Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 February 1875 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 231875,

"UNTIL THE DAY BREAK." From St. Paul'. Will it pain me there forever, W1U It leave me nappy never. This weary, weary gnawing of the old dun paint Wli, the sweet yet bitter yearning. That at my heart is burning. Throb on and on forever, and forever be in vain? 0 weary weary Ion King! 1 l eoil awMt trtAninrlr)! thrODElüZ

From the sunset-lighted woodlands of the dear and holy pant! Oh hope and iaitb undying! o o 1 1 1 navar ivajw from HlffhillfFT Mast my lot among the shadows forevermore be cast 7 Shuil I ueveree the glory Sir Ualahad, my hero, saw folded round in his sieepT The full, completed beauty 11711 K -KIh Imi rl Irl a 1 n I rlntV Vnr hearts that burn toward Heaven from the everlasting deep From that conflict eealrig never, From tbe hard and bitter battle with the cold ana cauous worm 7 Will the sky grow never clearer? Will iho hiila Hra or never nearer. Where the golden cly glitters in its rainbow mists Im pearled? ( Ah me, that golden city ! JIUU t-UVTU U WW J' t. J 1 have sought 11 with such yearning for so many oilier years; And yet the hill.' blue glimmer, And Ihe nartAl'l EOldi-D shimmer Fade ever with the evening and the distance never nears! O weary, weary living! O foeman unforslvlne! O enemies that meet me in the earlh and in the air! O flesh that clogs my yearning! O weariness aye returning! Will ye never cease to trouble? Will ye never, spare? Will my soul grow never purer? Will my hope be never surer? Will the mist-wrethes and the cliff gates from my path be never rolled ? Khali i never, never gan it, That last, t static minute. When the Journey 'a guerdon waits me behind those hills of gold? Alas! the clouds grow darker. And the hills loom ever starker. Across the leaden mist ecreen of the Heavens dnll and gray. Thou MQKt learn to bear thy burden. Thou must wait to win thy guerdon. Until the day break cometh and the shadows flee away! GENERAL NOTES. Texas has 400,000 children of echool age, of whom only 161,000 are enrolled. Of the 173.356 men composing tbe British regular army, 10,724 can not read or write. The Prussian drait of 1873-74 for the army of the German empire number 83,333 young men, of whom 3,324 had no education whatever. The recruits for the Austro-Hungari3n army numbered 01,531 young men, of whom 51,511 were not able to read and write. The only vacant seat in tbe San Francisco stock board has been sold for $30,000. This is the highest price ever paid lor a seat, and is 20,000 higher than the price about a year ago. A recently patented automatic lock is about to be placed on tbe door of a Fulton county back vault. Tbe lock is 0 con structed that it can be unlocked by no per son except during banking hours. It is estimated that in the hills of Col urn bia county, N. Y., there is a supply of at least 20,000,000 tons of iron, which could be mined and delivered In boats on. the Hudson river at a cost of not over ?2 a ton. Nevada has $250,000 as the beginning of a university fund, and the San Francisco Chronicle suggests that, instead of organizing an institution ot its own, the stale shall unite its forces with California and build up one strong university. A college of mines Is also suggested.. A memorial 13 to be presented to the Wisconsin legislature asking for the passage oj an act authorizing the women of any city, Tillage or county ot the state to establish industrial schools for the reception, custody and training of the unprotected children of such city, village or county. The Western Baptist Educational Union has bought tbe Pattee House, the largest hotel at St. Joseph, Mo., with the intention of taming it into a Baptist University. The articles of incorporation place the endowment fund of tbe new college at 1 300,000, -with power to increase it to 1,000,000. In New England the sovereigns and gran gers are working with great harmony to gether, and both seem to find it mutually advantageous in tbe perfecting of arrange ments for the purchase of Hour and other supplies from the western granges. An agency is about to be opened in Boston. An effort is now making in Boston to organize a working man's social club, er clubs, similar in character to the institu tions in England organized by the Rev. Thomas Jolly and others, and which have been very successful. Edward Everett Ilale is active in this Boston movement. Massachusetts is the present center of labor struggles. The Fall River difficulties are of a serious nature. Out of 30,000 looms there 3,S00are idle, belonging to three mills, the operatives in which have, with five others, strong weavers and other unions. Tbe total force employed in and about cotton mills is about 15,000. Minnesota sold its lands granted for educational purposes by the United States for ?3 C2 per acre; California, fö; Michigan, $3 25; Iowa, $2 27; Missouri, $1 84; Wisconsin, jl 25. As regards the states which received only land scrip, tbe price for which this was sold ranged from 41J cents par acre, in the case of Rbode Island, to 05 C9nts p9r acre in the case of Virginia. - TheRsv. C. K.True, D. D., formerly professor at Middleton University, has accepted the chair ot Logic and Practical Theology in Tabsrnacle College, Brooklyn. Dr. Talinage is president, Dr. Lord has the Historical, Prof. Thwing the Rhetorical, and Prof. Chapman the English Department with that of Biblical Literature. Nearly all the students expect to enter the ministry. The success of Kindergarten training ia Boston has led Mr. Philbrick to recommend the establishment of thiee or tour experimental school, instead ot one. While he is sot prepared to argue its adoption as a permanent part ot primary school instruction, he beliaves that the system contains many invaluable elements which should be applied universally in tbe first stages of school education. Senator Sprague has written to tbe mayor of Cincinnati, in response to an inquiry of the latter concerning the removal of the remains of the late Chief Justice Chase to Spring Grove Cemetery, near Cincinnati, pay in s thst his wile is now absent in Europe, bnt that her desire ia for her lather's body to rest in the cemetery mentioned. Under what auspices the remains shall be transerred," the senator adds, "that of the city of Cincinnati or tbe state of Ohio, or union of both city and state, or in a private way, it is not in my power now to inform you." The ice trade employes at Its principal centers, Maine, Boston and vicinity, New I

York and up the Hudson, and at Chicago

an aggregate lore 01 at least o,wu mcuu boy. About one-lDira are employe u V rnrUni throA-firtha of the balance are employed about New York and the balance in the west, it may ue muuu u the lorce regularly employed in toe winter s harvest is about 35,000. When the system of universal liability to military service is in operation, the Russian army will consist in time of peace of 900,000 field troops, 120,000 garrison troops, 80,000 local troops. To these will be addad, in time of war. 164 reserve battalions (uo.uw), and 199 depot battalions (257,000 men). making 1,700.000 regular troops in all. It will take some time before these troops can all be made available for active service after war has broken out, but tbe following farce will be at the immediate disposal of the government in such an event: 730,000 field troops, 120,000 garrison troops, 80,000 local troops, 20tj,(XX) reserves, 257,000 depot troops, and 70,000 Cossacks. This will make a total of 1,462,000 men, or 163,000 more than the regular troops at the disposal of Germany. The Scoharie (N. Y.) Republican says: A mouse found its way into the hive of one of our amateur bee men not long since, and the intruder was found dead and completely imbedded in wax. The mouse, having a sweet tooth, crept into the hive to steal noney, but, unfortunately, aroused the inmates, and before be could find his way out again was stung to death. By and by decomposition set in, and Mr. Mousey began t n disseminate a bad smell, which bees can not tolerate; but, findiDg it impossible to hustle him over the ramparts, as they do other nuisances, they went energetically to wnrk and sealed him ud in wax. hermetic allv Ralpd him. in tact, so that not the oii.-Hfaaf mlnr oupanAl trt make the hive un pieasaut for tbe high toned, extremely neat and cleanlv lDhaDitants. FLEES TO EUROPE. m'lle a lb am bids US good-bye A SU DDES CHASOE OF PROGRAMME AXD WHAT IT ALL MEANS. Tbe Cincinnati Enquirer ot the 13th inst. gives the following facts connected with the suddeu departure of M'lle Aibani tor Europe: Those who failed to hear Aibani, the prima donna of the Italian Opera Com tanv. on Thursday evening, may never hear her. She left last night for New York, accompanied by young Mr. Gye, son of the famous London manager, and will shortly sail for Europe. Of course, the announcement of her intended depart ure created a sensation in musical and lash lnnable circles. among whom "the season" was the tODic of the hour, r Indeed it will cause surprise everywhere throughout tbe country. Rumors spread far and fast. There had been a creat row: the pretty singer had been in tears all day, etc., ad infinitum. We undertook to get at the exact truth of the maiter, and through the courtesy of the management have been entirely successful. Young Mr. Gye, it is true, refused to say more than that tbe alTiir was one purely of business, and that bis relations with Mr. Strakosch continued to be of the pleasantest, and that he wa3 perfectly wlll.ng to let that gentleman's explanation go to the public alone, as it would be a simple and reliable one undoubtedly. The tearful prima donna she did almost weep her little heart out lor a cause which will afterward appear we did not intrude upon, satisfied that all the explanation due our readers could be obtained from Mr. Max Strakoscb, one of the most genial, polished, and best hearted of gentlemen, as he is the prince ot managers. We were not mistaken, and are able to present the history of the breaking of the Aibani engagement succinctly and reliably. M'lle Aibani, as she i3 best known, was engaged by the elder Gye some years ago under a contract, a full statement of which is not necessary to an understanding of the present case, but which involved hei remaining under the management of the Gyes FOR A TERM OF YEARS not yet expired. They manufactured a great success for her, and Maurice Strakosch, believing the success could be repeated in this country, engaged her for sixty nights for his brother, agreeing to pay the Gyes, her managers, tor every night she sang (two nights per week) 150 and to assume all her expenses, a contract which brought the actual salary up to a figure not far from $1,000 per night, in currency. To be brief, Aibani did not draw the money. She was worth fairly the sixty pounds per night, which were found to be those ninety pounds Eer night going to her managers (the Gyes), ut the 150 pounds she was not worth. A delightful artist, she was not a Christine Nilsson. The last statement Is our own, not Mr.Strakosch's.l Still Max Strakosch struggled on manfully, as he always does, and by taking her out of tbe role ot "Elsa" in Lohengrin (the opera drawing just as well with Ileilbron), and other economies, hoped to weather the year; bound, at all events, to keep his contracts. He wrote, however, to his brother Maurice, that financial disaster was ahead if better terms were not obtained from the elder Gye, whom be must see at once, ice answer came by cable last week, signed by Maurice Strackosch and the senior Gye. It was a refusal to lessen the terms, but a welcome offer to cancel the contract, after it was twothirds expired, which it would be on Thursday night last. Tbe offer was at once accepted, and the advertisements of Albani's appearance at tbe matinee to-day withdrawn. In order to keep faith with season subscribers so far as possible, Aida was put in preparation tor Monday night, to replace Lohengrin, with Alban! as "Elsa," as had been intended, and not dcplicate the performance of last night. "what could i DO?" said Mr. Strackosch, last night, at the conclusion of the interview, during which-we obtained the above facts. "You see for yourself that she dees not draw the money. Last night, with her, there were f 1,450 in the house, and it her first appearance here. To night, without her, there are $2,500. It is tbe opera and not the singer that draws, than ever convinced of the tbe views that I expressed and 1 am more correctness of lact year in favor ot the general excellence of a presentation rather than the individual brilliancy of a single singer. Our public are becoming educated to it. Of course I have my sharo of complaint to make. Tbe public have not supported me as they ought. I have sunk $50,000 on the season, and my private means are embarrassed, but I never, like some managers, run ahead until I burst flat. I can make money and lose it and still be a gentleman. There shall be no scandal, every contract has been and shall be kept. I may be compelled to shorten the season somewhat, and the closing six weeks in New York mv not be what I hoped, but I shall keep faith with everybody." "Yes, tbe Joss of Albani's name will injure business, but with ?3,000 per week less expense I can afford to have $3,000 lef.s receipts, but the difference will not be that great." Aibani is one of the most perfect ladies 1 have ever known, es well as a thorough artiste." "She would even now sing for nothing forme to help the season out and continue her artistic triumph in her own country, and has been cryiDg all day over the turn matters have taken, She can not and should not break her contract, however. As for me, I can stand it. It lean not make money at opera I cau go at something else. I mav be poor, but shall still bo a gentle-, man."

THE PARTITION.

BY C. P. CRASCH. From the Independent.) As on the raging sea th6 pallor sleeps Within his narrow bed . , . . Secure, though knowing that the awful deeps Koar close beneatn nis neaa, lie steeps and breathes with gently heaving breatn; Vr midnight error Show The this partition between life and death rne Dunu aDyss oeiow. So wrapped In blest unconsciousness we Coat ITnon that larger sea. "Whose shores are birth and death, and take no note Of nrujslhllliv; Nor think how slight the walls 'twlxtjoy and pain. How near to madness roll The imagination of the unbalanced brain The breakers of the soul. The slender barrier on whose upper side Virtu s sincerely rest Be:ow the unstable wastes of life may hide, WhnsA it no thnntrht had euessed. Some sudden lapse from Wisdom's light and law Life's fort may undermine ; Some breach of passion or some secret flaw Let in tha Dressing brine. Beware, lest through the vessel's wave swept sides The encroaching sea prevails ; Then trust the stalwart keel. "Whae'er be tides, Uod's winds shall fill our sails. TUE AVALANCHE. BY JOHN A. DORGAN. As flake by flake, day after day, On cloudy summits far away. The snow is gathered silently, Until a whisier sets it free, So in the poet's heart Is stored Of thoughts and words a count'.ess hoard, Silently added, hour by hour. But dumb, iaert and void of power. Till when the hour appointed calls, And the far whimper lalntly falls, The echoing centuries along Thunders the avalanche of song. THE RAILROAD WAR, THE TWO GIANTS GRAPPLE. THR OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION OF WAR BK TWEKN THE B LT1M0RE AXD OHIO AND TOE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROADS FULL TEAT OF PRESIDENT GARRETT'S LETTER TO COL. SCOTT THE LATTEU'S REFLT THE PACTS OF THE CASK AS OFFICIALLY PRESh-MKU A LOSQ FULL AND A STRONG PCLL. The president of the Baltimore it Ohio railroad, John W. Garrett, on tbe 15th inst. addressed the following dispatch to President Scott ot the Pennsylvania road: Thomas A. Scott, president, Philadelphia: When Presidents Vanderbilt and Jewett and yourself visited me in Baltimore on the 12th of November last, tbe Baltimore A Ohio Companv cordially agreed to the abolishment of" all commissions on passepger and freight rates, and while decliningg to enter into your Saratoga agreement, assented to the establishment of rates by the New York Central, New York & Erie, and Pennsylvania companies, between Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Western cities, but no effort was made by the representatives of your combination to control the rates of the Baltimore A Ohio Company between Baltimore and the trade contere ot the West connected by its lines. On the opening cf its road from Baltimore to TtalttmorA fc Ohio ComDanv fixed 35 cents per 100 pounds as a proper and judicious rate ior gram, vmci fmTrthiooa freights, between Baltimore and Chicago, aud it was a sourseot regret to this company that this action was uoi uwujou atLftn rra tnur combination, and that since that period, after various spasmodic efforts tor much higher rates, disastrously low rates were from time to time made by your lines, for the apparent purpose 01 causing the Baltimore & Ohio Company to abandon the low dui, unuer mu iv-uui cin.aa awM-riin to its ludcment. reasons ble tariff it has just adopted. Alter three inritipq most disastrous to the large interests involved, I learn that your several companies nave, oy unanimous ..tiAn nrlthin a tnw d.IVS TtSSt. adopted the late originally fixed by the Baltimore & Ohio road between uaiiioiorf iuu namely 35 cents, and re established uniform rata. iotirnoTi this citv and Eastern cities. The Baltimore & Ohio Company ia happy in having the propriety and wisdom ot its action on the opening of its road to Chicago thus vindicated, ine uaiuuuro a, uuw Company had fixed rates from Baltimore to Chicago ana OTHER WESTERN POINTS, which, while low. were deemed by it judi cious. and not unremunerative. On the 21 inst. your representative offered in Balti more to make shipments to au western Doints at an enormous percentage or reduc tiap upon our rates thus established. - After being satisfied, from the continuance or tnis Qttarir that it was the desire of the Pennsyl vania Company to make tnese rates so un remunerative that the Baltimore 1 Ohio Comnanv would agree to mot-a ndvan es on rates from Balti more to the West, to an extent that would violate its policy and be unwise in its judgment, this company deemed it to be its duty to reduce tbe rates in Philadelphia to Western cities, so as to prove to your company that it was determined to maintain its reasonable and just policy in , t . t : . 1 reference to its rates tuiweeu .oamiuureauu the West. As you might very reasonably have anticipated, therates lor freight in Philadelphia became as unremunerative, and your market as demoralized as your agents has caused those in Baltimore to be. I am this day advlscnl that your company has resorted to the use of its present monopoly through the Camden & Amboy railroad, between Philadelphia and New York, to attempt to deprive the public and the Baltimore & Ohio road of the convenient use of that line by withdrawing the tickets for the through service by the Baltimore A Ohio road from your offices in New York unrl Vaw F.ncrlond- that TOD havfl also Or dered that the freight cars of the Baltimore & Ohio road shall not pass over your iracKS in the city of Philadelphia, according to usag, from the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore road to tbe points of delivery for the mornhnnfA and riAAlera of Philadsinhia. and that you propose to put additional trains of cars between wasmngton anu rsew xorx for the purpose of INTERFERING WITH THE BUSINESS of the Baltimore A Ohio Company which passes over its Washington branch and Western roads. After the experience of the past, I can scarcely believe that such action can meet the approval of yourself, tbe thoughtful executive of your great company, and am prepared for the present to attribute it to reckless eubordinates. I wish, however, to say that the Baltimore A Ohio Company is prepared as in December, 1873, to act promptly, effectively, and I know successfully, in maintaining its rights and interests, as well as those of tbe great states and cities which und the Baltimore A Ohio road and its connections the most valuable, economical and advantageous lines for their business and Inhirnnnru) with l'.HCtfrn fir 1 PH. TliA Balti. more A Ohio company has yielded to the demands of your present monopoly between philahelphia and New York by paying the enormous tribute which you exact of four cents per 100 pounds as a terminal charge on all freights going to and coming from the City of New York, as well as by paying you for 100 miles of transportation, while the actual distance is less than ninety miles. It has also submitted to the unsatis

factory representation of its interest in New York and New England, in connection with your monopoly between New York and Philadelphia. But it ia due to the grave interests involved to state to you that if

am correctly informed as to the ac tion of yOar company, and that you approve of that action, that ;tbe Baltimore A Ohio Company will feel at liberty to adopt, and will adopt measures in reference to its passenger nites and otherwise as will vindicate its ability to maintain its rights, and to secure equitauie ana tust relations for its business to all proper points. I will be glad to learn that the serious results that will follow to many interests from the course which will otherwise be forced upoa this company, and which no one will more sincerely regret than myself, may be averted by the prompt correction of the extraordinary alleged action of your company, ot which I have been advised. (Signed) John W. Garrett, President. Baltimore, Feb. 13, 1S75. On the reception of President Garrett's communication President Scott, of the Pennsylvania road, sent tbe following re ply: John W. Garrett, president Baltimore fc Ohio liaiiroau company, Baltimore, Md.: I have your remarkable message of Feb ruary 15, which was received too late to be answered yesterday, by reason of other en gagements which needed immediate atten tion, and a personal friend to whom you had telegraphed a copy ot your message to me wired you to that effect, and that I would reply this morning. It was with surprise, therefore, that I say your message to m published in the papers 01 10-aay. uat a mtie renectlon has satis tied me that it was intended, no doubt, more for the papers than for myself, and that this is, perhaps, the explanation of the unusual course which you have pursued. On the 12th of November last you agreed to all you state in vour tnessacrn. tin H vom fnrthtf ,rnu4 with Messrs. Vanderbilt, Jewett, Chapin, myself and other parties who were present, that while you were not prepared to commit your? en to what was known as THE "SARATOG A COMPACT," a you cau not naa time to examine it since your return, you were prepared to say that you would pledge your company to main tain tne rates made from time to time to and from Boston and New York, and that those from Philadelphia and Baltimore should also be maintained, the proper ceothose cities. Had this agreement been carried out by your company in good faith, no one would have had cause of complaint, but it is a notorious fact, well known to every man in railway life, that this has not been done, and abundant evidence of that fact can be given at any time. I think the unfair statement you gave of that interview to the associated Eress before the gentlemen who were present ad time to reach their homes on quick express trains was pretty good evidence that you bad no purpose of keeping tbe pledge so solemnly given, though we Btill hoped it.mlght be observed in accordance with your promise. Early in April last the Pennsylvania Railroad Company was informed that your officers were prepared to make an equitable and fair arrangement in relation to all traffic competition to the two companies, whether local or through, and that 15 was desired to divide the passenger business between Wash ington end Is ew ork by giving to each company two trains. A number of our officers, iucluding mvsel! and the officers ol the Philadelphia, Wilimington & Baltimore roaa, represented by Mr. JJinckly and Mr. Samuel M. Felton, went to your office in Baltimore, April 17, 1874, and there agreed, with your officers, upon an arrangements for trains, with a distinct, clear and honora ble understanding that THE RATES ON BCSLN'ESS competitive to the lines of both companies, whether for New York, Boston, Philadelphia or Baltimore, and whether local or through, should be at all times maintained in good faith, preserving the proper difference to Philadelphia and Baltimore. This we hoped your officers meant to carry out in good faith, as it was clearly the interest of the stockholders, sot only of our companies, but of the companies with which 'we transacted business that this should be done. It was just to the public, because at no time has this company desired to have rates beyond those which are lairly renumerative and which should be alike to all shippers, so that no discrimination would be made in favor of any party, and no drawback or commission allowed at any point. Every person in the country transacting business with the leading roads would be thus treated fairly, and mucbbetter satisfaction given than under the then existing systemv This agreement has been repeatedly violated by your officers within the past two months. Their attempts in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore to take business unfairly and in direct violation of your own personal agreement, have been so numerous as to leave this company no other remedy than to take care of its business on its roads in its own way, and to do what is right and fair to the public and to the roads running in connection with it. You may rest assured, and of this you are no doubt well aware, that your action in fixing a rate of thirty-five cents per hundred between Chicago and Baltimore had no influence whatever upon tbe action of tha other trunk lines. Your statement in regard to a monopoly across New Jersey comes with a bad grace from your company, when our New York and Philadelphia line has been open to the Baltimore A Ohio ON THE SAME TERMS PRECISELY as to all its own connecting lines, including the Philadelphia, Wilmington A Baltimore railroad. The rates which they complain of as extraordinary on the New York line for terminal expense are not sufficient to cover the actual cost of the work done for your business. Tho taking of the table from the terminus of our roads in New Jersey, putting cars on floats, transferring cars to and from New York, and find ing very expensive wharves and warehouses there and doing the handling and delivery of tbe trade, can not, in my judgment, be done, and the expenses incident thereto paid, tor the five cents per one hundred pounds chargod for the service. By reference to tbe reports of tbe company, you will see that the cost ot moving freight traffic on tho New York division, with grade of but 26 feet to the mile, is greater per ton per mile, than on any other portion of our lines, caused entirely by heavy ex penditures needed at the terminua, and the cost of receiving and delivering traffic. We desire no profit from any of our connecting lines on this terminal charge, and up to this time have not received a dollar. With your charge in Baltimore, over your own road, through the streets, for delivering cars to the consignees, of $2 60 to & per car. you at the same time requiring the ship pers to find their own warehouses and handle the business, it seems to me that you have but little right to complain of tbe charge wo make for tbe extraordinary ser vice and the extraordinary expense we in cur at New York in doing the work lor your lines. Your statement in regard to the protection ot tbe states end interests which you seem to think are under your charge, sound very peculiarly coming from the president of the Baltimore A Ohio road, who, for a period of over fifteen years, DECLINED TO ALLOW the Northern Central and Pennsylvania railroad companies, and the lines connect-1

Ing with them to and from the Western and Northern states, any facility by which they could receipt a passenger ever your road, check his baggage or bill a pound of freight

to and from the national ranital. T hint the time for damagogoiam. in raliwiy management, to build cp bersonal fams at the ex pense ol our neighbor, has passed. iu iouows some Drief statements exprewdve of the desires ol the Pennsylvania Company a to rates which has already appeared in the telegraph colums of the Sentinel. An examination of the reports of this company for the past year will convince every jair minded man that the average rates for transportation charged and received by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company over its lines are much below tbe average of those charged by tbe Baltimore A Ohio. It is true that we give to our local business moderate and fair rates, as compared with those you charge tbe people ot Maryland and Virginia. You have no foot of railway, or a dollar's worth of properly north of Baltimore, and yet you have enjoyed through business connections and arrangements for tbe interchange of traffic. There certainly never has been a time when you could not have bad the use of the properties between Baltimore and New York on reasonable and proper terms, and it saems to me most unfair that you should attempt by the course indicated In your message, to COERCE OTHER PARTIES into a policy that might result In great injury to the property tbey represent. The operations of this company are conducted with a view to serving the public at a price that will afford a reasonable remuneration to tbe stockhoMerson their investments. No policy could be permanent or advantageous which disregards such a purpose, Rnd it tbe meas ures to be adopted by the Baltimore A Ohio Railroad Company should produce the results that you anticipate, there will be no difficulty in understanding tho motives which prompted such a course. And I believe the railway officers, and the stockholders tbat may be injured, will hold you, as president ot the Baltimore A Ohio road, responsible for this policy of destruction. So far as this company is concerned it is abundantly able to take care of its interests and its stockholdsrs. The foregoing I believe to be a true statement of tbe questions presented by you. Their solution depends upon your own action as the representative head of one of the great corporations of the country. I trust your decision will besuch as may be wise and just to tbe interests you represent and tothoje of other parties that may in some degree be dependent upon your lines or be a fleeted by it. Tnos. A. Scott, President. RAILROAD ROBBERS. A GANG OF FREEBOOTERS IN OHIO THE RINGLEADERS CAPTURED FRANKLIN THE SCENE OF OPERATIONS. The Dayton Democrat of the 16th inst. gives the following account of the arrest of a band of railroad robbers in that vicinity: For the past year tbe officers of the Short Line railroad have, from time to time, been called upon to pay for quantities of goods shipped by their road and stolen wbile in transit. The skill of the officers and best trained detectives was baffled for a long time to find even at or about what point on tbe road the goods were 1; . ten, let alone catch the thieves. Some moviths ago, however, it was pretty satisfactorily concluded that tbe goods were taken from the cars at Franklin. This station affords very good opportunities for tbe business, as all trains stop there for water, and beside tht depot is somewhat out of town, and there is generrüy no night operator there. Employes of tho road were set to watch the thieves, but were unable to catch ny one, and, indeed, when men were on the watch there was immunity from the rascals, but, just as certain as a bad night came, and the men were not so vigilant as usual, a car would be broken open and robbed. On the night ot the 5th of November last a quantity of goods were stolen from a Merchants's Despatch car from New York consigned to a firm in Cincinnati. No trace of the thieves could be found, but tbe theft was committed, and after a time was entrusted to George A. Caswell, of this city, and Frank Mitchell, a detective employed by tbe C, II. A D. railroad. After obtaining a slight clue to tbe matter they followed it up for weeks, and a lew days since turned up a part of the goods. THE STOLEN GOODS RECEIVED consist of carpet, thread, coffee, tobacco, etc., altogether, f200 or f 300. Tbe carpet was or is ot a very peculiar pattern, and led to the detection of the thieves. They had not disposed of any of the stolen plunder about Franklin, but taken it to Germantown, Far triers ville and out in that direction. Some of the carpet was found on tbe floors of some of the best families of Germantown, where it bad been bought in good faith from peddlers, as supposed. Capt. John M. meatier, the marshal of Franklin, when all tbe plans were laid, arrested Garrett A. Schenck, a butcher of Franklin, while the detectives clapped down upon Thomas W. Smith, of Germantown, who were the ringleaders of the gang who did the stealing and run, the goods out of the neigh borhood and sold them. Schenck had bis preliminary examination before Esquire Lockwood yesterday, and was held in tbe sum ot 1,000 for his appearance before the Court of Common Pleas to answer tbe charge of burglary and .grind larceny, and in default ot bail was committed to jail. Smith was brought up here by Caswell last mgbt and lodged in jail, lie will be taken down again for trial. The Short Line Com pany estimates its loss during tbe past year from this source at at least 6,000. At the trial yesterday the state was represented by uon. l. w. ladings, who is the regular at torney for the Short Line Comnanv. whiln the lion. J. Kelley O'Neal appeared for the detense. I be gang is said to have been very large and thoroughly organized, but 1 is now completely broken up and dcmoral izsd. New York is the city of magnificent hotels. But few people know or understand, how ever, the qualities necessary to tbe manage ment cf a first-class hotel in New York. Great tact, rare judgment, fine nerve, and what the Rsv. Robert Collyer calls "true grit," all must bo displayed in the successful management. Sometimes all these fail, but perhaps tbe most notable instance of immediate and permanent success is found in the steady and increasing popularity of the Grand Central hotel, on Broadway, New York. Combined with its management, to a great degree, the Grand Central owes, its fine success to the liberal plan of adjusting its rates according to the location of the room occupied. This, with a bill of fare hardly equaled by any hotel table In New York, six meals per diem, is secured at the rate Of from $3 to 91 per day, according to choice in selecting the floor desired. New York correspondence. The arithmetic man of the Boston Post says that, "of tho seven daily papers in New York that supported the republican party when it came into power, six are now out spoken in their anti-republican sentiments. and the seventh manifests a very weak at tachment for the party in power." The correspondent ot the London Times says it is proposed to erect at Copenhagen a bronze statue of Hans Christian Andersen, wno win enter on his seventy-first year in April. The subscription is fixed at a trifling sum, in order that all classes and even children may take part in it.

HOW IT HAPPENED. BY JCHW HAY. 1 pray you, pardon me, E3sle, And smile that frown away That dims the light of your lovely faceAs thunder clouds the day. Before I thought, twit done And those great gray eyes flashed bright and cold, Like an icicle in the sun. I wan thinking of the summer When we were boys and girls. And wandering in the blossoming wools, And the gay winds romped with your curls : And vou seemed to me the same little Kirl I kk-sed in the elder path. I kisod the little girl s Hps, and alas! I have roused a woman's wrath. There was not so much to pardon. For why were your lips so red? The blonde fell in a shower of gold IVom the proud provoking head. And the beauty mat flashed fro en the splendid And played from the tender mouth, IT? ovef rny foul ,lke warm, sweet wind That blows irom tbe fragrant south. And where, after all, is the harm done ? I believe we were made to be gay. And all of youth not given to lJv e is vainly squandered away. And strewn through life's labors, Like gold In the desert sands, AeJt 8 7ltt and sighs and vows And the clasp of clinging hands. And when youareold and lonely. I memory's magic shrine oa will seeon your thin and wasting hands. Lkegems, ibose kisses of mite. And wheu yoa muse at even in At the sound of some vanisiid name. The ghost of my kisses shall touch your lips And kindle j our heart to name. LITTLE BROWN ACOUV. From the Youth's Companion. Little brown Acorn swnngon a tree. While the leaves turned yeliowand red. "Many a day 1 have been here," f aid he, "And so, aa I'm tired as tired can be, 1 think 1 wxll.go to bed." Little brown Acorn hid urder a gray Mossed rock on the side of the hill, I never have heard that he's gone awav: Bo should you look there this very day." I m sure you wbJ find him stUl. Little brown Acorn urjder the snow, When tbe Winter days are come, W hlie the winds blow high and the windj blow low, While the mornings dawn and the sunsets 20. Stays In his chosen home. Little brown Acorn raught will befall Till the stormy months are o'er; 5'it-wh1e,nln l,i?.oat8 lhe robins shall cal-, TF.llllIt ap nl8 bead 80 Kreen and so tall, l Jitle brown Acorn no more-

THE CHICAGO AND SOUTH ATLANTIC RAILROAD. MEETING AT TnE BOARD OF TP.ADE ROOMSADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT PKOSPECrs OF THE ROAD, ETC. There was a meeting yesterday at 2 p. m. at the Beard of Trade room? of citizens of Marion and Hamilton counties to confer with the president of the Chicago fc South Atlantic railroad. Prot E. T. Cox was elected president of the meeting, and Dr. H. Moore, of Sheridan, secretary. President T. S. Haj'mond, of Monticello, addressed the meeting, which was composed of a good delegation of the substantial citizens along the route in the counties mentioned, lie spoke of the encourasirg prospects of " the road, and of its advantages to the state, and to this city in particular. One hundred thousand dollars have already been expended, and the road Irom Chicago to Delphi, 105 miles, is now under contract. Between forty and fifty miles of tbe road at the Chicago end is now graded and ready for the iron. All the required subsidies have been obtained from Delphi to Chicago, excepting in a part ot Jasper county, which will soon be granted. He said that tbe company DID NOT ASK A DOLLAR until tbe road was completed through said counties. The chief object of the meeting, . he said, was to allow a general consultation with the friends ot tbe road along its route in this part of the state. Mr. Ridenour, the former president of the old road project, also briefly addressed tbe meeting. He detailed, somewhat, the history of the old organization of this company. He thought it was now only a quesiion of a few months or years as to the building ot the road. Dr. H. Moore, ot Sheridan, stated that he represented a section of country lying Immediately between the I. P. fc Chicago, and the I., C. & L, railroad, and that tbe people were anxious for the road and would do their whole duty in the matter. Prof. Cox also briefly addressed the meeting, in regard to the value of the road as to its possible aid in developing somo mineral regions hitherto inaccessible. The meeting previous to ad journment also listened to remarks by B. t Ldwaigfy .George Jeters. and R. G. Kor- - cheval, of'Boxly and by W. C. Clarke, of West field; Mr. Harvey and others, of Carmel; and Dr. Kerr, of Broad Ripple. All ot these latter gentlemen fenoke to the same effect as did the secretary. The general expression of the meeting was favorable to the building of the road, and to the pledging of subsidies by all the people to be benefited by its construction. MURDERED BY A FRIEND. THE FATAL, RESULT OF A FOOLISH . QUARREL ABOUT A PIPE. The St. Louis Republican ot the löth inst. gives the following tragedy near that city: A terrible affair occurred at 9:30 o'clock on Saturday evening, in the saloon ot J. R. Porter, at Carsonville. about nine miles from this city, on the natural bridge plank road, tbe circumstances of which seem to be as follows: Daniel Manly and several others entered the saloon about 9 o'clock, on their way home from St. Louis, where they had been disposing of some produce. Manlvaddressed Fred (loss, a young man who was sitting in the saloon, and with whom he was -acquainted, asking him to lend him a pipe. Young Goss did so, and Marjly smoked a pipefull of tobacco, alter which the party took several drinks. Direcily Fred. Goss asked for a return of the pipe, and Manly denied having it. Fred, insisted that it be returned, but Manly persisted in his denial. David Goss, an older brother of Fred's, now interfered and told Manly to return the Dipe, but Manly still refused. David then went out and found the pipe in Manly 's wagon. He came in and asked Manly whether ha meant his part of the transaction in fun or In earnest. If In earnest, it was little better -than stealing. Manly took offense at this last remark, and told David not to repeat it,but be did. Manly advanced toward David, who stood up and drew a Distol from hia pocket. Manly said he was a cripple, but he was not afraid ol the pistol, and was con tinuing to advance when bystanders interterred. David, however, kept his pistol in his hand, and when the" excitement had somewhat subsided. Manly advanced upon him and pushed him back against the wall. David then raUed his pistol and fired twice, each ball striking Manly in tbe abdo men, lantv aid that he would stay with him as long as he could, when David sirnrk him with his pistol. He then staggered back, fell and died in a few minutes .Goss said he was sorry for what had occured, tut had warned Manly not to touch him. An Inquest was held on Manly yesterday, and the above facts were elicited. A lare number of witnesses were examined, but thin was the substance of their testimonv. Th Jury held Goss responsible for the shooting, . ana no was taken into custody.