Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 47, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1874 — Page 3

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. TUESDAY; JUNE: .30; 1 1874.; 1 H

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SUMNER. ET JOHN O. WHITTER.

"I am cot one who has disgraced beauty of Sentiment by deformity of conduct, or the maxims or a freeman by the actions of a "lave; bot, hy ths grae of Ckxl, I have kept my life nnsul1 led." 3111 ton's Defense of the Teople of tngbuid. . - . , i . 0 mother State! the lnds of March Kiew chill o'er Auburn's Field of ioa, "Where slow, beneath a leaden arch Of aky, thy monrnlng children trod. And now, with all thy wixxls in leaf. Thy fields in flower, beside thy dead - - Thou Bittest In thy robes of grief, A Rachel yet uncomiorted I And onoe again the organ swells,- . Once more the flag is half-way hung, And yet again the raournf al bells In all thy Bieeple-tower are rung.. i i And I, obedient to thy will,- - .. Have coaie a simple wreath to lay, t Superfluous, ou a grave that still . Is sweet Witt aü the How er of May. ; 1 take, with awe. the task assigned; It may be that ray friend might miss,In bU new sphere of heart and mind. Home tolteu from my hand in this. JJymanr a tender memory moved. -: i Along the past my thought I Bond.- t The record of the cause he loved ' ' Is the best record of its friend, vhot Kith Haati said. I ran but av: All know the work that brave man did, For h was open as the day, 'And nothing of himself he hid. No trurcpet ounded in his ear, He taw not Sinai's cloud and name, Eut never yet to Hebrew seer Acleartr voice of duty came. God said: "ttreak thou these yokes; undo These heaw burdens. I ordain A wort to last thy wbole life through, A ministry of strife and pain. Forego thy dreams of lettered ease, Pat thou the scholar's promise by. The rights ol man are more than these. He heard and answered: "Here am 1! He set his face against the blast, His fert against the flinty shaid. Till the hard service grew, at last, Itsown exceeding great reward. The filed star of his faith, through all Loss, doubt and peril, hone the same, As, through a night of storm, some tall. trons- light-house lifts its steady flame. Eevond the dust and smote be saw the sheaves of freedom's large increase, The holy fanes of eqnal law, -The New Jerusalem of peace. No wall was in his voice none heard When treason's storm-cloud blackest grew The weakness of a doubtful word, . Iiis dn.ty, and the end, he knew. The first to smite, the first to spare : When once the hostile ensigns fell. He stretched out hands of generous care To lift the fae he fought so well. Tor there was nothing base or small Or craven In his soul's broad plan ; Forgiving all things personal. He hated only wrong to man. The old triditlons of his state, The memories of her g eat and good, , Took from his life a fresher date. And In himself embodltd stood. How feit the greed of gold and place. The venal crew that schemed and planned, The fine scorn of that haughty face, The spnrnlng of that bribeless hand. If than Rome's tribunes statelier He wore his senatorial robe, His loftv port was all for her, The one dear spot on all the globe. If to the master's plea he gave The vast contempt his manhood fell, He saw a brother In the slave With man as equal man he dealt. Proud was he? If his presence kept Its grandeur wheresoe'er he trod. As if from Plutarch's ga lery stepped The hero and the deml-god, .None tailed, at least, to reach his ear, Nor want nor woe appealed in vain : The home-sick soldier knew his cheer, And blessed him from his ward of pain. Hafely his dearest friends may own The slight defects he never hid, The surface-blemish in the stone Of the tall, stately pyramid. Suffice it that he never brought Iii rrn unptiee to the oubUc mart: But lived himself the truth he taught, Vhit-ouleJ, clean-handed, pure of heart. What if be feit the natural pride Of power iu noble use, too true With thin humilities to hide The work lie did. the lore he knew? Was he not just ? Was any wronged Bv that assured self-estimate? He tooi but what to him belonged, Unenvious of another's state. Well might he heed the words he spake, And scan with care the w ritten page Through which he still shall warm and wake The hearts of men from age to age. Ah ! who 6hall blame him now because He solaced thus his hours of pain? Should not the o'erworn thresner pause, And bold to lieht hts golden grain? So sense of hunior dropped its oil On the hard ways his purpose went; Small play of fancy lightened toil; I sr-ftke alone the thing he meant.

He loved his books, the Art that hints A beauty vailed beyond Its own. The graver's line, the pencil's tints. The chisel's shape evoked from stone. He cherished, void of selfish ends, The social courtesies that bless And sweeten life, and loved his friends With most unworldly tendsmess. But still his tired eyes rarely learned The glad relief by Nature brought; Her mountain rauues never turned His current of persistent thought. The sea rolled chorus to his speech. The pine-grove whispered of bl theme; Where V he wandered, rock aud beach Were Forum and the Academe. The sensuous joy from all things fair Hi strtnuous bent of soul repressed, And left from youth to silvered hair Few hours tor pleasure, none for rest. For all his life was poor without; Oh Nature, make the last amend; Train ail thy flowers his grave about. And make thy singing birds his friends! Revive again, thou summer rain, The broken tnrt upon his bed! Breathe, summer wind, thy teuderest strain Of low, sveei muic overhead. Nor cant nor poor sol'citudes Made wek his life's great argument; Small leis-are his for frames and moods Who followed duty whfre she went. The broad, fair flel lsof Ood he saw Beyond the bigot's narrow bound; The truths he molded into law, In Christ's beatitudes he found Ills State-craft was the Golden Rule, His right of vote a sacred trust; Clear, over threat and ridicule, All heard his challenge: "is It lust?" And when the hour supreme had come, Not for himself a thought he gave; In that last hour of martyrdom, His care was for the half-freed slave. Not vainly dusky hands upbore. In prayer, the passing soul to heaven Whose mercy to the sufrericg poor Was service to the Master given. Long shall the good state's annals tell. Her children's children long be taught, How, praised or blamed, he guarded well The trust he neither shunned nor sought. If for one moment turned thy face O Mother, from thy son, not long He waited calmly In his place The sure remorse which follows wrong. Forgiven be the State he loved The one brief lapse, the single blot; Forgotton be the stain removed, Her righted record shows it no t. The lifted sword above her shield With jealou care shall guard hts fame; The pine tree on her ancient field; To all the winds shall Fpeak his name. The marble image of her son Her loving hands shall yearly crown. And from br pictured Tantheon HU grand, majestic face look down. O Hate so parsing rich before, Who now Khali doubt thy highest claim? Th? wcr.'d that counts thy jewels o'er Shall luast paiifeat Sumner's name! THE BEST TIUNüS. The sweettst songs are those That few men ever hear And no men ever sing. The clearest skies are those That farthest off appear To birds of strongest wing. The dearest loves are those That no man can come near With hia best following.

THE WILD WEST.

TEXAS DESPERADOES. some bold m en rccKiANs hardin's BAND OF ROBBERS LYNCH LAW APPLIED TO CUT.THROATS. A correspondent of the St. Louis Republi- j can, from Comanches.'Texas, under date of i the 8th inst., says: ' The people of Western Te.tas, wearied at Jength ol being domineered over by the thieves and murderers, who had so long exercised their propensity for plunder and blood, at length rose in 'their, anger and dsalt nmmarily j with a whole batch of rascals. You have , doubtless already received intelligence of the events which have recently concluded j the career of no less than twelve rascala in j this . place and at Btlton. Last Monday evening, a week ago, a difficulty arose here between John "Wesley llardin and Mr. Charles Webb, of JSrown county. In this difficulty. Webb met with instant death, having received three shots, one through the body, one through the jaw, and one thronen the head. The shooting was done by John Wesley Hardin, James Taylor, and Bud Dickson. This llardin is the head of a clan, and bad a band of about twenty men always at his command. Several persons were'arreatad as accomplices and clansmen of John Wesley II ardin. Among those thus arrested were Joseph G. llardin, W. A. Dixon, and Thomas K. Dixon. The suspected persons were Immediately placed In duress and a strong guard placed about the place of imprisonment. On the night of Sunday, the 23d ultimo, a body of armed men rode Into town, overpowered the guard, placed them under arrest, took the prisoners, Joseph G. llardin, William A. and Thomas K. Dixon, and departed. The few men who had been guarding the accused parties were closely guarded by the disguised men detailed Irom the band which had taken the prisoners away. It was just alt6r nightfall when the silent calvacade moved westward out of town, carrying along with them THE THREE DOOMED VICTIMS of an aroused populace. Two miles out. The stars looked down from a clear sky and tho nicht bird sane its Sabbath evenlng.lsy. There is a grove about that distance away from town. It was enveloped in the shad ows of nieht and reposed in a solemn si Ience, only broken by the lonely plaint of the wbippoorwill. The armed horsemen paused there in the somber shadows. The hour of doom had arrived with Joe llardin, Bill and Tom Dixon. There was no pitv in the eyes of the stern men bT whom thev were surrounded. There was no tenderness in their hearts mercy bad taken its flieht from their hearts. The stern lex retalionis was their watchword He that killeth shall be killed, their final decree. The desperadoes had small space allotted for penitence and prayer, nor did they ask it. They were men of iron and died as thev had lived, without a ainele manifestation ot fear. The prepar ations were few and made in silence, and the three trees bore ghastly fruit with the blood of many victims. and Joe llardin and the Dixon brothers were freed from human vengeance forever. When their victims were dead, the armed men rode away as silently as they came; rod out through the darkness, leaving the dead men suspended to the trees, where they were found the next moraine. Thus per ished three men, who, though not the chief of the desperadoes, had epcrimsoned their hands, it report bo true, The name of John Wesley Hardin, alias Weslev Clements, who has become familiar to t he people of Gonzales, Comanche, Brown Hamilton and half a dozen other counties in this portion of Texas, is perhaps one of the most desperate characters who has ever found men to murder aud property to steal in this state, which has been a retuge place for so mauv desperadoes in the past. Joe G. Hardin. of this place, who wa hung by the j uiasnueraders a few Sunday nights ago was a brother of John Wesley, the ringleader of all the desperadoes. This man has leen credited with the commissi on of no less than sixteen cold-blooded murders. In, Bell and Gonzales counties particularly, this man has inspired the people with the utmost fear of HIS DARING AND PROWE&3. I have heard many stories of this famous outlaw, for that is his present character, not withstanding he is the possessor of extensive ranches and numerous herds of cattle, and might have lived at ease for all the remainder of his days. It is said he came from the southern part of Kentucky; that during the war he was a partisan, and that as captain of a band he committed many horrible deeds. But the most probable account is that he was born in Kentucky, grew to manhood In that state and became involved in a difficulty in consequence of a liason formed with a youg married woman, the bride of one of his friends. It is said that he seduced this young and j handsomo woman from the path ot virtue ; then.because her husband, who was devotedly attached to her, remonstrated, he killed him and fled the ' country. The woman followed him, and . for a time the two lived together, when he abandoned her and leltber to co down the way to ruin in a strange city. He came to Texas years ago, and entered upon a career which has at last sent him a wandering fugitive, pursued and hunted irom place to place by the minions of the law. He has not only been guilty ot murder.but has entered the domestic circle and poisoned the joys and destroyes tne peace of families wherever he he has gone. It is reported of him thht no less than three beautiful women, whose prospects were as bright, and whoso hopes for happiness had a firm a basis as any in the Lone Star State, have been betrayed.dishonored. aud set adrift to travel down the road to perdition by the arts of this bold, fcad man. I need not catalogue all his crimes. I need not recount all the tragedies ia which he has played a conspicuous part during the pest six or seven years. He seems to have been actuated by a satanic spirit, and to-day hundreds, yes thousands of people ' in Texas anxiously hope that Lieutenant Millican, with the rangers, now in pursuit of the desperado, may succeed in capturing him. For him capture means death. He cannot live if caught. THE AMERICAN VOTARIES. PROGRESS OP THE AMERICAN PILGRIMS AR RIVAL IN ROME PRESENTATION TO THE POPE THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE EVENT. From Renter's telegrams from Rome of June 8, the following facts are obtained, toI gether with some editorial comment of the London Times: The American pilgrims i have arrived here, and are staying at vari ous hotels. The clerical journals welcome them in cordial terms. . When the vessels conveying them reached Civita Veechia, the authorities found that two ot the pilgrims were missing, and consequently intended placing the vessel in quarantine. Thecap- . tain however, explained that the two absen tees had remained at Marseilles, whence they would travel to Rome by land. The BiVhops Dwenger and Theard waited upon Cardinal Antonelli yesterday to express the very great desire of the American pilgrims I to pay a visit to the pope. Ihey were consequently received by His Holiness at nooH to-day, together with some American catho lics residing in Rome, the total number Dresent beina about two hundred. Several cardinals, prelates, and distinguished RO' man personages attended the audience. Mon slgnor Dwqnger addressed the following speech to the pope: " i ou see at your feet sons ot yours irom .the West. At this period of your afflction. they have dreaded neither sea nor distance

in their endeavor to see the . Father of All

the Faithful, thePontifl most exalted by his labors, persecution and patience, his hope and faith in God. We wished to see your Holiness, and the distance to be trav ersed increased, rather than di minished our desire. Though abandoned by the Princes of the Earth and reduced to prison, we have not abadoned you. . We have come to proclaim before the whole world our devotion to you, the Infallible Pastor ol the Church, the center of the unity of our faith. This lathe long-wished-for day when I we can see you and receive your blessing, I not only lor ourselves, but for all those who cannot be present, and who, at a distance, pray to God with tear for you In your Eri80n. . They, as well as ourselves, loving onesty and civil liberty, condemn with all their heart the tyrannical persecution of the church by those braggart of a false liberty who ara estranged from God. . t ' l ; , Monsienor Theard then read an address in French, expressing the devotion of the pil grims and all 'American Catholic.- ; s THE POFE REPLIED t ' "' "Atnld the darkness of the vrorld, this -Is a ray; of light The enemies of the church are numerous, but great consolations reach me fron roe old and new worlds, where the rue faith has been sq marvelously developed that it has been necessary to increase the number of dioceses. Still a great part of the continent remains occupied by false religions and yon must rray to God to bring all back to the true faith." The podo afterward descended from bis throne and passed before the pilgrims, elv ing them his hand to kiss. They presented offerings to his holiness, ' the Rev. Mr. Mendier, in the name of bis black pamb loners, presented a stick nlled witn gold ' coins. The pope blessed many objects of devotion borne by the pilgrims, An album will shortly be transmitted to his Holiness containing the signatures ana ad dresses of all those who came irom America The pilgrims have decided to visit the seven Basilicas. On Thursday the Pope will give them the communion. They will alterwards eo to Albino. Frascati and Tivoli. It is not true that they met with a hostile demonstra tion at Civita Vecchia. The London .Times of June 10 says: We can understand such , educated and inborn faith indulging itsfilf in what may seem to many ot us extrav aeances. But' the telegrams from Rome of yesterday and to-day supply a more start ling commentary on Macauley and his spec ulations. We are Informed that one hundred American pilgrims disembarked on Monday a Civita Vecchia. The party consisted of a couple of bishops, thirty ecclesiastics and sixty-eight laymen. They were welcomed cordially, as tney wen migtii w, dj an naiian bishop and a body of students, iney at tended mass at the cathedral, they partook of breakfast at the hotel, and subsequently thev set out on their iourney to Rome. The pone received his visitors yesterday. Here, indeed, we baye the church recovering in the New World what she has lost in the Old in a sense Macaulay never dreamed of. He was thinking of the wild Indians she baptized in hordes, "between the plains of the Missouri and Cape Horn," asking them a few questions as to the grounds of their new belief. But THOSE AMERICANS ' who have gone to Rome represent the race which has replaced the Indians a race which prides itself above everything on shrewdness and precision ot thought, and on its contempt for antiquated prejudices and superstitions. Toe Americans, as a na tion, are the last people In the world to accept a creed because it pleases their fancy or excites their imagination to take up with Old world superstitions as a specific for anxiety. As an eminently practical people, they are used to judge of institutions by their fruits. They have witnessed the ef1 fects of the free institutions of their own country. They are familiar with the signs of commercial and industrial prosperity in i their ereat cities, with the fertile farms and fruitful orchards of New Eng land, with the struggles of the pioneers of civilization in their back settlements, where nature is always van quished. They have seen the members of newfangled and most outrageous creeds earning, at least, the consideration of their neighbors by their indefatigable assiduity in worldly matters. J udging of religions by the results of their teaching, conceive the impression made upon these intelligent Btrangers by their landing at Civita Vecchia and their Iourney to Kome. mvrta veccni, till the other day, was the port of the Papal states, and is the harbor where sea-borne pilgrims lor the sacred (.jrines have disem barked from time immemorial, iiie ouua iogs.erected or restored "by the munificence" of successive Pontiffs, as the inscriptions bear, are slowly crumbling to decay. The fowl harbor is surrounded by filthy streets; the church were tho pilgrims attended mass was doubtless the best cared for ed ifice in the place, but its porch is beset by swarms of able-bodied beggars. Beyond the town the railway passes through sol itudes. A country which was once rich and populous has been gradually given over to desolation. The sheep and cattle seem in as miserable case as the stray peasants who tend them. The rare hamlets are stricken with fever aud poverty; the demon ot malaria is iu the ascendent everywhere, and yet the strips of fruitful market garden under the walls of the citv snow how much of the misery is due to rnisgovernment and neglect. We should be curious to confess these American pilgrims when they have accomplished their pilgrimago. Possibly they may have already come to the conclusion that if they desired to avoid disillu sion they had better have stayed at home. MILLERS' CONVENTION. CIRCULAR INVITATION BY VICE-PRESIPEXT IGLEHEART. The following is a copy of the circular sent out to the millers of the country, calling them to the convention July 7th: Dijar Sir 'Inclosed I hand you report of committee on state association, appointed bv the millers' national convention, at its session in St. Louis, Mo., June 4, 1874. The delegates to that convention from Indiana held an Informal meeting, and requested that I should call a mass convention at an early day for the purpose of organization. You and all the millers of Indiana are there fore earnestly Invited to meet at the Board of Trade rooms, Indianapolis, j uiy vtn, is 4, at 'Z p.M..to assist by your presence and counsels in making this first meeting of the kind in our state a success. So far as I have been able to learn, the Millers of Indiana heartily in dorse and co-operate in the movement Just at the opening of the market of the new wheat is a favorable time for us to meet.as we shall no doubt have reports from every county in the state as to quantity and qual ify of the crop, which are questions of great interest to ns all Be sure and meet with us at the above time and place, and teil all vonr neienbor millers to come witn you. Yours, Veiy Respectfully, Lrvi Igleheart, Vice Pres't Millers' National Association. Evansville, June 14, 1S74. In the county of Mayo, Ireland, an elec tion was pending last month for a member of Parliament. During mass in one of the churches in that county, the Rev. Father Moran began a political speech against Mr. O'Conner Powers, one of the candidates. The conzreeation became excited, while his friends greeted him with loud cheers. Others added their hisses and a scene of the ut most contusion ensued. This incident has provoked severe comment, and is accepted as an intimation that the masses are no longer held in restraint simply by supersti tion.

THE LAWLESS SOUTH.

MURDER IN ARKANSAS. ,; HOW AS INOFFENDING MAN WAS MURDERED TBTS SCENES CONNECTED , WITH THE MURder. . ; ' ; ' , V , The correspondent of the New York Her aid, from Little Rock, on the 19th Inst., says : Tne cold blooded murder of the Richardson , ,, -.n.... . ?Z Y33 ."Ji neSro. w" executed io-aay. stands pre-eminent as the most brutal and wanton butchery of human beings which hau ever akeh'' place 1 in" this state,' already too well known abroad for the number , of crimes' perpetrated 'within- Its boundaries. 'On the morning of Monday, November "fcl, T873,- an -emigrant wagon; drawn toy two black males, two others being led; behind, containing ..George, Modison Richardson, his family,1 consisting of wife and Infant daughter, and bis "little 'all In household goods, followed by a yellow , dog,5 passed through this city,- en route for the migrant' El Dorado, the state of Texas. They left their home in" Gasconade county, Missouri, during the first week of Novem ber; traveled slowlv down through : Southern Missouri and. Northern Arkansas. On Friday, Noyember 21, they, stopped at a house eighteen - miles k from here, on the other side of the-river, -remained there that night, and as it rained-all day Saturday they remained until Sunday; then. started onoe more on their weary journev. little thinking of the fate in store for them. On Sunday night Ihey camped out and early on Monday . morning passed on, crossing the Arkansas river at this place , near 9 o clock. PassiDg through the city they took the Hot Springs road.- About midday the same day. Monday, November 24, they passed a small grocery at the Russ place, four . miles out. and must have arrived at RockCieek Ford, nve mnes irom tne cuy ana tne scene ot the murder, about half-past twelve,' probably stopping to water the mules and take their dinner. After passing the store they were never again seen alive by any one except the negro, Cass Matlock. He passed the Brown place, three miles out, on foot, ten minutes after the emigrants. , On arriving at the grocery he waamly five minutes; here ne sioppeu. ne re-uainea at tne store twenty minutes and therr walked on after his vic tims. ... . ' THE MURDER,.., About half past twelve horseman neared the Rock Creek Ford. When about a half an hour's ride from it he heard a shot. He thought nothing much of this, supposing it was some hunter. On arriving at the ford at about 1 o'clock, and crossing over he saw a wagon, with two black mules hitched to it, two others hitched behind standing near the creek. No one was near. He rode on and soon heard a wagon coming behind. He stopped to adjust his saddle; the wagon also stopped and the yellow dog came up to him. He rode on, tne dog lollowed him. Soon alter the wagon, which had started again as soon as he did, turned off along a byroad to ward Matlock's place, the dog now leaving the rider and following it. He could not see whether the man driving was whiie or black. The Richardsons were now thought by all who had seen and conversed with them to be safe in Texas . On December 12 a man was walking towards Little Rock. On coming to Rock Creek he turned down a 6treara to look for a foot log, and about thirty steps Irom the crossing discovered the body of Richardson lying in the water and lodged against a sapling. He was shot through the head, the ball entering just behind the base of the brain and coming out behind the left ear. lie must nave aieu instantly, uis pockets were turned inside out. Near the body a woman's shawl was found; a little above a blanket: near the water's edge two bottles, one containing medicine; shreds of clothing and a child's apron were also found near the body. The man who FIRST DISCOVERED THE BODY then went for a neighbor, and both went back to tbe creek to continue the search Further down the branch thsy found the branch body of Laura Ellen Richardson lying in the water against some bushes, bne haa been struck by a club or stick across the left eye, crushing in tbe superorbital bone. Another large wound was found on top ot the head. cutting it down to the skull. Marks of blows were also 6oen over the right temple, and there were bruises on the arms and neck, as if she bad been rudely grasped. The bodies appeared to have been in the water two or three weeks. The two men now sent for the ooroner to Little Rock. The body of the child was found soon, after tbe coroner's arrival a good way. from, the other bodies; it had been killed by a heavy blow, breaking in tbe right side and top part of tbe skull. All the bodies, after death, appeared to have been thrown into the creek by the murderer. The bodies were brought into town and exposeu for identification, but nobody knew who thev were. 'The murder' created an immense excitement in this city; - crowds viewed the bodies and excited groups dis cussed the latest bit of evidence obtained. From certain circumstantial evidence, which will appear farther on, suspicion fell on the 'gro vasa Matloci, who lived near the scene or tne tragedy. xiis nouse was searched by Deputy. Sheriff Counts and others, and he was arrested. Matlock took the matter very ccolly and protested, his innocence. Matlock on the conclusion of the trial was taken to the penitentiary, and was brought Into court a lew days after wards and sentenced to be hanged on Tues day, May 26. On May 26, however, he was ree-mtea until to-dav. jiatiocK was a nne specimen of a genuine pure blooded African one of those perfect types of the negro who sometimes turn out to be exceptionally good men. He is of medium height, solid head and acquiline nose, large, piercing eves and wears a full beard. He has been very sullen eince his sentence, and would answer no questions. He has made several attempts to escape, though he to the last moment protested his innocence. The scaffold was erected in an open lot near tho penitentiary. Deputy Sheriff Counts managed the execu tion, which took place at eleven o'clock pre cisely.- A large crow was present, the negroes being out en masse. ' A SNAKE STORY. " ' THE SLAUGHTER OP FIVE HUNDRED REPTILES . KILLED IN A STONE QUARRY. , The St.. Paul Press of a late date says When St. Patrick was journeying from the continent to Ireland,, where he' afterward became such a terror to snakes, if - he had touched at West St; Paul on his way he might have lound a wonderful field for the exercise of his exterminating power over the serpent kingdom. ' For the last few days we have neard many wonderful stories in relation to the swarm of snakes which have emerged from under the stone quarry at the edeeof tbe bluff at West St. Paul. These stories have become more and more incredi ble with each repetition, until at - last the number of snakes said to have been found about the quarry i3 stated at five hundred, and their length anywhere from three to- fifteen feet. - The story evidently cathers strength as it travels, and wo therefore feel it our duty to give the oriein of the &torv as it Is said to have oc curred. It is said that two youths, of Scan dinavian proclivities, were eDgaged at the quarry ia the intellectual sport of throwing pieces of stone into the river. On stooping to pick up what he supposed to be a dark-colored rock, one of the boys felt the rock give way and become softer under his pressure. On a closer examination tbe rock proved to be alive, and slowly extending itself, developed into something which this youthful Swede concluded must be an overgrown leech, and so thinking, joined his companion and informed him of his discovery. The

second boyr who was considerably the elder of. the two, then accompanied his friend to the spot indicated, where he found to his horror that the mammoth leech was a regular specimen of the black anake, and on examining this part of the 'quarry, a large number ot them were discovered lying coiled up, while from out the ledges of rocks others were seenL emerging, of various - lengths. Terriäad. vat-: Ibis t unexpected "ran .on snakes,". the children ran away Irom tbe infected pot, and raised the hue and cry of 'Snakes, snakes!" -Thegood citizens at the west bank hastened to the now 'interesting spot; and sooq tbe slaughter of $he innocents commenced, and has been going on with little intermission ever since. We 'shall favor our readers when any additional reliablelnformatlon reaches na ontha Snake; phenomena.' .In tbe meantime, it is suggested that the carcasses of the serpents be preserved for the benefit of naturalists. -1 - '-! --- : - ' -,--.- nj .;,

HE ADDRESSES A CABD TO THE DEMOCRATS 01' : THE THIRD DISTRICT REFUTATION OF f ALSE , AND, MALIGNANT fHAEGES. , Iq the Ledger," StancTird "of. Tuesday'' the Hon. Michael C Kerr publishes the following card to' the ' democracy of his district which explains itself: For ninths , past, I have been, , irx the receipt almost daily, of evidence in many forms, tLat there has been organized in the district, by a few ambitious, Jealous, disappointed and - unscrupulous men j a conspiracy to destroy mo politically, and to do me great injury in many of the other, relations of .life. These men have been driven by the desperate character ol their undertaking to resort to the fabrication and utterance against me of many gross aud baseless falsehoods. . These have, with malicious industry,' and under various hypocritical disguises, been son broadcast throughout the district. My first determination was to treat them with the silent contempt which they alone deserve at the hands of intelligent and just men, but the times are politically excited, and marked by a spirit of political disorganization, and by an unusual susceptibility in the public, mind to receive urijust and injurious Impressions from the selfish and interested suggestions of political tricksters and demagogues. I think it is, therefore, my duty, both the public and ruvself. to cive some attention to these things without further delay. ; I shall now refer only to a part of them and leave many others for more appropriate discussion in the early future before tbe people. Those to which I now refer are in substance as follows, although stated in all the forms of exaggeration, cowardly insinuation and direct charge: That I aril rich; ' that I made in some way at least f 100,000 during the eight vears 1 was in congress. that I have' that money invested in "Wall street;" that I own from 40,000 to 75,000 in United States bonds ; that I own over $30,000 in real estate; that i own ?20,000 in national bank stock; that I am, therefore politically, the pet of Wall street," ot Eastern capitalists. corporations and rings; that I am in the employment of some European bouse to secure free trade and hard monevinthis country; that I have received large sums of money irom tnem ana from other sources in this country to defray my political expenses tnis year; mat i am or nave been the recipi ent ot some kind of "free pass." from some men of wealth in the East, upon which, with out expense to myself I could travel in Eu rope, and that I have no political sympathies iu iajuuuuu tvttu tuo jwj.'io ui tue fat. i scarcely know how fitly to characterize these CRUEL AND SCANDALOUS FICTIONS. They are utterly and wickedly false, singly and collectively, but the intensity of their meanness and baseness ia only real ized when it is known that they are labrieated and started on their wicked errands by professed democrats. Al the property I own in the world, directly or indirectly, is not worth SJO.OOO. and if mv just debts were paid, it would leave me much less. Lvery dollar I now owb, or have owned for several years, ia In the city of New Albany, nearly allot which learned in my profession, and not in the pnblic ser vice. 1 never owned or had invested in any way or form a single dollar in the east. I never owned in any way whatever, directly or - indirectly, any United States bonds, or any bonds ' of any state, or any puonc security or any kind, or . any stock or property whatever in any nationa. bank. I cannot recall any time in my whole life when I owned as much : as 31,000 in tbe stock or property of any corporation in the world. 1 never received from any source In the world any money, either gift ordonation to pay any of the expense of my political campaigns, ail toe .otnr falsehoods are equally baseless and wicked.- The silly but malicious suggestions that l am the pet of Wall street," and not in sympathy with the west, are triumphantly ' contradicted by every page of tne record or ' my public lue, All my actions. - votes, and speeches attest their complete falsehood and absurdity. . have always held that I owe - allegiance to one . Federal , Constitution. personal and - political cdeiity . to, one country, faithful and impartial service ' to . all the people and especial persona gratitude and devotion to the people of the West, and , to my immediate constituents; and during every hour of my public service I labored and voted in the spirit of these obligations, and with an unwavering purpose, to the utmost of my ability, to comprehend and discharge them. With what measure of success these efforts were attended, it is for the judgment of my constituents and my countrymen to determine. I uniformly op"posed centralism, !usurpation "of nngranted powers, extravagance and corruption in administratioD, selfish or lavish grants of public lands, money or ' franchise to corpora tions or individuals, all schemes of monopo ly, bounty, or subsidy, all enactments in the interest of favorod classes, corrupt rings, lobbies, or other plundereis, and ' " ALL SALARY GRAB LAWS whether 'any of these schemes came from the east or the west, the north or the south, or from political friends or foes. Do 1 heed to point out the motives ' that prompt all these slanders? Are they not readilyapparest to all intelligent persons ? 1 These who seek thereby to create In the minds of good and honest men throughout . tbe district the impression that I am unworthy to be again entrusted with the duties or representative: that I was corrupt in my high oince ; that I made illicit profit out of my official influence; that I was the tool or hired . attorney of wicked men for corrupt and sectional purposes; that in the professsed motives of my public acts I have been insincere and dishonest. It seems to me that more infamous aims never characterized . political opposition, and all these things are done and said by these men tc the end that many of the unsuspecting people may be induced to give suffrages to one , of their number which otherwise they might' give to me. The only other of tbe falsehoods ottered by these men azainst me to which I will now refer is their statement that I am in favor of the irnmediato resumption of specie payments. I am not but the contrary because resumption is not possible now, or immediately or . speedily, without general disaster and great injustice. On the subject of tbe currency I hope hereafter to be heard in full discussion before the public I will not now refer to it, more at length. It is painful to me , to be compelled, even . under a strict sense of duty, to refer to these matters in this way. The evil and selfish aim of these men is to mislead the ludgmenta of the peo ple of this district. I must, therefore, ad dress mvself to them. I do this with the utmost confidence in the fairness, intelli-

gence and justice of the people, and that they will not suffer such shameless schemes of mere personal malignity and selfishness to sncceed. Mr appeal is to them and with their verdict I will be content. ' J Very Respectfully, j . M. C. Kerr. ;? LAWLESS JUSTICE. - WHAT.TIOILANCK COMMITTEES FIND TO DO IN TIIB INDIAN SATIOX-LYKCH LAW 13 P0Pt , LAR as a means of SELF-DKFZNSK. , A -Yiniu, Indian Territory, correspondent . to the' St. Louis Republican, says: In my letter a couple of weeks ago, I intimated

that the result Of th muArahla in.ffi.U. and corruption ot the United States officials' In this territory might be an outbreak of. popular' vengeance.. 1 knew at the time " wbat'ldn not. state for .obvious reasons, andihat was the fact that a .Committee of. Safety had already been .'organized, havinsr members both in this nation and in Kansas, . so that a perfect cordon might be drawn about the outlaws. - The committee was organized very qtrietly, and also very thoronghly, and numbered in its membership about two! . bundled as . cool and determined . meri as ' ever pulled a . rope or drev a trigger. Thev meant busine.. Ho they concluded to wait and see what the -United States authorities c'id with Queen Morpan and Elythe betoro they tried their hand. They did not want to do anything hastily, and they wanted to be sure that there was no other means of protecting their property before they took the law into their own strong hands. Toe escape of Queen and Morgan from Wilkinson's posse, with the evident connivance of the officers, was the last straw that broke the back cf their patience. Tkfy immediately held a meet . v w iUUUiUCllLV . ing and resolved to hang John Hlvthe Jaa Queen, John Morgan, John Friend and two otners, and lortbwitb appointed committees to patrol tbe country in search ot them. Wonl was also sent to tbe committee in Kansas artri similar action was taken there. The Kansas committee sent word back for the committee nero to look cut " for ' Dick Goddard, who has long been lmplu-ated with th nutlaws. Both committees then went to work as secretly as possible, and the second dav ' out some of the Vinitarpatrolmen captured ' jjij hud buu vuu rucuu iu tneir camp, it was resolved to hang them immediately, and the lariats were fastened about their nerka. Then they were told.that if they would point i,uc uuui milieu 10 vne mam rendezvous of the gang, which was understood to be some where In the erdigris timber, thev would bo permitted to leave the countrv liv. They promised and the ropes were taken off their necks. The whole party then mounted and set off toward the supposed rendezvous As soon as they reached the heaw timber Hlvthe and Friend tried to escape. Thev were IMMKDIATELT SHOT DFAD by the men who were riding beside them as guards.' Morgan and Qneen flsd the country, Mor gan going to Kansas, and Queen to Texas. Somehow they learned that the committee had been organized, and not thinking that they could buy the vigilantes off, as they could the United States authorities, they . concluded that the hot weather was coming on and the territory would not be healthy, so tney went away. The next victim of popular justice was a man who was caught and hung up by the roadside without any ceremony over on Grand river. I could not learn his name, lie was one of the men who were first " spotted." AEotber patrol reports having caught and killed young Cochran, who murdered a man last fall to prevent bis testifying against him in a liquor case. Cochran was taken out of a house where he had stopped to get dinner, acd was shot in tbe yard. It is stated that he was made to cet "up from the table and not permitted to finish his meal. Dock Goddard wa the next to fall into the hands of the Philistines. The Kansas committeemen ran him down across the line, and some of our boys picked him up by mere chance. He did not know whom he was dealing with at first, supposing the party to be cattlemen. One of the party knew him and said, "Hallo, Dock, which way are you going?" He said he was going over to Parker. Then the man told him he reckoned he might be likely to do some traveling in another direction. Dock said, "Where?" The man said, "Hellwards." Then Dock weakened, and realized whose hands he was in. He made a full confession, in which he admitted that his house bad long been used as a rendezvous for a gang of thieves whose operations extended from Missouri to Texas. He said they had it arranged so that they could defend themselves in case of a a attack. He never rode over twenty-five miles of a night with his stolen horses, and wa3 always at home in the morning to avoid snspieion. ' He stated that the line extended from St. Joe, Missouri, oa through Texas to Sau Antonio. He also stated that it was possible to get a way with t wen ty-fi ve head in one n ight's time. After he made this confession, Dock accompanied four of the boys into the bush, and it seems . ' , . THEY LOST HIM in there somewhere. At any rate he did not come back with them. Last week, another , of the gang was caught napping by some of the boys who were prowling around over the Verdigris. They were Kansas boys and were following a horse that had been stolen up -near Coffeeville. When they got down about sixteen miles below the line, they met two Delaware half-breeds who were ou the same errand es themselves. About sundown thev saw smoke rising out of the place and they surrounded tne piac6. w hen they came in on the camp they found they had corralled their game. He had the horse that belonged to the Delawares picketed to a small tree and was cooking a rabbit he had killed. The party turned him over to the Delawares and went back about half a mile. Presently the Delawares came along leading the horse. The , boys . asked them - what thev had, done with the man, and .thev said " he was all right. They had iust simply unhitched the horse and then, hitched the man to the same tree. I could not learn this man's name either. He was a white man, and that is all that could be learned about him.' There are yet 17 men on the calendar of the committee to be disposed of one way or another. I mention no names for the reason that their cases have not been acted upon yet. The most of them will probably be ordered out of the country. The only men spotted for hemp or lead without mercy, who are still at large, are Queen and Morgan. They are the worst of tbe whole lot. But they probably i ill be scarce in these parts for some time to come. Horses are a good deal safer hereabouts than they were a month ago. This is a wi'.d state of things, and may eeem strange to people living under law and order. But it is the best we can do. The government will not protect us. On the contrary, the povernnient officials seem to try to protect the thieves. Hence we have to prot?ct ourselves. At a lecture on tteth, laughing gas, and electricity, as connected with the dental surgery, delivered last month in London by Mr. Thos. Brown, the lecturer observed that it was popularly considered that the practice of smoking deteriorated the teeth. "There could," he added, "be do greater fallacy. It was true that it sometimes discolored the teeth, but it did not cause decay; on the contrary.it prevented decay on account cf the disinfecting properties ot tobacco smoke." .