Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1878 — Page 2

THE INDIAXA-'STATJB SEKTIKEI WEDNESDAY MOIlNIH(Jr, MY 8, 1878.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8. A pfeck of war is glimmering on the Texas frontier. j Which is best, the religion our mothers ! taught us r the infidelity Bob Ingersoll preaches? The European war cloud gets black and ' blacker. When it bursts, may a rain of ; prosperity fall on us. j The republicans are suddenly converted j to the value of troth. U isn't found at the j bottom of their wells especially Mad Wells, j Thr republicans are always preaching equality of the races. Why don't they nominate some good colortd xuan for a decent office? A beaki of Ave hundred dollars is offered by a radical council for the arrest of a late radical member. Murphy should be sent after him. Candidate for positions upon the republican Mate ticket are neither numerous nor lively but a gilt net may jet be constructed that will capture enough victims. j Is it Ingersoll's eloquence or peculiar views that attracts Indianapolis audiences to his lectures? Do republican principles j breed infidelity as well as other strange doctrines? ! Five hundred dollars is the Mini now of- i fered for the apprehension of missiDg republinon winnMlmsn- hilt still democrats ID I pear willing to bear their proportion of this necessary burden. Jony Mosrisky is reported to have died a poor man, although he must at various times have been the possessor of great wealth. lie failed to "call" the last "turn," however, and left his family penniless. Joux Sherman, in discussing the Florida and Louisiana frauds, said he saw enough in Louisiana to make even hit blood boil. Wasn't Sherman at the quadroon ball in New Orleans, given in honor of the visiting statesman ? Bkechke preaches the doctrine of no hell, but he didn't come to that conclusion till after the Forida and Louisiana frauds had been committed. We would like to have Hayes' opinion on Beecher's theory about six months from now. . Another revolution broke out in Mexico a tew moments ago. That eminent Indian iao, John W. Foster, who represents the American eagle in the halls of the Montezuma?, should speak to Diaz about the trouble and have it suppressed. The brief telegraphic sumoiarv of Senator Voorbees' speech, delivered yesterday, indicates that he isin full accord with the people of the western country, and represents the toiling millions who are everywhere suffering throughout the length and breadth of the land. Always tearless and always outspoken, the senator can rc?t assured that he is indorsed by nine-tenths of the voters of Indiana, regardless of party. Tn;: republican journals assert that Florida has produced the most infernal set of liars of the nineteenth century. General Barlow, of New York, whose republicanism is beyond question, and whose honesty and integrity, as compared with other "visiting statesmen," is as an oasis in the desert, after investigating all the fact4, asserted that the electoral vote o! Florida belonged to Tilden. The question now is, where did the liars come from, and to what party did they belong? PUBLIC MOHAIA. In a republican government there are two classes of teachers of pnbh? morals. In the one class we place tha pulpit orators and workers in the cause of Christianity. To them is specially consigned the duty of I educating the rising generation in thfe truths of the Christian faith, of directing their footsteps in the narrow pith cf personal integrity, of pure morals and patriotic feeling?. They hold in a peculiar sense the confidence of parents, the love of the young and the respect of the aged. They are welcomed visitors around the family hearthstone. They are the custodians of family secrets, and In sorrow and distress they are the counselors and the comforters, and the directors to a better condition. These high and holy conditions of life lead the people to regard them with that respect and almost reverence that expresses the sincerity of the purest feelings of humanity. Regarded in this light, what must be the revulsion of feeling when these ministers confess that the characters they have sustained have been but cloaks to . cover their utter depravity of action and their morarperversion of feeling. Among the most distinguished members of this class of public teachers was Henry Ward Beecher. Wealth, distinction and public confidence made "ambition o'erleap itself," and forgetting his Maker in the contemplation of his own greatness, he fell, like Lucifer, never to rise again. The passions of his baser nature triumphed over the principles of his faith, and in fond dalliance with a member 61 his Hock he threw off the cloak of Christianity that disguised his devilishnesa, and from the character of a public teacher he fell to the position of a common sinner. There are others who have followed in the footsteps of this once distinguished man, and we need not go far from among our own people to find instances where the love of notoriety Is leading them away irom the first pnacipks and' the holy teachings of the Gospel of Christ. There is another class of public teachers who exercise an influence on the moral feelings of the people that tends to-the elevation of public sentiment or its perversion to base feelings or acts. These are the men who are entrusted by the people with the administration of public affairs. They leave their impress upon public affairs for good or for evil, and leave to the comlntf generation! a reputation that honors them in emulating or .dlsgnsts them by iU utter want of principle. In oar ' day and generation we have had some illus

trious examples of the latter class, among whom we can mention the Christian statesman of - Indiana, who is consigned to an oblivion during his life it were charity not to disturb. Maine fur nishes a statesman whose sobriquet of the plumed knight is somewhat tarnished by the Mulligan letters. Then comes one whose loss of a limb appeals with an eloquence it is hard to resist to judge without malice his part in the Florida frauds. Then comes another whose absence in Russia is part protection for the agony of feeling that would rack him were he compelled to face the indignation of a people whose verdict he had reversed, and against whose liberty he had conspired. Then we must not forget another, who, under the pretense of upholding the honor of the country among foreign nations, has impoverished the people by robbing them of the fruits of their honest toil to enrich the money lenders of the world. His record WMild not be complete without the mention of his connection with frauds in a sovereign state that throttled its people and seated in the placeof Washington a mm whose only claim to the position rests on these odious frauds. These distinguished examples ' that will disgrace the pages of American history, and be regarded by the rising generation as examples of odious renown, are all members of the republican party and all occupying honorable and influential positions in Its councils and direc tion. It i3 our duty to place them before the people. The duty of the people we leave to their own judgment. DEMOCRATS, COME HOME. We will not humiliate ourselves by begging any citizen to vote the democratic ticket, but to our democratic friends with whom we have stood side by side for eighteen years of radical rule and radical ruin, we have a right to speak. We have a right to come to your fireside and talk, sot with a forked -tongue, but as a member of the party that loves good government, that loves contentment, happiness and prosperperi ty : that hates oppression, venality and corruption, and say come home to the democratic household. When we hear an honest democrat, endowed with reasonable intelligence, in these days of enlightenment, with all the glaring outrages borne by the lightning over the world that the suffrages of states have been stolen, that a president had - been counted into office through perjury, the confession coming from the lips of the victims themselves, say "there is no difference in the old political 'parties, a new organization must take the 'field," we are amazed. If some unwashed rascal, who properly belongs to the republican party, has crept into an official position under the name of democracy, and proved recreant to his trust, can he be compared with radical villains who have robbed forty-five millions ot people of their choice for the presidency? Can it be said that a rarty out of power for a generation is responsible for having your homes swept away by the robbery and contraction of the eighteen years of uninterrupted radical rule? Democratic friends, when tin recollection of honest government, of better days, of disenthralling by the power of the ballot from every branch of your governmeut the fattened frauds, th9 moths of honest substance, the thieves of you- happiness, the assassins of liberty, the fillers of poor houses, the banKrupters of a country, the destroyers of religion, the dethroners of mind, the housebreakers of family circles, the concentration of every thing repugnant to American statesmanship, will you desert the democratic household? Let us hoist the curtain and look behind the scenes and see the workings of the leaders of the national party of Indiana. Who are they? What are their political antecedents? James Buchanan, "the Plan," radical; Ezra A. Olleman. radical; Anson B. Waicott, radical. What did this trio of leaders do two ycarj ago, a few weeks before, the election? They attempted to transfer the independent party to the republican. Walcot withdrew his name for governor in a card requesting his friends to support Ben Harrison against Governor Williams. It was then charged that Olleman handled the filthy lucre and failed to divide fairly. Now the "Plan's" arrangement for the campaign is to organize thoroughly in democratic townships and counties, and go through the election, to the end that if the draw is large enough from the democracy to secure a republican victory, Hayes is to take care of Bach., the "Flan," by giving him a territorial judgeship. The republican party refuse to invest any more money in a third party. Can democrats be led loager into the camp ot the republican party by corrupt, and designing schemers?. Or will they say, Thus far we have followed, and no farther will we go?

THE EAKIiY STATE CONVENTION. The Sentinel favored an early convention to iiominate a state ticket and lay down its platform of principles, and fixed the day not later than the 22 d of February. The state central committee met in January and called the convention for the 20th of February, the 22d coming too late in the week for the convenience of delegates. What was the result? The largest and most harmonious convention ever held in the state; the nomination of a ticket that not one word cf truthful criticism has or can be made by the opposition a ticket composed of gentlemen of ability, integrity and personal popularity, every candidate in hearty sympathy with .the platform, and the platform in sympathy with the people of . the state. There can be no double construction placed on a single plank in the platform. It requires no editorials or stump speeches to construe its meaning. The humblest voter in Indiana understands it. The radical party will attempt to stand on it and at the same time keep off it, and fall by 20,000 majority in its effort to straddle the toft and hard money element of its own party. Its candidates for congress, every one of them, will attempt to stand on Ihe democratic platform in their canvass before the people. The Hon. John Hanna, in this district, will point to his democratic record In congress with pride, notwithstanding the Indianapolis Journal said the remonetization of silver, was a democratic measure and silver dishonest money. The national party, if the Buchanan Influence can control it, will have a candidate advocating the 20th of February platform ia

the interest of John Hanna, for which the leaders, as they term themselves, will , be rewarded by the republican party, the object being to divide the vote of sincere and honest men, who stand together on the same platform. ' James Buchanan himself, the "Plan," was an independent candidate for congre.s in this district two years ago in the interest of Mr. Hanna, The scheme won, and Buch has flourished even through the hard times. Will the opposition to the Hayes and John Sherman policy be divided this year by a few trading demagogues that are making a living off of the credulity of the people? The early declarations of the democracy in thia state on the financial question haditsdesired influence on congress. Silver has been remonetizd, and to day gold, silver and greenbacks are within a half of one per cent, of each other. Other states have adopted our platform, and the Indiana democracy stands foremost in the advocacy of the people's ideas of honest government nd honest money. Governor Thomas A. Hendricks by the outspoken declaration of principles in the platform, and by his masterly, bold and statesmanlike speech at the convention, added much to his popularity throughout the country. We are satisfied with the result of the democratic convention of the 20th of February, and

have no doubt of its ratification in October ' by a round majority of the people of the state. II AT EM AND II IS TITLE. Recent events are ot a character to place Hayes, the fraudulent president, in a position of extreme delicacy. The facts are coming to the surface that he was cognizant of all the frauds practiced in his interest, and the indications are that he will be compelled to face the music, however discordant the notes may be. As the case now stands at least seventy-five per cent, cf the American people believe that the chief executive of the republic obtained his position by a series of frauds which, as they come more fully to light, fill the public mind with deep humiliation and burning indignation. Recent Washington advices indicate pretty conclusively that the investigation of the Florida frauds is to go forward, and ' it is intimated that when once commenced the investigation will take a much wider range than was at first anticipated. This is by no means an unsatisfactory aspect of the case. From first to last the democratic party has dehianded the testimony, the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and the fact that some democrats are charged with aiding radical conspirators to place Hayes in power does not dampen the ardor of honest men to know the true Inwardness of the inlamous business. INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT. Ingersoll's Lecture on the Democracy of the Fireside A Large Audience Most Thoroughly Entertained. One of the largest and most intelligent audiences that have assembled in the Grand opera house this season last night listene d for two houratothe wit andeloquence ofOl. R. G. Ingersoll. of Peoria, 111. Tne large turnout was a marked tribute to the brilliant rep utation he has achieved as a public speaker. A few minutes after $ o'clock the curtain rose and a neshy, but well made man, in full evening dress, with a round, Bmooth face and a bald head, came hastily upon the stage, sainted his audience, and before the applause had died away, began to talk, and at once eliciting the interests of his bearers held it unwearied until he closed. The ' title of the lecture was "Intellectual De- i Knlnnmnn Tho TmArnpir of tho fire. I side," and throughout it was a plea for the largest liberty of thought. He said that liberty bears the same relation to thought that spacedoes to matter. The less a man knows the more willing he is to swear it is that way. The more he knows the more charity he has. He characterized our fathers as mental serfs and their fathers as intellectual slaves. There never was a time in the world when men and women could express their honest thoughts. Every man was entitled to the honest thoughts of all others, and he could not see why any man should be afraid to say his say. He had started out to test whether this is really a free country, and whether people had a right to speak as they thought. It seemed to him to be a question of intellectual development. Man's condition depended somewhat upon his surrounding?, but chiefly upon- his intellect. Colonel Ingersoll said he might gues the space across the house, but would not say that he would hit it exactly. No God would damn a man for guessing wrong if he does his level best. He characterized Intellectual liberty as the right to think right and to think: wrong, provided you do the best you can. Our dear fathers thought they could force people to believe. Colonel Ingersoll. in bis characteristic way, here described the way they used the thumbscrew, the collar of torture and the rack, to sharpen - the minds of those who diflered with them. This was done in tne name of infinite love and goodness. Any man who would ostracise another because he does not believe in the same church is equally guilty.. He plead for absolute intellectual liberty, and denied that any man could rightfully punish another for investigating for himself. It is a question of brain. Colonel Ingersoll then proceeded to illustrate bis thought by picturing the progress of inventionfrom the dugout of the savage to the steamship, from the heathen idol to the piece of modern statuary, from the twisted stick with which the- ancients plowed to the agricultural implements of to-day. Ihen he told of having seen a collection of skulls from those of the mandrill and the bushmen up to those of our fathers, showiDg a corresponding gradual increase in intellectuality. He spoke of the savage in his dugout, and said that low skull had had his ideas of politics and religion and believed in a personal devil. It was the joy of his life. He supposed that the priests of his day said that the dugout was the best ever invented and any one that might have suggested putting a stick in the middle and talked about wind would have been declared an infidel. We have improved on that gentleman's dngout; why not improve upon his politics? It is always said that the religion of that gentleman suits us. You must let that devil alone. There has been no patentable improvement on him in ti.000 years. So in the history of the world every man who has taken a ftep in advance has been a heretic Heresy grows; orthodoxy rots. So in churches the man who is nearest an infidel has the largest congregation. The best men are the liberal men. Colonel Ingersoll said that now there Is a little liberty; men could say mean things, and he never knew how mean things could be said until he had read the religious press. He spoke of the solemnity of ministers, when he could not tell what there was to be grave about, and said think of bow the wrath of the Infinite must kindle when He sees a couple ot children playing seven up. He pictured the horrors of the days of the inquisition; and said that as long S3 he lived he should do what he could to preserve and augment the liberty of. man, woman

and child. After saying that nearly every religion accounts for all meanness, the fault of woman, Colonel Ingersoll gave it his own way, with a running commentary on the Biblical account of the creation and the Brahmin's version, saying that if either story were to be proved true he hoped it would be the last, as in that the man took upon himself the blame of the transgression, and the Supreme Branch forgave them. He then paid a tribute to marriage, saying who had not loved and been loved his life has been a failure. Love is the very thing that will pay 10 per cent to lender and borrower. He believed in the marriage state to be a civil contract and that the partnership was equal. Treat your wife like a flower and she will filLyour life with perfume. Women were never admitted to any place but that it was followed by improvement. Some say they haven't sense enough to vote. It don't take much. Fame say they have no genius for politeness. He said let them try it and see if tbey cortld get this country in a worse mnss than he himself had helped to get it. Colonel Ingersoll then spoke of the rights of children. He believed in being its honest with them as with his banker. He did not believe in the government of the club, but treat them with kindness. Be honor bright with the children. Raise children 10 be thinkers and investigators, and not followers and believers. His idea about the family was to be honest, fair and kind. Colonel Ingersoll dwelt upon the orthodox treatment cf children, illustrating by anecdote and reminiscence, alternately provoking tears and laughter. The close of his lecture

was davoted to the achievements of science, saying that it had given to man every blessing he Lad. j The Next lrellent";Mth's Ideas or i the Coming Mho. Writing from New York to the Philadel- ! phia limes, "Oath " says: The two items of interest I learjied at the launch Saturday were from Secretary Schurz, saying it was a fortunate thing for public morals that old Granny Howe had taken the role of Balaam; and from Speaker Cooper, expressing the belief that Don Cameron's re election was certain unless the democrats got the legislature. The powers of good and evil are yet in their first fresh contention. Hayes gaining in steadiness and anti-Hayes aroppiug off very little in cussedness. The latter now base all their hopes on running Grant in 1SS0, but while they .coalesce on that hope the multitude is antagonizicgon Grant. Dull as the times are, people feel that they medicine us and behold in Grant's return to power the circling vultures flying lower. Every day, while the politicians resolve on Grant, the people, even those who apologized for him, grow cooler. It is not Grant, but Grantism, which repels; not the wooden Trojan horse, but the thieves in his belly. While Hayes stifly resists the Grant puddle at Washington, there is no great interest about his successor. Everybody sees that he is starving the politicians out, and that is why the more hungry band, led by Conkling and his pals, support Huntington and Gould. URAXT AND HEXDKICKS. By present indications Thomas A. Hendricks will be nominated on the first ballot in 1880, unless the party organs and leaders sellout for cash in hand and Tilden wins again. Tilden and Hendricks may extinguish each other and Judge Thurman succeed. The vice president will be almost certain to be a southerner. Tom Bayard having a chance, Gordon or Ransom the probability. In this city Hendricks is the favorite of the Kelly wing, to which belongs Lieutenant Governor Dorsbeimer, and Bayard continues to be the pet of the Belmont wing; the latter accounts for Belmont personally arraigning Hendricks on the money question. There is uo eastern candidate but McCiellan, and his possibilities are not above the vice presidency.' The certainty of democratic success will make the next nomination hard to purchase. It was sold to Tilden before because it was not thought to be worth much. The presidency, as a sure thing, is not priceable; in a lottery it can be computed. There are $10,000,000 to be spent by the president and party every year, of which one-half is in their absolute control. Mr. Tilden would probably be as obnoxious to the cormorants of his party as Hayes has been to the republicans. Tilden, besides, has shown an apparent disposition to treat with the uneasy and spleen tortured Conkling, so that many think that Tilden would be a part of Grantism. Puritanical Heathen. New York Sun. The six states lying east of the Hudson send a good many thousands of dollars abroad every year to be expended in converting the heathen. Quicker and larger returns might perhaps be obtained by inventing a per centage of this missionary money in the civilization and Cbristianizition of the heathen within their own borders. There are more of these than even well informed New Ed glanders, who have not made a special study of the subject, could be made to believe in advance of personal investigation. Within sound of church and college bells there are nests of ignorance and vice as essentially barbaric in their way as any the missionaries have yet found in Africa. A number of years ago the attention of the Congregational pastors of Connecticut was called in some way to the condition of the remoter outlying districts of the hill towns. A committee was appointed to explore and report. The discoveries made were so much worse than anything which had been suspected that the reverend pastors were at first appalled: then they girded themselves lor home missionary work with a new sense of its importance. Much has teen done in that state, but much still remains to be done. Nor has Massachusetts, the commonwealth of church spires and schools, any cause to boast over her smaller and Uss pretentious neighbor. Within a few miles of historical towns, whose people wrap themselves in their culture as in a garment, there are neighborhoods which are quite given over to ignorance and vice, which exhale amoral reek from generation to generation. The students of at least one Massachusetts college can reach districts in a morning's walk where the actual present condition of manners and morals makes credible the worst stories in Mather's "Magnalia." The arrest and conviction of the Shutesbury free-lovers let in a ray of light on the heathenism that hides and festers in the heart of Yankee civilization. Yet Shutesbury differs from a hundred other towns only in having besn dragged into public notice. Apropos, the Springfield Republican remarks: The whole business ih a sal commentary on certain pha.-s of the rural New Kngiand life ofto-dav. Many of our communities are fostering on their outsklrtH neighborhoods whose interior life would put them to the blush If the curtains ot remoteness and obscurity which hide it from the world were torn apart. Our eastern neighbors have bad a good deal to say about the ignorance and moral destitution of the ex-slaveholdlng states, and have sometimes said it in a rather Pharisaical way. It would seem to be a case for sober meditation on an old text about motes and beam.. Ilaa Beeu Look Fixed In tbe Public Mind. Boston Post."! While the deliberate confession of McLin and Dennis very naturally excite general astonishment, the fraud whica they irrevocably establish has for a long time been fixed in the belief of a majority of the people ot the country. The 2Mreaarjr Conclusion. lUtlca Observer. Whether Hayes, resigns or determines to hold his place, the conclusion of the American people must necessarily be tljat they can not afford to longer keep in power a party capable t each a vile and traitorous conspiracy -

A STRANGE DIVORCE CASE. A Tragic Mory and Us Singular Tor mliiiitlon. Serialia (5Io.) Bazoo, A Bazoo reporter yesterday met a gentleman from Joplin, who gave hinj the particulars of one of the mast remarkable divorce cases of which we JLave ever heard. The following is the story: A lady sued for a divorce in Joplin recently, and when it came up the startlinz developments of wich we write were brought to light, and upon their strength they were granted. In 18(3 tae lady, then a yonng and handsome maiden, a resident of Stone county, southwest Missouri, married a worthy young man, to whom she t ad long been engaged. Their union was a tappy one, and, as both had been reared in the vicinity and were beloved and respected ty all, they received the kindest benisons of a.l who knew tbem. But the war was rising around them, and their locality was alternately occupied by each of the contending armies. A draft was about to be made, an 1 the young husband, a month after his marriage, concluded to take advantage of the government's liberal offers and enlist, rather thtu run the risk of being forced into its ranks without any emolument save the meager pay of a private. So So he voluntarily enlisted and became a private in the rants of the Union army. His courage and in tellieenca soon gained the respect of his officers and fellowmen, and in several hard fought battles he distinguished himself to .such an extent that his name was forward-id to the department headquarters in St. Louis, and in a short time returned emblazoned in a second lieutenant's commission. ' The regiment was then stationed in northern Arkansas, and at this opportune moment, when he was so near to all be held dear (for a son was oorn to him in his absence), he could not resist the temptation to obtain a short leave of absence and visit his wife and child. This to him higti prized boon was easily obtained, and with his commission in his pocket he mounted his horse and started for home. With eager baste he pursued his journey, his mind being filled with bright visions of a happy meeting with his heart's idols. At length the well-remembered landmarks came to view. He was close to borne. A few hundred yards of the leafy forest, and he would be in the opening where he could see the smoke from the cot that contained his treasures How he would surprise them! How his wife would cry for joy! How his bright eyed babe would "Halt!" came a fierce order in stentorian tones from the brush that surrounded the road. Ere he could rein in his horse in obedience to the dread summons he was, as If by magic, surrounded by twenty or thirty fierce and heavily armed men. whom his racticed eye told him were the most unreentinz foes that the uniform he wore ever had. His heart sank within him, brave as he was, for he knew there was no mercy in the breast of a bushwhacker, for such they were. A few questions were pnt to him bv the

leader of the band, but they were more for i form's sake than any thing else. His uniform j was a mute answer for all they wished to ! know, while from his pockets, which were i rapidly turned inside out, was the commis- 1 sion drawn forth, which made them more I eager for his blood. j The leader of the band was a man near his ! own age, and to him he appealed and demanded that he be treated as a prisoner of war. His request was treated with derision, and a moment more his legs were pinioned, and an ominous rope with a noose at its end dangled from the limb of an adjacent tree. .Again he appealed to his inhuman captors, and implored them to let him see his wife and child but for x moment before be lied. But even as he su plicated, the leader put the fatal loop around his neck, gave a signal with hu, hand, an 1 the unfortunate man was swung ofijinto eternity with a prayer for his widowed wife and orphaned child upon his lip?. The next day the corpse was discovered swaying in the wind by a passing soldier, who, stoppine at the next house (which happened to be the home of the officer), told the woman that there was a man hanging dead a short distance down the road, and it was better, perhaps, he should receive a Christian burial. Thia was not unfrequent news in that locality, and nearly all tne men being in the army, the sad work of interring the dead and caring for the wounded devolved upon the lone women. And faithfully and tenderly was it done, too, for they knew not but their own loved ones were being cared for in a similar nanner far off in some distant state. So the woman procured help of others of her sex who lived in the neighborhood, and together they proceeded on their mission. As they approached the corpse a strange foreboding passed through the mind of the woman who led them, for there was something familiar in that suspended form, even in the midst of its unnatural surroundings. The blood rushod back to her heart as she neared it. Suddenly the breeze swayed it round, and ob, horror! in its distorted features she beheld the lineaments of her idolized husband, the father of her child, and she swooned away in a dead faint upon the ground at the feet of him who in life was her all. Cruel was the blow that dashed down with one fell stroke all her ear thlv happiness, and in her asonv stm prayed for death that she might join her murdered love in immortali- i i rl .11 . L-U-iy; due tue plaintive win ui lxi sweet uau aroused her to t tense of doty, and she felt that she had something to live for and protect. Tenderly and reverently was the soldier husband laid at rest in his narrow home by these sorrowful women, whose sympathetic grief wa3 his only burial service. But the fairest flowers cf the held and the forest were gathered by the grief-stricken widow em! planted npja his grave. In the sunny days of summer she would nake daily pilgrimages by the lonely grave, and sit with tender memories while her child prattled ever the sod beneath which its father was moldering away. Ten years pa.-sed. And though time had healed the wounds in ber heart, the love for him who bad b'en the husband of her youth was still faithful. Her child had become a Eouth, and needed the stern, restraining and and experienced counsel of a father. She, too, a weak, lone woman, was tired of lighting the battle of life, and yielded to the supplications oi a man wno oore a gooa y character. Thv were married, and their. lives blended into a happy, even tenor of connubial existence. He treated her kindly and affectionatelyi was a father to her son, and an honest, Industrious bread winner for them all. She loved and respected hic, and her future seemed to her full recompense for the weary past. It was seldom she referred to it H never. All he knew waa that her husband was a soldier, like be himself and thousands of others had beta, and that he waadead, os thousands of others like him were. He had taken his place. He did bis duty. He loved his wife; she loved him in return. It was all he asked. One dav not lonz Bince ah! it was an evil day an old acquaintance visited him. Tbey had, in years agone, been warm friends, for they had fought together under the banners oi tbe sunny noutb, and oft had shared the same blanket as partisans yes, guerillas, bu-shwbackeri, if you like. Right glad were they to meet, and the husband received him cordially for old acquaintance take, and the wife made him welcome for tie ke of her husband. One night as they sal around the ruddy hearth after the evening meal, the two men talked of the atirrii.g scenes through which tbey had passed, and, as old soldiers will, "fought their battles o'er again." "While engaged indwelling on reminiscences of tie war the husband remarked that he nevtr knew how strong were the

feelings or affections a man felt for his family until he himself had married, and, placing nis heavy hand on his companion'a knee, he said mournfully and earnestly: "John, I have always been sorry that I did not let that poor Yankee lieutenant see his wife and child before we strung him up, ten years bro."

His wile heard the remark and slowly rose to her feet, with her face as white &3 marble, and her distended eyes were fixed urxm her husband's face with an expression of intense horror. Twice she essayed to SDeak, but failed. Then, with a loud, unearthly, heart broken scream, she fell like a corpse to the floor. When she recovered her consciousness1 she had little to say. The light of her life bad gone out forever. She loved her husband, for he had been good and true and kind to her. Perhaps he was not so much to blame that he killed her first love. It was the fortune of war, she supposed. Bat but she could live with him no longer. Oh, no! There came a picture from the halls of memory that bade her go. And taking her boy, she went. She-Ot her divorce. And the reader has (his strange but true story as it came from the lips of a truthful man to a Bazoo reporter. The Kenate of IS7. Exchange. The terms of the following twenty-live penators expire on the 4th of March next: Spencer, of Alabama; Dorsey, of Arkansas; Sargent, of California; Chaffee, of Colorado; Barn um, of Connecticut; Conover, of Florida; Cordon, of Georgia; Olesby, of Illinois;Yoorhees, of Indiana; Allison, of Iowa; Inpalls of Kansas; McCrecry, of Kentucky; Eustis, of Louisiana; Dennis, of Maryland; Armstrong, of Missouri; Jones, of Nevada; Wadleieh, of New Hampshire: COnkling, of New York; Merrimon, of North Carolina; Matthews, of Ohio; Mitchell, of Oregon: Cameron, of Pennsylvania; Patterson, of South Carolina; Morrill, of Vermont, and Howe, of Wisconsin. Ot the above seventeen are republicans and eight are democrats. The seats of the senators from Alabama. Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri,. North Carolina. Ohio and South Carolina have already been, or will undoubtedly be, filled by democrats, while those of the senators from Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, New Hampshire and Vermont will be occupied by republicans, leaving the succession in Connecticut, Indiana, New York, Oregon, Illinois, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsii a disputed question, with the chances in favor of the democrats in the first four states and the republicans in the others. Fifty-one senators hold over, of which 23 are dentocrats, 22 republicans, and 1 independent David Davis. The senate would then be composed of 44 democrat?, 31 republicans and 1 independent, giving the former a majority of 12, and only seven votes short of a two-thirds majority. A K4-i tor's Daughter and a Treasury ClerR 9f ade One Flesh. Enquirer Special. The gossips are somewhat disturbed over an episode in high life. Senator HippieMitchell, of Oregon, has a daughter 15 years of age, but for aT that with the development of bust and figure of more mature years. For some time a beardless youth named Handy, a clerk in the treasury department, has been playing spooney to her, and on Saturday night last he dared her to marry him. The jTouug miss was not to be thus daunted. So Bbe went with her dear Alpheus to a Catholic priest, and the twain were made one. Then they went to Baltimore, saw the sights and remained all night Sunday the sheepish pair returned home, the young wife taking her liege lord to the senatorial domicile. Then she acquainted her pa with the facts of the adventure, whereupon he issued his ukase, which was to either give up her borne forthwith or her husband. In a twinkling she made up her mind, and concluded she would remain with her pa and ma, and let her young Handy Andy go. Senator Mitchell isexceedingly enraged over his daughter's indiscretion,, and threatens to bring suit against the priest who performed the ceremony. Other accounts say thr. marriage was accepted as a fixed fact, and the couple received the paternal blessing. RufherforU B. Hayes. Buflalo Couner.l Senator Conkling Las expressed the opinion that Hayes was an accessory before the fact to the electoral frauds. When it is remembered that such men as Sherman,. Matthews, Garfield and Noyes, who were Governor Hayes' next friends, acted in the role of "visiting statesmen," Mr. Conkling'sconclusion that Hayes was cognizant of the frauds becomes unavoidable. He was not anovice in politics. He bad, in fact, been an active politician for many year.-, and while not apparently possessing a trace of genius he is certainly a maa of more than average intelligence. On the 8th of November, 187U, he heard that he was defeated, and if any person watched the subsequent proceedings c'osely he must have been the man. He can not have been more in doubt relative to the character of the Louisiana transactions than his associate on the republican; ticket. Wheeler. The management of the Florida frauds was in the hands of his friend, ei-Governor Noyes, since rewarded by an appointment as minister to France. There can be no doubt that Mr. Hayes-, at any time preceding the electoral count, might with a word have prevented or defeated the frauds of which he was to be the beneliciary. A Lovely FJzht., The usually quiet and lovely villace of Seneca Falls, New Y'ork, is now the scene of a somewhat novel battle. The combatantsare youDg men and maidens, or rather maidens and j-ouths, the girls having begun the fight They formed a society in which every member solemnly promistd to have nothing to do with any young man at all addicted to the use of any intoxicating ilrink. Thereupon the boys got together,, pledged themselves not to speat to any miss who wore false hair, or who powdered paddd or otherwise "assisted" nature in enhancing her personal eharms. Their Roland for an Oliver was accepted as a declaration . of war to the knife ana the knife to the nilt It is very sad to think how utterly unsocial the young folks of that burg must be. What ReiMtWlleanf am la Re VonMerr Evening Chronicle, Dem , The republican party is responsive for Hayes; it is responsible for the Florida and Louisiana frauds; it is responsible for the thurartingof the will of the people; it is responsible for the stealing of the electoral votes of at least two sovereign states, and, therefore, the country rightfully loks to it for an explanation of its conduct. Failing to meet this requisition, Shey and the party they represent must accept tbe- popular verdict of condemnation. llw Canld AnybuUy Have Thaujnt of Such a Tbinic. Philadelphia TlnieM Somebody has been slandering tbe Louisiana returning board by circulating a story that one ot the members hai received tea thousand dollars before signing the returns. As a matter of course, every member of the board denies the story, and its a great wonder how anybody could have thought of such a terrible thing. It All Fall Flat With the Average Or ftan. Philadelphia Times. Everything in the fraud business "falls fiat" now a-days with the average organ. Conkling's interview fell flat, and the McLln confession fell flat, but if there are many more falls of the kind the party will be fi.a ter than Conkling or the confession.