Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 30, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 March 1878 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESjDAY MORNING, MARCH 13. 1878.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13.

THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY VS. THE HADICAL, PARTY. The times are eminently auspicious for making comparisons between the democratic party and the radical party. In the foil orbed light of recent and current events the task is not a difficult one, and we enter upon it not only without hesitancy, but with real gusto. The radical party is the only party in this or any other country that has risen to the supreme infamy of a national thief party. Such is the vtrdict of the people, from which there is no escape. It has been oar journalistic duty from time to time to exhibit the radical party before the state and country, and bring into the boldest prominence its inherent depravity. We are entirely satisfied with results. The dethronement of the party Is Virtually accomplished. Its exile from Dower is inevitable. In this hour of congratulations at the downfall of thieves; of the humiliation and disgrace of public plunderers; of the advancing power f the democratic party, we are not surprised that radical Shylock organs howl. We are encouraged by their impotent rage, and rejoice that while they can still hiss like serpents, they are fangless, and therefore harmless. In yesterday's issue of the Shylock Journal the following evidence of malicious decrepitude and senile flatulency appears: Is then ait innate, inborn quality of depravity In deniociacy that tainta the moral character of its adherent) and makes them do as partisans what they would be ashamed of as citizens, and approve ia convent iou what they .would repei iu the parlor? We don't Know but ifthere is iiot why in it that every measure which has made, or would have made, n government, local or general, party to a fraud li9 come from the democracy? There is not a "confidence m;ui,"t pickpocket, burglar, a tramp, a tret t robber, a scamp of anyuegree or directiou of guilt that is not a democrat. To be sure, there an honest men In the party, but setting aside the proportion, which might not be a very gratifying revelation. Is it not strange that ail scamps are democrats? We could not desire a more emphatic confession of weakness than appears in the above from the Shylock Journal. It is the fetid expectoration of a diseased organ whose treachery to the people has made it offensive to its own party, and whose treason to every principle of justice and right admitted it to the councils of those who have sought to prostrate business that they might, like land pirates, plunder the - victims of their unspeakable perfidy. It may be well just here to note a few facts in the history ot parties. When Grant was elected president the radical party was absolutely supreme. It controlled nearly all the states, and had such an overwhelning majority in congress that laws were made to gratify every whim and caprice. Federal oflices were indefinitely increased and filled with radical partisans. Vast revenues were collected and squandered. The czar of Russia was scarcely more of an autocrat than Grant, and no matter how formidable the obstacle it had to give way to his demands. The democratic party had been completely oatra cised. Fanatics had lashed popular sentiment into fury. Democrats would not bow down and worship the images that radical ism had set up. True to their convictions, true to duty, to the constitution and the right, they defied radical power, and though forced into the furnace of radical hate they walked amidst its ilames unscathed. During this mad revel of radicalism every, species of scoundrelism recorded since Cain murdered his brother was practiced. U. S. Grant, the great sol dier, tasted power and fell into the deepest slums of partisan meanness. Destitute of all sense ef shame, bribes for official station ranged all the way from bull pups to mansions, and as a consequence the various departments of the government became dens of thieves. Schemes for robbing the treasury were concocted and perfected, end the brazen faced culprits, decked out in gorgeous costumes purchased with stolen money, be came influential in shaping the affairs of the government, and were the confidential and trusted advisers of the president. . At this juncture the radical party won the sobriquet of the national thief party, a title which It earned by plunderings that can not be es timated, by frauds that can not be catalogued, and by villainies that defy description. It doped the poor, helpless freedmen, obtained their confidence, and then robbed them of their last dollar. In the name of honesty it lent its carpet-bag representatives to the south, I ke so many carrion crows, who assassinated suites, and when prostrate rifled their pockets as footpads do their victims. This purpose to debauch everything pure in government and everything of good report among men sealed the fate of the radical party. Its best men abandoned it and de nounced-! t. Horace Greeley and thousands of true men turned their backs upon it and bent their splendid faculties to overthrow it. The work, once begun, has gone ateadily forward. With the decline of radicalism there was a call for the democratic party. The people had seen constitutions stabbed and liberties cloven down. They had seen the revenues of the country disappear and thieves grbw rich, hence they demanded, a change. They -wanted to see the republic steering by the old landmarks, constitutions enthroned liberties protected, justice administered and thieves puaished; they had lost all conn decce in the radical party; they had seen it lay unholy bands upon the most sacred altars of liberty, and with aggravated hypoc risy obscure its devilish purpose with words of friendship; they had witnessed the atrocious deceit of the radical party in its pro essed devotion to the will of the people while conspirators, like rats, were under mining the structure of the government and endangering its existence. In this hour of peril the people turned trust fully and hopefully to the dem ocratic party, and most grandly has it come to their rescue. Radical states have

cut loose from their moorings, hauled down

their piratical flagand flung to the breete the victorious banner of the democratic party. The national house of representatives under democratic control has compelled thieves to step down and oat, and even now a better day is dawning. Investigations of radical stealing are still going forward. The democratic drill is. still going through stratas of villainvth&t defv description, and radical . . misrremts are still trembling in View of exT posures. As the battle between the parties goes on the democracy is daily winning new victories and advancing to positions of greater power. The senate is almost within its grasp, and . beforu many months radical supremacy in the senate will disappear forever. With every ad vance the. democratic party is meeting the expectations of the people. Violence in the south has ceased since the democratic policy forced Hayes to remove his bayonets and permit the people to govern themselves. Such a close watch is kept upon radical officials that they steal less than for the past decade of years. The expenses of the gov ernment are yearly reduced, economy is enforced and the burdens of the people are diminished. The democratic party has remonetized the silver dollar and demands the repeal of the resumption law; in a word, governmental affairs, in so far as the democratic party can control them, are more healthy and the outlook is more cheerful. There is one source of humiliation that the democratic party may not be able to remove until another presidential election occurs. Hayes,' the presidential fraud, may serve out his time and this may after all prove a blessing. -His occupancy of the office of president keeps the crimes, by virtue of which he mounted into power, prominently before the people, and in this way serves as a warning against the future machinations of returning board conspirators, and the utilization of forgery and perjury as a means of defeating the will of the American peo ple. A dispassionate survey of the field is likely to impress the people with the fact that if pickpockets, burglars, tramps, street robbers, and ecamps of every degree are wanted, the best place to find them will be in the radical party, since it is patent that honest men are leaving it as rats leave sink ing ships. ' THE SALE OE THE SENTINEL. At short intervals during the past two years the public has been treated to all sorts of wild and not unfrequently malicious rumors in regard to the Sentinel, for which there has never been any foundation in fact. At one time the management is to be changed, at another the editor is to be sud denly deposed, and when these lies have been worn threadbare we are old that the Sentinel is to be sold. Somebody has bid for it, and new owners are to step in and conduct the enterprise. Those who set these reports afloat, as a general thing, are influ enced by the hope that their lies will work injury to the business prosperity of the Sen tinel. If they can inoculate the public mind with the belief that the Sentinel is to change Lands, and that there la no stability in its proprietorship or its policy, then they feel confident that its circulation will be curtailed and its resources diminished. The Sentinel has pursued a policy that has placed it in harmony with the dem ocratic party throughout the state and the west. In saying this we deal in no vainglorious boasting. The statement is abso lutely true. Representative democrats from every county in the state have given the Sentinel substantial evidences of their un qualified approval. Why not? The Sentinel has sought by every means within its power to harmonize and solidify the demo cratic party of Indiana. It has indulged in no petty quarrels with its democratic coteniporaries. It has advocated democratic policy and democratic measures. It has fought radicalism boldly, defiantly and aggressively, and it makes no retractions or apologies. The Sentinel has been so pronounced in its advocacy of great measures for the relief of business that republicans who think more of country than of party have given us proof of their sympathy, and have denounced the Journal for its treason to their welfare. The Sentinel by its wise advocacy of financial questions has been able to bring to its support a large number of greenbackers, who in the eoming contest will give their support to tae democratic party. The Sentinel from the first has championed the cause of labor, and during the dark days of last July, when the Journal and other radical organs were advocating bullets and blood instead of patience and prudence, the Sentinel beat back the blood thirsty enemies of workingmen and stood by the constituted authorities until the storm -passed away, when it was found that life and property had not been injured. Under these circumstances the necessity for a change of owners and editors does not appear, and nothing of the kind has been or is contemplated. The Sentinel understands its mission, its position and its power, and will continue in the future as in the past to push forward its enterprises, denounce radicalism, uphold democratic principles and aid the party in routing the enemy, horse, foot and dragoon, in October. Those who are continually cir culating the rumor that something deplora ble is going to happen to the Sentinel may as well cease their puerile slanders. They have been so frequently caught in their disreputable designs and exposed that the public no longer believe their reports. The Sentinel is to-day on a firm basis, eminently able to take care of itself and to meet the reasonable expectations of reasonable men of all parties. Gold declining and bonds in active de mand are the reports from the money centers. The silver dollar has not hurt any one as yet. IiiTELLECTiTAL people, says Moody, are the hardest to convert. For Moody or the Lord to affect?

TELEGRAPHIC 8CH31ARY.

Wksxesdat, March 6. C05GMSBI0XAL, Senate. Mr. Paddock submitted a resolution authorizing the committee on the, McGarraban claim to Bend for persons and papers and to employ a stenographer, which was agreed to. The senate bill to authorize the Washington and Sioux Falls railroad company to extend its road through Dak a to was passed. Mr. Caffee reported a resolution for the bill to permit citizens of Colorado, Nevada and the territories to fell timber from the public domain for mining and other purposes. Mr. Plumb reported with the amendment the bill denning the man ner in which certain land scrip may be assigned or located, and providing lor the issue of patents, etc., which was placed on the calendar. Consideration was then resumed ot the long bond bill, which was amended to bear 4 per cent, instead of 3.65, and providing that the bonds shall be disposed for coin or United States notes at their nominal value instead of at the rate at which they may stand in the market. After a long discussion the bill passed without roll call. Mr. Sargent called up his resolution on Chinese immigration, which was made unfinished business for to-morrow. After executive session the senate adjoarned. House. The fortification appropriation bill was taken up and passed. Mr. Franklin reported a bill for the erection of a public building at Kansas City, which passed. Mr. Young reported a bill appropriating $120,000 for a fire proof building lor the national museum, which was referred to the committee of the whole. The speaker laid before the house a message from the president vetoing the bill authorizing a special term of court for the southern district of Mississippi. The house then went into committee of toe whole, when Mr. Garfield made a speech on the finance question, after which consideration was resumed of the deficiency bill, but the committee rose without action. Mr. Banning reported back the bill to reorganize the army, which was ordered printed and recommitted. Mr. Whittehorne introduced a bill to classify the navy yards, which was referred. The house then adjourned. CONGRESSIONAL. Thcesdat, March 7. Senate. Mr. Cockerell introduced a bill to provide for the organization of a Mississippi river improvement commission, for the deepening of that channel and the general improvement thereof. Mr. Sargent called up his joint resolution in regard to Chinese immigration, and made a speech thereon. James Gordon Bennett's request that tbe 1'andora be allowed to sail under the American flag was agreed to by the committee on commerce, and after some unimportant business tbe senate adjourned until Monday. House. Mr. McMahon, from the committee on accounts, reporvd a resolution authorizingthe committee on rules to employ seven experts to be assigned by the speaker to such committee of investigation as may seem proper. Mr. Foster said this was but a proposition to increase the number ot dead beats from Ohio, who last year drew thousands from the contingent fund of the house. This brought about some little discussion, and Mr. Springer offered a substitute authorizing the committee on expenditures in the several departments of the government to employ each a clerk or expert, and also authorising the committee on post offices and roads to employ two experts, which was adopted, and the house went into committee of the whole on the deficiency of the appropriation bill, which was finally passed after considerable discussion. miscellaneous. I. Bloom it Co., wholesale grocers of New Orleans, nave EnspeDded. Howell, Garro & Co., a hardware firm of Cincinnati, failed yesterday. The total liabilities of E. McGillvray. of Ottawa, Ont, foot3 up $032,000. A fire at Cleveland, O., destroyed considerable property, mostly covered by insur ance. Charles r. Taft was appointed receiver of the Miami Valley savings bank, at Cincin nati, yesterday. A fire at Spartansburg, Pa., yesterday de stroyed nearly every business house in the place, incendiarism. Frimy, March 8. CONGRESSIONAL. House. A petition was presented from the American type foundries protesting against the new tariff bill. A committee was appointed to arrange the proceedings for placing the centennial memorial in the state department. The speaker laid before the house quite a number of communications. which were referred. Tbe house then went into the committee of the whole upon the private calendar, the unfinished business being tbe bill for the payment of certain ante-bellum southern mail contractors. A large discussion took place, and without acting upon the bill the committee arose, and the house eooir afterward adjourned. MISCELLANEOUS. The New York button company bas failed. The liabilities are $100,000,000; actual assets about $m,jw in stock, machinery, etc. llichael Connelly, a student at tbe St. Louis university, was drowned yesterday wnne on a nsmng excursion down tbe river. The explosion of the boiler in Robinson's saw mill at London, Ontario, destroyed the building and machinery and killed Alex. King, tbe foreman. Augustus M. Turney, the defaulting paying teller of tbe bank of North America, of rew i ore, has been released on the criminal indictment against him on $10,000 bail. Mrs. Lydia M. Roosevelt, whose boast it was that she was the first woman who descended the Ohio river in a steamboat. died in her home at skaneateles, ew York, aged Mb years. A man named Taquet recently left the upper Ottawa shanties, and started to walk home, lie was out seven days without food, ana on reaching a larm ' house gorged him self to such an extent that he died shortjy aiier warns. An affray occurred last night at a temper ance meeting in Kirkwood. Missouri, be tween Louis Backley and Louis Meinicke. over an old quarrel, in which one of the parties received injuries which are likely to prove fatal. The house committee on Pacific railroads agrees to recommend the passage of the bill appropriating S-'O.OOO for a survey for a rail road from Austin, Texas, through Chihuahua and Sonora to Topolovaihpo harbor, gulf of uamornia. . Saturday, March 9. ' CONGRESSIONAL. House. Mr. Blackburn presided in the absence of Speaker Ilandall. Mr. Foster. from the committee on appropriations, reported a bill providing for an appropriation of $1,538,445 for deficiencies for services of the government for the fiscal year of 1878. A (night session for debate was ordered for Monday night. Mr. Kelley made a reply to a speech made by Mr. Garfield some weeks since. Mr. Garfield also mad a few remarks In reply to Mr. Kelley. The

hou' then went into a committee of the w'jole on the consular and diplomatic appropriation bill, but without arriving at a decision the committee arose and the house adjourned. ' THE INSANE HOSPITAL.

Ths Reports of the Trustees and Officers. The report of the hospital for the insane was filed in the office of the secretary of state yesterday. But little bas occurred during the year out oi the ordinary nature of busi ness. The number of inmates treated ia larger than ever before, and the wards have at ail times have been hlled to their utmost capac ity. Although many have been refused admission the statutes have been complied with and none marked recent have been re fused. The managers therefore contem plate with satisfaction' the approach of the time when all can be cared for. The wages of the employes have been reduced to correspond with the reduced appropriations. With other reductions which will be made, the cost per - patient per week will be about $3.75. The trustees attest the efficiency and good conduct of the superin tendent and officers. The report is signed :y r. H. Jameson, Geo. F. Chittenden and John T.. Richardson. The report of the superintendent contains the following items: Remaining in hospital November 1, 1376 Men, 300; women, 300. Admitted during tbe year Men, 2os; women, 219. Discharged and died Men, 216; women, 217. Remaining Octo ber 31, 1877 Men, 312; women, 302. During the summer months the average number in the hospital was over 620, but on the approach of cold weather for hygenic reasons the number had to tc reduced. Although the reduced expenditures has caused no marked discomfort yet. he super intendent believes that a more liberal scale of wages and more liberal appropriations giving a greater variety of food would, be advisable. . The financial exhibit is as follows: On hand November, 1876, $50,419.41; appropriation, seven months, $75,000; clothing account to April, $17,227 35; total, $148,741 06; total expenditures, 5143,43.G0; balance, $765.86. arious needed repairs have been made on the building, including changing some dark rooms or cells into ordinary rooms. The water supply is not sufficient, and should be increased before the hospital for women is opened for use. The state should also own and control the Eagle creek bottom land adjoining the hospital farm. The superintendent returns thanks to various parties for donations of money, to publishers of papers, etc. An itemized statement of expenditures is also tiled, the vouchers for the same being tiled in the auditor s office. The steward's report shows that the farm products were of the value of $3,K35 25; cost of production, $2,400; net, $1.235.25.. The steward shows sales of articles, including hides and tallow, to the amount of $6,143 94. Accompanying the report is a set of sta tistical tables giving the history of the institution from November, 184$, to October 31. 1877. The whole number of patients admitted during that time is 7,178; discharged, cured, 3.52; discharged, incurable, 1,365; died, 806. The tables are of vaiue to legislators and others engaged in the study of soc ial sciences. THE TIMES. Some of the Cbirf Causes of Itasluess Prostration. Boston Globed In yesterday's Globe appeared an article under the caption which heads this article. In that we endeavored to trace tome of tbe causes which have led to financial distress in the business world and among all of the industrial interests of New England and througbout the entire nation. We saVl then, and say now, that the banking system, as advocated and adopted by the republican party, in and out of congress, was defective ad that it wrought injury to all classes. This statement we believe, to be true, as will ultimately be proved to be so. We stated that tbe government should furnish the circulating medium, either in government notes or in greenbacks, or in gold and silver. These notes the government can use and keep in circulation to the amount of $400,000,000, on which notes the government would pay no interest, whereas the government now pays from $15,0" (0,009 to '$20,000,000 annually in the shape of interest on bonds deposited with the secretary of the treasury to make good the circulation of the bank notes. This interest can be saved to the people "by a system ot free banking, which means that the government should furnish tbe circulation, and let anybody who chooses to bank do so; only confine those who desire to bank to a discount and depost ousiness. This system of free banking would Lave tbe advantage of holding the bankers to an individual responsibility which docs not now attach to the directors of the national banks. Again, one of the causes which has operated to create a depression in -trade and in the manufacturing districts is the high protective tariff, which became a lam npon the advent of the republican party to power in 1S6I. Never before have the people had the opportunity to fully test the protective system, as inaugurated by Henry Clay, until now", for the reason that the advocates of the measure were never in power long enough at any one time to give the protective system full swing, and allow it to produce its legitimate consequences, both to the manufacturers and to the great mass of the people. For sixteen years the manufac turers have had all the protection they asked fav s 1at'rni4 on 1 what has hdan thfl reeutt Why, at first the manufacturers ot woolen goods made money by the exclusion of foreign goods which came in competition with the goods manufactured here, and the American manufacturers made money rapidly. But in time this branch of industry became crowded with small manufacturers, who erected upon almost .every stream in "New England woolen mills, and in this way tbe market became glutted and overstocked, eo that the home competition became more disastrous than the foreign, and, as a consequence, the manufacturers had to submit to a reduction in price for their fabrics, and, as a matter of course, the operatives must submit in their turn to a reduction of wages. This boiling down process has been going on nntil the small concerns are closed up and the machinery sold for old iron, while the rich concerns have barely pulled through the panic which bas overshadowed tne nation tor tne last n veyears, Again, in order to carry the protective system through congress, it became necessary for the woolen manufacturers at the north to combine support from the sooth and west. This was done by a protection to the sugar interests in Louisiana, the hemp and tobacco in Kentucky and Virginia mith the iron interests of Pennsylvania, Maryland and New Jersey, and with tbe wool growing interests of Ohio and of Vermont What has been the result? Let us see. Home competition has done for the iron interests, the sugar interests, the wool growing interests, what competition has done for the woolen manu facturers in isew England. California and Texas have driven wool growing from the farms in Ohio and in Vermont, for the reason that the climate in California and in Texas is so mild that they can raise sheep for less money than it can be done at tbe west or in New England, The high tariff put

upon the raw material produced in Australia, in Brazil, etc., bas operated to dmit the amount of foroign wool used heve, and as a logical consequence the countri es named

win not tase our manuiactura goods or American product! to any great extent, but A 1 - J it ' 1 1 1 a - - V. iraue uirecuy wim xngiana, which nation receive!! the. raw m'ntunal a F mA Australia free of duty. Again, this loss of business has affected the carrying trade of the United States, so that now American commerce has dwindled down to a coastwise traffic. . while oar nrndnrt. am en t abroad, if sent at all, in foreign bottoms, and thu freight on the same nn'rl trt fareicnara in tmlA T7n1n y.i.A : r - ... Q.vw i litcumstances, is there any wonder that busiI . a ness languisnes, mat people are poor, and that OI1T inrlllflt Hal nnrcnita f nTii.4in iK.t of agriculture, languish? Has not all of iuis uisiress come upon tne peome in conMntlFnM nf nnta lA0ifil.tlAn in Vttrraxl financial and revenue laws, which financial measures and revenue laws have been in direct nnnositinn t.i tha financial thanrin promulgated, and reven le laws as enacted oy me aemocratic party lor over htty years? We write this much in no partisan spirit, but to state facts and to bring home to the people the true cause of the financial distress Which ia nnnn thorn nnd tn nnin out the way to remedy the evils compiaiueu oi. CONGRESSMAN BANNING. Interview on tbe Army, on the Tax on Whisky rbU Tobacco and Oilier Subjects. Cincinnati Commercial.'! A reporter for the Commercial, finding that General Banning was in the city yesterday, hunted him cp, and suggested an interview. The general said: "I came to bring my family; I want my children to commence school with the spring session. I will start back Saturday evening, so as to be in the Louse Monday morning. I have a few minutes to spare what can I do for you?" Reporter I want to ask your opinion as to what further legislation, if any, will be had concerning the tax on whisky and tobacco. Answer I think Mr. Carlisle's bill extending the bonded period on spirits will be passed in some shape. I could not now give an opinion of any value as to what length of time the penod will be extended. The bill is now in the hands of a sub-committee of ways and means, of which Hr. Tucker of Virginia and Mr. Burchard of Illinois, are members. Both these gentlemen told me they were in favor of extension. A bill will be passed this month so as to cover the spirits that otherwise would have to be withdrawn next month. This measure meets with the approval of the commissioner of internal revenue. I had a talk with Mr. Foster on Wednesday. He told me he would support such a measure. I am in hopes the matter will come into the house and be disposed of early next week. Mr. Sayler bas been untiring in bis efforts to secure earl$ and favorable action. The eastern members oppose any reduction in the tax on spirits or tobacco, for fear of the reimposition of tbe income tax. Western men are divided. There will bs no reduction at this session of congress of tbe tax on spirits. As to the tax on tobacco, that question remains undecided; it is pending in the ways and means committee. Question What about the tariff bill? Answer Mr. Wood's bill, which makes many radical changes, is being considered by the committee on ways and means in secret session, so that I know very little more about it than the public. It is believed, however, that the bill will be very materially changed before it is reported to the house. Question How about your bill to establish a mint out here; will it pass? Answer I hops so. The matter is pending before Mr. Alexander Stephens' committee on coinage, weights and measures. I was before the committee the other dav by invitation. The committee have fixed Wednesday next us the time for the presentation of the claims of the various cities Chicago, SL Louis, Kansas City and other places being conijetitors with us. I think the committee, after hearing what is t be said in behalf of the points named, will send a sub-committee to look over the ground and report. It is likely that the committee will recommend tbe establishment of at least one additional mint at some point in the west. Our people ought to bestir themselves, and make a proper presentation of our claim. Cincinnati is the center of population and the business of the country, and in eTery way the best point for the proposed now mint that could be selected. Question How about your army tills? Answer There are three of them one reducing the pay of all commissioned officers on an average of about 20 per cent, which still leaves them about 15 per cent, more than was paid to officers during the war who did the fighting. This bill saves a million and a quarter of money per annum, and leaves all the oltcera well and generously paid. The second bill increases the pay of certain non-commissioned officers, a very meritorious class, now but poorly paid. This increased expentliture will only amount to about $50,000 a y ar. The third is the more important of all the bills. It is a bill to reoreanize the army, and seeks to meet the difficulty that now renders our army a most expensive and inefficient one. We have officers enough to oflicer eighty or a hundred thousand men, and regimental tnd company organizations correspondingly out of proportion. Our army, according to a statement made to congress at the extra session, consisted of 21,002 men, including all non-combatants, such as extra duty men, etc. This report states that 1,611 men were on miscellaneous duty and 0,076 were on extra duty. Malting this and other deductions there were left only 16,315 men, according to the report of the adjutant general to congress, with about 2,300 officers. Take from tbe 16,315 men the live sergeants and eight corporals to a cotipany, and we have very few privates left, and our army is a most ridiculous affair. It costs us more to pay the commissioned officers of our army than it does to pay all the enlisted men. We nave companies in our army made up of commissioned and non-commissioned officers. An officer who testified before the military committee of last congress said that he had seen a commissioned officer go on parade with his company, which consisted of the officer and a covering sergeant. This testimony will b found in my report to the last congress. The pay of the officers of our army is entirely too large. Question How much did you reduce General Shermaa's pay? What caused his statement? Answer I do not know what was the occasion of General Sherman's statement. He must have been in very bad humor, to say the least, when interviewed. His pay, nearly $18,000 )er annum, bas been cut down by the committee to $10,000, which, in my opinion, is as much" as he should receive. It is as much as is paid to" any officer of the government, except the president himself. Question What is the troth in the report of the large pay t5 officers inVties? Answer The cfllcers on duty in the cities get, by way of commntatlonfor quarters, forage and fuel, much more money than officers on duty on the frontier. V A colonel on duty in Washington receives foV quarters

and fuel, and length of service pay, a little over $6,200 per year. During the war a colonel received, calculating everything, about $2,700. The government paid, during the last fiscal year, for quarters alone, of officers on duty in Washington, over $06,000. These same officers get more than $28,000 for fuel, and more than $30,000 for foraee. Thia make

about $124,000 paid to these officers for quarters, fuel and forage alone. And they get their regular pay and length of service pay f n addition. Question About how many officers are there on duty in Washington? Answer Something over 100; perhaps 125. Question How many troops do they command? Answer Perhaps an equal number of troops. Question Can you give a little statement concerning San Francisco, New York, Chi cago and other cities where there are armv headquarters? Answer No, I can't, but we have asked for those reports, and will have them. Question How much do you propose to reduce the expenses of the army? Answer They ought to be reduced over six million of dollars. This reduction, in my opinion, might be made without any injury to the service whatever. As at present organized, I think our army very inefficient. In one of the Indian fights last fall a regiment consisted of about 123 men, with officers enough to have commanded a full regiment At that very time there were more than 3,000 men on extra duty, all of whom might have been on the frontier, where they were needed. Now. West Point is too expensive. It is estimated that it costs the country an average of $23,000 tor each graduate. I believe in keepine West Point up, but it can be done more reasonably than that. Question Can you give me these figures of tbe cost of armies? Answer I can give you a few for instance: No. of Total annual Anl cost men. cost. Russia 7h7,S) 1141,215,615 France. ...,70,oO H0,yo7,-2.1 Germany. 419,K-39 92,673,403 Austria 50,60,000 England l:,7i0 &,,ltil,015 United 8tates.. 2,)u0 37,0S2,725 per man. . 212 220 170 1,854 An Excellent Idea, Praise your wife, man; for pity's sake give her a little encouragement; it won't hart her. She made your home comfortable, your heart bright and shining; food agreeable. For pity's sake tell her yon thank her. if nothing more. She don't expect it; it will make her eves onen wider than thev have these 10 years, but it will do 'her good, and yon, too. There are many women to day thirsting for words of praise, the language of encouragement Through summer's heat through winter's toll, they have drudged uncomplainingly, and so accustomed have their fathers, brothers and husbands become to their monotonous labors that they look for and upon them as they do the daily rising of the sun and its daily going down. Home every day may be made beautiful by an appreciation of its hblmess. You know, if you can take from your drawer a clean shirt whenever you want it that somebody's fingers have ached in the toil of making it fresh and agreeable, so smooth and lustrous. Everything that pleases the eye and sense has been produced by constant work, much thought, great care and untiring efforts, bodily and mentally. It is not that many men do not appreciate these things and feel a glow of gratitude for numberless attentions bestowed upon them in sickness and in health, but they don't come with a hearty ''Why, how pleasant you make things look, wife," or "I am obliged to vou for taking so much pains." They thank the tailor for their "tits; they thank a man in a full omnibus who gives them a seat; they thank a young lady who moves along in a concert room in short they . thank -everybody out of doors because it is the custom, and come home, tip their chairs back, and tneir heels up, and pull out the newspaper; grumble if their wife asks them to take the biby, scild if the fire bas gone down, or, if everything is just right, shut their mouths with a snapof satisfaction, but never say, "I thank you." I tell you what, men, young and old, if you do but show ordinary civility to those common articles of housekeeping, your wives, if you would give them the hundred and sixteenth part of the compliments you almost choked them with before you were married, fewer women would seek for other sources of affection. Praise your wife, then, for all the good qualities she has, and you may rest assured that her deficiencies are counterbalanced by your own. Ventilation. In an admirable little pamphlet on ven tilation, written by W. C. Van Bibber, M. D., for tbe Maryland state board of health, the noxious effects of what are popularly known as close days are explained very clearly. The theory is advanced that this atmospheric phenomenon may account for the production of malaria in certain seasons) and places. Fever and ague and remittant fever are common in the flat lands bordering;, npon tbe Chesapeake bay and in the levelvalleys of fresh water rivers, as the Potomac, Patnxent and Susquehanna, and also in similar situations almost everywhere throughout the earth. In such localities,, during the months of July, August and September there are many days when there is no ventilation in these topographical situations, because there is butlittle horizontal motion in the atmosphere at large. The range of the thermometer during these months, in this climate, is high during the day. and tbe water in the marshes and swamps being perfectly still and exposed to tbe ardent rays of the sun is heated and gives rise to the formation of copious vapors. It is then that the motionless air, resting npon the stagnant and vaporing waters, becomes impregnated with the poison of malaria, it is then that this poison produces ill health. Whatever tbe essential essence of malaria may be, it is manifest that on account of its subtle nature, tbe atmosphere will be more likely to be charged with it and to retain it when tbe topography checks tbe natural process of ventilation, or the movemeat of bodies of air. Tbe question whether a gentleman walking with a lady should give his right or left arm, is frequently discussed. Custom and written etiquette are rather in favor of the right although there are excellent reasons in behalf of the left arm. Either one or the other permanently retained is vastly better than the awkward and absurd habit of changing arms, so as to place the lady on the inside of the promenade. One advantage of giving the left ami is that the person on tha right naturally takes the lead, so that, in the country or city. In the street or park, he thus readily directs the way, instead of waiting to consult with his companion or causing a Jostling by each of them trying to move to opposite points. Another advantage is, that in a crowded thoroughfare where the sidewalk is invaribly incumbered with merchandise and thronged with people, a gentleman needs his right arm to remove obstructions and keep rude or careless folks out of the way. Thk birds are singing and building nests in the forests of Connecticut at least a. month sooner than they have ever made their appearance before.