Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1878 — Page 4

THE INDIAXA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY M0BN1NG JANUAltY 2, 187S;

THE INDIANAPOLIS

ENTINEL. The Sentinel Is the Commercial, Financial and Industrial Paper of the Btate, and at lea-st the efiual In point of editorial, literary, and news merit of any of Its rivals. It will bo the best Weekly wo can make, and In every sense the Paper of the People. It will advocate Justice and fair living opportunities for industry and labor. That there be no more class legislation. A redaction of the present rulaous rate of Interest. An immediate and unconditional repeal cf the resumption law. The remonetization e-f silver. , A greenback currencv'of the required volume to meet the legitimate demands of business. Wltdrawal of national bauk notes green backs and silver to be made a legal tender in payment of all debts, public and private, without limit. The bondholder to be paid no more than the oil tract and to share equally the burdens of government with Industry and labor. The fiEsnsEL Is especially devoted to the interest of the Industrial clas-ses, and every reading and thinking man In the state, who can afronl to take a newspaper, without regard to party politics, ought to subscribe for at least one of its editions. TERMS Pottage PaM, Invariably Cash In Advance. WEEKLY: Single Copy one year.......................t 1.50 (and at the same rate for a shorter term.) Clubs of five, one year, $1.2) each 6.25 Clubs or ten, one year, 11.15 cachHUM. . 11.50 (and an extra copy to the getter up of the club.) Clubs of twenty, one year, f 1.10 each... 22.00 (and two extra copies with the club.) DAILY: 1 Copy one year .10.00 1 Copy six months... 5.00 1 Copy three months . 2JW 1 Copy one month.. .85 Clubs of five or more, one year, 58 each-... 40.00 Additions to clubs received at any time at lab rates. Oil TRIAL. "We are confident the Sentltincl will not be .stopped where once tried, and therefore offer on trial five copies of our weekly three months for 32.00, and an extra copy for same time with the club. Specimen Copies Kent Free to Any AdAdd?es3 INDIANAPOLIS SENTINEL CO. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2. Ax amusing story is told of the emperor of Germany and his nephew, Prince Frederick Charles. This gentleman wanted to leave his wife, and he spoke to his uncle in relation to the matter. The emperor replied: My dear nephew, I have not been saparat:d. your father ha not been separated, your grandfather was not separated, neither will yun be separated," and he ha not been separated. General Fremoxt was sued a few months ago by United States District Attorney "Woodford for $3,000. It was alleged that this amount was his indebtedness for pay and allowances allowed him from the time of his commission, instead of 'only for the time he went into service. In turn the general has filed a counter claim against the government for $),000, which he states is due him for services rendered in purchasing arms in Europe and in the organization and disposition of troops in Missouri. The temperance people of Plattsburg, Missouri, are not spiritualists in any sense of the word, but recent events are almost strong enough to force upon them the belief that spirits have mysteriously appeared in that town of late. Plattsburg is emphatically a temperance town. No saloons are allowed to open their doors to invite the weak and susceptible to partake of the choice liquors so tempting to the average MLssourian. No liquor licenses are given, no whisky is either sold or givtn away, spirits have been kept from the place; and yet, notwithstanding all this, the streets of Flattsburg were full of drunkards on Christmas day, and the intoxicated men were those who had not been outside the limits for months. How they obtained liquor, ij the question agitating the temperance people now. Some years ago William II. Richardson and Granville Smith, of Lexington, Kentucky, indorsed for the late "William T. Hughes, also of that city. Hughes failed and dragged down with him both of hl3 indoreers. As be started to leave the country, however, he was killed by Smith, who then committed euicide. Mr. Richardson has struggled bravely to stem the tide of misfor tune, but matters grew worse every day. finally he concluded to make an assignment, and Friday bad the papers drawn up. He seemed much depressed, and became too nervous for the work. At five o'clock in the afternoon he committed suicide by shooting himself through the head. He was a genial. pleasant man, well known throughout the country. He was one of the greatest short horn men of all the blue grass region, and was honorable and reliable in business and social life.

A SILVER MASS MEETISO. The present situation of business affairs is

most deplorable. It could hardly be worse. It almost defies exaggeration. There is deep concern pervading the entire population. The outlook grows more haggard daily. There is distress everywhere. The people realize that they are in the gTasp of a power that will require almost superhuman efforts to throw off. The theory of the government is that the people's will is supreme; that they are the sovereigns; that in all matters their interest are to be consulted; that the greater good to the greatest number shoul 1 be the rule, the policy and the fact All th s has been reversed. The opulent few ha re been able to control legislation. The majes have been tabood, ostracised and virtu Ally disfranchised. To accomplish this nefrrious wrong fraud has been utilized; treachery has overmastered truth. The insatiable :naw of greed has demanded everything, and a venal congress granted every requirement. The demonetization of silver was a stratagem employed to rob the people and put money in the pockets of bondholders. The motives that prompted it were intimately allied to those which actuate the pirate and highway robber. The men who conceiyed the plot and carried it through congress were of the same type as the double dyed scoundrels who engineered the Lou isiana returning board. They framed a law as they would erect a barricade for their pro tection should their crimes be exposed, and now, when widespread ruin is the result of their treachery, they appeal to the law and seek to maintain its place upon the statute books by Hayes' veto power. Indiana demands the Bland bill. Indiana insists upon free coinage and unlimited legal tender. The people are almost a unit upon the question. They have a right to epeak. Their interests are at stake; their business is prostrate; they have suffered to the extent of many millions of dollars The curse of radical legislation has touched every enterprise from gardener to merchantand the cruel curses of shrinkage, bankruptcy, idleness and poverty are still crushing the people. Then why should they not come together in mass meeting and speak to their representatives in congress? "Why besi tate? "What is to be gained by timidity now? The conviction that the Bland bill should become the law is deep seated and widespread. There is no mistaking the drift of public sentiment Why not give it voice and power by a series of resolutions, plain and emphatic, and let it go ringing over the land? Indianapolis is the place to take the initiative. The meeting would be one of the largest and most enthusiastic ever held in Indiana. The people would respond to a call for a silver meeting with a spontaniety that would have a powerful influence throughout the state and the west. The laboring men would be presejit The independents would be represented by thousands. and republicans who spit upon the venal treachery of the Journal would bo clad of an opportunity to denounce its pusillanimity and show their detestation of its treason to the interests ol the people of the state. Now is the time to strike. Let us have the call. TSIE IIADICAI. l'AKrr. The country is to be congratulated upon the condition of the radical party. It is dying, and is damned in advance. Confusiou characterizes its councils, and',' Us managers, who were either conspirators themselves or the defenders of the Louisiana returning board conspiracy, are at sea without cotnpass or rudder, drifting amidst cross currents, rocks and shoals, and, by their wrangles, convincing all who make a note of their quarrels that office and the emolu ments of office are their chief concern, and that the welfare of the country is not considered. The fact has not failed to attract attention that the fight between Hayes and Conkling, in which Hayes was most unceremoneously sent to grass, is purely one of government swag. It involves no question of statesmanship; it embodied no considerations of the public welfare, and in no regard rises above the dignity of a street brawl between two footpads over the division of plunder, and this miserable spectacle in the senate is as certainly an outgrowth of the radical idea of government as the Louisi ana returning board was the outgrowth of the radical idea of success. The people in their sober second thought have determined to change rulers, and in thi3 in stance, at least, there is abundant evi dence that the old proverb, rx iophH vox A7, is true to the letter. In Indiana the condition of the radical party is such as to znaLe it ridiculous. It is no longer formidable. Its existence at all as a party of any power whatever in state or national legislatures is the result of its gerrymandering frauds. If the state were honestly districted, if democrats were not disfranchised by a proceeding villainous in all of its parts, the radical party could not entertain hopes of success, and the leaders are now anticipating a triumph as a consequence of fraud. But the people are equal to the occasion, and in spite of the disadvantages under which they labor will, at the next election, rebuke radical frauds, and place the state. under the control of the democracy. THE MLYEK BILE. Den Rntler'a View I'pon the Snbject. In CO days the silver bill will have become a law of the land. It will pass congress, and if the president vetoes it and I don't believe he will it will be passed over his veto. It will ss the house by a three-fourths vote, and will receive bo near a two-thirds vote in the senate, that if it be vetoed, there will be enough itrength in that branch to pass it over the veto. The president Objects to the Bland biil on account of the free coinage clause, its unlimited legal tender characteristics, and because it is a violation of the public faith to pay the creditors of the government either the principal or interest of their bonds in silver. In regard to unlimited coinage and the danger of flooding the country with silver, re need not fear that because we can not issue more than $2,000,000 per month, cr about $2o,000,000 a year, and that would be

a mere drop in the bucket Fassing the silver bill will be only to bring the government back to the standard which had always been known from the beginning of the government to 1S73. Although silver was demonetized, yet all bonds issued in pursuance of the act of lSOO, or after that year, come under that contract and may be paid, either principal or interest, in gold and silver. The president claims that even if we had the right to pay in silver, we ought, in order to keep our faith and credit good, to pay in gold; but in these times we can not afford to

be generous. I am in favor of carrying out our contracts to the letter; but weoughtnot to do more than our contract honestly calls for. It silver was as high as gold, or worth a premium above gold, our creditors might claim with equal right that they should be paid in silver, as they did once in England when silver was at a premium of three per cent above gold. Her creditors insisted that since bonds were to be paid in pounds, shillings and pence"the word "pound," as used in the Lngush language, meant a silver pound of standard fineness, and that, there fore, they were to be paid in silver pounds, and should not be obliged to take gold; and a law was actually passed to that effect In regard to the moral obligation of the government to pay cold (since otherwise all bonds would be depreciated), the other property of the country, except bonds and evidences of indebtedness, has depreciated on an average o-i per cent ; everything is 33 per cent, lower. The bonds have not de1reciated at all; and since ihe other property las depreciated why should not the bondholders and creditors come in and bear a small part of the general depreciation? I don't believe this depreciation will take place. I believe that as soon as silver becomes legal tender three per cent of the dilference will at once disappear, and in three months' time I am confident the other five per cent, will disappear and silver will be as good as greenbacks, and both be equalized to gold in value. I believe, further, that it will have a beneficial effect upon the country. The grain houses of the west are bursting with grain. The warehouses of the east are rilled with manufactured goods. The railroads are anxious to bring the grain from the west to put into our mouths, and to carry the goods from the east to put upon the backs of the west The passage of this bill will tend to bring about that result, because it will show to the people that we have reached "hard pan ;" that contraction has ceased; that we are not going any further in that direction. The public confidence will" be restored; business will be revived and we shall enter upon a new career of prosperity. Winter Farm Economies. Prairie Farmer. There are so many things that the farmer may do at home, "in his own workshop, as well as another can do it for him, that it is surprising that bo few are without a kit of wood working tools, a shoeing hammer, some horse nails, pinchers for iron, copper, rivets, screws, and other necessary articles as will enable him to complete many a handy job without the intervention of the carpenter. The time required to do the work will often be found to be less than that spent in goingto and fiom the mechanic's place of business. Thus with a few tools the wood work of harrows, plows, cultivator?, and other tools about the farm may be repaired. By having a few extra handles of forks and other implements on hand, these may b cheaply repaired and made as good as new. Wagon tonguesand many other duplicates for farm vehicles and machines are now prepared so as to require bat little litting. In the case of the machine?, all that is necessary, us a rule, is simply to fasten them in place. In doing this the farmer not only renders himself handy with tools, but at the same time he becomes thoroughly conversant with the working parts of each individual machine no small matter to the practical man. In fact every farmer ought to be able to take apart and put tog'.-ther intelligently any machine on the farm. Unless this be the case, they can not be worked as economically as they should be. While the farmer is thus educating himse'f he will conie to Sre the necessity and economy of having everything in its place, and a place for everything, when not in use, and when in use they will be just in place. .So he will come to ocenpy his leisure hours in repairs of various kinds. Barn and stable doors that are getting shaky on their hinges will be repaired at once. If he burn wood, and a large proportion of the farmers of the west still do tx, it will be prepared aod piled secure from rain, and with proper ventilation, so it may dry perfectly. If he burn coal, a proper shed will be built to keep it, dry. The pumps about the place will al ways draw. ater troughs will never have sloughs of mud about them in soft weather to mire stock, nor glare ice in hard weather to maim them. Sheds will be made comfortable. The best facilities will gradually be accumulated for accomplishing the work of the farm, and a general air of thrift will be observable, not only about the homestead but over the farm. In; this we do not mean to assert that the simple possession of the tools necessary to do oddjobs will accomplish all this; but the Landlvig of tools soon gets a common sense man conversant with their use, and the investigations necessary to enable a man to do the work intelligently broadens the mind, and one soon comes to sec where money may be saved in many directions, and how easy it is to make all things tidy about the house and place, and also where the profit comes in in rendering the stock about the farm comfortable. These may seem like small economies. In truth they are; but it is these small economies that go to swell the profits of the farm, just as in any other industry in life. It is. in fact, attention to small economies that makes the prosecution of business successful in its best sense. lneen Ember. fF. C. Pparhawk in the Galaxy for January. The story of Esther differs in one important regard from nearly all the other narrations of the Old Testament What is elsewhere the prominent point namely, the assertion of the direct interposition of divine power to accomplish the proposed end is here wanting, and it is left to the events alone to indicate the Jewish faith in the divine favor for this peculiar people. So entirely is, this the case that in the whole account of the deliverance of the Israelites from that fatal massacre there is not even any mention of their Mighty Deliverer; we find no assertion that the strong arm of their God once again rolled back from His people the waves of the red sea of blood which threatened to overwhelm them. The drunken whim of a monarch, the beauty and courage of a maiden, the overweening arrogance of a courtier, and the loyalty of a Jewish exile grow in -this story into grand proportions, and involve the fate of a nation. The romance of the story of Either touches the heart, for the weary world, suffering from the usurpations and oppressions oi wicked men, rejoices in every example of what is called poetic jmuce, ana exults 10 see a plotter caught in the snares that "he himself has spread. Kokomo Tribune: Claims to the amount of $11. S3 1.7.' have ben allowed by the council duriog the year 13.

A CHRISTMAS TREE IN TEXAS.

How an Intllanapolitan Spent Christmas Eve in the Lone Star State An Ecjoyable Festival and Entertainment Personal Items. Hpec hU Correspondence of the Sentinel. Cottonwood Fraieie, Brazos Co., Tex., Dec. 1. Ten miles northeast of Bryan is a thickly settled neighborhood, where the people have erected a neat little frame church building. The Rev. Mr. Walker is pastor. He is a fine speaker, and is of the missionary Baptist persuasion. Most all in the neighborhood are members and well to do farmers. There are many young people, who know how to enjoy themselves in old fashioned style, or rather Texas style, at cotilion parties, where the fiddle and bow are used to make enjoymeui complete. Several such parties were given in the neighborhood while we were at my cousin's, Mr. Cartle's. On this Christmas eve the school children and parents and the young people concluded to have a good time and a nice Christmas tree at the church, all arrangements having been made. When the time came the ladies and gentlemen had all things in readiness, and a grand display wa witnessed. The tree was a holly bush some 12 or 15 feet high, with many branches and red berries. It was as green as it would be in midsummer. It was loaded down with presents for the children, who yet think Santa Clans comes once a ysar, bent by weight of gifts. It was realjy a grand sight to behold in this far off land. You itould see almost every article that could be desired by the little ft Hows who crowded around little bonnet3, shoes, dolls, books, ties, ribbons and all the little fancy articles which our people see at Charles Meyers' store in our beautiful city. 1 and Master Courtie accompanied Mr." Cartle's family. We found the church crowded. There was hardly standing room, as the people came for miles aroand. Santa Claus soon made his appearance, with his long white beard and pale face, laden w:th presents yet to be placed on the tree, which had been so beautifully arranged by Mrs. Collins, Mrs. Beekam, and several of the misses, among whom were Miss Amanda Kiefer. Miss Leno Cartte, the Misses Kelley and others. The gentlemen who seemed to have the matter at heart were Mr. Lewis Runnels, Mr. Love, Mr. Samples, Mr. Hudspeth and others. Mr. Willie Kiefer was the only young gentleman who took part in calling names and handing articles to the anxious little fellows standing around to receive them. They all performed their duties well, aud everything was done in order. Mr. Love, the school teacher, seemed to have planned the arrangement for the Christmas tree, and was busy in attending to the details of the entertainment Colonel R. Hindspeth and Mr. Chatham and their ladies were present. The colonel Is a social, clever gentleman, and has a large farm and sheep ranch, a gin house and much wild land. Mr. Sample, Mr. Beekam, Mr. Kiefer. Mr. Thompson are all large landholders and wealthy men. Mr. Cartle was committee to keen order, which he did to the satisfaction of all. His son, Eddy, was treasurer, and saw that the funds contributed were prudentlv laid out Dr. Toliafarro and his lady were present enjoying the sport The doctor is a gentleman cf education and ability, and I learned from him that he was going to leave the neighborhood to go to a farm some miles away. The people resret much that the doctor is going to leave them. He is a Tennesseean by birth and a whole s riled gentleman, and is for T. A. Hendricks for president against the world. The doctor has sub. cribed for the Sentinel, as well as many others in that section. . Jl. bnuthe, son of Colonel Sroithe, who fought during the war with Mexico, and was the o'Jicer in command who conveyed the order from General Houston to Colonel Crockett to retreat from the Alamo, which he disobeyed, and met his death with ail 1m comrades, is one of the most social, genial southern gentlemen I have had the leasure of meeting with. He is a fine nnter, and always has on hand venison. turkey, bear, and all that the country afford and is ready at all times to do a favor to those neeoing it He seems to think he can not do enough for those visiting Texas, and wants all who come near him to call and ste him and partake of his hospitality. We were kindly treated by all, and especially by Mr. Kiefer and others. We bade them a fare well and a happy new year, and departed oa the 20th for home. W. S. W. Turkey to the Power. The fcllowing is a translation of the Tur kish circular to the powers: CossTAXTisorLE, Dec. 12, 1S77. Every one Knows the origin of the unhaDuv events which have befallen recently In the empire. The imperial government feels the consciousness of not having in any way provoked t ne war which we are carrying on against ltussia, and of haviiiK. oa the contrary, done everything to avoid it. At the numinous of their sovereign the inhabitants or the empire have nocked together to fulfill simply and heroically a great duty that of defending their meuacea hoii. uut on tneir own side tl.t-y have threatened and they threaten no one. It is difficult to discover the motives which Russia can have had to justify lier agression. Is it tliat sho wished to see founded and devel oped, for tlie benefit of certain populations who form the object of her solid tuJe, institutions nd reforms fitted to ameliorate their lot? The sublime porte bus anticipated such a desire by deciding to reorganize i'n system and to establish in the cmtutiy useful and practical reforms, designed to satisfy tho wishes of alt lus Kiyjee.i, wittiout distinction or race or rollgio:i. Tbi work of reorganization, governmental and administrative, has for its biise the constitution granted by his Imperial majesty the sultan . Tnerouutry nas reivea w:tn satisrsctlon and gratitude this charter, the application of whlcii, free from all hindrances, is destined to produce all tftose effect which would have been In vain expected from lnotnplete measures ami reformation wanting in sanction. A partial reform, which, only applied to certain provinces to the exclusion of the rest of the empire, would present grave iucouvenlejices; for instancetsjregards matters of administration, exceptional favors accorded to separate provinces could not but inevitably have for their consequence to set in opposition one against another the inhabitants of dilljrent races who live under the scepter of his imperial majesty, the sultan, and would constitute, lulact, a premium offered to rebellion. If any doubt could stilt survive as to the rellntous fulfillment of the new constitution and of the reforms that we have promised In the conference of Constantinople, this doubt should disappear in the presence o the formal and solemn declaration of the sincerity of our es-Wutions. We pro lie r in this regard a guarantee of which we invite Kurope to take set. The true a- d only cause of hi d ranees which might slacken our efforts in this path would be tound In the continuation of a state of war. Such a situation H not only disastrous with reference to reforms, but euualiy calamitous In regard to the aeuerai prosienty oi tlie country. It kill agr. culture and Industry by keeping und'-r arms the flower of the laboring classes: it imposes heavy chaiites upou ih public treasury, and thus plav obstacles lu the way of every amelioration of the eco nomlcafand financial condition of tlie empire, to tho great prejudice of the general pros ;-rlty of tlie country and the special in Lures Is of the creditors of t lie state. It results, then, from what has gone before the question of reforms bein? outside the laatter that a reason must sti 1 be sought for the continuation of tlm war, Ihe desire of conuuest has b en loudly and publicly repudiated from the commencement of ho.-tllltleH by his majesty the Kin veror Alexander. The ini itary houor of th Mi? re at empire which, he governs remains Intact, notwithstanding th various fortunes of the campaign, ani the armies which con front each other have eooallv cov ered themselves with glory n the rtelds of bti;le. Willi nat objtut should they, then, prolong desolation ana ruin for their ie iecilve, countries? Wo, oa out part, think

that th 3 moment has come wLeu both bel le.

ereut might accept peace without forfeit to inriruiKiiiiy, ana when Europe might usefully lnterpt.se its pood oilice. As" for the imperial government. It is ready loajk this; not that the country has reached tiieerulof its rr-ources. Theie are no Kacri.-s: which the entire OttomsHtnatlon is not willing to two io itainiam tn.i independence anc integrity of the ?atherlnnd. liut the duty of tlie imperial government Is to avert, if nosiin.'e. any further effusion of blood. It is, there lore, In the name of humanity that we make this appeal to the seniimeuta of justice in the creat powers, and that we hoje they will be inclined to receive our advances favorably. OSHAJf PASHA'J 1SKAYEKY. The Sort of a Man It Wan Tht We Once Tboucht an American. ILondon Telegraph's Correspondent at I'levna.j Cknian Pasha's exam tie had. doubtlps. a great deal to do with the manner in which the light was maintained. He was always with his men in the thickest of the danger when occasion needed; bis tent was always in full view of the enemy, and very irequenuy unaer sneii lire. v ben they had tobacco he smoked, and when they had not he refrained. His tent was almost as cheerless as their trenches very little more comfort I do not think he ever slept more than two or three hours at a time. They were sure he was up in the night as well as in the day, but they never knew when he might come among them. Not a man ventured to ilinch from his post except on those occasions when, under very heavy fire, officers threw themselves on .the ground to avoid a passing sterol of shot and shell and thfn Osman Pasha beat them with his own hand in the presence of the troops. The aides-de-camp wtre nearly all killed or wounded; their work was extremely arduous and danererjus. During the fichting which lasted from the 5th to the loth of September I saw five of Osman's staff killed or severely wounded, and I am only amazed th3t all were not equally unfortunate. The commandants ot the tahias were, in fact, nearly til killed or wounded. Similarly with the pashas who commanded various points of the position. Hassan Pasha (now in Constantinople)' was shot through the leg. Ahmed Pasha was killed; Safvet Pasha received a bullet in the arm, and Emin Pasha one in the head. Devoted and brave as a lion, it often surprised me that Osaian was not killed. Mindlul always of his own duty as a re?pons".ble general, he never forgot that the peril into which he had brought his gallant troop3 should at least be " shared by himself. In the most critical moments of the engagement he was always with his men. en couraging them to do their utmost: and not only by word of mouth, but bv actual entry into the fight, throwing the fine spirit into the defenders which sustained them so many months.' I remember one night it was part 11 o'clock, and all the camp had retired some three hoars to get what rest we could, for we were in the habit of snatching repose whenever we had an opportunity a fierce attack was made on the uravitza redoubt which was not then in the hands of the Roumanians. The firing was no sooner heard than out came Osman, and with him Ahmed, the Arab pasha a hr.dold artillery general who I Lope is yet alive and away they rode to the light. My duty was to accompany them, but I was scarcely prepared for what they did. Riding direct to the front they each formed a battalion for a -.tack, and then led the two lines to the charge against the place whence blazed out the quick Hashes of the IlussoRoumanian riflsj. The sohliers knew that the foremost man was tEman, and they cheered for the mnshir with such heartiness that the Russians did not wait to see what sort of a force was coming, but boltpd away in the darkness, leaving some five hundred of their number on the ground. Thrn Oman and his collf ague oame back and rode quietly to their tents, the .marshal cheerfully remarking that he thought the Russians would not care to repeat that experiment again. But every man in the place had a tale to tell of Osman's bravery. They say that when he led the Turks against the Russians in thoss early August day?, be.ore he had gained the osition he subsequently so gallantly held, he nerved his twenty-three slender battalions against the enemy by displaying extraordinary personal bravery. The fight, which I believe has been sensationally described from the other side as one in which some 00,000 turks were engaged, wss in reality maintiined by a mere handful of men against a couple of Russian army corps. Hour after hour the enemy essayed to drive Osnian back, and at length, as the day wore on and the pas La saw still fresh regiments of Russians coming into the field, I am told that throwing himself in the thick of the battle, he tired as tears of mingled rage and despair flowed from his eyc to gain an honorable death in the midst of his gallant troops He thought they must all be killed, and he wished to die with them. We know the result. How the startled Russians, unused to such deeds of vUor, broke and ran. ' For the truth of this story I had the word of a man who did not live many moment?! after its narration, and who may be said to have told it with his dyin; breath. Oiiuan seemed to bear a charmed life. Once or twice I was with him when a furious attempt was made by the Russians to destroy him, they having evidently had his tent pointed out by some Bulgarian spy; ana I well recollect, on one such occasion, when bouquets of six shells were thrown twice a minute at the little hill, how, with a quiet smile, he took up the camp stool on which he had been sitting and saying 'Ma maison,' with a view to indicate what he thought the enemy were aiming at, walked slowly to another little hill some 30 yards away, and there, sitting down under a tree, watched the fall of the shells as they came in and burst Once or twice, too, when I had been in the outer works and came back, I learned that some stray shell had either fallen close' to the marshal and not burst or had passed close by him and killed one of his horses, or some such incident as that. He has always been nearly killed. !& many fortunate escapes led us to hope that he would yet get through unharmed, for we had seen him in all kinds of danger now leading the foremost inacharje or quietly superintending the fixing of the uprights for some new earthworks, the while that the enemy's shell plunged and burst all round the little party that was helping the marshal with Jiis fortifications. He was the mainspring of their defense, and whatever they had achieved had been owing to bis splendid soldiership. A more gallant defense was never made; it was only by the most dogged resistance that the position was held against the iuiS3es of men whom the Russians and Roumanians hurled against it; and when all is known of those later days of starvation and desperate fighting, a story will be told for which history produces no pareliel. Richmond Independent: The street com missioner is r quired to make returns to tbe citv authorities in retard to the amount of work he receives from the various members of the chain fang. The returns concerning Milo Gooseberry, the drunken crippled shoe maker, who figured eo extensively in recent ... , l.L police reports, roaa tnusiy: "ims nooseberry toured after two days wo'rk and was ! thrown out of the can, December 21." Oar 1 street coinmusiQner is a wit.

If. E. CHANDLER

13 Oat in an Attack sj?on Rutherford B. Iijiyes. The racla In Regard to the' .Earsraln And Sale. IS'pecial Dispatch to the Chicago Times. RKMIXllCECE:j OF SEVKSTY 1 Washixotox, Dec 27. A remarkabl 9 letter was published here thi3 morning, signed br W. K. Chandler, which is regarded as a stalwart republican manifesto against the president The letter recites first .'he declaration of the Cincinnati convention and Hayes' letter of acceptance, and says tht republican party, by the advice and procurement of Governor Hayes, made the necessity of keeping the federal power in republican hands and using it for the protection of black and southern republicans the main i?sue of the presidential campaign. It says the bloody .shirt, as it is termed, was freely waved, and Governor Hayes himself urged prominent public men to put forward as our best argument the danger of rebel rile and a solid south. In this connection it quotes saveral expressions from Governor Hayes letter of November , 1S7U, when the latter THOUGHT HIMSELF DEFEATED, and said: "I do not care for myself, but' I do care for the poor colored men of the south. Northern men cannot live there, and will leave. The southern men will practically treat the constitutional amendments as nullities, and then the colored man's fate will be wor.-e than when he was in slavery That is the only reason I regret that the news is as it is." Mr. Chandler then proceeds to say that Governor Hayes not only pledged himself to protect, to tbe full ex tent of federal power, life, suffrage and political rights in the south, but was COUNTED IX AS. FTJIPSST only by reason of special pledges given by tnator Sherman and other Ohio emissaries, who jarticularly and emphatically promised that he would recognize and maintain the lawful state governments of South Carolina and Louisiana, and stand by - Governors Chamberlain and Packard. The letter then charged that the confederate brigadiers forced v ANOTHER BARUAIX out of Hayes by filibustering. Tbe bargain was made by the following parties: Messrs. Matthews, John bherman and John A. Garfield, and on tbe other hand I . C. Lamar, Joan IX Gordon, E. J. Ellis, Randall Gibson, PI A. Burke and John xoung Brown with Henry Watterson, Stanley Matthews' nephew, as a go-between. After the inaugurant the bargain was speedily fulfilled. As soon as the electoral votes of their states were safe. Governors Packard and Chamberlain had been notified by Messrs. Matthews and Evarts to get out Governor Chamberlain was now summoned to Washington and informed that UK MUST SURRENDER He protested against his taking off. Tfca "president hesitated, but Wade Hampton de manded the performance of the bargain. Mr. Matthews was sent for to come from Ohio, and within 21 hours the United SHates Hag was ordered down in Charleston, and Governor Chamberlain stamped out As to Louisiana the lulhllment proceeded more slowly, but none the less rarely. Packard had made on March 21 a constitutional apical for federal aid which it was dilncult to withhold from one as .surely governor as Hayes was president, and yet he was refused. As a subterfuge. A If UXC0X.STITCTI0XAL OMMIKSIONr consisting of J. M. Harlan, Joseph It Hawley, C. C Lawrence, uayne Mceagh, and Jual Crown was sent to New Orleans instructed to gradually destroy the Packard legislature, but they proving too stubborn. The republican commission telegraphed to the president that nothing would destroy Packard but an actual order withdrawing the troops. At the word the president gave the order, Packard was crushed, and the commission returned) triumphant to Wash ington to be UECO'JXI.ED, one of them, General Harlan, by an appoint ment as supreme court judge; and another, Mr. Lawrence, by the release of Jake Rehm, the great whisky operater and defrauder of the revenue at Chicago. General Hawley wss offered the appointment of chief com missioner to the Pans exhibition, bat de clined because tbe salary was to be- only $o,00U. Three offices were tendered to Mr. Mc each, but declined on the ground that his services demanded more ample recognition. The English mission was assigned him, but circumstances have made its de livery inexpedient or impossible. One other hope remained to Governor Packard. He had A LAWFCL COURT Y justice, and he might appeal to that, but there were no vacancies,, aud it required ail three of the judges, Ludeling, Leonard and John E. King to make a quorum. Judtre King was immediately appointed collector of New Orleans. Packard's court wss struck down and Nichols' mob government reigned supreme. The bargain was in every way fulfilled, and the democrats had no occasion, as had been threatened, to make public the secret agreement Hayes had' been made president by the fidelity and courage of Packard and Chamberlain, and their devoted followers, and his administration bad trampled them down. In the further pur suance of the bargain made with the southern democrats the new administration has adopted a SO CALLED SOCTIIKR rOLICY flrst, entirely contrary to the announced principles of the republican party; second, which has been carried out by the abandonment of all federal intention and effort to protect life, property or suffrage at the south, or to enforce the constitutional amendments; third, which has resulted in the enforced dissolution of the republican partv at the south and its demoralization, division and defeat at the north. Then, after a thorough review of ail Hayes' violations of the civil service rules, the letter closes with a frank appeal to tbe republicans ol the north to REl'EL. AGA1XST HATES, saying: "Silence is a crime. Acquiesence and inaction are political death. Can the republican party of heroic achievement be bound to an administration which is not a free agent, but which is bound by a bargain to Gen. Gordon, L. ). C. Larjar;. Wade Hampton and other southern democrat now in high office, only through the blood ol murdered republicans? Does not every voter in the land know that I&yes rjid, Packard were elected simultaneously acd held BY THX SAME TITLEt or that when Hayes abandoned. and trampled down Packard he put an irretiovabU stain upon his title. Tho republican party baa lived long and survived mamy asults and many treasons only becacee it Las been a party tounded upon higU principles, animated by lofty sentiruttnt courageously acting up to noble convictions. If it now disgraces its record and indorses or fails to repudiate Hayes' surrender its voters will leave it by thousands, aud it will die a deserved aud dishonored tleatti."