Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1874 — Page 1

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THE NEWS.

The election returns received on the morning of the 15th are summarized as follows: In Indiana the Democrats have elected their State ticket by from 10,000 to 15,000 majority. The Congressional delegation stands eight Democrats to five Republicans, as follows: Republican— Sixth District, Milton S. Robinson; Eighth, M. C. Hunter; Ninth, T. J. Carson; Eleventh, James L. Evans; Thirteenth, J. H. Baker. Democratic —First, B. 8. Fuller; Second, J. D. Williams; Third, M. C. Kerr; Fourth, J. D. New; Fifth, W . 8. Holman; Seventh, Franklin Landers; Tenth, Wm. S. Haymond; Twelfth, Andrew H. Hamilton. The Democrats elect their State ticket in Ohio by about 18,000 majority, and carry thirteen of the twenty ■ Congressional districts. The Congressmen elected are as follows: Democratic —First District, Milton Saylor; Second, H. B. Banning; Third, J. S. Savage; Fourth* J. A. McMahon; Fifth, A. Y. Rice; Sixth, F. H. Hurd; Seventh, L. T. Neal; Ninth, E.F. Poppleton; Eleventh, J. L. Vance; Twelfth, A. T. Walling; Thirteenth, M. I. Southard; Fourteenth, J. P. Cowan; Twentieth, H. B. Payne. Republican—Eighth, 'William Lawrence; Tenth, Charles Foster; Fifteenth, N. H. Van Vorhes; Sixteenth, Lorenzo Danford; Seventeenth, L. D. Woodworth; Eighteenth, James Monroe; Nineteenth, J. A. Garfield. The Republicans have carried lowa by about 40,000 majority, and elected their Congressmen in all the districts except the Third. This makes the delegation as follows: Republican— First District, G. W. McCrary; Second, J. Q. Tufts; Fourth, H. O. Pratt; Fifth,

James Wilson; Sixth, E. S. Sampson; Seventh, J. A.Kasson; Eighth, J. W.McDill; Ninth, Addison Oliver. Anti-Monopoly —Third, L. L. Ainsworth. The Republican majority in Nebraska ranges from 10,000 to 15,000. Lorenzo Crounse, Republican, is re-elected to .Congress. The three West Virginia Congressional districts elect the Democratic candidates, as follows: First, Benjamin Wilson; Second, C. J. Faulkner; Third, F. Hereford. In .Dakota Kidder (Republican) has about 2,000 majority for Delegate to Congress. The Legislature is Republican in both brandies. In Arkansas the new Constitution is adopted and the Democratic State ticket elected by large majorities.

In a case recently decided by the Illinois Supreme Court the action of certain School Trustees in erecting an additional school-house adjoining the existing one, and assigning to it three or four negro children and a teacher to instruct them separately, there being room for such colored children in the other schoolhouse, was illegal, and beyond their authority. The Chattanooga Convention reassembled on the 14th. The Committee on Facts and Statistics was enlarged and continued indefinitely, with instructions to report to Congress every three months. The resolutions adopted declare that the Republican citizens of the reconstructed Southern States recognize the equality of all men before the law; reaffirm the Philadelphia platform; demand equal rights for all citizens, secured by appropriate State and Federal legislation; indorse the Executive in sustaining law and order in all parts of the Union and putting down outrages, and especially indorse his action in Louisiana; indorse the Administration for its prosecution of the perpetrators of such outrages in the Federal courts; declare it was the duty of the Federal Government, when a State Government was sought to be overthrown by revolutionary action, to interfere and give the people thereof a republican government; deprecate drawing race and color lines; recommend the appointment of none but honest and capable men to Federal offices, and the removal of all others; urge appropriations of publit lands to purposes of education in proportion to the illiteracy of States; favor appropriations for improvement of the great rivers; ask all citizens who favor the administration of government on principles of justice to aid in restoring tranquillity to the people develop the material interests of the country; denounce the Associated Press agents in the South for the alleged partisan manner in which they perform their duties. An address to the people of the United Spates was' also presented and adopted.

The Congressional nominations on the 12th were as follows: Republican—H. F. Butler, Sixth Massachusetts District, renominated; Daniel W. Gooch, Fifth Massachusetts, renominated; Henry L. Peirce, Third Massachusetts, renominated ; George F. Hoar, Ninth Massachusetts, renominated. Demas Barnes, of the Brooklyn Argue, has been recently indicted for libeling Henry C. Bowen, of the Independent. The Attorney-General replies'to the Governor of Tennessee, who recently protested against the further arrest of citizens of the State under the provisions of the Enforcement Act, and requested that they might be turned over to the State authorities for punishment, that the President is as much bound tjO enforce that law as any other United States law. • He declines to accede to Gov. Brown’s request. The Italian Government has notified ex-President Thiers that his stay in Italy and his strictures upon the MacMahon Government were distasteful, and calculated to disturb the harmony of its relations with France. According to the October returns to the Department of Agriculture, the average

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condition of the corn crop is 86 per cent., against 88 per cent, in September. . Dr. J. C. Ayer has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Seventh Massachusetts District, and B.’ W. Harris by those of the Second District. y The new schedule for Eastern freight, which goes into effect Nov. 10, raises the rate from Chicago to New York five cents jier hundred pounds. The practice of furnishing return passes to stock-deal-ers is to be discontinued. The second Congress of the Association for the Advancement of Women commenced its session in Chicago on the 15th. A mass-meeting of the Illinois Woman’s Suffrage Association was held the evening before, at which a resolution was adopted to ask the Legislature to submit the question of woman suffrage to a vote of the people. On the 15th the statue of Lincoln was unveiled at Springfield, 111., in the presence of over 15,000 people. President Grant, Gen. Sherman, Vice-President Wilson and other distinguished Generals and civilians were present. An oration was delivered by Hon. R. J. Oglesby, the President of the Monument Association, and a poem read, written by James Judson Lord. A brief address was also made by President Grant. The reunion of the Army of the Tennessee was held at Springfield, 111., on the 14th. Gen. W. T. Sherman was elected President for the ensuing year. After an appropriate speech by the Pres-ident-elect, Vice-President Wilson was called upon and made a few remarks. Gen. Hurlbut delivered the oration of the day, and a poem was read by Gen. Tillson. Late advices from Madrid say that Spain was compelled to pay Great Britain $40,000 on account of the indemnity for the Virginius butchery before she would recognize the Republic. The Union Pacific Railway has been declared completed according to law, and as soon as the President shall have approved of the finding of the Commissioners the land-grant patent will issue. The following is the latest estimate of the complexion of the Indiana State Legislature: Senate—Republicans, 24; Democrats, 23; Independents, 3. House —Republicans, 87; Democrats, 54; Independents, 9. According to a dispatch received by the Attorney-General on the 16th, the United States Marshal at Montgomery, Ala., had arrested forty-two more persons guilty of outrages upon Republicans and of stopping the mails. A party of seven men lately started from Yankton for the Black Hills. On the 11th they were attacked by Indians at the mouth of the Little Platte. A desperate fight ensued, in which one of the party was killed, one fatally and two slightly wounded. Ten Indians were killed or wounded. The whites immediately started back and reached Yankton on the 15th. The Indians are understood to express a determination to prevent white men entering the hills at all hazards.

President Grant and family reached Chicago on the 16th to attend the wedding of Col. Fred Grant and Miss Honore.. One of the harbors of the Navigator Islands was recently entered by a German man-of-war, whose commander threatened to take possession of the group unless an indemnity of SIB,OOO, for some real or fancied injury, were immediately paid. The American residents raised $6,000 and gave bond for the remainder, payable in six months. According to a Berlin dispatch of the 17th the following explanation is made of the late arrest of Count von Arnim: Bismarck became indignant at the Count for preferring an ultramontane monarchy in France to a comparatively liberal and pacific republic, and determined to remove him. Not wishing, however, to offend the Count, Bismarck wrote him censorious letters, which he expected would induce the Count to resign. Von Arnim, refusing, was finally absolutelydismissed, and took with him Bismarck’s letters, which are now represented to be so fearfully offensive. Late advices from Madrid say that 400 Carlists had been captured recently at Albacete. In a late -engagement at Amposta 1,000 Carlists had been killed. The Carlist chieftain, Nava, had lately destroyed eleven bridges on the Valencia & Tarragona Railway. The White Leagues of St. Mary’s Parish have lately adopted resolutions offering to divide nominations with competent colored people, and fully recognizing all their civil and political rights. The Chairman of the Sumter County (Ala.) Conservatives was arrested on the 17th, upon the charge of conspiracy to injure Detective Hester. A passenger train on the* P., Ft. W. & C. Railroad was thrown from the track near Pierceton, Ind., on the morning of the 17th, and three cars were thrown down a high embankment, piling 150 passengers in a promiscuous heap. Eight persons were seriously injured.

J. D. Ward was renominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Second Illinois District on the 17th. The next Nebraska State Legislature, according to latest returns, will stand: Senate—Ten Republicans to three Democrats ; House— I Twenty-eight Republicans to seven Democrats aHd three Independents, with one district id hear from. An express train *n the Marietta & Cincinnati Railroad broke through Obanyon bridge, near Loveland, Ohio, on the morning of the 18th. The engineer, Dan Perdue, and tpe fireman, Joseph Parent,

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both of Chillicothe, Ohio, were killed instantly. Both might have saved themsclves -by jumping, as the train was not running over twelve miles per hour. They died at their posts, and thereby saved the passengers, not one of whom Whs hurt. Ansel Stevens, who was injured on the Grand Trunk Railway last year while traveling on a free pass, has lately recovered; In a Canadian court, $12,838 damages, the court holding the company liable whether fare were paid or not.

A Washington telegram of the 19th says that our claims upon Spain for indemnity on account of the Virginius affair would become subject to arbitration according to the terms, of the Fish-Polo protocol. The Government had received no confirmation of the rumor of the payment of England’s claim. The Conservatives of South Carolina are circulating a petition asking the Government to resume military control of the State. The Louisiana State Republican Central Committee have consented to renewed conferences with the Conservatives. The official majority of Ainsworth, Anti-Monopoly candidate for Congress from the Third lowa District, is sixtythree. The managers of the Michigan Central Railroad having refused their consent to the crossing of their track by the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, the Circuit Court of Porter County, Ind., and the United States Court were appealed to, and decided that such crossing should be allowed mear Lake Station, Ind. Being notified that resistance would be met with, notwithstanding such decisions, the managers of the B. & O. Road called on the Sheriff of Porter County to aid them in makißg the crossing, and on the 19th went with a posse of citizens to the point where the crossing was to be made, and there found the main track of the M. C. Road obstructed by construction trains, and barricades of ties, rails and wood on eaeh side of the crossing, between the main track and the fence, each barricade being manned by a number of armed men in the employ of the M. C. Company. An attempt was mtfde to disperse the opposing crowd, but without success. The Sheriff read the Riot act and called upon the Governor of the State for assistance. An attempt to arrest the leaders of the M. C. gang was successfully resisted. Gov. Hendricks telegraphed to President Joy, of the M. C. Road, calling on him to interpose his authority to suppress this riotous demonstration on the part of his men and to disband them. The opposing parties encamped on the field during the night of the 19th. Two companies of militia were ordered by the Governor to the scene of disturbance. Miss Maria Mitchell, the lady astronomer in Vassar College, has been elected President of Women’s Congress for the ensuing year. The report of the killing of Buckland, the New York newspaper correspondent, was declared to be untrue in a Bayonne dispatch of the 20th.

The Souhegan National Bank at Milford, N. H., was robbed on the night of the 19th of SIOO,OOO in currency and bonds. The cashier was first captured and gagged and then compelled to open the vault. Steerage rates to Europe by the various steamers have been advanced to twenty dollars. The Assistant State Treasurer of New York, one Phelps, has been convicted of embezzlement, larceny and forgery, and sentenced to the State Prison for fifteen years. Senator Edmunds has been re-elected to the United States Senate for six years from March 4,1875, by the Vermont Legislature. E. E. Morgan’s Sons, shipping agents for the California and Oregon Granges, have failed for $350,000. The next meeting of the National Council of the Union League of America will be held at Cincinnati in January next. Eighteen Mormons were indicted for polygamy by a Salt Lake jury on the 20th. Col. Cochrane having declined to accept the Republican Congressional nomination in the Fifth Wisconsin District, Judge Hiram Barber, of Dodge, has been nominated. The Republicans of the First and Third Hlinois Districts nominated Sidney Smith and Charles B. Farwell as their candidates, on the 20th. Memphis, Tenn., was visited by a $75,000 fire on the morning of the 20th. Eighty-eijght • men have been arrested for attempting to cut the Sny Levee, below Quincy, and held to bail in the sum of SSOO each to answel at the December term of the Circuit Court. The levee was attacked because it cut off the supply of water from the mill of Rupert & Shaw, who claim that the Sny is a navigable stream, and that the Commissioners were not authorized to obstruct it.

The railroad war in Porter County, Ind., terminated on the 20th without bloodshed, the Michigan Central Railroad Company withdrawing its forces. The track of the Baltimore & Ohio Road was laid during the day under the protection of the militia. Lieut.-Col. F. D. Grant, son of the President, and Miss Ida Marie, daughter of H. H. Honore, Esq.,of Chicago, were married at the residence of the bride’s parents, in Chicago, on the 20th.

THE MARKETS.

NSW YORK. Cotton.— Middling upland, 1501554 c. Lit* Stock. —Beef Cattle—[email protected]. Hog* -Dressed. $9.0039.50; Live, $5.7308.50. Sheep— Live, $4.2536.85. " Breadstuff*. —Flsnr—Good to choice. $5.30 @5.90; white wheat extra, $5.900640. Wheat —No. 8 Chicago, $1.0601.06; lowa spring, $1.06 @1.07; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, [email protected]. Bye —Western and State, [email protected]. Barlsy—sl,2oo 1.30. -Corn-Mixed Western afloat, 89091 c. Oats—Western, 56@60c. Provisions.— Pork—Mess, $30.50021.00. Lard —1534014 c. Cheese—l3tt@ls3|e. Wool.— Common to extra, 46066 c. CHICAGO. Livx Stock.— Beeves—Choice, $5.5006.00; good, $4.2505.00; medium, $3.5004.00; butchers* stock, $2.2503.50; stock cattle, $2.2503.00. Hogs—Live, $5.6006.40. Sheep—Good to choice, $3.7504.25. Provisions.— Butter—Choice, 31038 c. Eggs— Fresh, 21022 c. Cheese—New York Factory, 145401514 c; Western Factory, 135401454 c. Pork— New Mess, $19.25019.50. Lard—l3l4ol4c. BreAmtuffs. —Flour—White Winter Extra, $5.4007.00; spring extra, $4.7505.50. WheatSpring, No. 2, 80@89»c. Corn—No. 2, 74 @74J< c. Oats—No. 2, 4704734 c. Rye—No. 2, 81>4@82c. Barley—No. 2, $1.0601.09. Wool.—Tub-washed, 45057 c.; fleece, washed, 40@50c.; fleece, unwashed, 27035 c. Lumber.— First clear, $50.00053.00; second clear, $47.00049.50; Common Boards, $10,500 12.00; Fencing, $10.50012.00; “A” Shingles, $3.0003.25; Lath, $2.0002.25. CINCINNATI. Breadstuffs.- -F100r—55.1505.30. WheatBed, $1.06. Corn—7oo73c. Rye—9sc. Oats—soo 53c. Barley—sl.lool.3o. Pbo visions. —Pork 014 c. ST. LOUIS. Lrra Stock. —Beeves-s Fair to choice, $4,500 6.00. Hogs—Live, $5.5006.00. Breadstuffs. — Flour, XX Fall, $4.2504.75. Wheat —No. 2 Bed Fall, $1.1001.11. Corn—No. 2,77078 c. Oats—No. 2,4904934 c. Eye—No. 2, 9009154 c. Barley—sl.lool.ls. Pbovibions.— Pork—Mess, $21.75022.00. Lard -13014 c. MILWAUKEE. Breadstuffs.— Flour— Spring XX, $5.2505.50. Wheat-Spring, No. 1,9809814 c; NO. 2, 900 9034 c. Corn—No. 2,7507554 c. Oats—No. 2,440 45c. Rye—No. I, 81082 c. Barley—No. 2, $1.06 @1.07. DETROIT. , Breadstuffs .—Wheat Extra, $1.1601.1634. Corn—B4oßsc. Oats-485404914c. TOLEDO. Breadstuffs.— Wheat—Amber Mich., $1.06 @1.0654; No. 2 Red, $1.0301.0354. Corn—Mixed, 75@T6c. Oats—4Bosoc. CLEVELAND. Breadstuffs.— Wheat—No. 1 Red, SI,OBO 1.09; No. 2 Rad, $1.0301.04. Com—Booßlc. Oats—s2os4c. BUFFALO. Lrvx Stock.— Beeves — 54.875406.56. Hogs— Live, $6.0007.00. Sheep—Live, $4.0005.50. EAST LIBERTY. Livk Stock.— Beeves Best, $6.2506.75; medium, $5.5006.00. Hogs—Yorkers, $6,000 6.50; Philadelphia, $6.7507.00. Sheep—Best, $4.5005.00; good, $4.0004.25.

A Case of Meanness.

In a Denver paper we find a Btory which amply indicates the meanness of which humanity is capable, under cir-. cumstances which afford opportunity for the exhibition of that quality. A poor widow who had been a ward of the city’s charitable institution went to work in a hotel as a laundress, taking with her a son aged fourteen years and a little daughter old enough to wash and iron napkins. After working some months the woman quit the service of -the hotel and asked for a settlement. This was not refused by the proprietors of the hotel (they never refused settlement), but an offset to the widow’s account was presented in the shape of a bill for board of the children, at the rate of six dollars each per week; whereby the widow was brought out in debt to her employers. In vain the poor widow, pleaded that the boy and girl had fully paid their board by their work, and on this basis a settlement was denied. Suit was brought by the poor woman to compel a more equitable adjustment of the account. The court decided that the work of the two children should -stand as an offset to their board and that the widow was entitled to her wages. Tews of joy came into the eyes of the forlorn and destitute woman at this upright decision, and the avaricious hotel men lost some of their good name as well as the suit.

Venetian Laces.

A writer in the Cincinnati Gazette says: “The history of some of the Venetian laces is curious. Clement VII. gave his niece, Catherine de Medicis, laces in relief of enormous value, which afterward became the property of Mary Stuart. During the reign of Louis XIV. the laces necessary for a gentleman’s costume cost $13,000. The pontifical dress worn by Pope Innocent XI. is now exhibited at the Exposition at Milan, and also the magnificent laces of the Princess Margaret, presented to heron her marriage by the ladies of Venice. The collections oi antiquaries give the clearest idea which we can have of the variety and peculiarities of these laces. It is interesting to see the admiration which these persons feel for their treasures; they touch them with respect, and show them to an inexpert with ecstacy. There is the point d’Espagne, so named because the pattern came from Spain; point d’ivoire, imitated from the designs of ivory cuttings; point de rose, rose pattern; but all these are made in Venice. Their texture is marvelous, for all these stitches, so fine that they are scarcely visible to the eye, were made by the needle in a woman’s fingers. Happily, we may for these things use the past tense, for the fabrication of a piece would' often occupy years, and sometimes a lifetime. Their price is as extraordinary as their workmanship. You may have for S9OO a piece of lace four nches »(ide and long enough to trim an overskirt, and another piece for the bertha, which, although not the same pattern, will yet agree with it. For SIOO you can have an ugly, large collar of point de rose, which no modern lady would care about wearing.”

THE LINCOLN MONUMENT.

CaTclling of tk« Statae at gprlagfltM, Illinois. _ , Springfield, 111., Oct. 15. If there was any one who doubted the great hold which the glorious old Mar-tyr-President had on the affections of the American people, the magnificent demonstration in this city and at Oak Ridge Cemetery to-day, at the unveiling of his colossal statue, would have removed that doubt Springfield was literally flooded with people from all sections of the country, eager to participate in the last great tribute of the nation to the honored dead. The national colors waved on every house, fluttered from every window, crowned every arch—in short, occupied every possible vantage-place within the city limits. Men carried them in their hats, so did some of the ladies. Horses sported them over their manes, and whichever way the eye turned there waved the flag of the free hearts’ chosen home. The streets of Springfield, not particularly noticeable for neatness in ordinary times, were well swept, and the dust was laid by a fortunate sprinkle of rain which occurred during the preceding night. The sun remained stubbornly behind the clouds, as if nature herself wore the somber hues of mourning for the honor of a good, and true, and simple memory; but beyond this the weather was eminently fitted for a memorial celebration.

The procession which marched to the cemetery was two miles in length, and was headed by Gov. Beveridge. The number of persons present at the cemetery may be safely estimated at 25,000, newly half of whom were ladies. The military formed a cordon around the monument, and kept tip a regular guardmount during the proceedings. The following memorial hymn, composed for the occasion by Mrs. Mary Reilly Smith, was sung by a choir of Springfield ladies: We sing to him whose soul, on heights divine, Has reached the stature of the nndeflled; In whom a judgment ripe and honor fine Were blended with the nature of a child; Whose pen, with patient toil and Godlike grace, Picked ont the puzzled knot of slavery; Unloosed the gyves that bonnd a hapless race, And dared to write, “The bondman shall be fbee.” CHORUS. Then sing to him from whom these sweet words fall: “ With malice toward none, with charity for all,” And write this epitaph above his grave: “ He bound the nation, and unbound the slave.” The sweet humanities that graced his life, The tender heart that through his justice shone, The sympathy that softened hnman strife, Ana made a brother’s suffering his own; The life which shadowed forth tne perfect plan Of God’s own law of Equity and RightSuch were the attribntes.and such the man Whom death has hidden from oar mortal sight. We can but praise him, though his work is done; His words still move us like a mighty host; “Write down,” he said, “my humble name as one Whose love of country was his highest boast.” O man of men, whose name we all revere, The dearest name In Liberty’s fair crown, Bright be thy waking from thy slumbers here. Sweet be the sleep that folds thine eyelids down.

CHO BUS. Still from thy lips we hear the sweet words fall: “ We’ll malice snow to none, but charity for all.” This be the epitaph above thy grave: “He bound the nation, and unbound the slave.” A sketch of the history, and report of the transactions, of the National Lincoln Monument Association —written by the Hon. Jesse K. Dubois, Vice-President of the association —were then read, after which Senator Richard J. Oglesby delivered a lengthy and eloquent oration, reviewing the life of the eminent statesman whose memory the monument before them was intended to commemorate, and giving a history of the war and of Mr. Lincoln’s public career at the head of the nation. He closed his remarks as follows: If history shall become ungrateful and moral obligations cease to respond to the calls of Justice and Patriotism in that race to which he was bom, his fame will still be safe. Another race of 4,000,000, with their countless descendants of free-born children, holding his memory in precious reverence, will sing anthems of praise and gratitude to his name forever. The commencement of his second term as President of the United States, and the close of the rebellion, came closely together. Ido not know that the time or the place is fitting for an examinatian of the course likely to have been taken by him upon the questions of what is now known as Reconstruction. It is true to say, from the great hold he had upon the hearts of the people, and their immovable confidence in him—a confidence perhaps enjoyed by no President from Washington down to his own time —any plan maturely considered and seriously put forward by Mr. Lincoln would have met with favor, and it is probable would have been adopted by the people. He was a merciful and forgiving man. He promptly ratified the generous terms of surrender dictated to the armies of the rebellion by his humane and victorious General. His proclamation of pardon and amnesty of December, 1863, granted, with restoration of all property rights, the right to vote to all, with certain specified exceptions as to classes, who had been in rebellion, and who would subscribe an oath to support the Constitution oßhe United States and the Union thereunder, and faithfully abide by and support all acts of Congress and proclamations of the President having reference to slaves. This, it must be remembered, was during the war. But now that peace had come, by surrender and not by compromise, as in 1861, actual rebellion had released him from the policy of leaving slavery to the States, and in time allowed him to move forward to emancipation, so, in -1865, compulsory submission would have released him from terms proposed in 1863, and permitted him to move forward to higher and broader grounds. In addition to the two great facts that the circumstances of the white and colored population had, at the close of the war, entirely changed, and the glimpMs on several occasions given out of a purpose otidiis part to favor a most enlightened and liberar policy as to all, so as to reunite the country upon a just and enduring basis, stood the great fact that in 1861 he had said he had rather be assassinated than surrender the sentiment in the Declaration of Independence, that “ All men are created equal.” It is not likely, at the close of a contest in which that principle had been saved, and for the first time applied to the whole country, he would have favored any plan which would deny to either those who had laid down their arms against the Government, or those who had used them in its preservation, the fullest rights implied and covered by the broad declaration that all men are equal.

Who shall forget that memorable scene in the city of Richmond, which ought to be cherished and perpetuated forever as part of the history of the closing days of the unhappy strife, where the great and good man—his heart swelling with modest pride, leading his little son by the hand through the deserted streets of the once proud capital of treason, and beholding once more.the flag of his country in place oi a strange and usurping one, restored to its rightful dominion over an undivided Union, grateful to an Almighty God that, in His own good time, peace had returned to a divided and sorrowing people, cheered and animated by the hope of a long future of prosperity and happiness to the country—gave assurance to the scattered and remaining few df those who were but yesterday in arms against that flag, as .they eagerly gathered about him, of forgiveness and an early restoration to all rights hi the old Government; and to the humble and long-oppressed, rescued from a servitude dishonorable alike to humanity and to that flag of freedom and citizenship in the Great Republic forever I Who shall measure the usefulness of the life of such a man, and who shall hope to do his memory justice? In the long range and course o time, come what may—whether a republic grounded on the immovable foundations of Justice and Freedom, approved after long experience and ages of human happiness as the best form of human government, still standing; or whether a republic, torn into factions and rent, by the mad ambition of men, in ruins— this monument, an

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enduring testimonial to the humble life, the glorious deeds and the shining example of the great citizen and martyr, will stand lor the illumination of all men of every clime, nationality and condition, who, in search of the highest aims and loftiest purposes of life, shall come to this fountain for inspiration and hope. Here the humble may take new courage; the proud learn humility; the ambitious that the true way to greatness lies through industry, integrity and patriotism; and all men that only the truly good can be trul” great. In no other count*y“inaer the eun conic l the obscure boy have found his way through the long succession of mysterious and grave events to such eminence And power; and where and in what land can one be found who wielded power with such grace, humanity and wisdom? The living assign him his proper place In the affections of all men. Posterity, profoundly moved by the simplicity of his private life, 'elevated and enlightened by the pnrity and splendor of his Administration and public services, cannot fail to fix bis place amongst those who shall rank highest in their veneration. He has gone to the firmament of Washington, and at-aew light shines down upon his beloved countrymen from the American constellation. After the conclusion of the Senator’s address the statue was unveiled, the audience saluting the act with several ringing cheers, and a national salute of thir-ty-seven guns was fired by the artillery at the armory. The following Dedication Poem by James Judson Lord was then read by Richard Edwards:

Ws bnild not here a temple or a shrine, Nor hero-sane to demigods divine; Nor to the clonds a superstructure rear For man's ambition or for servile fear. Not to the Dust, but to the Deeds alone A grateful people raised th’ historic stone; For where a patriot lived or hero fell. The daisied turf would mark the spot as well. What though the Pyramids, with apex high, Like Alpine peaks cleave Egypt’s rainless sky, And cast grim shadows o’er a desert land Forever bfigbted by oppression’s hand? No patriot zeai their deep foundations laid— No freeman’s hand their darken'd chambers made— No public weal inspired the heart with love Ts see their summits towering high above. The ruling Pharaoh—proud-and gory-stained, With vain ambitions never yet attained; With brow enclouded as his marble throne,* And heart unyielding as the building stone— Sought with the scourge to make mankind his slaves, And heaven's free sunlight darker than their graves. His hut to will, and theirs to yield and feel, Like vermln’d dust beneath his iron heel; Denies all mercy, and all right offends. Till on his head th’ avenging Plague descends. Historic Justice bids the nation know That through each land of slaves a Nile of blood shall flow; And Vendome Columns, on a people throat, Are, by the people, level’d with the dust. Nor stone, nor bronze, can fit memorials yield For deeds of valor on the bloody Held. 'Neath war’s dark clonds the sturdy volunteer, By freedom taught his country to revere, Bids home and friends a hasty, sad adieu, And treads where dangers all his steps pursue; Finds cold and famine on his dauntless way, And with mute patience brooks the long delay, Or hears the trumpet, or the thrilling drum, Peal the long roll that calls: “They come! they come IV Then to the front with battling hosts he flies, And lives to trinmph, or for freedom dies. Thund’ring amain along the rocky strand, The Ocean claims her harbors with the Land. Loud on the gale she chimes the wild refrain, Or with low murmur wails her heroes slain!

In gory hulks, with splinter'd mast and spar, Rocks bn her stormy breast the valiant TarLashed to the mast, he gives the high command,! Or, midst the fight, sinks with the Cumberland.} Beloved banner of the azure sky, Thy rightful home where’er thy eagles fly, On thy blue fields the stars of Heav’n descend, And to our day a purer luster lend. O Righteous God! whoguard’st the right alway, And bade Thy peace to come, “ and come to stay,”| And while war’s deluge fill’d the land with blood With bow of promise arch’d the crimson flood— From fratricidal strife our banner screen, And let it float henceforth in skies serene. Yet cunning art shall here her triumphs bring, And lanrel’a bards their choicest anthems sing. Here, honored age shall bare its wintry brow, And youth to freedom make a Spartan vow. Here, ripened manhood, from its walks profound, Shall come and halt, as if on hallowed ground. Here shall the urn with fragrant wreaths be drest, By tender hands the flow’ry tributes prest; And wending westward, from oppressions far, Shall pilgrims come led by our freedom-star; While bending lowly, as o’er friendly pall, The silent tear from ebon cheeks shall fall. Sterile and vain the tributes which we pay— It is the Past that consecrates to-day The spot where rests one of the noble few Who saw the right, and dared the right to do. True to himself and to his fellow-men, With patient hand he moved the potent pen, Whose inky stream did, like the Red Sea’s flow, Such bondage break and snch a host o’erthrow! The simple parchment on its fleeting page Bespeaks the import of the better age, When man for man no more shall forge the chain, Nor armies tread the shore, nor navies plow the main. Then shall this boon to human freedom given Be fltlv deemed a sacred gift of heaven ; Though of the earth, it is no less divine— Founded on truth it will forever shine, Reflecting rays from heaven’s unchanging plan— The law of right and brotherhood of man. ♦Egyptian marble is clouded, or variegated. tLashed to the mast.—Com. Farragut—battle Mobile Bay. }Frigate Cumberland sunk rebel ram Merrimac; the crew continued to fight till the ship went down. And come to stay.” Mr. Lincoln's letter to the Hon. J.C. Conkling, Aug. 26,1863. Then followed music, and the poem, “ Abraham Lincoln,” published in the Atlantic Magazine of August, 1865, was read by Prof. Edwards at the request of Mrs. Admiral Dahlgren. The Doxology, *' Praise God from Whom All Blessings Flow,” was sung by the choir. Gen. Grant was loudly called for and read the following address: Mb. Chaibman, Ladies and Gentlemen— On an occasion like the present, I fee) it a duty on mv part to bear testimony to the great and good qualities of the patriotic man whose earthly remains now reet beneath this dedicated monument. It was not my fortune to make the acquaintance of Mr. Lincoln until the beginning of the last year of the great struggle for national existence. During those years of doubting and despondency among the many patriotic men of the country, Abraham Lincoln never for a moment doubted but that the final result would be in favor of peace, union and freedom to every race in the broad land. His faith in an all-wise Providence directing our arms to this final result was the faith of the Christian that his Redeemer liveth. Amidst obloquy, personal abuse and hate undisguised, and which waa given vent to without restraint through the press, upon the Stump and in private circles, he remained the same staunch, unyielding servant of the people, never exhibiting a revengeful feeling toward his traducers, but he rather pitied them, and hoped, for their own sake and the good name of their posterity, that they might desist. For a single moment it did not occur to him that the man Lincoln was being assailed, but that a treasonable spirit, one willing to destroy the freest Government the sun ever shone upon, was giving vent to itself upon him as the Chief Executive of the nation, only because he was such Executive. As a lawyer in your midst he would have avoided all this slander, for his lifewas a pure and simple one, and no doubt he would have beon a much happier man; but who can tell what might »have been the fate of the nation but for the pure, unselfish and wise administration of a Lincoln? From March, 1864, to the day when the hand of dh assassin opened a grave for Mr. Lincoln, then President of the United States, my personal relations with him were as close and intimate as the nature of our respective duties would permit. 'To know him personally was to love and respect him for his great qualities of heart and bead, and for his patience and patriotism. With all his disappointments from failures on the part of those to whom he had intrusted command, and treachery on the part of those who had gained his confidence but to betray it, I never heard him utter a complaint nor cast a censure for had conduct or bad faith. It waa his nature to find excuses for his adversaries. In his death the nation lost it* greatest hero. In his death the South lost its mostjust friend. Vice-President Wilson added a few words of graceful eulogium. He was followed by the Hon. Schuyler Colfax, who delivered a brilliant extemporaneous speech, in which the career, mind and heroism of the dead President were briefly hot ably alluded to.

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Speeches were also made by Gen. Sherman, the Hon. W. T. Linder and Mr. Meade, the artist. The benediction was then pronounced and the vast multitude separated, leaving the statue of Abraham Lincoln in lonely grandeur to tell future generations the story of his humble origin, his noble life, his mighty achievements and his tragic death. The statue is of course the central attraction of the monument, and deserves all the attention it receives. It is cast of bronze from captured cannon donated by Congress, and weighs, with its bronze pedestal, six tons. It was placed in position Oct. 8,1874. Mr. Lincoln was six feet four inches high, but he had the “stoop” of the shoulders and the “ droop” so often seen in tall Western men; nevertheless, when in the heat of debate, he straightened himself up so as to reach his extreme altitude, but without entirely avoiding-the “ round shoulders” which every one has noted. It is this figure which Meade has reproduced, and he has done it with marvelous fidelity. The figure is dressed in the double-breasted long frock coat and full pantaloons in fashion in 1865, and these garments already begin to look old-fashioned, and really seem to heighten the vari-simili-tude. The poise of the flgtire—a characteristic ox the man—is also reproduced in the inclination of the head to the front and in the erect posture, and at the same time the stoop of the shoulders. The details of the face are faithfully copied. Lincoin’s high, wrinked forehead, the mole on the flesh, fold of the cheek, the deep recessed eye-brows, the peculiar nose, and the drooping lower lip, these are all fixed in bronze so as to remain forever. Since the statue has been in position it has not been visited by any professional artist or art critic, and what is written above in relation to the figure is from personal observation, and from remarks made byjSpringfield people who knew him well. They all say the likeness in face and figure is perfect, and that a profile view is absolutely lifelike. It is probable that this statue will be the standard from which others may be taken, and it is considered in this sense very fortunate that it is so correct. The members of the association are to be congratulated on their success in obtaining so satisfactory a work of art, not less than Meade, whose professional reputation must be greatly enhanced by it. It is not improper to say that the association is composed of the old and intimate friends of Lincoln, who entered upon and conducted the enterprise wholly as a labor of love. No officer or member of the association has ever drawn any salary, pay, or perquisite. The coat-of-arms on the stone pedestal of the statue is slightly raised from the standard copy. The eagle stands upon the shield partially observing the stars, the olive branch has fallen from his grasp and lies under the shield, and a broken chain is held half in his talons and half in his beak. The departure from the standard design was made to enable the artist to symbolize the fact that the olive branch having been tendered to and refused by the rebels was cast to the ground, that a part of the stars or States were temporarily obscured by the rebellion, and that in the struggle which ensued the chain of slavery was broken. As a work of art this seems in design, composition, and execution to be perfect. The statue is no doubt a perfect likeness, but this coat-of-arms is original in conception and beautiful in execution; the first is an undoubted portrait, but this is a production the design of which is most original, striking, apparent and comprehensible.

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Better slip with the foot than the tongue. Partial culture runs to ornate; extreme culture to simplicity. To cure dull times—Apply an advertisement to the afflicted part. Cartridges for Turkey are manufactured extensively in Connecticut. Who ever heard of a great man whose mother was a fashionable woman? Gentlemen are wearing the ribbon and seal fob watch-chain as grandpa used to. Why should a spider be a good correspondent? Because he drops a line by every post. The handsomest bonnets are of black velvet, relieved by one bright color in ribbon, flower or feather. A boy has just died from a dose of ink out West. An ink west determined the fact. — Washington Chronicle. Why is a beautiful young lady’s foot like a romantic tale of olden times? Because it is an interesting leg-end. The most unpopular man in the country these days is the one who saws his wood too long for his neighbor’s stove. By a recent invention, called the quadruple telegraph, four messages may be simultaneously sent over a single wire. Small men are generally plucky men, and a Bantam rooster with one eye will whip ten times his weight in Cochin fowl. A New Hampshire woman when dying made her husband swear on the Bible that he would never marry a woman with a sharp nose. A Boston girl had a man arrested for “winking at her” in a street-car, and he proved that he had been blind for twen-ty-two years. What is the difference between the outer wall of a bridge and two nice young ladies? The one is a parapet, and the others a pair of pets. An editor says the only reason he knows of why his house was not blown away the other day during a severe gale was because there was a heavy mortgage upon it. An lowa farmer declares upon his solemn honor as a gentleman that the last grasshopper leaving Hie State stood on a gate-post and said: “Get some more fence rails ready for ns by next June.” A New Jersey contractor has jnst discovered that a handsome bridge he has been building over the Hackensack is exactly five feet too short. He says the fault isn’t his; the river’s that much too wide.