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The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-07-01

Among the products Of a period
of loose political cohesion, not the
least remarkable is the German
Citizens party, which calls itself
die Deutscb Amerikanische Unab.
hanige Burger>Association Won New
York" This new political organ
ization is said to be the product of
a union among German speaking
Democrats, Republicans, Liberal
Republicans, and Reformers. - This
is mingling of creeds with a
vengeance ~
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-07-01

To-day Eve or six hundred govern
ment clerks will be discharged in
Washington, each one receiving two
months pay in advance.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-07-01
STATE OF INDIANA, | &C.
WAYNE COUNTY, ~
Report Of Distribution of School Funds.

County the Superintendent Of Pub
the School Law showing
school corporations county Monday Of june 1874
arising under of
Marcb9t ..5ss.s-
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-07-01
E,XECUTOR's SALE OF LAND.

Notice is hereby given that by virtue OF
an order of the Hendricks Circuit Court, the
undersigned, executor of the last will Of
Charles Moore, deceased, will offer at pri-
vate or public sale, on the premises, on
the following described lands, to wit: The
noi tn half and two feet in front off of the
north part of the south half of lot No.
sixty-six (66) in that part of the city of Rich
mond laid out by Charles w. starr, situate
in Wayne county, State of Indiana.
Terms One third of purchase money to
be due in six months, one-third in twelve
months, and the remainder in eighteen
months, purchaser to give notes for same,
with good personal security, waving valua-
ton and appraiSement laws.
MARTIN GREGG, Executor.
II. c. Fox, Attorney.
VIM. H. Bradbury, Salesman.
June 5, 2S4-p. t. sS.25. l3-3w
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The Reecher Scandal.

Mr.. Theodore Tilton' has at last
broken his long silence, and pubs
lished a heightened explanation of
his relations to the Rev Henry
Ward Beecher, to Plymouth Church,
and to the notorious scandal which
has so long shocked and disturbed
the public mind. The principal
feature of Mr.. Tilton's statement is
the following extract fl ON an al
legged confession made by Mr..
Beecher:
BROOKLYN, Jan. l, 1871.
81 ask Theodore Tilton' forgive
ness, and humble myself before him
as do before my God. He would
have been better man in my cir
culnstances than I have been can
ask nothing except that he will
remember all the other breasts that
would ache. I will not plead for
myself. 1 even wish that | were
dead.
=
''H. w BEEcHER.
MIR. Tilton should have said more
or he should have continued to
hold his tongue. What does the
omitted part of this paper signed
by MIR. Beecher contain? What
does it refer too Why did Mr..
Beecher ask Theodore Tilton's for
giveness? What had Beecher done
that Tilton could forgive? How
would the one have been a better
man in the same circumstances
than the other? Why does Mr..
Beecher wish that he were dead?
And was this document really writ
ten by Mr.. Beecher with his name
signed to it by his own hand?
These questions suggest them
selves to every mind. The end of
this amazing affair has not yet been
reached. Mr.. Beecher must now
speak and tell the whole truth.
Silence on his part is no longer
possible.
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-07-01
TO CONTRACTORS.


In pursuance of q resolution of the Common
Council of the City of Richmond, indiana.
the Board of Public Improvements will re-
ceive sealed proposals at the Office of the
City Clerk, until 2 O'Clock p. m. Monday,
July 9Th, 1874, for regarding, regravelfng and
rebowldering the cutters on the west side of
Franklin street, from Main street to Fort
Wayne avenue. Also for grading gravel
ing and bowldering the cutters on he south
side of Main street from Thirteenth to Four
Said bids to be made in the blowing
manner:
Grading per cubic v I'd
Crawling per cubic yard.
BOwldering per
Said work to be completed on or befqe the
,jav of. ....lS74, under the direction
Of said Board, and in accordance win the
plans and specifications of the Civil En-
pineer, on file in the office of said CleN
The contract will be let to the loves re-
sponsibie bidder. The Board leseryfnt the
right to refuse any or all bids If they diem
them too high, OF, are not made in Accord
ance with this notice. 84
BY order of said Board. PIP. KRN.
l5-2w Clerk OF loarS.
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srA Whr eF d 1Mg1ANA' S. -. =. 8.
within said county, do hereby
Public
lions, June 8, 1874 t1 - ~ @
my official this sth day of June, 1874
[sEAL.l ELIHU NJ PARKER, Auditor
The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-07-01

Please examine stock, or send for sam.
pies. We are fully prepared to make GAR
ments atshort notice, In the latest style, and
at reasonable rates. 2tf
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-04-02
Tilc Progress Of : Cremation

Sir Henry Thompson's paper on "Crema-
tion," says London paper, has attracted
much notice in Germany, having been trans
lated twice, besides obtaining warm support
from an eminent physician, DIR. Kopl. More
over, the practical Austrians have taken the
idea up as one that has really now passed be-
yond the stage of discussion. The Commu-
nal Councils Of Vienna and Gratz have
adopted a proposal to establish in their GEM
eteres the necessary apparatus for crema-
ton, " the use Of which will be optional and
open to ALL" A "veritable agitation we
are told, has arisen III both places, though
whether the excitement is all in favor of the
fiery furnace innovation, or whether the at
tached supporters of their picturesque church,
postories of all that is mortal should be
deprived of their prescriptive rights, does not
seem very clear. We can only wish success
to an experiment which will be carried out
for our benefit, though not at our cost.
Where the | ght-hearted Viennese would
burn their progenitOrs or descendants with
out sigh Or a murmur, and afterward tram
gully contemplate the beloved remains in a
jar neatly labeled and inscribed with all the
virtues of the lamented deceased, the more
practical English and Americans too would
like to proceed by easy stages, without I'M
necessary shock to Mrs. Grundy's unaccount-
ably strong feelings. But when the furnace
system becomes fashionable on the Continent
OF Europe it will spread by degrees, and the
more advanced spirits among us will not be
slow to defy prejudices by nobly bequeathing
their works to all ages, their bodies to the
the consuming fire."
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-04-02

We call the attention of the people in all parts of this country to
the following petition and urge you adopt this similar and
possible the this Office
that when Congress shall assembled Sumner
his "cyrghts BILL he shall be by millions of all
demanding the thing All petitions should be here by the first
day in December All papers interested in this important
will please the petition and urge the their respective
localities:
PETITION
TO The Honorable Senate and REPRESENTATIVES Conqe assem-
bed:
SRs: We the undersigned citizens the United States petition
your honorable bodies pass cvgts BILL offered by our true
and tried friend Hon Charles Sumner We ask your
because we are citizens of this free Republic and Of the body
polite and deprived of the rights respect Justly
We cannot travel upon the railroads. steamboats, stages
without being subjected to inconvenience prescription and insult and
when apply for accommodation the public inn refused We
meet the greatest barrier when present children the public
school and rejected All this and
because cooed We pray these hnanccs
tha enjoy the common rights to which entitled
citizens taxpayers and members the family
special legislation in behalf that ask but ask you
remove whatever legislation there is against us.
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why Dawes is Sssssxy,

Hon. Henry /. Dawes made the state
ment on the floor of the House Of Represen-
tatives two or three weeks ago, that when
it was found that the pension agent in Mas
sachusetts was receiving 900 a year, in
stead of cutting his salary down, it was con-
cluded that it was enough for two, and an
other was appointed. A Washington cores
pendent tells the following anecdote con-
corning this Massachusetts agency, and pro-
baby it is as untrue as it is immoral and
amusing;
Mr.. Dawes learned that the agent in Bos-
ton made $4,000 per annum, which is too
much for one man, and all to 90 to the city
of Boston, and he went to work to get the
district divided. so as to have an agency in
the western part Of the State. After he had
succeeded in this, and got his fine pasture
marked Off and fenced in, he began to make
preparations to turn his f.vorite steer in
there to forage but 10 before he was ready,
on looking over the fence he saw one of
Buffers herd quietly browsing there, and
the bars were up.
Butler and the venerable Alvah Croker had
gone to work, and while Dawes was prepar-
ing the land, they were making ready to
stock it, and thus was the birth-right of the
political Esau Of Mr.. Dawes turned over to
the Jacob of the tribe of Benjamin. The
subsequent proceedings had no further inter-
est for the Chairman of Ways and Means,
and he came to the conclusion that the thing
was a nuisance, and must be got rid of.
Portsmouth (N. H.) Gazette.
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Woman Suffrage is. Michigan.

Both branches Of The Michigan legislature
have, by the requisite two-third majority of
the whole number of members, voted to sub
nit the question Of woman suffrage to sepa-
rate vote of the people, and that will be,
therefore, among the independent PROPOSE
tons which the people of the State will de-
eide upon at the same time that they vote
upon the acceptance or rejection oe the
amended constitution. The Detroit Tribune
says that the two-thirds vote in favor of sepa-
rate submission was compromise. The adj
vOcates Of submitting the question were in a
ma ority in the House, but not two-thirds
majority. They had. power, therefore, to
put the proposition with the proposed amend
ments which are to lie submitted together,
and thus compel those opposed to submitting
the question to vote for it on the final vote,
or else to vote against all the amendments,
thus defeating the submission Of any Of them.
The only way out of the deadlock was sepa-
rate submission, and the necessary two-thirds
for that purpose was secured by union OF
the friends Of woman suffrage with some of
its opponents. The question is also to be
voted upon next fall by the people of Iowa.
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THE NEW NATIONAL ERA.

| They may go on and hold their disgraceful
| meetings, but they may rest assured that the
! colored people outside of Washington have
no faith in them and would not trust them
| with dollar. They are all of them veteran
solicitors of funds for churches, monuments,
suppers to small-fry politicians and dead
beats generally. They were never known
| to give dollar themselves. They are full
| of resolutions, points of order, you'll observe,
&C., but no cash. A more corrupt gang can
not be found in any community of coTored
monument is to be left to such hands it will
be- miserable failure.
Men who have means and who entertain a
true feeling of sorrow at the death of Mr..
Sumner, and who command the respect of
their fellow men for honesty and sobriety,
are purposely avoided and kept out of the
councils of these men, because their presence
would prevent them from using the occasion
of Mr< Summers death to advertise them and
their several occupations.
The idea Of chairman of a meeting of coll
ored men, one who calls himself leader,
getting up in his place, on an occasion of that
kind, and calling gentleman drunkard
because he exposed their "star chamber"
proceedings. This expose of Mr.. Martins
should be printed and sent broadcast, that
the people of country may not be deceived in
sending money to these irresponsible dema-
gogues.
l would suggest to these wouldbe leaders
that they put into the hands Of their treasurer
at least one hundred dollars each to start
with. The people would then have some
confidence in them and their loud-sOunding
resolutions.
A CoLoRED MAN.
The teachers in all the public schools Of
the city have moved, since the meeting, upon
Mr. Martins plan, the societies ar prepar-
ing, the churches will move next, and then
public meetings will be held in every precinct
Of the District, to which the masses will be
called, when able speakers will address them
on the character and services Of Mr. Sumner.
1t is expected that this District alone will
raise $4,000.
We understand also that there is to be q
meeting Of the representative men in this
city, at the earliest opportunity, to form a
plan to gain the cooperation Of the masses.
Our readers will be duly informed of its pro-
ceedings, and until then, they had better
trust alone to their local organizations and
keep their money in their own hands.
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Obituary.

n, tAs Editor If the Es,o Nationai Era:
Mr.. Edward Wiley died in Philadelphia,
Pa, March odd, 1874, at a'clock p. M, at
the residence of his father-in-law, William
still.
He was gentleman of the finest business
qualities, and most devoted Christian; and
while we feel deeply for the family in their
great loss, we are sure, as young business
man, he VIII be great loss to the community
in which he lived. He leaves a wife and one
child. He was greatly beloved by all who
knew him.
J. w DRIVE
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| reporter should have taken pains to publish
the malicious and untruthful accusations OF
George I. Downing against Mr.. j. Sella
Martin, that the latter was drunk at the
meeting last night. We never heard Mr..
Martin make an ADLER speech, nor to better
purpose, as he carried four-fifths Of the audi
| ence with him, and nothing but G. T. Down.
ing's chagrin at his defeat could have worked
him up to the pitch of rage which drove him
| into blackguardism of the lowest sort. The
people of the District know Mr.. j. Sella
| Martin too well for him to be injured by any
| such false and foul statements.
" ARCHIBALD LEWIS,
"SIDNEY MCFARLAND,
CHARLES Ii. MARSHALL.
WASHINGTON, March 81, 1874"
CARD No. /.
A Card from Prof. Sampson and Others.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March q, 1874.
To The Editor Of tie National Repu1ican:
SIR: In your report of the Sumner monu-
ment meeting, held Thursday evening at the
Fifteenth street Presbyterian church, it is
stated that Mr.. Downing spoke of Mr.. j..
Sella Martin as being drunk on the occasion.
Being present, and in sympathy with the
best interest Of the meeting, it is but fair to
| state that neither Mr. Martin nor any other
We did not hear Mr.. Downing make such a
remark, nor did we think that he did. If such
was said, it was not only untrue but refiec-
| ton on many who stood with Mr.. Martin in
his views (Which took the people, concerning
The proposed monument. Strange that men
| should think. others drunk because they do
not agree with them. We are all in favor of
the monument, but opposed to the plan Of
organizing, if we expect to be aided by the
public. 1t seems that a few men met in some
private family, inviting such personal friends
as would give them control of the movement.
Owe do not say all were thus actuated, Mr..
Downing, we are told, was away.) Then this
| private enterprise comes into public meeting
without constituency or delegated authority,
and complain because the people do not en-
dorse what they have done. Probably they
are the very persons to manage, but let them
be not afraid to abide the average sense of
| the people i'll public meeting assembled, duly
notified OF place and time Of meeting. Let
us make it general and not exclusive. Mr.
Sumner did no more for these than for 9TH
ers. They say it is a general movement.
es; after eight men have organized, then
invite others to follow. In this way the
movement is crippled at its inception, be-
cause not OF the people, by them, nor for
| their distinguished statesman, except as the
few can draw lustrc from his name. Peter
Clarke, OF Ohio, has well said that few men
deserve monuments, and that few need them
least. Let Us erect the monument, but en-
tirely removed from the confines of partizan
politics, and the close corporation of ward
| meeting, and think not that we are drunk or
| mad because we differ.
Very respectfully,
CORNELIUS CLARK,
JOHN LEWIS WEBSTER,
JOHN Z. SAMPSON.
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Prospectus for t07A-Sevent!i Year.
The AI.di1l0,
An illustrated Monthly Journal admitted to betbo Hand
-Omsgt Periodical in the World. 4 representative
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THE ALDINE, while issued with all the
regularity, has none Of the temporary or
timely interest characteristic of ordinary
periodicals. II is an elegant miscellany Of
pure, light and graceful literature; and col
lection of pictures, the rarest specimens Of
artistic skill, in black and white. Although
each succeeding number affords Il fresh pleas
IRE to its friends, the real value and beauty
Of TIE ALDiNE will be most appreciated
after it has been bound up at the close Of the
year. While other publications may claim
superior cheapness, as compared with rivals
Of a similar class, TIE .fLDTNE is q unique
and original concepton-alone aud I'M
proaChed-absolutel without competition
in price or character. The possessor of Il
complete volume cannot duplicate the quanti-
ty Of fine paper aud engravings in any other
shape or number of'volumes for ten times as
cost; 0Ad Mea. there cge lie ciEomos. heaiRes
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WANTED IMMEDIATELY.

All the sermons and speeches used in the
Sumner Memorial Services, IN the principal
cities throughout the United States, for the
"Sumner Memorial Volume" Address all
communications to the undersigned.
The subscriber offers volume of the work,
when published, to anyone furnishing matter
pertaining to it.
j. II. MAGEE,
IL Rateahousc ST., Cincinnati, Ohio.
mar 26-1mo.
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-04-02
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

IAN communications relative in the Disiric
beu,a lie sen, in by Monday evening Of each week.
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-04-02
CHARLES N. THOMAS,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law
AGO Louisiana Avenue,
WASHINGTON, D. c.,

Practices in all of the Courts of the District,
Government Departments, and the Supreme
Court OF the United States. a2.1m
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CARD No. ..
'Hhe Monulitnt Syrangle.

To III Editor efthe National Republican:
SIR: Will you permit one who was pres
ent at the meeting of the Sumner Monument
Association at the Fifteenth street Presby-
terrain church On Thursday night, and who
was awake bright and early this morning 10
get the REPUBLICAN's report of the proceed
ings, to express, high appreciation of the
most truthful and accurate report of things
Just as they occurred, which your paper con-
tains: The writer was somewhat anxious,
| owing to numerous efforts which he saw made
with the representatives of the press present,
to have the disgraceful portion of the pro-
ceedngs suppressed. In this connection let
nc say that the principal disgrace in the mat
ter attaches justly to the .'Star Chamber
maneuvres" OF few who ever seek to be
leaders in any movement where notorety is
to be attained. The refusal Of the chairman
OF the meeting to allow any to have say in
the proceedings unless they joined the asso.
citation, when they assembled by published
invitation, was an indecency and an outrage
on the feelings and rights of those who though
not so prominent in position, yet appreciate
and reverence the dead Senator as highly and
sincerely as any others. No alternative was
left but to succumb to a one-man government,
and hitch on to the machine as set in motion
by a selfconstituted eight" with four of
their number as officers, or to withdraw from
the meeting altogether. The characters of
Sidney Mcfarland, Prof. Wilson, DR.. Bowen,
Colonel Carson, c. n. Thomas, J. p. Samp.
son, J. Il. Johnson, Sidney Holland, Archie
Lewis, and Sella Martin, all of whom took
the same view Of this ''put up business" are
as enviahle for candOr and integrity as those
of Marccllus West, Carter A. Stewart, Mr..
SyphaX, Geo. Il. Downing, or any others
identified with the chamber job.
While all must deprecate so unfortunate
wrangling over the dead Senator, we cannot
but believe that as he loved the right, and
stood for it at all hazards, his blessed spirit,
lowering over the assemblage, must have
been outraged by the attempt of few to
coerca the masses to do their bidding.
Never were men assembled for purer mo-
tiycs, and never was more respect manifested
than at the beginning Of the meeting referred
to, until the best feelings of manhood were
outraged by stifi-Decked aristocracy, who
would accept nothing but the position Of bos-
ses.
have deemed this much due to the intel
ligence Of the colored people, upon whom this
plan is to be practiced.
| ONE WHO WAS PRESENT.
March 81, 1874.
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Z RIOS = EC;US
OF THE
We " uA7I0uAL ERA
LEWIS II. DOUGLASS, EDITOR.

The New NATIONAL ERA will parta!ie OF a two
fold nalure--that of an Advocate ana an Edu,
Gator. AS an Advocate it will assert and MAIN
tain every right pertaining to the American cit.
zen, Independent Of race, color, or accident Of
birth. It viii demand the recognition Of thesa
rights whichever the Constitution extends or the
national ensign waves. AS an Educator, its
columns will be an especial medium for the
effective diffusion Of right principles and much.
needed instruction, and for the medication OF
those HABITS Of industry, economy. and saf-re-
lance with conduce to independent manhood,
and give vitality and energy to free government.
insuring in return blessirgs;o the governed
While the editors of the NEw NATIONAL ERA
are cOlored men, and the contributors will be
mainly colored, yet the columns viii be open Tor
the discussion OF all questions OF vital import.
ance 10 lie country BY any q It's citizens. Com
munications suitable for publication in these
columns, are solicited from our friends in all
parts Of the country, especially in the Southern
States
New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-04-02

~ Nowsis the time for delinquent sub
scribers to renew their subscriptions.
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THE POLITICAL DEPARTMENT.

Upon all questions involving the espocia! in.
forests Of tie coored American citizen, the
simple RUE Of equal Justice for ali men will gov
ern The policy Of the New NATIONAL ERA 1t will
demand the recognition Of no right for one
citizen which it will not freely accord TO every
other. l. viii oppose any attempt to confer
privileges upon class, that are withheld from
the humblest citizen in the land. 1t will demand
for every citizen equality before the law, and full
protection of person and properly in every State
and Territory Of the National Union.
The NEW NATIONAL Eg. will take high ground
upon all public questions, and labor TO inspire
an openness of purpose and encourage unity of
action, especially among the newly eniranchised
people OF the reconstructed States. Remem-
bering the past history of the Republican party,
and recognizing what It has done for the c5lored
people OF the nation, the New NATIONAL ERA
will give its hearty support to that party without
reserve. This pledge Of fidelity to the Republic.
can party is given under the conviction. and
with the assurance, that in the future, as in the
past, that party will be the steadGstand ingexibie
support of those principles of justice and liberty
which have now become a part Of the organic law
Of the land.