Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1876 — Page 2

ELAER UNION Jj and jasper REPUBLICAN. ;, BHMNELAXR. , t . INDIANA-

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

1 WKtKM. Diaroell stated, in the British Parliament on the 22d, that it waa not the Intention of the Government at present to amnesty the Yenian prisoners. An animated and exciting Aebate followed, and the subject was dropped by mutual consent. The proposition to amnesty the convicts of the Commune waa refected in the French Senate, o* the 23d, by tm almost unanimous .. A Berlin special of the 82d says it was the Intention of the Sultan of Turkey to abdicate hlAirone within a short time. A London telegram of the 2M says that, at the requestor the Attorney-General, WlnSlow, the Boston forger, had been remanded for a further period c£ -eight days, to enable the Government to bring the case b efore th tjuern’s Bench. On the morning at the 33d, at the Newgate Prison, in Ixmdoe, the four Greek sailors who murdered the captain, mate and second officer ot the ship Lennie, and who were convicted on the Sth Inst., were executed. A London-dispatch of the 25th announces the departure, for Smith’s Sound, of the steamer Pandora, to bring to England any ttW * by C * Pt Nare8 ’ A Ooaatantinqple dispatch of the 26th says the Porte -intended to call out the reserves and mahe a lust effort to suppress the insurrection. It was reported that the agreement in respect to Turkish affairs would be rsJected, and that the great Powers would be advised not to intervene in the settlement of Turkish disputes. In parts of Bulgaria, Where the Insurrection prevailed, it was reported that 118 villages, containing 100,000 inhabitants, had been burned. DOMRSTIC. In an editorial on the Black Hills, the Chicago ITrtoune of the 24th says an old miner, who hw lived in Colorado many years, and has had large experience in the mining business, -writes: “ There is a little gold all through the Hills, but I do not believe there ■re any paying diggings; at least none have been found yet; and, if there ever is one, tbe gold will speak for itself. The amounts reported from time to time as being received or even taken from the Hills do not amount to a drop in the bucket in comparison to what should have been taken out of a mining camp if it was a country." Another correspondent writes: “As yet I have not seen a gold mine in the Hills that will pay two dollars per day per man, and the wonderful reports circulated in the States have brought thousands to tbe country, without money or grub enough to last them thirty days. I fear, if something is not done soon, many will suffer.” A letter received at Cincinnati from L. Mott, one of the company ot Cincinnatians, who- left for the Black Hills, some time since, dated Kearney Junction, May 21, states: “The Indians are on the war-path, killing -miners at a fearful rate. Miners are. returning to the States by hundreds.” Be says that “out of forty-two men at Deadwood, twenty-seven of them have been killed by the fed devils. Five more were killed and scalped within three miles of Custer City. There i> plenty of gold nor.hwest of Custer, but it is Impossible to get at it.on account of the Indians.” Mott was formerly a barkeeper at the Farmers’ Hotel In .Cincinnati. A. Washington telegram of the 26th says Gen. Sherman had telegraphed to Gen. Sheridan, at Chicago, that the President had Mated “ that the people who had gone to the Black Hills of Dakota, inside the Sioux reservation, or who may hereafter go there, are there wrongfully, acd that they should be notified of the fact. But the Governnieniis engaged in a certain measure that will probably result in the opening up of the country to occupation and settlement. In the. meantime the Indians should not be allowed to scalp and kill anybody and you are authorized to afford protection to all persons who are coming away or who are conveying food and stores for those already there.’

The fast-mail train Jumped the track st Albany, N. Y., on the morning of the 26th. Tbe engineer and fireman were killed. Melodeon Hall, Cincinnati, was burned on the-26th, and with it was destroyed Dubufe's great painting, “The Prodigal Son.” Mr. Derby, owner of the painting, estimated its commercial value at $100,000; its original cost was $30,000, and it was insured for $25,000.2J A man named Pedro was arrested at Des Moines, lowa, on the 25th, having in his possession a large quantity of bogus twenty-five cent pieces. Quite a number had been disposed of before the arrest was made. He had

a confederate, who escaped. A .fire in San Francisco, on the 26th, partially destroyed the Brittan Block, at the corner of California and Davis streets inflicting a loss of about <300,000. A lew days ago a merchant of Abbeyville County, 8. C n named Harmon, and his wife, were found murdered in their bed. Tbe murderers, four in number, were arrested, and subsequently were taken from the Sheriff and shot. Three hundred persons were present at the-execution, and 100 shots were tired. PBBSONAL. President’tirhnt'sent to the Senate, on the 22d, the nomination of Atty.-Gen. Pierrepoht to be Minister to England; Secretary of War Taft to be Attorney General, and J. Donald Cameron, son of Senator Cameron, of Pennsylvania, to be Secretary of War. The nominations were confirmed by the Senate. A cable dispatch was received by President Grant on the 22d, announcing the death, in London, of bls grand-child—the child cf his daughter, Mrs. Sartoris—almost a year old. Secretary Robeson sent a letter on the 23d to Mr. Whltthorne, Chairman of the House Committee on Naval Affairs, demanding to be heard before the committee, in open_ses•lon, in justification of the matters charged •gainst him in the newspapers in connection With the Navy Department. He says tbe chartrek and insinuations Sade in the public newspapers are utterly false in tact, and founded upon false inferences from the testimony as heretofore published.

Godlove 8. Orth was in Washington on the «d, and testified before the Sub-Commjftee on Foreign Affairs in relation to the awards made by tbe Venezuelan Mixed Commission. O* theaame day Mr. Orth acetin his resignation as United Stales Minister to Austria. Edward M. Beale, of Washington—formerly of California—has been nominated by the President to succeed Mr. Orth as Minister io

Mr. Wtlilam H. Hurlbut, for sometime <Wnnented with tbe New York World, has purchased Mr. Marble’s interest in that paper, •nd succeeds him in the editorial management, Mr, Marble retiring. In tbe case of D> W. Munn, ex-Supervlsor of Internal Revenue, on trial at Chicago for emisplracy to defraud tbe Government reveMtwa, the Jury, cm the 24th, brought in a verdwt of not guilty. I John S. RuUn, al jßsimsjilyanfa. was. on the 26tl>, uowdurtefi •» United Hates Consul *» riaws, thaaMM of Mr. Wirt Sykes har-

Ing been withdrawn In connection with that appointment. V. 8. Grant, <t., son of President Grant, has bo»n admitted so the practice of law in New fork city. JHper, the swardercr of little Mabel Young, whs hanged at Boston on the 261 h. On tbe same day, Samuel J. Frost was also hanged at Mass., for the murder of his wife's brother in July last. A horrible acenejoccyricd at thu latter execution. Ths fall was so great that the head of Frost was Jerked from Ms body, and hung only by ligaments. His blood spurted in every direction over the scaffold and floor. POLITICAL. The New Jersey Democratic State Convention was held at Trenton on the 23d. Dele-gates-at-Large were chosen to the National Convention and requested to present the name of Joel Parker as candidate for the Presidency of the United States. Among the resolutions adopted was one favoring the restoration of gold and silver as the basis of currency as soon as practicable. -The New Hampshire Republican State Convention was held on the 24th, and delegates were chosen to tbe National Convention- -They were uninstructed. The Kansas Republican State Convention, held at Topeka on the 24th, adopted a resolution declaring J ames G. Blaine to be its first choice as candidate for President of tbe United States. Delegates were chosen to the Cincinnati Convention.

The Minnesota Republican State Convention met at St. Paul On the 24th, and elected delegates to the National Convention. A strong Blaine resolution was adopted. The platform declares in favor of hard money, or its equivalent in paper convertible into coin. The Nebraska Republican State Convention was held at Fremont on the 23d and 24th, and adopted a resolution instructing its delegates -tothe Natidhal Convention to vote for Blaine for the Presidency. , The Michigan Democratic State Conven. tion, which was held at Lansing on the 24th, elected delegates to the St Louis Convention, who are said to stand sixteen for Tildeu and six for Hendricks. A resolution was adopted declaring that coin is the only money recognized by the traditions of tbe Democratic party as warranted under the Constitution. The Missouri Republican State Convention met at Jefferson City on the 24th, and selected delegates to the National Convention, who are said to be divided between Blaine and Morton, with three for Bristow and one for Conkling. Tne financial resolution favors a sound currency of coin or paper convertible into the same.

The Illinois Republican State Convention was held at Springfield on the 24th. A State ticket was nominated, composed as follows: For Governor, Shelby M. Cullom; Lieuten-ant-Governor, Andrew Shuman, of the Chicago Journal; Secretary of State, Geo. H. Harlow, renominated; Auditor, Thomas Needles: State Treasurer, Edward Rutz; Attorney-General, J. K. Edsall, renominated. Delegates were chosen to the National Convention, who are uninstructcd, but are said to be largely in favor of Blaine. The financial resolution of t he platform adopted declares that tbe Convention looks “with confidence to the National Republican Convention to solve the difficult problem of the currency; that the credit of the Nation shall remain untarnished, and Just regard be maintained for the rights and interests of all the people, East as well as West, North as well as South; that tbe Republican party has given to the people the best system of paper currency ever devised, and would dep. recate any legislation that might by any possibility cause a return to tbe system of paper currency in existence before the War.”

The Democratic State Convention of Kentucky was held at Louisville on the 25th. The delegates chosen to tne National Convention are uninstructed. The resolutions adopted demand the repeal of the SpecieResumption act, but insist upon a return to -specie payment at the earliest time it can be done without detriment to the commercial and industrial interests of the people. The California State Democratic platform favors a gold and silver currency, a tariff for revenue only, and opposes Chinese immigration. The delegates to the National Convention are instructed to vote for the nomination of Gov. Tilden for the Presidency. A State Convention of the Spencer Alabama Republicans was held on the 25th, and delegates to the National Convention were chosen. They are supposed to be largely in favor of Senator Morton’s nomination for the Presidency. A State ticket was also nominated headed .by James Clarke for Governor. The Kansas Republican State Convention, for the nomination of a State ticket, has been called to meet at Topeka on the 16th of August. The recent National Convention of the Independent Greenback party issued a call for a National ratification meeting to be held in the city of Philadelphia on the 4th day of July, 1876, and invited all the people of tbe Nation to attend and ratify the platform and nominations of the Convention.

CONGRESSIONAL,. In tbe Senate, ou the 20th, Mr. Morton, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitted a report in the case of Senator Spencer exonerating him from the charges of bribery and corruption in connection with his election. Mr. Saulsbury, the Democratic member of the committee, concurred in its conclusions that tbe evidence taken contained nothing implicating senator Spencer in the bribery, but contended that the inquiry was not earned far enough, and that the allegations tiled as to the invalidity of the Leg slature which elected Mr. Spencer, should have been inquired into, and testimony on that subject taken. The Senate bill auihor.zing the Secretary of the Tieasury to pay G. B. Tyler aud_E. il. Luckett <164 wrongfully collectedln the Second District of Kentucky, as tax for keeper ot , a bonded .warehouse, was passed over the President's veto—yeas, 4h,- Baya none. ,'£b e Impeachment case was furthejcjconsidercd in sec Yet waist. In the House., Mr. Cate, of Wi-conein. made a personal explanation denying the charges made against blm in tbe memorial sent to Congress by tue Wisconsin Leg stature, and claimed that be had been elected fairly and honestly ;he Said he bad prepared to defeud bls case, but before it was decided the contestant bad died, and he d uied tbe right of the Legislature to interiere in the mat ter. A bill was passed authorizing tbe Secretary of the Treasury to maae allowance* for compensation to Collectors of iuterual revenue who went out of office prior to Feb. 8, 1875, on final settlement of their accounts. Mr. Hoskins was excused framjservice on the Louisiana Investigating Committee. The Naval Appropriation bill was further considered in Committee o_t the Whole.

In the Senate, on the 22d, Wm. H. Barnum was sworn in as Senator from Connecticut. A petition was presented and referred from A. M. Clapp, Congressional Printer, to the effect that hf ls anofficer of the Senate; that great injustice had been done him by the < ommittee on Printing of tbe House; that the books of his office were detainen from him by that committee, and i hat no opportunity had been given him lor explanation of tbe charges against him. Tbe Impeachment quesiion was further considered.. —in the House, the leave of absence of Speaker Kerr was extended live days. A resolution was adopted relativ- to ths p/oiection of American citizens in the Ottoman Empire, as was also the resolution to dlsmisf Doorkeeper Fitzhugh, and to transfer the duties of Doorkeeper to tbe Sergeant-at-Arms until fur ther orders. A proposed amendment to the Naval,. Appropriation bill, reducing the nuinlnr of naval officers and their pay, was rejected in Committee of the Whole. ■ 1

A favorable report was made in the Senate on the z3d, on the House bill granting ftithe Stale of Missouri all tbe lands therein selected as swamp and overflowed lands. After reports on a number of unimportant bills, the Impvacument question was further considered in secret session.... Tbe Naval and Indian Appropriation bills were considered in Committee ot the Whole In the House, and tbe former was reported to the House, with amendments, and patfljed. The Louisiana Investigating Commit! e was authorized to act by sub-committees, and Mr. Woodburn, of Neyada, was appointed to nil the vacancy in such com-' inittqu caused by the withdrawal of Mr. Hoskips. ‘ 1 Id the Senate, on the 24th, the House joint rusoJutio»requesting the President to take

•uch steps ns In his Judgment, .may be expedient to obtain the pardoe or rn'eare of Edward U'.Meagher Condon, now confined tn an English prison, was fiaared. aa was also the Senate bill eSiabllshing the rank of Paymaster-General; as Brigadier (■eniiral. r ..Epaukcr Keir resumed the chair tn tbe House, hl* health haviug seemingly improved. A report waa made tn the Smtih Carolina Contested-election case, declaring ihe sitting member. J. 11. Rainey, to have been (Inly elected, A resolution wa- adopted directing the Committee on Commerce to inquire into an all Med combination of Ute leading railroads of thy country lor the purpose of conn oiling traffic. The bill fixing the salary of the President at $15,000 per annum, together with the message vetoing the same, was reported hack from the Civil Service Committee in the Senate, on the loth, with a* recommendation that the bill be passed, notwithstanding th 1 ’ objection of the President; placed on the calendar. The Impeachment question was further considered, with closed doors. In the House, the Senate amend ments to the bill authorizing the appointment of Receivers of National Banks were non-copc.nrre.d In. The rejtoit of the Committee on Foreign Affaire on the Emma Mine Investigation was presented. After a review of the testimony, the report concludes that the relations of Gen. Schenck to the venders of the Emma Mine were of such a character as to cast suspicion upon bis motives, and subject his action to unfavorable criticism; but the committee believe, that be was not guilty of fraud or of any fraudulent intent in such connection; that hie speculative dealings in the shares of the Company were not compatible with his diplomatic rtatioiiMul the maintenance of the petition of honor and usefulness at tbe Court to which he was attached: tbe committee therefore offered a resolution, anti unanimously recommended Its passage by the -House, condemning the action or Minister Schenck In becoming a diroefor of the Emma Mining Company, and bis operations in connection wi h tliesba.es of said company as ill-ad-vised, unfoiinnate and Incompatible with tbeduties of bls official position.

In the Senate, on the 26tti, the Senate hill to create a sinklag fund for the liquidation of Government bonds advanced to the Central A Western Pacific Railroad Company, with amendments, and a new bill to create a like fund in re lation to the bonds advanced to tbe Union Pacific Railroad Company, and for the settlement of the claims of the Government on account of said bonds, were reported from the Railroad Committee and placed on the calendar. The Impeachment question was further debated in secret session .In the House the Senate bill for this relief of G. B. Tyler and E. H. Luckett was passed over the President's veto—lßl to It—a* was also the bill providing for recording deeds, mortgages and other conveyances affecting real estate in the District of Columbia. A bill was also passed for the relief of certain settlers on public lands. A resolution was passed appointing J. H. Patterson as Doorkeeper. An appropriation was made for the payment of Claims reported allowed by the Commissioner of Claims. An investigation was ordered into the charges that money had been expended by the Pacific Coast to procure the passage of tbe bill to carry into effect the treaty with tbe Hawaiian islands.

Fourth of July — Proclamation by the President.

Washington, May 85. The following was issued to-day by the President of the United States: Whebeas, A Joint resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives was duly approved on the Wth day of March last, which resolution is as follows: '•Belt revolted, by the Senate and House of Representatives ors the United States of America iu Congress assembled, that it be and is hereby recommended by the Senate and House of Representatives to the people of the several States that they assemble iu their several counties or towns on tbe approaching Centennial anniversary of our National independence, and that they cause to have delivered on such day an historical sketch of said county or town from its formation, and that a copy of said sketch may be filed in print or manuscript in tbe Clerk's office of said county, and an additional copy iu print or manuscript be filed in the office of the Librarian of Congress, to the intent that a complete record may thus be obtained of tbe progress of our institutions during the first Centennial of their existence”: and, Whereas, It is deemed proper that such recommendation be brought to the notice and knowledge of the people of the United States; Now, therefore, I, Ulysses 8. Grant, President of the United States, do hereby declare and make known tbe same in the hope that the object of such resolution may meet with the approval of the people us the United States, ana that the proper steps may be taken to carry tbe same into effect. Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, this 25th day of May, in the year oi our Lord 18W, and of the Independence of the United States the ItOth. U. S. Ghani. By the President. Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State.

RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

—There are many public schools m New York where the air space per pupil is less than sixty feet, and tlie atmosphere is loaded with the accumulated impurities of many hours during which the children inhale it. The time for the meeting of the General Conference of the Reformed Episcopal Church has been postponed to the 12th of J uly. The place for the session of the Conference remains unchanged, n amely, Ottawa, Canada. —The Ohio Sabbath-school Union, an undenominational organization, has branches in sixty-eight of the eighty-eight counties of Ohio. Twelve of these branches were organized during last fall. The only paid officer of the Union is the Corresponding Secretary. Its annual convention is to be held J une 6th and Bth. —Since Jan. 1, 1876,1,204 persons have been admitted to the churches of the New York Presbytery on examination and 676 on certificate, and in 18.5, 800 were admitted on examination, and 653 on certificate. Last year tbe Bunday-sch>»ols of this Presbytery were reported to contain 16,901, while this year they report 17,296. —During the past three mdhths the Young Women’s Christian Association of Philadelphia has furnished 13,539 meals and 1,006 lodgings. The number of applications for employment received in this period was 4(14; the number of applications from employers, 685. During the quarter 633 books were taken out of the library, which now numbers 1,257 volumes.’

—The Muscogee (Creek IndiajJl Baptist association has made an earnest appeal to the denomination in the South for means to educate the Indian children. They say, “Our children are not born savages. They are at first sweet-temperecl, and seem playful and happy; and if they grow up savages K is because their minds are dwarfed and corrupted” on account of neglect. —A correspondent of the Evangelist rec orn mends tyjall the Presbyterian congregations that are in debt or that have unfinished buildings “to make a centennial offering to the Lord Jesus Christ of every Presbyterian Church in tbe United States, free of debt, by or before the end of the year ” He thicks that such a movement would greatly advance the spirituality and benevolence of the churches. —The first Baptist church among the Germans of this country was organized in 1846, There are now 100 of these churches, w’ith 7,300 members, who contributed last year <B,OOO to home and foreign missions. They also contribute an average of |2,<500 a year for the support, of German students at Rochester. The total amount raised by them last year for benevolent purposes was <23,211. —The Congregational Quarterly gives the statistics of that denomination as follows; Whole-number of churches 3,438, of which 191 are Without pastors; number of church members, 338,313; number in Sunday-schools, 401,338. The additions last year wCfe 2ff.915, a net gain of 12,841. Charitable contributions to the amount of <1,241,014.89 are reported by 2,418 churches. The numbered additions by profession 10 the chtirches (17,306) is greater than for seven years.

—The African Methodist Episcopal Church reports for 1875 the following sta-Twenty-five conferences, six bishops, 1,334 preachers, 1,642 churches, 172,292 members, <1,974 Sunday-schools, 98,008 Sunday-school scholars’ and <507,750 coptributeil for religious purposes, of which <149,000 was for new church buildings. Also <3,748 missionary money. Wilberforce is sustained at Xenia, Ohio. The total membership is reckoned al -206,0&0 members. A flour- . ishing church exists at Port-au-Prince, In Hayti.

INDIANA STATE NEWS.

Ai liullanajiolli on tbe 17th the linllanp Stall- Medical Society efryted the following' oliieers: President, Dr. S. 8. Boyd, of Wayne Goiui-lv; Vioe-l’itielduiit, E. D. Luuglillii, 'Orange County; Secretary, G. V. IVoolbti.of Min ion; Assistant Secretary, G. \V. Burton, of Lawrence; Treasurer! L. 'U. Walker, of MaritMi;:Librarian* J'. R. Featherstone, of Marion. Delegates were elected to the American Medical Association rind to tlie Nntloinil Medical Congress which meets at I’lrilaitelphia in September. Dr. J. R. Beck gave notice that at U>d next meeting lie would offer an amendment to the constitution providing that the membership of the Society shall consist of white mules only, in accordance with the usages of the American Medical Association. Dr. Helm, from the Committee on tlie Insane, reported verbally, rccoiniiiending that tills Society ask the Legislature to put the management of all • Insane in the hands of a State Commission of Lunacy. The report was accepted, and the conimittee continued.

The receipts of Logansport last year were 51V5.555.18, and the disbursements $151,568.40. Dan Gibus, of Rome City, let a patch of groiiiid adjoining his resl leiicc to u Mr. Peck, to till on shares, Mr. Gibbs wishing to follow ~hia__QCCjy>ation of peddling through the country with a team. White-Dan -was nearing his home, the other evening, Peck met him and rode home with him, und concluded to take tea with Dan. While at the supper tabic, Peek says to Dan: “ How will you trade wives?" “I think my wife is worth the most,” said Dan, “ and should want some boot.” “ I will give you my watch to boot,” said Peek, and handed it to him. Dan said: “This watch is mine then?” “Yes,” said Peck, “und I willJ>c after the woman In tlie morning,’’ and left. Dan thought no more of it until the next morning. When he arose he found Peck there after the woman, and they were packing her things for a start, and did start off on foot together, Dan all the time claiming he was only in fun, and lie is in fun yet, for the two have gone to parts unknown, and Dan’s wife that he traded-for has left, and don’t propose to fulfill the contract. The fifty-ninth annual session of the Grand Lodge of Masons began in Indianapolis on the 23d. The receipts during the past year were $34,589; disbursements, $19,189; balance on hand, $15,490. The following officers were elected: Frank 8. Deval, New Albany, Grand Master; Andrew J. Hay, of Charlestown, Deputy Grand Master; R. Van Valzali, of Terre Haute, Grand Warden. Mr. Deval Is the youngest man ever chosen to the position of Grand Master in the United States, being only thirty-two years old. George Wanley, proprietor of the Grand Hotel, in Connersville, was mildly reprovng Iris negro porter, the other night, wlicu the negro drew a revolver and shot Mr. Wanlcy in the head, the ball entering near the inner corner of the left eye. The wound was probed to the deptli of nearly seven inches and it was found that the ball had passed directly back and a little upward and lodged against the posterior or occipital bone of the skull. Strange to say, Mr. Wanlcy was entirely conscious. But little hopes arc entertained of his recovery. Tlie negro tied’inimediately and up to the 24th has not been captured. The street railroad lines in Indianapolis, with all appurtenances, have been sold to a Louisville company for $300,000. Up to thc23d, eighteen deathshad resulted from the Cleborne explosion. Others iu hospital at Evansville were not expected to survive.

Jack Shiel, of Brownston, caught a sturgeon, or shovel-fish as it is sometimes called, upon a trout-line, the other morning, which lacked only an inch or two of reaching six feet in length, and weighed seventy-seven pounds. Decoration DaY will be generally ccie brated throughout the State. Sixteen years ago a wealthy Indianapolis gentleman had a daughter who was the pet of the household and a society belle. A young man, son of another prominent citizen, wooed the daughter, and failing to find favor in the eyes of the father, projected and carried to a successful issue an elopement. The young couple were married and located in Texas. At the outbreak of the war the young husband enlisted in a Confederate regiment, and the wife, disguised irrmale attire, enlisted in the same regiment" and followed her husband to the field. During one of the engagements in which the regiment participated the wife was wounded by a minnie bullet, and the husband, stiil ignorant of her disguise, helped to carry her from the field. In dressing the wound the sex of the dashing trooper was discovered, and she was discharged from tlid regiment and came North. The husband was killed in a succeeding engagement. Her relatives never forgave the marriage, and refused to Recognize the wife when she returned. The father still lives in a neighboring county, and is counted one of the wealthiest citizens, while the woman, now poor and broken in health, lives in a miserable little house in an unfrequented alley. The Board of Trustees of the new Medical College, at Indianapolis, have elected Dr. George Sutton, of Aurora/TresWent; Win. Hobbs, of Knightstown, Vice-Presi-dent; D. IL Oliver, of Indianapolis, Secretary; W. B. Lyon, Huntington, Treasurer; P. 11. Jamieson, J. K. Bigelow and W. C. Thompson, Executive Committee. It was ordered to elect officers hereafter biennially. Instead of annually. Dr. J. L. Dickson, of Wabash, was chosen trustee, vice Othar, deceased, and E. D. Laughlin, of Orleans, and G, W. H. Kemper, of Muncie, i were up-' pointed to existing vacancies. Prof. Rogers resigned tlie chair of Materia Mediea, which resignation was accepted and a motion passed abolishing the chair of analytical chemistry and toxicology. The latest reports from Cincinnati give tlie following as the current prices for leading staples: Flour, $5.(X)@5.85; Wheat, Corn, 51@52c; Oats, 35(<J 42e; Barley, 95(«99c; Rye, Pork, $30.50ta20.75; Lurd—Stenin, 12@12><c; Kettle,

Bonnets, Dresses, Etc.

Fibst, let me mention that economy is the ruling fashion. The high priced mill-inery-shops are almost without customers, while those on Sixth avenue and Fourteenth street, where are sold untrimmed hats, and ribbons, and flowers, are crowded, showing that there is much home manufacture ot head-gear. The cottage is the most popular shape, and the colors most worn are cream and red, in every combination of shades. There are chip, linen-braid, and a “peasant straw,” something like the old-fashioned rough-and-ready, both in white and black. Prices rafige from fifty .cents to two dollars. Some have lace crowns with straw brims, and are extremely pretty when the crown is covered with a cap of sort twilled silk finished, where the crown and brim unite, with a scart of cream Valencictires lace with long streamers, or with a wreath of flowers. All straw bonnets may be trimmed with any of the serge or basket ribbons now seen. Flowers are used in profusion both outside and inside/ Beautiful long sprays and branches of cherries are among late importations, the most costly being h tiiixture of black and pale cherries. When used, the leaves are all turned up one way and the fruit fails down on the lower edge of the hat.

They are extremely effective with long bluek velvet or lace streamers. All trimming is put on u» make the hat look, high ami narrow.

It is no longer considered comme il faut to appear on the street without'wrap or loose sacque covering llie close-fitting waist. Round Capes tailing just to the bottom of the waist are much worn. They are generally quite covered with rows of lace, or of silk and jet fringe. Tall elegant women wear dolmans and short roly-poly women should wear sacques or mantillas with tabs, but, unfortunately, we see these same short fat teinales often •with dolmans whose points touch the the ground. When will ourdeffT sex study the becoming instead of the last fashion? Black is the prevailing dress en promenade. The moat stylish young ladies show no white at the throat, tying the inevitable black lace scarf close in place of a collar. This is nothing particularly new, but looks as distinguished as ever. bteeple-crowned parasols and umbrellas are used, always trimmed with a fall of black or ecru lace.

Long-wristed undressed kid gloves are worn for shopping, and five or six buttoned dressed kid, stitched with the same color, for dress. Silver boughs cover the wrists, some in clusters, and single ones with little bells, from five to nine on each arm. There are also leather belts with silver trimmings, silver dog-collars and small silver ear-rings. These are among the indispensables to a lady of fashion. There are rumors Of a return to decided colors for dresses in the autumn, and they will doubtless look all the gayer to our unaccustomed eyes, after the soft neutral tints of the past few years. So, my friends, wear out your old old clothes and make up your minds to don scarlet, purple and bright green, as best suits your complexion, when you purchase your winter wardrobes.

Wash goods will be much worn for street costumes this summer. Linens, percales, and the pretty striped cheviots are being made up by the leading houses. They are not so heavily trimmed as dresses which do not require the laundress. Frequently a sacque or long shawl of the same material is added to finish the costume. Linen and battiste costumes are offered in boxes, with the trimming ready to be put on. These are easily made up, and very cheap in price. 1 saw them at Stewart’s, with linen parasols to match, at $lO each. Nearly all kinds of dry goods are ottered at great reduction from former prices. Merchants spread out their wares in most attractive array, and go on, day after day, marking down, ■ m hope of tempting purchasers. Many of you will be glad to know that you can now find in this market the unlaundried lingerie you purchased “ au Bon Marche” in Paris, and, if my memory serves me, at nearly the same prices. The Martha Washington kerchief is again in vogue for housewear. Some are of sheer linen, lawn embroidered in a delicate pattern in white or scarlet cotton. Others are trimmed with lace, but it must always be tine and delicate. The imitation Valenciennes and cashmere laces are quite out of place on such a dainty accessory to the toilette. — N. K. Cor. Chicago Tribune.

Machinery Hall.

visitors Machinery Hall is the most interesting building on the Centennial grounds. Its construction closely resembles the Main Exhibition Building. It is 1,360 feet long and 360 feet wide; it covers about fourteen acres, and cost $542,300. On entering the edifice at the western end the sight is picturesque and impressive. Almost every sort of machine in existence, from a locomotive to a paperfolder, is in active operation. The per. sons employed to work them are now fairly started in their tasks, and the prospect of six months in the building seems to make them feel at home. The central object of interest is the magnificent Corliss engine, made in Providence, R. 1., which furnishes the motive power for all the machinery that is notself-propelling. It consists of animmense tty-wheel, thirty feet in diameter, two feet in thickness and fifty-six tons in weight, caused to revolve at the rate of thirty-six revolutions a minute by the piston-rods of two cylinders; and so silently does it perform its work that even when close beside it you can hear the lowest tones of your companion’s voice. Below it is the main shaft, which by gear-wheels six feet in diameter connects with eight lines of shafting, each 635 feet long, running lengthwise under the roof, and communicating their motion by leather belts to the various machinery on the floor.

This machinery isof the most ingenious and various description, and consists of apparatus used in mining; in working metal, wood and stone; in spinning, weaving, felting and paper making; in sewing and the manufacture of clothing and ornamental objects; in type-setting, printing, stamping, embossing, bookmaking and paper-working; in producing and transmitting power; in pumping, hoisting and lifting by hydraulic and pneumatic force; in manufacturing locomotives and railway rollingstock; in preparing agricultural products; and in aerial, pneumatic and water transportation. While sauntering along the aisles one can witness the process of rock-drill-ing, of well and shaft boring, of coal cutling, of electroplating, of planting, sawing, veneering, grooving, mortising, tonguing, cutting, molding, stamping and carving; of drilling, slotting, turning, punching and coining; of dressing, shaping and polishing; of rolling iron, grinding glass, casting metals and riveting, nailing, bolting and tacking them by steam; of manufacturing silk, cotton, woolen and linen goods, rope and twine, paper and felting, india-rubber goods, mixed fabrics and wire cloth ; of preparing and working leather, making clocks, watches and pipes for smoking; of printing, embossing and lithographing, type casting and stereotyping, bookbinding and paper-folding; of generating power by boilers, waterwheels, hydraulic rams, steam, air, gas and electro magnetic engines, and of transmitting it by shafting, belting, cables, gearing and screwpropellers; of lifting and moving liquids and solids, and moving and compressing air or gas; of extinguishing tire and escaping from it; of manufacturing sodawater, bottling it, and corking the ’bottles; of diving for the recovery of sunken treasures; of manufacturing locomotives, carriages, brakes, buffers, couplings and snow plow-s, wheels, tires, axles and springs, switches, signals, turn-tables and water-cranes, street railvVays and horsecars; of grinding grist, refining sugar, making candy, preparing tobacco, oil, spices and fancy goods, and brewing beer and distilling liquors-, of building suspensionbridges, transporting cables, sending balloon boats and sailing vessels, and finally of transporting telegraph cabt'es and railway trains, and of steering and propelling ships and steamboats. Indeed, it is not too much to say that an extraordinary lifetime might be spent in examining the apparatus, the prodesses and the results presented in Machinery Hall. The vast structure, with the exception, per, haps, of some of the persons who are visiting it, dbes not contain a Single object not interesting or instructive.—Philadelphia Car. N. Y. Evening Poet.

The Chicago base-ball players says the sage of the New York CommereM-Adver-tiner. rarely come to bad ends, they have such good bigdnn Ings. —Australian Methodism, although but a quarter of a century old, numbers 80,000 members and 328,000 attendants upon its' public services.

The Hon. Peter Cooper’s Address to the Greenback National Convention.

‘On taking the chair to preside over the deli Iterations of the National Independent Convention, Mr. .Durant announced that the sudden illness of the Hon. Peter Cooper had prevented the fulfillment on his part of an intent he had formed to bo present, in answer to the National Committee. and preside over the Convention; but he had written an address worthy of the occasion. Prof. .1. C. Zachas, Curator of Cooper Institute, was then introduced, and read the following letter from Mr. Cooper: Gentlemen of the. Convention—We have met, my trieuda, to unite in a course of efforts to find out. and, K possible. Io remove a cause of evil that haa shrunk the value of the real estate of the Naliou to a condition where It cannot be sold, or mortgagee obtained upon it for muc|t more than oue-halt the amount that the .ante property would have brought t'...eo years ago. This dire calamity has been brought on our couutiy by the acta of our Government. The first act took from the National money its power to pay interest on bonds and duties on imports. The second act has contracted the currency of the country until It has shrunk the value ot property to its present condition by destroying public contldence; find that without shrinking auy of the debts contracted in Its use. I do moat humbly hope that I shall be able to allow the fatal car,sea that, have been allowed to operate and bring this wretchedness and ruin to the bourns of untold thousauda ol the men und the women throughout the connfry. Facts will snow that it was the unwise nets of our own Government that have allowed a policy to prevail more In the interests ofjorelgu Governments than our own. It was those unwise acts of legislation that brought discredit ou our National money, us I have raid, by Introducing into the law that created It that terrible word except, which took from our legal money its power to pay Interest on bonds und duties on i hr porta. The Introduction of this little word except into the oi iglnal law drew tears Irom the eyes of Tbaddens Stephens when he looked down the current of events aud saw our bonds in the hands of foreigners who would he receiving gold iutereston eVeiy hundred dollars of bonds that coat them but fifty or sixty dollars in gold. But for tire introduction of that word except into that original law, our bonds would have been taken at par by our own people, audthe interest would hav e been paid at home in currency, instead of being paid to foreigners in gold. An additional calamity has been brought on our Country by a National policy that has taken from the people their currency, the tools of these trades, the very life-blood of the traffic aud commerce of our country. ___ Facts show that in 1865 there was In the hands of the people as a currency. $— per head, and that at the time of our greatest National prosperity. We have now arrived at a time of uuequaled adversity, with a currency in 18. > of sl7 38-100 per cupita, with failures amounting to $200,000,050 in • year. »'• Among the causes which now afflict the country it may be well to look at the enormous increase in ourloreign importations, which amounted to $ .59,000.000 in the'year 1865, aud increased to $ 84,0c0,ft.o in 1873, aud was $5.4.000, 00j in 1875. These facts show a sufficient cause for the paralyzed industry of our country. They also show that Senator Jones was right in saying that - the C resent is the time to undo the unwitting and lundering work of 1873." By the Resumption act, to Like etlect in 1879, every man Hint is in debt will be liable to have his property sold out for what it will bring in gold. 1 think you will agree with me when I say that prosperity can never be restored to our beloved country by a National policy th t enforce- idleness and financial distress on sova-ta number of the laborers and business men of this couutiy. Our Nation s wealth must torever depend on the application of knowledge, economy aud well-directed labor to all the useful and necessary purposes of life.

'1 he American people can never buy anything cheap from foreign countries that must be bought at the co>t of leaving our own good law materials unused and our own labor unemployed. 1 find myself compelled to believe that much of the past legislation of our country in reference to tariff and currency bus been adopted under the advice aud influence of men in the Interests of foreign Nations that have a direct motive to mislead aud deceive us. Our prosperity as a Nation will commence to return when the Congress of our country shall assume its own inherent sov ereign right to furnish all the inhabitants of the .United States a redeemable uniform, unfluctuating, Natioual currency. I do heartily agree with Senator Jones when he says that "the present is the acceptable time to undo the unwitting and blundering work of 1873, and to render our legislation ou the subject of money consistent with the physical facta concerning the stock and supply of the precious metals throughout the World, and conformable to the Constitution of our country." , I sincerely hope that the concluding advice of Senator Jones will make a living and a lasting tmpressjon when he says. speaking to the present Senate: "We cannot, we dare not avoid speedy action on the subject. Not only does reason. Justice and authority unite in urging us to retrace our steps, but the organic law commands us to do so: and the presence of peril enjoins what the law commands.’' The Senator states a most Important fact and one that all know to be true, "that b v interfering with the standards of the country Congress has led the countrv away from the realms of prosperity and thrust it beyond the bounds of safety." He says truly, “to refuse to replace It on its former vantage ground would be to incur a responsibility and a deserved reproach greater than that which men have ever before felt themselves able to bear.” It will require all the wisdom that can be gathered fiom the history and experience of the past to enable us to work ont our salvation from the evils that an unwise legislation has brought on our country. * It will be found that nothing short of a full, fair and frank performance of the first duty enjolbed on Congress by the Constitution will ever restore permanent prosperity to us as a nation '1 he Constitution has made it the duty of Congress to enact the laws that are indispensable for the establishment of justice, as the only possible means by which the general welfare can be effectually promoted. Where power Is given, the duty is made fairly to devolve on all who are sworn to make or to execute the laws in accordance with the letter aud spirit of the Constitution. It is a remarkable fact that the most essential element of our Colonial and National prosperity was obtained by the use of the legal-tender paper money—the very thing that our present rulers seem now determined to hold up to ridicule and bontempf We are apt to iorget that the "Continental money" secured for ns a country, and the " greenback" currency has saved us as a Nation. Sir A. Alison, the ab'e and Ititjefatigable English historian, has borne testiim ny io the superior power aud value of paper mo ley. He says : " When I,GOIMO men, on both sines, were In the continental wars wiih France in Germany and Spam alone, where nothing could be purchased except by specie, it is not surprising that guineas went where they were so much needed, ; and bore so high a price." * • “In truth such was the need of the precious metals, owing to this cause, that one-tenth of the currency of the world was attracted to Germany as a common Center, and the demand could not be supplied; and by a decree in September, 1813, from Peterwalsdeu In Germany, the allied sovereigns issued paper notes, guaranteed by Russia, Prussia and England. Tnese notes passed as cash from Kamtschatka to the Rhine.and gave the currency which brought the war to a -uccesslul close.” In a recent edition of the “ History of Europe," Sir A. Alison gives au additional evidence of the important advantages which experience has demonstrated to result from the use of a paper currency.

He says: “To the tnspenelon of cash payments by the act of 1797. and the power in cuurequeuce vested in the bank of England of expanding its paper circulation in proportion to the abstraction of a metallic currency, the wants of the country and the rei-ting of the National iudustiy on a ba in not liable to be takeh away by the mutations of commerce or the necessity of war—it into the«e facts that the salvation of the Empire .must be ascribed.” “It hr remarkable that this admirable sysiem, which may be tyuly called the working power of nations during war, became at the close of the war the object of the most determined hostility on the part of the great capitalists and chief writers of political economy in the country.” • • • "Here, however,” says Allson, "as everywhere else, experience, the great test of the truth, has determined the question. The adoption of the opposite system of contracting the paper currency In propotion to the abstraction of the metallic cur ency by the acts of IHPt and 1844. followed as they were by the monetary crises of 1825, 1 .39 and 1847. have demonstrated beyond a doubt, that it. was in the system of nn expansive currency that <treat Britain! during the war, found the sole means of her salvation. Froin I'll*7 to 1815 commerce, manfactures and agriculture advanced in England in spite of all the evils of war with a rap’dity greater than thev had previously done in centuries before. This proves beyond a doubt the power of paper money to increase the wealth of a ■■Jfatioti,” ..-..5-.. ■■ ... .—, It is worth while to observe that this same Sir Ali-on. wiio speaks an wisely on'this subject in refer, nee to the history of his own country, while scanning a few rears ago the prosperity of our country during the war ol the rebellion anti Imine dintely after, has a foreboding of what might Imp p ii, and nniaiks: "The American Government may make financial and legislative mistakes which may check the progress of the Nation and coiniieraet. the advantages which paper money has already bestowed upon them; th v mnv adopt the unwise and unjust system which England adopted at the close of the FrtSnCh war: they may resolve to pay in gold, and with low prices, the debt contracted with paper, and,high prices." "But whatever they may d.s, ' he adds, "nothing can shake the evidence which the expert nee of that Nation during the last six years attorda of the power of paper money to promote a Nation s w elfare."’ Sir Walter Scott, in his “ Mniaehl Malgrowther’s Letters." shows how the wealth of a nation Is Incr. ased by paper money. - I assume ” he says, hazard of contradiction, that banks hare existed In -cofland for near 120 years; that they hare flourished, and the country has flourished with them; und that during the last twenty years particularly, the notes, and.especially the small

notes which the banks distribute, supply all the dt-maud for a medium of currency This system lias so completely expelled gold front that vou never bv env chance esp.' n gnlntu there, except futile purse of »>> ac. td. ntal in the ( Offer* of tbe hnnk* rheni-rlvn*. But the facilities which this pa|>er has afiortled to the industrious aud enterprising agriculturists and v ufaelurers. as well as to the trustees of th.J ttblic. In unvoting National works, have converts*! mosland from a poor, miserable, barren c 7 u, ' l !’X'.i l * ® one where; ft nature has done less, art and industry have done more than, perhaps, in any other country in Europe. England not excepted. President Grant, in hi- message of 1873, said. "The experience of the present panic has pi oven that the currency of the country. based M it la upon Its credit, Is the best that Ims over been devised." • • • "In view of the great actual connactibn that has taken place iu the currency, and tlie comparative contraction continuously going on, duo to the increase of population, the Increase of manufactories and of all industries. 1 do not believe there la too much of it now for the dullest period of the year.” .. . Notwithstanding these recommendations ortho President. Congress has continued to tax the people and contract the National currency, In a vain attempt to arrive at specie payments. Our Government should have left that amount of currency in the hands of the people which the necessities of war had compelled it to put In circulation as the only means of National salvation. Eveiy dollar of currencv paid out, whether gold, silver, or paper, was given out for •'value received," and thus became, by the act of the Government, a valid claim for a dollar s worth of the whole propertv of the Country. Hencq. not a dollarxrf it should ever have been withdrawn. • It la now almost universally believed that hud the Treasury notea continued, as at first la-ned. to be received for all forms of taxes, duties and debts they would have circulated to thia day. as they did then, as so much gold, precisely as the Government paper did circulate In France when

put upon the same footing. This would have saved our country more than one-hnlf of the amount of the whole expenses of the war in the present shrinkage of values and the Interruption to honest industry. It would have saved us also from the perpetual drainage of gold to pay interest on our foreign indebtedness. Gentlemen of file Convention, 1 have heretofore enlarged upon what seemed to me the true financial imllcv of this country in pamphlets and writings that 1 have had the honor to lay before the country, so that it would be a vain repetition to go much imo that subject now. ’1 he piffler currency commonly called "legaltenders," or " greenbacks," Was actually paid out for value received as so much gold w hen gold could not be obtained. t his being au Incontrovertible fact, it follow* that everv Treasury note, demand note, or legaltender given out as money in payment for auy form of labor and properly received by the Government, became, in the possession of its owners, real dollars that could not be taken constitutionally from the people, except by uni orm taxes, as on other property. But whether our currency will be always rm a par with gold or not I have shown from history, upd Incontrovertible facts prove it, that the comnicrcUtTand Industrial prosperity of a country do not depend ui>on the amount of gold and silver there is in circulation. Our prosperity must continually depend upon the industry, the enterprise, and the busv internal trade and a true independence of foreign Nations, which a pai>er circulation, well based ou sound credit, has always been found to promote. . But I believe prosperity can never again bless our glorious country until Justice Is established, by giving back to the people the exact amount of currency found In circulation nt the close of the war. That was the price of the Nation’s life. It ought to be restored and made the permanent and unfluctuating measure of all values through all coming time—never to be increased or diminished, only ae per cupita. with the increase of the inhabitants of the country. This currency must be made receivable for all forms of taxes, duties and debts, and convertible into interest bearing bonds, at some equitable rate of interest, and recouvertlble into currency at the will of the holder. This, we believe, will secure uulformltv of value to a degree that gold haa newer attained. President Steele, of Lawrence Uhiversify, has welTsald bn this subject: "In fixing a standard it is essential to select something that is as nearly as possible invariable. The conventional unit of lineal measure must not be a line which averages a foot, though it may bo fourteen inches to-day and nine to morrow. The bushel measure should not contain two or three quarts more or less at oue time than at another. For the same reason it is desirable that the unit of value should have the same purchasing power next week that it has now.” » » • » Amasa Walker, iu his work on the * Science of Wealth’ (p. 488), gives the comparative prices of a list of seventeen articles for the four successive vears of 1862 to 1866. inclusive, iu the Boston market, for the month of October. These articles, as he says. ’ are of domestic produce, not directly affected by custom or excie charges.’ Taking these as representatives of general values, we learn that the advance in the whole four years amounted to 141 per cent., while the premium on Sold In the same time advanced 114 per cent. Retiring everything to a gold standard, we find that the value of gold had fallen nearly fifty-three per cent, in four years. In other words, whatever you might have purchased for.u dollar in gold in 1862, you would have been obliged to pay $2.13 for the same article in 1865. By the same table weleatn that, from October. 1864. to October, 1865, while the premium on gold fell thirty per cent., general prices rose ten and a quarter per cent. Reducing all the values to a gold Standard. I find that gold fluctuated In a single year nearly fifty-eight per cent., while the fluctuations in the value of greenbacks tested by the same standard of general prices, was only nine and a half per cent., or less than one-sixth of that of goldl" In conclusion, gentlemen, I think we have reason to congratulate ourselves on the great awakening of the public mind in regard to this question of finance. The people are beginning to recognize their rights aud their duties iu this matter. 1 think the time has come to exhort every one to go to the ballot-box and Select good and true men, who will legislate in accordance with justice, ths Constitution, and the true interests of the people; and give us what will always stand as a monument of political wisdom, a true Natioual curWnpy,

Work.

When we murmur about our work, we seldom reflect how much more pitiful would be the condition of the most laborious among us if we were suddenly to be deprived of it. We often look upon it as a burden, when it is in reality a bless-’ ing in disguise. We picture to ourselves how much happier we should be without it, and envy those who are born to a heritage of idleness, when we should be, in truth, the most wretched beings alive could we exchange places with them for a day. What an angel of mercy has it proved to many! W hat a solace for vacant hours! what a panacea for troubles, sentimental or otherwise! Did not John Bunyan bless it, think you, in Bedford jail,"where he beguiled the time with toiling over his Pilgrim'» Program Has it not ministered to many a mind diseased, plucked from the heart many a rooted sorrow? Is it not the only sure antidote to ennui? a remedy against a host of ills to which flesh and spirit are heir? Has it not rendered us oblivious to injuries and That the money value of work is not its ultimate charm is well attested by those who, having been hard workers for the greater portion of their lives, retire from business, expecting to enjoy themselves and their hard-earned wealth, but finding the weeks and months heavy upon their hands, finally resume thpir old habits of industry, having made the important discovery that they had been enjoying themselves all their days; that their true - contentment was like the statue hidden in the marble block—something to be wrought out by toil; that work was the only talisman against low spirits and hypochondria. We rarely, if ever, hear busy people complaining of megrims; they do not often swell tlie number of suicides. They have little time to spare for their neighbor’s affairs, since the sincere worker must pin his mind to his work, if he would accomplish anything worth dignifying with the name, and not some slop-shop makeshift.

We sometimes feel that if we could only choose our work or exchange with another, we should be better pleased and more successful; then should we become earnest it its pursuit; then should we cease to slight and slander it; then would our efforts be as Spontaneous as the bird’s song. But is it not wiser for us to do honestly that which falls in our way, if it be only to darn stockings or to scour knives, without waiting for anything more worthy of our strength or talents ? Is it not a reproach to Him who assigns It tosuppose it a mistake and something beneath our abilities, as well as a vanity in us, to imagine Ourselves capable of more ambitious tasks? And are we not assured that - “Who sweeps a room as by God's laws, Makes that and the action tlnet” —Lfarper't Batar. That was a philosophical urchin who,, when he was nine years old, having lost his rabbits by dogs and bls pigeons by rats, said to his little sister: “Sis, my opinion i,s that the happiest period of a is when he is between three and four years old?’ - ;“ No ■wonder New York city is in a continual muss. It has over-4,00Q lawyers.