Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 January 1877 — Page 2

TIIE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING. JANTJABY 24, 1877

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24.

ei.ator-Stieijrlit want to settle the whole eved que-tiou with one comprehensive enactment repealing all laws in force authorn'i cities, towns or townships to vote aid to rail road or other private enterprises. The state institutions are taking their turn in being investigated. Resolutions have been adopted by the senate looking to the determining of the amount expended on the new hospital building for the insane; and various questions of expense and details of management in the hospital for the dtraf and dumb. The aomewhat loose practice of issuing city warrants when there are no available f tnidv to pay them has caused considerable trouble in Indianapolis, as in other cities of the Mate. Senator Dykeman introduced a bill yesterday prohibiting the drawing of warrant when the auditor is aware that there is no money in the treasury. WHO ARE THE TAX-PATEHS? The discussion of taxation seems to heatwave in order, though there are special seasons when the epidemic of "tax talk" raes with more than usual violence and virulence. It may be laid down as an axiomatic proportion that taxation underlies progress, and is not therefore to be regarded or treated as a calamity. We conclude from our general readings that it is not taxation that just now so much interests the people, or that warrants the extended discussions upon that and collateral subjects. Or. the contrary, the conclusion is justified that the trouble comes from a different source. The judicious a,nd honest expenditure of money raised by taxation is the urgent demand. The enterprises that are brought to the attention of communities, demanding money, are numerous; in soiue instances perhaps tqo numerous, but as a general thing moit of them will bear the severest scrutiny and stand approved. A city demands good streets, properly graded and paved. These cost money, and call for taxation. Next there is a demand for liht, water, etc. The progress of tlie city, it? growth in business, population and wealth make these enterprises absolutely necessary. Prudent men see thb, and there is no contention ataiut the propriety of levying taxes to pay the bills. Rut in regard to disbursements, there is generally well founded complaint. It is a miserable apology for bad tccount keeping, the injudicious deselection of men as the custodians of the people's money, to intimate that taxation is ruinous because, forsooth, men who are not ' property holders exercised their right to vote, and this fact brings into the sharpest prominence the question. Who are the tax-payers? "Only property owners," says one. By no means, we respond. That superficial idea was long since ex ploded. In Indiana all nan are required to rav a doII tax. rich and poor alike. This x ' is the equalizing theory of the law. Rut beyond this, the theory is that only property is taxed. The proposition, however, when subjected to an analysis in the crucible of nolitical economy, is found to be erw runeous and vicious. A owns a house. B occupies it and pays his rent The rent takes into consideration value of the property, insurance, taxes, wear and decay, and ß pays his full share, The fact is mathematically demonstrated a:id has long since been incorporated into the best w orks'.of men of thought. We could extend this reasoning indefinitely, but it wonld only be an effort to make more, clear a Belf-evident proposition. We conclude, therefore, that all men are tax-payers and have a right to vote upon all questions that directly or indirectly affect the soc ial, political or material interests of a community or state. It is the grand demo cratic level as opposed to the depths of deg radation that, under autocratic and kir.irlv rule. reco-rr.'ized the rights of 3 Turin only through large estates, no matter how they were acquired an erTort in . these laUer days to inaugurate cats in society, in which those who, whatever their importance to community, their intelligence, culture and brain power, shall Lave no right to a vote in levying taxef . T Iiis, we conclude, is the theory of the Jour nal of this city. It discusses at some length the municiial indebtedness of the state for various pur port's and estimates the amount at $20,000, (jOu, bearing interest at nine per cent ?ivin an annual interest indebtedness c- o of t.H00,0o0. The Journal takes stron ejunds against legislation that permits the people to expend their money for Blich im provements as they may deeui prudent and advisable, and adds, "There is neither ju Vice hor equity in this legislation. By one 'law it is provided that counties or town'jhips may make donations to railroads to the amount of two per cent of their taxable property on a vote of a majority of the 'legal voters of such township or county This leaves tt in the hands of men not own 'ing one dollar's worth of property, and pay'inz no taxes, to vote a tax upon the resident 'propertyholders that may be the, means of absolutely robbing them of their projerty There is no justice in this." It will be seen that the Journal knows ot a class of men, the constituents of "the present intelligent legislature," who aro not tax-navers and' whose vote are iniiiatSi-e tn some other class. .',,a nrn thi da it throws the odium of the ?) 000 000 municipal indebtedness. It a4. .nit the Journal to tell this " intelli,oiJatht h!iv. caused suchTinancial disasters to the state, and it may deem it rradcatto point oat la just what regard'

these men who are not the owners of property have subjected the state to financial dis

asters. If the Journal's theory is correct, the peo ple of Indiana would be glad to take the $20,000,000 of indebtedness and permit the railroads to be torn up and destroyed. Cities would be willing to abandon every improvement that has made them great and prosper ous, and go back to primitive poverty. We conclude that the Journal would have . . a. i 1 1 TV ST l : a dimcuit ioo on us uanas. ivauicausiu during its infamous rule has, in a great measure, destroyed all the landmarks of honest administration of the fiscal auairs of the country. What is wanted now is not laws to arrest progress or to prevent the peo ple from making such improvements as re quire municipal indorsement, but to enact such laws as shall make the custodians of public moneys give faithful accounts of their stewardship and stop peculation. JtEPl'BLICAX SENATORS. A"d we stat no-v, for the benent ofthow lacking the information until this moment. that there U not a possibility tliattlie repub lican senate will consent, unaer any circumstances, to the rejection of Hie regularly certified electoral votes of Florida or Louisiana. Cincinnati Commercial. We are not advised as to the extent or character of the information ssessed by the Commercial, which enables it to speak with such marked positiveness upon a sub ject of Mich recognized imjortance. According to the Commercial the republican members of the United States senate will, under no circumstances, no matter what facts are disclosed, relax their grasp n Florida and Louisiana. In the interest of party republican senators will indorse fraud, and if iossiblc, in defiance of truth, justice, law and the will of the people, inaugurate Hayes. The infa mous frauds perpetrated in Louisiana by the returning board arc repulsively hideous. There is in them a deliberate devilishness that startles honest men of all parties. They can not be excused or mouthed, and only the most depraved men can be found to uphold them. To assume that the republican members will recognize and defend these frauds is to say, in effect, that they are in all regards scoundrels as des perate and as despicable as the villainous crew who, in defiance of the sovereign will of Louisiana, gave the electoral vote to Hayes, notwithstanding Tilden's ma jority was more than jeight thousand. While such infernal scoundrelism is being approved by the venal organs of the radical party, and while they are proclaiming to the world that the senate will not "under any circumstances consent to the rejection" of illegal votes, it is ass'mied that those who favor a fair count and insist upon it ft are anxious tor war. u we are to believe the Cincinnati Commercial the programme of the radical party is fully decided. upon, and that it is the intention to compel the American people to acquiesce in the triumph of perjury, and remain silent while their rights and liberties are being wrested from them. But these conspirators are exhibiting a profound ignorance of the spirit of the . i.-ople, they are overestimating their ability to accomplish their purpose. We are inclined to the opinion that all the republican sena tors are not as inflexibly in favor of rascality as the Commercial intimates, and that among their number there will be found not a few in whom the patriot is stronger than the partisan, and that the greatest villainy of this or any other century will receive its death blow at their hands. In this, however, we may be mistaken. The Commercial's estimate of the' republican senators may be correct Still we are of the opinion that fraud will not triumph; that perjury will not be permitted to sit in the high places of truth; that four returning board despera does will not reverse the will of the people of the country, and that the conspirators will ascertain by experience that now, as hitherto, honesty is the best policy. If, as the Commercial intimates, republi can senators have determined to accept the frauds committed in Florida and Louisiana as the basis of their future action, then the issue is squarely made, and the country may shudderingly contemplate develop ments. The Missouri legislature has taken action upon the subject. Among he joint concurrent resolutions offered in the house of representatives on the 11th inst., we find the following: ItpKolved. That Missouri views with alarm and apprehension the many recently reported ca-u-s of violent lniraciious oi uit cousiuiuion and Usurpation of power Dy tnose cioinea with tne administration of eovernmeiU, iu countenancing and encouraging the utterdisregard of law by unscrupulous returning bourds, composed of politicul mountebank nnil rhariictt-rless adventurers in three of the sovereign states of this union, In attempting to reverse the uonesi decision oi wie peupie hi the ballot-box, and defeat their will by install ing in oltlce men who were repuuiaiea oy large majorities at the election held Novem ber", INTO. Kesolved, That tue lacu acquiescence in u rnn? dolus is hIiiidIv encouragement to fur ther lawlessness, and we can not remain silent and idle spectators to the progress of event in our sister states of the south, by which their state governments have been ovirrnrown, and people not of their own choosing installed in oftVe by fraud, upheld, counte nanced and sustained by the military arm or theKOvernment. " , . Hesolved, That Missouri, unfaltering in her allegiance to the constitution of the United State, will not suDmu 10 any loiuuonn oi thatRHored instrument, without, through her leaally lected representatives, entering a aoiemn protest. . Kesoiveu, liiai nmuuci j. iuuch, ui -.rw York, and Thoma A. Hendricks, of Iudlana, were duty elecu-d president and vice president of these United Htates, at the election held November 7, 1ST, having received a large and undisputed majority of the p pular vote, as we.l as u fair majority of the electoral vote, and we demand their peaceful inauguration ou the Gth day of March uext. Other states have spoken and there are others still thatjwill demand! a fair count and the recognition of honesty instead of fraud. It may be that republican senators will remain inflexible in their advocacy of frauJ.but above republican senators stands the people and before the contemplated infamr is fully consummated they will peak, wl.atiamore thev will be heard. In the choice of rulers their will is supreme Having declared it, conspirators will not be permitted to reverse their lee.

TIIE LAST KICK OF RADICALISM,

Those who are at all familiar with the policy of the New York Times need not be toldthat it is the most blatant organ of fraud and perjury in the entire country. It has advocated every act of acoundrelism that the radical party has committed, and Ras been the apologist of every species of partisan villainy. It is not strange, therefore, that a paper of its antecedents should make war upon the ballot and seek, in the Interest of fraud, to deprive fie laboring man of his elective franchise. Nor is it strange that radical orghus generally advocate this same vicious theory. Their tory ancestors had a fondness for aristocratic ways and a deep seated prejudice against men who were not born w ith a silver spoon in their mouths. The radical proposition which the Times advocates, and the Journal of this city as well, is to take the ballot from the liands of poor men, and by legal enactment revive the old Roman idea in its most odious form, by creating distinct classed patrician and plebeian; the one powerful and the other weak, one honored and the other disgraced; and this move is advocated upon the "hypo thesis that economy in the expenditure of public money demands it. The Times, in its advocacy of the change from citi.enV:iip to serfdom, says that '"the 'idea of a representation of property in some 'department of the city government, so long 'advocated by this" journal, is meeting with 'unexpected, welcome. No one who proposes 'a radical improvement or change in 'our political machinery expects even 'a hearing for a considerable period." The claim is set up that the municipal indebtedness of the country has been brought about by manhood voting a proposition both false and vicious, a statement that can not be maintained by facts, and a theory, in all regards, in strict conso nance with radical tendencies, which has always been to make the rich richer and the poor poorer. Ixk at the progress radicalism has made in this direction during the last fifteen years. The land is filled with idleness and want and poverty. Rut the votaries of radicalism ("rant, Morton, Robeson et I. are rolling in wealth. The people com plain, and hence it is the policy of the radi cal party to deprive them of power, to wrest from their grasp the ballot first to steal their money, deprive them of the means of livelihood, and then disgrace them by re ducing them to a condition of .serfdom. The people have had about enough of such "improvements" as the radical party can bestow, and the Times speaks considerately when it says that it requires a "considerable 'period" to reconcile the people to its policy. The radical party has made its record. It is the party of corruption, of fraud, of plunder and of usurpations. It has demonstrated to the world that it has no regard for constitu tions, law, justice or truth. In all of these regards its record is monumental, and now its organs advocate a revolution by overthrowing the inalienable rights of the people in passing laws permitting only property holders to vote. Failing in this these radical organs would centralize power some where, and the party professing to be as honest as it is known to be corrupt, hides its hideous deformities under the plea of economy. There is not a department of the government the radical party has not debauched, there has been no fund so sacred as to secure it from thieving greed.and no crime in the calendar, when committed by its favorites, that it has not stood ready to whitewash. We conclude that it is too early for radicalism to inflict upon Indiana the burning disgrace of depriving the non propertyholders of the state of the dignity of citizenship as broad as that which at taches to any other class. TIIE RII.I, TO COCXT TIIE TORAL VOTES. ELEO The most important act of the present congress was the joint conference bill sub mitted to both houses yesterday, the full text of which appears in the Sentinel to-day. From the day that Zach Chandler tele graphed Governor Stearns, of Florida, that the vote of that state must be counted for Hayes until tlie present time.the radical press and the radical leaders have declared that

WWu..w..6 7vrVV:7",7;KadicaI senate, as at present constituted, to vote was vested exclusively in the president tl . W1L ' Neverlthele3S it ia what tLe

of the senate. They knew that this was the onlv nlan whereby the counting in ot Hayes could be assured ; consequently they would i:etpn ti no other. It availed nothing to . ix..i iu t,Ä TTni snow mem mai ujc tu.iainunwu ted States never contemplated such an exereise of power on the part of the president of thc senate, ami that the uniform practice of . . j. over eighty years was against its exercise They clung to the heresy with the tenacity of a radical officeholder to his ierquisites, or a southern carpet-bagger to rascality. But the bill reported to congress, dnd which was agreed to by all the members of the joint committee with the exception of Morton, places the counting and declaring of the vote into other hands than those of the vice president. This act of the joint committee is a confession' of the illegality of the plan advocated by Morton and his co-conspirators, and an indorsement of that supported by the democracy and conservative people of the country For over eighty years congress ha3 exer cised the power of counting the electoral votes and determining who had been elected president and vice president, and we think it is yet equal to the task. It seems to us to r nnneeessarv to create a commission to be composed in part members of either national legislature to the tieople elected of persons not branch of the determine whom last November, and while we are hopeful that an amicable solution of one of the most difficult prob lems that way everubmitted to a delibera Knslv noar At hand, there are some features in the plan proposed by the Joint committee well calculated to arouse apprchensions. It is to be hoped that the comulite' liberations, the fruits of

which are to be seen in the bill

submitted to'congress, will result in the complete defeat of the fraudulent purposes of conspirators and vindicate the majesty of the expressed will of the people and the dignity of the ballot-box. We are quite free to admit that' Morton's hostility to the plan agreed uion by the committee is prmm facie evidence of its merits, but we prefer to analyze the provis ions of the bill somewhat more carefully before giving them our unqualified indorsement, though we are quite willing to admit that under all the circumstances the labors of the committee more tnan realize the ex pectations of the most sanguine. Murat md Kliza will start on a lecturing tour about fly time. Eliza, in addition to her forensic displays, will give lessons in buzzsaw )ulldozing. IN MEMORIAM. A tribute to the memory of John'Hnndrlcks, youngest brother of (overnor T. A. HenUrickH) who died iu Delphi, January 4, 1ST7, in wie win year oi ms age. Remembrance hath not a sweeter or more sad retrospection than the sweet memory beils of words ot cheer and encouragement to the sorrowing and despondent from the voice now hushed forever, and the eyes that beamed so kindly upon each and all now sealed in death. Too much can not be said to portrav the noble traits in the character of this noble man, yet what could more forcibly let us into the deep recesses of his feelings with an unerring certainty than the respect and high value in which he held the female sex as the friends, the companions and the equals of man. I do not mean to refer to the courtesy the delicate kindness with which he was accustomed to treat the sex, but rather to the unaffected respect with which he spoke of their ac complishments, their talents, their virtues and their excellencies. The scoff and leers of the morose, the bitter taunts of satirists and the lighter ridicule of the witty so profusely and often so ungenerously poured out upon the transient lollies and fashions found no sympathy in Lis boscm. He was still farther above the commonplace flatterers by which frivolity seeks to admin ister aliment to personal vanity or vice to make its approaches to lesser purposes. He spoke to the sex when present as he spoke of them when absent in language of just ap peal to their understandings, their tastes and their sympathies. He paid voluntary homage to their exouisite perception ot moral and religious sentiments, their natur al devoted ness and their uncomplaining sac rifices, their fearlessness in duty, their buoy aney in hope, their courage in despair, their love which triumphs most when most pressed by dangers and difficulties which reaches by the coucn of sickness and smoothes the bed of death and smiles even in the agonies of its own suffering. Such was the principal characteristic cf this noble man. In his death woman has lost a de voted friend and faithful counselor. e can only mingle tear with tear with those whose loss is his eternal gain. Mrs. xloklxce Lvans. January 12, 1S77. PRESS OPIXIOX. New York World: If the president did not intend by his incoherent and mischiev ous dispatch of Sunday night, sent to Gen1 4 iivii 4it MuSnltara a 1 1 wi rr in Vow I Orleans between the United States troops and the people of that most unfortunate citv, it is diDicult to see what he did mean by iL Cincinnati Enquirer. Instead of having a cabinet otticer to manase the campaign of us party hereafter, the president of the United States should be called on to exer eise the functions of chairman of the nation al executive committee. The power of the government could thus be better employed m bulldozing the country. Buffalo Courier: Who could have believed two years ago, when Mr. Wheelerdenounced and reversed the action of the infamous re turning board, that he hituself would now be willing to accept from it an exalted of hce, and that there. would be louna even a C residential candidate w illing to take the ighest office in the nation from the same disreputable hands: New York Tribune: Were the people of Santo Domingo better informed ou Amen can politics they would not have been greatly excited by President Grant's regret that his annexation scheme "met with the united opposition of one political party in the senate, and with a strong opposition from the other." Although President Baez, who was willing to retire in our favor, is again in power, no one feels incited to re new negotiations. Harrisbure Tost: The house committee on appropriations at Washington report the legislative, executive and judicial appropria- . . i e a tion bill to-day. A reduction oi ten per ceni. in salaries is proposed for officials ot every class throHghout the country. It is not ex pected that there is virtue enough in the COuntry demands and what it is coming to as soon as the democrats outain control ot me I government.New York Herald: Should both houses treat the electoral perplexities as party -.;K;i;t o m . lan of tine the vote. Any plan that concedes to either house the summary power oi ausoiuieiy exciuumg iue votes of anv state eives to one party or the 1 electing its candidate, an(i the result will be known before the I counting begins, tor this reason no plan that does not leave both tarues in some doubt as to the result is likely to be adopted. Brooklyn Eagle: These three incidents are leading ones in the comedy of errors to which carpetbaggery has tiescenaeu. ine verbal exchanges of fish-wives are dignfied hv enmnarison with the conduct Ot the "governors" and "legislatures wnonr uayo--.j , .... ... ,, , . neta made and prop up. iue court experi ence of Sancho Panza seems serious and the perfection of the etiquette of statesmanship, when out in contrast with the "style ot Chamberlain and Packard. Yet it is a sys tem of unparalleled mountebankism like this which the federal government sustains and which is relied upon to pass and connrm the title to the presidency. nat ao our republican readers think of carpetbaggery in iiH last estater Philadelnhia Times: Thoughtful and lawrespecting people can have no word but of emnbatic condemnation for the" duel which . ----j ... ... J II!.. is tbe last, and, to the scanaai loving puunc, the most interesting incident of the Ben nett-May Beusation. So far as the voune men who participated in the afi'üir are concerned. it matters verv little to mankind whether they shoot each other or not: their death would not check the world in its revolutions. But society is interested to the extent of exacting that life shall not be rated at so low; a I PJce. wnether they ricu or voor ignorant or educated, and whatever may their poei1 tioa iu the social scale.

A TUAüRO?!EY OF TIIE TIMES.

IIIattrattve of the Political Situation from m Radical Standpoint. Parties present: Morton. Chandler. Boutwell, Logan , Sherman. Blaine. Western Edi tors. Place: Washington Cltv. Time: January. 1877. Chandler Take seats, gentlemen, all. Boutwell Bad! this election of Tilden and Hendricks. Morton Yes, but we must try and bulluoze em out oi it, some wav or other. I a . . m don't care so much about Tilden, but that u t torn llendncks is what eets me down. Chandler Cheer up all. We can swindle 'em so slick and easy they won't.know what hurt em. 1 had tlie whole thing set un on 'em, but these infernal nosing congressional committees will upset everything. ' Then there is Barlow: he's another tender kid with a conscience; he saw how these Florida heads were blundering, and couldn't keep it to himself. Chandler interrupted by knocks at the door.r Colored servant Da s fo cerumen at de uoan. Chandler Who are thev. vou black ras cal.' bend in their cards. Servant Dcy say deyöon't carry cards. Chandler Well, what are their names? iN?rvant Dey say dey am de editors ob de Cincinnati Gazette and Commercial, and ingenapolis Journal and News. Chandler Let them all in but the editor of the News. Editor News (through the door crack) I supported Hayes, I Morton I n Hayes: this caucus ain t for Hayes. You've gone back on the returning boards. I Sherman Anybody that goes back on the returning board can't come in. Morton ou cant come in; shut him out Balance enter.! Chandler Take seats. How's western sentiment? Ed. Gazette Well, it is hard work mak ing our people believe that we are not swind ling Tilden out of his election; still we are doing it gradually. That infernal rascal Anderson. of the Louisiana returning board, was in iown a iew uays ago ana l snow ea Dim au i the attention I could, on the sly. v e took several drinks together and I tried to shake him off on Halstead, but he was away set ting up a job on Tilden, tstill I got rid of him in good shape. He only took ten drinks. Chandler Mr. Halstead, how does the thing look to you? Halstead 1 ve had such a h 1 of a time with the Enquirer, that national matters have had the go-by in my paper, but we are making up fast. We have some of the old campaign lies under wav again. We had the old Terre Haute and Alton $:W0,000.lie out again on Mr. lüden only a few days ago. and Ed. Journal We're bulldozed Halstead And-as I was remarking, yes, starting up some of the old campaign lies; but the best card we had was Lliza l inkston and the buzz-saw Ed. Journal We're b , we're bulldozing 'era out in our state Halstead Don't say bulldoze any more. Every ragged boy in Cincinnati is using that word. Even the Gazette has begun it. Chandler Well, gentlemen, let's- have another drink. Here's to the returning boards and the pay bulldozers of Louisiana. All drink, standing, and sing in chorus: "0! we're the gayest bulldozers, etc., etc."! As soon as quiet is restored Senator Slierman speaks: B. Well, what can we do now to cut Tilden's throat' T 'r. Losran We might have played that presi dent of the senate game on them if we had kept our mouths shut last winter, but we are all on record now as "lorenenst it. Morton Oh! d n the record. Tell the people that the "logic of events" dries up records. We're playin' for high stakes now and records must take care of them selves. I have no trouble in getting rid of mine. Chandler Yes. d n frecords. Come, boys, let's have a drink (holding a bottle in his handl. Here's some prime whisky. Ben Butler got into some old chap's cellar in New Orleans and stole all he could of this brand 177G and cave me several bottles. Ben don't drink; he like's to get other folks tight. All drink. Chandler Now, gentlemen, biz is biz. All Well. Zach. what is vour plan? Chandler Well, gentlemen, when the day to count comes, send into the house of repre sentatives, tell them tocome into the senate chamber and Boutwell Yes; but the custom tor years has been for the senate to go into the cham ber of the house of representatives. Jesides. the senate can't accommodate Chandler L) n the custom; ana as ior th mom not Imidin? them, iust make them stand up on the floor, put them in the lobBoutwell W hv? Chandler You eoat: don't you anticipate my plan enough to see that we must have a "bust-up," and when the "bust" comes, one house or the other will have to do the going out, and whichever does it, that is revolutionary tor them. Jo; get em in tue senate chamber and begin raising hell as soon as you can. Iiet them do the "going out." uoutweii-v old buccaneer Boutwell ell, zach, you are a surewu Chandler Well now, our president of the senate Ferry- or perhaps he ain t got the sand; then Morton, he's the best bulldozer we've got, calls the boys to order, opens the certihcates, counts tne voies ana iue must be d d quick about it too) declares Hayes elected and All Hold on now! Boutwell Suppose Hewitt or Sam Cox beeins to obiect. Chandler Throttle 'em, declare em oui . .. i x of order. Sherman Yes! but Loiran That will raise the devil sure. Chandler Let It. That's lust what we want, we've been doing that right along. Blaine That will drive them to their own chamber, and thev will elect Tilden. Chandler It m do it. Grant or Don Cnmeron will arrest the whole concern Morton and I "set it up" with lirant and Hon IL all riirht fwinkincl. Morton ' es, and we've got another plan, if that won't work. All Tpt' hear Morton PI T Arrr lnt'a 11 IaIt drink lUBimici a V'J t " ... firt Morton's awful long winded when he gets a going. All drink excep the editor f the Indianapolis journaij. Mnrtnn Mv new nlan has this advantage, it gets rid of both Tilden tnd Hayes, and between us all here now.on the aquare, I am a. little afraid of Haves. He belongs to thftt large class of republicans who make great pretentions to honesty and respectability, and w ho are just as big rasals as any f U3 i.ro it won't want to fraternise with such fallows as Zach here ani Jim Blaine and Jar V lean or nivself. He and his set exrut 11 to do all the dirtv work, count in -i .n4 than vKn it SSPeto5i.mpt3b; cabinet will .. u K. r-a t.1io tn nch milksona W .. . A. -V 1 as Ben Bristow, or that Connecticut Yankee, Woll nr that d tl near sighted uuicnman Carl Schurz. We will be all kicked out as Ml .e as . Chandler Not by a d d sight T vi can Not if the court knows herself Jim Blaine Not if we've heard from -..., n, A w!th ' Morton-Thats the time o day with,

Hayes and them "reform within the party" fellows. They can't have that unless they kick us out. f Whispering "That's confiden

tial." And now I've cot a plan that will cook their goose for 'em. All Hear: Hear! Bully for you! Morton Of course we waut to keep these prying press correspondents quiet. , e want to tell them we are consulting every day, with the prospect of reaching a patriotic . Logan Ha! ha! Excuse me, Morton, but you do loolc too d d funny for any use when yon try to say patriotic. Go on, go on. IIa! ha! Morton (smiling) Well, as I was saving, we must keep these nosing correspondents irom Unding out what we re after. Tell them we've cot an admirable plan about completed, fool them, lie to them. When the two houses come together we will yield every preliminary, unimportant point. Give them everything until we come to talk about the doubtful states, then yield noth ing. Begin to kill time, debate every poinl. Lot, nothing be decided. Bulldoze them in this way until the 4th of March. There will be no president: Grant's time is out; We'll elect Ferry vice president, who, in a failure to elect a successor to Grant, will be president. That gets us rid of Tilden, Hayes and -Grant. The house of representatives will be dead on the 4th of March, played out If Grant's time is absolutely out and he can't hold over for even one day, then Don Cameron w ill have the army close in around the oapitol, and he will proclaim terry president. Then we ll have things our own way for four years more. Chandler 1 es; and we 11 just have a h I of a time. Morton will be secretary of state. .Logan secretary of war, Blaine of the navy. and I guess I'll take the treasury. Logan ies, Zach, you 11 take it lor a tact, and never bring it back Again; ha, ha! Chandler ell, I d like to know whether I ain't entitled to it; if it had not been for me and tlie returning board, where do you think you fellows would be now? Gentlemen, this caucus stands adjourned. Tell the press correspondents that we ve been consulting on a patriotic (?) plan to count me voies. TIIE STATE. binall-pox has broken out at Union City. Fort Wayne is bragging over having 27 drug stores. There ie l'i prisoners confined in the Clark county jail. Logansport is doing away with her fire steamers altogether. Pneumonia is prevailing to an alarming extent at Henrvville.

The Black Hills excitement is waking up -K

again at South Bend. f

A terrible scandal will shortly be devel '

oped in ltushville, says an exchange. I The resources of the three national banks i of New Albany amount to $1.433,022.72. I Parties in New Albanv have just made a large shipment of mules to the West Indies. V

A high toned divorce suit will come off at V

the next term of the Fayette county circuit j

court I

The Florida fever has set in airain at Terre I

iiaute. some parties iais oi leaving mat burgh at once.

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Burglars are having things their own way at I.afayette. A $-Tu0 burglary took place there feunday night. Tbe railroad men of Fort Wayne are having a raid made on them by the pastors of 1 liiai(Ul UlUC Illing. Nine hundred dollars is the amount it cost a young blood of Terre Iiaute the other night to "light the tiger." The Ledeer-Standard pays that New Al bany has .the smallest delinquent list of any citv of her size in the state. A new bank is talked of at Cambridge City for the benefit of the poor. Such an institution would be quite a novelty. A vounjr man named Ed Keller was drowned at New Albany Monday while attempting to cross the river on the ice. Terre Iiaute Gazette: T. E. Knox has abandoned his prosecution of the contested election case against Senator Dorham. The river at Jeffersonville is full of coal barzes. rafts and model barges, which have been carried away by the ice gorge from points above. The Terre Haute Gazette goes for the en gineer of their water works in rather a harsh wav one day and the next smooths it over in honey and molasses style. Elkhart Review : Some angels opened the prison door of John Foutz, the South Bend evangelist, and he went forth, the Lord knews where, ana tne onicers aon t care. Next Reese Voorhees. son of the Hon. I). W. Voorhees, has abandoned his study of pharmacy in Philadelphia, and is now in Washington studying for the profession of a physician and surgeon. JefTersonville News: There is one thing the legislature ought to do, and that is appropriate $118, 000 to pay the debts of the state prison south. The people here have been carrying this forced loan long enough. Richmond Palladium: Some idea of the business done at the Richmond post office may be formed from the statement that during yesterday 1,620 letters and 500 circulars -n enveiones were mailed here, in addition to ul carda to oi.) postal This is the way the Connersville Examiner .. . - . . i -,i warns that women oi vne morai mage; "If some women we could naim, who per sist in running after certain men, snouia wake up some morning and find their clothes 1 1 il Li w...lni., 1 ' too smaii, mey ougui uou iu ivnipuni. Tlie libel suit of the Rev. Barr vs. the Ideer-Standard. of New Albany, for ?23.000 damages, was decided at Salem on the 12th instant, and the jury returned a verdict of $100 for plaintiff. Mr. Barrs character was damaged $24,0 less than he supposed. Sensible jury. In three months the police of Lafayette bave lodged 1.10(1 tramps. They pasa the

Bigni in a room i-t icri, juair, ij ug i ular rows on the floor. The stench can J scarcely be c-adured. At times there are as y many as thirty-five or forty of them. Xoe are willing to work for their daily bread.

1 a r . 1 1 ... n st 1 i rw 1 1 rMT. Ttia ivn Indian rifk I jttle and B'u Indian Bine river, and all tie creeks aroundt and about New Albany, are at flood hightA pourineout torrents of water and doing w great damage to fences, outstanding erops, bridges, meadows, and hay and grain

stacked in the lowianos. ine loss iiii iau i heavily upon tho farmers. I

Decatur was visited by a large fire on I Monday niph. Fo terrible was the conflgara J tion that Fort Wayne was called on for tho I

aid of its fire department, but wing to a fire being in progress in that city it was iraI Tra&ihle for the poesible for the Fort a,vne faremen to fcaVe The following is a list of the b 1 ines destroyed and the losses: K lagars store in which the fire was first discovered.

was destroyed, loss $1,000; Byraniiv vtomp son. grocery store, loss $2,.r)00; J. WelHery SiOOO: F. Shater fc Bro.. loss $l.00O: 11

Stndabaker. loss $1.500: A. Bart hoi, loss -V

$2,fHX); J. K. Bobo, loss s00; S. Flogs, loss $500. The total loss is estimated at $16.000, jStnr lccatur. which is very heavy lor a town vac w ot