Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 29, Number 7, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1881 — Page 5

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY Id, 1681.

WEDNESDAY FKDKUAKY 1.

BATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. Puily, delivered by carriers, per week 40 25 Dmly. delivered by carrier. Including Sunday Sentinel, per week ...... 80 Ia;ly to newsdealers, per copy.. 8 Indiana poll Sentinel for lSSO-Dally, San. day and Weekly Edition. DAILY. IRllTerel by rarrler, per week.-... 20 Dfcily, lucludlii? Sunday, per week 85 Daily, per annum, by mall - 10 00 Imily, per annum, by mail. Including Sunday, by mail... 12 00 Iily, delivered by carrier, per annum 12 00 Ifetly. delivered by earner, per anuuui, jjjciuaing etui day ......... . 14 00 BUS DAT. ev.r.daT edition ot seventy columns . S 2 00 UILT. Welly,per annum...- - -' 1 Toe postage on iubecrlptiona by mail la prepaid bv the publisher. 'Newsdealers supplied at three cents per copy, rostaze or other charges prepaid. DEMOCRATIC DOCTRINE. The Union must and shall be preserved. Jackson. The Government Is best which govern east Madison. Government are founded and laws enacted for the purpose of protecting the honest, the weak, the Just; punishing the polity and rewarding the meritorious Jefferson. Mo encroachments upon, or Interference with the affairs of this people of the North American Continent by any foreign power. King, Emperor, Prince, or Potentate. Monroe. The Largest liberty to the greatest number ef persons, providing they do not encroach apon the rights of a minority. Calhonn. The people of every State, as well as of every Territory, have the right to regulate their own domestic affairs in their own way subject, however, to the provisions of the Constitution of the United States. Douglas. The great principles of American liberty are still the lawful inheritance of this people, and ever should be. The light of trial by Jury, the habeas corpus, the liberty of the press, the freedom of speech, the natural rights of persons, and the rights of property must be preserved. General W.S.Hancock. von: ror. ruKjnKT, ixso. Hancock, Democrat..- - 4,444,313 Garfield, Republican 4,437,981 "Weaver, Greenback 307.OG3 Iow, Prohibition ,44 scattering - 1,"U3 Totnl Hancock over Guriield. . , ,.,300,7! 6,33 Mrs II .w ks says she likes the old White House it u such a nice home-like rtablij-h-merit. No mistake; Io.tine, the man who killed Grant, is to be. Secretary of State under Garfield. Thk interest law of Indiana is probably as near perfection a it can be made, and the ncntl sentiment is, let it alone. fVi.oyEL 1icic I'.ki'.ht will have to order a mall chair for Senator Harrison. He can't fill the one now occupied by Senator MVIV,nald. Xho-e in favor of compulsory education will be convinced after h while that it is not the duty of the Legislature to utterly destroy home government. TrtK deei.Mon of the Supreme Court killed he amendments as dead a." a mackerel; and it is not the part of wisdom to treat them as if they had life in them. The New York Sun .-ays Garfield "is aa clearly committed as a man can be against the granting of subsidies" How committed? By his speeches and votes? Fudge! What dx a Kepublican care for such things? A j enterprising-owner of a ball in Uichmorid, Va., offered General 15. Y. I'.utler, dnrini his recent visit to that city on law .msiness, $.)00 a night to lecture IUuler to ?;Tak npon any subject he pleased. The tvorld moves. Asp now conies another nimr. This rin.e the Republic of Mexico is to be consolidated with the Central American Republic and Grant is to be President of the new concern. Will this provide for Grant, or will it be necessary to pass around the hataain? Inner, who want to investigate the ltenevoh nt Institutions should change the phraseology of their resolutions. They should read: "Whereas, paltry rumors are atloat." instead of, "Whereas, grave charges have been mad.;." The change would be less embarrassing to investigators. Ir is pleasant to know that the ill-advised Investigation of rumors regarding the ruanturernent of the Female Prison and Reformatory is drawing to a c.W'. lhe rumor are ibout all in, and the Committee can write its report That the Institution has been well managed is patent to every unprejudiced mind. Haves is going out of ffice pretty generally despised by Republicans, l'.y latriot.s he will forever be regarded asan cx-abomin-ation, as guilty as those who perjured him into office, but still as pure as those who made it possible to place a man in the otlice of President by means that will grow blacker as the year roll on. It ii now stated that Hayes drew Tilden' salary only twice in violation of law. The law provides that "No advance of public money shall be made in any case whatever." After violatins the law twice, Hay was informed that it could not be done agaitt After that, instead of asking for his money on the Ut day of the month he postponed iL; demand to the l.'-th, and was paid, and this plain violation of the law ha been kept up ever since. Hayes, it is thought, hxs raved J.VW by the dodge. Tur peoplo of the West are taught to be lieve that New Rngland is the land where great moral ideas have their birth, ami that from New Kngland they rt forth on their mission to bless the less I.tvond jHrlitns o the country. Iu New Kngland the R. pub lican i arty is in the ascendancy, ami while everywhere layingclaim to beingrxcluiv"ely thetiod and morality par:y, it t ssptLh its claim in New Kngland with an cmi 'iasi that brooks no denial. But it feenis t!v it in the New England States the Cod and moral lty business doenot show special influence in domestic affairs. The anctity ol tu

rcarriage rth tion hi 'not only not above

average, but greatly below average. It is stated that ia 1ST (J there vas in the State of Maine one divorce for every 1.3Ö7 inhabitants; i; New Hampshire, one to ev?ryl,43!; in Vermont, one to ever- 1,70"; in Massachusetts, one to every 2,W; in Ilhode Islaml, one to every 1,111, and in Connecticut, one to every 1,5T2. Such figures are supsestive, but not ot "God and morality." On the contrary, they demonstrate the necessity of more attention to home affairs, and less boasting about thcethercalized condition of. New Kngland society.

REORG ANIZ A.TION. The necessity for a, reorganization, or a better organisation of the Democratic party is so palpable that few are disposed to controvert the proposition. The necessity extends to every State. There is everywhere an exhibition of a lack of vigor and unity, and the course pursued in Congress by Democrats only emphasizes the demand for a better organization. The latest footings show that (ieneral Hancock received more votes for President than were cast for (ieneral Garfield. Hence, the conclusion that numerically the Democratic party is, the stronger of the two. Admitting this, why failure and defeat? lach one may answer the question to his liking, but every prudent answer embodying the fact will inevitably lead to the conclusion that better organiza tion is required. The principles of the Democratic party are absolutely right and must prevail; but the time vhen their su premacy shall be acknowledged maybe in definitely postponed by inertness, irresolution and the want of organization, and a lold, defiant and aggressive policy. The resent Democratic Congress has helped amazingly to bring about the present condi tion of things. Those Democrats who have been on the alert, earnestly seeking to pro mote the w elfare of the country, and thereby win the approval of th" eople by the passage of measures of the highest irnjortnnce, have not had the support of other Democrats whose aid wa.i necessary to achieve success. The electoral count bill, the bill to rejeal existing navigation laws, and many others. are all imj riled by the supinene.-s of Dem ocrats, whose duty it was to enact wholesome hi ws. "Why this disgraceful inefficiency and do-nothingism in a Congress supposed to be Democratic?" queries the New York F.x press, and answers, by saying, "the explanation is not hard to find. The Democratic ir.ajority is very small, and utterly unorganized. It has able men, but no acknowledged leader. Mr. Kan -lall is a protectionist, a Cameronized Democrat, with interest. and ideas and schemes of hi? own, which no true Democrat can find out; and he has not been willing that the Democratic majority should be led by anybody but hi nisei f. Mr. Fernando Wood, an able and experienced man, is too oi l and infirm to take charge of affairs, and. indeed, has been obliged to go to Arkansas to recover his health. The caucus is demoralized. A half dozen Democratic members like Alexander II. Stephens pet no end of compliments and Mattery from the Republicans by osiiig as IndcjtendenLs, and embarrassing the Democratic majority by their egotistic eccentricities. A number of members w bo were not re-elected take no interest in the proceedings, and much of the Hepublicans actually control the Hoor. They are thoroughly organized and well-trained. and without responsibility of any sort, are able to embarrass the majority and obstruct the public business. The siectaclc is lamentabie, and must fill every true Democrat with sorrow." The Democratic party ought not, and will not. tolerate such a condition of things. Divided councils and divided leadership leads to defeat and demoralization. It is best to look circumstances ami facts squarely in the face, and provide such remedies as may be required. We believe the masses are tired of the old programme, aud demand a charge. Let it come. There is little danger of making things worse. CORN. The exportation of corn is rapidly increasing, which must be gratifying to the farmers of all the great corn-growing State. The jeople of Kurope are beginning to understand the value of corn, and the more they know of it the more they will want. The corn-producing capacity of the United States is practically unlimited, and hence the demand is never likely to exceed the supply. In furnishing statistics with regard to the annual production of corn, the Agricultural Department is doing the ieople, ns well as merchants and shippers, good service; and it is likely to be as imortunt in the future to have correct statistics of the production of corn as of wheat. "Acccording to the census of 1810," says a writer in the Chicago Times, ' the yithl of corn for the preceding year was .V77.192,.l:o bushels, which in ten years, or 1" f, had increased to ö02,.V,.'l.&74 bushels, and again in 18.VJ to 83M.f;ti m;$ bushel. As the Agricultural Department iad not then been established, there was no means of knowing, even approximately, the annual yield of grain, except once every ten years, when the census rejorts contained the n formation. And as newsiaper enterprise iad not at that day covered the field of statistical information ln-aring ihkmi the grain crops as at present, operators were, to a large extent, compelled to work in the dark; but as the trc.de w;ts to a great extent local, there being but little foreign demand the want of accurate ttatlstirs was not felt so greatly as now, when, without the trade statistics furnished by the press of the coun try, merchants would be unable to conduct their business with any wifety. The tota yield of corn in the United States for a nun ler of years, according to the reports of the census and the Agricultural Department and also the ex-orts of the same, have- been as follows:

fn.p Yield t Kxported i.f Iii. Year. bu. ; .Mi.-W isi'i ii't:.is.vj.s7 s.' ...,.... Kis.fi'.it iui:i,mv. no 3,31 l.raü lM'.ii........ b-7,vio.'ji.' imj( (7 ... H,s,.r;.?,.:'i 1hc7 7ti-i,:r.,. i7 fj... ll.in.7M Im'S yuf,.W7,(ll) IsCH-tW 7,OI'V-17 si,. .. tl.H'JO.UjO 1S,'-7U...... 1. W.!. 115 :q ..l.owiVi.u 170-71 ... . !.s.,ii,:iii'.i is-1 ...... twi.s'n.oimnci-T-J ii.i..mi li?'............l,0,i:.71'i,(XKI 1-7 7:t S.Ml.KM 10 9r.V7l.(XiO s7:t 7l 31,11 1.Mfl 1ST I fU).l IS Sot) IS7I 75.... '.! H, l.'O is;r,............l.:5.'l,tx..,0 1H7.V7... iVA'KWt I?.! .. l,2HI,K.7.(Xl 1H7H-77 70,K.n.iM lK77 ...........l,1i.i.VH,(KK) 1K77-7H K'i.ifil.tr.in 7S... 1 A.'.'17.7..0 IS7M 7'J sr..-.".rt,2V2 s7'i.... nTJm !iM,jr.77 IKsO ....lt7,W.,'JOO,lKS0....... . .113,a.'A3)

Here wc have tho fact presented that the rite f IncrcaM in the foreign exports has

been much greater than the increaso In pro

auction. In iwenty years from 1839 to 1S.'9 the increase in the yield was from 377,492.302 bushels to S3S,(l,C03 bushels. "In the fiscal year of 1S&MJ0'', bays the writer, "the foreign exports of com were 3,31 1,300 bushels, irhich gradually increased to 14,KI7.203 bushels in 1SOM57, and then declined till in I Si?. -70 the amount was only 1,392,11," bushels, and since that time there bas been almost a constant yearly increase. The yield of corn from 1S61 to 1880 nearly doubled, but during the tame period the the exports of corn increased nearly 8.000 per cent.; or while the exports of corn irf 1S)3T0 formed only about one-sixth of 1 jer cent, of the total yield of tiiat ye ar, the exports for 1880 were nearly 8 per cent, of the crop. And yet so rapid has been the gain in the exports the amount is still very small in proportion to the total. It Is true that a large proportion is exported in the shape of provisions, but it is not of that to which these statistics are intended to refer. The total amount exported in 1880 was 30,000,000 bushels less than one-half as much as the crop of Illinois alone; was 10,000,000 bushels less than the yield in Ohio; was M.OOO.OOO bushels less tlau the cop of Iowa, and was.

but 2,000.000 bunhels less than the yield in either Indiana or Missouri. The total corn crop of the country in 1839 was only (tt,000,000 bushels greater than the crop of Illinois alone in l8:u, and was just Gt;,00,000 bushels less than the 179 crop of Illinois and Indiana combined." The rapid growth of the foreign cxportatiorss ot corn is one of the cheering signs of the times ami the commercial importance of the movement can scarcely be over-estimated. INTEREST LEGISLATION. The Sentinel in the pat has advocated a low rate of interest, and it still adheres, with reference to general principles, to its oft relocated declarations mon the subject. To fix the rah' of interest on money so as to meet the reasonable demands of lender and borrower, has always been n difficult task a fact abundantly attested by the continuous agitation of tue subject. Kxtreme views upon this, as ujon other questions relating to the material interests of individuals and the general welfare of communities, it ha been found difficult to harmonize, but it r.iay be asserted with a large degree of confidence that Indiana ha reached a solution of the interest problem upon which there exists a better state of feeling among all parties concerned than has fallen to the It of any other State in the Union. The Legislature, two years ago, by law provided that per cent, should be the legal rate of interest when no contract is made, and that S per cent, should be the highest rate permitted by contract. This legislation was a judicious com promise, and has given very general satisfaction. Ituiness men and bankers, borrowers and lenders, have adjusted their a flairs to meet the requirements of the law, and now the demaud is let well enough alone. We are satisfied that the wisest policy is not to disturb the lawyas it stands. It is working well. Under it, in so far as business affairs are affected, results emphasize the conclusion that any contemplated change would result in embarrassments without anj valuable com penult ions. THE WHIPPING-POST FOR WIFEWHIPPERS. The chief objection to whipping wifewhippcrs is that such punishment is out of date, that it belonged to a comparatively bar barous age, and therefore ought not to be tolerated in this full-orbed noou of Christian civilization. , To whip a wife-whipper is, we admit, something after the barbarous style of getting even with the wife-whipping rascal, but it is vastly less brutal, cruel and barbarous than for a big burly ruffian to whip his wife a crime hieb is an aggregation of all that goes to make up a mean, brutal, depraved character. The man who will beat his wife has less humanity in him than an average dog. ndeed. it is an insult to a decent dog to make the t omparison. Such a specimen of .. . , , . , brutalized humanity is dead to everv appeal lt to his reasoning lueulties. lhe only way to teach him i- to whip him. A wife bruised ind mangled by a heartless, depraved mon ster of a husband is a spectacle well calculated to lire everv manly heart with burning indignation. To fine such a character, to lock him up for a few days in prison, or comiel him to work on a rockpile has no humanizing effect upon a callous natu it:. He improves the npportnmty to nurse his beastly instincts, and, attributing his imprisonment to the complaints of his wife, beat her again. Thirty lashes well aid on teaches the human beast letter man ners. If the public desires to hear the last of wife-beating, erect the wh!pping-iott. It will prove an effective remedy. FAVORITISM IN INSURANCE LEGIS LATION. Perhaps no better index to the general spirit of hostility to home insurance inter est and favoritism for lhe foreign interest is manifested in any part of the Finch omni bus insurance bill than is contained n the provision of Section 10, which requires of home Companies securities amounting to one-half of their capital stock, to be deiosied with the Audi tor of State, as a condition to the completion of their organization and their qualification to do business. H U ;U le vbsrned that this requirement if nuy tit apply to home Compttnie. Nothing of the kind is asked of the English, French, New England or other for eign Companies. The simple "utatement" of foreign Insurance Companies, that they jiossess certain securities $omeuhere, is deemed all sufficient as to them. Not so however, as to our own citizens. It seems that the author of this wonderful produ tion does not look upon the "statement" of our own citizens as entitled to equal credit with that of the unknown foreigner, and it is precisely iu tho amc spirit of superior trust in, and partiality for, the foreign cor porations that it is carefully provided else where in the bill, that they need publish nothing whatever in Indiana in regard to their condition. It Is gonerally understood that we are to hive an extra session of the Legislature. There are tcvcral things to be attended to that can not be accomplished in sixty days, at a cost of something more than a thousand dollars per day. The foundation of the new State House are to rained that the people, a thousand yean hence, may be In

formed that Indiana took a prominent iart in the War of the Kebellion, and that Governor Porter was not in the war. But the great work before the Legislature, is to investigate rumort concerning the Benevolent Institutions. The Journal, some days since, became powerfully impressed with the fact that His Kxcellency Governor Porter lacked sand; that he was not equal to the occasion; that he was weak, irresolute, effeminate; wanting in spine; determination rim. On account of which, the control of the Benevolent Institutions was not placed in the hands

of - the Republican party. This. set-back to Republican ex lactations created widespread demoralization in the party. It upset calculations, demolished hopes, and every Republican breast became a sort of a fiery-furnace where the Benevolent Institution goose is still cooking. The investigation of the Female Prison turned out to be a tirst-clas farce, as disgusting as it was unnecessary, and the investigation, of the affairs of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum promises to be not only a farce, but an exhibition of artisan malignity seldom witnessed. The parties, to the prosecution seemingly conscious ef the dirty work in which they were engaged, lacked the manhood to make charges and swear to them ; and, as a result, the Committee is engaged in investigating rumors, and if rumors are not supplied in abundance, it will be; because Republican mendacity is not equal to the occasion a contingency not likely to occur. The investigation on Wednesday was puerile to the last degree. It scarcely rose to the dignity of contempt. It evidenced that scavengers had been at work hunting rumors, which, when found, disclosed their parentage and birth-place by the foul odors that clung to them. Probably nothing so essentially vicious in investigations was ever before exhibited. Republicanism could scarcely appear in a more repulsive girr. Mad, mean and malign, it seeks for the defects in others which characterize the conduct of its own bosses, and having Wen adjudged leprous in its administration of public affairs, is anxious to contaminate those whose records are above reproach. Let it proceed with its investigation, and continue to fill its garbage cart with rumors. The people will in due time discover the animus of the proceeding, and render a verdict in accordance with the low designs of the disappointed individuals whose motto is "Rule or ruin." The Instr.e Asylum will grow in popular favrwitli investigation. A gentleman thoroughly qualified to judge spent much of yesterday at the Institution. He was delighted with the management, and pronounces Ir. Rogers and his corps of assistants jrfect masters of the situation. He thinks the Insane Asylum of Indiana far surpasses any like Institution in the United States. Persons having friends there may rest assured that they are well treated and abundantly provided for. No mistake about it James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur have been declared duly elected President and Vice President of the United States, but V. P. Wheeler did not count the votes. OliiTTAKY. firsam o woo n. A brief dispatch from Hot Springs-, Ark., announces the datn of Hon. Fernando Wood, of Xew York, on Sunday night, at 10 o'clock. Mr Wood lind been in poor health for nonie months past, so that the annouucenieat of his death will not le received by the country with that unexpectedness which usually accompanies the tilling of the decease of those w ho ure stricken down Kuddeitly, without any warning of the npproach of the seldom welcome messeiiRer. Without being in the front rank of American statesmen, Fernando Wood has been a conspicuous llgureinAmerican polities for fjulte thirty years past. Visitors to the House of Representatives for the m st two decades have been attracted by the handsome and conspicuous appearance of the member representing the Ninth New York IIstrlct. He was among the most attractive-looking Memlnrs of the Ixiwer House courteous and gentlemanly in debate. ajioptilar among bis fellow-members faithful to ,. , . . , , . ,,.,.. K i. i thn intpre.ts of his eonsti tue its. he will le la ineuted by all who knew him. He represented one of the largest aud most Intelligent constituencies in trie country. His Congressional District embraced all thut jortIn of New York City known as the Ninth liUtrict. running from West Twenty-sixth to West Eighty-sixth street, aud west of Sixth avenue. Mr. Wood was of ijuaker stock and born in Phil adelphia in lslJ. His father removed to New York eifcht years later, since which tune Mr. Wood has made that city his home. When nineteen years of ajio he commenced business as a shipping merchant, in which occupation he was entirely successful, retiring with an ample for tune in ls.V). He was three times elected Mayor f New York, serving In that otllco during the years KVi, 'jo. ':", 'CI and 'ft!, lie was earlier a Member of the House of Uepresentatlves than any other Member of the present House, having served its Ruch iu the years 111, '12 and '1.1; be Was elected to the Tweiity-oventh, Thirty-eighth, Fortieth, Forty-first. Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth and Fortysixth Congresses, and w as re elected to the Fortyseventh Congress as a Democrat, defeating Hardy, Autl-Tanimuny, and Hcrrrruan, Kepublican. In 175 hla friends proposed him for Speaker of the House of representative, but he decliued. His connection with tho well-known "Heiuuding 1UU" aud its history is of so recent ddle that it is only necessary to refer to it now In connec tion w 1th the. death of the author of thU Import ant measure. When in 11 1 Fort h'timter was attacked. New York City, in common with tho entire Nation, shared in the general excitement of the rlxl. Mr. Wood wus Mayor of the city at the time, and suspected of sympathy w 1th the Southern people. Ills proclamation rang out boldly for ..the defense of the Constitutum and the Union, as follows: New York, April l lsci. Ah Chief Magistrate representing the whole people. I feel compelled at this crisis to call iiimui them lo avoid excitement and turbulence Whatever msy boor may have been individual positions or opinions on questions of public policy, let tu remember that our country now trembles upon the brink of apieclplee, and thatlt requires a patriotic and honest etlort to prevent lis nual destruction, l-et us iguoro the past, rising mpurior to partisan considerations, aud rally to the restoration of thn Constitution and the Union, as they cxlsicl in tho days ami in the spirit of our fathers. Whether tills is V l accomplished by fratricidal warfare or by concession, conclllaiini and sacrifice, men may diUVr; but all will admit that here at least harmony ami tou-e should prevail. Thus may we, under the guidance of Dlvun Providence, set an example of ponce and Itood-wlll throughout our extended' country. In this spirit and with thls-lewr I mil upon the oplu of New York. Irrespective of all oilier considerations or prejudices, to unite in obedience tothe laws. In support of the public peace, In the preservation of order aud lu the protection of propertyFRRSaxdo Woon, Mayor. A week later, on tho recomuictidsllou vl Mr. Wood, the Hoard of Aldurroan of the City of Now York voted $1,000,000 to aid iu tho defense of the National Government. ' . Both the Heuate and House o! IlepresenUtlvea ' yesterday djourued promptly upon receipt ot the

Intelligence of Mr. Wood's death. The Legislature of Arkansas adjourned upon hearing of his death, nfter passing appropriate resolutions and appointing a Committee to accompany his remains to the Missouri State line. rKitsoxÄLsT An autograph of Hawthorne's sold in Paltlmo)e the other day for 3.72. One of Webster's brougl.t SI 60: one of Henry Clay's, $1 03; one of Jefferson Davis' the same, and 81.20 was paid for one of (icorge Bancroft's. General Garfield w ill be glad to see his Inantcu' ation-day if it will give him a little peace. Calle, continue to pour in upon him to such an extent thateveu hla stout nerves are affected, and he has been troubled with sleeplessness. Sknator-elect (ieokck. of Mississippi, was born in Georgia! has lived since he was ten years old iu the State which has tent him to the Senate. His life has been full of hard work. In his boyhood his widow ed mother and his sisters were dependent upon him and he had little time to spend in study. He began to practice law as soon m he reached his majority. He Is fifty-two years old, an athletic man, w ith blonde hair and hlskers, and firm jaws. Mrs. Vatsox. the widow of the astronomer, will, it is reported, shortly berfn proceedings to break the wul of her husband. This will was made several years ago, when the Frofessor had only s,O0O or 10,000, and it is supposed that he intended to make a new one before his death. When he died he had about föO.000, and his w ill gives to his wife only abont 5-1.0C0, and to his mother the small annuity of tl."0. All the rest goes to the National Academy of Scieuces. If no reasonable explanation of so unjust a will can be made, it must be said to be a document which no ajnount of scientific enthusiasm can excuse. A UTTER w ritten by General Grant to his father.

uescnoms fiis surrender at V irksbure. was sold at an autograph sale In Boston last week. "I found," writes the General, "I had continuously under-estimated the force of the enemy, both in men and artillery. The number of prisoners surrendered was 00,'iOO. The process of parolllng is so tedious, however, that many who are desirous of getting to their homes will escape before the parolling officers get around to them. The arms taken are about ISO pieces of artillery and over 30,000 stand of small s.rms. The enemy stilt had about four days' ra tions of flour and meat, and a largo quantity of sugar. The weather is now exceedingly warm, and the roads intolerably dusty. It can not beexpected, tinder these circumstances, that the health of the command can keep up as it ha done. My troops w ere not allowed one hour's idle time after the surrender, but were at once started afterother fame. My health has continued very Kood during the campaign which hasJut closed. Kcmember tne to all at home. Ulysse." The Finch Insurance Hill. To the Editor of the Sentinel: Sitt As is well known, the insurance interest is a great one. Anytning afiecting it is of vast importance to the country. All prudent men owning property keep it insured. Not to do so would almost be a crime, for many a time does a lire consume ia an hour what it has taken years to create. Hy insuring his life, the husband and father protects wife and child from want; for when death comes, labor must cease. So it will be seen that Fire and Life Insurance Companies are, public necessities and tlipir establishment a matter of paramount importance to the people. I have read with much interest the report and accompanying hill of Mr. John A. Finch to the legislature upon the subject of insurance, and with your jermission I will give the readers of the Sentinel some reasons why, in my judgment, this bill should not become a law. I say this bill of Mr. Finch, for, although the rejvort recommending it is signed by General Manson. formerly Auditor of State, and also has the quasi indorsement of Judge Woollen, late Attorney General, it is well known that the bill is the handiwork of -Mr. Finch alone. I shall, therefore, treat it as such in this communication. In his report, Mr. Finch argues against imposingconditioiis ujion "incorporators of Insurance Companies unknown to other business." The argument is well taken, for capital employed in dealing in insurance pays t lie state the same revenue as capital employed in manufacturing or in any other business. Put the public w ill see that there is a wide gulf between Mr. Finch's precept and his example. His bill requires Companies writing insurance, organized in this State, to deposit one-half their capital with the State Auditor, and to pay a license fee for every man they employ to represent them. Hoes the merchant or" manufacturer have to surrender control of one-half his capital before commencing business? And doei he have to pay for licensing Iiis agents ami for riling in the several Counties where he sells ins goods, statements of the condi tion of Ins house? No: the Manufaeturine Company is subjected to none of these hardships. It controls its own capital, and selects whom it pleases to sell its wares. without cost or hindrance from the State: ami yet Mr. Finch, in his report, declares that the State should inirosc no conditions upon incorporators of Insurance Companies unknown to other business." Surely his preaching and his practice do not consist. There is, however, one class of Insurance Companies which the Finch bill does foster and encourage. Section "S of the bill nrovides lor the organization of Mutual t ire Insurance Companies. These are the only local Companies that the Chairman of the I nsurance Commission seems to he enamored of. It Is well known that M ritual Fire Insurance Companies have nearly always proven failures. The only exception, I believe, in Indiana. is tiic German Mutual, of this city. who does not remember the Sinnissippi, the old Indiana Fire, and uianv others of the brood of wild cats that preyed upon the jcopleof Indiana a dozen or so years ago:- Hoc Air. Finch want their kittens given new milk and be made to grow fat so they may prey upon the K?opIe, as did their mothers, fifteen years ago? If not, why doe his bill Iirovide for a new crop of these felines? ctend titsiti it. wild cat Companies are the only ones that will he organized in Indiana under the provisions of his hill. Ifheh.i l labored specially to concoct a plan to bring discredit uton Indiana I nsurance Companies, he could have made no improvement upon the bill he prepared for tho Legislature of Indiana. Under his bill, no legitimate Insurance Company will le organized. Should there be any persons In the Mate desirous of putting money into an Insurance Company, they will go outside its borders to organize it. Hy doing this they could do business in Indiana and still control their capital, liesides this, they would not be forced to pay their taxes until the end of theyear; whereas, were they to set up a local ' Company, I hey would be forced to part w ith the control of one-half their money, and to pay their taxes twice a year. Under these circumstances, who would organize a local Company "and with the h eals stand?" All w ho read the bill which Mr. Finch has prepared, and which he so Jersistently urges upon the Legislature, must see that its passage would be a death-blow to sound Insurance Companies in Indiana. They must also see that its passage would sweep n way many of the safeguards that now environ foreign Companies doing business In the State. It makes no provision for the publication of statements of tho condition of these Companies, a matter of tho first importance to the people, for in no other way can they learn if the Companies belling them indemnity are able to give it. lt provides that foreign Companies shall have the advantage of local Companies in the payment of taxes, for while the former can pay 'hem at the end of the year, the latter must pay them semiannually. It provides that a Company organized in Kngland, in' France, or In Germany may come into Indiana antl do business without putting up a dollar of security or advertlsipg it$ condition In the public

pre, whereas, under its pr ovisions, a Company established in Indiana, and owned by its citizens, must hypothecate one-half via capital as security for its undertakings before it can ojen its office for bck'ness. In his report to the Legislature Mr. rVich expresses "the earnest hoje that the insurance of property and life in Indiana should, to far as practicable, be by home Companies." He must mean that these "home Companies" should be mutual ones Tomnaiiie

I without capital or resio!isibility. for such tympanies are the only ones that will or can ie put on foot under the provisions of his bill. Put I can not believe that Mr. Finch's bill will become a law. The Legis lature will never pass it if the members examine it carefully, ami I can not think "irj win- jiass ujoii a measure oi so much importance to the people without thoroughly considering it. The ieople are not crying for insurance leinslation; they are content with the law as it stands. They have got along comfortably under the pres ent law, and are willing to let well enough alone. If the people's will and the puUic good are to govern, Mr. Finch's bill will be buried in the tomb of the capulcts a fate I most earnestly hope, and believe, awaits il- State Pride. Points from the orincouiing Work by J er. ferwou lavison the Late War. Chkai. Feb. ;i. The Times mukes public the topics discussed by Jefferson Davis in his History of IheKise and Fail of the Confederate ioveni-mr-tit soon to be issued. Mr. Davis' introduction is a short one, covering not quite two pages. He dedicates the work to the w idows and orphans of trie nfederate dead. He conceives it to be his duty to his countrymen to prepare this history of the rise and failure oi their cause. He finds in the structure thirteen independent States and their relation t each other, primary principles and vested rights on w hich he reMs his vindication of the coüfedvracr. He evlacv tfcc decuiue of Stute sovereignty and compact hy which Sutc-s voluntarily cave their consent to federation with no design, expressed or Implied, ever to become fractional parts of the Nation, and he believes that those, who resisted the violation of this original compact were in fact the true friends of the Constitutional Union. The author in discussing the prinefples and events in their natural and logical order, first gives his attention to African servitude and the long and bitter sectional strife to whicJ-.it gave rise. He then takes up the question of States' rights, giving the Constitutional and historical arguments on which fle rests the principle of state sovereignty, and quoting copiously from all authorities on the subject. These questions and a full statement of the immediate causes or the war o cupy one-half of the tirst volume. The remainder of the work is Riven to a narrative of the strucgle, including the fullest statement vet ritten from a Soulhern standpoint of the tierce dissensions in the Confederate councils, of his defense of the prolonpation of the war for many months after many of the ablest men in the South were fully convinced that their struggle was a hojeless one. lu open in t: the work he treats of the early legislation on the subject f slavery. He acquit the South of all reyjionsibility for the existence in its midst of the peculiar institution and calls attention to the fact that Virginia was the first state to prohibit the importation Into its territory of blacks brought to this country and reduced to slavery: and that Georgia was the tirst state to incorporate in its Constitution the prohibition of the African slave trade. All through the work he UvaU of slavery not as the cause of war, but only as an incident of the secession movement. The paramount question, he declares, was equality in Teiritories, and tothe inabiliiy of the South to maintain its equal rights in the Territories and new made states of thei'nion. He traces the eonrtiet which was intensified until it burst into oten war. While upon this subject, he Speaks In condemnatory terms of the Missouri Xmpromise, which he regards as the surrender of the rights which belonged to ttie South, and which it should have maintained: but after it was adopted he believed it should have been adhered to. nn he arraigns the North and the Federal Jovernment for the failure of the compromise, which was practically repealed by the bills organizing the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska in ls.V.J. It will be observed that Mr. Davis takes occasion to declare in many places throughout the work his devotion to the Constitutional Union. He instances speeches w hich he made in lsd during his candidacy for Governor of Mississippi in opposition to Henry S. Kkhc. These sieches contained repeated declarations of Iiis adherem-e and devotion to the Union, and he affirms that his public deeds were at all times actuated by this spirit betöre the General Government betrau its violent encroachments onthe rights of the States. It was during the Pearce Administration that the strudle iufKansas letween the 1'iee Soil and Proslavery parties eliminated in bitterness. This strtiKgle .Mr. Iavis finds to be the beirinning of the ; immediate crises of the war. j He devotes considerable spact; to a j aeseription tt wnat lie calls tne usurpations of the Federal authorities. oiiKress.it will be rememliered. refused to recognize the delegate chosen from Kansas on the ground that his elec tion by the rnsiavery Irtyhad been procured by fraud. He regards the repeal of tho Missouri t'oinpromise as reopening the question of shivery iu the Territories, and as precipitating a conflict between the opposing parties, which w as encour aged by the Aliolitiouistsof the North, and w hich finally compelled the South, in self-defense, to take a decided stand. He holds the violent Abolitionists largely responsible for the final breach of peace. tsnii;ing nis nistory down tothe elec. Ion of Lincoln, hi finds the Federal ktvernment in the hunds of a party, under which the Southern States could not live. Lincoln wus elected uion the platform of resistance to slavery extension. A party antagonistic to the South, and telieving in the centralization of power in the Federal Gov ernment controlled the Kxecutive. llavine dexoted about half of the first volume to an exposition of the cuuses which led the South to desire separation from the Federal Government, Mr. Iavls proceeds, in several chapters to delend the right of secession. In justification of this right he quotes largely from Webster, Calhoun. Douglas, Greeley, Seward, Kenton and Clay. In maintaining that the compact between the Stau s was in the nature of a ecuifederation.be draws largely for the basis of tils argument Irom the debates iu the Constitutional Convention of ITS'.', and fortifies himself with extracts from Storey on the Con stitution, F.lllott'a Debates and Bancroft's Histo ry. He reters to the memorable debate on the purchase of Louisiana, when JosLih (juincy. of Massachusetts, nsserlcd in the House of Repre sentatives that that uct virtnaliy dissolved the I nioti, so that the states were freed from their obligations, and should prepare for peaceable or forcible scnuratioii. He i: Ives a history of the adoption of the Tenth Amendment t to the t Institution, by which It was provfcled that "Powers not granted to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States are reserved lo States respectively or to the j-eople." He vindicates the right of secession as perfectly com twtihle witn the Constitution and claims besides, that the General Government has no rightful power to prevent It. The question, he maintains, rests with the jcop)e from whom all power is derived. Arriving lu the latter part of the Urst volume at the period when the hostilities i-oinmeneed, the narrative mule rapid pnigress. The author refers to the Nortffbrn protests against coercion, iu which connection the nann of Greeley figures prominent, lie maintains that the South did even' thing in its !ower m go out of the t'nioii is-acefulhr and quietly. The conservative temperof theSonthern people, he says.was shown tn the early acts of Its Congress, and in the adoption of ila Constitution. It was the desire and endeaviHT of the Contederacy to bind and unite the two countries together in friendly ties. Ho takes a friendlier view of Lincoln at the beginning of his AdiutnlstrfcUon than of his confeiers in the federal (rtivernment. H speaks of Lincoln's inaugural address, aud says that Lincoln did not so far lolate ilie traditions of his country as to defend eia-rcion while arguing against theilghtnf the South tow-cede, and staling that lie would use force enough to protect the United State property. He did not even intimate that the invasion oi southern sou wiiia oe unaer nilu-n. t hese extracts from Mr. Lincoln's inau gural led the South to hope that a wpHrailon would le brought about in a peaceful manner Among arguments with which he supports this theory ho cites couteinporancouN delates on this subject lu the Senate of the United Slates, aud quotes Senator Doug las resolution ordering the withdrawal of tho garrisons occupying the Southern Forts. He accuses Sewaid ajol others of bad faith, in represent ing that no hostile intention wa.s involved iu the succor which was sent to the garrisons in the forts. whereas the real design was to enable the troops to hold out ngutust tho demands of the South for the restoration of its property. He characterizes the act of Lincoln's Administration, in sending ammunition to Port sampler, as an act of fraud aud prevarication, defending them and Mill JustiiMhg the runt oi tne sotiui lo wunnniw iroiu ine Union and form a Government of Iva own. He las the responsibility for all the Wood shed upon the North. He speaks nt length of tlm Journey of the Pence Cominisioiiers, who were sent hy tho Confederate Government from Montgomery, then its Capital, to Washington, to negotiate for the peaceful adjustment of the rpicsllon ut Issue. He severely criticises th conduct of Si-creUry Seward ami his colleagues dutlng these dclHtcrntlons, aud asserts that the overtures of the South were not met In a frank and candid spirit. Peoria National Ptmocrat.J The most eminent physicians of tho day highly recommend St, Jacobs Oil ai a cure for rheumatism. It can bo purchased nt any drug house, and the -prh-o is insignificant, w hen you take into consideration the wonderful cures it will produce. Canvassers make from ICS to $50 per week elling goods for K. (I. Hideout it Co., 10 ltax clay street, New York, bend for catalogue and terms.

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