Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 21, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 January 1877 — Page 2

THE PNDIAXA STATE SENTINEL., WEDNESDAY MOKNTNG, JANUARY 10, 1877.

"WEDNESDAY, JANUARY

LEGISLATION. Tad legislature of Indiana is again In maaion. The lower house is republican; the Senat Is democratic; on joint ballot the legislature Is republican. The fce.ssions are biennial, and by the constitution limited to iity djys. It is fair to assume, that in point of abijity, the members of the fiftieth regular seion of the general bSM-nibly of Indiana are fully and fairly avera pre. T1ey are here to adranoo the prosperity ef the state, to enact wise aud wholesome laws and to repeal or modify such statutes as experience has shown to be defective. Notwithstanding the sections are brief, they are sufficiently extended to enable the members to accomplish much for the promotion of the public good. The public pood, however, Is not always to be measured by the number of bill passed. On the contrary, it is too often found that the larger the nnmbcr of acts the less is th public benefitted. Too much legislation is objectionable. It is not only possible to govern too mnoh, but v-y of accomplishment. Too many laws promote litigation; business matters are complicated rather than elucidated; lawyers grow rich while the people are itupovcriohed. The moat astute lawyers ditler; courts disagree, and for much of this confusion legislatures, while responsible in a great measure, are not entirely to blame. Every member of the legislature Is expected to do something- for Lis constituents. During the canvass he made pledges, and having succeeded feels under obligitlons to introduce sundry bills. Under the preure bills multiply oil sortn cf bills upon a great variety of subject and unfortunately, too many of them go through and become laws. 1Ye venture the assertion that there is not a state in the Union that is not burdened with too much law. Asa consequence, the acts f one session are, in numerous instances, re peal ed by the next ei on, while others equally objectionable take their place on the statute book, and so on ail iv.ßnUti. Another difficulty L the apparent necessity to ruh legislation and push "bills through. This Ls done too oftn as a matter of personal favor, with little regard for the meriu of the bill or its bearing upon public Interests in rnlgar parlance, it is legislative log rolling. It fs as-urned that the con.stitutioii.il limit is altogether too brief, that laws for a rreat an J growing commonwealth like Indiana, with its vaat ' and varied interests, can not be enacted with due regard for the public welfare in sixty days, an J that as a result the organic law of the state is chiefly responsible for lipshod legislation. Evidently there is too much truth in the allegation. The chief reason urged for short sessions is economy; but the old proverb hath it that "haste ' 'niakea waste," and it is as true of legislation as of anything else. If Indiana is to have good laws they must not be made in a hurry; they must not be rushed through the legislature; but since there is not sufficient time to give the various bills calm - and thorough consideration, if passed at all. they must be passed in an immature condition. If in such cases they are found to complicate rather than simplify legal proceedings, the responsibility must rest with the people, for the people enact the organic law. But dropping this form of discussion, and taking things as we find them, the present legislature, we are confident, would earn an enviable fame by reducing the number of acts greatly belww the average. There are some important laws to be enacted requiring patient consideration and thorough discnion. There are doubtless laws that ought to be repealed. These should hare prompt attention, and the work of cleaning out the legal trash from the statute books can not be tiohducted too vigorously. Evidently the legislature will consider what legislation is necessary to protect the pople against the attacks of creditors, who are loading down all the court dockets of the täte with raits. With trade paralyzed, industries prostrate, confidence gone, capital locked up and general despondency prevailing, it would seem good policy to make ome "provision which, while guarding thd righto of all, sacrifices the interests of none. fkmnd policy demands that, under eircumatanoes that no human foresight can control, the penalties of misfortune should be as light a possible, and, if under the pressure, it is found that property worth $-OjO is required to pay a debt of $1,000, the legislature may, in the exercise of prudent power, proTide that of the hard earnings and prudent savings the debtor class shall not be hopelessly mined. Wisejstatemanship will provide again? t such calamities and give citizen a chance to save something from the wreck. OVEBXOU IIESDItlCKS MESSAGE The message of Governor Hendricks, which we publish to-day, is worthy of the distinguished man who wrote it. . Its style is plain and simple, but it is forcible. Its sentences are smoothly written and constructed with the care of one who mrasures well what lie .says. A3 a literary production it is entitled to high rank, but it iof its substance and not of its form- that we propose to speak. Oorernor Hendricks treats the subjects sjvlth which he deals in an eminently practical manner.' lie makes his points with the precision of a lawyer and the'eimplicity of a man of business. His statements are so made that there is do mistaking his meanings. He gives a clear and full exposition of the state debt, and shows how the republican officials paid off the old debt a few years ago. It is true that he does not t 11, in so many words, bow It was done, but he tells tb legislature . 4iat the state owes the school fund nearly four millions of dollars. The state took the school money aud paid officer indebtedness,

but gave the school fund her non-negotiable bon is for it. Republican orators and republican jmi-ers have boasted much of this stroke of financial wisdom, but the people have never been able tone it in the ro?y light of these political economics. It was simply robbing Peter to pay Paul changing one obligation for another. Governor Hendricks makes t-orne startling statements about the cost of conducting the benevolent institutions of the etate. They arc worthy of the gravest consideration and no doubt will receive it at the ban Jo of the legislature. It is evident that a great saving can be made in their management, and it is the duty of the representatives of the people to curtail expenses in everyway it can be done without impairing the efficiency of the public service. There is no more reason why the state should support the families of the officers of these institutions than that she should feed and clothe those of her other officials. Governor Hendricks quotes from his inaugural address in reference to his views in regard to a change in our election laws so as to make fraud upon the ballot-box more difficult. The legislature will do well to adopt his suggestions for they cover the whole ground. If they are accepted and become the law of the stale, our ballot-boxes will be as carefully guarded as it will be in the power of legislation to do it. Governor Hendricks closes his message by denouncing the interference with the South Carolina legislature by the soldiers of the United States.' This is the only part of it which will be criticised by the republican press, bnt he tells such wholesome truths in so forcible a way that what republicans may say can not brake their force. It is dangerous, and the people know it, for a corperal of the guard to determine the qualifications of the members of the legislature ot a sovereign etate. Were the thing attempted in Indiana, we believe that even republicans w ould protest against it, bnt being done in South Carolina, they seem indifferent about it. No patriot can read what Governor Hendrkka says upon this subject without feeling that a great crime has bten committed against republican government. We need hardly commend the message to the careful consideration of our readers, for, like everything that conies from its distinguished author, it will not be necessary for the press to commend it to ensure its careful consideration by the people.

OKI r in it i. John itenuriek. John Hendricks, youngest brother of the Hon. T. A. Hendricks, departed this life at Delhi, Ohio, on the ;th day or January. IH17. Mr. Hendricks was in the prime of life, being about 10 years of age. and up to a year ago was in the full enjoyment of a vigorous manhood. He was a kind and genial gentler man. highly esteemed for sterling qualities of head and heart, and an active and honored member of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Hendricks leaves a wife and üve chil dren to mourn his untimely dentil. A. I, UUAKlrK. A. CBuskirk, father of the Hon. C. A. Buskirk. attorney general of state, died at 11 o'clock last evening at the residence of his son in this city. He had long been inhrm in health and last October was stricken down, the doctors then discovering that his ailment "as cancer of I he stomach. He was a native of New York state, but had passed much of the latter part of his life in Michigan. He was about OS years old, and spent the autumn of his life with his son. the attorney general, both in Princeton and here. He leaves four sons to mourn the loss of a model father, and many friends to regret the death of one whoru they hid cause to deeply love and respect. The remains will be taken to-day. under escort of his son, to Dowagiac, Michigan, for interment. THE LEtalSi AFURL Names, Pol tics, Post Office and City Addresses of the Members of the Senate and House. The following directory of the leslslato'e, more comprehensive than any before Dubllshed, gives the nam, politics, home post oflicw" anl cltyaddrt-MM.no Nrm could be procured, of every member of the present liKbl. ture. Comctlous will be made from time to time, aud any member wboe address Is omitted, or who my hereafter chane, can be netrUiht by handlne a rnemoranduna to the Sentinel representative In the house. Tli Senate KKPT7BUCAXS. Spencer and Perry-R. Tobln, Itockport; Oapltol house. Jefferson 1. C Rranham, Madison. Parke and Vermillion J amea T. Johnston. Rockville; Remy hotel. Tlppecanoo-Johu M. Larue, Lafayette: Grand hotel. ' Huntington and Wabash Elijah Hackleman, Watah; Nagel bouse. Grant, Blackford and Jay-J. Underwood. Pennvlll; tirarid Opera hotel. Miami and Howard Daniel Beorss, Peru; Grand hotel. Wayne Wm. Baxter, Richmond; Union Depot dining hall. Hendricks and Putnam W. A. Ragan, Clayton. Monroe and Lawrence Wm. , B. F. Treat. Bedford ; Wal's hotel. Payette. Union and Rush Milton Truster, Connersville; 12 Nrth Illinois street. Marion Add Won C. Harris, Indianapolis; 744 North Meridian street. Abel I). HtreighU Indianapolis;!') South Ve Mreet. Randolph Nathan Cadwalleder, Union Cltv; Grand hotel. . Kosciusko and Whlleley Walter a Olds, Columbia city; raod hotel. Decatur and Rush W. A. Moore, Greeusburg. Lnransr and Noble Elijah W. Weir, Lagranite; Walls hotel. Ht uben and DeKaln W. M. Mercer. Elkhart Charles ReartLUey, Elkhart; Capitol housn. Henry and Hancock Benjamin Shirk, Nw Castle: Grand hotel. , Warre and Fountain Francis M. Dlce,Cov lngton: Grand hotel. . Hamilton and Tipton Bam net L. Taylor, Tlptoo; Capitol hon. Vandrrburg William' Hellman, Evansvllle; Circle house. MadUon and rlware Charle Doxcy, Anderson ; Grand hotel. DEMOCRATS. Allen R. C. Bell, Fort Wayn; Orand hotel. Brown and Bartholome -J. B. Grove, CoIambus; Occldenta. hotel. Cass and Carroll D. D. Djkeman Logansport; Grand hotel. Franklin and Dearborn N,. 8. Glv an, Law renoebunc; National hotel. Floyd and Clark K. C Johnson, Vew Albany; Occidental hotel. - Posey and Gibsou Jaeph Da. ldson, Harle to. Warrick fcnd PUce James B. . Hendricks, Fetersbunth. ' . - - - Haldvan aud Knox II, K. Wilson, Sullivan: Grand hotel.

Martin. Orange and DuboL II. A. Peed, Shoals; Occidental hotel. Crawford and Harrison -H. M. f?tockligor, C'oryon; Occiden.nl h tel. Hwltrerlnl, Ohio and Kiploy W. Culberton. MKrü-Iü; Circle holAke and Porter D. L. Hklnner, Valparaiso; Hotel Rite. Bt. Joseph and fifarke Joseph Henderson, Foil ih IW'iid: National hotl. Marlon and Morgan J. J. Maxwell, Martinsville; Hhcrman hoase. Scott, JrnnlnKs and Ik-caiur William F. Ililey, Snrdinia: Circle house. Vigo Isidati Don ham, lns Haute. Owen and Irv Inmau II. Fowler, ypenoer; Occidentnl hotel. Mar-thnll, Fulton and Pulaski Charles II. R-eve, lij -inouth. Monixomery alias Peterson, Crawfordsvllle; National I10U 1. Daviess and reen David J. Heffron, Washin!tt';M N. Illinois sire t. J cKsonand Wa.shlnKtoi Bartholomew II. Brrell, BrownKtown; Grand hotel. Johnson aud Shelby Caleb B.Tarleton,Trafaltrnra ; Grand lJot-l. Adams. Alien and Wells John D. Rarnlghauson. Ft. Wnyne; Circle house. Boone and Clintou James V. Kprt, Frankfort; Hpeueer house. LiporteJohu II. Wluterbotham, Michigan city; Hotel Pates. INnETE'TDKXTS;. TV ntnn, Jisper, Newton and White George V. Majors, Rralngtoa; Capital house

Iloae of Brpreftrnladvfs. UEPÜBL1CANS. nendricks James W. Morgan, Danville; Capitol house. Hendricks and Putnam Edwin T. Lane, Rai b rids;; Capitol hotiv. Scott. Jennings and Jett'enon A.A. Morrlnon; Oraud hoU-l. Monroe Robert C. Foster, Bloomlngton; Grand hot' 1. L i wr;nce Alfred Guthrie, Bedford; Grand holet. r.irke Dtinltl Thomas, Rockville. Koscluko and Ku'ton Arthur C. Coplaod, Roehtwter; Capitol house. Fayette nnd Union James P. Kennedy, Liberty; urand hotel. Oiilo and Hwltr land William Freeman, Enterprise; Nagel house. Marlon istan ton J. Pe llp, Grand hotel: J. C. Adams, ooruer Tennessee and Market Mreets; W. H. Craft. 'l East Wabblnton street; J. E. McOaughey, Grand hotel. Greene James R. Baxter, BlcKmt1eld. IVcatur, Ruh and Ripley A.M. Kennedy, Rushvllle. Morgau D. W. Grubbs, Martinsville; Remy hotel. Randolph. A. Moorman, Farmland; Grand opera htel. Omut O. U. P. Carey, Marlon ; Orand Opera hotel. Grant ami Blackford A. C. Swayzee; Grand Opera hotel. Portrr T. Crumpacker, Valparaiso; Cwpltal house. Ielawnre II. J. Lockhart, Mnncie; Graud Ojmra hotel. Jay and D-Iaware J. H. Koontz. Jasper and WhlUWohu P. Carr, Runnsalaer. Cuss Isaac Bumpnmer, Lonsport. Kosclubko y. D. Uelgwny, Warsaw; Capital house. Benton and Newton Andrew Hall, Kentland; Grand hotel. D-c.Atur Z. T. Riley, Greensburg; Capitol house. Elkhart and Nonle J C. Zimmerman. Noole land Kimmell. Roono John Cbowuor, Lebanon; 78 West Mrket street. Elkhart J. E. Thompson, Goshen; fpenoer honse. Wayne John Yarjan, Richmond: Grand hotel. B. L. Harrison, Greenfork; "H North Meridian street. Warren Klbha Littell, Wllllamsport; Orand Opera hotel. Wabash a-d Huntington IT. D. Cole, Huntington; Grand hotel. JefTerson J. W. Inham, Madison; Mrs. Hardee's, North IlllnoiK street. L'igrangtttamnel W. Harper, Lfigrange; 90 North Alabama street. Henry and. Madison Jowph T. Hmlth, Anderson; tirand Opera hotel. Henry Charles S. Hubbird, Newcastle. Hamilton and Tipton William' Garver, Nobl esville; Grand hotel. Hanilton l.ims R. Carson, Cicero; National hotel. Wabash-Jaoob L. Bailors, Wabash; Capitol house. Hhelby and Marlon Henry M. Ends'ey, Fairla nd; rand hotel. Vunderburg John Whitehead, Evansvllle; Circle house. John Daunetell, Evausvllle; Circle house. Tippecanoe Pyron W. Langdon, Lafayette; Grand hotel. Jackson Samuel T. Wells, Seymour; Kimy hotel. Kteubtn H. P. Butler. Like Center. Howard and Miami William II. Thompson, Orand ho'el. Howard M.chael Tliompson, Kokomo; 39 CIiritlan avenue. Lake Samuel Ames, Crown Point; Capitol House. Jennings John Overmeyer, Vernon; Grand hotel. Rush II. H. E well. RnbvUle: Grand hotel. Montgomery and Park A. M. fccott, Rockville; Nauel hon-e. Madlsou and I-lawaro Chajle Doxey. HEHOCRATS. Vermllllon-Claude Matthews, Eugene. Vigo Ainbrose B. Carlton. Terre Hnute; Gnind hotel. William A. Connelly, Terre Haute; Capitol house. Owen Jesse H. Reao, Bpencer; Bptncer house. f?lav Isaac M. Compton, Brazil. Fulton. I'uhiskl und Htarke John Fromm, Franc.lsvllle- Cltrle house. Posey Joseph F. Wclborn, Mt. Vernon ; Occidental hotel. nt. Joseph D. R. Lemper, Houth Bend; National hotel

Knx-J. ILMche, Mncennei; Occidental hotel. Putnam Oeorge W. Priest, Oreencaptle; National hotel. Miami-William Zehrlng, Peru; Capital house. Montgomery H. C. Hulett. Crawfords.vlll; National h- tel. Ripley Davldsan Rea, Versailles; National hote . Divle P. II. McCarty, Wahngton. Harrison rtiidth A kren. Corydon. Flod -Mepheu Albert, New loaoy; Occidental h 'tel. Clark J. K Mar-h, J fTersonvllle. P.Try Audrow . lla rtcld. Cunnelto". Gibson K. M. Ilau-s, Pr'noeton; Grand hotel. Marshall J. W. Davis, Plymouth; Remy hotel. Marshall and Bt. Joseph J. W. Houghton, Plvmo-ttli; Remy hotel. Johnson C O. L hinan, Frank'ln; Occidi mat hotel Dubois and Martin . J. Oossman, Jieper. lierimrn C lu-i b is Jonnrou, LUwreuoebnrs; National hotel. Ai.tm hm Wall D. J. Spencer, Djcatur; Oco dental hotel. Carro I James -L. Johnsou, Delphi; Capitol limiKP. Bartholomew and Brown J. M. Cook, Nashville. .. . Crawford and Orn' ge John Benz, Leavenworth : Hjencer house. Pia Li. W etewa t, Petersburg; 304 North Illinois street. Hucoek Noble Warrum, Oreenfleld; Spencer hou-e. WMiTick Robert Per'go, Boonevllle; Spencer house. Whiüev-W. E. Merrlman, Columbia City; National hoteL Washing on A. B.CollIn, ßulem; Occidental hotel. Laporto J. Hosmer, Westvllle; Capitol bouse.. Hpenoer P. W. Ash bey, Rockport; 124 North Illinois street. Hhelby-Chrtstopher Olrtou, Bhelbjnrllle; Occidental hotel. Hulilvttu ti. Lt. Coffman, HulUvan; Grand hoteL Tippecanoe Win. R. Olsby, Lafayette, Little's hotel. . . DeKalb Wm.. D. Madden, Butler; Circle house. " ' Fountain J. II. Claypool, Covlneton. I-"ran k 1 1 n Ebeueer Cooley , Brook v Uie ; Capitol house. , AIUju Thoroaa J. Foster, Fort Wavne.Spencer house. Charles R Austin, Fort Wayne; 17 Kentucky avt-une. Huntington James C. Rranyan, Hunting, ton ; 1X4 North Tennewie street. . MadlMoa Edgar Ueudorsoo, Anderson ; Occidental hotel. Clinton Allen E. PaLsc, Frankfort; Bpenocr house. KTCAFITTJLATIO!. R-pnbltoina, aenuu-V4; houi St 7S. ' Iw .ri.rn . -.. " house 4tiy-71. Iodcpnclent,senatd I.

INDIANA'S ARMAMENT.

Eeports of tlie Adjutant Creiieral and the Quartermaster General of State. "In Time of Peue Prepare fo' War," is the Mora! of Their Exhibits. Adjutant General Report. The lion. W. W. Conner, aijutant peneral of the Ptate, yesterday submitied to tlie governor his rejort for the year ending December 31, 137(5. The report states that the unorganized condition of the militi 1 cf the state renders it impossible to form any adequate idea of the number of independent com panics who are maintaining their organizations. These companies are organized as library and other similar associations are formed, and arnu are furnished them on their tiling with the quartermaster general the bond of the town or city conditioned for the f-afe keeoinp and return of such arms, and here all otücial intereonre with the company ends. The report points tlie frequent loss of arms by the disbanding of companies, and says that it is time the state holds the bonds of ttwns and cities for tlie arms thus distributed. The aJjutant general says he has yet to learn of a bingle instance where suit ha Hen brought to recover either the arms or damages resulting from their Iom. He would therefore most earnestly renew his recommendation of two years apo. that the legislature should provide by law for the organization of such a military force as will enable the executive to comply with his constitutional oblipalion which requires that he "fchall take care that the laws are faithfully executed." The report makes reference to the etrike on the Ohio and Misiisfippi road last summer and the services rendered by ihe I-ogan greys of Iogansport and the Peru guards in response to the call of the governor. The expense attending this movement, wax $l,W7.60. The adjutaut general has issued witLin -the Jaht two years certificates for the payment of claims for services rendered the state in the Indiana legion and other military organizations in the service of the state during the war, numbered from 1,133 to. 1,1'5 inclusive, amountln in the aggregate to $i:tf.U5. Application from all part" of tlie Culted States are daily received where Indiana &oldiere have emigrated for certified copies of their records to supply the place of lost discharges. Many of the countiea in thi state arc still paying local bounties to volunteers and cerlihVates of enlistments and credits are almost duily demanded by the applicants or by county authorities. luariennater General' Riort. Samuel Ileck, quartermaster general of state, submitted his report for the year ending December 31. 187t!, to the governor yesterday. The fol.owinj is a copious abstract thereof: The following arras and accoutrements are in the hands of various military orgaliation. as thown by bonds filed in the ofllce: Indiana university, Bloomington, 1V) Springfield muskets; Martinsville guard. Martinsville, loO mi'skets; Emmet guards. Indianapolis, CO Springfield jrifles; Indianap olis National guards, 11?0 gun and accoutre-, ments; Lafayette guards, Iifayette, 80 Springfield rifles; Fort Wayne light guafds. Fort Wayne, 80 Springfieid muskets and accoutrements; Prairie City guards. Terre Haute. 100 Springfieli rifles; Kockville guards, 00 Enfield rifles; Newcastle guards, CO Springfield muskets: Angola zouaves, 00 Springfield rifie muskets; College guard, Indianapolis, 100 guns; Vincennes National guards 60 Springfitld r.flc nmsVet.-; South Pend rifle company, K Enfield ritte musket; Waveland guards, CO Springfield ritle muskets; Laporte zouaves. CO Springfield niukets; New Albany guards, CO Springfield rauskete; Evansville zouaves, 100 Springfield rifles: Zionsville zouave guards, 40 rifle muskets; Huntington light guard. 80Sprinfild rifles; Crawfordsville guards, b6 Springfield breenhloading rifles; Fort Wayne cadem, SO hreecb-l.mriing trpringfield riflen; Indian apolis ' hi'h school cadets, f0 Springfield breech-loading rifle; gansport greys, 40 Springfield b. 1. rifles; Oreensburg light guards,tn Ppringfleld b. 1. rifles; Indianapolis centennial cadets, 40 Springfield b. 1. rifles; IGrange light guards, CO Springfield b. 1. rifles and five swonls; Greencatle guards. CO Springfield b. 1. rifles; Peru Rreys, V) Springfield b. 1. rifles; Iulaski guards. 6) Springfield rifles; Delaware guards, Muncic, 50 Hpringfield b. 1. rifles; Benton county cavalry company, Fowler, 100 cavalry sabres; Jackson guards, Tippecanoe county, 60 Springfield rides; Jeffersonville rifles, 0 Spring.field b. 1. rifles; Oreencastle college, lHQ Springfield b. 1. rifles. BORROW KD T1ICNDKR. The following cannon are In possession of the parties named: One six pound Iron cannon and implement. General T. W. Bennelt, Liberty; one Mexican cannon, M. F. Collier, Kendalville: one six ponnd iron cannon, Ma or R. II. Preston, Madison; one six pound bronze cannon, General Cruft, Terre Haute; one six pound iron cannon, Colonel A. M. Tueker, Goshen; one six pound iron cannon, Major J. Ii. Popp, Richmond; one six pound iron cannon, Colonel nodgra.ss, JetTVrsonville; one six pound iron cannon, S. J. Welton, Coington; one six pound bronze cannon, Captain J. W. Kobb, Lafayette. ARMS AND AMMl;iTION. The report also furnishes an invoice of stores at the state arsenal, amongV hich are the following: 2 Galling guns, 190 Spring, b. 1. rifles, calibre 45; CO Spring, h. 1. rifles, calibre 50; 86 pencfr rifles, 320 Enfield rifles, 680 Spring, rides, ISO cavalry sahres, 17 sargeante' sabres, 200 old guns, 3 No. 6 guns, (bronze. 1 No. 6 grin, (trophy,) 2 No. 6 field guns, 4 No. 6 carriages, 2 No. 12 caissons. , An Invoice of stores at the United States arsenal in this city I a'so given Among them tlie following: 280 Enfield rifle muskets, cal. f8, rusty; 120 Springfield b. 1. rifle; 716 Kitridge carbines; -423 cavalry fabres; 40 Spencer rifles, rusty; 7,fKX) Cluler pyramid metallic cartndxee; 500 blank car tridge, cal. 41, pajer, for pistols; 1,000 blank cartridges, cal G9. paper, for muskets; 2C2 rim pointed Spencer metallic cartridges; 4 Galling guns; 4.000 45 ml. cartridges; 2,500 blank cartridges; 500 blank cartridges; 200 öpencer rifle cartridge. ' . ' ' ''' SENSIBLE ItECOMMBXDATtOS. The report refers to the unsafe, unsuitable and insecure condition of the state arsenal building, and states that there are now five military companies drilling In the arsenal, through whoae carelessness lots has occurred. The report recommends that the state exchange It old arms, drawn in the late war, for new ones of improved pattern, aa provided for by congress, and provide a suitable place . to store them. It , also recommends the ' enactment of new mlPtia law, similar to that of New York, which would compel . military companies to drill at stated times, hold encampments and a general annual drill, and other measures, such as will give 'dignity to the organizations. Several militia com-

panics, recently formed, all desire Srringlield breedi-loading mucket, and he -ecoui-nu rtds Ibis arm as the most desirable. The stale in now entitled to draw arms and equipments from the general government to the amount of 1I,4S3.I.

riMOS OP EXPERTS. Revet-al r.ngrtnerr ' Their Jim lenient Vpon the Pall or tlie Fatal Bridge. Chicago Tlrup. The Times reporter, iu interviewing another well known civil engineer, elicited the following remark?: "If she jumied the track and I see thevngineer of the first locomotive says that he put on the valves full on hia engine, for he felt that something had got olf lhind if sJie jumped the track, and I believe the did, nothing could have saved her, and the bridge would have come down as a matter of couie. All the bridges are made the same way and accidents will sometimes happen, and they are due to special cansc. They calculate that if they build a bridge of so many trusses, each truss to bear a certain weight, that the bridge is going to bear, without extraordinary strain, a certain aggregate weight. Over and above thi a certain niargiu is allowed, but no provision could po.sibly be made for disater by running off, simply because no one knows where she is going to strike. My opinion iV' will the gentleman, "that the second locomotive went off: that the epginter of the first locomotive knew it or susiwcted it, and opened his valves full 10 drag her on. That the locomotive and one or two of the forward cars plunged, and down they went, and that the after cars came along and went down by their own momentum. I think that this sudden jump into the center of ihe roadway broke away the lateral bracing at the top. and that then the truss tipped right over. Wiih the lateral bracing gone there would be nothing to support the trusses from top to bottom, a distance of 32 feet, and this being the case the truss would just tip right over and the train go down. This theory that the truss tipped over is borne out by the fact that the cars were thrown lully 'J) feet a-ide from the parallel line of tlie track upon the bed ot" the creek below." Mr. A. B. Stone, formerly prident of the American bridge company, and who paed over the brigde 12 hours before the accident, says: "My theory is that tlie second locomotive jumied the track. It was a two-truss bridge, and laid with two tracks. I think tlie locomotiv jumped on to the inside. The truss would then turn over, for there would be nothing to support it. The sudden fall of the engine ou the lateral bracing would break that bracing; it might, too, have struck a cord. I understand that the line of the cars, when fallen, was 15 to 20 feet off from the line of the bridge, aud that would confirm my impression that they broke through and that the truss tipjHfd. The bridge was a regular Howe truss, in irou instead of wood, lt was not doubled braced. This bridge is alw.ay considered a very strong cue. The engineers' club informall' discussed the matter after their ueual session ye&terday afternoon.' The general tenor of tue discussion may be represented äs follows: Very likely a car ran off and the shock was felt by the engineer. This caused him to open the valves to pull through, and this of itself caused an alditional shock. This action, although It saved the engineer, undoubtedly made it worse lor the train. Mr. Morehouse, in answer to a question by the Times reporter about the action of frost on iron, said: "Of course a great deal depends upon the quality of the iron. Iron with a great deal of phosphorus in it will snap at once with frost; that which has but little in it will not. Of course we aiwavs assume that the very best iron is used iu bridge building. If it isn't it ought." Several engineers present thought that the tendency of modern railroad bridge building was to make the spans too long anyhow, although this ?pan (157 feet) is nöt long com jared with that of many bridges in railroad use throughout the country. The pivotal question upon which the integrity of the bridge . as a structure must hang, and the question which the engineers want to know is this: Did the second locomotive, or some of the forward cars, or any part ot the train jump the track, or did she not? If there was a jump tlie civil engineers generally would acquit the bridge, if there was no jump they would like to look into the matter. Now there are two or three parties who are at present alive, and powaibly able to talk. One is the engineer of tlie second locomotive, the man who went down with his engine, the conductor, and perhaps one or two of the brakemen. All these people could throw light upon the interesting mystery of whether a defective bridge or a jumping train is to be held respontihle for the horrible slaughter at Ashtabula. HFRDEUEU FOR MOXEY. Capiditjr the Motive for a Doable Tragedy In Oeorfrla. Atlanta Mspatch.to the New York Herald.l A double tragedy in the adjoining county to this created a good deül of excitement here on last Wednesday tii rbt. Jim Jackson, of Decatur, went to Jack Thompson' house at Stone Mountain, and at 3 o'clock in the morning decoyed Thompson from the house on the plea that a friend of his who intended leaving for Texas early in the morning, wanted to exchange $700 in gold for greenbacks at par. The next morning Thompson was missing, and on Friday Jackon was arrested. Thompson's pistol and abont $30 in money, a $20 bill which was identified, were found on Jackson's pe rson. On Saturday $o0 of Thompson's money was f nnd concealed in Jackson's house, and yesterday Thompson's body was found bnried near Jtc'ison'g honse, and it was proved that Jackson had dug the grave .the evening before the murder was committed. Last night a mob was collected for the purpose of lynching, and the sheriff made preparations to defend the jail with a poswe of si xty men. Jackson, fearing the moo or the consequences of the law, committed Buicide in the early part of the night by choking himself with a pocket handkerchief. Hearing of Jackson's suicide the mob dispersed, grumbling at being cheated oat of the death siort. Much excitement still prevails. Thompson was highly respected ana much loved by all who knew hi ra. : , sine Knew Her. IDetroIt Free Pres. Two women, who seemed to be acquaintances, got aboard a Cass avenue car at Ledyard street yesterday, and while one of them promptly deposited a nicklc in the box, the other sighed heavily and leaned back to escape the eve of the driver. He rang the fare bell, but she never turned her head. He then opened the doorand reminded her that she must pay her fare. She searched ber nocket. delaying a lor? as possible, and finally produced a $10 bill. " ' 11 ' "Cau t change that," he announced. She said she hadn't anything smaller, and after hwvin c'ir-d a ride half way down town he stepped off the car. 'Poor thing!" exclaimed the other woman In an Indignant voic. "She wanta to be at the .prtormaster's office bfor th rub- begins, and now I'm afraid she'll be late."

11 SB A EH ANI THE JEWS.

IIU IlefrtTMl of Iii iopl th llffuOD of HIh.IjOnw or Influences In ft nxlantt. (M. D. C. to Cincinnati OoraTercial. Philosophers may now inquire why Mr. Disraeli has fallen. A philonoohic pamphlet is obtaining some circulation in England which is entitled. "Why Iid Gladttone Fall from power?" The writer argues the uuiqu view that it was through the treachery of the great whig houses and families, w ith Granville at their head, w ho saw that under his (Gladstone's) supremacy tlie old families were losing influence, nnd the democracy steadily coming into power; and on thi an eloquent appeal i made to him to become the leader of the people, the failure of the torieti on the eastern question having reopened his path to power. Bat when the question, "Why did Disraeli fall from power?" is answered, it will be found, I think, thai he was betrayed by one old family the Jewi.ih. Separated from hid people superficially, he ii at heart above everything else a Jew, and he shares the animosity against the Slavonian Christians which they have richly merited at the hands of the race they have p. rocuted. how that the eastern Christians are Ketting a tacte of what the Jc have suffered through ages, their outcries fell on ears of marble when they reached DiraelL Not that he would have risked his psrty through dixlike of Slav ChrUtiajis. but as vbe traditional policy of England had always been again.st them, his race Sympathie blinded him to passing events. Had he been on rood terms with the Jews of England, they would hare saved him; for they have been on the alert and ee that by aiding in the emancipation of the provinces they are able to secure through England from Kussiaand the Slavn new securities for tlie Jews. Their equality i now art of the Russian programme; and no part of the proceedings yesterday w as more -significant than the favor with which the able speech of Sergeant Simon, a Jew. waa received. His reference to the law of Servia against Jews led Mr. Samuel Marley, M. P., to pledge the conference to deal with that aspect of the case; and Mr. Gladstone al has prominently taken the ground that entire religious equality must be secured for Jew, Moslem and Christian. Lord lienconatield has not been sufficiently en raport with the Anglo-Jewish association to get the new cue from them. They have been corresponding with Gladstone instead of their famous renegade. Sharing their feelings, he has not kept step with their changes of front, and he has lost the opportunity of striking off the last disabilities of his race throughout the world. But how could a man of such intellect as Lord Beacon sfieki have made all these blunders? What it would last year have been a scandal to say it is fast becoming charity to whimper that be has not only aged a great deal, but of late has taken to stimulantu more than is conducive to the clearness of brain needed by great and precipitant emergencies. One by one under age and infirmities the more or lc.-s artificial aspects he has assumed fall away the Christian convert, the leader of lords, ihe mask of Beaconfield; they fall away and reveal once more the defiant in- . dividuality. the daring spirit, above all the fiery Jew but all in piteous decrepitude, IU.TAII.S OF THE FBAl'D. II(tw Ihe Florida Chii ranting Board Man aged to Count the State for llNye. Tallilia.ss.j Special to the Cincinnati inquirer.) McLin and Cowgill finally thought it best to make a show of compliance with the orders of the court, and about 2 p. m. notified the attorney general to meet them at the otiice of the secretary of state at 3 o'clock. They met aftr 4 o'clock and hare just concluded another canvass, but arrived at a most unsatisfactory and tortured result In Baker county they have taken the false return made by the oounty judge, wherein two prcin.-ta were omitted, when they had the true and full return before them made by the county clerk, and this last return the board counted as the true one in the canvass made by them, on the Cth inst In Gay county the board had been guilty of a disregard of the order of the court which that body will hardly overlook. In this county the county canVaseers excluded from their county returns one precinct beeau-e the election officers did not appear to have been sworn, but the oounty canHer3 had accompanied their return with the vote from this precinct, for the informar tion of tlte etate board, with all the facta. The etate board, in their previous canvass, added the vote of this precinct to the returns, and counted it. Thi addition the court told thra they had no right to make, but must count tlie return before tbem. They have. In the canva-is to-day. thrown out tike entire return. The result of the canvass this evening is majority for Drew and 206 majority for Hayes, whereas a proper canvass, under th order of the court, would give 47 for Drew and 94 for Tilden. Attorney General Cocke tiles hit protest against the action of the board in Baker and Clay, and against counting the return from Duval, because this laxt wns in precisely the same fix as the return which they counted from Baker. 'The court reassembles to-morrow, ' when we will know how far itcontridera the action of the board is in compliance wkh its plain mandates. The vacillating conduct of the majority of the board shows that there hak been immense outside pressure for a count for the Hayes electors. Attorney General Cocke, again heirg notified this morning that the board would not recanvass, made a canvass from the returns in the secretary of state's office himself, as ordered by tlie court, and his canvass shows the figures a given above, 477 for Drew and 91 tor Tilden majorities. This canvass he filed 'in tlie clerk 8 oftke as an answer to the court before the board finally agreed to recanvass, " and this gives the only oorreet canvass that can be made from the returns inside the court's instructions. , The- Evening Post says of the Castellnni collection of antiques, now on exhibition iu New York: Most of the works were takea from excavations made in Italy. Among the marbles are head of Apollo, Fers'sus Euripides, Alexander, Psyclie, Sappho and Cupid, some of them in the style of Phidias and Praxiteles.' Among the . bronzes are caskets and toilet articles used by the ancient Etruscan women, who, it seems, knew what rouge boxes are. The ancient Qreck and Italian gold ornament are valuable for the excellence of their workmanship even more than for their intrinsic worth; but tlie larg number and the scholarly arrangement of them enables tlie spectator t read a consecutive history of the goldsmith's art from prehistoric times to the thirteenth century. Sienor Castelktnt's , collection contain tw'enty cases of these personal ornaments, comprising pre-historic . brouxe and amber ornaments from Praeneste, very early silver and plass ornaments from Tarqninia. primitive Etruscan aud Phoenician ornaments, thetwentieth ca--e containing thirty-one decora tions, orders, chvps, fibulas, etc., ot the mic die ages. Cincinnati Commercial: Tbere are toms that the people of Illinois are beco weary of John A. Loiran. ' Now. Lgai a good soldier, but'that is no reason wlj hould persist in being great Am statesman.