Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 25, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1876 — Page 1

. : V. 1 'i INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY APRIL czq, 1876. VOL.XXY NCV 37. WHOLE NUMBER 1,849

COXCiBESSIOSAt SCMMABT. 1 CEt DAT, APRIL 18. ' . ' SXNATB-Senator Sherman lntrodaoed his silver bill providing for tbo retssce of the old

.'lverdoL'&r.etc. A bill relating to furnish in ivinmMiniiil Records to members of Congress t cost waa passed WSS also the Pennsylvania venae pavementblU. The deficiency ppruyrinu" Was talscn. tip and amnd x ents providing Tor toe mileage of senators, the salaries or the Elacx Hlflscommls -loners and the exrenHe of the government exhibition at the Centennial we e agreed to. On the other hand, one o' the Indian appropriations was reduced, a.d the t revision requiring territorial officers tobe ntirenof thir territories was stricken oat. - . 1 1 A V.I11 nocsB The committee reported In the case of Bremberg arlot Haralson unanimously in favor of the sitting member, Haralson, and in tv.A r3Rfl of finlay sgalnst Wans in iavoroi th contestant. Finlay. The former was agreed ..tinn & taken on tbe latter. Th venln session was spent by Messrs. Cul iwrsAn Hooker and Banning In speeches arapportlng the Indian transfer bill. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20. Benatg The impeachment proceedings were continued and Manager Lord presented ih renlication of tte House to Belknap's plea. m.. .ri.i was then adjourned to the "27th. Tne House bill to aenne me i on fermented and malt Mono- was amended and passed. Senator Thwman called np his motion to reconsider tbe Morton isolation as to counting the vote iot presi v.nt senator Morton, replying, Intimated that Thomas Jefferson, when vice president counted a void return in favor of himslf. Senator Thurman denied tbe accusation, and the vote was reconsidered. The Japanese in demnity bill was discussed and amende'!. Hocsk Reports were received from the Impeachment managers and from the sergeant-at-arms in relation te Hallett Kilboum. The Florida election casewas settled in accoidance with the reportof the committee. The even lng sessioa was devoted to the Indian transfer 'bill. THURSDAY, April Senate. A blVl authorizing "Mrs. Minnie Bherman Fitch to leceive herllamonds free ntAniv was unanimously passed. The House bill, regulating tbe collation of the internal revenue, was amended, uut not further acted upon. Among the resolutions and bills offered were an anti-Chinese measure by Senator Sargent; a bill making silver legal tender for all amounts by fenator Bogy, and educational bills by Senators Edmonds and Maxey . A bill was reported to amend section 4,688 of the revised statutes so as to allow a pension of 137 per month to soldiers who have lost both an arm and a leg, in Ilea of 1-4 per month, the amount now allowed. House Among the bills reported was one to enlarge the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus Id the case of witnesses summoned by the Benate or House, and a resolution relating to Mexican affairs. Tbe Senate amendments to the diplomatic 'bill were inon-concurred in. The report of the committee on rales was read reprimanding severely Clerk Smith, who had already rmlgEed. Some of the Senate amendmdnta to the deflciency bill were agreed to and others were rejected, and an Investigation was ordered Into one of the various charges against Brlstow. The rest of the session was spent over tbe Indian transfer hin. Mr. Cok oonosed and Mr. Mills advo cated it. An amendment offered by Mr. Hoi man providing that officers should be de tailed to perform certain da ties among the Indians was rejected, and others allowing re tired officers teibe appointed agent, and pro Tiding for the admission ol Indians tocltl zenship, la certain cases, were agreed to. FRIDAY, APRIL 21. House. Mr. Knott introduced a bill pro viding that tbe Supreme Court shall have original and exclusive jurisdiction to issue a -writ of habeas corpus in all cases where the party shall be restrained of his liberty by tbe nthnritv of ither house of Congress. A bill relating to corporations engaged in distilling was passed and the reference of ths resolution of lhureday to investigate Brlstow was changed to the com mit tee on ways and means and It was ordered to be public. The Indian bureau transf rbill ws further debated and at length passed by iE to 81. SATURDAY, APRIL 22. HOUSE A bill was introduced in regard to citizenship and to define the rights of citizens abroad. A saiHlltute and an amendment were offered and the bill was postponed until Wednesday. The bill to amend the charter of the Freed men's Bank was taken np and Mr. Braiford offered and supported a substi tute authorizing the appointment of a man to close it np. A bill lo abolish the district board of health was introduced. MONDAY, APRIL 24. Senate The session was spent in tbe dis cussion of two bills, upon neither of which a conclusion was reached, for the abolition of internal revenue supervisors and to make silver a legal tender without limit. Senator Jones made a lonztoatca la support -of the latter. House A number o bills were introduced and referred, tmoEg th;m provisions to increase the circulation of the -national banks, to organize the nary, to request the release of Condon, etc. An investigation of the New Or Jeans custom bouse with power to it during the recess was ordered by a party vote, and the district business was taken. The greater part of the teflon, how vr, was taken up by Mr. Blaine's personal explanation touching the Colon Pacific busi ness. His defense consisted of letters from eldney Dillon and Tom S'ott and In bis own earnest denial of all tbe charges brought against him. ANOTHER PEDRO. OWE iOr THS LATEST THINGS IN PETS. . Mrs. M.G. Fisher writes In the Arcadian: One of tbe oddest pets that ever existed belongs to a little girl In eventy-first street. A visitor met her at the gate last summer with what she supposed was a J u neb box under ber arm. lo tbe ladyV emprise eriake-like head ran cut a little way from tie lunch box, and tbe pet tOLxncd ti be a common mad turtle. Some one bad broogbt the creature home a year or so beoie. and Jtt it loese lo the gar do a. Wben tie children Legan to play there, out from i'.a bole came tte turtle, and tingling tut this child gave evidence; of Intelligence beyond belief. Ihe turtle was ailed Pdro. and the lutle girl bod but to csll that cam two or tbres limes at tbe back doer to ae the old box waddling np from tot bottom of the f,ar-

den directly. Any one else approach

ing or at eooptlng familiarities, tne ciumsy feet were diawn promptly in, and the wise old head retired within Us shell, ana no sign of life would Pedo give. Bat let the child take it, the claw closed round one of her fingers, and the head, run out to its lullest extent of neck, would be waggled against her with every token of loTe a turtle could give. There came a time during the summer when the little mistress wa9 tick. The mother s'ttlag In the dusk, thought she saw a dark object moviDg In the room, and shortly alter, bearing a pumping on the stair, went oui ana ioudj it was rmiiu returning to his hole in the yard. Each day lor weeks, with the openir g ol the outside door, in would walk Pedro. The girl generally found fcim waiting on tbe steps. lie would go to tne mir?, stauu upright in a corner, and setting nis littie feet into the stairs a Dove, pun mmteii up. This operation be would repeat till be reached the landing. II the door Into tbe sick child' room was closed, he waited oatlentlv to be allowed to enter. Wben taken ud and laid beside Us mistress it made no effort to move, but lay lor hours, with Us solemn head wagging Irom side to side. At night it waddled off to the stairs, and then the racket commenced, as it fell on each step in clumsy fashion, sounding like ttat famous clock in the I c golds by legends that went hopping alter Mr. Ap. Jones. MR. MOODY'S METHOD. THE SECRET OF HIS SUCCESS. AN ANALYTICAL EXAMINATION INTO HIS . ORATORY HIS KNOWLEDGE CF.MEN THE PENALTY OF SUCCESS GRAMMATICAL SB' BOBS AND UNKJUBPRONOUNCIATION. The New York Evening Post publishes the lollowing appreciative and careful in quiry into the great lay preacher's extraor dinary success: Let trs inspect Mr. Moody, In the first place, and most ebviously, he is, apparently at least, sincere. lie teems to speak what be believes, a&d because he believes It. Then be is an orator; that is to say, he knows bow to persuade. Next, be Isearnest, and bis magnificent physique. bis rugged healtto, his bodily strength, enable him constantly to show it. He is simple, natural, unaffected, unconven tlonaL unreserved, direct, business-like, lie is not Coleridge's "at, sleek, oily man. of Ood," nor Tennyson's "snowy-handed. dilettante, delicate handed prit," nor. least of alL Chaucer's monk, "an eey man to give peoanc tber as he wisteto have good pitance," preferring to cultivate tbe society ol 'all with riebe and sellers ot vitaille.' ' lie addresses himself to the peo ple who need tbe truth, ot whatever sex or class or race they may be, and he seeks to do them good as a man seeks lor bidden treasure. Still further, he is authoritative' intensely dogmatic, even opinionative, it we please, lie admits that be can not by demonstration refute the objections of tbe philosophic skeptic, lie does tot mike the attempt. To him the Bible is the veri table word oi Ood. Why should man dis cuss a truth which infinite wisdom has promulgated? Does man know more than h s Maker? know better than his Maker? a way with hermeneutics, and apologetics and biblical criticism. Tne Bible is not thb fluid, literary, poetic, oriental diction that Matthew Arnold sees; it does not require culture in a reader in order that he may be understood; it is not tbe expression ot an en;rt to grasp at the trutb. Its narra lives of miracles are exact scientific statementsnot the allegories of Origen, nor tbe myths ot Strauss, nor the pious frauds of Ranaa. Tbe Ood and tbe berealter of which Us speaks are indisputably eternal verities, lie would pity a scholar like Mr. Greir, to whom the existence of a Creator is only "almost a certainty," and a renewed lile alter death only a soiemn hope." HIS CONVICTIONS are aosoiate. He has as vivid conceptions of hell and of Jmpe, of corporeal burning In literal flames and of a personal devil as bad Jerome and Cbrysostom, Wesley and Wh'.tefield, the Spanish inqutsitionisia and the Scotch clergy of the seventeenth century. We cuubt not forget to mention a'.to his executive ability bis knowledge of men, bis immense common sense. Take a single illustration tie kdows Detter tnaa soy clergyman in this city now to get persons to stand up and ask to be prayed lor. He says just enough in the way of appeal, and shows just enough apparent indifference as to re suit. Let his Binning hearers rise in their seata and manifest tneir good intentions Mr. Sankey will sing "s ft and low. so and low" as tbe 'wicd of the western sea.' The audience will remain seated, with heads bowtd in silent prsyer. All in flu ences oi soul ana sense, or heaven and eirtb, of memcry and comcience, of fit ntss and duty, permeate tbe atmosphere, Tbe effect is iiresUtible. The heart shapes ltseii into a lempie, ana every aspiration ends in Ood. ' Of course, Mr. Moody has his faults, like the rett of us. In tbe first placf, being aa unread, an uncultured mar, he bas no sort or appreciation of the intellectual troubles and difficulties of scholars wi o do lo because they can not see axtrioes as he sees them, if a man aoes net believe all ol tbe cardinal truths of what Is known as evangelical Cbrbtian uy, air. Aiooay, like many an earlier and much more InteonperAte dogmatism, beholds in that person's condition tbe result ot wiliul and carnal uubeliel. It is not enough for him that a poet such as Shelley tor example to take au extreme esse be Jievcs, and says that he believes, in "that I'owerwnicn wieias tae woria with never weai led love, sustains it from below and kiadles it above;" tbe poet must subscribe to the aogma oi tbe verbal inspiration o tbe Scriptures. It is not enough fcr him that an nfetorian like Mr. Froude is such phllrsopber ot unselfishness as to declare tbat"uj serve Ood and love Ulm is higher and better than happiness, though it be with wounded feet, and bleeding brow and heart loaded with o:row;" tbe histo rian mutt give his unqualified assent to (hs LITERAL INTERPRETATION of the first three chapters of Genesis. Such laborious scholars and honest men aa Frederick Robertson, Charlc3 Kingsley and Arthur Stanley are, in bis eyes, simply promoters of infidelity and unworthy of tneir profession. Unitarians, of course, lo matter how many George Peabodys aad Peter Coo Der s may be amoDg them are on the t road road that leads elsewhere than to the kingdom ot Ood. Belief, "soacdnepg," are the first considerations; morality, personal puritv, tbe S9cond. Indeed, Mr. Moody somewhat frequently mistake! h:s ground and teaches as truth that whiah clearly is not trutb. For ex ample, be saya tost "infidels won't try

God. and. of course, they do not have as

peaceful an end as tbe man who has taken Ood at Ills word," which is not true in all cases; Strauss died in great peace, while tbe Rev. John Todd's end was troubled. Mr, Moody says that Christ " bears even now at tbe throne of Uod those Bears be received here lor our sakes;" but Paul sä j s that Christ's ascended body is a glorious body, without spot cr wrinkle cr any such thing. And so we might quote abundantly. These quotations are a.l cf them from but a single sermon picked up at random, snd show that Mr. Mcody often tpaks at random, and m'stakts the truth. Mr. Moody 'a denance oi me canons of Ltnalnv Murray is not nearly so serious a matter aa is his contempt for the taions of sav, Wesitmins er Atbey. The disrespect In both cases a consequence i Of his lack of early educational facilities , and of his procrastination in picking np h common school education. Perhaps it & urjust to euggest that Mr. Moody so retimes shows signs of being a little jytrbearing and tyrannical. It is the oeeettic gain ot success, and doubtless r,e is as free from it as are other successf ai men. Bat it does seem that, to mention only oce instance, tbe important and deeply interesting subject ot woman's pla ce as a laborer in the Christian vineya d was dis posed of rather TARTLY AND DISCOURTEOUSLY by tbe Gamaliel ot tbe re jent Christian convention. Mr. Moody Is a man ot so driving a persit tsnce and. bo immaculate a consistency that it is scarcely more possi ble that be should gieutly change himself than that to xise a biblical figure a leopard should change its spots. Indeed, there is no pus pect whatever that be will ever conform Uber himself or his style to tbe demands of propriety or to the requirements 3f grammatical rules. Let us frankly con less then, as we bid him good bye, that we are heartily glad that there is none. He Is what he is because he is what he ts. We would not change him. Make him the best read preacher in tbe world and he would lnftantly lose half hia power. Set him to Imitating the elegant abstractions of Burntt and Barron, of Tilloteon aad Stillingfleet, and bis style would become not only stilted but tame. Put him torough a course of training in ajttematic theology ana you fasten big logs of luel to the driviDg wbee.s cf bis engine. Give him a smattering of logic, and for ch with undue assumptions, beg gingsof tbe question, ignoratio elenchi and ambiguous middles step forth and solicit tbe derision of his school-bred bearers. Even lend him an English gram mar, and we should never again be charmed by his naive provincial col loquialisms. He is just right lor his work as ne is orirnal, dashing, careless, lie hat net, it is true, one word of solace or of light for the honest cultured douttar; but, on tbe other hand, tbe doubter knows too much to expect, either ot him or of any human being, a solution of eternal mys terles. Should Mr. Moody address him self to lilting the clouds lrom the skeptic's soul, the greater prt ot bis audience would learn atheistic argument?, which would stay longer in their memories than would Mr. Moody's attempted refutation of them, and tbe clouds themselves would bangaa thick and black es ever. The masses of men are not philosophic dis putants. They believe pretty much what they sre taught to believe. And tbise masses Mr. Moody reaches the more surely and widely because he is one of them himself, and because he has not been made elegant and faultless ty the trimming and restraining processes ot a liberal educa tion. His very solecisms Bound sweetly In their ears. His familiarity and conver sstional manner please them. They like his directness and his earnestness. He is driving a bargain with them, and be "talks sense." He is trying to comfort them, when "from the world's bitter wind they are seeking shelter," and be fills their souls with the assurance ot a Father's love. There THEY SIT AND LISTEN the poor, the distressed, tbe afflicted, the sorrowful taking "their fill of deep and liquid rest, forgetful of all ill." Life be comes pleaaanter to them. Tbe future a sumes a hopeful aspect. Mr. Moody touches more chords than their paster on Sunday doe. He comes nearer home. He nourishes them mere. His society is more refreshing. Ibey go away from the hlpp drome brightened and strengthened. Tbey like Mr. Moody; and so does almost everybody. Hence we would not upon any account have him change himself. We enjoy his rude simplicity and his pellmell earnestness, his downright Individ uallty, and his uncalcuiating naturalness We think delicious hia "had ought to have done," and hia "tbey com and said"; hb "you was there," and his "Pilate, he was a heathen ;" his " meracles" and b's heavun;" his ' Ja eye-rusV daughter, and his "Ca-eye-phas" the high priest. We come to desire bis frequent "thank Gods," and his oft-recurring but tbenp;" his in terlocutory eiculaiioof, and his boxing gesticulations. We love to listen to the stories of his wonderful "little boy," and of his marvelously sharp witted uegroe? We admire his childlike faith and his unquestioning trust. We are delighted with his qualntnets which makes men smile, and his pathos which makej men cry. We feel for him the tame sort ot very real aifection that we feel for Charles Lamb, whose oddity diverts and rests us when o use his own words "our spirits are sore-iretted even to sicknest ot the janglicps snd nonsense noises of the world ;" or for Thomas Car vie, whose vigorous anl demented style is sometimes as he himself would express it like "a tree-flowing channel dug and torn by noble force through tbe sour mud-swamp of our existence." We are thankful to him for preaching heaven rather than bell; love rather than torments; work rather than courcb; the salvation of sinners rather than the damnation of saints. And we shall not soon forget his incomparable frankness, his broad undenominationallsm, his eledge-hamrxer gea ures, bis profuse diction, which stops neither for colons nor for commas; hie trueness, which never becomes conventional; his natoralnees, which never whine; bis abhorrence ot Phariseeism and of ecclesiastical Machiavellsm, his mastery of h' subject, his gloriour self-confidence, his It amelets life, and his unswerving leally to his conscience and to bis work. A little boy, named Frankle Parker, fell from a third story window on the bowldered pavement in the alley below, a distance ot 40 feet, st Ltfayeue last Friday. When taken. up it was fjuod that an aim was broken, both knee caps3 shattered and that he had received several severe cuts and Lruises. There are no hepes ot his ' rteovery.

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Grave Ciar-es Against the President of th United States. MISUSE OF THE SECRET SERVICE FUND. STARTLT STORY AFFECTING THB INTEG RITY 0F THB PRESIDENT THB SECRET 8EP .V1CB MONEY USED FOR CARRYING TBK Nf .W YORK ELECTIONS THB mONEY PAID A THE ORDER OF GENERAL GRANT TR 1MONY OF WHITLEY AND EX-ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAMS. The Washington correspondent of tbe New York Herald write: An astounding development was mario tc-day in Mr. Caulfield's committee on expenditures in the department of justice, the testimony in volving in a very painful manner the president of the United State. The story relates to and confirms the charges made in New York In 1872 thbt the administration lad interfered, in an improper and even corrupt manner. In the elections of that year. It will bo remembered that in that year John I. Davenport became no torious tor his conduct as federal supervi sor ot elections' and Unltedi States commission r under the law giving the federal rower authority to superintend ele to is of federal offlasrs. It was thown 'o-day, first by the testimony of Colonel Whitley, ex-chief of secret service, and then by tbe confirmatory admissions of ex-Attorney General Williams, that Williams, through Whitley, sent to Dav en port in all at different times $30.000 of the secret service fund of the department of Justice; that all this was thus sent dur ing tbe months immediately preceding the elections in New York, and that it was given to Wbitley for Davenport by Williams on tbe direct orders ofFrm dent Grant. Tbe following is tbe story in its detain: Home days ago Colonel vvnit ley, ex-chief ot tbe secret servic?, appeared oetorethe committee on expenditure o; the department of justice ad testified to caving furnished John I. Davenpcr'.of New York, large amounts ot MONEY FROM THB SECRET 8ERVICB FUND on the order of Attorney Generat Williams and stated that he believed he had certain letters and vouchers at hia residence in Boston to prove the fact. Upon tbe order ot tbe committee he proceeded to Boston and returned only to-day, when his ex amlnation was continued. He produced to-day receipts from Davenport amount ing to something ver $30,000. which money, he testinej, be paid to Divennort, about $6,000 on tbe order of Attorney Gen eral Aktrman and tbe balance on tbe or der of Attorney General Williams during the year 1871, 1872, 1873 and 1874 in the months laimdia'-ely preceding the elec tlon in JNtw York iu each of those years and the most part during tbe presidential campaign of 1872. He produced letters frjm Attorney Generals Akerman and William?, which are in tbemeeltes sugges tlve specimens of political literature. He also stated that bis information derived from Attorney General Williams was that the money was pa d on tbe order ot Presi dent Grant. Attorney General Williams jtm then summoned before Ibo committee and testified, in t fleet, that Whitley's statement was correct; that he had, paid the money to Davenport at first ON THE WRITTEN ORDER OF PRESIDENT GRANT, be himself being indisposed to make the payment?; that be made the first payment upon the order or request ol the president, and alterward saw the latter at tbe execu tive mansion, who informed bim that Davenport was engaged iu a great work. preparing some books, which, as Willlarxs characterized if, were a of kind of inven tion to prevent irauds in the elections. Tbe president said that be bad seen the books snd commended very highly Daven port's plan. Mr. Williams further testified that ail this money was paid out to Chief V hitley and that bo voucoers were ever re taint d in the department of justice to sbow that Davenport had received a dollar trjm this Beeret ssrvice fund, and that t money was paid to Davenport by Wbitley without any aggreement as to what it should be uei for cr how much should be used, Daverpjrt's nqaisitions being always Honored, and that bbe depirtm9nt has never received any inlcrmat on as to what the mocey was usd for. Mr. Wil liams was carefully interrogated as to wbetter tbls expenditure ws in tbe lino of Davenport's official daty, either as chit of supervisors In New York or as United State commissioner, both of which offices the latter held, and was unabio lo state etat such was the case. MB. WILLIAMS WAS EXPLICIT IN STATING that he would not Lave paid the money except by direction of the president, and that be never sought to ascertain the par ticuiar use to which tbe money was ap plied. The president will probably be sot pcenaed before the c mrxattee to answr these questions for himsel'; Luring tbe course ot the examination of ex-Attorney General Williams he was ssked what conversation passed between himself and tbe president when tbe latter ordered the first pajmeutol money to Daven poit, the obje t of the que tion being to draw from tbe witness the admit s'.on that he had, as tbe law r fficer of the government, advised the president that such a psyment of money was illegal. But tbe witness answered that he could not recollect precisely what the conver iatlon was; and, when tbe question was put in a more leading way, almost directly, In fac ha still tailed to recollect what had been said. Tbe question whether tbe committee shall call the president be.'ora them or not, and in what manner they shall question him, will probably be discussed by tbe committee tc-morrow. Presidents Jtffr&on and Lincoln appeared before committees ot Congrbss to testify, and Oeneral Grant, It is believed, dt sires to appaar, and will come as soon as he is summoned. In the Black Friday Investigation tbe committee sent htm a copy of tbe testimony, and requested him to send in sach answer aa be chess to make. It is said that there has been UNEASINESS IN ADMINISTRATION CIRCLES for some days about a coming and embarrassing development. The committee have only begun the investigation of what has been done at different times with the secret service and in the deppr rxentol Justice, and they are said to be cn tbe track of other expenditures Lot different in kind from this made in New York, but in the aggregate very largely ex

ceeding in amounts. There are fifteen or twenty receipts to Wbitley from

Davenport, amounting to f40,000; also letters from the attorney general and Daverport. Attorney General Williams gave directions to Wbitley aa t) tbe disposition ot the money, which were to give it to Davenport. Sone of tbe documents we e already in tbe handaof the commltiee. aid Wbitlev supposed that tbey were s'-olen from his office. Money ws paid in ums varying from fi.000 to f 10,000 eaeh time. Williams said he was ordered to have it paid to Davenport by tbe president. Twenty thousand dolltrs ot this money was paid to Davtnport jatt before the elections ot 1872 Witnesi did not seem inclined to give tbe facts, but they were forced out of bim, and when he saw tbey had tbe letters he gave up. GRAIN AND FRUIT PROSPECrS. WHEAT IS ALL RIGHT EXCEPT IN INDIANA AND OHIO PEACHES MOSTLY KILLED. BUT APPLES PROMISE WKLL. Chicago, April 20. The Inter Ojean this morning publishes reports from some 200 points in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan. Ohio, and Pennsylvania where tbe bulk ol the winter wheat is grown, showing the present condition of growing cropr, ot winter wheat and fruit. Illinois promises well In a few counties tbe wheat threat ens to prove a failure, but by far the majority of reports are encouraging. Peaches were injured by the cold spell during March, bot apples and nearly all the varieties of small irait look well and promise an abundant yield. Michigan and Pennsylvania raport excellent pros pects for all kinds of crops. Michigan ex pects a plentiful yield ot everything, in Indiana tbe winter and spring have proved unfavorable lor winter wheat and peaches, but apples and small fruits appear to be thriving. Reports from Ohio srs to the effect that the wheat is badly dam aged, except in well drained bottom landp. and a reduced yield of all kinds of trait is expected. Cincinnati, O., April 20 Returns trom fifty-seven points In Ohio as to the cot -ditions of the crops published by tbe Commercial this morning, indicate that the peaches sra totally destroyea cr badly injured. For other fruits, fifteen report that tbe indications ere gocd for crops, twerty-one lair, twenty one badly Injured. For wheat, tweuty-four leport good crops, elever, fair, twenty -two badly lr lured. Fifty points iu Indiana indicate that tbe pachfs are badly injure-!. For other fruits twenty-seven report cood crops, two. fair; eleven tally irjored. For wheat, ten, good; niteeu, lair; iwtnty-nve badly injured. WILKINSON'S INDIANAPOLIS PAL. J. B. PHELP?, OF INDIANAPOLIS, GETS INTO TROUBLE BY BEING IN BAD COMPANY HOW WILL HB GET BACK THAT $2,600. Louisville, April 24 Tke capture oi James Wilkinsip, charged with a fifteen thousand dollar emb.zzlement In .Nvw OrleanBand elsewhira, has proven an im portant arrest. Saturday evening be rei eived a dispatch In jail from J. B. Phelp, at Indianapolis, stating be would arrivon tbe 1 o'clock a. m. Chicago train and go immediately to the jail. Phelp lathe party to whom Wilkinson shipped tbe packages from New Orleans to Cnlcsgo. and ' tbe detective conjectured" that be was a partner In crime with Wilkinson. Tbey accordingly derided to arrest him as a sua pect ei felon on his arrival. Pnelps on reaching the city yesterday morniog took a back, telling tbe driver that be was going to the lall to release a prisoner and watted Um to wait for him fct tbe door wbetter he came out alone or not. The detect' ves were in Jail when Pnelps entered. He was allowed to go into tbe room where Wil kins n was confined and see him. As scon as he tUtted oat he was arrcs ed and two detectives searched him while a third went into Wilkimon' room and stripped him of all his clothes. In the heel of his stocking be louni $2.600 which 1 eked as if it bad jus been put there. When Phelps wa accused ot giving Wilkinson tbe money he deniei all knowledge of it and protested that he had not given him a c-nt. Some impor tan t papers were found on bis person. Phelps was tben locked np as a suspected felon. To-day writs ot habeas corpus were taken oat for tbe prisoner and the court released Phelps but remanded Wilkinson to jail. The money was not restored, Phelps having said that it was not his wben arrested. INDIANS AT WORK. BRINGING IN THEIR VICTIMS A STAGE PRO PRIKTOR SHOT FROM A WAGON A FAMILY OF EMIGRANTS BRAINED AND SCALPED Fort Laramie, Wyoming, April 23. Of the three wounded men from the Red Canyon massacre, two have died, Beergauer, of Virginia City, Nevada, and Gresbam, of Blgelow, Holt county, Mo. Fe! ton was alive at the last account. Tbe colored woman captured was killed. Her body was found full of arrows and mutilated. She bad been ravished. U. . Brown, of Salt Lake City, of tbe proprietors of Gilmcre, Salisbury fc Patrick's stage line, is lying 00 mi'es from here at Sage Creek badly wonnded. Two ambul nces and an eecoit have jus t'been sent ty Geo. Bfalley to bring him here, accom panied by AcMng Assistant hurgeoo Pitleys, oi the United Ststes army. Mr Brown was shot by Indians on the night of the 21st. lie was making a night trip on one of the fa&t freight wagons and was sittirg by the s da of the driver. Tuey were suddenly fired on, a ball hitting Brown near tte r )ct ot his left hip, fiist striking the brass shell on a cartridge in his bait and carrying the cartridge into the wound with tue ball. Both remain in his body, makiDg a bad case. He will reach btro to-morrow uight cr Tnesday morning. Leaven worth, Kansas, April S3. Ad vices have been received here that some time Thursday night a family of emigrants named Baker, from somewhere in Pennsylvania, was massacred by Indians aboutooe hundred miles Nortnweat of Custer City. The family consisted of a man, his ue and two children. They were all brained with hatchets and then sea) red. The wagon belonging to Biker was rifled atid everything valuable carried off Tbe bodies ot tbe victims were decent y buried when found. ' Another tornado passed oyer Pike county about two weeka ao, doing damage to tbe extent of $10,000 It followed very clos9ly in tbe patn of tbe great tern ado, whinn passed over the county only a few weeka before.

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RICHARDSON FÜLLT OONFIKMS PRINDER'B CHARGES AG S 1N8TTHB TREASURY THIEVES UNDER SPINNER AMD GIVES DKTAIL. Albany, N. Y., April 24. The sub stance of an Interview with Matthew Richardson, ot this city, who ws referr-d in render's statement alleging iraads ulthe United States treasury department, fill appear in tbe Arms to-morrow. Tbe Arsns savs thut Mr. Rirharriaon was a clerk in TrfMiirorSrtnnor'ü rn rean, entericg upn h:s duties in the vear loot. it. wis us anTy to Keep tne dookb oi the department lot th rn(lltlnn r.f moneys cr representations of moneys, and he wis one or thA wmmittM through whose hands 6uch moneys psssd. Frank Jones was cfciet of is division. Bonds and ail lorms of currency pissed through the hands of the mmi tee, amounting to many millions f dollars. Richardson tates that in 1865 package amounting to $10.500 was musing. and u ntmr discovered. a certificate tUt'.ng the fact that tbe money had leen lost was uieu. ims certincace aiso stated that the money had been cancelled, which Richard son e& b was not true. It was Richardson's duty to make out this certificate. His suspicions was naturally excited by tbe filing of false certificate. That thA $10,500 was stolen la evident from the fact as t a ted by bim that betöre be left Washugtun, in ioy, an out fo.000 ot the s?rl6S HAD BEEN REDEEMED. Some time after this transaction a pack age of $70,000 was diverted from its usual course of destruction by the chief of divi sion. A small portion of it was cut up into strings for binding other packages ot currout jr. air. mcnarason was requested by the chief ot bis division to mtko nnt a cr. tificate that the entire amount had been destroyed, he peremptorily declined. When Jones saw that be had mUtakon his man. he called hi m nut intn Iha hall and said: "Richardson, say nothing about this, for if you do you will raise h 1 With me." KiChsr.larin vn Biirnrlsarl shortly alter to learn ttat Jones trad filed a certificate with Tres stirer Spinner, stating that tbe $70,000 had ben destroyed. Richerdson lurtoer ascertained that the certificates of destruction of the currency instead of being preserved were df stmvnl from t?m to time, thus removing all opportunity to detect a fraud. R'cbardeon attempted to secure an investigation, hnt &n rt-rf failed. CALIFORNIA CROOKED. REVET ATIONS OF CHARLES WERNER, A RE FORMED DISTILLER 1 HE RING THREATENS TO KILL HIM FOR EXPOSING ITS OUTRAGEOUS CORRUPTION THE MARK I'LAND MARE'S NRT HATCHES ADMIRAL B03B I B8 TIME. San Francisco, April 24. The Chronicle this morning continues its expose of ttte whieky ring ard matters st Msra Island. It publishes a lett er received by Charles Werner, a former partner of Jct A Co. in tbe Antiocb distillery, receLtly ee'zed for running crooked. Werner gave import ant evidence to the rever.nn ronr in cluding the books of account of the varions GiBunenes witn wnteh be had been connected. The letter is as follows: San Francisco, Jan. 1, 1876. Mb. Chas. Werner The wh'sky ring will kill you if you appear aa a witnes,. Putzman will see it done and thfy tare money in plen y to pay for it. Thev caa do it here as well as in any otter "place and b'tW. You must take notice of this. Schultz has plenty ot mony and it will be a pleasure lot him. Yu know how to take care of yourself. This is to notify you. (signeo) From an Old Friend. There is other evidence tbat so.cn threats were rasde and the letter is profcatly a genuine article. It states in continuance tbat Werner had been connected in distilling with several members cf the ring, being an experienced practical distiller, and that tbe ring had systematically swindled him, not letting him into tbe secrets t the extant of a participation in tbe profTs, and it credits bim witb the statement tbat O.ilton, a prominett distiller, wielded an influence at Washington through Senator Sargent, which information was given bio while in business connected with the members of the ring, be says tbe corrup ion was outrageous in 1S66-7-8-9, during which time tbe government was defrauded of $1.500,000. Relative to Mare Island mat- , rs tbe Chronicle charges Isaiah Hansen no, tiiief of the bureau ot construction and repair, with conspiring with his son, John Hanecom, and J. E. Df moo. 'ague, contractors, to de'riud the government in awarding and filling contracts, and that Admiral Roeersand the naval constructor, Geo. W. Muscb, of Mare Island, were coze'emt of st leas'. Bone it tte frauds several of which are specified. DON CARLOS IN THE U. S. A RUMOR THAT HB LANDED AT HALIFAX, AND HAS GONB TO ST. LOUIS. Baltimore, April 24. A story is published here to-day that Don Carlos and three companions have landed at Halifax from tbe steamship Hibernian, and that Mr. Terrell, who came through to Baltimore in tne s earner, lejt here Saturday for St. Lonis, where he will meet Don Carlos. The particulars of a shocking accident which occurred recently tear Tipton are giyen in the last Republican. A man named William Woods, who bad been troubled much by thieves stealing bis com, shot and dangerously wounded a neighbor who came wb.stllng along by bis barn to pay bim a visit, i stead vi ictendicg to steal his corn. Insurance Commissioner Morrow, of Tennessee, savs that the Widows' and Orphans' Insurance Company is only suspended from Usaiog new 'policies and not prohibited from receiving renewals. He advises bolders not to let tte policies i.-ps9, for if the oompary should be unole to go on and reinsure, the protection thA existing policies will sail be aaured. Mayor W. H. Ciktu, ot Lporte, who aa the Republican candidate for Congress n the tenth diotrict two years ago, will bo oefore the Reptitliean convention this eir, to ask the iiomtnaMor. Dr. Hayuond, the present Democratic member, is inking a splendid recur J, and wilj, doubt- , be returned, aad the Repuo:ican, nomination will be but an empty honor.