Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 31 August 1870 — Page 2

offices and Supreme Court, and all ibis without the suspicion of a fraud in the contracts or disbursements.

Of course the current expenses of these new institutions, ancf of the old ones enfarged, and the increased cost of supplies and subsistence over the last Democratic deoa.de, has made a corresponding in* crease in the public expenditures but thanks to the good sense and public virtue of the people of Indiana, they do not object to ahy increased burden which the progress of the age may demand, provided the proceeds of the taxes imposed are honestly applied to the purposes for which they are contributed.

COMMON SCHOOLS.

Again look at the peopias Colleges, our COMMON FREE SCHOOLS now as compared with 1860. The State is to-day dotted over with nearly nine thousand school houses,—the exact number is 8,666 —or ninoty-four on an average to each Coun ty.

In 1860, the 8tate School tax collected "was $387,920.27, and the entire revenue for that year which ought to have been distributed to the Counties according to the number of children in each was $098,338.24 but, the amount actually distributed was only S544,980.90, or a little more than half the amount collected and, although the Constitution requires the income of our School fuRd to be sacredly applied to the education of the children of the Slate, the Democracy had other uses for it and therefore, they re* tained in the Treasury for the benefit of

Democratic officials, the snug sum of $454,357.24, which in law and conscience belonged to the childreh for the procurement of their intellectual daily bread.

In I860, the School tax collected was $987,563.41, nearly double that of 1860 and the entire revenue collected and subject to apportionment among the Counties for Sohool purposes, was $1,496,388.35, and the amount distributed was $l,-« 489,052.92 the distribution^ falling short of the collection only $7,325.43 and the reason why this small balance was not apportioned, was that it could not t^done without dividing to each child the fractional part of a cent the division stopped wit-j cents and was not carried down to mills.

In 1860, the School fund proper, was $6,046,654.00, of this sum there was pro ductive $3,184,262.00, leaving unproductive $2,862,392.00, or nearly one half of the entire fund.

The reason of this was that, the Democratic officials applied the School funds to other purposes, thereby making the General Treasury of the State debtor to this Fund, but they failed to provide for or pay to the School fund interest on the sums thus abstracted and this interest never was made good to the School fund until the Republicans did it after their accession to power.

They now boast that their interest account was small in1860, as compared with the interest account now consider ing the indebtedness of the State at the two periods, well it might be when they practically repudiate the interest on $2,' 342,408.59, which they had illegally abHtraded from the School funds.

Now under the pretext of reform they proposejto restore the same piractical crew to the command of your educational ship,

In 1869 the entire School fund of the State was $8,350,368.69, all of which is productive except $603,637.86, and nearly all of this is in a condition to be made productive as soon its the Legislature shall provide for its investment.

But it is charged that, if the results of Republican administration in this State arc as we claim them to be, these results have been accomplished by the most enor moiiB taxation accompanied by the most astounding extravagance.

To prove this, the Sentinel in the article alluded to, instituted a comparison of the ordinary expenses of the State govern mcnt, and also, of the amount of taxes assessed during ten years of Democratic rule and a similar period of Republican rule.

You may judge of the value and truth fulness of these comparative tabular state menta when I inform you that the year 1860, the lust year of the Willard-Ham mond administration, is set down in these lying tables as the first year of Republi can rule.

Everybody, except the managers of the Sentinel, knows that Governor Hammond retired from office, and Governor Henry S. Lane succeeded him in January, 1861 and the year 1860 was, therefore, a year of Democratic rule, which wc utterly decline to have

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decade. I commend the Sentinel, however, for its anxiety to get rid of one year of bad government but assure it that the attempt to show that Governors Willard and Hammond were Republicans in 1860, must fail even among the most i^orant of Democrats.

The ordinary expenditures of the State Government properly includes the expen scs of Legislative, Judicial and Executive branches of the State Government disbursements, made on account of the Re ncvolent Institution, Prisons, Reformato ries, Ate., &c. but do not include payments of principal or interest on the State Debt.

In the Sentinel's tables on this subject, the Democratic administration from 1851 to 1859 inclusive, is compared with what is pretended to be ten years of Republican administration from 1860 to 1869 inclusive.

We turn back the year 1860 to them and for it claim a credit for $119,676,85, the amount charged to the Republicans as the expenses of that year.

Charging this year to us the Sentinel foots up the ordinary expenses of ten years of Democratic administration at $1,145,329,56, and ten years of Republi can rule at $2,059,963,58, making an ex cess for Republican over Democratic rule of $914,634,02, or $91,463,40 of an excess for each year.

Now. as there have not yet been ten years of Republican administration, propose to reduce the comparison to the last nine years of Democratic rule and the first nine years of*Republican. To do this we must deduct from the Sentinel's Democratic tables theyears 1850 andlS51 the amount charged for those two years being $155,425,46 this deducted from the $1,145,329,56, and we have according to the Sentinel's own figures, $989,904,10 as the ordinary expenses of Democratic rule for the eight years commencing with 1852 and ending with 1S59. Add to this for 1860, the ninth year, the sum of $119,676j85, and we have $1,109,580,95 as the ordinary ex peases of the State for nine years from 1852 to.1860 inclusive, under Democratic rule.

According to the Scntinei's figures we have, as before stated, $2,059,963 58, as the cost of Republican rule for ten years from 1S60 to 1869, inclusive: deduct from this for the Democratic year 1S60, the sum of $119,676 85, and we have, according to the Sentinel's own figures, $1,940,286 73, as the ordinary expenses for nine vcars from 1861 to 1S69 inclu

But in this sum the Sgntinel has charged the Republicans with $565,926 92 as ordinary expenses which were in point of fact, interest paid on the Domestic Debt of the State, as follows, viz: For 1S67 150.833 73 ForlSSS 202,024 02 For 1869 213,075 97

Total for three years Deducting then this from the previously charged... and we have

565,926 7 565,926 7

1,940,286 73 1,3,4,359 SI

as the actual amount of the ordinary expenses for nine years of Republican rule from 1861 to 1S69 inclusive.

Now if we take from this sum the $1,109,580.95 ordinary expenses of Democratic rule from 1852 to I860 inclusive, we have as tho true excess of the Republican over the Democratic period only $215,379,86 or $23,936,09 for each of the nine years a sum much less than the increased current expenses of the Benevolent Institutions and Reformatories consequent upon the increase of population and the increased number of inmates in those Institutions.

To prove that I am not mistaken in saying that the Sentinel has erroneously charged the Republican administrations with $565 926 72, as disbursed for ordinary expenses when that sum was really paid as interest on the domestic debt due to the School Fund, I read the following certificate from the Treasurer of State.

STATE OP INDIANA, OFFICE OF "J TREASURER OF STATE, INDIANAPOLIS,|August 22,1870. I certify that in the item of $163,8S6,37, stated in ihe Report of the Auditor of State for the year 1867, under the head of "Disbursements,—Ordinary Expenditures "—to have been disbnrsed on account of "General Fund," included $150,826 73 interest paid on the Domestic Debt of the State for said year 1867 that a similar item of $233,9/7,Io stated in said Auditor's Report for the year ending October 31, I060, under the same head as a disbursement on account of "General Fund," included $202,024 92 interest paid on the domestic debt of the State for eaid year 1868

that a similar item of $231,109 31, stated in said Auditors report for the year ending October 31,1869, under the same head as a disbursement on account of "General Fund," included $213,078 97 interest paid on the domestic debt of the State for said year, making together the sum of $565,930 62, so paid as' interest. [Signed], NATHAN KIMBALL,

Treasurer of State.

So much for expenditures for ordinary purposes under Democratic as Compared with Republican rule.

COMPARATIVE TAXATION.

Now look at the subject of taxation as represented in the Sentinel in its issue before mentioned.

It first gives a table of the aggregate amount of taxation for each of the vears 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1855,1856, 1857, 1858, and 1859, which it calls years of Democratic administration and, foot* ing up these aggregates, produces for the ten years named, $25,07 ,826 10, as the sum total of the taxation for that period. It then gives us a table of the aggregate amount for each of the years 1860, 1861,1862, 1863, 1864,1865, 1866,1867, 1868 and 1869, which it calls years of Republican administration and footing up these last mentioned aggregates produces for the ten years from 1860 to 1869 inclusive, $87,511j930 24! as the grand total of the taxation for the last named period and deductihg the former grand total from the latter, it states as the increase of taxation under Republican rule the sum of $62,434,107 14. After stating these as the results of the comparison, the Sentinel uses this language, viz: "Admitting the State debt to have been as claimed by Governor Morton, $10,179,267, when the Republicans came into power, in 1861, the increase of taxation alone, under Republican rule, would have paid the debt more than six times over, and yet the Republican leaders set up the claim of retrenchment, economy and honesty in the administration of the State government."

Of course this is intended to convey the idea—without in terms saying so— that the increased taxes levied for and applicable to State purposes since 1861, over and above the levy for the same purposes for the ten preceding years of Democratic rule, has been more than sufficient to pay the State debt six times over. Tho Republicans are charged with an increase as already stated of. 862,431,104 14 With the

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we will c4aiin a credit for the amount chanced for tho year I860, that year belonging to the foisiliferous Democratic period. The amount is 4,471,126 37 This will reduce the

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charges to 57,962,977 77 We beg the Democracy to allow us another small credit foi the amount of taxes Assessed during tho remaining nine years by tho couuties for county pur poses and with which tho Stato administration had DO more to do than it had In fixing or disbursing the taxes in any county in Kentucky. These county taxes are 21,444,268 97 This deduction leaves the balance 36,518,708 80 I hope it will not be immodest to claim on the part of the Ropuclican State administration a credit for the amount of road tax assessed in the different townships and road districts of the State during said nine years for local road purposes.

This road tax amounts to 3,747,564 01 Tako this from the balance before stated, and wo hare the balance reduced to....... 32,771,152 From this wo ask to be deducted as a credit tho township taxes assessed for the same nine years for township purposes 1.979,593 96

This leaves the balance 830,791,558 84 From this we think it quite reasonable to claim on behalf of the Stato administration a deduction of the special School tax, as wo do not exactly sco how tho State officials can bo blamed £or not applying tho taxes ratsed by the School

Districts of the several countios of the State to build sohool houses to tho payment of the State debt. This special school tax amounts to 6,076,575 67

Balanco $21,714,982 7 I beg that the dog tax which is applied by the local authorities of tho several counties for paying for sheep that may be killed bydogB, may also be deducted.

It amounts for the nine years to the gum of 647,990 01

Balance 824,066,992 17 I hope that tho Democracy will not insist that the gravel road tax ought to have been applied to the payment of tho btato debt, and, theToforo, I humbly beg that it may bo deductod, amounting to 881,759 09

Balanco *23,185,233 98 From this deduct railroad taxes assessed by counties and townships to aid in the construction of railroads running through their borders 302,765 14

Balance

..$22,882,467 94

From this balance deduct other local taxes

2 981,210 15

Balanco $19,901,257 79 From this deduct delinquent taxes not collected but carried forward on the duplicate from year to yoar.and footing up for tho nino years 11,064,400 11

Balance $ 8,836,857 68 From this deduct bounty taxes assessed by different counties to pay local bounties during tho war $ 3,914,362 29

Balanco ....... 4,922,495 39 From th?«'deduot soldiers' roliof fund tax, assessod for roliof of soldiers' families, and which remained in county treasuries and was disbursed by county authorities $ 1,880,415 16

Balanco $ 3,0t2,080 23 From this deduct library tax to replenish township libraries... 95,686 44

Balanco $ 2,916,393 79 From this deduct local corporation taxes carried on to tho grand levy as reported in the reports of tho Auditors of

Stato for said nine yoars, amounting to 86,274 83

Balanco.... $ 2,860,118 96

This leaves only $2,860,118 96 of the excess or increased taxation with which the Sentinel charged us and '.o meet and overcome this we have the school tax proper amounting to $7,290,759 00 which, although a State tax, and paid into the State Treasury, was immediately distributed back to the counties according to number of school children in each, for the purpose of carrying on the free schools of the State.

I hope the Democracy will excuse us for not having imitated their example in applying these school taxes to a purpose different from that for which they were collected.

Thus you see I having effectually disposed of the SentineTs sham tabular statements, as to the increase of taxation under Republican as compared with Democratic rule.

AGENTS OF STATE.

Now let us give a little more attention to the financial lame ducks of the Indiana Democracy. Look for a moment at some of their Agents of State

Our wealthy townsman, Captain J. Lord, retired from that office in the begin ning of 1S59, I believe. If Colonel Norman Eddy, the present Democratic candidate for Secretary of State may be believ ed, Mr. Lord, upon his retirement from office, forgot to pay over a balance of funds in his hands belonging to the State, amounting to $10,359 85. By a joint resolution passed by the Legislature in 1859, Norman Eddy, John T. Elliott and William T. Otto were appointed a committee t6 investigate and report as to divers claims supposed to be due the State from sundry persons. In the report of these Commissioners, which you will find in the Documentary Journal of 1861, on page 256, it. is said that, upon their calling Mr. Lord's attention to the fact that the books of the Auditor of. State showed that he owed this amount, he expressed the confident belief that the sum charged to him was too much, and asked for time to make an examination, which he said would have to be made in New York.

The Commissioners gave him time without objection but-when the Commission met again months afterwards Mr. Lord had made no investigation, and concluded to settle at the figures shown by the Auditor's books, provided he could get time, and this being granted, he executed to the State his_ three notes with security, each for $3,695, payable at one, two and three years with interest and it is due to Mr. Lord to say that he paid these notes at maturity. But the com plaint is that Mr. Lord, by wrongfully applying the State's money to his own use, coerced the State to grant him a long loan at a low rate of interest at a lime when the State officials were selling the redeemed bonds of the Stato at two-thirds of their par value to get money with which to pay the interest on the foreign debt of the State and to carry on the State government. If the credit of the State was so low, and the reputation of the administration so unenviable that it was necessary to sell the redeemed bonds of the State at two-thirds of their par value to get money to carry on the State government, surely the State was in no con dition to lend money to the Democratic ex-offioiala on one, two and three yean

time at six per cent, interest. It was, however, just because such transactions passed for orthodox Democracy, and were common, that the State was as destitute of credit as it was possible for a State to be.

Mr. Lord was succeeded in the office of Agent of State by Colonel James A. Craven3, who had for his deputy D. C. Stover, an Indiana Democrat hailing from the county of Montgomery.^ Mr. Cravens resigned, and Governor Willard appointed this man Stover his successor.

STOVEB FRAUDS.

In 1861, Colonel R. N. Hudson was elected a.- the Republican successor of Stover, and oon discovered that he (Stover) had fraudulently issued a large number of five per cent, certificates of Indiana State stocks. Mr. Hudson used every effort in his power to get these stocks surrendered by the holders to whom they have been hypothecated for Stover's benefit, so that they might be cancelled without that injury to the credit of the State which the public knowledge of their issue would be sure to involve. Colonel Hudson succeeded in securing and cancelling about a million and a half of these fraudulent, Democratic, Stover bonds but the public having got information of their issue, no more of the fraudulent bonds could be procured for cancellation the genuine stocks of the State were excluded from the New York Board of Brokers, and Indiana five per cents fell from ten to twenty per cent. Some weeks ago, in a short speech which I made at Tipton, I stated the amount of these fraudulent issues at $2,300,000, and I was afterwards informed that a Democratic official of Tipton county had offered te beta Republican $100, that I had not told the truth in that regard. I am glad that my Republican friend did not take the bet, for 1 had not really told the whole truth on the subject. I now amend the statement and give the amount of these issues as having been about $2,440,000, and quote as my authority for the statement, the report of Hon. Joseph E. Mc­

Donald, which will be found in the Journal of the House of Representatives of the Regular Session of 1865, commencing on page 643. The General Assembly at its session in 1863 passed a concurrent resolution authorizing the Governor, Auditor and Treasurer of State to appoint a commissioner to investigate these fraudulent issues and to procure their surrender and cancellation. fc, Mr. McDonald was appointed under said resolution, and repotted to Governor Morton in January, 1865, and it is to this report that I refer. In this report, at page 645, of the House Journal al ready cited, in speaking of these fraudu lent certificates of stock, Mr. McDonald says, "they were simply forgeries, having been countersigned in the name of an Agent of State not at the time in office, and were issued after the repeal "of the law authorizing the use of the blanks which were filled up."

Mr. McDonald succeeded in getting quite a number of these fraudulent certificates surrendered for cancellation but, according to his report, there are still outstanding certificates to the amount of $784,000. Stover is still a Democrat in good standing, and as much in favor of reform as any Marion county Democrat dare to be. lett, to be indicted in the city of New York and, to render the Democracy of the entire transaction unquestionable, a Democratic New York Court quashed the indictments on the ground that was no offense to forge Indiana certificates of stock in New York.

JOHN C. WALKER.

Colonel Hudson was succeeded in the Agency by Colonel John C. Walker, whose labors in the dissemination of Sunday school literature have given him a notoriety continental in its proportions, His labors in that department of the Democratic vineyard made it inconvenient for him to be at IndianapoliB at the session of the Legislature commencing in January, 1865, and hence we have no report of his official proceedings as Agent of State. All that we know about

I have already shown by quoting from Mr. McDonald's report that this transaction on the part of Stover was a forgery, pure and simple. The offense having, however, been committed in New York, the offenders could only be prosecuted there. Governor Morton accordingly caused Stover and his confederate, Halhim is derived from statements of his Republican successor, Judge Buskirk made in his report of November 1, 1866 —Documentary Journal, 1867, part J, page 4. Judge Buskirk, after saying that he took possession of the Agency on the 21st day of February, 1865, uses this language: "Col. J. C. Walker, my pre decessor, was not present in person to deliver to me the possession of the office, but was represented by his brother, Mr. James "Walker, who paid over to me the sum of $11,832 76. This he represented as the amount due to the State from Col Walker after deducting ten thousand dollars for two years salary and the expenses of the Agency. As I had no means at the time of ascertaining the true condition of Col. Walker's liabilities to the State, I declined to give a receipt in full, but receipted for the amount paid over."

This exhibits a new Democratic short hand system of book-keeping as far removed from everything like red tape as it is possible for such a transaction to be. Instead of drawinghis salary and expenses through the accounting officers of the State, he dispenses with all such old fogy formalities and audits his own accounts and retains, out of the funds placed in his hands for an entirely different purpose, his salary and what he himself decides to be ripht for expenses. This system of accounting has this advantage, that there is no room for dispute over any particular item, there being but one item in the account, viz: $10,000 for salary and ex penses. I think it probable the Marion county Reformers had Colonel John C. Walker's improved system of book-keep-ing and accounting in view when they adopted the exceedingly sagacious plan of replenishing the ccunty treasury by requiring the county officers to donate to the county all of their fees that they shall not need themselves. If Walker was here, I have no doubt he would be a reformer and support the ticket. In 1841 an old gentleman, a member ofthe Legislature, who was anxious tc. relieve the people of the State of the pecuniary pressure which then rested upou them, introduced a bill into the House of Rep* resentatives proposing to issue to the peoplea sufficient quantity of State scrip tr enable all the roople to pay all their debts, and every p.ian was to have just as much as he needed and no more and if any one took more than he needed it was to be a penitentiary offense. The Reformers, when they are elected, are tc pay over to the Court House fund all the fees which they do not need, and if they keep more than they need, they are to be visited with the displeasure of the Denr ocratic party.

I have glanced at the official fidelity of the last three Democratic Agents of State, and I invite the Democracy to search the record of the Republicans who have held the same office for any similar instances of malfeasance in office. Colonel Hudson, Judge Buskirk, Judge Gresham and Judge Slaughter have all held the position, and it is*only by comparing official action that a just judgment can be formed. CLOSING OF BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS.

Some of you may, perhaps, have forgotten another transaction in the history of the last Democratic administration which not only manifested an utter disregard of the financial interests of the State, but also involved a crime against a large number of the unfortunate classes of her people. I allude, of course, to the closing up, in 1857, of the Hospital for the Insane, the Institution" for the Education ofthe Deaf and Dumb, and that for the Education of the Blind. No appropriations were made by the General Assembly for the support of these Institutions and, under the pretense that, for lack of such appropriations, they could not be continual in operation—their inmates were dismissed and thrown back upon the counties and families from which tliev came, in utter disregard of the anguish involved in the_ execution of so cruel a policy. This, be it remembered, was done in April, 1S57 and, as if to demonstrate the folly and wickedness of the course pursued, and to gw the lieto the pretext under which the enormity was perpetrated, without any intervening session of the Legislature, and with the same lack of appropriations which existed when the Institutions were closed, their inmates were invited back and inSeptember, 1857, the Institutions were again opened and continued in operation!

MISA PPROPRTATFOX OF SCHOOL FUNDS. Again, look at your school funds under control of W. H- Mbot, Esq., latei Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee and late President of the Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners. These funds were, by the Constitution, sacredly dedicated to the cause of common

school education, and Mr. Talbot had no more right to take them to the city of New York than he had to take them to China. He did, however, transmit them to New York City to be used in gold rambling daring tbewar. Your sehool /ends to the amount of $133,281,14 were used in betting on the success of the re bellion, for that is just what operating in gld meant during the dark days of the wM.-. But Grant pummelled the life

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of the rebel army, and the Confederacy went up, and your School Funds went up with it. After five years of effort on the part of the Auditor of State to collect a portion of the claim out of collaterals assigned for that purpose, and by prosecuting divers law suits the amount, including principal and interest, was reduced, in Apiil lasi $84,811 69, and it was then closed by the payment of $14,811 69 in money, and by giving seven notes well secured of $10,000 each, running from one to seven years, and bearing interest at six per cent, per annum.

Thus, y.ou see, another forced loan has been levied, not upon the State, but upon her school fund, bv the Democracy and, in the absence of accidents, the school fund will be reimbursed at the end of about twelve years from the time of the misappropriation of the money.

SWAMP LANDS.

But time would fail me, if I should attempt to discover to your admiring gase all the Democratic financial gems which are buried in the political literature of the Democratic period. 1^ can ohly allude to the swamp land swindle, its "Uttered ditches" and "migratory contracts" and general knavery. Governor Wright estimated that the swamp lands, donated by Congress to the State would yield the School Fund at least $1,000,000. They did prove to be a good thing for the Democracy but if the School Fund was ever enriched thereby to the amount of dollar, neither the accounting officers the State nor the Superintendent of Public Instruction has discovered or reported the fact.

But the Sentinel, in its issue of August 24, 1870, says that no person expected that the school fund ever would be increased by the receipt of any of the proceeds of these lands. This is its lanceeds of these guage: "It is true that nota dollar ever reached the common school fund from the sale swamp lands, and it is equally trtie^ that no one acquainted with the condition of these lagds ever for a moment expected that the proceeds arising from their sales would more than reclaim them and pay the necessary expenses incident to tha desirable end."

In aftewer to this I quote from the sec ond Section of the Vlllth Article of the Constitution, which declares that, the Common School Fund shall consist among other things, of "all lands that have been or may hereafter be granted to the State where no specific purpose is expressed in the grant, and the proceeds of the sale thereof, including the proceeds of the sales of swamp lands granted to the State of Indiana by act of Congress of the 28th of September, 1850, after deducting the expenses of selecting and draining the

Again: Governor Wright in his regu lar message, delivered in January, 1853, after informing the Legislature that selections of swamp lands made by the State had been approved by the proper officers of the general Government to the amount of 1,018,905 acres, and that there would be added to this about 190,000 acres in the Vincennes district, the selections in that District not then having been ex-amined-continued in the following language: "The fund to be derived from this source, solemnly set apart by our Const! tuiion to the cause of education, will if properly husbanded, within a few_ years amount to not less than one million of dollars after defraying all proper expen ses for selection and drainage. Deubts are seriously entertained whether the effect of the law of last session will not be to fritter away this fund without benefit to any one but the host of officers to be created under it. The subject should be examined in all its bearings and the proper remedy applied."

Here was an honest warning from an honest, faithful Executive, who, although a Democrat, never was, to his honor be it spoken, a member of the inner Democratic financial_ circle but the thing he warned against was the very thing the financiers desired, and, of course, the warning was unheeded.

The convention that framed the constitution, by specially mentioning these lands in that instrument, showed that its members believed that there would be a large surplus after paying the expenses of selecting and ditching and Governor Wright explicitly says that the fund, if properly husbanded, would amount to not less than $1,000,000, after paving all proper expenses of selection and drain age. Will you believe the Convention and Governor Wright, or will you be' lieve the Sentinel!

The appointment of Jacob Merkle as Swamp Land Commissioner of Jasper county by Governor Willard, at a time when he was a defaulter to the Swamp Land Fund of the State, as the late Treasurer of the same county, in the sum of $127,910 00, was one of those astute pieces of financial strategy which would have never been visible to the naked eye of any human, except the Democratic human.

I have no time to tell you about the Beftver Lake lands, the Georgia lands and divers other pet financial operations of the Indiana Democracy, which are embalmed in the pages of our political literature.

DEMOCRATIC OENIUS FOR FINANCE. I have given you some specimens tending to show that the Democratic genius naturally runs to finance that finance is its forte, its vital breath, its native air.

Hence, in view of the past, it is quite reasonable that the people of Indiana should turn over their .financial affairs to the Confederate Democracy.

If there is anything that "Mark Twain" does understand, it is how to run an agricultural journal. He advises the farmers when they wish to gather their turnips, to send a boy up the tree to shake them off. If there is anything the Indiana Democracy does understand, it is how to pay off the State debt_ and run the State government economically as witness their sale of the redeemed Stocks of the State at two-thirds of their par value, to put them in funds wherewith to pay thir own salaries!

The Democracy has also risen with the emergency when called upon to man age the finances of the nation, as is proven by the success of Buchanan, Floyd, Thompson and Tousey, in depleting our own Treasury to the replenishment of that of the Democratic Confederacy over which the late Mr. Davis presided witb such distinguished Democratic financial success.

The administration of that most Democratic of all Democrats, Andrew Johnson, was another proof of the adaptation of "the Democratic mind to the conception and execution of the most wonderful financial policies that the world has ever witnessed. His genius perfected the machinery for the collection of the internal revenue of the country, so as to make it yield the largest possible sum to the whisky ring consistent withjthe retention of the" allegiance of his subordinates to that Democratic institution and if there is one thing for which General Grant ought to be condemned by Democrats more than for any other, it is that he smashed this whisky ring as bad as he smashed the rebellion.

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State of Indiana into the bosom of ic Southern Confederacy. Let such a Republican vote the Democratic ticket, because while the Democratic candidate for Attorney General was in the field fighting the battles of his country, his opponent, the Republican candidate for the same office, was, as a member of the rebel Legislature in 1863. urring the passage of "the Military Bill,' intended to deprive the Governor of the State of all the military power conferred upon him by the Constitution, and place it in the hands of the chiefe of the Son* of Liberty, but let him not stultify himself by assigning as a reason for such action that he turns Democrat because he is

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seeking financial reform.

Blsop Early is lying very low at Lynchburg, Virginia, and his death la momentarily expecUd.

WEEKLY EXPRESS

TEBBE HAUTE, HTD. 3K-t. ."K Weiieaiaj Morning, Aag. SI, 1870.

THE public school teachers of NEW AL* bany receive but little more than half as much in the way of salaries as the teachers of Terre Haute. »t»

WK HATE a number of copies of IHC official statement of the public debt for August 1st, 1870, which we shall be pleased to furnish Democratic speakers in this part of the 8tate, in order that they may not be tempted to follow .the fatal example of VOOBHEEB.

IT IS very strange that DANIEL should take so much trouble to go up and down this District, begging for votes, after his organ has announced more conversions to Democracy than there are voters in the District! It is evident that "the Statesman" doesn't rely on his organ's mathematics!

THE Chicago Timet, the leading Demo oratic organ of the Northwest, after indulging a general tirade against the Ger. man race, comes to a close aa follows:

It may be added that these German meetings to express sympathy for the Prussians are exhibitions of very cheappatriotism—worthy, however, of descendants of the hireling Hessians who fought against American independence in 1776.

THE people, however^ want peace which we fear they will never obtain without success on the part of the Democracy.—Journal.

In 1860, the Democracy failed of "success" and'in revenge for their failure gave us the war of the rebellion, with all the horrors and curses resulting therefrom. Does the Journal mean to intimate that there is to be a repetition of that programme if the Democracy fail •f success again? "To plant the manufacturer by the side of the farmer is the true and sure way to increase the recompense of the husbandman's toil even though his metals, his implements, his wares and.his fabrics should cost him more money under a protective policy than under free trade, he would nevertheless pay for them with less of produce or labor, and in the operation gain the large benefit of greater diversity of interest in the community." —General Jackson.

ONE fact, which better than any other illustrates our wealth and progress, is the number and length of our various railroads. Our railroads are 45,000 miles in length. Great Britain has not quite 11,000 miles of railway, and France only a litlle more than 5,000. Russia, with her excess of 28,000,000 population over us, has only 6,764 miles of railroad. Greece has only 4 miles. No wonder that the United States leads in the vanguard of modern advancement. ———<>———

WHAT taxes have been reduced to any considerable extent?—Journal. Nearly all the internal ^revenue taxes have been not merely "reduced," but totally abolished, and the tariff has been reduced to the utmost extent consistent with the necessities of the government. And remember that the Democratic members of both Houses of Congress voted against these measures solidly and steadily from first to last. This is their damning record, and they canuot get away from it.

ON the 18th of January, 1864, DANIEL W. YOORHEES, M. C., declared by his vote in the House, that the rebellion was not "wicked," and that it was not the duty of the people "to meet it, fight it,crush it, and forever destroy it."

Yet DANIEL now 'claims that he was "regarded as a loyal man" in his own District throughoHt the war. We shall have |BOWLES, MILLIOAN, HORSEY and HUMPHREYS putting in the same kind of claim, if DAN'S is allowed!

THE working people are now in a more distressed condition than ever before in the history of the government—Journal.

There isn't a working man in this State so deplorably ignorant as not to recognize a huge falsehood in that statement. There is no thinking man or woman who does not know that a days work now will buy more food and clothing than at any previous period of our national history. This fact is generally understood and freely admitted by all classes and we defy the Journal or the Statesmen" to attempt its refutation.

THE Cleveland Herald ventures the prediction that if the Democrats break in upon the Republican Congressional phalanx of Ohio this fall, they will have to work for it. The Republicans evM- ntly feel the responsibilities of their pu i.ion, and are determined fo destroy the prestige of the "offyear." In the close districts the Republican nominations are from the ranks of the strong men. Take the Franklin District, in which Mr. SHELLERARGER has been nominated the Montgomery District, in which General SCHENCK has been re-nominated the Lorain District, which, has -put up Mr. MONROE. These men are specimen bricks fft the Congressional building.

SOPHIE SPARKLE writes from Saratoga about some of the. peculiarities of the biped whom she meets there: The old ladies and the children are the only feminines who deign to walk naturally. The young belle as she promenades, draws a long train behind her, this train being suralounted by a bewildering arrangement of pufis, ruffles, etc., styled a pannier, and resting upon all this is a bright-colored sash of marvelous width. Now this almost ihdescribable confusion of dry goods is twitched, first to the right, then to the left then it receives a gentle shake, very like to that which an old hen gives in settling down her rnffled feathers. Aad this, as near as she can convey any idea of it, is the Saratoga wriggle.

THE Republican State administration Michigan, like that of our own State, has signally vindicated itself. There, as under the Federal Government, a reduction of the debt has proceeded simultaneously with reduction of taxationWithin the last nineteen months, the State has paid off more than a million and a half of its indebtedness—reducing its debt from $3,976,185 to $2,444,528. The State taxation exhibited a reduction of nearly $200,000 as between 1868 and 1867 the reduction in 1869 amounting to nearly a quarter of a million more. The direct taxes of the State in the last year amounting to $465,264 in addition to which the State derives an income from specific taxes, as upon railroads, incorpo­

of

If any Indiana Republican wants an excuse for joining the Confederate Democracy, I trust that he will do it on the ground that its war record is all right, and that of the Republican party all wrong on the ground that the Democrats never did—but the Republicans did —resolve in National Convention that the war was a failure on the ground that Milligan, Bowles, Horsey, Humphreys, Dodd A Co., were the vilest of "Black Bepublicans," doing all in their power to promote the rebellion and that Morton was a Democratic Governor, and his energy nod patriotism thwarted efforts of these conspirators to carry

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companies, Masonic lodges, and so forth. The income from these sources in 1869 was $268,530. Few States, and assuredly none under Democratic rule, can exhibit a more creditable financial record, one more calculated to attract thrifty additions to its population and enterprises. Besides these achievements of the State, the Detroit Port, from whose columns we gather these particulars, remarks that 'the county and municipal debts of the State, incurred during tne have also been extinguished to A very large amount."

THE STATE.

GEN. BEN SPOONER, U. S. Marshal, is on duty again.

JASON B. BROWN, of Jackson county, is on the stamp!

HYXEN bagged twelve victims, at Indianapolis, on Saturday.

THE hogs, in Clark county, are dying off with alarming rapidity.

THE thirty-first volume of Indiana Reports has been published.

REMEMBER that the State Fair begins October 3, and is bound to be a success.

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THE creditors of Haldeman B. Shsfner, Lafayette, are shoving him into bankruptcy.

PROF. Cox says that steel can be made out of Indiana pig iron by the Bessemer process. ———————

A "LADY," in Jeffersonville, vindicated her honor at the point of a cowhide, the other day. s-

ORSON HADDAM, Grant county, died of strong drink, alone, in the woods, last Thursday night. ———————

MISS EUNICE HATCH, Jay county, is about to start for Salt Lake City to become the sixth wife of a saint. ———————

GENERALS LEW WALLACE AND MANSON have arranged on a joint canvass of the Seventh District. The first meeting will be on the 12th of September.

THE <Sentinel> says there will be eighteen public school houses 0pen, in Indianapolis, during the coming school year, and the number of teachers employed to teach the young idea how to shoot will be one hundred and ten. ———————

AT Kendallville, on Saturday, the little daughter of Mr. Phelps, aged six years, died from the effects of injuries received from the explosion of a can of kerosene oil, which she was using in starting a fire the day before. ———————

JOHN CONNOR, who, for some time, had been employed in the roundhouse of the Indianapolis and Vincennes Railroad, at Martinsville, as wiper, was found dead last Friday on an engine in which he was engaged in wiping. ———————

THE Mayor of Lafayette declines to punish parties for associating with prostitutes, because "some of the Councilmen are guilty of the same offence." On the same principle, remarks the Journal of that city, we presume the Mayor would acquit all persons committing offences of which any public legislators may be alleged to be guilty.

THE Fort Wayne, Muncie and Cincinnati Railroad was completed on the 27th inst., making a through line of one hundred and seventy-five miles from Fort Wayne to Cincinnati. The road will be opened for through business immediately, and, worked in connection with the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad, will make a grand Northern and Southern route of three hundred and seventy-five miles, phasing through a fine country. =======

Illinois Items.

The Peru zinc works will soon go into operation. Mattoon is to be lighted with gas on the night of October 1.

Senator Revels addresses the colored citizens of Peoria on the 29th of September.

Rev. J. Travus reveals the secrets of Masonry .at the anti-Masonic Convention at Belvidere to-day.

The Ninety-fifth Illinois Regiment hold their annual re union at Marengo on the 3d of September.

Miss Geraldine Ryan received the white veil at the hands of Father Bradv in Springfield on the 25th.

The colored voters of Alton have organized an association to see that every colored voter is registered. They claim a vote of eight hundred strong in Madison county.

Police officer Minter, who shot young Newland in Jacksonville, has been indicted for murder. He will probably be tried at the present term of the court.

D. B. Wier, of Marshall county, is said to haVe the largest orchard in the State. It consists of over two hundred acres of apple and peach trees and about thirty acres in small fruit. It will take twenty men two mon'li to gather his apples.

A Good One.

Old Judge Barbour of Virginia, after enjoying the highest honors and retiring to private life, was prevailed on to be a candidate for a local office. Tbe opposition trotted out an illiterate, rough-and-tumble politician named Bill Maples, against the old man. In.accordance with the strict rules of conducting a political campaign in those days, Gov. Barbour was to take the stump with Maples. But Maples could always beat him in abusive language. The final speech of the campaign was abusive beyond all precedent. The following is Barbour's reply, which we think is the most complete thing in its way that we have ever read. Said tbe Governor: "Fellow-citizens:—When I was a young man, now nearly forty years ago, your grandfathers sent me as their representative for four terms to the House of Delegates, and I was chosen speaker of that body. At a subsequent period I was twice elected Governor of Virginia. Afterward, and for ten years, I represented this renowned commonwealth in the Senate of the United States, where I was the confidant, and, perhaps, I may say, the peer of Macon, King, Gaillard, Pinckney and Van Buren. Mr. John Quincy Adams subsequently conferred upon me a place in his Cabinet, and for three years I shared his counsel in conjunction with Clay, Wirt and McLean. 1 was then appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of St. James, where it became my duty to conduct negotiations with the conquerer of Napoleon. Judge, then, fellow-citizens, of the ineffable disgust I feel after such a career,- and in my declining years, at finding myself here to day engaged in a low, pitiful county contest with such a d—d disagreeable little cuss as Bill Maples."

SALT LAKE. ———

RIOTERS BOUND OVER.

SALT LAKE, Aug 30.—The five principals engaged in the destruction of Englebrecht's property yesterday have been held under $10,000 each and their assistants under $2,000 each, to answer at the next term of the United States Court, Sept. 12. There is much excitement in the city. The United States Marshal has sworn in one hundred special deputies.

GONE SOUTH.

Brigham Young has gone south. ———<>———

POVUHKEEP8IE. S 1

WEST POINT CADETS.

POUGHKEEPSIE, N. Y., Aug. 30.—The cadets at West Point broke camp to-day and went into winter quarters. The scene was witnessed by President Grant and family and a number of visitors.

Immediately afterwards, the President and family crossed the river to the residence of Mr. Fish, where they remain day or two.

THE CODE. ———————

THE FATAL DUEL NEAR MEMPHIS. ———————

AL DUEL If EAR 1KHPH1S.

Hostile Meeting Between Messrs. E. T. Freeman and E. L. Hamlin. ———————

The Latter Mortally Wounded, and Dies Within an Hour—A Touching Death Scene—Full Particulars of the Tragedy.

Attentive readers of our telegraphic news will remember that, on the 26th inst, Mr. ED. L. HAMLIN, a well known and highly respected citizen of Memphis, Tennessee, was murdered in a duel—of which a young lady was the innocent cause—by Mr. ED. T. FREEMAN, also a respected citizen of Memphis. From a long account of the tragic affair, published in the <Avalanche> of last Saturday, we clip the following: THE FIGHT.

From this point our reporter watched the preparations. Breaking clouds just then partly obscured the sun, though its rays came down with full force upon the spot selected for the duel. The choice of positions was won on behalf of Mr. Freeman, but, from the character of the ground, it proved to be of no advantage, the sun coming to the side of and between the foeman. The saplings were cut down and transplanted after the ground had been staked off, so as to afford shelter to each. The word was won by Mr. Scales,

on behalf of Mr. Hamlin. The gentle-

MISS HANNAH BURSON, a widow lady residing in DeKalb county, lost $500 in greenbacks by burglary, last Friday night. ———————

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men then took their respective positions. Each seemed perfectly cool and self-pos-sessed: not a muscle moved; never was

[blank] nor a quiver when the words,

a quiver when the words,

"ARE YOU READY, GENTLEMEN?" were pronounced. Each answered firmly and audibly, "Yes." The distance was fifteen paces and the weapons were formidable looking duelling pistols, long and with smooth bore. After a pause the words "Fire," "One,"—were pronounced, when two sharp, loud reports in quick succession were heard and two columns of smoke rolled upward, obscuring for a moment or two the principle actors in the tragedy.

Our reporter and his friends sprang forward. Half way between the carriage and the ground they met Mr. Freeman and his seconds moving rapidly in the direction of the carriages. As they passed, one of the party, as if speaking to our reporter, and referring to Mr. Hamlin, remarked that he was already dead, or something to that effect. The reporter pressed forward to the ground, and found Mr. Hamlin supported in a standing po-

sition by Drs. D. D. Saunders and Erskine. THE FIRST SHOT

was Mr. Freeman's. Hamlin's followed immediately. The latter felt his wound ere he discharged his pistol. After discharging it he exclaimed, pressing his hand to his side, "I am hit;" and then, looking toward his adversary "Freeman, I never said aught against you or injured you in all my life."

After supporting him awhile the doctors laid him gently on his back and proceeded to examine his wound. Dr. Erskine held his pulse. After a brief examination, Dr. Saunders said, "Ed, you are badly hurt."

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Said Mr. Hamlin, "Is it wound, doctor?" "It is a serious wound, Ed," replied Dr. Saunders, "and I can give you no encouragement." "I fired too high, didn't I, doctor?" asked the dying man. "Are you in pain, Ed?" asked one of the group. "Oh. no, I am not in pain," he said, "but I feel such a strange sensation here," placing his hand on his side^ the wound meanwhile having been bandaged.

Strong men stood around, men who had dared death on many a battlefield. They wept like children.

Some hurried words to Dr. Saunders by the dying man. "Say nothing to my poor mother," said Hamlin but tell my father I was born a gentleman and died a gentleman," was all that was heard.

A pause. The wounded man's eyes began to turn glassy. He was losing consciousness. It was plain the sands of life were running out fast.

Said Mr. Scales, his second, landing over him, "Don't you know me, Ed?" There was no response. "He will never know you again, Scales," said Dr. Saunders, very gravely.

The little group again shed tears. It was a sad scene. Above the glorious sun shone in all its splendor; below all was beautiful and tranquil, the trees in the woods skirting the field, swayed lazily in the morning breeze; in the distance a picturesque farm house broke the view; near by were the carriages on the ground near the group lay one of the instruments of death; in the midst of the group lay a handsome, manly form, writhing in pain, life fast ebbing away. The doctors were unable to do any thing for the body; there was no priest or minister of God to administer consolation to an immortal soul.

After a little while there was a contortion of the body, and then an exclamation something like "OH, MY POOR MOTHER!" then all was silent as the grave again. The friends and surgeons and spectators looked on with abated breath. A little brandy was administered. It failed to have any effect.

It was proposed to move the dying man to the house of Mr. Joyner, near by, and a blanket was procured, into which he was lifted, but as it was concluded that the change would only hasten death, the suggestion was abandoned.

DEAD, DEAD, DEAD.

In three quarters of an hour from the time when the pistol was discharged, Hamlin lay a corpse on the spot where he received the fatal bullet. It entered the right side, passed through the liver and out through the left side. He was shot

CLEAR THROUGH THE BODY. Freeman and his friends had departed. Around the dead man stood Drs. Saunders and Erskine; Messrs, Scales, Belcher and Saunders, the seconds of Hamlin: Mr. Harry Hill, of Bolivar Mr. James Speed, of Memphis, and the reporter of the <Avalanche>, the only representative of the press on the ground.

So ended the duel between Ed Freeman and Ed. Hamlin. Whatever may be the feeling of the public, it is not for a reporter of occurrences to express an opinion. All said the fight was a fair one, and on this point there is no difference of opinion. The cause of the melancholy affair is of too delicate a nature to be paraded in the public prints, except as it may be shown in the correspondence which passed between the actors in the bloody tragedy.

ED. HAMLIN

was a rising young member of the bar of this city, and lately a partner of Judge Henry G. Smith. His age was about twenty-five years. His father is an old and respected citizen. William Hamlin, paying teller of the First National Bank, is his brother. Gentlemanly and popular in his manners and address, he had many friends, and was much admired in social circles. The bar of the city met yesterday with reference to his death, and passed suitable resolutions, printed elsewhere in our columns. He was also an attendant, if not a member of Grace Episcopal church. He was engaged to be married to a beautiful young lady, who left a few days ago to rusticate in Kentucky. He was to have accompanied her, but was detained on account of this fatal occurrence, which was then pending.

ED. FREEMAN,

the challenging party, stands equally high in the respect of the community. He is a native of Virginia, and has resided in Memphis since the war, engaged in mercantile pursuits, most of the time as book-keeper in a prominent cotton house.

THE SURGEONS.

Dr. Saunders acted as surgeon on behalf of Mr. Hamlin, and Dr. Erskine on behalf of Mr. Freeman.

THE SECONDS.

Messrs. W. H. Rea, C. P. Wooldbridge and ----- Taylor acted as the friends and seconds of Mr. Freeman, and Messrs. Scales, Belcher and Saunders for Mr. Hamlin.

THE BODY

of Mr. Hamlin was removed soon after death to the residence of Mr. Joynor, near the scene of the duel. Late in the day it was brought to his late residence, when a crowd rapidly gathered, and a scene which beggars description ensued.

The mother was wild with grief, and

would not be consoled. Friends and neighbors shared in the grief, strong men and weak women alike, shedding tears over the occurrence, which had thus despoiled an old and respected family of its brightest jewel.

THE FATAL SPOT

is near a place known as Shanghai, in Mississippi, about one hundred yards beyond the Tennessee line. It is said to be one mile north of the place where young Taylor was killed in a duel with Alonzo Greenlaw, some years ago.

THE ACTORS.

Mr. Freeman and his friends came immediately to town, and were seen at intervals during the day, but were very reticent. Mr. Hamlin's friends also returned to town early in the day, and were also seen on the streets. =======

FOREIGN.

The Seat of Wax!

FBAITCE.

FORCED DEPARTURE OF GERMANS. PARIS, Aug. 30.—Much confusion has been occasioned here by the forced departure of a large number of Germans. The journals felicitate the Governor upon the measure, which will ensure the retreat of many enemies.

LA LIBERTE

says the hour of a great battle has arrived. The situation has a new aspect. A battle must take place in the valley of Argonnes.

Prussians understand how grave events have become. For them defeat is fatal. We must soon know, as we have reason to believe a battle is raging now. If the Prussians are repulsed they cannot march on Paris, but must retreat behind the Moselle.

Trance every moment grows more formidable. She is preparing new armies. Even now vast numbers of new regiments are ready to take the field. Defeat cannot subdue us.

WAR TO THE LAST.

The Opinion Nationale says, .war to the last. Let not one German recross the Rhine for centuries. Let Germany remember that enemies may enter, but cannot leave Franc.

CLOSED.

The Bois de Boulogne has been closed to the public, as it is filled

iMth

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sands of cattle. FOREIGN AMBASSADORS. The journals say in case of siege Ambassadors from foreign countries will all reside in some city of the Provinces.

PRINCE IMPERIAL.

A correspondent of the Liberie writes that the Prince Imperial has gone .to Mezieres, where he will remain until further orders. Mezieres is considered impregnable, contains a strong garrison and ample supply of munitions and provisions.

IMPORTANT MILITARY EVENTS. The Patrie to-day in an editorial says, military events of the utmost importanoe are preparing. Whatever may be the result at Paris, France must redouble her energy and create a third and fourth army. Germans are active and we must use all our efforts. The news from the army of MacMahon continues excellent. He has not been for one instant deceived by the movements of the Prince Royal. He has understood the Prince Royal meant to overreaeh his army and he has therefore kept'in advance of Prussians. Parisians must not, however, cease preparing to repulse the enemy in any event. We must be ready.

WAR ITEMS.

Gold is again circulating in this eityl. All Germans haye been ordered to leave Paris within three days.

Another American ambulance train left the city yesterday to join the army. Three ladies accompanied it.

Brittany will soon send immense niynbers of volunteers to the army. A legion of foreigners is organizing in thiscitv.

Thirty thousand persons entered Paris yesterdav from the neighboring country. The police have organized into regiments.

Numberless wagons loaded with furniture are coming in from villages arQiind Paris.

Important news expected to-morrow. DEFENSE MEASURES. Measures have been taken to blow up bridges and tear up railroads around Paris promptly,

on

approach of the enemy.

DIPLOMATIC CORPS.

It is understood the diplomatic corps, in case the city is besieged, will go to Tours, which, owing to their presence will be considered neutral by belligerents and respected as such.

CORPS LEGISLATIF.

The Corps Legislatif yesterday voted that the urgency of the situation demanded two important measures. First the formation of battalions from Gardes Nationale and home guards, and firemen of each department, who should be lightly equipped and specially designed to hang upon the march of the enemy, attacking him at every opportunity. The second, was for the government to take at prices agreed on, all arms manufactured in France either for foreign or private parties and now ready for use.

COMMITTEE OF DEFENSE.

The Committee of Defence meets twice daily, and the measures it orders are promptly executed.

ANNOUNCEMENT.

It is positively asserted that Palikao will anounce this week to the Chambers that the work of preparing Paris for siege is entirely completed.

RUMORS.

Nothing received from the front except rumors of engagement terminating favorably to the French.

COUNTRY PEOPLE

are now beginning to second French^ scouts in giving precise information ot movements of the enemy.

WHAT ARMY OFFICERS SAY. Officers and others from the front insist that a great battle was fought on Sunday the 27th inst. that Bazaine and MacMahon had gained immense advantages. Thev say the latter expected to meet by this'time the army of the Crown Prince, to which reinforcements were constantly arriving.

A BATTLE EXPECTED.

There is no doubt a great battle will take place at once. FRENCH TROOPS.

The condition of French troops is excellent. MacMahon has received very large reinforcements. An entire'corps, the 13th, numbering 50,000 men organized have been sent to him.

BAZAINE REPLENISHED.

Bazaine has been abundantly

supplied

with provisions and munitions. PARIS READY FOR AN ATTACK. Paris is now fully prepared to resist an attack. The authorities are exceedingly active.

Working

men declare they will

defend the city street by street, should it become necessary. Democratic and Republican journal* are as ardent as others in urging defense. Political differences are forgotten in the presence of the enemy.

A private party who had purchased 300,000 old muskets from the government has returned them, and they have been distributed among the National Guard, who armed with these weapons are daily drilling under experienced officers, and are certain to make a good stand against an assault. The halt of Prussians in their move on Paris gives time for the arrival of enormous reinforcements now on the way from the provinces. The capture of the city is considered impossible rt»w.

SHARPSHOOTERS. JR'F

AS vices from all parts of provinces' invaded show the sharpshooters are becoming very efficient. They capture numbers of Prussian scouts and stragglers and repel attacks on towns and villages. The presence of sharpshooters and Mobile Guards encourages country iple, who now put on a bolder front, some cases they have attacked the enemy, killing and wounding quite a number, and at many places they resist exactions before tamely submitted to.

TRIAL OF RIOTERS.

Two of the leaders iir the recent riotous afiairof Boulevarde Villete appeared before the Council of War to-day. They confessed the attack on the station and that they attempted to excite the populace to rise in open revolt. Two others

accused of having in their possession stores of arms appeared at the trial. Ohe of them is named Blanseni, and it has transpired he was here at the time of the riot and lodging with one of the -I active participators. The trial is still in progress.

ENGLAND.

PURSUIT OF MAC MAHON.

LONDON, August 30.—It was reported several days ago that Prince Frederick Charles would return and go in pursuit of McMahon. This report seems to be gaining strength. It is supposed the Prince has been thus led to depart from original plans of operations because his line of communications would be seriously endangered with so large an army in his rear. h--

ARMY CORRESPONDENTS 3*

in France are faring badly. Austin, of the London Times, is imprisoned at Rheipis. Hall, of the Graphic, is imprisoned at Nancy, and Haleforth, of the News, has been escorted back to Pari* under guaid.

A ROUT.

The limes says on the 27th five German detachments routed six detachments of French cavajlry near Buzarv, Department of Ardennes. The Germans belonged to 4th army which is now scouring the Eastern Department in order to prevent communication between McMahon and Bazaine.

FRAUDULENT TELEGRAMS/ Prussians say Paris telegrams purporting to come from Bazaine are fraudulent, as he is entirely isolated.

NEWS FROM THE FRENCH WAR OFFICE. LONDON, A-igust 30.—12:30 p. M.-The following news from the French war office is just received: Nearly 900,000 men are now in the triangle formed by lines running from Rheims to Rethel and Va Auzzo. Bazaine is not shut up. He has 120,000 men, and McMahon has 180,000 strong. They are stealing two marches on tne Prince Royal, who is two days ahead of Prince Frederick Charles. It is hoped the latter cannot come up in time. 50,000 men left Paris on Monday for the vicinity of Rethel. It is said the l'russian force there is 500,000 strong.

PRINCE IMPERIAL. ....

The Prince Imperial was at Sedan on Sunday night, where the Emperor was also expected. A force ef German Uhl-. ans was at that time only nine miles south of that place.

THE NEXT GENERAL ACTION. The French say the district between Rheims, Wesier, Sedan and Montmedy will be the scene o( the next general action.

THE TIMES

Quite agrees with Prussia thatJFrance must be taught to know the power of her neighbors.

MacMahon's extraordinary move may have delayed the Crown Prince's advance on Paris, but it has also made that advance at any time hereafter easy.

BEFOGGED.

London papers are perfectly^ befogged, as to the positions of the hostile armies, as late war telegrams have made confusion worse confounded.

DISTRESS.

The expulsion of Germans from Paris causes sad distress. THE AMERICAN MINISTER.

A correspondent of the Telegraph writing from Paris 28th, gives the following news:

Mr. Washburnc, American Minister, has a hard time of it Germans in France are under his protection. Every German who is arrested under the provision of the recent proclamation of Gen. Trochu demands at once to be taken before Minister Washburne for examination. No American yet captured as a Prussian spy, while ten out of every dozen Englishmen have been arrested.

AMERICAN TRAVELERS.

The Telegraph adds Americaus do not travel like Englishmen, with a chest of plate. The former carry their countless diamonds in their vest pockets and chignons.

PRUSSIANS

entered Vouziers on the heels of retreating French. THE ROUTE TO PAKIS.

King William's route to Paris is by* upper Marne and Mense. FRENCH FRIG ATE

The French frigate which has been in the harbor of Serwich, Scotland, sailed thence Sunday, after repairing her machinery. She had received notice from the British Government to leave.

ENROLLED.

Parisians of all ranks have been enrolled for defence of the city.

GERMANY.

AN EFFORT AT MEDIATION. CARLSRUHE, Aug. 30.—The Gazette of this city has the following: "LasC*evening the Bishop of the city actuated by a desire to stop effusion of blood, uudertook to bring about some-sort of truce or mediation. With this view he went to Schlienghcim and had an interview with Major Lieziosky, Chief of Prussian staff. He urged that bombardment was contrary to the laws of humanity and modern warfare. The inhabitants had been denied leave to withdraw from the city. The Bishop obtained 24 hours cessation of the bombardment ir» order to give an opportunity to the Governor of Strasbourg to negotiate, who way accordingly invited to come out and examine the preparations which had been* made by Prussians for continuing the siege. As Major Lieziosky escorted the' Bishop back to Strasbourg his flag of truce was riddled with bullets. The bombardment continues with guns of the largest calibre, and the surrender of the city is merely a matter of time."

BELGIUM.

TROOPS GOING TO THE FRONTIER. BRUSSELS, August 30.—Belgian troo|» are hastening to the frontier from all quarters. A great battle between tho French and Prussians is apparently imminent, and the services of Belgian troops will no doubt be necessary to protect the country Irom invasion.

DENIED.

The investment of Longnay by Prussians, reported yesterday is denied. HEADQUARTERS.-

McMahon's headquarters are at Sedan.

DENVER. ———

THE NEW SILVER REGIONS. DENVER, COL., Aug. 29.—The editor of the Central Register furnishes me the following items concerning the new silver region recently discovered northwest of Denver, and already creating immense excitement in mining regions. Parties are starting from Denver with stocks of goods, and there seems to be no doubt of the permanency and richness of the mines.

CENTRAL CITY, Aug. 29.—Our reporter has just returned from Grand Island. The district is located 15 miles northwest of Central City, on the western boundary of Boulder Co., and forty from Denver. About thirty ledges have been struck, six or eight uncovered, showing a true fissure of silver veins bearing payrock, crevices from two to five feet in width. Cariboo, Idaho, Boulder Co., Grand Island, Sovereign people, Carter Trojan, Monitor, Corger and Comstock are among the most celebrated.

About five hundred men are on the ground. Buildings are going up rapidly. Tons of rich ores are being hauled from the mines to Prof. Hall's smelting works, at Black Hawk, daily.

Three regular coaches run from here each day, besides many private conveyances. The passengers number about one hundred per day.

The excitement is great and steadily increasing. The veins so far as developed give the impression that this is one of the richest silver regions yet discovered.

Prof. Hall contemplates the immediate construction of additional smelting works, to meet the increasing demand from the mines. Other companies are talking of erecting smelting works. ———<>———

PHILADELPHIA.

SUDDEN DEPARTURE.

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 30.—The Philadelphia Watch Company lose $40,000 to $50,000 by the sudden departure of Celestin A Hector Jocot, Secretary and Treasurer. It is believed they fled to Europe,