Terre Haute Journal, Volume 20, Number 357, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 3 January 1876 — Page 3

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X'DCtt'ALD'S TIEWS.

•An Inlerr With Indiana's Democratic Senator.

lite Views on the Finances, the Presided, the Resumption Bill, and the

Eight of

Secession,

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Yesterday afternoon repreaentAtiv of tht Journal c«i upon t"•'-* Joseph E. HoP"'•»«*#

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II.—What it the

gross, at his V1 IScDoualdtt lleaehe'e building ®n(l to interview hita upon fetne interest"*? topics ef national legislation. 'i. Senator vu found, ever, is com* fortsble frsm« of mind, at pesoe with the

world

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and Mmsetf, aad revly, as be

expressed it, to give hw vi totke •urn*' upon sueb points as it might supgest. The following conversation casued

THE riSAKClA I» QOESTIOir.

Reporter—What is the feeling in Congress

ttfon

the finaaeisl question,

and what legislation will fee enacted? Senator M.—The "s® is dr"*ledly in farcr of the repeal vf ths spt'.-e resumption act, and will take setive measures as soon as possible to secure ths paseajs sf Ike repealing act. As soon a* the Houie was ready for business, Sir. Lander*, the member from this trict, intr Weed a repealing bill, winch was r«-f 'red to the Coramittee on Bank t: Currensy. Thsrs has been, of course, no discussion on tho bill, as yet, and my op! on of ths temper of the disuse is Ua-ed upon personal intercut with ths members. Speak or Kerr is decidedly in favor of ths repeal of tb© resumption act

pruptctaf re*

pealing law parsing the Senate?Ben&terM.—In the Senate there has been no'debsts nor discussion upon the financial question at all. Ti»e fats cf such a bill in that sedy is doubtful, I think.

U.—How will the Democratic s*nators vote Senator —My beat infort rlonis that the Democratic Senators wu* supsort ths repealing inw ftlinost unani ^, z* a**""1**.? mouslr. &

II.—Well, Senator,' what is your own opinion upon the Ull, aud what will your vote »e

Senator M.-—I think the bill should be passed, and will heartily support it by my vote and intl ucnee. MR. HEUDBJCK3 TO 118 Tit* raiSlftKSTUJ..

UOMijta®. Jft.

Senator M.—Mr* Kerr is decidedly r/S*i'4WMto!8lWltor President. He takes this position in common with the entire Indiana dele-

and

drlcKB

Stionon

in Congress. He is not a caadite himself for either first or second place tho Presidential ticket You »nay «y that Indiana will present no candidate in this connection save Goyernor Hendricks. The outloek now is quite favorable, and I think he will undeubtcdiy bo tho Democratic cheico for the Chief Magistracy.

T»* AHTI-StAYEH* MfcSOMJTIOKS. —What Will be tho ultimate fate of your resolutions? Will they be supported by the Democrats generally? AVill they veto for them?

Senator M—To all these questions I mar reply in general way, "it is impossible to toll/* Tho resolutions are not yet before tho Senate for its considersUen. I did not give notice that I would Introduce them until just before we ad. joumed. The retolutions as published are those 1 would have introduced at that time, had aot the aotiee been sufficieot Since coming heme 1 have touched them up a little, not altered any ef the points contained in them, but simply changed the phraseology some. It is difficult to say what will be their fate, as there has been no debate upon them nor decisive action of any kind. I do not think Mr. Morton's resolutions can possibly past, nor any substitute o. similar import

R—Will you pleaeo exphdn, Senator, what it meant by the concluding phrase of yoar Isst resolution: "So far as the right (of secession) has been claimed to exist it should be deemed forevor settled against it by the results of the late citil war?'

my H^iaoo. ifc S

l^how

Frctt present indication* I think it will be along o*e. I do not sec that we can adjourn until in the summer, after the 4tb of July.

The iniervi.w here ended, and the reporter, after thanking the Senator for his courtesy, withdrew.—Jnd.

naL,

JU«—-What is ths feeling in regard to the Presidency? Is Kerr uniersteod to be for Tiltlen, Hendricks or him•elf?

Joum*

A HORRIBLE HISTERY.

The peril Again toose in SonUi„rn Indiana. %-S'i

A Widow and Three Children Supposed to Hare Been Pitwdeud, Murdered and Burned

Signs of tho Terrible 'J Crime.

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|-JVi lCSa-Enqulr«r.J .. .1 ohm montion was made in yesterday's Enquirer of a startling rumor that bad reached Lswrcneeburg tho preeedinsc sTentng to the effect that a Mrs. Gerdon and her thvee children, living near Entsrpriae, Switzerland csunty, Indiana, about ten miles wsstof Kiting Sun, had been burned te death Christmas night. It was also suggested that ths burning was the horrid work of an insendiary. The facts as further elicited yesterday metamorphose this rumor'sn'J Suggestion into a most horrible mystery, and the mere thought of that which is suspected and eren believed is sickening in the extreme.

The f.cts gi.cn were I„r»4I,

fromtlio Mir diugMcr of

the woman, who is supposed to Be one of four victims in this damnab'e crime. This •daughter's name is Mattie Allen, and she lives in tho house of Mr. Charles Sevens, on the Glixabethtown pike, in Indiana, near the Ohio State line. She ts a young woman of intelli* tf«nce. evidently about twenty yea^s of :iVe, and sustaius a good reputation for truth and respectability. She had but just returned from tho scono of the horror yesterday, and was therefore rerv much excited Between her convulsive sobs she told her awful story

About a year ago her mother, who was then the widow Abbott, and about forty-six years old, was widower by the name of John Gordon, who had four children, two sons and two daughters. This was her third marriage, she having been by a former marriage united to a man by the nacr.e of Charles Alien. Of this first union there wore twe children, one of whom only survives, and this ono is Mattie Allen, our grief-stricken informant. In Mrs. Gordon's second union, and while her name was Abbott, shs became the mother ol three bright children, llattie, Robert and Nathan. By her last marriage sho had no children, and about throo months ago her last husband, John Gordon, died, since when she, with Ilattie, Robert and Kathan, aged respectively., twelve, ten and eight ing on a*s.*uall farm"1 "ftc^pTace1i&oV5

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designated. In this same vicinity Gor don's four children, William, John, Lvdia and Mary, have also been living. They are all grown, and are said not to have been on good terms with their step-mother. But of this Miss Allen know only a little, sho having been absent from heme for along time. Sho knew her mother, however, to be a peaceful, frugal woman, with whom no ono need have any trouble.

Last Monday morning, while at hir home in the h'ous.i of Charles Stevens, Mattie Allen received a dispatch stating that her mother had probably been burnt to death. Hastening to the desolate place, she found that tho neighbora were all ready to confirm the truth of the dispatch. The day before Christmas Mrs. Gordon had sold a valuable cow and a lot of chickens and had received the money for the same. She was also in receipt of a Government pension for the support of her children, and had therefore quite a quantity of money in the house. Of this her neighbors knew, since she had not been at all backward in making known her financial condition.

Christmas day, in honor of hef com paratSve prosperity, she had several of her neighbors! to eat Christmas dinner with her. She then seemed in an unusually happy frame of mind, snd conversed freely upon her plans for working her little farm next summer. Daring the afternoon her visitors left, and toward night she went with her children to spend the evening with her nearest neighbor's family, that ol John Goodnem, who lived nearly half a mile away. About eight o'clock Mrs. Gerdon and children started for home, and the night being very dark, some of the Goodners accompanied her te her revy gate, where they left her, stiil feeling very cheerful and happy. Her house, which wss rather small, having

Senator The point to that re»o luUenis to the first part and the cstteltiding portion, as your question trouldseem toimply His. The resolutiont deoleres that *it being the •tat to esake th# *eminent formed mnder the P-Hrsl 0,asiH«tT* »crp»t* o»W six rooms, was a frame building the ricbt anv Stat or

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*nf: other ie

Th* fsiaei^V^

th« jUtn»Mrt «o*M B,. wri. .r meot it iniended te

bet of So. .ved a little beck from U»e road, and

States tocoeede from the^ uot reserved," 8 be referred in a j.. to be perpetual* u* forth plainly^,* existed, b«ttv» v*r to existcoooft made hitrittteitt of J..J,ft*luwof«• 'i

rnso

111 CoagtoM Wvt a le»K

I 1L--WI1 -'»h«rts*w I

anded bv hiiiockeas to be out

raioa was rd nat!f wd remote from any of the :t n:«lwlMl nt' m-:^S KottseO. aftd a fit plSC* foe !«i.:.nis net hellish crime. About eight hua«rer I drc-o a thousand feet from houte w*t*l. iiwtthe bam, in which Mrs. .. ,i} Ch'f a j*t a horse, for which only a

O^e-ar* few i*ys --ance she was ofered flXk a was 1 he iar«odu%ta even mw her as she and h«r ohsidrea entered safely into their little homo, tiaee wfc«a no trace of them not even the slight««t due has heea discovered. Kairty Suaday monuac{

Mrs. Cioodaers had etxasion to gooTev and se* Mrs. Gordoa on some matter of business, and when fcfter reaching die place slMte she could always so* Mia. Gordon home oho «aw nones, she at first thought she had aoctdestiy

TEHEE HAUTE JOURNAL, MONDAY, JAKUAB1 3,1876.

other neighbors, and then returned to the Gordon farm. It required comparatively but rery brief time for the wondering country people to assemble it thes* ruins and to begin search for remains, if there were any. Both tho house and barn were in complete ruins, nothing at all being left of them but ashes and a few dying embers. These were carelessly examined, but the 1 traces of the reuuuns of human bodies were not fostod. It was thought that at lesst some bones would be left to settle what was fixed as an awful mystery, but the casual scarch msdt was in vain.

On Monday night, nearly Tuesday morning, when Mattie Allen bac arrircd, another search was made with the same result as before, bearehwas made among the ruins of ths bam to see whether or not there were any remains of the horse, but the search here was &Ii«o fruitless. Then the theory waa adransed that Mrs. ^Gordon had taken her horse and with the children bad driten away, hating first set fire to her premises jjmt this theory wss soon exploded by tho fact that she could not be found, and by the knowledge that nothing under the sun could prompt such an aetisn. There was ne insurance on the buildings snd no purpose to ba gained in tiring them. That the buildings had been set on fire was evident, for they were too far apart to admit of one igniting from the other. Besides, the night was damp and raiuy, which fact would preclude the idea, that both buildings were burned by accident. Then came iho awful impression, and ap impression that has hourly gained

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wllich

tfaey

to a jtU|}^er)

»ioinity,

,h, result of. ter-

ribly and deliberately planned crime It is aow believed that long after the Goodners left Mrs. Gordon, way on in the night, this ill fated house was entered by derila incarnate, ita inmates plundered and possibly outraged, and then murdered. It is believed that the ccrpses were then so arranged as in the conflagration to follow to be entirely consumed, and se all traces of the perpetrators of the damnable crime to be efiectua'ly wiped out

The effect of theso horrible suppositions, which are certainly well grounded, is terrible upon the community in

prevail, and upon the enly

wh0

ia almost crushed to

madness, the effect is such as te provoke the sympathy of the hardest of hearts. In Switzerland county no effort is being made to solvs this awful mystery, and no watch being .kept, therefsre, on the movements of suspicious characters. It now looks as if law in this locality bad becomo deafer than over, and that tho distance between hellish crime and an awful but just retribution had become infinite. "i «3» THE MISSISSIPPIELEfirii©.

Yiews of the Colored Ex-Senator Revel-BepublicatLS Defeat-

[From the Vicksburg Herald.)

Holly

Srmsds, Nov. 6,18T5.

To Jit's

Excellcncy U. Si Grant,

President of the Unitcu Mates:

My DkakSis: In view of theresilts of tho recent election* in our State, 1 have determined to write you a letter canvassing the situstion and giying you my views thereon. I will premise by saying that 1 am no politician, though having been honored by a scat in the United States Senate. I never have sought political proferment, nor do I ask it now, but am engaged in my calling (the ministry) and feeling an earnest desire for the welfare of all the people, irrespective of race or color, I deem it advisable to submit to you, for consideration, a few thoughts in regard to the political situation in this State. Since reconstruction, the masses of my people have been, as it were, enslaved in mind by unprincipled adventurers, who, caring nothing for the country, were willing to stoep to anything, no matter how infamous, to secure power for themselves snd perpetuate it My people are nsturally Bepublicans,*but as they grow older in freedom so do they in wisdom. A great portion of them have learned that they were being used as mere tools, aad, as in the lata election, not being able to correct the existing evil among themselves, th«y determined by easting their ballots against these unprincipled adventurers to overthrow them. My people have been told by theso schemers, when men were placed upon the ticket who were notoriously corrupt and dishenest, that they must vote for them that the salvation of the1 party depended upon it that the man who scratcbed a ticket was not a Bo* publican. This is only one of the many means &e*e malignant demagogues have devised to perpetuate the intellectual bondage of my people. To defeat this policy at the late election, roe a, irrespective of race or party cffHiaiioa, united and vcted together sgsinat men known to be incompetent and dishonest. can aot recognise, nor do tho masses of my people who read reeegaise the majority of tho officials who Itavu been in power for the pout two years as being

E*pnbUcaa.«.

Wado not beUov^ tjbat Republicactsm means oomiptkw, theft and emJbetslement. Theoe three oSensee hare beea prevalent amocg a gr«*t portion of «ur *S£e»boid*f* to them mast be attributed the defeat ef the £eptb!ic*u

party in the State, S defeat there was, bit I, wfth all the ligfcts befwe me. itted led upon it as ail uprotng «f the pro

ber way. She thought this but for a pie, to crush out eorropt rings aad men momeut, however, for instantly after] worn power. The b*tter»e« and hate discovered the saseke arising frwsa!created by the late civil strife has, in lOlderiag rutns of both the hoasij aiy epinloo, beea *blitetated this

Qotekly retcnusit to ker}3ttfe, except, perhaps, la some localigave the alarm, eua- bee, sad wouU have long item folks and mat word to j| eatirtlf eflhoed were it net far

onpriacip'ed men who would keep alive th* bkfttonMM of the past aad inculcate a hatred between the noes in order that they may aggrandise themselves by office and its emoluments to control my people, the offset of which is to degrade them. I give Y»u my opinion that had our state administration adhered to Republican principles and stood by the platform upon which it was elected, the State to-day would hate been on the highway of prosperito. If the State administration had adrsnced patriotic measures, appointed only honest and competent men to office, and sought to restore confidence between the races, bloodshed wou'd have been unknown, peace would have prevailed, Federal interference been unthought of, and harmony, friendship, and mutual confidence would have taken the place of the bayonet In conclusion, let me say to you, and through you to the great Bepubllcaa party of the Korih, that I deemed it my duty, in behalf of my people, that I present these facts, in order that they and the white- people (their former owners) should net suffer misrepresentations which certatn demagogues seem desirous of encouraging.

Respectfully, H. R. Revels.

IIEADQ UARTEIiS FOR

{WIND HUES

Paints, Oils, Vanishes Windovr OI.iSs,

Umshcs, Tare Brandies, and Wines, kt

GULICK & BERRY'S, toru-ir FourlSi and .Tlain Street* t'Mpeteitt prMcriptiwiiitli *ad oMtginff mea to wait upon coMcnnet*. and tb« mua cm-

pi«t«s Mock in the ^itv *o imrcha«c from.

Stone Pumps!

THE BEST IS ALWAYS THE

CHEAPEST!

\V. II. Firtkc has now opened hh new ware house on Third etrwt, opposite th« St, Charle* Hotel, where

i* prepnred to fivminh all

person* wanting pumps with she best article in that line to be Tmmd anywhere. All {roods warranted. See ray new improvements, The beat of rcferances given In all paru of the United Slate*.

W. II. ITlRlce.

G. A. Moffitt & Co,

MANUFACTURERS OF

SHOW CASES

343 South Meridian Street,

rNJDIAIYAI?OIrS. IX3D.

A Largo Stock of SILVER CASES constantly on baud.

JEFFERS.SHEESLET&CQ.

PROPRIETORS

Vigo Woolen Rlilis,

Dealers tu wool and manuf&storer and jobbers or

Craw, Tweets,, Jeans riaoaels,

Blankets, Y«rn#,&c»

CORNER 3JA1N AND TENTH STS 1KRUK HAt Ttr IM).

BRUNKER'S

Carminative

ts Tire

flost Popular, Effective, 1'lensaiit ana Harmless lleniedy

FOR CHILDREN

Teething, cholie or summer ro«» phdnts^

HwoMiAimi ei Live* SuviwJ aJJ aImk

Utea««£UI. F«r

Oholm Morbtis, Biarrhst^ flux, Asiatic GfcoJara, ^. Faui or Coagettlon

O) dieStiMHdi tlft ttgpusieiiMi. Xo #»f« from as ovet^csc. fW «*2«by all tonUO aad d«!» in wtwa iMfiiu«eft, At hi Eaa«l.« 8IKW.Y ud GUUCK O BKBkEY.

GEORGE KRAMER,

siooifuiyiss

Collars,*Scc.,

PHCENIX

FOUNDRY

-AXD——

Machine "Works.

F. H.

XcEIFRESH,

PropY.

Corner Kiu'l* streets, ocaxr tho depot, I

STEAM ENGINES,

Mill Machinery,

dRCOLAR SAW MILLS,

Coal Shaft Machinery,

KIN IIIf} PUMP3 & BA UK CAES And all kinds of Brass and Iron Castings.

HEPA1EIHQ F10HPTIT DONE.

St. Charles

S A O O N

Corner Third and Ohio Streets* JAMES T. RICKETTS, Prop'r, Ileat Wltiea, Liquors and Clgnm

Comitoutly In Stock.

FREE LUKCI1 From 9:30 a.m. until 13 u. very day and nlKhu

and at 11 p.n.

OErVTKIVTVIAX^

SALOON!

641 Main SL-eat. botweea 6tb & 7th,

TERKE It.lt TE, IM,

Excellent wiue and liqcora, as well a x9o. 1 Mj ocr's fresh beer, aud toe

BEST BRANDS OF CIGARS

vcin-bodv. Good lunch everv toreuoon'

JOHX THOMAS. JOHN BUPP

THOMAS&RliPP, Horse Shoeing!

—A"3—

SSKBBAL BL&CKSIIH1M,

Cor, Third and Poplar Streets,

TEBRE HAUTE.

JACKSON BROS.

HOPSK AND BItfN

!Paiiiting*

GKAINIJVG, GLAZING, AC.

All work promptly attended U» aad dime In good style. Hlxth-aad-a-Iiair street, between the two nUlicxuia.

Cxo To

P. BUTLEH,

Sign Painting,

^ailNIO RDdJBAitBLfNG.

Work done for the Trade.

TERKI H.im

Ufaptettale JwOeinw taMg-ct

mt&tixt*

otlS«« at Jeh» Gri«^on«» *bop, wm« Sia-h and Ooetnut TEttKK HAUTE

The. Old Stand

tOIBlDiSCa(8Mlll,

Cw. first and Urorer BIa.

199 ftaia«ubetGth ith. Provisions, Feed, &c., TK&B£ HAum

I XoMhriag sjba

1 «u)ce.

PLANING MILLS.

Prairlo City

PLAN ING JMI l-LS

CULFT & lTILIIAMSi

Muwiteanaol1

I Sash, Doors and Blirtfs

WIXPOW AND Dooa FRAMES*

TEBBE HAUTE, I5DIAHA, HoBlding, Brackets, Ballnsters* SCanufiietores

Stair Kalllav, 5ew*U Peets, neeeiac, SMts«,

A nd*U description* oi

FINISHING LUHBEK

and Uetail Dealer, in

Piue Lumber,laths aad Shingles,

St»ATK coon^o AXl) DOOF1SG FVXT.

J^r Custom SawinK, Plaiting and Wood Turning done to order. ,!s£

AllWorkWarrniitod. Corser «f Sloth snd Xalfeerrr atmts.

HARDWARE,

Tu. M. OOOR',

(Seceeeior to

Ceo* Sea

Wholeaale and Setail Deolex in

Hardware and Cutlery

Ilcary Goods, Bar Iron, Nail%

Boikes Steel, Gnns Pistols

Chain Pumps, Cement, Plaster

WH1TK LEAD, LINSEED Oil,

EDGERTON & CO

AVill deliver the

To »uy part o.'tS city, on order being left

riobe to tWeen CI uid ."!

ol .Main

PRODUCE.

ERNST BLEEtHEL,

fa# li» bmmm et Iwer I* e!at coracr Mt.H «8d Ifc tti*

PRODUCE

iNMtMAfc ft* d«»tctf P' I* e#d« aad will

Ibntimt

t- ,i.

Varnishes, Spokos, Felloes, Ete|||^,

Agent torS.ltr,rnev A Co.'tltlchmon'i Plcw

liife

152 acd 154 Main Streat,

s%-.

Terro Hn te, Indfnno,'

COAL.

r-.*:

Diamond Coal

•h

P. O.SULLIVAN,

r'%

SUPERIOR COAL

toativ other lor iK»te and *tov* imrj-oist^.

CARPENTERS.

WM. BAYLOR,

Carpenter, Jobbing, I

HOrSF HOOFING, I

Fwiiilsre Eenamag ail Varsf-viBg.

61tidai« Car^t.

a»d «U Wn**

PORK PACKESG.

hi*

**»eH

IGR O CERIES,. LOUIS DREUSICKE,

wMlill frf«a4« «r»

mat fMtraac*. and «»ptcO^»j aeka Us*,

tit**,

ww *«•*, »f««0

LOCKSMITH!,

imuggtiM* Iff mas*T ftwnttfcn)

Locxsami,

astneycaabeUM fiflll tiattgfT «id SUH»rS €«llaf*

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