Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 24, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1875 — Page 6

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL THURSDAY. MAY 13 1875

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i;Y J. B. iFrom CascU Malaiin. 'MoDgstrwes In the sunset glow, Frethe white arum'i cup ol anowj ! rioted, iJrandmother sat, content to Bee The beauty roucd Per; rr insyoo She calmly dozal. Fhe, with grandchildren ronnd her path, rinding in life sweet aftermath, Urew young; Old volctssurged. upou the breeze, That over days remote from lhee A spell bad hung. Whilst gotden ionbeams danced in space. CailiDK "P many a suuny pUcej oroid; Or here and mere a c'ondy blot. That blurred the skies, of darkened po. Iu memory told. Yel dark and lizht to blent that they Made picture Mr of a summer day ; Nor woke . . . . . , The shadows aught that tcrtrt miaht bring, lor tlniesmootlied o'. r with genüe wlug Each ha: sher stroke. The nast'a wil l sobs were bashed, for a i Clear read Uods wrltln j on the r? Once dim; And earth's decllulnz days waxed pale In the light sriinin through the veil That bides trom Him. In ft fair horder land she seems; licblnd, before, a world of dreams All pence; ,, And doubU that had perplexed her youth lUd settled lato Kirupie truth And fear's surcease. Maude waiting wonders. In hr eye To ago a time yf darkened skits laetvpn, Ftralne.1 silver canl.anJ bashed life wing "Ay. Maude, but chant of ansei Uroug Is nigh iu heaven." BEAUTIFUL MAY. BY TUE ACTHOK OF "JOHN HALIFAX, GKNTLKMAN." Winer's departing ansry and Rallen ; Atter hin footsteps comet a bright band. FIoweT.iii SmoJ s?art from their slumbersMay la awakening all over the land. Deep In the hol ows snow-drlf s are lying. Like early sorrow, melting away : Warm rain Is falling, wild birds are call log Ueautlfai spring-time, beautiful May: b, c-mld I eee ber come o'er the mountain , Under her crelids bringing the day ! Birds would kIdk sweeter only to greet her, Girl of my heart's love, my beautlf nl May ! ABOUT "WOMEN. As a rule, all Michigan women Lave thrown aside the old-fashioned elastic?. He who ea's strawberries and cream with his sweetheart at this season has the dear thintrs all together. "My diamonds are in tbe custom-house!" is the way tbe Impecunious belie now ex olaiDS her paucity of jewels. The empress of Japan cautions her young lady friends about "talking loudly on the street, like tbo vulgar American girls." Women prematurely white as to hair should dress io black. A New Ti ork wo man tried it and married a rica taiiiurniau. Tbere! that explains where my clothes lice went to!" exclaimed an Iowa woman as she found her husband hanging m tee sta Lie. "Jeotlnia," said a fashionable miss to a friend, "I think Charley Potts is perfectly splendid; he can got on my glovc3, and wears spit curia." A Kansas woman went into court and identified four quarts of white beans which had been stolen from her and mixed with a whole barrel fulL A confectioner, who twelve months ago I,; nrmt in aav "nrettv creature" to every lady who entered hi3 shop, is now a millionaire. Ths model husband of the period is the man who will hold tbe baby for a couple ol hours every night while his wif j catches up with th9 trial. Sinful sectarianism" i3 what a Unitarian theological f-tudent called it because a Methodist girl refused to 1st him hug her iu a camp meeting tent. After a Dala ware girl had lowered hersell from the window to elope with n young mm he tacked out because he. was afraid of the minister' dcg. When the envious Miss McFlimsey sec? ber rival dressed in something more than ordinary ele?ant, Bhe bimply mutters the significant word, "smucgledl" "Why do you use paint?" asked a violinist of his daughter. "For the same leasoo that yon us ro.sin, papa." "How isthat?" Vhy, to help me draw my beau." When two young hearts that beat as ono attend divine sarvlca In the evening, it is bashfulness that leads them to select a seat in the most obscure pew under the gallary. Said an ambitious Philadelphia wife to her slow-going husband tae other day, "Why can't von 'distinguish yourself in some way? 'Better b9 a great defaulter th3u nothing." , An economical Connecticut girl refused to be married by the clergyman of her lover's church, because another parson owed h?r 52 for knitting stocklcg, aud was too joor to pay cash. Sallio Morris, a prolty Newark girl, ü a mind reader." She said to a ba?hful beau the other night "Why, I believe youara going to kiss me!" Siio was correct. Ths Matrimonial News advises every young man to marr7 the girl he love bast The only objection to such conduct would be the girl'a mind, and the wiahea of bar family. Boston young ladies dare not speak ibove a whisper 6veu when they fall off the fctreet car into the mud. Giveustte prompt and musical response of tbe western girt as she picks herself up. Fast younsr, ladies, like fast raco-horsdf, often win by a bare neck, and yet with tbia difference the horse's victory Is due to sp&cs covered quickly, the young- ladie3 to tpace not covertd at all. Somebody has made tbe astounding discovery that our Phccbidon't dress like hsr brother members of the bar. She has a right though to put her clothes on over her head lr rhe wants to. St. Louis Times. "Ditbeveled, t ut dauntless," says Ionisa Alcott, were tbe women who charged np tbe hill at Concord, on the lO.h u!t., with vit.H "i 'oe reeled, skirca kilted tp, artr. loi'ke i." a "l'gfct brigade, rosy, and rednosid." Tno friends ci Millie D'Abb?, ntlcs ot tho f j. ce. Emptess Udgenie, ?re döttnulLf d to kWp that young woman cat ol tte joor-' Jjou-c as lon; ui piäeibla. Her wttuiiij fre&enls cott sixteen hundred thousand dotars. When a Marquette woman happens to drop her diah-cloth she goes right c(I and arranges the parlor, changes her drtJ and sits down to think what she will tay about matters and things whoa tLo is;tjra omo lc. The girl of the period, in her row wrap iitb lcng-hangins sleeves ar.d tiiea like,

wines, bunched up arranRement behltd like a tail, and general brilliant appearance, baa remlndoi somebody of an indignant peacock.

"Father." replied a Cairo girl, teas in ner eyea, "you may jaw and jaw, and howl and rip and tear, but I'll marry John Stewart if T din for itl" But she hadn't taken the trunk strap Into consideration, and sh didn't marry John Stewart. Younj men are complaining of bay fever quite early thia year. One of them who has it pretty bod says that, after the old lolks retire, he lies down on the sofa until Lm Uel get cold, and then lets hia KvaDgellue wrap him up in an afghan. A religio weekly of high standing gives this advice : " KL?b, but never tell." It is very excellent advice, too; but it often bappens that a man who has taken a kisa foc-ls so good after It, that, like the boy who finds a lost jaok-kniie, he must either tell or bust. Probably no characteristic of the female mind is better developed than the docility with which women accept tbe fashions ot tbo day. Be they beautiful or hideous, becoming or unbecoming, comfortable or torturing, they are the " fashion" and must be worn. The young Russian Princess Galitzln, who wai recently married in Paris to tbe Due de Cbartrcs. introduced a novelty in bridal attire. Tbe Uce veil, instead of being fastened to the head, was attached to her shoulders, and enveloped her whole form like a veil. M'lle Crolzstte, tha famous "Sphinx":ectress of tha Theater Francais, now wears her dressses so very decollete that an apropos phrase has been originated in ParUbtn so ciety. Whenever a lady is observed with a low-cut dreaa it is remarked that she is 'doing the Croizttte." A correspondent eays that Canku, the daughter of Spotted Tail, Is a very Interest log female. Her ear-rings are bo large and heavy that they have torn slits an inch long in the cartilage. Such a trifle as that ought not to Incommode her. All she has to do is to take a reef in her ears and let 'em bang till another inch ia worn away; then take another reef, and so on. BOWEN'S BLUNDERBUSS. SCANDAL SCENES AND INCIDENTS. SECOND APPEARANCE OF THE ANIMATED 8PHYNX HEXRY C. BOWES AND HIS SURROUNDINGS. The seandal special of the Chicago limes says: The damp, gloomy weather was in keeping with the dispirited and downcast aspect of the great majority of the audience in the big scandal trial this morning. Fully two-third of the spectators are admitted on tickets from Eeecher's counsel, and most ol them Lad beard Henry C. Bowen, in bis cold, chilling way kill off, the evening before, one alter the other, most of the tenderly emotional, devotional and glowiog creations of Beecher's geniua, which the prosecution insist coosUtuta his main defense. But it was not eo with the Beecher family and their intimate friend. They were not laboring under any visible laint-heartedoes.", and Beecher has Ec-ldom smiled with mere thorough enjoyment than when chatting with the cbeertul little millionaire, H. B. Claflin, just before Bowen emeigd from same recess of the court, and sat, hke an animated ICICLE IX THE WITNESS CHAIP.. Tt is proper to remark that the distinguished defocdant, evidently, having a wholesome fear of the critics, made a determined effort not to smile too much, and finally threw bimsoif back in his chair, (topping his pleasant chat with his wealthy parishioner. Jno. Swinton, the genial newspaperman, with ruddy face and snowy hair, gallantly led into the court a tall and elegantlooking young lady, placed herinafront chair, and then, iu his usual modest way, hid himself behind the big police oClcer who bas charge ot tbe witnesses and "swearin book." The renowned Buffalo Bill, otherwise the "Hon. Wm. Cody," and two other wild-prairie-lookiag gentlemen, with hair like mustangV manos, were among the audience, and, at recess, were put to the pleasant torture of shaking hands with and learning tbe names ot all tbe newspaper reporters and other inqniritive persons in court. J nst after Bowen had settled himself in tbe chair, and arranged bis coat-tails to a nicety, a timid tapping, as of come one modestly rapping, was hoard at the ante-chamber door. A handsome court official opened the door, prepared to ssy 'üet," but a big, broad-shouldered policeman outside cried out, "Stop; A MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL WANTS IN." A tall, elegant looking young clergyman said, "I have no ticket." "Well, sir," said th door-keeper, deferentially, "I don't like to refuse any minister of the gospel," and the elegant young clergyman was placed in a front chair. The testimony to day wa3 very important. Although Bowen labored under the "Xon mi ricordo" malady, so prevalent on the trial, he was very deci&ive in bis negatives of leading points in Beecher's defen-se. II La evidence was substantially ma; ine arbitration aoout wases witn Til ton had nothing to do with the Beccher scandal, or the tripartite agreement, and bo was never shown the tripartite agree ment between him, lieecher ana Tufon, until after he had pdd Tilt 3n's claim. lie knew nothing at the time about the Til-ton-B30cher scandal. Beecher did not tell him the stories which caused Tilton's dismissal, for be told Beecher he bad already decided on it. When, subsequently, Claflin asked him to sign the tripartite, he struck out the words making bim "disavow" the chargca against Beecher, and f-ubstitu'.ed "withdraw," and he also struck out the statement that be "knew nothing detrimental to B-Kcber'a character as a minister and a man." and eubstitatei. "that should prevent me from extendinz to him cordial Christian fellowship." Evarts went for Boxen with all bis cross examining FACULTIES AT FULL TENSIOM. It is a remarkable contrast the solemnity and eagerness of counsel; tbe provoking coolness and almost indifference of witness, who dropped . this answer the instant the question closed, without a sin gle moment's hesitation, except when asked about documents; and then he either fished tha identical paper out of hia breastpocket or said, "Show me the paper and I will tell vou." Mr. Evarts suc ceeded in extracting from him that be had seen a galley slip of the article wh ch Tilt. m wa threateniu? to publish betnro arbitra tion, and that B;echer, in the "ttep down and ott'." interview, spoke of Tilton's fraillioi ia regard to womankind. It was a keen and c'.03ß contest of intellect, and was watched with intense Interest, lbe curious part of the frt cry i3 that both sides are tatisfied that Bowen has served their caoss, though both were afraid ot him up to tho last moment. Itiseaid that Bowen's tevimony will neccatitaio the calling of Claflin, Storrp, Freeland and others again, by the dtfause, and thus deferring the closo of las trial for weeks longer. Among tte numerous witneates for rebuttal are the irrepressible Vic WootiLul! and Tecnie C. Claflin,

THE WEDDING OF TIIE WATERS.

BY BXV. CHARLES W. DEN1SOX. Where are yon going, my pretty brook?" An be paused on tbe bank of a shady nook, in Itasca a western wnus away. "Oh ! I'm starting South !' the brooklet cried. With the rlDDliuz lauzi of a happy song: "My father has promlned to make me a bride I to the nuptials most nurry aio 3: He says that d wn by a gulf, all fair, Our bridal tarty Is bouud to be: lbe altar is reidy, so I must be there. To be wedded lor Ufa to the bridegroom sea." Then tho traveler waded the rivulet. Where the steps or his feet were hall a score ; Ills ankle-top was scarcely wet; The inches 01 waier were oniy iour. "Whither are yon flowing, 0 beautiful stream Ho grandlv, swiftly hnrryin? ny?" "I'm on 10 the wedding?" quick puffs or steam And foaming wheels mate giaa reply. The traveler rode where a river spread Kuli nvo miles wide, rrom snore to snore; Where his vessel's keel from the oozy bed Was twenty fathoms up or more. Then the traveler bowed by the packet side, Asa voice from the water rose sweet and clear: "Will you come to the .veddlnj, and grestthe bride 7 .My trousseau is waiting, and futhsr Is here 1 "Ah! hetoremedown in his fond embrace, From m y native fountain pure and free; lie Rives me awav with a matchless grace. To be wedded for life to the bridegroom sea." THE LIBERAL LEAGUE D1SCUS3, SHALL WOMEN VOTE." THE FUTURE DESTINY OF WOMAN DISCUSSED AT THE LIBERAL LEAGUE, AND WHAT WILL HAPPEN IP FEMALB 8UFFRAGE DOESN'T SOON COMB TO THE SURFACE. The woman question seems to have been galvanized into life in Philadelphia. A Times reporter was attracted by tba occasional dropping ia of elderly females at Lincoln Hall, up on Coates strbet. Inquiry brought out the ttartlinjr fact that the "Liberal League" were going to have a meeting there, and that there was a stronz probability that in that neighborhood tbere would shortly be experienced tho la that something would be 44 np." Ever curious, tbe reporter ' ehado wed" oue of the ancient dames to tbe bower of this mysterious gathering, and was permitted to take a seat among tbe initiated members. " What's it au aDout" ne ventured to ask of a sage-looking Individual who sat near him. The sage man lifted up his head and eazed dreamily at tbe reporter for fully two minutes before be answered and when he did answer be said: "I'm blowed if I know." "Are you not a member of the club?" 41 Yes." 44 And don't know what the object of the organization isl" "Ob, it's nothing much." "But how much?" persisted the reporter. 44 Well, look here," said the member, "if you must know, I'll tell you. Ve meet Lere just tD hear each other talk. It's all 'chin music,' anyhow, and the public ain't interested in it, and it they were they couldn't understand it." This sounded so novel that the reporter left his communicative companion, took a seat in an obscure corner of the room and awaited developments, not the slightest astonishment being manifested bv the 32 old YOUNG AND C EF.TAIN-AGED LADIES who bad by this time scatid themselves. Presently an elderly lady, attlrad in a mourning wrapper of a plurality of colors ascended to the platform and took possession of tho chair. This was none other than Mrs. Doctor, the vice-nreaident. Mm. Doctor gazed savagely at the audience of sisters and a few straggling brethren for a moment, and then elevated her shaded optics toward the clock. It was five minutes after two. Mrs. Doctor frowned. J'Let's go ahead," shouted a deep bas voice from the front bench. "Go ahead with what?" queried the lady vice-president, a slight quaver ot sarcasm entering into hoi soprano. "Why, go ahead with the business of the meeting, of course," retorted tho bass-voiced. 4iOh !" said Mrs. Doctor," why didn't you say so?" Tho gentleman didn't say why he didn't say so, but instead called attention to tbe fact that another gentleman had made a motion of some kind or other at a previous meeting and that be, the speaker, would like to know from the other gentleman's own lips what that motion was. This overture to the other gentleman brought that frisky little Englishman .to his leet with electric velocity. Ho spoko in an excited, jerky way, and said something about never having been insulted before. The bass-voicod brother protested that he meant nj insult. This didn't at all satisfy the other, whose dander had risen to a frightful altitude, and ha asserted very strongly indeed that neither the basso nor any man livinz waa big or uely enough to prevent him irom having bis "say." The day had been long coming with him, but, nevertheless, be thanked heaven that it hau come at last, when ne was as good as any man who ever had the prosamption to cast his lot upon THIS REVOLVING SPHERE, and be was determined that If tbe parson with the profound vo'co or any other too stilted anomaly dare attempt the frustra tion of bis free speech then " "Then what? ' shouted the op9ra singer, now thoroughly enraged. " Thea, sir " But the lady chairman gently intimated that the the refractory brethren had better keep order, and at tbo same time she handled nervously au Arnold's ink bottle. What she would have done with her formidable weapon, or vhether she would have done anything with it, were questions that hadn't time to arise, lor just as her wicked bead lights were Hashing a fearful admonition wins one suggested a song, and the tea pot lid, thus eevated, permitted the cyclone toescapo. Atter tue attention 01 inose present bud been directed to some further business of a like important and interesting character, it was announced that tbe orator of the afternoon would address the league upon the great question ol tue day, "bhall Women Vote." Tho orator was a short ger.tleman, and it may be salely eaid that had nearly reached the platform ere his presence was discovered. When the old ladies focused him they applauded, and the short geatleman tmt having bowed hlimslf out of optical ranee, lifted' np his voice like Jacob ot old, aud declared that they should vote if he had anything to do wilb the matter. Tho ora tor then went on to say that this great question had been 44 betöre the world before," at which there was an expression of familiarity on the fac63 of tha old la J:e, and vben ho intimated that tbera was a strong probabil ity of its being befor9 tbe world again, the interested contraction In the countenances of those present wa wonderful to lock upon. The speaker elevated Lis voiea to concert pitch, and said that the fjjubject had hithetto been treated with too much levm', whereupon the ladies GROUND THEIR IVORY TEETH and looked very angry. This demonstra tion impressed him with the fact that the sympathies of his audience were his, and he went at his subject in a degree of tloquent candor that was perfectly electrifying. The permanency of American institu tion?." said be, "is interwoven so closely with tbis subject that the people can not arfjrd to laugh at it longer. Applause. It has attracted tbe attention and profound thoueht of men in all ages." slight manifestation of agreeabibty. Plato advocattd

the thing ten thousand years ago; and wh v should we give it ud now?

Applause Women are citizens and muf t vote, Cries of "we will." and if they don't, then they are not citizens. Women can be soldiers, too. Tbe history of France setllea tbat. The women of Bolivia were the bost soldiers the world ever knew. (Applause.) Such women live to-day. (Much applause.) Simon Boliver isn't deed yet! (Questioning glances behind spectacles.) If the women can't vote bv ngbt, then tbey will do something equaily patent. They can fight for their votes!'' (Lcud applause and shaking of green umbrellas.) At this juncture an old lady Bitting on the front row tipped her hat slightly lorward, shoved her e pec tad es on top of he? head and doubled np ber fitts. Several other people looked as though they thirsted for gore, and matters generally became demoralizing, and tbe newspaperman moved uneasily in his seat. JustathiDgs were approaching a torrid temperature some one said something about taking up a collection. The roporter Instantly withdrew. INDIAN INDIGNATION. A RED OX TOE WAR-PATH WITH A QUILL. HE OOES FOR A WAR CORRESPODBNT OF THE BLOODY SHIRT IN'TER-OCE ANL1Q HT LET IX CPON SEVER1L DARE TRANSACTIONS SPIRIT AND SENSE. Tuste Nack Emarthler, a real live IndiaD, writing. from Tishomingo, Chickasaw Nation, to the Chicago Iutcr-Ocean, says: Your Topeka correspondent, "Kansaa," of April 2G, airs his 4 specialty," and blow3 tbe trumpet of fame for hl3 friend, Lieut. Hendley, with more noise than skill. It may be well for the world to know of the more than signal ability of the worthy young officer. We will thank tha enthusiastic historian for admitting the fact necessary to establish the braverv of his protege, tbat "tbe battle was waged with vigorous and nnilinching bravery on both aides, ending flna.lv with tb killing of the last one of tbe 27 Indians." Tbe former telegraphic account throws some light on the subject of this more than Spartan heroism of the "simple children of nature" 27 Indians IS warriors killed, leaving nine Squaws to receive tbe chivalric tender mercies of the young white hero. It ia a fitting finale of tbe last few months of this Indian question that tha story of Lieut. Hendley should be written on the page of history with tbe blood of Indian women. "Kansas" say8"the Indians engaged in this affair were Cheyennes." TURN BACK THE PAGE OF HISTORY to July last, when provisions were delivered at the railroad station nearest the reservation of these same Cheyennes; again in September provisions of which 300,000 pounds of flour were a part and clothing for men, women and children, being in part payment to them for the land we have bought for a song, were delivered at the same place. These necessaries ot life were due them in accordance with treaty, Oct. 15, l7i. At this railroad station (Caddo) these provisions and clothing re mained from July, September and October 1874 to April 17 and 23, 1S75. These wards of the nation, through all the long, cold, dreary winter, withoot flour or meal, without clothing, without blankets, lived for months on meat alone, until frantic and desperate from huoger, losing all faith in the promises of the white brothers they left their reservation in search of food. ThU is the sum of their offanding. Tud laws of tho white man say tbey must stay on their reservation. They mus5 cot leave, oven to prevent starvation. The law of self-preservation is jut as unyielding in its operation on the red as tha white. Tüoy left ther reservation to avoid starvation. Some of them were brought back in irons, for no crime but love of lila for themselves and lor their loved ones. These holier affections are not cjc fined tt the bosom of the white brother. No outbreak had yet occurred ; NO BLOODY INDIAN MASSACRE, no scalp raising as yet, but the eight of their friends in irons, and the threats of taking forty of their leading warriors to Kansas to be placed in Fort Leavenworth as hostages, was tbe last straw which broke the camel's back. Tbev broke and run from the reservation The troops fired on the yet peaceful retreating Indians. Then forbearance' ceased to be a virtue. The squaws brought out a few rusty guns and pistols tbey bad managed to bide in the sand hill trom the spoiler. Then they returned the fire on tbe 6th ot April, 1875, killing a few soldiers, aud the lndan war had commenced. Let us hope, lor the sake ol our common humanity, the blood of eighteen warriors and nine women may have satisfied the appetite of Lieut. Hendley and his superior officers. Nineteen hundred and twenty five ponies were stolen from tbe Indians within a year wniie on tneir reservations. The govern ment surveying parties took some of them, and tbe troops were sent out from Fort Sill and recovered part ol them, They were cot returned to their owners, however, but the stronger arm of tbe military retained them. Tbe troops stationed to protect tbe Indians, killed the hogs as the troopers rode by the rude hut of the red man. Thov cut off the heads of the hogs and tossed them to the helpless Indians standing by, and swinging the carcasses across their horses rode on to camp, offering no compensation lor the outrage and robbery. More than 000,000 pounds of provisions, clothing, and blankets for three agencies kepij-i-,t out of reach of these same Indians for more than six months after the government bad promised to deliver them in accordance with their treaty, the contractors, Graham tfc Co., waiting ior tho winterto pas, aud the grass to grow, to aid yet more to the 5 100,000 OF ILL GOTTEN GAINS mads during the past year a3 freighters from tha railroad to the reservation, and were only forwarded on the arrival of Spe cial Commissioner General J. P. C. Shank?, with emphatic orders to forward at once. Then these tardy contractors found me9ns to forward from the station the entire amount within eight days that had been detained six months after they were due, and telegraphed the department the news, as they hoped, iu time to help secure the contract for the coming year. If tbere is a Uid of Jutic9 in heaven; if there is aepa-k of humanity still left on earth, we hope they may be successfully evoked in be half of tbe remaining red men, and tbat a historian may be found who will ao them justice. The failure to deliver the annuity goods due these Indians led directly to the Cheyenne and Apache war of 1S74. Report of commissioner or Indian affairs, 1874, pane 2:1., in report of John D. Miles, United Siatss Indian aent: "I desire to report that, with theprosoal ration allowed to the India?, I find it impossible to feed the meiulv?rs of the triba oa this reservation." Upper Arkansas Agency, Indian Territorv, ninth month, 30th, 1S74. Again: "Daring 1 lit, first, second and third months, and a part of fourth moctb, when all the Indians were present at the agency, we ran out of rations, with the exception of beef, and I have no doubt that bad there been a good supply of rations on hand at that time, I could have held ths cntlra Cheyennö tribe at the agency, and prevented much of the trouble since experienced with that restless people." Wnen will thoßo having charge of Indian matters reali3 the truth that it will cost less to be just to these people than first to starve then murder them?

THE FOOTSTEPS OF DECAY.

Ob, let the soul its slumber break. Arouse its sen es and awake To see how soon Life. In Its glories, glides away. Aud the stern footsteps of decay Come stealing on. nd while we view tbe rolling tide, Down which our flowing minutes glide Away so fast. Let us the present bour employ And deem each future dieam a Joy Already past. Lt no vain hope deceive the mind, 2o happier iel us hope to And To-morrow than to-day; Oar golden dreams of yore were bright, Lke them the present snail delight Line them decay . Our lives like lasUnz streams must be Taat Into th j engulflng sea. Are doomed to fall The sea of death, whose waves roll on, O er klngind kingdom, crown and throne, And swallow all. Atlke the river's lordly tide. Alike the rivulet's humble glide To that sal wave! Death leaves poverty and pride, Uhe rich and poor sltep alUe by aide Within the grave. Ozr birth Is but thestartlng-piace; Life la but tbe running of the race, And death the goal ; 7 hera all our glittering toys are bought , The path alone, of all unsought, is found of all. See, then, how puor and little worth Are ail these glittering tojs of earth. That lure us here lreamof a sleep that death must break; Alas! before it bids us awake, We disappear. I -on 5 era the damp or earth can blisht Tne cheek's pure glow of red and wniie, lie pasted away. Youth smiled, and all was heavenly fairAge came aud laid bis firmer there And where are they ? Where Is the strength that spurned decay, The steps that roved so light and cay, The heart's blithe tone? The strength Is gone, the step Is slow, And Joy grows wearisome aud woe, When age comes on ! THE SPEAKERSHIP. THE VARIOUS CANDIDATES. REVIEW OF THE RECORD OF THE VARIOUS DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES FOR PRESID1NO OFFICER OF THE NEXT HOUSE, FROM AN "INDEPENDENT VOTER" A SUGGESTION THAT IS ENTIRELY ORATUTIOUS. Under the caption of "the speaker of the coming congress" the Cincincinnatl Commercial says: The question of th speakership in the next house of representatives has already begun to bi widely discussed. This most important office may actually be said to be second in intluence to only one other in the government. Tbe speaker of tbe House wields a power enormous in itself, and greatly increased within the past few years. The source and seat cf this power are little understood among tbe people, however plabi to those who have gat in congress, and have witnessed the enormous amount ot legislation virtually controlled by tbe incumbent of the speaker's chair. In tbe first place, the epeaker of the House of Representatives, as soon as be is srcoru into office, ha, as first official act, to ap point a!l the committees through which the business of congress is marked out and matured. This act is the sole and undivided business of the speaker, a recognized perquisite of his office, bowever great the responsibility it entail. In the Senate the responsibility of selecting and partitioning out the committee5", including th3 chairmanships, has come by usage to be exercised by a caucus of the dominant party. The republicans have thus chosen the various committees ot the Saaate for 14 years past. But in the House of Representatives, no caucus, even of the ruling party, however ENORMOUSLY IN THE MAJORITY, no voice of the parliamentary body itself can control tbe selection and appointment of committees. It is true that tbe speaker bows to the dominant public cpinion of tbe country as exhibited in the latest congressional elections. He constitutes the committees in the first place with due reference to the numerical power of parties. In the next place, be is very apt to constitute them with special reference to the relative claims of the geographical divisions of tbe country. So many important chairman ships are divided off to the East, so many to the West, while tbe members of the various committees are distributed among the states, two congressmen from tbe same state being very rarely put upon the same committee. In the third place, be recognizes usually ia designating tho chairmen, or heads öf committees, tho intellectual ability and political standing and intluence of the representatives themselves. If he puts weak men in strong places, be is sure to be severely criticised for it. If he, through jealousy or any other motive, degrades the ablest parly generals to the ranks, he is certain to suflar for it it in public criticism. But, after all thess elemects which go tj influence his chuicd are considered, there remains behind all, and frequently controlling all, the secret but potent influence ol the riogs. The legislation of congress is controlled to a degree littla suspected among tbe people by POWERFUL AND WEALTHY INTE3EST3. Financial rings, railroad ring, protection ring?, Icdiau rinj-s, mail contract rings, navy-yard ring?, custom house ring?, national bank ring, and many ethers too numerous for mention here, make themselves felt at Washington, and it 1) asserted that their influence h is frequently controlled in the appointment of tbe leading committees. Brides this mcst poweitnl function of selecting tha committees, which aro to select the legislatian to be passed i i Congress, and n'ne times out ot tan t-) be carried, the speaker of the Ilousa wields a constant and effective influence over the conduct of the duly businesi of that body. Through '.his occupancy cf the chair and his tna:-try of parliamentary law and familiarity with pciotsof order, he has it in his pawer to shape that business to a degree little appreciated by the less watchful membara. Tbe speaker can advance or retard measures of legislation to a large ex tent at his pleasure. He can even, in critical divisions where the vote are close, control the result by means well nown to all parliamentarians. This is a responsibility too lmmeuse to ba trnsted in the bands of any man except one both ol unimpeachable integrity and the highest sense ot honor. Tbe democratic party will have the control of the next House of Representatives by an immense majority. That majority will run to somewhere between seventy and eighty members, according to the results ot elections yet to bd held in Mississippi and California. Among , THE NAMES THUS FAR CANVASSED . for the speakership are those of Fernando Wood, Samuel S. Cx, William S. Hoi man, Michael C. Kerr, Milton Sayler and Samuel J.Randall. The latter gentleman is a protective tariff democrat from Pennsylvania, who has held a Boat in congross for some ten voars past. Though not conspicuous for Intellectual ability, ho has been an active party member, and at times an uncommonly vigorous and watchful parliamentarian on the lloor. He especially distinguished himself during the long night sessions ot the last congress, when the force bill and tho civil rights bill were attempted to be

Houso under the operation rf previous question' combined with tew rules adopted especially yl "oi'rejoo; .Mr. Kantian a chief drawbacks will b3 found 1 cacy of, and participation ia the, back salHiau, togetner witn his aJvocacr or protection, which must manifestly be "distasteful tO the maiontv nf tha niinm., w, nave any democracy In them wcrthy of the u-uj. X u oioer respects, including geographical locality, Mr. Randall would be a highly available candidate. Pennsylvania has had no speaker of the house since of i a A: ?rowt Io 1S01, though Mr. Blaine, of Maine, is a native of the Keystone state. I ernando Wood may be said to have a national reputation, although, to do him full justice, tbat REPUTATION 19 NOT OF THE HIGHEST or most enviable order. He, too, was a salary-grabber, and a thick-and-thin defender of democratic malloasances and corruptions In his own state ot Now York and elsewhere. In the aroused vigilance of the people and the press against the foraisof jobbe y in politics, it is tolerably certain tbat the demccratio party must pat forward a purer standard-bearer in the House than Fernando Wood, if they would bops to make a prudent move In tbe direction oi capturing the presidency in the next general election. Michael Ü, .of Indiana, Is one ot tbe ablest W estern democrats who ever tat Ja congress. Sound on the financial question and on the tariff, be Is equally sound on aff questions tbat involve the security of the treasury and fidelity to official duty. u im inieueciuanty and grasp wbicb would qualify bim to the speakership, though he may be deficient in tltoss arts of popularity, which gave to Schuyler CoL'ax his principal hold upon his partv, and which are found, combined " with BtroDger inteliectu-l qualities, in tho most recent incumbent of the speaker' chair. Mr. Colfax, it is said, won the neakership by Bheer smiling and olicitation writing hundred?, il net thecsandu, of letters in vacation to members elec, soliciting their influence and votes. JCocody who knows Mr. Kerr would suepect him of stooping to such electioneering tricks as these. Samuel S. Cox bas been widely mentioned in connection with the Speakership. His strength lies as much la his coupi:uitv and long familiarity with Congress an in any inherent fiteKS he may be supposed to possess lor the place. Whether THE BEST JOKER K? CONGRESS will make the best speaker to preside over the grave deliberations of that body, may admit of a question. Mr. Cox is not wanting in intellectual force, and hia knowledge of parliamentary law Is said to be good, if notof the fiit order. His insignificant person and unimpressive voice would be a serious drawback in a position the Incumbent of which must have the moral as well as tbe mind to control a turbulent and noisy body of 300 ambitious orators doring six or seven consecutive months in daily session. William S. Holmn, of Indiana, has been a member of the House lor a longer number of years than any of tlie members we have named. He has become well known to tbe country as an bonest and fearless legislator, a watchful guardian ot the public treasury, and a conspicuous foa to all tho rings, railway, financial and speculative, which make that treasury their quarry. He possesses dignity, firmnes, patience, and a knowledge of parliamentary law, acquired in a long service in congress. it tbe rings are to select a speaker, it Is very certain that he will Hot be William S. Uolman. Milton Sayler Is very well known In Cincinnati as an affable and able gentleman. He has served but one term in congres, a fact which may, upon the wbol, be in his favor. Taat tbe democracy will turn aside from choosing one of their own number to be speaker, and ßi upon the liberal republican, (Jeneral .N. P. Banks, is a contingency sometimes de bated, but scarcely worthy of serious con sideration. That party is too strong in congrr as, and their present inuuence too powerful in the country ever to nominate a cidevant republican to be their fctacdardbearer. HEROIC DEAD ADORN THEIR GRAVES WITH FLORAL TRIB UTES REGARDLESS OF PARTISANSHIP NOBLE WORDS FITLY SPOKEN. The following beautiful passage 13 taken from a speech delivered at Chicago, in 1SG3, by tbe Hon. Eli S. Shorter, one of the most gifted and influential men In tbe state of Alabama. The sentiments will be admired at all times, but tbey will be appreciated specially as the day approaches lor the decoration of the graves of the dead soldiers: One of tbe most affecting and euggestive scenes that I havo witnessed 6inca the close of the war, occurred Ii; t year in the cemetery ol my own town in Alabama. It was in the evening ol the day set apart by our ladies for decorating the so. diers' graves' About sunset, accompanied by friend?, I drove to the cemetery to sse what was to ba seen. We came to that part of the ground sf t apart especially to the burial of soldiers. Every grave (and there was a large number of them) had been freshly wreathed with beautiful flowers. In tbe 'midst of these graves and side by side with them, I LOticed a haad board marked with tho name of a federal soldier who bad been wounded in battle, captured, and bad afcern'erds died and boon buried there. Had my fiir country women cherished thai spirit ot resentment charged upon them th'y would have manifested it upon that occasion by neglecting the grave of that strauper, who in life bad been their mortal foe aud waged war upon them. . But his grave had received tbe same care and attention that had b3en bestowed upon those by which it was surrounded. A beautiful gatlacd oi flowers npon this newly made mound was the silent though eloquent refutation of the charge azainst the fair onfs whose hands bad Flocked the flowers. Cheers and applause gizad upoQ tbat silent scene; I realized for the first time the deep import of that say ing "TO ERR IS HUMAN, TO FORGIVE DIVINE." It so happens that on the very day, and very hour when these "good Samaritans" were engaged in tho discharge of those holy offices, a leading member of the radical party in tLe congress ot the United States, upon the tborcf the Houssoi Kepresen'aUvea cried out 'Confiscate tbem, confiscate them.' How much better, fallow-citizens, would it have been for u, how much more ' becoming the great American people, if the radical party had ben governed oy the - same noble, generous Impulse tht led thesa womea of the South to do boner to the graves of federal soldiers! Honor, feilow-citizans of Chicago, fjrever honor tbe graves ci heroic dead. IVclorged cheers. Cover them with the sweetest flowers of spring. No southern mai will object. Rather let u?, who have survival the unfortunate conflict, Joining bancs, adorn the graves of our falleu brave, and, under the shadow of tha old flag forgiving and forgetting old strifes, pray thtt henceforth the angel of peace shall spread her white wing over all our land; prolonged cheering; that brother shall never again wago war against brother; that no military despot shall ever sit upon a throne In tho capital of our nation "never, never", or ever erect it upon the ruins of American liberty; but that our inititutiousi, the union, and the constitution shall stand till time shall be no more. Immecse applausa

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