Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 25, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1875 — Page 9

S T -A. 17 IE S BHTI 1T;BL SUP PLEMENT.

TUE MARRIAGE KNOT.

BT R.H. STODDARD. From Scrlbner for January I know a bright and beauteous Mar, Who known I love her well; Bat 11 she loves, or will some dar, I caa not make her tell. She Ming the songs I write for her. Of tender hearts betrayed, But not the one that 1 prefer. About a country maid. The hoar when 1 1U burden hear Will never be forgot ; mO stay not long! bat come, my dear, JLntX knit our marriage knot !" It la about a country maid 1 see ber In my mind ; Ube Is not of her love afraid, And can not be unkind. She knits and sings with many a algh, And, as her needle's glide. She w laben, and she wonders why lie la not at her side, "lie promised he would meet me here Upon tals very spot; O stay not long ! but come, my dear. And knit our marriage knot!" My lady will not sing the song. "Why not V I say. And she. Tossing her head, "It is too long." And I, "Too short, may be.' bhe has her little willful ways; But 1 persist, and then, "It is not maidenly," she lays, "For maids to sigh for men." "But men must sign for maids, I fear ; 1 know it U my lot, Until you whisper, 'Come, my dear, And knit our marriage knot!' " Why is my little one so coy T Why does she use me so! I'm not a fond and fosllsh boy To lightly come and go. A man wbo loves. X know my heart. And will know her ere long, Fcr, certes, 1 will not depart Until she slngH my song! Bbe learned It all, a you shall hear. No word has she forgot: "Begin, my dearest." "Come, my dear, And knit oar marriage knot!" ABOUT WOMEN. Ladv to the waiter Don't put that ice Into the goblet with toot fingers. Walter Lor, ma'am, I don't mind, my hands are very warm. A Wilkesbarre lady has recovered fifteen hundred dollars damages from the city authorities for bavins: broken an arm in fallin on a defective pavement. "I was going to give her a nice present, too," said a aweet child of six years to the sister of a recent bride, "but mamma said he thought we had done about enough for her." A Cuban woman commands a detachment of the rebel army. She leads the Insur gents In person, dressed In a riding habit, and mounted on a fine horse, and Is a) brave as a lion. A Duluth girl married a young man be cause he lifted his hat bo beautifully aa he rassed her. She eot a divorce because he lilted the table so oeautifully when the din ner didn't salt him. Said a New York dry sooda dealer: "Of course we lose money on every piece of those iroods: but. my dear madam, we sell such enormous quantities of them." Will the political economist explain? A Pennsylvania girl has coughed up shawl pin worth 30 cents, and several shrewd business men are waiting to hire her if she can succeed in coughing np Yankee no tiona enough to make it an object. An editor illustrates the prevailing ex travagance of people, nowadays, by calling attention to the costly baby carriages in use, while, when he was ababy, they hauled him around by the hair or his head. A. bright little girl having been desired to write a sentence introducing the word "car rion,' presented the following to her teacher: "Bad children often carrion in church when they ought to be quiet." Mamma (to Ethel, on the way to the lat ter's first party) "Now, mind, darling, It you sea any nice things on the table that you'd like to eat, you niusn'd ask for them!" Ethel "Ob, no, mamma, I'll take them!" May "Mamma, do let na have another wedding soon." Mamma (who does no like parting with her daughters), "Don' talk of such a thins? mv darlinnr." Mav " mean let's have another wedding and leave out all but the cake, you know." A Quaker town man has solved Mrs. Liv ermore'a query: "What shall we do with our daughters?" He has purchased two washing machines, and will take in wash ing. His wife and seven daughters are to do the work and he will superintend the business. The other day when a Detroit woman asked her husband to bring home a bar o soap when he came home to dinner, he ex claimed: "What! is that bar gone so quick 7" "It's all gone," she replied, "but I was as savins; aa I could be. I haven't washed the children for five diys past, so as to make it last the weak out." They do some things better In France vide the following neat way of putting it, from a Parisian paper: "The Princess de M is about to retire from society for a little while, and is buying edgings, inserting", muslins, and so on, which she Is making np into little garments, too large for a doll and too small for herself." As a boy was going down street, a woman opened the front door of a house and called, "John, John, John?" As the boy paid no attention to the calls, a pedestrian said to him, "Here, bub, your mother is calling you." "No, she isn't," replied the lad, as he turned the corner; "she's only my father's second wife, and I want her to understand that she can't run me." The Louisville Ledger makes this point, which we commend to the serious reflection oi everybody: It Is a well settled principal of criminal law, that any person who receives stoien goods, knowing them to be stolen, is equally gnilty with the thief. As a large portion of the money stolen by the whisky ring was received and used for the benefit of the radical party, it is equally guilty with the thieves. A Berlin correspondent writes: "In 1S70 the German women decided that thereafter they would never use chignons and other French modes and fashions. The decision was maintained during the war, but that once over, and the fashion mill again started, the German fair sex couldn't withstand the pressure, and again applied in the proper quarter for bonnets snd dresses. The male purists of Germany are quite beside themselves over this feminine fickleness." The attention of young women In a hurry to marry something may well be called to the advertisement of Mrs. Annie Jackson, of San Francisco. In answer to the advertisement oi Mr. J. she says : "I will leave it to the public to judge whether I left my bed and board without any just cause or provo cation. wniPky, is used, was the cause. 1 was compelled to leave my home suddenly on Monday night last or lose my lite. With my babe in my arms i took rerage in a friend's house, where I remained all night. Next morning I went home and the furni ture man had my bed and board carrying them out. That la the way I left nay bed ana boar a."

REFORMATION RAMPANT.

Millions of Dollars to be Saved An nually to the People by the Retirement of Ornamental Officials. THE PROGRAMME. APPROPRIATIONS TO BS REDUCED AND BOGUS CLAIMS ISCOSTKIENTLT REJECTED- PREPARING FOR A BOLD ATTACK ALONG THE Vr HOLS LLNJE OF CORRUPTION. The Chicago Times of yesetrday contained the subjoined special from Washington : A tall, earnest-looking man with athreatenng gleam in his eyes and a grim, economic expression of countenance, now daily haunts the departments, greatly to the terror of the idle clerks, who see n this energetic man a foreshadowing of their untimely end as servants of the re public This vigorous inspector or departments is Samuel J. Randall, chairmaa of the House committee on appropriations. He and bis fellow members are working hard during this ordinarily idle and gluttony encouraging season of. holiday times. As outlined in these dispatches some days ago, the great feature of the democratic con gress is not to be one oi investigation out one oi reform ana actual cutting aown oi expenses. The watch cry of the appropriation committee is now a reduction of 840,000.000. This is to be the objective and eazerly-etrained-ior point oi rtanaairs researches. It is his opinion, as it la of nearly every one who has bad experience in Washington life, that the departments can be carried on for nearly halt the expense now incurred. Mr. Randall, who is an old member, of long experience in the transaction of government business, is especially gifted for the purpose of discovering the useless features of public-service, always provide 1 that he is inspired by a really honest desire to institute reform lor a better reason than ordinary political capitaL The new committee brooms are about to make a clean sweep. Heretofore a dozen at least of the secondary committees appointed by the House have existed only in name on paper. THKI EAVK PERFORMED NO SKRVICE, carried out no purpose in the internal economy of the House or the departments. Though originally designed to check extrav agance and watch the expenditures oi the various executive departments, they have acted rather as cloaks to the overcrowding and overcharging which bai been going on for years in the interest of the administration. They have never saved the country a penny, nor blocked the passage of ringsteals through the departments. On the contrary, their passive acquiescence in the extravagances of the departments has encouraged the Robeons, Belknapa, andDelanos to auch thievery as have been faintly foreshadowed In the Williams landaulet and Delano's Indian exposures. Urged by the administration and aided by the Senate and House, these committees have ignored the first articles of their business, aod have served rather as decoys than guardians of the public purse. But a change has come over the spirit of this tradition. The new committees not only Intend to make them selves active elements of congress, but, in manv cases, they have already set to work, and some of the chief men in the administration are more than un happy. Each chairman of the committees on accounts is charged to make a special policeman of himself, read up the rules of tne nousetnataenne ms power, ana men strike home lor every useless or dishonest account submitted irom the departments. In looking over the rules of the House of Representatives. It will appear that these committees are charged with full power tor the proper discharge of their duties. In the nrst place, tbev are required to see tnat proper VOUCHEES ACCOMPANY ALL ACCOUNTS; second, that all claims allowed are paid out of funds appropriated therefor and in con formity with the appropriation laws. They are also to report upon needed legislation, and the law makes it the specific duty of the committee to report all possible re trenchments and abuses of the government service, with the number of useless officers To properly carry out the regulations passed at the time of the establishment of these committees, will involve the greatest pes sible labor. To eliminate from each depart tnent all the official dead-wood requires great study and discrimination, so that no injustice or real injury to the service may be done. The committee on expenditures in the state department has for its chairman Mr. Sanger, of Illinois. He has thus far shown himself to be exceptionally energetic. He will find an ample field in the wide domain of consular incumbrances in foreign ports to cut down needless ex pen sea. The department In the city here has a very small lorce. and is economically managed. The only field for reforms Is in the foreign service. The committee on ex penditures in the treasury department is one of the most important of all. Smith Ely, jr., of New York, is chairman. A proper working of this committee will shoi up the rotten ring claim business, oi wnicu the Witkowski and Sugg fort frauds are shining examples. There are upward of 3,000 people employed in the treasury de partment, many of whom perform . PURELY ORNAMENTAL SERVICE. There are also in the treasury accounts items of many very ingenious official trips. arranged so that the favorites are allowed te travel at government expense. Mr. Ely will, among other subjects, examine into the necessity of sending smart young clerks abroad at the treasury's expense upon what Is known vaguely as "syndicate business." Hlester Clymer will have charge of the ac counts of the war department. He will make a dead set against fancy military expeditions. known as official inspections, gotten up ai wavsin the summer for the relaxation of the powerful mind of some weary official He will also put an end to the publication of the reports of engineer officers -for private use. He has an entertaining way about him, and is preparing several bills which will doubtless prove very amusing to Bel knap. George M. Beebe, of New York, has the navy department. Mr. Beebe Is a new member. He has already given significant evidence of the stuff of which he is made by warmly advocating the holding of the House caucus open to the public man fond of doing hla work in the open day ought to be honest. One especial set of accounts he will never allow, and these are the recent ex penses incurred by Secretary Robeson in his most extraordinary and mysterious fitting out, as he termed it, of our ridiculous navy. It is one of the blessings of a just retribution that Robeson's accounts should past Into the hands of some others than bis creatures . The autocratic way he has used in turning the funds of the department into a general pool for the benefit of his friends, and the navy into a private yacht club, merits the penitentiary. Wm. II. Stone, of Missouri, will Inspect the postoflice department account. Mr. Stone, in company with Mr. Luttrell, of California, in the last congress OPENED FIRE UPON THE STRAW BID SYSTEM of letting mails, and had it not been for a picked committee on postoffioe and post roads, would have succeeded in makings genuine sensation. Mr. Stone has for a

clerk Mr. Holbrook, who haa been for years

special agent of the department, and who knows moie about the details of the postal service than anv one at present connected with it. unless Mr. Bangs may be excepted. Stone and Holbrook, principally the latter, with his special knowledge, will be able to make the dry bones of the department rattle as they never have before. Mutcbler. of Pennsylvania, wbo hastbe interior department, will direct his especial attention to the Indian and land bureaus. Mr. Ca al field, of Chicago, has charge of the accounts of the department of justice. He will have a bettor place than did his predecessor, Sener, of Virginia. Landaulet Williams was in power duriDg Sener's time. Sener took it into his head one day to do his duty. A resolution reauinng him to inspect the marsbara ac counts of Arkansas was referred to his committee for burial. He, however, went ahead and Investigated. ' He reported, In time, a series of frauds and thefts thor oughly consistent with the thrifty record of Williams and his co-pilfers. As reward for his earnest efforts, the House leered him, and tire republicans declared that Sener bad gone over to the democrats. From that time he was coldBhouldered.Mr. Caulfield.dieguising his war paint in a peaceful guise, dropped in upon the attorney general to-day, to learn his bearings. He was received courteously by the attorney general, who offered him every aid in hia power to expedite his Inquiry into the evils existing in the Judicial affairs of this government. The attorney general was free to own that the problem of mar shals' fees and circuit expenses in the continually increasing districts of the United States conrts had perplexed him greatly, and he hoped the present house could bring about a lessening of the aggravations, . and that he trusted the committee would devise some means oi DIMINISHING TUB EXPENSES OF MARSHALS throughout the country ,and suggest a means of arriving at the honest amount of their expenditure. He stated that It was difficult for him in his department to tell whether their expenditures were legitimate or not. When asked the condition of affairs in Ar kansas and other states where eome speci men frauds have been brought to lieht, he declared that the expenses were enormous, and uninstifiable so in hla estimation, bat that be had bcm assured from the senator of that Btate that they would bring forward proof that this was a mistake. As for himself. be could only lustily it on tne ground that to some extent the expenses might be increased n the extended limits covered by each mar shal; that they had cognizance of territory occupied both by whites and Indians, in volving unusual fees; that prisoners and witnesses have to be brought long distances, and that as there are but two terms of court in a year, tbefce witnesses bad to be kept some time at the government's expense. He was also free to own that many more witnesses were brought and detained than there was any necessity for. He had re cently refused to pay the requisition of the marshal any longer than until he could be assured ol its correctness. He said the same irregularities existed in North Carolina. Mr. Pierrepont never asked how far back the committee would probably want to go in their Investigation, and whether they wanted the inquiry to ex tend only over the last year. Mr. Caulfield indicated that they would probably go bacx a number of years, or as far as necessary to become acquainted concerning facts. Mr. Pierrepont indicated that he knew nothing about what took place before he came into office here. He would, however, afford the committee all the facilities he could in the investigation, no matter to what extent they wished to go. He then sent for the proper clerks, and told them to show Mr. Caulfield where to obtain all the information be de sired in the shape of accounts and books In their charge. This Inquiry promises an ex hibit or some or tne most cnaracteristio frauds of the present administration. THE RESULT. Harry Holloway Indicted by the United States Grand Jury but is Admitted to Bail. , . . THE CASE. . . : , FULL TEXT OF THE INDICTMENT THE WITNESSES CHARLKY HOLLOWAY's CASE. , The United States grand Jurors closed their labors yesterday, and like Sampson of old, in their death struggle pulled down the temple in which they were. Just betöre their close they brought into court the following indictment: THE INDICTM1CNT. United estates of America, Distbict of Indiana: in the Circuit court or the United States, November term, 1875. The grand jury of the United States, within and for the district of Indiana, im panneled, sworn and charged in the court, at the term aforesaid, to inquire for the United States, within and for the district of Indiana, upon tbelr oaths present, that ilarry ilolloway, late of said district afore said, on the first day of May, in the year of our Lord 1874, then and there being an of ficer and clerk In the employ of the govern ment of the United States, to-wit: At and in the poslofflce of the United States at In dianapoiis, in me state ol Indiana and in the district foresaid, did then and there un.-tiully and know ingly received as a compensation a large sum of money, to-wit: the sum of $2,000, from William C. Mason , for services rendered by him, the said Harry Holloway, officer and clerk as aforesaid, to and for him, the said William U. Mason, before certain officer of the United States, that is to Bay, betöre William lt. ilolloway, the then and there postmaster of the postoffice of the United States at Indianapolis, aforesaid, in relation to a certain proceeding, contract, matter ana thing, in which the united States was a party, and in which the United states was Interested, that Is to say. In relation to the procurement of and from the said William It. Ilolloway, postmaster, as aforesaid, by him the said Harry Holloway, lor him, the said William C! Mason, of a certain contract and letting, which he, the said William K. Holloway. postmaster as atoresaid, was then .nd there, as such postmaster, lawfully authorized to, and directed to, make and let to-wit: The certain contract and letting for the mending and repair of the mail bags, pouches and sacks of the United States, . at Indianapolis aforesaid, contrary to the form of the statute of the United States in such cases made aud provided, and against the peace and dignity ol the United States of America. SECOND COUNT. And the grand jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do further present that Harry Holloway, late of the said dls trict. on the 6th day of May, 1874, was then and there an officer and clerk in the employ of the government of the United States, to-wit, at and in the postoffice of the United States at Indianapolis. In tne state or li.dl ana and district aforesaid, and so being an officer and clerk in the employ of the gov ernment as aforesaid, he, the said Harry Holloway, on the day and year aforesaid, did then and there, unlawfully and knowingly, receive as and for compensation from William C, Mason a large sum of money, to-wit, the sum of r4000, for and on account of services rendered by him, the said Harry Holloway, In relation to a certain contract, matter and thing, in which the United States was a party, and in

which the United States was Interested, before certain officer of the United States, to-wit, before William R. Holloway, the postmaster of the postoflice of the United States at Indianapolis, in the state of Indiana, and district aforesaid, that la to say, for and on account of services rendered by him, the said Harry Holloway, for him the said William C. Mason, in procuring and using his influence to procure tor him the said William C. Mason, from the said William R. Holloway. postmaster as afore

said, a certain contraband letting, which said contract and letting, he, tne said William it. Holloway, postmaster as aforesaid, was then and there lawfully authorized and directed to make and let for and on behalf of the United States, to whomsoever he might elect for the mending and repair of the mall bags, sacks and pouches of the United States, at Indianapolis, in the state and district aforesaid, contrary to the lorm of the statute of the United States in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity ol the United Slates of America, THIRD COUNT. And the grand jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid, do further charge and present that Harry Holloway, late of said dis trict at said district, on the 10th day of August, 1874, waa then and there a clerk and officer in the employ of the government, to-wit, an officer and clerk in the postoffice of the United States, at Indianapolis, in said district, and being so then and there clerk and officer in the employ of the government atoresaid did then and there under service for William C. Mason, before William R. Holloway, Esq., postmaster at said Indianapolis, in relation to, and the procuring of, a certain employment and contract, in which the United States was interested, to-wit: A certain employment and contract for mending and repairing the mail-bags, Backs and pouches of the United States, and he, the said Harry Holloway, clerk and officer aa aforesaid, and in the employ of the government as aforesaid, having then and there rendered the services aforesaid, In relation to the said contract and employment, did then and there corruptly and unlawfully receive from William C. Mason, as a compensation for the said services, he, the said Harry Holloway, bad before tnen rendered, as aroreeaio, in procuring the said contract and employment. and In relation thereto a large sum of money, to-wit: The sum of $2,000, contrary to the form oi the statute of the United States in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the United States of America. . (Signed) Nelson Trusler, United States Attorney. THE LAW COVERING THE CASE. From the Revised Statutes of the United States. Section 1782, page S17, Rovised Stat utes of the United States: an ac'. relating to the duty of public officers. Ho senator, rep resentative or delegate, after his election and during his continuance in office, and no bead of a department or other omcer or clerk in the employ of the government, shall receive or agree to receive any compensation whatever, directly or indirectly, for any services rendered or to be rendered, to any person, either by himself or another, in relation to any proceedings, contract, claim, controversy, charge, accusation, ar rest or other matter or thing in which the United States Is a party, or aireqtiy or mairectiy interested, before any department, court-martial, bu reau officer, or any civil, military or naval commission whateyer. Every person oifending against this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be imprioned not more than two years, and fined not more than $10,000; and shall, moreover, by conviction thereof, be rendered for ever thereafter incapable of holding any office of honor, trust or profit under the gov ernment of the United States. TBK WITNESSES IK IHK CASK summoned for the United State are aa fol lows: WilliamC. Mason, Edward Thompson, William R. Holloway, Edwin Vickers. John Dbant and Gen. Fred. Enefler. When the case will be called for trial is not known, but certainly not before the 10th proximo. Late yesterday afternoon Deputy United Mtatea Marsnai win. u. .uavm arrestee Harry Holloway. He was taken before Judge Gresham and released on $2.000 bail. his brother-in-law, Mr. Jones, going on his bond. After being arrested, Mr. Harry Holloway tendered his resignation, which was at once accepted, and that individual is now In private life. It is well known that Mr. Charles Holloway, formerly of the postoffice, and also a brother of the postmaster, has been Indicted and a warrant issued for his arrest. Charles Holloway had to flee the city for crime committed some time ago, and It is rumored that he is at present sojourning in Utah, In this indictment of Harry Holloway at least one man who has suffered gross injustice at the hands of the postoffice department is justified, and should be extolled and commended. That man is Mr. John Dhant, an ecaplove of the office, and one faithful to his trust and true to his oath. He, finding things going wrong in the postomoe, wrote to tne tbird assistant postmaster, Mr. James M. Tyner, in forming him of the lrregularites, but in stead oi setting on foot an investigation, Gen. Tyner wrote to Postmaster ilolloway and had Mr. Dnant discharged. THE PIANO FORTE. WHO INVENTED IT, STILL TION. MOOTED QUES Who invented the piano forte T The Flor entlnes, having caught the centennial in lection, propose to commemorate, next year, the one hundredth anniversary of the death of a certain cristotorl, for whom they demand the honor of having given to the world the most elaborate and perfect of musical instruments. But Cristofori's claim is not of the clearest, and is very earnestly disputed. The fact probably is that to no single inventor do we owe the piano. It gradually grew out of a number of successive improvements on the ancient stringed instruments. The old lute, and spinnet and harpsichord were played upon with the fingers; and the piano is also stringed, and the main difference between it and the harp in mechanical principle is the substitution ol the "jacks" or hammers, which strike upon the strings Instead of twanging them. Who thought of this idea of the jack and Iht keys by which the hand communicates with it? He, perhaps, has the best right to the credit of the invention; but whether It was the Bohemian Schroeter, or the French Marius, or the Venetian Cristofori, it seems impossible now to deter mine. A disputed invention a century old is hard to settle; even the discovery of ether as an anaesthetic agent, made within thirty years, is Involved in a maze of contradictory evidence. But, even if Cristofori were the Inventor of the piano forte, Florence can scarcely claim the reflected honor, for he was of scholastic Padua. It is interesting to think that the piano is but little over a cen tnry old, and that while Mozart only lived to see it coming into vogue, Beethoven was almost the first great composer who made use of it for purposes of composition. What an incalculable benefit the piano haa been to the later maestri! Nell Grant, 60 years of age, with gray hair and beard, was yesterday arraigned before Justice Barbier on a charge of having slated Mrs. Demsey. Grant keeps a butcher snop on the corner of Twenty-sixth street and Michigan avenue, and Mr. Demsy alleges tnat ne is in the habit or kissing every woman who enters hia shop. Detroit Tri bune.

FUNDS OP THE STATE.

AUDITOR HENDERSON PRESENTS HIS ANNUAL REPORT. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POINQ AW AT WITH CHRONIC PERVERSION IN ACCOUNTS, AND KEEPING THE TRUST FUNDS INVIOLATE AND APART FIGURES ON DEMOCRATIC RETRENCHMENT AND REFORM. The Hon. Eb. HendersoD, auditor of state, has presented to the governor his annual report on the condition of the funds under his care. It is prepared with the most elab orate pains and contains many original and valuable suggestions upon the management of certain trust funds, and proposes a new and wise method of so changing the rules tor handling these fund accounts that no confusion can possibly result as it has done for years. These suggestions are substantially the same as those submitted recently by the treasurer, and have mutually been agreed upon Dy these two omcers of the state In their search for reform. In concluding his report Mr. Henderson returns thanks and makes an acknowledgment of his obliga tions to Mr. H. R. Downey, the governor's secretary, Treasurer Shaw and Mr. F. O. Foley, bis deputy, Mr. Johh H. Piercy. his own efficient deputy, and Mr. T. B. Meesick, clerk of the insurance department, all of whom have contributed to making the report exhaustive and creditable to the state gov ernment. The present fiscal year closed with October 31, 1875. At its commencement, on November 1, 1874, the state treasury contained In cash $244,203 73, thus distributed among the various funds: College funds, f 1,603 73; surplus revenue fund, $2,007 52; three per cent, fund, $32 13: fund of unclaimed estates. 14,512 85; sinking fund, excess of sales, $2,405 19; general fund, $233,642 36. There was due the general fund on account of amount overdrawn by the school fund, $10,291 94, also on amount overdrawn by the general land fund, 1829 80. which amounts. added to 233.642 36, make the general fund proper 52H,7&4 10. RECEIPTS. The receipts from all sources from November 1, 1874, to October 31, 1875, inclusive, were as follows: To general fund. $2.176.410 19; common school fund, f 1,992,315 26; college fund, 124,642 80; swamp land fund $1,738 25; fund of unclaimed estates, f 1,978 39; total, S 4,441.288 67. DISBURSEMENTS during the year from the several funds have been as follows: From general fund 11,997,244 86; common school fund, f 1,999,595 75; college fund, 20,555 74; swamp land fund, 1,724; fund of unclaimed estate?, S52 90 ; sinking fund (excess of sales) $120 57. Total, 14,019,893 82. Balance cash In treas ury, November 1, 1875, 1421,394 85. There is distributed among the different funds: Bal ance in general fund, $423.929 43: college fund, S5.890, 79; surplus revenue fund, 12,007 52; three per cent, fund, $32 13; fund lrom unclaimed estates, 15,638 34; sinking . fund (excess of sales), $2,284 62. Total, $439,782 83. Deduct overdrafts by common school fund, 1874 and 1875, $17,572 43, and overdraft by swamp land lund, 1S75, $315 55, which leavea balance or all rands in treasury .November 1, 1875, of $421,394 85. It is proper to state that the sum of $140,234 5o is included in the $4,019,903 82 disbursements, which prop erly snouia De aeauctea irom Bsia last named amount, being for transfer of funds on the warrant of the auditor to the funds, s follows: Interest on negotiable bonos, $234,286 99; revenue of 1874, $202,639 20; de linquent revenue, $0,944 11; school tax ol 1S74, 2,364 25; total, f-45,Z34 55. Vor the same reason the actual receipts into the treasury is the same amount, $415,234 55, less than shown by the lorezoine nzureM. $4,197,094 89. FACT AND FICTION. After thus giving in detail the condition of the funds as shown by the ledgers, the auditor proceeds to show what this condition is actually. He shows the whole fictitious method of making ledger entries in the trust fund accounts, by which the amount of receipts and disbursements has been In creased. This perversion of funds has all resulted from not drawing the. line between these various funds and keeping them dis tinct from each other. Money has been thus transferred Irom one fund to another en tlrely regardless of system, the only anxiety oi former omciais seeming to be about the accuracy or the fund as a whole. It is now proposed to keep these fund books in such a manner that no mistakes can possibly occur in these transfers. It seems by this report that instead of the receipts for the last fiscal year being $4,197,084 89 the actual amount was $3.751.850 34. and the disbursements for the same time instead of being $4,019,903 82 should be $3,574,669 27. In this connection the earn ?3,625 50 should be deducted from the receipts, as the amount was paid Into the treasury by cunty treasurers in settlement with the state, and afterwards refunded by county commissioners as overpayment of the amount due from such counties. The actual receipts from all sources during the year were $3,743, 214 84; actual disbursements, $3,571,023 77; balance in treasury November 1, 1S75, of year's transactions, $177,191 07; balance in treasury November 1, 1874, $244,203 78; balance in treasury November 1, 1875, $421,394 85. Then followed a long and interesting history of the origin of the state funds, showing how the trusts were created, and pointing out how these funds have suffered losses in the past which have caused great labor and research of law and records in the different state offices. PROPERTY. The total value of real and personal property in the Btate, for the year 1874, was $954,857,475; and for the year 1875. $897.739.783; showing that during the past year there has been a decrease of $07,117,692. PUBLIC DEBT. The condition of the publio debt oi the state, October 31, 1875, Is as follows: Foreign debt, 5 per cent, certificates, state stock, $16, 469 99 ; per cent, certificates, state stock, $3,285 13: war loan bonds, 6 per cent, $139,000; temporary loan bonds, 7 per cent, due April 15, 1876, $510,000; temporary loan bonds, 8 per cent, due December 1, 1876", $200,000; temporary loan bonds, 7 per cent, due April 1, 1878, $200,000; internal improve ment bonds, $30.000; total, f 1,098,755.12. DOMESTIC DEBT. School fund bond No. 1, January 1, 1867 $709,024 85. School fund bond No. 2, Janu try 20, 1867, $2,653,057 30. School fund bond No. 3, May 1, 1863, $184,234. School fund bond No. 4, January 20, 1871, $177,700. Schoo fund bond No. 5, May 3, 1873. $175,767 07. Total, $3.904,783 22. Total debt, $5,003,533 34 REDEMPTIONS. During the fiscal year ending October 31, 1875, certificates of state stock to the amount of $10,000," internal Improvement bonds, $64,000 and temporary loan äonds $200.000. have been redeemed, making a total of $274,000. During the three years ending October 31, 1875, internal improvement bonds have been redeemed and Interest paid to the amount of $553,942 23, WABASH ERIE CANAL, The trustees of the canal submit detailed

report of this beautiful stream for the year ending April 1, 1875:

Receipts. -n.iss 7i Disbursement. Balance on h and STATE BUTTS. JMlO 43 Suits have been Instituted by the auditor on relation of the state agalnat took out the parties who an injunction against the state officers In 1871, in regard to the distribution of the school fund, and thus delayed this distribution one year, and in consequence damaged the fund by $50,000. Suit has also been instituted against the American Express Company to determine the validity of the law requiring such corporations to make semi-annual reports of the business transacted to the auditor of state, and at the time of making such report, pay Into the treasury of the state $3 on each $100 of receipts for passage fare, and $1 on every $100 of receipts for transferring freight. Both of the suits referred to are now pending litigation in the courts. INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. The statement of the business transacted in the insurance department for the six months ending Jane 30, 1875, makes the following exhibit: Fire, gross receipts, $308,460 89; losses paid, $399,713 82; receipts, less losses, $418,854 76; tax paid. $12,565 61. Life, gross receipts, $671.274 97; losses paid. $418,545 30; receipts, lesa losses, $299,556 57; tax paid, $8,986 70; tax paid by fire and. life companies tor six months ending June 30, 1S75, $21,552 51. The groes receipts are thus distributed between fire and Ufa companies: Fire: Gross receipts, $1,710,076 65, losses paid $932,355 28, tax paid $25,829 28. Life: Gross receipts $1,382,509 51, losses paid $770,732 16; tax paid $20,311 15. Fire and life: Gross receipts for the year $3,092.5S6 16, losses paid for the year f 1,703,087 44, total taxes paid for the year $49,140 43. ' BANK DKPABTMERT. The auditor gives an extensive review of the various banks of deposits throughout the state, showing the condition of the old free banks on the 31st of October, 1875, mentioning those which continue nnder the new law, those which have withdrawn their securities and filed bonds, giving a sketch of the financial history of the savings banks; and lastly, giving the following list of banks which have been organired accordlno; to law, since the date of the last report: Adams County Bank, Decatur; Bank of New Carlisle, New Carlisle; Citizens Bank, Union City Citizens State Bank, Fetersburgb; Citizen's State Bank, New Castle; Citizen's Bans:, Hagerstown; Citizen's Bank, Rockport; Citizen's Bank, Portland; Farmer's Bank, Mooresville: Farmer's Bank, Columbus; Hamilton Bank, Fort Wayne; Madison County Bank, Anderson; People's Bank, Fortland. ' CONCLUDING REMARKS. In closing his able report, the auditor makes several very important recommendations for financial reform. He calls special attention to the new method which has been introduced in the management of the trust fund and the revenues of the state. He thinks it unwise for the legislature to fix a limit in appropriations tor the special services of j ad eres for the reason that no accurate figures for these expenses can possibly be reached, and thereioreno attempt should be made to limit those In cidental expenditures, lie submits the following table, setting forth the various reforms which have been followed by the 5 resent state government, mach to the reef of the tax payer: FIGURES OF REFORM. 1S73. 1199,563 S3 1875. 118,026 SI 47,156 51 40,619 63 lG12t 66 Legislative expenses.... Specific appropriations. Pnbllo printing niffumnna 78,810 a 57,328 39 $335,702 13 $33,5702 13 FROM THE FRONTIER. CUKI0TJS MEXICAN MUDDLE THE QUESTION OF THE EXTRADITION OF HARRIS STILL XJTSBETTLKD A NARROW ESCAPE. The Brownsville, Texas, correspondent of the New York Herald, telegraphed Friday' issue of that paper: "Dr. Harris has not yet been surrendered. Meanwhile Judge Margain, who is to decide the question, has been ordered to vacate his seat by Echartea, chief Justice of the state. Senor Montero, Harris' attorney, haa been appointed to fill the vacancy. Margain thua lar declines to be removed, and promises to deliver Harris - to the sheriff before he vacates his office. To-day General L&barra, collector of customs, and in reality commander- of the military in Matamoras, iniormed your correspondent that he wouia immediately ceiegrapb to tne capital the condition of things and ask for prompt action In tne matter. This question of extradition generally, which is one of the great causes ot tne frontier troubles, deserves a thorough Investigation aud revisal. In its present aspect it indicates, to use a mild expression, extraordinary and -unaccountable supineness on the part of the United States government or its diplomatic agenta at the capital of Mexico. While ths provis- -ions , of the trea.y between the two republics may be clear enough, for certain reasons it has ' always been a matter of great difficulty to carry them into effect upon this border. Prominent among these reasons are the local jealousies which exist between the two races, causing the one invariably to sympathize with those charged with crime by the other; and again the fact that the cities of Browns- , ville and Matamoras have always been the asylum of political offenders from the sides ot the river opposite them respectively, while the harboring of them haa been regarded as a matter of honor by both. Perhaps, however, the greatest difficulty of all lies in the long existing indictment against Cortina and others in the Cameron county courts, rendering any compliance with the extradition laws a precedent dangerous to the most powerful as he is the most popular man on the frontier and many of hia friends. - Terre Haute Express: Mark McCoole, a laboring man about 53 years of age, who resided near Rock vi lie, was yesterday coming toward town about noon, on the track of the L., C. tfc S. W. railroad, and while crossing a trestle heard the whistle ot the south bound express, due here at 12:00 p. m., and on looking back saw it so close that, thinking he had not time to get off the trestle by going forward, turned and started back In the direction of the train, expecting to get ofl before the train could reach him, but before he could escape the engine struck him, throwing him from the track. He was carried to the office of Drs. Cross fe Gillum, who, upon examination, discovered that the right side of the head was terribly crushed, one arm broken In three places, and all the ribs of the left side fractured. He died in the evening about 4 o'clock, whereupon Coronor Ayde lott summoned a jury to hold an inquest, but at the time of writing no verdict had been rendered. It is generally supposed that McCoole was intoxicated, and that, had it not been for a curve in the road not tar from the trestle, the engineer could have discovered the man In time to stop tbe train and prevent the sad occurrence. The deceased left a large family In poor clrcumstances. He was a soldier in the Slst Indiana regiment In the late war