Terre-Haute Weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 February 1871 — Page 1

Indianapoli

nW ^"1.

being

compelled to

.Bheieb ith interminable a ^repo^of the savings and doings fbody, that nobody, except mem •»Ie General Assembly, reads and which th^',asageneral tbing^on yg ancc j- ][t, toseeiUheir names are mentioned with sufficient prominence, an to

Ot other grievances^

^lUmt footfn other citizens. This

pieq«al phief

object

flispoees coat'*1-

E«l'sh

ThE

"iaooD is

{the

ciurs star .'•isjn moi saWy nor leads us to

RE CARS or Sharon,

Louisville Conner melo-

Z'XZ&Z 533

ogs have season,

go, got a ana the. laborv "•^.beroad.from' ri_

'is wa' tfiU :. Louis Vemo ckatrice's ec*£«, ire not all ami*

/•at doesn't like lairman of the il Committee. It ,-oted for GKANT, to merit the un)emocracy.

Senators and .te Legislature at&lBKr sons ?rs,&c, And jreat deal to inktration."

n? Is^ there any reatianppblis that is not to any other city he ich lalla short of public v.".

or moral quality worth New Albany Ledger id,- was his temper ndMjr~ now bewailing j.iOtild it be. picked up unfo^iir.ate people of look out for numerous -bia.

wants the $100,000, that voted to the Bloomfield luted in buying the right *t£?cting a road-bed and "Station, when the comroad, for that disiS$L ng a cent. For our the lines centering here

Jut many Senators and

igreiymenjpir to go into private life jheVnd o/^ie present Congress, with Vtr emerging therefrom, in apprehension that the liession may witness the

Vf corrupt jobs that mfcn

hot dare^n vote for under other

I ^stances.

flourish^? young

KePubli*n

of Kansas, are informed by the -art of in state Treasurer has an oublV debt of exactly two ted and thir| p'ne thousand dollars,

I p^oses \o pay during the pres-

\ontbW"Deing don?'

thCre W

L^lrme balance in the treas-

•\fe

country-is

payed

Ifids of

again, and the

patriots who have indulged

:rA.UKSBUBV

657 bushe wheat and 37,739,06/ bushels of crains. In mantes the d^elopment of the State lm rtiU marked. In 1S60 there3,0G3 man tablishmenploying a persons, aming out pr in the aggiat $27,849 the nnmbeiablishnientVverc 4,072, the nnmbeiersons empl%l in them 03 041, aniiotal val«e

(ju™!e

reporters and editors f°r ^ancic

^THElonK-U\ked of contest in

/k8^nUtriet

1 9

theT1^

been abandoned. The

J**1- '^bvtongt^..-«uJ

act recent p-

eter

the status ofth

of making 1

.^esofthechiet^

eptan^e

Gen.

if this matter to

,uP ot iuc 1 1* 11 w-oi eieveu

rwier

mournfully

.n the daily

-nothing ^^l°na-ns why it journals,

Ame

•When

rican novelist.

*e have ..gm .une along, like a appointed'pregi(jent jt

anJ

aught our em ry

T'vkal DICKBS" by the coat-tail, an 1

aborig»n»l

^'^ati

tke nt Jomp«

Commercial,

L•gislature

_„y on tike «*?th.t en-

•«fs.

ace I"

inc*o

last and

com-

NoveBt^

gun to

mea-

sn&e the same samet*i about 6|

the

3 wai ernon

^^ichigan ^nmittee expediwas to ain porcertain move in should 'nd if pair expenhope the

on Ed

principle ofif education will soon be adop1'ont

the

country.

"We NOTIC indications of general dis8fimong

old

army

officers who '•ke best an^ strongest yearves

the country

•ii^crusades ggidians, 'n fighting the enemy in,d

l^e

®out^)

during the regarding the arbitrary pre

the law which

retires them've service, and leaves them ^niserable pittance for their own^1111'^®9

Bl,PPort)

There is not isfaction, but real distress araoithese

old

heroes,

turned out

a8e

to subsist

upon income!61" '00 small f°r their wants KANSAS w^ed to elect much of a Senato'EXANDER CALDWELL may

'^be kind

*\Qf 'hat

89 wel1 as

an-v

of the smallnts

T.„

-j?

for tLe

Posi*

tion. It incurred to some of our reader*iave fallen on the. days of sma ^'8 places. Pigmies are pigtll0UKh perched on Alps." Th«"^enator" doesn't make a bIoc"atesman-

A lol,se

doesn't look1" or better for getting into th»re

^as la'ni

and the littl

who

ar«

crawling

into seats oi^y

l'le

intellectual

giants of th're only challenging comparisorii^e their littleness

more contei

JrJXiiNQ^®^ of the leading British jon prominent public men, the

Inquirer concludes

that we we10 near having the "Alabama'*11"1?

and

honorably

settled as

a11

q"a«"tersthe

justice of pds for reparation is not only frgencrously admitted, pressed to have the but great anspij

Alienees settled with as

long-pendin little delay present threi Europe has

How much the

ter aspect of affairs in th the change of tone

toward us^ffo^ish cousins, every reader will|j

for

h,mself-

Tha

England desmoid a rupture with the United Stat natural enough, and that it will-tfcxher resources to the utmost to art" 'ier P0^1,0"

The

^itious fe*xs of Mine national caKVto follow the election of a man PONDER as^iovernor of Delaware of SAUU BUKY, may put their anxg»rebodings to rest. POWER's wile

of the genuine stock, an

.iAM.se «overn3 her ponderous hus,0k ^The Duchy of Delaware and the WUie nation" arc safe. Also, the

a"\ong

the leading Poof the Old World, is certain. Thef, justice apart, Great Britain has st.reasons for wishing to J- nf tKlabama" claims in a

GOVBHMOBBOHILD'S recent mesRage makes 4 record for Wisconsin,

showing

that' that relates to mate

rial prosperhe has experienced a vigorous growing the past decade.

populate increased from//5,881 in 1860)55,559—a gain ot tliirP«r U*® 3 746 167

improved land, ine

State'now b^f95'338

acres'

during es al of 15,414 licts valued

In 1870

of\eir

pro-

ducts $57 HI. The incrL the valf-e of mctured produf during I en ye-ms amounts dred ands per cent. So protection

CABEFtillers of tbe Co reports liaviced the recenWsage of a bill pt ng a sort of l^nal

'.rbv Ijongw• 1 _overnmeiif me lJiatnct o.Tftna.

"ans of the Nationa I propo?overnment for th'

elections, on

Eional

modeliecmewhat

after Vhefct

of the with a G6

tQ be ap

acc

advice

mission when I WUU

ex-

"f, Darien i. C.p. Hor»,

to vio-

Zn of Plymouth Rock, than

tcn^°n of

int

emational justice Dominica. If,

wecan

an ffct both generous

delighting he^yes with our

SfeebHght bunting stream o%er

noon, and not getting back to work belore y„r

not in the special con6dence of the Floyd learning the trade of a tanner and cur\mencan coiiinty members, it does not even know by rier, but, abandoning this, he became a hearsay of the phantasies floating through schoolteacher. After some years spent the Democratic legislative cocoanut. The in this vocation, he entered as a law stu-

FROM some careful statistics (which we find in an Eastern exchange) concerning the inmates treated in the great Pennsylvania Lunatic Asylum during a period of years, some important facts may be gleaned, giving valuable hints concerning the age and sex which are most liable to insanity, the habits and occupations which are most conducive to it, and the causes which most frequently result in the overthrow of the intellect. It i8 between the ages of twenty and thirty years, that we should guard mo3t carefully against excitement, for more persons then become insane than in any oilier decade of life. Men, it appears, get more of the wear and tear of life, or do not stand it as well as women, fcr out of 2918 patients only 1264 were of the fair sex.— Widowers stand their grief better than widows, for there were 159 of the latter, and only 74 of the former. This is the more remarkable, as women patients were, on the whole, less numerous. Out of a total of 2918, only 1364 were women. The numbers of married and single per sons were surprisingly near equal, 1342 were married, and 1343 single, leaving a majoritv not snfficient to found any inference on.

THE renegade Republican who edits the new Democratic organ at Washington, the Patriot, affects to believe that Mr. LINCOLN would find satisfaction in the election of FRANK BLAIR to the Senate —nav, would even "rejoice that the BLAIR family had survived the secret and open assaults of their enemies, and that one and all of them are in full communion with regenerated Democracy." The Cincinnati Chronicle thinks it muit have altogether escaped the memory of this complacent worshipper of the BLAIRS that Mr. LINCOLN peremptorily dismissed the only one of the family he ever had much to do with, by plainly telling him "the time had come" for him to leave the Cabinet. From that moment, with him, the power of the BLAIRS was over. They all under itood it, and stampeded at once to the enemy.

THE Indianapolis Journal scathingly rebukes "the obscenity and blackguardism" prevalent in the lowerbranch of our General Assembly. WTe fear that many of the members, unused to appearing in so important and conspicuous a position, are forgetful of the proprieties belonging thereto. The slang that passes for wit with the Bar of country courts, and the obscene stories that amuse vulgar crowds, of an evening, in corner groceries, have been called into requisition by our Solons at the State capitol. That man is simply a blackguard who will, in any legislative body, use language unfit to be employed in the presence of the wife, sister or daughter of a gentleman.

in"

crease of fiftjier cent. In the same ear 15,687ushels of wheat and 20,w-? 647 busf 'other grains were produced. in,he Product

ANOTHER Lafayette parson is to be persecuted with a "donation visit.' We are not surprised that the pastors of the "Star City" show a strong inclination to resign, for of all contrivances to impoverish a minister and make the last drop of self-respect ooze out of him, thcie "donations" are the mo-t successful. So few

De0

was

25'323

THE recent decision "of the Supreme Court of Illinois, in the CIIEXEY-WHITE HOCSEcase is exciting much interest. It will be remembered that Judge JAMESON,

ecclesiastical trial of Rev. C.L.CHENEY on the charge ol violating the canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church. I lis decision is overruled by the Supreme Court, and the trial will go on. This establishes the principle that the civil courts have no jurisdiction over matters purely ecclesiastical in other words, tha in respect to doctrinal and ceremonial jstions, the supreme authority resides the Church. A lead in the tribunal? ing Chicago journal thinks:

poiiby he President wi

and.ent

_f the Senate,

who shall li,js office for four yia

-Ills

uiutc IUI

ent

Public Works,

to consist of

overnor an

npw laW

ih(j maelstrom

it *as intendedI by

The Court is undoubtedly correct. In respect to the State, the Church is purely

prjvate

two per

sons to be ajj President.— The membeiie (^uncii

also to

s(a!et

msnv honefl

opl a

association, with whose mtes-

1 1-1 ho as unwise as it

private

Kn..det«ioio ,Co«,j member! .ine Ironble., il be wmowire it „o.te Ot 1

0( o(

v*,irar

members, w§ecretar5 to be appoint1 ed by the lCllv

,™oly(o,.ld be unj,,,,, (or ,h. cml .mhon,,..

for four years, aid

IIE

vW »v I

with a delej Congress. The laws the Legislal?emblyare to be subjet to repe&l or j^tion by Congress.—• There is to \ar(j

re*

jeatii

the

up ,hat

of the

depri-

(he pwp

h»«n into the maelstrom 1 ^eg ^e pCOp^

0 su

ffroge

(he fact es

isted. fw. pie of the Di} jpprjyed of citizenship so fa jg

conc

erned.—

They have

ern?eives

the prac

tice of electin^

an(^ members

the City C°un.,axing each other and sqn*n°erlj.easurv very much as if they °ma(e gcrsrr^-.ent.. But so long as voice in the of his country 1 -t OI "i" and the selecti is not wort *.

tQ oj uarre

lherIghl/aMavor

over

I CouncUman *1- nUW «eW Kovernmen! the citi

her- TDOug" captivate tropic «ill ha« to Ihem toW,

Digtrict wi

j. to be lie 'I °CitJ not *nd

oBl?

I, float where it may,"' of economy *nd'1

»a» w-p"

GEORGE TICKNOK was

unced yesterday. An. exchange thus

jes the principal points in his busy eful life: tijaTicknor was born in Boston, Augtl».e791. He early determined upon preif a man' of letters, and having D^lhimself for college, he entered ISOTit, where he was graduated in pletfejtning to Baston after the com studv%* college course, he began the dull* Iw law. But preferring to its characSer'uits of a strictly literary «itv of 1816 entered the Univer.philosopBfen, and began the study of SppointeAring his absence, lie was guages anlssor of Moderm Lan lege, and oS rature in Harvard ol delivered a %urn to this country he Italian, Gei%f lectures on Lnglish, literature an®french and Spanish signed his prffifed

t.°PH^"r.

Legislature Progr®88- I DIED, at his residence in Clinton, Ver-

The New Albany ledger cliides the, million County Indiana, on Thursday. 1 2 6 in a 4 a for adjourning Friday after- ^EKRY D. WASHBCEH, in the 39th ion, and not getting back to work before

ysar 0f

jjU

a~ee

0 a

Monday afternoon, on the ground T)^T 4^ENEHAI WASHBCBK was born in ^constitution allows only sixty d^ya fo ^Vindsor Connty, Vermont, March 28, hnnlnding Sundays. Whereupofe the -1832. He received a good common school idianapolis Commercial "rises to explain" education in the schools of his native |at the Ledger is too far from Indianap- State. During his minority he worked rgm is to be thoroughly posted, and as it is for

Commercial is confident that the Demo- dent at the New York State and National cratic Legislature intends to adjourn be- Law School, and graduated at that instifore the sixty days are up, to some time tution. Soon after his graduation herenext autumn, and then stay in_all winter, moved to the West, and became a citizen It thinks it is possible, however, that some

ghort while as an apprentice in

Vermillion County. He served as

intelligent members out of the Legislature Auditor of that county from 1854 to will so instruct the simple fellows who 1861. He became a soldier August 16, know nothing about the constitutional 1861, as Lieut. Col. of the 18th Regiment provision, and overcome the knaves who

Indiana Foot Volunteers, and served

don't care about it. It is sufficient to jth his regiment in the Missouri camshow the rascality of some of the members and ignorance of others, to note the fact that they have been seriously considering a project to put the constitution to one side, and hold an extra session on their own hook. sjjj ,rj

with his regiment in the Missouri cam paigns of that year under Fremont and Hunter. Early in 1862 his regiment moved south and took part in all the military operations in Arkansas. -On the 15th July, 1862, he was promoted to the colonelcy of his regiment rice Col. PATTISON resigned, and thenceforth commanded it until he was honorably mustered out, July 15, 1865. During the year 1864 his command was attached to Gen. GRANT'S Army of the Mississippi, and was engaged in the siege of Vicksburgh and the various campaigns of the south. Later in 1S64, after re-enlist-ment as a veteran regiment, his command was transferred to the Army of the Potomac and'his service was thenceforth with that array. On the 15th of December. 1864 he was brevetted as Brigadier General. Gen. WASHBURN'S military record was escellent. He won the esteem of both superiors and subordinates, as a brave, careful and well informed officer. He lias twice represented this District, very creditably, in Congress, having been elected in 1S64 and re-elected in 1S66. At the close of his Congressional career in 1868 he was appointed Surveyor General of the Territory of Montana, and has since spent hi-% time principally in the discharge of his official duties in the West. Returning from Montana, a few weeks since, he was stricken with a pulmonary disease, of which he died. He met Death bravely and with unusual composure, leaving behind him hosts of warm and devoted friends to mourn his decease.

General WASHBURN was an eminent member of the Masonic Fraternity. "His Council and Commandery membership was in this city. He had filled with distinction one of the offices of the Grand Lodge of the State, and was warmly devoted to the Order.

He was a man of good attainments, honest purposes, pure habits, and honorable impulses. His memory will long.be kindly cherished by those who knew him

SOME of the young blackguards in Philadelphia, who call themselves "medical students," persist in insulting ladies who are trying to qualify themselves for the profession which these brutes disgrace. If there is any one thing of which the public mind is fulty satisfied, it is the right of women to become physicians, and not only the right, but the absolute necessity and perfect propriety of their entrance into certain departments of that profession. The Philadelphia Press pointedly says:

Before ten years eveiy physician in Pennsylvania will deny that he ever insulted a woman physician or attempted to bar the doors of the profession against her. It is just as well now that the community should mark the classes which indulge in insulting women, and the instructors who peimit it.

THE Cincinnati Commercial learns thaj Mr. ISAAC H. JULIAN, editor of the Richmond Radical, was beaten, on Thursday,in a miserable manner, by a ruffian whose name had been mentioned in a very mild paragraph in Mr. JULIAN'S paper. The Commercial thinks:

It is possible that a few outrages of this character will modify the excruciatingly fine moral sense of the people of Richmond about decent persons defending themselves when attacked by dangerous members of society. The example of Mayor Bennett may not have been, in all respects, excellent, but the spirit of

all

nle know how to give in such cases, non resistance has been too highl peopiu il.o hpmii 1 fill citv of Kit

without making the recipient feel and look like a beggar, that the usual result, even when the contributions foot up in excels of damages, is a feeling on the part of the chief victim and hi* family that they are regarded as mendicants.

The State and the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad. The Indianapolis Commercial has this mention of the alleged claims of the State against the Terre Haute & Indian apolis Railroad:

Everv session of the legislatuie there is a great outcry about the claims ot' the State on the Indianapolis & Terre Haute Railroad Company on account ofits.char-

an function, sapped the ^^etbe^an^thing is made off the

it is continually claimed that the corpora-

tion owes the State million dollars, more or less, it would seem that somebody should make something unles.-. the road pays up.

The real fact is the State has no equitable claim upon the company. It received a charter as a private corporation at a time when there was no general law, and the legislators and applicants for the charter went to work as if this was to be the only road ever built between the east and the west. It was to have special privileges, and was to pay the State all jibove the reimbursement of the stock and ~-.ir cent- interest. The road has been 15 pj"~^"-egsful one but whether it has a very suu*-~ so positive as tbe statedone this, is not """*^v^to make a little ments ot those wishiti= capital out of it. pay-

,r?

1840 began the%bip in ]So_, and work, '•HistoryWition of his creat completing it in %aruph Literature, ten a life of the lafeHe has alsownteumeious shorter Prcscott, and and articles.

appears in

THIS item of loc: a Washington specu The Legislatures lilinois'have memoriaBJndiaBa and ail appropriation to mifcongress for river wvigable

or a

fr0®

tovn ouLafayette. Tbe iinh to the too loci in its character torment is able thi any money will beaft probfor it tl session. 'riated •W i, X- i:X '-K

•nairs

But the equity of tbe case was 1.. or ment of a price for a special privilege, ~. monopoly. By|he general railroad law, by which the whole State was thrown open to whoever wishes to build railroads, all tbe special points of the charter ol the Terre Haute road were abrogated and the road stands on the fame footing as all other roads.

That it was fortunately situated, economically built, well managed, and made monev, is true but no more so than it would have been if the wise principle of general legislation had been accepted earlier. The road has enjoyed no special privileges, all that part of its character abrogated by legislation, and the school fund has the same claim Oi! it that it has on any othe railroad, or any uan who has bought land on the line i-- load, and got rich by its ine ease I v. »alue

We have no idw h:n an action could be sustained against :ht* company but if it could be, it would be dishonorable on the part of the State to bring it. The State authorized tbe building of other roads along side of the old road, and has benefitted by the increased value of proper»v causcd bv the road. The whole matter' *s brought up from time 10 ume, i* a bit of demagoguery.

A passage curiously apropos to present experiences in Paris is to be found in Alexandre Dumas' "Thousand and One Phantoms." One of the characters tells another that the Prussians will one day scourge Paris, and that the rats ought to be encouraged and kept well fed, for the Parisians will certainly have to eat them Dumas little expected to live to see his jorular remark a,sad .reality^

.' .1

IE IIAUTE,INDIANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1, 1871.

charge,

INDIANAPOLIS LETTER, profits*™^

The Canal Qebtfte in the Senate—The Terre Hante Bailroad in the House. *FF% INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 25.

the House is debating the resolution, which I informed you the other day directing: the Governor to prosecute the claim of the School Fund to the dividend in excess of fifteen per cent, of the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad Company. There have been two bills before the Senate in regard to the old Internal Improvement bonds. The first directed the Attorney General to defend against any suit upon them—referring, of course, to Garrett's suit—and provided for satisfaction of judgment in case of decision by the Supreme Court in favor of the hold ers. Tbis was debated and rejected this morning. Mr. Hughes, whose political contortions grow daily more amazing and unaccountable, voted ior the rejection, although he has declared over and over that these bonds should be paid, and his resolution, amending Brown's, declared that "the Legislature will provide for their payment." The sccond bill, now under discussion, makes no provision for any suit, but enacts absolutely that the old bonds shall be paid, to the number of one hundred and ninety-one, by the Governor, Secretarv, Auditor and Treasurer of State, provided that no more shall be given for them than the legal amountdue upon them. Mr. Brown opposed this strenuously, because, in bis opinion, the Canal holders took that work subject to the liens upon it, and are bound to dis

them and, because, our contract

with the owners binds us not to pay the old bonds. If we violate that part of our contract the whole of it becomes void, and the owners may claim payment under the original contract of 1836. On the latter point it is enough to say that the Supreme Court of the United States has expressly declared the provision of our contract against paying the unsurrendered bonds, unconstitutional and invalid. We, therefore, violate nothing by disregarding it. On the first point, the liability of the holders to discharge the liens on the canal, it is sufficient to say, first, that those liens were not a matter of which our creditors were bound to take notice. A citizen of the State is given, legally, by the record of a lien, notice of its existence, though he actually knows nothing of it, and he is bound by it. But our creditors were foreigners, to whom our local statutes are not legal notice. They were not bound to know that the bonds were a lien, or what the legal effect of a lien in this State was, and are not, consequently, bound to make any provision for what they knew nothing about. They are held by the plain terms of their bargain, only, and by no constructions, or legal consequences of acts of which they had no legal knowledge. Second, the canal is directly subject to the lien of these bonds. It may be proceeded against at once, as Garrett is doing, without connecting the State with the suit. Judgment will carry

compensation we ever made them for halt their debt. The faith of the State," as well as the public works, was pledged for these old bonds, and, whatever the owners of the canal might be construed as bound to do, that "faith" is clearly violated which leaves them with nothing to show for the money they lent. Mr. Dwiggins, of Jasper, replied quite effectively to the Jackson "snorter." Mr. Steele and Mr. Hughes both spoke on the bill, but I didn't hear them. I don't believe it will pass, though. If it does the "clouds that lower on our bouse" will begin to clear up a little. I missed hearing Hughes because I was listening to the debate in tbe House, which interests your readers more than any other portion of the State.

lti-

JUII iccK»«itvv *, 1 rated in the beautiful city of Richmond.

The resolution of Mr. Martin, of Putnam, directing tbe Governor to bring suit to collect the dividends due from the Terre Haute and Indianapolis Railroad Companv to the School Fund, was the special order for this afternoon. As soon as it was called Mr. Martin offered a substitute directing the Governor, not to prosecute the company for the money, but to take charge of the suit now pending in the Putnam Circuit Court to obtain a forfeiture of tbe Company's charter. He made a brief statement of bis reasons, and a little desultory talk followed when the report of the committee of five, made last session, in regard to the claim and the conduct of tbe company, was read. It showed conclusively that the profits of the road had largely exceeded fifteen per cent, even allowing the mortgage bonds of over 5600,000 to be added to the paid up capital stock of over $800,000, and taking the sum as the basis of calculation of dividends that tbe property of tbe companv was now over$3,000,000, a sum which could not have been reached by not lew than fifteen per cent that large amounts had been invested in the stocks of other roads, in government stocksand other forms of investment, one single item being SI,000,000 and that nothing had ever been paid to tbe School Fund. They held that a proper construction of the 23d section of the charter, which provides for the School Fund dividend*, did not make it imperative on the State to regulate the larifftcf the road, but only authorized it to doso in its discretion. Ihey admitted that the officers of the company hadgiven them every facility to investigate the matter. Hut little to the purpose was said until

Mr. Speaker Mack, of your city, left the chair and took the floor. As he has a fine presence and considerable fluency he makes a good impression, but his speech, though presenting several good points, was incoherently constructed tagging unrelated topics together, skipping abruptly from one division to another, ana occasionally tumbling down an anti-cli-max, when he had worked up a strong sentence too far to make it stronger in conclusion, and lapsed into the feeble rhetoric of generalities, like the orator who rose to the "glories of Miltiades, the proud pre-eminence of Alexander, tbe heroism of Hannibal, and and and the unquestionable merits of all them fellows." He said the-Putnam county suit was brought by the Prosecuting Attorney, the officer designed by law to ao it, and it was no more an affair of the Governors any other suit. The Attorney was tin..: Mr. Claypool and Mr. W. K. assisted bj able lawyers, and they

Harrison, botu nor supervision. He needed neither help ^t which should had no objection to a suv-., -..^tion as settle finally and forever the to the liability of the company, but ne was sick of its recurrence session after session. He then passed to the validity of the State's claim and argued it at

IeThe23d

section of the charter provides

"that when the aggregate amount of the dividends declared shall amount to the full sum of the capital invested, with ten per cent, per annum therein the Iffi'sla, lature may

regulate the tolls and

fi eights that not

iftcr paying

"than fifteen per

cent shall be divided upon the capital emploved, and the surplus profits, if any

the expenses and receiving

each proportion as may be nece^sary or future contingencies, shall be paid to the School Fund but the coiporation shall not be compelled by law to reduce the tolls and freights so that a dividend of fifteen per cent, cannot be declared. This is substantially, and almost totally, the provision out of which the claim grows. Mr. Mack contended forcibly and plausihly, that there was no duty created bv it on the part of the

compmy

10 pay the excess of dividends to the School Fund until the Lcei-Iature assumed the power to "so regulate the tolls and freights that the cr-mpany should not get more than fifteen per cent." The language permitted this interposition btitrdid not make it imperative but until exercised there can be no claim to the

profits .arising frotn ''so regulatinjt tolls, &c." The Legislature "may" do "so," and if it does the School Fund shall have a contingent benefit from "so" doin£. But can the Fund claim that benefit if the LegislatHre does not do tb.it thing, from which it is stipulated the Henefit shall come? This is not precisely Mr. Mack's argument, but it is substantially. He

Both ends of the Capitol are boilirg briskly to-day. The Senate is debating a argument, DIU it suosianiianv. bill, said to have been proposed or sug- then read the opinion of Attorney Gener gested by the Governor, providing for

7. *. civic. claim against the companv until the ac the payment of the old bonds of 1836, and

Williamson, that the State had no

quigitio of the

..fa„ invested, will

quisition of the "full sum invested, with ten per cent, per annum." had been ascertained, and the Legislature had "regulated tolls and freights." He spoke in t*e highest terms of the social standing and character of the men who compose the company, nearly all of whom were his constituents, and though he believed none of them gave him their votes or influence in the election, he aimed to do them full justice. He admitted that the company had made great profits, -but insists tha' the Legislature had never taken the steps to entitle the School Fund to any part of them.

Mr. Stevenson, of Hamilton, replied to Mr. Mack, urging that the Governor was the right man to look after thi« case, and prevent one of those compromises by the prosecutor, which are seen in our Courts every day. Mr. Browning,of Bi own,offered an amendment to Mr. Martin's suh-titute, requiring the Attorney General to ascertain the amount due to the School Fnnd, and report it with his opinion as to the legislation necessary to enable the State to recover it- After a further debate bv Mr. Browning and Mr. Ballanger, of Wavne. and others, the amendment to the substitute was laid on the table, the substitute itself was passed. This differs from the Senate resolution, of which I spoke the other day, in that it orders the prosecution of the Putnam suit to forfeit the charter, while the other orders the Attorney General, with the Governor's advice, to collect the claims by other suits. There is an evident feeling in the Legislature that the Company bad availed itself of a dodge to evade what was fullv understood to be a bargain to give the School Fund all over fifteen per cent., after the capital and ten per cent, had been made out of the profits- and it looks as I said the other day, as i'f the "dodge" had been adroitly devised to enable the Company to escape the fair consequences of the promise it seemed to make. T. T.

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INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 26.

Some of my last letters have been mangled by the types as seriously as such trifling tilings couldbe. I am made to say of Hughes that lie would speak with the "propriety instead of "ferocity" of a renegade," made "doubly precious" instead of doubly ferocious "some" was tvpographized into "soon" and "who" into "also," and several even more affecting errors have appeared, to the serious disadvantage of the compositions little able to bear it. In fact there is not any more sense in letters than they need, and when the types knock that little out they are left "poor indeed."

I noticed yesterday the debate on '.he second bill,said to have emanated from the Governor, to provide for the payment of our unsurrendered bonds, but the House

State witii tliesuit. juagment win uiiuj debate on the Terre Haute Railroad case an attachment and sale, and, once sold,

preventec me

all the talk from Brown county to Botany ....

all the talk from Brown county to Botany Bay can't change the fact that we have sion ot it allowed our creditors to lose tbe only

from noticing the conclu-

4--~*

,na ,5te

The bill was rejected, like

the first one, Hughes opposing it on the ground that he wanted to pay those bonds, but he thought the bill did not properly reach that object. He introduced a resolution instructing "the Committee on Finance to prepare and report a bill, \w-h-out delav, providing for the payment ot all principal and interest now due, or to become due prior to the 5th day of January, 1873, on the old Internal Improvement bonds not surrendered under the law called the Butler bill and that said bill shall provide tor the payment as to time, place and ainpunt, according to the terms of the bonds, and six per cent, interest shall be allowed upon coupons over due, from and after their maturity." This resolution was debated this morning for a while and adopted. It is hard to guess what sort of provision will be reported by that Committee, but if it conforms to the instructions it can't go very tar wrong. This proceeding reinstates Hughes consistency on the bond question, but all the •'mandragora and sirups in the world can never medicine" his political consistency to the health once it owned."

Both Houses have bee whacking the city papers to-day. In the Senate, Mr. Gray, of Randolph, directed attention to the verv imperfect report in the Sentinel of yeste'rday's proceedings, and especially to the publication of the Governor's bond bill, which was so detective as to make it require action entirely at variance wiili the provisions of the unmutilatcd bill. The report was admitted on all hands to be incorrect and incomplete,' and Mr. Hughes moved that an additional copy of the Journal and Sentinel be taken", in Older to give tbe proprietors sufficient compensation to enable them to publish full reports. Mr. Hughes has very queer notions of newspaper work it he fancies that the pay for fifty additional copies will do any appreciableservice in extending reports already thrice as long as the public interest demands, and four times as long as the Senate subscription ^makes any approach to giving compensation r. On motion of Mr. Scott, of your city, the matter was referred to the Committee on

Printing with instructions to report bow many copies should be taken by the Senate to furnish adequate compensation for full reports. Probably this is as sensible a course as could be taken, but, if a little experience will entitle my opinion to any weight. I would advise that Committee to report in favor of a sort of In-diana-legislative "Globe," to be paid for bv private subscriptions of members. In no other way can they get what they want, a full and nearly verbatim report of the proceedings. No' daily paper can afford, for any subscription that either house will dare to make out of the Treasury. to choke itself upon three full pages of legislative business and gabble. Not one reader in ten pretends to read the report at all, and not one in fifty reads more than a few scattering passages. The adventurous individual who dares and accomplishes the whole document, deserves a medal at the expense of the two houses. 1 have seen a good deal of this business, and of the public feeling in regard to it, and I have yet to see anybody that ever read all of even a moderately full report.

In the House the deba'.e was decidedly more interesting, and touched the Republican organ as the Senate did the Democratic organ. The occasion of it was an editorial in this morning's

Journal,

that on I uesday afternoon the House had disgraced itself by obscene talk, and that had defiled his place and opcgKtyxhe conclnnatue by a filthy suggestion^..— sion of tbe women's right* address, 01 wbich I wrote yon. This is not at all the language, but it is the purport, of the

Journal's paragraph. The cen.-tirc was as harsh as it could be made, and tho'ugh not entirely undeserved, a little moderation would have made it at once more jijst and more effective. As it was, it went bevond the mark, and, instead of operating as a rebuke, excited bitter and almost universal resentment. The debate, with the "obscene" talk, did not occur on Tnes dav afternoon, but yesterday morning, upon a bill to prevent quackery and otherwise purify the medical profession. Mr. Lines, an old. grey-headed man, from Clay county, 1 think, made a coarse, uncouth spceeh, touching obstetrics, not intentionally, nor actually, obscene, but suggestive of matter not usually discussed in tbe presence of ladies and an occasional remark was made in refpon*e that would have suited a barroom better than the Hall. But the impression made bv the whole affair was less that of obscenity and wanton m«lecencv than that of thoughtless indifference' to the proprieties of tbe place.

Speaker Mack's remark, to those who had been "posted," was dirtv, but to the ladies and outsiders it was as unmeaning „y other suggestion of legihlative 0.4

routine. But, in the best construction, it was misplaced and mistimed. The Speaker's stand, in the hours of actual session, is no place for "double entendre." I think a temperate reproof would have been kindly taken by the jolly Speaker,and have warned him off a future transgression, but the Journal was savage, and savage upon an imperfect conception of what was done that was offensive. Mr. Simpson, of Jefferson, offered a resolution expelling the paper from the House. This, after a good deal of angry talk, was amended by a proposition of Mr. Dawson of Tippecanoe, that the paper be censur ed for "false and malicious libel." More debate brought a further amend ment from Mr. Cauthorn, of Knox striking out the "malicious" epithet and making a simple censure of the expulsion. In this form it passed by a vote of 80 to 9, about as nearly unanimous as a House vote ever gets to be. The "noes" were mainly Democrats who insisted that the Journal had said no more than was right. The censurc won't do much. The House needs the paper as badly as the paper needs the House sub scription, and that is the whole of it.

The.House resolution for the appoint ment of a joint committee on the ap praisement of real estate and railroads came to the Senate and it was referred to the Finance Committee. It is to be hoped that something will come of this movement—for, as I wrote you the other dav, there is no more ridiculous and mischievous sham in the whole business of the Slate than the appraisements of railroads. And the capricious estimates of eal estate are little better. We want it, as Hamlet says of bad acting, -'reformed altogether."^.,, T. T.

INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 27.

The Journal this morning "comesback" at the House in a plucky fashion worthy of all commendation. It reiterates what it said before, and dares an investigation, promising to publish the testimony in full. This inducement is about as ugly a threat as could be made, and bad its influence in preventing any allusion to the matter this morning. The Journarsstatemr- made the indecorum more serious than it was, but it was bad enough to look anything but creditable in a verbatim report. Even the House of Representatives of the great, free and sovereign State of Indiana can't fight a well conducted, paper to any advantage. To day that slightly overcrowded body is doing nothing of any interest, though nece-sary enough to the disposal of business. It is calling the counties for petitions, memorials, bills and anything that anybodywants to present, and it has done nothing else since it met this morning.

The Senate had no morning session, that time being given to committee work. This afternoon the "regular order" has been followed, and bills on the third reading, or reported from committees for amendment or tabling, have made up the session. The only one of these of any consequence was the amendment to the felony statute, introduced by Mr. Martindale of this county, making it felony for any man holding an office of trust or profit, or any office of a city government, or township trustee, to receive any reward or compensation for official action, or to be influenced in his conduct by any pecuniary or valuable consideration.— This is not the language of the bill, but it may serve to convey the idea that prohibits in the plainest terms, all forms and shades of bribery, under the penalty of a tine not to exceed $1,000 and imprisonment not to exceed ten years. On the suggestion of Mr. Glessner, of Shelby, who wanted it recommitted and amended so as to add incapacity to hold office and disfranchisement "for any determined period. Mr. Martindale accepted the amendment and it passed by 40 to 0. I did not observe any provision for the punishment ol the man offering the bribe as well as the officer taking it, but there should have been one there.

The revelation of Mr. Elliott, of Fayette, that he had been offered $15,000_ for his aid in passing three swindling- bills, concurs with rumors that have been floating around the Slate House and the Bates House for several days. The drift of them is that the canal is to be sold on Garrett's lien in order to get the fee simple out of the Stale. The canal is held in trust for our creditors, not in fee simple, and in this condition nobody can sell it but tbe Sheriff, upon execution. The absolute title and property once in available shape the owners, or beneficianei now, can sell it to some advantage. Most of them are speculators who got their can il =tock for five cents on the dollar, and it i^ey can be placed in a condition to make a good and legal sale they can profit to the extent of thirty cents on the dollar. The «abash Valley Railroad will give a million or two of dollars for tbe advantage of ruining it and its competition with their work. anderbilt will give two millions or more for the 'chance to improve it and use it as a feeder ol grain and heavy freight, during the ftw V»i« mm!* Either would put

CI Ui gi ill" «»v» w— 1 summer, for his roads Either would 'put money in the-purse" of the stockholders And then tliey would come back upon us with the demand to give them cash for the work which we had allowed to be taken from ihem. Ibis is cutting with b«rk and edge, too, right through the Suite's "leaf fat," but this is what Hie cra ic managers are" said to be aimir." at, and certainly it is exactly what tl co'.ir-e of the Sentinel and Senator Brown leads to. 1. I.

A COKRESI'ONDKNT of

stating

The Tribune

Mr Smuncr is an

{PAYABLE IN ADVANCE

pro

poses the Hon. CIIAIILES SCMNER for President, and IIOKACE has this to say on the subject:

able

and honest slates-

man, though he (like every one else,) is sometimes mistaken. If lie could only realize that another may differ from lnm, yet not be totally depraved, be won be a still greater man than he i-.

Our cori e-pondent docs not mean to injure or annov Mr. Sumner by nominating him for President yet that will be the effect. It is not yet time, by a full year, to trot out candidate- for next President.

BUN. L. BAKRON, Efq., one of tbe pro-_ prictors of the Lafayette Daily Journal, died at his residence, in that city, after a lingering illness, on Tuesday aftern jc.-n in his thirty-first year. The Lafayette Evening Courier says:

Associated with us in the business man agement of f-.e Courier for several years, we knew him «ell, and can bear testimony to the great heart which marked* him as one of nature's noblemen. He 7f -educated at Notre Dame, and after a ziilc^ey^J !n the IlOUse of W 111. brief eniploymetft^v.-i-junc of tafjj'-jj&n alli-

Braden at Indianapolis lie forriu.^.T^r'h ance with the Courier and remained w7(! us, until, in the puichase of the .Journal, he'embarked in business for himself. His wonderful energy and rare business capac ity found congenial employment in the complete reconstruction ef that paper, and he wa« not long in placing it on a paying basis among the best newspapers properties in the Stale. had pride in his sucee-s, for he was a child of the Courier, ami we.shaM always remember the zeal and fidelity with which he discharged his duties to us. But we Jo\e to think of him as the genial sunbeam that he was-- never very htrong, often a MIIferer, but

always

cheerful and with a kind

word for every"body. He lias gone hence to his reward! Peace to his ashes.

An English writer who advocates the dropping of the letter from the termination our, as is the universal practice in the United States, says that the needless retention of tbis letter in a single copy of the London l\mts costs £10, and that in English books and periodicals alone it increased the cost of publication -fully £10 000 a year, without yielding any practical good.

GBIUXON, THE COSJCBEB.

It was a pleasant event in my life when I was thrown into the company of Grig* non, tbe conjurer. I was on my way to California, and had taken the overland route in preference to any other. It was on my journey across the plains that I made his acquaintance. Our party overtook a single wagon. It contained a solitary man. The horse was dead and the man nearly so. This man was Grignon I paid the utmost attention to his wants. Being a medical man I gave him k11 the benefit of skill and care. As he recov-

ered he naturally entertained a strong friendship for me. His wagon had fallen behind the train to which he belonged, and they had been compelled by their own necessities to desert him.

We had come into the country of the warlike Indians, and they were not slow in becoming acquainted with the fact.— Every day they prowled around ns in great numbers, threatening and insulting us.

Every day made matters worse. We did all we could to be friendly and determined to avoid an open rupture as far as possible, for there was only twelve on our side, and on their side apparently twelve hundred.

We held a council of war and determined to bring matters to a crisis at once. The crisis soon came.

One day a- big Indian came riding along by us. He began talking in a contemptous way, and gesticulating furiously. At last he asked one of cur men for his gun. The man refused. The Indian repeated his question, and attempted to take the gun from his hand. The man drew back. The Indian sprang forward. flourishing his knife and threatening. j.ne inuiau At this tbe man calmly leveled his piece Then he tasted it. a a

As the wretch fell shrieking from his horse the plain seemed to be alive with other Indians. From behind every clump of trees, every hillock, every rock and every rising ground, they poured forth in countless number. We had never before seen so many assembled together as now.

And now our companion the conjurer came out conspicuously. He had been once in the Fiench army, he said, and understood all its admirable discipline. A few words of warning, and a short explanation sufficed to make us form a circle of the wagons, and draw up behind them with baggage heaped up for breastworks. There we waited for the savages.

But they did not come just then, they aited till night. Night camc. Our defenses were made. Our wagons were arranged more closely, and the barricade of baggage was made higher, deep, and more effective.

Shortly after dusk the tramp of thousands of hoofs shook the plain. Down upon us thundered the Indians. Shouts and yells burst around.

At last our volley burst in thunder upon them. The effect was terrible. Many must have been wounded or killed, judging by the awful uproar that arose. For a time there was a confused hubbub of sounds. Horses were trampling, men calling groans were mingled with cries of rage. During all this time we fired at intervals whenever we heard a sound, husbanding our ammunition, and not willing to waste a shot.

At last there arose a wild tramp of horses, the sound moving away from us, and seeming, to show that our enemies had. retired baffled from the assault.

Yet we were afraid of some plot. Grignon made us keep our watch, and all that night we lay on our arms, expecting every moment' to hear the Indian yell which announced the assault of the savages.

After a long night, which seemed interminable, morning dawned. As the light illuminated the plain we looked around anxiously for our enemies, but saw none whatever. We took a hasty breakfast, and then deliberated on what we ought to do. Grignon gave it as his opinion that the Indians were yet in the neighborhood and were waiting to attack us on the march. He thought that it would be better to wait at least another day. We all yielded to his opinion, and waited as best we could.

After a few hour.", at about 10 o'clock, ten or a dozen horsemen appeared over a hillock in the distance, riding slowly towards us. "They wish to have a parley," said Grignon. "Some of you step forth, and see what they want. I wish to have a little to say, but will wait a little."

One of our men was selected, and went outside of our inclosure to meet them.

Meanwhile Grignon lifted a trunk out of the wagon which belonged to him, drew it outside, and busied himself coolly in arranging and turning over the things.

Our representative stood outside waiting for the Indians. Ten of them_ dismounted, and walked toward us in a friendly manner, while the rest held the horses.

One of them addressed our man in broken English. The Indians, he said, did not want our lives. They wanted powder.

Thev were very much in want of bullets. Oiie ol in eaid in a very low voice that bullets were the only things they would get from ns, but the Indians did not hear him. Our representative refused very mildly.

The Indian* now stood talking with one another. Grignon advanced, toward them. He whispered something in a low voice to our representative who immediately withdrew.

Grignon then stood facing tbe Indians. "Are vou the Captain?" said the spokesman of the Indians, suddenly, as he noticed Grignon. "No, I am tbe medicine man you can shoot these men, or these horses I save them."

The Indian translated this to his companions, who burst into roars of laughter.

Grignon advanced more closely. Jle was looking steadily at the Indian, and we noticed that the latter appeared to be uncomfortable under his gaze. "See," said Grignon, "you can't shoct me. Here"—and he drew a pistol from his pocket, a revolver—"fiicatme."'

The Indian smiled. "Yo don't want me to kill you? he scornfully. ,. "You can't."

The Indians eves flashed. "Shoot!" crid (irignon, folding arms.

The Indian looked paralyzed. Grignon showed him how to fire it again.

The Indian tired the other five shots. Grignon caught each bullet, sometimes seeming to catch it from his breast, sorae-

Jxom his face, aid each time he time*-.*»i .-^Indian. handed it to firfftQijjyere now in a state

The other Indians -j of wild excitement.

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"They may all -boot if thev choose," .aid Grignon, and saying this be went to his trunk, drew out nine pistols, and coming up to them, proceeded to load, each one. He took the powder and puUK in, then the wadding and bullet and the Indians Faw him do it. lie handed a pistol to each on loading it. Suddenly, one of the-e took aim, and tired. Grignon, without seeming to have noticed hiin, raised bis hand and seemed to catch a bullet from bis forehead. He to-ved this toward the Indian, who picked it up with an air of etupeticatiou.

Eight reports sounded in rapid succes"i0"- .. Grignon took of his hat and walked up to the Indians. To their amazement eight bullets were in his hat. Each man took and looked at it in wonder. "Do you want to tire again?'' asked Grignon.

They all expressed a wish to do so. ''Well, hand me the pistols."

The Indian INN| Whereupon Gria_ and rolling back his fingers and drew pi his throat.. Another follow*—. drew a'third, then a ibnrthf .ud .. until he had drawn forth the[ eighty from his throat, while the Iadiaff

looking on in utter bewildjnowrt. After this Grignon calmly dftw six or eight more pistols, the® MBBI of cartridges, and finally a carbine. Ys "I'm the medicine man," said hMI emnly.

The Indians said not wort. "Do you want to fire a|ainT*^ •MJ and he offered the pistols to the

They all shrank back- In horror?..» Grignon tossed the Wll and carbine oVer to us, and Mailed I nantly on the astonished savagefl.

He then shook his hand. A knife fell out of the palm, AHOM followed, and another. He shook thl more out of his left hand, and diJI .i score or so out of his ean. "Perhaps you would like sotnethini drink?" said he, smilingly, to the Ind who spoke English.

The savages looked at him suspicio

What'll you have? Ram, brandy gin, whisky, ale, porter, wine, or cider The Indian brightened DR and ipokf to his fellows. They all preferred whi«« ky,

t",

Grignon asked the Indian to lend mil loose blanket which he wore. Their dian took it off doubtfully. Grig jhook it a bottle rolled ont. He si it again a glass fell out. He shook it ft third time nine more tumblers.fell olit.^ Finally shook it again a corkscrew. tumbled down. "Will you take it raw or with water? asked Grignon, as he proceeded to BDscrew the cork. $

The Indian said nothing. 4g$j "Isn't that good whisky?" asked Griffnon, as he poured out a glass..

The Indian smelled it suspiciously.' hen he tasted it. The taste wasenougul' He drank it all off, smacked hjs lip#/,, looked around triumphantly on his comrrsj panions, and then—held out his £lass more. At tbis all the other Indians, couraged by tbis experiment, clagiorcd^"' for some. Grignon poured away fron^». his bottle. Each one drtink and wai more.

But Grignon shook liislhead. "Not now," he said to tile spokesman.^ "I'll give you a bottle a piece to carrjs* home with you." And going up to th'eu blanket he shook ont a dozen bottles the same kind as the last. -TBI

By this time the Indians were in tl jolliest mood conceivable. "Before I give you any more," siud he,^« "let me make you so that you will notj® get drunk." Aj

He walked up to the first Indian, aup^ took his hands 111 each of his, and looked. at him steadfastly in the eyes for BOOM time. Then he stroked his brows add"' left him this he did to each. The dians had got over all suspicion, and.'*" merely expected that something was coming. So they allowed him tO,jdfe, as he choose.

Grignon then stood ofl a little distl and in aloud voice ordered them all^tif look at him. Whether they understc or not made no difference. They tainly all did look at him.

I had seen plenty of experiments 'to* fore in mesmerism and electrobiology, •j®' that the present scene did not surpriff me so much as it did my companions 1 the other Indians.

Grignon simply stood at a 'disl waving his arms at times, and glTl words of command.

The Indian suddenly rushed wildly around, with the others all joined to him, trying to free themselves,'but utterly unable, yelling and howling like wild beasts ^0*3

At last, a shout from Grignon, charm was dispelled. They sprang baOjgjl from one another, and stood motionleafc^Js like so many statues.

Suddenly they all began to shivefcj though they were suffering from intrcold. They gathered their blankets_cl_ around fliem, their teeth chattering ilj every limb trembling. 'iSs

In 1111 instant they were pantinjfiirj though suffering from extreme heatiS drawing difficult breaths, gasping tnf* flinging of those blankets which out Jfg moment before they had wrapped so tij ly about them.

This then passed. 4e. They began to bark like dogs.—lb* went down on all fours, and evidcikt?^ imagined that they were of thecaj|M|g species.

Then they tried to imitate the moti and croaking of frogs. After this., went through performances too OBI ous to mention.

The two Indians,.who held the looked on in horror, bewildered stupefied, not knowing what to^dc They would have fled in their frigBM dared not leave their companions.— Grignon stood calm, with frowning browL watching the uproar, himself the pre§n5j ding spirit of tbe scene. My compfcWf-f^p ions were confounded. Even some^bl those, as they afterward told me, thotighf that Grignon was the devil.

At la}t Grignon gave a loud shouts ... The Indians fell flat on the ground They lay there for some time as ifdeati| Then (.irignon waved his hands, and Ihey^ rose to their feet, all looked bewijd"and frightened. With terrified gla.,—thev regarded first Grignon and tHen.one another.

The Indian is superstitions, like al savages in fact, like all human These men saw in Grignon a terr raon, who could exert over them er which he chose.

He advanced toward them. They recoiled. He walked up nearer. They turned and ran toward horses.

his

The Indian he-itated a moment. looked at us suspiciously. Then looked at his companicns, and said somathing in their language. They all responded vehemently. ,.••• r®-

He he

The Indian took aim. "You tell me to shoot,"' said he. "Shoot!" said Grignon again. The Indian fired. Grignon smiled, and walking forward to tbe Indian, he handed him a bullet.

lich" :t me', and' sta) si

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tbe

tlii

Grignon ran after them. In a frenzy of terror each hian flit himself upon his horse.

Grignon shouted after them. Away they went.. They urged Uleij horse-'at the'top of their speed.

Grignon followed them but a shor? tance. Then he turned back and came into j| inclosure. f" "Gather up those bottles," said he.'4 "Tackle up the cattle and let tia marching."

Instantly our men rose and oueytti. Grignon took a heavy glass of wh and then lay doyn in o^e of the r-1 utterly exhausted.

said

We traveled all that day, aiid next night, unmolested. Grigw long and soundly. After restin^ time, we pushed on our teams, ^6 get as far beyond the hostile Indians^ possible.

We saw nothing more of theafi.^i "They won't dare to pursue W|'V,Mid Grignon, confidently. They'll and tell such a story as will "frlgg wonder of tbe savages for many yea1".

Grigaion was right. Not only did Ijhfrj not pursue in, but for all the remainderJ of the year, and for all the next, travelers on that route were molested. "1 don't see," said I, "how you mw. aged to do those tricks on the opttlj ground, without any table."

Grignon smiled. "Only clumsy performers use tabUs^ said lie. "I could have done far wonderful things, but they would been thrown away on savages. -Iy serve my good tricks for Sain Fr co." ind Abuses, ...... ov, ne did for, of aUAVfegith suro magicians, and conjurers thaO&»f°rt!i" ted the Golden State, none havMW.f

It is now settled, weary months of dispute ain that Oglethorpe University^ ed at Atlanta, Ga.

People about to become no do well to consider the fo'loi-— "The Undertaker's Fuqerafjl Know How it is Yourself.^ would read it.

The inscriptions found on which have been surt(* traces of the lotttrioei 0 been deciphered By Profi who finds in them impressions 1 used by the Polynesians in gri terns on the tapff'c!rtth, the"an of Tahiti. 'V