Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1874 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1874

A LAST TALK. Come out in the garden and walk with me, While the dancers whirl to that dreamy tune, See! the moonlight silvers the sleeping sea, And the world is fair as a night in June. Let me hold your hand as I used to do; This is the last, last time, you know, For to-morrow a wooer comes to woo And to win you, though I love you so. You are pa'e -- or is it the moonlight's gleam That gives to your face that sorrowful look! We must wake at last from our summer dream, We have come to the end of our tender book, Love, the poet, has written well; He has won our hearts by his poem sweet; And now, at the end, we must say farewell--Ah, but the summer was fair and fleet. Do you remember the night we met? You wore a rose in your yellow hair, Closing my eyes, I can see you yet, Just as you stood on the topmost stair, A flutter of white from head to feet, A cluster of buds on your breast. Ah me! And the vision was never half so sweet As it is to-night in my memory. Hear the viols cry, and the deep bassoon Seems sobbing out in its undertone, Some sorrowful memory. The tune Is the saddest one I have ever known. Or is it because we must part to-night That the music seems so sad? Ah me! You are weeping, Love, and your lips are white--The ways of life are a mystery. I love you, Dove, with a love so true That in coming years I shall not forget The beautiful face and the dream I knew And memory always will hold regret. I shall stand by the seas as we stand to-night, And think of the summer whose blossoms died. When the frosts of fate fell chill and white On the fairest flower of the summer-tide. They are calling you. Must I let you go? Must I say good-bye, and go my way? If we must part, it is better so--Good-bye's such a sorrowful word to say! Give me, my darling, one last sweet kiss--So we kiss our dear ones and see them die; But death holds no parting so sad as this; God bless you, and keep you -- and so -- goodbye.

WISE AND OTHERWISE. Please remit. A broken spirit -- A brandy smash. Enuff good luk will ruin enny man. Vice makes a man kunning, virtew makes him wize. Cheap transportation the problem of the age -- Free passes. The hornet is beautifully defined as a red hot child of nature. A Mississippi editor threatens to put a man's nose in a parenthesis. Experience teaches a good many things, but dont learn us but a phew. The only really natural thins thare iz about enny man iz hiz conshunce. Experience is a pocket compass that few think of consulting until they have lost their way. Most of the shadows that cross our path through life are caused by our standing in our light. Smirkins looked at a painting of a pig, and pleasantly asked: "Who is that pigment for?" A Terre Haute man, who has been trying to make both ends meet, is living on head cheese and ox tail soup. The Washington monument is a conspicuous example of what a grateful people can accomplish when united. The Utica Herald says the moon is seriously cracked. Never mind, we will have a new moon soon. -- Danbury News. Our nervous editor, whenever he gets excited, goes into the composing room -- and becomes "composed." -- Petersburg Appeal. A Texas man recently declined to receive a telegraphic dispatch from a yellow fever locality, for fear he might catch the disease. A pert young miss in the New street school, Thursday, conjugated the noun paint as, "paint, artist, painting." -- Danbury News. I have seen old villains who were komparitively pure, they had either worn out their vices, or their vices had wore out them, i dont know whitch. There is nothing like courage in misfortune. Next to faith in providence, a man's faith in himself is his salvation. It is the secret of all power and success. A New Jersey tobacconist, with commendable frankness, advertises, "I shall continue to keep on hand imported cigars of my own manufacture." There are a good many New Jersey tobacconists. "Do you want to shake dice for a turkey?" asked a Danbury boarding house keeper of a patron. "If it is like the turkey we had for dinner," replied the boarder, thoughtfully, "it is old enough to shake its own dice." A gentleman going up the Sixth avenue, New York, met a laborer, to whom he said: "Will you tell me it I am half way to Central Park?" "Faith, an' I will," was the reply, "if you tell me where you started from." The latest meaning evoked out of Shakespeare's text comes from Boston. A member of a society, who appeared as Emelia, in responding to Othello's query of "Do you think my wife be honest?" 'Honest? -- M-y L-o-r-d!" Irish "boy" (to benevolent old gentleman): "Maybe yer honor'll give a poor boy something. Sure, it's a dissolute orphin, and deaf and dumb, I am!" Absent-minded old gentleman (putting his hand In his pocket): "Poor fellow!" A close-fisted fellow out west died, and on his tombstone was inscribed: "He that giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord." A neighbor passing by saw it, and observed that he reckoned the Lord didn't owe that chap a red cent. A Titusville paper says: "A man called at one of our shoe stores yesterday and vainly essayed to get on either Nos. 11, 12 or 13 shoes. The storekeeper then suggested that he should put on a thinner pair of stockings and try on the box. A good brother in a Baptist church of Howard county, this state, while giving his experience, not long ago, said : "Bretherin I've been a tryin' this nigh onto forty year to serve the Lord and get rich both at onct, and I tell yer it's mighty hard sleddin!" Quilp and his wite had a bit of contention the other day. "I own that you have more brilliancy than I," said the woman, "but have the better judgment." "Yes," said Quilp, " your choice in marriage shows that!" Quilp was informed that he was a brute. Chicago wants to have the next world's fair held there. "In the first place," says the Boston Post, "it isn't certain that the next world will have a fair, and, in the second place, these who'd be likely to attend it will prefer a more pious town in which to celebrate it. Notwithstanding all the efforts of the authoritles of Norwalk, Conn., to enforce the early closure of bar rooms, a resident of that town asserts that a little before daybreak on Monday of last week he saw a meteor as large as the moon, which moved about in an erratic manner for more than six minutes. A jackass on Colonel Seldon's place in

Miry Brook has the whooping cough. It has its coughing spells in the night, and were it the only son of a greatly beloved king, it could not have a more attentive auditory than that which bounds out of the

beds in the neighborhoods on the occurrence of a paroxysm. -- Danbury News. Jones declares that when a married man gets a night key, it is a sure sign the honey moon is over. The fact is, that as soon as a man begins fully to realize how precious his wife is to him, and to become thoughtfully considerate as to her health, he immediately procures a night key, so as to prevent the dear and delicate creature's sitting up late of nights to order "let him in!" There's the whole philosophy of the thing. Jones is accordingly a blockhead. AN INDIANA ROMANCE. -- The Terre Haute Express tells it: She could'nt see it in that light. She didn't want to marry him, but he was bound she should. They both lived a couple of miles from the city and near neighbors. She refused to listen to his courting and he grew desperate. So he went off to the west, and while out there persuaded a friend to write a letter, saying that he was dead, and asking, as his dying request, that she might, if she ever went out that way, to stop for a moment and toss a weed, or perhaps a flower on his lonely grave. This was tender, but it didn't take worth a cent, and she wrote back a letter to the friend, saying that if he had any confederation for her feelings at all, to send her the dead lover's watch and chain, his money and all his valuables. To carry out his plans the dead man sent home his brass jewelry and other eflects, and she immediately proceeded to don the trinkets and start to singing school with the chosen ''feller" of her heart. On their way back home the pair were startled by the apparition of the lost lover, clad in ghostly white, but with the old lineaments intact. The young man fled, but the girl stood still, and putting up a paw which resembled an elephant s foot, naively inquired if the gnost wanted to be kissed to death by a mule. To which his ghostship replied thus: "Lord! Lord Jerusha, hev I come all the way home to find you false?" "You bet," replied the fair one, laughing heartily, for she had discovered that it was really the person of her dead lover. The fellow had played a nice game, and had followed his goods and chattels back to the land of his nativity very quickly. The damsel was so disgusted with the other fellow for running at sight of the ghost that she immediately began preparations for marrying the ghost. MRS. WILLIAMS. WHAT A WOMAN CORRESPONDENT SAYS OF HER -- HER WONDERFUL LIFE. A Washington letter to the Cincinnati Gazette says, writing of Mrs. Williams: She is a woman above the medium hight, with a small, well shaped head, crowned with wavy black hair; a straight, rather thin nose; large, melting, dark eyes, arched over with delicate eyebrows; rather too much color for the proverbial spirituelle of American women; a long, white, full throat, and neck, bust and arms bordering on the superb, with a slight touch of Cleopatra voluptiousness. She carries herself easily, gracefully, proud ly. Thus she appears at the age trembling somewhere between the late thirties or early forties. Her manners are unexceptionabiy cordial, and her dressing rich. She must have been very striking as a girl, of the pronounce type, witn startling boldness of beauty given by the contrast between black hair and dark fringed eyes, with clear, fair skin and hightened color. But age and association have toned the contrasts down to mellower tints, and her wonderfully quick intuitions have adapted her to the various conspicuous positions which she has easily and naturally filled. Her early history is as full of romance as one of Dumas' novels, and l dare Rhoda Broughton to produce a story to eclipse it. At sixteen she married against her parents' wishes a man whose subsequent treatment of her vindicated the family's disapproval and her application for a divorce. These were the days when her headstrong, impetuous nature was strong within her and her own will her only law. Following its dictates, she drifted westward, perchance for adventure, peradventure in hopes of a fortune. There, girl-woman as she was, with the waves of self still surging unsubdued, after teaching music for awhile, she consented to bow her neck a second time to an unhappy matrimonial yoke. Her second husband, Mr. George, was a driver on one of the lines of stages crossing the plains, and proved to be a good-for-nothing fellow, who frequently abused her, and had nothing to recommend him but a sort of devil-may-care, handsome face. A pretty picture his wife often afforded the tourist, as, standing before their log cabin, she stood with her white arms, bright face and simple dress, hanging out the family linen. Her husband's treatment became at last so unendurable that friends procured for her the services of Judge Williams, then a quiet Western lawyer, who unloosed her from her unhappy thraldom through the medium of a divorce. Mrs. George still westward pushed her way to California, and taught school in San Francisco, where many years afterward Judge unarm met and married the woman, the memory of whose peculiar beauty had never left him. When she heard her husband, Mr. George, was sick, she traveled miles to watch over him in his last hours, and was with him when he died. The woman has marvelous ability, and spirit, and nerve, and ambition enough for Agrippina herself, and, withal, the tact and executive ability to raise herself along with the advancing fortunes of her husband. It may be that her ambition has o'erreached itself, and that it would have been better for her had she rested content with her husband as attorney general, for in that position the cobra society inflated not its venomous head, and such whispers as had been floating about had been allowed to vanish in thin air. Now she lies stranded on the sands of her own high reachings, stung to death by the asp of social tongues. I for one am sorry that from so brave a spirit the goblet of luscious realization has been so rudely snatched. The London Times says this on the spasm of virtue that seized congress just before the adjournment: It required some corporate audacity on the part of the house of representatives to call upon the secretary of the treasury to meet the deficiency by increasing economy. He has only to reply by inviting them to set an example to the other employes of the nation by relinquishing that double pay which they voted themselves last year. When the perpetrators of "the back pay steal" -- to use the transatlantic phrase -- are ready to give up what they have taken, they may ask others to follow their example. It they plead in extenuation of their reluctance to do this that from the increase in the cost of living they find their double allowance no more serviceable than their old salary, they may be asked with what conscience they propose to apply to the permanent service of the country a rule they are not ready to apply to themselves. The first thing the Ohio legislature did after assembling, was to pass a resolution asking congress to immediately repeal the salary law. These legislators are fresh from the people. It is a pity congressmen weren't as new in Washington as these other men are in Columbus. -- DesMoines Register.

BEFORE SEDAN. AUSTIN DOBSON. Here in this leafy place, Quiet he lies. Cold, with his sightless face Turned to the skies; 'Tis but another dead; All you can say is said. Carry his body hence,--Kings must have slaves; Kings climb to eminence Over men's graves; So this man's eye is dim;--Throw the earth over him. What was the white you touched, There at his side? Paper his hand had clutched Tight ere he died; Message or wish, may be;--Smooth the folds out and see. Hardly the worst of us Here could have smiled!--Only the tremulous Words of a child;--Prattle, that has for stops Just a few ruddy drops. Look. She is sad to miss, Morning and night, His -- her dead father's -- kiss; Tries to be bright, Good o mamma, and sweet, That is all. "Marguerite." Ah, if beside the dead Slumbered the pain! Ah, if the hearts that bled Slept with the slain! If the grief died; -- but no: Death will not have it so.

HOME AND FARM NOTES. It is agreed by the best authorities that meal should not be fed to cows alone, but mix it with double its quantity of cut hay and it would be thrown up by the cow and remasticated, and would then be perfectly digested. Milk contains much oily matter -- the very element needed and abounding in corn meal. Cows like the mixture and will bass by early cut hay, preferring the more savory and more nutritious mixture of corn meal. Shorts or middlings would be better than meal. FENCE NAILS. -- For nails in fences and outbuildings a great advantage is gained by heating any rough grease till it smokes, and then pouring it over the nails to be used. The grease will penetrate the pores of the iron and cause the nails to last, without rusting, an indefinite period. Besides this, no trouble will then be experienced in driving them into the hardest wood. The reason is that the coating of grease prevents contact by air, and, consequently, oxidation. Oxygen is the great destroyer of iron, and moisture is the inducting cause. SELF MILKERS. -- Many methods have been devised for curing the habit of self milking, some of them, such as splitting the tongue, actually barbarous. Here is a plan that seems to be effectual and free from danger to the cow and every objection: Take a piece of pack sheet, or coarse linen, make a crescent apron to hang forward of the teats of your sucking cow; tie the apron with stout tape, the knot at the ridge of the back. If she is very rotund the strings may drop over her rump. To prevent this have tapestrings to tie to a band placed around her neck, and in two months you will find that you have succeeded in effecting a cure. CHEAP WARMTH. -- A very effective way to make a room or house warm at small cost is suggested by the Scientific American. Carefully attached with strong flour-paste, in four or five thicknesses, to the walls and ceilings of cellars, and these lower regions are rendered fire-proof. The more air spaces under the paper, the greater the protection from the cold. As a preparatory measure, it is necessary to sweep away all lose dust and sand. A case is mentioned where roots were safely kept by this precautionary measure in a cellar so open that aforetime it had frozen even when banked. HUMANITY IN KILLING. -- Among many things said about killing animals by the Rural, this is valuable: When dressing poultry, do not cut off their heads and throw them down to kick and flutter on the ground. It does not have a good moral influence on the young people of the household. Better strike a hard blow on the head, and bleed, the same as other animals. Fishes for food should be killed, and not left to die. The food is much more wholesome and keeps longer, besides being harder and sweeter. There is no reason why fishes should be excepted from the general rule that animals should be bled. It is also very inhuman to let a fish die by slow degrees, out of its natural element. ROAST HAM. -- The cook will find in this a good hint: If the ham has been long hung, put it on in cold water and let it come to a boil, when this water should be turned off. After trimming from the under side all rusty and smoked parts, return to the kettle with sufficient hot water to cover it. Bring it gradually to a boil, and as the scum rises carefully remove it. Keep it simmering gently until tender, being careful that it does not stop boiling nor boil too quickly, A ham weighing fifteen-pounds will require about five hours. When done, let it remain in the water until nearly cold; this will retain the juices. After removing the skin, stick whole cloves in the fat about an inch apart each way, and sprinkle the surface with powdered crackers. Bake the ham in a moderately hot oven, for from three-quarters of an hour to an hour. VALUE OF AMMONIA. -- Few are aware of the many uses of ammonia which should always be kept on hand in every household. An exchange says: "No housekeeper should be without a bottle of spirits of ammonia, for besides its medical value, it is invaluable for household purposes. It Is nearly as useful as soap, and its cheapness brings it within the reach of all. Put a teaspoonful of ammonia to a quart of warm soap suds, dip in a flannel cloth, and wipe off the dust and fly specks and see for yourself how much labor it will save. No scrubbing will be needful. It will cleanse and brighten silver wonderfully: to a pint of suds mix a teaspoonful of the spirits, dip in your silver spoons, forks, etc., rub with a brush, and polish with chamois skins. "For washing mirrors and windows it is very desirable; put a few drops of ammonia on a piece of paper and it will readily take off every spot or finger mark on the glass. It will take out grease spots from every fabric; put on the ammonia nearly clear, lay blotting paper over the place and press a hot flat iron on it for a few moments. A few drops of water will clean laces and whiten them as well; also muslins. Then it is a most refreshing agent at the toilet table; a few drops in a basin of water will make a better bath than pure water, and if the skin is oily it will remove all glossiness and disagreeable odors. Added to a foot bath it entirely absorbs all noxious smell so often arising from the feet in warm weather, and nothing is better for cleaning the hair from dandruff and dust. For cleaning hair and nail brushes it is equally good. Put a teaspoouful of ammonia into one pint of water, and shake the brushes through the water. When they look white rinse them in water and put them in the sunshine, or in a warm place to dry. The dirtiest brushes will come out of this bath white and clean. For medicinal purposes ammonia is always unrivaled. For the headache it is a desirable stimulant, and frequent inhaling of the pungent odors will often entirely remove catarrhal

cold. There is no better remedy

for heartburn and dyspepsia, and the aromatic spirits of ammonia is especially prepared for these troubles. Ten drops of it in a wine glass of water are often a great relief. The spirits of ammonia can be taken in the same way, but it is not as palatable. In addition to all these uses, the effect of ammonia on vegetation is beneficial. If you desire roses, geraniums, fuchias, etc, to become more flourishing, you can try it upon them by adding five or six drops to every pint of warm water that you give them, but don't repeat the dose oftener than once In five or six days, least you stimulate them too highly. So be sure and keep a large bottle of it in the house and have a glass stopper for it, as it is very evanescent and also injurious to corks. TRUE, IF NOT NEW. The cry for rest has always been louder than the cry food. Not that it is more imimportant, but it is often harder to obtain. The best rest comes from sound sleep. Of two men or two women, otherwise equal, the one, who sleeps the best will be the most moral, healthy and efficient. Sleep will restore to vigor an over-worked brain. It will build np and make strong a weary body. It will cure headache. It will cure heartache. It will cure a broken spirit. It will cure a sorrow. Indeed, we might make a long list of nervous and other maladies that sleep will cure. The cure of sleeplessness requires a clean, good bed, sufficient exercise to produce weariness, pleasant occupation, good air, and not too warm a room, a clear stomach, a clear conscience, and avoidance of stimulants and narcotics. For those who are overworked, haggard, nervous, who pass sleepless nights, we commend the adoption of such habits as shall secure sleep; otherwise life will be short, and what there is of it sadly imperfect. -- Science of Health. THE SHORT HORN SEASON. GROWING INTEREST -- COMING GREAT SALES -- LARGE PREMIUMS OF THE YEAR. There is great encouragement for the state of Indiana in the rapid improvement of her stock. She has plenty of the hat rack sort straggling around yet in the woods; cattle whose bones, heads, horns and hides will weigh more than their available flesh. Bat it would hardly be possible for the revolution to go on faster than it is progressing. And here it is that the grangers will undoubtedly do a great work. Under their associated influence, the profitable qualities of stock, thoroughbreds, will be introduced far more rapidly than they otherwise would. A bony bullock that never can be made to weigh, bones and all, more than ten to twelve hundred, will eat up just as much of the farmer's gram as a blooded animal will that turns the same feed into a ton of juicy, marketable beef. Col. Sol Meredith was in the city last evening with the good news that he has already between twenty and thirty fine calves dropped within a few weeks all by the $6,000 bull, Cherub, and be has not lost one. Such luck, if luck it may be called, is really uncommon in breeding the finest strains of cattle. A correspondence is now in progress to arrange the consecutive sales of four choice herds on four days during the summer, probably in June. Colonel Meredith will sell at his farm fifty or sixty head, Col. King, a noted breeder of Minneapolis, will have a sale, bringing his stock to Chicago probably; Mr. C. C. Parks, of Glen Flora farm, at Waukegan, Wisconsin, will sell at his farm, and Mr. J. H. Spears, of Tolula, Illinois, will hold the fourth sale at his place. These four herds will sell 200 head altogether, of as finely bred short horns as America can show. The time and order of the sales are not yet agreed on, but will soon be fixed, and the catalogues issued. It is noteworthy to state the unprecedented fact that the Tippecanoe county agricultural association ofler this year $600 premium for the best herd of fine short horns owned by one man. This interest tells its own story for Indiana, no such premium having been offered before by any fair in any state. Kentucky, Illinois and even New York will be invited to take the $600 out of the state, if they can, but they will have to get up early to do so. THE TRADES ASSEMBLY. GOVERNMENT ARCHITECT MULET AND THE WORKINGMEN. At an adjourned meeting of the City Trades Assembly, held at Assembly Rooms last evening, there was received from the Bricklayers' Union a lengthy verbal report of the proceedings of their National Union lately in session in Baltimore, referring particularly to the action of that body in regard to Government Architect Mullet, and the basis thereof. The following resolutions, passed by the Bricklayers' National Union, were read, and, by a unanimous vote, endorsed: WHEREAS, A. B. Mullet, United States supervising architect, did, in his last report to the present congress, recommend the appeal of the act of congress of June 25, 1865, which act constituted a day's work for mechanics and workingmen employed by tne government: and WHEREAS, A. B. Mullet did, consistently with the spirit that prompted this suggestion to congress, force an unjust reduction of the wages of mechanics and laborers under his supervision; therefore, RESOLVED, That the action of A. B. Mullet deserves the unqualified censure of every workingman of our common country, as not only oppressive to those who labor under his immediate chargo as government employes, but as seeking to enforce on the part of the general government measures which alone as examples will jeopardize the interests of every toiling American citizen. RESOLVED, That in his official report we find language insulting to the intelligence and manhood of the workingmen; an evidence oh his ignorance of the dignity of labor, and a recommendation for class legislation disgraceful in an official of the government, and inconsistent with the true spirit of American republicanism. RESOLVED, That, because of the well known persistent efforts to oppose the workingman which have characterized A. B. Mullet, we proclaim him the wrong man in the wrong place, and, as citizens of a common republic, and having an interest in its welfare and a pride in its history, as workingmen adding to its material wealth and development, we demand that A. B. Mullet be removed, as an individual unworthy to retain the position now held by him. These resolutions were, by a committee appointed for the purpose, laid before congress, and it is thought will have no small influence in shaping the future policy of the government toward the workingmen. There is an impression that Senator Hager, of California, is committed to some rail road policy. This is based on his strenuous efforts to check the schemes of the Central Pacific ring. Nobody who knows Mr. Hager in California or elsewhere has any doubt that he will be the friend or foe of the Central Pacific or Atlantic and Pacific railway company, or any other corporation, just in proportion as it confies itself to its legitimate business, or goes out of its way to seek controlling interest in politics for the purpose of corrupting the channels of legislation and justice, in order the more effectually to oppress the people. Unless the railroad managers shall madly persist in making it necessary to cripple them in order to lessen their power to injure the people, they will have nothing to fear from either of the new senators from California. They are just, as well as honest, men. An Iowa engineer married a young lady while waiting for a late train last week. That's no great shakes. A couple might marry and raise a large family of children while waiting for a train in some of the Indiana depots.

THE TANEY CONTROVERSY. THE REAL QUESTION IN THE DRED SCOTT DECISION -- AN EXPLICIT REFERENCE. To the Editor of the Sentinel: SIR: As there has been some dispute in regard to the origin and use of the expression that "negroes had no rights which the white man was bound to respect," I desire to show the readers of your papers the manner in which it was used and the purpose of its use. The case of Dred Scott vs. Sandford is a very lengthy one, covering nearly two hundred and forty pages, but a brief extract will suffice to show the purpose and import of the expression as used by Chief Justice Taney. The learned judge was discussing the question of citizenship, and he thought it proper to refer to the history of the African race prior to the declaration of independence, and the status of the negro at the time of the formation of the union, in order to determine whether he was a citizen of the United States, and entitled to the rights conferred on white men by the constitution. Chief Justice Taney never decided in the Dred Scott case, or any other case, that "negroes had no rights which the white man was bound to respect," nor was that point, in that form, ever decided by any court, nor did Judge Taney use the language to express his own private opinion or the opinion of any member of the court. The following will show exactly how, and in what connection, the language was used. Mr. Taney said, in delivering the opinion of the court: It is difficult, at this day, to realize the state of public opinion in relation to that unfortunate race which prevailed in the civilized and enlightened portions of the world at the time of the declaration of independence, and when the constitution of the United states was framed and adopted. But the public history of every European nation displays it in a manner too plain to be mistaken. Yhey had, for more than a century before, been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit. He was bought and sold, and treated as an ordinary article of merchandize and traffic, whenever a profit could be made by it. This opinion, at that time, was fixed and universal in the civilized portions of the white race. It was regarded as an axiom in morals as well as in politics, which no one thought of disputing or supposed to be open to dispute; and men in every grade and position in society dally and habitually acted upon it in their private pursuits, as well as in matters of public concern, without doubting for a moment the correctness of this opinion. And in no nation was this opinion more firmly fixed or more uniformly acted upon than by the English government and English people. They not only seized them on the coast of Africa, and sold them or held them in slavery for their own use, but they took

tnem, as ordinary articles of merchandise, to every country where they could make a profit on them, and were far more extensively engaged in this commerce than any other nation in the world. The opinion thus entertained and acted upon in England, was naturallv impressed upon the colonies they founded on this side of the Atlantic, and accordingly a negro of the African race was regarded by them as an article of property, and held, and bought and sold as such, in every one of the thirteen colonies which united in the declaration of independence, and afterward formed the constitution of the United States. The slaves were more or less numerous in the different colonies, as slave labor was found more or Iess profitable. But no one seems to have doubted the correctness of the prevailing opinion of the time." Dred Scott vs. Sandford, 19th Howard (U. S ) 407-408. J. M. C. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 27. COL. DOWLING AND THE DEMOCRACY. THE COLONEL'S VACANT PLACE ON THE STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE -- A DEMOCRAT SAYS A WORD AS TO CHANCE FOR THE VACANCY. To the Editor of the Sentinel; SIR: I see by the Terre Haute Journal that Col. Dowling has resigned his position as a state committeeman of the democratic party. The Indianapolis Journal becomes sarcastic, and says that "Col. Dowling could stand it no longer; that the weight of something was too much for him." I can not say how this is, but I wish to say that the democratic party of this portion of the state are anxious to have the right kind of a democrat in his place. I do not know whose duty it is to appoint his successor, but I am told that the members of the committee have the right to fill his place. As democrats, we do not intend to find fault with Col. Dowling as to his acts while he was a member of the committee. That was in the past. We must look to the future. We see the republican party making long strides, and high bids for continuance of political favor. In congress, in state conventions, in county conventions, and down to the county committees, we see them courting workingmen, grangers, temperance people, anti-temperance people -- in fact, all shades of political opinion, and all for the purpose of further securing the franchises of the people. Morton says railroads must be regulated by congress as to prices for passengers and freights, while his party here have not enough stamina to withstand the Terro Haute and Indianapolis railroad company -- only seventy-three miles long. I only mention these facts to show how hard the republicans work to make mere talk pass for reform. That we lost a golden opportunity in not holding our convention on the 8th of January I firmly believe. FACTS AND ACTS Since that have confirmed my faith. The action of a majority of our democratic members of congress has strongly helped me in this opinion. Had the state convention been held we would and should have laid down our condemnation and disapproval of the salary grab so strongly that those men who say they are democrats in congress would have felt and known too that their acts were condemned by their own party. I hold had this been done it would not have been so likely that Hon. W. S. Holman and Hon. S. S. Cox would have been all the democrats in congress who had the nerve and sense to refuse to vote for Fernando Wood. If the state, central committee should see proper to fill Col. Dowling's place by a democrat from this portion of the state, the party here desire to be understood as wanting none in his place but a true-blue old fashioned democrat. One who believes in the maintenances of the democratic party and its principles -- a man identified with no cliques or rings -- one who is known as a thorough and full blooded democrat -- I mean by this a man who believes that if we want to perpetuate this government, that we must perpetuate the democratic party; that if we want to rid the country of corruption in high and low place, have honest and capable men for our officers; men who will see that reform is a reality and not a sham; that none but known and acknowledged democrats shall be put in places. When the future of the democratic party is involved, we expect the state central committee to give us such a man as our representative on the democratic central committee. H. Terre Haute, Ind., Jan. 27. WILSON'S DEFENSE OF MORTON. HOW MUCH RAW MATERIAL THERE IS TO WORK ON -- AN ORIGINAL REPUBLICAN HAS A WORD TO SAY. To the Editor of the Sentinel: SIR: I saw in the Journal a copy of Mr. Jerry Wilson defense of O. P. Morton from insinuations in the Washington Republican. He cites the fact that Morton made a speech in November, 1860, in which he took ground against secession and in favor of coercion, and thereupon sets up the wonderful O. P. M. as a mighty Ajax in politics and an actual discoverer. It is by this sort of puffatorial stuff that Morton has been built up

from the beginning. Two-thirds of our Indiana people will rememer what public opinion was in November, 1860, on the question of coercion. Jerry Wilson's effort to exhibit Morton as the discoverer of a new political principle is nonsense. Everybody, nearly, talked as Morton did in that speech at and before that time. It is ridiculous to set this man up as a great prophet and discoverer, when the masses of northern people strongly urged that view of the case in November, 1860. Morton is a political weathercock. Every honest, fair man in Indiana knows this. See his course on negro suffrage and reconstruction. He made a speech in Richmond, Indiana, in 1865, opposing negro suffrage and favoring Andy Johnson's plans of reconstruction. Soon after be did make a discovery. He found that such a position would not be popular with the republicans, and presto! change! He was soon the radical of the rads in urging negro suffrage and Thad. Stephens' plan or reconstruction as the only truly loyal plan. No, sir. Tbe decent republicans of Indiana are not ready

to give Mr. Morton a patent right to all the loyalty to the union and patriotic war feeling of our people against the rebels. It is surprising to those of us who have known Jerry Wilson to find the dignified judge and gentleman lowering himself into the selfish pool of humbuggery in which Morton swims. Morton is a small potato, but by a system of check and assumption like this of giving him the credit of discovering the patriotism that saved the country, and which even taught Lincoln to stand by the union, he (Morton) is made to appear as a huge wonder. He is an ambitious selfish humbug. We Indianians will confess it to our disgrace some day. Don Piatt, in his paper, the Washington Capital, gives this most appropriate and perfect estimate of Indiana's great war governor, viz.: In Kaulbach's great picture of Nero fiddlling while Rome burns, the most noticeable feature is the sycophant who precedes his royal master, applauding his drunken utterences and cruel decrees. After once seeing this creature he becomes the one prominent object in the great painting. The half naked, voluptuous-looking, women, the indignant senators, the cruel tortures being enacted, the royal despot himself, all fade into a background to this one embodiment of political docay. He is a heavy-built man. with naturally a noble face, but his shoulders are rounded up as if made so by a heavy collar, while his face is fairly enameled with a sickening expression of sub-serviency -- it is a compound of meanness, cruelty and selfishness. There is a volume of meaning in the motion of his fat hands as he applauds. What the sycophant is to the famous painting, is O. P. Morton to the United States senate. Possessed naturally of a brave nature and fine intellect, he has sold out all to the dictates of a party based on the corruptions of the corner grocery, and he not only obeys its dictates with the ready subserviency of an obedient slave, but before its representative, the coarse, ignorant soldier of the White House, he bends and applauds and truckles until one in wrath wants to see him hung. If Mr. Wilson thinks he is strengthening himself in his new district for re-election to congress, by this fulsome sycohancy to Morton, he is grieviously mistaken. The people are opening their eyes to the real character of that public man who can calmly commit a nameless crime, and flaunt his debauchery in the face of a moral constituency. Original Republican. Indianapolis, Jan. 26. POLITICAL MISCELLANY. The Cincinnati Enquirer is grievously troubled that "there is a disposition to run to buncombe in the Ohio legislature." The bankrupt law ought to be repealed. It was a necessity when it was enacted, but it is a nuisance now. Once in twenty years, or oftener, such an act is needed to clear up business and settle the estates of insolvents. But it should be a temporary expedient, not a permanent measure. -- Utica, New York, Observer. There was never a time in the history of our country when the laboring classes were as harmoniously united as at present, and if you only bear in mind the points upon which they have been brought so closely together, the circumstances which brought it about, and the reforms to be effected by united political action, who can doubt the result? -- Macomb (Ill.) Granger. The Danville, Ill., News makes public a little private opinion, which as a piece of universal sentiment is beneficent. It says: Not one of the four publishers of the Danville News ever voted a democratic ticket, certainly not in many years; not one of them voted the liberal ticket in 1872, and not one of them will ever again vote the republican ticket unless it offer something better than it has offered for a year past. The Grant organs are sneering at the farmers' movement and their platform, but they will find out, before the close of the present year, that it is a movement that will sweep the credit mobilierites and salarygrabbers, monoplists and corruptionists from power, and place honest men in their places. -- Joliet (Ill.) Signal. We knew, when they began to make women justices of the peace in Wyoming, that matters would speedily become mixed and miscellaneous. Just fancy a Rhadamantha forced to try her own husband for the misdemeanor of drunkenness, and worse, to pronounce him "guilty," and to fine him; and worse still, to pay the fine herself, to prevent her lord and master from going to jail! Where she held the court we are informed, but it is just possible that the poor man was arraigned, tried, convicted and sentenced before he got out of bed in the morning. -- New York Tribune. Whatever else may be said of the Ashantee expedition, one thing is quite certain -- that it is being conducted in a perfectly novel fashion. Usually the troops are sent out first, the commander-in-chief delaying his arrival until everything is ready for the commencement of active operations. In the case of the Ashantee war, however, the chief was the first to start, attended by a large staff and a great number of extra officers. The principal staff officer is already on his way nome, badly wounded; other officers have been wounded more or less severely -- some few mortally. Goethe called on Schiller one day, and not finding him at home, seated himself at his friend's table to note down various matters. He was soon seized with a strange indisposition, from which he nearly fainted, but finding it proceeded from a dreadful odor, he traced it to a drawer, which he found full of decayed apples. He stepped out of the room to inhale the fresh air, when he met the wite of Schiller, who said her husband kept the drawer always filled with rotten apples, because the scent was so beneficial to him that he could not think or work without it. Queer, ain't it? "Is the editor in?" was the query of one George Huntington, who called at the office of the Middleburg (Vt.) Register with an open jack-knife, to settle a little difficulty with the editor of that paper. "He is," replied the knight of the scissors, as he proceeded to calm the irate Huntington by pouring over him three or four bottles of ink, rubbing in the liquid with an office stool. Huntington expressed his entire satisfaction. Such is fame. A Western paper speaks of "McKulkys, the republican candidate for governor of New Hampshire,'' and nobody seems to know the difference. -- Boston Post. And yet a benighted Boston paper found it out.