Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 17 June 1880 — Page 4

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Terre Haute.

GRANT—Hiram Grant of Galena— thinks Republics are ungrateful and swears by the great horn spoons that he will never save the country again. He will see it dashed first. Congress will please take notice and be a little careful how it says anything to arouse to hos tility any of the bellicose nations with which we are surrounded.

GEN. BELKNAP has been heard from He publicly declared in the New York Post-office last Tuesday that Gen. Garfield was the most corrupt man in America. Belknap is an expert and his opinion is worth a great deal.—[Exchange.

What Belknap does not know about making money out of ofllcial position is not worth knowing. He needs practice, however, in covering his tracks.

THE St. Louis Evening Post-Dispatch says the following true words of the Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana:

FKANKUN LAN'DKHS, the Democratic candidate for Governor in Indiana, is a plain, old-fashioned, self-made man, possessing many elements of popularity. He is almost as near the people in manners and sentiments as Blue Jeans "Williams." It might have added that he is sure to le clected as was Blue Jeans Williams, but by a larger majority.

GRANT FOR 1884.

Col. A. Iv. McClure. editor of the Philadelphia Times, writes to his paper from Chicago, after Garfield's nomination, that the Grant gong though defeated are not disheartened. Their plan is to let the Democrats gain the presidency. The Republican defeat and four years of Dem, ocratic rule, will, in their opinion, makt the party turn with one accord to "the grand old silent man of Galena with a cigar in his mouth and on horseback etc. ad nauseam" and he will be nominated with a whoop in 1884. This plan suits the GAZETTE exactly. It likes it much. It urges ij upon the consideration of the stalwart Grant man. It commends it as an excellent plan. The first step in the plan is the defeat of Garfield. Let that be attended }0 at first. After that the resWill follow in order perhaps.

HAYE S AND SHERMAN ON ARTHUR.

A gentleman by the name of Hayes—R B.Hays— at present filling the office of Resident of these United States, is an editorial contributor to this issue of the GAZETTE. Another party by the name of Sherman—John Sherman—Secretary of the Treasury and late a condidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, also figures in the same capacity. Both assist the GAZETTE in attacking one Chester A. Arthur, the nominee on the first ballot and with practical unanimity of the Cliiagoconventiou for Vice-President. We would hardly venture to attacts him a severely as do these two leaders of the Republican party. But we do invite the attention of all our readers, Democrats and Republicans, but particularly the Re publicans, to a careful perusal of what hese persons in high authority say of one who aspires to the second office in the gift of the people, and be tween whom and the highest office but one man intervenes, should the Republi can ticket be elected. Chester A. Arthur according to these persons whose veracity may not be impeached by Republicans was unfit to fill the office of collector ot the port of New York bccause of his fail lire to "honestly administer" that office"

A nice person truly to be offered for the •uffrages of the people of these United States for the dignified place of presiding officer of the Senate and the possible President of the United States! We invite our patrons to read what Messrs. Hayes and Sherman say of Arthur, and would particularly call the attention of our esteemed morning contemporary, the Express, and ask of it a prayerful perusal of their opinions. Is it quite sure it ought to support Arthur? And if so, why?

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REPUBLICAN OPINION OF ARTHUR.

The more Chester A. Authur's nomination for the vice-Presidency by the Re publicans is considered the more obnoxious it appears. It is raising a storm all over the country. Democratic papers like the GAZETTE are not the only ones which* find in the suggestion of his name a menace to that purity of administration which all classes of citizens are united in considering most desirable. Republican papers with the courage of their convic* tions and possessed of consciences are equally bitter in denouncing. Next tothe Springfield Mass Republican the most influential paper in New England as it is by far the most widely read, is the Boston Herald. It condemns Arthur's nomination in language so forcible and with reasoning so cogent that we cannot refrain from reproducing in this place its opinion. "Now that the country," it says, "is able fully to realize that the nomination of Mr. Arthur for the vice Presidency is not a joke, but a serious fact the possible consequences of that mos. astonishing piece of folly begin to appear! If the reputable organs of the Republican party, and those of its leaders who are not knowrn to have parted with their senses had not accepted the nomination with cheerful resignation, if not with a sem blance of satisfaction, one would be justified in attributing the deed to the Mephistophelean malice of Senator Conkling. Defeated in the desperate game upon which he staked his all and per ceiving in the nomination o. Gen. Garfield a chance that the party might continue in power for anotli er presidential term without being sub jected to his imperious sway, is it not con ceivablc that he saw, in this weak and stultifying nomination of an obscure and obnoxious machine politician, the easics way to ruin where he cannot rule Mr. Conkling's leadership in the Grant campaign has been too able to permit us to think of him as a fool, and we are, therefore, inclined to favor the hypothesis which ranks him with the sons of Lucifer. For, in considering this question, it must be remembered that the person whom "the boys" in New York politics designate as "Chet Arthur" is a possible President of the United States. Neither the prayers of the ministerial coteries, nor the petitions of the Young Republicans) could prevent this if Gen. Garfield should be elected, and thereafter come to his day of doom through an ill-advised mixture of cherries and milk, as one of his lament, ed predecessors did, or fall a victim to [iny one of the thousand ills that even ro bust flesh is heir to. No political convan. tion has the moral right, not to touch upon the lower ground of expediency, to 110111 iinite a man ftu- the vice-Presidency whonie it would not be willing to name for the presidency and the idea that this clever, good-natur-ed, "clubable" ex-collector of New York —a third-rate lawyer, whose 50 years do not make him too old to be a protege of a member of the body over which he as. pires to preside—would ever be thought of for the highest office in the gift of the people, is too absurd to need consideration. To mention it is to explode it. Destitute alike of experience in public life, and of a mental capacity for receiving discipline in the busy school of affairs, Mr Arthur is the most mediocre man evenamed for an elective office above the grade of an alderman or a member of the Legislature. To think of his filling—'or rattling around in,' as Dr. Holmes put it —the place once occupied by John Adams George Clinton, Daniel D. Tompkins Calhoun, Van Buren, or ^ven the vicePresidents of a later day, is simply exasperating. When Mr. Hoar reported to his fellow-citizens in Faneuil Hall the action of the Cincinnati Convention four years ago, he congratulated them that the ticket was so strong in its second name, and compared it to the Irishman's stone wall that was 'higher when it fell down than when it stood up.' But, if the present head of the ticket should fall, what would be left in sight but a mere aggration of vacancy We do not blame the jubilant Republicans, whose rejoicings over the nomination of Garfield were quenched under the wet blanket of Arthur's name, for exclaiming, in the classic language of 'Pinafore,'''Why, damme, it's too bad!"

SEVERAL days ago Senator Voorliee

in the Sen ate, submitted an amendmen

providing for a survey to ascertain the

practicability and cost of constructing &

ship canal from Lake Erie,by the Maumee

and Wabash valleys, in the bed of the old Wabash and Erie canal, or with any variation therefrom that may prove feasible, to the navigable waters of the Wabash jivcr also, for a survey and estimate of the cost of a similar canal from Junction

City, on the Wabash and Erie canal, to the Ohio river, by way of the Niami and Erie canal, or any variation in the route to produce the most practicable and least expensive ship canal from Lake Erie to the navigable waters of the Ohio river by the above routes. The estimates in each case to be for water channel and locks the same size and capacity as those of the present enlarged Erie canal in New York.

This amendment was adopted. It is republished now because it was incor. rectly printed when it first appeared in the GAZETTE. ..

THE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

JUDGE S. B. GOOKINS.

This community was greatly startled by the whispered announcement, which pass ed from lip to lip this morning, of the death of Judge S. B. Gookins. His indisposition, for it could hardly have been called more yesterday, was not even known outside the circle of the intimate friends of his family, and before the people among whom he has passed most of his life were aware of his not being in the enjoyment of his usual health they were shocked to learn of his death. Elsewhere in the GAZETTE will be found an account of his life and his work, together with a sketch of his character. We can do no more here than voice the grief of the whole community over a loss, the very suddenness of which prevents a full and proper appreciation of its extent. He was so active in all good words and works, so youthful in all save wisdom, so unshrinkng in the performance of work that would have taxed the most vigorous, and was so kenly alive to all the pure enjoyments and pleasures of good repute in this life that despite the silver in his hair and the known flight of time it was difficult to realize that he was one of the oldest living men in our com unity.

Of all the men here in our midst that have, in the fullness of time, gone to their graves, none have done a better work or won a worthier fame His professional career is a bright chapter in the history of the bar of the Wabash Valley. His work in other fields of literary labor has been extensive and of a very high order. He has been a man on whose sound and ripe judgment many have relied. He has been a persistent and consistent believer in the Christian faith and has lived up to his belief.

During the last few months he has taken time from the active pursuit of his profession to prepare a "History of Vigo County," the publication of which is expected soon and it will be a source of gratification to know that he had finished his work. Those who have read some of of the sketches which have been published will realize the value of the whole and glad to know that this last public labor was one of love with him and that it places in permanent form a history of •vents in which he lived and the lives of men with whom he associated. As no one knew all this so thoroughly as he did, 110 one could have done it so well.

Judge Gookins will be greatly missed. A cheery voice has been hushed a kind ly presence has been taken from our midst. The middle aged and the old with whom he associated, and the young whom he counseled have all lost a friend, scarcely less dear to many of them than to the household of his kinfolk, whose grief would be inconsolable but for that christian faith in a hereafter which he lias done so much to expound.

The, circumstances of his death were such as he would have chosen. In the home his early manhood built, surroundby those nearest and dearest to him, in almost the moment of cheerful converse and without any warning the end came, and a christian gentleman, full of honors and years, went to his everlasting rest.

WHENEVER the Republicans become alarmed about any probable nominee at the Cincinnati convention—they al once find out that he will not be a condi date under any circumstances, and tha his health would not permit any way What disinterested benevolence!

WITII prophetic vision the seer of the St. Louis Evening Post-Dispatch peering into the future beholds the following: "In a few weeks a traveler passing through the quiet hamlet of Galena, Illinois, will probably see a quaint sign hanging in front of some humble building inscribed thus: "U. S. Grant, Notary Public and insurance Agent. Refers, by permission, to the King of Siam, Mikado of Japan, the Beegum of Candahar, anc the Czar of Russia."

THE Democratic friends of cx-Governor ThomafA. Hendricks, who are desirous of securing his nomination for the Presidency, will have their headquarters at the Burnett House, Cincinnati, before and during the convention. The rooms wil be opened to-morrow and his friends wi[l report there. It is believed by many that with united effort his nomination may be obtained.

M0RTE D'ARTHUR.

"You have made the Custom-house a center of partisan political management." —R. B. Hayes to Collector Arthur, Jan uary 31,1879. "Gross abuses of administration have continued and increased during your incumbency."—John Sherman to Collector Arthur, January 31,1879.

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With a deep sense of my obligations under the Constitution I regard it as my plain duty to suspend you in order that the office may be honestly administered.'—R. B. Hayes to Collector Arthur, Januaiy 31,1879. "Persons have been regularly paid by you who have rendered little or no ser vice the expenses of your office have in creased, while its receipts have dimin ished. Bribes, or gratuities in the shape of bribes, have been received by your subordinates in several branches of the Cus tom-house, and you have in no case supported the effort to correct these abuses. —Secretary Sherman to Collector Arthur, January 31,1879. lilt

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SHIP DISASTER.

The Stonington and Naragansett Collide on Long Island Sound,

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Latter Takes Fire and the Passengers amp Overboard.

A Terrible Scene of Confusion and Distress.

And Many Lives Lost, the Number not yet Known.

NEW YORK June 12.—The steamboats Stonington and Narragansett were in collision last night on Long Island Sound and the present announcement is that the Narragansett took fire and sunk. The passengers rescued are scatter ed along Long Island shore. A Boston dispatch says there are reports in that city of considerable loss of life by the sinking of the Narragansett.

NEWYORK, June 12, 10:30 A. M.—At the office of D. L. Babcock, President of the Old Reliable Stonington line, to which the steamer Stonington belong the only information that could be obs tained was that there had been a collision Nothing could be learned of the passengers. A private dispatch says a number of lives were lost. The disaster took place near Connecticut river.

NKW YORK, June 12,11 A. M.—The steamers in collision belonged to the samr line. The Narragansett was on a regulatrip from NewYork to Stonington and the steamer Stonington was returning to New York. The collision occurred about 11:15

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The Narragansett took fire and sunk in four fathoms of water. The passengers from both steamers were transferred to the steamer City of New York of the Fall River Line to Boston and they ar rived in New York at 1:15 this morning It is impossible to ascertain at present the loss of life. Two bodies, however, have already been recovered.

FROM STONINGTON.

STONINGTON, June 12—The steamer Stonington arrived at 6.30 this morning with about 50 survivors from the Narragansett. The bow cf the former was stove in nearly to water line, she atrufik the Narragan»ett at 11,30 on the starboard side forward of the wheel house. The shock burst the gas tank and in 15 minutes the Narragansett was on fire and soon afterward sank. The steamers New York and Providence came to the assistance and all the boats and life rafts of the four steamers were lowered and put in service.

TWO HOURS ELAPSED

before the last passenger was picked up Most of the passengers were transferred to the City of New York. The passen gers say the officers and crew of the Narragansett behaved with great cool ness and nerye. Qn the arriyal of the Stonington the village was aroused and men and women hastened with clothing and assistance. Twenty-five women were on board in their night clothes. One dead before reaching here from the shock. The body is not yet identified. One man also died, Rev. E. B. Lockwood, of the 68th street Methodist church, N. Y., who was on his first trip east. Most of the eastern bound passengers left on a special train. No estimate can be made here of the loss of life. There is a general agreement among the survivors that out of a passenger list of more than 300 a large number must have been lo6t, as the water around the burning steamer was

ALIVE WITH STRUGGLING PEOPLE clinging to rafts and every conceivable thing. Most of the women brought here were in the water several hours. One lady had about $3,000 in her valise which was lost. Two ladies on the steamer Stonington died after being picked up. Their remains await identification. It feared that most of the passengers who were in berths below the main deck did not have time to save themselves. The bow of the steamer Stonington was knocked off.

DESCRIPTION BTONE OF THE PASSENGERS.

NEW YORK, June,12.—The Pdst Extra has the following account of the disaster from a passenger on the Stonington. Soon after the steamer left Providence the the weather became thick 11 o'clock nearly every body was in and all on board quiet. At about 11:45 there was a sudden crash and in moment there was terrible confusion Men, women, and children in all stage of undress rushed frantically fiom their berths and rushed to upper decks. For a few moments every body thought the boat was sinking and there was a struggle for life preservers. The officers of the boat said

the boat was leaking forward but there was no danger. It was then seen that the steamer into which the Stonington had run was the Narragansett. The latter had been struck amidship and two or three minutes after the collision flames burs out and immediately enveloped the entire vessel. The scene was frightful

THE SHRIEKS AND CRIES

of the passengers on the Narragansett were distinctly audible on the Stonington. They could be seen leaping into the water and rushing frantically in all directions. The boats of the Stonington were lowered after a delay of several minutes and by that time the Narragansett had settled and was sinking. By some blunder the plugs in the life-boats were left out and they filled with water This caused additional delay. The men in the beats did not know how to row them. At la6t they reached the scene the wreck and picked up a number o* persons floating on life-preservers, matresees, chairs, tables, planks, etc. Tee scene was appalling. At this, juncture the City of New York came up and lay off at some distance. She low cred her boats and picked up as many of the drowning passengers as she could find. When all hope of further rescues was abandoned the Stonington was further transferring some rescued persons 175 in number, to the City of New York to be returned to Stonington. Many ot the passengers rescued were badly scalded, others were halt naked.

J. H. Wilcox, adjusting agent of the New York Life Insurance Co., and a resident of Chicago, was a passenger on the Narragansett and relates the follow ing story Aroused by the noise of the collision he immediately realized wha1 had happened and hastened from the state-room, carrying his pantaloons and coat but leaving behind $500 00 and the crutch which he usually uses, having but one leg. The boat was now on fire and there was a scene of the utmost terror and confusion. A woman flung herself upon him screaming, "Save me and my child." He managed to dress himself and struggle on deck where was a scent of equally mad confusion and frantic fear. A dense fog ptevailed and only the whistle and bell of the Stonington gave token of her presence not far off. There was a cry for life-boats and one was cut loose from amidships from near where Wilcox was standing, He threw himself over the side of the boat and fel sately.within it, others lollowed, including a woman who buried him beneath her weight. Some one cut the boat loose and it was pushed off from the burning steamer to avoid being swamped by passengers who were swimming about supported by life-preservers on pieces uf furniture and filling the air with cries for help. Boat was pulled out and within a short time the Narragansett sunk leaving total darkness on the water. The boat remained out for what Wilcox judged to be abcut

three hours when a feeling approach of a coming storm and he requested the men to pull for tlje steamer Stpnington whicn was still blowing her whistle as the only hope to escape being upset. They did so and were saved. The boat's load in eluding Wilcox, numbered 13. Three of them he thinks were of the crew of the Narragansett. Wilcox did not learn the name of any person in the boat.

THE COMING FIGHT.

It is not too much to say that the Demo crotic party is greatly embarrassed and confused by the nominations at Chicago. The Democracy hail been taught by their leading men and newspapers in general that the nomination of Grant by the Republicans was inevitable, and that with the third-term issue thus raised, there was nothing to do but go in and win. The wholeDemocratic line of battle was arranged with reference to the nomination of General Grant by the Republicans. Now they have to rearrange their plans throughout, beginning with the basis of operations and the attitude of the troops. The sudden changes in the weather has destroyed the Democratic fixed ammunition and spoiled all their provisions,with the exception of the jerked meat and parched corn. They feel the change as a calamity, and have a general impression that they are wronged.—Cincinnati Commercial.

There is a great deal more tauth than poetry in the above extract from the most vigorous and outspoken of the so called independent papers, of Republican pro clivities. Grant was the man whom the Democrats desired to have an opportunity to beat. Garfield is not nearly so vul nerable a man as Grant and yet the longer and more carefully his extended and in many parts brilliant record as a Congress, mon is scanned the more prominent be come certain serious blunders which af feet his character as a public officer. At first, with manifold hopes of Democratic victory hung on Grant's nomina ion, this choice of Garfield seemed in the nature of a calamity. It is not over stating the actual condition of affairs in that section of the Democratic camp wherein the GAZETTE dwells, to say that Grant's defeat and Garfield's nomination, and with any other of the dark horses it would have been the same, seemed like an intermeddling of Providence in the affairs of our enemies to their vast improvement. But Arthur braced us up. He braced us up considerably. He is the old enemy on the old ground and our line of battles

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need not be shifted in the slightest to make a fight on him. The guns are loaded and trained in the right direction. And, as before remarked, a careful scrutiny of Garfield's record reveals blemishes which escaped attention at the first when the mine under the Chicago conven. tion exploded and blew Grant Conkling, Cameron, Logan and all o. us Democratic plotters in the airtogethe er. Mr. Garfield's record in connection, with the Oakes Ames' Credit Mobilier scandal is precisely similar to that Of Schuyler Colfax's, who was forced by itf into retirement from which he has never ventured to emerge. It remains to lie seen how James A. Garfield can bear the fierce light which beats around a presi. dential candidate.

THE PRESIDENT'S VETO. Before Congress to-day the Presiden t's message vetoing the bill regulating the and appointment of Deputy Marshall was read. It reiterates in substance the same general arguments advanced by him in his several veto messages of a year ago and his last one a short time ago vetoing a bill on this same subject. The document is along one and contains nothing new, being in effect merely a repetition of what he has before said on the same subject. It is a little curious in this connection that the former bill, of which this is the successor, mollified to suit the President's supposed wishes, was warmly advocated by General James A. Garfield, the Republican nominee for President. The Democrat's ought to let Deputy Marshal's whistle for their pay.

IT is a little late to lie quoting the opinion of the English press on the defeat of Grant in the Chicago convention but we hold that a good thing is never out of order. Says the Pall Mall Gazette:

The political outlook in America has not been so favorable since the day when Grant set out upon his electioneering tour around the world, an ill-advised bid for a third term, which has found its fitting catastrophe at Chicago.

Says the tit. James Gazette: General Grant mav be without ambition,as many of his friends have claimed, but this was not the impression he produced in the old world during the recent tour. On the contrary, he seemed to shun associating with common people, and invariably sought to rank himself with princes, and it liad sometimes happened that accredited ambassadors at courts which Grant visited had lieen obliged to give away to his claims for precedence.

Says the Morning Post: We congratulate the Republican party for rejecting Grant, whose qualifications were never of a very high order, and who would have been about the worst man for the hazardous experiment of a third term, because he had already shown signs of adopting a personal line of action inconsistent with the presidential office.

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