :m 'J,7W 5,H ,312 ,Olo ,:) 8, tft'l 4,K4J 4. H74 10,:W e.oyr 5, Ki"i 24,K1j 7,;aw 4, 12 7,tv")0 5,4 IS ,17 ,:7; 2,.iti!t 7,312 1.S51 4.'-l V: (i,l'.4 Fike -V-Ml Forter - 4,M Fosey 7,1'fJ 1'ulasKl. 3.1 Futnam- 7.577 Randolph- llt Kipley ,xi Rush i,2lNI Scott Shelby. Spencer..... Marxe Steuben ....... St. Joseph.... Hullivau Switzerland.. Tippecanoe... Tipton...... Union Vanderburgh Vermillion Vio Wabash.. Warren Warrick 2,7:81 M17 5, ?7!l l.Wi 4,767 ,25 7,"-0) 4,522 12.W77 4, tt 2,4 IS 152 3.7U 13,0"i2 S.1I 3.S23 6, KIÜ ,67 12.K01 5,512 .4,048 5, :S52 Washington. Wayne WhiteWhitley ..... Normal School., Total 640,142 217.359 19 379,763 69 Total collected from the connties......247)9 19 State's interest paid ...7. 117,143 50 Balance in tht. Treasury at the last apportionment 414 36 Counties delinquent estimated to pay. Q2,W 00 Ureen and Orange counties, excess 932 59 Unclaimed fees collected by the Attorney Ueneral 4,715 90 Hirrlson county's excess in 1872 181 14 . Total collected and ready for apportionment. .7T?),946 68 Amount apportioned...... 379,765 69 Balance in the Treasury. .? ISO 99 The following counties have had their ap portionment increased to correct errors in the last apportionment, arising from errors in reporting their enumeration, viz: dark county, StJti 99: Grant county, $111 27;. St. Joseph county, $3tf 54; Vigo county, 225 33; Franklin county,?190 82, andShelbycounty, S93 5s. One hundred dollars nave Deen de ducted from the apportionment to the county of Green, the Auditor having fai led to re port in time lor the last apportionment The Auditor of Orange county having pro duced the proper evidence that his report was made in time for tne last apportion meet is released from the penalty. Twenty five dollars have been aeducted from the apportionment of the county of Boone, the examiner having failed to report the ex. auiination by May 15th, 1873. One hundred dollars have been added to the apportion ment of Marshall county, tne Auditor hav iner produced the proper evidence that his report was mailed in time for the October apportionment in 1872. No Auditor's reports have been received from the counties ot Park and Vico. The amount to each child is fifty-eight cents. M. B. Hopkins, Supt. of Pub. Instruction. The boctiiekn kepcblicaxs. says a Washington letter to the New York Herald: There is a jrreat deal of indignation felt among the leading Southern Republicans at the course of the administration In the Virginius aflair. A movement will be organiz ed among them looking to the combination of their influence to take a stand by themselves, and possibly to identify their action with the party of the- future, perhaps the Grangers, who nave shown sucti strength and are fctill displaying great actiyity. It is freely ald th'ac.-ou acodant of - thebuncrlinEr of Une Itepublican party, and the discredit a ble manner in whien they inave-iaqwited themselves in , the .recent State campaigus and 1 Contrress since ts mertine. not one Strnthern Stum CTTrti9rcnr-iTjpofi tolie'carried again: by the liepuclican jaity. Tiuy feel that the silly working of : the Civil Service law has brought ruin on them rid shorn them ot . the great-strength-.they had had when patronage" could'lie most powerfully wielded to reward their favorites and provide 'lor fh4 -Working rank arid fife: A strong liepubllcan poiuwian from isorth Carolina. wht has t beeiv able t carrv two coiiuiies In that -St-aAe, Slaving become em barrassed, J.ime to Washington to bek Gov ernment e:nplov:llT WM--nxsoaiul!y henrd.rhenthe vtli ial whose aid wmtfOuzU', tHuiously handed rdm h copy of tno'-'C'iv-il Service Instructions." ani told Mm how toifocefd td undergo" the" toxaihtdntion prescribed. ' Ho leit the Treasury iii'ciust, wyins that in iniure :he wouldr wotk for ronieothtr party who would recognize Irs services, l uo repeal of the Civil S"ri-o la ' is Lmdlv clantictred for y the rronest wrkers in the Republican paTtv.whiPti.ha 1 in' bridsed over a PrebiacntLtl arn-iu,

can now be dispensed with.

THE ENGINEERS STATE THE CASE. HOW THE STRIKE BEGAN AND WHY THE BROTHERHOOD FEEL AGGRIEVED -- A CLEAR STATEMENT OF FACTS. To the Public; Our people are fully aware that a misunderstanding exists between the officers of the P., C. & St. L. Railroad Company and the locomotive engineers and firemen on the leased lines of that road. Also that this misunderstanding arose in consequence of a reduction in the wages of the engineers and firemen, in direct violation of a contract previously entered into between these parties. We therefore deem it unnecessary at this time to enter into a detailed statement of the affair. Our object at present is to deal with the calumny and misrepresentations that have been set afloat against us with a view to weaken our cause with the public. We are not unmindful of the fact, that, in our country no cause can prosper, however plausible, without that greatest essentiality to the success of every enterprise, "public opinion," and for this reason as much as any other, we have always endeavored -- whether on duty or at leisure, and particularly since the commencement of our unhappy relations with our employers -- to so comport ourselves as to commend the confidence and sympathy of our people everywhere. We regret as much as anybody the existence of the present complicated state of affairs, and are willing to bear any blame that an impartial public may attach to our actions; but we are not willing longer to stand idly by and see our good name and standing in society vanish before the biassed representations of those arrayed against us. Many acts of violence have been reported through the press which acts we emphatically depreciate, no matter by whom perpetrated. We are aware that many reports of unlawful proceedings are set afloat -- reports without the least foundation in anything that even approximates to the truth -- and attributed it to the locomotive engineers and firemen connected with the controversy on the various lines of the road in question. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR VIOLENCE. We hare taken particular pains to inquire

into these matters, and made diligent search to ascertain the truth. From our investigation we are enabled to substantiate the statement, that whatever lawless acts have been committed can be traced to parties not in sympathy with us. We have it upon good authority that there are at present men in the city and elsewhere along the line of road on which the trouble exists, whose purpose it is to commit unlawful depredations and charge the same to the engineers and firemen, in the hope of turning public opinion against us and in favor of the railroad company. But we have no fear in this matter; we court the most rigid investigation into all our proceedings, and are ready to stand or fall by the verdict of an impartial tribunal. We theretore respectfully ask for a suspension 01 public opinion in our behalf for a short time, in order to enable us to get the facts fairly before our people. In the meantime, we asure the public that we entertain no hostile feelings toward our late employers and should they need our services to guard their property, we are at their command. But we are not ready to sell our labor as locomotive engineers and firemen for a price which would virtually close the doors of our educational institutions against our children and compel them to begin a life of drudgery without the first rudiments of common school education. By order of Division No. 11 of the B. of L. E. CAUSE AND JUSTIFICATION. A WORD FROM THE ENGINEERS' SIDE -- REASON AND CAUSE. To the Editor of the Sentinel; -- Sir -- I see in yesterday's issue of your paper a statement made by Mr. Frazer, General Agent of the Jeffersonville, Madison and Indianapolis Railroad, that the engineers had no cause to strike; that all the employes of the road had their wages reduced. How does the public know that the officers pay was reduced? It is very easy for them to make the statement,but is it true, that is the question, the men had a right to strike? It is a poor plea to put forth that owing to the decrease in business they would have to reduce expenses. Does it not look reasonable that the men who are pulling the passengers and freight over the roads should know when the companies are doing a good business or not? The officers of the road have broken their their word with the men, and it is just in them to resent the wrong that has been put upon them. It is not owing to a decrease in business that this has been done. The companies have taken advantage of the panic to cut the wages down, and never put them up again; and also to break up the engineers' organization. So long as they act honorably they will have the sympathies of the public. F. B. Maxwell. Indianapolis, Dec 30. The aspect of the strike was more tranquil Wednesday than it has been since its inception. Vandalism and lawlessness are things of the past, and no disturbances of any kind have occurred since those already recorded. There are no threats, intimidations, or overtures from either one side or the other so far. A card has been written by Mr. W. H. Cuykendall, eginneer, the committeeman who had the interview with Mr. Miller, denying the version and misconstruction of the conversation as published by a certain paper in the city. The misconstruction was to the effect that he (Mr. Cuykendall) approached Superintendent Miller in behalf of the strikers, and stated that he was authorized to say that they would resume work upon the simple condition that the members of the committee discharged for leaving their post of duty should be reinstated; and furthermore, that he stated that if any one else than himself (Superintendent Miller) attempted to run out the engine of Sunday afternoon passenger train, he never would have left the place alive. Mr. C. says in contradiction to this: "I can only say that I approached Mr. Miller in behalf of the engineers, and proffered their services to guard the property of the Company, but not to run their engines, as I had no authority whatever to enter into any such negotiations, and I emphatically deny that I ever even thought of the remarks said to have been made." Mr. C. further states that the above accusatlon puts him in direct hostility with Mr. Miller; for whom he has ALWAYS HAD THE HIGHEST REGARD, And he does not want to reflect any discredit upon him. In reference to the engineers now employed on the road, the engineers state that whenever they go up to them they do so in the frendliest possible manner and state to them their situation, and as a general rule, if ther[e] is the proper spirit of manhood about them, they acquiesce in the request. Many of them have not heretofore fairly understood what has been and is involved in the strike and when they are made to understand it they usually act in an honorable manner. It is also stated that when the machinery of the engines get out of order it is almost impossible to get it repaired, as the machinists of the Pan Handle have positively declined to work for the class of men who are employed, these machinists and blacksmiths having refused to work in the Pan Handle shops. The engineers are emphatic in their expressions of intention to do all they can to protect the company's prop-

erty, and bring to account any of their number who may be detected in any act of vandalism. THE GRANGERS. THE INCREASING STRENGTH OF THE ORGANIZATION. A correspondent writes to the Graphic from Washington on December 16: The Weekly Bulletin of the National Granges gives the figures of the past week as follows; Number of granges organized during the past week (ending December 13), 243; the total number being 9,297. The iacrse or reported membership for the same period has been 1 8,000. the total membership being 697,275. TTie total number of granges organized so far during the present month is 517, the increase of membership in the eauie time being over 27,000. . This increase for the week is mainlv in the Southern States, as will be seen ty'the following list: Total No. Total No. Inc. granges. Inc. grauen Alabama ........11 xx New Hamp I. 1 11 Arkansas 9 II. New Jer-y U4 California 4 IM New irk. -.M Florida 1 20 N Carolina.. 4 l.N Georgia .15 aJ Ohio ............ J 4 Illinois -IS W Oregon .. 6F Indiana 7:2 Pensylvania. .. .S Iowa 1 1,k K. Carolna I IV Kansas ....14 TZl Tennessee. 1 2 Kentucky- i llrt Texas..... I 40 Louisiana. 2 41 Vermont. 4 SS Maine 1 Virginia. 0 l'. Maryland- 1 7 W. Virginia . 1 at Massachusetts. 18 'W'lseoosln...12 -Michigan 5 117 Colorado i Minnesota 7 :7 I hikoUi Z .V Mississippi ...-10 . ÖH7 Washington. .. Missouri JS 1,1 Canada - K Nebraska 2 4til Total ... iw a,-JOT Of the above It will be seen that i:. granges have been organized in the former slave States, Missouri being the largest, having organized 3S granges in the paat week. The central Western States have organized 58; the Northwestern have added while the other additional fifty granges are scattered from the Atlantic to the Pacio.

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