The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1877-01-17
MISSOURI MATTERS.
A St. Louis Cores 20 dent Writes Of Affairs
in that City.
nunIcipai Experiences The Poifneai
Sentiment and the Missts-
sippf Jetties.
-pscIal correspondenoe Of lhe sentlnel.l

Con of a problem o. government, as HeIl rs
those of the three bulldozed states. An act
o. she last legislature authorized the people
OF the city to form new charter TOT thelr
municipal government; and the people OF
city and county TO form a scheme OF
separation. under which the city should
b. withdrawn from any control by county
authorities the purpose being TO Try the
experiment. somewhat new III the uhlteu
States OF free city, free Ia al tnihSS -
TO the administration OF its own affairs eA,
cepIits subsection TO the state ana general
governments At the election in August,
the charter was adopted and the scheme de-
feated-the enabling act requiring poth 10
be- adopted for either to be of effect. Ii mas
since transpired that the scheme was de
feated by worse system OF OaiioE
box stufiing than has ever be-
fo-e been recorded. Worse, because
IN this case, in the hummer wards
the Judges of election, in broad daylight,
while the voting was going on, unlolued
ballots which, if in favor OF the scheme,
were at once destroyed, while adverse tlck-
cts numbered with the number on the bal
nor ,ast. were substituted in the box. On q
recount under order of the circuit court,
this -ascalitv was disclosed to SUFFICIENT
extent to show that the scheme and charter
were both adopted by respectable majority.
The opponents of the measures have taken
every step possible but one TO defeat their
The last effort will be made IL day or
two. The county court having ordered
constable TO give a new bond, got the
first knock down, in the reply Oh
that officer, who says the scheme ana
charter having been adopted, the county
curt is out of existence, and having no
authority TO demand any performance of
d.ty by him, he declines to accede to the
demand. The court will ask for man
damus on the constable, and ii that fails,
the opposition will end; and st. Louis will
be rid of an incubus which has borne
heavily on the body corporate for these
many years.
THE TROUBLE IN THE SOUTH.
The progress of the dual governments in
South Carolina and Louisiana is watched
with quiet interest by our people. Not be-
cause itinvolves any solution Of the problem
OF duality proposed by Calhoun and inn
proved by Vallandigham, nor because OF any
fear that the revolutionary dis
position manifested by the carpet
bsggers in Dixie will extend north
sard: but because of the strong impression
bereabouts that the right Will prevail,
and that without interference by any per-
sons outside of the states involved. Mis-
souri, democrats and liberal republicans have
faith that the radicals will yet understand
that ii there are different grades OF revo-
luton the most reprehensible is that which
,
that the attempt 10 steal power Is not quite
as bad as the attempt to hold over beyond a
lawful expiration OF authority. Regarding
the position of the radicals in the states
named as a revolution of the worst form,
ard having, by the forcible expression of a
majority of $1,000 in the presidential
election. declared that the radical power
should De legally terminated, the democracy
OF Missouri decided to await events before
making further declaration OF opinion.
Nevertheless, if further experience is de
nanded in any form. it will not be wanting.
Dv way OF q matter OF history. the Sentl
mel might put on record that Judge Thomas
J. Mackey. who is now gaining much noto-
riety in South Carolina, is fair example OF
the extremity TO which men often go when
they change political coats. Tom Mackey
previous 10 the war, was an attache of the
surveysr generals Office for Kansas and Ne
braska. under General Ward Il. Burnett. He
was appointed to his position because hG
was one of the committee which awarded
Burnett, as the ''bravest officer from New
York in the Mexican war" the famous gold
snuff box left by President Jackson te the
city of New York. Mackey was a fre-eat-
ing secession-mouthing democrat of the
worst sort. for three years preceding 1861
He carried his protested hatred of the Yam
KEGS 70 such an extent that h,
stabbed landlord in Nebrask:
City, in 1850, for presenting board
bill, saying that mo South Carolina gentle
man was ever insulted by abolitionis
and permitted the abolitioniSt to live" He
went into the confederate service, tough
bravely in the home guards at Charleston
and. when the cruel war was over" sough
his ioaves and fishes among the carpet
bagging political Immigrants 70 his state
Hoop la for consistency
BUSINESS IL ST. LOUIS AND THE JErIIEs.
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Ing here in the aggregate. There is some
Improvement in prices and outward move
rnent of b.esdstuffs and provisions. Thu
elevators and warehouses are, however, fill
ing up the bulk of commodities awaiting
the removal of the ice blockade.
You are aware. doubtless, of the an
nounced success of the jetties-that is the
official announcement. General COmstoci
has given his certificate that the new chan
mel is ''2O0 feet in width across the bar, o
an even depth of % feet and daily deepen
ing" St Louis relies much on the effec
which this removal of the distractions Il
New Orleans commerce will have he
own. The reliance is we'll founded, but tn
benefits will extend beyond st Lotus. Ever,
important point within tide water" dis
tance-that is, within the watershed of tn
Mississippi, Ohio and Missouri rivers. ant
their tributaries. will within few year
ind itself an object of competition for tw'
direct courses of trade-to and from the At
lantic eastwsrdly and southwardly. TIL
freedom of the mouth of the Mississippi
from pilotage fees alone will advance all
water transportation from the Mississippi
valley states, and force the railroads to low
er rates for produce carriage. Then will on
western farmers be happy and the Wabasl
valley be renowned throughout the hog an
hominy eating world and elsewhere among
mankind.
LosAE's LUCK.
have just conversed with two member
of the Illinois legislature, one a democrs
and the other a radical. They both asset
t.lol.r he. al fcl