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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14
NEW HAMPSHIRE AND TRAmPs.

Just why poor devil of a tramp should
select the little state of New Hampshire for
bis roamings is something that mo fellah"
is likely to lind out at a very early day. The
state is pretty much all rocks and hills and
mountains. There is no soil to speak OF, and
to make living in New Hampshire requires
everlasting effort, from morn till night
and from the cradle to the tomb.
Still New Hampshire has its fair
quota OF the radical curse OF tramps,
and the legislature of that rock-ribbed and
granite pillared commonwealth has provid-
ed ways and means for suppressing the evil.
We find a synopsis of the law relat-
ing TO tramps in the New York
Evening Post, and if it does not an
swer the purpose, then it is likely that the
stony hearted Yankees will try it again. The
law is as follows:
Any person going about from place to place,
begging and asking or subsisting upon charity,
shall be taken and deemed to be a tramp, and
shall be punished by imprisonment at hard
labor In the state prison not more than fifteen
months
Any tramp who shall enter any dwelling
house, or kindle any fire in the highway, or
on the land of another without the consent OF
the owner or occupant thereof, or shall be
found carrying any drearm or other dangerous
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14

AN exhibition of the addresses sent to the
Emperor William since his attempted sssas-
sination has been opened in Berlin, and the
collection is well worthy of attention. The
addresses, of which there are nearly three
hundred, are each signed by an average of
five thousand persons. To these may be
added the thousands of kilograms and the
letters of sympathy from noted personages
The utmost taste and skill has been exercised
to make the written addresses works of art.
They are adorned with photographs, pen
and ink drawings and water color sketches.
They are bound in blue velvet and clasped
with silver and gold ornaments. The major
ity are in German, though others are writ
ten in Hebrew, Latin and italian, and a few
in other Languages.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14
GOyERNOR HENDRICKS, SPEECH.

In the Sentinel to-day we publish Cover
nor Hendricks opening speech, delivered at
Masonic hall Monday evening, 9Th inst.
The utterances of Governor Hendricks are
those of no ordinary man. He is known
throughout the country as a statesman of
ripe experience and unquestioned patriot
ism. He has been prominently before the
public for many wars, and his most critical
opponents have been unable to discover a
single act of his private or public life which
is inconsistent with personal or official in
tegrity. The opinions of such man neces-
sarily have great weight with the public, and
nothing which Mr. Hendricks has previously
said or written has had more influence In
directing public sentiment and molding
public opinion than the speech which we
publish to-day will have.
We shall give our readers no synopsis of
Governor Hendricks mastery effort. Its
best syllabus is the speech itself. The pub
lie will read what the speaker says, whether
or not we give an epitome of his address.
No words from us are required to explain
Mr.. Hendricks meaning for he speaks with
no forked tongue. His treatment of the in
famous apportionment law, under which the
people of Indiana have suffered so long, is
exhaustive. We could add nothing which
would bring out more boldly the garing in
justice of its provisions. He correctly as
sumes that the contest for United States SEN
ator is between Mr.. Voorhees, and General
Harrison. After considering his arguments
upon the senatOrship, it is difficult to see
why any friend OF currency reform can
withhold his support from MIR. VOORHEES,.
General Harrison is an aristocrat and rep
resentatiye of the rich-of the bondholders
and capitalists of the country-while Mr.
Voorhees, is a man of the people and a repre-
sentative of those who labor for their bread.
A laboring man or a greenbacker will COM
NIT treason to his manhood if he throws his
vote for General Harrison in the contest now
before us. This republican leader in a speech
delivered a few weeks ago declared that
those who desired further issue OF treasury
notes were idiots and should be incarcerated
in lunatic asylum. Greenb back men will
make note OF this declaration of Mr.. Voor-
hees' competitor for their guidance in
October.
Laboring men will observe that Governor
Hendricks is not unmindful of their griev-
/ ances and their interests. There IS no cause
for them to form a separate party in order 10
/ be heard and needed. The democratic party
IS their natural home, and it is big enough
and chathoIic enough to receive all who de-
sire to enter its fold. 1t will welcome them
to its tents and share with them its bread
and wine.
Mr. Hendricks makes no effort in his
speech to tickle the fancy of the public with
metaphor nor to stir feeling with
passionate defamation. He appeals to the
reason Of his auditors, and wins them to his
conclusions by his logic. The address is an
argumentatiye presentation of his views upon
the political issues of the day, but in some
parts OF it he passes beyond tie mere boun
daries of argument and logic and enters the
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14

the country are carried in American bot
toms. The amount so carried during the
'perod under consideration was about $751;
'240, $50. the freight on which at SIX per cent.
aggregates So, s74, 457. Although this sum
can not be added to the declared value of
the exports, because the merchandise has
already been properly appraised at our
ports of shipment, yet it must be borne in
mind that American ships have earned this
amount for carrying outgoing freights, and
that these earnings have been disbursed
for wages, ship stores, repairs, insurance and
profits. This sum should, therefore, be
placed to the credit of the country.
'In computing the value of goods which
entered into consumption during the last
five years, it is proper to add to those i'm
ported the value of merchandise taken from
bonded warehouses in excess of that placed
therein. 1t is believed that the same course
should be pursued in the computation of an
accurate trade balance, because the articles
in bond on July l, 1878, were to large ex-
tent the property of alien owners, or, where
owned by citizens, unpaid for The value
of merchandise in bonded warehouses was
less by about $50 O0O, 900 at the close of the
'quInquennlal period than at the beginning,
which sum, or at least large part of it,
should be placed to our debit
Zone other element only remains, viz, the
amount expended by citizens of the United
States in foreign countries, and, as an Offset
thereto, the aggregate of small sums, in coin
or coupons, brought into the country by
allen passengers. An approximate estimate
of the first item is, on an average, $40, 600, 600
"a year, or 800, 100000, and of the other
'$75, 900, 000-an adverse balance of $50, OoO,-
900. Before preparing our balance sheet it
is necessary to present the movements, dur
ing the period under review, of
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14

ONE of the officers of Kossuth's staff, Sam
uel Royce, has written book entitled de
iteration and Race Education" in which
the author presents the condition OF the
people of this country, and gives his views
as to the way in which they may escape the
troubles that threaten them. The great
need OF the nation is industrial education,
and the recognition of its true value would
increase the army of usefully employed
laborers, strengthen those just entering &C.
tive business life, and would be practical
school of virtue, as vice springs from idle
mess, which is always accompanied by
Ignorance and want"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14
IMPORTS AND EXPORTS.

The condition of the foreign trade of the
country since 1873 has been healthy, if
forced economy is held as better than no
economy at all. For eleven years prior to
1873 the annual imports of the United States
exceeded the exports by about 500, 900, 900;
since that date, with the exception of the
year 1875, the balance of trade has been in
our favor and steadily increasing. The fol-
lowing statement, which we find in the New
York Times, shows the true condition of our
foraiOn frada.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14

THE st. Louis Republican has an old sub
scriber who wants to know what amount of
paper money was in circulation in the Uni
ted States during the year 1864. The Repub-
lican answers by referring to 'Spaulding's
Financial History of the War;" as follows:
'It will be observed that paper circulation
or paper money circulation are broader
terms than currency which is commonly
understood to embrace only legal tender
notes, fractional currency and national bank
notes. Mr.. Spaulding sets down the cur
'rency items and Others operating to initiate
prices THAT is, in circulation) as follows:
o. s. notes (green backs) ----.....s ADJ 1850 81
Postal fractional currency. y S9fS77 70
Interest bearing legal tender
treasury l6S $50 90
Certificates of indebtedness. l60720,00O 90
National bank nOtes-.................. 21S5,65 90
Add state bank circulation -....... l35000,OO0 90
7-30 treasury notes-................ l09356lJ0 90
Temporary deposit, for which GER
tificates were issued.............. " $780, l9l A
Total initiating paper issued
June 80 ,OS4 SO
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14

THE Grand hotel at Saratoga, out OF which
Judge Hilton drove the Jews last season, is
nearly empty this year. Hilton's meanness
is coming home, for fact, and in another
year Jew will own the Grand and various
other property, if the judge isn't more care
fri
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14

sltion of assistant clerk of parliament and
draws a salary of $1,000. This brother
Ralph is some years younger than Lord
RaaconsfieId
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14
Che Ssmtimel.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST IA.

THE New York Herald prints lO5, 664 copies
daily, which amounts to something over
81, 600, zoe year.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14

Leaving the sum of.......-.....-...s22O, ~, 964
which has been invested in bonds and other
securities, previously held in Europe, and
which has reduced the foreign Indebtedness
'of the United States-national, state, muni-
'cipal, and railway-to less than s., 000,-
000 900 -
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14

Washington Post.l
Bob Ingersoll has played "hell' for all it
is worth, and is off for Scotland to prepare a
new lecture on Burns for next winter,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14


'From the foregoing analysis it appears that
during the five years which have elapsed
since 1878, when the discovery was made
that our prosperity was apparent, not real.
during which period economy in the use of
foreign luxuries became necessary virtue,
our trade balance though largely in our
favor, has been considerably reduced. In
stead, however, of a favorable exhibit Of
'S657, O00, Co., it is found by a careful review
that the approximate trade balance IN favor
of the United States is not in excess of $780,
100000.
at is pertinent to inquire, what disposition
has been made of this large sum? At the
commencement of the period uSder review
the foreign Indebtedness of the United
States was estimated, by the authority al
ready referred to, at about 81, 200, 900 600, the
assumed interest on which was about S72,-
100000. A reduction in the amount during
the last two years has perhaps reduced the
average interest charge to 100000 year.
1--WE have now the following items:
Trade balance during I'VE years.. 1892 So, 5g7
Freight on exports earned by United
States ship owners...................-5 2,S14,491
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14

~; -os1S1
Expended for interest-...-SS0O 100000
Expended by United States
citizens abroad in excess
of sum brought by alien
passengers 5000 OOO-S25 100000
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1878-08-14

Total for five years.. sl35, S,O3l s3Oo, l64 81
, 1878-06-21
EXCURSION TO OLYMPIA ON the 4rH
THE STEAMER GOLIAH

Will leave this city on Wednesday,
July 3D., at s "A. NJ, touching at Port
Gamble only, arriving at Olympia the
same evening. Returning will leave
Olympia on Friday morning follow
ing.
AS the steamer will only leave on
conditions that sufficient number
Of passengers can be obtained from
this city, it is particularly requested
that all those intending to take part
in this excursion, book their names
at B. S. Miller's jewelry store on or
before June 30th.
Fare for the round trip, single
tickets, So. Gentleman and lady, 81
The Port Gamble brass band will
accompany the excursionists.
, 1878-06-21
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 81, 1873


Every year since the custom was first
inaugurated the Observances OF decoration
day" has been more general than the year
previous; and each year it has come more
and more to assume character peculiar to
itself aud unlike that OF any other day
dedicated by proclamation or usage to the
conlmemmOrAtion of events in our history
of national or local importance. Wash
ngtonians are not early risers, habitually,
but were early astir yesterday, thousands
preparing to attend the ceremonies at Ar
iington. the Soldiers Home, or at some
one of the several other burial places
about the city. holding the dust Of those
who fell victims to the late rebellion. The
President and members Of the Cabinet had
gone to Gettysburg Wednesday evening
10 listen to Gen. Buffers address and mix
with the crowds Inassed on that historic
ground. Piciicing ia the resort OF most OF
those declining to attend the ceremonies
at the graves, and the railroad, street car,
steam and canal boat lines were all we'll
patronized by the thousands striving to
reach the groves outside the Eity, the great
falls up the river, the several places Uf re-
sort down the Potomac, the open country,
and the designated places OF rendezvous,
more remote still, on the line OF the rail-
roads leading ont from the city. The day
opened uncomfOrtably warm. but soon be-
came cooler, aud town and country for
miles away were deluged about p. NJ,
ly several showers. The streets had an
unusually deserted and Sunday like air
till the coming storm induced those near
est to make break for home and cover.
From the time Of the first arrival till late
IL the eyeAing a constant stream was
pouring in, Ia every stage Of delapidation.
Soggilest and decentralization. Few acci-
dents are reported. Two cOlored men at
Bennings were deliberately shot by two
white ruffialis who approached in boat
50 closely as to render their aim sure.
They had euded arrest at last accounts.
1t il believed Congress will finally ad-
journ June 18th. This will carry Woods
tariff bill and the schemes OF the financial
thinkers over, to the great relief of Mr.
Sherman problbly. and not few through
out the country. Two of the nppropria-
tion bills have been passed. two yet re-
main to be reported; the Others are before
one or the other House or Conference
Committees. A lond wall is already
heard from those with jobs OH the private
ca endar. After ad:ing nearly million
TO the river and halbor in equity,the SEN
ate has sent it back to the House for con-
currencc.
The uttprances Of Key and Stephens
have not tended to reassnre those who be-
lieve mischief is contemplated by some OF
tile investigators. 1t is likely the iIfld :
tiOniSts will have to content themselves
tor the present with the passage of the
bill prohibiting further contraction OF
our legal-tender circulation. KNOX.
, 1878-06-21

FROM CAssIAR.-A letter from a Cassiar
miner, dated at Dease Creek, May Goth.
recites as follows: - left Wrangel Oh
the 9th of March; found ice across the
river about eight miles up the river; left
the canoes and started with our sleighs,
but the ice was like seive all the way
crossing the desert" There were about
sixty men Oh the ice; and, having crossed
dangerous places, was afraid te turn back.
| could see halt-a-dozen ut time in the
water, and Others rushing to them with
ropes to help them out. The second day
the Ice appeared to be good, and num-
Der started ahead. was trying to catch
up to q man ahead, when broke through
in his tracks and went to the ears in the
middle Of the Stickeen river. l had II hard
struggle, as the sleigh was against me,
and had no chance to swim but to 60 un-
der the ice and chance the next hole. |
however crawled out after while and
camped for that day; dried myself and
started the next morning as fresh as ever.
Travelled about three miles and came to a
mountain rock where the water rushed
under 1t. The river was all open, and
only one man was with me at the time.
We camped two days, waiting for canoes
to take us of, so we built raft and lashed
it together with sleigh ropes, and 'poled'
it up the river half mile where we got
on u bar covered with five feet Of snow;
then snow-shoeing came Into play. So
we hauled our sleighs till we reached
Bucks, on the 9th day. from Wnngel.
Hearing reports of better ice above, we
pushed on, but the ice was very poor.
When we reached Faltan, above Telegraph
creek, we had to climb the mountain by a
trail. There was no snow in the trail. so
put 100 pounds on a Siwash and came
ahead. often sat down and laughed ut
myself--packing a sleigh and looking for
snow. When we reached Third fork. we
went down 1t and travelled about fifty
miles on the Ice by wading the river about
every four hundred yards. We arrived at
Deas creek, % days from Wnngel, in
good health but much fatigued. | took a
small contract and made about 800 IN q
week, but have made very little since. The
miners are coming in fast, aud nearly all
going to Walker creek. If that conn
try turns out to be "bilk" there will b.
many - broken" man to 90 down in th'
fall. Nothing new struck the past winter
here. The Cinnamon are flocking In by
The dozen and score. If Walker creek fail
am afraid there will be trouble between
them and the Whites, as they are employ
ed where good white men cannot get work
Word has come that the man who helped
me to "pole" the raft was found dead II
his cabin--cause supposed to be over-ex
ertion." Suchare the privati ons, toll ant
and risks which men will undergo in tn,
hope of getting gold.
, 1878-06-21
A Living Witness,

Do not despairoi ever finding relief from
that dreadful disease dyspepsia. or Its mate
liver complaint. A single trial OF Whites s
Prailie Flower will make you Il witness
to its Inlalibility. Druggists say they
never sold medicine they can more
heartily gecommenl. 1t cures chronic
rheumatism, cutancous and ulccrous scrot-
ula, organic debility, nervousness, etc. etc.
For female complaint it has no equal
Prairie Flower is gathered from the
prairie Of the tar west, and then carefully
prepared in the form of liquid medicine
by an experienced physician. Is positive
ly purely vegetable and harmless in any
reasonable amount, yet powerful purga-
tive II taken il over doses. Directions in
IuII are with each bottle. For sale by all
Trial size, 25 cts. Large size,
rs cts.
, 1878-06-21

OLYMPIA RAILROAD lTENs.-The pile
drivers have nearly finished their part OF
the work. The passenger car, a perfect
little gem, Il fast approaching compile
ton. Bark Tidal Wave sailed OH the llth
with locomotive. hand cars and all the
rails. The trestle work at Tenino, 700
feet long, Is finished, and is the most sub
stantial structure In the country. Forty
thousand ties are strewn along the line OF
roa'l, awaiting the iron. Gen. James
Milroy had the honor OF spikng the first
Tie that was laid.
, 1878-06-21

The Potter investigation is still going
on appears to be unearthng some unex-
pected frauds. One Judge Levisse testi-
fies that he was Offered 800. 600 to cast
his vote for Tillen. 1t cannot be sup
posed such disclosures were the frauds the
Potter committee were fishing for. 1t is
an outrage fraud upon committee which
was organized to tind frauds on the other
side, to bring such things before it.
, 1878-06-21
ANOTHER CAmp.MEETNG-Rey. Mr.

ANOTHER CAMP-MEETING-Rev. Mr..
Goodpasture has requested us to announce
that It has been decided to hold another
ca,np-meeting OH the Nooksack river
this time at the Upper Crossing. The
time is fixed for Thursday, June 20, and
1t Is the hope of those chiefly interested
that there will be large and enthusiastic
attendadce. The people are expected to
he in attendance and have their camps ar
ranged on the day appointed B.
s. Mail,n
, 1878-06-21

tits proposed ut Seattle that II the pr p
erty holders Of King county will glaran-
tee $3.50, 600, and those of Yakima county
$50, 600, the Seattle and Walla Walla rail
road shall be built for one hundred miles
from the first-named place by October,
1880.
, 1878-06-21

1t is announced that supplies for the
several Indian Reservations In this Terri
tory, will hereafter be procured OF local
dealers instead Of firms in Oregon and
elsewhere. This is a reform In the right
direction.
, 1878-06-21

Messrs. West and PitChford have con.
cludcd not to erect their saw mill at Fern.
dale OIL the Nooksack river. They have
made arrangements to establish them.
selves, temporarily, q. Sumas Prairie, to
get out three million feet of lumber ioi
the contractor who has undertaken the
project of diking and reclaiming the marsh
lands Of che Fraser.
, 1878-06-21

LIEUT.. SoHwATKA, an Orcgonian, is to
be given charge of James Gordon Ben-
nets proposed expedition to the north
pole.
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A Ois-race TO America.

The cause OF FREQ Cuba has received q
staggering blow; blow that II not fatal, Is
by far the scvcrcst which that sacred cause
has ever yet sustained.
After lighting herocally for nine years,
the most renowned of the Cuban leaders
have capitulatcd.
All the Generals N the Central Depart
mcnt have surrendered to the Spanish Com
mandcr-in-Chicf and are now being used by
him To- induce thct companions In arms, In
the other departments, TO follow their cx-
ample
II IL hard to incupatc mon who for so
many years. almost entirely sclf-supporting
and sclf-dcpcndcnt. and pittcd against such
odds. have held their own in n thousand
fights. and made all the world wonder at
their valor and constancy. But 1t Is harder
to hear that men who had long since earned
Immortality have bartcrcd it for the paltry
boon Of few years Of dishonorabe life.
In another column we publish what Is
known; and that is sad enough. II leaves
little room for hope. But MAcEo and Ro-
LOFT. in the Eastern and Villas Depart
ments. may still spurn the Spanish offers,
and add their names to Cubas roll of honor
by dying for liberty.
For this catastrophe our own countrvmcn
are far from blamclcss. They have stood
by and allowed handful Of struggling
American heroes to he blOttcd out OF exist
cncc 10y Spanish tyranny.