Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 28, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1879 — Page 2

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL., WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12, 1879.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12.

There are 8,000 men em ploy ett in )he Chicago stock yards. Chicago baa in store 8 587,613 bushels of grain, of which nearly 6,000,000 consists of wheat, t The eocrta are still grinding away at Tnden's income tax, but are making alow headway. ' It is generally conceded that the Jour n a man did preside at a Greenback meeting the judge krowa. The Louisiana rice crop for 1879 is eetimat ed at 75,000 barrels-the smallest crop since the season of 1864-63. Ths National banks are increasing tbeir circulation proof positive that more currency is wanted for legitimate business. Tec British museum is now lighted by electricity, with four lamp3 of 5,000 candle power. The light is superior to daylight Awbxmnfobmbd citizen feela confident that the Journal man did, once upon a time, preside at a Greenback meeting.- Oh, what judge! . These sem to ba little doubt that the Journal man was at one time for "soft money," inflation, etc Well, that beats h allf ax. "I can't just fix the date," said a s'.al wart, in trying to tell when a certain event transpired. "WeH,' said his friend, "about what time." "Oh, I remember now; it was the year that Judge Marti nd ale presided at a Greenback meeting!" Mb. HmsKiciCd and his party have hang out the red rag, and propose to warn oft the Immigrants from Indiana. Journal. And yon have hung out the black flag, inviting Southern paupar negroes to follow it into Indiana, to be supported by charity, while voting the Republican ticket. Ths Republican press continues to keep before the public Zich Cbandler'a spiteful utterances toward the South. Zich Chandler is no longer in the 8enate. He has ottered his last blasphemous harangue aeainst the peace and welfare of the country, and like other implacahles has gone to his reward. Why not let him alone? Judgr Mabtikoaxe does nut deny that he did once preside at a Greenback meeting. Come, judge, no circumlocution. It is believed that you did preside at a Greenback meeting; that you did indorse the "Plan," and you can cay whether yon are guilty or not guilty. Oat with. it. The Sentinel is disposed to help you if you will be frank. And now comes a story from Cape Girardeau, Mo., in which the law guarding the revenues of the country has been triumphantly enforced. A poor farmer had a sore lpe nun exchanged some corn meal for a little whisky wherewith to drees his diseased limb. The law took notice of the great crime and sentenced the poor man io pay a fine of $1,000 and go to j til for one day. Wonder if General Ben Harrison was there. Republican leaders propose to obscure their partisan purposes in welcoming Grant by talking of respect to a great soldier, just as they propose to obfuscate their designs in tiling Indiana with pauper negroes from the South. In the case of Grant, such outspoken organs of Republican conspirators as the Cincinnati Gazette declare that he is wanted in the presidential chair because the D?mo cratic party contemplates treason to the Government, and in the case of the exodus the negroes are wanted to vote the Republican ticket. EiS THE DEMOCRATIC PAST? BLUSDS&ED? The Republican press ceaselessly charge the Democratic party with blundering; and. strange to say, the Democratic press not infrequently engages in the same business. It should be understood that the Democratic party makes no pretensions to infallibility. It does make mistakes, but its errors relate to its tactics, never to its principles or its policy. We challenge the record from the days of Jefferson to the present time. The Democratic party has never laid down a principle in government sot strictly and absolutely in consonance with the constitution of the country. It never brought forward a measura in antagonism to the rights of the general Government or the rights of the States, or the rights of citizens. It has fought sectionalism and fanaticism whenever and wherever they have appeared. Its policy baa been fraternal; its sta'esmauship has embraced the whole country; its laws have baen wise and its principles based upon right justice and truth, are immutable, and therefore must survive. A party organized upon such , a basis can not fatally blunder. As Ionic as it adheres to its principles it will be a potent factor in shaping the destiny of tbs country. It may err in tactics, blander in the choice of leaders, permit faction for a time to rule in its ooansals, but such things are common to all parties and to all organizations. But their inflaeace is shortlived. The common sense of the party always triumphs over factions; lis aensiona are hashed in the presence of great peril. The history of the country furnishes abundant proot of the tact Not many years since nearly every State in ths Union waa under Republican control. A change was demanded and the Democratio party came into power. 3lnce that day what have been the Democratio blunders? It found the South in the grasp ot carpet bag thieves, and crushed beneath the iron heel of a mili. tary despotism. In the name of the consti tution, justice and liberty, it demanded the emancipation of the South and triumphed. Waa that a blunder? It found every de partment of the Government honeycombed with fraud, where thieve plundered the treasury without hinderance Investigat'ons were instituted, and a whole some reform inaugurated. Was that a blander? The Democratic party found the Republican party engaged in a profligate and corrupt expenditure of the people's money, and immediately set about establish lag policy of retrenchment and economy, wbaaxT aaaoy aauitona fea?e been eevetl ur

the treasury. Was that a blunder? The Democratic party found upon the statute books of the country laws which permitted Federal troops to stand guard over citizens when going to the polls to exercise the sovereign right of suffrage, and demanded that the law authorizing such a flagrant outrage should be repealed, and did repeal It Was that a blunder? The Dimoc ratio party found still another law upon the statute books, creating swarms of deputy marshals and empowering them to arrest voters without warren' and imprison them without trial a most infamous law. Democrats demanded the repeal of the law, and did repeal It Was that a blunder? Iodeed, search the records from the day that the Democratic party obtained control of the House of Representatives to the last day of the extra sessioo of Congress, and no blunders will be found to be laid to the account of the Democratic party. Every measure brought forward was calculated to promote peace and prosperity, and to secure to ths people the blessing of liberty. Every measure was opposed to sectionalism and in favor of Union, and but for the vetoes of Hayes, would have secured incalculable benefits to the country. The days of passion will end. Old enmities will at last burn out The champions of hate will disappear from the arena. Fanaticism and faction must, in the end, give place to common sense, and the solid judgment of men, who3e principles bear the impress of integrity, and waos policy .embrace! the well-being of all the people. A dispassionate review of the measures and policy of the Damocratlc party will satisfy all honest men that the party has hot blundered, bat has first last and all the time contended for principles and measures which must ultimately prevail if the Republic is to remain and ths Union prove a blessing to the people.

ZACH CHANDLER. The Democratic press of the country hai shown commendable regard for the solemnities of ' death by refraining from a deserved criticism of Zich Chandler's political career. A prominent Republican a leader of the moat envenomed type, a conspirator of the meet infamous record; a cruel, heartless hater of the South and of Southern people; a man utterly destitute of generous impulses toward a political opponent, who ceaselessly nursed his hates and husbanded all of his resources of implacable hostility; who drunk or sober, was the same relentless exponent of sectional enmities died suddenly was found dead died alone, with no one to offer him a word of encouragement or to to hear his last words 'or last wish. Under inch solemn circumstances the Democratic press of the country evinced a disposition to permit his friends and relatives to mourn over their loss, deck his coffin with the ohoicest emblems ot affection, and listen with becoming respect to the eulogies of those who felt that a great leader in the army of implacables had passed away. But the organs of the Republican conspirators regard the occasion as a proper one to give the greatest possible publicity to his partisan maledictions, and even while bis wife and child, shrouded in deep mourning, are sobbing over the remains of their departed loved one, display his last spiteful partisan utterances on the rostrum, from which he went to the bir of God. Never before in the history of political conflicts has there been sush an exhibition of devilish pirtian depravity. Never before have men, standing in the audience chamber of grim viaaged death, made such an infernal use of a corpse. There was to be an election in Chicago. The Republicans desired success. It was a local affair in a great commercial city, the trade of whose merchants extends to every town, hamlet and plantation in the South; still, Zich Chandler was wanted to help pull the Republican party through. It was an occasion for the discussion of local issues everything that related to an honest administration of local affairs debt taxes, commercial expansion, . etc, throngh the entire list. But this was not what Zich Chandler was wanted for. It was to wave the bloody shirt in the great Northwestern commercial emporium; to arouse deadly hostilities, to set ablaze the fires of sectional hate, to revive and intensify a bitterness between the North and the South in direct conflict with the welfare of the country. Senator Chandler went through the performance.' He was more than usually bitter. For two hours he gave his vengeful feelings full play. Applause greeted hia studied vlndictiveness, and his hates glowed and burned with demoniac intensity. The apeech closed. The speaker returned to hia hotel, said "good-night" to his friends, and was found in the morning, aeaa. His last speech was replete with malice. It overflowed with slander. Every, sentence bore the impresi of enmity. It showed that the speaker's heart was burdened with guile; and still, before the dead speaker is under the sod, and while his relatives set in silent grief by bis coffin, the Chicago Tri bune, in the hope o( making votes for its party, digs out the most objectionable por tions ot his malignant harangue and pa rades them for the second time before the public, prefacing the outrage by saying: The speech which the late Senator Chandler delivered in tola city a few hours before his death made a deep Impression npoo the large auulence that had assembled to hear him, and was received with tremendous applause and cheers, which interrupted htm at almost every sentence. The sudden death of the orator has naturally directed special attention to this speech, the last effort of hit life, ana those who re-read it will find It one of the most striking and stirring of all the political utterances of recent delivery. Perhaps the electric effect which his Jeff Davis speech In the Senate at the last session produced throughout the country revealed to him the possession of a latent power of oratory which he bad not previously recognized; at all events, bis speeches In several States dur ing this fall's campaign have been among the most remarkable and effective that have been made, and ran scarcely second to those of Senator Blaine. He then plunged Into the issue of National ism vs. Sectionalism, which the Southern people have again force! upon tbeoountry, and hU life-long devotion to the Union, and active experience In public life during the war for the preservation of the Union, gave him peculiar power in talking of this theaae, Indeed, he did "plunge" in into a dead sea of vituperation against the South. He m up tv iua vm in Um . Thc

venom in every word. He told his Chicago audience that the rebels, after they had surrendered, "asked as a boon that their miserable lives might be spared to them," and that the Republican party "give them their lives," and added: Now I find these paroled rebels, who have never been released from their parole of honor to obey the lawK, saying: "Do this, obey our

will, or we will starve your Government to death." If I am to die, I would rather be sbot to death with musketry than starved to death. These rebels for they are just as rebellious now as they were 20 years ago there is not a particle ot difference I know them better than any other living mortal man I have summered and wintered with them these rebels to-day have 83 members on the floor of the House of Representatives, without one slDgle constituent and, In violation of law, those 36 members represent 4.OCO.O00 people. lately slaves, who are as absolutely disfran chised as it. they lived In another sphere, through shotguns, and whips, and tissue ballots; for the law expressly sajs wherever race or class is disfranchised they shall not be represented upon the floor of the House. Ana these 86 members thus elected constitute three times the whole of their ma jority upon the floor. This is not only a viola tion of law, but it is an outrage upon all the loyal men of the United States. It ought not to be. It must not be. It shall not be. Twelve members of the Senate more than their whole majority occupy their seats upon the floor by fraud and violence; and I am saying no more to yon than I said to those Rebel generals. With majorities thus obtained by fraud and violence in both Houses, they dared to dictate terms to the loyal men ot these United States. With ma jorities thus obtained they dared to arraign the loyal men ot these United States, and say they wanted honest elections. They are mortally afraid of bayonets at the polls. We offered them a law forbidding any man to come within two miles of a polling-place with arms ot any description, and they promptly voted It down, for they wanted their Ku It lux. They were not afraid of Ku-aUux, bat of sol diers. This is the stuff that the Chicago Tribune parades before its readers, mingled with its sorrows for the death of the speaker, and that too, before be is under the sod, and before the worms' banquet begins upon his decomposing body. It is an exhibition cf partisan depravity seldom seen, and characteristic only of Republicanism, which does not abate its sectional hates even in the pres ence of death. To put such a party in power is not only to exalt fraud and per jury to places of honor, but to enthrone the most devilish spirit that ever cursed the world. Zich Chandler is dead, and all the surroundings of the mournful circumstances of his death partake very much ot the character of a judgment against Republican methods to rum the country. The policy advocated by the Sentinel and Mr. HendricKs In regard to immigration Into Indiana is touoaca euner in narrow partisantsaa or in gross lenorance. They oppose the .numeration of more laborers Into the State on the ground that there is not enongh wore and food for those now here. They my every man who comes into the State will crowd out of employment one that Is nowhere. They argue id effect that the state is not capable of supporting a larger population than it now oou tat ds, and that if more oome starvation will ensue. Journal. More than a year ago a number ot Repub lican conspirators men who favored fraud, forgery and perjury as a means of partisan success conceived the idea that they could injure the South by enticing away a portion ot its negro population. At that time the chief purpose ot ths Republican scamps was to disturb the industries of the South, and, regardlesi of the consequences to the poor, deluded negroes, enticed them away !rom their homes to the inhospi table shores ot Kansas. Fully 90 per cent, ot the negroas were absolutely paupers. They had neither money nor property of any kind. They were objects of charity from the moment they abandoned their Southern homes. Arriving ia Kansas half naked, half starved, sick and dying, covered with vermin and filth, they were, to all intents and purposes, the most God forsaken, pitiable, forlorn human beings ever seen upon the continent With their coming appeals for help were sent forth. It did not come, and the poor, ignorant, misguided creatures, the victims of the most infernal schemes ever devised by men or devils, were left to die by scores and hundreds; die like dogs; die like rotten aheep; die in pens compared with which hog-pens or buzzard nests were palaces. The Republican scamps who had enticed these negroes from their homes looked upon the scenes of horror and chuckled as they remembered that the writhing mass of rags and disease, by leaving the South, would embarrass the industries of that section. And now the Journal wants to turn this bde of . pauperism and filth upon Indiana, and calls it immi gration, and contends that Indiana stands in need ot euoh an affliction. It declares that Indiana needs more paupers more filth more vermin, more sickness, death and depravity; that the interests of the Suite require the influx of 200 negro families in every county m Jre .than 18,000 negroes in all, and seeks to prove the necessity by showing that the population ot Indiana, to the square mile, is less than that of some of the Eastern States, and far below some European countries. It urges the pauper negroes to come to come'half naked, half starved ; come is be supported by publio or private charity, aa in Kansas; come to die as they did in Kansas; but come to vote the Re publican ticket The Sentinel fa vors emigration to Indiana, but not pauper emigration. The Jour nal ia willing to aee the State overran with pauper negroes if it is assured that they will vote the Republican ticket It cares nothing for the welfare of the State, less for the welfare of the negro. Its solid tude centers in the supremacy of the Republican parly in Indiana, and dead negroea would answer its purpose quite as well aa live ones, if they could vote. In Kanaaa the authorities send forth a wail, saying that the negro tide mast be turned from that State that they can not take care of the pauper negroea of the South. Only 6,000 have arrived, and these could not be provided for. The Journal favors turning 18,000 to 20,000 negroes upon Indiana. It intimates that it could support more than 400 of them on every aauare mile of Indiana soil. It wants them as numerous aa white people are in England. France, Germany or Belgium. It contends that there la room ana work tor every pauper negro that the Booth can vomit apon the SUte, and day after day urges on the negro exodua. The laboring people of Indiana should make note of the Journal's

the pauper negro, and not a word for the

workingmen who are here and who have been barely able to keep soul and body together.' The negro exodua is simply a political scheme, and ia in direct conflict with the interests of the North, of the South amLof the negro; and the pauper neg'oes of the South, it they have friends, should be advised that Indiana does not want them, and that tbeir reception will not be more favorable here than it was io Kansas. THE SQUARE MJXB ARGUMENT. The State of Indiana contains 83.809 sanare miles, and by the last census bad a population ot l,t0,t37. This In a little loss than 4!) persons to a square mile. Now Connecticut maintain 113 persons io a square mile, Massachusetts 180, Rhode Island li, and the other New England States in proportion; and none of them h ave anything like the capacity that Indiana has. Yet the Sentinel and Mr. Hendricks have the hardihood to say that Indiana Is crowded because It has 49 persons to the square mile. Journal. The' Journal parades such figures as the foregoing to prove that the negro paupers of the South should come to Indiana to Improve her soil and to make the waste places fruitful. . Mind you, the Journal invites and urges the pauper negroea to come, and to come from States where the population is vastly less to the square mile than in Indiana, which la set down at less than 49 persona to the aquare mile. In 1870 Indiana had more than 49 persons to the square mile. Let as see how the case stands with regard to area and population of the States from which the Journal proposes to draw its pauper immigrants: Persons to ihe Sq. Mile. 19.06 9 80 8.17 3142 178 17E0 21.13 20.75 27.60 Square Mile. -50,T22 . AJ.198 &H,2S -5S,0UO .4l,3l 47,151 5U,704 SI .1X10 States. Alabama Arkansas.. Florida. Georgia ..... Louisiana Mississippi- .. NORTH CAROLINA. South Carolina.., Te u n essee ,, , 45.000 Here are nine Southern States, each larger than Indiana, and only one of which has a population to the square mile equal to onehalf of the population of Indiana to the tquare mile, the average being 17.45, while Indiana has 49.71 to the square mile. Here. then, we have the Journal's policy fully disclosed. It proposes to bring pauper negroes from States of vastly larger area than Indiana, where farms need cultivators, and every industry needs laborers; where every laborer is in demand, and where the population to the square mile is less than one-half what it is in Indiana, for the purpose of improving the condition of the negro, and the condition ot this State. Everybody knows that the Journal and the Republican conspirators with whom it is in league, have no such purpose in view, bat thatregardless of the interests of the white laborers of Indiana and of the interests of the negroes of the South, and equally regardless of the prosperity ot the States, ic Is engaged in the despicable business of forcing Southern pauper negroea by thousands upon Indiana, for the sole purpose of voting the R'pubh can ticket. The same malign spirit would lead it to the advocacy of emptying the jails and prisons ot the State if thereby it could make votes for its party. The whole hegro exodus business was conceived in a spirit of sectional hate and partisan aggran disement. The Journal is committed to the policy of enticing pauper negroes from the South to Indiana for the express purpose ot voting the Republican ticket The pork packing business ot Chicago is simply enormous. The result of the work for the past 12 months, is the largest ever reported in the history of the business in Chicago. The number ot hogs slaughtered aggregate 5,033,000 for the past 12 months. The aggregate net weight of these . bogs reached about 1,031,765,000 pounds, and tbeir total value may be placed at $41,000,000. The product of these hogs may be calculated at 165,000,000 pounds of hams, 144,000,000 pounds of shoulders, 400,000,000 pounds of sides and 190,000,000 pounds of lard. The receipts of hog product from the interior, during the ast 12 months, were about 02.000 barrels of pork, 120.000,000 pounds of meat and 59,000,000 pounds of lard the total value ot which may be esti mated at abont $10,250,000. The shipments of hog products from Chicago, during the year ending October 31, were about 334,000 barrels of pork, 740,000.000 pounds of meats and 225,000,000 pounds of lard the total value of which may be estimated at $55,000,000. There ia no good reason why Indianapolis may not rival Chicago in the pork packing business. The location of the city ia as favorable, and in due time Indianapolis will be the second, if not the largest pork pack ing center in the country. GLEANINGS. Fittsbcbo manufacturers receive abont 90 car loads of metal per day. There was never so great an accumulation of coal at Pittsburg as now. The treasury at Washington now holds 1361,' 813,400 to secure bank circulation. John C. Calhoun's late residence in Pick ens county. South Carolina, will soon be sold by the saeriff. It takes a whole Legislature to change a man's name. A. woman can change ber's by the act of a single man. It Blaine should be nominated for the pres idency Southern newspapers will criticise hia railway record. Bo they tay. From July 1 to October 29, Cincinnati received 8,72S,461.bushels of wheat, against 2,791,481 bushels same time last year. Iowa, with its 100,000 Republican majority, should quit lynching. The illegal rope Isn't any more reputable than the unlawful shot gdu. A fact fact worth remembering Grant carried Ohio la 1868 by 41,428. Horatio Sey mour carried New. York the same year by 10,000. The increase in the volume of the currency from all sources, gold, silver and notes, during the present year will amount to nearly 1190,000,000. Bbsatob Lamar's mother, a venerable woman of 77 years, died at her home In Vineville, Oa., a few days .ago. Her Intellectual at tainments were of the highest order. Ex-Governor Hoffman resolved that his vote should not be lost to-day, and before sail ing for Europe last Wednesday he "paired off" with a Republican related to Mr. John Gnswold. It was at a reoent agricultural fair, and when the Influential old farmer waa presented with the "prize apple" by the owner (a politician running for offloe), he Immediately bit the fruit in two, and, munching hard on the plsee in bli month, e&imly observed: "I thank ye fur this bootifol present shall take It with

me wlinrever I go." The owner stopped passing around "prise apples" right there Chicago Journal. Kansas Pacific railroad stock has advanced 800 per cent since last February. This is attributed to the extraordinary development now taking place in the Southwest James Buchaxak's niece. Miss Johnson, of Baltimore, is about to purchase the farm, near Mercersburg, where the late president waa born. She wishes to erect a monument to her uncle there. Tbi grand total of specie Imports slnoe the resumption of specie payments is 156,081,1)71. It is not unlikely that the first year of specie payments will witness gold imports to the amount of 175,000,000. Senator Matt Carpenter declares for Grant for president. They llook to bis standard as did the Imperialists of France when the presidential term was extended and the empire wai seen in the distance. The New York World says that It Is both to be expected and desired that the South will be "solid" against the Ideas symbolized in the "bloody shirt" just so long as the stalwarts wave that odious emblem in the air. When the incumbent of a stolen presidency gets up a show of holy indignation at an alleged repudiation, it reminds one of the professional burglar who complained that it degraded him to be locked up with petty la:cenists. The crop movement of wheat as shown by reported receipts at eight Western lake and river porta, from August 1 to October 18, shows a total or 84,438,000 bushels wheat compared with 82,038,(00 last year, 66,537,000 In 1877, and 65,616,000 in 1876. Quite an unexpected shipment isannounced of lOOjOOi) pounds (1,666 bushels) ol wheat from Arizona to Liverpool, England. From a land having the reputation of being made up of rocks and desert, this announcement will be decidedly startling. Secretary Siiebmam says that William H. Vandorbllt, of New York, and JohnW. Mackey, the Bonanza king of Nevada, have each t5,000 ,C 00 in the bonds of the United States. Each ot them receives S50.000 interest

every three months. Diphtheria prevails to such an alai ruing extent at Petrolia, Butler county. Pa., that the public schools hare been dismissed, and the Borough Council has decided to take action in the matter. There are no less than 100 cases In Petrolia and vicinity. Dr. Glenn, the great California land mo nopolist, has this year sacked 1,290,000 bags of wheat making 65.000 tons, and valued at 12,200,000. It Is said that this nets him a yearly loss, and it is gradually but surely swallowing his estate of 60,000 acres. Nearly six months ago General Hooker commissioned a Utlca marble maker to build him a monument for his lot in Spring Grove cemetery, Cincinnati. It will be a sarcophagus of red Scotch granite, resting oa a Qulncy granite base, all of 21 tons weight. Tub time seems to be approaching, predicted by the London Dally News a few weeks ago, when It sId that the premium on gold In France would soon be raised to such a point that the whole incidence of the United States demand would be thrown on Groat Britain. There will be In the neighborhood of 4,100,000 pounds of grapes shipped from the Keuka lake region, Steuben county. New York, this year. There Is likewise a very large crop In the Seneca la se country. It is said after this year new and faster boats will be put on these lakes to transport the crop. Ai.ii our exchanges concur in saying there never was a time whn so much capital sought investment In mines and mining speculation as the present year. Business men In largo numbers, who formerly regarded the business as a speculative venture, have thrown aside their prejudices and are Investing. A man called Elder Stanton claims to have cast a demon out of a young man at Sparta, Livingston county, N.Y. Just before the de mon escaped, in the form of a green frog, the yonng man manifested what th 5 local papers call great "green apple distress," by leaping and Jumping like a frog. Stanton has many believers. The bill to provide for the emancipation of slaves in Cuba la a very comfortable one for the owners. The present generation of slaves are to be kept in servitude until their best working days are over, and then will be left to look out for themselves, the Government paving the owners a price that is not small for a worked-ont man. General Grant, aa shown in some admira ble San Francisco portraits, is heavier and more solid looking than of old. The change since he left the Whits House is quite marked, but the features retain the same dogged ex pression. Grant's solidity is probably due to the "Congress water" which he drank on board "The City of Tokio." The English sugar trade, which has so long been depressed, the Pall Mall Gazette says, is at last sharing In the general improvement The special causes of the advance that has taken place are considerable purchases from America, the decided lateness of the beet crop In France, and apprehensions that the quality is below the average. In Germany and Austria, too, beet Is somewhat late, Some Idea of the sort of man elected gov ernor of New York on Tuesday by the Republicans may be gathered from the letter of Sec retary Sherman in regard to the removal of Mr. Cornell as naval officer of the port of New York. Sherman put in writing this: "That the restoration of Messrs. Arthur and Cornell would be a serious lnj ury to the public service. involving a loss of public revenue and an increased expenditure." Probably the oldest American statesman now alive la Peleg Sprague, ot Maine. He is 88 years of age and entirely blind. He was a member of the United States Senate from 1829 to 1835, when Webster, Clay, Calhoun and Benton were the leaders of that body, and he was a member of the National House of Representatives from 1825 to 1827. He was Judge of the United States district court of Mi ohusetta from 1841 to 1861. The powers of a horse's memory were illus trated at Rochester, N. Y., recently. The city sold a team of horses that had been used for drawing a hook-and-ladder truck, three and a half years ago, .but the other day when the driver took the horses Into the track bouse and turned them loose, each went to his own tail, and when a gong was sounded they ran out and took their accustomed positions at the trngue of the machine. Chief Justice Carttex, of Washington, deserves to be oommended. He refused to gran t a divorce In the ease of John Casey against his wife, Florence E. Casey, on Saturday, because from all the evidence one la about aa wretchedly quarrelsome and extravagant aa the other, and It would be an unjust infliction upon the publio if either should be given a chanoe to get Into the matrimonial market again. He would direct a decree of separa tion, but not of divorce. Twehty-tl'rke years ago a young Kentueklan visited a gambling saloon In New Orleans, and whUe there saw a man of his own age lose a last dollar at the table. The generous Bine grass boy, D. F. Todd by name, plUed the rained fellow so heartily that he whipped out hia pocketbook and loaned him SS00 with which to try again, The gambler, a jrrencn man, did try, won, and repaid the money, Todd returned to his home In Kentacky

worked hard, and last summer found himself a bankrupt On last Wednesday, while In the

elongh of despond, be opened a letter that bore Paris postmark, and read that the man whom he long ago befriended, and long; ago forgot had sent him a present of $50,01)0. A tarty traversing Hernando county, Flor ida, last week, in crossing a hnrainock near SumtervlUe, found no water, but returning three days later, a bold stream was found flowing through so deep that the water came nearly over the backs of the horses. Beneath this strip of hummock Is an underground river, the water of which can always be seen flowing throngh a deep sink-bole a few miles further on, and recent rains forcing the water to the surface caused the sudden appearance of the stream. Wbf.x a reporter of the Charleston News and Courier got on board a train at Columbia, the other morning. he found the two home senators occupying a teat together. General Butler wore his cork leg and walking cane, and Senator Hampton was flanked by a pair of crutches. Both senators said that Bayard should be the Democratic candidate. "He can beat Mr. Tilden in his own State, and if any Democrat can carry New York it is Mr. Bayard," was the conclusion. Near Wapakoneta, O., a few days since, Mrs. Joseph Gearing, wife of a well-to-do farmer, who Is president of the Auglaize County Agricultural society, was engaged In mak ing apple butter at a fire outside the house, when her clothes Ignited and she was envel oped in flames. The terror stricken woman ran toward her husband, who was in the adjoining wood. Before she had gone far she tripped and fell and was unable to regain her feet When the husband came upon the scene be beheld the body non-cognizable and almost burnt to a crisp. The correspondent of the Cincinnati Com mercial, Miss Laura Ream, in a reoent letter, thus defines Indiana sentiment In regard to the claims of Mr. W. H. English, aa hard-money man, to political favor: While the reputation of having "as much money as Tilde n" carries wltn it a certain weight outside of Indiana, here the circumstances attending the financial sentiments of Mr. English are nicely considered. Mr. English has been distinctively a money maker. Every Interest be had la that direction waa subserved by the position be took la the war. With a large estate he waa too shrewd to not be aware that the preservation and Increase of his possessions depended upon the makitenanoe of the Union. The result was, the panic found him at the head of the First National bank. bet ter prepared, perhaps, than any man In the State for the resumption of specie pay ments. Although his vast property has incurred heavy expenditures, It was without exception a large return for the money in. vested. The capital stock of tbe bank at that time was a million, and his share of the stock well on to (300,000. Some two years ago he sold out at a good advance. It must also be borne in mind that there has been no politi cal pressure brousht to bear upon his financial position. He has not been a candidate for any office before county or State conventions, ; nor a solicitor for any Government patronage -whatever. ' THE STATE PRESS. The New Castle Courier says: The Indianapolis Sentinel wants no mora immigration into Indiana. "Niggers," particularly, need not apply. It Is a nice sentiment for a leading Democratic paper to chamfnon. nomes are nere ior inousanos oi i armies, be they white or black, so that they are industrious and obey the laws. in answer to the above, we quote a tew sentences from the speech of Governor Hendricks made in this city last week: The people of Indiana will not obiect to the emigration of all classes of people who come here in good faith to seek homes for themselves and their faKitles. There is no opposition to that. . But when it oomes to Uiese colored people being brought In here simply to swell me iiepuouoan vote ana enlarge the basis of Republican representation in Con gress, the political organization that does this becomes the enemy i every laboring man in Indiana. Labor e misrules according to natural lntlurnces. Wherever labor is desired, it is apt logo. But where the laboring papulation is swollen beyond the necessities, and such a plan as is now proposed is carried out, the etloct is to cheapen labor. It is an outrage upon the labor ot the State, which is sure to Be greatly cheapened thereby. Gnderstaud this right from the start, we will not be taken asleep at all on this subject. A Zach Chandler Serenade. (Courier-Journal. At one of Mr. Chandler's meetings in Ohio some callow students delighted him by singing: "Tbe Republicans all will bn there, thank God! The Republicans all will be there, thank God! The Republicans ail will be there, thank God! In Heaven above, where all is love, Tbe Republicans all will be there, thank God! A secoutl verse was ol t ie same style, tne only change being of the last and the first two lines, as "Ihe Democrats will not be there, thank God !" And the next strain was: "Tbe Democrats all will be there, thank God ! The Democrats all will be there, th aa K God ! In hell below, where all Is woe. The Democrats all will be there, THANK God!" Well, the old man now knows bow it ia himself. Concerning the SentineU South Bend Herald. The Indianapolis Daily Sentinel is now one of the bet and ablest Democratic jour equal. The Damocratlc party of Indiana can not too highly appreciate tbe services of the Sentinel, consequently the wider its circulation the more good it will do. The Democratic press of the State should lay aside all jealousy; all personal "prejudices and do all they can to extend itacircnlation. The Herald can alwaya rely upon the hearty support ot all Democrats in St. Joseph county, who are constant readers of such -able Democratio journals as tbe Sentinel. Such men are more likely to appreciate the value of a Democratio paper in their own county. What aa Industrious People Ban Done. I Detroit Evening bews.1 Silver dollars are no more a part of tbe currency of the land, practically, than U Bland had never been born yet disaster ha not come, but tbe contrary. The Warner silver bill ia still in tbe limbo of Bayard's committee yet Stagnation, attended by her slaves. Famine and Disorder, has not come forth to prey upon us; baton tbe contrary, thia broad land, the home of 50 000,000 of bappy and Industrious people, laughs in its abundance and sits securely in its peaoe and order. What has accomplished all this? The sturdy arms of an industrious people have dug it all from the rich bosom of oar . A Good V ord For Us. . t icolumbua Demooratl Tbe Sentinel ia oflering with their weekly a ?ery valuable work entitled the Law of tbe Farm, by James B. McCrellia, E:q., of the Indiana bar, embracing tbe rights, liabilities and duties of farmers aa tanner. We find it recommended by tbe very beat legal talent of the State, and from the examination we have made can assure the farmers and business men generally that it just what ia needed in their libraries. The) weekly and this most excellent work can be bed by callirg upon Master T homes. Davidon, at tbe Foaoffioe, Columbus, for f L25 per annum. Insure your life for 25 cents against all the danger of Consumptive's death by keeping bottle of Dr. Bull a cough syrnp venient