Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 7, Number 41, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 4 May 1876 — Page 2

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(. i.,. ,. .,c merchants arc tu

plying them -elves with stocks ofbluejeam in anticipation of an increased demam

these goods.

IN the inve-iigation of Secretary Bristow's connection with the Mary Merr/(

case, wlm w^s before the House Committec on Kr.penditures in the Treasur Department yesterdov. an admirable il lustration was given of investigators he ing investigated. The essence of the

whole examination \v:is given in our despatches of e-.icrd:*y and need no be rcpcate 1 here. Sullice to say that the indomilablt Secretary eximn.v.l the various witnes'e-. himself and niecceded admirabh wringing his own vindication from the unwilling hps his accusers. I or thi benefit of jeoplc who have not. the timi to keep up with the voluminous mass o!

matter these invev tigating committeeare furnishing the press, we will rcmark_ that Mary Mcriitt is not a woman, hut a ship, in cf'T.nertion with a certain remissj. ii I Secretary Hrislow liati heen charged with irregularity. lis enemies will be compelled to

start

something new on the secretary at whose belt hang the scalp locks of the whiskey ring. At present Bristow ranks A

JUDGE DILLON'S

fice

SENTENCE

OF

McKEE.

Persons who were present at the sen­

tencing of McK.ee. say that the scene was one wheh Nast pencil should perpetrate. As Judge Dillon proceeded to state successively the various mitigating

circumstances in the crime of McKee the friends of the prisoner began to take heart. When he spoke of the lightness of his crime as compared with that of the Government ollicals who had violated their oaths of of­

and perjured themselves

to ste from the Government, McKee looked up and breathed freer than he had, in anticipation of a lighter sentence than that of his frieuds who had preceeded him to Jefferson City. hen his age and respectability, his influence in the community and his piety were successhe! dwelt upon, a beautiful smile came

upon his countenance, such as was wont to irradiate it when he had heen more than unu-ually happy in the nomenclature of some unbnrn infant, perhaps, whose prospective father had called at the Globe office to consul, him upon that momentous question. At this period in the solemn ceremony the .court ro.m had the appearance oi a love feist, and tlie accused wore the aspect of

a maligned martyr, who having put hi. trust in the Lord, was now glorified in ans

ticipation of his signal triumph and expected nothing less than that the court would beg his pardon for the inconvenience it had caused him and bid him take up his

hat.jpd walk. changing the intonation of his voice, and with the same appearance o. scattering roses over the ransomed pri3 oner, Judge Dillon proceeded to remark that the sentence would be

$10,000

fine

and two yeirs imprisonment in the county jai', the very highest penalty allowed by the law. The eflect on McKee and friends is said to have been like that one would notice in a Turkish bath, room

the attendant should make a mistake in turning the stop cocks, and shower the parboiled bather with a fraezingmixture instead of hot water. udge Dillon, wc have our misgivings, is something sf a practical joker, and like' Joey

Bagstock ir. "devilish sly" about it.

THE LITTLE JOKER IX POLITICS.

A very great deal of useless twaddle has

been

given publicity through the

pres6 on the alleged duplicity of Landers towards the independents, or of the Independents towards Landers, or of each to both, or of both to each, as the reader may prefer to have it. There is something amazing in the way some people have of sticking their heads in ash heaps, and affecting not to have seen what they hid their heads to keep from seeing.

Starting out with a blare of trumpets about ijrts immense burden of principle, which, doubtless, deceived a few simple-minded and honest-hearted

financial philosophers of the future, the greenback Independent movement was a bare-faced and brazen attempt to procure a political abortion. It was conceived in trickery and brought forth for a tradeThey sought in their meeting to nominate for Governor a possible candidate before tkte Democratic convention, hoping that their nominee would, by hook or by crook, receive respectable indorsement there. Then then expected to stmt about tlve State House as if he was their Governor and had been elected by them, as an impecunious free lunch fiend will pick his teeth before a first-class bote

to delude passers-by into a belief that he has had his dinner there, and so prop waning credit. A chance to pick a f'e^V crumbs of comfort from the public table might also have bloomed and blossomed in their yearning breasts.

Without a Democratic indorsement,

they knew their candidates, one and all, were still born. If they did not, everybody else in the State did.

Aside from this, the head center of the movement, Mr. "Jee:ns" Buchanan, otherwise, "The Plan," hoped by having nominated the Indianapolis Congressman "for

Governor, he would be elected as hii sucessor in Congress. A young man who

blossomed in one season into an aspirant or Senatorial honors, is just equal to such a scheme. The whole thing failed of course, just as it ought to have tailed, and 'here are no mourners outside of the lit­

tle coterie of self-appointed reformers who sought, by taking advantage of a popular delusion, to consummate a very li reputable little trailing trick.

BEECIM.R has not vowchsafed

i'.ny-

"hing as vet against ^loulton l.is, caid. and that makes Frank '-madder" than anvthing cKe he could possibly d'.

THOSE interesting wards of the nation, the families of Mr. Lo residing around the Red Cloud and Spoiled Tail agencies, are said to be in a starving condition. It never occurs to the noble red man that the curse of Cain rests upon

him, and that labor is hi- inheritance.

MAC, cftlie St. Louis Globe-Demo-crat, doesn't like the sentence Judge Dil­

lon gave "Billy-' McKee. He thini there was no occasion for dwelling tearfully upon the mitigating circumstances in McKee's crime, anil then pouncing

down on him at the end with the severest sentence which the law allows.

A LETTER FROM. LANDKKS.

Ho declines the Indendcnt Nomination ami Defines His Positien.

The Indianapolis papers of this morning contain the following correspondence between the Hon. Franklin Landers, and the Chairman of the Independent State Central Committee. The Independents have been nervous ever since the Democratic. State Convention over the attitude of the "Pig Sticker." and ha\e been anxious to know whether or not he was real I v' their candidate for gov ern'r.

Out of this anxiety grew the following correspondence. It is severely formal, and explains the situation of affairs to a nicetv. Hut we detain the reader.

KI ss' LF.TTKK TO I.ANDKHS.

ROOMS STATF. CKNTK.M. COMMITTKK. OK THE INDPI'I.NDICNT PARTY. INIHAN.M'OI.IS. lxn„ April J.|.

To the

II011.

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Franklin Landers:

DKAR Sir—Since the Democratic Convention of last Wednesday, the to, some doubts exist in the public mind as to your attitude toward the Independent party ol Indiana as its nominee for governor. I deem it but just to yourself and to the Independents that such public assurances be given hv vou as to your status and intentions as will relieve both yourself and the Independents of this state of all reasons for emb: rrassment or misunderstanding.

I am very truly yours, GKOKUI: W. RI/SS,

Chairman Independent State Central Committee. L.AXDKKs's I.KTTKU TO KISS.

INDIANAPOLIS, April ^4, 1876.

Major George W. Russ Chairman Independent Central Committee: DKAR SIR—I beg to acknowledge recept of your note of this date asking wheth er I desire still to remain at the head of the Independent state ticket as the nominee of that party for governor, and wheth er I will make the race as its standard bearer in the coming campaign. While profoundly grateful for the confidence reposed in me by the Independents of Indiana, who honored me with their nomination for governor, I must say that as I chose to submit my claims as a candidate to the convention of the party wilh which 1 have been identified all my life, in justice to the many friends who so earnestly supported me in that convention, I can not now consent to run as the Independent candidate. Permit me also to say to you, and through you to the Independents of Indiana, that had 1 received the nomination of the Democratic convention, I should have made my canvass, so far as the question of finance and currency are concerned, upon the declarations of the Independent platform, and upon my past record upon those questions, rather than upon the declarations of the late Democratic convention, which I can not indorse. My well known views upon the currency question I believe to be grounded on true Democracy, and of those views I abate nothing. I am, with great respect, your obedient servant,

FRANKLIN LANDERS.

Orthodox Oddities.

Mr. Adirondack Murray's congregation is for awhile to worship in the Boston Theatre.

The Rev. Dr. Blackie, of Ldinburg. says that the modern sermon, "is like toddy made of one-tenth whisky and ninetenths water."

Mr. Beecher had a slim audiencc in Boston Thursday night. The New London Telegram asserts that the receipts did not pay the expenses.

Mr. Robert Gollyer, in his address* at the Shakspeare memorial performance yesterday, s'aid that he had listened to many a sermon from the lips of actors.

A Glasgow preacher hesitated to tell a dying man he would go straight to heaven, and the brother of the patient stabbed the preacher twice in the head.

A Providence minister, speaking of the commencement of church service, remarked that "our watches varied about as much as does Christian experience,"

They've got a thing in Michigan called "the Swinton scandal." but as the most dihgent inquiry has failed to discover any woman at the bottom of it, religious people won't have anything to do with it.— [Brooklyn Argus.

A clergyman having a quarrel with a neighboring gentleman who insulted him, and at last told him, "Doctor, your gown is your protection," replied, "Though it may be mine, it shall not be yours," and immediately pulled it off and thrashed the aggressor.

Mr. Gladstone in a guarded way expresses the opinion that the Moody and I Sankey meetings could have had no considerable success, "unless sustained with the same energy and pertinacity of whole I Sale advertiting which, until quite -ecentlv, was letter known to the inventors of certain descriptions of blacking and certain kinds

of

naedicine.''

THE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

Petticoat Pleasantries. Egyptian women are old at twentyfive.

The music of the creaking gate hinges, as they swing beneath the burden of ardent lovers, is again heard in the land.

Rope skipping is an amusement for children, but it is said that during leap vear there are a number of girls not quite so young who will jump at the first offer.

Dio Lewis says woman is the cau'-c of man's intemperance. And now why don't the Prohibition party work for the abolition of woman?

It is the sagacious remark of a keen observer that you can generally tell a newIv married "couple at the dinner table by the indignation of the groom when a ily alight*

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the bride's butter.

Because a man in Portland. Oregon, deemed it necessary for his authority at home to flog his wife, all the women in the vicinity met in council, passed resolutions, and then going to his house, whaled him until he became insensible,

A Chicago girl in New Haven amazed a'Yale theological student by asking him to help her pull off her boot. Then she told him if he didn't do it she'd kick all the curl out of his hair and that completely paralyzed him.

A gentle meek-eyed Indiana girl at Yassar College writes to her parents:— "This is the most stylish hairpin of a boarding school I ever tumbled to. I can eat four times a day if I want to, and get a fair whack at the hash every time.

A ladv had her dress rimmed with bugles before going to a ball. Her little daughter wanted to know the bugles

would

blow when see danced. "Oh, no,' said the mother, papa will do that when he sees the bill."

A subscriber wants to know if anything is more annoying than a love-sick hired girl around the house. Nothing could be worse except to have her poison herself on the parlor sofa.

Young men in this city arc gravely considering the question of abandoning the usel of standing shirt collars. After

10

o'clock Sundav nights, most girls check look asif they'had been punched with a clothe.—pin

'Minneapolis ladies arc permitted to vote for school officers, and just before an election there are, probably, more hair-pins, mixed candies and corset strings gratuitously distributed in Minneapolis than anywhere else in North America.

There's a woman living in Connecticut Valley who hasn't seen a man in nearly twenty years. When asked if she wouldn't like' t'lhave one around, just for a change, she answered, dolefully: "No its's so long now. I wouldn't know what to do with him.

A woman in Washington Territory kept her mouth open long enough, upon a certain occasion last month, to swallow a snake. Her husband betrayed a good deal of feeling in relating the little circumstance to his neighbors, and concluded his narrration with the remark "There ain't nothin' hard-hearted 'bout me, but hanged if I s'posed I could feel any sorror for a snake."

A book agent who has retired from active labor upon the hard-earned accumulation of a life of industrious cheekvsays that the great secret of his success was when he went to ahouse where the female head of the family presented herself, he always opened bv saying —"I beg your pardon, miss, but it wai your mother I wanted to see." That always used to get 'em. They not only subscribed for mv books themselves, but told me where I could find more customers.—[Easton Free Press.

FISH HOOKS.—Seth Green, by his recent letter asserting that the most effective fish-hook is made from a needle without a barb, has drawn out a sarcastic reply in Forest and Stream, from Mr. Shields, a rival angler, of Bostou, who ridicules Mr. Green's assertion, and says that without a barb it is next to impossible to take large fish, as the line is certain at times to beco lie slack and allow the hook to slip from the fish's mouth. Mr. Shields thinks that Mr. Green "instead of giving us an advanced idea of fish-hooks talus us back to our juvcnille days, when we drew our supplies from our grand-motlv-r's pincushion."

BRIEF.

The City Fathers Rush Business through last night.

Council met hist evening in adjourned session. The reading of the minutes was dispensed with.

The committee in charge of the Cahill estimate in Poplar street, reports favorably on the granting of the same, and it was so ordered by the council.

Patric McCabe was allowed the final estimate on work in Denting street, between 6th and 7th, and the bond of Gould S Blood contractors on south 5th street paving was approved.

Mavor Edmunds spoke of some man living on Swan street, between^ Water and First streets, who had placed his fence out on the walk.

The Engineer was instructed to investigate the mater. Mr. Edmunds also wanted something done in regard to roaming cattle on the streets.

The motion was tabled until the next meeting by a vote of S to 2, and on motion, the assembly adjourned until next Tuesday evening.

Rather Close.

An accident occurred at the slaughter house of Philip Wyatt yesterday that very nearly proved disastrious. Mr. Wyatt while attending to some portion of the machinery, stepped upon a plank that was not properly placed, and was thrown down instantly some eight feet. receiving a number of severe bruises and was rendered totally insensible for sometime. In his fall his head missed an iron lever only half an inch, that ould, from the nature of his perilous descent among the machinery have 1 resulted in instant death. Fortunately he revived in half an an hour, and last c\ ening was able to limp abo it with the use of a cane.

Personal Paragraphs. Gen. Braxton Bragg was appointed City Engineer of Galveston, but the Counciimen refused to confirm him.

Vanderbilt, Stewart, and Astor each paid real estate taxes on an assesed valuation of $3,000,000.

Colonel Mike Sheridan, brother of Phil., and a member of his staff, has gone to the Black Hills with a private party.

President Grant has sold his 200 shares in the West Division Horse Railroad in Chicago, to Hon. Russel Jones. at$i ji a share.

Garibaldi lives in a handsome twostorv structure enclosed by high walls, and in the midst of a garden embelished with trees and flowers and conservatories.

Mrs. Betsv Straw, who died at Warner, N. H., lately, at the age of 101. had been married twice, and gi\ en birth to seven children, hut no descendant survives her, and no one related to her is known.

Judge Hilton closed Ixith the stores

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of respect for the memory of Stewart, and set the clerks to work making an inventory. They mourmed their departed chief in dead earnest.

It is said that a man imprisoned in tl'.e Missouri State Prison, under the name of Graves has confessed that he is rank James, one of the notorious James brothers, who have been a terror to the State.

St. Petersburg will be very lively this fall. After the return of the Czar from Ems. he will entertain the Duchess ol Edinburg, the Kigg and Queen ot Den mark, the King and C^iieen ot Greece, and tlie Emperor of Brazil, and Prince Humbert, and the Prince Margaret, of Italy:

Colonel McCiurc. of the Philadelphia Times, thinks that the post of honor is the position of journalism, and declines to accept a nominaiion for Congress. That's the wav most of us in this business are beginning to feel. But it the nation would only crawl, up abreast of us perhaps it might be different.

Collin Graves, the milkman hero of the last year's dam disaster in Massachusetts, did not figure in the recent one. An inquiry has brcught out the sad fact that he died of grief, poverty and neglect some time ago. It seems that after the Mil! river catastrophe, when he rode down the valley and warned the inhabitants that the dam was breaking, people asked themselves what he could have been doing at the reservoir, and then stopped buving his milk. The milk business wa: ruined, he had nothing else to do. and not many months after he died in destitute circumstances. Think twice before vou allow yourself to become a hero.— [Chicago Times.

Nursery Nonsense.

A twenty-tour pound baby was horn in Pittsburg, and the mother weighed 12c pounds.

Being askod what made him so dirty, a street Arab replied: "I was made, so they tell me, of dust, and I suppose it works out.''

A negro preacher stole two horses, a few days ago, at Brenham. Texas, and taking them with liiin to Lexington, was attested Sunday at that place, while preaching.

A Chicago boy who has been letting up nights reading pirate stories called his father to supper the other day by bawling out, "What ho, there, base craven! Comi hither to thy vesperian hash."' And when that father and that son came together it sounded as it the butt had slipped off a twenty-foot fly-wheel.

Tli.t most trying moment in the life of a youth is when he slips, tor the first time, into a barber shop to be shaved, and meets his father there 011 the same errand. Somehow it takes the paternal mind some time to become reconciled to the fact of his hopeful's pin-feathers.

~A girl and boy, between the ages of 11 and 17, were noticed in a long and closc conversation in the Atlanta depot. At length the boy began to weep, his loud boo-hoos attracting a crowd. "What's the matter?" asked a sympathizer. "He wants me to marry him, and I won't," replied the girl. The spectators withdrew.

A Danbury couple have a nice little daughter of some five summers. A lady visitor observed to the mother: "What a pretty child you have. She must be quite a comfort to you." "She is indeed," said the fond mother. "When I'm mad at Tohn I don't have to speak to him. She calls him to his meals, and tells him to get the coal and other things that I want. She's real handy.

One of the boy reformers in a speech a few evenings since made this remark: "I have these good reasons for keeping the pledge not to use tobacco 1st, because I am to have five dollars at the end of a vear jd, because I have pledged myself not to use it, and

3d.—the

strongest of all

because I'll get a licking if I don't keep it!'' It is unnecessary to say that the speech was applauded.

lie is a nice little boy who lives in Erie, Pa. They had a performance at

tee

Opera Hoase. and he stationed himselt at the head of the staircase and said so sweetly and naturally ."Tickets, please," and thev gave him the tickets, but soon they came to a big, burly man at a door, who wanted tickets, too, and wouldn't let them in because they had none. And the nice little boy went with his friends to the show, and" they couldn't find him there to pay him for being door keeper

Selected Sharps.

Taking a breakfast roll i* very good exercise in the morning.

If men would set good examples, they might hatch better habits.

The Centennial ox is on his way to Philadelphia. He weighs

6,000

pounds.

It has been suggested that everybody should plant something in the spring season, if it's only a cat

When a man has business that doesn't pay, he usually begins to look around for a partner to share his losses.

Tudge Hollman, of Jersey City decides that "all bets are void.'' He evidently forgot the alpha-bet, so we'll give the Ilollman another chance.

The King of Burmah has ordered the courts and public offices to he closed for fortv davs. during which time the ceremony of boring holes in the ears of the Princess will be performed.

There is an old German proverb to the effect that a great war leaves the country with three armies—an arntv of cripples, an army of mourners and army of theives.

"Mother," said Ike Partington, "did you know that the'Iron Horse' has but one «?ar? "One ear? merciful gracious, child, what do you mean?" "Why the cn-gin-eer, of course.

Spain's debt is $3,500,000,000 the interest on this at three percent is $100,000, 000 annually, while the revenue of the Kingdom in good years does not reach $90,000,000. Is a national debt a national hlessing.

4n the iiostoti custom house, recently, a coin check for one cent was issued. It is directed to the assistant treasurer of the I'nited Siates. and bears the signatures of the collector and, deputy collector.

Galva Williams, a colored man. was voted for by the people of Palmer, Massachusetts, "as their candidate for justice of the peace. The voting was done as an April fool joke, and the jokers found themselves fool«d by the election ot their candidate.

Mr. Gladstone, the distinguished English statesman, said in a recent address that hand labor was better paid in England than head labor. Same thing over here. William. .A prize fighter will make more money pounding his fellowmen black and blue than a goat can earn hv butting them clean across the street five or six times a day.—[Burlington 1 lawkeye.

The advantage of having a dress reform woman for a wife—Time, midnight: scene, a bed chamber two pairs of panb hanging over a chair enter the bloodyminded burglar sees pants. "Aha! curse on 'em! One man I would carve two I will not face." Exit burglar in alarm bnrglar deceived only one man in bed other pants belong to wife.

In Chicago they tell of a furnished room that, although let at the rate of only i'our dollars a week, earns four dollar* a dav. The lodger pays that sum in ad vance, and at night the landlord gets oir his cornet and is accompanied by his daughter on the piano. The lodger moves away in the morning, is at once replaced by another, and so they come and go.

Now doth the little onion Poke up its little head, And the restless little radish

Stretch in his little bed.

The sunfish and the minnow Wag their shiny little tails. While the chipmunks and the robin

Adorn the fence's rails?.

The blossom by the hedge side A lid on the loafer's nose Tells of the coming spring time

And blooming ot the rose.

Perkins' Interpretation PP. Talking of an organ reminds me of an old church near by, whose members, in times past, had conscientious scruples about this instrument, although they had none concerning the use of a band oi music in sacred service. In the conventicta to which I refer, the trombone was plated bv that famous performer, Mr.

Perkins, 'distinguished for many miles around for his "lung power.' On one occasion the conductor was grilling his choir on a piece of music O hichlie fondly hoped would win great eclat for himself and choir on the following Sunday evening. A fine passage marked "pp occured in the piece, which would have produced an exquisite effect if it had heen rendered with that delicacj the leader endeavored to suggest and enforce in the usual manner. But instead thereof, the trombone of Perkins blew a blast that would have taken the walls oi Jericho clean off their foundation. Con sternation and dismay were depicted 01. the countenance of "the horror-stricken conductor. •Mr. Perkins," said he, in a very sterr. voice, "vou have ruined ine What dc you mean by playing in that outrageous manner.'' "Whv, sir," replied Mr. Perkins, meek Iv, "I played according to the marks ii mv book." "Let me see your book, sir," said the conductor. "There, sir," is not this strain marked double f" "Certainly," said Perkins. "And pray, sir, what do you under stand bv pp r" "As understood, and understand it. in this case, double means 'put in, Perkins.'—and I did it," "You did repeated the conductor, his disgust giving way to the humor ot the thing, and he ordered a recess foi half an hour.

A Rich Passenger with no Msney. There is a story told of Baron Rothschild. of Paris, the richest man of hi? class in the world, which shows that it is not only "money makes the mare go" (01 horses either, for that matter), but "read', monev." "unlimited credit" to the contrary notwithstanding. On a very wet and disagreeable day, the baron took a Parisian omnibus, on his way to the bourse, or exchange, near which the "nabob ot finance" alighted and was going away without paying. The driver stopped him and demanded his fare. Rothschild fell in his pockets, but he had not a "red cent" in change, The driver was very wroth 'Well, what did you get in for if you, could not pay You must have known that you had" no money "I am Baron Rothschild exclaimed the great capitalist, "and there is my card."' •"Never heard of you before." said the driver, "and I don't want to hear of you again. But I want my fare—and I must hate it."'

Tlie great banker was in haste. ''1 have only an order for a million," he said, "Give me change," and he proffered a coupon for 50,000 francs.

The conductor stared and the passengers set up a horse-laugh. Just then an "Agent de 'Change" came by, and Baron Rothschild borrowed of him the six sous.

The driver was now seized with a kind of remorseful respect, and turning to the money king, he said "If you want ten francs, sir, I don't mind lending them to you on my own account."

MONEY GRANTS TO THE ROYALFAM ILY.—Annie Besant, the English radial heroine, has started a petition to Parliafment praying that no further grants of maney to or for the royal family, or any membir of it, shal be given under any cjrcums)indes whatever. The signaturehave

run up into the neighbahood of

80-

txxyaod when presented, it will be the

largest

petition ever sent to that body

WHY THE REPUBLICAN PARTY MUST BE DESTROYED.

From the Sow York Sun.

It scents almost impossible to find a sound spot in Grant's Administration. 1 every department and branch of the public service rottenness is found whenever the searching probe of investigation is applied and vet the discoveries '.has far made are in great measure due to accident and to the reckless habits of officials, who. from power, exposed themselves to direction.

The late Secretary of War i- impeached the Secre'ary'of the N.tw Vcly to to experience the Mime infiictioi, the Interior Department is hen no'ii bed with jobbery in the Iiti'Im Bureau, the Land Office, the Pension Office, and the Patnt ()fllce. the Post O.Uce Department is stuffed with straw bids and conclusive contracts the Treasury uniiet Boutwell and Richardson was a mas of false entrks forced balance, overissues, and deceptive bookkeeping: the Department of Justice has been a political machine '"r persecuting opponents of Grantism, swindling the Treasury, and enriching the ^vcrst class of scoundrels that ever disgraced the American name: and the Department has been used to bttn.y American .M)li and to furnish enormous fees for the Secretary's son-in-law.

It was quite natural wi-.- a President who worships the golden ca !, and with a Cabinet made ut of su!»

,-vient

clerks,

who were glad to register us edicts, that Rings should have been organized to control the political power i-fthe Administration. The Babcocke, h'-.epherhs, Kilbourns, McDonalds, J'. -ces, and that crew, formed the kitcht\ Cabinet, sur--ounded Grant socially i.*td almost captured the Government. They had access LO all the secrets, suppri^ed what they deased and crushed opposition. In Congress the voice of ti: minority was stifled by Blaine, who as Speaker was a lespot. lie had two iv.Hives to guide .lint, first his own succ: y, secondly the uccess of the party. hough the two Aere combined, he maun the second al.vays subservient to the first. The Senate vas governed by a few leaders, whose •ule of action was to give a clean hill of .lealth to every infected partisian like I'omeroy, and to whitewash every subject investigation like the sale of arms to France, or tlie Lett and Stocking 1110110oly.

Thus the Government has been run as 1 close corporation in the exclusive intcr•st of office holders, Rings, contractors, uid rascals. The greater the thief, the nore recognized his position. Grant set lie example of being a guest of Boss Shephed and drove through the streets the capital with McDonald by his side .vho is now philosophizing, over human anities of the cell of a penitentiary. Grant ncw him to be a thief, for his friend Ford •ad told him bo: but that fact made no difranee. As McDonald saul", the goose :iung altitudlcm.

The chiefs who were highest in favor .vith Grant and his Senate at Washingon planned the conspiracy by which the "aeedinan's Bank was plundered of nearly all its deposits, and the poor negroes vere cheated out of their haul earnings. 1 Ienry* D. Cooke, Gen. O. O. Howard, ilallett Kilbourn, John O. Evans, Lewis '.Jlephane, Boss Shepherd, W. S. Huntngton, George W. Stickney, J. W. Alord, and other familiar Ring names, tripped this institution of millions, and left as "securities" Seneca stone scrip and other trash, in which Grant was a large stockholder without having paid a dime .or his shares. The conspiracy to rob he bank by these knaves, fully illuminited by the Sun years ago, is now plain every eye, and every one concerned it ought to be indicted. The books ire mutilated, the accounts are purposely onfused, and there is every token of a leliberate plan to steal the money, in ,vhic'n the officers and trustees of the tank were implicated. It is wholly impossible that there could have heen any lonest supervision or any desire to pro•ecttlie unfortunate depositors, in prcs:nce of the debris which is left as tlie )r«of of organized rabbery.

The Government printing office has curned out to be nothingbut thestime eohr110s fraudwhich the sun has exposed repeat jdly during the last three or four yea 8. Fraudulent books, suppressed entries of teals diversion of public money and 6aeal» ,.ig on all sides are but a part of the systdm vltich has long made that office a scandal ind a shame. It has been maintained by corruption in r.ongessand would have continued undisturljed bat for the change in :he House of Representati ves.

Yet with all these developments and )there which are sure to come, the surface aas been barley scratched. I he bottom act cannot possibly be reached and the whole truth known until this Administration is driven rootand branch out of potv.•r and the Republican party is crushedinto towder. The two are inseparably connected together in spite any personal antagmism which may exist, or the individual lurity of some leaders and many followers Corruption has so spread through dl the departments of Government that inless the country calls a halt to such oroceedings, our Republic must inevitably fail to accomplish the benificent purposes contemplated by its founders. l"he only way to stop this is overw helmingly defeating Grantism at the polls.

Too RKADY TO FLARI: UP—During recent performance at a Paris theater a nan and his wife had a quarrel on the stage—the woman in a rage of jealousy, the man trying to persuade her that she was too suspicious and too passionate. Both were acting with great spirit, when the wife moved her arm too near a candle and her muslin dress was in flames in in instant. Both actors kept their presence of mind, however. The husband extinguished the fire, and. proceeding with his part, interpolated: "You see. my dear. I was right you are ready to dare up for the least thing.

COMMISSKRATION.—The Brooklyn Argus savs a woman in Washington Territory kept her mouth open long enough upon a certain occasion last month to swallow a snake. Her husband betrayed a good deal of feeling in relating the little circumstance to his neighbors, and concluded his narration with the remark "There ain't nothin' hard-hearted ixnit, me, but if I s'posed I coujd ever feel enn sorrer for a snaike."

AN OLD KORAX—Amanu«criptcopy o. the Koran, copied by the Caliph Osman the third, after Mohammed is in the im» peral library at Petersburg. It formed a part of the library of Samarcand. is 1, 200 year5 old and bears traces of the blood that spurted on its pages when Osman was stsbbed while reading it.