Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1874 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1874.

TUESDAY, MARCH 3.

Terro Haute says, inflate. An Immense nifc meeting Tnwday night addressed by the Kons. II. W. Thompson and D. M. Voorhows, resolved unanimously, that cousrefs h asked for more currency. Uron ing's from tho woman's crusade, come in from all point. Tho rural district where tbe miseries cf unrestrained traffic are the inost apparent, are tho principal points cf attack. In the cities, the laws and the iolioe render the women's aid useless. It may rrjou-e the temperance folks to learn that the women's prayer cure has had one good enact. That prodigious corporation, Trinity church, New York, which i.wrn thirty millions dollars' worth of rental, has teen inspired to refuse to rent forty shop??, which are now used for saloons, The rrystery of Chang and Eng which has pvixieU scientific men for half a century hää at l ist l-een solved. Tho autopsy show that a tissue, the same in effect as the liver, was continuous in the twins and that in all probability, any attempt to sever tho ligature during the life of the firm would have resulted it. death to both. In the bouse Tuesday, the bill to restore the franking privilege in its essential particulars came up, and was discussed with all the energy and heat a new measure might be supposed to call out. The aiguments were neither new or forcible on cither side, and after a dreary waste of platitudes, the bill Trent over without action. i i - - - -1 .It I the beautiful faith which spring eternal in the breast of the South liend Tribune inspires this touching prediction: "We are always glad to se Mr. Colfax, and his pleasant face was particularly welcome last Monday. Wo believe in Scuyler Colfax, and bop ere long to cast our vote for him as President cf the United States." But about that ehork? Cincinnati like Indianapolis, has a park on its hands. A number of patriots voted for it in the council. The trail of the serpent was on the sale. An investigation Las been called und lo! there being no narty organ to stop tho thing, they have actually cornered the culprits. The great (Jrcesbeck, it seems, raid out a tritle of 12,000, to make a land tf $21,00 J to "greao" the way for the job thrijgh the council. . If tho demand of the country had not been made in pretty unmistakable terms, there can bo no doubt thai the pnwent congress would havo refused to repeal the salary grab. Having been forced to do that it has followed up its rerdby an evident purpose to restoretbo lranking theft, a measure a hundred fold mere scandalous than the salary robbery. The country sees with incredulity the names of a number of men wim.Lavt) heretofore borne a reputation for, hone ly, in favcr of tho pending bill reKtariDgtfco thieving practice. If the bill ia passed, tho men by whose instrumentality it is carried will havo worse than a grab on their backs in the next canvass. That wrath which (iencral Butler cherishes for the newspapers was unbottled in the House Wednesday. It foamed up hot and furious. Ho could not begin to convey his detestation and disgust for the enormities of the newspapers. They are a burden which he propodto lift from the public balk with his own valiant arm. They undid the teachings of good which Congress had been sending out for years. The General's remarks furnish rather exhilarating reading. It is as "A Ward" used.to put it, "so amoosin" to see how the "little cuss" takes it to heart. "It is unfortunate for the effectiveness ot the General's onslaught.that the press got in its testimony first, and that however much he may scorn the press, there is no love lost ? and there is the severest rub to the general for there is no one who better understands or has more poignant reason to remember the power it wields as opposed to gentlemen of the General' kind. The various great departments of the gov ernment were greatly exercised Saturday when the printed draft of the new bill providing !or legislative, executive and judicial appropriations was sent out. The bill cuts out all the sops that have been flung to relatives and friends by the "great party." It checks tho illegal action of the cabinet officers in creating divisions and bureaus in the departments and putting at their heads favorites and friends at exaggerated salaries. "With these there are costly squads of temporary clerks whose positions are simply sinecures, and given them to pay their expenses In Washington while visiting official friends. In the postoSlco department the economical Creswell. finds work for a dozen ' chiefs of division " who draw big salaries, to marshal their subordinate clerks. By this ingenious arrangement places are made for the friends of high lunctionaries whose good graces it behooves the postmaster general to cultivate. The new bill, in great part the work of Mr. Ilolman, abolishes these rich pastures for political feeding, and reduces the clerks to the proper place with proper salaries. Combined opposition is announced, and the frionds of the wayfaring clerks are expected to defeat the bill on its final passage in the House or Senate. Oliver, who believes ours the cheapest and best administered civil service in the world, will of course turn his back upon a bill which would by its very provisions cast suspicion npon the beneficently economical sytem? Whatever is new of note or importance, on tha temperance agitation will be found on the seventh page, a stirring address from the Temperance League, leads the the van, supplemented by a remarkable sermon by Itcv. Henry Ward Boecher. The "woman's war," is now the topic of the day and the

reader, must bo prepured td see and hear a good deal more, before the last of it is beard. What seemed at first but a temporary impulse, now looks very much like an irresistible wave of reform. It won't do to meet it with sneers and incredulty and it wild answer les3 to resist The only thing to do is to join hands and Lelp tho women, and when the glaring evils havo been corrected begin anew. Those who have seen the sin and sorrow of intemperance, are moved to aid. the women, no matter how unreasonable the crusade may appear on its face. Those who believe in the largest toleration for personal privileges, have themselves to blame that under this pleasant laxity a state of things has arisen which Las incited tho combined efforts of the women of the country to check and overmaster Any degree of restraint on tfiypart of those who contend for the very proper 'principles of personal freedom, would have so regulated the use of liquor that mothers and wives would never have been moved as by an irribistible impulse to stem the tide of moral wreck. The woman's way is perhaps illogical, but the results will .be permanent. It Is not always the most logical aud matured measures that take the .breath t:f life, and it looks very much now as though tho womens action of protest against tho overshadowing evil were to penetrate uioro doeply than its enemies dream.

In the extremity of her afllict ion, South Carolina appeals from her plunderers to those who have fastened her plunderers upon hor. Until this appeal had been sent forth and signed by whatever of repute or character there is left in the state, the administration presses studiously avoided any light on the administration rule in South Carolina and the Southern states. With the facts before them they do not denounce the wrongs or demand the rights, they simply excuse and apologize for them. They desire to cover the retreat of the rascally ring masters who havo carried confusien all through the south. The ignoble end of Bullock in Georgia, the grand scandal in Louisiana anarchy, and the disgraceful travesties of elec ivo governments In Arkansss and Mississippi are all outranked by the abominable indecencies of what was once the state of South Carolina. There the enfranchised ne groes bear undisputed sway, and it is no exaggeration to say that they have destroyed i tbo state. Its white citizens and all its in- j tolligent people of character and culture are ruined by the results of utterlybominable legislation. They would leave the stato had they not become too poor to get away. They are in the anomalous and paradoxical condition of being unable to either stay or go. Since the war the state has been run in debt? 10,000,000, and its credit is completely destroyed. Yet the money that has been realized for this crushing mountain of bonds has been stolen and wasted, so far as the Ktate is concerned, and there is nothing to show for the debt. Taxation has b jen carried to that degree that the assessments cannot bo realized by the sale of the property, for nobody will daro the infliction of a Ulla to real estate which is subject to utter recklessness of taxation. The legislature which J3 now in session is nothing but a wrangle of ignorant negroes, who openly clamor for money, and make no scruple to uso their votes in the service of downright theft and robbery. The worst feature is tbo absence of remedy. The blacks hold unbridled power. Under the constitution and laws there is no chance for redress. Rebellion is the only expedient left, and there is neither the spirit nor power for thaU Republican rule is a failure and so it stands confessed. The glory of reconstruction is claimed for the party; it cannot shirk the responsibility of the ruin and desolation which it has permitted, it it has not caused. The New York Times now comes out with excuses charging the evil consequences upon political adventurers who have debauched the negroes. It says with pathetic reference to the past : "The present disgrace can in no way be charged upon the party which earned the respect and admiration of mankind by the liberation and enfranchisement ot 3,000,000 of people." Why not? On the contrary, tho "great party"" cannot escape nor repel that very charge. It has both furnished and upheld by all means in its power these adventurers which tho truculent Tim 63 now denounces. In the midst of rent and ruined states the republican party is entangled among the fragments of its own destructive work. And the end is not yet reached. It is a vile and thankless world this. We don't have to reach the respectable age of Methuselah either to find it out. Just as our foot are about to touch the sill of the pearly gates, there is always a something to trip us up and send us sprawling and bleeding down among the children of darkness beyond. These lugubrious reflections are suggested by a dolorous plaint put forth in tne last issue or a weekly wayfarer published in this city, whose editor is a horny handed son of toil, a husbandman on the meadow ot letters, a tiller of the intellectual soil, so to speak, turned up by the plow share of ths grangers. This battling brother has given his large mind and manifold efforts to the erection of an agricultural organ, which should be a pleasure to the reader and a profit to the publisher. Tbe paper, which had moved in a circle of void before tho dawning of the grange awakening, has found its mission, albeit, slow to seizo the advantages. In furtherance of the In-every-way laudable desire to make the movement pay, the editor at once removed the vestiges of party vassalage, and planted a crop of hay seed, adorning himsell at the same time, with all the signs and tokens of the sons of tbe soil. Philanthropy and thrift werje therefore touchingly mingled, as the editor of the Indrana Firmer pnt himself in the market as the agent of the organization to purchase the implements of husbandry. While the order has been increasing with wonderful force and rapidity, the editor, however, has not gleaned that - profit he anticipated, and the last ' issue of his paper contains a mournful plaint

addressed direct to tbe grangers. There are several grieft told to the pitying ears o; men in this altogether unique document, the substantial points aro herewith appended. First, concerning some fault in the manufacturers' terms, he says : It is due to the manufacturers who have made terms with ns that they should know something near the number ot their machines that will be wanted. In many cases they loso all their regular trade by making terms with us, and it is but simple justice to them to give . hem whatever assurance we can of the number of implements we propose to order. This in the way of a general grievance, a more touching and personal one follows: In regard to ray commission of three per cent, for purchasing, I have only to say: "At the time I was appointed state purchasing agent the state grange was not in a condition financially to oer a salary. The commission of three per cent, was my own proposition, though several members ot the executive commit tee thought it too low, and would have made the rate five per cent. If I had asked it. Up to tbe present time the sum I have received has not paid me for my time, labor and expenses. I have been obliged to employ an assistant editor to take my place on the paper, a practical farmer to exhibit implements, and a clerk to attend to correspondence. I have also been obliged to rent two rooms for the purpose of storing and showing plows and other implements. There jou have it; the same old story; the trail of the serpent is over them all. If the good brother Kingsbury were not fleecy with hay seed and perfectly stiff with yellow clay, we should every soul of us set him down as a grinding middleman, bent only upon the profits of trade. As it is, knotting him tobe a granger, who can doubt that three per cent, is slow starvation, and the eventual bankruptcy of tbe organ of the purchasing? agency How can it be expected of a man that he shall edit, an organ and an order at the same time? In either case, the good man does not repose on beds of downy softness. That is why the Sentinel sets out with the melancholy burden which opens this comment.

The ring triumph in Philadelphia has strengthened the faith of. the republicans in congress, and there is less anxiety expressed now concerning economy. Had the city been carried by the reformers, the administration folks would have accepted it as a hint that the unloading process must be really inaugurated. As it is, the managers declare the party too strong to be seriously crippled by disaffection, and that so long as the country has a choice between tho two parties only, it will take the republican every time. On the strength of this faith calculations are making on the election of the republican candidate for governor in New Hampshire, a week from next Tuesday, and it is only fair to say that the canvass has every appearance of fulfilling the calculation. The republicans shrewdly saw tho tendency of the time, and made up their ticket with a leading'farmer of the state at the head as candidate for governor and made their platform a virtual echo of the granger's demauds. The opponents of the party in power, could not agree upon an independent action which should give the people of the state a chance to combine, and the consequence. is, the republicans who are largely in the majority have every advantage, even with the scandalous and ruinor.s record of the party to bear. The administration congressmen hitherto the most gloomy as to tho future of their party are now ju bilant, thinking that the independent movements are languishing, and that tho contests of the future will be like those of the past, between two overzealous party factions, in which men are at stake and not measures. It is not easy to con vince politicians that a people so energetic and intelligent as Americans require changes. New conditions are constantly arising. The party machinery of ten years ago cannot be effective now, or if it is forced upon people, they will make no change. Parties are not like churches. They rarely proselytize. If a man quits one party he is not apt to join the one that he has opposed for a lite time unless peculiar conditions render it necessary for the time being. This is a time of the widest freedom in religious and political thought, and it would be as logical to attempt to turn the spring freshets backward into summer channels as to ask the growing sentiment of the country to express itself through the medium of old parties. Gen. Coburn, it seems has noc relinquished his purpose of cutting down the so-called military expenditures. His efforts thus far have resulted in a very considerable decrease of the annual bills and a greater falling ofl might be expected of the tricks of the con tractorswere not swallowed, as actual veri ties in Washington. These tricks are really masterpieces of ingenuity. The Washington lobby ring whose ramifications extend into every possible phase of public expenditure learn that the military committee is bent on cutting down the great extravagance in material furnished tbe outposts. That the forces are to be reduced and tbe supplies, as a consequence greatly diminished. They apprise tbe members of the rings at the frontier and immediately there is a loud clamor of "war on the border," concerted attack of the Indians; reinforcements demanded by the settlers? This goes to the war department. The president is informed of the. danger and tbe committee notified that an emergency is upon tbe department. The result is that the curtailing order is rescinded and the expenses are kept up, the ring meantime keeping up the pretence of war and raiding by the Indians. General Coburn, it seems, was too sharp for these chaps, and held the committee to its work, and although tbe army is not cut down to the lowest terms, of which it is susceptible, still there is a material and wholesome reform. It is well to note in this respect that the principal work of economy fought out to an actual triumph. This session has been carried by Indiana members, the Hon. W. S. ilolman and General Coburn. Of course, other members have done well but these two gentlemen qualified by long experience in the House, have been enabled to put into actual execution what equally honest men have desired and purposed, but failed in.

, BLAIRS VIEWS. ; f WHAT EX-SENATOB FRANCIS P. BLAIR THINKS OKTHK POUTICAI. OtTtOOK HIS OPIS IOS OF GRANT II PREDICTS A BRILL! AXT FUTURE KOR BOOTH. A reporter of the Rochester Democrat recently went to Clifton Spring, yew York, where Francis P. Illair i.s now a patient, to have a chat with him. IIo thus reports the result: 1 Reporter To what do you attribute the original failure of your health? Did you contract disease in the field? f - General No; I went through the war with excellent health. I think smoking hurt me afterwards. I smoked from thirtv to forty cigars a day. When leading ail outdoor life it did not aflect me, but the change to sedentary pursuits made the habit a dangerous one. Reporter Smoking does not appear to hurt some men. General It doesn't seem to hurt Grant; but (smiling) he is unlike other men. He isasphynx. Nobody seems to understand him. " , Reporter Why do people form such different estimates of his abilities? General Even bis friends do not give him credit for the power he undoubtedly possesses. No man is considered abie now-a-d ays, unless he can write a leader or make a speech, and Grant caa do neither. Yet it seems to me that the man who won the battles and that, too, when others had failed miserably, might be credited with some extraordinary qualities. Iu politics be has succeeded where weak men would have failed. He did not strengthen his administration at the start by drawing around him the ablest aien in the party which selected him. He did as Jackson before him, selecting unknown men ; but they might be good men for all that. Few presidents could havo afforded to quarrel with such leaders as Trumbull, Sumner and Schurz. Each ot these had a strong faction at his back, represented a certain portion of the party strength, and yet Grant was re-elected as easily as if these men had never been cast aside. Reporter Why do you name Trumbull first? General IIo was, perhaps, strongest in the senate, and especially in debate; but Schurz is equally able, and the defection of the three would have ruined the prospects of an ordinary man. Reporter There is no possible likelihood ot a third term? General I don't know what Grant himself thinks, but suppose the partv have no other man they would be willing to risk. They are not going to surrender power will-

mgiy, auer noiuing it so long. GRANT HIMSELF is probably not anxious to subside into a nonentity. Suppose he givos a hint that a third term would be acceptable at any rate it he wanted to, he could destroy the prospects ot any other candidate. But there is no telling. Some new issue may come up. Affairs may suddenly take a new shape at any moment, aud overthrow all calculations. Reporter That U Just the point I want your opinion on. by is it, however, that no change has really taken, place in the apect of parties although such a change has been expected by all observers? General ew questions might have been agitated immediately after tho war to chango party relations, had not the reconstruction measures come up and prevented it. Up to the present session of congress, there has been no change for economic questions to divide opinion. They are now receiving al ten iou as you will observe. Reporter Is there any likelihood of the tariff ouestion becoming a party issue once more? General It may come up now with kin dred questions. There can be hardiy a doubt that when all fallacious arguments are thrown aside, there is no justice in protective legislation by congress. Iloiue manu factures havo protection in a moderate revenue tariff aud iu the cost of transportation from loreign countries. This ought to be enough and it is at least all they ought to have. Reporter What do you think ot the posi tion of the west? General Well. THIS farmers' movement is growing strong. It is b"?ed on anti-mo-nopoly. It is a protest against the abu ses of powerful corporations, and will naturally draw to it all the grumblers, all tho sore beads of every sort. Yes, you can judge of the power of this new combination by tbe result of western elections last fall. The issue in Illinois was a local one it is true, but that state had been overwhelmingly republican. The grangers carried nearly every county. Of course, part of their success is accounted for bv the fact that in counties strongly republican tbe democrats sided with the new movement and in counties where democrats preponderated the republicans joined hands with the grangers. In close counties, both political parties stuck to their own nominees, and here no farmers' candidate was successful, one or the other of the two against him winning. In Ohio, the democrats under the lead of Thurmau managed the canvass in a way which I thought was sure to prove fatal. They nominated Old Bill Allen for the first thing, and then under Thurruan's direction cast off in tbe most contemptuous way the liberals. In fact, the latter got worse treatment from them than they received even from tbe republicans. Yet Allen was elected, and there is no accounting tor it except by the power of the new farmers' movement. Reporter Will this movement find a repräsentative in a presidential contest? General There is a new man, a brilliant man, BOOTH, OF CALIFORNIA. He enters the senate in March of next year, and will probably do some brilliant things, even in tbe short time before the nominations are made. He will do enough to be easily worked up before the country as a very great man and may prove formidable. Then his record is good. He has just beaten the California railroad monoplies whom everybody else was afraid to fjce. All the California railroads had come into the hands of these five or six men. They were strong enough to get what subsidies they wanted from the legislature of that state, built tbe tracks with half the money and pocketing the rest grew immensely rich. They easily chiseled the smaller stockholders out of their shares and soon nobody could touch them. I remember in what fear Casserly stood on them. They owned the legislature and managed a credit mobiller of their own. They have at last been defeated, aud Booth stands at the head of the movement which has accomplished it. He is a young man yet, only forty, and will make a brilliant record. Reporter What do you think of Senator Conkling's prospects? General Conkllng Is a strong man. although no one who has met him much likes to admit it. Iiis manner is thoroughly disagreeable. Even when he tries to be friendly, be is only patronising, and that has a worse effect. He is always pompous and bombastic; but when hard pushed is capable of better thln?. He never showed to better advantage than in his contest with Schurz. The latter pressed him hard and goaded him so that be dropped his vices as a debater and;left an impression of ability which he had not before been be-

liered to possess. Jo doubt he could have had tbe chief justiceship lately but he probably preferred his power as a senator a position wblch.so long as he is with the ruling party in congrees and as the power of the state ot New York .behind him, gives him tte very greatest pontical importance. 6uch a mac must necessarily prove a strong com petite? for tt preardsiicy. Reporter Is there any prospect for a spoeuy Dealing of TIIE WOUNDS LEFT BV THE WAR, through the agitation of questions not sectional in character or by this farmer's movement for instance? General I see no chance of that. Reporter May not financial questions gain the same end? General Men aro certainly not divided by party lines on these questions. I have been amused to be ar an old line democrat talking loudly forinfiation, and a republican arguing for hard money. As to the South, I see no hope tor such states as Mississippi and South Carolina, where the negroes are in the ma jority. In Carolina the effect may be to drive all the white people out of the state and then the blacks will fall out among themselves. The negroes are arrayed against their old masters. They consult the latter in other matters, but never listen to them in politics. When thefreed-men want help they are quick enough to apply to their old masters. They know everybody and where to apply, they never ask anything of the carpet baggers. I think the prospect is more favorable in Arkansas. Reporter What do you think congress will do with the internal improvement schemes?General I think some bill embodying the most prominent of these plans is likely to pass. No single one of them has any chance alone, for the friends of the others would in that case combine to kill it. The west wants greater facilities for transportation, the south wants improvements also, and your own state comes in, I believe, for an enlargement of the Erie canal. Of course, these schemes will cost monstrous sums and should be let alone. The conversation closed with some reference to the growing power ot the west. "The west," said Mr. Blair, "will have control in time. It is the central section and ought to have control. And the power will be safe in its hands; for should the Pacific, or the southern or the eastern states show iuclination to fall off from tho whole body, the interests ot the west would furce it to stop them. It must have communication with the seaboard all tbroughthere states." THE DUSKY EXODUS, THE MIGRATION OK NEGROES THROUGH THE SOUTH. The migration of negroes from Alabama and Georgia is thus noticed by the New Orleans Pacayune : Ik is said by newsppaper correspondents that the colored laborers are migrating by thousands toward Missippi and Louisiana, and forthwith mauy speculations are indulged in as to what will be the result. It is said that the regions bordering immediately on the Missippi and her lower tributaries wil receive the bulk of the negroes, aud be controlled politically by that race for years to come, producing a profusion of races as well as politics. It is deduced as a collary that the rest of the south will be 'speedily iiillcd with white laborers who will occupy tho deserted plantations. Iu Alabama, where there is alarm at the loss of so much valuable labor, there i also rejoicing at tho opportunity now afforded for wresting the stato permanently from thn republican party. Georgia will not be affected politically by the hegeri. Tho whites have overwhelming control of affairs in that state, and tho loss of black of labor is roadily replaced with white. Indeed, the increased production of cotton and cereals in Georgia and Alabama if due to the increased white labor in what is known as tbe white districts. While the black counties last year fell off in production of icolton to an puoruious estcnt, the whil' couutics maintained their position, andiin many cases doubled tht ir yield. The position ot Missippi cannot ba affected politically by the invarion from Alabama. Commercially, sho will probably be benefited. In the cae of Louisana the increass of the black population in tho country will lie more tnanoflsotby tho growing disproIKirtion letween tho white and black popuation of New Orleans. It must ba borne in mind that every year there is a flowing population westward. Texas is filling up so rapidly that the entire black population, which" is now moving across Alabama and Mississippi would be lost ib. ' THE IMMENSE PLAINS

of the great empire. Sinc9 1S70 Texas has received an accession of not less than 400,000 Eeople, one-fourth of whom, if we mayjudge y comparison of party votes in the late election, were negroes. A black population 100,000 means a voting black population of not less than 25,000. These black voters have been principally drawn from Louisiana and Mississippi. Hence we conclude that an immigration from the eastern Gulf states of even larger proportion than what is represented by the uncertain newspaper reports would not necessarily add to the number of blacks in either Missippi or Louisana. The exodus of blacks is greater than the enflux. That this it true is demonstrated by the fact that' not withstanding a constantly decreasing of acreage of planting, thero is a consnantly demand for laborers. Whatever the ballots may Indicate, thero is no doubt that tbo white population of Loaiaana is increasing and the black population decreasing. The fears entertained so widely that Louisiana will fall permanently or for any long period, or for any period at all. into the hands of the negroes, may dismissed as one of the delusion's i hichso often seizes the unreflect ing minds. In speakinS of a vast exodus cf population, persons who write of such matters must remember that tho moving of 5,000 voters means the moving of 20;000 people, men, women, and childreu, and' that to remove that number would requira a daily train, such as is now rnn upon the Alabama Central Railroad, for 100 days Of the 5,000 who go out, many return after a brief experience in a new home, and ahe places of mano of those who uo not return are filled by immigration from adjoining states to the east and west. We venture to sey that the present movement will not materially affect the proportion of races in any of the Gulf states, Texas is the safety-valve of the south. Every negroe who moves to texas is swallowed up and lost as a political power. In the mean time the white population of the outhern states is steadily iucreasing. ON THE BAR. STEAMER I ASCENDING THE FALL STRIKES A BOCK AND GOES TO PIECES NO LIVES LOST. . . Louisville, Feb. 25. The large stern wheel steamer Belfast, belonging to the Belfast Transportation Company, became unmanageable while ascending tbe falls late last night, the drift-wood with the working of the rudder, and struck a bidden obstruction, breaking inside of the hull just forward Of the boilers. She was run on a neighboring bar, and rapidly settled, sliding off tho bar Just before going down. This afternoon the cabin at the stern separated, and the boat will probably go to pieces be-tore the river begins to falL She now lies in 40 feet water at the Btern and 25 feet at the bow. The officers and crew escaped, one roustabout only being injured by a falling spar. All books, papers and money were saved. The Belfast had 500 tons of pig iron, 300 tons of ship stuff, and one hundred tons of miscellaneous freight on board. .The boat was insured in the Cincinnati and Wheeling offices lor ?22,000, and was valued at $40,000. Her freight list is insured for 52,500.

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To this fact nearly every Journal of lntelUgenoe and discrimination In the BtaU has borne testimony, as well as tbe swelling llsta of new readers who have Joined its ranks ot friends. 'This in a general way. For the next year the Sentinel readmit attitude in tbe past year the organ of no party or creed the temperate advocate, only, of the most generous measures la Church and State. It will continue to publish all the news at the earliest moment. It will reflect tbe sentiments ot the people, and hold itself outside of all party ties. It will support only honeet men for office and demand a pledge of character, not party. I will uphold realously the hands of all men honest and earnest In reform, no matter what their prrty or predictions, and it wIH strive to give allsidesaheaing in the changing topics that fill the public mind from time to time. The Sentinel has no policy to maintain as opposed to the will of the majority. Its columns are meant to be a fair reflex of the rational will of the commanlty, where all men can have a hearirg freely. The Bentlnel believes that a continuance of the baleful partyism of the past must Inevitably sap the foundation of the Republic and destroy every distinctive feature of democratic government. To this end it encourages heartily the obliteration of the corrupt power which has strangled honesty In office during the last seven years ; a power whicn bring the nation into bankrulcy on the verge of the new year, and by its flagrant disregard of the first principles of government, plunges the country Into all the hardships of war and pestilence. Cndcr whatever conditions reform may come, the Sentinel wUl give its best efforts for its success, maintaining at all times lis own perfect freedom to uphold and maintain genuine, not simulated reformation. On the great industrial questions, now moving the public mind, the Sentinel will maintain a hearty, earnest co-operation with all struggling ram seeking to better themselves mentally, physically, and every way. It believes that the present reveaue laws work mischievously and dlscrimlnatc-ly against the producer and in favor of the non-producer, and that any reform whicn does not make farmer's rights and revenue reform solid planfcs of its platform and active measures In its policy, does not deserve the iympathy of intelligent men The Farmers' movement received its first recognition In this section from the Sentinel. Its efforts shall continue to be directed toward the strengthening of that desia. In its opposition to political, railroad and financial monopolies, the Sentinel will continue an honest support. While furthering ell interests in t'aia direction, wisdom must be called in to keep the crusade against public abuse, monopolies, and the like, from degenerating Into demagogs ery. In all emergencies of this nature, the Sentinel will attempt full and Impartial Justice to all who trust U. Concerning its genend features as a newspaper, the Bentlnel will hold Its rank as the foremost in the State, by a continuance of the same policy of liberal expenditures whenever events of moment occupy the public mind. The features tor which this paper has become popular and distinguished daring the last year, will be carried out still more fully, if possible, the coming year, and every department made of vital, abiding Interest and usefulness to the home circle, the minister, the lawyer, the educator In short, all classes who want a pure and upright press, untrammeled by party and un warped by prejudice, The Sentinel is not only the com pie test newspaper In Its presentation of news and Its oo laments thereon, but it is a visitor every day in the year for the 363 days omitting no pubUea tion on any pretext. It is, In this respect, one f the most valuable news mediums in the State. In short, the Sentinel means to keep ahead of the briUant progress of the State. It means to give voice to the most liberal, enlightened and purest sentiment of the time, and in tbis respect claims a distinctly special mission. It depends on its character as an independent and fearless news medium for growth and support, and makes no pretext of cheap premiums to secure reluctant supporters. Its market reports regular, special and compiled, are the fullest, most diversified and complete presented in any Journal of similar resources in the country. Its Law, educational and industrial reports, which have attracted general attention in the past, shall be continued wlta equal care and acenracy in the future, and bo cost spared in perfecting such details as will render them in every way the features of Indiana Journalism. 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