Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 April 1874 — Page 4

the Indiana; state sentinel. Tuesday, april m, i874.

IUE3D.VY, APRIL 14.

Tuoiiiis Bradwell Douglass is a myth, and his purported confession about the mun'er of Mary Seeor la a hr.ax. That is all that need be said on the subject, except to add that the?e facts pre established by a letter from Mr. Charles E. llarrlngtcn, city editor ot tbo Denver News, to J. II. Foster, editor of tbe Vau Wert (Ohio) Bulletin. Mr. liarrington has made careful enquiries of the bishop acd catholic priests in Denver, and is fully convinced that no such man as Douglass baa been there, that no person died and made a confession of any sort, 3 alleged in the cacard. Among the names sigued to the farmers vail rut lished this morning is that of James Comock, the second personage m iu Grange in this state, lie is competent to Jiulgo cttbe sentiments of bis brethren, as it U bis business to vUit every i-ounty council in the btate. His testimony is to the effect tbat fanners aro eager for an opportunity to break the shackles of party, and that so far as the Las discussed the matter, tbey b ive len waiting only for anopportumty to t ike their placo among the factors which are to work out the problem of reform. Not as a ociet v or laction, but as independent voter, who.n rirrhts as citizens are by no; means curtailed because ttey have joined the Grange. All the names attached to the circular are representative farmers infteenlia inthnr communities as grangers and citi Vns. and this is only a sign of the thousands Coat stand ready to put their hand and sea to the call. 1 Mr. Morton's presidential election notions Bm ti have impressed the committee on iP-t5f,n9. Thev have virtually decided to recommend the cumbersome machinery of district voting, whose evils will be ten fold t dAotnrsl svstems. It more iiiau iuu jfihhiu. -will be remembered that Mr. Morton's scheme looked to the adoption ot a Sixteenth amendment, dinning the method electing the president. The aim of this new clausa is to make the election of president and vice lar in character. And jllC"'ur;in v w f v x - t this end it is proposed to divide the sev Aptcml districts, each dis trict to be entitled to one vote in determin iir the choice for president.and in addition, two electors are to be chosen by the State at lare. Tbe proposed amendment is only balfway measure, as it neither abolishes the rrpeent electoral college, nor does it provide for the election of the president by direct popular vote. Some twenty -five thousand mechanics of New York City are to-dy without employ ment with their families dragging out precarieus and dependent existence at the xpense of somebody, instead or their own Aarr.;no Tho Knrincr is opening and the VA ww J a ' season of labor ready to begin. There is work to be done, plenty of it to supply all. and money to pay them. Ne w York is short for dwellings. She has not half as many s Philadelphia. Her public highways meas ure 3Ö0 miles against 500 in the city of the centennial. The pressure for dwellings puts nnwpr into the hands of landlords, isises rents and turns tho laborer out of the city. Workmen refuse to lift a ringer until they can have the pay of ten hours for the work ct eight. The builders, bosses aud contractors hAve resolved to employ no men unless on ibe ten hour basis after June 1. Tboj win srpend entirely. There iä the Issue and the present aspect indicate that no buildings will be added to New York this year. When the liberal and the earnest impolitics are cast down and hopeless to esc ipe from the present demoralization of parties, lit will reinvlgorate their dipping hopos to stall, the begining of the abolition crusade -whiri had its rise under much mors Zn ' . vorablt obstacles than the present incipience 1 reform. The thought is brought to mi ad by tho aseiTJblago in Chicago, in June, of the remnants ?f that abolition band, who scattered thfl oed which blossomed ii a final regeneration 6f be nd ironi human slavery ana elcated us from barbarism to a civilized nation. Although many of the conspicuous actors in that nobld strugg'e are dead there are eooughremunioscto render its celebration an eyent of great interest, both to the participants and to the country at largo. How swift, is history at times, -is lecalled when we remember that in that city in 18G0, Abraham Lincoln received the nomination for President from a party which wa3 then only beginning to understand its duty on the shvery question, and yet, to-day, in 1874, only a few of the eoldiera of its early warfare remain to meet together in" congratulation arid thanksgiving. If the farmers are to be forbidden by the party managers to take action concerning tboir own political destinies, of what purt pose i3 tho banding together of the last two years ? If tbe conduct of political affairs had been pure and good and wholesome, what ceed would there ever have been of the grangtraandBimilar organized protest against rrty domination? II the republican party for instance, which has been in power ' for the last iloren or more year, Is so capable of answering all the demands ol th feople, why have the necessitios for buA demands ever been permitted to come aicoüt? H there were no law-breakers we fthould need no laws. If the republican party were a wholesome organization, the farmers would never have been compelled to band themselves together to .ist the encroachments of the re in onnnolfcte. whose exactions they have in Conzress and in council. Undertaudinu tbe uprUlng of tha reforming farmers as a protest against itself, the repub lican pirty hastens through its office-holders ami subsidized newspapers w warn im ..mora Against political action. Professing to know more about their needs the farmers themselves, they vocifer thfl n!oa that the granges orT,nTi-oiiical and have no right to take

part in the pending discussion of the political future. It haa not escaped the officeholders and party managers that the farmers were exerting a wide influence whose tendency was ruinous to party discipline. That wherever the granges were strongest, party ties became weakest. Until the formal outbreak, however, they dared not take any direct position in antagonism the to farmers, hoping that by their usual wheedling promises and the appointment of a granger on the state ticket in tbe place of Mr. Curry, and, possibly. Colonel Glover, that the "party" might tide over the breaker of independence and discontent arising on the political sea. With the formal

action of the farmers last week, looking to real effort at emancipation, the office-hold era saw that the crame was up. so while the organs were directed to pitch In.the postmas ter took the burden of breaking up the movement on his broad shoulders, and concocted the ingenious and varying argu inents which have adorned the columns of the orran from dav to dav. He has also taken the contract of spurring up the faith ful In other places to put down this dan gerous mutinv. and some of the evidences ol his handiwork will presently be made known for the edification of men. The call for an Independent convention resolved upon by the farmers, was brought to the Sentinel for publication by one of the highest officers in the agricultural societies of the state Its printing was requested by a delegation composed of the most trusted members oi tbe grange. The calls were first submitted to the members in informal discus sion and brought to the Sentinel to be stricken off as circulars, to be sent out to the State. Hundreds of these were taken home by the returning farmers, and the evi dence of their work will soon at test tbe unanimity of their feelings in the matter. Beyond the receiving and publishing, the Sentinel had no part in the farmers' proceedings, and distinctly disavows the part of organ in any party. The movement, as a direct out-come of the Sentinel's teachings for the last two years, receives its joyful supportso long as it is held purely in the interests of reform So soon as it shall develop a tendency to tol erate the abuses ol the existing parties, it wil receive the same open condemnation tbat the others do. The sweets of independence once tasted by a newspaper, there is no inducement that can tempt it into bondage again. The Sentinel hails in the movement a continuance of the work begun by Horace Greeley, and in this spirit upholds and co operates no further. If the farmers have not mistaken their own earnestness, and the public indications are to be trusted, the beginning of a new order of .things is foreshadowed in the cal for a popular convention pat lorth this morn ing. The decision to make an independent appeal to tbe people will hardly be a sur prise to any one who has watched the drift of political discussion during the last two years. The late action of both political parties in this state, with the stereo typed calling into play of the praca? -a.- M 1 M 11 uces oi tue past, leu independent, re formers no resource than a bold break for political freedom. It is appropriate that the nitiative In this wholesome attempt should be taken by the farmers. They have been in many ways tbe createst sufferers by the atrocious system of legislation carried on for years, and thev. as the most deeply concerned, are the fit instru ments to wrest the capacity of further mis chief from the men who have controlled the destinies of the state so long. It is a moderate expression of the present attitude of political affairs to pay that the people are look ing anxiously for a way of escape from the narty shambles, and that they will hail with deep, devout and grateful joy, the opportunity herein fcveu lor 8weePlnK purification of politics in au brnche3. The language of the calls ar.J the workers in the cause, leave no room 10 doubt tbat the apptl haa been rut forth after earnest deIileration and Willi tbedistinc; assurance that only the direct fruit of a thorough, genuine reform will be accepted as its abiding: results. The purpose of the call Is to be- by no means understood as a fanners movement only. It is expected that all men believing alike, and interested In the realization of certain reforms, shall Join bands and work in unison to accomplish the purpose. This Is the political doctrine which Is just now moving men, ad this is the opportunity which the mass have beecyJookiog for. By the terms of the eaJL . it will be seen that delegate conventions are to meet in aistne counties ana select representatives to meet in Indianapoll" on the 10th of Jane. That anticipates by some weeks the action of the political nartiespne of which is called for July 15, arvli the other for June 17. This wllligive the independanta an opportunity to seltoct the very beat material in the state, and put forth suoh an evidence of good works and good intentions. will virtually make the convention, the and of the contest. "When you get a geod thing aavve lta aw of political action which, oommtuda itself at all times and ia all circiunstanceto the party organs, Tbe endeavor of the hacoo organ in this city todo this under tk ad versity of tbe farmers' revolt, has been amusing the towa for a day or. two For months the organs of the party ia power have been essaying learnedly to. prove tbat farmers have no right to deal in politics; that because they join themselves in a body for tbe protection el mutual interests, that they are thtveby disfranchised from a voice in public affairs. But If they do assume any public fancUca it must be ia obedience to the republican party, and iu support of the organ of that banded rotten ness. So, the venerable echo ot organism croons dismally about the late farmers demonstration as an effort to break - up the 4'glorious" party, aad bweeclna I

them with flooded eyes to resist the call to the kingdom of independence and reform. In tbe latitudes slightly to the north of us tbe ice in the rivers breaks up at certain seasons to the great regret of swarms who make use of it for purposes of pleasure and profit. As the surging waves beneath give tokens of the final Irreaistable upheaval, the Ice-cutters and skaters swarm the more eagerly on its perishing remnants, resolved to make the most of the last available foot. In their greed it often happens that masses are carried down and engulphed in the break-up. That's a fair illustration of the plight all the organs are in, as well as our home sheet. That elderly slnnersees the position parties are in, and shrieks with a cracked voice for help. To arrest the break up cf the party ice it is willing that the people shall suffer the perpetual frost of party power rather than find Itself swirled Into tbe chasm which the Bun&hine of reform will create. That's not a bad figure of the real condition of the country under the Icy bonds of party rule, and it illustrates quite vividly the interest that organs and parties have, in seeking to paralyze the opening effoits of the farmers for reform. Of course, the movement must be a deadly sin to them. Why not? It will loosen their hold on the public treasury, substitute economy and honest

administration for the present profligacies of parties, and in the end relegate the control ol affairs to the people where it rightfully belongs. The ill tempered scolding of the organ over the farmers revolt, reminds one very strongly of the vociferous cackling of an astonished hen when bavins brooded over a batch of duck eggs, the little flock suddenly take sail and enter the first pond that pre sents itself. In tbe clear waters of reform the organ cannot paddle. Its brood of farmer ducks having left it desolate, and tiiere will presently be nothing left but a rather foul nest. If the call of the farmers can excite it to such a frenzy of fury, what will the result be when, on the 10th of Jane, 5,000 independent delegates assemble in this city and promulgate the gospel of reform? The wheezy reproaches and Incoherent cackling ot the last day or two will be limpid rills ot English undefiled in comparison. There is something touching in this sudden surprise to the venerable grind. It has been crooning on from day to day. having eyes and Beeing not, ears and hearing not until the culmination of the growing sentiment breaks upon it with a dazing effect. Unable at first to realize tbe source of the blow, it wildly charges tbat the awful democrats have fired the train then remembering the terms of the call, it asserts that, "next to the Grangers, the Democrats were the maddest men," then again forgetting, asserts that one Gooding, who is not a Granger, is the in spiring source of the farmer's declaration. There is a serio-comic humor in the chaotic charges, counter charges and contradictions in the nrurai. of the last two nsvs. which absolutelv excels the most 6le - aginous humor or Artemus Ward. First the farmers wbo put forth the manifesto, and they were all in favor of it save Mr, Kingsbury and his assistant "middlemen ' as the organ calls them, in the Grange, were doing it in the interest of the democratic state committee. Then they were doing it in tbe in the interest of the Sentinel, which "want ed to be an organ ( ?)." Then in the interest of one Goodipg, who wanted to represent tbe whole state of Indiana in congress! The unhappy old organ is evidently losing its senses, as well as its party, and next we shall hear it charging! the farmer outbreak upon the fragments of the liberal republicans. Its vagaries are amusing and it can not do a better work than keep them up. They supply the want of a comic paper admirably. A few more well put guesses will add piquincy to the easy flow of humor and the public will relish tbe en tertainment. There are some drawbacks, after all, in being a royal personage in search ol a wife. While weak mortals have been sighing for the glory and grandeur of Prince Alfred and his imperial wife, tbe vulgar details have been carried on by the great ministers, and, as exposed, reveal a curious phase of mar rying and giving in marriage. The full text of the treaty between Her Maj esty Queen Victoria and tbe Emperor of Russia, on the occasion of the marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh and the Grand Duchess Alexandrovoa, reverses the business. Thv document was signed at St. Petersburg, on the 22d of January, and ratified on tbe29Sb of the same month, and was drawn up botb in Engfjn and French. Toere were eleven separate article in the trevty, which contain the toficming social, polÄical and religlbus stipulations ; first j Her Royal Higbeess to have the frril and unrestrained exercise f the rsliRious pro fession of the Greek or rthodo2cohurcl,and for thi purpose shis tenjoy tie luxary vi chapel r of her own fatthiih whatavor habitation afre may live;- anü also she mw? be allowed to accompany hea-consort-to "meeting" in any of thcBfotectant churches on-all proper occasions. Secondly, 13 they are blessed with children thsy are to be broicht up and d boated m tbe Irfotestact faithand their education ito -be jvovidedtJbr by- Iiis Royal Ilighuess,. unless she, of har-own free will dbsires Ur aid ia their education. Again, lie-Hmp-rr assigns to Her Imperial Hgbne marsiage ijortion err dowcy oi l,000,00'rouble!s a rouble bei-agr equal, to about f-Ooents and thU is to tx. oonsi Jered her especial praperty. It is to' be deposited j with tie-department of Appanages ajd" to. rema:av forevr Ruaaja, drawing two per cent, alterest which Is to b paid He Hlgbuesa seii-annuA2y. Sba-has exclusive contsol of tbla and may will xV to l?r lieirs if she so desBs. ' Ani yet, agkln, as a freak " navicular affecticov seeing &Le U somewhat jtrcdy the extperor grants, her an annual revenue of tOOQ roubles, and the yevad of this Is also exclusively for her to dispose of "according to her own fre v.i andA pleasure." And yet, once more, bis xaajesty remembers, "as a result of the sume sentiments," his daughter Marie, bj a particular marriage

portion of another 1.000,000 roubles. It is given nnder exactly the same con

ditions as that of the first portion. f Ta 1 xicr imperial nignness also naa a snug little sum of her own, now valued at 000,000 roubles, the use oi whicb, is at her fair pleasure, and which, if any remained at her death, is to pass to her children. Artl cle No. 9 says that "their Royal and Impe rial Highnesses" may mutnallv agree to bear each other burdens, that is, necessary Housekeeping expense. And lastlv.but best of all there is tobe but one household." This ia to be organized according to the usages and etiquette of the United Kingdom. Her Highness shall also have the inestimable pleasure of appointing the persona who shall compose her personal establishments subject to the approval of the queen; The debts incurred by each are to be paid respectively by each, and bis royal highness is tobe indemnified out of the separate prop erty of his highness for any debts or obliga tions which may be separately Incurred by her and for which his royal highness may be held responsible by the law of England And now may they go to housekeeping and be as aappy as falls to the lot f poor mor tals to be. Among the problems which must come up for solution presently, is the religious accommodation of tbe masses. We are growing more rational as a people year by year, but our rationalism is not taking the radical di rectlon of infidelity. The growth of the churches of all denominations attests this. Great, however, as Is the increase in church accommodations, it is a little startling to find in the statistics that hardly halt the population of the nation have a representation in the denominational churches. There are, of course, many essen tial reasons why this should be something near a fair apportionment of church attending and non-attending people. There are many sections of the couniry where theie are no churches notably in the distant parts of the country, where tbe settlements aie too sparse and the people too poor to support a minister and maintain church machinery. There are other causes, however, than these. Tbe churches themselves are not so managed as to call out the treat masses ot the people to attend their services. Churches have come, in this country, to represent in a large degree the worldly aspirations and vulgar pretensions of common-place people. The pew is the mark of the man and his estate, and these who can not hold an equal line are loath to acknowledge themselves less in worldly rank or affluence by taking less costly or conspicuous place under the eyes of men. The church should be a free place of worship, neither rank n3r worldly show should have recognition. As it is, men are divided arbitrarily as in the common calling of life and the best uses of the sacred edifice are lost to the community. Mr. E. D. Mausfield,the veteran statistician, makes a c .ireful statement which asserts that more than 9,000,000 of the people of the United States could not even lfin taad?n2 room in a11 the national chiirebe. ThC Indf psndent in referring to this fact, thinks that 13,wyW would be nearer the troth. Thess are statenieiiU which are of momentous significance, to all who are seeking to discover the cause and lemedy of the seemingly wide spread immor ality and want of religious sentiment among the poorer classes of American society. History is made much faster than it is read. If people kept their eyes and ears open, the exposures of the press wonld not come so much in the character of surprises as they generally do. This 13 called to mind by an examination of some frauds hunted down iu Butler county, Ohio; frauds, which to a greater or less degree, haye their coun terparts in many counties of Indiana. General Goodman, who was sent bv tne auditor of state to investigate the Butler county iniquities, makes a re port which shows a more corrupt state of affairs than was even hinted in the first disclosures. His research seems to have been thorough and the report is explicit, lie reports in full the condition of the au ditor's accounts, and shows that within the past ten years, Butler county officials, including its constables, auditors, sheriffs and mayors, have defrauded the county of over f 110,033. As an example of the deficits it is ascertained that one constable alone drew. during one year, $0,000 in excess of bis regular fees. Several of these constables, thinking they were not doing as well as they might, got up many bogus cases in which pretended witnessess were credited as being present, and their regular fees were packet ed by these political s barks. He also shews that bonds to the anrcont of $5,000 were issued under the late auditor without the slighV'st account of the saroa- being on record. Thirty thousand, five iandred and eighty-two dollars was paid ct of the county treasury in a single year totfee mayor and marshal! of Hamil ton, and' to the justices and- constables- of the couxty for coats and in criminal case. On this siAtementyfreneral God man remarks I do sot believe that (exseptlng Hunil ton coovxty) all the other counties im thestate of Ohio, paid to the same classes cJ officers for the same year, for the same purposes, an amonnv ia the aggregate greater than thai paid by fcfce single county of Butler." Now i the tiraa for the friends of reform to cometJorw ard and work. It will not d t stand aiK)f and delegate the propes action to some oae else. Let every man who believes. Sin bettering tha conditio of things sat aclively ai. work. Uphold tbe sentlmewtthat haa been, growing for reform. Show tkdlstrnsttat the tvue methotLcf success. Iitifcose who fcope staad idly by and Wait for some one eis . to carry frwaru tbe battle, the enemy will gain the advantage. Waat is needed iust now is active, earnest work in each township and each ward. Put the preliminary marhlnerv in readiness for the selection of proper delegates to the state convention, on the 10th of June, and select in the city irreproachable candidates for the councilman, of such strength ot character that they will bo accepted as a plodge of the wott to be achieved at the J one convention.

INDIAN'A CONFER. ENCE. THS w AssNysjrESTs for fort wayxv GOSSIP EWS A'D NOTES. lKrom an OocMioaal Correspondent of" tk Sentinel. Fort Watsk, Aprfl 8. Although we have sera vnai noted map of your place and can not doubt that Indianapolis U destined to uowuio mo -center of t traction," still we know that our more northerly town has been highly favored for a week or so. and we feel rather inclined to hold out heads rrp higher hl?, wr,' We have bee bavin such jubilant times that we want you all to know it, and so write to you. Of course the "tidal wave" has reached our shore. We hare had two or three temperance meetings. They were all well attended. The church in which they were held, and which is the largest audience room in the city, was "jammed and packed" every time. The mass meeting for this week is to be held next Friday evening in the First Presbyterian church. The thirty-first session of the North Indiana Conference convened herein the Wayne street M. E. church on last Wednesday, the first of this month. Nearly 200 ministers were in attendance. Bishop Foster presided. He is such a grand and noble old man! He endeared himselt to all the people, as well as to the ministers, by his kindness and firmness, and his great desire to see all men go onward in the glorious cause. The ministers who are members of tnis conference are a fine class of men, both in appearance and chaiacter. It was very refreshing to leave the shop and busy street and call in a few moments at the church, to wi ness the brotherly affection that pervaded the whole inference, and to see the great respect and love tbat all had for the bishop. It reminded one of "EARLY METHODI9M." when the circuit riders and the pastors used to meet together and enjoy themselves, without knowing or caring to know where they were going the next year, until the bishop should tell them. It was a grand and glorious meeting from beginning to end. The church, which, bv the wav. is a beautiful oneand one of the largest in the city, was filled every session. And in the evenings, when anniversaries of the different societies were held, the church was filled to overflowing. The college, in this place, was relieved of its debt of $3,000, last Saturday forenoon, and $3,000 besides secured. Tbe friends of the institution are happy now and have hopes of a pipsperous future for It. The bishop and ministers rallied around the old college, and now it stands redeemed and free. The bishop preached at Wayne street in the forenoon, on Sab bath. The house was packed. ot course, despite the very wintry weather. The sermon was one of great power and beauty. The audience were completely entranced with the grandness of the thought and sublimity of utterance. There was no room there for skepticism or infidelity, but it was an repiete wun a divine love tor a divine Creator, and surely all must have experienced it; if never before surelv thev did then. The appointments were read yesterday noon, ana the most of the ministers returned to their homes vesterdav afternoon. Rev. Mr. Marine, who was sta tioned at Berry street, in this city, for the past three years, comes to Wayne street this year. He is a most able preacher and a scholarly man, so that the Wayne streeters may well ieei pleased, uev. Mr. Meek, who has beeh at Wayne street the past year, has been appointed presidinz elder of one of the districts here in Fort Wayne. So the people will not lose him entirely. The following is a list of the appointments as read: FORT WAY5K DISTRICT H. J. MRCK, PRESID ING ELDER. Ft. Wayne Berry street, Jacob Colclazer. Ft. Wayne Ninth Ward, W. S. Morris, Allen circuit J. P. Nash. Harland W. Lash. Waterloo U. Spinner, Auburn-J. V. Welsh. Leo W. H. Daniel. Butler N. D. Peddycord. Hamilton II. M. Lamport. Corrunna M.H. Mott. Angola W. D. McCarty. Fremont Chauncy King. Orland A. W.Lamport. New Haven L. Roberts. Kendallville J. E. Erwin. Coesse O. D. Watkins. Columbia City E. M. Baker. Areola S. Bacon. W. O. Pierce Professor in Ft. Wayne col lege, and metnoer of Wayne street quarterly conference. WJWT FORT WAYNE DISTRICT W. 8. BIRCH, PRESIDING ELDER Fort Wayne Wayne street- A. Marine; Centennarv. J. Baldwin. Monroeville B. P. Baker. Decatur R. D. Spellman. Pleasant Mills J. L. Ramsej'. New rorydon (Supplied bv JT, C Macklin.) Portlatw T. Sells. Ossian J. II. McMahon. Bluffton C. Martindale. Bluffton Circuit (SuoDlied bv IX- Pouzlas.) Montpelicr J, M. olverton. Camden iU Hill. Roanoke--F; Carland. Huntington-W. R. Kistler. Warren J.- Brown. Markle C. W. Church. Antioch F. H Robinson. La Gro L. W. Monson. Doctor It. D. Robiason President fi Fort Wayne College aod member of the Berry street quarterly conference. GOSHEN DISTRICT O. V. LEMON, Goshen S. H. Rhodes. Mishawaka A. Ak Brown. Osceola J. S. McElwee. Elkhart A. E. Mahin. Elkhart Circuit Ax. II. Naftzer. Bristol F. A. Sal. Middlesbury J. ML Mann. Lima D. P. Hartaan. . Van Buren A. C: Girard. Lagrange A. Oresman. Wolcottvllle E. Hall. Ligonier Y. B. Meredith. New Paris A. Con. Wawaka G. W. How. Albion C. H. Wilkinson. Mllford Supplied by W. B. Graham.. Leesburg J. J. Cooper. Cremen Mission To be supplied. WABASH DISTRICT N. H. PHILLIPS f. X. "Wabash M. II. Mendenhall. La Faun tain N. Baker. Marion Circuit H. J. Norrls. Mexico R. J.Parrott. ' , Warsaw F. T: Simpson. Palestine R. J. Smith. Bourbon A. G. McCarter. In wood J.Cooper. . Lincoln T. M. Bell. Silver Lake Supplied by J. B. Adman. North Manchester E. P. ChiucJi. ! Liberty Mills J. B, Cook. Perrysburg J. Greer. Pierceton J. Johnston. Webster A. C. Pattee. Lar well S. J. McElwee. Springfield M. Wayman. Akron J. A. Lewellyn. Paw Paw U. Woolfort. LOGANSsTORT DISTRICT J. V. X. MILLER, 1. K. Iiogans port Broad wav, C. W. Lynch. Maiket streM C. P. Wright. New Wavevly S. C. Miller. Psrn Mai street, W. R. Jordan Peru St. Paul's, C. E. Disbro. Miama J. Leonard. v Sata Fo-P. J. Albright. Jerome J. W. Miller. Kokomo T. Stabler. Alto A. H.Curry. Tipton O. S. Harrison. Cicero T. H. C. Beal. Boxlev E. Rammel. Sharpsvllle T. J. Elkin.

NORTH

Kir&Itn J. L. Miller. Russiavllle-Joel Rush. VV alton A. J. Carv, Galveston II. c. Klingle. Xenia-J. S. Sellers. MUNCIE DISTRICT-E. HOLDSTOCK. P E Muncie W. J. Vigus. ' ' Muncie Circuii-J. b. Carna. North Muncie G. R. Work. Selma-B. M. Kemp. Jaruiland-J. m". Jackson. .upÄ?t0n-J W aieUonetob Spartenburg-B. A. Newt,. LnionCity-H.M. Barnes. 553Swwf.S& n Dunkirk-. W. Smith. ' ny A. M. Patterson. Millgrove H. c. Smith. Haniord City-M. S. Metts. Eaton W. II. Pieive, New Corner-o. 8. Jenkins. Jones boro J. w. Le'wellen. RICHMOND DISTRICT-W. H. GOODEr F. E. Richmond, earl 8treetNM;iiraan. Richmond, Grace-R. N. McKaig. Centreville-UR Streeter. g Äb'eC-11 A Teague. Knights town E. F. Hastv wV0tt9,VillerWm- Anderson. hitewater D. F. Stricht Williamsburg-W. E. Curtis. (.reenlield-(i.i,WMi John lurD. PmfAoen.. s t j-

University. " iUUMas soary ANDERSON DISTRIcr-M. MAHIN, P.E. Anderson-J. c. Mahin. Anderson Circuit-R. U.Smith. New Britton D. D. Powell Westfield-W. Blake. elK Noblesville-V. M. Beamer. ttnbnl5J,olln Harrison. Perkins ville J. F. Rhoads. Windfall-R. a Powell. Pendleton-C. G. Hudson. Alexandria- W. Peck. Hagarstown-F. A. Fish. Vrnboro-K- x- McKaig. Middletown-J. F. Poirce. New Castle S. N. Campbell. CAPITAL CURIOSITIES. SKETCH ES ON THE FLOOR AND IN THE PARLORS MORTON, CONKLINQ, AND OTHER PROM INENTS. A Washington correspondent writes to the Chicago Times: Washington society is all by the ears in regard to the story recently ommenced in "Old and New,' written conjointly by Miss Wise and Mr. Severance, shea grand daughter of Edward Everett, be a clerk in tbe treasury. This Tom Hallibut and bis first season in Washington is a severe but perfect t ravers of the swell, shoddy, carpet bag oligarchy that has grown up likeother mushrooms here in Washington with the republican party. The story is unmltigatedly slangy in style, but grimly trua to nature, fact, and the official situation. Among a lot of severe things, it characterizes tne officials here as "the mob," which is uncomfortably trne, and as tbe truth plainly told generally makes us squirm, why, they are all squirming here like a bundle of eels. Not very long since a party of the mob met atasewingcircle at the house of General Beal, when the ' fctory was discussed with not a little acrimony and feeling, Mr. Severance being present. Miss Richardson, daughter of the secretary of the treasury, goes up to Mr. Severance and says: "Mr. Severance, I belong to the mob.' 19 "Oh, no. Miss Richardson" "Certainly sir," interupted Miss Richardson, "you have called the officials the mob.' As a daughter of one of them I belong to it, but if I do belong to 'the mob' I wish you to undeiftand, sir, that none ot my relations keep s livery stable." After delivering herself of this kind, gracious, and most lady-like speech, Miss Richardson smoothed her rullled feathers, looking about her with atriumpnant air as though challenging the admiration of the party for her masterly annihilation of the enemy, sat down, and we have no doubt felt better and niore amicable toward the rest of the world for baviDg informed tbe assembled crowd tbat this young man, whose father kept s livery stable, had dared to raise his eyes and call the ponderous-brained oSicials " tbe moU" Tnis shot at early antemients created juite s sensation, and made not a few of the marine, army, and navy leg retire into their inner closet and pray that no youthful, malicious, and ill-breed, memser of "the- mob" might find out tbat they were born in a garret, in a kitchen, and stable-brev-or root out the bor ri öle; fact that they, in other days were the shining light in a wayside tao, or had drawn in intellectual status at a miscegenation college It is rumored that Roscoe Conkling, the- Adonis of tb- United States Senate, has bought the controling interest in the New York Tribune, which has been so long hawked aljut Wall street, with no takers, thinking to use It, probably, t secure tho liberal republican vote for president in 1S76. All indications seem to be tending toward a flop of tbe administration ia tbat direction. Morton is a doomed man so far as presidential honors are concerned since his attack en the Ger man element. In his undignified and strictly personal reply to Schur the other day, he, in allowing his spleen to run away with his discretion, has turned his presidential aspiration cake into very soggy dough. SENATORIAL DIGNITY AND N3CORUM has had its superanuated old frame terribly shaken, by having a circular entitled,. " To the lovers of parity every where," thrust beneath their high-toned noses, purporting; to emanate from tho Woman's-criub, at Washington. It is a mild form of Woodbullism,. and goes in for a cleanly of tbe An gean stables of Washington morality, and placing women on what it considers a clean basis in her maternal relations, giving her the right to select sound fathers for her children.' Addressed to tb present Senate, one can readily see the joke. It seems as IS the lame, the halt and the bJBn l, all tbe superanuated old fossils ia tbe country, had managed by hook or ciook or Doth to hoist themselves into the soft spots of the United States Senate. Men without any legs, to speak cf, like Morton, Frry and Brownlow; without their full compliment of arms, like Clayton; with only a solitary eye, like Sutler; with plenty oi legs and arms, but fearfully cut short lo torso, like Schurz; or with plenty of body and short in the legs, like Conkling; or with a full set of limbs, eyes, etc., supplemented by several millions of dollars,, mit no bead, like Stewart; or who, having good physique, are the victims of a tongue like Sargent. The moral and physical weakness, lameness and crudeness of taat august body would make it a total wreck were it no, for tbe presence of a few healthy memb'jrs. Such men as Thurman, of Ohio, whose Worst vice is snuffing; Carpenter, of Mis. 1 souri, who, in spite of all that Is said, is a Ilru-uiM"K, paiusiaKiujg senator, WDO shares with Thurman the credit of bein;the best debators on tbe floor; Robertson, of Sooth Carolina, whose lips, hands, 9 nd lifo are above reproach, and a few other? are the leaven of the whole lamp. Tbey shine with double lustre when compared witj the senile Oglesby,the nonentity Gilbert, Vhe unfortunate Chandler, and the balance of the mass of incompetenev, rolling, s'taggering, and blondering on the floor of the United State Senate. Phiup. .