Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1876 — PUBLIC CONFIDENCE. [ARTICLE]

PUBLIC CONFIDENCE.

Notwithstanding the sensational tone of the political intelligence which has prevailed since the election, that moat sensitive ot public barometers, the gold market, has not shown the slightest tremor of alarm. Greenbacks have maintained a constant upward tendency, even when the revolutionary threats of influential partisans and journals were fiercest and almost universal. Such a condition of the monetary market would seldom find its parallel in any other country. This fact shows, better than any other circumstance possibly could, the profound faith which the mass of the people of this country have in the stability ot their form of government. .It also shows that they have unshaken confidence in the loyalty of President Grant, notwithstanding its frequent impeachment by malicious enemies, and a firm belief in his determination Snd abirity to maintain the peace and execute the laws of the land until the expiration of his term of authority. Another fact is also exemplified by the quietude of the gold market, which is that men who deal in government securities and obligations have confidence that whichever way the presidential contest shall be decided the government credit will not be injuriously affected by it. Evidently they du not anticipate any backward steps will be taken in the policy of specis resumption whether Mr. Hayes or Mr. Tilden is inaugurated president.

There was only a small attendance at the meeting of the stockholders of the Jasper County Agricultural and Mechanical Association held at the court house on last - I Saturday afternoon. Reports oi the secretary and treasurer were read and referred to an auditing consisting of Messrs. Henry A. Barkley, Simon P. Thompson and Horace E. Janies. A committee, the chairman of which is Mr. Eldridge T. Harding, was appointed to solicit subscriptions to the stock of the society. Messrs. George 11. Brown, William K. Parkison, David Nowels, Btrry Paris, Charles Boroughs, Charles C. Starr, Norman Warner, Allen J. Yeoman and bfij'W. Yeoman were elected directors for the ensuing year. At a future time we shall take occasion to speak more fully in regard to the society, its condition, its prospects, what it lias accomplished and what it proposes to do.

Mr. James McEwen, of the Monticello Constitutionalist, Vfts in. Rensselaer yesterday. He came over to visit Auditor Barkley and other cousins and acquaintances, and to reconnoitre the ground for an opening fur the establishment of a democratic paper should Mr. Tilden be the next president and other preliminaries result satisfactorily. Mr. McEwen’s faith in the most ultra of the dogma* of democracy as a specific for all the ills of the body politic is profound, and should he decide to move to Rensselaer it will become the duty ot his parly friends to insure him a generous support. Wo earnestly hope that events may shape themselves so that he mav decide to become one of our fellow citizens, providing it does not depend upon the contingency of Mr. Tilden’s election to the presidency.

Something worse than bulldosing is reported from Cave City, Ky., where a mob of blacks visited the house of a man of their own color on Friday night, dragged him away from his wife and children, and bunged him. The man had been guilty of voting for Mr. Tilden at the presidential election, and no other crime was alleged against him. The murderers have been arrested.— Chicago Time*. ‘‘The murderers have been arrested,” and, it is hoped, may receive speedy punishment commensurate with the enormity of their crime. But is it not somewhat remarkable that nobody seems to think it necessary to arrest or proper to punish the scoundrels that flog, hang and shoot black men whose only crime is that they vote the republican ticket ? Wednesday’s Chicago market quotations for bogs were: Packer’s |[email protected]; bacon grades #5.50@ .6.60; fair* to prime heavy ahip‘pmg [email protected]; extra t5.90@6. Cattle; good butcher’s stock, $2.75 @3.25; shipping beeves, sa,so@s.

Next week we shall publish a list of the newspapers and magazines with which Tub Union has club arrangements. This list embraces some of the leading daily and weekly newspapers and popular magazines of the United States. Their range of topics includes domestic and foreign news, polities, religion, agriculture, the arts and sciences, fashions, literature, travel, etc., etc. On Wednesday evening the quotations of New York city markets showed a slight decline in the value of gold, as compared with greenbacks. The opening rate was 108|,declined to 108|,closedat 108 J.

An interesting letter from Mr. S. P. Howard, who is visiting a son and two daughters near Wichita, Kansas, will appear in the next issue ot Tub Union. —————< w The officers of the Grand Lodge of Odd bellows of Indiana, recently elected for the ensuing year are as follows: , Grand Master—Leonidas Sexton, Rushville. Deputy Grand Master—W. R. MeyeiS, Anderson. Grand Warden—Enoch Cox, Delphi. Grand Secretary—B. F. Foster, Indianapolis. Representative to the Grand Lodge of United States—J. B. Kimball, retiring grandmaster. Alternate Representative-Tbomas Underwood, Lafayette. Trustees of Grand Lodge—William Wallace, J.'B. McChesney and Alexander Metzger, of Indianapolis. Messrs Perrin, Gaft* & Co. have contracted tor the employment of about one hundred of the convicts in the Jeffersonville penitentiary to work upon the manufacture of small kitchen hardware. Two cupolas for melting iron have been erected on th® grounds and a .brick shop, 32 by 322 feet in dimension has been constructed, for the use of the contractors. Mr. Lionel W. Thompson, a former citizen of Newton county, who was well known in this place, died recently at Effingham, 111. • ° . ~-.4