Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 27, Number 54, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1878 — Page 2

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- k 1 2 THE INDIANA STATE SENTTipX,WEDNESDAY MORXEiTG. AUGUST 28, 1878.

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28. Bosxer, of the New York Ledger, and the owner of Dexter, is spoken of as a candidate for mayor ofNw York." " Th Journal talk about Senator Yoorhees' debts. Would it not be well for the Journal to fight ahy on that question? "Wf acknowledge the receipt of a magnificent picture 4 prospective view of the state house, "by Edwin May, Esq.", architect. The original from which the picture was taken can be teen at IL Huber's.No. 82 East Washington street. , A nuKirn has shown as the ' following dispatch said to hare been sent to John Sherman. It reads as if the LindermanSherman - circular was understood. The following dispatch was sent to Secretary Sherman on August 10 from 1 national bank of one of the principal cities of the west: Hon. John Riermn, Secretary of the Treasury, Washington, D.C: Wehavejusi paid out the last trade dollar. Let the trap fall. .Cashier. The Journal on Saturday last charged the Hon. Franklin Landers with having voted to demonetize the trade dollar. On Monday we proved from the record that the charge was false, and asked if the Journal had the manliness to make the correction. It swallowed the he without wincing, and since the publication of our article has been as dumb as an oyster both as to Mr. Landers and his course upon the silver question. Yesterday it came out with a screed against Senator Voorhees." It has been groveling among the tombs of the Capulets, and assumes to have dugupXrom the past a mass ef putrifactions and sores. These, it alleges, are the-public records of Mr. Voorhees. A paper that will lie on Mr. Landers, and refuse to make the correction when it is brought to its notice, is unworthy of belief, and so the people will decide. . We therefore deem it unnecessary at present to follow the Journal in its tortuous course amid the ruins of the dead past for the purpose of hunting evidence to disprove its accusations. Nobody believes what it says except those who are so blind that they will not see," and we have not the time nor the space to produce arguments for the consideration of such people. Before the Journal asks any one to believe what it 11 A - - i - - f 11 Lit. 1 1 A. fl I Bays it must saiuuy me puouc mat iu isiae charge against Mr. Landers was not deliberately made with malice aforethought. SENATOR VOORHEES AMD THE . , BAKKBCFT JOURNAL. t There is but one illustration of the Journal's deep seated and malignant hatred of Senator Voorhees found In ancient or modern, sacred or profane history, and that is Hainan's antipathy to MordecaL " Mordecal had planned a most hellish, crime about the size of that which the radical party consummated in South Carolina, Florida and Louissetiij aiiu enavj ivoa asswuj i v v vai uicia plans had been interfered with. This fellow Haman,' whose soul. was a furnace in which every devilish passion was kept at white heat, hated the Jews about as intensely as the Journal hates the demo cratic party, and he hated Mordecal as much more than he hated the Jews as the Journal hates Senator Voorhees more than it hates the democracy of Indiana, and it bates both in proportion as it sees them gaining favor with the people and obtaining control Of the government. The great trouble with Haman was that' Mordecal sat in the king's gate. And what vexes the lilliputian soul of the Journal is that Senator Voorhees aits in Morton's seat in the United States senate, and that the people" honor him ' for his fidelity to their interests and for his eloquent advocacy of the welfare of the country. The radlcai Hainan, of whose criminal policy the Journal has been from the first a polecat organ, have been exceedingly 'numerous in this conn try and . exceedingly ' damaging to its interests in all regards. The Journal has been the apologist of every radical thief and of every radical fraud. In those days when. Grant, with his hands full of bribes and his paunch distended with whlsky.sat in the presidential chair surrounded with carpet baggers, thieves, and desperadoes, out Hamaning Hainan, the Journal was as happy as. a buzzard with a dog's eye in its beak, and exulted in the dethronement of law and the 'exercise of despotic power. It was as happy as Haman - when his emissaries with knives and spears and bludgeons were preparing for their bloody work. It has never abated its zeal in the advocacy of fraud, or has its hate of the democratic party cooled. It Las nursed the idea that the democratic party would never obtain power again, and it has erected im aginary scaffolds upon , which to hang iti leaders, and chuckled . with maniac . glee as it contemplated the coming havoc Animated by motives in all ' regards in consonance with those that prompted Haman to kill the Jews, it seeks the destruction of Senator .Voorhees. . We may possibly owe Haman, or his heirs and assignees, provided his estate was not settled in a bankrupt court, an apology for inti mating that the miserable fool in his attacks upon Mordecal was as despicable as the Journal in its attacks upon Senator Voorhees, though we are Inclined to the opinion that Haman lied, and we know the Journal does. The Journal hears Senator Voorhees' pon derous blows as he knocks the breath out of the radical party and sends it sprawling. It hears the enthusiasm that prevails in the democratic ranks as they tramp on to certain victory. And the more it hears, the more it ' nlava the fool role of Ilaman nurses its hate, masses its old, stale lies and slanders, . and tries to fan its waning hopes to a flame. It is no use. Ahasueras had heard of Mordecai's great deeds, and the uncrowned sovereigns of Indi ana know of Senator Voorhees display of devotion to their interests and of his gallant defense of their rights. They know that in the United States senate he grappled with Shylocks, money sharks and radical thieves, and,' Samson like, , vanquished the entire snng. the news .' of . which filled the country with huzzas of approval. The Journal's game is up. The democratic party, like the Jews, will

be victorious throughout , the realm. '-, October Is drawing nigh. From the rippling waves of the Ohio to the mirror surface of lake Michigan, from Ohio to Illinois, in all the counties of the state, the democracy is wide-awake, ready for the radical Hamans. It has got the ear and the confidence of the sovereign people. It has got the right and the truth on its side. The democratic party will triumph, as did Mordecai over the enemies of his people, and the Journal will find its neck broken on the gallows which, in its implacable hostility, it had erected for the execution of others. - i

THE CURSE OF COJITKACnOST. The announcement that Judge Martindale, of the Indianapolis Journal, has been compelled to surrender his handsome estate and go into bankruptcy will excite the sympathies of a large numoer of his fellow citizens and neighbors, without regard to party affiliations. Such a failure is a calamity in any community, and tells more eloquently than words of the inroads the corroding curse of contraction has made upon the earnings of a life time. Judge Martindale has been regarded as one of the most shrewd business men of Indianapolis. His purchases of real estate were large and, with few exceptions, well located handsome business blocks in the very heart of the city, which ought to have maintained their value, if such a thing were possible. But the radical contraction policy made it impossible, and as a result property valued, when it was mortgaged, at $754,500 will not now yield in cash Judge Martindale's aggregate liabilities of $315,000 showing a shrinkage of the enormous sum of $439,500 The property in question is now valued, accordiag to the statement rendered in the bankrupt court, at $503,000, and even at these figures, the shrinkage, since the mortgages were made, amounts to $251,500. Viewed from any standpoint, .. Judge Martindale's case is one of the saddest commentaries upon the, devilish financial policy of . the radical party that has been made In Indiana. 'While this destruction ot fortunes is going forward, while mortgages are being foreclosed, while business blocks and residences are passing into the hands of banks and insurance companies, while the bankrupt hearse and the sheriff's hammer evidence the death of business and the curse of contraction, there are those who are continually harping upon the increased purchasing power of the dollar, and Judge Martindale's estate gives a lively illustration of this wonderful power, when mortgages to the extent of . $315,000 ' take property which, when the mortgages were made,' was valued at $754,500. The trouble with those who harp upon the increased purchasing power of money, as compared with the prosperous times before the radical curse of contraction wrought the ruin of the business of the country, is that they state but one phase of the proposition, for in proportion, as the purchasing power ot money has increased, the opportunities to obtain money have decreased. If money were as plenty to-day as when Judge Martindale purchased his magnificent estate, it Is fair to assume there, would be no necessity for a bankrupt court to adjust his affairs. He would still be the owner of the magnificent blocks, his palatial residence, and remain sole proprietor of the Journal. , It therefore matters precious little to him what .the present purchasing power of money may be, since an estate valued at $503,000 will not sell for $315,000 cash, the amount of his liabilities. This miserable demagogism runs through the entire pur chasing power argument, and comes down from estates representing hundreds of thousands of dollars to the poor man who, by the curse of the radical contraction and shrinking policy, can not purchase a loaf of bread. He is told by the Shylocks that the purchasing power of a dollar has "increased about three fold." He may reply, "Possibly; bat 'my opportunities to earn a dollar 'have decreased a hundred fold. In 'fact, I have no dollar at all. 'Bread is cheap. I know, but I can not eaVn a 'dime wherewith to purchase It. Contraction has closed the industries of the country 'and I am forced into idleness." The lesson is one of terrible significance, and can not be studied too closely. The time for bankrupt petitions is drawing to a close, bnt failures are likely to continue until the democratic party obtains full control of the government and inaugurates an era of reform. . BESCHPTION. ' The Sbylock organs are daily painting the most ravishing pictures of resumption that were ever aisplayed before the enraptured vision of bankrupts, communists and tramps in this or any other country, all designed to make capital for the radical party during the present campaign. The Cincinnati Gazette goes off half cocked, as follows: ,- . j But congress wisely went one step farther, and pasbed an act prohibiting the further contraction of greenbacks. Under this law. In connection with the resumption act, greenbacks will be convertible into coin on the 1st of January, 1879, bat not one dollar of that cur. r"ncv ean be withdrawn fr.im circulation. The country will, therefore, have resumption without contraction. It wilt, in fact, have rearnpUon and Inflation. There are In circulation at thU time, or more correctly speaking, there are outstanding ot greenback and national bank notes in round numbers ttf75,000, 003. To this will be added on the 1st of Jannary. 17. S2-O.IW0.UW In coin, making an ag. giegateof S5f0oo,ouo. At the name time the national banks will be free to Increase their circulation to the lull extent of their ability to deposit bonds as security. (supposing, therefore, that the secretary of the treasury shall be able to maintain specie payments, the country will have a circulating medium, paper and coin, of near one thousand million dollars all equal to coin, because the paper will be convertible at the will of the holder. To accomplish this wonderful feat. if it should be accomplished, f ally 70,000 men ana firms, engaged in every department of trade, business and industries, have been ruined, and the aggregate of their liabilities now reaches about $2,000,000,000. It has created an army of tramps and another of unhappy and disheartened idlers, who search in vain for work. It has created still another army, that of criminals, that is marching through the criminal courts to penitentiaries. It has reduced the value of real estate throughout the country fully 40 per cent, aggregating a loss of not less than $3,000,000,000, and now what? The Gazette tells its readers that with $250,000,000 of specie John Sherman . will redeem $175,000,000 of paper money on the 1st day ot January next, and that on that memorably auspicious day $1,000,000,000 pf currency, gold, silver and paper, will flow into all the channels of trade, But ; the. Gazette over

shoots the . mark. John Sherman has . not got $250,000,000 In coin, nor is he likely "to have that amount on the day fixed for re sumption. According to the official statement of the treasury of : the United States made July 31, 187$, there was in the treasury Gold coin and buIIlon.".;..'...'..rr.:.X.'4132,011,B19 Silver coin and IS.03717 .-Total .,, l5,6a2S7 Showing a difference t between the statements of the Gazette l nd the treasury of something over $100;000,000. ' This vast amount of gold and silver coin and bullion is supposed to be hid away In old stockings or somewhere else, all of which on the day namedwill.be handed over, to John Sherman. But the Gazette indicatea clearly that it does not believe its own statements,' for it

prints in a proviso as follows: 'Supposing 'therefore, that the secretary of the treasury 'shall be able to maintain specie payments," etc . The whole thing is a" vagary' and i a sham, and, as, we have remarked,' has no significance except as the radical leaders hope to influence the fall elections. But we are told that resumption has practically been reached. If so, why talk about the 1st of January, 1879? Why does not business revive? Why is confidence in exile? Why do men who have money invest it in four percent bonds when lezitlmate business would pay better dividends? ' Simply because no prudent business men have aDy confidence in the stories told by radical Shylock organs to perpetuate the power of the radical party. There Is but one way out of the grasp of business prostration that now afflicts the country, and that is to place the government in the hands of the democratic party. That this will - be done the signs of the times are most cheering. , YELLOW FEVER. .'- It is scarcely possible that the yellow fever will reach this city, and yet so uncertain are thestrides It takes that such a disaster might occur, and though the chances are as one to a thousand an ounce of prevention may save us from the scourge. Undoubtedly the most likely way in which it may present itself is by the fleeing persons who come to this city from the inflicted regions of the south, and though even in this manner it would not be likely to assume the ' proportions of' an epidemic, it would necessarilly cause great alarm, and a few general, reliable words of instruction ' are not amiss when even tbe remotest possibility of the disease appearing is admitted. Surgeon General Wood worth, of the United States marine hospital service, has a most definite understanding ot the character of the yellow fever, the localities it ravages, the best remedies and ti e best preventives, and he has embodied this information in . a letter which may prove useful to the many... In regard to the character of the scourge be writes briefly as follows: The weight of scientific evidence seems to' warrant the concluxion that yellow fever is produced by an Invisible poison, capable of self multiplication outside tne human organIsm, which It enters through the air passages. In some instances It has been carried inland with tbe people fleeing from Infected localities, but it has never shown a disposition to spread epidemically at points remote from the continuous water roads of commerce, or to lodge In high, salubrious places. .The cities of reat lakes have always been free from the lsease. Yellow fever can not be said to be epidemic in tne u nitea states, irorn tne iact that In some years it does not appear, though the imported germ undoubtedly survives the mild winters. It appears to have about as much insistence of cold as the banana plant.' When the banana stalk is killed down by the frost the yellow fever does not recur until again imported. The germ is transmissible. it is capaoie 01 ueing transported in tne doming or Dertonal effects of passengers anl sail ors, but its spread from one city 10 another Is chiefly accomplished by vessels, their damp, nltby holds and bilge water being its lavoriie lurking places. Confinement, moisture and high tempera uro favor the multiplication or virulence of the poison. Yellow fever is not communicated from tbe sick to the well, the sick ana well being dangerous only as possible carriers of the poison germ or miasm. Though not sufficiently demonstrated to state as fact, still there seems good reason to believe that much may be accomplished by Individual prophylaxla, by the use Internally of small doses of sulphats of qulnla at regular inter vals, and or tincture oi iron or cniorate oi potassa. As the poison enters through the air passage, it has been suggested that the nasal pu&sagfcs be bathed frequently with a solution containing quinine, to be applied by means of a naal spray. . A nurss of much experience, giving the results of years of labor with yellow fever patients, urges the plentiful use ot ice In cooling the atmosphere pf the sick room.. It is recommended that, if possible,' tubs . con taining ice In large quantities be placed on tables about the bed of the invalid, and that these be multiplied until the . temperature falls to a degree where tbe air becomes pleasant and invigorating. The Ice in the tubs is to be renewed until the crisis, is. passed and the natient safe. Outside preventives may save the city not only from yellow fever but from the kindred diseases. Decaying garbage and vegetation must be carried, oil Cess pools, stagnant water, filthy places must be attended to by the police if citizens ' are in. attentive. Bank , weeds, . rotten fruits and vegetables, neglected vacant lots must be cleaned away, and where foul odors abound disinfectants and deodorizers freely used, There should be sib parlying about this. If the people will give " no heed to common sense and their. own welfare the authorities of: the city should; see that; these matters are attended to and the expense put upon those who refused to perform the need ful sanitary work. We would flee; with quaking hearts and blanclied cheeks from the city if a half a dozen cases of. yellow fever were to occur here, and yet poison enough to fill a score of cemeteries is accumulating all about us. The alleys, the nai row streets, the back yards, the vacant lots" of Indianapolis are breeding places for dlph theria, typhoid, bilious and malarial feversf and a host of other diseases as dangerous, but not as easily defined.' A man Iwho would keep a dozen kegs of powder in his cellar would be dealt with by law, but little or no attention is paid to heaps of refuse garbage, that with its loathsome breath Is as perilous as the miniature magazine hidden' under the floor. It does not need a very careful search to reveal these matters. Any of these August nights, when the air is sultry and oppressive, the stench that ascends from these reeking masses of pollution fills the air until every man, woman and child breathes an atmosphere fit only for the Black Hole of Calcutta. The children poisoned die, the adults fight, with stronger constitutions, the wearying deadly battle with malarial diseases, and unless fortified with rich, pure blood arid an nnweakened physical nature succumb, and the death notice tells the result. Mayor Caven has directedlhe investigation. When the matter Is clearly revealed by the proper persons, let the authorities order the remedies.

THE FAILURE Of JVTGS HAJtTUf-

.-i DALE. v . ' The misfortunes that have overtaken judge E. B. Martindale, who for some time past has had supreme control of the Indianapolis Journal, an unscrupulous Shylock organ, has a significance that does not attach to every case of forced or voluntary - bankruptcy. The Lafayette Courier, in referring to this instance of business calamity, says: "' Judge Martindale has been one of the most ac'.ive of the enterprising citizens who for te psst twelve or fifteen years have vitalized Jnolanapolis in unexampled prosperity, and given ner place and prestige among the leading cities of the northwest. She has suffered in common with the rest in the general tienression. but her fntnre is assured. The sub stantial . tasteful and elegant st ructures which jnage 3iartinaa.e nas erected are enduring monuments to the energy and capacity which nave given mm universal recognition as a representative citisen. His enterprise may have Involved temporary embarrammeat. with personal loss and liability, but all Indianapolis and the sta'e, indeed, is proud of the substantial buildings he has reared at the capital, and will not be wanting In grateful uppreciation of thorn high qualities which have come to be recognized in him and others t a vital force In the wonderful development of ;the northwest. t . ..' It affords the Sentinel pleasure to reproduce the kind words spoken ot Judge Mar tindale's enterprise and of sympathy in this hour , of his financial prostration. But it may be said, and tbe truth of the declaration will be very generally accepted, that Judge Martindale has' been, to the extent of his ability, the persistent advocate of a policy that finally brought about his own downfall and the ruin of hundreds in the state of Indiana . quite as enterprising as himself. While the ' democratic party has sought by every means in Its power to arrest the cqrsi of the radical con" traction policy and stop the shrinkage of values. Judge Martindales organ, 'under his immediate supervision and absolute control, has been the blatant organ of the' Shylocks, of resumption, contraction, shrinkage, and of the entire brood of curses which the policy has hatched. The result of this in Indiana has been most deplorable, as tbe well authenticated facts demonstrate. Since 1S72 Indiana has suffered as follows by the curse of contraction, in failures that have been recorded: .

Years. oa g - - 1S7$. . HO t1. 191,000 1873-. 131 2-0.000 1X74 If 2.3!7,000 175. 332 . 4,MI,0VJ 1H76 .................... 3ti2 4,7W,40l 177 852 i 5 18,700 1&78, (six months) 254 8,9i8,ll Total TtBl K46,702

And now, when resumption has, as we are told by the Shylocks, been practically secured, when a greenback dollar is as good as a gold dollar, when the purchasing power of paper money is as great as gold money ; now, when all things should be lovely, Judge Maxtinaale's magnificent estate is settled up In a bankrupt court, and property valued when mortgaged at $754,500 will not pay liabilities amounting io $315,000. During all the years of this shrinkage, contraction and ruin, by which Indiana has suffered in recorded failures more than $25,000,000, the Journal has urged on the policy and exhorted Hayes. the perjury stained radical president, to interpose his veto to kill measures brought forward by tbe democratic party to rescue business from its widespread prostration. Of all the damnable heresies advocated by the Journal none were so fraught with peril to business as contraction for the purpose of piaking resumption possible on the 1st day of January, 179. And now the Journal at its leisure can contemplate the ruin it has assiduously workeVt to inaugurate and which Judge Martindale's handsome estate, as it lies wrecked upon the strand, torms a conspicuous feature. The sad work of failures will go forward as long as th radical party has control of the fiscal affairs of the country. It will steal when an opportunity offers. It will protect thieves, when caught, to tbe extent of its ability. It will, in tbe future as in the past, squander the revenues and oppose every measure . looking to reform; and will seek to retain power by crimes, sach as have no parallels except of Its own creation. We regard it as propable that the Journal will continue to be the subsidised organ of radicalism; that in its blind hostility to democratic reforms it will continue to advocate measures such as have wrecked estates, prostrated business,' destroyed confidence and filled the land with' idleness, tramps and crime. But in all seriousness Judge Martindale ought to oppose each a policy, even if he has to join the democratic party, to make his experience of value to others. . . ' scoTcnma a. journal lie. Bayless Ilanna, one of the party wheel horses," etc., "declares that he will not vote for any democrat for the legislature who will vote for Voorhees for the senate." Indianapolis Journal. "Emtor Skntixel The above paragraph appeared as editorial In tbe Indianapolis Journal In its issue of the 19th inst. I tim not in public life, and what I may say or think of public men and measures may be of little moment, but I do not want to be misrepresented. Among my neighbors i should have no concern about a charge at once so palpably raise and foolish, but as a surmise thus launched by a ntwtpapt of such large pretensions and extended Influence may travel beyond the boundary lines of our state, it becomes my duty to say It has no foundation in troth. I never saici any snch thing. I never thought any such thing. This very week I have ten appointments In Vigo county, to address the people in tbe interest of Kobert Van Valza and Newton Kester, both staunch supporters of Mr. Vqorhees. who will work andotefor his ascendency if they are elected members of the general a-ssenibly, as I hope and believe they will be. I have never in my whole life changed in the slightest degree any ticket, or rebelled in word or thought against any measure made or promulgated by the democratic party, for I believe it is next to the church of Christ in its relation to human happiness and civil progress. I am the supporter of all its measure.!, and of all the men who advocate them. B.W. 1IXNXA. The above statement of ftayless W. Hanna, Esq., stamps the life out of another of the Journal's editorial lies, and in view of all the circumstances tbe matter is entitled to the attention that it is likely to receive from the public. The Joarnal will be likely to find out, possibly to its cost, that the days, when reckless lying could be indulged in with impanity have passed away. The cases of Louisiana and Florida, with their forgeries and perjuries, are not to be precedents for 1678, and the Journal may as well take notice of the fact The radical party, we . are aware is reduced to the alternatives of lying or of abandoning the campaign io the democratic party. If its organs tell the truth, overwhelming defeat is certain, and if they

continue lying, they will seoure with defeat the unutterable scorn of honest men of all parties. The Journal's foolish hostility to Senator Voorhees crops out on iJi occasions, aad if it can defeat the distinguished statesman by any means approximating fairness and honorable warfare its right to pitch in is unquestioned, but its constant resort to lying, while it does not Injure Mr. Voorhees prospects, evidences a purpose to win by methods snch as were adopted by J. Madison Wells, John Sherman and their anociates in per jury. -" LEET TESTIFIES ABD GOES CRAZY. PoorLeet! He entered lato the Louisiana frauds with his whole soul. None ot the conspirators nor friends of the conspirators were more active than Leet In placing Hayes in power. No scheme was too infamous, no perjury too haggard, no fraud or forgery too execrable tor Leet's attention. He saw the fires of the conspiracy when they blazed the fiercest; he saw the hell broth bubble where the dimes Vere cooked; he was familiar with the dens and haunts of Kellogg, Packard, the' returning board, John Sherman and his assjeiates in crime. He knew every inch of the slimy track of every doubly damned perjurer. He had seen the conspirators at work, making "a heap of 'histoy such as it is," ai.d which in all regards "beats hell."- He knew of John Sherman's letter when he offered federal offices as a reward for frauds, backed by perjuries. HeknewitalL His knowledge of the vile business was encyclopedia!!. This knowledge rested upon his soul like a Nemesis. It burnt into his conscience like the fires of perdition. - It stung like a thousand scorpions. It withered like lichtning. No wonder Leet was nervous. No wonder that he was excited when he stood before the Potter committee to unburden his soul and tell the story ot the Louisiana crimes. He did tell, and then his overtasked . body and brain gave , way, and Leet was a lunatic. His associates in crime are in high federal offices while Leet raves in a mad house. But Leet's condition and situation, all things considered, is far preferable to that of John Sherman or It. B. Hayes or the hundreds of others who srenow eating and

pocketing the rewards of crimes, the knowl edge of which has finally drove Leet mad. It is mournful, but it is well. The mills of the gods are grinding on. Some of the crime cursed scoundrels will go mad, others will go to the penitentiary; others still, exiled from power and the society of honorable men, will be sentenced to drag out miserable lives, communing only with their perjury scathed consciences, to die at last like unowned dogs. SENATOR VOOBHEES Iff SOUTHERN Ilf DIAITA. Accounts that reach us from southern Indiana with regard to the progress of the campaign are in the highest degree cheering to the democracy of tbe state, Indicating harmony, enthusiasm, aggressiveness, organization, hard work and success. While this is true of the democratic party, the radicals are in a state of hopeless demoralization. A correspondent writes from Pike county as follows: "Wiss low, Ind., Aug. 17. Arousing crowd welcomed Senator Voorhees here to day, no lesK than 10,000 people being on the ground to lb-ten to his address, and for two hours he commanded their undivided attention. Mr. Voorhees is accomplishing a vast amount of good, making additions and converts wher ever be gos, and an increased majority may be looked for from Pike. . W. There is no mistaking the fact that the democratic majorities will be increased in every county where tbe canvass is conducted with vigor. The radical party Is everywhere confronted with its frauds, forgeries and perjuries, with its stealings, corruptions and rottenness, with its squanderings of the public moftey and general infamies. The apologies of its organs, orators and candi dates are tantamount to admissions and equivalent to pleading guilty. The people recognize the importance of getting such a party out of power, and honest republicans are leaving the party. A clean sweep is now within the grasp of the democracy of Indi. ana if the party continues its aggressive policy. Claris Usui Ministers and folltlc. Communicated. The foundations ot all law and equity are laid upon the great fundamental truths of Christianity. The corner stones of all true government are the precepts of . the Bible from the tables of the law, delivered on Mount Sinai, to the grand epitome of all justice and mercy that Christ embodied in the Golden Rule. The abiding principles of the Scriptures are the only bulwarks of safety that nations have been able to throw about the . people to prptect them from relapsing into the sea of barbarism and lawlessness, and the more closely they cling to the everlasting truths of the old and Dew testaments the grander and more enduring has been tbe government. Tbe old Jewish dispensation, with its rigid laws and un relaxing justice, has been tbe code of instruction for law givers in all time. And, the divine teachings of Christ have given birth to the mercy that is the strength and tbe life of justice itself. These combined have been the example copied more or lees perfectly at all times and by all nations when the highest type of government has been sought and perpetuated. The masses of the p!Ople have been uplifted and elevated by true religion. Down into ignorance and vic-i and sin it sends its wonderful power, and brings up into the light of a better life the down trodden, the poverty stricken, the enslaved of earth. It strikes off the shackles of slavery of mind and body. . It makes a 1 men free and equal In the sight, not only of Him who made them so, but of the world. It creates anew self-respect It makes that which was once an abased, cowering, miserable creature, a man God's grandest work in all the ages. It gives him tbe dignity and honor of manhood, the breadth and strength of purpose and will that marked the freeman from the frlave. It gives him a place among, men, a right to stand in tbe rt-nks 8t earth's thinkers and workers, and thus standing shoulder to shoulder with his brother, the nation is circled about by a living wall of of defense the honor of her citiztns. And when men speak by. the silent voiee of the ballot, he is not silent, bu: swells tbe great call for purity and honesty in positions of public trust. His votn is sacred, and he dare not ignore the responsibilities it entails. A good citizen, he must cast it for the men who will accept the offices it confers only when willing and able to stand the test of tbe scrutiny and examination of the world of God. Once his vote might have been bought and sold as a thing of little worth; it now represents to him his power in the nation. It is the way in which his voice is heard in national deliberations, and in the framing of laws that shall bless the entire country. It is his passport to mad-

hood's honors and the respect of old age. Bartered for money or office it becomes a disgrace. Nothing can excuse him from

casting ma ballot. The more exalted h position of a Christian man in the nine-' teenth century in the United States, the more binding is the obligation. He dare not shirk the duty. He must .bear tbe burden of the government equally with all others, and his ballottepresents him in legislauvenaiis. And as tbe demand is imperative for voters to exercise their rights through the ballot box, it is equally as commanding when out of the ranks of private citizenship men are bidden to become public officers. The administration of the affairs of state) demands men of tbe highest type and of the most unblemished character. It does not satisfy either the letter or the spirit of the law that these representatives of the people are citizens of the United States, either by birth or choice; that they have arrived at legal njanhood and are guiltless of any crime against the statutes of the lsnd dieinfran- ' chising them. Such men as these are not rare, but unless they possess other and grander qualifications they can not meet the requirements of their positions, and can neither expect nor receive the unwavering adherence of even the very party that electa them. Statesmen must not only understand political economy, national jurisprudence, international laws, the needs and necessities of the people they represent, but they must be able to discern the right and wrong of the great questions of the day, of the problems they are forced to solve. They must In every act, in every law, in every measure which they propose or indorse seek tbe greatest good of the greatest number ef people, the undying principle of true government. They must endeavor to elevate and educate the teeming thousands for . whom they labor to the highest conception of men. They must make the welfare and the condition of the whole nation their ever present purpose and interest They must, at home and abroad, maintain and support the dignity of the government thev represent They must seek to protect the weak, to,restrain the law breakers, to so frame or modify the laws that the innocent will be preserved and the wicked punished. They must give heed that from their official acta comes no in j ary or offense. And no one can more perfectly fill up the measure oi the requirements of office in this republic than Christian ministers. There is no obiigation of office, no laving aside of abrotions, no unbinding of the helmet, no rusting of the sword. The voice of repreof is not hushed up, the entreaties for reform and repentance do not cease. The opportunitiee multiply in such proportions that eternity alone can give the results. Tbe field of harvest Is not abandoned; it is indefinitely enlarged, its boundaries being those where American people cease to dwell and there are no citizens to claim protection and care. The power for good that once was limited to a people or city now grasps all who abide the laws and are controlled by the statutes. The intellectual might sanctified by religious zeal that labored for the few, may now claim the whole nation, and so uplift the people that sin and vice will flee abashed. There is ample Christian work. The true minister while in office can find no time for indolence or leisure. As he is a philanthropist the sufferings and agony of the crushtd . and poor call for his attention ; as he is a reformer, the degraded and vicious need his care; as he values education, the young and all about him and schools and colleges claim his time and services; as he is a worthy legislator, the criminal class demand the fine discrimination that so frames the laws as to save, while yet meting justice to, offenders. As he is a guardian of the interests of all, his eye must watch the public weal or woe -and allow no abuse to crop into any department. His mission is not only to receive honor from his position, but to honor the office; not alone to be elevated, but to elevate. Men of men, with the same country, people, interests and purposes as the great mass of mankind, ministers are not on pedestals of popular illusion to be worshiped because of . their calling, but rather to go to and fro on the earth treading the same paths with all other human beings that they may do them good. Then when conscientiously they step from the pulpit to the public office they do it not for profit or emoluments, but that they may clinch the wrong, correct the abuses, undo the evil that has existed and help to create a new order of things pure and honorable. A Family That A mo an ted lo Xothing; . Bat Long; Life. - Baltimore American. The death of Mrs. Phebe Haley, which occurred recently at North Pownal, and which has been referred to in this paper ended a marvellously long life. She was born in Pownal, June 3, 1774, and consequently reached tbe one hundred and fifth year of her existence. AH those years she has lived in one town, county and state. Her maiden name was Cummlngs. -At the 'age of sixteen, in the year 1790, she Erofessed religion, united with the ethodlst Episcopal church, and has ever since remained a Bteadfast member of that denomination. When 17 years old she married Benjamin Haley. It is also singular that both should have endured so remarkably long, and neither, in such an exceptionally Jong life, married again. The husband died only 14 years ago, and was upward of 90 years old. This presents tbe phenomenon of an unbroken married companionship extending over 73 years, and almost reaching three-quarters of a century. Mr. Haley seems to have been a physical wonder, because he is described as always addicted to drinking since youth, and was accustomed to indulging in all sorts of dissipations, beside possessing a very ugly temperament - There were fifteen children born to the couple, of whom ten are now living. Nearly all the .boys are intemperate, yet come of them seem likely to attain a great age, and three have already passed fourscore.' Thus it will be seen that Mrs. Haley's domestic life must have been replete with vexations and tribulations, while drudging along with a dissolute husband and a batch of almost a dozen unruly boys. Despite all that she succeeded in retaining her faculties to an astonishing degree, so to the last she could thread a fine needle without glasses, and herhearing was not at all impaired. Her face was without any signs of wrinkles. Msny of her grandchildren looked older than she did at her 105th birthday. Tbe direct living descendants of Mrs. Haley extend through five generations, reaching through tbe children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, ' great-great grandchildren and great-great-great-grandchildren. - Three of her own children died from old age. None of this wonderfully numerous and long lived family ever amounted to anything noteworthy in an intellectual sense. Their -only success in this life seemed to consist of a wonderful vitality that enabled them to attain old age, but their brain power seems to have been absorbed by toughened muscles. This will account for the death of the mother in the county almshouse, because when her old age compelled reliance on others, of all the ten living children, none were capable of offering her a home, and she was forced on the populace. Some of the children live at Pownal now, others in North Adams, and others still out west Gilbert P. Gunn, of Broomhill, a station in Clark county, and about 11 miles out on the L , X. A. and 0. road, met his death yesterday at the hands of John Tackett Gunn and Tackett met in the blacksmith shop of the iatter's father, at 8 o'clock yesterday morning, and soon began disputing about some trivial matter. Tackett made some assertion, to which Gunn replied by saying "You lie!" Whereupon the men came to blows, but by a misstep Gunn fell or stum bled over a grindstone, falling near a pile o bricks. Tackett immediately took advantage of this, jam ped rlpon his victim and struck him several blows, one of whicb, at least is supposed to have been with a brick. They were both much respected in the community in which they lived.

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