Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 16, Jasper, Dubois County, 24 May 1872 — Page 3

(jerrymandering New York.

Wr,,iii Ilia Chicago Trlliuu. Ml) I. l'he New York Legislature hu 1 I... I 1 . ..rrw.t '. Veto I )i I lltrlC'l UTC1 mi v. - - ill to v-errvraamier tue i ongreasionai DiHlrtct of that State, so as to give the Republican district a far laiger repri sotation in Congress than the Democratic. The following table, prepared by the AUjMty Exprett (Bspublican), shows that In the ietnoortic districts about -JO per cent, more population ia require! for member of Congress than in the HepubU: n &t fji. fei ro,ti( ia.m U XVlff. 115.Ü97 K II MT.741 D XIX. 1;17.:M7 K IV i:t3.44 D XX. I;e.i3 K V 1KX.5M D XXI. 133.443 K VI H7W4 P XXII. IHMMK K VII 1.:9 D XXIII. 1Ü1.44B K viii. f XXIV. 1.SW R IX. 146.7S D XXV. i:iKJ K X. 144771 J XXVI. fElts I XI. 171 wi D xxvii. rjfi.m r XII. !1MM K XXVIII. 143.S12 K XIII. 121.0 R XXIX. 145.5S7 U XIV. UH.H7 1 XXX. 111J87 R XV. IfflTO XXXI. 178.tW XVI. HK117 XXXll. 103.4.V. R Twelve Democratic districts have an aggregate population of 1,847,101, or 15;i,(XK) to each Representative, while seventeen Republican district have but 2,0S4,2f4 population, or an average of 122,605 to each Representative. The weakest Republican district has a population of 99,588, while the strongest Democratic district has l8H,.r9.', the vote of two Democrats in this district having only ' he power of the vote of one Republican in the other. If the average ratio for the Democratic counties ia right, the Republican district ought to have thirteen members instead of seventeen, and if the average ratio for the Republican district is right, the Democratic districts ought to have fifteen Representatives in Congress instead of twelve. What respect can a political party hope to inspire in either its friends or its enemies when it attempts by such gross and barefaced legislative knavery to cheat the people out of their representation? The New York Triiune, referring to this iniquity, on its first passa.e. says: " We do not believe this bill can pass ; we are confident that, if passed, it will be vetoed. Better wait a year than accept such an adjustment as this. "It seems impossible to teach political majorities the policy of doing exactly right. They repeat the blunder of past generations as though they had never been perpetrated and punished. John Randolph may have erred in accounting a majority of one of the bet conceivable ; but there is grave peril in a preponderance so overwhelming as that which befell the Republicans of our State in the present Legislature. It seems unlikely soon to be repeated." The bill has passed, has been vetoed, and is now passed over the veto. Is there no remedy for so flagrant a political crime? lu character had been clearly pointed out prior to its second passage. Its authors then at least fully knew the enormity of the outrage. They dew: ve impeachment, every man of them, as richly as the very Judge, Barnard, Carclozo, and McCunn, whom they have been trying to impeach. Indeed, we doubt if any of the grounds of impeachment urged against Barnard shew us petty and reckless a disregard of the official oath and honor as this gerrymandering job perpetrated by his judges. It is gratifying to place in contrast to this outiageous proceeding the new Congressional apportionment of Illinois passed by a Legislature nearly twothitds Republican an apportionment so fair that half the Democrats voted for it, and not one alleged that it was unjust. Views of Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Inquirer has interviewed the Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, with the following result: Mr. Hendricks opened the conversation by stating in the most polite marner possible that be had heretofore avoided, conversations for publication with newspaper men, but that he had no objection whatever to exchanging views in confidence with any intelligent person upon political or other topics. 1 n response to this I hastened to assure the ex-Senator that 1 did not belong to that class of newspapermen who had brought disgrace upon the profession by worming themselves into the confidence of prominent men, and then making what they considered great "hits" by the betrayal of secrets and publication of the unguarded expressions of private conversations. After thus introducing national expressions of opinion we got along very nicely, and a long and to me very interesting conversation upon the state of the country, the position of parties in Indiana and elsewhere, the comparative strength of candidates, etc., ensued. At the conclusion of the conversation I wrote out the following statement of Mr. Hendricks' position, and received his consent to have it go before the public as such i "I will make no effort to influence the action of the National Democratic Convention, and will abide by its decision. At this time, in view of the fact that there has been no concert of action among the leaders and prominent men of the party, it behooves all to move with prudence, dignity and caution. The question of indorsing the Cincinnati nominees, or making straight cut Democratic nominations, is one that should be eil weighed and carefully considered. It is impossible, at this early day, to say what the feeling of the masses of the Democratic party in Indiana toward the Cincinnati ticket is. As far as I can judge, the Democracy of Indiana will not occupy any deeded ground until after the meeting Ol Ute Cuts Convention, which take

plsos on the 12th of next month. That

convention will doubtless nominate a straight I democratic ticket snd reler tin-question of Presidential nominations to the .National Convention. A far as j l am concerned, 1 feel in duty hound to sustain the action of the National Convention. If it nominates a straight Democratic ticket, I will supp rt it with all the seal, influence, an i ability iosstN8 If it indorse the nomination of Greeley and Brown, I shaU certainly support that ticket, and with equal seal and energy. Any other statement of my position in regard to this matter has been made without authority." In conclusion, Mr. Hendricks referred to the report thai he had volunteered to "in for Governor on the Liberal or any other ticket as a mistake. The office bad no attraction for him. and nothing but belief that his name would sdd ro the prospects of the Democratic ticket's success would induce him to accept the nomination. Grant's Surrender of the Americas " Case" A .National Humiliation. The imortant despatch of our London correspondent causes less surprise than mortification, for the substance of what it communicates has been foreshadowed in many ways during the last two weeks. Themost significant and striking of these indications was a remarkable passage in the recent speech of Sir Edward Thornton, delivered in this city. '1 he British Minister made what our Government would have re garded as an offensive, nay, an insulting declaration, if it had not already succumbed under British bluster, and intimated to Mr. Thornton that it was preparing to abjure its " case " He asserted, with as much coolness as if unaware that he was making an imputation upon our national nonor, that none of the Commissioners who negotiated the treaty understood it to include any claim for consequential damages. But if the American Commissioners had not that impression, it is impossible to clear our Government from the charge of bad faith and disgraceful chicanery in putting that branch of claims into its ''case." General Grant has virtually pleaded guilty to this charge by withdrawing that branch of the claims, and surrendering it to British stiffness and bravado. If he had not been foolish enough to csu-e the claim for consequential damages to be put into the "case," he would have been spared this Ik rsonsl mortification, and the American Government would have escaied an as persion and stigma on its integrity and honor. Perhaps never in diplomatic history was there so signal an instance of a Government meanly sneaking out of a position into which it bad proudly strutted." The" case'" was prepared with one eye on the really excellent treaty which Mr. Fish bad negotiated, and the other on the approaching Presidental election. General Grant, in his sordid desire for a re-election, caused Mr. Bidcrotf Davis to shape ' ie American ''case" a a campaign document for the Presidential canvass. Parts of it were composed in the ranting, invective strain cf a stump speech. It seemed to say, " See how boldlv General Grant beards the British lion !" The treaty itself had been justly praised by many good judges, and cordially sccepted by the whole country. It was regarded as the chief feather in General Grant's cap since he became President. Had be been content with the credit which fairly belonged to his Administration in negotiating it, the treaty would have formed his best claim to a re-election. But he best rode it as an electioneering hobby and rode it to death ; or rather, the hobby has kicked op its heels, flung Grant over its head, and left him sprawling in the dirt. Grant's attempt, through his tool Bancroft Davis, to make the American " case" an electioneering document and a trump card for the Presidental canvass might have succeeded, had it not been for his egregious miscalculation as to the reception of the ''case" by the British Government. The " case' was calculated (to use a phrase of the almanac-makers) for the meridian of the United States, and it proved to be all agog in reference to the meridian of London. Gladstone, as well as Grant, desires to be kept in power: and what would have proved Grant's re-election would have been fatal to Gladstone's position as the Briti-h Premier. Otherwise, the electioneering document presented to the Genevs Arbitrators as our " case'' might have accomplished its sordid, selfi-h purpose. Grant's idea was, that the preiKMterou claim for consequential damages would go without remonstrance to the Geneva Commission and be overruled by them after the Presidential electon was decided ; he meanwhile having the advantage of bearding the British lion. But, unfortunately for him, Gladstone also wishes to remsin in office, snd the British public is not disosed to tolerate American " buncombe." Grant has therefore been forced to make an ignominious retreat.-AT. F. World, May 1. Thought It Personal. In a l'ttle village in Vermont there lived a farmer named Ransom. They were not pious people rather of the reprobate order in fact, tbey never went to church. Once, however, the family were prevailed upon to attend preaching. When they made their reluctant an i tat an! v appearance the services had began, and they had hardly taken their seats when the preacher gave out the first hymn, reading it somewhat thus i " Return, ye ransom sinners home. " All right " cried the head of the Ransoms, getting in a rage and clapping bis bst on his head. "Come along, ole woman snd gals, we'll go home fast enough, snd everybody in bis ole cbuich knows we didn't want to come,"

Farm sad Garden. Killing Iac on Lahm. A corrosion dent inquires concerning the best means of killing lice on calves, and whether a decoction of tobacco for tlpurpose wow Id I considered dangerou. we do not regard tobacco juice a safe application for killing lice. The poisonous principle of tobacco is absorbed by the akin, and pa--, into the circulation through the .ores. Again, if the cattle are allowed to lick themselves after the application, serious injury will be liable to result. The only way in which tobacco may be used safely is to fire it in a fumigator, blowing the smoke into the hair of the animal. Carbolic acid as a vermin destroyer, either on cattle er plants, i of late coming largely into use. Carbolic acid, when pure, is corrosive and dangerous; but when dissolved in water at the rate of an ounce of the acid to a gallon of water it is abundantly strong and safe for such purpose. Carbolic soap is often used for killing these parasites. It can be had st most of the shops, but may be made much cheaper by farmers than it can be purchased, and at very little trouble. We give the recipe furnished by Secretary Goodale of the Maine Board of Agriculture, which ia as good as any we have seen, and is as follows : " D.ssolve a pound or two of bar sosp in as little hot water as possible, and stir in an ounce of carbolic acid. When cold it can be cut into cakes and kept any length of time. The easiest way to apply it for lice is to wash the animal with this soap and water." A woolen string smeared with mercurial ointment and tied around the neck of the animal often proves effectual in destroying the lice. Rural New Yorker. Bermuda Grau. A Texas correspondent of the Country Gentleman writes : The Bermuda of this section flourishes best on our very heavy, strong, adhesive clay lands, is very nutritious, much more so tban anything else we hsve.

but has two bad qualities with us : 1st. It is not of an v value for winter nasture. ! 2d. It will not give up its place when it gets on a piece of ground. It kills shrubbery, trees, flowers and everything that it grows around, and keeps spreading, spreading, spreading, till it is supreme, and takes lawn, garden, orchard, farm, if sufficient time and not enough work is given it. For a summer pasture it is unexcelled. It is rich in valuable matter, it is rapid in growth, and stands tramping and drought admirblv, but otherwise is dreaded here. Those who hve it as a yard gras are e ich and all exterminating it at great expense and trouble, and advising others to let alone. To Test the Quality of Wool. A Texas paper says : Take lock of wool from the sheep's back and place it upon an inch rule. If you can count from thirty to thitty-lhree of the spirals or folds in the space of an inch, it tquala in quality the finest electoriat or Saxony wool grown. Uf course when the number of spirals to the inch diminishes, the quality of wool is relatively inferior. Many tests have been tried, but this is considered the simplest and best. Cotswold wool snd some other inferior wools no not measure nine spirals to the inch. With this test, every farmer has in possession a knowledge which will enable him to form a correct judgment of all this kind of wool. There are some coarse wools which experienced wool growers do not rank as wool, but as hair, on account of the hardness and straightness of the fiber.'' Sugar fnm the Butternut. A correspondent of the Chautauqua Farmer writes: "When my neighbor, Brown, tapped his sapbush, h had a quantity of buckets and spiles more tban maple trees, so he tapped about thirty butternut trees. I thought I would see what I could make of it, and went to his bush, finding every one of the buckets under the butternut trees full, while those under the maple trees were not over two-thirds lull. I took a six-quart pail with me. and borrowed it full of the butternut sap. and boiled it down, getting one-halt pound of nice sugar. Mr. Brown gathered twenty-nine buckets of that sap, and 1- iled it down with his maple. It worked as nicely as if it were all maple. The flavor and appearance were perfect.' Farmers' Whet Club.-At Oatka Falls, Kansas, thev have i club composed of farmers' wives. The society meets once a month at the houses of the members in regular succession, take their lunch baskets snd have sott of picnic supper, so as to give little trouble to the hostess. A regular subject connected with the management of the domestic department of the farm is acreed upon at a pre vious meeting and is discussed over the tea and knitting work. Like good wives they allow their husbands to come in the evening, and girls, who expect to be farmers' wires some dsy, are welcome. The meetings are enjoyable snd profitable. This is an institution that deserves to be established in more States than Kansas. Hints far Use Hsasewifr. A Useful Article. Ammonia, or, as it is generally called, spirits of hartshorn, is a powerful alkali, and dissolves grease snd dirt with g est ease. It has lately been recommended very highly for domestic purpose. For washing paint, put a tabiespoonml in a quart of moderately hot water, dip in a flannel cloth, sad then wipe off the woodwork; no scrubbing will I e necessary. For taking greasy spots from any fabric use the ammonia nearly pure, then lay white blotting paper over the spot and iron it lightly. In washing lace put about twelve drops in s pint of warm suds. To clean silver mix two teaspoonfuls of ammonia in a quart of hot suds. Pnl in your silverware snd wash,

using an old nail brush or to- th-brush for the purpose. For cleaning hairbrushes, etc., simply hake the biushe up and dowu in a mixture of one ta lespoonful of ammonia to one pint of hot water; when they are cleaned, rinse them in cold water and Und them in tl.e wind or in a hot place to dry. For washing finger-mrks from losing-glasses or window-, put a fewdrops of ammonia on a moi-t iag and make quick ork of it. If you wish your house-plants to flourish, put a few drops of spirits in every pint of water used in watering. A teat-pooniiil will add much to the refrefeng effects of the bath. Nothing is better than ammonia wa'er for cleaning the hair. In erery case, rins- off the ammonia with cler water. To which we would only add, that, for removing grease spots, a mixture of equal parts of ammonia and alcohol is better tban alcohol : lone : and for taking out the red stains prodm ed by the strong acid in blue and black jlothes, there is nothing better than ammonia. To Remove Stows m Spoons. To remove the stain on spoons, caused by using them for boiled eggs, take a little common salt, moistened letween the thumb ar.d finger, and briskly rub the stain, which will soon disappear. To Clean the Inside e,f Jars. Fill them with water and stir in a spoonful or more of pearlash ; empty them in an hour, and if not perfectly clean, fill again and let them stand a few hours. For large vessels lye may be used. Com Starch Paste. Corn starch makes the best paste for scrap-books. Dissolve a small quantity in ccld water, then cook it thoroughly. Be careful and not get it too thick. When cold it should ue thin enough to apply with a brush. It will not mold nor stain the paper. It is the kind used by daguerreotypists on u gem" pictures. To Cure Freckles. Take two ounces of lemon juice, half s drachm powdered borax, and one drachm of sugar. Mix together rnd let them stand in a glass bottle for a few days, then rub it on tl e hands and face occasionally. To Remove Proud Flesh. Pulverize loaf sugar very fine, and apply it to the part affected. This is a new and easy remedy, and is said to remove it entirely without psin. It has been practiced in England for many years. Hickory Nut Cake. Take one half cup of butter, two cups of sugar, and four eggs beaten separately, three cups of flour, one hslf cup of sweet milk, two teaspoons of baking powder, two cups of hickory-nut meats cut fine, one teaspoon of extract of vanilla. Recipe for Coeoanut Pudding. Two small cocoanuts, grated ; one quart new milk : four eggs four ounces butter : six ounces sugar, or more if desired. Beat the sugar and butter together ; put in a dish and bake. Stir the pudding until it becomes scalding hot, to mix the coeoanut and custard together, then let it brown. Macaroons. Blanch three-quarters of a pound of sweet almonds, and the

same of Litter almonds ; beat them verv fine: then add one pound and a half of white sugar, the whites of six eggs, beaten to a froth ; mix all well together, and drop on paper, and bake in a slow oven. Of course the paper is to be on tin sheets. Trifle. Mix one pint of thick cream, half pint of milk, three gills of wine Madeira or Sherry six ounces of white sugar j then slice sponge cake and p'.ace in the bottom of the dish ; moisten it thoroughly with wine or ratafia : then pour a put of the mixture over the cake, and whip up the rest to a stiff froth, and put on the top. Hew the Magical Bise m Mining Stocks Affected a Broken Bank. Amongst the mo3t romantic and singular of the results of the mining excitement is that in connection with the banking house of John Sime a Co., the announcement of whose failure startled the community a few months ago. At the time of the failure it was found that the liabilities of the concern amounted to 225.000, and to meet this large amount there was naught but the pitiful sum of about $60,000 in coin and a lot of mining stock, the value of which was then so insignificant that some of the creditors contemptuously referred to it as ' i 1 wild-cat.'' But truth crushed to earth will rise again, and so will mining stocks particularly on occasions like the present. And that poor despised mining stock has wrought miracles in this case. A lsrge portion of the stock was Exchequer, which was then worth about $5 per share. Pending the settlement of the bank's affairs, the stock were kept locked up, and be hold the results I On Monday, Exchequer was sold at $100 per share just twenty times the value it possessed when the failure was announced. The other stocks of the bank have appreciated in an equally astounding manner, and in consequence the affairs of the broken bank have been lifted out of the shadowy depths of joverty snd placed high in the radiant sunlight of financial prosperity. Last Saturday the cash in bank was $37,OCO, and yesterday a further sum of $100,000 was realized, making the total assets $467.000, and leaving r?242,OO0 to the credit of the estate after paying all indebtedness. San Francisco ChronicL, May 1. Punch gives a hint to Brother Jona than in a cartoon representing a figure of the T ich borne claimant in chains, and inscribed upon his expansive Caunch, " lie who claims what isn't is'n, when he's caught is sent to prison," as posted upon a wall, upon which gaxes Jonathan with affrighted aspect, while John Bull, bill-poster for the nonce, surveys the scene with a waggish air of jollity.

The Life or English ( olliers. A writer in London Sfcii 'y, w ho lately descended into a coal-pit, gives the following : We all carried tallow dii btuck in bulla of clay, and in Indian tile followed the " Buttoy ' and his foreman through the turnings and windings that led to the "chamberr," Irom which coal was being hewn. Chanilers are wide as an ordinary street, and as high as the three storied houses ; and on every side, whenever the dingy light of the teO-nosed dip was shifted, was revealed a human cieature naked to the waist and blacker than any sweep, wit! savage gleaming eyes and savage glitterng teeth, and with a weapon in his hand that in the uncertain light looked like a tomahawk, grinning at you, or making a dash with his weapon apparently in the direction of your visage, but which alights harmlessly on the face of the coal wall. Heavers, packers, tubbers, fillers these are all men, bard as the work ia they earn good wages, and if they dislike the labor, they are at liberty to leave it. But they dn't dislike the labor, and they are jolly enough all except tho boy.-. It was these boys that so perpetuslly haunted my coalscuttle when I returned from Saffordshire. It is villainously cruel to serve the poor little chap so. The matter stands this way. Tue hewer is the man whose business it is to " break in" at the foot of a coal wall, lie lies on his side or on his stomach; and he breaks in with bis peck right along for a length, say, of twenty feet, a gap that is two feet or less in height. He pecks bis way into the rock till he has bur rowed sixteen or eighteen fee. Naturally in the process of picking he makes a deal of "sack," or small, and the boy in question is called the " slack boy." Regarded as a boy, as a human creature, he is slack indeed. He wa- not much like a boy. He was more like a largesized monkey. AH fours is his perpetual posture, and he wears a leather girdle about his w&ist, from which an iron chain depends, the other end of it being attached to an iron cart. The slack boy has an iron shovel as well, and the business of his wretched life is to crawl in at the hole the hew. r makes, to fill his cart with chips and dust, and then to crawl out sgain with the load, always on his bands and knees, and with his poor limbs hung about with a few rags of which nakedness might be ashamed. Benefits of Beggary. The astonishing career ef the Rev. Richard Arthur Carden, of London, is evidence that money is to be found if persistently sought. We say nothing of the morals of his invention, but merely record its results, which were several hundred pounds sterling obtained, first, by soliciting charity in behalf of a poor widow, who was the clergyman himself ; and, subsequently, by appeals to aid the welfare of five hundred children whom he represented to be suffering for the necessaries of life. Like the widow, the destitute five hundred existed only in Mr. Carden's imagination, the aid which was literally furn shed them in response to his agonizing letters being absorbed by his own wants. What subjects Mr. Carden would have discovered next it is impossible to imagine, as his progress to wealth was summarilv

checked by the investigation's of a charity society which divulged his curious proceedings, and caused his debut in a police court to answer for swindling. A Man and His Daughter Killed by an Electric Ball. Lud Jack, Mo., (ipril 3').Corrmpontrnce oflndeprutirore gruliuel. During the nun that fell here on last evening from a cloud from the southeast, fell an electric ball, striking the north side and west end of Mr. David Thomas' house, killing h'm and a grown d ughter. All the famiiy, consisting of nine persons, were in the room at the time, but none except the lather and daughter were even stunned by the shock. The young lady was sitting near theend of the house, when the electricity came through and killed her instantly. Mr. Thorns was sitting, leaning against the north side near a w.ndow. The par tides of electric fluid passed in above the window to bis head and set his hair on fire, so shocking him that he died in a short time, though the fire was extinguished by his son and water applied to him fieely to effect his recovery. A Mississippi River Bridge. Washington, May II. The House Committee on Commerce hsve prepared a bill authorizing the construction of a bridge across the MisMssippi river at St. Louis. It provides that the St. Clair and Carondolet Bridge Company may construct a bridge across the Mississppi river from some point on the Illinois side, within the county of St. Clair, to the southern part of the city of St. Louis. The main span is to be 200 feet in length and is to be 50 feet above high water, and the piers of the bridge are to be parallel with the current of the river, it authorizes the company to issue bonds bearing gold interest to aid in the construction of the bridge, and makes it a post road. The committee will consider the matter further before finally acting upon it. Wanted Her Parasol. A clever old lady, apparently just arrived on a train from the country, entered one of the refreshment rooms at the Springfield (Mass.) railroad station, the other day, and said she had left her parasol on the settee. A general search commenced, and lasted for some time. Finally one of the waiters asked the old dame when she left it, to which she answered, after counting up on her fingers i " Well, it was just three years ago last Fourth of July." There was a general roar, much to the astonishment of the eld lady, who went away with a very puzzled look upon her countenance.