Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 August 1870 — Page 1

THE Chicago <Tribune> publishes a statement of receipts of flour and grain which shows that she is behind both Milwaukee and Toledo, and "is the third wheat mar. ket on the northern lakes instead of the first." In its bitterness the <Tribune> says: "When the harbor improvement at Calumet is completed, and a few elevators are built there, we suppose Chicago will be the fourth in the list, unless the Calumet elevators should be owned and operated by the Chicago combination." ———<>——

"WE'might turn to the files of the ExTBESSj'of 1868, and show where that paper made a most wanton attack upon Mr. Voorhees in. relation to a sick child he had at that time at the Martin County Springs.—Journal.

That is another of your "little mistakes." '"The files of the EXPBESS of 18G8" show some two hundred columns devoted to the record of Mr. VobiuiEES, but no unkind, indelicate or disrespectful allusion to any member of his family. We have always permitted the Democratic press to enjoy an exclusive monopoly of that style of journalism.

TJIK French authorities complain that much valuable information has bepn given to the Prussian Generals by the cable telegrams sent to this country from France, and subsequently transmitted back to Berlin. Whereupon the Philadelphia Inquirer remarks that "of all the uses to v.-hich MOUSE'S great invention has been applied this is the most astonishing. The l.i':- hnt armies in sight of each other should learn facts sufficiently important to afii ut their movements through the enterprise of newspapers published more than three thousand miles from, the scene of action Is one of the greate-it marvels of these marvelous times."

SPEAKING of the joint debate at Annapolis, the home argan of Mr. VOORiiBra says:

The Radical Candida

1

Who but

The Sun is not so well informed upon matters in this District as it might be, or it would not. be so confident of what VOOKJIKKS himself regards as extremely doubtful. The friends of DANIEL know that his last "election"—by a very small majority—was securcd by the votes of non-residents, and they are not sure that the same game can be repented with success. And they know, too, that if, by any of the various fraudulent appliances at which some of them are adepts, they could ring in as many illegal votes as they did in. 1808, they would still fall short of their object. by reason of most important accessions to Republican strength from two or three Causes which Heed not now be discussed.

I'pon the whole, DANIEL'S chance for another term at vote-dodging is so slim that we venture to say lie would dispose ofit on the easiest terms, could he lind a purchaser. His course since he ran away from Congress, deserting liis public duties to nurse his sickly prospects in this District, has been that of a hard-pushed candidate reduced to desperate expedients.

'THE Jhprcss wants no relict for the working classes. Their tea, codec, sugar, and other every day neccssarifts must be taxed to the highest possible limits, while the line silks, the jewelry and the luxuries of the bondocracy are to "lie taxed by the tarill" arrangement at a nominal figure! The Express holds to the doctrine that the working people must pay the tiddler'while the radical aristocrats enjoy thq dance!"—Journal. it would be impossible to crowd a greater amount of ignorance and lalsc assertion into the same number of words than the Journal presents in that paragraph. So far from being "taxed at a nominal figure," the "luxuries" mentioned, and others of a similar character, arc taxed up to the very verge of prohibition —taxed as high as they can be without excluding them from our ports and thus cutting oil' any revenue from their importation. On the other hand, the tarifl on the necessities oflife has b:.en reduced to the lowest practicable rates, ami this reduction was effected against the votes ami influence of the Democratic members of both

Houses of Congress. The Republican party is, as it always has been, the true triend of the working people, and has encountered the bitter opposition of the Democracy in every effort it bus made to lighten the burdens of the working millions.

Prince Snlm-Salm.

Prince FET.IX SAI.M-SAI.M was killed in the battle at Gravelotte, France, onthe 18th in-t. lie was a Major of the Prussian Uova^Guard. On the breaking out of the Rebellion, in this country, he came to the United States, on leave of absence from bis command in Europe, and served in the Federal army for about four years. He became Colonel of the 6Sth Now York Infantry and saw servnee, with his regiment, both in the armies of the Totomac and of the Cumberland, and was engaged in many of the severe battles of the Rebellion, both East and West. He also had some service, in the West, on •detail, as a staff officer, and in that capacity was known to many of our readers who were in the war.

Coi. S.VMI S.vi.sr was an accomplishedmilitary man. He had received a good training in the schools and camps of Prussia, and was enthusiastic in the pursuit of his profession. I le wxs dashing and reckless on the battle-field, and shrunk from no personal exposure to inspire and lead his troops. He had some peculiarities of dress and manner which were, at times amusing, but, with all this, he was a true and reliable soldier, and so recognized wherever he served in this country.

After the close of the rebellion he returned to Europe, and subsequently took service with MAXIMILIAN in Mexico, remaining with that unfortunate Prince until his capturo and execution.

Col. SALM SALM was a native, we believe, of St. Goar, on the Rhine and must have been about forty years of age. He was married while in this country, and his wife has devotedly followed him- through all liHsubsequcnt military service,and has lately l.een engaged in rendering sanitary aid to the Prussian wounded,

it

was so badly

Dunn for that he skedaddled home, leaving several 'appointments unfilled. When it is known that Mr. DUNN was summoned to the bedside of his mother, who was supposed to be dying, the meanness of such an allusion becomes shamefully apparent. We believe, to the credit of human nature, that VOOUHEES is the only public man in the Lnited States capable of requiring such service from his organ. Hut the harmony and consistency of "the statesman's" record will not be disturbed or impaired by the-adiHlion of this last item to its thousands of con genial predecessors.

VooRiifcES

would think of in­

vading the sanctity of the family circle, at such an hour, to attempt to cast odium upon a son for obeying the summons of a dying mother! The rudest barbarians on this eonlinent would respcct .the sacredncss of such an occasion so would the average midnight assassin so would any human creature except lum in whose interest the Journal is managed.

JIII. VOOUHEES will be returned to Congress by a handsome majority.— Vinccnncs San.

TERMS $2.00 A YEAR}

!PLANT

your manufactories by the Eide

of your farms, and you cover your country with blessings."—General Jacteon.

Tiiis St. Louis Times (Democratic) unkindly remarks: "It is to be hoped that the Oregon Democracy will have sense enough not to put forward the venerable Joe Lane for United States Senatorship. That's a lane which ought to have been turned down long ago."

One hundred Sullivan Republicans turned Democrats in one day!—Journat. That number, added to the conversions reported in the Journal during the last three months, swells the list to some seven hundred and eighty more than the en tire voting population of the District! This is very discouraging!

RUSKIN, in one of his recent lectures, says: "Though England is deafened with spinning-wheels, her people have not clothes though she is black with digging of fuel, they die of cold and though she has sold her soul for gain, they die of hunger. And yet, remarks the Philadelphia Press, England is the paradise of free trade, the"panacea for all the ill? of a nation.

THE Saturday Review thinks the recent murder of Frcnch missionaries wouljl have induced even Mr. BCI^LINGAME himself to doubt whether foreign governments were not justified in protecting their subjects by force from the barbarism of Chinese mobs or from the intolerance of the upper classes. "As soon as France is at leisure to attend to the matter," adds the same journal, "exemplary cngeance will no doubt be exacted for the murders and whatever maybe the opinions of philanthropic politicians in Europe, every foreign resident in China will approve of the punishment of those who may have been guilty,"

OUR STATE CAMPAIGN.

WASHINGTON, I). C., August 125, 1870. 1

Mil. EDITOR: In political circles here the approaching contest. in your State is looked forward to with great interest in view of the.fact that it is well known that the leaders of the Democratic party are making desperate efforts to gain victories all the closely contested counties and districts and cut down Republican majorities throughout the State. it is, in a word, a struggle for life by the Democratparty, and the fall campaign assumes greater magnitude and importance when it is considered that it is in fact the commencement of the great national contest of 1872.

The va ions moves being made and Lite combinations formed upon the political chess board by the leaders of the opposition, all look to such cud, and although tactics may differ according as localities and policy may demand, yet their organization and aims are one. It is well to bear in mind the fact that modern Democracy is the same whether marshaled under the rebel flair or parading under the "stars and stripes whether found in arms upon the battle field endeavoring to write the nation's epitaph in the blood of its noble patriots, or in the legislative halls and on the stump hypocritically appealing to the sacredncss of the Constitution in justification of their attempts to cripple the efforts of the loyal people for the suppression of treason and rebellion and the perpetuation and prosperity of the nation. The same whether masked as oath-bound "Knights of the Golden Circle," or lifting up handsin liolv horror denouncing Union Loyal Leagues— whether welding link's in the chain of human slavery, or proclaiming the cardinal principles of Democratic faith to be identical with the libcrar principles proclaimed by Jefferson and embodied in the Declaration of Independence. Whether forging naturalization papers and voting, dead men or denying the elective franchise to loyal students and crippled soldiers whether depleting the national treasurv in their efforts to destroy the Union, and forcing upon the country an enormous debt as the price of our national preservation, or condoling with the people on the oppressiveness of taxation and holding out^gilded pledges of "reform" in husbanding the public resources.

While it is patent to all that this party remains the same, animated by the same diabolical spirit, bound together by the same corrupt ties and led by the same master spirits, it is also apparent that their party tactics have undergone no change. What they have done in the past they will not scruple to do in the future hence in the approaching campaign the same corrupt practices, the same unblushing misrepresentations, the same false assurances, will characterize their efforts to secure place and power. To meet these measures, expose these false statements, and thwart these artful schemes, our Republican friends should be fully prepared. We go into the contest with the consciousness that truth is on our side. Pro.vidence has thus far smiled upon our efforts to maintain tho perpetuity and prosperity of our "Great

Republic" with its free institutions, and will continue to do so, as long as we arc true to ourselves and our cause. As a partv, we can point to a record which today commands the admiration of the civilized world, aud of which we may feel justly proud. It is for us to complete that re.cord in the same spirit of unanimity with which it was begun. If we fail notr, we shall prove ourselves unworthy of the cause which we as a party have espoused.

Then, Republicans, our duty is plain. Ignoring everything which would have a tendency to. weaken our strength, and relying upon the justice of our cause, and the intelligence of the people, let us prepare to meet the political enemy, defeat him at every point, and proceed in the great work which, as a paitv, we arc call-ed-upon to perform. ION.

ST. PAI L.

EXCURSIONISTS.

ST. PAUL, MINN., Aug. 26.—The Philadelphia excursionists occupied to day in visiting Lake Como, Carver's and Fountain Caves, while several paid a second visit to Fort Snelling and Minnehaha. This evening there is a grand reception and Kill in the Metropolitan, closing at midnight, with a banquet in honor of the guests.

To-morrow thev take a trip on the Sioux City railroad, which connects Lake Superior and the Mississippi country and lumber region, the products of which will ultimately How over the new road to the lake outlet by way ol Duluth.

COMMERCIAL.

The steamer Winslow is filling up with a cargo of wheat and flour, which will find its way to the Eastern market over the new route by the lakes and Philadelphia & Erie railroad.

News and Votings.

DAN'S celebrated "Lincoln Dog" speech is out of print. 'Will'not the Journal get out a new edition for campaign use?

THE New York Expressmys that one of tife bast ways of decreasing crime will be to destroy the belief so unfortunately prevalent that it is vulgar to work for a living. .l-.t

THE movement for a convention to revise the State Constitution of Pennsylvania is gathering importance as the day of election approaches. In some of the counties its advisability is being made an issu§ in the primary selection of candidates for the State Legislature. ''VOTERS should remember that when Republicans proposed to reduce taxation §80,000,000 a year, every Democrat in Congress voted against it or dodged it. Do not their actions in Congress speak louder than their appeals now for low taxation when they want votes?, Ii you want low taxes and prosperity, vote for the Republican candidates-^State and county.

THE papers of the cotton-growing sections of the South are speculating upon the probable effect of the European war upon the price of their great staple. They expect at first a depression, and then a sudden rise, owing to the large demand which must come from the two combatants for clothing. In the profit which will result to them our Southern friends find one of the compensations of the war.

THE Democratic lcaderssof South Car olina are bitter in their denunciations of Hon. James L. Orr for his recent letter. To prove at once their ingratitude and insincerity, while they assail Colonel Orr for supporting a carpet-bagger for Governor in the person of General Scott, the Republican candidate for that office, they themselves champion Judge Carpenter, a cry recent importation from Illinois, for the same position.

BLOSSOM ROCK, for many years a serious obstacle to navigation in the harbor of San Francisco, was recently obliterated by the explosion of a single charge of gunpowder. The success of this work proves that submarine blasting can be effected with a degree of certainny [sic] hitherto unattained. In the endeavors to remove submerged rocks in Eastern rivers and harbors much time and money has been squandered. To attain success in work of this kind, the plans put in practice in California must evidently be closely followed.

ALABAMA, South Carolina, and Mississippi are the three Southern States in which the Republicans are thoroughly organized and- confident of victory. In the present Congress there arc four Republicans and two Democrats from the first,

four

Republicans from the sccoiid,

and five Republicans from the third. The majorities of these gentlemen,with two exceptions, were so large at the last Con g'ressional election, and the present condition of the party in their districts is so healthy, that we.may expect equally satisfactory results in the approaching contests.

THE Democrats anticipate gains in Virginia, Tcnnnesse, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas, to secure which the)' have dropped their old name and assumed that of Conservative or Citizen's party. This concession to* the strength of their adversaries is a curious comment upon the tact that up to 1860 a Republican vote in the South was not only unknown, but would have been death to the daring man offering it. Now, without Republican help in these States, few Democrats can be chosen to any office. The disavowal of the Democratic name is one method to secure Ibis help, but the most successful means is the terrorism of the old rebels over the new freedmen. This latter expedient, aided by unfortunate dissensions among the white Republicans, has been very effective in several of the Southern States.

THE Chicago Republican says: "Gen. John A. McClernand has delivered himself, through the N. Y. Herald, of an address to the people of France, of the most gushing description. It is tullv up to the standard of his military services at Yick--burg, for which he was allo\*cd leave of absence indefinitely and if the Frcnch can stand the Prussians and this production,'both at once, they will be entitled to the crcdit of great capacity for endurance."

A SPECIAL report from the Hon. Harnett Andrews, judge of theSuperior Court of the northern circuit of Georgia, contains a very full exhibit of the condition of affairs in that State. In the course of this report the Judge says: "My circuit has been grievously infested by masked assassins, who, riding generally of nights, have committed many murders and other crimes within the last few years, on whites and blacks—mostly the latter.— Indeed,-1 think now-of but one white murder in I hat way. I know of no way to arrest this fearful crime, except by making it highly penal to be found out of doors masked, or in any way disguised, unless the accused can show it was with innocent intent." Certain papers profess to regard the Ktiklux as myths, but this explicit official statement coming from high judicial authority, can scarcely be dis-. puled.

A QUEEN VICTORIA is oncc more made the subject of severe newspaper criticisms. Iler absence from the seat of government in the present crisis has provoked the ire of some of the more out spoken journals, and they insist that too much precious time is wasted by the Prime Minister t^iveling nil over the Kingdom to consult with Her Majesty, and that the better wav to do would be to appoint Mr. Gladstone Regent, with power to inform the duties of Sta'c which the Queen so persistently shirks, and for the supposed performance of which, says the London Eeoiwinis', "she is*so well paid.1' The spirit' of revolution is evidently spreading. Sentiments like the above will soon make London as restive as Paris.

DURING our war we never teased lamenting our ignorance of military matters, and to awkward soldiers and raw officers the French wen* held np as models of martial perfections that thev could not do better than copy. But with true American independence and ingenuity we devised means of our. own. and now, to the dismay of the harsh critics, comes the news that the French are copying American military contrivances. American ambulances have been greeted with rapturous applause* in the streets of Paris, as an acknowledgement of their stfyeriority over the Frcnch vehicles for the wounded. If the war should last much longer the combatants will doubtless avail themselves of other American inventions.

SB KM 7

.1 .. "All Sorts.".

A bawl-room—the nursery.

Brownlow is in good health again, Alaska military posts are to be aban-

doned-•

Mrs. President Juarez has cancer of the stomach. The rebel General Basil Duke is in the insurance business..

Sir Edwin Landseer, the eminent painter, is extremely ill. The Longworlh estate in Cincinnati pays $25,000 city tax..

There is a 119 year old lady in Roane county, Tennessee. "Full of elan" is the latest 'description of intoxicated persons.

To have a "bang-up" time—be present at a steamboat explosion. Mark Twain will carry on the business of his late father-in-law.

William Cullen Bryant has turned Sunday School Superintendent.^

Prussian land-owners are eager to pay their taxes in advance. Eight children have been boru in the New York-Tombs this year

A mixture of hartshorn and castor oil is the. best thing knowit to prevent'.the -hair from falling out. i.

French agility in leaping ditches is ascribed to the national diet on frogs. Nebraska City was founded in 1854, and has now a population of 9,000.

The Cafe Napoleon in Berlin changed its name as soon as the war broke out. The Detroit Tribune asserts that Reverdy Johnson is threatened with blindness.

Leopold A. Price, United States Consul at Neil vitas, has won $-10,000 in. the Royal Havana Lottery.

Goldwin Smith* is suggested by the Iowa City Tribune for the Presidency of the Iowa State University.' .General Spinner is called "the man that writes a name on the greenbacks that looks like a string of eels."

Steinway, the piano forte builder, has just bought a residence near Astoria, Loug Island, for §127,000.

California is shipping much fruit East, in cars with revolving fans in the roof driven by the motion.

An English' firm has received an order for 20,000 nosebags for the horses in the re a

Baltimore boys fish the letters out of the street letter boxes and till up the vacancy with mud.

A San Francisco journal characterizes the death of the Living_ Skeleton' as a swindle on the worms.

A young gentleman only tcn*years of age has been arrested in Baltimore for stealingliymn books., ,• 'Our hog-alley cotempornry," 'is' the pleasant way one of the Nashville papers alludes to another.

Some of the New York papers are try to goad the fat men of Connecticut into playing a match game of base ball.

Sonic of the Paris journals, only two weeks ago, headed all their war correspondence "with the wol ds "From Paris to Berlin."'-

The four trails that a man most admires in a womAn are dignity, self-pos-session, tact and a sweet voice.

The handsomest- and showiest fans come from Havana, where the language of the fan is well studied and constantly practiced.

E. G. Stevens & Daughter are a conveyancing firm in Boston. The daughter has served ii thorough apprenticeship in the business. '1

Madame Grundy has had a most delightful summer everywhere, and expects to return4o the city about the middle of September, thank you.

A noted burglar, now at large, told an ex-United States Marshal, a day or two si^cc, that "no botch did that job at Nathan's bouse."

In the life of every woman there are two grand epochs at which she is willing to tell her age—when she is sixteen and when she is one hundred. ,._

An injured husband compromised with a depraved clergyman in Ohio, who had shattcredifcis peace of mind, for $4,000.

Many of the cooks at the large hotelsat Saratoga, Newport, and o' her summer resorts, receive from #2,500 to §3,000 for the season. I

Lucy Rnshtoli, the actress, is tl*e first English woman tc receive the full rights of American citizenship, she having taken out her final naturalization papers in Chicago.

A Londu:: medical writer estimate-* the death rate from chloroform in England at 1 for every. 3,000 patients, whence he concludes that it is the safest remedial agent known

Sixty-nine of the Republican members of the present Congress served in the Union armies. Eleven members who served on the same side are classed as a

Taking Down a Hotel Clerk.

It is honorable and praiseworthy to rise from an humble and obscure position to one of importance, though the airs of importance which some men wholiaveaccomplished that fact put on arc exasperat ingto 'one who knows their origin. The super in ident of a famous and popular hotel in an Eastern city began his career there as a porter. He is said-to have been a very stood poster, handling bnggage carefully and Icceiving any litte testimonials in the way of quarters or half dollars with all humility. FIc is doubtless a good betel superintendent, too, although very lofty in his style and in getting up. 'i'to other day ITarrv Peeples, the veteran commercial traveler, who lias been on the ••oad longer than any other man, and who knows every hotel, and every hotel man, intimately, from Maine to California, from the St. Lawrence to the Gnlf, to employ the comprehensive language of our grandiloquent Fourth of July orators, was at the hotel above alluded to. The gorgeous Superintendent was behind the desk in all his unapproachablcne^s. Harry asked him f-r some particle of information regarding the arrival or departure of a train, it don't matier which, but received no answer, the glance of the Superintendent passing high over his head, contemplating lie elaborately carved capital of a PiI1:ir-

The question was repealed, nearer, clearer, deadlier than before," and yet the luxurious monarch of the grand hotel could neither see nor hear the questioner.

Drawing half a dollar from liis ve=t pocket, and laying ft dawn in front of the Superintendent, Harry said: "1 wish yoli would bri?'g my trunk down stairs, and do it right away." .. "Sir!" cried the ex-porterl to Harry., the importer, as he colored 'with rage, "What do you mean by such language to me?" "Ain't you one of 4he porters?" asked Peeples, in feigned surprise. "You used to'be. I know. HaVe "you been promo-

The gorgeous captain of the clerks gave a growl, and incontinently disappeared, but Peeples had had his revenge—Cin. Times.

The New York Commercial Adrertizer asks "We wonder if it ever occurs to emperor?, kings, princes, and potentates, which country an army of invassion injures the mos't—their own or their neighbors. In other words, which will desolate a country soonest—taxes or tactics?

n't

vrtj tii i's.-'"

TERRE-HAUTE, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1870.

Another Pacific Kail way. j,s The railway linking the far West to the far East was opened in July last. The full significance of that important announcement can scarcely be estimated. It will change the aspect of a great and productive region. The Indian already stands aghast as he sees the line of cars— that greatest of all ^reat "medicines"— rattling along the plains where he hunted the buffalo, and withdraws to the northward. He hears in the whistle of the engine the death-knell of all his race. The trapper hears it, and hurriedly gathers up his traps and little "fixins," and, with his squaw and half-breed brood, retreats before the surging flood of emigration. TH'ey hear, not afar off, "the rush of waves where soon shall roll a human sea"—a sea that shall sweep them before it.

These regions, of which many, knew little, save by the tales that came lloatin, back of the exploits of Jed Smith an Kit Carson, the hardy pioneers of. Skipper Gray,- who,.11 rat breasted jthe breakers on the bar'of Columbia of Captain Bonneville, who made his way to them by land of-Sutter, who found a bank of gold in his millrace of old Downie, ycleped "Major," who always "struck it" where he slept—these regions have all been brought near by the railway. Thousands have left their homes iri.the East for a month's vacation and a trip to California during the last summer. They have been to see us and gone away again, to tell of our snow-tipped mountains, and giant forests, and rocky gulches, with the glittering gold, and pleasant corn-covered valleys and vine-clad hills. To us in the West it seemed as if New York and Philadelphia and Chicago had gone out "on the tramp.". In August the writer met an authoress from New York in the Willamette Valley, .a professor from Iowa away up at the Cascade Falls of the Columbia, a couple of Senators from Washington staging it through an Oregon forest, the Governor of Illinois at a social gathering in Portland, dined with the Vice-President on board one of the Oregon Steamship Company's vessels, near to the 49th parallel, had a drink with an Eastern editor in one of the ice-cave? of Washington Territory, and spent three of the happiest of his existence with Seward and his party, on the pleasant waters of the Puget Spimd.

And no sooner has one railway been opened than another is proposed. The engineers have already been out and made the survey. The Northern Pacific is spoken of as a rival to the Central Pacific, and the land-holders and lot-holders of the Puget Sound arc discussing tlic location of the great terminal city. The eyes of all are turned to a spot which is destined to play no mean part in the history of our national progress and civilization. Bills may be proposed and defeated, particular schemes may be discu«sed and delayed but let any one take a look at the position anil contour of the northwestern corner of o.ur country, and he will be convinccd of its importance, and foresee its manifest destiny. There is a great inland sea stretching up 200 miles from Cape Flattery, studded with fertile islands, surrounded by pine-covered height?, aud nearer, by SO0 miles, to China, than- San Francisco -and nearer, also, to New York. Instead of sage-bush desert and salt plains, there is a fertile belt, under which lies a bed of miocene coal, stretching all the way from Illinois to Washington Territory. Let any one consider the increasing commerce with China, of which we have merely tasted the first fruits and acquaint himself with the character of the country behind it, and he will perceive why so much attention has been directed to this part of the republic he will be satisfied of the wisdom manifested in preserving intact the boundary line which terminates so near it, and discern a reason for the present anxiety to push through the Northern Pacific Railway.— Thomas Somerville, in Harper's Magazine for September.

Story of a Pair of Slippers. It is a fortunate circumstance That officers not on duty wear mufti, otherwise two galhnt gentlemen would have cut each other's throats on Monday, all in consequence of a pink slipper. Baron de is a very jolly bachelor, by no means a sworn brother-of the Order of Malta, and although not a professional Don.Juan, still with a certain reputation •for success among the fair ladies of the capital.

His intimate friend, Count dc Pon the contrary, has the name of being a most devoted husband, although his wife's beantv* is so great that there is little merit in his constancy. Notwithstanding this great difference in character and taste, Chese two gentlemen have long been'inseparable,-Madame 1' always taking up the cndgol in behalf of her husband's friend whenever he was attacked too warmly in her presence, and the Baron often remarking that he would ranger himself as "soon as he could find some one as lovely as the Countess.

Both of these gentlemen belong to the staff'of a French Marshal, who went'to the trout on Wednesday, and two days before went to 's lodgiligs on business connected with their campaigning arrangements. There was some little delay in answering his ring, and as lie piitcred the drawing-room lie heard the rustle of a silk dress as the opposite door was closed. Rather accustomed tosnch episodes at his friend's rooms, excused himself for this intrusion, aud was about to withdraw, when suddenly his glance fell upon a tiny pink slipper lying close to the parlor door, which had evidently been, dropped by the fair visitor in her precipitate (light. Hastily fringing forward he snatched it from the ground,, and saw, with horror, not only the name of his .wife's shoemaker, but also his own monogram. "Madame dc is in your room," be exclairacd, in a piVroxysm of jealous

raKe"

"You are mad! answered 1 'I give you my word of honor as a gentleman, that she has never crossed my threshold had she been here, most certainly you would not have been permitted to enter." The Count, however, would not be convinced, and with the accusing slipper in his hand insisted upon being confronted with the lady who was in the inner room. Of course, the Baron said he would die before he permitted this, and finally his visitor left the house, swearing that -"blood alone could wash out the outrage,'" etc., etc.

Jumping ituo his carrisige,Monsieur de drove home rapidly, and burst like a mad bull into his wife's boudoir, where the lady was making up some lint for the patriot association. "Where have you been?" he shouted as he came in. "I think you had better answer ..that question," she replied very quietly. "I have not left the house to-day, while you rush in here like a lunatic."

And then, after a moment's silence: "But what are you doing with my slipper? Give it to. me at onee. You are crumplii.g it up, so that I shall not be able to wear it."

VSo you confe=s that it is yours, madame?" "Most certainly, and I wish you would 'not twist it about so horribly." "Very well, Madame I found it at your lover's." "My lover's! Deeidedly, sawi ami, you are ill. Shall I send for the doctor?" "1 do not joke, Madame I'found it at Monsieur de where donbtle=s its fellow is at present." The Counte-a rang the bell, and bade ber maid bring in her pair of pink satin Fenelons. A moment afterward three shoes were in the hands of the astonished Ooutit. "Butwhteeis the third one?" he said "it is.yoar shoemaker's name, and even your monogram and coronet." ~:i Madame de P—— thought for an in1 stairt, and then laughed out heartily, as she answered: "I have it. I sent back a pair last week because they were too large. Yoil des-erve, yon jealons wretch, that they should fit me. Monsieur Jacob evidently iu:s a customer who is less of a Cinderella than I am. Look fey yourself they are are. at least a size too long.

Confused and repentant, the Count fell at .the'feet he had so unjnstly calumniated, and in a few moments returned to explain and apologize to his friend the Baron. "Btrt my dear friend,'' he £aid, "beg yoar lady visitor to change hef shoemaker."

1

RAILROAD MASTERS.

Gail Hamilton's Views as to What Women Should do When Traveling. ———

There are certain points of good manners in which women fail, which yet seem to have been greatly overlooked by their censors. Perhaps we ought not to say women, for the class is undoubtedly small; but the one woman who behaves badly attracts more attention than the 999 well disposed and when even one woman falls below the proper standard, all_women seem, somehow, to be humiliated thereby.

In connection with our public schools there is springing up a school of ungracefulness and indelicacy, which, to my thinking, goes far to neutralize the good wrought by the former. Groups of cirls travel daily frcm the country villages, three, five, ten miles over the steam and horse railroads, to normal and high schools of the city, and return at night. What is. cause and what is effect I donot know but these girls sometimes conduct themselves so rudely as to force upon one the conviction that it would be better for women not to know the alphabet, if they must take on so much roughness along with it. Typical American girls, pretty, gentle-faced, intelligentlooking, well-dressed, will fill a car with idle, vulgar, boisterous chatter. Out of rosy, delicate lips come the voices—of draymen, I was about to say,'but that is not true for the voices of these girls are like nothing in the heavens above or the earth beneath. The only quality of womanliness they possess is weakness. Without depth, richness, or force tlicy are thin, harsh, inevitable. They do not so much fill the space as they penetrate it. Three or four such girls will gather face to face, aud from beginning to the end of their journey pour forth a ceaseless torrent of giddy gabble, utterly regardless of any other presence than-their own. They will talk of their teachers and schoolmates by name" of their parties and plans, of their studies, their dresses, their most personal and private matters, with an extravagance, with an incolierency, with an inelcgance and coarseness of phraseology which is disgraceful alike to their schools and their homes- They will compel without scruple, and bear without flinching the eyes of a whore carriage-load of passengers. Indeed, the notice of strangers seems sometimes to be the inspiration of their noisy, unmelodious clatter. They apparently think that this is to.be sprightly, arcji, high-spirit-ed and winning, not perceiving that a really liigb-toned and liigh-brcd girl would as soon jump over a stick in a circus as turn herself into such a spectacle. There is nothing winning about it. The absolute extravagance and nonsense of it will sometimes excite a smile from thoughtlessness, but it is a mile less complimentary -than a frown. No amount of acquisition, no mental training ran atone for such demeanor. If tlic two arc incompatible it is better for a woman not to know the multiplication tabic than not to begentlemannered. If a woman is vulgarly prononce, the more she knows the worse. 1 could sometimes wish that our far famed schools, would stop their algebra, stop their Latin, stop their philosophies, and give their undivided attention to teaching their pupils how to talk. It may not be possible to ake them talk sense, but surely they can be made to talk nonsense gracefully. Not at all can have musical voices but upon pain of death I would have girls to speak low. Training can do much in the. way of melody and sweetness but a voice that is softly'modulated can not be-violent-ly disagreeable. And if a girl's tongue. incorrigible, let her be disposed of altogether.

The pronunciation and the rhetoric of these girls area disgrace to their ciders. Words aud syllables are clipped, twisted, run together, mingled, mangled and muddled into a dialect fit for savages. Girls who can read Virgil and calculate an eclipse, will employ in conversation a jargon that would stamp them with the stamp of intolerable-vulgarity at any wellbred dinner table. What cruelly, what waste is this!. It is so easy not to offend, it is hard not to be stupid. It .is so unimportant to be learned, it is so. indispensable to be well-mannered. Why give' time and pains unmeasured to mental acquisition, and then neutralize it all by a ruffianly- exterior? Why cast an odium upon education by associating it with uncouthness?

There are disadvantages worse than these, if anything can be worse, in sending' girls "to school over the railroads. They somehow become common. They cheapen themselves. They lose, if they ever possessed, they destroy before they are old enough, to feel, the divinity that should hedge ii woman. They fall into— I can hardly dignify it with tlie name of flirtation—but into a sort of bantering communication with unknown men, cm ploycs of the railroad and season travelers —a" traffic which's fatal to dignity ^n woman, and inspires no reverence in man. And this passes for liveliness and attractiveness, or at most,' perhaps, it is being a little wild. But it is a wildness which girls can not afford. Delicacy is not a tiling which can be lost and found. No art can restore to the grape its bloom and the supreme charm of thegrapeis its bloom. Familiarity without love, without confidence, without regard, is destructive to all that makes woman exalting and enabling.

There are other displays of ill-manners which are almost incredible. Girls will sit with their faces toward the passengers and eat oranges in the most slovenly, but the rhost .unconcerned manner, and then pelt each other with the bits of peel across the aisle. They will scatter the crumbs and paper of their lunch over the floor and sofas. I have seen the clean, tidy waiting-room of the railroad strewn with peanut sells—not always, I fear,- by womeu young enough to be called girls. Such tilings are simply disgusting. Cleanliness, order, propriety are not local or incidental qualities. They are inherent, inbred. A lady will no sooner be untidy in one place than in another. She wilfno more throw nutshells on the bare floor of a station-room than on her own parlor carpet,, will no more thrust a penknife into the leather lining of the station sofathan she wouldlnto the velvet upholstery of her own.

Tho world is wide, these tilings are small: They be nothing, but they are all." Nothing? It is the first duty of woman to be a lady. The woman who says that this making much ado about nothin the woman who will accost yon by name when you enter in a tone that introduces you to every person in it, and make.you wish that the part she occupies had run off the track at the last bridge. She is the woman who,under the pretext of conversing with one or two friends, informs the whole car company of her views on woman's rights and ber relations with her husband. She is the woman who, in public assembly, when we are all mom entarilv expecting the lecture or the singer "to enter, rises in her place, fronts the audience, and stands two minutes waiting for or beckoning to some Sarah Jano to join her. Good breeding is good sense. Bad manners in woman is immorality. Bashfulness is constilntional. Ignorance of etiquette is-the result of circumstances. All can be condoned, and do hot banish man or woman from the amenities of his kind. But seK-possess&J unshrinking and aggressive coarsencss of demeanor may be reckoned a State prison offense, several degrc-e? worse than mur der, and ought to relegate its proprietor to thfe society of New York Lawyers.

€OCm*ATI.

1IETHOD15T COSFEREKCE.

CINCINNATI, Aug 27.—Atameeting-of the Cincinnati Conference 'of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in session at Piqua, yesterday, superannuated relation wa« granted to lleverends Webster, Ogden, Barton, Stone, Kecly, Davisson Ellsworth, Matthews, Glasscock, Maxey Callahan, Murphy, Field, Boudier, Phil lips, Brandruff, Hinqs and Shinn.

Dayton was selected as the next place of meeting FATALLY INJURED.

Robert Carnes, a brakeman on the L. M. R. R.., was badly crushed last night between two cars he was coupling. He ia supposed to be fatally injured.

STATE FINANCES.

£OY. Baker's.Specch.

DELIVERED AT ISDIAXAi'OLIS,

Saturday Evening, Aug. 57, 1870.

The past and present indebtedness of the Stale being matters of public record, open to the inspection of all, may be misrepresented but need not be misunderstood by any one desirous of knowing tho truth.

I propose in what I shall say on this subject on the present occasion, to either, quote literally from the record or at least to refer to book and page for the verification of every statement.

It is a matter of history that, Indiana in 1S315, under the influence of the Internal Improvement mania which then afflicted her people, embarked in the construction of a vast systeili 8f public works which soon proved to be largely beyond her ability to complete.

Bv a single act in 1S3G, she authorized the borrowing of $10,000,000, for which the faith of the State was pledged. The bonds issued under this act are known as "Internal Improvement Bonds," and although there were other bonds of prior issues outstanding at the time of tlie_adjustment of the State Debt in 1S47, I shall, to avoid circumlocution, designate all the bonds issued prior to 1S47 as "Internal Improvement Bonds."

In 1841, the State ceased to provide for the payment of the interest on her outstanding bonds, and no attempt was made to resume the payment of interest on any portion of her bonded debt until after the adjustment of 1S47. hen the Stale suspended tho payment of interest in 1S41, her entire taxable property, real and personal, was less than $100,000,000, and her outstanding liabilities, foreign and domestic, were about §12,000,000. In other words, the Slate owed an amount equal to about one-eighth of all. the taxable property of her entire people.

In 1S45, the taxable property of the State had increased to §122,000,000 and, at the meeting of the General Assembly in December of that year, Charles Butler, Esq., of New York, on behalf of a large number of the foreign creditors of the State, proposed, that the public debt of the State should be adjusted in such a manner, and upon such terms as would render it possible for her to resume the payment of interest oh such portion of the debt as should by the terms of the arrangement be charged upon the revenues of the State.

The result of many conferences between Mr. Butler and the"members and appropriate committees of the Legislature was the passage of the act of January 19, 1S4G, entitled "An net to provide for the funded debt of the State of Indiana and. for the completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal to EvansvHIe."

This act was submitted,' soon after its passage, by Mr. Butler, to a conference of a large number of the foreign creditors of the State, held in London, at'which divers amendments were suggested and prepared for presentation to our General Assembly at its then next meeting in December, 1S46.

The amendments were accordingly preented, and the result was the passage of the supplementary act of January 27, 1S47, which, as I understand the matter, largely consists of the amendments prepared" by the» London conference, and icnce the peculiarities of this act when compared with our ordinary forms of legislation.

The=e.two acts taken together have ever since their passage been known as the Butler Bill."

This Butler Bill wa«, at tlif time of its passage, only a proposition, because it in express terms provided that, it should cease, determine and be null and void unless bonds of the State to the amount of four millions of dollars, exclusive of interest, should be surrendered for cancellation under the provisions of the bill on before the first -day of July, 1S47. "What, then, was, or is, the "Butler BilJ?" I answer in brief that it was a proposition made in the first place by a large number of the creditors of the St'ate to' the Legislature, and adopted by it, that the creditors should take the Wabash & Eric Canal and some 800,000 acres of land donated by Congress for its completion, for one-half of the principal of the bonded debt and also for one-half of the interest accrued thereon and, for the other half, the State was to make provision by taxation.

The principal of each bond was to'be divided into two equal parts, and for one of these halves or parts the State was to issue—upon the surrender of the old bond—a new five per cent. State bond, the interest being payable semi-annually and the principal being payable at the pleasure of the State after the expiration of twenty yeaf*.

For the other half of the principal ot each bond surrendered, a five per cent, certificate of Canal Stock was to issue, and the payment of'the principal and interest thereof, was to be exclusively charged upon the Wabash & Erie Canal, its lands and revenues, and for the payment of which the State was not to be iable.

The interest in arrears from «1341 to 1847, on each.bond'surrendered, was to be funded? and interest on the aggregate bus funded was to be calculated at ,the rate of two and a half per cent, per annum froxa January 1, 1847, to January 1, 1853, and added to such aggregate, and the sum thus produced was to be'divided into two equal parts, for one of which halves or parts, a Certifieite of Slate Stock was to i.=i,-ue, bearing interest after January 1, 1853, at the rate of two and a half per cent. and for the other half, a like Certificate-of Canal Stock, chargcable exclusively upon said canal, was to issue. Four millions of the old bonds of the State were surrendered under the Butler Bill, beforS the first day of July, 1S47 and that bill thereupon became effectual.

If all the Internal Improvement Bonds had been surrendered, the matter would have been very much simplified for then the foreign debt, for which the State is liable, would have consisted exclusively of two and a half and five per cent. State Stocks, issued under the Butler Bill.

The result of this is, that the foreign bonded debt of the 9»te upon which she pays interest has varied from year to vear as old Internal Improvement bonds have been surrendered and new five and two and a half per cent, bonds were issued in lieu thereof. Every old bond surrendered decreased the number of Internal Improvement bonds outstanding, but increased the number of two and a half and'five per cent, bonds issued under the Butler Bill.

In ascertaining, therefore, the amount of the foreign bonded debt of the State at any given period, it is necessary to consider the amount of Internal Improvement Bondsj and the amount of two and a half and five per cent. State «Stock.\ tliat may be outstanding and to find the entire debt of the State, you must of course add to the aggregate of the foreign bonded debt the domestic debt which may be outstanding at the same time and it must be remembered that we have had for many years, and still"have a domestic debt.,

DOMESTIC DEBT.

This domestic debt has generally consisted, and still consists, of money due from the General Treasury of the State to the Trust Funds held by the State for

Common School purposes, and of a few bonds issued to the Vincenne3 University to compensate that institution for lands which were sold by the State and the proceeds applied to the Bloomington University, the Court- having afterwards decided that the Vincennes Institution was entitled to the proceeds.

Now. if any one in attempting to inform the yinblic Jiow much the State owed at a given time, shall take the foreign bonded debt-of the State and represent it as the entire debt of the State, when there is at ihesametimea large domestic debt outstanding, it is manifest that he who seeks Initli for his guide, .e?im.ot safely ^follow such a leader.

WMrt

(PAYABLE INADVANCE

Soch, however, is the exact process by which the Indianapolis Daily Sentinel, in its leader of August 12, 1870, made the entire debt of the State in 1861, to be$7,770,233, instead of $10,179,267 09, as it really was.

It is a remarkable fact that the Democrats, who have" been attempting to enlighten the pedple on this subject, do not refer, to the report' of the Democratic Auditor of State, Hon. John

W.

Dodd,

made two months and a half before the termination of the last Democratic administration to ascertain what the debt was when the Kepublican administration commenced but instead of dping this thev refer to the report of the Republican Auditor of. State, Hon. Albert Lange, made November 1, 1861, nine months after the Kepublican administration began, to find what the debt was the previews January.

In proof then, that tho entire debt of the State, foreign and domestic—was in January 1861, $10,179,267.09, I shall quote from the reports of both those Auditors of State, and shall show that these reports are not in conflict but in complete harmony.

I proceed therefore to quoic from the report of Mr. Dodd of the date of November 1, 1360, as found on page 2S of the Documentary Journal' of 1861, not aL garbled extract, but his full summary statement of the condition of the foreign and domestic debt of the State. It reads as follows:

SUMMARY OF THE ENTIRE 1X3EETF.DSKSS

Internal Improve-

OK

ment Bonds outstanding #303,000 00

Sive

per cent.

stocks outstanding 5,322,500 00 Two and ono lmlf per cent stocks outstanding. 2,054,^3 50 Bond held by Boardof Sinking Fund

Commissioners... l,18S,210bl

THE

STATE—f'ORltIGN AND DOMESTIC.

(i_

,f

1

Yinconnes llniver-

G0,5S5 CO

sity bondsv. Loan Irom Bpard of Commissioners of

Sinking Fund to pay interest, July l.liviS Indebtedness of the General Fund to 'be othor funds as heretofore stated .1..*

165,000 00 ..

'9S9.1SS OR

Total !... S10,179,267 09 Now, here is an itemized statement of a Democratic Auditor of State, showing the entire debt of the State, foreign and domestic to have been §10,179,267.09,

the 1st day of NovembcrlSOO and if any Democrat'wishcs to convince the public that this statement is not correct,- it behooves him to point out the erroneous items ftr if he insists that Governor Hammond's administration between the 1st day of November 1860 and the 1 lib day o£ January 1SG1 reduced this debt to §7,770,233, he should inform us how and when this reduction was made and which item of the debt was paid.

If the debt was reduced, and the reduction took place after the l-lth day of January 1861, the reduction goestoour credit ond* not to that of the Democracy, for the Kepublican administration commenced on that day.

The truth however, is that, no such reduction took place. The Sentinel, in the article before alluded to, says: "The amount of the State debt November 1, 1861, as reported by the Auditor of State, Hon. Albert Lange was $7,770,233."

I deny that Mr. Lange in the report cited'niake: any such statement. I quote what he does say in his own words on page 205 of the Documentary Journal of I860—61 and you will observe that he says the statement is furnished by the Agent of State, and it is well known that the duties of the Agent of State are confined to the foreign debt and he could give no information in relation to the Domestic debt. The language of Mr. Lange's report is as follows, viz:

rUBLIC DEI1T.

The following statement of the condition of the public debt, is furnished by the Agent of State:-.

BONDS SUItRKXDERKD.

There were outstanding on tho 1st day «f November, 4860, as I heretofore reported, 393 bonds of S1000 each 393,000 00 There liavo been surrendered since that timo two bonds #f

S'OOp each 2,000.00

Total outstandiriR Nov. 1,1801. $391,000 00 FIVE rrr. CKNT STATE STOCKS. There have been issued on account of bonds surrendered ui to thelst dayofNovcmbcr lSi30 5,322,500 01 Tliere has been issued since that timo on samo account.... LOCO 00

Total, Nov. 1,1800 5,323,000 00 TWO AND A HALF I'KR CENT STATE STOCK. There had been issued on account of bonds surrendered up to the 1st day of Nov.. 'tXJ 2,054,133 50 Th^re has bccn-issuod sineo that time on same account.... 1,100 00

Total', Nov. 1, 1850 2,055,733 50 Now, let me placc these three items in juxtaposition and add them together, which Mr. Lange does not Tlo in his report, and the result will be $7,770,233.50, thus:

Intorn.-.l Improvemfcnt bonds ,'.1,000 00 Five per cents 5,*323,500 00 Two aud a half per cents 2,055,i33 oO

Total foreign bonded debt 7,770,233 50 Now, if we turn back to the summary statement before quoted from Mr. Dodd's report, we find that he reported the foreign bonded debt of the State outstanding November 1, I860 as follows, viz:

393,00000

Internal Improvement bonds Five perccnts Two and a half per oerits

5,322,500 00

2,054,773 50

Total.... 7,770,273 50

A difference in the foreign bonded debt of the State as reported by Mr. Dodd in 1800 and Mr. Lange in 1861, of only forty dollars, showing conclusively that, the &ntind left out of the calculation altogether the Domestic debt of the State outstanding November 1, I860 of $2,408,995.59, consisting of the Vinconncs University bonds.... G6,533 00 The bond held by the Board of

Sinking Fund Commissioncrs for 1,1-38,21.* 61 Tho loan from same Board to pay interest in July, 1858 Po.OOOOO And thff indebtedness of tho "General Fund to the other fund 989,188 9o

The way the last named item occurred was by the Democracy adoring the financial system of Wilkins Micawber as improved upon by the female Ahcawber wife of "Wilkins aforesaid.

Wilkins, you know, to reple»ish the Micawber Exchequer always relied upon something ''turning np," and when the starvation point was reached, his faithful Emily, who never did and never would desert him, alwaj-3 insisted on his turning tomdhing up, as for instance, drawing a bill and selling it at any sacrifice.

The Democracy improved upon this device by turning up the Trust funds when ever they were short, and taking a slice and charging it to the General Fund. They seldom however, had grace enough to give a bill or an I. O. U. for the amount appropriated, and when they did they failed to pay the interest. .' It is manifest from what has already been said iiat, when the Republican State Admin- jv ,t istration was inaugurated on tho 14th day of January. 1861, the entire debt of the £tatc, foreign anil domestic", was.:... And not And that the misrepresentation consists in omilting altogether tho domestic debt, which then was To start with then, the Republicans in January. IStil, succeeded to a debt of. To this should be abided the war loan bonds, rendered necessary by tho ivar, and authorized by the Legislature at its special session in 1*61 ..

Congress In

«10,179,2CT 09 7,770.223 50

2,408,993 50

810,179,26? 0!)

4

2,000,000 00

Add also. Indiana's pcrtfcn of ,. tho direct tax assessed by

1SS2, which was

assumed and paid bythe Republican Administration \j 'i '. ly fresh levy on .the the people- ....

901,815

without any fresh levy on-the property of the pcopli

Total 13,084,142 42 By these additions, we see that the necessities of the war increased the State liabilities in 1802, from $10,179,267.09 to $13,084,142.42.

The question remains to be auawyted

how much of this- large indebtedness has been paid off and how much thereof still, exists? In answer to these questions, I state that, on the loth day of July 1870, the account stood as follows, viz: 1,14-5,197 33*

Five per cents ijuts Two and a half-pe standing War loan oonds..

standing per conts out-

3,11913

201,000 00-

Total of foreign debt on which the State pays interest To meet this, we have on hand in the Treasury of the State

1,352,316 46^

Debt,Sinking Fund Commissioner belonging to the State.

999,029 77

Balance 353.2SG To meet this, we have Trust funds,a, which may be applied by law to the redemption of this balance, amounting to $500,000.00 and, to reimburse tho sum1which may be temporarily borrowed from* the Trust funds, we have the State Debt Sinking Fund tax for 1S70, now on the#®duplicate which, judging from the result: of last year's collections will- yield $640,-:% 000, and will replace the Trust funds so'Sj, used and leave, a balance of S286,000, which can, if the Legislature shall see proper to recognize them as a part of the State debt, be applied to the redemptions1 of the 194 Internal Improvement Bonds still outstanding, and amounting exclusive of interest to §194,000, or thereabouts. 'This disposes of the foreign debt of the State and it only remains to state the amount of our Domestic debt. It is as follows, viz: Vincennes University Bonds...$ '63,!S5 00 l)ue School, Fund for which non-negotiable bond has beon issued payable that

Fnnd with intorest payable semi-annually 3,551,316 15 Amount duo same Fund for which no Bond has yet been issued 67,700 00

Total Domestic D*bt $ 3,632,601 15 I!y way of recapitulation tho figures may bo stated as follows, viz: Entire debt inherited by tho

Repnblioan administration in 1S61 from their predecessfirg S 10,179,«b 1 0-1 Increased hy the war in 1S62,

Foreign 13ebt in i*S70, paid or provided for as before stated, leaving domestic debt .11'.', juc 3,oS2,(X)l la Deduct this from tho liabilities of the State in 1SG2as before stated 15,08-1,142 97 And you havo a positive reduction of the liabilities, of the Stato since the accession of the Republican administion in ISftt, of. 9,401,541 82

The small Domestficdebtstill outstanding with the exception of the Vincennes University Bonds—which only amount to $63,585. the State owes to her own School fund and the interest paid thereon by the people is returned to them by being apportioned semi-annually among the Counties for the education of their children.

In the face of such a record as this, men may deny that there has been any substantial reduction of the State debt, just las Mr. Voorhees denies that there has been any reduction of the interest bearing National debt, by General Grnnl's administration but canittd and intelligent men will know how to appreciate such denials. 1 will here state what 1 ought to havo stated in another connection, that while the Republicans have wiped out the foreign debt as before shown, they have, in doing so, only added $1,273,607,at! to the Domestic Debt. For the Domestic Debt was, as before stated, on the 1st day of November, 1860, ?2,408,1)93,59, and it is now $3,(582,(07,15, being a d'Herenee of SI ,273,607.51!,

011'

Now, in contrast with this, look for one moment at a specimen of Democratic financieriltg:

In 1852, the .Democracy did, as the Sentinel claims, provide for the levy of a tax of two cents on each hundred dollars in value of the taxable property of the State, as a sinking fnnd for the redemption of bur bonds. The proceeds of this tax were lo be used in the purchase of the bonds of the State, nnd these bonds were lo be held by the State Debt Hoard of Sinking Fund Commissioners and tho interest thereon was to be collected from the State and used in the purchasing of more bonds and by this process the Democratic administration had, up to November 1,1858, redeemed $3S1,810, of the Sttite Stocks.

Now whafc do you suppose been 1110 of the stocks so redeemed? I think 1 hear all say, whv of course they were cancelled and that was the last of them except that thev were held by the Istate Debt ,'oard ill their cancelled condition so that they might collect the interest from the State on them and with this interest take up other bonds.

No such sensible disposition I assure HI was made of these redeemed bonds. What then was done with them? I fear if I should tell you in my own language, you would think I was attempting to burlesqne my political opponents, and I will therefore adopt the language of the Democratic Auditor of State, Hon. John \V. Dodd, in his report of November 1. 1859, which you will find [it page 93 of the Documentary Journal 85i)—60.

These stocks"—says Mr. Dodd,—havo all 'tbecn sold to defray current expenses and to meet the semi-annual payment of interest duo

111

New York

011

the 1st of

July last." This beats any thing ever achieved by the Micawber family in the financial line: Putting the redeemed bonds of the State again on the market and selling them—without authority of law—to raise funds to pay the salaries of these hopeful officials and to pav the interest an the other bonds outstanding! ,'

Was not this turning something upwith a vengeance? And yet these men are to-day the howling champions of financial "reform. No wonder that such financiers are in favor of issuing four-. teen or fifteen hundred millions of noninterest bearing Greenbacks and tendering them to our creditors for a like amount of interest bearing bonds. Surelv, if a modern Confederate Democrat, cannot lift himself up by the stra|/s of his boots, no one else need try the experiment.

But, the cream of the joke has not yet been related 1 have given you to understand that-, after eightyears of financial labor,'the Democracy," in 1858, had actualy suceeded in taking up State Stocks to the amount of $891,810.00 and that they then put these same Stocks on the market and sold them to procure fnnds to carry on theState Government and to pay the interest on the bonded debt of the State, but I have not told you what [sum these Stocks were sold for.

I now inform you that these Stocks, amounting to $391,810—on some of which interest had run from January to April, and others from .July to October,— •were sold for the magnificent sum of $267,'101.97!

For the proof, I refer you to the same Documentary Journal, page 75, ami to the records of the Treasurer's ollice to show that apart were sold in April and the rest in October

The Kepublicaris have, after paying interest on them for some ten years,again redeemed these same stocks by paying par for them: and we promise you that, Ikeyrluill stay redeemed this time, unless vou entrust them to Democratic officials, "in which case you had better lake out a policy against accidents!

In addition to reducing the liabilities of theState neiirly nine and a half million of dollars and placing the comparatively small amount still outstanding in such a condition that it practically amounts lo no debt at all for—we owe it to ourselves and the interest we pay ort it is expended in the education of our own children,—the Republicans since 1861, have expended more than a millicm of dollars in increasing the number and enlarging the capacities of your Benevolent Institutions in building Reformatories and other State Buildings, and in tho construction and completion of the'Northern Prison.

The Democrats turned a deaf ear to the .command of the Constitution which says the General Assembly shall provide Houses of Refuge for juvenile offenders but we have executed it by providing an Institution at PlaintieJd which now shelters nearly two hundred boys, most of whom would, bnt fur its saving influence grow up to become a (error to the lovers of good order and ulcers upon the body politic.'

We have provided the Soldier's and and Seaman's Home at Knightstown, in which more than three hundred soldiers and soldiers' orphans are cared for and educated by theoounty of the Stale.

We have provided the State Normal School at Terre Haute, which I predjet will ere long be the crowning glory of our system of popular education and wrf* have bv liberal appropriations placed tho State University in a position far in advance of anything it ever knew under Democratic rule, and we are now erecting a Reformatory for. Women and Girls, which will soon relieve theState from the terrible odium of Wending women to fc'ie penitentiary.

We have doubled the capacity of thq Hospital for the insane enlarged the Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, and erected .t raiU'.hie building for the Stale