Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 March 1875 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL TUESDAY, MARCH 2 1875.

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LAURA. BT JOHN O. 8AKC. O hateful death r my angry spirit cries. -Wbo Uiut eouldst lake my darlLoK from my rtorcudlng her rjeauty In aeptuchral night; 0 cruel I unto prayers, and team, and signs Inexorable." "Hash!" my soul rt-plle. "Be last, 0 itricken heart !-the mortliunre Whiih vo call 'death' la birth to higher life Rafe In the Father' mansion In the axle Bhe bt'fee thy coming, only gone before. A little while, that at thy parting rratb, Thon may'at endure a lighter pain of death. And e adller pws beyond this earthly thore, for, with thy Laura calling from on high. It can not sure, be very hard to die! LOVE SONG. BY A. M. WELLINQT0I. Dreaming of love and fame, sweetheart, 1 dreamed tbat a sunbeam shone For a wavering instant, and where It played A hundred flowers had grown. 1 fife sunshine fll" ting o soon away ur. - Kau h.Hat tri V( II m&: An i the flowers that bloomed in the world or aye Were tne aoaga that I wrote for thee. Waking to love and life, sweetheart, T mv fu'r flowers fade: Wht'AKtill from the raeasurele1 heavens above The n ckerli g "unshlne played. The Cowers filing from alt men a sunt u'cr.thn snnn thev had heard from me; And the light that illumined the world to them vh atio&le (nine iroru into i THE OLD YEAR-1874. From the Spectator. a t dn.i of nlzht the year Ilea dorn to die. Wlih shrond of snow above his Ice cold breast. Unwept expire be. but lull many a Mgn From neons that torrow deeply, lastingly, I j heaven for those he hurried to thslr rest. Mid surge and storm, "La Plata's" gallant crew Met on the mighty deeo ttatir summons home; While thev who loved them with a love how trrn lleard In the blast that, shrieking, round them a voice which prophesied their hour bad come. The cap of some held yet one horror more, An lule of fire amid the ocean rose ; No rwücnine shlD. no near and friendly shore. Ha veil from the raging flames the hundreds four Witon-i peaoeful lives have met such tragic close. Our isle, too, hath lis dangen; perils dread log at each step our unsusDecUne way. The living on a Journey start; the dead Rv scores are on a longer Journey led.. To wait, not Christmas, but the Judgment Day. And oh! how many souls by sudden call. Through fell disease, old age, or suffering sore. This rear has summoned hence! the tears that fall By beds of death, on funeral bier and pall, Cease not one hour till timeshall be no more. Father I to Thee we bow. Thy stern decrees Inscrutable to us are. This we Know: Thou numberedst each precious hair of these' We mourn : Thou governest fire, blast and seas Therefore we trut, though our beloved He low, NEWS AND GOSSIP. The Old Catholics of Baden-Baden ando Pforzheim have abolished auricular con feesion. Nick Biker, the loading grain dealer in the Des Moines valley, bought 40,500 bush els of grain last month. The Arcadian fays that the new congress will be an economical one, as It will dispense Kith Schurz and Butler. Don Alfonso has restored the tilpsnds o the Spanish clergy. The salary of a biehop is 240: that of a canon, 120: the lower clergy receive tili smaller. Hans Von Balow's visit to thia country la in a way to take a practical thane, as Mr. II. D. Palmr goes to Earope shortly to con suit with Balow on the subject. The day fixed for the Installation of the Priuoe of Wales as grand master of the Free Masons U the 2Sth of April. The Inauguration will take plao3 either In the Alert Hall, Crystal Palace or Alexandra Palace. "Ths Brotherhood of the Presentation," a ne w order, ha ben formed in Ireland under the direct sanction of the Pope. They state that their object U to visit the sick and teach tbe poorest class of children. The brotherboco has already established Itself near Cork. "Senator Johnson, before leaving Nashville, presented Miss Martha Bennett, daughter of his personal friend. Capt. It. A. Bennett, an elegant gold watch, valued at fZ0 The present was forwarded to that roang lcdy at Gallatin last Saturday. Nashville Banner. Apology was the greatest winner on the English turf last year, being credited with ,C12,SG0, while George Frederick and Atlantic, who came next, won for their owners (3)75 and 5.025 respectively. Adventure leads tte list of winning sires with 21,000, followed by Blair Athol, with 16,000. M The Society of Biblical Arctfeology of England has formed weekly classe a for the study of Assyrian and Egyptian writing. Elementary annual have been prepared by the appointed teachers, who are the Rev. A. II. fcayce for the Assyrian, and the Uev. P. G. Page lienouf tor the Egyptian language. Vice-President Wilson has kept an auto graph album in which he has -obtained the signatures ot all with whom ho has sat in the Ssnate. accompanied by tho dates of their birth, and the number is now 260, embracing many of tne greatest and some of the worst ot the public men ol this eventual generation A Mr. Callahan, ol Keene's Station, near Wateriown, N. Y had $S0O deposited in the bank of George F. Paddock A Co., at Watertown, and. when ho heard of the failure of the bank, be fell dead. Iiis wife has sine? died, her death being attributed to the double shock. Paddock's bank was "busted" by an operation in the Chicago Board ot Trade. There are now lour Reformed Episcopal churches in Chicago. Services are held in old St. John's Church, corner of Lake street and St. John's place; In Emanuel Church, "Hanover and Twenty seventh etreeta; in Christ Church, corner Michigan avenue and Twenty fourth street, and in the Baptist Church on Lock street, near tho Union Roll lng Mills. How much is your stick candy?" Inquired a boy of a candy dealer on Tuesday. "Six sticks for five cents." Six sticks for five cents, eh? Now lem'me see. Six sticks for five cent?, five for four cent, four for three cents, three lor two cents, two tor one cent, -and one for notbin.' I'll take one." And be walked out leaving the candy man lu a state ct bewilderment. Itiseaid that a few days since forty car loads ot cattle were so badly frozen on k!ow i.iuvine freight train on the middle - division ! the New York Central railroad, wfcith cirriedthem but forty-two miles in eighteen hours, that the drovers refused to have anything to do with them, and informed the Central authorities they would hold them responsible for their value, A daughter of Mr. James Gray, of Parksvilie. Sullivan county, iew ork, was recently the victim of a peculiar accident WLÜ6 combing her hair in front of a lookIn? ir'ass. her older eister called her atten tion to something, when che turned her

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placement ot some coro, ner ow remained almost In the same position. The industrial mission settlement wnicn the free and reformed Presbyterian churches of Scotland propose to found at the southern end of LakeNyassa, as a memorial to Liv ingstone, la to be placed unaer me casr oi Mr. E. D.Young, R. N., who commanded the Livingstone search expedition. At arecent public meeting held in Glasgow, 5,000 of the required 10,000 were subscribed. Abetter house Is now constructed lor 3,500 than was built six years ago for $4,000. Indeed, we have seen houses recently nnlsbed, the contract prices of which were 2,800, which were as good as houses costing f 1.000 five years ago. All of this advantage, or nearly til. Insures to the houseowner or small capitalist, who not only want3 a cheap house, but wants a good one also. The cheap houses of 1875 is a great deal better every way than the cheap dwel ling oi 1S70. It is better arranged, Detter constucted, and has many more conveniences for the same money. isan xrancisco Bulletin. Harrison Gray Djar, one of the claimants for the honor of inventing the electric te.egraph, died at Rhinebeck, N. Y., recently in his seventieth year, lie always claimed tbat bo erected bis line on Long Island ten years before Proessor Morse began to talk about hi. Dr. Bell gave the following accountof bis invention in an injunction suit: "I was engaged with Harrison Gray Dyar for many months in 1843, and otten con versed upon the subject of his having invented an electric telegraph, and recollect his speaking of haying placed a line of wire at an elevation around the race course at ixng Island to a length which satisfied him that there were no practical difficulties in carrying it from New York to Philadelph'a, which, he stated to me, had been his intention. My understanding, derived fiom his converse ior, was that the electric spark was to be sent from one end of the wire to the other, and that the spark would leave its mark upon some chemically prepared paper." Mr. Dyar was a brother of Mr. J. W. Dyar, of Romeo, Mich. L. R." tells the iollowlng in her last Commercial letter: Äs we steamed out of Greenfield, Mr. Hendricks took a seat beside me, and remarked: MMr. Hackleman, who is familiar with this 'part of the country, has just been telling me an incident connected witn lienry uiaya visit to xnaiana many years ago. It was long before there was a railroad, and his journey partook of the character of a triumphal pilgrimage, welled at every point by the citizens wbo flocked from far and near to get a look at him. Hereabouts, his retinue consisted of six carriages and a mounted guard of honor, ot forty men, augmented considerably at Greenfield by a delegation to escort him to Indianapolis. As the cavalcade was leisurely proceeding hither, a man and woman were observed bringing a large tub and a gourd oat of a farm house, to the side of the road, where they stopped and made signs for the procession to halt. On closer view they were found to be an old man and a vener able woman. The latter asked if "Harry Clav" was In the crowd, and said she and her husband wanted to see him. Mr. Clay, who was in the first carriage, rose to his feet and,liitlng hi hat as courteously a If hs had been in the pre; eace of royalty, saluted them. The woman exclaimed that she and her "old man" were from "Kaintuck," and they bad always said that if "Harry Clay" 6ver passed that way they would offer him a drink of their best cider. With this she dipped the gourd into the tub, and, passing it to hor husband, he handed it to Mr. Clay, who, wiih another courtly bow, quaffed the delicious baverage tor it was as delicious as the rieb, sweet juic of good apples could be made. The gourd was then reniiod and pass 3d from one to the other ot the goodlv company, who, as they moved on, gav three hearty cheers to thair Kentucky friends. A BROTHEL ROMANCE. THE rOUBLE LEQACT OF A CINCINNATI UN KNOWN SOME STP.ANGK REVELATIONS. A Columbus (O.) correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer tells the following story of strange developments in that city: LetU3 83e. It was eight or ten years ago perhaps longer that many of our beat peo pie there in Cincinnati were tnrown into a fever of excitement over an auction sale of the jewels, and plate, and bilouterie. nd pictures, ana nanasome mrnuiire ot a deceased "landlady." yociety was all acoz to tret a peep at the lux urioui appointments of Mme. Metcalfe's mansion of pleasure, and to become owners of tbe diamonds and rubies and pearls which bad sparkled on tbe mad a trie's well-rounded person during life. The things brought al most fabulous prices, ana were either care fully stowed awav, cr appiiod to honorable usj, to remind meir owners oi now nice a thing it is to be naughty. Tbe dragons of virtue who would have been tho first to heave a stone at the madame daring her litetinie, when she was dead eagerly bought up her plate and her pictures, her diamonds aad her brocatslle furniture, to be able to point to it and think how much better it wen in their bands than in hers. Years before tht-n, when the madame was a young eirl, claiming kinship with one of the proudest families iu Ken tucky, she camo to Columbus to live. She always said that her ruin had been accom plished by a man who lived here, and with the strange love mat so oiten tmrns in a woman's heart she would be near tho man. Henry Broderick was a rake, a gambler, and tbe outcast son ot one ot tbe old families here, and be was known lor years as the madame'a 'friend" .after she had opened her establishment here. A child was born to thftn in course of time, t. n or twelve years later. After that tbe madame bad removed to Cincinnati and became known, and in time became A DA7.ZLINO AN0NYMA, recognized by every one. And still later, when she had sickened and was dying, Henry Broderick went down there and was married to her. Some said that it was sim ply in order to become her heir and get her money ,bnt otbers,and among them the mad' ame herself, believed it was to legitimaizs their child. Well, the madame died, and there wasn't much left after paying off her debts. Then lienry died a few years later, leaving nothing nut an annuity or ?200 i year that be had Inherited from Dr. Good ale's estate, and the child was lost sight of until the other day, and only then by his appearance in a conrt of law. It seems that Dr. Goodale, in making his will, provided that Jienry 13 rod erlck, his nephew, should bo paid f300 t year during lile, and that the annuity should, in case of his death, go to his heirs. "brothers, sisters, or otherwise," were the words, until they should become of age Now, this son, William Henry Broderick, comp into court and enters suit for the annuity for thepast four years, claiming that he is the lesal heir of Henry Broderick, and as such emitlsl to it. But the thin;; doesn't sf pp here. If he ftstabluaes hi claim to the anuuity, he establishes it also to heirship iu the Ooouaie estate. That estate is worth, probably, a million and a half dollars todiy, and he will be entitled to share in the ons-Qfteenth of it to which Broderick's mother was entitled. He would oe entitled to this f 100,000, or just $25,000. And thus the child thai was legitimized on bis mother's djiüg bed to gratny tbe sordid desires of his fatber is likely to establish his claims to a , bandswoie little fortune thereby.

THE MORNING STREET.

BT J0H9 JAUX3 PIATT. Alone I walk the Morning Street, Filled with silence vague and sweet: All seems as strange, as still, as dead. As If a numbered vears had fled, Letting the noisy Babel He Breathless and dumb against the sky. The light winds walks with me, alone. Where the hot day Came-llke was blown. Where the wheels roared, the dust was beat: The dew is In the Morning Street t Where are the restiech throng that pour Along this mighty corridor While the noon shines? the hurrying crowd Whose footsteps mnke the city loud? The myriad races, hearts tnat oeat o more in the deserted street 7 Those footsteps, in the dreaming maze, Crom thresholds of forgotten days; Those faces brig men rrom tne years In rising suns long set in tears; Those hearts far In the past they beat. Unheard within tne aiorniog street i A city of the world's cray prime, I)8t in some desert far from Time. Where noiseless aces, eliding through. Have only sifted sand fend dewYet a mysterious nana or man Lvlnz on all the hanntod plan. The passions of the human heart (uicaeniDg tne maroie measi oi an were not more strange to one wno nrsi IToon ita ghostly silence barst Thn this vast quiet where tbe tide Of Life, uphe ved on either tide. Hang trembling, reaay soon 10 neat W ith human waves tne Morning ireet i Ay, soon the glowing morning flood ftreaas tnrougn tne cnarmea soiiiuae: This Mlent stone, to music won, Khali murmur to tbe ils:ng cun ; The busy place, in dust and beat. t-mau rubii witn wneeis ana swarm who ice The Arachne-threads of purpose stream Unseen within the morning gleam: The life shall move, the death be plain ; The bridal throng, tne lunerai train, Together, face to face shall meet And pass within the Morning Street! PANIO LESSONS. THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.. THE CAUSES OF THE FRESENT DKIKKSBIon CONSIDERED THK STYLR OF LTVINO NOW AS COMPARED WITH THAT OK 1560 THE PRICES OP PRODUCE COMPARED A RS VITAL OP TRADE PROSPECTS. Reviews of the causes which have pro duced the present stagnation in business are of especial value at the present time, as they serye ta remind the people of the country of the particular danger which must be avoided In any attempt to return to our former prosperity. These causes, and the practical application which may be made of their existence, are well summarized in an editorial in the Cincinnati Gazette. It says: Taking the business of the country as a whele, it has been, for several years past, unprofitable. This has not been owing near so much to a falling off in the volume of trade cr a deficiency in those branches which underlie eur industries, as to other causes viz: a high level of expenses and shrinkage In values. These are the main causes of the depression, so called, that has prevailed, and the losses that have been encountered in trade. In taking a prospective view, there fore, with reference to business, we must look into the past, for. unless the causes of depression are removed, we can. not expect an improvement; while on tne otner nana, if those causes are out of the way .prosperous times may again be confidently anticipated. The war, with its 1c flat ion of paper money, elevated the whole business ol the country to a high level. Profits were large and easily made. From the extreme depression of 1S6T there was a rapid reaction, and as tne value or paper money was Increased, prices of commodities advanced, wages were increased, and tho cost of living, in the aggregate, more than doubled. It really seemed as if the country was prosperous beyond aprectdent,whenf in fact, it was the reverse. It could not be otherwise with over a million men in tho field engaged in destroying life and property. The deception resulted from the iutlMion of paper currency. Starting with two hundred millions of paper money, the volume was rapidly increased until it reached over one thousand millions. The greenback beicg a legal tender fcr debts of all kinds whether contracted in the past or present, It took the place of gold, but its value destined in proportion es its volume increased. The paper dollar was at one time as low as 40 cents in gold, but still it ws3 called a dollar, and in all transactions it wa the measure of value. Thus as gold declined prices of commodities advanced and profits were large and easy. The sudden accumulation of nCTICTOCS WEALTH. led to great liberality in tbe line of expendi tures and extravagance in the style ot living, which embraced, and we may add, demoralized all classes. This all worked very well until the topmost round of the ladder cf inflation bad been reached. People did not lay thslr profits aside to bo drawn upon under adverse circumstances. They acted generally aj it we had entered upon a new era which was to have no end. The cjst ol living increased two, three, and fonr hundred per cent. This was largely du to tbe ad vanco in prices cf commodities, but sua more to a hljher style. This will be readily perceived by any one who will contrast the style of to-day with tbat of 1860. The const querce was the family that lived very comfortably in 1860 on 91,000 a year could not make both ends meet in 18oG on $3,000. It is much easier to increase expenses than it is to cut tbem down. The one is as easy as rolling off a log. The other is as hard as rolling a very heavy log, Tho family onca accustomed to living on five thousand dollars a year finds it dilhcult to get along on three thousand. Prices may be down, but style is the trouble. There has been a downward movement, however. Necessity has com pelled a reduction, out sun in this line a good deal of the inflation remains. Much remains to be done in tbe way of getting back to bard pan, bo far as living expenses are concerned. Inlndnstrial branches there has been no choice. The shrinkage in val ues was even more rapid than tbe previous inflation. While tbe volume of business was fair, the decline in prices more than offset profits. THE APPARENT PROSPERITY of the period of inflation caused expansion In buildings and machinery, in railroads, in mines, and in mercantile facilities. The whole business of the country was vastly overdone. In all rewpects we advanced more in ten years than would have been the ease In twenty years upon a goxd basis. The beginning ot contraction, or the end of in flatlon, brought everybody face to lace with this stern' reality. The inevitable result tbe country has fully experienced. The shrinkage has been so severe that it is out of all proportion to the contrac tion of the currency. The latter has been comparatively moderate, while the former has been sweeping and crushing. Thi has paralyzed speculation and enterprise. Men have been trying to hold their own, and there has l)ceu little disposition to venture Into new fields, or risk anything in uncertainties. This is human nature. It is diffi cult to rally a whipped army. Men who see their wealth shrinking by a process at ence Inevitable and uncontrollable, are very apt to lose their grip, and to fall Into a state b'rdering on panic. This state of things have been aggravated by the financial doctors, who have bean proposing desperate remedies, one side insisting upon contraction and resumption, and another upon an expansion of paper money. The middle ground, however, was decided upon,

and that is to let the currency substantially

aione. mis secures repose at least, and brings us to consider the present outlook. We have said that the shrinkage In values has been more rapid than the expansion, and greater than the contraction of tbe currency. The fact is, prices, on an average, are down to a gold basis. This is more unnatural than was the expansion when it reached Its climax, and is to be attributed largely to a panic feeling, but partly to overproduction. Manufactured goods are now below the cost ot production; not only that, but they are lower, in a great many cases, than in 18G0, when gold was at par, and the volume of paper money did not exceed two hundred millions. The high irice of hogs and their product Is owing to a argely increased and steadily increasing foreign demand. THE CROP IS LARGER than It was In I860. Corn and oats are high, partly because of short crop. With reference to agricultural products generally prices are favorable, being maintained at comparatively good figures by a foreign demand. The crop of wheat was very large, and this account for its relative cheapness. The products ot iron are all down to aute-war, gold prices. This is also true ot dry goods and hardware generally. Machine made boots and shoes are as low as in 18G0, but custom made," socalled, are more than twice as high. Custom made clothing is also much higher than in 1SG0. altbouzh materials &re verv low. This is owin? to high wags, which have not shrunk in that department. It Is thus seen that the bottom, which was lost sight of in 1802, when the paper kite carried everything np, has again been reached. From the topmost to the bottom round of the ladder the leap wa3 fearful to the participants, but it has been accomplished, and the days ot shrinkage are gone. Meantime the agricultural branches of the country are ia good condition. For hogs alone over two hundred millions of dollars have been disbursed since the 1st of November from the packing points alone.and the product of the ho2 is being taken largely for foreign consumption at lull prices. At tbe same time, the tact is not to be lost sight of that three-fourths of the paper money Issued ia still outstanding, while gold is only fourteen ooints aboe nr. Tumnhia tnn. are also abundant at Ul the commercial centers. In fact everything in the financial line favors speculation and expansion, while prices of most staple articles, especially manufactured goods, are tquarely on a gold basis. The business outlook, then, is favorable to a general revival ol trade, and the close of 1875 will no doubt mark a very decided improvement as compared with 1874. EXPLORING THE NILE. COL. LONO'S AVIOATION OF THE VICTORIA NYANZA AN UNKNOWN PART OP THE NILE. The New York Tribune contains the fol lowing summary of the work performed in Africa by Col. Long's expedition: There has been received by Chief Justice Daly, president of the American Geographical So clety, a letter from Col. Charles C. Long, chief of staff under Col. Gordon in the army of the khedive of Egypt. Col. Gordon writes concerning his navigation of the Victoria Nyanza, which he claims tobe one of the sources of the Nile, and his observations in the country of Uganda. The letter is dated at Gendokoto, Central Africa, Oct. 26, 1874, and its most important parts are tne louo wine: un the 4th of ADril I - calved an order from Col. Gordon to visit MTse at Uganda, carry him present?. and acquaint myself with the country. The rainy eeaaon had commenced and the always dimcult route was mads more difficult a ill. Fiity -eight davs of painful marching and I arrived, weary and footsore, upon tbe hills of Uganda. The palace of thegreat Alrican Klrjg M'Tte ficed me upon tne tirow or a hill öCO naes distant. The roads before me were broad and well swept. The mountains tbat tood between me and the Victoria NyanzJ.the vast banana forest?, the flat, pestiferous marsh of Unyoro, were maeea novel sights, 'ine bsrbaiic pomp and circumstance with which MTse received me was both ludicrons and cruel. He is thirty-five years of age, tall, and bears himself every inch a king. Ho has a good figure. I can hardly reconcile bis character with his barbarity. I remained 29 day 8 a3 the tuest of M'Tte, and my frequent visits to him were honored by the klllui of eight or ten of his subjects on each occasion. Although thus cruel, I claim for M'Tse a higher intelligence than that shown by any other African prince, ne, however, resisted my desire to return by tbe Victoria Nile. But I was stubborn, and ultimately succeeded. On July 14, although suffering from long continued dystentery, I visited the Victoria Nvsnza, three hours to Marchison creek. 1 was met by 1,000 of M'Tae's warriors IN CANOES OF BARK of a native tree, eewed together and ornamented by th9 head and antlors of the tetel. Down Marcnison creek and out upon the lake I was escorted by this numerous suite. I found tbe lake 25 to SO feet in depth, and from 12 to 15 miles across. It might be double tbat dlutance. And although I visited the right shore I found no traces of shells and no tide marks to disturb this one source of the Nile. I had intended to pass from I he lake via Kipon Falls to Urondogani. I bad to abandon the project and return to M'Tse, to whom I agtin made my adieus. I left lor Urordrgani the 19th of July. After much sullaring I arrived, after a march of 20 davs, when under ordinary circumstances it could be accomplished in three or four ua.'-s. The native chiefs optc6ed me because I had cloeed the wall to Zanzibar, and had received the assurance ol M'Tse tbat all ivory should in future pass via Gondokoro, and down the Nile. On the llth of August, in north latitude 1 30", a high mountain on my Tischt, I entered a large basin cr lake. The bed of the river here loses itself. I was beset by storms, and without compass. I was 48 hours struggling to find my way in this lake, which is at leant 20 to 25 miles wide, wholly unable to perceive land on either side. Finally, tbe storm abating, I again resumed my lourney. This lake seems not alone the reservoir of the waters ot tbe Lake Victoria Nyanza, but of the waters of the plateau, the great watershed extending southward. Almost perpetual rains (except in July and August) fall and fill this basin to an immeasurable depth, and when the waters get too high tbey break through the channel, and, perhaps, this accounts for the periodical inundation of the Nile. August 17 I arrived near M'ltoodi, where I was attacked by 400 men ot Keba Iiegas la canoe. I defeated them alter a severe fight. Tbe river then from Karuma to Foweira to Urondogani is navigable even for ships like the Great Eastern. Resuming my march northward the 15th of September I arrived at Gondokoro tbe 18th of October. The results of my expedition were in Uganda I had induced M'Tse to close the road to Zanzibar in the interest of Egypt's monopoly of ivory. I had found a new route to Gondokoro. 1 had explored the Victoria Nyanza. I had navicatd the unknown Nile from Forweira to Karuma Fall. M'Tse gave me information of Lieut. Cameron, who was there July 19. 1S74, still at UjijL The associated coal companies have not yet concluded their arrangements for next season's trade, but a prominent officer of one company says that the companies intend to fix the price ot coal during the coming season as high as providence will permit, and as low as necessity ehall compel them.

THE HOOSIER MOBILIER STEALING BY WHOLESALE, WHICH SKEXI TO BE THE STATE OF AFFAIRS SO FAR AS UNEARTHED AT THE SOUTHERN PRISON BHCXKR, LIKE IRWIN AND MANT OTHER SUBJECTS OF INVESTIGATION, TOO ILL TO APPEAR CAPTIOUS COURSE OP THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE PRIVATE HOUSE BUILT OUT OF THX STATU MATERIAL AND WITH CONVICT LABOR RICHER DEVELOPMENTS TO COME. From a Special Correspondent of the Sentinel. jEFFERsoNvnxE, Feb. 24. The investigating committee appointed to examine into tbe affairs of the State Prison South met at the Bruner House in this city to-day. Senator Johnson and Representatives Heller and Bellows, met at 10 o':lock In the forenoon and began the examination of witnesses, Mr. Briscoe cting as clerk of the committee. In the afternoon these gentlemen were joined by Representative Leeper, andrster in the day by Senators Frledley and Howard. The first named members of the committee bad examined three or fonr witnesses when Senators Friedley and Howard arrived in the room. Tho testimony of these men are given below. They had every appearance of being honorable and honest men, and the response to every question made matters look more and more damnable to Shuler, proving the charges made against the warden that be

has been building nouses for himself with convict labor and täte material beyond a doubt. The way thiogs were going did not euit tbe eenator fiom Scott, and he proceeded to Inaugurate a row, the seeming purport of which was to break up tbe investigation. Previous to this Senator Howard made some objections to the manner in which the investigation was being conducted, but upon a statement of facts he acquiesced and expressed himself as anxious to go on as any one. Mr. Howard, it must be confessed, was seemingly none too willing to make the investigation, though fudging from his course when he first came Into tbe committee room, to bis credit be It said that when tbe corruption and WRETCHED CONDITION OF THE TRISON FINANCES was shown up to the committee Senator Howard dropped tbe partisan feeling for tbe time being. Senator Frledley's course does not impress one so favorably as that of his colleague. Seeing the damaging effect of the evidence he charged that the House had appointed iuieo democrats upon its own committee, and took exception. When it was shown him that one of tbe House committee, Representative Leeper, waa an independent, and bad never been a democrat, the eenator took another tack, and said tbat Warden Sbuler should be allowed a representation before the committee either in person or by his attorney. He held, in effect, that an official charged with peculation, corruption and tbe shameful waste of the state's money, should be given the unheard of privilege of setting some pettifogger upon the committee to throw sand in tbe eyes of members and defeat the object of the investigation. Had the senator lived in the time of that spotless and much abused individual, Judas Iecarlot, and bad both gentlemen belonged to the same party, let us imagine what line of policy the senator would have adopted had be been called upon to invest!eate tbe celebrated transactions wherin the first named individual received tbe thirty pieces of silver. Should wo suppose our modern solon to have acted the same with Mr. Iscariot as he does with Shuler he would, no doubt, have contended in bis feeble war and manner that Judas was perfectly justified in taking the swag, on tho ground that his salary was not snfncient t pay him lor his trouble in tramping over Galiilee ; that his tandal leather was worn out in tbe service of his master, and the state was entitled to reimburse him, and furthermore that he had paid out more than the beegardly sum of 30 shekels from out the money bag for tbe entertainment cf sheriffs snd other visitors. Turning upon the accusers of the innocent Judas, tbe senator from Scott and Jennings, he and his abettors, pursuing the same policy followed here, would Inform them that the twelve apostles (with the exception of Judaf were loafers anyhow; should long ago have been taken un under the vagrant law, while if the evidence went particularly strong against his fellow-partisan, Mr. Iscariot, he would contend with equal vehemence, that the Galilean was the worst ot the lot. I do not wish to do tbe chairman of the Senate committee tbe least injustice. Whenever he shows the slightest desire or disposition to do his duty as a legislator, in protecting the people cf 'the state, as Is his sworn duty, from one of the most stnf endons robberies which has come to li?bt n Indiana for year?, he Ehall have the lull benefit of it. So far I am sorry to say that his actions have tended to embarrass his colleagues by fractioas opposition or .ulky silence, when the testiinony would allow of no nalliation of the conduct cf Shuler and the old board of directors. In pleasant contrast to a course like the above is that of Representative Shaffer and others, who, though republicans, did not at the first investigation hesitate to condemn the irregularities and corruption going on at the prison, the gentlemen named telling me publicly in tbe committee room that the investigation, even if It stopped, then would save the people at least 56,000 a year. After A LIVELY WAR OF WORDS between Representative Heller and Senator Friedley, Col. Keigwin, by consent, at this point made a statement that he, as one of tbe directors elect, before he became a manager of the Southern Prison, wished the committee to make such an investigation as will exactly show the statns of the prison. If affairs are straightened op now, he waa confident that In tbe future tbe rison could, at the present price ot prison abor, be made sell-sustaining. But as a sworn officer of tbe state, be gave his word that he would not be doiDg his duty to the people to take tbe prison in its present wretched condition. The only available as&ets in the world which tbe prison has to its credit are the obligations of the Southwestern Car Company due on the 1st Inst, and calling for $3,507 74, and a quantity of pork put up tor the use of prisoners. The state will be called uron to appropriate M,SGf) 99 to balance the deficiencies in tbe prison accounts up to February 1, 1876. This la in the face of appropriations from the state lrom 1869 to the present time of over $09,500, or an average degcit per year of ?11,583 98. Tbe attention of the committee was alao directed by Col. Keigwin to overcharges in gas and fuel, the loose way in which the contractors at the prison, and the warden were required many other have already the remainder to give bonds and facts, some of which teen given while will be given in due time. The debts of the prison Feb. 1, 1875, over and above available assets, according to the report cf the clerk, was ?21,8G1 11. In addition to the above there is due to va rious parties 37,022 55, with a number of counties to bear from. DAMAGING TESTIMONY. The first witness examined was Joel Black. He wa? engaged in building fifteen houses near tbe prison for Shuler in the last two years. The land upon which the bouses were built was originally a pond of

some four acres. Ita depth was about four feet on an average. Thla was filled up mostly by prison labor and with material partly taken from the prison yard. Convicts were employed to dig; two convict carpentera worked on the woodwork for three months. No one reported their time to the prison officer. John Boyle corroborated the statements of Black, being a sub-contractor under the latter. J. H. Lemon, city marshal of Jefferson ville, stated under oath, as were all the witnessesthat the lime and sand used in the erection of lour of Shuler's houses come from the state, that the bod-carriers and other laborers were convicts, two of them being bricklayers. The houses were also painted by a convict. Lemon also swore that the land some four acres in all, was worth comparatively nothing before it was filled, and from fO to 87 per foot when the fill was made. Mr. Forshay, a blacksmith at the prison, waa tbe last witness, and testified to money paid for his labor, which has not been so far accounted for. W. G. T.

THE GOSPEL OF COMMERCE. THE CIVILIZER OF THE WORLD. SYNOPSIS OF A LECTURE BY THE REV. C. V. SIMS, D. D., AT MERIDIAN STREET CHURCH LAST EVENING. From Yesterday' Second EdiUon.J The lecture of the Rev. C. N.Sims, D. D at the Meridian Street M. E. Church, last evening, attracted a lare and select audience. The occasion was the benefit of the Adelphian Society, the "peaker a former pastor of the church, now of New Jersey. After music by the choir, ths orator of the occasion wss introduced. The reverend gentleman appeared at home In the elegant edifice, and familiar with hla auditors as well as with tho theme of hia address. He said it afforded him great pleasure to look into the faces of the friends and acquaintances before him. After announcing the subject upon which he would speak. "The Gospel of Commerce," said he would treat the topic from the standpoint of a disinterested party and endeavor to show the good influence of commerce proper and the evil results of the counterfeit. The philosophy of commerce ! that each person shall part with what he does not need in exchange for what he does need. Money is the basis of business, and so it came to pass that money measures the power and direction of commerce. Its presence Indicates that the world is In debt to you. Too many ot us are willing that our work shall be PEEFOKifEDBT TBOXT. We take a peculiar enjoyment in leco ruing enriched at the expense of Borne one else. The spirit of classes, and about saleand even honor the market under commerce enlists all all, save honor, s for has been thrust n Don false labels though it sold even amonz the were. wives were first the families of Virginiathat is among aborigines, who were really the first families there. laughter. In Europe matches were made with a view of perpetuating crowns and accumulating estates. But, of course, in this country commerce is not carried into the family circle, especially at the watering places, where mammas with marriageable daughters court the attention of marriageable men on account of their superior social status, to the neglect of their financial position I But really, honor has been disgracefully on tbe market in this country from Arnold to Moulton, the mutual fritrfd. Uo.vever, he held that there is much of the heroic in THE HISTORY OF COM MERGE. It ha3 developed a contempt ol peril, havelng inspired men to brave dangers on tea and land. The bons of fortune hunters are bleaching in all lands. Commerce is tbe history of all progress and is the precurser ot intelligence. It rmkts of men laborers; and in "short, wherever commerce is carried it creates civilization. Ita absence is marked by barbarism. Surely then it is a gospel in the world. The speaker dwelt in detail on the hUtory of Tyre and Venice and other anci' nt eitle tbat grew great through their commercial relations with the world. Their merchantmen gathered in riches from all tbe world. In Venice was published the fiist newspaper and there were issued, tte first bills of exchange. As an illustration of tbe influence of commerce, the speaker cited tbe existence and the benign inflaence of tbe Hanseatic league (of an hundred cities) from four hundred years of piracy and ROYAL ROBBERY and during the time that the waves of the North sea rolled over the Netherlands, cow densely populated through the power of commerce. Those were tbe days when piracy was regarded as respectable as indicated by the word, itself which signifies knight ol the sea. .Tracing the course of commerce down through the dark ages to tbe present time he showed that it had bten tbe great civiliznr not only, but the protector of property. To commerce and not to legislature do we owe gratitude lor the safe guardsjthrown around about ourselves and cur property. It has fostered our most vital interests at Lome and abroad. It isthrocgh the influence cf commerce that we enjoy PEACE AND PROSPERITY. It compels the recognition of the rights of men and secures tbe re?pect ot nations more thaD her armies. There is a sublimity of bravery in the man who goes out to battle with tbe iceberg. The influence of commerce upon invention and discovery has been so great that the latter may be said to be tbe legitimate offsprirg of tbe former. Ths wants of commerce always arouse the genius of the inventor and inspires the discoverer. Invention usually proves a double blessing. It comes to the relief i ot labor and remunerates the inventor. Invention, inspired by commerce, has accomplished mucb. A lady could go up into the dry goods palace of A. T. Stewart in an elegant elevator and purchase goods to correspond, and ' then her husband could "cone down" a3 handsomely as she went up. Laughter. Commerce waa a wonderful thing. "Fiench wines" were manufactured in Philadelphia for New York dinner parties, and three-year old rye whisky" was made in a month, etc. There are two kinds of commerce, the good and the bad, tbe genuine and the counterfeit. The fraudulent is not necessary, for HONESTY CAN THRIVE IN TRADE. The lecture was lengthy, and a synopsis - could not do it Justice, and to be fully appreciated it should have been heard, fo'r it was replete with withering satire and sparkling wit, in alternate doses. The exercises of the evening were protracted in the lecture room, where a reunion and social were held. Blind Tom, the well-known negro pianist, is in Columbus, Ga , on a visit to his mother, who is a pure-blooded negro, as was hia father. He is an idiot negro, who in a 6ale of slaves several years before the war, was thrown in for good measure. Tom exhibited astonishing appitude for music Since he became a man, the great interest formerly exhibited has been lost. He has never exhibited any musical genius, as the compositions attributed to him are very ordinary. He has brought' foitnnes to hia former owners, who are now bis agents. We are informed his eyesight has greatly improved. Atlanta Herald.