Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 1, 1878, Page 12

12 3 CINCINNATI. Bome of the Changes in Merd Ex. terual Things in tho Last Fifteen Years, How Cincinnatinns Are Bolng Litorally “Lifted Up” of Late Years, Evidences of the "New Eathetic Depart. « ure"” Whioh In to Make Oinofnnati the Art-Oontre of the West. The Good Prospeet of Atlalnfng Her Demres In Fveryihing Exeept (he Natter of Honey Dividends. Heaviness of Heart About Dol- lars and Dried Peaches. Epeeial Correipondenes of The Tridbune, CINeINNATL, May 23,—So much has been sald In the newspapers everywhera about the rocont musical festival and the * grand mustc-hall,” as tocreate fhe Impression obroad that there was nothiog clso in Cincinnatl worthy of the space in 8 newspaper correapondent's letter, and yet, after an absence of fiftcen yoars from this city, with which I was once very famlliar, T flnd #o much that fs new, so much thaot s changed, that Iam nlmost ready to say that there s no city in the West of which the character hns changed so much in fifteen years as Clnelnnatf, In theold days, beforo the War, when 1t was “ Porkopolls,” and when Its citizens grow rich by furnishing bacon to feed the Bouthiern negro, and whisky to fire tho Southern heart, it scttled down fnto s rut of conservatism from which it did not awska until commercinlly It had becn outatripped by the younger cities of St. Louls nnd Chlcago. This was apparcnt in the exter- nals of the «city, in its louses, Its means of transit, and Its modes of living. For the urban transit of passengers, Cincinnat! clung to the old lumberlog, clatterlog omnibus untll long after the other two citles had adopted the strect rallway. 18 did not dream of a park or a public garaen of any sort until Chicago and #t. Louls had both done remarkable thlngs in tlat direction. Its peoplo clung to the roughe paved, narrow strests and the narrow, diopy houses “down In the basin long after both tho other citics lad acquired now residenco quarters, with wider streots and o naw style of residences, which fnspired the travellug Ciu- cinnotian with something between awe nnd dis- content. Tho proximity of the city to the theatre of tho Civil War doubtless did much to retard the awakenlog from ita drowsy conscrvatiem, but since tho closc of the War the change above re- ferred to has been great.. At prescnt therals wo city so well supplicd with strect-rallways. From their common centrs ot the Tvler- Davidson-Urobasco fountain In Fitth street, thoy radinto In every direction Almoat cvery alternate street furnishes the route for a railway. They extend in as many directions ns a sallor namea over -in boxing the compasa; aud over in Covineton, in default of strects, they are Jald in some instances for scv- eral blocks through the alloys. But Naturo presented a barrier to the exten- sfon of these rallways to enbuiban vlilages. The scmi-circle of hills whick surrouna the city on the east, north,and west sldes were too steep for any horse except the one that is feil on coal and carstes bis tall in front, and even he required too cireultous a route, 8o sireot-rail- way extension cama to a standstill untll a few years aro rome genfus devised tho STACET-NAILWAY ELEVATORS, There are four of these, at s many different points avound the city, viz.: Walnut Liills, Clliton, Mount. Adanis, nod Price’s 10l The e of clevation at cach of theso Is by a sta- tlonary enzine at the tup o the I, © which hauls ono car up ot the mimy - thoe that it lots aue other down, The rallway, or Inclined plane,— up which they are drawn by wiro cables,—ts In o stratzht parallel tracks, rsing at an cven continuous grade of about forty-five doitrees the whole perpeudieulor hight of ‘over 400 Zeet. The cars used on thesc inclined planes are the same in sizo and appearance s those nsed on the horizontal ronde, except that the onter end in elevated on n trisngular trestlo-work which keeps the car in o barizontol pusition, The ascent occuples Iess thau a minute, avd, stand. ine on the outer end of the car and looking off a8 tha city sinks away from i or rises to mcet him, one tmay get a (alr nution of bow it seems to o man *up {u a balloon,”—nunus the agree- avle possibllity of being apitted on tho nearest church-steepla. At I'rice’s I, at tho western border of the (ll{. the pumnudlmlnr hight overcomo li)' tho foclined plane Is something over 400 feet, Ilere, als0, bewldes the passenger elevator, is another pair of trucks for the elevation of Lorscs and carriages. The car, in this caso, 18 an open one, atmilar to a rallway cattle-car without a root, thern beiug roomn fn each for two vahicles. 'co- ple drive lu the samo asthey would upona ferry- boal. The horses are neither tied nor unbitch- ed from the vehicle, Tha driver aits in his aeat, the occupants of the carriage also in thelrs; the cate-keeper shuts the gaty behind thew, signala the engincer ut tho top of the bisl, und up thoy €o. At the ton, the other end of the curl4 opencd and they drive out, baving roached in one minute a spot which would have taken them half an hour ar more to reach by the carringe rosd, to env nothing of the wear aud tesr of whips, haruess, und Christian charucter, Before the uduruon of their inclined-plana eystem, Price’s Ilf)l—which uresents to the city an abrupt, stubborn front Jtwo miles long—was almost inaccessible, and for that reason the ple- turesque sites for suburban lhiomes were nearly valueless, Now, however, it bide fair soon to rival Walnut Hills, which were nsturally more accessible. In short the fncilned plunes are rupe 1dly elevating all the moderatoly well-to-do citf 2ews out of the *basin *’ helow the hills, The view from all these bills {s iine, but that from I'ricc's Hill {s cxceptioually so. It em- braces not only tho whole of tho city in the *‘basin ' at one's feot, but the winding course of the Obfo River for twenty-fiveor thirty miles, and is not exvelled by the views sbout any large city on this continent, except the one from the mountaly back of Montreal, aud that from the Old Mission road overlooklng Ban Franclaco, On tho summer Sunduy afteinoobs u large ropurtion of the population of the sweltering hA!l‘fl eets [eeelf |ufted up for the purpose of aviug A mion TIMB.Y Tlo facilitles for this on thy hill-tops at each of the Inclined piancs are mmenve, Qreat plut- forms of thnber are built out on o level with the tops of the hills, and on each of these ure ecats for 3,000 or 4,000 people. Hut these plat- furiis are only the pedestals for as wany big beer-saloans, in which there sro seats and beer- tubles for as mw{ Hiore perachs ss there ure on the vlstforne., Here on Sunday alternconsand suniner evenings the * Deutsch gompanio, and the American aillliations, guzzle incredible f‘.““"““"f' ot beer. But the atuiosplicre of the asnn M cetiin Lo have unususl power of ab- e muteture of hutnao clay, hence the 12y uf coplous wetting down, Tuere Is, huwever, o ferttia ield bers for imfs slonary wark e fulroduction of a better quadty of beer. The Ciuciouati article 1 biteer, niuddy, uud headahy compared to thut of Mile wausce or Chicazo, ‘here fs a lecend, o myth, that Clncinnat) Is the cestre of the culttvation of the vine; thae its hills were fuuntaius of wine,—wiue, the tip- vle of poetic souls in ull ages; and there s ey Centiy w dealre i to this idea. A aymptom of thisis the inserips tlon and varvlug on (e stone ubova the spring atthe entrance (o tue Zoologiest Gordeos, It Feads: . Bleesed 1o all the drink shail be; . ¥or you, the woler—icine for me, Atove this {s curved s broad, icavy, but jolly German face, on which thers is o ponderous snileat the E::ke on the Red and Blue Rivbon Boaeties. Tuls Ulusion hu regard to the foun. talus ol wine was also fostered years ugo bp Lougfellow in hix soug of Catawba Wiae, wucu bo sald that— ‘This grecting of Ats'n The windes sand the birde should duliver ‘To the Quecu of the West, 1o ber gurlauds dressed, On the tanks of the Beautiful River, But the poct's song, llke wmost other poetlc @reams, was only a vision of what posaibl; migbt be, ratler thus of what probably woul be. The viocyards about Clucinnat! bhave uot fucreassd in “the last tweuty years, but bave Ulnivished. The grape was found to be an ex. tremely uucertain crop, aud practical peopic did Lok cary Lo luyest Labor sud “capital 1o satisfy § THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SATURDAY, JUNE 1 out with heer, Hence eiver, and lover of [ cionatl, hucolic etranger, the untraveled Amerfean who has never *dane the Old World," and therofore cannot afford to turn up his nose at Amerlcan attempts,—to such a stranger looking for the Hons of tlm-!nnlll. the real simon puras srticle 1s to be found {u the fine 7001.00ICAL GARDRNS, which are_Incated on the hills just at the out- rkirts of Clifton snd Mount Auburn. Here he will find & much greater variety, and finer speci- mens of the feathered and animal kingdoms than 18 possible to fnclude in any lvenmbulmnz menagerie—from their Roval” Highneeses of Bengal and his Most Graclous Majesty of Africa, down to the denlzens of the two-acre dog ken- nel and the prafrie-dog villago. ‘The gardens Include an area of provabl eighty acres, very handsomely ornamented with walks, flowers, shrubbery, ete, Scattered over this are nbout forty buildings,—all of solid limestone,~nt the front doors of which the ani- nals, birds, rentiles, cte., are presumed to re- celve visitors of tha genus homo and blped per. suasion. The (natitution, as now completed, 4 acredit to the liberal-minded gentlemen who orgaulzed the stock company, pald fn the money, and established the gardens for tho en. tertatument of the publle, without finding it necessary to give anv utilitarian excnse for do- ing 6o, and without any expectation of arvidends on the stock. Thls, however Is only another fnstanco of thal greater ~ development of public eplrit among Cincinnat! rich men which lias been the anbject of so much remark In connection with the recent inauguration of the new Music Iall, In this latter enterprise, too, the investinent seems to have been donc con amore, and the utilitarian ldea to have been kept entirely in the background. Instead of Lelng hidden behind a street facade of oflice windows, or liaving an un- duzflnnluz of shiops, na is the case with nearly all tho other public halls in the United_ States, the mew Cinciunati Music Ilall stands Ilke o cathedral in the midst of ol:t:n grounds, and fronting on a beautiful park. The iron fence which surrounds the building affords neither hope to the tradesman nor vantage ground to the lslll-guuler. In the arrangement and loca- tion of this modern temple of Apollo, the idea scema to have heen to make & public and em- phatlc claim that music was_ worthy of love, worship, and costly gifts, without any mara ex- pectation of n dividend on the investment thun Irom the money pald for a wife's portrait. 8till another Instance of this RPIRIT OF CULTURE —for that Is more correct than to call it mero ublic apirit—is the Tyler Davidson-Probasco ountain in Fifth atrest, Years ago thera stood hera a rickety old mar- ket-house, but shortly after the War, hen Cin- cinnatl began to brtish off the cobwebs of her conservatlem, Mr, Tylor Davideon suggested the vreetlon of this beautiful work of art. e dld not live to carry out his design, but Mr. Henry Probasco did it for him, and when the pile of bronze, with Its fifteen statucs, was completed {n 1571, at & cost of $200,000, he pre- scnted it to tha eity. The next thing with which a few wealthy Clnelnnatlans propose to make other citfes en- vious Is a Museum of Art and Literature. Tha nrrnn;icmenu for the estublishment of this have, I understand, been fully muwle. In this are to ho collected rarc specimens of all tine arts, statuee, palntings, cerainics, costly textiles, fabrics, nocent armor, and all that class ol quaint, curlous, and costly things whiuh, by some umlofined Jaw of the fitness of things, have been mssoclated togeth- er. ~ "But to theae are to bs ndded also the featare of rare books. One gen- tleman, whose private collection made at wreat cost throuch many years, s understood to be ready to donate the whole of if. A hint of the quality of {te treasures may bo had from the tact that it {s said to embrace coples from ity cditions of Shakspcare, Some of these are emall enough to go into one's vest-pocket, and others are ro largo that a stout porter could not shoulder them, Speaking of books reminds mo to say that, besldes rich private collections. Cincinnuti has o larger supply In her cleven public libraries than any other clty west of Philadel, —the two miost fmportant,iowever, being the Mercantile and the Public Library (proper), whioh together contain over 100,000 volumes. Mony other facts might also he cited to sus- tain the claim mode by her citizens that in the 1ast few years Clucinuatl has taken a new esthetic departure, and thut in the general westward movement of all things tha mantle of Boston, as tho centre of art and music, Los fatlen on Cincinnati; and, though she niny not yut claim any such Nterary eminenco o such Massachu- sctts towns ns Concord,—where the principal accupation of the people fs said to be writing for the Atlentic Monthly,—zhe oy at lenst vlaim to nave mors to_Invite people of literary tuste than aoy other Western city, But, vlowing lfo from a practical bread-and- butter-getting standpoint, there {s A LEVENSE S1DD to all theso attractions. The city has an im- mense debt,—ucarly twenty-four inillions, or ubout seven millions greater than that of the larger Clty of Chicago, and six millions groater than that of 8t. Louls, The burdon of taxation ta pay interest o this falls heavily on lier renl estate aud her trade, The unthuished Clucin. nat! Southern Rallroad to Chatanoogs, In atd of whlch a largo part of this immenso debt was fu- curred, hos been of but little benotit vt to her business Interests. Nearly one-fourth of the transportation of exports from Cincinnatl to all ather pluces 18 ostimated to bo by the Ohlo River. “The condition of her whols “traflle may therefore be approximately estimated by tho number of steamers at her wharf, and the de- an of activity there, ‘The prescat atatus may be estimated by the fact that during the past tow weeks there have not been above four or vo steamers at the landlng whero n few years neo thero used to be a dozen or inore, Taxes are high, ond real estato ol rents are The shrinkago In the nomtnal valuos of real estate has not been #0 great a8 in Chicago, partly because It was never 8o mieh inflated by speculation, but it Is quite as low now, and rents aro even lower than in Chicago, Huandsonme lots on fmproved strects in Clitton_ond Mount Anburn can bo bougriit lor from 830 to $73 per front foot. In the win. dows of some haudsume three-story residences in Mount Auburn aro to_be seon placards offer- ing them for rent at 2000 por annutm. Bat this dovaward toudency of prices {s by To menaus mors marked in the city than in the country, Througiout Ohtoand ludlaua there bus been a large FILRINEAGE IN VALUZS of town property und farming lands. Man, farms In the country surrounding Indianapol{s weroclted to me as being recently sold for prices rangiog fram $30 to £35 per acre, whereas the same farme were soid four or five vears ago for from 00 to §70 por acre, Nor Is it only the Vrl«-n of real estatoand sinilar lnvestments that ce) the squecze, A disconsolate country mer: cliant pear Indisnapolis, with whom 1 intked, told his talo of Niow he Dad stocked up soyeral times, und eachi tine ns_be supposed at **bat- tom pricea,” anly to find that the bottom had nou been reached vet, *¥ AL lust,” safd he,with a sorrowlul quaver In his volce, * it bs come to this, that 1 have just bad to put out a sign to sull thlrteen ponds of dried peaches for u lldl’l‘lrl" 1t did not fn the least assuuge his troubles for ma to exploin that it was because the nunial crop of dollars had been growlog smaller wnd smialler ever since the decrease In the produce tion of the metals out of which real dollars arg mada; und that, on the other hanil, the crops of dried peacbies, bread and butter, dry goods, and all other things with which doliars are bought, Lad been steadlly fucreusing; tu short, that the world liad been'so tndustrious, su economleal, B0 tuventive {n {ts mothods of getting doliars, aud o fntent upon keepiug them, that the sup. ply of dollars was below the demaud. Henco the rise in thelr price, sud the reason that it took more dried poachies to buy otie. ‘Iho money-fiell(nxz fnstinct of mankind at large, which™ hod heen tndorsed by politieal economy, was too sacred a target for bis come vlajuts.” But as he felt the necoasity of blaming sutnchody far ull this, he plickied uponthe ' Gov- emment.” +* Whilo thure was 80 _miuch talk sbout sustainiug tha credit ef the Government and the value of the dollar, he thuught there ourbt to by some consideration for dried peaches.' W. L F. i SUMMER-MORNING, Abovo the purple Eastern hilla ‘The criinion-landed |nemln‘ fllovu. And every feathered waroier uifls ‘The awaetest, clesrest soui 1t knows; Aud every emerald leaf is hung Withbrigit, prismatic drops of dew; While, ho: the bricht sod ever-youny, Gay Pheebus blazes futo vi uto view. Lail! splendid world, so fresh and bright, In Elwh.u ‘zum:. green, and gold! Alithrough 1he etar-bespangled right, ‘The Angels watered bl and wold: Aud whea, In erjwasun, Mora blosomed iu th Bebolidt ndscape 1} Aund fragrant as s Para S BIOUS™ URUDAKEM. A Recogultlon, Zondon ‘Tyuh, At an Odd-Fellows’ hall, the other day,a y0uog 1040 in the medical studeot line of {llc come euddeyly fuce tu fucs with a dear, kiud, old, fatberly lovkipg gentiemun with white Lir, #ort of poetle thirst that could nawell bewaehed Bacchire, the anclent wine-god, the promoter of civiiization, the Iaw- poace and good fellowehip, was vusted to make raomn for his more modern relative, Gambrious, the god af hops, whoze Vles are buflt on all the hill-tops about Cln- put beer and muslcare not the only enter- talnments to be found on the hills. To the of highly respectable and almost Diblical appenr- ance. ‘Ther both stoad transfixed. The rame {den finahed across both of them. ' Your face member where v have met 8o often.” ever, the fricodly impulae was carried out; they shook hands warmlv, rlrtmk of a friendl clnss, and departed, still fgnorant of eacl other's name and occupation. But the young man was determinesd to solve the nromeml and he seized on the waiter, and eald to him: “Tell me, waiter, who {s that distingulshed stranger, with the white hair sl about him{" And the walter whispered lowly ¢ ** Pleases sir, that's the pawnbroker,” A CLERICAL IMPRESARIO. The Experiencs of the Rev, Mr, Darns asn Concert-Manngor, and 1lis Explanation in Relation Theroto, &, Lanix Glodes Demncrat, May 50. A new departure in the way of operatic man- ogement, and a decidedly novel undertaking for n Presbyterian divine, were developed yes- terday morning in conncction with the Kellozg- oze concerts at the lall of the Chamber of Commerce. Coming nt the end of the operatic scason, whon nothing more of great {ntorost was cxpected, these coucorts have been the tople ot conversation for the past two weeks fn fashionable aud musleal circles, The columns of the newspapers have been extensively utilized, and the usual Immense posters scattered In every direction throughout the city: the names of Miss Clara Loulse Rel- logg and Mile. Roze appcared in twelve-lnch Ictters, and those of the lesser opeeatic lumina- ricafo smaller print. At the foot of these vlacards, for reasons at first unknown, but now apparent, tbe name o tho manager was miss. ing. It can now be suoolled, and the posters should have read, General Manager and Im. presarfo, the Rev. James H. Burns, of Chi- eago,—this genuemnn having entercd (nto con- tract with Mr. Max Steakosch for the purposo of hringing the troupe to this cily. Had uot the receipts of Tucsday unlzht fallen far short of paving expenses, and the ready toney of the preacher not given out, this item would havo been lost to ths publici but cer- taln bills remaininz unpaid on Tucsday night, and other susplcious circumstances oceurring, theaporehensions of the creditors wero much excited, and_yesterday morning's denouement roved the justice of these susplcions, Early n the morning the collectors of varlous firms begun to gather ot Baliner & Weber's for o setticment, but were soon informed that the Kev. Burns had not tieen seen; It was ascer- tained fn 8 short time that he had Incontinently ahlfted the burden of (lnanclal respousitility to the broad shoulders of tho veteran Max, ‘The sturm broko then in eurnest, and an im- medlate rush was made for the Lindell for the great arbitrator of operatic discords. But no Max wos to be' found. In fact, ho had heard the mutterings of the storm, and was rapldly taking means tosceure his own safety, About 10:30 a2, m. lio appeared fn_front of Balmer & Waeber’s casbler's desk, fired with rago and ex- citement. Thrusting a document, purporting tobeawrit of attachment, under the aston. Ished nose of the phlegmatic Mr. B, he ex- claimed, ** T think that will fix this busincss.” The tablean, when fnformed that others of tho samne nature from the bill-postor, printer, nowspapcrs, etc., ind been already served, was, to say the lenat, wonh{ the poucil ot a Nast. Cooling off somewhat, he procecded to the Lin- dell, and_abuut half an hour afterwards he expiained his positlon to a ruporter, as follows: fin had made a contract through his agent with the Rov, James H. Burns and P, C. Rus- sell, publisier of the Bt. Louls Pust-Offce Dutletin and Chicago LPost-Ofics Bulletin, By this contract ho was toreceiva $1,000 in advance each night for two concerts In 8t. Louts, Upon inquiry Mr. Burns bad Leen represented s n suspunsible person and a man of means, Be~ lieving thls represcntation, he had slgned the contract, and, aiter two concerts in Chleago, by which 87,000 had been cleared for the Newsboys' Home, eamno to this city, Mr. Burns pald the $1,000 according toayreeinent, on Tuesday night before the performance; but, about 9 o'el discoverlug that the houso was not & paying one, and be would lose toney, sentfor Mr. Btrakoseh, and Informed him he could go no Turther, ond desired a release. This was re- fused, avd tho ijoterview ended, and Mr. Btrakosch atates that he pald no more attention to the matter until yesterday morning, when, hearing of DBumne' sudden departure, he sworo out the attachment in order to protect himself as much us posable, but with the Inton- tion also.of scolng every ot pald in full, Abuut 3100 remafned to be paid, and, unloss the recelpts of Wednesday nlfzhl wero large, he ex- pected to bo a considorable loser by the eccle. slnsticnl speculation. A vialt to tiuorgo Morzan, Seeretary of tho Ex. change, discioied only the fact that Burns had rented the hall, paying in advance for its use. Mr. James 8. MacFariand stated thst Burns had called upon him about six ieeks since, In vegard to furnlehing und arranging tho chalra for the vatertainments, and that ho (Muck'are lxmd{ had told Wim then such musical affalrs would not pay in 8t. Louls,—advising him to have nutding to do with tho ventare. Burps then returned to Chicago, but came beck azaln In two weelts, statinz that ho had mado better terms with Strakoach, and {ntended glving the concorts,—muiing his arrangements at the same timie for tho chialry, cte. The day before tho lirst concert he cano to MacFarland with the request thut ho would walt until aftur the toncerts were given for his pay, 3 he bad but fsloo \tlt{l Itxllm.d’l‘he‘ l:;l!;filo% belng dexlnlud. lIm clegraphed and recelve 200 more, paying Mr. Mn«fi-’nflaud his bitl An intimate fricnd of the Rov. Burns, promi- neatly connected with the Preebyterian Church, who refused to be conuected withthe affulr ou uceount of religlous scruples, gave the follow- lug bistory of Burns' wholo connection with opuratic matters, prefacing his statement with the remark that bis friend was a minlster in rood standing In Chicage, but at presout aceu- ‘wlmf no pulpit. Tt appears, according to Mr. W, I1, Phare, that Ihurns was tnduced o enter into thy speculation by Russoll, who apreed to sharo expensed, After all tho arrancemonts had been inade, Russell, aniieipating non-suc- ceas, or falling to counect In monay matzers, withdrew, and “left the city taat ¥rid Mr. Phare mee Burns after tho concert on Tuesday nights he appeared very much exeited and dia- heartennd, but fntimatéd 1o no way his futen- tlon ot taking **Fronch leave:! was wuch sur- prised to hear of bls (Burns’) departuro in such a manner; but, although lie did not conslder him worth ns mtich s had bee stated, had lit- tle doubt that all the debtswould oe acttled up. The whotv truth was, that Duros, linding himself in deep water, out of money, and unac- auatuted with busincsa offairs, cspéclally wueh u complicated a4 matter as managing a troupe of stugers, became talrly frightened “out of his wita, and had taken the shartest way out of bis dificulties, to guin breathine time, Mr. Balmer, of Balmer & Weber, won ovident. Iy most thorouchly disgusted withtne whole al- fulr, aud consfdered that the excitable Max had mixed wittees constderably with bis sttach. ment, loud talk, ete, Tickets had been selling well until the scandal bad become brufted about town, but tho sale since had been very slow. ‘Tlie recelpts (ur'l‘umh{ nhsm. wera between 31,150 aud 31,200, und the whole amount was still In his bands, I Burns bad not left and caused the present trouble, the hall woutd have been flled for the second concert, ond no ditll- cuity expertenced in paying out, and probably & profitinude over ani above all expenses. ‘Tho abuve Is an lwpartlal stateiment of all the facte which could be gugen concerning the latest sensution amongst the nfl:m wople, Mr. Btrakusch hina assumed all labilities, and eyeryvody will be made happy by the recelpt of his money. *fyvery man (o his trade " will be a fittine Inoral to end this ta'o of & preacher's ead fallure ny un {wpresarfo. To the Editor ot The Tridune, Cuicaco, TIL., Slay 8l.~Belng shown sn ex- tract from a8t Louls paper—clipped by you for reprint—In regard to my unfortunate con, nectlon with the Btrakosch coucerts recently wiven in that city, I have only to say that 1 was drawn futo it 9% eo jonovent man br others, and wis not to be the manager of It by ony mesna; but, owing to the confessed {rabliity of Mr. Russcl to bear bts part of the financial burden, ] was com‘frllcu to asstima a poaltion whicb, of course, I did not tike, in order to protect wyself, 13 Wwas not my purpose to abandon the tleld, nor would |, under ony clreumstances, until denfed Lhe rl:{nlul use of moneys clearly belong- Ing to e with which® to pay current expenses, wud Lud not By, Btrakosch nter- fered in this watter there would bave been uo trouble I think Letween the tirst aud second concerts; but, belng thus hawpered and luter. fered with, [ Bnatly left per necessily, aud whay scemed good advice, and yet with no futen. tlon whatever of wrougiug any onvoul of his Just clanos, It was Mr. Russell, a former citizen of St. Louls, who made all prlur srraugsments, renting thie *Exchunge, seatiig It, eic., so expéusively. I m-nhfi.‘h le erred {0 judgwcut. 1 now exceedingly regret m{ conucciion with this whole affafr,~not only because to e woproilt- able, but wore eapeclally Le-ause it tends to Uring reoroach upon wi¢, iy bretbrea in the minlstry, and the great cause of Christ, * Whosse T on sud whom I 'scrve.” | trust, therefore, [ amn and shall be torgiven by all for this iny tiret 4nd last such strange exverience. J. M. Boxs, Is familfar to me, vere familiar; but lmn"lt ro- o= 18786—TWELVIY PAGES, INDIAN. the Coming Rupublicap State Convention, Interesting Reminlscences State Polltics for the Past Twenty Years, Presont a Solid and For- midable Front; Nominated for Years, . bilities as to Platform, Speclal Correspondence of The Tridune, INDIANAPOLIS, May 30.—I¢ 1s Decoration-Day, but decidedly a gloomy, cheerless, and chilly one. Al the forenoon it bas drizzled solemnly, and s the mercury depressed, so has the usnat enthuslasm in the evont. Luat year it wasindeed ‘This, 1t s paralyzed by the cle- Is it any wonder the anclents wor- a gala day. ments. shiped the sun beaming in tho hicavens? During the hours of drizzle it s a ht oppor- tunity to withdraw to onc's luner castle and transcribe for Tus TribUNB somo facts and fancles concerning tho COMING REPUBLICAN STATE CONVERTION. Next Wednesday this important body con wvenes in this Capital City, at the O1d Drury,". I you now called the Metropolitan Theatro, will permit the dlgression, I will hore say that, considering the momentous evrnts that have trauspired In the interim, in the what scems to be the remote past, your correspondent ate tended his first theatre at this Old Drury. This was In his callow youth, just preceding the War, and whilo the *Widc-Awakes' were marshal- fn thele hosts to elect Abrabam Lincoln In 1800, Old Peter Richings, long sinco zone To that bourne whence no travelsr returns, was the actor In the title role, and bis (then) young and modestly-eweet daughter Caroline (now Mrs, Bernard) took a leading character. Bince the destruction by fire of the Acaaemy of Music here, somo two or three years ago, the Metropolitan 1is the largest aud best adapted hall fo the city for a publlc conventlon. It fs now & popular variety theatre, conaucted by tho remat Simon McCarthy, Btate Conventions have been held in it from time immemorfal, tho Inst one being the rocent Democratie State Cone vention, oresided over by the suave Gov. Hen- dricks. * I attended tho Republican State Con- vention therein February, 1860, altnost a flfth ot o century ago, that nominated the ticket of LANE AND MORTON for Uovernor and Lioutenant-Governor, This combination assured victory to tho new party In Indiana, Manyol the old readers of Tin Thin. UNE wilt be remninded of that celebrated and ro- markable campalgn by secing those names once more in juxtapositfon. Henry 8. Lane was a popular sort o Ilenry Clayish or Lincolnish orator, who won the hearts of the yeomanry. He never prided himeself on his personal beauty of face or form, but concluded to take the un- gainly work of nature inhis particular case in abundant good humer. In fact, his angularity 1was 40 apparent, and 80 _evidently unconcenla- ble, that ho usually took time by the forelock and got ahead of tho critics of his andience by calling attentlon to his *good lgoks;" and, of course, that ironical observation brought down tho house, aud put him and_his hearers en rap- {b]flfl. The tickot was elected; Lanc went totho nited States Senate; Morton becare Govorne or, and the preat war opened, which permitted Oliver P Morton to becomo the famed * War Governor of Indlana." ‘The intermedliata history of theso men is tol- erably woll known. Gov. Lana still lives, in ripe, joyous old age, at the pretty little county capltal of Crawfordsville, two or thres hours from this city. Tho place has a literary tinge, and is noted as being the homo of (ién. Lew Whallace, author of the “Fair (od,” aod of Maurice Thompaon, s magazine contributor of good repute, Morton was known as tho friend of friends of tho Unfon soldier; nnd as I write thesa linea his gravo at Crown Hill Cemetery s no deubt belug decorated among the thousand rlhcn who alcep the sleep thot knows no wak- og. On famo's cternal campinz-groand Thelr silent tents aro spread, nd glory guards with solenin round ‘The bivouac of the dead, It 18 now alx ycars since tho Republicans of Indlans nominated o State ticket for eicction, ‘'wo have sinco been placed In nomination for d¢feal. But inany, I presume, belfeve lo the old saw, *Tho third timo's tha charm.” In {872, tho Republican Btate ticket was mnlnl! Bucceas- ful, That Is, s numerieal majority of it was, but it loat its bead, aud (ts tall, and was o very sorry looking object with its cranlum and cau- dnl appendoges decapitated, That year the two opposing gubernatorial candidates were TIOMAS A, IENDIIICKS AND TIIOMAB M. BROWNT, the former the Democratic, thy Intter the Re- ublican standard-bearer. Hendricks gontly lald Browne ou the sholf, or sent him on a voy- age up Salt River, The ultimate part of the tleleot, tho position of Stats Superintondent of Publle Instruction, was also carried by tno Democracy, The rematuder of tho ticket was won by the Republicans. As the Democracy carrled the Stato ticket in 1870, two years he- fore, It 15, to sneak with direct precision, a fact that the Republicans have not their entlre 8tato. ticket sines 18508, the year of Graut's first . election, Pinclog Hepublican sunremaocy back to that date would he cquivalent to saying that now forten years the untorrified have been *run- ning ' this 8tate, Certalnly any patriotic citizen would admit that good, honest, etliciont govern- ment by the Democracy would be proferabio to bad, corrupt, Incompetent rule by the Repub- iteans. But it Is extremely doubtful if all these years there has beeu both purity and wisdom in thie managemnent of the Btate by the Democras cy. 1 do not recall any serio clsm of the Exeeutivo control of UGoy, Heudricks, 1ils Ad- nnuistration was markoed by placldity and re- spectability, and will stand out distingzuishably, L'think, m Hoosier history as anc of its pureat opachs, ‘Ihe Cincinnat! Commsreial enjoyed its biting Irony-filngs ot Qov, ileudricks for sug- eestiug In one of his mcuugos bis Inteution to Proserve the comnity of the States ol the group of which Indlaua formed s part, That was funny in the Uovernor of peace, lut thu othor depurt- ments of the State (fovernment have not fured 80 well, unless it be the oflice of SUPERINTANDENT OF FUDLIC INSTRUCTION. Itiaa fact conceded by all well-informed pere rons, frrespective of party bias, thut the two Uemocratic Buperintendents, Piof. Hopkins }wlm dled at his post), und Jomes . Binart, the ncuimbent, proved to be wise selections; ana that the imvortant departmein uuder thelr care has steadlly advaucsd during the several years of thelr cuntrol. Prol. Sinart ls pecutiorly efil- clent oud successful. He (s devoted 1o the cause of popular education; was u popular educator prior to his eloction in 1874, and 'is so rental and agrecable a gentlemon that he wing hosts of fricnds everywhers throughout the Commonwealth. e 18 now a Commissioer to the Parls Expositfon, The best Intercsts of the State nu doubt_demand the overhauluys of the other oflices. 'The chiel ones of fuportauce ara to be lled ut the election next October, ‘These are: Becretary of Btate, Auditor of Statc, Treasurer of State, Attorney-(ieneral, Buper- futeuflent of Public lustruction, In the flrat and last of these, fuchiiclency rather than cor- ruptlon is the boue to be feared. 1 have alrcady Teforrod 1o the character of the oceupancy of the latter. 1 couldexpress but & popularsentiment were I to apeak with equal contidence In the fu. cambent of the forier offico~the Hon. John Euvos Nefl, nuw for four years Becretary of Btate. Mr. Nelt [s uot renominated. Prof. Hinart s, Having s pleasant personal acquuinte ancy with the [lon. Attorney-General Busktrk, who has now leld the position four years, and baviug some kuowledie, derived from respon- »lble sources, of the esthmation fo which tis pub- e services (n thavoillcy are held, § but reiterate un advised opiuivn wisen 1 aay he hias dons well. ‘The two oflices 1u the State which, by collu- sloy, can becomwo au sugean stable, sud need thorough cleansivg, are those of . AUDITOK AND TREASURBR. It {3 pot for 1ne 1o here comuient on the pres- ent conduct of thess Departments of the btate Government. Publlc rumor {s not alwsys cred- ftable. It {s a fact, however, well kuown tathe public, that, during & furmer occupancy of these offices by Democratic oflicials siuce 1868, o very stupendous bit of coul and caleulatiog ¥ job- bery ' was set up, aud by toe power of o *¢ Ring » as corrupt os Tweed's, composed of both Democrats aud Republicans, the Bchool Fuud of Indluna was mado to yield up ut least $50,000 fu spolls. The Houn. Jatues B. Ryau was shen Treasurer of Biate. He koows all sbout it, aud bas detailed the modus operandi 10 your currespoudent. He did vot sbare fu the spolls, but would hsve promptly m“m:fi;“ tuqcutne ol the couspirators by dispatcling th Pt Facts and Fancies Concerning of Indioations that the Republicans Will And that Thefr Ticket Will Do the Dest List of the Leading Oandidatos~Proba- miilion dollars or more (perhaps three-quarters) ta the varlous counties where It belonged but for the power of the consplrators to secure the nidd of a local conrt In thelr nefarlons schomes tion; will favor & protective tariff, denouuce Communism, and favor a system of arbitration In all questions hatween employers amd labors capeelally Amerlcans, 88 Continental shop- keepers are; and their swindle §a bigger and fy. finitely less graceful. The English have gy ers; will lokl Blee Jeans up to the | much'of a prerogative as other Europeans 1o of vlunder, Homedar this especial case of | yoorn and contompt of the public, de- overcharge and tell falschoouds in trade, bt pnunder 8 will aut " with @ vengesuce on the | clare his _Administration s fallure, &nd | they have not any more, and they certainly hoye hiead of the prime pernetrator. that the Democrats are responeible for [ noreason to condemn thelr niefghbors ncrney the humiliating noaition the State holds in the country; alao oppose with forvor the sweeping Introsduction of Hebel clalms before Congress, and denounce the sctlon of Rpeaker Randall In organizing the Cammittees of the United States Congrass " in the fnterests gnd under the control of the Houth and Southern men, Col. James A. Wikiman, former Auditor of Btate, thinks the splrit of the Convention will be mild and conclliatory toward the President, but will condemn_in umneasured terms the corruptions of the Democratic Honse of Repre- sentatives nt Washington, snd will denonuce bitterly the attempt of that body to disturb the peace and slowly raviving prosperity of the mum?. under the guiso of investigating alleged frauds committed in the election fn 1876, Col. W., who is over the Btate constantly, says, In his emphatlc manner: “three months ago, the Republicana werenot sanguine of success, Now, almost Hly aver the State they are full of hopeand enthusissm, The recent Democratic tactics have wined out our differences, and the party was never more thoroughly united than now.” . VRESIDENT OF TIE CONVENTION, Uen. Ben Harrlson fa talked of. He ‘does not make & very good presiding officer, and many are Jooking around for some other. It Is salil it Gen. Tom M, Browne, Coneress be here, the ** boys" would press him Into the rorvice, Browne makes a pretty good presiding officer. Others say that Judge Orth, of Lafa- yette, deserves Lhe hovor, If he will accept it, us an earnest of popular recognition of him since the trick or pursult by which he was induced to retire from Lhe ticket as candidate for Governor in 1876, Col. Ventch, of the * Pocket,” and Judge Gresham, United Statea District Judge, have also beon referred to, Col. Cumback, of Ureensburg, would do admirably. i CAMPAIGN COMMITTES. ‘Thoso who koow how much dopends on ‘' or- @anization” are ntereatiog themselves largely in the probable Chairman and Becretary of the Campaign Committee, Kar the Chairmanship, Col. John C. New, Iate United States Trean- wrer; Gen, Tom W. Donnett, of Richmond; the Hon, I, Clay Gooding, of Evanaville; Col. John A, Steln, of Lafayette; and Judgs Solo. mon Blair, of this city, have becn mentioned. Col. New's wide repuiation would be of great beneflt to the Committee. Col. Steln would eertainly make a capital, nctive Chairman; so, niso, Gen, Bennett. Perhapa Gooding would lmn{l! relinquish his fine law praceice; vot ho does, to attend legislative meet- fogs. Judga DBlalr Is out of the ?uuunn a8 wide-soread compjaint comes up rom all parts of the Btate about the “Indianapolis Ring" being all-potent in ma- nipuiating offalrs for themeaclves, The Etate- Ilouse Cominissfon fs cited as a frightful ex- ample. And the same_complaint concerning the Becretary Is heard, Pcoplo over the Stats ansert that thoy've had ennm‘h of managemont by Indianapolls upstarts. Elljah Hallord s an nsplrant for the Scerotaryship. It {s said by two leading Republicans {o me to-day (one of them from Evansville, the ottier from Logina. port) that Halford'a abllity to * retire” from Republican nowspapers wiil make his selection fatal. [owasformerly on tho Juter-Ocean, more recently on tho Journal here, from which ho ro- tired under pecullar clrcumstances not long ago. Clint C. Riley is alsv & candldate. 3.Q T ——— AT BAY, T was out with the littie ehlldren, ‘This mbraing, by the dooe; AL S And I entered Into tholr sports and plays 5 “I'ill the whola forencon was o * And tlien [ was busy working "Throughout the liva-lonz day, And an army of cares [ marshajod up . ‘To koop wy Sorrow at bay, - Then, after the day was ended, Andnight stole over tho Earth, Tsought tho brightest of Pleasure's courts, And drank to tho God of Mirth, 0O the mmiy hours went tripping by, And my langh mm‘wlm tho best, Till the plensure-sackers, ons by one, Dropped off in search of rest. Andnow, while tho ehildren slamber, And the hours of work are passod, And tha halls of Mirth are dark and cold, I faco my Sorrow at last. It comes to me hero ln my chamber, Liko n trusty page of Fat And says, **Yon cannot ca rom mel ‘We meet, though tho hour s late, *1 wiil sit with you here t11l morning, For wo have much to sa; Whila Labor slcops, and Plessars yawan And Care 12 out of the way. ‘Wao will fonst i the darkness gnlhcr. And drink, tili the ann doth shine, 1n o bitter bum‘ur of scalding toars, Ife—and ming, " And fio alone with my Sorrow T ait till the day shall break, And the sun shall usber labor In, And tho army of cares shall wake, Evua Wunstan, THE WASTED TALENT. 1f ho who thriftless hrought hia talont back Was doomed to hanishment and atter wo, \What torment ahall those soals forever rack That wastsd hoavenly treasures horo bolow! Abased bofore Thy throne, O Godi 1 lle, Oppresscd with shamo, transilzed with Sorrow's art; Ttremblis in the presence of Thine oyo. And drfx“d inat sentence stern, ‘*Dopartt de- parti® Tho stors Thon gavest me I flung away, ‘To counsel wise and procept guve no heed, Pursuing trifles epent cach precious day, » And sought for ploasures with nusated greed, Thae thonghtlesaly I squandered all Thy gifta, And, worst of afl, forsot the Giver kind. Oh! can that Power which gnrlflul. uplifts, Restore me to that ptace I left behind? ‘That wicked scrvant called Thoe **hard, anstere;" And this Thy Lavo resented more than all? Por prodigais retirned thera's pardon freo, Dat Judyments dire on hypocrites whall fall, Now, trusting, though with nmpl{ hands, 1 come; In rogs, emactate, 'Thy iave 1 plead. 1t Tohoun \unonlsyjuu, then were dumb: 4+ ly Son1*'—~31y Fathori] ‘hine tnaeed, Cuivauo, Moy 7, 1874, . Tlouax, ——a——— | Chitnf-Justice Chase's Falth, A Washingtun correspondent of the Cleveland (O.z Zlevald writess * Judgo Miller tu-day toliling And next week the i:re-r Republican party of the State nesembles in Btate Conventlon to nominate n Etato ticket. The conditlons are cntirely untike those under which the Democ- racy nolsily came hither some montns ago on corresponding errand. The latter party have plumed themselves on the past, and count A NOMINATION RQUIVALENT TO ELECTION, Hence, wilil contest for the nomination, bitter bickering prior to and during the convention's sittings, aml the uaunl criminations and re- (r!mlnnhnns as the pathetic sequel. At the convention of the unterrified In February there was a brigade of Lonafide, wrangling, earneat contestants for the several places, principally those of Secretary of Htato and Treasurer of 8tate, 1t had beap conceded over the Btate that the brave old War Democrat, ORN, MANILON D. MANSON, would be thelr nominea for State Auditor. His fithess, hir Integrity, and ahility were acknowl- eded ; and thus the real squabble was over the two ollicers specified. [t was a vigorous, but in the main a couricous contest, though there wero charges of somie surt on the tongua of Mme., Ruwmor concerning the canvass for the Treasurcrship nomination, carrled oft |I‘rvmlly by Mr. Flemming, a banker, of Fort Wayrne. lr{ no particular will this State Conveation of the Republicans next week bo a counterpart of the Democracy, except in namne. Therg ara no crazy,candidates for the nominations. I do not think this indlcates npathy in the party preelse- 1y; but leading Repubticaiis have sort o’ f"l out of the habit of being elected to State oflices in Hooslerdom: and not many court a camoalgn demanding thelr tnoney, time, and courage, with opposition calumny and loads of lfes hurl ed uvon '.xllmm, all just for'the novelty of the thing. ‘Therefore, while tho Conventlon will undoubt. edly be tull to vepletion, thera will he coolness, plnu(du; Lhe calmest of o sea calm prevalling. There will be no disposition to Intrigua as to candidates. From this fact alone I predict the nom{nation of 1he Channel for doing prectsely what they de themselves. THE COUNCIL. General Business at Last Evening's Special fesslon. ‘The Councll held a special meeting last even. evening, Ald. Tuley In the chair. ‘fho nbsenteey were Ald. Betdler, McNurnoy, Beaton Stauber, Benwelsthal, Wetterer, and Daly. Ald. Cary rose to n point of order, saying that the special meeting was not Pproverly called, there belng In the call no speclfication oy to the object. Ald. Ryan sold that he hod signed the call fop the meeting at tho request of Ald. Turner, and he had nothing in mind to do, bnt he thought that there was a way of gettiog around the obe jectlons of Ald. Cary. Ald, Cullerton sald that the charter proviston bad beencarrled out In the call for the meating, In his oploion. There waa o zood deal of un. finished business hefore tho Council, and he understood that it was intended to take a vaca. tion of s month very soon: henco it was da. nl'r:blu to have a spectal mesting now it pos sible. \ ‘The Chair (Ald. Tuley) decided that the point of “ordar was not well taken, but he thougnt that It was necessary, under tha charter, to giva a personal notice to each member of a specfal meeting. Ald. Cary moved to adjonrnin order to ex- amine Into the rules rearding thacall for special meetings. The vota toon ndjournmont was: Yeas—Tuley, Bollard, Cary, Phelps, Gilbers, Cook, Tawlelan, Knopf, Waldo, Jonas—10. Nays—~Pearaans, sandors, Mallory, Turnor, Lod. ding, Callerton, Itlordan, McNally, Oliver, Laws ler. 'Smyty, Klnznor, Throop, Thompson, Rysn, Niosen, Janxsens, McCaffray—18, A letrer was recelved from the Magistrate of thie Clty of Berlin nnu{glng the Council thut & copy of o work pnbilshed by the Suclety of Architects had been forwarded, The Clerk was fostructed to acknowledge thie compliment. A ropart from the Board of Public Worka wag rend, recommending the widening of West Eighteenth streot, nnd the laying of aldewalks on various other strects of the clzz. A raport wos read from the Committes on Prlg-llnry Bceliools, which was ordered to be ptaced on file. TNB DEST TICRET that party has had in_the fleld for many years, It they fafl In thie, under the favorable eircum- stances for such result, thelr wisdom must have departed nltogether. The extraordinary and exceptional coudition of the polities ot tha Re- public, in view ot the * Pottah Pian * of fixing things in Florida and Loulsiana, and the proba- billties, and the graver Dnlllbl‘l“e!. will canse an assemblage hero of all the * lavel heads ' of the leading Republicans of the State. It will be more than a Convention to nominate a Btatg ticket, and exudu one of thuse monatrosi- tles 6 incaningless platitudes siyled a * plat- form.” It will be o counseling together for the urpose of reaching the best methodsof achiev- ng present success, and guarding ui]nlunl. appros hended lulurucmcr)feucy. No doubt there is a goud deal of the fealing abroad such as warned the people in the winter of 1860-'81. It may be preposterous and grroundless, but its existenco 1s indicated distinctly. As many hundreds of your readers in Indinna may desiro to know the arrangements for Lrans- portation to Indiauapolls, I here incorporate tho rates agreed on by the rallways: v Panhandle Rontes, including the Indianapolis & Vincennes—Fonr conts por milo ono way; tickets good froin 4th to 7th, incinalve, Indianaoolis, Bloomington & Westarn—Samae. as sbove: delegates to be furnished certlicates, Ronnd-trip tickets will be placed on sale at Cov. ington and Crawfordsvillo on the 4th and 5th, good to retarn on ttn, at four cents per mils ono way, 10_be zold to all dealring to sttond the Convention, Tadianapolis, Cincinnattl & l.nhyma-Dulernle-. presenting credentials ot |lckot-ofticas, suppilea ot ;mn) and ona-fth fare; tickots good from 3d to tth, inclnsive, Loutsville, New Albany & Chlcogo—One fara ronny lrlp;t'(ood from 3d to7th, Inclusive, Moturn- tickets to bs indorsed by Chalrman Ttepudlican Stato Central Committes. Kol Rivor Kailrond—Hound-trip tickota at ona and one-fifth faro: good from 3d to Gth, inclnsive. Jeflersonvitle, Mudison & Indisnapolls—One full zarr h:r round trlp; tickets good from 34 te Uth, inclusive. zansport, Crawfordaville & Sonthwestern—Ono and nns-&nh fare for round trip; tickets good from 9d to Uth, Inclualve, Evansvillo & Terre Hante Railroad—Ogne full lm? n:r round trip; tickets good from 3d to Gth, ncinatva. Indlanapolls, Porn & Chicago~One fall faro for round trip; tickots good from :id to Uth, Incluslve. Clncinnatl, Wnabaath & Alichigan—Round trlo tickels at two centa por mile (circular); good from 4th to Gth, inclusive. Cleveland, Columbns, Cincinnati & Indianspolie —Hound-trip tickets at two cents per mile (clrcu- lar); good from +th to Oth, (aclualve. i"nu Wayne, Muacle & Cincinonti—Tound-trip tickets for ‘one faro; goud frum Id to Gth, faclu sive, Fort Wayne, Jackson & Saginnw—Rounad-trip ticketa two cents per milo (ctrealar), to be solil on tho 4th and Sth, and good to return until the 8th, Toledo, Wabash & Western—Itound-trip tickota from 20 (o £5 per cent disconnt frum rogular ratos; &ood from 4th to Gth, Inclusiso, Indianapolls & £t, Louls~11alf fara; good from 3d 1o Oth, incluslve. Ohlo & Miasissippl—Ticksts two and threo- fourth conts per mile (circuiar) : gaod untll used, Terre Maute & Indianavolls (Vandalla Line)— Ruund-trip tickets for ans fure; good from 4th to Uth. inclustve, Urand Ropids & Inllana and Cincinnati, Rich. mond & Fart Wayne—Round-trip ticketa at nsual roduced rates; good from 4th to 7th, Incluaivoe. WIIO ARE TIIE CANDIDATES] 1s a question that interests many. I have talten puinad to sccure o full Mat, from direct sources, of those who have been mentioued in connec- tlon with the several pluces, and prosent thom as they appear on my liat, ivioe address and occupation, so far as obtalnable: FOR BECRETARY OF BTATE. A. J. Castollor, Latayottoe, one-lezzedisoldler, and now Auditor of the Lalayctte, Blooming- ton & Munclo Rallroad; Cupt. Warner, Evans- ville, ono-armed soidier, and for some yeora cone nected with the Post-Ofllco thero; Col, Phillips, editor and proprictor of the Kokomo Zribuns; und Tom J, Trusler, Indlanapolls, attorney-ot- law, and formerly Deputy Sccretary of Btate. FOR AUDITOR OF* ATATH, Col, A. O, Miller, Lebanon, uow Clerk of tho Clrcuit Court; (ien, Mjlo S. Haskell, Goshen, banker, ngraduats of West Point; Col. W, W. Dudley, _Hichmond, one-lezged " soldler and banker; Col. Ed Wolfe, Rushville, sorved two terma as County Auditor, and now a merchaut Col, Ira B. Myers, Poruo, ex-County Treasurer, naw real-estato agent, FOK TIREABURER OF KTATE. Ma}. Georgzo Herriot, Franklln, pork-packer, and was the candidate in 1870 for same afllcs} Gen. Lazarus Noble, Vincennes, prominently conpected with the State Government during the War; Col, Ensign lxennu!t[.‘ Michizan City, ACHOOLS. ‘The samo Cemmitieo reported concerning tho order that the appropriation for a school-house at the corncr of Wallace and Thirty-ilrst atreets bo transferred to the house ot the corner of Wabash avenue and Edu strect, advising that the change be made. All. Cullerton sald that If the Couneil had the right to clinnge the appropriation in tho manner sct forth, 1t had a right to change other appropriationa T1e moved that the report bo referred to the Committee un Judlelary, Ald, Glibert clalmeid that the proposed trans- fer would not be a change of apprupriations. 1d. Paarsons sald that tho power to change tho location of scliools was in the hands of tho Board of Educatlon, and the Council had nothing to do with it ‘The report was referrod, A roport from the Committes of Schools, tacommending that a rosolution to the Citlzens! Union, regarding the providing of Incraased school accommodations, bo placed on file, wyas concurred |o, T, BANITARY, The Committeo on flealth and County Rela- tions advised that the matter of the Ogden Ditch be referred to the Mayor for consultation, 8o orderod. A report from the Committee on Health anq County Relatlon, agrecing with a petition of «itizons againat the orection of a brick-yard near Cisbourn Place Drldae, was recommitted to tho Commlttee, Tho Committco on Iicenses roported an amendment to 8cc. 1 of Chap. 54, vroviding for lcousing buggles and hacks lired from llvery stablos. The raport waas recommitted, TNE WATER-TAX. The Committee on Fire and Water, after con- sldering a potition asking for a reduction In ‘water rates, recommendod that It bo consldered by 8 special committoe, Ald. Glibert moved that tho Chalr appolnt & a'spoclal committoo for that purpose. 1d. Cullerton thourkt au injustice was bein; done. Nearly $100,000 of the clvy's maney pmfi ‘in by water consumers was nvested {n water- tucters, The wnolo subject of the collection of water rates needed overhauling, The people wero nvlnimo éamo rates as during war thines, Al Cook saw soma Injustice. ‘Fne man wno had a meter pald in provortlon hardly o guarter a8 much aa bie who pald by the tront. Al Jooos fntroduced a serles of resolutlons providinz for 8 committes of threo for the same nnrvunn a8 abore, Ald, Cullerton rolated o cass whero & poor man had to pay 819 n“renr for a amall cabin, while tho Superintendent patd only §1.50. Tho »latter bad a inetor, S Ald. Pearsons wanted the Committee, (£ ap- polnted, to examine Into thy expunsus of the torka and sec 1f thiev could uot bo cut down. il Al Livan was oropared to show that ths cn.yl #ufued and did not lose by thu uso of waters meters. Ald, Bmyth thought that the usoof the meter caused a loss to the city. Ald. Gilbert muved o committee ot five to revisa the water rates and to reorganizo tho Water Department. Adopted. Tho Commiyes was appalnted, ns follows: tilbert, Cullerton, Cook, ityan, aud Jonus, JUIANNA REARDON. ‘Tha Committca un Financo reported, recoms mondlug_that the resolution to pay $300 to Johanna Reuardon for removing from’ lier prems fscs on Ellzabeth atrect bo placed on Mle. Ald. Cullerton moved to place tho report on fllo, and to pass the resvlution. Thia was acase as was a case. ‘Tho city had been trying for tweuty years to dispossess Johanna in order to vnill a visduct aver her property, 8he bad tho law un her alde, apparently, and a falr compuns sution abonld be readered to her, Ald, Rawlefeh thought ft was utuhlhhln’z a wronr prevedent to pay # aquatter for moving olf from tho city's property, Al Tuley offercd an amendment to pay Mra, Iliordan $800 out of the Contingent Fuud, or, U that were Iinpussible, to place that amount In the appropriation fur nest year, winfug; Prof. Augustus D, Lyneh, Indlanap- | an Interesting fact in relation to the Inte Chilef- ;e gllshllul'o Cl:uhlu‘r 1;'"," Nl“llxum;: l;n;lk A:i Sh'ul- .gn;um D(E)l‘ ul'v J:L 'hf.‘;‘:'f,f,’r.‘,‘,i,‘“h ‘;Vl‘llh mm‘ '-: :,:‘:‘ 1‘3:;‘:;!:: ::::fl:d:::;; ‘;':,.: N yville, and now Natlonal Bank Examiner for gewouid on! oal h (7 3 ) Indiana: and Judzo i, Taylor, Fort Wayno, | Chist-Justica expresséu himsell as u firm be- | K013 Turaer, """‘""‘g Callerton, Itiordan, Ac Nally, Oliver, 'Lawler, 8myth, Elsznar, Ity sun, Wotteror, Janssens, dicCaflroy, Jona: Nays—Doardons, Bailard, Cook, Throop, Hiwe leigh, Thompson, Knopf, Waldo—8. ‘The order was then _smu--l usamended by the sumo vots us above—23 to 8, Ald. Sanders was, on wmutlon, addsd to the Comunlttoe on Revision of the Water Rates. WATER TANK, . The Committee on Firs and Water reported recommending the passtog of an ordinance pre- scriblog the aize and coustruction of waters tanks in bulldings. 'Tho roport was concurred l‘g Ih & vote of 20 Lo 4—~Cook, Throop, Nicucn, aldo. Ald, Thompson moved to suspend the rules In order to Introduce a resolution umbnd\'% an ordinance suthorizing the tranafer of $75, {row the credit of the water-income accouut to the crodit of the water-extension account. ‘The rules were suspended by a vote of 30 te B—Tuley, Banders, Cary, Phelps, Kiszuer. The ordinance waa referrud 10 tho Committeo on Firc and Water. A matlon was made to suspend tho rules fo order to Introdace & resolution requesting the Department of Public Works tu inforw tha Council whether leave had becn given to all the street-car companies to pave tho streets bo- twecn thelr tracks with cobblestone pavement. ‘Fho vote on tho suspension of the rules wias as follows: Yeas—Tully, Taruer, Lodalng, Cullerton, Mec- Nally, Gliver, 'Lawler Smyth, 'c.m, Thumpson, 'l'(nnp'. jyad, Nelden, Jadssons,’ MeCalroy, onas—16. Nuye—P'carsons, Tuley, Dallard, Sanders, Cary, Phelps, Gllbert. Mallory, Rtiordan, Throop, Raws leigh. Waldo, Wetterer =13, Two-thirds not vn!lnF Ia ths sflirmative, the rules wero not suspended. The Comnmittee on Markets reported recom- mending the gruuting ol a petitlon for the vatablisbrment of @ market ou North aveuue. On motion ot Ald. Waldo, the repors was roe comunitted. X Yhe Committe on Streets and’ Alleys report~ ed, maklug no recomnmendation regarding tho on{:lxfllu: chaoging the fre llwita heretofors ublished. L Ald. Luwler movod to refer the watter to the Committec on Fire sud Water, aud It was s0 ordered. Ald. Cary moved to adjourn, aud |4 was 80 luwyer, who escaved belng elocted to Congress by “the skin of his tecth {n thst Democratic stronghold a few years azo, YOI ATTONNBY-QENERAL, The ITon, H. l,‘hf Gooding, Evansville, late Htote Benator, and Itepublivan Domince for Congress the last or preceding campaien, prome nent lawyer; Gen, Bilss_ Colgrove, Winchester, lawyer and ex-Tudge; Gen, Tam W. Beanett, Richmond, Mayor, and ex-Governor of an Congressionsi Delegate from Idaho; Maj. 3, Bundy, New Castle, lawyer; J. Btott, law- yer, Yrincoton, YOR SUPEXINTANDENT PUDLIC SCHOOLS. Prof. Barnabas [lobbs, Rockyitlo, once incum. bent of tha oflice, and Prof. Bloss, Evausville, candidate fur same Humlnn LWO yoars ugo. 1t will bo conceded that the forest of avallable candldate-timber s lurge enough from which to cull chiolen material, Much diversity of opinfon provalls as to what the Conveation will fncorporate (o THE PLATFORN, Of course}thers arc certaln sterrotyped gen. erulitles, sometimes of a very glittering and trunsparent nature, which, as van be imogined b( &y one, will appear, Tu tat particular, one plal liever In tho fnspiration of the Bible and the plan of ealvation us taught by the Suvior. 1la waid thot early {n bis wiauhood he had brought to tho examiuation of the Beriptures wll the wors of his mind, and carsfully read sl the r:ndlnz arguments lor and against the truth of thosa Beriptures; that hie had deliberately mads up his mind that the Hible ‘was the word of Giod, a divine revelation to man, and he had never in o long ife wavered In Sis bellef, treated the subject aw he wouli \]qumlnn of law, and haviug carefully and :. ly exumined the aubject, and settied {t in lils vwn mind, that part of tho luw became to him as un axlom not 0 be disputed or departed from, 1 was inter- asted In hearlng Judics Miller detul] at longth this conversatiun, as {t contirmed fo tho fulless manner what the Chief-Justico had often sald and written to me. I belleva the Chief-Tustive dled without s leellnfi of enmity toward any mau, and fu the contldent Lopo of the Chris tian's future.” o ———— Damocratic Editors and Orosw, Neto York Trivuna, What fs tte mysterlous power which compels the average Democratie editor to sit down to an ¢normuus dish of crow with & bewltching smile on his faco and a declaration of ravishlug de- Uight in the meal on his Jipsi It 1s tho greatest curlosity in American polltics. A weck sgo eminont Democratic journals in the West ane Bouth were outspoken Injtheir condemnatlon of the Yotter movement. Theywere sure it would ruln the party, injure tho business intercsts of the country, and Lenefit nobody but Mr. Titden, Within aday ortwo thess same journals bave turned squarely shout sud are now ablo to see nothing but wisdom fu the same movement, “'nev are sure nothing could be so bad for the country as uvexposed fraud, and they are will- fng to” have It dugout utany cost.” The per- forinance displays great versatility of couvie- tion, but it must bo confusing to'the readors. An exdlaoation offhow it is done would be most. interesting, and thero a nrco twojeditors iu the country more mmfieuut to furnish one thun Mr, Wattcrson, of Keutucky, and the editor of the Charleston News and Courler, Lwow it is the:mnsolves. tlorm {s but the twin of another, Tut on lhu finauce queation (a littlotickliah n Tnaiaua), und ou the Admiuistration, and eapeclally Hayes' Southern policy, there are doubts amd supreme uucertaintics as to the precise shading 1o be given. 1 have conversed with waoy leading Repub- MNeans, hoth of thiscity and from other parts ol the gtate, and flnd that on detalls thelr views coustltute a real olla podrida. But on‘the three or four vital points, oplulun, su far es [ nnvulcunvuml it, concentrates pretty thore oughly. Judie Il C. Newcowb, condidate for Judge of the Bupreine Court Jast campaigu on the Re- publlcan ticket, and for mouy years leadlog political editor ol the Junrnal of ihis dl{, and this yrar cundidate oo the Republican ticket for re-clection to tha SBuperlor Court, thinks thas tue platform will deal mildly with tbe Admin- frtration, speak in termns of respect of the President de sucto, and givo bim a soud-off about like the Vermont platform did. He also thinks that the Conventlion will express the optnion that finauclal matters aro now in & #plendid conditlon to be ‘They know Freach sud Euglish Swindilng. New York Times, LET ALOXE, A numbar of the English newspapers are | ordercd by'10 ta 14, sluce the passage the other day of the bill pro- | complaiving bitterly of the bigh prices sud ex- s s s libiting further contruction of the greenback | tortions alread, Jef¥ Davls, charged sud practived upon forefzuers who have vgnnu Puristo attend ‘:.‘:us Exposition. Undoubtedly there is cause for this,—the French are not slow to drive over- vurrenicy; atd thut it wiit say, ** Now, bands off Ul resumption. On State watters o sava the Convention bas nothing to do but iguore them, Mr. Jeferson Davis bus just reccived s naf- went in the Missssippl Court of Appeals o {avur ol his claim to_the plautation of Bricrs- und nolklog whatever agalast tho Blue | shrewd bargalus whenever opportuuity pro- | icld, fu that State. This is the estate to which Jeans Goveruor, seuts,—but we venture Lo assert that there is | his wealtby clder brotuer tnvited him when be Col. Will R. Holloway, Postmaater here, {8 of | not much more disposition to take advantage of | wmarrled toe daugbter of Gen, ‘Taylor, and re- oplulon that the Couvention will ** resoloot ' (o strangers {u Parls gow than there §s In London | slgned hls commission in tho aumy. e mau- favor of such leglsiation as will mske gold, stagy tlne. ‘The Britlsh metropolls haa lost | wzed tho plantation so well thay Lo acquired o ver. aud giceubacks equaland keep them so; | the reputation it onee bad for fair deallug, aud | competence, and seimbursed bls brother the full will sustaln Haycs’ title, assert hls integrity, | yery cacrvedly. Its ordinary shopkeepera are | value of the vlace. Tho decision will tako sl sud iu geuersl teria ladorse bis Adwlaistra- | sbout as much facliued to swiudle sbrangery, | feas of poverty from Liw,