Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 August 1874 — Page 4

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1874,

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 11.

TAe fioaml of the Tall sycamore. This morning's Sentinel contains the ful text of lbs Hon. D. W. Voorhees peech,deliver.d at Terra Haute last night, in answer to Senator - Morton's address at the same pl.e a week ciro. oiUierrtl as a reply to Senator Morton, the speech mav be described as completely hu wfnl; considered as an exposition o democratic doctrine.it is not very admirable. Its excellencies might have been expected from the peculiar liability of Mr. Morton to attack; its defects, especially Rn the cur rency issue, were to be anticipated from Mr. Voorhees. own political vagar'es The course of the leader of the reputcan party of the State baa been a tissue of incon sistencies, and the public have never been more aware of that fact than at the present time. In addition to that element ol weak rte- In character, Mr. Morton tailed in bis mini intellectual vigor and enthusiasm. He not only acted weakly, which is bad enounb, but he defended his action weakly, which is the more fatal fault. His last speech has leen pronounced by the press ol tho country as the poorest effort of tho kind that he has ever made. The opportunity for entering 'the arena against the republican champion who had held ths lists in Indiana so long against alj comers, was a fine one, and certainly it must be acknowledged that Mr, Voorhees avr.iled himself ot it with great dash and sprit. He has fairly unhorsed the adminis t ration leader. Tie strongest portion of the speech Is that par: of it discussing the financial record o I the Scate of Indiana in comparison with his la:e accusation of double repudiation brought against the democratic partv. The style of the argument is clear and fair.and full 1 notations frtn Mr. Morton's own words are given to ojtablUh his inconsistency on tke question of the payment of the 5-2' bonds in greenbacks.' The conclusion from the comparison made is Irresistible: The republican leader is either a dishonest or an ignoraut man. Kven his enemies will scarcely accuse him of the latter fault. Hav ing civeu Mr. Voorhees credit for this masterly exposure of Senator Morton, it may be added that he deserves little prai.se for trying to pnt his party in the tracks Tvhere Iiis opponent stood five years ajo. On the civil rights question Mr. Voorhees H no less unwise in the style of bis argurnent, considered abstractly, and yet is fully A triumphant over Mr. Morton;forhere a.ain that gentleman's record is a bad one. There i rather too much of tho prescriptive tone about his appeals against negro equality. Before tho law all men should stand on equal terms, and the oaly objeetion to tho civil rights bill is, that it proposes to enter into the relations of social life witn a system of pains and penalties to break down legitimate barriers that are set up by wealth, cnltnrc, creed and race.. The divisions- between men will exist, whether there is any civil rights bill passed or not, but they should be recognized as arising from social custom rather than any divin right. Oa the temparance theme and the transportation question there is little to say touching Mr. Voorhees' teachings. His advocacy of the license law was to be expected, but, alter Governor Ilenirick's able exposition of that subject, in his speech before the democratic State convention, it is useless for any one else to 0 into the subject. The general sentiment, even among the strongest temperance men, seems to be settling to the conviction that a carefully guarded license law is the best safeguard against the dangers of intemperance. It does not, to be sure, provide for the security of the individual against sin only personal virtue can do that but it provides for the security of society against danger. The clo!0 of the spseca was devoted and great good taate was shown in such an arrangemerj t of material to a telling exposure of the pretense of Senator Morton and others that the republican parly has beeu buy re forming tho abuses within its own ranks. No more im pud ant claim was ever put forward, and it only needs such a statement of specific instated of hesitation to expose rascality and failure to punish it as Mr. Voorhees gives, to call up a smile of indignant contempt lor the apologists of that race of statesmen who have been plundering the country for the past few years. Thnnlerboll. It would l)e an interesting item ot information to know just how many cases of lightning stroke happened to buildings in this State during the thunder storms of the last two weeks of July. The idea of recording all those reported by the press did not even occur till too late. Suffice to pay that the reported instances reach a large number, so large as to invest the subject with a general interest; It is believed that in the st;rms of ; Friday, the 24th, which visited nearly every part of the. Statt, th lightning must have struck a score of barns a nd other buildings. On Sunday following the record is remarkable for the number of bolts which did positive damage. ne barn was set on fire' and was struck " twice alterward within a few minutes. .The damage done willamount to many thousand of dollars, b?xidcx the loss ot several lives. . A large number of persons were shocked, stunned and kuotked iu! ways who survived the operation. Now, tbre is no manner of doubt that the hosts of lightning rod men will make haste to take advantage of these facts to urge their wares upon such as have hitherto been proof against the craft. It is an easy mat ter for tho smooth tongued agents to turn the whole argument on their side of the question, notwithstanding the cases of lightning stroke when from one to ten rods have been standing on the premises. A pretty thorough discussion has been stirred up in New York , 07er the question, "Do lightning rods protect?" . It may be answered . In general terms, that it depend on circumstances. A further reply piay be wfoly given that as a general thing

put up as they are by the itinerant pedlars

thev da not afford' much protection. Tobe of any service whatever, a good ' metallic rod bhould run directly , from tho point above the building without turns, except such as are unavoidable, Into the ground. It is claimed by some that they should be In sulated throughout their entire length by coating with a non-conducting substance, or wrapping like an ocean cable. Bat in sulation is of less consequence than a direct smooth and 'uninterrupted course of the rod. If this be secured, the electric current will not be likely to leave it for another course. The glass insulators used at the points of fast3niug, are of very trifling im portance, because b9ing wet in tho rain they become conductors, but still more because they are inadequate to insulate in the presence of such a discharge as is delivered by a cloud. But the fatal inlirmity of the ordinary lightning rod .Is that it is inadequate to conduct the quantity of electricity discharged from a storm clond It is due to this fact that the bolts of:en laave the rod and crash through the house at random. It would be as reasonable to at tempt to discharge a river of water thronsh roof gutters without runninjr over as the tremendous charge of electricity often con tainrd in the cloud over a small rodjor strip of copper. At some times it might suffice, but not when such awful charges are sent down a? characterized the late storms. This Is the common but vital error :n talking about lightning rods, which the uninformed fail to take into account. Turn a heavy current upon a small wire and it will either melt the wire or leave it. In the rod running along the side of, the house the current will be diverted at some point and dash about promiscuously. It must be re membered that a charge of electricity from a common machine for experiments and a thunder cloud are somewhat different. The one is a gentle rill and the other is an over whelming cataract. And the ordinary rod is no better, practically, than a No. 3 wire, or a hair spring of a watch, were it long enough would be. The bsst possible proteo tion of a house against lightning is a tin roof amply supplied with metallic connections with tho ground by tho water conductors, or otherwise. Insulation is of secondary im portance, abundant conduction is every thin at. The rod business is chiefly a hum bug and swindle, as carried on by the deal er?. All their noise about costly points, peculiar kind of rod as to form and metal, are stuff and nonsense, and in a majority 01 cases the rods are so applied as to increase the dan iter to the building. A hundred other statements and theories ol th9 voluble azeut are as absurd as their authors are ignorant, such as a rod's attracting electricity ot a distance four times its length from the ground, the cfiicacy of platinum or gilt points, the particular modo of fasten ing and the like. The subtle action of the invisible element called electricity, the im perfect knowledge of its laws by the mass of the people, and the tearful mischief it works, make the protection business a rich field for a certain class of men whose ef frontery and avarice are out of all propor tion with their knowledge and honest v. Is it advisable to put up lightning rods? If the proprietor himself understands the subject and can direct how it should be done, yes. If not, and a big pile of money is asked to string rods like grapevines over and around buildings, running, as is often the case, along the ridge .of a roof from one end to the other, no. On the whole, the protection afforded by the vast amount of rodding that has been done cr will be done in the State at great cost, amounts to very little. Property and life would be nearly as safe if the rods were all taken down, and in many cases more so. . ' ' i - - . 1 The Postal Car Service. Post Master General Marshall; ad iuterim, hfcs a rather delicate difficulty on hand with the Philadelphia and Wilmington railroad, known for some time past as the postal car trouble. . The railroad company has made a determined effort to extort from the postal department an advance in the -rates for carrying the mails in postal cars with the proper agents for distributing them while in trans.t. Tho first showing of the company.which was madealniost twelve months aero, had much plausibility.. . Besides an at tempt to prove, at that time, that the rate of mail traosportation ' in special cars provided with facilities lor. distribution was much below the compensation for other service, they complained of abuses that teemed to have the color of reality. It was claimed that a great 'deal of- matter was carried in he postal cars as mail which was legitimately freight or express matter and constituted a fraud on other branches of the railroad business. Still further complaint was made that no small amount of passenger dead beading was carried on in the postal cars. It was shown how a certain clerk at Washington, whose family lived in New York, traveled weekly between the two placas in the postoffice car, and that the aggregate of this gratuitous riding amounted to a great sum. Without doubt, there were truth and a just cause in these allegations. But the department, In this particular instance, was wise enoush to take time for an examination of the demands of the company and their justice. The result was that Mr. Creswell declined to Increase the pay, atd the railroad continued to run the mail cars up to the presest time. There are different versions of the merits of . the case extant. A Washington correspondent of the New York Times, confidently represents the action of the railroad to be a corrupt job to extort from the government extravagant pay for service which is already overpaid at the present rates. This writer makes calculations that for "seven thousand pounds of passeiige3 carried daily ovt the road twice every day In tho ye.r "the railroad receive $ö,000 only, or 178 57 "a mile per annum. If the commuters make 'two trips per day and the car is full every "day the above would have to be doubled. "So it will be seen that even under the oid "rate paid by the post office department to "this road the .rate ol mail service exceeded "the rate for .passenger freight charged by "ike company." And further, he shows that the average freight paid to railroad U

eleven cents per pound while to other land carriers despite all the fraudulent 'contracts

it la but eight cents. The government pays to railroads in the aggregate about $S,OnO,000 per annum. The last attempt of Mr. Hinckley, president of the P. A-. W. railroad to lorce a higher rate seems weaker and more tricky than the first assault of last January. I remade his propositions to the department and threatened that unless com plied with, be would take off the postal cars last Saturday. Mr. Marshall wrote him distinctly that he could not1 and would not go beyond the present rate fixed by the action of Congress. Hinckley then takes the ground that he will not refuse to take the mails if they are delivered as usual, but that I they are sent to him he will construe that act as a tacit acceptance of his terms, The mails were sent, tarried and distributed at . . as usual yesterday, and now Mr. Hinckley will doubtlass appear in due time, with the plea that his new contract was accepted be canse the mails were put upon his train an 3 the service rendered. Another symptom of trickery was a proposiliou to the acting Post Master General that the contract be let to a third party iorcarrviog the mails on such terms as would enable the road to secure its demands. On the whole, the signs are strong that Hinckley's movement is not founded in justice, and that tho government is paying a full and fair compensation for the mail ser vice, postal cars and all. This view is strengthened by tho conclusion that Mr. Hinckley has beet acting only for himself, whereas there was a suspicion that he was acting for all the railroads. It is too late to talk of dispensing with the postal cars. Such an improvement and having of time in the transmission of the mails can not be abandoned in this country after being in use so long. But it will hardly do to make. tbcm a means of public robbery by the corporations which profit by the government service. As it is, the people shonld be thank ful that only the mall business is undertaken bv the government. Where should we be with telegraph and express business added? President White's Atldrtas. The second dav's session of tho National Teachers' Association at Detroit was signal ized bv the address of President Andrew D. White, of Cornell, on "Public Provision for University Education.'' President White is a comparatively young man, but he has devoted himself to scholar ship and educational interests a good part of his lite. He has had since his boyhood abundant means at his disposal for gratifying every literary whim. The I ok stores of the city of Syracuse had a standing order that the boy was to be furnished with what ever he desired, and the same good fortune seems to have followed the man in respect to more things than books. In par ticular departments to which his tastes have led him, he is perhaps a thorough master, and on certain topics certainly possesses the control of a great magazine of information. But it is doubtful whether his education has been a complete and systematic one. Of late years he has been taken with a weakness for omniscience and an ambition for political influence, which have given rise to serious doubfs as to whether his youthlul passion for knowledge has not died out. 'He has had too much to do with legislatures, handled too many party conventions, been busy in too many administration intrigues and wasted too much of his brain power in the financial feats of strength necessary to keep Cornell University afloat, to have bad much time for scholarship. A not unnatural doubt has sprung Hp as to the profundity of his knowledge; but the certainty as to his ability to use w hat he does know to the best advantage has never wavered. He Is not by any means a man of robust frame or massive Drain power as rar as one can judge of intellect from physical appearance and his uninterrupted success thus far in life may be mainly attributed, apart from his exquisite tact, to the fact that he dtes with his whole energy everything he undertakes. He throws every atom ot nerve power he has got into his public efforts and has probably less reserve, force than any man of mark in the country. This paper, which is nominally in answer to President Eliot's discourse of last year on a National University, has long becu promised and its material carefully worked over. President White ielt that in taking up the gauntlet thrown down by Harvard, not only a contest of men was involved, but a comparison of institutions and an antagonism 'of systems.' Under such exigent circumstances he has done well. . The paper is mainly taken up with an attack on American colleges, and no more easy victory could be offered to an orator than the exposure or the defects of our 3G0 halfstarved, Irregular andjunsystematlc schools and universities. There is no doubt that there arc. too many of these institutions; that even the best of them are not as richly endowed, or as thorough in their instruction as old count ry schools; that a spirit of bigotry is abroad amongst them, which is inimical to all true scholarship and cramps the minds of students to fit particular standards; that one has got a telescope and no observatory; that another has got an observatory and no telescope; and that there there is a scattering of capital, culture and enthusiasm which should nil be gathered at great centres. That the American system of colleges has all these faults is true - enough. In a young country w ith so many different sects flourishing, nothing better conld be expected. The task of criticising what exists already was an easy one. President White need not have spent so much time upon it. His real work lay in prov ing that there Is no possibility of improvement, save in the scheme which he proposes that: "The main provision for advanced education In the United States must be mado by the people at large, acting through their Notional and State Legislatures, to endow aud maintain institu tions for the higher Instruction, fully equipped and free from sectarian control." Until he showed -reasons why no natural strengthening of these institutions could ULa place la the course of time no survival

and perfection of the fittest he had no right to discuss the excellencies of educational in

stitutions '.under government control; be cause it is to be presume among all English-speaking people that government is not to Interfere except In the lact extremity. Tho link that should connect the two parts of his argument Is consequently mtetiog, . Assuming the present system to be a fall ure, President White lays down certain reasons for the control of educational affairs by government. . He takes it for granted, of course, that where taxes are the source of endowment, there would be no lack of means among tho colleges. And, having plenty o money and all virtue and wisdom In control of educational interests at Washington, it is fair to assume that great and flourishing universities "would soon te established at different points, complete in every equipment of libraries, laboratories, cabinets and faculties. He treses eut in detail the good results which would ensue from the graduation of stu dents from such institutions to take charge oflhe legislative and business interests of the country. Tho right of the nation to tax the people in this way for the benefit of a select few, he deduces fromthe same principle that justifies the common school sys temthe duty of society to iUelf ss?ura,ing that a highly educated cla-w is a ne cessity to the community after hav ing assumed that such a . class cannot exist save through government patronage. The great difficulties that present themselves as fatal to Professor White's system of government colleges he dismisses with little consideration. The main one, namely, the fact that there are great sects amcng us who are determined to control tho education of the men who are to assume the places of leaders and teachers among them, is cast aside with the remark that il colleges ought not to b unsectarian, certainly primary schools ought not to be so. And in supiort ofthat position he quotes Bishop McQuaid, the pioneer of the great Catholic movement for sectarian schools. That is merely dodging the question. The practical difficulties in the way, such as the clashing between different systems of phil osophyand the degradation of the professor's chair into a party rostrum and the fraud and niismanaeeiacnt which wonld be sure to follow the transfer of the great educational interest of the country into the hands of the administration, the speaker passed lightly over anddepended upon the example of Germany as an illustration answering all possible objections. President White be gs to that class of men who always, adopt the prevailing intellectual fashion. They dress their minds, just as they clotbejtheir bodies, in the style. The cant of the present day is an overweening admiration for everything German, even German faults, and a leader among our educa tors actually so far forgets himself as -to stand up and advocate that close and paternal system of government which in Prussia takes cognizance of the babe the moment he is lxrn, watches over him through bis boyhood, dictating his studies, puts him into military service, tells him when he may get married regulates his down-sitting and his uprising through middle life,, and hardly gives him liberty in his old age to draw Lis last breath without official permis sion. President White knows well enough that German scholarship is not due to this system. It preceded and will survive the present government. The speaker also knew that tho supervision of the German government over education was something to which the German people are not inclined to submit, and to which the American people would 19 less likely to pay respect. A system of education that would have to support itself by sending prelates of any denomination to prison wonM hardly do lor this latitade. When President White utlared stuff like the following, be should have remembered that he was not talking to an audience of United States marines: "In the halls of the University of Berlin, within a stone's throw of the palaoeof the rigidly orthodox Frederick William IV., might be beard during his entire reign, the free utterance? of men opposed to every re ligious or political doctrine which the king thought essential. From the palace-window, where the Emperor William II. loves to stand, can be seen the University lecturerooms on the opposite side of the ' street, professors putting forth ideas fatal to absolute monarchy." An empire which allowed its subordinate teachers to inculcate republicanism, would be like a republic which pa'd mere to preach monarchy. . Sucb a course would be simply suicidal, and it is to prevent any such wild work that the government of Germany has grasped her educational system with such a firm grip. The fact of the matter is, that the Presi dent of Cornell University represents on the educational question on of the two great tendencies of the times: The tendency toward individual freedom and the tendency toward centralization or the deification of the state. This latter tendency Las its root in the noblest philanthropy, but it can nevar reach realization until the race attains per fection. The scheme of having government control education for the good of the Stete is oue development of this philosopy. The scheme for having government control all avenues of transportation for their more equitable management is another develop ment of it. The scheme lor having government take charge of the telegraph Ikies for the convenience of the public is another de velopment of it. Carried to its fullest ex tent, it would be simply Communism, aud every one of Mr. White's arguments might be urged with equal force in favor of gov ernment shoe manufactories as well as in favor of government colleges. We have so much bad' leather and poor stitching ana so many paper soles, all due to our unfortunate tendency to Independence and ruinous competition, that the administration ought to concentrate the trade at the meat eligible points, accumulate capital, secure the best workmen and supply the, people with genuine shoes at a reasonable price. That is the course of reasoning. When these things can be done tke golden age will have come,

the luxuries and adorTUneut3 of life wil

have become the common heritage of all and the wild dream of the men who flung me torch amon the glories of Paris wil then be realized. . Nothing has been said, in the considera tion of President White's arrmment, of the peculiar position the spfaker occupied In relation to the subject discussed, or of the ill grace with which sJieers against the per Bistent beggary of college professors among mo neu memuers or their denomination came irom one who rtn placed above such beggary by a levy upon the whole people, and who ' lias spent con siderable time in the lobby at Wabington, seeking new endowments for his college out of the public lands. The argumentum ad uouiinem nas oeen avoided. A FEARFUL SWING.' A YOUNG LADY BECOMES INSENSIBLE WHILE SHJS is MIBACULOCSLV SAVED 10 .H DKÄTH. The Heading (PA.) Kagle con aine the following description of a strange oecBrrance near that city: On Wednesday of the pre ent week a lively and joyoas party of laoies ana gentlemen started out irom. the neighborhood of fJuthnevill, Chester county, for the purpose of spending a day on the summit of the romantic Welsh Aiouiuam, about two ami a half miles from Morgantown. The party consisted of six laaies and five irentlemen 'fn of the ladies were sisters from Ilaltirrore, Misses 8. V. and Annie 11. Johnson, tlaugfcirns 01 h prominent salesman or that city. The sisters were spending a few w eeks wit h ineir iriends, who mace up the excursion to tue mountain for the benefit of th vivitinolauiea prior 10 iiicir aeparture lor home. They left the farm house on the ahoy e morning at 5 o'clock in a large covered wagon, containing provisions, ropes for swings. liu'iuob auu a Dflrior or it an. iney reamed tfco sum mit of the mountain at 7:30 o'clock, and immediately commenced arranamtr tor the dav. In a few minutes the blue smoke of their camp ure cuneo aoove tne tree tops, and breakfast was amy preparea. xne entire . forenoon was very pleasantly passed with the various games and festivities incident to such oceaEions; delightful song were sang, accompanied on tne organ, and for a time the mountain rocks and glen gave back beautiful echoes to the rflaasant and enchanting music. It was :t o'clock in tho afternoon when Miss Annie Johnson expressed a vih to engage in swinging. A swing bad been put ap in the morning, suspended Irom a tree GO feet high. About half way up the solid oak a huce limb branched out to the left, udod which win enas 01 me rope were fastened, thus making the swing SO feet, requiring a rone over wj leet leng one used lor welldigging. This swing had been used during the day without accident. Miss Jolirson, who is a lady of a daring disoosition. insisieu on ueiiist swunz as ni&h as could be done by the aid of the gentlemen, and, to gratiiy hr wishes, they consented. The young lady is bet wean is and 1H vears old, a pretty brunette, dark eyes, and was aressea in a gray linen suit. She sat on the seat board of the swing, and grasped the rope tightly and bade them go ahead. The swing commenced its motion, and gradually rose nigner aud higher until an altitude of about feet had been reached. She still insisted on being pushed, and np w ect tho swing HKS1IEB AN HIGHKR until fully thirty feet had been reached. Sbe had been cheerful and lively up to this point, but all of a. sudden she became quiet, the rest of the Jadies were awe-stricken, and when the swing with its precious burden made one swift sweep in the air ber head was noticed to drop to one side, her muscles relaxed, her arms to let go their hold and dropy and away the unfortunalecirl was hurled through the air, and only saved from frightful and . terrible death bv one of the most miraculous interventions ever heard of. ' The momentum of the swing's motioa carried the apparently lifeless lorm of the girl up fully & feet from the ground and lodged her sately and securely between two branches at the point where they join the- tiunk of a tree, which stood about 38 feet from tbe tree to which the rope was attached. The fright and terror of the party below can be better imagined than described as the swing came reeling backwards, while its- lorzaer occu pant was lving apparently lifeless in Ihe branrbes of the tree. It required only a lew minutes' ueii Deration lor the gentle men to realize the situation and determine what to do. It was fully 'JO feet from tbe ground to the first limb aboveand the trunk of tbe tree was about three test ia diameter. They backed tbe wagon withi its canvas covea dirf ctly under the tree, so that in ease she would drop, Iter fall would be partially broken. The swing was hurridly taken down, and in an instant one end f the rope was thrown over tho limbs ol tbe other tree and secured belew. By this means two gentlemen of the party hurridly went up the rope, and in a few minutoswere at the side of the unfortunate girUSbe was juet retnr aing to consciousness, and tbe force of her fall had ho securely wedced herbetween the truck and the limbs as to require no little efiort to extricate her. Miss Johnson at oncerealized her fearful situation.. She was pale and weak, but still bad the good sense to doas tbe gentlemen desired.. The rope wut pulled up, a sdp-knot was- trade, and tbeu passed around; her body, under her arms, tie other end passed around the limb, and ki this manner she was lowered: to the ground iii8afety. With the aid of the wagon cushions and several shawls a couch was. arranged upon which . the young lady was placed ana soon regained her strength and composure.. Ulysses Grant, son of .the President ac companied by his brother Jessie, Lieul.Harry Otis, a -ad a son ot Tom Murphy, ex-cot-ector of the port of ifew York, arrived at Pittsburg on the 7th instant, after a. pedestrian feat occupying six days. Iu tikis time hev walked from Huntingdon, Pa.to Pitts burg, a distance of 200 miles. They previ ously expressed their Roods and ifiotbes to Y asbiagton. Pa,, where they wero bound on a visit to Mr. Smith, a nephew of the Presi dent, who resides there? and all the weapons they earned with them on their tramp over the mountains were hair brubhssand tooth brushes. The- first day out from Huntingdon the party walked 20 miles, bslore tbey eorJd get anything to eat. Ulysses graduated from Harvard University recently, and is now about twenty years ov age. iuut. Otis graduated at West Point last fail, aad is about the same age as Ulysses. Jesse Grant is only 16, but bore tho fatigues of tbe tramp as wen as tne rest or. tne party. Murphy t aiso young ana lougn. The public havo been surprised by the an nou nee incut that Dr. Bevels (colored exUnited States senator) has been removed from the chancellorship of the Alcorn Uni versity. As his conduct has been excep tionally exemplary, ana ne has aevoted himself assiduously to the Interests of the university, and. as according to the repeated testimonials of the Pilot and other organs of Li! 1 1 ? repuoiican opimon, 11 is quauacauons were of the highest order, the public were wholly unprepared tor the change. Rumor ascribes it to the influence of his excellency. Gov. Ames. LJacKson (miss.j tianon.

VondcdfJ from firtl pvgc at Indianapolis, whne a candidate for the n dency, made the Brst xpowe of IU stupendcacütaies. Thia led to italic. iM the sVb" queut Investigations, nt in accordant with The wishes of republican onViUa, but asalnst tbem C, P'nion once having ktI the la "Si given by .Mr. Ureeley, forred ei er mep of v " Mibsequent proceedings. So credit whatever V''n bi" "Object to the mbllcn crWlU? Hon or IU great leaders. They Kirnpir availed hX fore the storm and traveled with ths wind b cause they could not do othervb. 1 f lnvestfgation and discovery of the frawfulent character of the (Sanborn ontracis tor uf WwM. thv5 cour,ae "d lnotry of ame 5ky,thaa ony otJier onemis. If my

or the House and country to the object, at PVV" -n"fU,hUeITt5 linns a j .ua. I " iuiiiu tenors or in fr The ort nr 1 hi 1, '."''.m 1Q .Re sulted in the OverthVew'of ne gernrnto? ho tiSSttXX: ?L .V Iperty Utratiou and corruption wltto which U.ejwSy was alreadv tMniinr u. h.. . of your nelgkbora-.- SS allien mat er in remD to bfiiev desire a search made, a wrfu,.i OQ vonr won a ne worse than a discovery alter kZ republican majority Hi Cone es iv tÄtde,Dan investigation. IthhnplC cW the leaser of the two evil, to Ii repauuio" F. ..u,.uicuiin-iiiiui tne uisirirt of Columbia. I am Blow to nmlr ihM r (..v.V' not swift to believe them VhSi mZZ'Ty'il. r iMui iuu, 1,1 oraer u train -redit for liU Dar v.uvertiitli rniit nf ,i 2 t claim, the hwor of iKSpSSS and tunUhiJiTJJ L m of dlSryery is totally unfounded, that the republican party has punished those whom it has exposal ÄnirtSSl - - ,T-n- uii inuKe mem ber of Uoiere who heM stock In tbe Credit. Moblller punUhed by bein readied b? ?he SDeaker to the rha rminJiin. -r -. t .w- ' . committees of the itoSSr EiVn aJ! ham, of Ohio, punished fo his harn of thta ,Jj VY. v. r.4 "i'i""all -MiDisi-er to Japan? IMd the Republican Senate punish him bv its confirmation or his appointment? Was Ülchardson punished when he was taken in his diatTlf 9 from 1 1A iTwasnr. Am., . . . . . J . Sited Judicial lite nr.'X,-'"'',.: Henator Morton iDfllctin mnidnnt. ' on him when Ma - . . . wuuiinsijua was carried tn rough the Senate? iid tb President uivuu w punwn cor. r-uepnerti wfien, npon the Close Of tift lnvtliritfnn vnl.k j . j . , a- . ' wijvu virwifu uim of one office, he immediately appointed him to another? Han Hanborn been punished hi oilenaea? Ia he undergoing pun ih meat in some Htate a prison for his oßenses? Äethlnr of the kind. Ihe political inaifator0iin? by Senator Morton are all in hlen. fovoiwlih f hplr Mrf V and nurl - .11 t ... . . M . . j iiiriii- IU vlliCv. XJCh me De understood on this question ofcorrpption. I do not believe that human nature is chan red aecordinir to tho political party to M-hick a man belongs. Xhe repablican administration of the mmmnt has become very corrupt because of Its loce eont nuance in itouror unH t. . i - , . ' . " T I 111" III 1 1 TX" merable teinptatioua and opportunities by' which ltnemuals re nrrouuötd. buch imoe or less the historv of nil mrtio u-b retained in power. The republican party Is ner-' naps iuoreorrot at thl- time tnau any other party of modern times, in t is or ot her countries, by reasons of the patronage and speculatiouof the war, and iu subtteuuent policy by which the entire Hrmfh V. T V 11 UUl" einl nl n rwirv on.l 1. i r.n . is imperatively demanded by every public imvrcM. .-enaior jHorton pleads for a new: pant of power to his party. What does It own councils over the leadiDg naMoDal Issues. & Congress framing a syKtern of linaneeand the president vetoing it; financial depression and dixconrarreiaenl everywhere: a crash like a luuLiuciuoii six Bionms ago and Its effects still remaining, the Sniiihnm kiaiu.in...i 3 - - . ' n in j uiu.i miu i r-u dered unable to eentribnicto the general pros perity 01 tne oouniry, the civil service ot thecountry debauched, the revenue farmed out toknaves for collection, monopolies of all kinds- ....... ... vmpiv are in open re- . vott againpt ; these are some of the fruiu whichthe poiley of the party in power now exhibits for the approval of the American peol. i believe t hat theday of a rea' change Udrawinir near, nd if the democratic Darlv will miii'-pi-pIii ,mh tnh. fully dhere to the cau.se of tbe nnnle. d...n theasKuultaof cen foes or pretended friends. and mnsMnitatiiulf tn tv a . i . i - , ' - ' uc siriii -wk'tm. lust in before it, tbe responsibilities of Ihe government, -1 I I A, a. . . . . W.. KlnAl 1... & . m . . - . " viiw iivi c iro yiaw 111 lis UanUS II it Itil tens now, however, as to whether it will march under thp tanrcrnf nmnnnntr r . -----" v'-' j vf iur u&iiiici Ul . tbe people, its opportunity is lot. and lost fr. ever, bet ua, tlireore, deeply imbue ourmiDd. with ihonrmnlnlMnra nnn ..h ...... .1 . . I " w .u. v .UU til UriUUQ. racy and enter the contest with strong hearts in ' wic&uvt-ruiuem 10 11s original till rtlOSPÜ ' n tmvrn monf nflhA -.1 ... . i r - - ri - ............ . - . j.jv 1 ' . w. .null u i.' teri by the people, and for the benetlt of tho leopnj.. 1 ILLINOIS II1G II WINES, FIFTEEN HUNDRED BARRELS OK OOXF1SOATKD HKiHWJXES THK FRAUDS OK AN ILLINOIS DISTILLER. The Now York Sun sives the following facts connected with the fraudulent returns Of an Illinois distiller: Fourteen hnndrAdl and seventy-Sve barrels of bighwines, worth from ?S-,000 to ?90,000 at wholesale, .wero seized at the warehouses -fc! and 44 New street, 7 and SO Pearl street. 115 New Churcli street, and al a place on Gberry street, t t be internal revenue autreriiiei yoterday, en stisnioiorvnf fraud in tha niaiiai'i'aniiint The seizure, is the largest .bat has teen madeainue iu inue 01 ei-t oiiec-or no. lev ana is tnetirst fruit ot a new reguHtion of the commistioner of Internal reve:kua mju'ring all spirits to be regauged when reclined.. About tea days ago a gauge in t'ollector Weliher distru-f. mnnaircil 11 hurralu w-n tainlng TJ5 gallons of crude spirits, which. bad been sent to 31C. and 315 Greenwich. street iob recuncation. lie louad a short' gauge in every barrel. The cU-screpancy: . amounted to from three to four gallons to. each barrel. Deputy Collector . J. Sparks. reporto"i, the discrepwey to District Attorney buss, and a suit has been 1-rnua for the forfeit-it fe of the liq aar. The firm of Francirt ' t). Bovd A Co, comirl-isioti mer chants, of 70 Urcad street, tuibsequ nt1 v anneared aa cliiiant a nrl majiu nrtidatrlt that iney had received the spirits on iouimteaiin C II I. 1. ' . n .. 1 . 1 uionva win v. ax. jiuu&Uc, a WClliUV . . . - ..... w . a.av. . .ij a i . v uat . - T sevsral hundred dollars, which tbey ssked to have rel'unda Jucrgmnt was'entered against the spirits in the United Slates District Court on Saturday, and they vew coiidmned by Judge Blatcbjcwd. While the suit was pendine, Supervisor II awlej began hu imraiiBir.iu iu ascesiajn wueiuer iaiso measurment ha4 been practiced wiili other highwirr". , ed hereby the owser of the U !.:t book xie applied for tba aue late firm of YAi Ulli ot lt: FroBt streti formerly for Cronkhke. but Sound no Co., agents fa''fc'rrfl a f t lu t ra nuori SMia V r uaa I klr 1 tn r -.vivtvi v a a a-ao vi nuctviuäJ" sJv w mrs ivUaaiu t lor. CompJLaint w as than made to Commissioner Suulds that the firm neglected to. make proper entries, in their insoka bet wee u Ixcembet 9, and Mav, lSa. W. C. lUy and Colonel EJgax P. Hill werearrestedand the former w as held to await the action of, the grand jury, but Colonel Hill was discharged on snowing that he was not a member of the firm during the period indicated. The revenue officers found over 1,500 barrels of bighwines from Cronkhite'a distillery on storage in this city, and they traced them all but about fifty barrels. Supervisor Henley ordered the olUcers to detain the liquor, and Collector Blake de tailed Revenue Officers Mathew II. Stewart, N. II. ßabcock, Stevens, Diamond, Camp, (irogan and Broadhead to regauge it. They finished the work yesterday. Supervisor UanleyBaya that their reports show that the average discrepancy In each barrel ia about two and a half gallons. lie sent a report to Commissioner Douglass last evening and will hold the liquor until he receives instructions to sue for its forfeiture. It is Baid that about fifty thousand dollars has been advanced ofc it by merchants and warehousemen In this city.