Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 25, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 June 1876 — Page 4

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We have concluded to wnd It for the Cam palgo at the loJuwlng low price: From May 1 to November election for Ns In clubs of twenty-Ove and over ooc in rinh ofo hundred tooDeaddre . 45o IPosiage lree.) We respectfully ask all onr subscribers to fet us up a elub, or put the paper Into the anda of aome active Democrat who will do so. Address, SENTINEL CO. THE WEEKLY SENTINEL TO DEMOCBATS. We send this number ot the Weekly Sentinel as a specimen to many who are not subscribers; we hope all woo receive it -will interest themselves in get tissg np clubs. 'ttfa ask. all our old subscribers to seed n one name each. The Slate candidate Xrdlaoon be in tbe field, when the fight ?ili; begin in earnest. We shall en deavor to make the) Sentinel interesting throughout the cnvas. Below we give terms. eingla copy - - - -flöo Five copies .-.----155 Ten copies or more - - - 1 25 Twnlv-flve ccuies or more' - - -117 FREE OF POSTAGE. A commission of fifteen per cent, will be allowed on all clubs sent in. All remittances should be made by ex press or postoffice money order, with the name, town, county and state in full, and In aplain, "bold hand, tberoty avoiding al chances of mistakes. Address INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO., Indianapolis, Ind WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7. If Blaine the letters. didn't get the money, he got It appears that Bill King will escape investigation, after all. The sole proprietor 'a organ ground on the inflation stop yesterday. Two more overwhelmingly tates have endorsed Tilden. Radical "Gone to join Colfax," Is the way the -Cincinnati Enquirer disposes of Mr. Blaine. When Bialne wanted somebody to get him oat of his scrape, he went to Belknap's lawyers. The "Mulligan Guard" is a lively tune, but it won't do for Republican campaign ongs this year. .. r .. An early adjournment Is promised, un less the Republican Senate blocks the wheels of legislation. In pursuance of its policy of accepting the situation, the Journal had a good word for Blaine yesterday morning. Buperatiioua politicians may nnd an omen in the face that the Derby of thia year was won by a great unknown. Conkling Las been sending emissaries all over the country to see il any of bis brothers-in-law keep private secretaries. Fancy XI aine, the Indomitable, the ag fjresaite, the self-confident, on his knees pleading for mercy from a man bearing the name-of Mulligan! It la hard enough to die before one's time, but to be taken off prematurely by a Mulligan la a mis'ortnne that truly de serves commiseration. . 1 ., For ssle from two ,to three hundred miscellaneous pledged ; delegates to the -Cincinnati convention, for which the owner Las no farther use.. Apply to James Blaine. , - - -.f The Radical party la reduced to sore -traits lor a presidential candidate when It must go out of the country or a nan honest enocgh to save the ticket from Ignominious defeat In advance. - ' Private advice from New York Indicate that the opposition to Tilden has become so strong and so well organized that he an net possibly hold the delegation or bis , eown state intact in the St. Louis conveuVon. ' .Another case of perjury baa beeu. fixed upoia the man Harney. It seems he swore he was net married till 1867, when the evUenco of his landlady shows that he )d an ostensible wife in ISO), when he assistant door keeper.

So Mr. Blaine haVVead the letters to the

House. There la jast one query ;tn wm occur to every mind, bat that every one will be Inclined, In spirit o! fairness, to put forth mildly and provisionally,. Are the letter that Blaine read the letters that Mulligan had ? " Wasbburne's friends - pride tbemr elves upon his purity and Ireedom frcm damag ing- charges. Walt until ho Is nominated for something and comes home. Orth waa happy enough while he remained In Vienna. Els Paris reputation can cot be left behind. gg" u. 1 The statement of Mr. Eerr before the committee of investigation la plain, straight loiwsrd . and to the polntj It should be borne in ' mind that the witness against Mr. Eerr is a man who, to establish hit own story, moat confess to an actoi bribery himself. The case as cow before the pub lic leaves Mr. Kerr nts'.ained. The industry with which the Bristow men take advantage of Blaine's disc mfiture to advance the interest' of thej iivorite, is not calculated to win the friends of Mr. Blaine to the support of the Kentucky candidate. It looks very much like proposing to a widow before her bui band is buried, or quarreling over an uc devised estate before the . breath Is fairly out-of the body of a dying relative. i ' I Tfce Radical State Central Committee are distressed about the Orth exposure, arid yst they do not tbink it the fair thing to have brought him all the way from Vienna aod then crowd him off the track just for doing what nearly all Raiical officers do ns ake money out of their c&;es. -Would not the Kvansville 'postoffice Bettle 'the matter with the Journal down there T At Madison such an arrangement had wondrously soothing effect. , It is evident that there will be a contest between the Senate and the House at Washington over the redaction of salaries The Republican Senate refuses to agree to the House redaction of salaries, and de mands that the old rates shall prevail. O course the Democrats can not pass the bill In the Senate, and the best thing that can now be done will be to secure the beet compromise that csn be had until enough new Senators are returned to give us a majority iu both houses, and then the people may expect economy and low sal aries. There is a certain point in physical death beyond which it is Impossible for the electrician to apparently arrest dissolution and excite in the subject even a galvanic mockery of life. So with political death. It must be arrested, if at all, before it has passed the critical point. Mr. Blaine has waited too long befcra pro ducing those letters before the House. Even if they appear Innocent, the impression created by hi course concern ing them is too strong to be overcome now. He is too completely and irrevocably dead to be galvanized into life by any explana tlon, however p'ausible. When the government borrowed money on bonds to carry on the war, by the terms ot the contract these bonds were made raj able in greenbacks. But when the bondholders ra'ssd a cry against this. a law was passed by a Republican Con gress to pay them In coin, by which the country lost over twenty millions of dol lara. It waa a sort of ex post facto law. Now when the39 men . are claiming their bonds of a de Dressed country they have found themselves 4 caught In a trap of their own setting.' . The silver currency of the country 3 coin, and the bonds may be paid JC In silver which' is now worth lees than the greenbacks. Shall they have now more than the con tract calls for again? The Republican party will say that it should be gold in stead of silver. Will the people consent te ba robbed aga'n? The Courier-Journal, referring to Bates and Locke's Tilden advertisements, says: There waa no more imnroDrUtV In the transaction than commonly attaches to the electioneering teal of partisans who seek to press the claims and proclaim the merit of meir lavorites. The press of the country, and even many of those that favor Mr. Tilden, take an entirely different view of the matter. When the Sentinel first announced this effort to create public sentiment in favor ot Tilden in the South and West, some of the New York papers, not being acquainted with the entire reliability of the Sentinel, denounced the story as "a device of the enemy," and utterly disclaimed Its truth. Wo have noticed no papers anywhere enlarging on the propriety of the act. The Courier-Journal soys it has reliable Information that the advertisements were not autborizad by Tilden or i "bis responsible friends.", Just what is meant by responsible friends is not very clear. There must have been soma ' sort of reonsibüity .connected with, the sending out advertisement j to a thousand or fifteen hundred newspapers at rates Irom ' $3 60 f 10 apiece, say 10,000 of an obligation altogether. -"Irresponsible friends would hardly go that deep Into an unapproved project of that sort. It is hardly to be sup posed that Mr. Tilden himself would have advised or approved such apian, and yet It Is undoubtedly one part of the general effort put forth by those having the general canvass In charge to 'further bis Interests. It damaged Mr. Tilden pros pects both in the South sod Wcsi very materially. Abdul Aziz has ; very considerately stabbed himself with a pair of scissors, in orJer to relievo the government of the necessity of having him strangled. It would not be very sa, while Sorvia rsies tojab-rjii.to the new.suya.to let J

the old odo live very long, and, as Murad

Effsodl hopes for the speedy. recognition from the Christian sovereigns ef ' Europe, the taking off of his uncle after the old fashion might cause some of them to t&'j täte a little. The fact is, it was a ms w of diplomatic courtesy that prevent' conspirators from treating Abdul as ( jjrutirs and his co-patriots dealt wit A .twtx Soch doings are not well regard. now-a-days, and it was thought best , carry him off to the " cage" ana lei perform a surgical operation upon Ma,,elf. Every refined mind will appr ove the latter plan. ' After Bla JmPj Mtim T -j. Aue mos iiudw-iute T absorblntr ones-v-L- a I vtjtj? . . . tlon In our national politics Just now Is, Mr. Blaine Deig killed off, who will get those two or Miree hundred votrs pledged to him at Cincinnati? A week so the man from Maine stood at the head of the long rollt of Republican aspirants for tbe presidential nomination. In the tangible item ot tbe number of delegates positively Instructed, as in the less palpable, bat no less significant consideration ot popularity with tbe press and people, Mr. Blaine easily - led ail of his competitors. His chances for winning the grand ir z at Cincinnati next week w re of . the brightest. Now all this is changed The last transaction in which this gentleman has figured has been too much for the loyalty even of bis devcted adherents. By the bold ttep of wresting damaging documentary evidence from the hands of a dangerous witness, he has avoided tbe exposure he feared; but he has dons si at the cost of creating a sentiment of distrust and suspicion ol his motives that has proved fatal to bis hopes. The public con fidence that survived previous disclosures has caecum bed. to this . last self-crim! nating step of tbe accused, and Mr. Biaine has become a political eorpse. It n ow remains lor his adherents, to do justice to such : vlrtuts of 'the de parted as are perceptible to the con fidlng eye of friendship,, and .lor his opponents to preserve a decorous silence as to tbe faults for which political as well as physical death Is supposed to bespeak tender treatment. Another post mortem duty, in which friends and ene mies will probably be ready to unite, Is the administration of tbe political effects of the decedent, chief among which are tbe two or three hundred votes before al luded to. The course taken by Mr Blaine's delegates after they abandon their first choice and such abandonment hes now become a matter of course L? a profitable subject of speculation, since upon It depends the result . ot the Cincin nati convention. Ii any one of the other candidates now prominentlj be fore the pec pie can attract to himself this now unappropriated force, his success is assured. Is there any candidate who can do this? The man who is to succeed to the position of Blaine at the head of tbe Republican running ruust possets certain definite qualifications. He must be In some degree identified with tbe element in the Republican party and In tbe county which Blaine represents and must be able. to control tbe party machinery. He must be a man who has not been conspicuous and bitter in his opposition to the great delunct bond negotiator; for even from his political grave he will exercise a ceitaiu negative force, and though he can do nothing' lor himself, he can still do. much against his enemies. Morton can not hope for tbe most beggarly accession from the scattered forces of the overthrown chief. He has been his most titter and unscrupulous enemy: from tbe first. Us it was who fired the first of a series ot mines by which the triumphant gentleman lrom Maine was hoisted. Helsa Western man while Blaine is from New Eogland, and was tte candidate par ex cellence ot Wallstreet. Senator Morton may exalt over his rival's lall, but It will be a barren victory for him. . Bristow is out ot the question. Mr. Blairje's delegates are too well trained and too comparatively devoted to tbe machine system of politics to lall into the ranks of the impracticable. They belong to the large tranch of tbe Radical party that demands not reform, bat success. Tbe New York Herald suggests, since Illinois is conspic uous among me liiaine statt s that bis scattered forces will crjstalliza about Washburne, but this is going far out of the way for a disposition of them which may . be found near at hand. Every vote that has been Instructed for Blaioe can be transferred to Senator Cockling without loss of consistency. He has nearly the. : same geographical affinities; be is equally acceptable to the money interest; and most significant of all, he has a firmer grip upon the most S3rviceable levers of tbe Radical political ma chine than Blaine himaelf. Mo. e than any other man he combines the various qualities necessary to attract Blaine's last delegates, and, barring some further explosion, maybe regarded as the coming man at Cincinnati. It Senator Conkling's chances are, the beet for the Republican' nomination, the probabilities of bis election, if nonainated.'are of ; the lowest. Tbe quali ties that Insure his success at Cincinnati Will ' insure.1 his defeat at the polls. He ' has ' Blaine's political '' vices, without bis . political virtue. He i ) thoroughly identified with the corrupt policy of tbe present admims'ration, and is the living, moving principle of tbe machine system of politics, in which Blaine was a mere 'outside amateur. At the eame time he lacks tbe element oT per sonal magnetism and popularity with the masses, which constituted -Mr. Blaine's strongest ' poinf. Conkllng'd growing prospects indicate the Domination of the wewkest man at Cincinnati and a compara tively easy victory, for the Democracy in the subsequent (tontest, . , .va .u t2f t . .

Tilden at Home, v , , V The r Sentinel bW not Indalgei In aoy aoge'rieroa attacks' bpoii Mr.r Tilden, it has not urged tl?e gemination of Mr. Hen

dricks at St, Lid ft is; because Tilden Is a let s Mable man', but upon the Independent ground or personal ntness ana national popularity, and as the best representative ot Democratic sentiment 'In the party at large. At tbe same time, when the opposition of all the leading newspapers of Mr. Tilden 's own state, and many of the most Influential met of ; the party too, so bitterly oppose Ms nomination, It is bot proper and right that the West shall be duly informed of tbe standing at home of the man whose chief recommendation, as urged by such papers as tbe CourierJournal and tbe St. Louis Republican, is that he can carry New York. We quote below an extract from a leading editorial in the Brooklyn Argus, . of two columns in length, in which the editor argues that Governor Tilden has signally failed as a reformer, upon which issue he was elected.' It points ont wherein the -prospect of a presidential nomination has led him to conciliate tbe very elements that he was expected to oppose, and thereby awakened the intense opposition of the influential elements nOw eceklrg his defeat in his own state. The Argus stys that , "excepting the Albany Argus aod Uiica Observer, there are no firstclaas papers in this state which support Mr. Tiiden's .nomination," aud concludes Its lengthy editorial as follows: Govern orTtPenhaslosttbefttz pport of every Independent newspaper In the tita'e, and of tbe only two Democm 13 organs In New York, as well ss of hundreds ot others elsewhere. Instettd of allowing the office to seek the man, or relying upon his recent to speak fur him, Uovrmor Tilden or his agents have undertaken to hire over five hundred newspapers to Insert cheap puffi furnished to Ihera&S itorlal enflorments of him, or wrilcb they were to be pall In cab. Ir a very la race teadtd nail were required for his political coffin, he ha supplied it. Ih.re are many edaom in tbla country to whom this proposition wa a direct lnsalt. The kind of electioneering documents wblcb Mr. 'lüden should have ieiide npon aie convici ions of thieves. The wail of Tweed and a half bo ad red of His ring; asso ciate-t from behind prison bars, wou d emph -s:ze tbe governor's cla ms to the gratitude of hi fellow citizens more effectively thin Ms efforts to suborn tbe press Bat Tweed at liberty, bis lloerators aept In their i laces, and his allies and partners throughout the siate clapping their bands for TlLden is Quite a different tblDg. Tbe scalps of victoiy, not the lost shoes oi travellDe thltves, aie the trophies which Governor Tilden ebouid have been able to present. The laws were ample for to is purpose. Whom the rods destroy they first make mad. if reforms or po.ltical abuses are not to b) an element In this campaign, then p?rbaps Mr. Tilden could be elected If nominated ; but If a purification of our politic 1 system, and a rebuke lsto be administered to the wholesale pjunderin and narrow nepotism which has disgraced the nation at borne and abro d, tnen is It madness lor Democrats to expect success with Governor Tilden as their standard-bearer. Wedhllke to utter these words, for we are amoDg those who believed In Samuel J. Tilden, ana helped to elect blm governor. Bat we live in a community which has suffered from ring depredation! aa no other community has snifered ; we know the character and reputation or tbe men who have twlsud tt elr reeking arms around the neck or uovernor Tilden; we know the utter distapointment which has resulted from his gubernatorial administration, and we feel tbe impossibility or bis election as well as its unadviability. We, therefore do our unpleasant duty and eound the note of alarm. The New York World sees the necessity of a united effort in New York and a onion of the Democracy at St. Louis in order to success. The leaders ol the opposition to Tilden In New York are determined that the Democracy of the country shall not be deceived as to the real state of things in that state. The World seys :. Union among Democrats, therefore, is tbe fl st thing to bi ecu red by every clear-si ghle i lover of his country. That union most ve achieved I And It 1 with the purpose of achieving that union that ibe World now Insists on g-tiing at tbe real nature and extent of the dlsa'isfac'.on in this nte witn the accredited leader of tbe New York Democ racy, Governor Tilden, jso judicious irlend of Governor Tilden can doubt that such an inquiry ouht to be prosecuted now coolly and in daylight, and not left to be forced on the con rention at r t. Louis in heat and hurry by angry and alienated m mbera of the party. tree discussion oi men as wen as or mea nres is of toe very essence of Democracy. Without such free discussion In advance,' no nomination cau pos-itly command tbe real and entnusiatiiie support oi tne great uerao cratlc manses East and West, North and Soutb An organization c office-holding politicians like the Republican paity may plan nominations in secrete -nulaves and deliver the voters when tbe bargain baa baen concluded. Tbe Democrat 8 ol th United States must be otherwise dealt with ; and It in well to remember that It is tbe Democ-ata o the United Htates, and not of any particular state or section, who aielo ratify at tbe p lis in Novemoer any nomination made at St. Louis In Jue, Ho nonclnati n will be worth the ' making at Ht. Loulf, certain Iy no nomination Is worth struggling for sow, which will not satisfy the general Democratic sentiment of tbe country, and reduce all Jealousies, rivalries and antagonisms within tbe party to a minimum. To c mvention must strive, and there. ore all h lexdtrs and organs of the party 6honld strive before t -e convention xmsetfl, to conciliate and satisfy, 4.0t to conquer and humiliate, ary powenul Democratic faction in any Democratic state. Wben such utterances come from Mr. Tiiden's own state, and when it is wellknown that tbe policy of Mr. Tiiden's friends is to abandon Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indians, and depend solely upon Njw York and a few smaller states in the Eat to carry tbe election, to nominate him at St. Louis will be simply suicidal. The opponents ol Mr. Tilden from his own state will not be boshed up by any demonstra tive clamor for his nomination atthe Wesf. Evidently the wiser course will be lor Mr. Tilden to withdraw and leave the field to Mr. Hendrick-. r 7 Republican Fol ley the Cause of Fluan- . eiai uitircti. There can be no legitimate denial of tbe fact that tbe deplorable condition of tbe country to day la due to Republican le&is; lation. Senator Motton himself, says that tor six yeats he endeavored to secure Ibe adoption of the main feature of the .re sumption act, the fixing ot a day for resumption. Tbls'CDntinned tinkering witb the currency at the bidding of Wall street, and the final passage of tbe act of Jan. 14, 1875, have brought ruin to commerce and manufacturer, and bankrupted hundreds of thousands " T of men all over the country. , It is passing . strange that while tbe fact is so very self-evident, that this is a distinct party policy, there are professed Republican papers that cry out for repeal of. the resumption act, and yet maintain a . wholesome relation to tbe party," No more abject party orcans ex-J

Ists ttaü the 1 Journal of this city. : It is ready to support Conkling, B!alnetBria-' tow or even Grant himself for the rreai-

Ä, dency, and is'riqw the7 peculiar champion of . aiortojj, who helped :td, frame he resumption bill. , Al the same, time it vapors mournfully over the ravagtaof resumption and calls loudly for repeal. That thia is mere demagogüism is too plain to need pointing out. The Journal very 'well knows that the people of this state, In common, recognize the fact that no relief can oe baa while the ruinous law prevails. Bat it has not the courage to say that this 1 genuine Republican policy; and that that party la to be held responsible for its deeds. It has not the courage to ssy that Mr. Morton is responsible for tbe passse of the resumption bliL It does not demand of him that be shall move in the Senate for its repeal. It had not the courage to advocate before its party ttate platform was made that an unconditional repeal should be one of the planks. Any elective movement against the doctrine ot its party It does not advise, but simply to keep the people Inside the party, it cries out for repeal, while it does its very best to secure the unity and harmony of the party, when it knows that the result will ba the parpetustion of the great wroDg the people are suffering. The Republican party In this state Indorsed the administration of Grant, when the whole nation reaHy ispit upon 'Jt, as the corrupt tool of the money power. It Indorsed Morton, who proclaimed himself the partial , author ofthe resumption bill. It Is ready now ' to support the most intense resumptTonlst for president. Can anj body, therefore give a moment'c belief to its ut erances fayoratle to the repeal of tbe resumption" act? , Sach Inconsistency should only be treated with contempt, - Specie Resumpileo and Bnln. There is great interest Jost now aa to who shall ba the candidates for tbe presidency. The country stands aghast, too, over the txposare of Republican rascalities. But these interests should not conceal from tbe paople the great wrons: that has been perpetrated by the Republican party in the passage of the resumption bill, that is working such ruin in the West. That party made resumption, fixing the very day, a party policy. They did it dellberate'y. They proclaimed it and said they would take no step backward. They have taken no step backward. They voted tor the bill wben every Democrat voted against it. They sustain it now in Congress while nine-tenths of the people demand its repeal. They lought tbe Ohio canvass last tall on that issue. Morton boasted at the postoffice ratification meeting that he helped to make the bill, and meant to sustain it. The Republican party of this state endorsed its worst feature, its power to contract the currency. It is contracting the currency every day. Only a few days sgo vast quantities of tbe legal tender currency were destroyed. This contraction is para lyzing business. It is bankrupting thousands of people. It is unsettling pub Ho confidence. It is throwing laborers out of employment. It Is enrich lng the money corporations. It la robbing tbe people. Yet tbe Republi can party sustain the infamous measure. How long will the people stand this? Wiil they sustain a party that sacrifices tbe interests of the people to tbe interests ot the few? This policy has dose more dam8go to the country than tbe unequal tariff laws. The country suffered less than they did In the sixtyfour million Pacific railroad steal. It is ' more damaging tban any single measure ever pissed by Congress. We feel its Injury In every department of trade. And yet the Republican party ad heres to its policy and bids defiance to tbe people. It is truly wonderful that the people can peacefully endure such wrong. It it Is not speedily repealed the ruin and desolation of the country caanot be repaired in a score of years. Troubled Blaiae. Blaine has vitality to say the least of It. His first recourse to hush up the scandals against him was to make statements In Congress, Then be came before tne committee and .fought earnestly there. Being worsted In his wrestling with tbe witnesses, he gees back to the House witb another statement that appears in tbe telegraph dispatches this morning. : While his friends of the press have not come vigorously to his defense, he appeals to the country through the House, and by the favor of the Associated Press reporter at Washington, he gets his explanations before tbe country.' These explanations in the House did very well as a. .question of privilege- before the Investigation commenced, but he now commits a great blunder In anticipating the report of tbe committee by explaining the-, damaging testimony that they have under consideration. He evidently does net give up tie contest and if he is to be killed off he ; will die? hards The- Sentinel's prediction of a big row at Cincinnati has yet some adumbrations in current events that It will prove true. ; ' Those who know siy that the Hawailn. reciprocity treaty will benefit' nobody but a ring of California planters. The work cf imparling Chinamen to Honolulu ha already commenced, and King KaUktna will learn that he has been used by a 'set of sharpers who wilt eventually overrun his kingdom with Celestials and exterminate tbe native population. ' ' Theodore Til ton is so devoted to his wifo that he spent $3 00. to have an old gravestone fixed up perpendicularly, because tbe jrjameot El ztbetb Richards was engraved II 4 taa mm a a. t ; upon 11. ue sau mat. -ne carea notn:ng f r tbe prson bnried there, but his - act was for the sake of tbe namtr. which was the same as that of bis wife before they tterejpaxrJed." - ...

'"'BADICAli -BOOK-KEEPING, i

''-.V OPKX.LETTER.Xa. 12 TO THE EDITOR ' OFl THE IXDIA5rOL13 r Proceeding 'wlth 'vour termiaaion- In my examination of the acts bl your "mea of '65," I reep3ctfully call your attention to the annual report of the auditor of statefor the nicai year (published by Samuel M. Douglass, state printer, in 1868i which w shows amounts received into the treasury nun.! uiuuui ubvv ueea carried 10 toy credit as a fiscal agent ot the state (but which were not) as follows: Revenues fl 22,45i: 71 Rwrlnm V,Si 44 Military ' ls.l 19 Miscellaneous.-... ..:... &s,ii a) Total. 11,351,607 23 The amounts which I would bave been ablA to pay for "ordinary expenditures," "effie expenditures," public Institutions," "military expenditures," and "miscellsaeous expenditorss" of the state government, will readily disclose themselves, uncer your studious examination. Although it ts a violent presua p:ior, I will assume that you were a member of the General Assembly wben convened in special session In November of that year, and tbat you were willing and anxious to do thepleasure of your able exponent ot the civil service then occupjtcg tbe gubernatorial chair. Gkkkbax.Fcjd.Isdianapolio, May 31, 1S76. i OPEN L"E ITER No. 13 - r , ri . . TO the editor or the lXbiAXAroua editor of the - JCCKSAt. . The peculiar method with which your auditors of state bave commingled the several funds in the .'stare treasury baa been; a lrdltful source of anebvahee and vexation to thousands of public debtors and creditors in this s.ate, and - h9 given opportunity, af least, for mar y grots violations of official duty by Chose tv whom ycu envrutt d tbe management cf tbe important transactions of the treasury department, involving, as they do, the receipt and disburternent of milbons of dollars each jear. "As odc of your own poets has said," it enabled them all to ' "Watch for a chance peculation." The report of your auditor of state for the year ending October 31, 173, showa tbat there wa tn tbe treasury at tbat date. btlocglng to "Sarp!u3 R. Fund," the sum ' of ?2.007 52. Your auditor seems not to tave known its origin or destination, and when he retired left the amount in tbe hands of your Republican treasurer ot state, wto in turn leit it to his a nccees or, perhaps, hoping that h, being a Democrat,, would either read a little law or get some one to read it for him. Surplus Revenue Fund was a companion ot mine In the treasury. Before leaving us to-enjoy the pleasures ot country lile, to which he had long been destined, but which be bal been forcibly prevented from reachirg, be imposed upon me tbe acred duty, as a friend, of making known to the pscpie of tbe et ate his sad history. I cite you to tbe authority which be left with me. Leit you may not have It at band, I quote: THE SURPLUS REVENUE FT5D. "Under the administration of President Jackson, the national debt contracted by the revolutionary war and tbe purchase of Louisiana was entirely discharged, and a large surplus remained in tbe United States treasury. Ia June, 1836, Coogress authorized the distribution of this money among tbe states in the ratio of their repre- -sentation in Congress. Tbe Legislature, by an act approved December 21,1836, authorized the treasurer of etate to receive from the treasurer cf the Uoited States, and receipt therefor by a certificate of deposit, the amount of snrplns revenue of tbe United States to which tbe etate of Indiana was entitled by an act of Congresj approved Jane 23, 1S33. By the same act it was further provided, That tbesta'e of Indiana hereby irre vok ably pledges her faith to tbe Unite I States that she will salely keep and repay tbe said moneys, and every part theteof, from time to time, whenever tbe eame shall be required by the secretary of tbe treasarery, . lor tbe puipcee mentioned in said act of Congress, and upon tbe conditions therein named.' By a subsequent act, approved February 6, 1837, it was provided, 'That one-halt ot said revenue shall be funded in the respective organiz:d counties, in amounts proportiooate to tbe number of its taxable polls that paid tax fcr the year 1836.' Section 17 of tins at t directs the treasurer oi state, 'upon i ecei vlog said sur- -plus revenue, or any part thereof, to advertise tbe s.tnue in two newspapers, published at tae seat of govertimer,t, at;d of general circulation throughout toe state,, tor three week successively, stating in such advertisement what amount such coun'y shall receive; and if any coun'y, through its agent, fails or neglects to makeltg! application for its portion ot said revenue allotted in this bill, within ninety days a ter such notice shall have been given, tben the treasurer shall loan it out, as at present be is authorized to loan the college fund, and the interest accruing thereon shall be distributed, according to tbe provisions of this ac', among the townships of said county tor the purpose of common schools.' WHAT THE TREASURER SATS. The treasurer ot state, in his report lor the fiscal year ending November 30, 1S37, says in reference to this fund: 'There has been received from the United States, on deposit, the sum of f$6),254 44. Of this amount I .have dis bursed to the loaning agents nt the several counties the sum of $567,126 16, being the entire amount of the two Urst Installments, except tbe sum of f6 376 80, not called for by the counties ol Lake, De Kai b and Wells, and which has been loaned agreeablv to law. The third installment, being 286 751 43, has been paid over to the1 commissioners of the sinking fund.' i Tbl amount, f6,376 80,. of the first and second Installments, represents the principal of tbe surplus revenue loans, carried on tbe .auditor's and .treasurer's books for the past forty years. Tbe interest accruing, and the principal " collec:ed from time to time, has been distributed to the counties named. .The last ot these loans was collected November 10, 1S72, since which time there has been a balance of f 2,007 62 to tie credit of thia fund, which Amount belongs to these counties in qual portions, and remains Bubjeci to their order." . , . , , THE , 0PXJBL AÜTHOBrTIXS of the counties entitled to the custody of our late compaalon, upon receiving notice ot their good fortune, came to the treasury with Joy and took our friend to his proper and more comfortable heme in the rural districts. In parting : with him, we, all reovgnlzfd that our loss was his eternal gain. His name no more eppearj in tbe- list ot the claimants upon the - "General Treasury." I undersjaL'.that Jjie; general goverwaerit,