Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1885 — Page 2

'... . i : T" The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. G. E. MARSHALL, p - - Publishm

THE NEWS CONDENSED.

THE EAST. A YOUNG schoolmaster named Traher, at Numida, Columbia County, Pa., is charged with punishing talkative pupils by gagging them with corn-cobs and making them stand on the floor. It is said that when a child of Farmer George Snyder, thus treated, was relieved, the cob was covered with blood, and the boy was so exhausted as to require assistance on the way home. Snyder went ,in' search of Traher with a gun, but the young man had disappeared. It is feared that the boy will not recover... .Mayor Grace, of New York, claiming to have been libeled by the World. brought suit for $50,000 against Joseph Pulitzer. The latter was arrested, and gave ,bail in the »sum of $5,000.... A steam tug exploded at New York, the crew of six men being killed.... The glass in windows for squares around was sjiattered. Henry B. Hobton, the inventor of the calendar clock and the audiphone, died at Ithaca, N, Y... .A party of seven robbers blew open the safe in the banking-house of Bentel & Co., at Freedom, Pa., obtaining $12,000 in currency and bonds. Giant powder was used, shattering the windows and walls. Flames followed the explosion, by which several thousand dollars in money was burned. Citizens who flocked to the acene were kept at bay by a fusillade from revolvers.« The steel cruiser Chicago was launched from the Roach shipyard at Chester, Pa. The ceremony of christening was performed by Miss Edith Cleburne, of Philadelphia, who broke a bottle of wine over the bow and liberated a canary, an Irish' linnet, and an 0ri01e..... Two cable train® on the Brooklyn Bridge Railway collided, and several pepple were hurt. The grip slipped.

THE WEST.

The business quarter of Chicago will on New Year’s eve be lighted by electricity from the tower of the Board of Trade. The lamp will be of 40,000 candle-power. The cost is to be about $4,000 per annum, which amount has been subscribed by citizens directly interested . - -■A. wery-large congrega—tion was attracted to the First Methodist Church in Chicago to witness a test of divine healing by anointing with oil. Nearly one hundred persons subjected themselves to the process, and twice that number arose to testify that by faith and prayer they had been cured of various ailments. Mlt. Banks, a lawyer at' Culbertson, Neb.. was notified by a vigilance committee to leave town within forty-eight hours. He is accused of frauds in accepting fees from contesting clients... .Fire in the Barnum Wire-works, at Detroit. Mich., caused a loss of between $200,000 and $250,000.... The saw-mill of Barker & Birdsall, at Bay City, Mich., the largest in the United States,® was destroyed by fire....:ExCongressman William Aldrich, formerly of Chicago, died of apoplexy at the home of his brother in Fond du Lac, Wis. The will of the late Vice President Hendricks has been probated at Indianapolis. It is in Mr. Hendricks’ handwriting, and the paper is yellow with age. It reads as follows: I, Thomas A. Headricks, of Marion County, Ind., do make this my last will and testament, hereby revoking any and all wills by me at any time heretofore made. I give, bequeath, and devise to my beloved wife, Eliza M. Hendricks, all my personal and real property of every description whatever and wherever located, to her and her heirs forever. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and, if agreeable to her, I desire that she shall be the executrix thereof. Thomas A. Hendricks. ; A hurricane swept over portions of Missouri, Nebraska, and Colorado, resulting in serious losses. The wrecking of buildings at Kansas City, Omaha, and Lincoln. Neb., is reported. A woman was killed at River View, Mo., and a man was blown from a building and fatally injured fit Kansas City. The Union Pacific refused to dispatch trains across the bridge at Omaha. ’ Some of the most popular performances seen on a Chicago stage for many a day are those given at McVicker’s Theater by the Duff Company in its representation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s delightful comic opera, “The Mikadb.” The management has secured the most capable , and popular operatic artists available for the principal characters, and has given the most careful attention to even- detail. Th? performances are witnessed nightly by packed houses. The opera will be continued for another week;

THE SOUTH.

Charlotte Wickliffe (colored), who claimed to have handed Washington a cup of water at the battle of Yorktown, died at Louisville, aged 117. Of her seventy-five surviving children and grandchildren the oldest is nearly one hundred years old'.

POLITICAL.

Albert A. Wilson, of Washington, has been appointed United States Marshal for the District of Columbia. He will not be called on to act as Grand Chamberlain at the White House. The President has also made the following appointments: Frank L. Phillips, of New York, to be Surveyor of Customs for the port of Greenport. N.Y:, and August Alers, of California, SpecialExaminer of Drugs, Medicines, and Chemicals in the District of San Francisco, Cal. Mb. Tilden has written a letter to Mr. Carlisle, making a suggestion as to the use of the surplus revenue of the Government. He holds that seacoast defenses should be provided for, instead of i educing the revenue or applying the surplus on the public debt. The matter is discussed at some length in the letter, and a number of points of interest in connection with the subject are considered.... The caucus of Republican Senators at Washington, Dec. 4, at the suggestion of Mr. Edmunds, unanimously nominated Mr. Logan for President pro tempore. The latter returned his sincere thanks for the honor, but positively declined it, because he thought he could be more 1 useful on the floor and in the committee-rooms.

WASHINGTON.

Representative Carleton, of Michigan, is preparing for introduction in the House at the earliest opportunity some bills of important bearing on the commerce of the grei»t lakes and passenger travel. He proposes a bill requiring passenger steamers to leave a correct passenger list at every-port at which they stop. Jhe object is' to provide accurate nilofniation incase

of disaster. The bill will make it a penal offense to neglect to leave a list I 'correctly showing the number and names of persons on board, the ports of embarkation, and the ports of destination.... General Atkins. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, urges that every step taken regarding the red men should be for the purpose of teaching them to| abandon their tribal relations. Outside Of Indian Territory Indians are cultivating over a quarter million acres of land. , The following is a recapitulation of the debt statement issued on the Ist: INTEREST-BEARING DEBT. Bonds at 4J$ percent $250,000,000 Bonds at 4 per cent j 737,742,850 Bonds at 3 per cent 194,190,500 Refunding certificates at 4 per cent. 221,750 Navy pension fund at 3 per cent 14,000,000 Pacific Railroad bonds at 6 per cent. 64,023,512

Principal SI, Interest 11,853,088 T0ta1#1,272,631.700 DEBT ON WHICH INTEREST HAS CEASED SINCE MATURITY. Principal..'. $3,569,105 Interest. 217,035 Total... #3,786,141 DEBT BEARING NO INTEREST. Qld demand and legal-tender notes . $346,738,806 Certificates of deposit.,.. 17,555,009 Gold certificates. 105,554,092 Silver certificates 92,702,642 Fractional currency (less $8,375,934, estimated as lost or destroyed).... 6,959,574 Principal 569,510,114 Total debt— Principal .$1,833,857,832 Interest,.... 12,070,124 T0ta1i51,845,927,956 Less cash items available for reduction of the debt 231,452,591 Less reserve held for redemption of U.S. notes 100,000,000 Total $331,452,594 Total debt less available cash item 551,514,475,361 Net cash in the Treasury 61,930,595 Debt less cash in Treasury Dec. 1. 188551,452,544,766 Debt less cash in Treasurv Nov. 1, 1881 1,447,657,568 Increase of debt during the month.. $4,887,198 CASH IN THE TREASURY AVAILABLE FOR REDUCTION OF THE DEBT. Gold held for gold certificates actu- i ally outstanding $105,554,092 Silver held for silver certificates actually outstanding. 92,702,642 U. S. notes held for certificates of deposit actually outstanding 17,555,000 Cash held for matured debt and interest unpaid.. 15,639,229 Fractional currency. 1,639Total available for reduction of the debt. $231,452,594 RESERVE FUND. Held for redemption of U. S. notes, acts Jan. 14, 1875, and July 12, 1882 $100,000,000 Unavailable for reduction of the debt:— Fractional silver c0in..... m 527,920,309 Minor coin .. ........... 616,171 TotalJ $28,536,480 Certificates held as ca5h...... 66,737,432 Net cash balance on hand..' 61,930,595 Total cash in Treasury as shown by the Treasurer's general account.. $488,657,102 A LEADING member of the Ways and Means Committee says:“Nearly every member who comes to me has a tariff bill in his carpet-bag Tariff experts and people with tariff nostrums.of all sorts are going about with schedules already prepared, and three or four at least of the members of the old Ways and Means Committee have already been furnished with readymade tariff schemes, and two at least of the members of that committee are known to have measures in preparation.” The estimated revenues for the coming year are placed at $315,000,000. The Treasury Department has just made an estimate of expenses for the same time, placing them at $330,000,000. This shrinkage in receipts will compel Congress to cut down many of the usual appropriations add throw a damper on contemplated improvements in the navy and other departments.

GENERAL.

The Farmers’ National Congress, in session at Indianapolis, passed a resolution requesting the restoration of the tariff duty on wool, and asking Congress to create the Cabinet, office of Secretary of Agriculture, Robert Beverly was re-elect-ed President, The next meeting of the congress will be held in St. Paul, Minn. -News hae-veached Washington-that a tilibustering expedition is fitting out at Key West, Fla., with a view to a descent on Cuba. The revolutionists think that the present unsettled state of affairs in Spain gives them-the looked-for opportunity to gain a foothold in the coveted “pearl of the Antilles.”... .The latest advices from Lima are to the effect that Iglesis and Caceres both agreed to renounce executive power, and a provisional government will be arranged by three commissioners from each side. Arsenic sufficient to kill twenty men was placed in soup served at the Metropolitan Club-house at Montreal, by which five bank officials came near losing their lives. .... The total number bf failures reported to Bradstreet's since January I, 1)885, is 10,333, against 10,467 during the corresponding portion of 1884—a decrease of 134. The total in -a corresponding portion of 1883 was 9,062; in 1882, 7,296, and in 1881, 5,605. Last week the total was 247, against 225 in the preceding week, as compared with 296 in the first week of December, 1884, 246 in 1883, and 247 in 1882. A gale on the Pacific near Panama wrecked fourteen sailing vessels and merged the Isthums Railway .The imports of general merchandise at New York during the week were valued at $6,559,034, exclusive of dry goods.

FOREIGN.

A London dispatch of the 2d inst. says: “All the manufacturing districts in the counties contested to-day and so far as heard from, have returned liberals, and reduced the conservative gains to fortyseven, with nine constituencies to hear from, all of which are claimed to have gone against the conservatives. The actual- corrected official returns give the liberal majority up to midnight at thirty-qjm, seats, sixty-two votes oh* a- division. The Conservatives require seventy-five more net gains to beat, as against forty-seven pet gains in all since the election commenced. Unless, something extraordinary occurs the Tories, therefore, cannot possibly have a majority. A Liberal Cabinet is consequently assured if Gladstone will lake office, unless a sudden revolution should take place in the unpolled constituencies.” ‘ ■ The United States Consul to Samoa writes that a new island, two miles in length, has appeared in the ocean forty miles off the Tonga Islands, bearing toward Fiji... The King of Burmah personally surrendered himself to Gen. Prendergast, commander of the British invading force, and has' arrived in British 'territory .... Turkish troops are entering Eastern Roumelia. A council of Turkish Generals was held, and it advjsed the permanent occupation of the Balkans by Turkey. Two vert singular elections are reported from Ireland. In Clare the Pamellite was Jeremiah Jordan, a Methodist attorney

of Fermanagh, Ulster. He was elected by a majority of 7,595 out of a total of 8,167. In Fermanagh young Redmond, a Catholic Pamellite, ,was elected by a majority of 443 in a vote’ of 6,000. Clare is the most Catholic count}' in Ireland. The division of Fermanagh, where Redmond was elected, has a Protestant majority <jf 500 on the regis’tiy. Queen Victoria personally invested Lady Randolph Curchill with the insignia of the imperial order of the Crown of India. The recipient of the honor is a daughter of Leonard W. Jerome, a famous stock operator in New York in the days before the war.

ADDITIONAL NEWS.

In the Virginia Democratic caucus at Richmond, Hon. John W. Daniel was nominated for United States Senator by a vote of 65 to 31 sot Hon, John S. Barbour. ’ A cable dispatch says: “The Bulgarians have attacked a Servian division near Kujevatz. The Emperor of Austria has forwarded his decision on the peace proposals submitted to him by the combatants, JJe is said to favor the union of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia, and to oppose the payment of war indemnity by Servian Turkey has recalled her commissioners, ami countermanded her orders for the occupation of the Balkans.” The crossbar of a shaft in the new Croton aqueduct, near Merritt’s Corners, N. Y., fell on a descending bucket containing five men, four of whom were instantly killed, the fifth receiving mortal injuries. Many citizens of Beaver Falls and New ■Brighton, Pa-, where natural gas is extensively used for fuel, suffered intensely Sunday because of the shutting off of the gas for the purpose of effecting connections with other mains. Manufactories were closed doiyn, hotels were abandoned, churches were clpsbd, and several families went to bed to keep warm. Battery D, Fifth Artillery—-four guns and seventy men-—reached Salt Lake City on the 7th inst. and was escorted to Fort Douglas by five companies from that fort, General McCook riding at the head of the column. Great crowds of Mormons sullenly watched the soldiers march past. Captain J. A. Howell and a brother officer of the navy have for some weeks been experimenting at Michigan City with a cigar-shaped torpedo invented by the former. A rate of spe4d of eighteen miles was obtained for two. hundred yards, with perfect direction and great regularity of submergence. At Gatesville, Gqies County, N. C., three negroes, John Swanner, Isaiah Richardson and Edward Saunders, were hangeeb for the crime of burglary, committed last September, at a country store. They robbed the store of considerable money and goods, and, being heavily armed, overawed the clerk.

Both houses of the Forty-ninth Congress met at, noon on Monday, the 7th day of December, and promptly organized for business. When the Senate was called to order, John Sherman was elected President pro tern, by a vote of 34 to 29 — the latter number being cast for Isham G. Harris. On being escorted to the chair, Senator Sherman made a short speech of thanks. Messrs., Logan, of Illinois, and Blair, of New Hampshire, were sworn in. Mr. Voorhees announced the death Of Vice President Hendricks, and offered resolutions of respect to his memory, when an adjournment was ordered. In the House of Representatives 320 members answered the roll-call. Mr. Murphy, of lowa, was presented with a floral design representing a boat on the Hennepin Canal bearing bags of grain. Representative Frank Lawler, of the Second Illinois District, was also the recipient of several handsome-floral tributes, the largest being a rocking chair made of roses-. The ballot for Speaker resulted in 177 votes for John G. Carlisle and 138 for Thomas B. Reed. After Mr. Carlisle had voiced his thanks, John B. Clark, of Missouri, was chosen Clerk ; John H. Leedoui, of Ohio, Sergeant-at-arms; Samuel Donelson, of Tennessee, Doorkeeper; and Lycurgus Dalton, Postmaster. Before drawing for seats, Mr. Kelley,, of Pennsylvania, was allowed his choice. The death of the Vice President having been announced by Mr. Holman, the House adjourned.

DEATH OF VANDERBILT.

The Great Railway King Is Suddenly Called Away. William H. Vanderbilt, the millionaire, and railroad magnate, dropped dead on the afternoon of Tuesday, the Bth inst., at his residence in New York. There is a great demand among Dakota men for wives. It is natural to suppose those men have lived away from home so long they have forgotten how much fun it is to be a tyrant’s slave.— Merchant Traveler. Rothschild is pronounced in Paris Rotschield.

THE MARKETS.

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NO MORE ON EARTH.

The Mortal Remains of Vice-Presi-dent Hendricks Consigned to the Tomb. His Funeral at Indianapolis Attended by an Immense Concourse of People. Many Distinguished Citizens Present—A General Observance of the Day Elsewhere. Lying in State. The remains of the late Vice President Hendricks lay in state at the City Hall in Indianapolis from Sunday forenoon to Monday afternoon, the 30th ult., and were viewed by over 50,000 people. So great were the crowds at times that the military and police were called into requisition to keep the mass moving and to prevent a blockade. When the doors of the building were closed a waiting crowd, numbering thousands, stood in line trying to take a last glance at the face of the dead statesman. At 4 o’clock p. in. Monday the doors >were closed, and the casket was borne through the south en-, trance to the street, where it was placed in the hearse, and, escorted by the four Indianapolis military companies, was returned to the parlor of the homestead. All along the Uno of march the people flocked to see the sad spectacle.

Public Sorrow. On Tuesday, the Ist of December, the mortal remains of Thomas Andrew Hendricks, the fifth Vice President to die during his term of office, were conveyed to the tomb prepared for their reception. The clergy of Indianapolis, without respect to sect, joined in the obsequies, the bells Of all the churchqs tolled a requiem, and the presence of the populace in the column which followed his funeral car, or stood as silent spectators of the solemn spectacle, attested their fealty to his memory. The early morning trains on all the railways brought delegations from the national capital and nil the lending cities of the Union, to gether with an influx of people from all the interior cities and hamlets of Central Indiana and Illinois. The train arrivals swelled .the multitudes on the streets to an extent to impede the Ordinary progress on all the chief thoroughfares. The emblems of mourning which began to appear on public and private buildings the day of the Vice President’s, death had grown in quality and design until the whole city .was in funeral garb. Washington street presented an almost unbroken line of draped houses, while on every business street, and even along the residence streets, the people were lavish in their display of the signs of public sorrow. Portraits of the deceased, all shrouded in block, were profusely hung in windows. The general effect toid in mute eloquence of the high respect with which the people of Indianapolis regarded their fellow-townsman. At the Modest Home. One of the central points of attraction for the visiting multitude was the modest home of the late Vice President, a plain, two-story brick structure., On the front door of the house was a black rosette, from which was pendent a strip of black crape, which constituted the only outward emblem of mourning. The scene presented in the interior of the house, however, carried with it all the Evidence of death. Emblems of mourning and memorial floral designs were at hand everywhere. The oil portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks were almost hidden in banks of flowers and trailing smilax. The most notable representation of the designs in flowers was that of the log cabin in which Mr. Hendricks was bom in Ohio. It stood at the head of his coffined remains, and was tlfe work of ladies of Shelbyville, where Mr. Hendricks had formerly lived. It was six feet in length, and four in height, its sides being composed of callas lilies, hyacinths, carnations, and roses. The roof was of English ivy and smilax, and the chimney of red and white carnations. On one side of the miniature structure, in purple immortelles, was the inscription - “The Home of My Boyhood;” and beneath, "Shelbyville." v On the end of the cabin was suspended a black' satin banner bearing, in letters of gold: “God's fingers touched him and he sleptand the second inscription underneath: “Shelbyville mourns her-distinguished and gifted son.” At 9 o’clock Mrs. Hendricks entered the room for her last leave-taking, accompanied only by her brother and Mrs. Morgan. The ordeal was most trying and the desolate woman seemed to be utterly prostrated, clinging to the last to the clay so soon to be hidden forever from her view, and impressed with the placid and life-like appearance of the dead, she desired to preserve this last scene, and so, late as it was, she sent fora photographer to take a picture of the casket, ’ Shortly after this the*?pall-bearers arrived. The draped hearse and the (Carriages for the family and friends were marshaled before the door, and preparations were mode for the final removal of the body. This was done without further leave-taking.

At the Church.

The police and military kept the curious but always respectful mass of people out of the way, and the little cavalcade moved quietly with its military escort through the densely lined streets to the Cathedral of St. Paul. The casket was home into the church at 11:40 o’clock, the vast congregation having already been seated, with the exception of the immediate relatives and the church vestry. The officiating clergy, four in number Bishop Knickerbocker, of the Indianapolis Diocese; the Rev. Dr. Stringfellow, of Montgomery, Ala., the first rector of St. Paul ’s, and under whose ministrations Mr. Hendricks joined the church; the Rev. Dr. Fulton, of St. Louis, a former rector of St. Paul’s; and the Rev. Dr. Jenckes, the present rector—in their robes of office, met the remains at . the main entrance of the cathedral on Illinois street. The body was borne up the central aisle, the clergymen and members of the vestry going in advance. Bisjiop Knickerbocker voiced the opening sentence of burial service, “I am the resurrection and the life,” followed by the Rev. Drs. Stringfellow and Fulton in their recitation of the other verses used for the dead, until the casket had been carried and placed outside the chancel. The great audience stood while the impressive scene was enacted. After the biet came the widow, leaning on the arm of her brother, Mr. S. W. Morgan, followed by the other relatives, all indeep mournings When the casket had been placed in front of the chancel rail the choir sang the anthem “Lord, Let Me Know My End.” The lesson for the dead was then read by the Rev. Dr. Jenckes. This was followed by the singing of the hymn “Lead, Heavenly Light," by the choir, the audience joining. The Rev. Dr. Jenckes, speaking from the lecturn, delivered an eloquent and touching funeral oration. “Mr. Hendricks’youth," said he, “has a prolific lesson for the youths of our land. In an adjoining county some fifty years ago his tutelage began. The days so often spent by thoughtless boys- in pointless diversions from hard study he, with energy and application, devoted to the acquisition of useful, permanent knowledge, laying, with painstaking earnestness, arid perseverance, and zeal, the foundations of that sturdy,j indomitable character which in later life, carried him to the proud pinnacle of exalted success. The years of his early manhood were years of trial and comparative privation. With the sturdy men who were his co-laborers in the aggressive work, he carved out in the wilderness a great, and prosperous, and happy commonwealth. He was an honest, brave, exemplary young man, who scorned to do a mean or unworthv action; who recognized the restraining influences of moral obligations, and by both precept and example inculcated probity and purity of life. . “Then in maturer vears we have this sturdy, heartv man, with a'strong mind and a warm heart' in a sound body, essaying an active, earnest, prominent part in the affairs of his State and country. As the second officer in the administration of this great nation he was everywhere and always the same able, conservative, consistent, and conscientious charac“iio one who appealed to him for sympathy, counsel, or assistance ever turned away empty. Though his right and his left hands were not in each other’s eotffidence, | still there is a record somewhere of his open-handed hberahty in numberless cases ofdestitution and suffering. He experienced in his daily life the joy of faith and the patience of hope and the comfort of love. These were with him ever: faith, hope, and charity—these three, but the greatest of these was charity. And the admirably organized charities of our city have long felt the guiding impulses of his skillful hand and been cheered by the sympathetic throbbings of Ins generous we tread upon the verge of hallowed cround and touch upon the cofl jugal relations of gov. Hendricks and describe how far•forty years and two months he passed along with dignified. Steady, and faithful, pace beside the noble and devoted woman whom he had chosen for better or for worse; and haw, through stottn and sunshine like Isaac and Rebecca, they lived faithfully together in perfect love end peace !

“Eminent citizen, faithful friend, Christian gentleman, honest man—farewelft” \ When the speaker had conclraied, Mrs. Doner, of Chicago, sang "Rock of Ages,” the Bishop closing with prayers and benediction. The casket .-was then lifted and borne from the church, the audience remaining seated. ' « To the Cemetery. The bells of all the city churches began their tolling when the remains were token from the house, and continued their peeling during the j continuation of the church rites and while the procession was on its long march to Crown Hill Cemetery. Tile column moved in the following order of procession. Metropolitan police, mounted and on foot. Band. ; Chief,. Marshal KnefHer and staff. Chief of Staff, Maj. C. L. Holstein. Aids pf Chief Marshafi" - FIRST ' DIVISION. Adjt. Gen. George W. Koonts, commanding. Staff of Governor of Indiana. All military organizations in positions assigned by Gen. Koontz. SECOND DIVISION. Edward Hawkins, United States Marshal, commanding. Chief of Staff, Col. Charles E. Zollinger. Aids of Marshal of Second Division. ,’Band. Carriage containing officijlting clergy. Pall-bearers. Committee of Arrangements. |7 «* Police. leg Police. ' Li Indianapolis Eight Infantry, Capt. J. B. Ross Commanding, guard of honor and special escort. Carriages containing family and friend". Distinguished guests. Governor of Indiana and State officers. State judiciary. United States military officers. United States civil officers. County judiciary. County officers. City officials. THIRD DIVISION. Maj. Jas. L. Mitchell, commanding. FOURTH DIVISION. William E. Christian, commanding. INDIANAPOLIS FIRE DEPARTMENT. Chief Webster, commanding. The carriages were driven three abreast. The movement was slow, the progress at times being almost impei-ceptible, until the column emerged ■ upon Meredian street, a broad and very handsome avenue leading to the entrance to the beautiful Crown Hill' Cemetery. The cortago moved pn by the handsome homes ! of the wealthy, whose windows and sidewalks were filled with great throngs. The broad thoroughfare stretched out into the country beyond the limits of the city, and when the head of the 1 column came within sight of the cemetery, a mile distant, the Indianapolis Eight Artillery began to fire minute guns, which was continued until the hearse approached the grave,.

At the Tomb. Winding through a thick growth of Beach and maple trees, the military division came upon a large open view, and, approaching the open grave on the Hendricks .family lot, which occupies the most commanding view in the grounds, turned to the left and then again to the right, finally completely encircling the tract of which the Hendricks plat forms a part. The most careful attention had been given to the matter of decoration at the cemetery. The monument of the deceased statesman—a massive and beautiful shaft of about thirty feet in height, and built entirely es polished gray granite—stands on probably the most attractive as well as commanding ground in the inclosure. Immediately opposite is the exquisite chapel of the Cemetery Association, while a little to tho northwest is the bury-ing-ground of the Indiana soldiery. In the midst of this a tall flag-staff bore a superb garrison flag at half-mast, and another of the same character was trained about the monument. The latter was covered to a suitable extent with smilax and choice flowers, and about the two sides of the base, on the interior, were ferns and potted plants injgreat profusion. The grave was closely walled up with mosses, smilax and cut flowers, and the casket was seemingly deposited in a chamber of flpral beauty. A heavy marble vault, of size proportioned to that of the casket, was first placed in jxisition, and, on the deposit es the latter, received its cap slab of like material, and this in turn was ladgn with flowers. The last glimpse of the sorrowing widow and mourners thus suggested nothing of the unpleasant features df the ordinary interment About the grave wide mats had been placed to protect the immediate participants from the dampness of the turf, and they also extended down the inclining sword to the carriage-way. The grave of little Morgan, the idolized son and only child of the Vice President and his widow, lies immediately to the left of the resting place of his illustrious father, and on the west Aide ofthe monument. The singular affection entertained for the little one by his honored parents is known as a household word in the community where they lived. The utmost care had been taken by those in charge of the matter to decorate the little one’s grave and its surroundings. i When the hearse had halted near the lot, the casket was home to the grave. The venerable Bishop Knickerbocker preceded it and read a few verses for the dead, and after the lowering of the casket the Rev. Dr. Jenckesread the committal services, the Bishop closing with prayer and benediction. Only the widow and her supporters approached the grave, the remaining multitude standing off, silent spectators. Distinguished Mourners. - It is rarely that a public man in this cmintry has been followed to his last resting place oy so many distinguished men as attended the funeral of the Vico President. The Congressional committees arrived early Tuesday morning. The Senate committee consisted of Senators G. F. Edmunds, W. B. Allison, J. L. Pugh, J. G. Harris, Ot'D. Conger, H. W. Blair, J. N. Dolph, G. G. Vest, J. B. Beck, J, N. Camden, Z. B. Vance, J. K. Jones, and D. W. Voorhees. They were accompanied by Gen. Anson G. McCook and Col. W. P. Canaday, Sergeant-at-•Anns. The House Committee consisted of William R. Morrison, J. H. Blount, H. A. Herbert, W. S., Holman, W. M. Springer, W. P. Hepburn, S. B. Ward, W. W. Phelps, J. J. Kleiner, Thomas Ryan, P. Dunn. They were accompanied by Sergeant-at-Arms Eeedom. Besides the above distinguished gentlemen thete were present Secretaries B.ayard, Whitney, Lamar, and Endicott, and Postmaster General Vilas, of the Cabinet ; Associate Justices Matthews and Blatehford representing tho Supreme Court; ex-President Hayes, Gen. W. T. Sherman, ex-Gov. B. Gratz Brown, ex-Senator John B. Henderson and Congressman O’Neill, of Missouri; ex-Mayor Francis, and a largo number of other men of note from St. Louis ; Gov. Oglesby, and many well-known people from Springfield, Ill.; ex-Gov. Bishop, of Ohio; Gov. Hoodly and staff, of Ohio; Spnator Payno and party, Ohio; tho Mayors arid members of the City Councils of St. Louis, Detroit, Cincinnati, and Chicago; Major General Schofield, Major Sanford, S. Coming Judd, of Chicago; ex-Seriator Graham N. Fitch, of Logansport; the Gondola Club, Toledo; the Americus Club, Peoria; P. Henry Dagro and party of twenty men, from New York, the Jefferson Club, Dayton; a delegation of twenty-five from Tammany Hall, and others; the Jackson Club, of Columbus, Ohio; the Evansville Oity Council; the Jefferson Club, of Dayton, Ohio; Senator T. W. Palmer, of Michigan; L. D. Thoman, ex-Civil Service Commissioner ; George W. Geddes, of Ohio; Col. R. W. Thompson, of Terre Haute; ex-Secretary Washburne, of Hlinois ; Gov. Knott and staff, of Kentucky; Senator Ben Harrison and ex-Senator Joseph E. McDonald, and hundreds of others of more or less note. Special trains were run into Indianapolis from every direction, to accommodate. the public, and they were taxed to the utmost capacity. It is estimated that 50,000 strangers were in the city.

Honors for the Dead. At Washington the Supreme Court, met on Monday, the 30th ult. On the opening of the court Attorney General Garland made formal announcement of the death of the Vice President, and, after paying a tender tribute to , his memory, moved that the court adjourn out of respect to the deceased. Chief Justice Waite responded, expressing regret at tile . pad event, and adjourned the court until Thursday, the 3d inst. " The Indiana Bar Association met at Indianapolis, Judge Gresham presiding. A lengthy memorial was adopted and brief eulogistic addresses delivered by distinguished members of the association. At South Betid, Ind., memorial services were held in a large rink, which was completely packed. Business was generally suspended, and the services were participated in by all classes, Republicans and Democrats alike. The New- York Stock Exchange and Boards of Trade in nearly all the cities, the departments at Washington, the departments in the various State capitals, and all the postoffices wore closed out of respect to the memory of the deceased. Bells were tolled during the afternoon in many of the cities of Virginia. V - . ” At Pittsburg and Allegheny the day was gen" erally observed. The arsenal guard fired the three regulation Salutes. The Galveston bar adopted resolutions of respect. All public places were closed and business was suspended generally. i Kew York and Brooklyn were dotted with halfmasted fiags, and the public offices and exchanges were closed most of the day.

OUR POSTAL SERVICE.

The Annual Report of Mr. Vilas on the Condition of His De* partment. •• The Effect of the Seduction of Postage on the Annual Revenues, Etc., Etc. * The anntial report of the Postmaster General shows that the total revenue of the Postoffice Department during the last fiscal year was $42,560,843, and the total expenditures $19,602,188, leaving a cash deficiency of $7,041,345, or, with the amount; credited Pacific Railroads, a total deficiency of $8,381,571. This difference is due, first, to the decrease of the revenves, which amounts in total only to $2,947,848; and, secondly, to an increase of the expenditures to the extent of $6,466,955, of which $6,042,439 have been in the cash disbursements and $424,516 in the cost of transportation upon the Pacific Railroads. Chiefly the decrease of revenue has cOulted from the diminishment in the rate of letter postage from 3 to 2 cents upon the half-ounce, which was the upit of weight during the period,. while the increase of expenditures has arisen principally from the natural increase of mails to be carried arid the natural extension of the service, although other cases have contributed something to both effects. It is thought that a return of business prosperity will secure a surplus during the ensuing year. The principal results of the increase of the unit of weight of first-class matter, from a half-ounce to an are a general increase in the use of the mails, some decrease of the proportion of letters weighing less than a half-ounce, a -striking increase of those weighing more than a halfounce, and some tendency to mail, more than formerly, sealed parcels instead of unsealed. The loss of revenue for the year from this cause is estimated at SBOO,000. The reduction of the rate from 2 cents to 1 cent per pound on secondclass matter strikes off one-half the revenue from thisjsource, there is_no indication of any marked increase in the quantity of such matter~to compensate the loss. ' The special delivery system has met with public favor, and, the Postmaster General says, probably should be extended to all offices and to all kinds of mail matter. It is suggested that postmasters and their clerks at small offices be authorized to de--liver such letters.

The breach between the department and the American steamship lines is taken up. After citing the provisions of the act of March 3, 1885, which authorize the Postmaster General to .enter into contracts for the transportation of foreign mails, after legal advertisement, with ’•he lowest responsible bidder, at a rate not exceeding 50 cents a nautical mile on the trip each way actually traveled between the terminal points, provided that the mails so contracted should be earned on Apieriean steamships, and that the aggregate of such contracts should not exceed one-half the sum of SBOO,OOO appropriated, the report shows that only the routes between New York and Havana and between San Francisco and Japan and China are navigated by more than one American coinpany; and, therefore, it was idle to advertise for a competition which could not be had. The report shows the difficulty of adopting the many plans suggested for securing legitimate competition for the carrying of the mails. The Postmaster General did not-eonsider the adoption of the mileage contract plan compulsory, and declined to make such contracts during the recess of Congress. It was thought best to send the mails by the swiftest ships covering the desired routes — using sometimes the vessels of one line and sometimes of another, as they were available. It was held by the department, after thorough investigation, that the rate of sea postage, 4J cents per pound for papers and 43| cents per pound for letters, was a proper remuneration for the service of carrying the mails, but the desirability of showing the friendliness of the iJuveniinent to Aiiierican lines was deemed sufficient warrant for extending to them the full inland and sea rate. The Postmaster General says that, in declining to yearly contracts, he does not render a decision as to the policy of subsidizing American steamship companies. He says: Much has been said about employing the postal appropriation to aid American commerce. When Congress shall desire to invest the Postoffice Department with care for that object it can not be doubted it will easily choose language which will plainly convey the purpose and impose the duty. Until then, that depart* ment can not rightfully employ the moneys appropriated for the postal service to secure objects not intrusted to its care, however meritorious in themselves. It may be properly further observed of this that during many years the practice of granting pecuniary aid to American lines was pursued at so great a cost and to so little advantage that it was long since wholly abandoned; that, when followed, Congress hod directed it, qnd if that body designed its renewal, presumably it would again have declared the purpose. The steamship companies running to the south and to Asia rejected the offer of sea and inland postage, and after Aug. 1 refused to carry mails except to foreign countries with which they had contracts. This caused much annoyance to the department, but very little inconvenience to the public. Between New York and Havana the service is stated now to be three times a week instead of two, as formerly, and within a short time it is expected to be lessened in time to about sev- . enty-four hours, a gain of a day and a haff over the time of steamers. The Australian mail has not been specially interrupted, and a now company has undertaken the service under contract with New Zealand for three years. Some delays and inconveniences have arisen between New York and Colon, San Francisco • and Japan and China, and to the west coast of Mexico, by the refusal of the Pacific Mail Company, and some between New York and Venezuela by the like action of the Red D Company. Except these, all tho foreign mails are transported either in the same manner or a better than during the last year. . Early action by Congress is very desirable to provide such means as it shall deem appropriate to relieve the inconvenience sustained on the routes indicated. The department recognizee'it’s obligation to the business men of the country, who have forborne complaint, with but few exceptions, rather than manifest a willingness to see the Government compelled to a course which, upon careful consideration, had been decided inexpedient and unwise to be pursued. They ore entitled to the earliest practicable relief which can be given. Whatever measure of compensation or pecuniary aid shall be deemed appropriate,” it is worthy of jserious consideration whether the steamships which have the protection of the Government should .be suffered to refuse-their service if the compensation provided shall be esteemed unsatisfactory. That should be conclusively determined by Congress or by the department. i The report is accompanied by the complete correspondence between the department and the steamship companies. The revenue for the next fiscal year is estimated at $47,500,000, and the expenditures are estimated at $55,000,000. i Of the 178 cities where the carrier system 1 is in operation, only seventeen realized more local postage than the expense of the service. The surplusjat New York was $1,131,500. at Chicago $154,000, at Philadelphia $292,000. The four sons of Lieut. Kislingbury, of Arctic fame, receive a pension of $lO each per motath.