Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1874 — Page 2

THE RENSSELAER UNION.

Thursday. August 20.1874

The incidental expenses of Congress siio\v that each member has eighty pounds of toilet soap per session.— ! The soap must l>eof singularly infer!* I orquality.-Louisville Courier Journal. 1 Or Congressmen do many dirty ; jobs. In the two townships of Lake county which voted upon the proposition of a tax ih aid of the ■ Chicago & South Atlantic Railroad project, lasi Saturday, the result was “for the tax” by a large majority. At the Independent Convention at Indianapolis on the 12th instant to nominate candidates to fill va- J cancics resulting from declinations or nonacceptance of gentlemen nominated on the 10th of dune, the following ticket was made: For Secretary of State—S, Bowles, of Fountain county. For Auditor of State —T. S. Trnscott, of Posey county. For Attorney General—Win. Peelle, of Wayne county. For Superintendent of Public Instruction—-Andrew 11. Graham, of Bartholomew county. The Independents ot Allen county held their convention last Saturday, and nominated D. 11. Tapp for State Senator, W. 11. Kelsey and T. M. Andrews for Representatives, W. 11. Withers for Criminal Judge, J. I>. lltlligass for Prosecutor, and a full county ticket. Seven of the j nominees have been identified wfch : the Kepublican party, and five 'have been Democrats. The ticket is ' said to be a good one, and has-fair J lutions were adopted denouncing J th&dhiauner in which candidates for . 'i t office are forced upon the people i by wily politicians, and deciar- j ing that in local and State elections the best men ought to be chosen j by the people, regardless of party: affiliations, and in defiance trfjsivirc- ! pullers. Indianapolis people arc very much shocked over the recently published statement ol Dr. A. C. Stanton that Miss Hates was one ; of Henry Ward Beecher's early j conquests. Her triends say that j she was only sixteen or seventeen ! years of age at the time her pastori moved from there, and not old j enough to be susceptible <if the blandishments of the tender pus-1 sion. Fortunately Miss Bates, who eifjoyed for >nany years an ei; \ ia- '[ ble reputation lor her charities, died j : ulew.months before the simoon of this horrid scandal desolated the j land of some of its fairest, staleli- 1 est Christian characters. It is "a | foul beast who like Harriet Beecher j Stowe would dig up the green turfi of.graves and tear away the cere- \ merits of tile dead to pollute the j moral atmosphere with such me- | phitic exhalations. Upon the subject of pastoral ; visits, a discussion of which has j been precipitated in religious pa- ; tiers by the Tilton-Beechcr eon- ■ t roy ersy, the Nc w Y ork OfSerrerf well known as a btitt, oftfiodox ' i journal ofstraightest respectability, . says: All judicious pastors discourage j familiarity on the part oCtbeir peopie, | especially those of the female deiiomi- ' nation. For this way lies the danger. A silly woman, pious perhaps, but very soft aud shallow, hears the stir- I liug words of her eloquent pastor, is ; loused, warmed, soothed, exalted,--! she thinks edified—and straightway she believes him to be tire man to do ' tier good. Sdie goes to his study to: tell him so- how much enjoyment! she finds in liis words . or she writes him a letter, and pours out her little soul full of twaddle about lier gratff j tude for what her dear pastor has done, for her; how siie “is lifted up” hy his instructions; how she loves him as a friend given to be her guide and com- \ fort, and so on, and so on, more and worse, running into a mawkish sentimentality, a sickening man-w.jrship, disgusting to every sensible jierson, but very" nectar to a vain, AvorhUy 1 preacher, who seeks only to make his J hearers “teel good.” • Hon. Milton B. llopkins, Super-j intendent of Public Instruction, diedbit Kokoiuo last Sunday night, aged 02 years. In 1840 Mr. Hopkins assisted in the first Fourth of July Celebration in Jasper county, by preaching in the afternoon to an audience that had asscmbebl in :♦ giovc which then coveted the gioimd where McCoy & Thompson's bunk, Dr, Moss’ office and Kaunal's drug stole now stand At that time he was preachjug blithe Christian denomination. llis political views were Democratic, though during the war lie did-not hold fellowship with his party, and declined a nomination on the State ticket tendered hy them. Since tile war he was twice elected hy the Democracy to the office he occupied at the time of his death He was an active politician, and had lie lived would have. been a pi eminent caudidate for the Dein.o----c rat it utdiiinatiou for Go\\uioi.

It is gratifying to learn that Bro. ! John B. Stoll, of the Ligbnier Banner, is not sore oVer.his defeat for the Democratic nomination for State Auditor. This inieTlige«t young German politician seems to have become calloused to ingratitude, and man's proverbial inhumanity to man seems to have no, effect upon his ol’l bruised ambition. Cast down, but not discouraged; smitten, but not resentful; repeatedly betrayed, but beautifully oblivious to personal indignity: what picture can be more charming to party managers! And lmw many partizan editors there, are in the land, toiling like slaves year after year through successive campaigns, battling for the triumph of and success of parties, only to be kicked, scourged, trampled, insulted and ridiculed in the end. Parties are a delusion, political professions are too frequently ephemeral, and the promises of politicians arc but Dead Sea apples; no d t hat ed itor wh o isdeccivedtiy them more than once, is not wise. Mr. A. 17. Grant, of Carroll county, and aspirant for the Republican nomination for Congress, was in the city last Monday, and called at the Argus office; We gently whisper to our readers-that Grant is an unpopular name just how, and we think this young man secretly intends to withdraw in favor of Calkins. lie is a pink blonde. —LaporteArgus. The Argus is a Democratic paper, and its predictions as to what Grant would do, was fully realized at the convention, for Grant and the entire Carfoll county delegation, save one man, did exactly what the Argus said they would do. * Mr. Grant has cooked his goose, so far as this district is concerned, by indulging in ways that are dark and tricks that are vain. A fear of party division at home was ail that ever forced half of his own delegation to submit to bis candidacy. We have it from the mouths of his own delegates.—Kentland Gazette. A fear of division at home forced them to submit! Isn’t that a noble sentiment for American freemen, i and an enlightened newspaper to 1 advance ? Fear of a callow, red- 1 headed urchin, compelled the , Republican party ot’ a county in the State of Indiana to bow to a distasteful, incompetent man's ambition. What a humiliating exhibition of weakness!- —- What a disgraceful confession of a lack of principle! Shame to the Republicans of Carroll county ! Dr. Win. S. Ilayuiond, of Whitecounty, was nominated for Congress by the Democracy of this j District, at Haportc last Thursday- : llis nomination was by acclamation. It is claimed that lie will be endorsed by the Independents, but! they may hs\ o reckoned -wit hout' their host. There are Indepoml- j cuts in this region who prefer a . candidate of their own choosing j —a inan who is ill sympathy with their views, and who, if elected, , would at leasCtry to represent them j fairly. Personally Ilayuiond and j Calkins may be good nien—tine J genll eincu in the private -wa Iks erf: life—but neither is a representative ; of the laboring classes, nor can either understand them, or have sympathy with their burdens, labors , aud oppressions. It makes little I difference which ol the old patty! organizations has control ol the j "govern incut' abuut.,llie-logidalion ; I that will be in tBo interest of wealth, of corporations, of ring», ! of cliques, ol clashes, and against; the interests of the great -mass of! 1 whoring people. Butbparties have ; been in powyr long enough Improve ‘ that money has a potent itifiitenee with eaeh in shaping legislation. There is nu hope of relief to the toiling millions from either. The j i , j galling fellers \n hielt bind them in . hopeless poverty, will never be loosened until boili parties arcM overturned. Holiest men must j come out from among the corrupt : organizations called. Kepublican and Democratic, and unite-together for the common good. The signs j indicate that the American people j are on tlie brink of a great revolution, which may be sanguinary, or bloodless, as the people are foolish or wise. • .. ~~ ."7 ~~ ~"-T __ > Major William 11. Calkins, the; Republican caudidate for Congress : from this District, was bushwhack- ! ing around the country school houses in Jasper county, during the' first part of the present week.-- i Being in Kiniseiuer yesterday, lie: honored'Tut UnioX—(he is a regular subsciibei ) with "a visit, aud j shed o\ et all hands and jjie coni,- j ! puny piescnt a large anTunnt ol : that “personal magnetism ’ which his home organ enumerates among tlie chief articles of his slock in trade, so to speak. Major Calkins has a great deal of sympathy lor laboring people of all classes- this campaign; and he is -exceedingly affable towards everybody, shaking bauds and conversing familiarly with all, like au old acquaintance, or u life insurance agent with mon-r-v to lo.au i*t ten per cent. niton. ?,•

payable Semi .annually in advance, ! secured by mortgage on unincumbered real estate at half its np- , praised .value, with live per cent, commission to .agent-.for procuring the .loan. He is a fatlu-r pretty boy, somewhat overgrown perhaps, with a delicate light hazel intis- i taelte, and oil the little finger ot his-gesticulating hand wears a tolerabbz loud seal ring. If elected to Congress there is no dqubt but that lie might make a sensation among tlie female lobbyists. Wo rather liked lusj frank statement that the last two nominations of --General Packard were ilau lulently procured, as it coincides- so well With tlie facts. The Major is not. at all sanguine of his election, notwithstanding two years ago his party had nearly 1,500 majority in the district. Since he discovered that Senator Morton was mistaken about there being only two parties in tlie field, bis confidence in key notes is not so implicit as formerly.

INDIANA GOSSIP.

~ Men sure s-WFeHeTiFg take n t o reopen the Wabash & Kr.ie can til as far south as Lafayette. Howard county will hold its Failoil the 15th, 10th, 17th, 18th and 10th days- of September. Fowler, Benton county, is to have ! a 810,000 M. K. Church—which - will flatter the Lord’s vanity. The Independents of the Lafay- | etle district have nominated lion. Archibald Jobikson for Congress. The marshes m Lake county were never before known to be so dry, says the Crown Point Hejister. Tlie Indiana Association of Shorthorn Breeders, ineeUfin special ses- j : sion in IndianapH^,November nth. j Fulton c'ounty is excited over ’ the report of an attempted highway t robbery recently made near Bodies- j I ter. The State Temperance Conven- ! tion will meet in the First Baptist Church at Indianapolis, September 2d, at two o’clock r. .. .. Work on the Chicago & South ; Atlantic railroad near Lowell, Lake county, lias been suspended for want of means to carry it along. A petition has been circulating i iti Lake county.for an Independent | Convention. Of course the proj oecuing is denounced by both of the old parties. Mr. Jasper Davidson,_of Gibson county, threshed 4So bushels of j wheat It (.in LIA acres ot ground, ■ bj,-ing an averngg of about 121 bushel? au acre. ■■. . 1 Goslien has decided that it wants , stand pipe waterworks similar to those at South Bend, and instructed the Common Council, to procure U* " s t ’ -Fa. . --. them at an expense of 85,000. (»li yes! tth yes! The Independents of Clay county nominated a full eounty ticket at Center Pointyj fast {Saturday, although “there is but two political parties” in the State. - i *..?>'.■ - . : -1 The Independents, have cotnmetiecd stirring tip tlie monkeys in Laporte-etrunty,. n civv nmctr~to the chagrin of local politicians, who swear there is tin room for a tliiVd party between tlietw odiltmbecilcs. Parke eounty ludcpcnJents met iii cun veil lion at Koekvi lie. .Monday, and nominated J-. S. Boyd lor State : Senator, John C, Reddick, for Representative, John li. Miller for Joint Representative, and a full county , ticket. Klkhart county is troubled with an Independent party, which held a .convention last Saturday, and nominated Albert psborii for Represeuttitive, George F. Barney for Joint Representative, and. a lit 11 county ticket. i Allen county offers a sjwcial pre- 1 liiium of a handsome National flag, costing 825, to the Grange within the limits -of that county, that makes the largest number of entries at the Northern Indiana Fair lor, 1874. In leasing the refreshment stands at the Indianapolis Fair ground this season, the State Board of Agriculture have in every case ill- : sorted a clause prohibiting (be sale | of intoxicating liquors, oil tlie ! 1 grounds. Many fanners in Porter county, • and—some- tn Impm te, have to li.ittl water tor their stock?"* Why do not farmers dig wells Cor stock water? H would-be cheaper and better in the long run, besides very much enhancing the value of their farms. ! judge Cason was renominated for congress by the Republicans of the Ninth (Lafayette,) district, on the fifth ballot, lie received BIA ]) votes to Slip- for Hon Michael I>. 1 White, *of Crawfords?iHe. • Miv Cuboir’- tlce lion m very duubtlul.

O'p] “residctits’’ of White county hold their annual meeting this year at Monti6ello H on the 27th instant. Leander C. Pray, with two friends, recently pursued a fellow into Michigan and made Hi in come down with 885 fin- goods lie had obtained of Pray, under false pretenses. Mr. Pray formerly lived in Jasper county, but now resides in South Bend. Laporte people have got into a little controversy over their public Library. Gen. Urr, who donated one-half of the Library fund, denouiiees tlie board of directors as a “pack of thieves,” and the mischief is to pay generally. A special effort is.being made to locate a Presbyterian Female College at- Indianapolis, 'which, it successful, will result in breaking up the schools ot this class located at Logansport and Greencastle, and uniting them in the new project, making it a college of high order; Near AValton, Cass county, Sunday, a man named Arfochcr, 'be'e'dmiiig ine_cnsfd at his daiighter picked up a poker and threw it at her, — She dodged the missile, however, which struck another daughter, two years old, penetrated her head five inches and killed her instantly.— He was arrested. A severe storm passed over Michigan City on the 12th instant. August Code’s house was struck by lightning and two children instantly killed. Tlie Catholic church was damaged, a portion of the roof being torn off. George Walker’s brick building wuS unroofed and several children hurt by tlie falling material. —Mr s. Tay 1 o i- ’s re ski oil cc was uin-aofod.—The .colored clnirehwas moved from its foundation.— Several barns were destroyed, and a number, of ne-.v bouses blown down. Doctor Miller’s house was struck by lightning and burned down, together with the barn and other out-buildings. It was the most destructive storm that has visited the city for years.

West of the Mississippi.

Keaknhy City, N ki:., July Stilli, 1874. FbixpKS Union : The possibility that .1 may succeed in giving some items concerning this part of the ’Great West that may interest or be of value to some of your readers, •induces the attempt, and any success in that direetiou will-ainjdy repay tl-.e saerilice of personal comfoit uuci-essari!y resulting from such an undertaking. Kearney_Ci tv is situatedin sotitliwestern Nebraska, at the junction of the Burlington <fc Missouri River Railroad with the Union Pacific in the Platte Valley, a little more than two hundred, miles west of Omaha, and one hundred and thir-ty-six miles wets Liiuuibm T -l‘-Xho-City,” as it is proui.lly-called, hd-s’-a-population of about ot>e thousand. It supports three hotels and two daily papers, and has all the appearance- of it flourishing town, preparing for,and enjoying in anticipiiti on, a Jlrture , of- ■unliinifcdgreatness. My route here was over tire Raiload to Burlington, Iowa; thence hy the Burlington <C Missouri River Railroad via Omaha and Lincoln City...., U w'j'he co'imtry tlirough which this road passes from Burlington to Oyiaha is magnificent beyond the ability of my pen to’ describe.— Taken as a whole,, with its fertile prairies', beautiful groves and numerous streams, no finer or more attractive country can'be found.— Fruni Omaha westward, the country differs in character, being chiefly a beautiful rolling prairie stretching away on either side as far-as the eye can reach, and scarcely broken by the few trees marking the course of streams. Of the latter there arc several flowing into tlie Platte between Omaha and* Kearney City, hut unless it may be in tlie valley proper not a sufficient number, I think, to justify tire assertion that the country is well watered. According to the best information Khava obtained, unim-, proved lands in this vicinity range in value from two to twelve dollars per acre, according to their location with-reference to railroads and towns, and the natural advantages dl water, quality of soil, etc. Farther cast of course the prices are higher, and in the vicinity of Lincoln City range from five to fifty and seventy-five dollars an acre.— This difference in, prices is due to somo extent to a difference in the quality of tlie which becomes more sandy westward from Lincoln, but ? of course, Ts ‘chiefly due to difference 'of location and the present aud anticipated demand. Lands 'can bo pui chased ofttre Rail go ad Companies at the above figures,-on

a credit often years with six per centum interest on purclias.enioney; 'all of which, principal and interest, j it is confidently stated by many, can be paid with the crops of two ■ or three years, or, rather, with the j surplus of the crops for that period.; This, however, is only one side of. a story which, like all others, has two sides; and while it is true it is by no means the whole truth, and J obviously depends on the condition j that all the crops for that time j "should be of the best. The soil of ( this portion of Nebraska seems to I bo, and under favorable conditions [ . • I no doubt is, well adapted to the growth of all kinds of grain; bufj with present, conditions only the] smaller grains can be relied on.— Wheat is regarded as pretty sure for an average of from twenty to forty bushels and oats from forty to sixty or seventy bushels per acre, while corn is not certain to yield anything. The drought -and hot winds of July injure corn greatly, and when the grasshoppers pat in an appearance, as they r have done this season, its destruction is complete. « One who lias never seen grasshoppers as they exist here can have no adequate idea of the extent and completeness ot their Between Kearney and Omaha, wherever there was anything for them to eat, we found them in countless myriads. I think it is no exaggeration tt> say that in all that distance I did not see fifty acres of corn along the-line of railroad that would yield any thing; but I did see many acres of stalks stripped of the last vestige ;if blade and ear, and standing cleaner than a field of cane made ready for cutting.— Fortunately- this pest did not appear until the small graiils had been safely harvested. Of course the “hoppers” do not appear every year, but may in any ; and when suc-h is the ease they are terrible, and as yet no method is known by which complete destruction of crops can be prevented. 31y stay in Lineoln Was brief, and I did not have'the pleasure of. meeting liny of our former citizens ot Jasper, of whom there are quite it number in that vicinity, inquiry developed the fact that ail of them were prospering, .and hoping to meet some of them when returning, I contented myself with that. I expect to go from here back to Burlington, lowa, and thence up the Mississippi to St. Paul, Miuneapolis, Minnehaha Falls, and other points in Minnesota. May write

to you again. '

Grasshoppers Out West

Chaplain Lozier writes the following interesting letter to the Indianapolis Jcnrnal, about the grasshoppers which have been so destructive to crops this season in lowa, Minnesota, Dacotah, Nebraska and Kansas : I send you in this pen box a couple of specimens of the “varments” that are doing the mischief for Northwest lowa and Southern Miuiresot-o That, is, -I- send- thein provided they don’t “skip out” before the b,ox reaches you. lam "prompted'.to insert the above proviso from the fact that one of the three that I grabbed from the crest, of a thrifty weed “unaccountably” found in my garden, has already lifted the box cover, and retired from my sanctum with evident disgust at this attempt to abridge the rights of an adopted citizen. lie was the largest and most dignified “hopper” of the trio, and it was with him ill my eye that I grabbed at that particular weed and that particular spot on the weed. For, be it known, that the .question of numbers does” not amoifnt to much in estimating grasshoppers up here in the Northwest. A duodecillion oiie way” or the other as a small' consideration in estimating our supply of the famous Comanche luxury, “present Or accounted for.” It would almost insult a well informed' grasshopper if you presumed to compute his relations by anything less than tlqe county or district. You and 1 have seep it snow in Indiana. AY o have looked heavenward as the Hakes were floating down: (I do not pretend to say tlffit ye editor has done much of this sort of looking since he got to be an editor, not when anything as snow was descend, ing,) but neither of ns ever saw snow flakes thicker than I have seen grasshoppers hs they have passed over Fort Dodge in unbroken clouds, broader than | our vision, and for several hours in succession. Your first exclamation will pi'ob- ' ably be, “Pshaw! stuJli little'things do much harm.” \”ou can’t ; imagine the” amount of business a I detachment of these little fentle--1 men in swallow-tailed coats and

green knee-breeches can transact in a short time. The otiieT dajgas a force of them were moving toward Minnesota, a foraging expedition alighted upon a large field of corn west of here,on the Central railway. The corn was'“ui the silk” and very thrifty, as is every thing that grows in lowa, but in a half a day nothing was., left save the harder portion of the, stalks which stood there stark and worthless as a last year’s mullen stalk. After dinner a ' squad of a million or such a matter deployed along the railroad track, and intercepted the eastern-bound passenger train in a way that the engineer despised. But they offered no indignities to the passengers. The presumption is that the passengers were Western men, and that consequently there were no greenbacks, no editors, nothing green aboard to tempt their appetites. These gasshoppers are, to all appearances, the lineal descendants of the “locusts” of Holy Writ. I have a specimen all the way from Syria in a vial of alcohol that would have passed for a twin brother of one of these I send you, had he not been so disfigured by excessive indulgence in liquor. Northwest lowa has had a lone and severe siege of grasshopper visitation. They have not damaged us so much this season as they did last, however. They came last year and ate up our crops and deposited their eggs. These hatched tliis spring and led upon us until they were able to fly. As soon as they arose the south winds carried them northward. Hence the sad havoc in Southern Minnesota.— J Hiring most of the summer there is a steady south wind, and this keeps them moving northward.— Now arid then there conies a north wind, and then the clouds flock down this way. They have even been carried a hundred miles south of this; Whenever they come down they give the farmers a more practical than agreeable illustration of “harvesting made easy.” One phase of the grasshopper business consoles us Northwest lowa folks: The southern breezes uniformly carry them northward from their hatching places, so th«t each crop is hatched further north than'its predecessor. Our crop is hatched and is going north, and as we hear of none between us and the Gulf, we breath freely as to the future. You doubtless are aware that the dna*ive heather” of the grass-" hopper is the sandy region of Southern Colorado. There the "very soil seems to breed them in myriads. Seldom, however, do they pass beyond either the “Hockeys” or the Sierra Nevada,not Wing able to endure the cold incident, to a journey over those frigid mount tin ranges. Many of them perish in the attemp, however, being chilled amid the “white caps” and drop upon the snow, to be accumulated in small win row’s in the gulches, much to the delectation of the nomadic Comancliean epicure, who would even turn from the seductive allurements of “Lizardraw,” to revel in tile luxuries of grasshopper cake, hot from its bed of buffalo clips. Now and then, an untoward gust ot wind carries a “scud” across into the .regions beyond tlie Missouri, and, in process of time, they work up this way. Some eight years ago, Kansas received such a visitation, and in due -time they journeyed toward the North Pole, making a pretty clean sweep of tills region. This time' they were not felt so severely for the good reason that where there was ten acres of wheat then there are a. hundred now. Farther north, however, in the sparse settlements, the devastation is complete. Should. they pay us another visit five years~ hence, Northern lowa and Southern Dakota expect to be in condition'to “ founder” the last one of them and never miss the fodder.

W. H. M.

The State Convention and Its Work.

The proceedings of the Independent State Convention, which met in this city Wednesday, August 12th, arc fully reported elsewhere in this paper. The number in attendance was gratifying, and. the spirit manifested in the highest degree encouraging. The Independents lack the "co- | liesive influence of public'plunder,” | which eharacterizes the political ! conventions of the other parties, I and may it, always lack such.— Ninety-nine persons in every hund-j, red who assembled at the 1-fepublF can and Democratic State conventions were either office holders, or office seekgrs—persons who subsist upon official patronage and plunder. The preservation of the party i machinery is a matter of Life and 1 death with cverv Such individualI * ’ C-..

and of course there is a scramble between those wlioliave their hands in the public crib, and want to keep -them there, and the “outs’' who thirst for the fat things. The Independents have no long roll of officials and office mongers' to call in assembling a State convention, and if the Independents were in office, that is not the way they propose to have their public servants selected. The people propose to say who shall serve them in office, and not the office holders. When the people need a man to administer a public office they send for him. The State convention of the 10th of June adopted the following as an expression of a principle by which the Independent party would be governed: Resolved, That we are in favor of the office seeking the man, and not the man the office It being a notorious fact that Mr. Ebenezer Henderson, the Independent candidate for Auditor of State, nominated by the State convention of June 10th, had subsequently sought by all the means known to the political charlatan the nomination fov the same office at the bands of the Democratic "paHryTalidtliathc was person ally present in the Democratic convention and publicly accepted such nomination, and pledged himself to secure the triumph of the Democratic ticket, but one course was left for the Independents, and that was to supply his place on their ticket with a mail fully and wholly identified with their cause. To ; have done otherwise would have ! been to stultify themselves and to give the Fre to thcir Mr. Henderson had disregarded both the letter and spirit of the resolution referred to, and in seeking and accepting a nomination at. the hands of the Democrats, had espoused another platform and another cause. Mr. Henderson had never formally accepted the nomination of the Independents, although he evidently desired to be retained on thiSticket. His remarks when nominimj& on the 10th of June were understood by many to imply at least an acceptance, but he himself- gives them a different, construction. The j convention adopted his yiety of the matter, as will be seen by the language of the resolution declaring the vacancy. There was ro disposition to hold Mr. Henderson to account for tlic action of any individual or party except himself. lie sought the nomination in person ; he pledged his support to the Democratic party and platform in person; he has since worked for that party in person ; and lie hns thus personally and not by proxy nor by trie intervention of over-zealous friends disregarded and trampled under foot the principles he was selected to represent. With regard to Mr. Mitchell, the candidate for Attorney General, nominated by the 10th of June convention, he had never signified his acceptance of the nomination. He was personally present in the Democratic State convention soliciting a nomination. This he had a perfect right to do, as he gate no evidence of an intention to accept the nomination tendered by the Independents, and exhibited no had faith in the matter. It was noticeable that not a single member of the convention who was formerly a Republican took part in the discussion with regard to Mr. Henderson’s case. The men who urged the- re solution declaring the vacancy, were all personal friends of Mr. Henderson, and formerly political associates wtyh him in the same party; but they were men who prized principles higher than men—honesty better than expediency, , 1 ———- The reasons for this action in - Mr. Henderson’s case had no force with regard to Judge Biddle, the candidate for Supreme Judge.— Mr. Biddle never sought a nomination at the hands of either thoIndependent or Democratic parties. He has never left his “Island Home” to solicit tho support of any individual or any party. The convention, made a wide and a just distinction,. — lndianapolis- Sun. Persons frequently have a boii-. quet of clioioe flowers which they would like to preserve; this is » simple way to do it; take a deep plate and place the flowers in, a. vase upon it, fill the plate with water, and over the yase set a bellglass with its rim in the \vate¥. : — The air in the glass beebmes moist, which will cause the flowers to re main fresh "and beautiful for a long time. The may bo tried on a smaller scale by inverting a tumbler over a rosc-lmd in a saucer of water .-little Corpqral.