Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 42, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 May 1874 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY, MAY 12. 1874.

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"LIGHTEN OUR DARKNESS. llalfdoubting In the dark we stand, Donglng Thy glance to meet, -And tremblingly stretch out a hand .To touch Thy sacred leet; Barely, dear Lord, we know Thee nigh, Yet for a closer proof we algh. Our heart are bowed by earthly ft are, Oh nl e them nearer Thee: Otir ejes are dimmed by earthly Uars, Oh grant them sight to see : Tighten onr darkness. Lord we cry, That we may know TUee standing nigh. Bpeak to each weary storm-tossed heart, , And let It hear Thy "Peace, be still;" Then never more from us depart Wbl st we our earthly days fulfil; Till our spirit's gla amaze Brightens the sunlight of Thy gaze. DA WW. There Is a solemn stillness In the air; The moon attended by a slDgle mar Hhlnes hliO In placid ether: eastwrj-d far f Along the horizon's edge, there Is a glare Of orange brilliance, and above it. fair And paly blue tb say, without u bar Of streaky cloud the pure espar.e to mar, T. titiihim.l nith lh Mimlnz Mlendar.'

m utvi..v " . - 0 - i There! . The fu.got head spring, and. a million rays . Dazzle, my study-room Iteh irmed with, light, A golden pic are of its window plays On the green book-case, and a shadowy wtght Behind me tfta, and, as 1 tarn to ease, Jdocks all my mot ons like an elfish sprite. NEWS AND GOSSIP. llre-t Harte is about to essay juvenile litcra.ture.ia Ute St. Nicholas. The Czar of Russia has consented to act a arbitrator between Japan and Peru in the matter of Marie Louise. Count Ton Arnim, minister of Prussia, a Paria, ha written a letter to Dr. Doellinger, criviclsiug the Ecclesiastical policy of the goverment. The importance of carpet weaving in Philadelphia, as an industrial interest, is seen from tbo fact that the yearly sales of carpets alone ach over fls.OOO.OOO. A. practical English mineralogist baa been employed, to thoroughly iavestigate the mineral resources of India, more especially its ircnstone and coal fields. A thousand children have been taken to the gas works ia Hartford, Conn., this priag. to bo cured of whooping cough by Inhaling crude gas from the retort. Ttearly Six thousand dollar In money and about 12,000 worth of supplies have been donated for the Loimana sufferers oy St, Louis to dale and the commisioners are still at work. . The annual deficit in the post-office de- . i . 1 - I T 1 t . t parxmeni is coasiauwy increnMu. ju ion it was f 3.700,000; in 172, $4,743,000; in 1873, f.lSS,00U, and for 1874 it ia expected to be tili greater. It is said that tbe largest Baptist church in the world is Mr. Spurgeon's, which returns -a membership of 4,356. The second largest church is the old First African, in Richmond. Va. The lion. F. Leveson Gower, Lord Barrington, Mr. llans Busk, and a few others have succeeded in establishing a ''National Training-school lor Cookery" in the International Exposition, London. The Emperor Francis Joseph has extensiye stables in which four hundred horses are housed "like princes." lie also possesses more than one hundred vehicles for the use of himself and family in addition to the gorgeous state equipages. A monster gun is to be constructed at the Wood wich arsenal in England. It will weigh eighty-one tons, and be sixteen inches in diameter. The greatest coil for this new cannon will be weilded early in May by the great steam hammer of the arsenal. The Cologne Gazette informs its readers, on the authority of a correspondent in Japan, that the Mikada ia bent upon introducing the architecture of Western Europe into his capital, Yeddo, which, according to royal edicts, is now in all future times to be known under bbe name of Tokel. Among Dr. Livingstone's effects were found a great aoany letters bearing the dates of 1SC9-70-71. addressed toSir Roderick Murchison, Sir Henry Xlawlings, and others, which had never been sent to these gentlemen. There ware also found the doctor's favorire gold-handed cap, and Mr. Stanley's card. The members of the Lincoln Monument Association, of Springfield, Illinois, are conidering a proposition to dedicate their monument next October, and to invite General CS rant to deliver the oration. Tbe objection to the plan is that the groups subscribed for by tbe cities of Boston and Philadelphia have not been furaisbed, and tbe prospect that thev will be is very poor, -especially in regard to Philadelphia. The following mathematical religious problem is given by tbe Rev. W. II. II. Murray, of Boston, for solution by the readers of the Congregationalism "What right has the Park street church, of Boston, to take op $600,000 worth of tbe Lord's property in auch a way that it can give religions opportunities to only 1,500 people in the morning and 800 or 1,000 in the afternoon, when it might be so invested as to carry the strength and consolation of tbe gospel to 10,000 to 15,00 people every Sabbath?" Golden Age. The most prominent attraction offered this season to visitors at Niagra Falls is tbe splendid addition to Fulton's International botei, consisting of three magnificent parlors and twenty new and large sleeping room. In certain particulars there is ' nothing that will compare with these three parlors in any hotel ia the world. They extend over 100 leet into the very wild whirl ana mad storm of the rapids, and visitors may enjoy In them tbe indescribable scene with the most perfect sense of safety and luxury. Home Journal. ... i Those who knew them personally are aware that Diekens and Wilkle Collins on several occasions wrote a short story together. " On one of these occasions," said style, so as to puzzle the critics Mr. Dick- '. ens was to adopt my style, and I was to imitate his Tile plan succeeded perfectly, and it was amusing to see tbe reviewers point out a passage of min as an example of Dickens' peculiar vein, and in the next sentence comment on a paragraph of Dickens' as a sample of Wilkle Collins' sensational atyle." But why don't Wilkiekeep this lit- , tie performance up? A monument to the confederate dead, just erected in New Orleans, Is a column of Italian marble on a terraced pyramid topped with granite, surmounted by a life-size figure Of a confederate soldier on picket duty. On the sides of tbe column are busts of Generals "Stonewall" Jackson, AUrt Sidney Johnston, Leonidas Polk, and Robert L. Lee. It was executed in Italy, cost 112,000, and is put tip by the Ladies Benevolent Association" of Louisiana. At tbe dedication, the orator drew a poetic portrait of tbe South had the fortunes of war been otbei than they were, and then vaguely hoped for a day when the lo& cause should be triumphant. 4 A correspondent writing from London apeaks thus of the comio drama in that country, and of the departure of Toole for America: It is a familiar complaint that fun ia gradually dying out of the world. There la no end of amusement, but extreme ly little mirth; for Ohl tbe hobby horse is Jorgot." As lax aa the English stage la con

cerned, U can hardly be denied tbat there is ometrdtula this. Farce U almost on its last legs. Comedy Is of! en only tragedy in disguise, or an inane combination of weak BAr.tfmont and n nhnlstarvi Almost the last

thing in tbe world that anybody vtould think of going to a theater for, or has a chance f f doing in the glooiiiy institution. Is to lauKb. Whether this a the fault of actors or dramatists, it la liardtoaay; but it does not seem to be the fault of the public, since they are alwp.ya ready to . rush to any merriment. . This is shown by tbe success of such actors as Mr. Toole and Mr. J, S. Clarke, who are always aura of a good audience, even while tbe theaters that go In for serious business are half empty. This popularity may bo in some degree due to the variety of tbe sort -of entertainment which t'uey offer. There ia no resemblance between these two performers except that they are both trreslstably funny, and energetically defy the dismal superstition that it is vulgar to exercise tbe risible muscles. Tbe gayety of the nation ia to be partially eclipsed by Ilr. Toole's departure for New York, but Mr. Clarke remains as an international corrsolation. Too!e, I tbink.ls likely to be a favorite on your side. He has none of the stiffness and conventional reserve which so often spoils an actor in this coun- - . - . . . . . 14 k. : - try. He Is not araia eiiner oi nimseu or u ,1 ha works oat his couceDtlon of a character with freedom and vigor. He is, in fact, a genuine and . genial humorist, and tkrows his humor into all he docs. CAPTAIN KING'S LITTLE HOMESTEAD WHERE THE CAPTAIN LIVES AJID HOW THINGS ARE ARRANGED THE AHOCNTOF HIS LANDED POSSESSIONS AND HIS STOCK. The farm or territory of Captain King, of Texas, has become a subject of interest from its Immense extent and tbe great quantity of stock which is annually sent from It to the eastern markets. In speaking of it, the Missouri Democrat says: The main rancho, Santa Gertrudes, is situated on a high hill between the Santa Gertrudes and San Fernando creeks. A tower or lookout, erected on the top of a large brick warehouse, commands an extended view, the eye taking in at one glance a scepe of country for twenty miles around. The sight ia delightful, com bining the pleasant with tbe picturesque. On this hill the captain has erected a large and commodious dwelling,, with the necessary outhouses. He bas also a stable built lor the use of his rancho, capable Of accommodating from fifty to sixty head of animals at a time. The houses for his vaqueros are constructed with a view to contort and durability, at a respectful distan re from the main bouse. A neat and subs.'antial picket fence encloses several acres of Bermuda grass around his dwelling; its appearance in . . . s i a 1 1 spring resembling a wen cuiwvatea pur., interspersed bere and there with beautiful )o KAvPi al immense brick cisterns furnish an abundance of water lor the residents of the rancbo, while the stock is supplied from the tanks and tbe adjacent creeks. The captain has endeavored to arrange his matters so as to render himself entirely inde pendent of all the annoyances connected witn the successful operation of so large a rancho at cn n-root a distance, from acitv. and has fur nished himself with all the modern appli ances of a well-regulated rarm. vine worK is prosecuted under hts own supervision, ana iromtne lorging oi a uureo-uu unit w the erection of a first-class house can all be accomplished by those living upon the rancho. Upward of one hundred men are constantly employed In looking after the various interests of this immense hacienda. Tbe Santa Gertrudes tract of land contains 78,226 acres, aud originally waa an old Spanish grant, the title from the Spanish government running back through a long series of years. Of this tract about 5.000 acres are under fence, embracing within its folds graz ing lands unsurpassed in the known woria for its abundance in producing and in point of quality. Analmost Impenetrable belt of mezquit timber borders on both sides of the Santa Gertrudes creek, within the pasture, extending for a distance of twelve or fifteen miles, and abounds in wild game deer and turkeys predominating In numbers. In the construction of the pasture fence great care was evidenced in the selection of both posts and lumber. Like tbe pasture fence of Captain Kenedy, wire and lumber have both been brought into requisition. The entire fence is FORTY. MILES IN LENGTH, a portion of which is constructed of first class heart pine planks, sawed in accordance with orders to a specified size say 24 feet in length by 6 inches wide, and li inch in thickness. The. gates of the pasture are guarded by men employed for that express purpose, and for whom are erected comfortable quarters. There are six gates, distributed as follows: One on the rovd leading to this city, one on the road leading to Brownsville, one at the Escondidas, one at the Borregas, one at Las Conchas, and one at Los Iudios. These openings have all been left with a view to confer the greatest accommodation possible to all concerned. In addition to bis landed interest embraced in the Santa Gertrudes tract, Captain King had added thereto the Rincon de Santa Gertrudes containing 15.500 acres; 33.631 acres on the Agua Dulce, controlling magnificent watering places and grazing lands; 13,284 acres on Padre Island ; 15.000 acres on the Saus Creek ; two leagues at SaaDlago; and by a recent purchase of the Loma Alto and dependent rancbos, twenty-five leagues, known as tha San Joan de Carricitaa. The whole of this immense scope of country consists of the finest pasture lands In Western Texas, and must some future day be of almost incalculable value. The stock of tho rancho consists mainly of cattle, horses, and sheep, although a great number of jacks and jennets, goats and hogs are included In the grand total. The cattle stock number about 60,000 head. out Of which are branded annually 15,000 head of calves. Great efforts have been made by Capr. King to introduce a fine breed of cattle in which we believe he has succeeded, his last Importation having weathered the past fall and winter in remarkable condition, now being thoroughly acclimated and oat of danger. Next cornea tbe horse stock, consisting of mares, colts, mules, tacks and horses, numbering about 6,000 ead, out of which, in favorable seasons, are branded from 1,400 to 1,500 head of colts. Like the cattle stock, large sums of money have been expended in the introduction of fine stallions and jacks, until the stock has attained to a degree of fineness unsurpassed In this portion of Texas. The sheep stock number 30.000 head improved merino, yielding an average of four pounds of wool to tbe head. In this, as in bia other stock, the owner has spared no pains nor meaas. To improve tbe texture and staple of their fleeces and increase the size of their bodies has been his great aim, which frequent importations of tine bucks amply testify. Iiis main sheep rancho is known as Los Borregas, taking its name from the stock most frequenting tbat range. From here tbe stock are distributed to best suit tbe grazing grounds. This stock has for a number of years been in charge of Captain J. S. Greer, who has taken pains and pride in their successful culture. This last but not least of the stock of this rancho consists in an unknown number of hogs. Five years ago 1,000 bead were purchased and turned, loose upon tbe range, since which time but few have been slaughtered or molested in any manner. They will probably now number between 6,000 and 7,000 head. A packery two miles above the rancbo, for the slaughtering of surplus and rough stock, furnish --s them, with tbe food obtained in the thickets, an abundance to keep them continually in a fat, sleek condition.

P MACHINE MARVELS, t ' 1 1 " i i ' A NEW POWittt TRINCIPLE.

DISCOVERIES BT WHICH FRICTION IS AVOIDED AND VOWER SAVEDTHE ORANGER COMBINED FARM MACHINES VARIETT, EFFECTIVENESS AND CONOMT SECURED ALL ON .EXHiurnos at 133, south meridian KTBKKT SKSTNO IS BELIEVING. Some days or weeks ago Mr. Charles T. Smith, of tbe firm of Rankin & Smith, of New York, was Induced to stop in this city, by the representations of leading residents, and make arrangements for the introduction of the new mechanical discoveries and invention ot which that firm are tbe proprietors. The centripetal application of power and the machines used have become pretty well known in the East, but until now have been presented to tbe West only in written descriptions. Mr. John Rankin bas been some days in tbe city, and Mr Smith is expected immediately. On yesterday afternoon Mr. Rankin -put into practical operation, for public inspection, numerous machines driven by the application of the new method of ceutri petal po wer. The exhibition was at the commodious rooms at 133 South Meridian street, where all persons interested will have a fair opportunity from day to day of inspecting for themselves, this truly remarkable illustration of scientific progress in the field of mechanics. The first tbingto be spoken of, and wbich belongs to tbe realm of original discovery, Is tne new method in the APPLICATION OF POWER. The new discovery of what is termed tbe centripetal power machinery does not relate at all to tbe sources and production or power. It uses the ordinary powers, aaimal, gravity or steam, but Its merit consists in transmitting tbe power produced without waste to the point where it is required for use. Inotberwordsitavoidsalmostentirely the enormous waste by iriction which universally attends high rates of speed and heavy power. It is familiar to all that the grand obstacle which is most expensive to overcome In mechanical operations is friction. To save the waste of power in its transmission Is the grand study oi all inventors and the chief impediment in the way of machinery. By the peculiar application of tbe new discovery, the highest speed known to machinery can be obtained without increasing the friction perceptibly. When to this is added the customary auxiliary oi momentum by tbe heavy fly-wheel, the retarding power of friction entirely disappears, and where the resistance is applied, the action is maintained by the acquired momentum. That this is true was demonstrated yesterday in sawing seasoned white oak wood. After the belt was thrown off the pulley, a stick six inches by four was sawed off twenty-six times with tb6 power of momentum alone, showing tbat absolutely nothing appreciable was expended in the friction of tbe machine by which it was applied. It is safe to say tbat the proportion of power lost in the action of this macbinels not greater than THAT OF A TOP revolving on a delicate point upon a marble slab. Such a statement is wonderful but an examination will convince anyone that it is not very far fiom the truth, if indeed, it is at all inaccurate. Practically, it may be stated that hand power and that which is applied with perfect ease, will suffice to run a saw, cutting or ripping, a cider mill, a small thresher, and any operation which with ordinary machinery would require an engine of several bores power. A. large thresher, which runs over 100 ordin&ry'bundles of grain in seven minutes, a foot cutter which will produce four bushels per minute, and do it better than anything known of the kind, a planing machine that would tax a ten or twelve horse engine, each of these is operated at high speed by a single horse in the ordinary tread noor, and still furnishing some power to spare. In a machine shop of heavy work, the Lobdell Car Wheel Company, of Whmington, Del., the centrip etal power is useu, ana Baves uau m wu, But this great triumph in the use and saving of power is scaraely, more wonderful than thelmDroved machines to which it is ap plied, and which are tbe inventive resultsof the genius or Mr. Jonn rtanKin. w niie me power is alike applicable to all purposes, Mr. Rankin has devoted his attention chiefly to the production of machinery for operations required upon the farm. There are two leading points worthy of remark. One is the superiority of the work done, the other the combination of so many machines so as to save room, labor and first cost, THE GRANGERS COMBINATION MACHINES are a production as opportune to the movements of farmers for cheaper machinery as the discovery of mineral coals was to the age of machinery. There are twelve processes provided for by the attachments in the combination, which include thresher, sawing machine, feed cutter, reot and vegetable cutter, wood saw, corn sheller, grist mill, or feed grinder, planer, moulding machine and borer. Space will not permit a description which will do justice to the merits ot these machines, both as to speed and excellent- performance. The thresher is a wonder, separating the grain perfectly and delivering the straw, unbroken, in a condition to be immediately rebound. Flax and rye straw for thatches are nninjured by the operation ot threshing, and a still greater point is that wheat by this machine is not impaired for seed by tbe destruction of its germinal power as is the case with tbe ordinary thresher. The cider mill is unapproachable, as is proved by its taking the premium over all others at the New England society. The feed cutter is equally superior in apeed and effectiveness. But these machines must be seen and not described. The main point is yet to be told. Machines are often good enouich if one cau have them, but the number tbat are required to do what is demanded in first class farming cost a fortune, and not one man in a hundred can achieve possession. These granger combinations meet tbe difficulty. For less money than an ordinary thresher costs, a farmer may have all tbe attachments.and better still, be can take what he wants and add as he desires at a trifling expense, lie may have only a thresher in the barn, or be may add the straw cutter and cider mill,each separately at tbe expense ot a few dollars. .The demand for this set ot combined machines is measured only by tbe number of farms, and they come to the west at the proper time. The carpenter is scarcely less Interested, as cn examination readily shows. Messrs. Smith & Rankin have recognized the advantages of this city lor tbe manufacture of these machines, and in vite the Inspection of first-class men or all trades to the operation of the machinery, which may be seen daily at their rooms. It is doubtful if an Interest of equal merit has been . before presented in tnese parts. ' . 1 For some time a woman named Bridget Fanning, aged about thirty years, without children, has been living in a rear room of the second story of a tenement house In Cincinnati. About two months ago ber husband, a painter by trade, left his home to elopo wh another woman. Tbe desertion preyed heavily on tbe mind of Mrs. Fanning, and she frequently expressed herself as being on the point of utter despair.. Iler means were exhausted, and, owing to the domestic trouble over which she continually brooded, was in no spirit to assist herself. One evening between 7 and 8 o'clock tha

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attention j of neighbors rwas 1 attracted by bearing a terrible racket going on In Mrs. Fanning'a room. - The door was burst open, and a horrible eight met the gaze of the crowd which was gathered. In tbe middle of the floorlay the poor woman, in a perfectly node condition, and raving in madness. Her back was gashed and bleeding from tbe sharp edges of a mass of broken crockery, upon which she lay, and in her right hand was a small, keen hatchet, with which sns was vigorously chopping her lea arm and lower limbs, and from tbem the mooa was pouring in streams. A telegram was dispatched to the Cincinnati Hospital for a conveyance, in which, on Its arrival, Mrs. Fanning was taken to that institution, " ut-rc sue received proper treatment. TUfi INFLUKXCE OF POWER. HOW IT AFFECTS THB MIND OF WOMAV. Oos further distinctive mental trait in women springs out of the relation of the exes adjusted to the welfare of the race. I refer to the etiect which the manifestation of power of every kind In men has in de termining the attachments of women. Tbat i ? r ' a . i i.ii . , . , ,t i mis is a traii meviiaoiy prouucfu win oe mannest, on asking wnat would have happened if women had by preference attached themselves to the weaker men. If the weaker men baa habitually left posterity when tbe stronger cua not, a progressive deterioration of races would have resulted. Clearly, thtrelore, it has happened (at least since the cessation of marriage by capture or by purchase has allowed feminine choice to play an important part) that, among womSh unlike In their tastes, those who were fascinated by power, bodily or mental, and who married men able to protect them and their children, were more likely to survive In posterity than women to whom weaker men were pleasing, and whose children were both less efficiently guarded and less capable of self-preservation if they reached maturity. To this admiration for power, caused thus inevitably, is ascribable tbe fact sometimes commented upon as strange, tbat women will continue attached to men who use tbem ill, but whose brutality goes along with power, more than they will continue attached : " TO WEAKER MEN who use them well. With this admiration of power, primarily having this function, there goes to the admiration of power In general, which is more marked in women than in men, ana shows itself both theolog ically and polit ically. That the emotion of awe aroused by contemplating whatever suggests transcendent force or capacity, which constitutes religious feeling, is strongest in women, is proved in many ways. We read tbat among tbe Greeks the women were more religiously excitable than the men. Sir Rutherford Alcock tells us of the Japanese tbat "In the temples it is very rare to see any congregation except women and children; the men, at any time, are very few, and those generallp of the lower classes." Of the pilgrims to the temple of Juggernaut, it is stated that "at least ftve-sixtbs, and often nine-tenths, of them are females." And weare also told of the Sikhs, that the women believe in more gods than the men do. Which facts, coming lrom different races and times, sufficiently how us tbat the like tact, familiar to us in Roman Catholic countries, and to some extent at home, is not, as many thiuk, due to the education of women, but bas a deeper cause in natural character. And to this same cause is in like manner to be ascribed tbe greater respect felt by women for all embodiments of authority, governmental and social. Herbert Spencer, in Popular Science Monthly for November. In referring to the farmer movement tbe New Haven (Conn.) Union says: The strike of the farmers and workingmen of this country against the oppression of the mo nopolists will, in future, be looked upon as the greatest movement of modern times. Subsidized newspapers and awe-stricken plunderers may howl about theexclusiveness and secrecy of tbe two organizations which are welding the industrial classes together; but the form is not what troubles tbem so much as the fact tbat thev are thoroughly arousing to a sense of their duty. Even the New York Nation, a paper not particularly devoted to the interests of tbe producing class, is compelled to remark that tbe farmers and producers of all kinds have been oppressed by having an unreliable and changeable judiciary, corrupt and incompetent legislatures, and good laws were not enforced, and bad laws which were not enforced. Let no one be deceived. The farmers of the West and working-men of the East are in dead earnest. Tbe questions which they advocate are cf great moment,; No dillydallying with political hacks and public plunderers can be tolerated. George M. Clark, of large renown as a showman, and of goodly repute as a gentleman, was giving a deposition in Manchester, N. II., the other day In the case of Kelsey vs. Osborne. James F. Briggs, counsel for the plaintiff, did not like the looks of tbe deposition from his stand-point, and undertook to weaken it by belittling tbe witness. Hence he began, with a sneer: "You are in tbe negro minstrel business, I believe?" "Yes, sir," was the reply. .:You black your face and sing for a living,' do you?" "Yea, sir." "Well, don't you call that rather low business to follow?" "I don't know but it is, sir; but It is so much better than that of my father before me that I am rather proud of it." "Why, what did your father do?" "He was a lawyer!" At tbe house of Madame Viardot. In 1855. Dickens dined in company with George Saud, of whom he gives an odd description: I suppose it to be impossible to imagine anybody more unlike my preconceptions than tbe illustrious Sand. Just the kind of a woman in appearance whom you might suppose to be tbe queen's monthly nurse. Not a bit of tbe blue stocking a boot her, except a little final way of settling all voor opinions with- hers, which I take to nave beeil acquired in the country where she lives, and in the domination of a small, circle. A singularly ordinary woman in appearance and manner. ' ' . ..' ' A new way of proposing marriage is reported, and we give the facta for tbe benefit of th'se interested. .A gentleman attended a fair held in this city recently and fell in love (as gentlemen sometimes do) with ' a demoiselle in the floral temple. He bought a ten dollar basket of flowers, and handing a fifty dollar bill, said : "If you don't give me the exact change I'll marry you." ' Tbe blushing maiden handed him ' back thirty dollars (she was probably confused) and he remarked: "I thought so!" Cards will be out next week. fN. Y. Mail.' '. Theodore Thomas was the red pent recently, of a very : handsome testimonial from a number of friends in New York,wbo have admired his course as an orchestral conductor and promoter of musical art in this country. Richard Grant White took advantage of a pause between the pieces in the last symphony concert to apprach Mr. Thomas, and, with a few kindly remarks, present him with a silver casket, in which was a certificate of deposit for $3,500, the contributions of various ladies and gentlemen of New York. Mr. Thomas expressed his thanks, and he alined to tbe permanent rcbestra and chorus which he hopes to establish. In Now York. -

POLHTOAL. DEMOCRATIC VENTION. CON- ! CALL BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE. , i mere win ne a delegate Convention held at Indianapolis on AVednssday, tbe 15th day of July next, by the democracy of Indiana to nominate a state ticket, to be voted for at the otto ber election, 1871, and for the transaction of fach other business s may properly come before it. The ratio of representation In the convention will be one vote for every one hundred vetes cast in the various counties for Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks for governor, at the election in 1ST2, and one vote for every fraction of fifty votes and over. Toe democratic party of Indiana. . claiming fellowship with, and desiring tbe co-operation of allffood men without retard to imuu damv ami lai ions, who view the present condition of our political arrairs as imperatively demanding reform, and who are disposed earnestly to labor for the overthrow of a corrupt party, and a pronigsi uniiDisinuiuii, um curoiuijuviraai stich to unite with it In council and in action. In these times of official conuyticoi Wi political misrule. It Ijecemes, more than ever, the duty of all good citleens to require a strict adherence to, and faithful compliance wltb, tbe principles upon wh ch our political Institutions rest. I Justice and sound policy forbid that one branchof Industry .should be cherished at the expens of another, or that exclusive privileges should be conferred upon any one class of Ibe people; and, therefore, the people viewed with alarm the growing tendency to monopolies aod class legislation, and the overshadowing influence of the money power in eon trolling legislation, and In shaping the destinies of the country. These influences must be checked. The only certain and safe remedies for the dangerous tendencies ot the times, are to be found in the strict construction of the federal constitution, and the assumption of no doubtful powers; an honest and economical administration of our public affairs, both state and national: tbe ostracism from public life of all who are found guilty ot official corruption, and a strict subordination of the will of' the representative to the will of the people, regarding the great body of tbe people as the only tribunal for the ultimate decision of questions affecting their government, both as o men and measures. The people have no divided Interests, but ail alike desire to see: - 1. Labor protected against the encroachments or mere money power ; 2. The industrial Interests guarded against the exactions of monopolies; , . 3. The public burdens enlightened by honesty and economy in . the administration of public affairs. Moreover, tne people would like to see such changes effected in our financial system as will UCUU Mniua mmj m Mjtw uuvvmwvivmo a aA SVrr5 consequent upon the suddon contraction and expansion of our currency, with such additions to its present, volume as tne business or tiie country requires, adopting and discriminating in favor of legal tender treasury notes aa against national bank currency. 1 here is no hope or secunne tnese reforms through the agency of the party in power. We therefore call upon all good people to meet with us In convention, and to act with us at the polls, in behalf of these proposed measures. and to aid in kstaying the progress oi cormpuon ana misrale. By order of tbe democratic stAte central com mittee. J. E. MCDONALD, Chairman. A. T. Whittleskv, Secretary. DELEGATE APPORTIONMENT. the rrtopoRTiox oy THE LAST VOTE. The following is the representation in con vention from the various counties according to the order of tbe central committee: Vote . No. Vote Jo. Counties. for of Hend'ks. del. Counties. fr of llend'ks. del, Adams 1,511 15 ! Madison...., fO Ö 2.i 2ti 13 15 2! . 18 t; 23 5 14 13 hi 15 16 13 23 10 27 Itf 2i 20 8 29 22 5 28 10 25 13 38 15 7 37 9 3 19 ' 10 .20. '21 -3U 17 18 13 Allen M7i Bartbolom'w '2,)'2 64 1. Marlon 8 47ti 2,V)5 LM 1,527 241'4 12 0(ü 2,25 574 1,425 1, 'til lfili) 1,472 , 1,554 1,2 2,250 955 2, t78 l,b!9 27 i Marshall...... 7i Miami-... 8 Martin-., 28 Monroe-. Blaciford Tsa Boone 2,800 lirown 1,1 Carroll . 1,7 Cass 2,lftW Crawford 1,217 nark , 3,ofl Clay 2,37 Clinton 2,322 Daviess- 1.K.2 Deatborn.. 3,122 Decatur 2,122 Dekalb . 1,918 Delaware 1,557 Dubois 2,0 Elkhart 2,9u3 12 Montgomery. 2t Morgan ...... 30 Newlou-. 12 Noble 31 Ohio 24 Orange 2i Owen-. 2 Parke-,.-.-. 13 Perry . .. 12 Pike 19 Porter 16 Posey 21 Pulaski-...-29 Putnam-...-.. 11 Randolph 29 Itlpley 22 Kush- ....... 28 Scott 11 Stelby.... 21 Spencer..18 Starke... 22 St. Joseph . 17 Stenben ... 20 Sullivan .. 22!Switzerland .. 16j Tippecanoe .. 17'Tipton. -..- 14'Unlon.. ...... 21Vanderb' rgh. 24 1 Vermillion . CV1ko - l(i, Wabash . Fayette 1,1X1 Floyd 2.8C1 Fountain 2,161 Franklin . 2,819 Fulton M . 1,443 Gibson 2,148 Grant 121 Greene - 2,155 Hamilton. Hancock . 2,01 Harrison 2.178 Htnd ricks ... 1,765 Henry.....M 1,TM Howard 1,VQ Huntington- 2,053 Jackson . 2,423 Jasper.-.-- 661 Jay 1,626 Jefferson ... 2,ft8 Jennings.-.. 1,585 Johnson....... 2,251 Knox............ 2,791 Kosciusko.-- 2,218 Lagrange 1,013 Lake - 912 Laporte 3,173 2,245 1, T75 889 2,852 2r2U 472 2,796 59 2,547 17 3,762 109 728 3,un V29 326 1 J72 2, ffJ02,0M 8,(W0 ' 1,719 1-2 26 Warren 16, Warrick 2o, Washington 2x Wayne 22; Weils lo' Whitley 81 White 132 ' Total delegates-.. -.M9 TO BUFIITESS MEN: A good advertisement in a widely circulated newspaper Is the best of . all : possible salesmen one who nevar sleeps and Is never weary ; who goes after business early and late: who acoosta the merchant In his store, the scholar ta his study, tbe lawyer in his office the lady at her breakfast (able; who can be in a thousand plsoe at oaee, snd speak to thona ds of papl .,: l ' : t every week, politely and agreeasty, saying o eaca one tne mot unng in tne very beet manner. V " '' 1 - ' t .:f VI A good advertisement Insures a banlnesseerjnetkm on the aaost PKUFJ!T um! iNDr I'.'.ia ; '-.it . . . . -. ; . . t k '. t. PENDENT basis, and is. In certain sense, a uuAiwui i xdi , ui tue LLsiujunoi, jair ana ; v ? .. . I'mmm ' !' ü . . . .!,;- I ! - , 1 -f moderate prices. Experience has shown that uic uciuer, wuuk waxes xxave uuuutitM a pouuc s I .j' celebrity, Is not only enabled to sell, but is forced to sell, at reasonable rates, and In all cases to furnish as 'good an article as represented, 'a dealer can make no better nvestment than In 1ST the advertising columns of a popular newsla per. A good advertisement in a widely clrcu la ted newspaper U the very beet talesman. .

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An Independent .Newspape , . THE INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL. THE NEWSPAPER OF INDIANA. rJNTRAMMELED AND NONPARTISAN. CAILT, BCKDAT ARD WKXXLT. Betting out on a somewhat new and an tried path last year.theSenUnel defliwwf t m detail Its purposes. To those who have watched ui course it reasserts lta claim lor continued countenance and loyal support. Tho KenUnal promised last year perfect Indepen 'ence from all partisan ties. It promised earriML nnrula.ln. effort In the production and presentation of a wholesome, refined and trustworthy news me dlurn. In She succew ofthat effort it i.a , ' ;t w sm7 Wä dial endorsement of a vast number of lta extern. puraxy journals, and Use written assurance of a great conatitnency of ministers, teachers, law yers and farmllleaj The measure of the Sentinel-! suoneas Is, ho waver, beat shown, by, me position which it baa taken within the year, as the finl newspaper of the State, and ä leading na... of tbe West. To this raet nearly Very Journal of Intelligence and discrlmlaatlon iu the statt haa borne testimony, as well as the swelling list ot naw readers who have Joined lta rank. Wends. Tnls In a general way. For Che next year the Sentinel reaffirms its attitude In the past year the organ of no party or creed the temperate advocate, only, of the most generous measures In Church and State. It will continue to publish all the news at the ear. liest mement. It will reflect the sentiments cf tue people, and hold itself outside of all party ties. It will support only honest men for offlr and demand a pledge of character, not party. 1 1 will upbold aealously tbe hands of all men hon est and earnest In reform, no matter what their pftrty or predictions, and It will strive to give all sides a hearing in tbe changing topics that mi tne pubiie mind from time to time. ...... .. i The SenUivJ has no nallrv tr ma'ntair, posed to the will of the majority. Its column are meant to be a fair reflex of the rational will of theoommanlty, where all men can have a hearing freely. The Bentlnel hriior ih.t . continuance of the balefnl partylsm of the past musi uieviiaoiy sap we foundation of the Re publle and destroy every distinctive feature o democratic government. To this end It enoocr ages heartily the obliteration of the eorrup power which has strangled honesty in office dor ing the last seven years ; a power which bring the nation into bankrutcy on the verge of the new year, and by lta flagrant disregard of tha first principles of government, plunges the country Into all the hanlhhlpa of war aaJ pestilence, Under whatever conditions reform may come, the Sentinel will give its best efforts for lta sue cess, maintaining at all times Its own pefcet freedom to uphold and maintain genuine, not lmnltto.1 rt.Virnn.Hm,, On the great industrial questions, now moving the public mind, the Sentinel will maintain a arty, earnest co-operation with all struggling men seeking to better themselves mentally, physically, and every way. It believes that the present revenue laws work mischievously and dlscrlmlnately against the producer and in favor of the non-producer, and that any reform which does not make farmer's rights and revenue re form solid planks of its platform and acUvs measures In Its poncyt does not deserve the sym patbycf 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 dtr sign. In Its opposition to political, railroad aud financial monopolies, the Bentlnel win oontincs an honest support. While furthering all Inter eats in this direction, wisdom most hanuiwi tn to keep the crusade against publle abuse, monop ones, and the like, from degenerating Into dem goauery. In all emergencies of this nature. th Bentlnel will attempt full and Impartial JuaUot to an who trust it. 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