Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 28, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1877 — Page 1

A OT1 AH VOL. XXVI, NO 28. INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY MOKNIXG, FEBBTJAÜY WHOLE NO. 1893.

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BY W. 8. P. (Hope and Reality.) I go in re rles oft when life grow lonely. Rack tm youth's endearing scenes, Ami pluck ngula the flowers comely, Kilning walks Hnd tinkling streams. Wl;ov falling petals wl'd winds straying i jtught and paved their runny ways; Where larks snd king birds, still delaying, Blended oft their farewell lays. Or. when in dreams I rove my childhood. Trending binding puths around, Where golden nelds and bursting wildwood. Vernal nature's carpets bound, I rue the hope that led me wandering Kvil power that held tlie guiding rein. It tenches man to loathe his being, U.-nds his breast with restless pain. And memory, loht rniles entreating, Wnken dear transports in my bretii-r; Th-se cheri.-hed hours, too light and fleeting, blissful, pure and bright to last; Full often in those days I wondered What the unseen boon I cnTed, Ere love or hat my heart had plundered, Even then I felt my soul enslaved. I chose no birth, sought nocreation; Life is given steeped In sin: Twouldbo an nnjust arbitration T consign his soul to lasting ruin 1'njitst, and nought but superstition Teaches man to foar eternal pain. When life; was young and suns were streaming softly o'er the p'acid clime, When grief was sleeping, sorrow dremng, Te-p within a bosom home I saw bl ight phantoms flitting round me, lieckoning on, I knew not where. I thought to follow fate had bound me. Blighted all my pathway bare JStill hope's fair flower, soon to wither, Sn,ti to melt tne waiting blast. They've vanished now, I know not whither. Hidden In ti e misty past. I knew not then man by deceiving Won his friendship, love and fame; That words and smiles were but betraying Siironds to shie'd or goad to selfish aim. 1 knew not man's dominion narrow, Irfii through wasting vales of tears; Nor that thick brooding clouds of sorrow Shaded all life's future years; Nor dreamed a throng of guileless prattlers, (Had'ning life with gleeful chimes, fc?ti.uhl grrow to false deceiving tattlers. Sacrificing youth and truth to crime. I knew not all the world was seeming, shielding self with glittering glow. Like shallow streams whetse golden gleaming Hides a serpent In the tide below. Bat crowding years such thouehts have driven Kvile, or entombed within my breast. And on the tablet grim Is written: 1 snored to the happy past." I S Il ASArOLIR, 187. Wtith n for the Punday Sentinel. ED'S WIFE. tV Ml .3. HALL1E A. KAM AO K. 1 gues now, looking back over it all, tha we were the most to blame, but I would not ha acknowledged it then, not for all the money in the village. We were get and fixed in our ways and it seemed as if everything went on all right until Ed brought hid wife hoaie, and then for two years we lived in a quarrel or fuss of some kind all the time. We expec ted, and we had a right to hope, that he would marry one of the good, steady girls that we had known ever since they were children, and who would understand our ways and not come full of new whims and notions to worry and fret the whole household, but somehow we could never get KJ to see the way we did. We educated him well; we could afford to do it for he was the youngest of the family, and all the other boys had died, and we made up our minds when father and mother left him to us that we would do all we could for hiro, and we tried hard. He liked farming but we never gave him a moment's peace till he graduated with honor, and then we thought he would come home and settle down and be a comfort to us for the rest of our lives, but we were sadly mistaken. He kept going back and forth to the city, and at last, one day told us that in a month he was to be married, and he would bring his wife home to live with us. "8be is young and lonely, for she has no family, and that is the very reason I am so anxious to get her out here with you, for she sadly needs rest and quiet She has been teaching music for three years; in fact, until ehe is worn down, and I believe the fresh air and country living will do her good. "Which room can I refurnish?" That was the first thing to make trouble in the family; our house was nice -and neat, and none of it needed refixing just to please a mere chit of agirl, who, by Ed's own talk was young and probably silly. He soon saw that we were displeased, and he let the matter drop, and when we told him to take an npper chamber, all he did was to open the windows and let the sunshine and light in. But he seenied troubled when I spoke sharply to him about "strangers intruding" though he di 1 not say one word. We did not go tu the wedding; I was too stubborn, Rachel was too weak and Hannah dared not go one step unless I did, and so our new sister-in-law came home to us still a straneer. She looked pretty in her delicate drab traveling suit, and her face was very pale as Kd lifted her from the carriage, but she smiled timidly and came up to as to kiss us, but I shook her hand and then turned to Ed to hurry him in to supper. She did not have much to say, and yet she answered all that was asked her, but with -a half fsightened glance as if she was doubtful whether h was best to speak at all. She went to her room earlv pausing at the door to say "good night," and then add in?, "What time do we have break fast?"- Hannah began to tell her that she could rest and wait to be called up, but I spoke up, "Half past five, and everybody La expected to be prompt." She flushed, but

went up stairs without replying. Kd came back and chatted with us for awhile, trying to make us like his bride, and excusing whatever in her appearance or conduct we did not approve. The next morning .she was ready for breakfast, and had her room in order early, and wanted to assist Hannah and me, but I did not want any bothering, and after awhile she stepped away and went out where Kd was busy in the garden, and when I called them in her eyes were red, and I knew she had been crying, most likely telling "her husband" a mess of stuff about his sisters.

In a day or two her piano caiae, and then we had a quarrel sure enough. Ed wanted it put in the parlor, she wanted it put in her own room, and we, or rather I, did not want it anywhere. I believe Rachel would have liked to have had it in the parlor, for she was an invalid and liked music, but I put my foot down, and doarn it stayed, and the piano stood locked in the "spare bed room," w hers it was never seen nor opened. Alice never complained, never remonstrated, but kept getting whiter and thinner, end she ate less than any one I ever saw about as much as her little bird, that was such a nuisance. She worked at something all the time, gradually taking part of Hannah's tasks and mine, until atter awhile whatever was the hardest and most unpleasant thing to do fell to Alice. But she disgusted me with her childish ways, and one day I made free to tell her so. She went to the door as usual with Ed, and, stepping out on the porch, she put her arms around his neck and kissed him. Kissing is all well enough for babies and fathers and mothers, but it provoked me to see a grown woman taking on so over a man when she had been married six -months, and I just talked right out when she came in and Ed was gone. . The tears came to her eyes and fell on her sew ing, but I pretended not to see them, and went on with my lecture. "I never kissed anybody after I was a woman but mother, and then only when she was going traveling. and Ed when he started to college and then came homo. I do not believe a man respects a woman who is always hugging him. I know m j father would not have allowed it. Like as not it makes them despise such a babyish wife." I'll never forget the look on her face as she raised her eves to mine. O! how I wish now I had stopped then and not said any more. but I went on: "Yes, Alice, Ed may. like it for awhile, but you will disgust him before long and then you will be sorry. There is no use in your running after him eveay time he comes and goes; he was never used to it and the novelty will wear off after awhile, and then he will see how silly you are. And you ought to be more womanly, dress more quietly, and fix your hair tip like we fix ours, and in every way remember you are married and ought to be more reserved.'' ! If I had struck her she would not have look more hurt, but she did not answer me at all. And yet, from that day henceforth I never saw her kiss Ed or in any way show him tenderness; she seemed frozen. After awhile he began to drift away from her. He went to the village or the city every week, and though I know she longed to join him, she never said a word or remonstrated at all. He would sit with us and read to us, or talk long after she went tip stairs, and he never seemed in a hurry to follow her or anxiou3 to draw her into conversation. I heard him speak angrily to her when she said timidly she had the headache, and I was sorry then I had ever told him I believed Alice imagined half her aches and pains. We were all strong, firm members of the church, but she was not a professor, and I was angry because Ed had married such a sinner, and he gave her two or three lectures on joining the church, but in that she was firm. "No," she would answer, "I alone will be judged for this, not you. I can not be a hyp ocrite, and profess something I do not real ize." And yet I heard her praying more than once when I would slip in the next room to see w hat-she was about. Ed went off to church with us after this, and Alice stayed at home alone or with Rachel when she was too ill to go. He was cold and reserved to his wife, but he was such a good brother to us, tnd yet somehow I did not enjoy his company; it seemed' as if I was stealing from somebody. She would stand on the porch and look after us as we rode off, or slip quietly into the room where we would be talking. And. yet she never was harsh; never any way but gentle and loving. She got into a way, after the work was done, of going off to her room alone and staying until we went about the next meal, when she was always ready for ber part. She seemed anxious for Ed to praise her work, but after I talked to him about her I never saw him even notice what she was doing. I lach el was geUing weaker every day, and at last we called in the doctor, and he told us she would not live but a few weeks. That was the hardest blow of my life. Father and mother faded away, and we were prepared for their deaths, though they saddened us for months; but this was worse. She was our youngest sister, though ehe was 35, and she was better than we all. She had always had quicker sympathies and a gentler heart, and I thought I would die when the doctor said she would soon be gone. It ws too late for medicine or change of climate, too late for hope; she was doomed. She made us tell her all, and then we watched her hour by hour. She -bright tned up one day, and we moved her into the front room, and let ber sit among Alice'

flowers, and" she held her thin hnnd for the canary bird to perch on and fcintr. Sheenjoyed it all so much, and leughed a little as we talked to her. She was so much better that that night Kd went into the city cm business and left us alone. About midnight saw the change and I called Hannah and started the hired man for the doctor, but ere he came it was all over. Alice came and knelt by the bed, her hair over her shoulders and her face as pale as Rachel's. She clung to the cld hand as if her last friend was leaving her, for Kachel had been kinder than I or Hannah for she was much with her. Once we thought our sister was dead, but again life fluttered on the quivering lips and she opened her' eyes. "iTay for me 'quick," she whispered. I turned to Hannah, but she was terrified. I could not htve spoken to have saved my life. Again, more pleadingly, she gasped, "I'ray for me, prav 'for roe." Amoment's pause and I touche.4 Alice; shecomprchended and began t pray. I have heard men and women, bishops

and ministers. Christians, saints ripe for glory, pray, out never such a praj er as that. It seemed as if the pearly gates swung back and we caught a glimpse of the ransomed there; as if the angels swept low overthe dying to catch the words of that petition. Not only for Rachel did she pray, but for me, for Hannah, and so lovingly for Ed, and then a mournful cry for strength for herself. I knew then how she had suffered. She seemed inspired; her words were like those of the l'salmist, and at the close, gathering Rachel in her arms she, prayed again for the "rod and staff to comfort her in the valley;" and as the last words died away there was a gasp and the two fell back on the pillows. In a little while our neighbors had done the last kindly deeds for our sister, but in the darkened room we watched another who seemed just hovering on the border land of eternity, and when morning dawned we knew Alice would live, but the tender baby life had gone. She-kissed the tiny face once; and then we laid it with the dead in the room beneath. The prayer, the agony of heart that had brought peace to Rachel's soul had blighted the little bud of promise to which we had been so indifferent. Ed was nearly frantic, but Alice seemed only crushed and broken hearted, until after an hour's prayer by the two cold forms I went to her and begged her and Ed to hear me. I told them it was my fault finding that had estranged them, my censures and re-j proaches that had made Alice afraid to boT tender and loving to Ed, and had made hi?.i distrust her affection. And then I told him of her prayer, of her faith, her pi et y, and kneeling by her I begged her forgiveness, for the sake of the sister, for the sake of the babe, to forgive my sin. The then wasted fingers twined aroundy hand and the geni tie pressure drew me to her, and holding me close to her and Ed Alice said faintly, "I am so happy for I have found my trust and sister. I know I was ignorant and childish and I vexed you, but I will try never again to offend. I never had a sister; my mother I never saw; be sister and mother both to me, and in our love for each other we shall treasure the memories of our loved and lost." She was nearly an anel then, and for weeks we thought she too must go. If she had I would have felt like her niurderer,and it seemed to me I never prayed until I be sought God to spare her life. Kd was so penitent, so loving, so gentle that Alice grew happy and bright, and if he had spent all his time kissing her I would have begged him not stop. There are other babies now: yes. Rachel is a winning child of six years, and much Tike her aunt, for whom she is named, but much as I love them all none have been so dear as the little nameless one lying in its coffin bed on the hillside. Ed's wife is our stay and support now. She is our light and life, and I thank God every day that no shadow of those dark days of her wedded life remains now. Warner overreached. London Cable Dispatch to the X. Y. Herald. Herr Wagner intends visiting London during the season, with a view to covering his deficits. Ilia project for a repetition of the trilogy at Baireutn this year is appar ently shelved for the present The first performance or "Uie alkure takes place at Vienna to-morrow, and "thereby hangs a tale." When the rehearsals for last year's festival were over and the performances were within a few days of beginning, and Iiaireuth was lull of people Jauner, the manager of the Vien na Koyal Opera, announced to agner that all musicians and singers who were under engagement at Vienna, and had received permission to take part in the performances at Bairt nth, would be ordered to leave at once, unless Wagner gave him permission to bring out "Die Walküre" in Vienna. Jauner knew that Wagner wanted to confine the performance of his trilogy at least for the next two years to the stage at BaireutLf. He knew also that Wagner had refused the most liberal payment for the right to perform it elsewhere, and that more than 10 German theaters were ready to pay :i0,000 marks apiece for the right of producing "Die Walküre." But all this knowledge seems only to have sharpened his aptitude for sharp practice. Wagner, of course, had no alternative. It was a matter of "Your money or your life!" To liave refused Jauner's demand would have taken a number of musicians out of the orchestra and left the great roU of Brunnhllde, which had been intrusted to Mme. Materna, unfilled, and the trilogy could not have beert performed. An agreement was accordingly signed by which, in return for the privilege of performing "Die Walküre" in ienna, Jauner was bound not to interfere with the wishes of any of his Ingers or musicians who might choose, during their vacation, to take part in the festivals at IJaireuth. Wagner's greatest difficulty in bringing out the trilogy at Iiaireuth thia year, however, lies in his quarrel with King Ludwig.

IXCI.V5IATI CASKIB.4LN.

Ait Honorable nnd a Cieueral XasticMte Ewrti O irrer" Ttininbs. IClncinnatt Enquirer. Thor? wa a finger-chewing tournament in the smoking car of the Loveland aeeoinmodation train, on the liltie Miami railroad, night before last of somewhat suNime proportions, if what passenacTs tell us is corre? t. The chewery were the Hoa, James t. Gordon and Genera! Thomas roweJl, of tis city, and the chewed were the nie partie. It was, in fac, a sort of mutual. sen adjusting society or neli manglers. These two gentle-ten had lken for several days yrcvious engaged as -opponents in a rather exciting suit at law. The cave had been derided by the ourt that day adverse to Mr. Gordon s interest; Jloth vere on their way hoyse to suburban tov?ns. Iovli was passing Gordon iu the aisle of the smoking car, wijn, ju.-'t as they got t jlosite eacii other, ifonlon remarked in a sort of do-you-see-me :ray: "Well, general, you arot the ad-nntage cl me to-day, didn't you'.'' Then the general turned a withering look upon the ex-legislator t'aat was intended to sear if not consume, and said in a Toice 4'. degree below zero: "I don't know you, sir. r Atthis the warlike J am er broke the bridlereins of his lf-possessir?, and before he could get his biceps musc!es under control his right fist had basted the general o:?e behind the ear so forcibly thai the erstwhile towering form of the passiv-comßatant fell across a seat. Something in Gordon's bcoiu was howling, "Jump on Lim; jnnip on him." and he jumped. In an instant he was bending over the reclining Powell, pommeling him with more vigor than discretion. Just as victory appeared ready to drop down and perch upon the Gordon head, the Powell succeeded in getting one of the lingers of his foe between his well preserved incisors and began to grind it up with all the delight a dog takes in a chicken leg. Tlii sudden and unexpected deploy of the enemy's masked forces somewhat changed the plan of the engagement as previously laid out. Gordon has pretty good teetk himself, md he is quick to profit by experience. It wasn't 10 seconds after Powell had taken the first chew of Gordon's finger until Gordon had begun active derations with his mouth all along the line of the General's right indexer. The crunching of bones ami. the tearing of lle.sh for a time filled the atmosphere with a horrible sound. What would have been the result had not the passengers interfered is hard to predict. Some say that the two cannibals would have eaten one another from finger end to boot heel before the train reached the next mile post. It gives us pleasure to ny that this unsavary fea.t of humanity was nipped in the bud. Messrs. Powell and Gordon are two staunch democrats, and in this eight-to-seven age the country can't afford to have democrats consume each other. Let us ha7e peace. ROYALTY IX PTItLIO. 11- Victoria, HI -ring with Diamond, IWniennecl Herself at the Open. Ins of I'arliitmeiit. IL. J. J. 's London Letter to the New York World. And now all is ready. The house is densely packed above stairs and below. Through the oped doors on each side of the throne dazzling figures flitted occasionally across the scene general ollicersin their uniforms, heralds with their tabard?, the out-of-date but striking dress of the yeomen of the guard. Through one of these doors I catch a glimpse of the prince of Wales, and in a few minutes he enters with the princess a fat and rather clumsy-looking man by the side of a delicate but beautiful woman. All the crowd present rise to their feet, and the prince and princess incline their heads slightly towards them. Then the prince ascends the throne and takes his seat in the smaller chair at the Yight hand of his mother's, pulling the end of his mustache the while with a nervous movement. His bulky form completely tills up the char. I notice that he is well nigh as bald as a robin. The princess, pale and very thin, remained below, leaning against the big red box or table called the "woolsack,"' quite alone, and looking rather "lost" and forlorn. The prince beckoned some officer to him (I think Lord Aveland, the lord great chamberlain), and whispered some few words to him. This olPccr went down the steps and whispered to the princess, who presently afterwards sat down on the edge of this niot awkward, though nerhsps dignfied perch," the woolsack. With her back to the audience and her face to the throne, one was almost disposed to think it scant courtesy that she was not, at least, allowed to take a chair. But rule and custom are all potent, and they require that a princess of Wales should sit (if she can) upon a woolsack. I fancy that if she hadsat down fairly upon it her feet would have dangled in the air, and it seemed to me that she merely leaned against it, and was doubtless very glad when the distant sound of trumpets found its way into thefhouse. For this denoted that "the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty," as the court newsman describes her, was on her way to the chamber. In a few moments there slowly entered a long and, to my eyes, a statelj processionpursuivants and heralds in the magnificent costumes of their craft, bright with gold and scarlet, dresses mostquaiut and picturesque, but impossible to describe. Then followed great omcers ot state tne lmne oi mcnmond, the Duke of Norfolk (Earl Marshal), and many more, all bowing low to the throne as they passed, and towards the houae. Then came a lady in a very long dress, iark in color but with lace plentifully scattered over it, and with ribbons and orders and diamonds innumerable upon it. This was the queen. She advanced iu dead silence, took up her position in the chair, aud sat perfectly still while one could have coHnted 10. -Her face, if truth must be spoken, has become very red. I mean bo disrespect when I compare it to the face of a somewhat elderlv cook who has been hard at work over the kitchen fire. But the diamonds upon her head and neck fairly dazzled the. eyt, even in aayngnt, ana no- woader, for she wore the far famed Koh-i-noor as a brooch, a crown of diamonds on her head, and necklaces and other adornments of niatchVess beauty and priceless value. Who could venture to estimate the value of the jewels worn by the queen th's afternoon? They made a bright white light on her dark dress and took off almost all appearance of her being in mourning. Every time she moved rays of prismatic hues seemed to dart from her in all directions Many of thes" diamonds belong to the crown, and perbeps there would be more still to show il the "loot carried off by old George I. to Hanover could be recovered. In a moment or two the hurry and noise of the approaching commons was heard, and

the queen handed a folded paper to the lord chancellor, who unfolded it, saying that her majesty had comma uded him to read her speech in '"her own w ords," and thereupon he read it, plainly and oVtinctly, and yet in ft slightl' affected and pompous manner, somewhat like that of a :hool master addressing his pupils after holidays. It sounded ( odd to hear this gt'nileman ' ay, "My lords and gentlemen, it h with much sitiafaction that I again resort to the ad-

viff ana assistance of my jcrl lament.' Why should not the queen herself hava delivered tier own message to Iter parliament? There she was on the spoU she had Liken the trouble to come, and sorely if sht1 could put on so much of state A3 to ,70 in a gilded carriage th rough t the streets, und array herself f rjtu top to toe in da-n:-onds, !he mischt as well have completed the ceremonial by putting on the royal robvi (which wre hungacroM an arm of herefcair) and1 reading1 her speech. What disrespect to ' tne sale prince conscrt or violence to xrr own feelinps could 'have been done by r discharging to the full all the duties assfgrwi to her by immemorial cttom? But she :t there with hr eyes bent njon the grouni, stolid and indifferent, nor did she once raise her eyes unti? the lcrd chncfcllor had fit ished reading the speech. Then she waited aminutaor tvo, a couple of lords stetted forward ind lif 5ed up her rres. and she de scended Jhe steps of the throne and went straight ta the princes of- Wales, kied her sMghtlya:! turaed her cheek to be kissed. She scarcely smiled. Tien she offered her hnnd to the duke of Cambridge and the duke of Tctk, who stood close bv, and both iM?nt low and kissed it. Lactiv she held her hand to the prince of Waies. who came down a step or two from hi chair rather hurriedly, and took his mother's hand and kissed it. All this had a verv prettv look. speaiing as is did of home affections, which are better than state ceremonials, and it dis pelled the impression which the cold and hfelei s manner oflhe queen could not but create during the quarter of an hour she had been in the hoase. Her majesty bowed very slightly to the house, and tome one clad in the long scarlet robe of a peer,, with three ermine bars signifying that he was an carl. and bearing in his had9 a huge sword the sword of state moved in front of her. and the procession filed out end the prince and princess followed, and the buzz cf conversation began again. 1IATKVN ..OCTIIEKX JPttt-IVY Imprudently Revealeil Ily 111 Orgon At rh Innuipirion Momrst Washington Dispatch to the Chicago Times. The southern men were thrown into a perfect panic this evening upon the arrival of the afternoon mail. It brought fifty marked copies of the Ohio State Journal directed to prominent southern ren. This paper contained a long editorial slating in substance-that the revolutionists in South Carolina and Louisiana had ben played with long enough and that it wa3 the duty of the general government to recognize Chamberlain and Packard and back them up with all the troops required. - As Gen. Comly. editor of this paper. is Gov. Hayes's most intimate friend it was at once supposed that this article was inspired by Hayes, and that it boldly outlined his policy toward the south. There was soon after a gathering of southern demo crats and conservatives at Willard's hotel, where Lamar, Senator Kaaeora, Senator Alcorn, and others met and talked on the situation. There was but one opinion from Lamar down, and that was that if this was Haves's policy he should never be made president. It was then regarded aa of the hrst importance to nnu out how lar i laves was responsible, if at all, for this article. Senator Alcorn was sent as a delegate to talk with Hayes's immediate friends here. He went to call upon Stanlep Matthews, and fmnd hin closeted with Mr. Evarts and Oovernor Dennison. They were holding a consultation upon the verv article in question. Said Mr. Alcorn: 1 have called, gentlemen, in behalf of my southern friends, to see what this means." They all united in reply in declaring that it was possible that Governor Haves was .re sponsible for the article. If lie were it could only mean a foolhardy plunge toward ruin. Governor Dennison said that he had recently received a letter from CJeHeral Comly. and the latter was confined to his room by an acute attack of pneumonia, and that he had not been in his otiice for a week, lo his mind it was clear that it had been written by some irresponsible man about the office. He assured Senator Alcorn tUat be would take occasion by telegraphing to ascertain at once whether this supposition is true or not. With thia assurance Alcorn withdrew and reported to Ir-a associates. Lamar afterward said "this story has been denied for Hayes. hen it is denied by him all will be well. If that is hi? policy, he will never become president." TUR FOLtOWING PISPATCH was received here this evening in answer to an interrogatory addressed to the State Journal people by a gentleman of this city: Gen. Comly has been very sick for a week past. He is not permitted to see or talk to any tie, and your dispatch can not be shown to hju. He is not allowed to read anything that appears in the State Journal. The article in the Journal of Thursday on Louisiana affairs was written by him. (tov. Hayes neither inspired nor saw it, and did r.t hear of it until his attention was called to. it by your dispatch. A. W. Kranc-jmo, Associate Proprietor State Journal. The Kirt Vnnrper. Chicago Times. The game is played out. 0-r elective monarch for the Olympiad begisjung next 4th of March will be a person elected by; a minority of the nation only, and set an against the will of the majority by the effective agencies of fraud. for$ry, bribery, partisan sharp practice. He will be a person not chosen because be was a. trusted leader of his party, but because it 'was believgd he would be a tool ready .to te hand- of its !pularly distrusted leaderv He will be the first of our Olympiad kiksto owe his ap pointment wholly to the ntout loathsome atui leprous political corruption. He will be the first American usurper; -ut a usurper who will be able to say that his usurpation, was rendered possible by tVe extraordinary im becility and conteniptawe poltroonery oi uie party managers who opposed him. A Complete illa&lon. Burlinjton Ilawkeye. The roads are so dry and dusty that a man can stand on the rear platform of a railway train", and in 20 miles feel and look just as dirty and dusty and grimv and miserable as, though he had been to a Sunday -m hool pveme in midsummer. And if he want?, to make the illusion complete, the trair-j boy can sell him enough old candy and sV&le figs and cheap cigars to keep him in ivpensia. or to keep the dyspepsia In hiru, for three months.

A DESPOSiDIXe IXrCVXtfcXT.

A C'irrepotideni Think We Excel la Wt-kJneM lou anrt the Cili-M therialn. To the Editor of tho Htiuel: Sir I have just been lookin- over the p'an for counting the electoral vote, and the oath taken by the members of the commission, that they would impartial examine end consider all question submitted to them, and a true judgment give arreeably to the constitution and the law. DM they do it; There can be but ous honest, rnlcllitrent arrswer given no! The bill- provides that the commission was t decide which was the true and lewful v.Meof each state, which wonld be imssiMe without examination aad evidence, which the eight refused. Was il not perj iry, and a plain violation of the law and justice? No one can read the bill without coming to mis ronciusion. . court created and expressly vested with all the pot?ers of both houses of congress deliberately refused to liear evidence , or to let the facts n the cas be proved. Is this not perjurv? The eight, with their confederates tefl the people " Vou must submit." To what? To fraud and perjury, and be robbed of thtir rianhood, sil quietly accept this indorsement ot fravd from their servants, their representatives in congress? N,iy, verily. It set tu that the lessons we are learning to-da vis that infaaiy is the surest road to fame, and that every pavrng etone in the path to jower and greatness mast be a crime. Wmld it D? any wonder if our young men, after ieingtaugl to lcok upon the eight and their confederates aa the grott'mennf this country, chouhl expate on the gallows an u-seuc-c?8sfnl attempt to imitate the villainies that 1 ve riade them famous? And whilst the people are eorupelri to look tipfoT-ex-anple to such whelps as now fill all the highest place?- in our government, is it sny wonder that the last dim landmarks o religion, niorals, law, cvder aid decency are goinsdovn under or.o universal delug-of wickedness? Such is the stuff of which ihe eight are made. Such ar the men who f-lr-1 ly represent the-sentfTMenf and characters of that marvelcms jx-enle whose coat tails cover more lea-ning jt:id' genius, more uprightness and pioty than can befo-and in cl the world beside. For her offen sfs Nine vrh lifs fenried bc--neath the rubbish of 2.(fi- j-ears-. Kor - her pride 2nd iniquities Bcnylon, the great, i,t -but a dwelling rJace fc? the wild beast of the de:rt, and tire Der.d sea ba. for ages -rolled its solemrt- requiem over the proud cities cf the plain rich, adultencs, lustful Sodom and Gomorrah! To-ton c alj make lewd, blood-stained Nineveh's eyes , stick erst past her ise wilh amazement, r.nd Brooklyn' cold teach lia byIon a thousand trirot pampered1 lust and shamelccv guilt, an i Washington, the capital of our country, in all amnmnatiotu? could strip the belt from 3odor and Gomorrah, and all t'zh would be a faint picture of the condition to-day of :f:i- once gloriicr peaceful and lappy republic. And with such creatures as the eight and :hi ir confederates to furnish precepts 3r.d ex im vies, Tests and will forever rest, the- bis! of a nation destroyed.- May God- and tle peple yet hold them to a strict and terrible account, aad especiaUy O. P: Slorton, a mere link between angeLs- and devils, nly real in his foil .es and sins; an inTention lor feed ing doctors and apothecaries, and in a frhort time a subject for undertaker a grave diggers; a postponed .nnch- for cemetery maggots; the meanent sinner outride of hell; the only oleaginous bein in Africa fit fuel for the names of Tu tu re-damnation. Father of mercies,. Why froraRiletii earth DJdVt thou aw4u And cur) him i-sto blrtiÄ. Onl to die and rotUkeaoog? Before congress -adjourn the people will comprehend the awfil crisis which its folly has been creating, heywill fuy reanze that their mad leader abhor judgment and prevent equity; that like the ha1s of the house of Jaoob and princes of the house of Israel in the daye of 'the probhet li icha, they bnild np Zion with- bood .nd Jerusalem . with iniqr.ity. The äeadj thereof judge for reward and the priests teach ftr hire, and : the prophets divin- for monev. But God . said Zion. shall be plowed as a 4d and Je rusalem shall become heaps, an J in spite ot congressional hypocritical speeies the rale of the wicked will bring mourni-e upon She countrys. 15. T., M. H J.IMF8TCWN, Ind., ieb, la. lion. . GfOTi 9TeSowell Ite :h. Nortbt IadlHiiK Ifrlnowu ISpecl to the Sen'rtel. Michigan City, Feb. 25. JkeHon. George McDowell, steward of the J;rthern Idiana ; prison, died lant night, at Uichian prison, of congestion of the lung. II was at cne time editor and proprietor of the JUuflfton Banner, the elerk cf Wells county -äreuit ourt four years, a representative in the Indima legislature from Adms and tYcIIs in 1S71, and., has twice serted as stewesd of the northern . prifon. He wns about 53 years of age, a . sterling democrat and kind heivted man, leaving many firiends "y.-d a fcjtnily of six, children.. Hk remains are to be taken tchis. borne at Biu&lcai for interment Monday. . What Jwtx Iavia Would Have Jjwpe. IWat&lagUk Letter tne Chicago Journal iP 1 Democrats here, generally led by theirnewspaper are new exclaiming in their disappointment, a'Ai it might haTe been diTeot If Davis, 4 II lino, had cnly beer tle fifth Jmhje. Why wct the Ämocrata so short atghted as to elect him to the scüte and thus virtually exclude him from the commission? But, ia indulging in tbiee keen regrets, o'ir democratic frie-ndd proccsd on a wholly wrong supposition. One- of Judge DaviaV warmes friend., just ftoni Illinois, who, during the past few days, has talked the- whole situation, over ith him, states, taat Jucge Davis wouhi have disappointed the expectations f the democrat i Ind he been on the commission. Not only oere hia sympathies entirely with Mr. Ha, yea, but t expressed a most decided hostility to Governor Tilden. In short, he applied tbe term "imos'o,, tx him. and this friend, vbo is tall tarrying. in New York and is a very decided republican, was very much disappointed that Judge Davis did not become the fifth judge instead of Bradley. It seems all but certain, tnereiore, iron what this friend asserts, that Judge Davis would have been even more decidedly republican in his course, than Judge Bradley has leen. The truth is. the commisiiion, which the democrats were so eager to have created, would have been against thera from the start, no matter who udght be he fifths judge, chosen by lot or otherwise, "