Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 23, Number 49, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1874 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY, JULY 34. 1874.

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A DOUBT. MBB. S. If. p. PIATT. 1 1 is subtile, a nd weary, and wide. It measures the world at my Bide; It touches the alar and tne sun; It f-rt-eps with the dew to ruy feet ; I. brood on the blossoms, and noue, Henaus of iu brooding, are weet ; It Hüdes as a snake In the Brass, Whenever, wherever I pass. It 1 blown to the South with the bird ; At the North, through the uow, U is heard;

Viin the moon from tue cnasma 01 11.4111 It rises, forlorn and afraid ; It i turn to the left or the riht, I cannot forget or evade; When it (hake at my sleep as a dream. If I.shudder, It Htlflea my scream. It smiles from the crad'.e; it lies Uii Hie dust of the grave and it cries );i the wmdiand the waters; it slips Ii! :hb llsi ,1 of the leaf to the icruuud ; 1; troubles the kiss at my lip; It !md to my laughter a sound; !; makes the pleura but paint : . : . u billot thebiow of the muiii. Tin c-rmlnaand crown of the kins;, '1 ii- sword of the pold.erv the ricij T the bride, and the rolxi of the pil?t, Tliegwls. in their prisons of s.oue, 1 ho nucels that sans in the l-'-ast Yi.i, the cress of my 1 xrd has known : And wings there ar none that can fly l-iojct its shadow Ith me till I die! BURNT SHU'S. II ELEX HUNT. O, Live, sweet Lov6, who came with rosy sail And tYvimlnsr Drow across the misty sea ! O Love, brave Love, whose laith was lull and 1 .- f That lands of sua and gold, wh ch could not Lay In the west, that b'ooin no wintry Could bi'.eht, and eyts whosj love 1:11:10 own shocitl be, - CaU ! their, with s'eadfast volcesf prophecy, To shore unknown ! o Love, poor Iwe, avail Thee nothing now thy faiths, thy braverlfs: There is no sun, no bloom; a cold wind strips The bitter foam from offthe wave where dijia No more thy prow; the eyes are hostile eyes; The gold is bidden ; vain thy tears and cries; O Love, poor Love, why didst thou burn thy ships? NEWS AND GOSSIP. The enlightened and liberal-minded business men of Montpelier, Vt., have successfully petitioned for an ordinance prohibiting the wicked game of billiards. Four of the most talented cadets ot the Military Academy of Mexico have been sent to the navy j ards of England to be educated for the marine service. The city of Saint Gall, in Switzerland, still 'owns banners captured by its soldiers in 1176, and 1177 at the battle of Nancy and Grandson, and it is discussing the necessity of repairing them. A party of six consumptives, of whom there are several ladies, are trying the beefs blood ex-eriment at the slaughter-houses of Mayor Jewett and L. B. Hall, at Lowell,. Mass. The effects are decidedly beneficial. During John Brown's raid the Virginians took extraordinary pains to exclude the reporters of the New York Tribune, but their efforts were fruitless; for Charles A. Dana says that at one time it. had five reporters there, and at tha final execution it bad three. One of whom wore the uniform of the Richmond Grays, who guarded the scaffold, and combined the military with the professional duties ot the occasion. The occupant of a pulpit in Wooster, O., has commenced the crusade against tobacco. In a sermon recently delivered he paints the offene and offender In the blackest hue: "hog," villain," "rascal," and "knave" are freely used, and to cap the climax he shouted : "Xow I want no more such dirty practice here. If any man chews tobacco in the house of tho Lord next Sunday I shall call him by name in open church." The pnrson evidently means business. Mr. William W. Story iä said to have just completed, in Rome, a statue of Alcsätis, of which connoisseurs speak, in enthusiastic terms. The sculptor chose the moment of her return to earth Irom Hades, and has expressed, with great success, the miugling of the emotions she must have felt in reaching sunlight once more, putting into her face an air ot half consciousness, and inte the attitude ot the figure a natural bewilderment from the strange memories of her visit. The New York State Museum of natural history has lately added to its collection one of the largest brook trout (salmo fontinalis) ever captured in that ctate. The museum specimen measures 20 inches from tip of snout to the center of caudal tin, and about twejve inches in circumference at anterior portion of first dorsal fin, and weighs four and a quarter pounds. It was captured by W. W. Hill, Esq., of Albany, on tne 10th of June, in a pond in St.. Lawrence county emptying into Bog River, near Graves' Mountain. He took it w ith an artificial tiy. and on a cedar rod weighing but six ounces. The Presbytery of Chesapeake lately met in Baltimore to try the case of the Rev. II. E. C. Baskerville, of Laurel, . charged with whippinghis wife. The specifications ate that one Sunday a short time since the reverend gentleman, who is the provider for the household, having failed to procuraanything for breakfast except bread and butter, was surprised to find some eggs an lbs table, ami being informed by his wife, iu respocso to an inquiry, that she had borrowed them from a neighbor, told her be would "teach her how to break the Sabbath," and did so by slapping her jaws one of the slap ytiiking heron the eye and "blacking" that orb into which he had so often fondly pazed. The total taxable values of South Carolina before the war.or in 1860, were 190,000,000. The average annual amount raised upon this by taxation for State and county purposes was 5400,000. The value of the slaves then in the State was estimated at $174,000,000, which deduct and $316,000,000 remain. So rapidly has all wealth gone down since the war that it is now not worth over ?1S4,000,000. In his testimony before a Congressional committee upon this point. Judge Carpenter said : "The property ot South Corolina is assessed and taxed in round numbers at $180,000,000. I do not think it would sell in any market for 100,009,000. I think that property is assessed it twice its value." . The death of Dr. Francis E. Andrews, the conspicuous spiritualist, ha? occasioned litigation with reference to his property. Soaie 30 years ago he married a young woman in' Albany, and had by her a very large family. Twenty years later he became a spiritualist, and, by some fatality net yet explained, discovered that his companion of 20 years was the wrong one, and must therefore be relinquished. A t.hort residence In Indiana procured liirr a divorce, not only front iin wife, biu from Lis children also. H?pl.ii vided :-r 'liMn handsomely, and then utterly '. ignored tb-:n. Later Letraeled in Euro;", ! was t e of Mark Twain's "Innocents! Abroad," and returned to New York only to marry a sH-ond time, and resume the practice ot medicine. By his will he left all his property to his second wife and her children. His first wile claims that tte divorce was illegal, and contests the will. ;in Moline, 111., 202,000 by 113 names has been raised for the prosecution and suppression ot ViB illegal sale of spirituous, Yinoua and malt liquors in the city oi Mo- '

line. This obligation to take effect when 50,000 shall have been subscribed, and shall remain in force for five years; provided that this su Inscription become invalid when, by any reason, the amount falls below 20.000; and provided: 1. That no assessment shall be made other than for the specific and direct prosecutiou and suppression of the illegal sale of said liquors In said city. 2. That said board ol managers shall make bo assessment, unless fully concurred in by a maiority of the board. - A correspondent writing from Rome gives the particulars concerning the excavations at the coliseum: "At a depth of 30 feet below wher we used to consider the level of the arena, they have reached the original pavement, which is of bricks set up" edgewise. Underneath that is. an immense cloaca or

sewer. A laree numoer oi maroie ana granite columns have been found, with tiuely carved capitals, all broken, some into thrtb or four pieces. Many mutilated sta'ue, änd much else that is fragmentary and of interest. Is being continually unearthed. Everything is to be removed down to the original pavement. This will take at leat another year, when another row of arctics will then Da visioie insiae. it is evideut that there was a previous building on this site, and that some of these ruins under this monstrous masonry belong to an almost pre-historic period." A periodical published in New York called the "Popular Educator," was lately recommended to the pres'deut of Peru, and orders were given to subscribe lor .3,000 copies (in Spanish) lor distribution among the chools. One of these periodicals happening to fail into the hand of a missionary priest in Arequipa, he assembled his flock, denounced the periodical as heretical, and insisted that all the numbers of it should be burned in the public square. This was done by a mob ol willing men, and especially women, at the same time denouncing the government as irreligious. The prefect became frightened and assisted the fanatics in destroying 11 the numbers of the "Popular Educator." When this was known in Lima the minister of public worship addressed an energetic remonstrance to the bishop of Arequipa, holding that functionary responsible for the riotous proceedings of the subordinates, and remarking that if this periodical was objectionable, complaints should have been made to the government instead of violently taking the law from the hands of those designated to enforce them. LYNCH LAW IN KANSAS. HOW THE DEATH OF AN ESTEEMED CITIZEN IS REVENGED THE CULPRIT IGNORANT OF BIS FATE. The Bates county Democrat (Kansas) gives the following example of lynching in that state. After giving the particulars of the murder of constable Wilson by David Hardy it says: But the deed was done aad the perpetrator had escaped. What was to be done? It will not do to permit him to go entirely free. The citizens of Osage township were gathered together and the particulars elicited. They became Infuriated when they remembered that Hardy bad not only killed an officer in the discharge of his duties, but had returned and rilled his pocket". Finally, rather than fail, rathor than the monster should entirely escape, a re ward of a thousand dollars was oilered for his body dead or alive. Every clew was sought for and nothing left undone by the neighbors of the murdered official to hunt Hardy down. A squad was immediately dispatched to Harrison ville, and Buck was kept under guard until after dark, when another relative by the name of Mathews was pressed into service with Buck, and some twenty others with these two started lor Miami bridge. Buck and Mathews, having a sack to represent clothes, were ordered to go on the bridge and whistle for Hardy to make his appearance, while the others concealed themselves. Uardv, suspecting nothing, soon came out on the bridge. They told him that they did not get all the clothes. He said he would go back -and get them 'himself. ( He had no idea that so many were aroused and on his track.) While talking, the two, according to orders, caught him and kept his arnu and legs pinioned until the crowd came up, his cuu falling at the very first. They carried him back to the school house at Rich Hill. GUNS FIREtf. Pursuant to previous arrangement, guns were fired at Rich Hill, giving notice to all who could hear and who were still on his trail that the murderer was caught. In the meantime, .Hardy's father had been arrested for iding and abetting the murder, and was at the school house when his son was brought. Supper was served to young Hardy, and he partook unsparingly, laughing and talking all the while, as il he considered it a joke. There were only a few in the house, while the school house was surrounded by' hundreds of men before an hour after it was known that he had been caught. Some one asked young Hardy how he liked pickleT "Take that, d n you," hurling a large one at the head of the interrogator. We are informed that he bad a trial on the outside of the school house. We can state no particulars was to that occuned at the trial. All thatjwe can state is that our informant was in the school house gleaning all he could from the prisoner, who gave as his reason for killing Wiison that he only did so to keep from being arrested. While this conversation continued witnesses were sworn and examined. Finally ALL BECAME QUIET, and one person came into the school house and told Hardy that some one wanted to see him on the outside. He arose from his seat and started "out. The crowd had started off with him when our Informant went out, and he could hear Hardy singing in a derisive tone: "Farewell, mother, you may never Press me to your heart again." This was about day-break. What was done can only be judged from the result. His body was found next morning swinging to an elm, about a mile from Rich Hill, RECAPITULATION; Thus, In the spaoe of twenty-four hours, were two souls sent into eternity, the murder r and his victim. On the morning of the 27th the fatal shot was fired that jobbed .the life of an esteemd citizen of 0age township, and the subsequent morning tound the perpetrator of the black deed standing in mid air. A London writer says that the government of Mr. Disraeli, which came into power partly by help of denunciations of the parsimony of its predecessor, is going to pro-p-ise to parliament to give the enormous nam of $15,000 to the family of Dr. Livings-tone. A deputation from the society had recommended that the sum given should be ?Vj,;o9, " but the government, says the report, taking all tie circumstances into consideration, thought that "justice" would be done by giving ?15,000, and paying the arrears due Livingstone's followers and servants. I suppose "justice" was done equally when this same government haggled about the bringing of the dead body of the great traveler home to England, and when they suffered him to be buried without one representative of the ministry to follow him to his grave.

CUSTER AND CONQUEST.

INVASION OF THE BLACK HILLS. AN UNPROVOKED ATTEMPT AT WAR AND EXTERMINATION THE CONDITION OF THE INDIAN TRIBES. The St. Paul (Minn.) Dispatch, of June 29th, says: To-morrow is the day fixed for the departure of General Custer's military expedition. Within the century there has not been an undertaking sanctioned by the government more wantonly cruel and wicked. It is an illegal and unholy mission, a barbarous crusade against peaceable and unoffending Indians, in reckless disregard of their appeals for justice, in defiance of the protests of bishops and missionaries of the church and ot all the friends of Indian civilization, forbidden by the treaties of the United states, and in violation - of public law and unive real humanity. On the 2Lth of April, i-iS. the United States, through i s commissioners, aiade and concluded with the different tribes ol Sioux Indians, a sacred treaty, now the law of the land, by which the Black Hills country, with fixed boundaries, about which there is no dispute, was set apart- for the absolute and undisturbed use and occupation of these Indians. It was solemnly agreed on th part of the United States, that no persor s except those designated in the treaty shall ever be permitted t pass over, settlo upon or reside in that territory. The persons excepted are government agents in discharge of .duties enjoined by law. By no possible constru" UO , however liberal, bow ever forjed, could Ouster's military expedi tion be included within the exception. The object of the treaty was to prevent war. It declares in its opening feentecce that the government of Jho United States desires peace ana PLEDGES ITS HONOR to keep it. To secure the grant the Indians surrendered other territory, agreed to with dra opposition to railroads being built on the plains, and permit others not passing through their reservation. The treaty was advised February 16, 1S69, and proclaimed February 16, 1&G9. General Custer's expedition is in wanton violation of every provision of this treaty, and of the Uni ted States. Quietly and silently, Custer, acting on bis own authority, or on some secret instructions Trom President Grant or General Sheridan, or both, and partially ignoring the co-operation or powers of his superior officers in this department, has made his own preparations for the unauthorized invasion. Not a word was spoken in congress on the subject, no appropriation made, and no authority granted, one week ago today, twenty-eight scouts from the Santee Sioux, settled in Yankton in Ne braska, arrived in St. Paul. Sent for by General Custer to act as scouts, they reluctantly obeyed. The Santee Sioux, numbering about two thousand, through the labors and sell-sacrificing toil of Bishop Whipple, Bishop Hare, and their noble missionaries, have been completely civilized. In their case, the practicability of Indian civilization has been demonstrated. The results are before the world. They have abandoned the habits and nomadic life ot Indians; they dress, live and labor like white men, no longer depending on the hunt tor a subsistance ; they have taken 80-acre homesteads, live in houses, own stock and farming implements, extensively CULTIVATE THEIR LANDS, planting trees about their farms, raising crops and sending their surplus to market. They have churches and schools and newspapers, observe Sundays and gala days, are loyal to the government and a peaceable, christian people. Only 12 years ago these Indians were the most warlike of the warlike. Their bands were engaged in the horrible massacres in Minnesota in 1802, The Black 11 ills are a central point lor the Sioux of the upper Missouri and the mountain region. It is their great reserved hunting ground, where, according to the general national game law, came is carefully preserved for time ol scarcity aUd need. No band is allowed to establish a village iu the Black Hills. Hither, in times of need, they go' to hunt and to celebrate their mystic rites and religious ceremonies. Here the wanderiDg tribes of the plains obtain poles for the rude tepeea with which to shelter themselves from the storms and snows of winter. Here, beneath the protection of the dense forests with which the country is covered, they pasture their horses during the winter. Such is the country to be invaded. Regarded from time immemorial as sacred ground, in which all have a common interest,holding it bv a title paramount to all earthly titles, deriving it from the same God who gave to white men their rights, recognized and guaranteed, and pledged on the laith and honor of the naiional government, it is not wonderful that the Indians should regard Custer's expedition as a challenge to war. Knowing these facts and the terrible disasters likely to ensue, Bishop Hare, Missionary Episcopal Bishop ol Nebraska, some two or three weeks ago transmitted to the president an earnest protest, stating the danger and wrong, telling the president in plain language that the expedition violates all the principles of hi3 declared peace policy, and appealing to him on behalf of law, justice and humanity to stop the wicked and illegal affair. The president has turned a deal ear to these entreaties. It is said he forwarded the protest, without one word of comment, to Custer himself through the usual channels. These are the facts of the greatest national disgrace that has ever DISHONORED THE COUNTRY. Without motive, without the pretense of an excuse, the government has deliberately resolved to inaugurate an Indian war, the horrors of which can not be foretold. The expedition may not be captured, but that it will lose many men and sacrifice many lives can admit ot no. doubt. Custar, whose ambition is notoriety and notoriety at any cost, has provided himself with correspondents. Indian resistance will be misrepresented and used against them. Soon a call for more troops will be made, and the cry of Indian cruelty tortured into an excuse for a war of extermination. Is this worthy of a christian people? It is an outrage against which not only the people of America but of the world should raise their solemn protest. For 15 years no white man has been permitted to enter the Black Hills. Small expeditions have either been driven back or massacred. But prior to that time voyagers and traders had frequently visited the country, and it is the opinion of the best informed persons that gold does not exist there, So falls to the ground this flimsy pretext. The truth is. that the whole scope and purpose of the expedition Is Custer. He is the pet ol Grant, and the twin friend of Sheridan. He is the body and soul of the expedition selected to achieve fame tor himself by the wholesale, slaughter ot unoffending Indians, and by plunging the country into an expensive Indian war. Hi9 actual rank is lieutenant-colonel ol the seventh cavalry. Hois a brave, but rash, reckless young man, ambitious, of excessive assertion and yanity. An attempt is made to hoist him over the heads ot old officers on the line cf promotion. This is one of the secrets of the expedition. His purpose is to produce such a series of events as shall drive the Indians out of the land to the recognition of the policy of settliug them on the Missouri. The country should be aroused to the enormity of the outrage. Christianity and humanity demand ita abandonment. The honor of the government, faith of treaties, the cause of justice

record their protest in behalf of the forsaken and onpreased mpa with no nrlvocntA lint

God at the bar of humanity before the civilized world. A TERRIFIC STORM. A DESTRUCTIVE STORM OVER WASHINGTONITS APPEARANCE AND THE DAMAGE DONE. A special to -the Cincinnati Commercial from Washington says: On Saturday even ing, about a quarter of 8 o'clock, this city and vicinity was fisited by the most terrific and disastrous wind storm ever known in this section of the country. It swept across the district like a hurricane, leaving u verv disastrous trail behind. Houses were leveled with the earth, others were unroofed. treees uplifted from their bed, windows smashed, and sign-boards hurled indiscrim inately about the street. After the wind bad spent its fury the rain came on, and for fifteen minutes the fall of water wis very heavy. .Showers were repeated duriDC the night, and the storm did not finally pass off until 3 o'clock this morning. Nearly all the telegraph wires running cut of the city were blown down . and ren dered useless for the transmission of .dis patches. The following graphic description of tne storm will .appear in to-morrow's Na tional Republican: . "A few minuus-after 7 o'clock on Saturday night, several gentle men were seated in front of police beadqnarter, apd their Ettention was called to 'the active motion of the clouds. Two storms appeared to be aooroachincr each other. Deep black clouds skirted the horizon on the north and east, while others of a lighter hue were rising between tho north and west, and as they increased in size, from those to the north eprang white clouds re sembling immense balls of snow, that roiled and tumbled In a furious manner, moving first in one direction and then another. It was predicted that if they met, the result would be disastrous to the city. The two storms drew nearer each oth er. There were apparently two strong cur rents at work, for one storm appeared to be crosing directly over the other. All ol a sudden these globular wbtte clouds changed and began spreading. As they did so they grew thinner and finally disappeared. While this was transpiring, the two clouds that had appeared to be moving in opposite di rectins Eeemed to have become united, and lormea a aense IMPENETRABLE MASS OF DARKNESS, which was rapidly rising over the city. A gentle zephyr-like breeze was at that time feit coming from the direction of the clouds. Soon there was seen to rise above the housetops a yellowish and suspicions cloud that kept rapidly in front of the dark and sterner one. It required no guesfing to discover that this was dust, and that the storm was so quickly approaching that it would soon be over the city, and, from the-threatening aspect presented, would either be powerful with wind or deluging with water. The streets and porches were abruptly deserted, and safety sought within doors. The storm came on, and a more rearfnl hurricane this city never experienced It lasted probably twenty minute, but in that time did an immense damage. The dust was so strong and blinding that even grown persons were unable to travel with it and although onlv a short distance from their homes, were compelled to seek the nearest place of refuge. House tops were lutea on, even me cornicing, in some cases, with them taken away some of them set down in a strange locality, the occupants of the dwelling not knowing where the roor had gone., and the owner of the DroDerty where it alighted from whence it came. Trees were dragged from the earth and taken into the streets, where none had been seen before, while branches were scattered in every direction. Business signs laid around promiscuously, as tf in search of an ownoror lost from home. The great treos in the Capitol grounds, and those about the Whit TTnnseand in the parks, were bereft of their foilasa and the street piled wifi the broken limhs.nntil thev became almost impassable." Several excursion steamers loaded with passengers were caught on the Potomac, but weathered the storm without accident or serious damage. The total loss of property in the citv by the wind and rain is variously estimated at between a quarter and half a million or dollars. There are quite a number of miraculous escapes from death of per sons whose houses were unroofed. A GRANGE BANK. THE PROPOSED BANK OF THE CALIFORNIA PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY ITS CAPITAL AND MANAGEMENT. The San Francisco Chronicle says: The potent patrons of husbandry, steadily dis claiming a lust for power, are taking concerted action to secure the rights and to ad vance their individual interests in the way which to them seemeth best. Their numbers having doubled in the last twelve months, and still increasing, they are moving in solid columns upon the citadel of the crain kincs. to whom they are more terrible than an army with banners. The California column is about the most vital and active of all which .are embraced in'this vast host. It is led by men who combine muscular, mental, and financial attributes in vigorous development. Of the practical schemes which are being prosecuted for the benefit of the grangers in this state, the most noteworthy is the Granger's Bank. The bank will have a capital of 5,000,000, divided into 50,000 shares of 100 each. Its base of operations will be in this city, its office being in Hay ward's building on California and Lieidesdorff streets, in the rooms lately occupied by the Merchant's Exchange Bank. It has been publicly stated that 700,000 of the stock has alrea'dv been paid in. This is not correct. The stock will be called in ten per cent installments. The first installment will be called in July 1. The directors are empowered to call in the second installment in three months after the first, but it is thought the second call will not be issed until January, 1S75. The bank will be opened informally on July 15. There will be no splurge or display, but the directors expect to "go slow" for a while until all the first installment is paid in. The object of the bank is to enable farmers to borrow money upon as iavorable terms' as can be had in the city for commercial purposes. The subscriptions are nearly all in small amounts, the subscribers being residents of nearly every county in the state. The by-laws promise the same consideration and attention to the rights of small stockholders as to those of the larges'ü, and 'equal justice to all." There are already 0Vwr J, 000 subscribers, and the aggregate of the subscriptions exceeds 1,000,000. The iron rule of Friendlander, the hitherto mighty grain king, and his powerful associates i3 broken. These men have for years controlled the grain market, and one -of their most effective means to that end was controlling the tonnage of the port. The leading grangers say this obstacle no longer confronts them. TLey have been enabled to charter fifty vessels themselves this vear; and are confident that facilities Will be ample In future to take all their grain to market. The grangers have also in this cit y a produce depot, at the southeast corner of Sansome and Commerce streets, in charsje of Mr. Hegier, late of Bodega Grange. They have also an agent to purchase farming implements, and others to buy. bags, charter ships, and perform other impoitant functions. Mr. John Burns recently gave evidence before the Royal Commission on Shipping, in London, in which he stated that his firmjthe Cunard Company) employs 6.000 men all told, and that their fleet consists of 40 steamers, of 90,000 tons and 15,000 horse-power. ;

WAR MEMORIALS.

THE ANTLETAM STATUE. THE ORIGIN OF THE STATUE ITS DESCRIP TION AND DESTINATION THE ANTTKTAM BATTLE GROUND CEMETERY INDIANA'S GIFT TO THIS COMMEMORATIVE MONUMENT. The Hartford Courant, of the 2nd inst., contains the following account of the Immense military statue to be erected on the battle ground at Antietam, Maryland: Yesterday a party of gentlemen and ladies accepted the invitation ot Mr. James G. Batterson to visit thequaries at Westerly, R. I., to see the colossal Antietam statue which is now ready for transportation to the Antietam battle ground. We recently gave an account of the ceremonies at the unveiling of the statue, after it came from the sculp-' tor's hands and was erected upon the quarry grounds. The colossal statue, as our readers know, is intended for the soldier's tnonr ument on the battle eround at Antietam. wurro il in 1,0 Kianu in me miosi or .tne heroes who fell and are buried there. It will be transported to its place and dedicated some time next fall, with appropriate ctrefno'nies nml an oration by Gen. J. R. Hawey, who was selected for that purpose by the monument committee at a meeting last week. The great masses of granite composing the pedestal will be transferred to Stoninajton on plal form cars, and be thence shipped to Alexandria bv steamboat; at Alexandria they will be carried by canal boat to Sharpsburg, and thence rolled the remaining mile and a half to the battle-field. The transportation ol "these heavy weights is rot a matter oi great difficulty with our modern machinery, but th movine of the statue will require care. The statue itself weighs sometoing over thirty tons. The pedestal, which is in twenty-five blocks, weighs 197) tons. The figure is 21 M feet high, including the plinth. Terhaps a better idea of the colossal image may be obtained by saying that, the gun be"ld by the soldier is eighteen feet long, and that his shoe is three feet in length. The Btatue is in two pieces, the junction being at the belt, and the joint will be so perfect with the fitting of the belt that the point of contact will not be seen. The niece of trranite from which the upper part of the ngurewas cut weighed about thirty tons when it was lifted irom the quarry, and the piece from which the lower tart was chis eled WEIGHED SEVENTY TONS. Besides the figure .the base supports, in the same piece, the stump of a tree, which serves as a slight support and balance for this gigantic mass. The pedastal is twentyfive feet high, and as the statue is. made to be looked at from that elevation, it cannot nromrlv be indeed until it in In rilara it will tower about fifty feet above the ground;! auu iuai it, win ud 01 me mos com manding monuments in the world we have reason to believe, and timä will have little effect upon the enduring granite. The figure is, we believe, the largest in stone this sideot Egypt, and its execution in so hard a material as granite was considered a daring attempt in art. II the verdict of the artistic worid is favorable, the result will be a treat triumph for American genius and enterprise. The figure might have been made a monolith; that is, a stone of the required size for it might have been taken from the quarry, and its cutting in one piece would have been easier in many respects; but the handling and transportation of a figure so heavy as it would have increased the cost much beyond the sum to which the committee were limited. The design for the whole monument was made by Mr. James G. Batterson: it was his first sketch that was accepted by the committee. in competition wita other artists. The statue is the work of Mr. Charles Conrad, a German by birth, but an American by ed ucation ana residence, ana an artist wno has been for a long time employed in Mr. Batterson's establishment, and has shown his talent and skill in many works ot art. The clay model for the statue was about one-fourth the size of the image. In looking at the finished work we must not forget the mechan ical skill and the patience ol the sculptor stone-cutters who have slowly hewn it from the enormous blocks of rough granite. The leading sculptor who worked out the figure, enlarging it from the smaller model, was Mr. James M. Poliett. The idea of the figure is the United States soldier as sentinel. He stands at rest with his musket, the cart ridge box and bayonet depending from his side. He is clad in the regulation overcoat with cape, and wears the cap of the soldier. The attitude is perfect repose, but the watch ful eye and the intelligent face express VIGILANCE A'D MANLY COURAGE. The face is smooth shaven except the moustache, and is that of a resolute man. The drapery hangs in massive and graceful folds, the material lending itself admirably to good effect of light and shade. The posture is easy and the figure is full of strength and dignity. We were prepared to see a statue impressive from its very size and the' sta bility of its substance. But we were not prepared to see such grace and dignity oi repose as it has, nor a face so fine, noble and expressive. As we have said it cannot fairly be judged until it is seen upon thp high pedesral upon wnicn it is aesigoea to ne ioosea at. But we believe it will satisfy the require ments ot monumental art. Upon one of the dies of the pedestal is beiDg cut a trophy ol arms, upon another will be the Jegend--Not for themselves, but for tbeir country." The name and date of the battle will ateo appear, and perhaps upon another side a larger dedicatory inscription. iNoone who has not watched the growth of tne colossus from the quarry can have any idea of the labor and anxiety attending it, nor of tbe excitement aud satisfaction that attended the erection ot it to its present position. Every stone which enters into the composition of the monument was selected with the utmost care, that no flaw or imperfection should exist in it. One of the first stones, weighing over 70 tons, was rejected after considerable work had been don6 dn it on account of a slight blemish. To the artists and workmen, to Mr. Batterson and to Mr. McNary ot the committee, great praise is due for tbe successful accomplishment of what must be called a difficult, a gigantic undertaking. The total cost of the monument to tbe states interferes ted is 30,000; we should say that it must cost the contractor fully that. THETXACK FOR THE STATUE. , The public are in tbe main familiar with the history of the "Antietam National Cemetery." The -battle itself Connecticut, and especially Hartford county, has especial cause to remember. Several of its regi ments, embracing all arms of the service, participated and suffered in the terrible fight. TLe Fourteenth and Sixteenth, the latter largely a Hartford county regiment, were plunged into tbe fight within a few days after leaving the recruiting camp in thii city, and almost before the echoes of the "good-byes" had died away, came the news of death, and a few of the slain wero brought home to rest among their kindred, while others were buried on the field. Some have been gathered from other fields and buried here. The number of identified dead buried here are 3,142; regulars, 09; unknown dead. l,04ß; total, 4,617. Of the identified, 85 were Connecticut soldiers. The state of Maryland first moved in i the plan to purchase a portion of . the. Antietam battle ground for a national .cemetery, .and the legislature appropriated money for the purchase ol the ground, and passed an act incorporat

ing the national cemetery appointing trustees for that state. Other states finally joined with Maryland and appointed trustees and made appropriations, and the grounds have been beautified, and fenced with a substantial stone wall. It is a beautiful spot. The dead of each state have an especial place, and the colossal statue above described will occupy a commanding position in the center of the cemetery. The total cost of tbe cemetery grouuds, fencing, keeper's lodge, ornamental work, headstones, removal and burial of the dead, etc., is esiimated at about fS.000. For this purpose states have appropriated money as follows: New York, 17,2S1; Pennsylvania, S12.7Ü0; Ohio, ?10,.W2; Massachusetts, $0,5?-; Wisconsin. S.UH: Michi-i

?2.7S7; Indiana, $o,132: Connecticut. ?2,229; .laryiana. ?io.iKXj; Aew Jersey, Si500; Vermont, $1,600; West Virginia. 1,672: New Hampshire. i ??' RhodA T&lani tiiii. Minnesota, ?4i Illinois and Delaware have not made their appropriations, but it is hoped thst both sta'es will do SO A4 onl. diers from eaph are buried there. A LIBERIAN CELEBRITY. ATERRR HAUTE BARRER JN 'AFRICA HOW HE GETS RICH AXD IS MARRIED HIS ELECTION TO THE PRESIDENCY OF TUE PROVINCE, ,A correspondent to the Terre Haute Express gives the following interesting bit of colored ligrapby: Many of your older residents, say of 20 years ag , will remember an enterprising and very industrious barber, whose name Was Edward J. Rove. How long he lived iu Terre Haute the writer does not know; with his career in Africa nd elsewhere I am familiar. Iu making his first trip to Africa, he took his goods out m freight, he himself being a passenger. Tho entire value of his invoice was not more than three thousand dollars. In less than eighteen months from the time h9 sailed from New York he was back with ?S,000 worth of oil, dyewood, ivory and gold dust. Spending but little time in shaking hands and telling stories, he chartered half a brig in company with a white man, and about the time his friends in Africa looked for a letter from him, he anchored his brig in the Bay of Monrovia, laden with a good cargo which was at that momeni saleable at his own rates. This was the beginning of the career in Africa of the most remarkable man in many respects the little black republic evei had within her borders. FOLLOWING THE TIDAL WAVE Of his good luck, he put off for England in the monthly steamer, where he purchased English goods, which, in many instances, are manufactured expressly to suit the African market, goods of peculiar make-up and color known only to merchants dealing with Africa. The point Roye made in that move was this, he- could go anywhere where the English held the trade and furnished both ' kinds of goods, English and American, something no other American ever did. Crossing from England to America, he made the acquaintance of tbe srreat house of Phelps, Dodge & Co., New York city, with whom he deposited a sum of money and by whom he was introduced among first-class merchants, which resulted in bis purchasing a vessel and loading her for Liberia, leaving behind him a reputation and money enough to load a vessel In his absence. The poorer class, who had been often deceived in the election of government officials, broke loose from both the old parties and elected this new, and now that wealth lay in bis path, and honors on bare shoulders, upon him, the idea occurred to him to get married. At the house ol exGovernor Hicks, where he often dined was the most adopted daughter of the governor, pretty brown-faced Hannah, without kith or kin in the world. So in his businesslike manner he courted her three weeks and married her. This, too, was another wise hit, for Hannah was born in Liberia, and coQld speak five or six of the native langnages. which is half of the battle in trading. Leaving his wife to manage home affairs, he bought an English vessel and cargo out and out, made his first trip to the gold coast where the Asbantee war has iust been fought. This was another TWENTY THOUSAND STROKE in less than thirty-four month?. Mr. Roye was elected president in 1868, the term at that time being two years. His party, being strongly in the ascendency, thought they could enact a law by which he could hold his seat as president without an election, they believing that 120 honest voters could be obtained belore the peopt most of, whom can not read or write, for signing that act. Both he and all the heads of departments were imprisoned for usurpation, be remaining several weeks in jail, man a his escape, and in attempting to get to s British steamer then lying in the Bay of Monrovia, he was drowned. The body was recovered and delivered to his famih and friends and decently buried und r ! he waving palm trees in his lot in Eveitrvjan cemetery. The government coiili--i?ed some oi his property and did rniny little things couinon in all places under great excitement. Mr. Roye was the wealthiest man in Liberia, and his tarniiy will not want, unless they become extraordinarily extravagant. Thns ended the life of a black man that proved at least, that a negro can make money and keep it; that he can aspire to office and get it, and become too ambitious, like as other men. STAND UP OR STAND OFF. The Indiana Granger, published at Muncie, don't like to march under the command of an enemy. It says: The week before the independent convention, the Indiana Farmer gave a quasi support to the farmers' movement, and on the strength of that the editor of that paper was made a member and chairman ol ihe independent central committee for the state. The week after the convention, the Farmer, alarmed at the tremendous howling ot the partisan press, went back on tbe movement, and will soon be in the ranks of the politicians. We don't want a chairman otso important a committee to be without at least three feet of good, stiff, serviceable backbone, and as a microscope fails to discover an atom of that article in the aforesaid chairman, we suggest it would be eminently proper for him to gracefully decline to serve, so that some one may take his place. We want some ore who will not work to make good the prophetic utterances of Republican and Democratic leaders. Another English institution of considerble importance seems to be in danger of being "Americanized." Until recently it has been the custom for all the daily journals to report the parliamentary debates at full length. Now, however, they are beginning to curtail them ftiarlully, and to publish only very brief reports, supplementing them with a sort of narrative of the proceedings. The two three-penny papers, the Times and the Morning Post, still give pretty full reports, but all the penny papers except the Standard have adopted, to a great extent, tbe new plan. It saves much money, and it is argued that the time has passed when parliament was the great debating society of the nation, and that the discussion of all questions is now sufficiently carried on in the newspapers. There is some truth in this, but the new plan will tend strongly to deprive tbe people of the means of judging of the capacity of their public men as speakers, and also to abolish oratory itself in parliament. London Letter.