Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1876 — Page 4

TUE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDSJESDAY MORNING, DECEUEIt 20, 1S7G.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20.

The people are cenianding their rights. ILuIical snakes are hissing in their dens. The people should be on the alert for more radical perjurer. i , A revival of trade depends upon the peaceful inauguration of Tilden. The uDcrowneJ sovereigns of tlie country an coming to the rescue of their liberties. Indiana sjeaks on the 8th of January. When will New York open her mouth? Kvery lu--?inei interest in the country de maivl the je.aeeful inauguration of TiMen and Hendricks. Grant talk about a party that be represents a party that got most outrageously licked in November. Ir m pretty well understood now that Ilayn is willing Uyro into the office of president with a lie in his throat. - . ..a Democrat are wonderfully calm but it Is th calm that precedes the storm. Itadical conspirator will plea.se take notice. i - -a Grant has so befouled the presidential chair that if the Mississippi run soap suda it could not cleanse it in at housand years. Vanderbirt is not near dead that he has lot his love of money, and has confuted to advance the rates of freight on hi.s railroads. There will be a tornado of indignation throughout the entire country, before which radk-al lies and frauds w ill be t.wept away like chaff. Indiana will peak as a state on the fr"th of January. The people are now speaking by townships, ly counties and by con;miional districts. We arc glad to note the fact that the Louisville Courier-Journal no longer proposes the inauguration cf Tilden and Wheeler. The senate has bowels of coiua.s.-io!i for Mr. Tilden after all. It voted down a proposition to reduce the salary tf the next president. Grant threatens to sed the democratic members of coagrcss to Fortress Monroe if thy dare to prefer impeachment charge against him. Let him try it on. Chamberlain's Kovernnient in South Carolina, built of falsehood, fraud ami bayonet, is gradually tumbling to pitces. The rople do not like the style of its architecture. .-Hiall a few infamous conspirators, who.se perjuries are as untightly as wart.- on a toad, defeat the will of the people, declared by more than three hundred thousand majority? Mr. Orton has thought better of his determination. He will take coun ! of prudence and submit to the house Mich telegrams as they may demand. Mr. Orton is ise in his u ration. The roar of a thousand Niagaras will be aa the squea j of a tin whistle when compared to the voice of an indignant people in the ";ntnd assemblages which will take place before he Ith of March, 177. iHrmocrats do not crawl worth a cent. Of all th-f people on the face of God's green earth, an American democrat in the role of slave to a returning board thief and perjurer will appear the most awkward and contemptible. Judjre Bond, in obedience to the behest of the drunken creature w ho holds the office of president of the United States, has befouled his judicial ermine until it is more unsightly than the clout of a Dither Indian. The Baltimore Gazette eays that ''inevita- " ble bankruptcy is staring hundreds in the face, and serious financial difficulties must ' overspread the entire nation if the present ' political complications arc not spelilret-tl,-d." Mr. Orton, president of the Western Union U legraph company, is 'not inclined to let the congressional investigating committee .e private dispatches on public business. Mr. Orton will in due time find out his mistake. The conspirators are of the opinion that they will have a fair wind and tide in their inniijcuration scheme. They will do well to crtiruute the power of fraud and purjuries h hen confronted with the iower of trutl and justice. Chamlerlain talks of arresting Hampton for treason, and the next thing in order on the radical bulldozing programme will be for sneak thieves to arrest and imprison con. "lab! en and sheriffs. Shades of dead patriots, what a country! inc ew lore it rapine favors Conven tion of mechanics to consider the tin pleasant -urroundimrs of business interests. The people are coming . together -merchants. mechanics, capitalists, bankers and laboring nen. The Graphic can not be too graphic in its advocacy of public meeting. What, hoi freenien. . Coming to the res cue, coming, coming, com! Dp, from moun tain, valley and plain, Irom cottage ana cabin. Great men, good men, brave men, rich men, poor men. Look again! Coming, üll coming1, coming for prayers, coining for pl-dg, coming for resolves, coming at the call of duty, coming as did their fathers. Ik'nd low listen you can hear their tramp like the tramp of an earthquake. Liberty call.- and the eople are coming. Grant may smoke, Sitting Bull scratch his dead shins, but iLz izojl: or.- cciairs- ,

THE DEMOCRATIC UPRISING. The managers of the republican party

stand convicted before the bar of public opinion of manifold crimes, rising by regu lar gradations from sneak thief operations , to the most flagrant violations of the letter and spirit of the constitution of the country. gainst this weight of crime, sinking the party to soundless depths of infamy, the managers, the real guilty parties, are strug gling with almost superhuman power. But true to their instincts, they are endeavoring to regain the confidence of the people by the liberal nse of falsehood, and stand ready now, as in the past, to maintain each separate lie by perjury and military power. Realizing the fact that they have forfeited the confidence and respect of a great ma jority of the people, the managers hope by an adroitness in fraud to show that the democratic party can not be trusted; Suiartng under the exposures of their deep laid schemes to rob the people of their choice of rulers, and plotting to inaugurate their candidate by means the most infamous, they Lope to divert public attention from their schemes by charging that democrats are organizing military companies for the purpose of inaugurating a new rebellion. Democrats propose to meet and to place themselves on record as emphatic as the English language will admit, as opposed to me detestable course of the radical party. This is their first duty. They will catalogue the flagrant crimes and usurpations of Grant and the perjured crew who, to retain power, have outraged every principle of law and of justice. This is the programme tor the present. In this there ia nothing military or rebellious. It is the right of freemen, and the radical bulldozing, perjured crew will have to stand it It may act on Morton s dead legs like a shock from a galvanic battery, but Sii.ting JJull can't help himself. If he had a dozen backbones instead of none at all, it would be all the same. Men who despise fraud democrats ar.d liberty loving people of all political parties will exercise the privilege of denouncing returning board rascalities. They will properly characterize the radical programme and Grant's despotism. The time has arrived for just this unpleasant duty, and democrats will not shrink from its performance. Democrats will form clubs. It Is their right and their privilege, and thev will do all other things that freemen who liberties are in danger may do under the law. Democrats do not propose to rebel against lawfully constituted auUiroities. They will hot cut loose from their constitutional moorings. The demo cratic party is eminently and pre-eminently a party of law and order, and will always be found upholding constitutional guaranties of the people's liberties. The radical managers, the radical organs and radical officeholders are the only persons who are talking about war. They have had soldiers with loaded musketa and fixed bayonets aiding them in their infernal plot tings against the liberties of the country. The radical managers would like amazingly well to make it appear that democrats are even now ready for war, and this they are trying to do by the most disreputable means; but so far poor headway has been made. Democrats propose to be prudent, but they will not abate their abhorrence of radical methods to elect men to high offices. All the talk about democratic war clubs is designed to obscure from the public the preparations for war which the radical managers are mak ing and to overshadow the infamous frauds that have been practiced to enable them to declare that Hayes has been elected to the presidency. " The purpose of the radical managers Las been to so exasperate the demo cratic party to an extent that they would commit some act that could be tortured into an excuse for their arrest and im prisonment; and to accomplish this every infernal device has been practiced. The New York Sun, that has been engaged for years in unearthing radical scoundrelism, is now over anxious that the people shall remain quiet, and permit all the frauds, villainies, returning board perjuries and military despotisms to be consolidated into one great and overshadowing fraud the inauguration of Hayes: "It is for the 'interest of the republican party," say3 the Bun, "and of the conspirators who now con'trolit that the progress and the final consummation of the plot to make a president 'by fraud and force should be violently re sisted. They desire that the just passions 'of the people should be excited to the 1 point of actual sedition in order that they 1 may seize the opportunity to proclaim a 'new war, to raisenew armies, to subjugate a new rebellion, to hide their own crimes ' with new bloodshed and ruin, and to gain ;a new and long lease of power for themselves." The democratic parly is proverbially a prudent party. It is not a party of sedition, nor yet a party of craven cowards. It has earned a grand victory over iraud and in timidation. It stands erect, clothed with the right Justice illumines every feature It despises fraud. In its conscious integrity it is not to be driven from its high and pa tri otic purpwae to do right So far, it has no apologies to make. Its acts and its principles defy the most searching analysis. All the righta guaranteed by the constitution belong to democrats quite as much as they do to radical conspirators. God only knows how hot the furnace may be through which Grant and his advisers will compel them to walk, but one thing is certain, they . may call all the plotters of the nation together; including Chamberlain, Kellogg, Babcock; .acb Chandler, as also such tools ait Auger, Kuger, Sheridan and Sherman; they may beat their tomtoms and make a great hellabaloo, - still democrats will not bow down to their returning board Hayes, the presidential Image tney propose to set up. And if the fates decide that only fire can fully test their devotion to principle, then they will enter it

with the calm trust that distinguished the three heroic Hebrews, and when Grant and

his co-conspiri tors see them passing through the ordeal, they will discover the genius of liberty walking by their aide, and their devotion, whether dead or alive, cl.ould kindle anew the fires of liberty in millions of hearts, and the republic which they loved and for which they sacrificed so much, should rise again like truth crushed to earth, and claim the eternal years of God for liberty. THE KEXTIXIX. The expressions of approval that pour in upon tis are in the highest degree encour aging. Ihe indorsement ot the bentinel s course and policy is satisfactory and substantial. Subscriptions come from all quar ters, and within the last ninety days have increased more than forty per cent. Old friends are rallying to our supjort. New friends are counted by tens, by hun dreds and by thousands. They overwhelm us with approval. They are enthusiastic in their admiration. They see in the Sentinel a journal moderate, but firm doing to-day what ought to be done, and therefore prepared to do its duty to-morrow and all of the to-morrows that may follow. Unflinching in its advocacy of the right; unawed by Grant's bulldozing policy; denouncing fraud and perjury and all of the venal crew who contemplate robbing the American , peo ple of their chosen rulers, the Sentinel is in sympathy not only with the democratic party of Indiana, but' with men of all parties who value their liberties and are determined to maintain them. The Sentinel for weeks past has advocated meetings of the people. Its garnest words reached their hearts. They are coming to gether. They are putting their detestation of Grant's military despotism and return ing board infamies on record, and they will stand by the record they make. The people have been loth to be lieve that the managers of the radi cal party would attempt to inaugurate Hayes by lies and perjuries and bayonets. They are realizing the terrible fact that this crowning act of villainy is now contem plated. These managers expect brave men to accept the situation with all of its humili ation and degredation without a protest. But in this they will be mistaken. The &ntim?l proposes to keep its readers fully posted! It will point out the slimy track of the conspirators as they crawl from their dark dens where they plot the overthrow of the liberties of the people, and will meet them everywhere in their detestable work with words of manly defiance. The brave and true wen who are to-dav etandng by the Sentinel have our thanks for every word of cheer and approval. The days may grow darker, but we shall not waver. The Sentinel has a hirh mission to perform, and will be found always in the performance of its duty. We bay to our friends, to the democratic party, that what is wanted is a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together, and Tilden and Hendricks will be ieacefully inaugurated. What say you, brave men of Indiana? It is quite probable that Grant's military bulldozing of elections will undergo a btarchins investigation from several directions. There are a number of congressmen-elect who owe their success to bayonets instead of ballots. Upon these the house of representatives w'll be called upon to act Free men who are jealous of their rights will be likely now, as in other times, to see to it that troops do not interfere, and in this they can quote Senator Dawes who, according to the Congressional Globe, February 9, 1163, said: I do not thiuk any member of the commit tee would, for a moment, give countenance to an election In which they had evidence of the presence or a milit-ary power. I certainly, epeaking for myself, would nay that no reason would be stronger with me than the evidence that the military had directly or indirectly been present at the polls in any shape whatever lor nothing seems so fatal to the freedom of elections as the presence of a military power. As an indication of the loss the radical party has sustained of solid men, the Balti more American eays that "Tlie report of the 'democratic watchers in Louisiana is signed 'by men who were distinguished republi'cans in the era of Lincoln, Sumner and 'Governor Andrew. John M. Palmer, who 'heads the list, was governor of Illinois, 'Lyman Trumbull represented that state ia 'the United States senate during and after 'the war. 1. H. Watson was assistant secre'tary of war under Lincoln. The republican party of to-day is no more like the 'party of Lincoln than a putrescent mass of 'corruption ia like the puissant majesty of a 'lion." " The men who control the material interests of the New England states, without re gard to party, are of the opinion that Tilden, not Hayes, should be inaugurated pres ident. In support of this "the Boston cor'respondent of the Hartlord Courant re'porta a wide-spread feeling among tlie 'business men of the republican party that 'if there be anr doubt it ought to be decided 'in favor of Tilden that the republican 'party tan not afford to Lake the presidency 'in the face of a disputed vote of the jeople 'unless there be a more general acquiescence in its title than there - now promises to be." James G. Blaine, in his Buffalo speech, niude during the campaign, taid: "Should 'Tilden be elected,-will you allow him to be 'inaugurated?" Here was a threat made in advance, disclosing the purpose from the first on the part of the radical conspirators to de feat the will of the people. 8ince Tilden has been elected, the question is, shall the radical conspirators prevent his inaugura tion? It is to this question that the Amen can ieople are now addressing themselves. There is much important .and edifying matter in the report of the inquiry of the investigating committee who are unearthing villainy in New Orlea.is. The amount of re publicun bulldozing they are discovering win surprise most northern readers.

MITCHELL BULLDOZERS.

Progress of nbe Trial of the Orange County Outlaws. THE CANE FOR THE DEl'tSNK Opened y the Introduction of Mitnetfet fo Irne an Alibt for the Jone Hung Kent Jone on the Stand To Special to the Bentluei .J HrnoMisuTON, Ind., Dec. 18. This being the rirst week of the circuit court in 1 Lawrence county, Judge Pearson was compelled to adjourn the Jones-Tolliver investigation on Saturday until to-morrow, in order that he might go to Bedford, open court and instruct the grani jury. At that time this case will be taken up and dispofed of. There was a proposition to postpone the hearing of the remaining tebtimony, which includes that of Bent Jones, for some weeks, until the court could lind time from the regular business of court to hear it, but as that would defeat the object of the defendants, immediate bail, they of course objected. Besides the judge had some doubts as to his power to begin an investigation of this kind in term and continue it in chambers. Judge Rhodes took the ground that the court had this undoubted right, and K. W. Miers forcibly argued against it. The proposition was also entertained of setting a day of this week to hear it at Bedford.but it was finally concluded that it would be unsafe to take the prisoner there, and the pioposition was abandoned. After Mrs. Donelson, whose t tiniony was given on Saturday, Robert Teagarden, one of the detectives engaged in the case, was put upon the stand. His statement consisted mostly of the details of the arrest of tke prisoners, their manner then and conduct since, and was not very important. viara iiarvey tesiineu testified to hearing Bent Jones when angry with various persons, threaten to kill them "as dead as he had killed Moody." THE DETKCTIVK S STOEY. II. B. Ward was an importa it witness, as he went to Orleans and Mitchell for the purpose, and has done little else since last rebruarv but work up this case, and to him and to Mr. Tcairarden belongs tlie credit and the reward If they have captured the right parties, lie stated, In substance, that he made the acquaintance of Bent Jones on the Jd ot aiay. A package oi etters had been found between Mitchell and White river belonging to Jones, and that he made his acquaintance in delivering them: that at the time he had informed Jones that he wanted to have a confidential talk with him, and soon afterward met him privately and told him that he was working up the Moody murder: that he naa maae considerable progress and had found nothng against him, but had found evidence against Jeff Huftstetter. and could indict IT. ?l T IJ .. 1.1 . il.l mi li ne (jonesi wouiu assist mm; uai Jones then told him that Jeff Huffatetter was as guilty as hell, and he would help prosecute htm; that he could get Lowery to swear against him. lie said Lowcrv had cot scared about something and gone, but that he could get him back to swear against HulMetter. lie said liull-tet-ter had told Abe Jones something, and that Jones knew where the gun was that killed Moody: that he would see Jones and find out and let him ki ow. He was to w rite or telegraph; that in a few days he received a letter and then a telegram to come to Mitchell; that he went and met Jones, who took him to a private room in the Albert house. That he then told mm that he nad lound out where the gun was; that Ward might not be a friend to him, and might be trying to trap him, but that if he (Jones) would help him to eet two or three thousand dollars. he guessed it would be all right; that Jones then took a card and drew a plan of sorae ground and two ponds, and said the gun was in one oi ttiese two ponds. i nat ne then said that Eli Lowery told him where the gun was, and that he knew where it was all the time, but that he had not told at the other interview, because he wanted to rind out what he ( ard) was up to; that he then went back t Orleans, got assistance and went to the ponds, but seeing that he could not drag the ponds without being seen from HuUstetter s house, he went away and returned at 12 o'clock at night and raked the ponds without finding a gun; that on the next evening he took Robert E. Perkins with him, and Terkins succeeded in finding it; that it was buried in the mud, very rusty, and the varnish scaling on the barrels, and' looked like it had been in the pond some time. Here w itness identified a gun shown him as the one. Sai-l he fouud the gun on the 18th of May last He said he saw Jones asain on tne aay oeiore ne was arrested and told him that the gun arrange ment wouldn t work, that they must go to work when the grand jury set at Paoli and indict Huftstetter; that Jones then said he could get forty men to swear against Huffsietter, that they would swear what he wanted them to; that they must not be seen together, he and Jones must have a quarrel at Paoli, and let on that they were not friendly: that if they could get JetF indicted, before old llunstetter would see him go to the penitentiary ne would pay four or live thousand dollars; that the next day Jones was arrested. On cross-examination he said he went to Orleans to canvass for the State Atlas and look up the Moody matter in conjunction; that he used the canvassing as a cover and to pay expenses; that the way he cameo engage in it, he was marshal of Greensburg in 1S75, and got a poster ollering a reward of $1,000, and after his time was up as marshal, had determined to try to get it Here the .state rested, with the under standing thev bad the right to examine ab sent witnesses when they arrived. KVIDE.VCK FOB T1IK PEFENSK. Aleck Harbin, Lemuel Magner, Willianv P.uckhanan, James Head, Lee Morris, .Tames Kellev. Thomas Murrv. Moiea Clin ton and Abe j ones were introduced by the defense for the purpose of proving an aiui and most of them swore to seeing the pris oners that night, covering the time from I to 9 or half-past U o'clock. The latter gen tlcznan is the man who kept the's&ioon which had figured so prominently In this case, and who was seriously shot in an at tack on his saloon by a mob on the night of the 22d of February last It is claimed by the friends of the prisoners that the purpose of this mob was to kill this Jones to keep the prisoners from proving anaito by him. Joseph Patterson and Alice Patterson, two of the most important witnesses on the part of the state, and wro had to be brought on attachments, were theu introduced. Joseph Patterson said, in substance, that he knew ail the prisoners, and that lsu Lowery was boarding at his house at the time of the murde; that the last he saw of him oa that Jay was at. dinner at his . touse; he did not see hint again un til 5 o'clock the next morning; did not know whether be slept at his house or not that night, but he usually lert there: that he never heard Jones say anything about the killing, but he had told

him before hp f'ent to testify before the grand jury that it didn't nwear to what Eli had told hhii t th:;' .would kill him; that this was ju?t sfter KU Lowery had been telling him that lie .must stf lr before the grand jurv that he (Lowery) ha .eaten euP" per at Patterson's on the nightf lf.fr .murdcr and that he ( Tatterson I bvd walked up v?wn with him and turned to walk away wihfn Jones met him (Lowery), awd faid," "Have you told Joe what to swear bexore the grail :ury?" and Lowerv said -Ye," then be

maae tins threat; that afterwards lie met him again and repeated. "You had better swear what Eli told you." The witness said he swore as directed before the grand jury, and was indicted for perjury for it; that on the same evening he wa indicted Bctit Jones had told him he would be indicted. but not to get scared, to go in the etil with him and stick to what he swore; that he would have 25 men to swear that Lowerv was at his (Patterson's) house that night; Alice Patterson, indicted as accessory to the murder after the fact; aaid that she had stated before the grand jury that Ijowrry was at har house for supper, when in fact he was not; that she. did not see him on the day of the murder after 2 o'clock, and until the next day at breakfast; she said she had rode from Paoli to Mitchell in a bufgy with a' Mr. 8heek8 after I testified before the grand Jury; that he asfced her on that oc-' cation if the could trust FJi Lowery with a secret and she had answered no, and he then said Bent Jones had about come to that conclusion himself; that he believed Eli was going to tell and might try to tell me, that if we dhl not listen to him; that she asked him if he thought Eli was guilty and he said yes he was guilty, and knew the whole partp, and that if he confessed it Lee Jones was gone to h 1. 8he said he wanted her to write a letter to Lowery and teH him not to tell anything, and for her not to go back on w hat she had said ; that she had testified falselv before tlie grand iurv because Bent Jones told her if the plead iruiltv he would kill her: that he had a nistol in his boot, and would set near her so he would have a fair chance. On -cross examination she said she had not told David L. Cheeks anything about Mr. Ward; that she had told Bent Jones that Ward had not offered her $vV) to testify but had told her he once gave a lady $00 who had testified unexpectedly to him. The evidence for the defense will be continued to-morrow, when Bent Jones will be placed on the stand. His testimony is regarded as highly important. THE STATE AT LAUGE. The Lafayette city fathers are discussins fire alarm telegraph. The counties in the state are resiondius promptly to the call for meetings on the 23d. The snow in Laporte county is drifted six to nine feet deep in the woods. Trains have teen much delayed. Nothing has yet been heard from Lininzer. whose mysterious disappearance from South Bend wai chronicled last week. The loss by the burnine of the Stanleford mill and other buildings in Fort Wayne Friday will reach nearly $:0,000. Daniel Eby. at Bristol. Elkhart countv. has an Alderney cow from which he has sold but ter to the amount of over $70 since the 13th of last March, besides supplying the family wiin miiK ana Dutter. Lafayette Journal: The more scriouslv injured in the railroud accident Priday morning are getting along nicely. All are able to be about except Superintendent Kteward, and he will be on deck in a few days. Edinburg Courier: More fish have been caught by parties from Edinburg within the past two weeks than were cuught during the same length ot time last summer. Flue buss, buffalo, channel cat and other varieties have been brought in by the dozens. Madison Herald: This is the weather that causes the ollice bore to hug the stove, squirt tue amoer ana mow nis norn, and any one who will take the trouble to watch him will never again assert that a man can do but one thing at a time, lie knocks that argu ment. Jeflersonville News: Considerable inter est is taken in this city on the fact of Morton coming home so suddenly. Is it to call a state republican convention; is it to sup press the kuklux, arrest the knights of the golden circle, or to install Ben Harrison governor according to the returning board patent New Albany has a sensation in the shape of the arrest of Professor James Carl, organ ist in a leading church and a man of previ ous irreproachable character on a charge of forgery. It is said tnat be lias been engaged also in selling organs and pianos for Bald win & Co., a Cincinnati hrm, and It is thought the charge of forgery comes from that direction. An Edinburg hen lately laid an egg that was near four inches long and about one and a half in diameter. It had been frozen and cracked, and its odd shape led to an examination of its contents. On taking off a part of the shell another egg waj discovered inside, or rather two eggs grown together, one about the size of a quail's egg and the other somewhat larger. New Albany Ledzer-Standard: Soon after dinner Shrader's tand wagon started out behind four beautiful and gaily capariswned white horses, to move about the city and make a show. The wagon contained the woolen mill band, which discoursed excellent music of asad.solcmn, sorrowing sound. eminently fit to be produced on such an occasion as "the pretending to ratify Hayes's election to the presidency, l ne wagon was de ."orated with Hags and followed by a few anxious boys, who will be voters several years hence. Many people asked. "Why so small a funeral?" A One Art rarce. Baltimore News. Scene T. French's hotel. Time, midday, Fat hfttel clerk, smiling, and brushing bis diamond stud w ith a feather. Enter young man in a hurry lie writes on the register, "John Green. Harrisburg. I"a." Youuemau: "I shall take a room this eveninz. Some bundles may be sent here for me this afternoon. If the charges are not more than f5, pay them. Exit voumr man in a hurry. Clerk stifiy bows and continues to brush his diamond stud with a feather. Scene II. Time, one hour later. Enter a small boy with heavy oblong package, lie strujreles up to hotel counter, and says: "A bundie for Mr. Green. The charges are 1X50. Clerk drops his feather, and permits his diamond stud to dazzle the small Doy s eyes. Then he takes the bundle and pays the small bov $3.50. Scene III. Time, following day. Fat clerk scratches his head with the feather and thinks of Mr. Green and the small boy and tb 3.50. Then he owned the oblong bundle and discovers a brickbat in a paper box, with the note saving: "This ia the best Russian elar I could find." tflerlc xclaims. Oodelmity." and the proprietor of the hotel debts kim with $3.50. New York Herald: It is said that ex Secretary Belknap and Mrs. Belknap are writing a book which will give an account of society and political life in Washington during the last live or ux years.

THE IXDIAMPOLIS

SENTINEL

PROSPECTUS FOR 1877. The Sentinel. J! ry reading and thinking man In the stubs wbocVn afford to take a newspaper ought to KUt-ierJ V for at löt one of the editions or tho Sentinel, Fakxeks, Merchants asd Law. TicnH, wttJOut renpoet to party, particularly stand ft nwV of tf for. In addition to iu political and Uny merit, the Sentinel Is eon. fessedly the .'iBmciTtk.'1 raper r Indiana. Indeed, it Is har 'r too much to say that it Market Report are v 'llior nd more accurately compuod, aod It moa tary and general buKinK8 articles abler a a d more thoronzhly treated than lfcoe of aiV paper In the central weu ltm Knpreme Com." Reports can but commend it to the legal fraternity throughout the ntate, &r they etnbnoa a most careful d!get of the pertinent points of every decision rendered la our Bupremo Court. The public Is familiar with tf,e l'elitienl Opinion and Cvnrictflons of this paper, but It may not be airvlsg to? plainly avow them here. As the afc-oe&ta of IIoKErrr and Economy ia the addnh t ration the national aui slate grrrernmentean ss the uncouvpromlahig enemy oi nepotism and d.-potIra, of chicanery, tra.Cu and rla tu. w hi i ever they may be found, the entij wv continue to be l'e. rim and Outspoken I'pon Prtnelpl. And this with epeelal reCerenoe to the sectional i-wues before tho neople. Conceived for the fell purpose o. fiKvyrrVATiyra Mlskclb liiere are kept alive lw ten dering to the vilest rasHiona ot me a avarice and hate. Thi time ha. come wt. a reason Kbould no Iongr grope around in the dark, blind-folded by maJigoant prejudices. The hour Is approaching when It will no longer be profitable To Pollntefbe Polltlenl Atmosphere with the foul breath of slander. That the people are awakening to the laci that we are brethren one peopl Worshipping one God, sharing one hope and awaiting one cotnmoa destiny." roe isaMiaeM Interests tue -ountrr, the social interests, the polit ies, interests; these are. wheu Impartially considered, ah ideuUcaitrotn Maine to Florida from lHymouth Bock to the Pacific slope. Tne Equality of N tat es under the constitution, and of citizens before the law, and the patriotic spirit of fraternity strengthening and inspiring all to theae the Seutlnelhall in the future u In the pa-st, hope fully and persistently point aa the prope of constitutional liberty the inula R.1 or usptblicax iNvrrrrri9-. The Sentinel, hawever, does not propose to confine ltstlf to ex pounding and advocating Trap Demoermfj. but will earne-tly endeavor to promote sound culture RH weU as to advocate sound doctrine. In its editorial department it hopes to provo worthy, to the limit of lt ability, of the groat principle It espouses, and equal to it wide field and large purpose. - . . , ' jf The News Colnmna ' will be carefully edited, so as to give It readers the benefit of whatever ia new and late resting not only in national and state polities, but in trade, conitnt-rce, lltratarf, Hcienoe and art. Among other things it wtll contain all the Intent XewM from Wfthlng1ent where it will keep a regular correspondent during the intensely exciting session of Con gresa which is about to begin. It will also contain tbe fullest and most reliable retorts Or LEGISLATIVE PROCKHDljrOS In UllS City daring the coming winter. The Yeekly Sentinel. The Weekly Bentinel wlU be la many re specta an epitome of the Dally, championing the same cause, and aiming to fill the mom wants of tbe general reader, bot 11 will be prepared with special reference to the cuaractxk of1 rr-i circulation. In every respect It will oe tbe beet weekly we emu make, and vre think It will more than Compare FavoraWy with any weekly circulating ia the state of In diana. It will contain our aoleet editorials upon current politics! events and other topiea of Interest, and will be wy, Uterarr, and lull of entertaining and lntftruetlre miscellany, and more particularly adapted to the family circle. Its eru:2rn markit kkpojzt will continue to bo a leading feature, and, for this reaoon alone, no farmer should be without it. The Sunday Sentinel. The Sunday Serftlnel haa had an unparal leled growth in tlie laut few mouths, and had la every way met with the moet gratifying success. It enjoys a fibld all its own. being the only English paper published at the capital on ltd publication day. 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