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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

Terre Haute has been holding some nota-
BILE meetings lately. The financial talk, was
important of its kind, but, it seems from a
report in the Express that, the Hon. r. w.
Thompson. a gentleman of culture and
character, had something to say of capital
and labor, which was worth hearing and
thinking about. Mr.. Thompson is one of
the very few eminent men who can touch
the subject, as he is "out of politics and has
no need to trim his sails" for anypresumably
popular breeze. The speaker discussed the
question from a strictly philosophic view
according to the fundamental principles Of
of economy and social law. He argued that
we must deal with the human race as it is
and not as we would nave it. Labor, he
declared to be the foundation of all
prosperity, both individual and
national. The first principle that
he laid down embodies the idea that every
man is free and has a right to enjoy life and
prosperity without the interference or dicta
ton of any other person. For this reason
the old writer's are not to be accepted in this
country who had in their eye the conditions
and systems OF the old world. Americans
musG I0COSulIo Iuo uOCtTluo Oi eQuallLy IN
rights and opportunities. But in the COM
mon struggle for accumulation, capital
which is money or anything possessing ex-
changeable value-enters as an element into
the economical problems. There are and
must be in society three principal
classes, producers, consumers and dfstribu-
tors. And each of these is absolutely
necessary to the others. Collaterally there
are other classes, belonging in reality to the
consumers, and necessarily related to the
others, viz: mechanics and laborers. Be-
tween these classes there must be tacit har-
mony, or bad results will follow: Individ-
uals may rise or fall from one position to
the other, bus the classes, as such, cannot
subsist in declared hostility. Hence the
banding together of trades to coerce the
liberty of others is a great mis-
take. The speaker said it had
been advertised that be was to
make an anti-granger speech. Such was
not the case. The grange movement has
many admirable features. But there is
danger that the organizations may come
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03
LA BELLE
A Quincy ROU 1T,

AN EXQUISITLY BEAUTIFULCooNTRY-ITs Gil
MATE, CULTIVATION AND EoPL HOW
THEY v
In one of his admirable letters from
France, dated at Nice, Mayor Medill writes
the Chicago Tribune of the land of France.
These extracts will be found full of interest:
France possesses a climate not unlike that OF
the Virginias, Carolinas, Kentucky, and
Tennessee, and contains just about that
area. But it is not as cold in winter in
northern France as in Kentucky, while
southern. France is milder than South Caro-
lima in summer. Here, in Nice, in the mid
die of January, the gardens are full Of flow
ers, and oranges, and lemons, and the hills
are covered with the evergreen olive tree,
whose fruit has only just been picked; while
as far north as Paris, water had scarcely
CONCEALED up to New Years day. In the
greater part of France, there are really but
three seasons; summer, autumn, and spring.
Think of that, We jewellers on the shores OF
the lakes and on the great prairies of the
west, whose blood is chilled by the piercing
blasts of winters winds, and who hurry over
the snow-clad, frosted earth, ~shivering be-
meath a wrapping of woolens and furs! The
whole eastern side of France, from Prussia
to the Mediterranean, a distance of five hun
dred miles, is broken up by mountains and
precipitous hills for one hundred to one
hundred and fifty miles in width. The south
of France, from Bayonne, on the bay OF
Biscay, to Nice, among the Maritime Alps,
near Italy, is ridged with mountains for an
average width of one hundred miles; while
the peninsula of the Province OF Bretagne Is
also mountainous. But among those noun
'tains there are thousands of beautiful sunny
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

Indiana's senior senator, like, Msssachu-
chusetts' junior senator, has a hearty con-
tempt for the frivolous accomplishments
which such weak minded brethren as Schurz,
Sumner and Cox affect. AS for Mr.. Bout
we'll he believes like Betsy Prig, with Sarah
Camps mythical friend-Mrs. Harris-that
there ''ain't no such thing as political
economy. Oliver agrees with him and goes
further. He believes that the study of a
question is an unmsnly dodge. When Mr..
Schurz comes on the field equipped with the
incontestable truth of history to prove his
position,-Mr. Morton calls the nation to
witness the effeminacy and idleness of such
supererogatory learning. AS for him-he be-
lieves in casting about for such pearls of
wisdom as lay crude in his own gigantic
consciousness and pulling them forth as the
axioms of political economy which are to
carry the country out of the deeps of
financial depression. This impressive con-
tempt for book learning Mr.. Morton
it is unspeskably assuring to know shares
with his fellow LEADERS" in the ''great par
tv." Itmsy be that he DOESN'T abhor all the
little tricks of the trade down to the min
ute points, so thoroughly as the Chambers,
Camerons, Logans and hat sort of great
men, but he keeps a consistent front
OF di%sapproval upon such levities as
learning in any special branch. Hence
the little rouble that happened
the other day through a misplaced
comma, in the schedule of the tariff will not
be apt to draw any very deep expressions
of disapproval from these men who are
above grammar and beyond logic? By the
insertion of a comma, af -er the word fruit, the
government has been for a year or more
cheated out of its lawful dues and the sin of
the comma has been charged upon all the
great law makers in turn. 1t seems however
that the man who was so unfortunately adj
dicted to the use of commas, was none of the
House enrolling clerks as first charged. The
Senate engrossing clerk was the guilty man
and there are e~xtenuating circumstances
in his crime. When the bill was unde dis
cussion in the Senate, Mr.. Morrill, offered al
amendment, the first draft of WHICH referred
only to plants, but "fruit" was afterward
inserted therein before "plants." The bill
having suffered the usual amount of tortuf-
ing and tinkering, came to the clerk with the
word "fruit" underlined, to signify that it
was inserted as an after-thought. and the
poor knight of the quill very naturally fell
into this blunder. "Fruit-plsnts" is an un-
usual word, and any man who is accustomed
to allow for the usual stupidity of Legislators
would be likely to make the error. The
moral to be drawn is that lawmakers should
find out what they are going to do before
they begin to do it.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

While the broils of our home bar are ex-
citing the fear and admiration of the town,
/. little contribution to judicial procedure of
the emphatic sort is reported from Missis-
sippi which may teach these home COM
batants a simplifcation of the rough and
tumble method. 1t is the Mississippi trib-
unal which furnishes this little episode
Of justice. The bench is composed of
the chief Peyton, and two associates
Semrall and Tarbell. This trinity is neither
one, in the flesh nor in the feeling. The local
paper relates solemnly that the relations of
Chief Peyton and associate Semrall, were
not the most pleasant. That in fact heart
burning and bad names were banded about
among the learned trio for all the world like
the unjudicial throng. 1t was in a moment
OF extra judicial heat that Chief Justice Pey-
ton felt called upon the other day to
address his associate Tarbell, in a manner
that brings a blow for a response in the
walks of men. 1t is lel ,ted that even the
impassive Tarbell was aroused by these
epithets n in a moment of anger made a
step toward his vituperative chief. That able
jurist had not ventured on the argument,
however, without MS 'auLnOrll1es, OF DICK
ing, and as the enraged Tarbell approached,
he "drew a knife with "promptness and
CELEBRITY" al the local narrator graphically
and admiringly puts (which would have
lone no discredit to a younger man" and
stood ready, an avenging finger of justice to
chastise the presumption of an associate
who refused to permit his origin to be con-
fused with that ofthe canine species? Judge
Semrall, however, thrust himself between
the combatants, and there was a truce-the
local report, adding with florid enthusiasm:
-"But for this it is believed that the floor of
the temple of justice would have been
stained with the blood of one of its own
minister's" The bench and bar are signaliz-
ing themselves. In one of the western
states another chief Justice is in trouble with
his people because of some completely in a
lottery scheme. The Mississippi parsonage,
is the captain of them all. He is the out
coming of the "great party" He believes
in the republican party and of course that
means the knife, the rope and the ring?
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03
The Evening News saws.

Ifthe people of this city expect TO secure
a coqncil controlled. by men of ability, ex-
p~erience and honesty, they must drop all
partisan influences. tParty has no business
in the contest. Strike it out. If parties at
tempt to run things as usual, the result will
be as usual. No decent. self respecting
man, such as we are suffering for, will con-
sent to be dragged through the mire of
ward politics to secure a thankless task.
Let US have a movement of citizens, IRE
spective of party, and wholly in favor of
honesty and reform. In democratic wards
let democrats of unqUestionable qualifica-
tions be nominated, in republican wards,
republicans OF the same stripe, and then let
all good men vote for them. In this way
we can get the right sort of a council.
If the News will work persistently in this
direction with the Sentinel a wholesome re-
form may be brought about. The people
simply need the assurance that they are on
the right track and this grievously need
cd reform can be carried out, ifthose who are
in earnest will but assert themsel YES. The
News omits one point that the Sentine
led off on. Women are deeply interested
in the education of children. 1t is due
them that the vacancies in the board
shall be filled in part by women. 1t is no
reflection on the present board or any
board to say that women are needed to give
the board better balance. Where woman
has a voice in the management of children,
the needy or the afflicted, the result is shown
in vastly better work than where men alone
control. If women are best fitted for teach
ers and there is no question but they are, they
are equally as well adapted for the execu-
tive control of the schools, and they should
bear a proportionate representation on the
board. Let each ward which has commits
missioners to elect, consider the ques-
ton of putting a woman on the ticket, and
one years trial will demonstrate the wisdom
of the women. 10
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

General Butler gained his greatest triumph
yesterday. Simmons, "his man." was con-
frmed for the position of collector of GUS
toms at BOston-a position second in i'm
portance scarcely toa cabinet appointment.
From the collectors Office the politics of the
state are managed, and Simmons appoint
ment means Buffers success in the next
campaign for the g~overnorship. There
has been a great storm raised by the
Boston folks over the nomination, delega-
tions without end have waited or the presi-
dent to urge the withdrawal of his name,
and every device known to politics brought
to bear to defeat Buffers nominee, but
without avail. When the majority of Gen
eral Grants appointments are considered
his late outburst of indignation seems con-
siderably out of place. Simmons is
not half as ~disreputable as Casey, Murphy,
~Bridgeland, Kramer, Jason Brown, and ten
thousand others of the same sort put in
Office. 1t is not to the credit of the Demo-
cratic senators that they voted for Simmons
en- masse and probably secured his confirma-
ton in the Senate. They are precisely as
bad as Butler, and deserve the unmeasured
denunciation of their constituents, if there
is anybody who think little enough of them
selves to play that part 70 -demagogues of
the sort they have shown themselves in this
business.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

Mount Sinai, it seems, has been lost.
This mountain was a geographical
point of some historical interest,
situated in foreign parts, and remarkable
for a series of events which took place upon
it some years ago. The whole story need
not be repeated here for it is told with con-
siderable fidelity in a book which used 10 be
quite popular, but which is not much read
nowadays. Well, the loss of this peak pain
fully troubled several parties, among them
his supreme high m~ightiness the Khedive
Of Egypt, Baron De Lisnel Rothschild and
Sir w. G.. Trevelyan, and they furnished the
wherewithal for an exhaustive search
and sent the venerable Dr.. Beke
now in his seventy-fourth year, to
look for it. And now q cable dis
dispatch announces that the real Sinai has
been identified and found to be situated a
days journey northeast of Akaba, in Ara
bia, at an altitude of 5000 feet above the
sea-Ievel. 1t is said that original inscriptions
have been found which fix the locality be-
You'd a doubt. Both Jews and Christians
will unite in grateful recognition of the per-
severance which has determined a question
that all eastern explorers have been puzzled
over for years. The contribution box is be-
ing passed around in England for the bene-
fit of the d~iscoverer. If you must have dis
coveries, prepare to pay the fid-the discoy-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03
into the control OF trained politicians, who,

into the control OF trained politicians, who,
to obtain their own purposes, might work
ruin to the order. He dissented from the
practice of characterizing railroads as mon :
opolies. They are necessities. The country
clamors for them and must have them. The
average dividends on all the railroads of the
United States does not exceed five per cent.
Indiana has but one road that pays a divi-
dend and Illinois but three, while many
good roads are unable to pay the interest on
their bonds. Government can regulate the
safety and responsibility of trans
portation, its equal terms to all
the public, but it has no right
to regulate the rates any more than
it has the laws ofcommerce. We should in.
sist upon the observance Of the laws, but
should not attempt to destroy the railroads.
Indiana is a better land than any he knew,
but Illinois, though younger, is in the lead
owing to the fact that seventy per cent. of
her lands lie within five miles of a railroad.
Colonel Thompson, is one of the rare men
whose opinion carries weight. He does the
country an injustice by retaining from pol
itics and his party:proves its self the ally of
corruption and imbecility by selecting such
men as Morton in preference to him.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

Yesterday the Terre Haute Journal appear
ed in an entirely new outfit, with the name
Of Col. Robt. y, Hudson, flying at the fore as
editor and proprietor. In announcing the
assumption of the management, the colonel
defines the position of the paper, Will e
under his guidance. The Journal
agreesbly with the new order OF
things is to advocate the claims
of no party-as a party. 1t will, like the
Sentinel, strive for the establishment of Ger
tain political and moral reform and seek
support for these where there seems the
most probability of gaining them. There
is abundant room for such a place as the
Journal aspires to and there can be no
doubt Of the editors ability to make the
Journal a W in the western section of
the state.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

Whatever absurd features attend the pres
emit temperance tornado, it is, at any rate,
refreshing to see the clergymen of all de-
nominations leave off pulling each others
hair and take to pulling together at the hair
of that old enemy whose name is not pro.
nounced in polite circles. After all, the
Ep~iscopalian, the Methodist, the Roman
Catholic, and the Quaker, all seek the same
end, and why should they not pull together
instead OF pulling in different directions.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

taken. To ask the English to help celebrate
the hundredth year of the independence
Of the United States, would be some
thing like an invitation to a family to
Join in the celebration of an ancestors
burial. The " ~" centennial may be a fes-
tival to Jonathan, but it would be a good
deal like a funeral to job Bull. The as
surance in asking the Britons to join is not
unlike that of the youth who, when con-
victed of numbering his father and mother,
begged the court not to be hard on a poor
rphan.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

In the House yesterday, Commissioner
Watts got a bad set back from Mr.. Platt of
New York, who moved to suppress the
agricultural reports and abolish the bureau.
It didn't pass, but nobody would have felt
~scandalized if it had. The department, I'M
fortunately, commands but very little res
pect by the people, and it is doubtful if it
deserves any-slways excepting the s~tatisti-
clan Mr.. J.. r. Dodge, who does allthe useful
work that is done.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

A summary by telegraph of the temper
ance work in Chic, shows the movement on
foot in sixty villages, of which eleven are
cleared from the liquor traffic entirely, and
in over forty towns from five to t~wenty-six
saloons have suspended selling liquor. A
meeting was held in Cincinnati last night,
contemplating an attack on that stronghold.
The trade begins to feel the effect of the war,
and whisky is declining in price.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

There IS a gleam OF hope in the little that
leaks from the secret session OF the engin-
GERS, at Cleveland, that the wiser portion OF
the brotherhood are in a fair way to stem the
tide of unreasonable wrath, melted by the
fire-eaters. 1t looks as though the lawless
element were about to be forced into a sepa-
rate body and as such their action will Of
course be comparatively harmless.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

The junior Hoar brother sleeps easier of
nights. He has lately been devoting his
spare time 20 dunning congress in behalf o
the school teachers of the District OF Column
bra, who have not been paid since last Sep
TENDER, and are consequently now mixing
the mud of Washington with dainty but
unshod feet. Congress seemed rather in
clined TO forget this little matter, but the
gallant member from Massachusetts, kept
eferring 20 it until action was taken.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

Mr.. Boss Shepherd has answered the
conundrum propounded to him by a con-
gressional committee in a manuscript OF
1900 pages. The substance of the absorbing
mass of figures, and it is to be hoped facts,
is that he has been maligned by designing
persons, and that the city of Washington
has been deeply injured thereby. The Boss
also givesi it as his opinion forthe instruction
of congress that the general government
should assume the pecuniary support of the
Washington fire department, schools, etc.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

The Illinois Central is always instanced as
the only western railroad that pays an APP
preciable return on it's investment. 1t is
OF a genuinely successful north and south
route. The general public will be interest
ed in it now, however, as being the first line
to come in collision with the grangers in
the pending contest. The road has lust is
sued its annual report, and there are some
points worth thinking about. The secretary
says:
"When our railway was projected across
the open prairie to the timber lands of
Southern Illinois, there was still govern
ment lands open to purchase at l21Sc per
acre. The valuation of real and personal
estate in Illinois in 1850 was S156, 265 900.
Only twenty years had elapsed, and in 1870,
this valuation. IS shown by the government
report, had advanced to s2.12l ,ls0, $40"
Suppose that the Central had not been built,
nor any equivalent road, what would Illinois
be valued at to-day? Not n fourth of the
above sum. Railroads nave made the state.
Probably they have gouged pretty deep
sometimes, and exhibltedthe human instinct
to profit by advantages. No doubt a little
wholesome restriction on greed and grasp
ing is in order. But when a sucker, be
he farmer or anybody else, turns in
to wholesale denunciation of railroads,
his view is confined to a very small
space. The financial situation of the Cen
trail is excellent. The entire construction
account foots up at the close of 1873, S37,-
100000. The debts are either paid of, or the
money is ready whenever they fall due.
The company holds 81, 1ss.56s of notes on
lands sold, and still holds over 3,OOO,0OC
acres of valuable lands on sale. The con-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

At a meeting of the New Orleans chamber
OF commerce yesterday a long string OF
whereases about the mouth of the river and
strong resolutions endorsing the st. Philip
canal were passed. Much was said about
the plans of improvement, and a strong
appeal made for Congress to help the thing
out. If any improvement made by the
is to be commended, this is
undoubtedly il.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

1t is again asserted that Judge Du-
rell has been providing for a rainy day
by placing his resignation in the hands
of trusted friend IwhO is to hand it in il
the judiciary committee of congress report
articles Of impeachment against him. 1t
would be a great saving if the trusted friend
would not wait, but tak the will for the
deed and hend il in.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

Dispatches from the west state that the
Indian scare is about over. Many reports
were u~nfounded, notably that OF th~etroubles
in Long Fork. There is not any alarmAor
disturbance in Howard county, Nebraska
The troops are proceeding unmolested to
the protection of the agencies.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

It is the indomitable Mrs. Gaines, the New
Orleans Claimant, who puts the last load of
infamy upon the just Judge Durell, divers
pure and upright paragon. The evil odor of
this typical representative of the "great
party is like the celebrated plaster, which,
the more It was "tried to pull it off, the more
IL stuck the faster"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

o. The lafayette school board believing that
all work and no play makes Jack dull boy,
packed up the teachers and sent them off on
a holiday trip to Chicago. The Chicago
Times with Characteristic levity makes
merry at the expense OF the country ped
agogues, but they can stand that, remem-
boring that the trip was as full OF profit as
of DlpaSuye-
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

Mr.. Sumner talked capitally we'll, on the
centennial project yesterday again. He
don't like the worlds fair notion as preached
by Simon Cameron and the other unsavory
chaps. His point about John Bulls natural
reluctance to join the celebration of the
deeds Of 49," was uncommonly well
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-03

Those who have been looking for that
semi-mythical being, the woman who
dared, little dreamed of finding heri in Iowa.
Yet that was the place where she was to be
found. Her name is Matilda Fletcher, and
she is one of those who sigh for the good
old times. This uneasy female, all by her.
self, has sent in a memorial to the ~legisla-