Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1874 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1874.

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TjOVEH KEXOLUTION. L C PRINPLE. Atnt one niht only one little nlfcht ! And yet to me It eems Ilk year and day. t .1. j mind it nhn hi went from ' K r t ,

' nt no: how still! Ihe sunshine blithely But I am not content nor peaceful nere. t-. I. tki oVa.1 whore Hhe was won't to git. Clone drawn beside cur cheerful hometide fire, And band tn hand we watched the shadow- tilt; Then -he would press my band and draw up Wiwfnia'tear? Pshaw! 'tis but for oue night. Only one Diktat! 1 ssy It o'er aud o'er. To if assure, as twtre, my querulous heart. 1 oe the clock say. "Only twenty mors short hoars" to add to those with n apart. I ll sell that clock so dreadful slow! t .t.n fhai.'mk?()h.iio! I take that back. Wuv. -he has wound that clock her little elf . . . LI l W.l a WAlr Har.y ana many a unir. .-u- unu vmv . r Rettin nie to lift her to the Hhelf; She couldn't reach it, near my Utile girl. I'd not have let her go if I had known one-naif the loaeliness of tfcis old plase: I've lived here until thirty yean have il3wu, And nerer reit a shadow on my, face, 5ut then, you see, 1 had not loved my girl! I had not laved bet I Why ! I wonder now That soaae one bad Dot stolen her away ; Sl?e Is so sweet, so pood. 1 wonder how it t thuich riniil ever come from clay. The book' you know, Ulla us that all are dust. I cant nd this; It seems so strand to know; "Ouly faur hours; nd 1 am all athirot T see tay darling. Had 1 better go f 1 havo a mind but one night at the worstOat nlgat I'll go! I am not hapry here. BONNET. JOHN DKXI.S. A bis : v wtet Life, that thou must fly so fat ! 1 mere no breathing-space for thee and me? hki niaek we have to aay. and learn, and see. So late it seems since prine's glad moments I,MS And n-iw tlie leaves chanpe color at the blafct, And ta fcill mists come creeping up the lea. While by one friends pass Trie silently To the fciratige rest that ends this coil at List. With Chasm depart the splendor and the glow. The fecvar causbt from meadow, mount, and river, Tfie loveI lirht. Durer thau unstained snow. That ailed dear eyes and made the pulac iver; Ahl i - - .ma t tiA. .all lr tha arkrvi I Bal.l Tis better life should rly, since friends have fled. sjtectator. TUE PKEHENT. Let the rast cuide. the future cheer. While youth and health are In their prime: Hut O! be still tny greatest cars That awful point the present time! Fnlflll Ike duties of the day The next may hear thy funeral chime; S shall thou win? thy glorious way Where all shall be the present time. NEWS AND G0S3II. Ttao Clearfield fire-brick works have con tractcd to deliver 2,500,000 bricks this season. Henry W. Longfellow spends the snmnwr in Canada; ne is now stopping in namu ton. Keverdy Johnson has jut won In $5,000 fee case against tbe Baltimore and Ohio rail road company. The British expenditures to relieve the famine in India up to the end of. Fcbruary amounted to ? 1 2,500,000. Philadelphia is likely to be out done, lor Geneva, Swizerland, proposes to havo an in ternational exposition next year. One hundred and twenty newspapers and periodicals have been suppressed in France since MasMahon became president. J i 14 reporteu taat the lurkish govern ment has decided to renounce all its com mercial treaties with foreign powers. The advance sheets of Gould's rew direc tory of St. Louis gives 114,426 names, aud estimates the city population to be 473,500, Now we pity the chickens, far a two dollar and a half gold coin has been found in tbe gizzard ot a chicken residing near Keenovo, One of the skeletons of Barnum's four dromedaries has been presented to Yale College, and the other three m ine to the Smithsonian Institute. Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelra thinks the direct effect of the women's war on liquor-selling oau only be transient, unless the rieht of suffrage is conferred upon women. Martin Decker, a letter carrier in Detroit, 3 :i committed suicide. Despondency over t )lossot his wife, and financial troubles a i f assigned as causes of the act. The executors of Edwin Forrest have effected a settlement with the divorced wife 0 the deceased by paying her $25,000, she agreeing to forego her claims for this sum. Tbe sum which would be annually saveJ 1 j allowing eoagressmen only their actual traveling expense?, in lieu of milage, would amount to over one hundred thousand dollars. They are about starting a swimming Mhool in Washington. That is a good idea, and now we propose that they build a congressional batbinghouse for the useof members alone. The greatest bell In the world, the "Emperor "William bell," destined lor the Cologne cathedral, has just been finished. It weighs about sixty thousand pounds, is 1? leet high aad 14 leet wide. Zoological collections are becoming quite popular in our large cities. Philadelphia has iust raised over 170,000 for such a garden in Fainuount Park. They ought to be able to awt up seme pretty cheap ones in some parts t our counsty. The ceremony of cremation was lately put mto practice in England, upon the body of Jjomontlnia Smith, a gypsy " oracle. Of course it was a Smith, and what a blessed thing it would be if cremation could only reduce the living number. - - Ralph Waldo Emerson has been mentioned t the successor of Disraeli as lord chancellor :the university of Glasgow. It is, we believe, the first time an American has been mentioned in connection with such a position. The Academy of Music at Muskegon, Michigan, burned on Sunday night. The building was occupied ty the board of trade and the Western Union telegraph. The "Teak family' playing there, lost nearly all tkclr bells. The Baptists of Boston have voluntarily a1 added to urge upon the legislature the mastics of taxinr church property. Now let all the other denominations do the same and then we shall not hear so much about exrbitant city taxes. Speaking of the half-naked statue - of Washington, which cost $50,000, in the east capitol park, Grace Greenwood wittily says that bis oatftretcnea arms point reproaen fully toward tbe glass cases in the patent office, where hang his mucb-deeired habili ments. . t - A most remarkable occurrence was witnessed on the Northwestern railway track at Oshkosh, Wis last week. The engine of a freight train going north jumped the track and alighted witb all Its wheels, on another track six feet distant. The tender -was partly drawn across, but the cars remained safe on the first track. , All the debris belonging to the intermina ble Tichborne trial has just been removed from the court. The most Interesting door ent was a huge album containing portraits

of the ancient Orton family, and intend

; to givo strong evidence of resemblance to tbe modern family. But the court couldn't see it, and so tbe celebrated album goes Into the archives, reace to Its ashes. This is to the point. The legislature of North Carolina has just passed an act enti tied 'tor tbe better protection of human life." It provides that any person who manufacture, sella or deals in spirituous liquors as a drink, of any namepr kind, con taining foreign ingredients or properties. pernicious to the system, shall be punished with live years imprisonment in the peni tentiary. Tbe certificate of a competent chemUt shall be sufficient evidence against the offender. GRANT OX THE RAMPAGE. HOW THE CAROLINA DELEGATION OOT STUBBED. A Tribune correspondent tells this funny story: The interview between the president and the representatives of tbe South Carolina tax-payers yesterday morning was in some respects a remarkable incident. None of the reporters or correspondents who usually haunt the White House on such oc casions were present, and tbe accounts oi what took place, as published this morning, are made up entirely from hearsay, and are very lar from giving a correct Idea of what was really said, either by the South Carolinians or by President Grant. The truth is that the president was in something like a pas sion. It came about in this way. Among the delegates chosen to the recent;taxpay era' convention was a harum-scarum ex-confed-era e officer named Gary, who prides him self ou his undying opposition to the new order of things in the south, and who, while enjoying a certain personal popularity in his own county, has long been the enfant terrible of those Carolinians who really want to see things set to rights in their state on a basis in harmony with the congressional reconstruction. Gary, in spite of the remon strances ot iriends, who vainly urged that the the taxpayers' convention was a strictly non-partizan and non-political con- . ... i i corn, insisted on maiung a speecu ' . a a a. a in that DOdy, in wnicu, wun bad taste and worse rhetoric, but with un deniable vigor, be pitched into Grant, con gress, and the republican party generally. Tbe convention, in rebuke to tne sentiments ot the speech, at once, and by an overwhelma . ! . . 1x1 & ' t 1 1 ing vote, recommitted me repon., wnicu uaa been made the pretext for its delivery, and the snubbed orator subsided. The local ring organs in South Carolina, however, eagerly caught at Gary's ebullition as a proof that the complaints of the tax-payers were only rebel mutterings in disguise, and though the speech was violent and foolish enough in all conscience, they alUred and garbled some ot its worst sentences in a way to make it ten times worse, ana, in that form, kept them standing for several weeks in large type at the head of their editorial columns. When the delegation sent by the convention witn the memorial to congress appeareu in Washington several days ago, there is good reason to Delieve mat tne president leit kindly enough toward them. lie told Secretary Fish that, although he was going to Philadelphia he would make it a point to give thorn an audience before he went; and the secretary ( who was president general ot tho Ciucinnati, cordially sympathized w itb a delegation which included several members of that old order, among them General James Simons, the vice president general,) was probably as much surprised as anTbody at the reception which the South Carolinians finally met. It seeuis thai sly Senator Patterson, who, for reasons öl his own. did not relish the welcome which seemed awaiting the delegaeion, got across to the president a few minutes be fore tho promised interview and called bis attention to tbe garbled extracts from Gary's speech. lie timed his visit so well that he came out ot the executive mansion just as the delegation entered it, and they were ushered into the presence of General G rant while he was probably still smarting from the vex ation caused by tbe bitter and abusive words just read to him. Iiis manner during the ceremony or presentation piainiy snowed the struggle between ill-suppressed anger and a desire to be dignified and courteous. The lion. W. D. Porter, the spokesman of the delegation, and one of the most polished advocates of the Charleston bar, made a calm and brief but striking and very pathe tic presentation ot the shocking condition of his state. Tbe president listened with marked attention and replied slowly but with vigor and without any of that hesitation which he is said usually to exhibit when making a speech. Iiis words, which have not, so far, been fully reported in any of the papers were these: grant's wrathful speech. Gentlemen: After listening to what has been said, I do not see that there is any thing that can be done, either by the executive or by the legislative branch of the national government, to better the condition of things which you have described. South Car olina has now a complete existence as a sovereign state, and must make her own laws, if those laws are oppressive to her people, it is very much to be deplored. But what is the cause of the evils in your state may be a question worth considering. Whether a part of that cause is not due to yourselves, whether it is not due to the extreme views which you have held, whether your own action has not consoli dated the non-tax 'Paying portion of your community against you, are the questions which I leave ior your own consideration. I leel great sympathy for any people who are badly governed and overtaxed as is the case in Liouisiana, ana as aiso seems, to be the case in South Carolina. But I will say to you 'candidly here the president's manner hardened visibly that while I have watched the proceedings of ?'our tax-payers' convention with no little nterest, a portion of my sympathy has been abstracted by the perusal ot a certain speech delivered during its deliberations, vile and more slanderous in an anytning l have ever experienced ' before, even among my worst enemies in the north a speech more bitter in its personality and falsehood than anything I have ever seen, even in the New York Sun." Here tbe president paused. Ills visitors were completely taken aback by his words, and still more by the unpleasant vehemence with which they were uttered. Several cf the delegates hastened to explain , the cir cumstances connected with the speech, which I have already briefly noted, but their explanations seemed to fail unheeded. Tbe president met everything that was said with some fresh reference to the irritating subject. l quote nia words in rejomaer to tne expo -tuiations of : one delegate: "I have never seen a speech equal to it in malignity, yileness, falsity, and slander. When l think or it, l can scarcely restrain myself." ' " - As this very painful ana . emoarrassmg interview closed, Mr. Porter ventured to suggest that it was hardly just to bold a whole community responsiDie ior tne improper utterance of a single individual. But the remonstrance was scarcely noticed by the president, and the delegation sadly and silently withdrew, pained and deeply mor tified that the respectful prayer oi tne wnoie body of suffering taxpayers in one oi tne old thirteen states of the . American union should hare been presented to the president of the United States only to be outweighed In the balance by the foolish tirade of a crack-brained politician.

THE POLITICAL CALDRON.

BUBBLES FROM THE COUNTRY PRESS. PLAII TALK TO PASTIES. (From the Brazil Manufacturer and Miner.) lie is but a very careless observer of po lltical events who does Dot see in the present condition of public affairs and the attitude of the people toward tbe great parties, a situation for which our history furnishes no parallel. . The feeling of the masses of the people is one profound disgust with politics and parties. Neither parties havo left any principles which they have not tietrayed; no policy upon which their leaders have agreed, no leaders whose authority is recognized beyond a cir cle of personal adherents; no cohesion except for the retention of office and power; no title whatever to public confidence except that they fly the flag of the old party. The people understand this. No man who has talked with his neighbor upon current poll tics any time within tbtee or six months past will eny that tbe people are dissatis fied with both of tbe old parties, and they are going to nnload. It is time that the honest voters of both parties who are now groaning under neavy taxes to come forward and unload into one common grave both of tbe old parties there to rot. This Is no time for party clap trap. Tbe taxpayer cannot afford the luxury of a party just now. The over bur dened property holder cannot afford to trust his fortunes any longer in the bands of a political machine whose representatives, when installed la office, serve personal ana ring interests rather than the people. We feel free to say. therefore, that tbe honest people ot both parties are disgusted, and they have a rbzht to be; wherelore, we ask them to come out from among both parties and elect good men to office, regardless of what party they have belonged to hereto fore. PARTY SCEPTER PASSINO AWAY. (From the Anderson Herald.) One of the most surprising' things which has been developed so far in the opening of the political campaign by the democracy in this county is the supreme con tempt with which the leaders regard the country people. The men who have, for so many years, molded the policy of thtir party, nominated the officers, and led tbe masses to the polls, can not tolerate the idea that a farmer, mechanic or common laborer may think and act lor himself. It is contrary to the established order of things. The ordinary democratic voter has always occupied an insignificant place in the estimation of the party managers. If the voter was ignorant, so much the better for party purposes. In tbe consideration of the probabilities of party success, he was regarded simply as so much force, to be used like a machine, a mere thing without rights, and too iguorant, or too devoted to a high-sounding mine, to ever question the rule of the men who lead him. The grange movement has set the farmers to thinking about public affairs, and they ate beginning to inquire into party management. They do not longer propose to be dragooned into the support of any "set up" ticket, regardless of the public welfare. In their opinion, a candidate for office should have other and higher qualifications than blind devotion to party, whether right or wrong. In this they are right. Party tyranny ba already wielded the scepter too löng. Party and public purity alike depend upon the intelligence and freedom ot tbe masses, and that era is dawning in American politics. ROSY. (From the Vevay Bvvell e. The new crusade recently inaugurated by the women against whisky, daily increases in volume and extent. Beginning in the small towns of Ohio it has spread epizootie like over half the content, breaking out without warning in unexpected places, after tbe manner of boils on the human body. Adown in history it will be an epoch of interest sandwiched in between the Modoc and tbe Ashantee wars. The movemeut is an entire innovation in the art of war, dispensing witb carbines and guns. Instead of bembs and minnie balls the only projectiles used are prayers and songs: instead ot bloody carnage and maimed bodies we see only demolished kegs and decanters, and instead of our nostrils being offended with sulphurous smoke we whif only the fragrant odor of sherry and bourbon .as they gurgle on their march to the sea. POWERLESS PARTIES. From the Warsaw Union. Parties this year, from indications, will not have as much to do with placing men in position aa their own personal qualifications. This is no falling off in faith of democratic priuciples, but w merely wish to call attention to the existing state of affairs in this "neck of the woods." This is an important campaign one that may determine tbe existence of the party itself. Just now a nawerlul organization is apparently gain ing the ascendancy, and whatever politicians may do, let them net forget to consult the interest of the farming community. Officeholders and office-seekers may not regard these remarks very palatable, but gentlemen they are nothing more nor less than naked truths, and whether lavorably or unfavorably considered, when the time comos to count noses, it will be observed that we are not far from tbe mark. NOT FOR JOSEPH I From tbe Uooaler State. Correcting a blunder of an organ the paper quoted says: ".We did not nominate Joseph Collett for congress, but tbe Hon. John Collett, and it begins to look as though he is the coming man for that important position. At least, we heard a great many flattering expressions from prominent men of Terre Haute while we were in that city on Friday last. Mr. Collett stands very high among the Terra Haute people, and they are more than anxious that he shall become our standard bearer. He is generally known all over this district, and wherever he is known he has many warm friends. He is a man who is liked by every one who makes his acquaintance, and one whom the people of this district would like to see honored with a seat in the next congress." - - - - CLAIMING) A RIGHT. 3 JFromtheCrawford.Ouuut Democrat.) Crawford county has a candidate for state treasurer in the person of E. F. Roberson the present efficient treasurer of this county In presenting the claims of Mr. Roberson te this position, we feel it our. bounded duty to state that undoubtedly Crawford is entitled, all things being considered, to some place on the state tickwt. Our candidate is a good man, has discbarged the duties of his present office with economy and fidelity, and in fact is as good a man as could be found in the state for the position. There is a desire on the part ot democrats here to urgently press his claims, and the position we take as a county, is certainly sufficient reason for tire nomination of Mr. R., to a place on the ticket. , A SCOOP NET. From the Lafayette Argru. It will be Been that the basis of the call is broad enough to include all elements of opposition to the republican party. The dem ocratic party, having the organization and

comprising the chief element of the opposi

tion, has taken tbe initiative steps for the consolidation of all opposing elements, and tne platform which it will adopt will cer tainly be broad enough tor all to stand upon. All shades of tbe opposition should now do given delegates to the convention and allowed to assist in making up the is sues; by a united effort. Indiana can be made a powerful barrier to the further spread ofGrantism. a srrrRAOEK. From the Newcastle Tim. If it i altogether noble and lovely for women to endure the filth, tbe obscenity, and the rudeness of mobs in order to pray down Intemperance, will some of our po liticc-religious savans tell us how far wrong or ignoble or unlovable it would be for them to go to ti e polls and vote it down. One vote on the side of temperance is more po tent than a hundred prayers, if it be the one tnat turns the tide, and it requires vastly less time and less exposure of any kind to go and deposit a vote in the ballot box than it does to parade among rude men and oiler prayers in tbe saloons. VP, OCARDS, AC. From the Plymouth Pemocrat. Withtwoyearsof rest our arms are rusted and it is now time to prepare them for action. We know our enemy and the bat tle we have to fight, and the sooner we pre pare for it aud move on his works the more complete will be our victory. It is certain no evil can result from the earlv and thor ough organization of our forces. Marshall county should give an unprecedented demo crane majority this fall, and with a proper useof the means at our command it will do so. Let us meet and take counsel together. Dretnreu. ' . w - A QUESTION OF RECO RH5. (From the Vevay Democrat. ' bat shall be done, gentlem-n ? Will you vote for the democrats? The worst thing that they ever did was to guard the public treasury. We want to ask this ques tion, "Why does not some statistical repub lican make a comparison between the steal ings under tbe democrats, prior to 1868 and under n Is own party since? Tbe national records would be opened to him. We can answer that question for our republican friends. Such a comparison dare not be made by the party in power. PROGRREiSSrVK PLAN. (Fiom the Madison Progress.) We present the name of Mr. John Roberts, of Madison, for the office of secretary of state, believing that his position as a law yer his energy and ability as a debater will tell, for good, during the campaign, and as we propose to be successful, we want nonn but honest and competent men on our ticketDivide the state so that each congressional district, as nearly as may be, may have a candidate, and that one honest and qualified, and we will guarantee a clear maioritv of 10,000 votes. THE VOICE OF GRAB AND MOBILIER. (From the Kendall villa Standard.) Tbe Indianapolis Sentinel, tbe state "or gan" of the democracy in this state, still re bels against the puerile attempt to galvanize the old carcass of democracy into life, and pleads tor a new deal, and a new party. ii is not ai an surprising tuai tne sentinel should wish to "submerge all party signs and tokens." If we belonged to a party that carried such a record as does the democratic party, we would want to "submerge" it as &oon as possible. Put a mill-stone about its neck, and sink it out of sight forever. NEVER SAY PIE. (From the Danville Union.) We are prepared for any amount of vituperation and abuse of the rcpublicau party, but we ask those who have so long accepted its doctrines what there is that they should now abandon it for any other? Let us come together, and. taking counsel by past experiences, resolve upon united action for its time-honored principles, seeking men to bear aloft the banner, whose lifd is their pledge for a ia.itbfui and honest discharge ot the duties of the office they seek. LAST LEOS. From the Decatur Kagle.J Parties and politicians are about on the!r last legs. The demand of the hour is for honesty. Professions without practice will not be taken. Something more is now demanded than "old traditions of past usefulness." Two years ago the Hon. Michael C. Kerr ran against Billy Williams for con--gressmen at-large or this state. Williams carried on the prize by a small majori ty. If tbe vote was to be taken over to-day Kerr would carry the state by 30,000. NOT DEAD. (From the Decatur Herald.) The attempt to break up the domocratlc organization in this state is a -decided failure. At the late meeting of the state central com mittee at Indianapolis there was not a single member of the committee in favor of the Sentinel's plan to create a new party. The democratic party is not dead yet, and the old chronic office-s ekers, who now imagine that they will be enabled to creep into office by helping to bury the party, will find out their mistake at tue next election. woman's will. (From the Hart ford City News.) The determination and unrelenting purposes which has ever attached to ; women, has never been stronger developed than in the stubborn prosecution of the temperance campaign. Man, though probably the equal of the fair sex in the concoction of plans, is brought to stand-stillwhen confronted with the inexorable will which woman posses in the highest degree. A GOOD SEND-OFF. I From the Connersvllle Examiner. The Hon. Michael C. Kerr, of New Albany, and one of the most reliable and efficient representatives that Indiana ever had in congress has announced his intention ot entering the field again as a candidate from the second district. HONEST AND FEARLESS. . I From the New CasUe Times. Mr. Holman, of Indiana, is one of the democrats who oufcht to be kept in congress. His voice is always raised in warning whenever a new steal is proposed, and he is as honest as he la fearless. . Praying and singing by ladies in front of low taverns have thus far been a spectacle sufficiently odd to dumbfounderthe keeper and there is sufficient halo ot association and feeling about prayer and praise to impose reBpect on the bystanders. But neither prayer nor praise can very long stand tbe strain which this conflict is imposing on it. Tbe very utmost that can be expected from it is, in our opinion, the intensification, greater or less, of the feeling that bars are disreputable resorts, and that drinking at them is da grading; but the value of this result even will depend on the effort not being pushed far enough to make it ' ridiculous or futile, and thus Insure a. reaction. After they have .been used for awhile In the streets aa a'weapoü Of mundane warfare against a semjrinitnal class the popular rev erence rortnem must -rapid a JV ont ana the theory which, g). perish in the minda, of those' who ebgafee

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HANNAH BINDING SHOES. LUCT LARCOME. , , Poor lone Hannah, Bitting at the window binding shoes. Faded, wrinkled, n?' Utchin In a mournful muse, iirigut-eyed beauty once vu nhe, w hen the bloom w as on the tree ; Spring and winter Hannah a at tn window binding shoe. Not a neighbor Fassing nod or answer will refuse To her whisper. -1 there from the nhers any newaT" Oh, her heart's adrift with one On an endless voyage gone! Night aud morning Hannah's at the window binding shoes. Fair young Hannah. Een, the Künbumt rlsher.ga7ly woSi; Hale and clevei. t or a willing heart and hand he sues. May-day skies are all aglow, And the waves are laughing to! For her wedding liannah leaves her window and her shoe. May is passing; Mid the apple boughs a pigeon coos ; Hannah shudders. For the mild southwaster mischief brew. Bound the rock of Marblehead, Outward bound, a schooner sped ; silent, lonesome, Hannah's at the window, binding hoes. Tis November: Now no tear her waated check bedews; Fiona Newfoundland Not a sale returning will she lose, Whispering hoarsely. "Fishermen, Have you, have you heard of lien T" Old with M atching, Hannah's at the window, binding shoo. Twentv winter

Bleach and tear the rag-gecU shore she views; Never one has brought her any news, Still herdlm eyes Bilentlr Cbase tbe white sail o'er tbe sea ; HopeleM, faithful, Hannah's at the window, binding shoes. INDIANAPOLIS. THE CENTRAL CITY AGAIN. HOW A BAT STATE CORRES PONOENT SEES IN DIANAPOLIS THE BIRMINGHAM OF AM ER ICA. An Indianapolis letter in the Springfield Republican gives an interesting review of the city which is worth reproducing: Having been formerly a resident of your city, the thought has occurred that a few statements concerning Indianapolis, my present loca tion, may not be Uninteresting to your read ers. In 1860 this city had a population of 8,000; in 1870, 50,000; in 1873, 80,000, and at our present rate of increase the enumeration of 1875 will give us not less than 100,000 a doubling in five years. No one can look carefully at a railroad map of the United states without beine struck with the fact that Indianapolis is the erand center of rail road communication between tbe great west and the east. Here the whole network of railways in the west seams to converge no ess than fourteen different roads centernur in one immense union depot. In the conception of the idea .ot a doubletrack belt-railway, encircling the city and connecting nil the railroads centering here ior transiering oi ireignts, Indianapolis ranks the world. With the completion of this erand enterprise sne win bare, countne the land on either side, from 25 to 30 miles of territory for manufacturing purposes, every acre of which will be in direct communication with every railroad entering the city. Is there another locality in the known world offering such facilities to manufacturers as just this The contemplation of the numerous industries, witb the busy hum of tho various machineries which must in a few years fill this extent of terri tory, is truly gratifying. The attention of foreign capitalists seems now, lor the first time, to be universally attracted to the re sources of this state, in the way of furnishing material for manufacturing articles. It is becoming known that directly within reach there exists an inexhaustible amount of block coal for fuel, witb which can be made a pig iron equal to the best charcoal iron, and well adapted for the Bessemer pro cess of steel-making. Indiana is ouly in her infancy as to the development ot technical enterprises (mining and smelting), but there can De no doubt sne will De a great ironproducing state and the future seat of American steel-making; and tbe coming Indianapolis will be tbe BIRMINGHAM OF THE UNITED STATES. Sixteen large establishments for the man ufacture ot iron and steel are already in op eration, and several new ones are approaching completion. The field is large, however. so that a hundred more of similar kind could be easily accommodated. During 1873 no-less than 32 large manufactories, including pork houses and other interests, were either completed or enlarged from smaller ones. The quantity, quality, and variety of timber in this vicinity also deserves particular notice. Fer walnut lumber this is the 1 leading market in tbe world. At the close of last year 31 lumber yards sold 106,435,709

feet of walnut lumper, poplar or white wood, hickory, ash, wild cherry, white and red osk, maple everything, in fact, but Rine is abundant at our very door; ence, the opportunity for carriagemakers, cabinet-makers, wagon-makers, car works, and almost every industry, to find a favorable location. Pork-packing is carried on in this city upon an immense scale. Kingan's establishment alone, being the largest in tbe world, killed and packed during the year ending November 1, 1873, 394.000 bogs. Besides this, are seven other pork-packing firms nearly as large. Tbe climate is regarded as particularly favorable for this branch of business, being neither so warm as Cincinnati nor so cold as Chicago. Union stock yards covering S00 acres of ground are projected and will be ready for use early next fall. It is a point worthy of remark that all cattle passing to the east from Texas, and the entire west"must of necessity pass through Indianapolis. The ENTERPRISE, ENERGY AND ABILITY Exhibited by the business men of this place is something remarkable. Public improve- j ments are pushed through with a spirit and rapidity proportioned to their value. Fortyfive miles of Improved streets were made 1 last year, a fair proportion of which was of block pavement. This is the more praia worthy, since all the streets are from eighty to one hundred feet in width. Eleven iron wagon-bridges extend over White river, in and near the city; also, an iron bridge spans all the railroads running north, northeast and southeast; while a double tunnel passes under all the railroads which run northwest, west and southwest. 'Seventeen miles of street railway have been laid down, and the company expect to put down many more during the present year, Our public schools are equal to those of any other city, east or west. Indiana has the largest school fund of any state in tbe Union, and Indianapolis has availed herself of. this fund in building np a school system admirable in erery respect. The temples of learning here, large, numerous and costly, compare favorably with those of the famed city of Boston itself; while the immense number of magnificent church edifices speak volumes in favor of the architectural taste and culture ot the "meridian city." The amount of building done during 1873 astonished everybody acquainted ' with the facts. Many of tbe business blocks that have been erected canpot be surpassed in beauty and grand ner by those oT ' any', 'tfty on the continent; while scores pf palatial residences mark the GROWHttJ 'IfEAlJtÄ AND REFINEMENT OF OTJR i -i.'ii WifJ lipEOPLE. A feature 'stülxtfore pleasing which, distin- " , tin iiivfio-i f '

guishea this place is the multitude of smaller houses, each with Its little yard and garden, which have sprung up all around in the manufacturing suburbs. These are owned, generally by their occupants, the bone and sinew of tbe country, who have come here to earn their living and "grow up with tbe Place" and they do "grow up." From small beginnings, they frequently acquire fortunes and tjeoome leading men. Especially is this true of those who emigrate from New England, that hiveot industry. They come here, bringing wnh them their habits of thrift economy and virtue, with all he conditions' so favorable, why should ibev not succeed? It Is not easy to find a New Engländer who is not doing . well, gating trhh I . ,n, fa2' - the Prosperity of the city ia due chiefly to this cliVs of persons. They take the lead in every public aW?htn7hK reK,8,a Vim ftnd Perseverance apoui them which al mo i-a a,,.. i i

ITTVi ' J1 U matter of surprise, that, with all the advantages attending industrial labor here, any are to be found willing to eke out but a st-antv unli,,. ? .i. . . i - .v j up'u kun uarren rocks ofew England. To such it Is homesowas it oncA tn im,,.. i . . . 13 r?,qta8,rleasant hom. n tbe reward of labor is far more remunerative. But ST.,m . becoming quite too long, else I Here are broad pro, No dressinz and rerv Ii Ha ttii . , j iiiicko is rt-iiuir-ed to reap an abundant harvest. The impression has been nriiit , .i and especially Indiana and Indianapolis, ia ha...Vk J m ianner irom tne trutn. ( 0111111 iim .rotiUi: . . - . .r. . 1 .v -.iH7ui mortality, and it will hf..i.r,i ih.t .u. ! .-- .u uui iuk iuo year just passed the death rate in Indianapolis has thir rwMjri,iou 10 population, than fnyotberritv inth union. One thought more, and 1 Ho th. 1. : man, and indeed every man, is inclined to rsi.dwn. "bow are tbe taxes? ' TO this OUAMt nti wa - a . . . 1 . v- v. v u ki v c n must satisiactory reply. The Ivv for city taxes wMiietKr '? ;uaianPli i 1 1-10 per cent., wmie the state, coiinttr . , O5-100 of 1 per cent., making a total lor citv. township, county and state tax of 1 65-100 fr cent- The city tax alone of ChicKO is more than d per cent. Our city tax of 5.J47. due March 1. 1S74 will no,, u.,.,;-. ?r,5lty debt' whiIe the debt of Chicago is j ul vincinnau f is.ono.OOO. and that Of TOllU villa An f IA mm nnn Ibus, from statistics now on hand it appears that not a city in this nation can make so good a showing in this resard, or can present so low a tax levy, as the great inauunbjr ui Auuiauapons. In a 'Tlea for Girls." the New Vnrt Graphic says: It is no longer the fashion to provide girls with a marriage outfit of home made spinning, weaving, and stitching. Modern machinery, which transform fih nto cloth as quickly as it could have been done by the use of Aladdin's wnnHorfi lamp, seems to have rendnrtwi liinnn. . - --uu.JV.V .-.C ry; yet is. it so in reality? Has anything been done aa yt to compensate tbe girl for this loss to perfectly till its n n course we wnte in reference to the daughters of the middle class, the farmers and householders ol the country, where living is both easier and more difficult than it ;a :n i,a city, where girls do not have to toil in shops. "uwp, Almoin a source or present or possible futuro interest, life is dull and stagnant hardly, as it seems to the yonug, with their fresh energies and eager activities, worth the 1 ivinc. A rtiatrif school and a year's finishing at a boarding nchool, which make the girl thoroughly unhappy lor thereat of her lite, is the usual method of givingr girls an "education." KfnsihlA mpn shnnLl L-nnw Krvtr. and do Detter than this for their girls. Their home training, it is presumed, furnishes them with knowledge upon domestic mat ters; but let them in addition to thia be taught several useful arts by which they can obtain a livelihood. We say several advisedly, for there is not one hardly by Which an intelligent woman ran nhtain a decent living. The voices of the merchants of New York. who gathered in Steinway hall last Wed nesday night, addressed a larger audience thau was collected within its walla. 'hev spoke to the president nf th United States, and demandoi that ha should call off his federal hounds. 'hey spoke to coneress. and demanded instant and efficient legislation to eStOO the hound Irnm IninffAHr arain sat on to worry honest men. Tbev spoke to the people, and entreated them to consider how vital to the public morals is the question of a reform uf t hfl ri ri I twrrlnA lHmlraM. o were the speeches of Mr, Choate and Mr. Schultz, the high tide of the enthusiasm of the meeting brimmed over in the short and incisive declaration of Mr. Chittenden, that cannot be purity in the custom-bouse, till its service is utterly divorced from party politics," New York Evening Post. In speaking of the success of the women's temperance crusade in the west, the New York Tribune says: "The result is so goodanil so praise wot thy that most people do not care to question the strict logical accuracy of the processes which have led to it. The only thing which can be insisted upon is that they shall keep within the law In all their operations, and this they have generally done. They have relied, in most cases, upon the efficacy of prayer, and upon tbe contagious enthusiasm bred by their own sincerity and ardor, to accomplish their purposes. They are not perplexed by the complicated conditions which prevent their plan from succeeding in our great cities, and we would do well, in considering the best means open to us to obtain similar results, not to forget the immense difference between our environments and theirs. Senator Conkling and Senator Thurman have spoken very gingerly about the currency question. The excuse they give is that they have been unwilling to consume valuable time while the business in terests of the country are lanzaish lug on account of the uncertainty of tee . m . la? result or congessionai legislation. inisis a flimsy excuse. Tbe fact is that both Thurman and Conklin are afraid of their tvirmlnritv Both of them are lookincr askance at the White House, and while they feared toonena van street, isey were also afraid to incur the displeasure "of the western people, whose votes will determine the choice ior president in 1876. The senators Imagine they re playing a shrewd game, but it is a game not much In favor now. St. Louis Democrat. Mary Clemmer Ames writes to the Brook lyn Argus about Canon Kingslwy's daughter: "In the private gallery of the House sits Miss Kintrsley. -Without being in any sense masculine, her profile is stronger even than her father's. ' She has large dark eyes, and her features are remarkable ior an expression oi energy and strength, She is a stately brunette, with none of the reputed floridness oi the average English women. Her simple black hat, trimmed with black lace and small tea rotes, and plain gray traveling dress, offered a very marked contrast to the velvets, India shawls, and embroidered cashmeres ot her newly-found American Iriends. Uer body guard on one side is Mrs. Blaine, on the other, Gail Hamilton and Harriet Prescott Spoflbrd ('Handsome Dick')."

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