Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 May 1877 — Page 2

THE. INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, "WEDNESDAY MORNING. MAY 9. 1877

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 9. RrssiA is of tbe opinion tnat she is acting according to the wishes of Enrope. It is not so, but Europe hasn't courage enough to deny it. : Forxiy's Press thinks that southern democrats are behaving better than their northern brethren. Possibly Che troops are to move northward. The radicals of Maine evidently think "Jim" a statesman still. They have elected him chairman of the radical state committee far the eighth time. We say "Jira." Everybody knows "Jim," so we need not add that his last name is Blaine. Jim Blaixk, Chandler, Log3n, Anderson, Cameron and others "made" Hayes president by fraud. Hayes treacherously deserts them, and seeks to weaken their influence and degrade them. Cut we suspect that there is "blood on the moon" for Hayes. Jim Blaine b marshaling his forces for a terrible struggle, and all the simon pure, original "Jacob Townsend radicals will probably aid him. "Republicans say the colored people are 'treated better than ever." So says a Washington dispatch concerning New Orleans colored people. This will be the talk until the next election. Then we will begin to hear of Hamburg "massacres" and Coushatta "outrages' ad nautf.am. The northern heart will need to be "fired" once again. The "fruits of th4 war" will have to be looked after and carefully garnered. Grant has been visiting in New Jersey. He poured out his soul thus to a reporter: "Lee and his coadjHtors had given him 'trouble, but tbey were avowed and open 'enemies whom he could fight It was different since then. He had enemies in late 'years whom he could not so easily fight." "We wonder to whom he alluded. Was it Bristow, or tbe wicked Blaine, or perhaps it was Pratt, or Yaryan, or Marshall Jewell of Connecticut? - The whisky rings did not give him any annoyance until they got into trouble themselves. Babcock, too, must have annoyed him. "He could not easily fight" him, to use Lis own language. We are glad to note that the ex-president is looking healthier, and that he has gained a good deal of flesh since he left Washington. Th southern democrats are proposing the name of Mr. Goodeof Virginia, as their immediate candidate left speaker of the next house; that is, for the consideration of the democratic caucus. The extra session of congress will convene in June, perhaps as early as the 4th, not later than the 15th. Today, it is said, the matter will be decided by the cabinet Regarding the speakership, the. radicals will endeavor to divide the. democrats in their selection, but We have no doubt they will be iöiy disappointed. Of course the Wist would prefer probatly Mr. Morrison, of Illinois, but Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, or Mr. Goode, of Virginia, would not be objectionable. Mr. Hayes will not obtain any very strong support from the next speaker of the incoming house of representatives. While Evarts, the presidential fraud's secretary of state, was attending court recently in Albany, New York, an effort was made to give him a reception. The democratic state officers, though invited, did not attend. The objection to Evarts, says the Buffalo Courier, is that he "employed his 'rare abilities to sustain a great public Vrong the fraudulent reversal of a national 'election. Recalling his acts and words on 'former occasions, they feel convinced that 'when Mr. Evarts appeared as the defender 'of the returning board frauds he acted and 'spoke against his own better knowledge and 'conscience. And this Mr. Evarts's censors 'are not inclined to regard as a venial transgression, but consider it as a great moral offense." It will be fortunate -for the country if the infamous fraud by which Hayes was made president is made odious on all occasions where an opportunity offers. Dcriho the palmy days of South Carolina radicalism there were issued seven millions of dollars worth of bonds, which have since been repudiated. They are worth in the market to-day about four or five cents on the dollar. The supreme court of that state at one time gave a decision rather favorably to the bond'?, but the etate legislature afterward passed an act repudiating them. Large quantities of these bonds are held by radicals, friends of Hayes and Sherman, secretary of the treasury, and the fear is now expressed that a pressure may be brought now to bear on the South Carolina legislature influencing it in the selection of a chief justice of the supreme court of that state, who would practically have the decision of the legality or illegality of the botds alluded to. Or in other words, the price paid Hayes and his friends for ' the carpet-bagger riddance te'tlfe recognitio of seven millions of dollars worth of fraudulent or bogus bonds. ' It is sixteen years ago sine the southern states began withdrawing from the Union. Radical logic has been at fault . During the war it would not acknowledge that they were "out of the Union;" after the war the same logic insisted that tbey were out and would not allow them to come in, and nothing but the repulse of radicalism last fall whipped it into decency and reform under the pretender who somehow or other occupies Mr. Tilden' seat in Washington. For the first time in the history of the nation the defeated candidate occupies the office of the successful one. We hop? that the readers of the Fentinel will never grow weary of tearing the etory of the great wrong. In

future let the principle prevail that the men whom the people elect take possession of the offices. If the constitution and laws are at fault, let them be corrected and amended. No more frauds or pretenders in the highest office in the land, making it a hissing and a by-word among the nations.

The Indianapolis Journal in yesterday's issue says: "The indications are clear and conclusive that there s no more vitality in 'the democratic party." In another column in the same paper there is this item: "In 15 'states there are republican governors and in 23 democratic. In 13 legislatures there'publicans are in a majority, while of the regaining 20 the democrats have 19." The talk about the democratic party lacking vitality 13 bosh. The shape in which it used to be pit by radical scribblers was that "it 'was dead." Mr. Tilden's overwhelming majority of more than a quarter of a million buried the Ohio pretender out of sight until resurrected by the returning boards. The radical party to-day owe the "vitality" of their own organization to the frauds and corruptions of an infamous swindle. Jill. L.AXIE.SS NPKECII. The Sentinel to-day surrenders a large portion of its space to the .publication of the speech of the Hon. Franklin Landers, of this city, delivered in congress in support of his substitute for the Texas and Pacific railroad bill. We make no apology for this, for the importance of the subject and the merits of the speech fully justify our action in the premises. It is to be regretted that a gentleman of Mr. Landers's ablility and promise could not have longer remained in a position he so greatly adorned, but he did enough while at Washington to attract the attention of the country to him, and probably no one act of his public life did so much to make the people know him as the delivery of the speech we publish to-day. He has been solicited by prominent men in different sections of the country to have it published in pamphlet .form, but as yet this has not been done; therefore, those who wish a full text of the speech should procure the Sentinel of to-day. A late number of the Philadelphia Press gives an epitome of this speech of Mr. Landers, which is so well conceived and expressed that we adopt it in lieu of what we had intended to say ourselves: "Hon. F. Landers, of Indiana," says the Tress, "submitted for the consideration of the house, at its last session, a substitute to house bill No. 472, commonly known as the Texas and Pacific railroad bill, that can not fail to command the thoughtful considers. tion of congress and the country. The two methods heretofore adopted of granting aid to works of internal improvement donating Jjubl.ic lands and lending the credit of the government in the f?rm of . Interest hearing bonds has resulted in great abuses. In the case under consideration the till, as reported by the committee, proposes to guarantee the interest, at the rate of five per cent a year, on bonds of the company to the amount, in round numbers, of $70,000,000. The annual interest on that sum at five per cent, a year is $3,500,000, or for fifty years, the time the bonds have to run, $175,000,000. Should these bonds follow our other bonds to Europe, eventually, this country would be required to send products or bullion abroad to the full amount of both principal and interest, in all $245,000,000, to meet their judgment Such a prospect is anything but encouraging to either our railroad interests, legitimate industries, or to our hopes for cheap transportation. "Mr. Landers's substitute provides only for the construction of the main trunk line from its present terminus at Fort Worth to San Diego by the shortest practicable route, a distance of about 1,400 miles. The pro rata arrangements with connecting roads and like questions do not differ in the main from the original bill. The third section provides that the company shall execute aud deposit wiih the secretary of the treasury, bonds of the company, properly secured by mortgage on the road, lands and franchises of the company, to the amount of $30,000 per mile of road to be constructed, said bonds to be payable in lawful money fifty years after date, and to bear interest at the rate of 2 per cent, a year, in: terest not to begin to run until three (3) years after date. The fourth section provides that on the construction of ten or more miles of road, and their acceptance by the government on the certificate of commissioners, given ander oath, the secretary of the treasury shall deliver to said company non-interest-bearing treasury notes of the United States to the amount of the actual cost of the road, not to exceed the average rate of $30,000 per mile. "Here it is proposed that, instead of the government lending the company its credit in the shape of a guarantee of the interest on the bonds of the company to the amount of $175,000,000, it shall lend its credit in the form of non-interest-bearing treasury notes to the amount of $42,000,000. It may reasonably be supposed that if the company could pay 5 per cent interest on $70,000,000, with the additional expense of a syndicate to negotiate their bonds in European markets, and probably at a discount they could more easily pay 2 per cent on $42,000,000. And certainly it is better for the government and the people that 2 per cent should go into the treasury than 5 per cent, out of It and abroad. The substitute further provides a way to meet the interest on, and for the gradual redemption of, the bonds by the company.- Ample provision is also made to protect the government against fraud, misapplication of the funds, etc., but the essence of the substitute is contained in the third and fourth sections as given above. , "If the government should take some such action as this labor would be employed and a market opened to our manufactures. This in turn would give employment to more labor, and a prosperous future would; at orce dawn upon the country."

TREASURY DEPARTMENT THIEVES. The democratic party for years past has not ceased to impress upon the people of the United States that the various departments of the government were dens of thieves that robbery was the chief employment of the men who, measured by the radical standard of merit, obtained official positions under Grant. The investigations that were commenced and conducted by a democratic congress demonstrated conclusively the absolute truth of the declarations of the democratic party by revealing a depth of corruption that convinced the most skeptical and astounded the world. While these investigations were progressing the radical organs, which without an exception were defenders of the thieves, and sought as best they could to break the force of the revelations, cried out that only partisan motives inspired the democratic party in its efforts to expose radical scoundrelism and bring thieves to justice. The inve ligations not only developed that the radical party had matured systems of fraud, but revealed also the fact that the departments were overflowingly full with a set of miscreants whose chief employment was to steal or cover up the tracks of those who committed the thefts. The democratic party could not dismiss the thieves, but it could refuse the money necessary to pay them, and in this way rid the country of a part of the incubus. As a result hundreds have been dismissed, and other hundreds are to follow. The St Louis Globe-Democrat, a paper whose proprietors have had exceptionally favorable opportunities to obtain accurate knowledge of the interior workings of the departments, refers to the fact that a good many employes of the treasury department have been dismissed, but insists that the work of reform shall reach further and bring down larger game than superfluous employes, and in urging the matter paints a picture of radical scoundrelism in the treasury department which ought to attract attention. "The 'treasury department" says the Globe-Democrat, "is rotted through with the corruption 'of clerks who stand high in the service, whose positions are essential in the Organization, who are efficient and energetic, but 'who misuse their ability and their position 'to rob the honest citizens who have business 'with the department, and to bring disgrace 'and discredit upon the government. They 'are the professional black-mailers behind 'the counters, who are in league with the 'professional black mailers who hang myste'riously about the purlieus of public life in 'Washington. They are utterly unprincipled scoundrels, and no reform is of any 'value which fails to extirpate them totally. They rob both the government and ' the 'people indiscriminately, and are always 'ready to take all they can get If a citizen has a claim against the government 'which has been recognized by every public 'expression of justice, the chances are that, 'just when he thinks he is in a fair way to 'have his claim liquidated, he is Informed 'that it will be several years before his 'claim will be reached in the regulaar order 'of business, but that he can get the cash 'next week if he will only pay a percentage 'to some loafer who has no visible connection 'with the public service. If the citizen is 'liable for any claim incurred as a bondsman 'or a debtor to the government in any waj , 'and wishes to discharge his liability, he is 'met by a blackmailer of the same class, and 'has obstructions put in his way until he is 'wearied into compliance with the extor'tioners." Here is the declaration that the treasury department is "rotted through with corruption," and that the men who have charge of the business are "professional blackmailers" and "utterly unprincipled scoundrels," who are ready and willing to rob "government and people indiscriminately.". What is true of the treasury department is equally true of every other department, and since Hayes, the infamous fraud who accepted the office of president from the hands of crime stained scoundrels, proposes to remember his pals, the indications are that radical civil service reform means the continuance of thieves in office.

STILE EYIXG. The radical organs are now engaged in the business of trying to obscure the damning crime that placed Hayes in the pressdential office. They bring to the work the brazen impudence and devotion to lying that distinguished the conspirators when engaged in the manufacture of frauds, purchasing perjurers and in perfecting every other devilish device which, by the aid of Judas Bradley, they finally achieved success, and for the first time in the history of any country, kingdom or dominion, not excepting hell, placed a man in supreme power by the power of fraud and perjury. Having kept for many years in the south an army of marauding vagabond carpet-baggers and protected them by federal bayonets, the organs of the radical party and apoligists for returning board scoundrelism are endeavoring to make it appear that the southern people, like whipped spaniels, are giving evidence of love for the "Christless whelps" who were the authors of their wrongs and humiliations. -The carpet-baggers' occupation is gone, except in so far as ' Hayes may feed them from the public crib; but the organs of the conspirators are flooding the south with a set of correspondents of carpet bag instincts, who are engaged in pursuing the most . infamous misrepresentations of the opinions of representative southern men. In this dirty business the New York Tribune is becoming more than ever distinguished for its disregard of the truth, and remembering the triumphs achieved by returning board perjurers, is emboldened by their success to still farther make lying pay. As an evidence of this, the New Orleans correspondent of the Tribune writes as follows: The sentiments expressed toward President Hayes axe remnrkiio: cordial and apr;cia-

tlve. I find not a few men of Influence who ay that they are lad it is a republican and not a democratic president who removes the troops and allows local self-government to establish itself. It would be impossible to crowd into the same space a greater insult to the people of Louisiana than has been done by the carpet-bag correspondent of the Tribune, provided the "men of influence" referred to is intended to include citizens who are not of the J. Madison Wells type. If this scribbler, who evidently writes in the interest of returning board thieves and villians, is to be believed, the people of Louisiana are ready to thank God for the reign of fraud and for military rule that has nearly crushed the life out of their state, and for the villainies that have been practiced in Louisiana in the name of republican institutions. All of this is done that the crime by which Hayes was enabled to vault into the presidential office may be obscured, and that the infamous gang of scoundrels who engineered the fraud may go unwhipt of justice. The people of Louisiana are well advised in regard to the causes that brought about their emancipation. They know that during the presidential campaign Hayes was the standard bearer of the "bloody shirt" army, and that had the radicals obtained a majority of the popular vote instead of the democrats, the troops would now be in South Carolina and Louisiana carrying forward the infamous despotism inaugurated by Grant and approved by the entire radical party. There is not an utterance of Hayes on record that he was not in full accord with the "bloody shirt" policy including bayonets, returning board perjuries and frauds, but the democratic party by its ceaseless war upon radicalism, by exposing its crimes and by jibbeting its scoundrels before the world, created a public sentiment that Hayes could not and dared not resist, and as a consequence he was compelled to give the order to remove the troops and permit the south to go free. The act is in consonance with the will of the American people that made Samuel J. Tilden president, and to assume that the people of Louisiana preferred that the order should have been issued by Hayes rather than Tilden is equivalent to saying that they approve the crime by which Hayes and his gang of villains obtained power. This slander is an exhibition of the same. vile purpose that has from the first distinguished the Tribune in its bitter hostility to the south, and exhibits a determination to carry on the "bloody shirt" warfare indefinitely. Carpet-baggers, fortunately, can no longer plunder the south and demand the protection of federal soldiers, but carpet-bag correspondents can still lie with impunity, and this they are likely to do as long as the Tribune and papers of its ilk show a willingness to engage in the crusade.

A REPUBLICAN LAWYER OX HATES. Yesterday's Journal contains a communication written by a republican- lawyer of this city, from which we make the following extracts: As above stated, if the determination of the returning board In the matter of the republican electors Is held valid, it settles the question in favor of Packard, If the electoral commission disregarded the action of the returning uoartl and acted on their own information and 'udgment, they come at once to the same cnestlon presented to the returning board. Are the votes of the people of Louisiana to be counted as actually cast, or were the parishes rejected1 by the returning boatd rlghtluüy relucted? If the electoral commission pursued I "ris ine of investigation, they must have dejidedtnatthH parishes were rightfully rejected, because, if admitted, the result would have been to have given the electoral vote of the state of Louisiana to Mr. Tilden, and have resulted in his being declared president of the United täte. Mo that at the end the question of the election of Mr. Haven and Mr. Packard must revert to the same question were the parishes rightfully excluded? If so, both are elected; if wrongfully, neither. To place Mr. Hayts's title to his office upon any other basis is a fraud and a cheat. If he is entitled to bis seat simply upon the vote of eight to seven in the I electoral commission, without regard to right. upon wnicn tnat decision rests, men nis assumption of power is simply usurpation, and his administration the result of partisanship and not of the choice of the people. The logic of the Journal's correspondent is irresistible. If Hayes was elected president of the United States Packard was elected governor of Louisiana. The latter received more votes than did the Hayes electors of Louisiana, and it is impossible to resist the position that, if the electoral votes of that rtate belonged to Hayes, Packard is its rightful governor. This was the position the Sentinel took during the pendency of the question of the removal of the federal troop from Louisiana, and our readers will remember that we expressed the opinion that It would not be done, for the reason that to do so would be for Hayes to confess himself the usurper he is. But the facts are that neither Hayes nor Packard carried Louisiana, and the casting of the electoral votes of that state for the former was the most damnable outrage ever perpetrated in this country. It was done, as our readers know, by the manipulations of a returning board composed of thieves, who, if they had their just deserts, would now be wearing striped clothes inside prison walls. But the man who was counted into the presidency by this quartette of political rapscallions took the swag without a grimace, and then went back on his twin brother of returning board procreation. The correspondent of the Journal 1 aving demonstrated that Hayes and Packard are in the same boat, and must stand or fall together, ought now to show that the craft they are in is a piratical one and only floats the water as a freebooter. ' In fifteen states there are republican governors aad in twenty-three democratic. In eighteen legishitures the republicans are In a majority, while of the rc-oAlnlng twenty the democrats nave nineteen ana tne inaepen dents one. Journal. Yes, and with several hundred thousand majority in faor of his opponent, a radical pretender occupies the presidential chair today, and the jeople do not seem to compre hend the rartsally and corrupt machinery which brought it about. . . - Speculators are compelling the, poor people of the United Spates to pay too much for the Tuxco-Eussiaa war.

A XEUTRAE.

The Way the CJoveriiraent of the United State 9Int Act Toward BnsMla and Tnrkey Act of April 20, ISIS. 1. Accepting and exercising a commission to serve either of the said belligerents by land or by sea against the other belligerent 2. Enlisting or entering into the service of either of the said belligerents as a soldier, or as a marine or seaman on board of any vessel of war, letter of marque, or privateer. 3. Hiring or retaining another person to enlist or enter himself in the service of either of the said belligerents as a soldier, or as a marine or seaman on board of any vessel of war, letter of marque, or privateer. 4. Hiring another rr-on to go beyond the jurisdiction of the United States with intent to be enlisted as aforesaid. 5. Hiring another person to go beyond the limits of the United States with the intent to be entered into service as aforesaid. 6. Retaining another person to go bey md the limits of the United States with intent to be enlisted as aforesaid. 7. Retaining another person to go bej-ond the limits of the United States with intent to be entered into service as aforesaid. (But the said act is not to be construed to extend to a citizen or subject of either belligerent, who, being transiently within the United States, shall, on board of any vessel of war which, at the time of its arrival within tLe United Slates, was fitted and equipped as such vessel of war, enlist orenter himself, or hire or retain another subject or citizen of the same belligerent, who is transiently within the United States, to enlist or enter himself to serve such belligerent on board such vessel of war, if the United States shall then be at peace with such belligerent.) 8. Fitting out and arming, or attempting to fit out and arm, or procuring to be fitted out and armed, or knowingly concerned in the furnishing, fitting out or arming of any ship or vessel with intent that such ship or vessel shall be employed in the service of either of the said belligerents. y. issuing or delivering a commission within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States for any ship or vessel with the intent that she mar be emcloved as afore said. 10. Increasing or augmenting, or procur ing to be increased or augmented, or knowingly being concerned in increasing or augmenting the force of any 6hip or war, cruiser or other armed vessel, which at the time of her arri val within the United States was a Bhip of war, cruiser or armed vessel in the service of either of the said belligerents, or belonging to the subjects or citizens of either, bv add ing to the number of guns of said vessel, or by changing those on board of her for guns of a large calibre, or by the addition thereto of any equipment solely applicable to war. 11. lieginning or setting on foot, or providing or preparing the means from any military speculation or enterprise to be ear ned on from the territory or jurisdiction of the United States against the territories or domains of either of the said belligerents. The following are the principles set forth in the declaration of the congress of Paris of the lütü or April, lS5i: 1. That pirateering is, and remains, abol ished. 2. That the neutral flag covers enemv's goods, with the exception of contraband of war. 3. That neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war. are not liable to cap ture under the enemy s nag. L That blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective; that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy; and that, althomgh the United States have not adhered to the declaration of 1S56, the vessels of his majesty will not seize enemy's property found on board of a vessel of the United States, provided that property is not 4 contraband of war." The following is the customary injunction contained in the declaration of neutrality issued by the president in the case of war be tween powers with which we are at peace. This particular form was last issued in the case of the Franco-German war, and con tains the essential principles of the asly ington treaty: "And I do further declare and proclaim that the statutes of the United States and the law of nations alike require that no person within the territory and jurisdiction of the United States shall take part directly or indirectly in the said war, but shal remain at peace with each of the said belligerents, and shall maintain a strict and impartial neutrality; an1 that whatever privileges shall be accorded to one belligerent within the ports of the United States shall be in like manner accorded to the other. "And I do hertby enjoin all the good citizens of the United States, and all persons residing or being within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, to observe the laws thereof, and to commit no act contrary to the provision of the state statutes, or in violation of the law of nations in that behalf. "And I do hereby warn all citizens of the United States, and all persons residing or being within their territory or jurisdiction, that while the free and full expression of sympathies in public and private is not restricted by the laws of the United States, military forces, in aid of either belligerent, can not lawfully be originated or organized within their jurisdiction, and that while all persons may lawfully, and without restriction, by reason of the aforesaid state of war, manufacture and sell within the United States arms and munitions of war, and other articles ordinarily known as ."contraband of war" yet they can not carry such articles upon the high seas for the use or service of either belligerent, nor can they transport Boldiers or officers of either, or attempt to break any blockade which may be lawfully established and maintained during the war, without incurring the risk of hostile capture and the penalties denounced by the law df nations inthatbehalL "And I do hereby give notice to all citizens"of the United States and others who may claim the protection of this government, who may misconduct themselves on the premises, will do so at their peril, and that they can, in no wise, obtain any protection from the government of the United States against the consequences of their misconduct." EIXOLX'S MO CHEAT. The Progress of the Work. A Springfield special to the St Louis Republican says: The bronze groups for the pedestal of the Lincoln monument have been stripped of their coverings, so that a really god idea is to be had of their appearance. The group which is to be placed on the right of the statue of Lincoln represents the infantry arm of the service, the arm which fights pitched battles and . wins decisive victories. The center figer of this group is an officer who has just seized the staff of a flag which but a moment before had fallen from the grasp of its bearer. With this flag he is in the act of advancing on the enemy. On his right is an infarttry' soldier in full uniform, and with all his equipment, in the act of charging with the bayonet. On the left of the officer is a drummer boy, who, with hti drum strung on his back, with a pistol in his right hand and a drum-stick in nis left, is also rushing on the enemy. These fijx-cs are of Ltriic

size, and full of life and spirit. The flag in the officer's hand streams out, displaying its full blazonry, and, being slightly elevated, makes the full height of the group 16 feet. On the left of Lincoln's statu is to stand the naval group, which has for it center object one of those colossal mortars which were used in the expeditions both down and up the Mississippi river. On this mortar is perchtd a sailor boy, who looks earnestly to the front to discover the object indicated by the finger of a sailor who is on the right of the mortar, and who has ceased the labor of rolling a shell toward the mortar to call attention to something in the distance. On the left of the mortar is a naval officer, who has just taken from his eye the glass with which he has been inspecting the enemy. His figure is in perfect repose, and his face is calm and assured as becomes an officer of the true breed in the American navv. The contrast between the excitement of the boy and of the sailor and the col confidence of the officer is very striking and draws instant attention. When these groups are in position the southern side of the monument will represent Lincoln crushing the rebellion with the army and the navy while in his hand he holds the emancipation proclamation. These groups were designed and marshalled by Lark;n G. Meade, now of Florence, Italy. They cost $13,700 each and each weighs nearly four tons. Two other groups of equal size representing respectively the cavalry and artillery arms are yet to be produced to complete the original design and fill up the vacant pedestals. The monument association has exhausted its funds, and there is now pending in the general assembly a bill appropriating $27,(XtO to purchase these remaining groups. It is hoped this bill may be speedily passed as the session draws to a clo.e. If it should not pass at this session, it can not be passed until the session of 1879, as there is no probability of an adjourned or extra session, and as it takes about three years to prepare the models and complete the group, the failure of the bill now would prevent the completion of the original design until 1882. MIXXESOTA MATTERS.

A Lose Democrat Who ( ounolrs Illmweir With the Sentinel An ex-Ilooftler'a Opinion of Minnesota. To the Editor of the Sentinel : Sir I have been a close reader of the Sentinel for the last seven months, and I think it Improves every week. Had every democratic paper in the land taken the high ground three months ago that the Sentinel did, Tilden and Hendricks would have been inaugurated, and our country would not have been humiliated with a fraud for a president. But let the democracy take courage; the end is not yet. Let every democrat in the land do all he can for the next four years to circulate good sound democratic papers like the Sentinel among their republican neighbors and it will work wonders. Get them into clubs when yon can, and when you can not do that give them your democratic papers to read. That is the way I do. When I get through reading the Sentinel I hand it to my republican neighbor and let I i u tee what the democrats have to say about frauds, thieves, returning boards and radical deadfall electoral commissions, etc. There is not one republican in a hundred that takes a democratic paper here in Minnesota. "Where I live there are about ten republicans to one democrat, and I don't know o' but one that takes a democratic paper. But enough on jKlitics. I will say something to you about our young and growing state. Minnesota has a splendid climate, a good soil, and is destined to become one of the leading agricultural states of the union. Wheat is the great staple here, but we raise splendid corn. I have often seen 50 bushels per acre. Timothy ana clover do well. Stock of all kinds thrive excellently. Cattle, sheep and hogs all demand more attention here in the winter than they do further south. When I lived in Southern Indiana I never saw cows, sheep or hogs stabled. Here we stable everything in good warm quarters, and it pays, for it takes less feed to keep them in good condition. Some of the hardier varieties of fruit thrive well here, but I don't think that fruit raising will ever be a success in Minnesota. A. 8. Boose. Cambridge City, Minn., April 25, 1877. THE STATE. Bartholomew county agricultural society will meet Saturday to reorganize and elect new officers. Scotttsburg Democrat: Most of the peach trees in this locality were killed by tne excessive cold last winter. Fort Wayne Sentinel: The canal company yesterday purchased 45 eres of canal land at the feeder dam for $1,200. Frankfort Crescent: There will be a few peaches in this vicinity notwithstanding the severe winter. The bloom is nearly as heavy as last year, The Bartholomew county board of education will meet at Columbus May 10. The township trustees are to be present with their reports of enumeration. Richmond Palladium: Although yesterday was election day, not a single case was before the mayor this morning. This speaks well for the morals of our city. Sullivan Democrat: It cost the people $550.29 less for officers' salaries and attorney's fees under democratic economy than what it did under republican extravagance. Steps are already being taken to reorganize the Spencer township, Bartholomew couaiy. harvest home. Judging from present reports and prospects it will be a much grander affair than ever before. New Albany Ledger-Standard: A lady Eoultry fancier says she has 99 chickens atched and by to-morrow will be certain of 100 and maybe more. She has been married eight years and has no child, but oodles of chicks. New Albany Ledger-Standard: The New Albany steam forge works are still idle, but the proprietors are negotiating for several contracts that will give employment to every department duriog the coming season, with every prospect of success. Columbus Republican: The heavy fro6t of Monday and Tuesday morning has done a great deal of damage in this section. M. Taylor say he lost $'200 in strawberries alone, besides other damages. Nearly all the fruit in this section has been killed, except possibly a few apples may be left. Don't get rusty like a neglected tool laid aside in the garden or field which loses its edge and its brightness by sbefr neglect. So the mind that is. never sharpened grows dull. One who has not done what he might finds his power gone. Sometimes, when mind lies useless and bands are folded, the soul rusts also. I do not know, says some one, St. Simon's history, but I doubt if he was as worthy a saint as many another, just because he lived at the top f a pillar, and, to quote Miss ltraddon, "had his meals sent up to him in a basket" .Had he come down for" his food he mi pat" have found somechance of being useful. 'There' is work in tbe world for every mind and heart andi body.