Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1885 — Page 7

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA <*. E. MARSHALL, - - Pububhxb.

Senator Don Cameron says that Prof. Bell, the telphohe man, once offered him a controlling interest in the stock of his company for $6,000. The Senator declined. Last year the company’s profits were over $1,500,000. The women of New York are not to have a club-house after all. One of them declares there is no need, of getting such an institution in order to provide them with the comforts of home. "What is more desired by them, it is said, is the freedom of a club in their homes. According to a Texas paper civilization is pushing the picturesque cowboy in that State to the wall. It says: ‘•We had better bid the, old time cow-f boy a fond farewell this spring. The days of making a living in this country by riding around all day on a pony are drawing to a close. We are sorry to lose the kind-hearted, generous fellows, but there is no use kicking against the inevitable.” Of the twenty “oldest Masons” in the world, so far as anybody knows, the three who tak? the precedence live in Great Britain, and Sir Moses Montefiore, centenarian though he is, does hot come among them. So far as Masonic Token can tell, the really oldest Mason is John Tressider, of Falmouth, England, whowas initiated in 1805, on the Gth day of August. The oldest in America still appears to be Captain Sylvanus Hatch, of Port La~vacca. Texas, initiated in 1800. The diversions of the old Kaiser William have aw ays been manly and -in steiking ctnitfasf fb those Qf his Bavarian neighbor, which are taken in solitude and in as much gloom as is compatible their enjoyment. Perhaps there are few older figures in history than that of the strange monarch, who may—or strictly speaking, may not —be seen occasionally in the Munich Opera-house, having one of Wagner’s lyric dramas all to himself. This potentate is the “Jack Horner” of royalty, who takes his Christmas pie into the corner and eats it by himself.

The old town of Atsion, on the New Jepsey division of the .Reading railroad, at tho junction of Camden, Burlington, and Atlantic Counties, has been purchased by a New York company, who intend to cut the tract, comprising some 2,500 acres, into building lots. The place was founded over a century ago by one Samuel Richards, who established one of the first iron foundries in the United States there, and for fifty years it was one of the manufacturing centers of South Jersey, but, owing to a lack of ore, the works were abandoned, and the town finally became ah most deserted.

A Massachusetts veteran vented his feelings over the movement to relieve ex-soldiers from the operations of the civil-service act as follows: “I regard the amendment as aa insult te our intelligence. Many soldiers have held and do hold offices, and so far as I know they ask no favors, and I cannot learn that this change has been made at the request of any considerable number of soldiers. Good men voted for it, but the whole thing is the work of demagogues, who expect to make themselves solid with the soldiers, and that fact shows that they believe that they can be caught with chaff.” According to the New York Herahrs ■Washington correspondent the. attaches of the White House are able, from long experience, to form a “very good impression” of the character and standing of callers from, their cards. If these accomplished employes should lose their situations at any time, they should have no trouble in finding lucrative engagements as fortune tellers. Indeed, they might add to their perquisites now by foretelling the fate of anxious office-seekers, since, if they can size up strange visitors so accurately, the mind and secret intentions of the President must be an open page to them.

The New York Tlmes s%rs that Gen. Sheridan's little accident while oat driving lately recalls another narrow escape he had daring the later days. ®f the war, when sadden ly tripped np one day he stumbled and fell beneath a stallion's feet in camp and was fiercely Kicked, narrowly escaping death. The horses hoofs scraped his coati and ripped the cloth. It was by a decidedly informal rolling over the ground in a hurry that he saved his life, so the soldiers say, for the kick was viciously repeated. There Wasn’t anything very heroic in the General's retreat, but that other experience with horseflesh which Bcchanan Bead has sung to such purpose was scarcely of more consequence to Philip himself. MoxosdiHELA, Pennsylvania, has a eat that put oat a fire. Not long since the family oi Tarter McFarland all wept out to a temperance meeting leaving Master Tcm, a-favorite cat, in sole occupation of the house. Gn their return the eat rushed out and plunged intc JLLe snow, where Ms actions excited so much interest as to ’ lead to an examination. -when his feet were found to

be blistered. Tha Bitting-room serveV to explain matters. A live coal had been thrown 09 1 and set the carpet on fire. Pubs bad evidently clawed ont the fire for a considerable distance about the spot burned, leaving nothing but a center of ends, charred and frizzled. All the circumstances indicated that the cat had put out the fire, and he is held in higher esteem than ever.

Abe Buzzard, the famous Pennsylvania outlaw of whom so much has been written, is described by a neighbor as anything but a hero. The neighbor says: “Imagine a dirty, slovenlylooking sneak, the height of whose ambition is to rob a hen-roost, skirmishing around a farm-yard while the men are working in the field ready to steal anything he can lay his hands on, from a dunghill rooster to a clothes-horse, and yon have a picture of Abe Buzzard in all his glory. I lived in Lancaster County, and have seen the whole Buzzard gang brought to court more than once, and in no instance did their daring adventures amount to more than robbing a country store; and that was always done while honest men slept, and in such a bungling manner that* any of the country constables could always capture the thieves ana recover the goods if they had so desired.

The Ansti alian colonies have taken an important departure in their commercial relations by moving for the establishment of a colonial zollverein or a customs union which will develop their rapidly-growing commerce, already aggregating over $500,000,000 per annum, and protect their intercolonial trade. Hitherto they have had no right to adopt a discriminative tariff, and were bound to lax intercolonial trade like foreign. The results for which they are now moving^namely; intercolonial free trade—will place their trade upon the same basis as our inter-State free trade, and the same influences will be brought so bear in developing industry %nd stimulating production; and, more than this, will undoubtedly in time bring about a kind of release from the commercial domination of the mother country bV increasing home products. The bill granting permission to the colonies to exercise these new privileges ba3 passed the English Parliament, and Victoria and Tasmania have already availed themselves of their newly-acquired right. The other colonies will soon follow oh the same line, when trade between them will be as free as between our own States.

A California -woman has just had a cheerful experience with the bones of her lamented husband, who died and was buried in the Boston cemetery thirty years ago. The widow went to the far West soon after his death, and the grief she felt, which was, of course, great, was mitigated by time, and perhaps other sources of consolation, until she became peaceful and happy, and, in fact; ceased to dwell upon the memory of the departed- Within the past year, however, she has developed mediumistic powers, and during the exercise of these she was surprised by a communication from the spirit of her husband, many communications, to be more exact. The spirit of the Boston man, indeed, might be said to have haunted her, so numerous were his visits and persistent his demands. Nothing would satisfy him but that she should go back to Boston, gather up his bones and cremate them. Finally, yielding to his importunities, she made the journey, procured the services of an undertaker and dug for the remains. Owing to lapse of time, these were found to be in a somewhat dilapidated condition, but she recognized the skull, which she took into her own hands, having promised the visiting shade that she would personally superintend the burning of that once proud organ. To the skull were added a few more bones, and the lady departed happy. But only for a brief hour. That same day at dinner the husband’s spirit called upon her again, and announced with displeasure that she had failed to gather all the remains, and that he desired her to return and secure the missing relics, not forgetting his whiskers, which must be there, and of which, as she was aware, he had been very vain when alive.—Once more she went with the undertaker, the tomb wa3 opened, and with her own fingers she sifted the dust, being at length rewarded by a handful more Of “remains," including the missing beard. Again she plied tile fire in the fnrnace, and would have gathered the ashes as a keepsake, but for the difficulty of separating them from the fuel, and, therefore, left them to be carried off by the ash man. If she hears no .more from the departed in regard to his troublesome body, she will go West once more, but a gho3t who is so whimsical cannot be depended npon. and she makes no definite plana. Her experience is calculated to deter other widows from experimenting with spiritualism.

His business Compelled It.

“How do you manage to secure the best carls in the s paek.” exclaimed a lady to her male opponent in a game of euehre. * “I cannot help it madam,* replied the gentleman, my business compels me to hold the hist winning cards.” -■ ■*And why pray ?” ; “I am a pawnbroker." "And what has that to do with this game, I would like to know ?” * “My business, madam, compels mo. to bold a loan hand.”: —Carl Prc&tft Hieei/y. ” , i-~ ■' ■■■■ ' - : . ■ ...

REMINISCENCES OF PUBLIC MEN.

BY BEN: PERLEY POORE.

Postmaster General Brown died suddenly at Washington on tho Btn of March, 1859. ,Qne day, some lour weeks previous,*he was at the department, signing up his official journal, his clerk standing on his left, turning iover the pages as each signature was affixed. Mr. Marion, then the efficient and vigorous Third Assistant Postmaster, Gen-, eral, having charge at that critical period the important responsibilities of the finance division, entered the Irooin to obtain Mr. Brown’s to a draft. Turning to the right he aheerfully signed the paper, and Mr. Mprron was retiring, when the head of tho department remarked, “Marron, 1 1 wish you would come in and see me when 1 get through with this.” Being then long after the usnal office hours, Mr. Marron turned and said, “Do you wish me to see you again today, sir?" “Yes,” replied Mr. Brown; “I want to know if you have set your house in order; for, in a month or less, we shall have neither a habitation nor a name here.” Mr. Marron, with a conviction that his official house was always in order, paused a moment, and with surprise and a smile, remarked, “My house in order?” “Yes, sir—your house in order; for in a month or less we shall neither have habitation nor a name here,” “Well, j Governor," replied Mr. Marron, “if the storm comes I can stand it as well as others,” and then, pleasantly, left the room. Three week afterwards Mr. Marron died, and a few days later the Postmaster General was taken ilh As j his devoted wife stood weeping at his bedside, he opened his eyes, extended his arms, clasped her to his heart, im- | printed a farewell kiss upon her lips, ; and died.

Mr. Augustus Peabody, who was connected with Mr. Webster in the business of his law office in Boston, used to relate that on one occasion Mr. Webster had made all his preparations for a summer tour in his own carriage with his wife, and had drawn the money for his travelling expenses out of the bank the day before his intended departure. The next morning the New York mail * brought a letter to Mr. Webster enclosing a check for $1,500 as a retainer in a great land case to which Mr. Astor was one of the parties. This letter, with its enclosure, Mr. Peabody took down to Mr. Webster’s. Louse, and found him already seated in his carriage about to take the road to Saratoga. He gave him the letter, and asked him to endorse the check. But Webster put the check in his pocket with the remark that he might need it before he returned, and so it turned out. When he came back to Boston the whole of the $1,500 had been spent, in addition to the money he had previously drawn.

On another occasion Mr. Webster had invited some friends to dinner. Ashe left home in the morning he requested his wife to send John down to the office about 10 o’clock to go tp market with him John came down accordingly. Mr. Webster was busy writing. He asked John if he had any money. John replied in the negative. “Then,” said Mr. Webster, “go down to Mr. Burritt and ask him to give ine $5.” (Burritt wa3 a stationer iu the lower story), John came back and stated that Mr! Burritt had not $5, but sent him $lO, which Webster took and put iu his waistcoat pocket. Pretty soon a poor woman came in on an alms-asking errand. Said Wobster, still writing, “I know all about it; you’ve lost your husbandand have five small children and nothing to eat. Take this!” and he gave her the ten-dollar note which John had borrowed from Mr. Burritt By and by be finished his work and reservant: “Now, John, we’ll Down they went througifcioart and Washington streets and Do6l|Square to the Quinsy Market, below Faneoil HalL Mr. Webster bought of the butcher at the south end of the market what suited him, but made no payments, asjhe .had accounts with them. A last they reached a vegetable dealer, of whom Webster aisc made a purchase, and was about tc pass on as before when the faithful John arrested him with the remark: “Mr. Webster, this man is a stranger tc us; we never had dealings with him.” “True,” said the great lawyer, “very true;” and pat his hand in his pocket for the money to pay the amount. Finding none, he said to his servant: “John, I thought yon gave me some money just now ?” “So I did, sir,” said John, “hot you gave it to that poor woman who came Into the office” “Ah!” said Webster,” so I jdid, but I had forgotten all about it. Well, John, you must borrow some more money and come down and pay these people; and now we will go home.” Gen. Grant was the first President who had a summer residence away from the District of Columbia. H:s departure for his villa at Long Branch wa3 the signal for a general official exodus from Washington, beginning withmembers of the Cabinet, and including comptrollers, auditors, registers, chief clerks, and others charged with carrying on and supervising the great business of the country. In point of fact, while these officers were paid large annual salaries, they only gave about eignt months out of the twelve to their duties Except for mere routine the Departments might as well have been closed from June to December.

A Weather Prophet.

It ia possible, according to French authority, to foretell the weather, sometimes ten or twenty hours in advance, by observing and comparing the sounds emitted by a telephone connected by leads withtwo iron bars stock into the ground a few yards apart. In case of a thunderstorm * especially, a noise like that of shivering leaves increases until a flash of lightning occur?, when the sound resembles that of ram or hail falling on grass.

An Authority on Shad.

Said Thompson's darky cook to me: “Marry people jodge a 9* ad by its gills, Es theys red'they think it's all right. Bed gdls is all right as fur aa they goei, bn: es yon want to be dead sure' of yer fish jedge it by the feeL’ Ji&t grab it by the back, an* es it's hard and firm it’s all right, even es it hasn’t any gill* at *ll ” — Cincinnati Evsjuirer.

A REMARKABLE LETTER.

Gapt. Hugh Renounce*; Democracy and Become* a “Full-Fledged Republican”—Hl* Keaxon* His Thl* Important Btep-An Able, Manly, and Patriotic letter. - • * t , The Madison (Wisi) Journal is in receipt of the following letter from Capt. Hugh Lewis, in which he forsakes the Democratic communion and unites his fortunes with the Republican party. Capt. Lewis is a one-armed veteran who fought valiantly throughout the wav, even after he was crippled, and has always been up to this time a prominent and exceedingly active and inflnential worker in Democratic, circles. He now holds a well-paid position in the veteran messenger corps of tho National' House of Representatives, and, it is understood, was recently offered promotion, which ho refused. Bis motives for change are" evidently, therefore, purely of a patriotic nature, and not emanating from personal considerations: For twentj-Tflvo years I have been an active member of the Democratic party, doing everything in my power to place its candidates in control of the various departments of government. During that considerable period I tmvo marched in its processions* contributed and disbursed money, for Its camj paigns, associated and been intimate with ! many of it 3 leaders, and Ailed to the best of my ability some of its hutnbte ollicos. I have studied the ways and doings of its sages and I counselors, watched closely ltagenoral course 1 1 —more recently at short range—digested and proclaimed its professions of principles, and learned its platforms almost by heart. Hhould 1 not know the Democratic party? I think 1 know its secret workings, its capabilities, its heart, its conscience. I also think | I know its truo value to the citizen, its true worth to the .<tate. J . ~ The conduct and enunciations of the Democratic party have not always met my approval, and I have openly so doiarod ns oc-, i caslon arose. Sometimes I had misgivings concerning the sincerity of those who a»sum d to be its oracles and high priestar and my faith in the ability of thoso whom the world believed to be patriotic to cojie wlthThose who cared nothing lor principlo or country was not always ilrtn. Sometimes, too, in spite of campaign enthusias-m and tho rigor of party ties, I found myself debating whet her tho Democratic party, with so much in it that i, ; a Democrat, could not indorse, was the one to be fully intrusted with the control and guidance of the destinies of a nation as mighty as ours. Although hope had these contentions with doubt, yet the name of Democrat sounded sweet in my cars, and I struggled on lor success, really believing that after all victory would bring to tho front the ablest and truest generals, the wisest and most eonscienUons statesmen of my party, in whose hands public affairs would bo sate, the country prosperous, the people contented and happy. Last fall the long-looked-for nnd ■ long-fought-for yictory came. The Democracy, chastened by many disasters,, was placed at the head of public affairs: tho real trial at its virtues and statesmanship which I had expected would wfpeout ail my doubts bad at lastcome. Three months of that trial are now before us, and what a raiserablo record it is! As “a now broom always sweeps clean,” so the opening months of the Cleveland administration must be accepted as more cautious und conservative than any that will follow. Ye,t what do we see? Instead of broad, progressive statesmanship; instead of an honest, healthy reform of the civil service; instead of guidance by men of ripe attainments and full experience; instead of a clean-cut and high-toned administrative policy, we have a long series of false pretenses, demagogy, personality, and blunders. We see appointed to hignofficesdrunkards, social if n'ot criminal outcasts, and participators in election butcheries and frauds; enetoies of fair and free elections; enemies of our beneficent public school system; former and present enemies of the Unionmen uncleansod of treason, unrepentant, un reconstructed, and with their disabilities yet upon them. Can soldiers who left limbs on the battlefield stand these things? Can they condone and indorse them? If there be any such, lam not of them. I want no more Democracy upon my plate. I fought hard to get the present administration in, and I shall Aght still harder to get them out. They are not the men to fule the country in this day of enlightenment and progress. Look at the vast system of blackmail and perjury inaugurated by the Postmaster General. Were affidavits for political purposes, against friends and neighbors, ever heard of before? Were men ever before libeled and slandered at wholesale by agents of the Government? Was there ever a time when so many disreputable appointments bad to be reversed tu satisfy public opinion? Was there ever before a time when it was a political crime for a man to attend a caucus and vote or speak his party convictions? No. And after the current four years I trust the present reign of falsehood, masquerading, sham, retrogression, and blackmail will end forever. This step of mine is taken upon no sudden impulse. It has been well studied, well considered—has been growing upon me for some time. I also fully understand my humble position. fdo not expect to create a political revolution nor throw the present administration from the track. After seeing the Democratic leaders placed in charge of the ship l of state I have lost faith in even their fair-weather seamanship, and therefore, just as my party is entering upon an era of power and patronage, I take occasion to announce my convictions so that no one Can impugn idj motives. More especially as J shall no longer te looked upon as an indorser and defender of those things which I cannot possibly defend and Indorse, and so I shall bs no bearer of false colors, open to no charge of espionage or cowardice. Let me be fully understood. lam no Democratic mugwump, kicking against disappointment* or fruitless office seekings: but I am and wish to be considered a fu i-Aedged Republican and in perfect communion with the Republican party—the only party capable of properly governing this country and fulffbing the manifest destiny of Rs people, —the party that after seeingtbeia both tried, most nearly meets my approval and accords with my conviction*. I fear no consequence, ark for no quarter, expect no reward, but am doing simpiy what I believe to be right. I would rather iive on musD and milk with a party that attempts to be fair, patriotic, and honorable, than be the grand mogul of tie present crowd of blackmailers. slanderer*, and dispensers of patronage by means of falsehood and false pretenses. Hugh Lewi*.

A Democratic Play in Three Acta.

Act E—Removal, because of alleged offensive Republican partisanship. Act ll.—Appointed because of well* known active Democratic partisanship. Act llL—Civil service ■ reform knocked out in the first round. .Afterpiece.—Awaiting the action of the Senate.— Waxtungton Critic * Independent). Me. Cleveland, when urged to make haste in distributing the spoils, says: “We must take time.” And then the hungry brethren complain that, at the rate he is going, be will take the entire four years, and there will be no time left for them to enjoy the offices before the Republicans step in again.—lndianapolis Journal. The Washington Monument is not : an partisan, and yet it has : been struck by l%hning. i Foot of the six Republican nom- ; inees for State in Oha> were l Union soldiers.

THE PUBLIC MEN OF INDIANA

‘ Gath ” Talks Briefly of Hosier Governors and Other Prominent Men General Harrison, John Gibson, Thomas Posoj, Jennings, Hoble, Wallace, Bigger, Howard, Wbitoomb, Marshall and Wright. [Letter In Cincinnati Eminlrer.l Mr. George W. Julian, of Indiana, considers Harriaon's nomination to have been a political mistake, and t-ays that hi* election Involved no principle whatever: th»t he not only *onght to Introduce slavery into the West, bnt took side* with it St the admission of Miaaonn in 1830; was opposed to the light of petition on the subject ot slavery, and had declared that “only an incoherent devil could look with approbation upon the schemes of the Abolitionists." Th>> battle of Tippecanoe, fought on Indiana soil, killed and wounded nearly two hundred whites and about the same number of Indians. Among the killed was Col. Jo Davie**, the brother-in-law of Chief Justice Marshal), and also the District Attorney who had prosecuted Aaron Burr, in Kentuoky. Barr visited Vincennes while Harrison was Governor, and obtained some of lit* volunteer* there. The Governor succeeding Harrison, John Gibson, removed the public offices of the Territory to Corydon, a town hardly twenty mile* west of Lonisvllle, in Kentucky. It was this officer who, a* Secretary, saved tne life of Harrison from Tecumseh's tomahawk. The third Ten itorial Governor, Thos. Posey, was from the banks of the Potomac, and had been a Revolutionary and Indian officer, and for a while Senator from Virginia. He died from the disease* incidental to a residence in that new country, at an advanced age. In one of his messages to the Legislature at Corydon ho wrote; “‘I he settling state of my health will not almit ot my longer continuance at thl* place. 1 And myself badly situated on account of the want of modical aid; my physician Is at Louisville, and I have taken ah the medicine brought with mo. ’ At Corydon was hold tho convention which adopted the ArstPConstltution of Indiana. In 1810 the State entered the Federal Union, with Jonathan Jennings as tho Ar*t Governor, Christopher Harrison a* Lieutenant-governor, and William Hendricks Representative in Congress. This Mr. Hendricks was a native of General Bt. ClalrV county, in Pennsylvania, and settled: at 1 Cincinnati. Hi* home in Indiana was at Madison, and although be had boon only two years in the State, his behavior in the constitutional convention carried him to Congress and to the Governor’s oillce. He had three terms in Congress as the Territorial Delegate, and became the second -Governor of the Mate, and after serving two term* ho laid down office forever. He brought into Indiana a printing 1 re-» anti published the second newspai«r in the State. His nephew I* the Vice President of the United .States. an<P two of his sons were Killed on the Federal side In the late civil war. He was a Mcthodi*t, and there 1* said to be no picture extant of him. Ho accumulated a considerable estate, chiefly in tho vigorous young city of Madison. Gov. Jennings, above referred to, was a Presbyterian minister’s bod, from Jersey, and his •fine handwriting made him clerk of the Indiana Territorial Legislature. He was the Arst determined opponent in Indiana of slavery taking root upon the soil, and the Attorney General of the Territory, Thomas Randolph, was equally ardent to encourage the institution. In the early settlement of Indiana the Vir-ginia-dcscendcd peopL, who held most of the official places, wanted slavery, while the New Jersey and Pennsylvania people, who finally got control of the Btate at ter it ceased to Ire a Territory', wanted the principles of the Articles of Confederation to stand. Hlavery virtually existed here for years, and slav es w< re bought and sold in the public market contrary to luw. A late reviewer of the Htate sat • that "public sentiment at Vincennes was aa pro-slavery as it Was at Richmond,” The Middle btate men were warmly seconded in their hostility to slavery by the Carolina Quakers, who came not only from North but from Bouth Carolina, and settled in the eastern portion of the Btate. These supported Mr. Jenirings almost to a man, and he defeated Randolph by a plurality, eiich getting little more than fonr hundred votes. Had Randolph gone to Congress, he would have Mt to work there to have the prohibitory danse repealed. One of the Terrltori'4 Judges from the Houth, named Taylor, endeavored to provoke Gov. Jennings into a duel. The pro-slavery candidate set up against him. Mr. Posey, got nearly 1,310 votes less. The first message of this Pennsylvania *don said: “I recommend to your consideration the propriety of providing by Jaw to 1 prevent more e.'iectually any nniawinl attempt* to seize and carrV into bondage person* of color legally entitled to their freedom.” Kidnaping pestered Indiana down to the very brink of the rebellion. It was Gov. Jennings who. in 1810, bad his Commissioners to lay Ont Indtanapo Is. He made the Indian treaties opening Indiana to white settlement, and, being sent to Congress, relapsed into too convivial habits there, anti shortened ids life. Mr. Randolph, aboye referred to, was a cousin of John Randolph of Roanoke, and bad married a daughter of Sir John Bklmvorth, and later a granddaughter ot Gen. Bt. Clair, Territorial Governor. In the political feuds of Indiana fights were not uncommon, and Randolph was once stabbed with a dirk, and be cut his adversary to the face with a pocket knife. Randolph and his belligerent friend Taylor, above referred to, were both killed at Tippecanoe. As soon as Indiana entered the Union, a university was created by law at Vincennes. James Brown Kay. a Kentncklan by birth, who succeeded William as Governor, was a peculiar Individual, who * 1 ways registered his name on steamboat* and at hotel* with the title added. In hi* Old age the boys wonid see him stopping in the street* and writing words in the atr with bis cane. On one occasion attbehanse- > ing of some white persons for murdering Indi-

an», one of th< ee. was pardoned'on *h® scaffold, anti the Governor rode to the v allows, where the voting man wa* seated on bis coffin. "Stand np," said the Governor to the astonished prisoner. “Do yon know in whose presence yon stand?" The nnfortnnat* man shook his head "There are hut two powers known to the law," suavely said toe Governor, "that can save yon from hang nc bv the neck until yon are dead One Is the errea. God ©? the universe the other 1* J. Brown Ray, Governor of the State of Indiana. The latter stands before yon. f Here he handed the yonn* man a written pardon, j Von are pardoned." The fourth Indiana Governor, Noah Softie, was a Virginian, at wbOse funeral, in mi, Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. then a citizen of Indians, performed some Of the services. The next Governor of the htate, David Wallace, a Pennsylvanian, pat in nomination for the Presidency on the held of Tippecanoe, In' va<■„ Gen. Harrison, and William Boas Wallace reed a po- in. The next Governor, Samuel JBigzer, was of the first crop of Western-bom men, a native of Ohio, and educated at one of her early co!lez< s. ‘ Hebesran the practice of law at Liberty,Tad., where General fcumslde’s father was clerk of court, and where Bomt.de himseif was born of parents descended from r ootn Carolina people. Burnside, It may be said in passing, was the most conspicuous officer Indians produced In the war. lie wa* sent to West Point by the ftiend*hlp of Caleb B. Smith, whose coat. It Is said, Burnside bad mended when he was a tailor's apprentice m the little town of Liberty. Barn-isle was born la a log cabin In Indiana. Hi* father, Edgehill B maide. a native of Booth Carolina, became a 1 edge. After be bad led his prominent career In the army. General Baraside built a railroad in Indiana, though he had become a citizen of Rhode Island, where he was married and bad been stationed before the war -• Governor Bigger, from the sane town of Liberty, was beaten by the Method st Church for re-election, he having raid, it was believed, when legislation was required for Asbarr University, in Indiana, that the Methodist Church did not need an educ ted rierry—an Ignorant cicrzy was better suited toll. Bssuop Arne* remarked on this; "It was the .men comer that defeated Bigger, and I hid a hand in the wort' ... * Mr. Bizcer defeated the most sots Me Democrat Indiana po**eesed prior to the war except /ease P. Bright. Tfcss was Tiijrtrggp a. Howard. Mr. Bigger was in tom ccleared by .lame* Whitcomb. who stands next to Howard in Democratic popularity among the Htate Governors. How-' ard was a native of iW/ntb Carolina, tboegb probably ot Maryland antecedents: hit father wa* a reToiariouary soldier arid a Baptist preacher. H s yonth was passed la the county of Buncombe, which be has the credit ot having introduced to the wortdl He told a story in one of ti< speeches that a representative m the North C irofina Legt*Ut«rre from Buncombe County, when called to order by the speaker for aptesnfinthg h-uwetf to the <joe**i&n at hmm, repßed: "My speech is nog for the Legislature: hi* aB for Buncombe.” Mr- Howard remerred to ftstewet. and Ku tied law wMfe Hugh L. V. Jtto. Ifcere he hacatte a friend of ‘•am Hesntoh- Governor of the htate- and year* after west as representa-tveof thej.arted iteatestothe LepoUteof Texas. He took **• teTec there, an-. at Hcwrtoa. foe capital pf Texas. w» :»w, ag the early age of forJactoonfo Preeidesthti r.Dvxor* Ia Indiana. »***« &*•****« *» psactcee la*, be. became Isaac* Whitcomb s partner, and they mads the

-« • ■ -- - * f _ (U.a. ridOA# fa«| MrOnKMi I6k&i firm in umoi ni* JSS.feSiL'SKSMAaS'feK Ister. Gen. Jackson made Howard an Indian Commissioner *nd District Attorney, rad be wm only prevented from reaching the Governorship in 1840 by the popularity of Gen. Harrison, who w»* running for President. , There was a for os of character and ,a manly honesty about TUghman Howard wbiob loft a long Impression on the young Democrat* of Abo Bute, an one of bis letters b* wrote; "Never write to any bnt men of distinction." In another : "I have considered the matter of a public dinner. It is not Democratic." He was finally beaten for the United State# Senate by Edward A. Hannegan, and H la said that when an attempt was made to sell votes to Gen. Howard be replied t[iat he scorned the proffer, and refnaed to continue any longer in tbe contest. He was not a college man, but waa full of knowledge. On one occasion, upon making a public speech, h ■ read siouu a newspaper article charging him with a disreputable set. Having read tbe article through aloud he threw the paper down without a word and proceeded with his speech. Tbe legislature of Indiana some years after hi* death passed an set to remove his remains from Texas to the Bute of hi* citizenship. James Wbitoomb. hi* partner, was a Vermont boy, who cgme In childhood to Ohio, and went to collego at licxlngt n, Ky„ matm»tnlne himself by teaching In vaoatlon. He waa admitted to the bar at Lexington, and then settled at Bloomington, Ind , tbe seat of one of the most flourishing schools. Governor Ray. from Kentucky, already referred to, appointed him a I’rosecut ing Attorney. Ho entered the .State Legislature at the time the passion for Internal Improvement was general, and resisted it, and hence, upon the <ollap«4 he obtained the support of the poor Ux -payer*. Besides, resisting Internal improvements greatly recommended h m to President Jackson, who had antagonized Henry Clay on that point. Jack non made him Commissioner of the General Land Office at Washington, and he held that place for eight years. It i* a tradition that he learned the French and Spanish language* in order to comprehend tbe land grants. In course of time Thomas A. Hendrick* also took his office, there being an Indiana precedent tor holding it. Whitcomb, after bis long tenure at Washington, returned to Indiana aged fortysix, and opened a law office it Terre Haute. His practice became large, land case* being noUble then, and in two year* bo was nominated for Governor. He was elected, beating Joseph O. Marshall by nearly four thousand vote*. This man Marshall, by the way, wa* a most rebtarkahle character. A native of Kentucky and a Presbyterian preacher * son, be went to the lame college with Whitcomb, and partly at the same time, and also came to Indiana and settled at the flourishing business town of Madison, which has produced such banking house* a* Lanier <fe Co.’s. Marshall became sWhlg, wa* a Judge, and, after being beaten by Whitcomb for Governor, he tried in vain to enter the United Btate* Kenate. Hi* opponent at that time was Jesse D. Bright, who refused to let the Democrat* go into the election. Bright, a* Lieutenant Governor, gave the casting vote against this election. The next year Bright was sent to tbe Benate. Instead or Marshall, by a small majority. These two men, living in Madison, hated each other with bitter fury. Marshall would bare been sent to the Benate in 18 ,i but for the Democrats refusing to go into a-i election. Marshall was probably the ablest W hig Indiana ever had, and some think tbe ablest man the Btato ever had. He was the Tom Corwin of Indiana, with more tenacity of purpose. Although a Kentuckian, betook an earnest antislavery position, and difended Abolitionist* and those who broke the fugitive-slave law. Bright and Marshall were about to have a duel ,in I*6l, and Marshall lay for Bright with a bowle knife on the streets of Madison. Gen. McKee Dunn, who is still alive In Washington, was one of the seconds of Marshall when he was about to fight Henator Bright. John Dcfree* tailed Marshall "the Webster of Indiana." To return to Governor Whitcomb. He came into power when the Htate was suffering with debt,‘«nd paying lo interest, and In his administration resumption became feasible. He wa* one of the anthor* of the philanthropic Btate Institutions, and he called out the soldiers for the-Mexican war, five regiment*. Being sent to the United Htate* Senate, bo wa* attacked with gravel and died in New York nine year* before tbe war. Joseph A. Wright, whom I knew personally, having met him in Berlin, when tie wa* Minister thi re during the war between Austria and Prussia in 1*66, wa* one of tbe lmme<lla:« links be- - tween the old Democratic party and the present Republican party. He came from the same town in Pennsylvania where James G. Blaine was educated, Little Washington. At Bloomington College he made Are* and rang bell* to set hi* schooling, and did a little brick-work and masonry also, lie went to Rockville to practice law, slid was sent to tbe Btate Legislature in 1838, to the Btate Benate on tbe great Harrison boom of into, next to Congress, and, having been once defeated for Governor, he was elected in 185 v, and the Pierce administration sent him to Prussia. After Jesse D. Bright wa* expelled from the United Btate* Benate, Gov. Morton saw a chance to reconcile one wing of the Democracy, and he appointed Wright, snd soon after Mr. Lincoln sent him back to Germany, and there be died in 1867, Jn Prussia he spent most of hi* time in extricating naturalized American* from their own lollies or the persecutions of Bismarck. .

htate Item*. —Green castle and vicinity are rapidly acquiring a reputation as a fruit-growing center. 'JgL -•-• —— 7 —The several national banks at Lafayette refuse to pay the tax on their capital stock, and the Lafayette National has made a test case. r-The catalogue of De Pauw University makes a pamphlet of 126 pages, containing all necessary statistics and information concerning the university, —lndianapolis treats tramps after the fashion prescribed in Boston in the Wayfarer’s Lodge, and last year made a profit on its wood-yards over all expenses of SSOO. —An insane man named A. H, Somers, captured la Colorado and now held at Greeley, that Btate, is thought to he a former resident of Wabash, He was barefooted and bareheaded, and his feet and hands torn and bleeding from contact with the cactus. —Relatives of John Butcher, who murdered a man near Oakland City, and then, it is supposed, committed suicide, breathe threats of rengeanee. They say Butcher did not kill himself, but was shot by an officer. Persons who assisted in the pursuit of Butcher hare been arior.ymott-.ijr warned.

—Alexander Adair, an o.'d resident of Indianapoh-*, died suddenly in the house of a colored fam ly to whom he rented one of bis house*, and with whom hej lived- He owed eo-fddeeabie property, a:,<\ left three sons whose address are not known. Mr. Adair was considered the champion checker player of the West, and was also proficient at chess. He left a book in written i manuscript on these subjects, which eontains many difficult problems, sod bis room ; was filled with boards and other devices of I the game. Borne years .ago he played a series of games wish Wylie, the so-called champion of the world, who was making a tour of this country. George Dams, the 1, M. sod J. express messenger who was so terribly wounded in the recent celebrated robbery near Bloom--1 ington, has almost entirety recovered bts | usual health. He is in better flesh now than usual, and Ms general condition is good. The wounds in his head htve about healed. His eyesight still appears to be Koewktt unpaired, and he finds s difficulty is remembering the names of the most familiar objects The simplest sod most ordinary words escape bis gasp, and lie struggles like a child for the proper words in which to make himself understood. He is gradually overcoming this difficulty, and in due time will probably be as round in *U resoeets as ertr. ■ .