Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 25, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1875 — Page 4

THE; INDIANA STATE SENTINEL ;WEDNESBAY:NOMBEB 24,75-

WEDNESDAT, NOVUM BER 24. Commissioner Pratt baa Just notified a North Carolina collector that the government doea not approve of nepotism, and that he mast make certain dismissals. So it seems that what is y luce for the presidential 0090 is not nance for the underling gander. While Delano was as yet at its bead, the department of the interior was known among the irreverent denizens of Newspaper Row aa the department of the Obio. Under Chandler, with one citizen of the resses may ba to oar neighbor, time will prove them to have been 'love's labor lost." ' The officials of Mr. Gram's administra

tion, whose amazing rascalities are being unearthed at St. Louis, are telling: terrible tales upon each other. This is the magnifi cent civil service of which Mr. Motton boasts in his political speeches. If this is the "best civil service in the world" it is bad for the world. - - i New York was excited yesterday over a rumor that th9 devil was dead. It was soon discovered to be a gross exaggeration of the actual facts. A dispatch from Gloucester, Mass., slated that General Butler had only fallen sick while on his way to St. Loa la to lcok after his servants there in the whisky business, and that nothing was known at his borne of his reported death. It is said that many of these crooked whisky thieves have given the entire profits ol their complicity with the rings to the furtherance of party ends, deeming It the will of the authorities at Washington. It will be a little hard, but just, that they should suffer for their crime, while the party goes free. It Is a pity that the party can not be tried and sent to the penitentiary or, what is better, banged. It has been a great wonder to many 11 it were possible that there should be such extensive stealings at St. Louis by the Republican office holders, each a big bonanza oi pillageable material, and Babcock have no hand in it. The wonder is now quieted by the morning dispatches. Babcock was in it, and was doubtless one of "the Washington friendb" that were tquetzirg the robbers by periodic threats from the capital. That mortgage that Mr. Grant gave the ether day (or the loan of ten thousand dollars looks very queer in the light of the recent developments at St. Louis. lie has been worrying along making both ends meet on his meager fifty thousand salary, without borrowing money by the ten thousand at a time, but about lour months ago tbe stealing at St. Louis was 6topped, and now he borrows money to meet expenses. Brick Pomeroy has failed, and will be forced into bankrnptcy. Ilia liabilities foot up one hundred and forty thousand dollars, and his assets are set down at a salt of clothes and tbe good will of the Democrat. The clothes are worth about fifty dollars, and the good will of his paper about half that sum. The clothes are exempt from seizure and sale under the statutes of the state of New York, and good will la a rather intangible property. If people want to understand the immensity ol the frauds that have been perpetrated by the Republican party on the nation, let them multiply tbe amount stolen at St. Louis by every other such opportunity for stealing that these officials have bad, and there need not be much of a discount made to approximate he true amount. It is alarming when tbe vast sums are aggregated, but then the Republican party has had neea of vast sums to sustain its existence and secure triumphs at the polls. Not more, perbap, than two-thirds of the stealings went into private pockets. Some are very much surprised that inasmuch as tbe exposures at St. Lculs are ruining the Republican party, and Mr. Grant hlmeelf, that he does not stop the investigation?. Mr. Grant has no power to stop it now. The administration did not start these Investigations. The stealing has been going on for years, without Interference from the government, and the government did nothing until the matter became so notorious that private information forced the investigations. The executive has a bear by the tail, a very fierce one, too, and he can not let go, however damaging it may be to hold on. llendrleks Clab, The importance and general success of the political club organized in this city last summer is being generally appreciated now, and large audiences assemble weekly and have something oi the enthusiasm of campaign gatherings. When the club was at first organized, it was thought by many to be merely a young men's club, and that ths old experienced Democrats, who usuilly work in tbe lead, would not be on hand, bat tbe contrary prevails, and the club is sure to be managed in the interest of the party, and become a permanent political Institution .of the stale. The club has been addressed now three successive i evenings by Gov. Hendricks, Judge Holman, and last night by the Hon Wm. E. Niblack, who is spending a few days In tbe city; Judge Ni black's speech was listened to with marked attention, and elicited frequent applause. The club have the assurance that tbe Hon. Thos. H. Ewing, of Ohio, will address tbe club in a short time, of which due notice will be given. Tbe New York Times makes a fierce attack upon the proprietors of tbe New York Graphic, tbe illustrated dally of that city, and In tbe course of the article bribery and venality of the most bold and brigand-like character are ascribed to them. "Candidates for the state prison," "black-mailers and rascals" are tbe epithets applied to them, and the district attorney is called upon to keep a vigilant eye upon them as plunderers upon the community. It is a little remarkable that the Times, after these denuncia-

tions, associates them with Boss Shepherd, of Washington, In the ownership of the Graphic, and then proceed to arraign' the authorities at Washington for its complicity with them In blackmailing the whole country. Hut ii will be well to let this Influential Republican organ speak for Itself, as It shows some discordant notes will be likely played in tbe "music of the Union" in the next election, it open warfare does not commence sooner: Boas 'Shepherd,' of Washington, is reported to be one of the wners of tbe 'Graphic, and it is probably in consequence of his influence that the con:ract for printMng revenue stamps was recently taken from ' highly respectable firm, and handed over to Good sell Brothers. The transfer of the 'contract was a scandalous, and In all prob- ' ability, a corrupt jab, and we have already ' called upon Commissioner Pratt to give his

! immediate attention to the subject. It is a ' disgrace to the whole country that a noto'rlousfirmof blackmailers should be able ' to boast that tbey are In tbe employ of tbe ' government. Is this scandal to be added ' to the others already surrounding tbe in ternal revenue department? Commissioner 'Pratt must know by this time tbe true character of the Goodsells." This Indirect attack upon tbe admin istratlon indicates that the Times will carry oat its threat made just after the elections in New York that it would not support Mr. Grant for a third term. The Times is wiser than some of its contemporaries in deserting the sinkins ship. Without doubt these "corrupt job?" and "scandals surrounding the internal revenue department," of which tbe Times so plainly speaks, will sink the administration of Mr. Grant so low that it can not venture to risk itself before tbe country for indorsement. The very air Is becoming foul with the stench of corruption on all sides, and they -are all traced indirectly to Inflaencess that have their seat near the White House. On tbe presumption, which there is no shadow of a possibility of building up, that there is no complicity on the part of tbe administration In these frequently exposed rascalities, Mr. Grant has a burden and load to bear in tbe miserable rascals that have surrounded him which would weight down to eternal condemnation a much purer and more spotless reputation than his. The Timos might do a good work for the country if it would at once open out, and from its inner posl. tion reveal all it knows, and battle against every form of fraud and corruption. The whole country would rise up and call it blessed. Republicans Kespoaslble. The Journal says that President Grant and the Republican party are not to be held responsible for the thieving of the adminis tratlon officials. Well, In the name of common sense, then who is to be held respon sible? The character of Mr. Grant's early appointments were denounced from the first as indiscriminatlve, and probably a dishonest, as incapable, and it has been a matter of exceptional remark when a man like Bristow or Jewell was appointed to high office. Now, that they have proven rascals in the courts of late, the administration is to be absolved. Tbe Journal refers to tbe revenue plundering under Andrew Johnson. The Sentinel pities the wretched ignorance of the Journal In making such a declaration. Mr. Johnson's hands were tied so that he could not remove tbe rascals from office, and it is well known that almost one-third of the collectors proved delinquent to the govern ment, and that thousands and millions of balances are against these Republican offi cials uncollected and their bondsmen nnprosecuted. It is a pretty state of affairs Indeed if Mr. Grant's adminis tration is to be excused from reprobation and condemnation, and the people left without any relief. The Journal will find that the people will hold Mr. Grant and the Republican party responsible for what is now being developed, and for a great deal more that has been concealed. Tbe Rernge or Inability. A newspaper under the management of real ability need not, under any circumstances, become a garbler, much less a falsi fier, and if true to its readers it will be neither. If the aim of the editor is to make for his paper a reputation for sincerity and truthfulness he will always be truthful in his statements and correct in his potations. Real ability will enable a newspaper to maintain any good and just cause in the light of truth, but feebleness in the man agement or the support of a bad cause often compels a resort to misstatement and fabrication. A few days since tbe following appeared in tbe columns of tbe Indianapolis Journal as quotations: "I do not Intend to go into the army myself, nor have I rsked anybody else to do so." Hendricks at Shelbyville. "I speak for that great state which senu 200,000 men into the army." Hendricks at Philadelphia. The pretended quotation first above made has been repeated so frequently by the Journal that the editor of that paper has probably succeeded by this time in convincing himself that it is true.. - But in point of fact, neither quotation is true in language or sentiment, but are false in both respects. 'Gov. Hendricks never made use of the language imputed to him either at Shelbyville or Philadelphia. We have been at some pains to learn just what be did say on both occasions, and we give our readers to-day the benefit of oar examination.1 At the session of the legislature of 1SC3 it will be remembered that Mr. Hendrlcka was elected to the Senate of the United States. A few days after his election his old friends and neighbors In Shelby county, where be had lived nearly all his life, complimented him with a festival .at the Ray House In the city ol Shelbyville. It was the occasion of a large concourse of people, and among them were almost the entire membership of the general assembly. The iestival did not partake of a political cast, but was gotten up and attended by persons of both political parties. There was present a reporter for the Cincinnati Enquirer, who sent the entire speech for publication in

that paper.. It was copied in theJSentinel of February 9, 18Ö3.. In the course of his remarks Mr. Hendricka'made the following appeal: . o - "Will you allow a suggestion upon another subject bearing upon that upon which I have been speaking? Some of our young men. who have volunteered, have, without sufficient thought, abandoned their companions and returned home without proper authority, and a sympathy in their behalf has suggested a resistance to any eflorts to compel their return to the service. Now, however, much you may feel for them, resistance can not be Justified. It is opposition to law and lawful authority. Although I made no appeals to men to volunteer, as I would not say go when I was not going myself, yet I must say to those who have voluntarily enlisted, you can not relieve yourselves by a breach of law, and you ought not to involve your 'riends in acts of violence which must bring trouble upon them. In this state we have no occasion to complain that the courts have been unable to relieve from Illegal enlistments. In almost every case the writ of habeas corpus has been respected. For tbat we are much indebted to tbe accomplished soldier, Col. Carrington, who is at the head of military affairs In this state. He has required that tbe civil authority be respected within his command." This was an earnest and honorable appeal to soldiers who were at home without authority, rnd to their friend?, tbat they should return to the army at once. It was widely published at that time, but tbe Journal did not publish it. The sentiment was bo proper, however, tbat tbat paper could tben find no fault with it. But now after the lapsaof nearly thirteen years, when the circumstances and the speech are not so well remembered by tbe people, tbe sentence is both garbled and misquoted. Tbe false quotation is made to say : "I do not intend to go into the army myself, nor have I asked anybody else to do bo." Tbe sentence as spoken and published

said: "Although I made no appeals to men to volunteer, as I would not say go when I was not going myself, yet I must Bay, to those who have voluntarily enlisted, you can not relieve yourselves by a breach of law, and you ought not to involve your friends by acts of violence which must bring trouble upon them." Do the readers of the Journal wish to be misled, or is it because the management can not tell tbe plain and simple truth, tbat this gross and palpable misrepresentation and falsification is resorted to? Let the publication be made as the words were spoken and neither Governor Hendricks nor bis friends will object to their frequent repeti tion. The pretended quotation from a speech recently made by Governor Hendricks at a Centennial meeting in Philadelphia la about equally false in letter and sentiment. The Journal falsely quotes the governor aa fol lows: "I speak for tbat great state which sent 200,000 men into the army." The sentiment, as uttered by Gov. Hen dricks, Is thus published in the Philadelphia papers: "Indiana was a faeble common wealth when admitted ; her settlements were sparsely scattered over her area; now she is a strong state. I think she is not a corpo ration. I think ehe is a state. She will have represented here next year, in her visitors at this great exhibition, nearly two millions of people. Although tbe nineteenth when admitted, she Is now the fourth, filth or sixth of tbe states of the Union in population, in wealth, and in eyery element that makes up a great community. She sent out to maintain the integrity of the country more than 200,000 soldiers cheers, arid as her purpose then was the mainten ance oi the integrity of tbe country. npon the basis ef the constitution and union of states indivisible forever, so she will be happy, holding now the same sentiment, to meet all the states of this union at the great celebration next year. Tbe same spirit that animated her ouring that struggle will animate her in the glad days of 1876." Correctly stated, the sentiment expressed by Governor Hendricks,' in 1863, harmonizes with tbat expressed by him in 1375, and would, we dare say, be cordially approved by the great majority of tbe readers of the Journal. But a fair statement is foreign to the pmrposes of tbat paper. Its object is best subserved by persistent misrepresentation. A false quotation by a newspaper claiming respectability and asking the confidence of the public is an offense against its readers as well aa a wrong to the person misrepre sented. The letter of Mr. Holloway, or rather the official order from the headquarters of the mail department in Indiana, under the official head lines as above, was sent to the postmasters of Indiana. Mr. Holloway is tbe brother-in law of Senator Morton, and as usual tbe administration senators can make and unmake postmasters at will. It will thus be seen what an Influence tbe P. M. of Indianapolis proposed to wield in favor of his newspaper, or in other words, Morton's organ. On the same principle that the postmaster acted, Mr. Morton might have gotten up a document of the same kind, headed it SENATE CHAMBER, and set forth tbe same Hue of : argument that the postmaster used, winding up with promise of reciprocity of favors it the servile obedience that was invited should be compiled with. Indeed, it amounts in effect to the same thing. When the postmaster here offered reciprocal favors to Indiana postmasters, it meant something, especially at all towns where there are money order offices. In central offices, like Indianapolis, these are a sort of general deposit headquarters, a place where tbe smaller offices send their overplus, and when a deficiency occurs they may draw from. The central office has it in its power to favor tbe outside offices by letting them retain the funds till the end of the month, or perhaps the quarter. This is quite an Item in these hard times, where the use of cash fox twenty

and thirty days is quite a convenience. It will thus appear how happy a thing it wil be to have the central postmaster under some obligation and promise of favor. All power and lavor that he possesses is thus pledged by Postmaster Holloway, If the postmasters will only help him in the circulation of Morton's organ, the Journal. If this la not a prostitution of government office, a selling out of official influence, it would be hard to tell what would be. Members of congress have soma influence and patronage at tbeir command, and when one of them sold out his power In appointing a cadet at West Point he ' was promptly expelled from congress. That was no worse than the action of the Indianapolis postmaster. He proposes to bestow his favor in his official capacity to those who will render him private gain. It is the same principle of prostitution, the same outrageous violation of the decency and dignity of official station for the purpose of securing private gain. How many of the postmasters of this 6tate will respond to the offered Insult? Let tbe citizens of tbe state of Indiana at every postal town take notice of such postmasters as become tbe agents and solicitors of tbe Journal, and let every man who receives the private letter Mr. Holloway promises reflect that the postmaster where he gets bis mail, is ono of the men wbo would purchas the favor of the Indianapolis post mas' er here by complying with bis request. Let tbe local press of tbe state air tbis matter in every county, tbat the people may everywhere know that a government official here at the capital of tbe state is selling out his official influence and degrading his office lor individual profit.

dive Us Another Man. If the government did not know of the whisky frauds of St. Louis it shows a criminal carelessness or ctter incompetency tbat should forever condemn it as a wretched failure. Vast sums of money have been paid out by tbe government for secret detective service, and it is altogether impossible that frauds on the revenue to tbe amount of twenty thousand dollars per week should have gone on for lour or five years and no one detect it. Ten daj's survey oi the railroads from Fuch a central point for tbe manufacture of whisky as St. Louis, three or four times a year, would have been the least time tbat ought to have been bestowed npon it, It there was a pretense of surveillance at all. But no such care was bestowed npon the matter, and the government was systematically, defrauded by the very men that were sent to collect the revenues of the government. Suspicion of fraud there long before the exposure, was current through the country. Ike administration seems to have closed its eyes, and shut its ears and permitted tbe rascals to have things their own way. It U lamentable to be forced to believe tbat there was a supervising connivance over the whole systematic steal, by parties high in authority, at Washington. It is, Indeed, almost certain tbat the frauds could not have continued but by the knowledge of the secretary of the treasury. It all looks dark, and when it is remembered tbat hundreds of thousands and millions of dollars have been spent for election purposes, secured from sources that no one could unravel, the whole depravity of the party leaders becomes painfully apparent. What wretched and unholy plots have been planned and executed against tbe nation in defense of the Republican party. Should it be continued In power there is , no security that even more depraved practices will not prevail generally. These whisky frauds are peculiarly aggravating, from several facts. First, the loss of the revenue; second, from the great Injustice done to honest manufacturers, preventing tbeir fair competition for custom and patronage, and lastly, from the demoralizing effects of crime going on, without let or hlndrance.damaglng public credit and the public confidence in general. Will honest men, through setional prejudice, continue to support such a party that has suffered such rascalities to go on? Surely not. If it is to be tbe fate ottte nation to nave to suffer Republican party rule for another four years, let tbe country have tbe poor relief of an exchange of evils at least. It can not scarcely get worse. Give us Morton rather with all his wayward instability and malignant hate. Give as rather -Blaine and his high tariff. Give us Con kling, with his flowing locks. Give us even Butler with his spoons, Chandler with his whisky, or Logan with his foul speech'. Give somebody else, even if the new-born Republican from tbe gambling dens of New York Morrlssey himself. He would even promise better than this wholesale stealing, a sample of which is un covered at St. Louis, Crooked whisky Grant must step down and out. Tbe Bankers and Senator Morton. We know that the public were very much surprised in reading the interview of the bankers as published in yesterday's Journal. Some of the gentlemen interviewed were nersonal friends of that eminent states man and able financier, Senator Morton. and to find them expressing themselves so decidedlv In favor of the repeal of the reBumption'bill was a blow at tbe senator in the house of his friends, which the public did not expect. It will be remembered that in the senator's Urbana speech, which the Sentinel was the first to lay before the public, he claimed tbat he had something to do in drafting that bill, which was only a characterlstio and modest way of claiming the paternity of tbe measure. We did not expect so soon to see his resumption baby disowned by his immediate friends, and then to have his own organ give currency to their views is a cut which the senator must feel keenly. How can he flxnect to secure the presidency when his own friends and organ are so sadly demoral ized, and fall to support this great financial measure t

;. . 1 CURRENT COMMENT. - , "All quiet on the Potomac." ' : . - .. . v . Commissioner Smith, of the Indian office can't stick. Chandler calls for his bead.

The frcst harvested tbe late cotton along tbe Mississippi near Memphis night before last. Humpty Dumpty Fox "has gone crazy," says a New York exchange. He hadn't far to go. The Washington specials would seem to indicate that we are to have a new postmaster general. The Spanish sensation Is about at an end. Why should su?h kindred spirits as Alfonso and Grant quarrel anyhow. D. S. A. has made his reputation as a paragraphist, and is now regarded as a very formidabls rival of Alexander Stevens. In the suits of Henry C. Bowen vs. the Brooklyn Eagle, Judges Fullerton and Beach are pitted against each other. The 300 wives of tbe equatorial African king seem to be entettalning Stanley very satisfactorily. He has not been heard from recently. It is generally understood that the rest oi D. S. A. 'a paragraph conosrnlng Morton will appear in the Cincinnati Gazette ol Saturdav. Tbe paster of a church waä recently surprised by a donation. It vps a blonde, and he discovered it on Lis doorstep before it got into the house. Tbe elections in Pennsylvania being over, there is no pressing party necessity for having tbe League Island navy yard worked to its fulltst capacity. The true Inwardness ol the contemplated conquest of Cuba seems to be that our noble president may secure a stock of Havana cigars by confiscation. The grangers have fully resolved to establish their national headquarters at Louisville. They can combine in the cultivation of the lottery business. Tbe name of tbe new Italian minister a Washington is Grant, but he is not related to the president. If be were he had long since stepped up higher. Tbe devious diBtiller might well exclaim "what doth it profit a man" to make money by manufacturing whisky by moonlight and tben lose his liberty. Three persons have recsntly disappeared from Kansas in a most mysterious manner, and tbe people have begun to look around for tbe Bender family again. A train on the Columbia & Augusta railway was wrecked jesterday and but one carpet-bagger was caught in it. Tbey must be out canvassing the townships. Tbe shorts on lard are being squeezed by tbe lard committee of the New York Produce Exchange. But they surely have grease enough left to slip through. The Chicago Times reaches for the true inwardness of a prospective presidential candidate from Indiana. The Times seems to wield a free and very pointed lance. The Associated Press dispatches had to hold op last night, in reporting the work oi the Lord, from Brooklyn, to find time to expose the works of the devil at St. Louis. Senator Logan denies that he has ever had any connection with tbe whisky ring, which would indicate that bis influence was not held in high regard by the ring masters. "Halifax has 201 lloensed saloons one for every 150 souls of the population, including men, women and children." Then pause and reflect before telling an old toper tougo to Halifax." Walt Whitman was the only poet present at the unveiling of tbe Poe monument in Baltimore yesterday, and yet the great poet's remains didn't rise up and tumble the monument over upon him. The three graces, Theodore, Vicky and Ann Eliza, all appear here the same week by accident, not by design. The three may never be so near to each other again in life's long and tortuous Journey. The Viceroy of Egypt has taken time by the forelock and provided for his monument before his death. His long suffering sub jects should now take him by the forelock and prepare him for the monument. The Cincinnati cfazette has a pungent paragraphist at St. Louis as well as at Indianapolis. He got In a day's work in five columns yesterday morning, but he evi dently wasn't well. The truly good Deacon will give him another chance to-day. The Montgomery Advertiser is able to furnish fourteen very excellent roosters to crow over the carrying of the new constitution at the recent election, which would seem to Indicate tbat the Inborn inclination of Sambo has been suppressed in tbe state of Alabama. The whiskvrlnz did all that it could for the corrupt party under which it flourished. When called upon to contribute for camnalen Durnoses it did so cheerfully, know ing full well that its very existence de pended on the continued success of the Ke publican party. A scecial session of tbe Missouri legisla tare should be called by the governor at once that provisions may be promptly made at Jefferson City lor the whisky ring. The leaders and the rank and file haye quarreled, and the true inwardness of the ring is being reached. . . The New York Herald of yesterday contains a four column article from Wm. Gros

venor, formerly of tbe St.- Louia Democrat, descriptive of the St.JLonis. whisky rings' dark deeds. From the testimony . b Rectifier Erzelke In the trial ot McDonald, yesterday, At appears that Groaveror kaew whereof he was writing.

The talented Indiana correspondent of t3e Cincinnati Gazette furnished yesterday's issaeof tbat paper with a tweive-column'-paragraph concerning Mof ton. But be was not able to tell all he knows about the subject In so short a sketch. However, there is enough to Indicate that tbe war governor would like to assume tbe recumbent in the presidential chair. Don Carlos is considerate and generous. He proposes a truce that he may unite his forces with those of Alfonso in tbe event of American Interference with Cuban aflairs. However, he still refuses to relinquish his right to the crown of Spain. He claims that he merely sinks selfishness In patriotism. If Don Carlos were an American politician be would be suspected of demagogrsm. . Postmaster-General Jewell has not a veiy secure setting in tbe cabinet. He has been guilty of several very grave offenses against tbe administration. He so far forgot bis position as to httempt to remove a disboneat official in his departure nt who happened to be a personal Iriecd of tbe president. Tben he has oflended Euch of the president's pet a as Senator Spencer, Ben. Butler and Boss Shepherd. His retirement from the cabinet, therefore, may be anticipated. Judge Treit, of th.9 Uuitel Sutei Court, sitting in judgment on the St. LouU ring masters, has issusd an order to tbe marshal to bring before the bar of his couit all parties who find anything funny enough to laugh about in the court room during the trial. Stern justice can't see any fun in such stealing as has been indulged in at St. Louis. So far a? heard from nons of the defendants have been arraigned for laughing in court. One ot our prominent city pastors last Sunday preached a popular sermon on the subject of swearing, and the Sentinel se cured tbe manuscript. The piety of the printers was sorely tried by tbe writing, and some of tkein are said to have yielded to theVice so strongly inveighed against in the copy that they were working upon. How ever, they plead justification, and ask that the question be submitted to any committee of Christians for arbitration. In speaking of Mr. Filbert as being understood to be a republican, the Sentinel evidently does not understand tbe true Inwardness of poll leal affairs her 3 iu Terre Haute. Terre Haute Journal. Will the medical experts of Terre Haute have tbe kindness to trepan the Jonrnal editor's skull that a joke may penetrate bis brain? The mere announcement tbat Mr. Filbeck is a postmaster would have indicated to anybody else, beyond a doubt, that he is also a republican. The associated press agent at Omaha has a talent for finding news tbat should secure bis promotion. If a man pulls a gun out of a wagon muzzle first, be is sure to hear of it in a day or two, ard the telegraph editors are promptly apprised of the lact. If a barn is burnt be is on tbe scene and flishes tbe freak of the fiery fiend over the wires from one end of tbe land to the other with pro voking precision. If he were transferred to the fruitful fields of Indiana he would make bis mark in tbe world. There is a rich mine in that line in this state, and it has never been worked. Tbe associated press agents in Indiana lack energy and evidently have "no nose for news." Can't the Omaba agent be turned loote in Indiana? Terre Haute is again ail tore up by ex cess of modesty. Messrs. McKetn fc Minshall, the banker? , gentlemen of exquisite taste as well as rare financial ability, are erecting a bank building tbat would be an ornament to any city. Tbe structure is now nearly completed. Surmounting its dome is a statue of Mercury, placed in position on Saturday. I ia a clatulcal statue, but the wise people there claim tbat it is not chaste, the fig leaf being defective in development. All day Saturday the worldly young men of the town gathered in groups on tbe corner of Sixth and Main streets, and winked at each other as tbey gaaed aloft on the nobby but nude figure. The more modest of the men and the elderly maidens however, passed by with averted faces and down cast eyes, and didn't look up until they were secure from the gaze of tbe worldly wise in the post office lobby, where an unobstructed and unobserved view could be bad of tbe objectionable obiect. The classical editor of the Journal saw that the Terre Hautentots were not well acquainted with Mr. Mercury, so be Introduces hint as follows: "The statue represents llarcnry, of bom Horner, in his Odyssey, speaks, etc." The mere mention of "Horner's" name in tbe way of an endorsement satisfied the virtuous Terre Hautentots that Mercury was not a bad character, but a good one in misfortune. So a subscription will be started at once to provide Mercury with a suit of clothes, including an Ulster over coat. THE BANKRUPT BINGHAMS. HOW IHKT ARB REGARDED IH THE COMMUN ITY WHERE TSY ARE BEST KSOWK. To the Editor of the-Hentinel. Sir: Permit ma to correct some false impressions that may have been created upon the minds of some of your readers by articles in some of your city papers relating to Bingham Brothers, of this city and Evansville. Their first appearance in these places was not caade as lately aa ten years ago. On tbft contrary, from their early boyhood the lives ot the Bingham Brothers have been to the people of this section an open book known and read of all men. Thrown, at an early age, upon tbeir own resources, they speedily developed qualities of business tact and energy which gave them prominence and character with any Inter ests with which they became identified. Socially tbey rank with the highest, being gentlemen by birth, instinct and cultivation. Am&ng business men, with whom they have had extended relations covering a period of the past 20 years, they have always.