" " - . - .
KE. Editor and Publisher.
"HE IS A FREEMAN WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE.
Terms, S2 per year, .In advance.
THE X.
EBENSBURG, PA., FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1876.
NUMBER 25.
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J. A.GATKS.
VI wL' vvsb, f p. Clerk. 8S0.-3t.
lYEirKXT showing the financial
i'lva tf Ui.ito Township School
'it :hi y-.ar nnhug Juue J 9, lcTd:
I)H.
'u fro:n Collector lit last sct-
J, 075.45
.1 iue troiii Treasurer nt last
-in... 295.44
f-tr.i-i rstHl. (if f). Vmmir-ln 9 3(1
tr Iiupiicatu fur School 1.610.46
Isuiluuijr i'JO 73
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I'f 7rc.iurr paid..
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Trn;'jr(r llHror. .. Jf 03
OEU'ipaiii.jrijtrs 877.43 B7&.44
1 3 faTr of the District W.05
J 1 u at 1 - Au.litors.
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f lH'S ,t EXPENDITUIIES
Mi.. 1 District of Kl-ii!-burg
'r tuv y. ar cti-lhiif June 1st, l(j7U :
la.
of Treasurer at lat
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fI'u; i;.;at.- fr 74-buildiiijj
t-u laiat.ria Twp. lur
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r-i't and r, ,l:i.;r, 87
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Er n- JONES, Presl lcnU
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JKMENT of the accounts of
V i i';:T':."r of Tax, Treasurer of Ttor-
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wni.iSe on cullcctiun 24.77
530.84
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fr-.m Collector 4.00
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late Treasurer. .. 7.58
herders canccllo-l...
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lr?1W hands 21.91
f il''?:'": S:'!"M, Treasurer, Dr"
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A,L,t.2-itLLtv
. KVc.MKK. 5 Auditor.
Sent
.-3t.1
MAKE WAY
for The
Mm a!i Store
IIECENTLY OPENED BY
nivurn
Tl
& C03IPANY,
AND TO WHICH
Everybody is Rushing
. IN QUEST OF
SUCH AS ARE OFFERED IN THE FOLLOWING
LIST of CASH PEICES,
never equalled in tbia community :
JJest Print, 6, 7 and 8 cents per yard.
Muslins from G to 12J ccnls per yaid.
llesi (linrjlmms at 124 cents per yard.
Jiest rta nnels (nil wool) at 30 cents.
Jiest CfiLiimcres (all woollOOc. to$1.12.
Jlct PI our, $7.50 and .?7.?5 per barrel.
Jiest White Siffar, 10 lbs. for $ 1.00.
Jiest Jiroim Sugar, II lbs. for $1.00.
Jiest Jlio Coff ee, 4 lbs. for $1.00,
flood CoJ've at 23 cents jer pound.
J'rime Hyrups at 80c. to 1 per gallon.
ANI EVEKYTHIJfO ELSE
AT PRICES EQUALLY CHEAP.
?Wo rrnnufiicture onr own Flannels and Cns-flim-rej,
which we warrant nil wool nud positively
Fell at manufacturers' prices, (foods exclianifud
for wool. rKVi't, HAXTKR, JONES it CO.
Ebensburic, June 23, 137d.-tf.
ALL-WOOL
FLANNELS,
YVItrfs?, lite.
"IITE take, pleasure In announcing to the puhlle
that tfie WOOI.KN MIIL, recently owned
1-y Messrs. T. t. Jones Son. and lately honirht
by u.-, has been tliorouglily relitted throughout by
adding
SEW MIHSERY AM) STEAM TOWER,
and by enlaririnx our bui! litiir. We have spared
no expense to fli up our .Mill with the best of ma
chinery, ami can cenfiden' !y recommend our Cis
siiueres,. Flannels. Iiljiikets, &.C., as beinn equal
In Etyle and tiniHli to any brouirht from the luiist
ern markets. Our goods are guaranteed
ALL WOOL, and No ShodJy or Coiton
used In any shape. Our prices ftro
XZn I oi Cent. Iower
THAN KTCR EEPORK OFFESED.
CU.STOM WORK
entrusted to us will receive special attention, and
at prices to suit the times.
-.Ask your merchant fr Ebensbursr Cassl
meres, and if he has none send to us for sauiples
by mail, or cull at our Mill.
TERMS-CASH.
Goods Exchanged for Wool,
Ebensbiirg Woolen Go.
Ebcnsburg, Juno , 1376.-tf.
1 X ANC I A L HE VO RT of Ci Ie
Township Scliocl District for tbe year
endiny June, li78 :
P. SI. IJsoww, Treasurer, Dr.
To balance at list settlement $ 61.77
" casli rc.U of A. H. Fenrod 2.00
' Stte appropriation 131 2S
" cash of A. II. Penrol 3X0
" E. Paul. Colleitor 071.'0
" L. lioyle..
1U3.30
(1,353.85
Or.
By am"t of orders cancelled $1,251.75
cash returned to I. Hoyle.. 30
" Tieasuicr's per cent 7.071.1,279 12
Balance In Treasurer'' hands....
4 74.73
"We, the undernamed Auditors of Croyle Town
ship, d report that we have examined the above
aceonntsot the Treasurer of ('ummon Schools and
nnd them correet, as above stated. Witness our
hands, the 3d day of June, ls'.t.
J AS. A. SKKM.EY, )
J I IS. V. l'lilNHLK. Auditors.
AV M. F. Mel t ,N N ELL. )
Attest N. S. Ueorok, Clerk.
DMINISTRATOPw'S NOTICE.
Estate of Joseph Herschell, decM.
Notice Is hereby given that letters ot adminis
tration, rn ielamt-tn ci acjio 011 the tuie of
Joseph Ilemehell, late n? Cairoll township, ilc
ceasert, have been srrauced to tbe underpinned.
AH jicrsons Indebted to said estate are notided
to make prompt payment. nnd Ihonelu'vidft-claima
aifAint it ere requested to preheat tiie saiuo duly
authenticated f-r settlement.
JACOB Y EAtiI.EY, AanX
Carroll'T'wp., June 2, lf76.-t.
EXECUTOR'S NOTICE.
Estate of Anthony Mohler, 1pcM.
Letters testamentary on the estate of Anthony
Mohler. l;te of Uarr township, l ambrla coun'.y,
deceased, have been srranted to the undei signed.
residing In said township, to wrioin an persons in
debted to said estate are requested to ninke im
mediate payment, and those having claims will
present them properly authenticated lor settle
ment. JOHN friOISSONO. Sr., I Ecutors.
JULIAN AlOHLEU, tecutors.
Barr Twp., J une 2, lh76.-6t.
GENTS WANTED IN EVERY
TOWN AND COUNTY for a neat lit
tle volume containing the Ii:rt,AR.Tiow r l!T
ikpesi)Icn K, with nuintfraphs and correct liko.
ncsses of all the signers ; also the houe in which
the Heclaratlon was written, the State House In
1776, Carpenter's HalL and the old Liberty Hell ;
20 pp. Simple .py, lost -paid, 10 cent. Agents
can make 45 per liiy easfly with this little work.
Send for sample copy and circular to Hakcock
Pcb. CO., 30 N. 5th St., Philadelphia. 6-ltt.-3t.
DMINISTRATION NOTICE.
Estate of IticiiARn Sanderson, decM.
letters of administration on tho estate of Rich
ard Sanderson, late of Conemanah borourh, 1e
etfnseil, having been Kra nted to the nnderstune.l,
all persons indebted to said estate nio reyu.-sied
to make prompt payment, mid t hose linvint? claims
aKAiiii-t the same will present them pnlcr!y au
thenticated for settlement
J. II. HITE, Administrator,
June 2, 1876.-6t.
N
OTICE. The account of John
A. ni.iir. Run., nssifftiee of Owen Cun
ningham, was filed in the Prothonotnry s Offlce
of Cambria county, on the 14th day of Juno, A. II.
1876, and will be approved by the lourt of Common
Pleas and confirmed at an Argument Court to be
held at F.ltciishursr, on Thursday, aotli July next,
if no sufficient reaon be shown to the contrary.
H. McCOLtlAN. Prothonotary.
Protbou"tary'4 Olilcc, Ebeniiburg, Juue 19, 1S76.
TIIE CANDIDATES AND TIIE PLATFORM. !
Pen Portraits f the Democrat! Nom
ine o, ai Drawn by the New York
Tribune, a Republican Payer.
SAMUEL J. TILDEN.
Gov. Samnel J. Tildcn. tho Democratic
candidate for President, was born at New !
Lebanon, Columbia county, New York, !
March 15, 1814, near the close of tlio last !
war with England, and is a descendant of ;
the best Puritan stock. Ouo of hisances-i
tors, Nathaniel Tildcn, was Mayor of the
City of Teuterdeu, Kent, in 1623. He was !
succeeded iu that office by his cousin John,
as ho had.been preceded by his uncle Job u in
1583 and 1600. In 1G3-L with nine other
gentlemen of Kent, Nathaniel sailed for
America in the ship Aun, and was one of
tho founders of the town of Scituate, JIass.
His wife was Hannah Bourne, one of
whose sisters married a brother of Gov.
Wiuslow, and another a son of Gov. Brad
ford. His brother Joseph Tilden was one
of tho consignors of the May Flower, and
among his associates was Timothy Hather
by, who afterward married the widow of
Nathaniel, aud was a leading citizen of
Scituate until expelled from public life for
refusing to persecute the Quakers. Gov.
Tilden's grandfather, John Tilden, came
from Connecticut iu 17'JO, and settled in
Columbia county, N. Y., since then tho
residence of this branch of the family.
His father was a farmer and merchant of
New Lebanon, and a man of great natural
ability and sound practical sense. His
mother was descended from Wm. Jones,
Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of New
Haven. When Samuel was fitted to enter
Yalo Collego his father had already become
a prominent man in his county, and was
the correspondent aud intimate friend of
Silas Wright, Martin Vau Buren, Michael
Holl'man, the Livingstons, Win. L. Maicy,
and other leading politicians of that day.
By these associations young Tilden was in
spired to become a student of the great
questions of government and political af
fairs. At the uge of 13 he was prepared
for college. In tho campaign of that year,
which resulted in the re-election of Presi
dent Jackson, there wasa coalition Itetwcen
the National ltepublicans and the Anti-
Masons. The success of the Democratic
.uasons. x u u ui .uiwiaue t,,e contlX)iing features of his administia
party depended on the breaking of this tionAdmintst rativc Reform , and the res-
coalition, loung I uuen, who baa even
then mastered the leading questions of
government, quietly wrote an analysis of
the political situation, showing that there
could bo no honest alliance. It was pub
lished in tho Albauy Argua, and at once
attributed to tho pen of Martin Vau Buren,
tho Democratic candidate lor V ico l 'resi
dent. This was of course denied in self- J
defense, aud when the real author was dis-
covered, it brought him at once into full j
fellowship with all his father's distinguish- i
c.d friends. Iu gave him high rank among !
the seniors of the party, which he held for !
a period of twenty years, until the death of ;
Dean Richmond, when he became its :
leader.
Two years later he entered Yalo College,
a year iu advance oi me noted ciass in ,
which were Y m. M. Lvarts, Chief Justice .
ot tbe noted class
Waite, Judge Pierrepout, ana Profs. Lyman
and Sillimau. Hero he became proficient
in all branches, but continued his studies
with such close application that be was
obliged to leave college before completing
his course. His health seemed irretrievably
gone, aud he was takeu home by his fath
er, without any idea of returning. After
some rest and suitable treatment, however,
he so far recovered his health as to bo able
to make several speeches in tho Fall upon
Gen. Jackson's great contest with tbe
Bank of the United States. In 1834 he
entered the University of New York, where i
ho completed his academic education, lie
then entered the law office of tbe late Judge
John W. Edmonds, in this city, whero be
enjoyed peculiar facilities for tbe prosecu
tion of his favorite studies of law aud
politics. The accession of Martin Vau
Buren to tho Presidency in 1837 was fol
lowed by the most trying financial revulsion
that had yet occurred in our history. Dur
ing Mr. Tilden's summer vacation at the
University, the President issued a message
callinc for a special session of Cougress and
reconfmending the separation of the Gov
ernment from tho Treasury,- and tho crea
tion of a fiscal system known as tho Inde
pendent Treasury. This measure provoked
a voluminous and acrimonious debate
throughout the country. In September a
series of papers, signed "Marshall," ap
peared in tho Albany Argux, contesting
the wisdom of the President's recommenda
tions, and inviting resistance to their adop
tion. Mr. Tilden defended the President's
policy in a scries of articles signed "Crino,"
which were for a long time attributed to
the pen of Esek Cfowen, then ono of the
J ust ices of the Supreme Court of tho State.
His speech in reply to Senator Talmadgo
in the fall of 1833 also added to his grow-
ing fame as a public debator.
Upon his admission to tho bar, Mr. Til
den opened an ollico in Pino st., which will
long be remembered as a favorite resort for
the leading Democrats. Iu 1844.he fouuded,
iu connection with John L. O'Sullivan, a
newspaper called the Daily Jtow. Tho
journal was a success, and had great in
llucnco in the Presidential campaign. Af
tor the election Mr. Tilden presented his
entire iutcrest iu the property to his col
league. In 1840 Mr. Tilden was returned
from this city as a member of the Assem
bly and also as a member of tho Constitu
tional Convention. In all the more imiort
ant discussions in the two revisions of tho
State Constitution of 1846 and 1807 Mr.
Tilden bore a conspicuous part. About
this time (1847) various circumstances re
sulted iu Mr. Tilden's partial withdrawal
from politics. "Ho devoted himself to his
profession, and it was not many years bo
fore ho became as well known at the bar as
bo bad before been known as a politician.
He inherited no fortuuo, and his labors Tor
tho State and in his profession had not thus
far been lucrative. From 1857 until 1869
lxilitics was not allowed to interfere with
his professional duties. During this period
his was nearly or quite the largest and
most lucrative practice in the country con
ducted by any tingle lawyer. His name is
imperishably associated with some of the
most remarkable forensic struggles cvf our
lime. His connection with the Bnrdell
Cunninghain case will be remembered.
More than half the railroad enterprises of
tho West, north of the Ohio and between
tho Hudson and Missouri Rivers, duriug
tho last twenty years have, in one way or
another, stood in the relation of clientage
to Mr. Tildcn. He had also in this long
period made a tlioiougU study of all tho
relations of both canals and railroads to the
interests of the people and the State.
During tbe bight of the power of the
Tweed Ring in 18G9 an effort was made to
supersede him as the head of the Stato
Committee, to which he had succeeded on
the death of Dean Richmond. lie accepted
tho contest, and was sustained by nearly
seven-eighths of the Convention. Early in
1870 began the celebrated controversy con
cerning the new charter of the City of New
York. Although standing well nigh alone,
Mr. Tilden went to Albany, and on April
15, 1870, made a speech in scathing denun
ciation of the charter which restored tho
Tweed dynasty to power, not by the vote
of tho people, but by the Legislature.
Bribery, however, had been so successfully
carried on that the bill passed almost unan
imously, and under it tho notorious $6,
000,000 robbery occurred. In 1S71 he led
tho revolt of 40,000 Democrats against the
King, and openly announced to the Demo
cratic State Convention that ho should op
pose the Tweed nominees, and endeavor to
crush their power in tho legislative bodies
of the State. He further declared that if
this were considered irregular be would
resign his chairmanship of the State Com
mittee aud, going among his plundered
fellow-citizens, make common cause with
them for emancipation. That autumn he
was elected to tho Assembly for the ex
press purpose of purifying tho judiciary.
His success in that direction is too well
kuown to be dwelt upon here. By his
famous analysis of tho accounts of the
Broadway Bauk, and similar investiga
tions, he furnished all the judicial evidence
by which tbe suits against the King could
be maintained. After his arduous labors
in this cause, Mr. Tilden made a short visit
to Europe in 1873, his only extended vaca
tion for a score of years.
By his bold acts against tho Ring, Mr.
Tildcn made himself prominent in the work
of Reform, and in 1874 was1 strongly urged
to accept the Democratic nomination for
Governor. Feeling that whatever might
bo tho result of his administration, tho
moral effect of his election would be ad
vantageous to tho Stato and country, ho
consented to become a candidate. Ho was
elected over Gov. John A. Dix Rep.) and
Morgan II. Clark (Temp.) by a majority
of 38,549, out of a total vote of 794,233.
His first message atstinctly foreshadowed
toratiou of the liuancial principles which
triumphed in the election of Jackson and
Vau Buren. His war upon tho Canal Ring
and his efforts to secure a reduction in
State taxes were so successful aud so con
Mslent with the pledges made duriug Lis
canvass that in tho election of 1875 the can
didates identified with his policy were tri
umphantly elected. Till the war came
Gov. Tilden made every eflort to avert it,
btit when I: is efforts failed his path of duty
was pei fecily decided and clear. It was to
maintain the integrity of our territory and
the supremacy of the constitutional author
ities. When Mr. Lincoln made his first
call for 75,000 troops he maintained that
he should have called out 500,000. In the
1 Convention of 1864 he insisted that tbe
re8to..atiun of tbe Union xvas the only possi
, ,lf an arinistracut between tin
ble basis of an adjustment between, the
t North and South.
Mr. Tilden is a bachelor, and a man of
cultivated literary and artistic tastes. His
; law library is excelled by none in this city,
and ho also possesses a rare collection of
j books on political economy aud finance and
in general literature. Ho preserves his
! health by frequent out-door exercise, and
j is often seen in tbe Park on horseback or
. behind his well known roadsters. He is
i now in his C3d year, is five feet ten inches
I in bight aud has what is called tho purely
nervous temperament, with its usual ac
companiment of spare figure, bine eyes, and
fair complexion. II is hair, originally chest
nut, is now partially silvered by age.
THOMAS A. HENDKICKS.
Thomas Andrews Hendricks, present
Governor of Indiana, who was nominated
yesterday for Vice-President of the United
States by the Democratic party in conven
tion at St. Louis, has been for many years
one of the best-known and most popular
men in his party in the Western States,
He has been long in public life having be
gun his career as a member of the Indiana
State Legislature in 1S48 ; tho frequent
contestant with Mr. Morton for the honors
which his State could bestow, his political
life has been marked by defeats as well as
successes : once failing of ar. election to
the office of Governor, he again succeeded
in winning it : and though a member of
Congress for many years, being for a long
time the acknowledged leader of tbe Dem
ocracy in the lower House, be was thrice
a defeated candidate onco for Congress
and twice for Governer of Indiaua. Mr.
Hendricks belongs to a family long devoted
to public life. His grandfather was a mem
bpr of the Pennsylvania State Legislature
j during Washington's administration ; his
. father's house was a nomo oi pnui.au,, ,
huh it u uiicieu. -.ov7.jwv. ...v..-
ies of the IndianaStato Constitutional Con
vention which met in 1816, was also Dem
ocratic Governor of tho State in 1819, and
for two terms was chosen United States
Senator. The grandfather traced bis de
scent to a Huguenot family that escaped
to Holland and afterward found its way
to America, Tho father and mother of
Gov. Hendricks possessed many of tho
virtues of private life. In religion a stanch
Presbyterian, aud in politics a life-long
Democrat, John Hendricks added to the
simplicity and purify of his life a plain and
solid intelligence united to a firm indepen
dence and great, foice or will. Tho mother
was of Scotch origin, a native of Chambers
burg, Penn., member of a family belonging
to the Scotch Covenanter school, and pos
sessed n a noteworthy degree the sterling
finalities of irood sense and straightforward
probity united to a mild and gentle disposi
tion becoming her deep religions character.
Of such ancestors and with those antece
dents Thomas A. Hendricks was formed
tn (rain the esdeem. affection, and trust of
his associates. Born in Muskingum coun-
tv. Ohio. Sent. 7. 1819 : removed at three
vears of a-e to rShelbv county, Indiaua.
and after receiving a liberal education and
hfirtw rrrnrlnated from Hanover College m
ISliriiowas admitted to the bar in 1813.
His success in nractico was at onco rapid
and substantial ; his pure life and genial
manners won him a large circle OI triends,
and ho rose to be ono of the leading lawyers
in the State, com his often in competition
with Mr, Morton, with whom his chances
of success were about as those of Caleb
rnshinff with Rnfus Choatc ant to be
beaten before a jury and to succeed before
a judge. Iu 1S13 Mr. Hendricks was
elected to tho State Legislature : soon af
ter this he was sent to the Senate, and in
1850 he served as a member of tho Stato j
Constitutional Convention. Iu these davs i
tho question of Stato banks as opposed to
the free banking system came into promi
nence, and Mr. Hendricks appeared 'as an
advocate of the former, making an elabor
ate speech in its favor. His views prevailed
and tho system became so popular that Its
young defender was nominated for Con
gress on tbe fifty-third ballot, and elected
by an overwhelming majority. In the fol
lowing convention he was renominated
without opposition, and received an in
creased majority at the eloction. During
this term of service, Stephen A. Douglas
introduced his famous Kansas-Nebraska
bill, which called for a repeal of the Mis
souri Compromise of 1S20, and virtually
abrogated the Clay Compromise of 1850.
In company with forty-three of the eighty
eight Northern Democrats then in tho
House, Mr. Hendricks voted for tho bill.
In tho following Congressional convention
he was again nominated by his party, but
the slavery agitation and his altitude to
ward that question had reduced his popu
larity, and gave the election to tho Whig
candidate by a largo majority.
Mr. Hendricks, however, was high in tho
esteem of President Pierce, who, in 1855,
a few weeks after his defeat, appointed him
Commissioner of the General Land Office,
a position which he continued to hold until
1859, being retained by Mr. Buchanan,
when he resigned it to accept a nomination
for Governor of his State. In the exciting
canvass that followed, ho was defeated by
a majority of 10,000 votes, and rrsumcd
the practice of his profession. Oliver P.
Morton became Governor, and in 1862 Mr.
Hendricks was elected United States Sen
ator, where ho at onco took a distinguished
position as a leader, and made a national
reputation. He acted with his party iu
opposing the war policy of the Administra
tion, and in the legislation looking to the
reconstruction of the Southern States he
opposed the measures of the party in po;ver.
Personally he was much esteemed in Wash
ington, his diguified and genial manners
gaining him many friends; and, though in
strong sympathy with the spirit of his party,
be was usually classed as a Conservative.
In 1S68 Mr. Hendricks' name was presented
to the New York Convention as a candidate
for President of the United States, and
though warmly supported it was afterward
withdrawn. His Stale then nominated
him for Governor, and in the campaign he
became au advocate of the Pendleton
Greenback theory. But ho was defeated,
and resumed the practice of his profession,
expressing an earnest desire to remain
thereafter a private citizen. 1 he law lirm
of which he became a member was Hen
dricks, Horde & Hendricks, which did an
immense business, his share of the receipts
from old cases in a single half year after he
retired from tho firm having been $11,000.
But he did not adhere to his resolution,
though he strongly protested when urged
as tbe Democratic candidate for Governor
in 1872, nnd being unanimously nominated
he was elected by a large majority. 1 bo
term of his office expires on Jan. 1, 1877.
Gov. Hendricks is a man of medium
bight and well-formed frame, with large
features, lloiid complexion, and has stdo
whiskers. His ryes aro largo and blue,
his face expressive, and when lie is speak
ing, is very animated. His habits are
simple. In early life ho acquired prac
tices of economy, and while livingin Wash
ington found $5,000 sufficient to meet his
expenses. Socially he is always found
agioeable, and some one lias described him
as "a man of strong and generous instincts ;
of great simplicity and kindness of heart,
and of a most charitable and confiding
terr.er." Though not a scholarly man,
he has a warm love of books and art, his
home in Indianapolis being plentifully sup
plied with rare works of art and choice
hooks. Though tbe classic oratois have
h:id lillle attraction for him, tbe modern
masters lie greatly admires. Of Webster
ho has said, "Of all orator3 Chat ever lived,
I esteem him the greatest and grandest."
He admired Clay and Calhonu, but es
teemed Jackson and Douglas tho greatest
of party leaders. In business affairs he
acts with the same care and caution that
are shown in his public life. He has accu
mulated a fortune valued at f 150,000, and
noVuspicion tf corrupt ion has ever attached
to him. Mr. Hendricks is married, but
has no children. His wife is a woman of
culture and character. In religion he is an
Episcopalian.
TIIE rLATFORM.
Following is the full text of the platform
adopted by the Democracy at St. Louis :
We, tbe delegates of the Democratic party
of the United Slates in national convention
assembled, hereby declare the administra
tion of the federal government to le in urg
ent Deed of immediate reform, and do here
by enjoin npon the nominees of this conven
tion and foe tbe Democratic party in each
State a zealous effort aud co-operat ion to t bis
end, and do hereby appeal to onr fellow cit
izens of every former political connection to
undertake with lis, this first and i.uwt press
ing patriotic duty. For the Democracy of
the whole country we do here reaffirm our
faith in the permar.aney of iho Federal
Union, onr devotion to the constitution of
thj United States, with its amendments,
universally accepted as a final settlement of
the controversies that engendered civil war,
aud do here record onr steadfast confidence
in the perpetuity of llemiblicau self govern
ment; in alwolute acquiescence in the will
of the majority, the vital principle of repub
lics; in the supremacy of the civil over the
military authority; iu the total separation of
Church and State for the safety alike of civil
and religious freedom; in tho equality of all
citizens before just laws of their own enact
ment; in tbe liberty of individual conduct
unvexed by sumptwary laws; in the faithful
education of the rising generation, that they
may preserve, enjoy and transmit these liest
conditions of linman happiness and hope,
the noblest products of a hundred years of
changeful history. But while upholding
the bond of onr union anil great charter of
thepe our rights, it behooves a free people to
practice also that eternal vigilance which is
the price of liberty. Iteform is necessary to
rebuild ami establish in the hearts of the
whole people of the Union, eleven years ago
happily rescued from tho danijei of a cor
rnpt centralism w hich, after inliictiiig on ten
States the rapacity of carpet-lwg tyrannies,
has houey-comhed tho cttice.s of tho federal
government itself with incapacity, waste and
fraud, infested States and munieipaliMos
with tho contagion of misrulo, and locked
fast the prosperity of an industrious peoplo
in tbe paralysis of hard times. Itetorm is
necessary to establish a sound currency, re
store the public credit and maintain the na
tional honor. We denounce the failure for
all these eleven rears to mako good tbe
, promise of tbe legal-tender notes, which ara
j a changing standard of value in the hands
of the people and the non-payment of which
is a disregard of tbe plighted faith of the na
tion. We denounce the improvidence which
in eleven years of peace has taken from the
people in tbe federal States thirteen times
the whole amount of the legal-tender notes
and squandered four times this snm in use
less expenses without accumulating auv re
serve for their redemption.
We denounce the financial imbecility and
immorality of that party which diiringeleven
years of peace baa made no advance toward
resumption that instead has obstructed re
Sumption by wasting our resources and ex
hausting all our surplus income, and while
anunally professing a return to specie pay
ment has annually invented fresh hindrances
thereto. .As such a hin'drance we denounce
the resumption clause of the act of 1R75 and
we here demand itt repeal. YVc demand a
judicieus system of preparation by public
economies, by official retrenchments and by
wise finance, which shall enable tbe nation
soon to assure the whole world of its perfect
ability and its perfect readiness to meet any
of its promises at the call of the creditors en
titled to payment. We believe such a sys
tem well devised and nlove all entrusted" to
competent hands for execution, creating at
no time an artificial scarcity of currency and
at no time alarming tbe people into a with
drawal of that vaster machinery of credit by
which ninety-five per cent, of all business
transactions are performed a system open,
public and inspiring general confidence
would from tho day of its adoption bring
healing on its wings to all our harassed in
dustries and set in motion the wheels of com
merce, manufactures and the mechanical
arts, restore employment to labor and render
in all its national sources tbe prosperity of
tbe people.
Reform is neceesary in the form and mode
of federal taxation, to the end that capital
may 1? set free from distrust and labor light
ly burdened. We denounce the present tariff
duties npon nearly four thousand articles as
a masterpiece of injustice, inequality and
falsepretei.ee. It yields a dwindling not a
yearly rising revenue. It has impoverished
many industries to sulsidizo a few. It pro
hibits imports that might purchase the pro
ducts of American lalior. It has degraded
American commerce from the first to an in
ferior rank upon the high seas. It has cut
down the sales of American manufactures
at home and abroad, and depleted tbe re
turns of Ameriran agriculture, an industry
followed by half our people. It costs the
people five times more than its products to
tbe treasury, obstructs tho processes of pro
duction ami wastes the fruits of labor. It
promotes fraud and fosters smuggling ; en
riches dishonest officials and bankrupts hon
est merchants. We demand that ail custom
house taxation shall be -only for revenue.
lieform is necessary in tbe scale of public
expeuse, federal, state and municinal. Our
federal taxation has swollen from 560,000,000
in cold iu to Sl.W.OOO.O't.) in currency in
1S70. Our aggregate taxation from 515-1,-0t0,
000 in gold in 1S60 to 8739,000,009 in
1.S70; or, in one decade, from less than 55
to more than SIS per bend. Since the peace
the reoril have paid to their tax-iratherers
more than thrice the sum of the national
debt aud more, than twice that sum for the
federal government alone. AVe demand a
frugality in every department and from ev
ery ofiicer of the government. j
Ileform is necessary to put a stop to tbe
profligate waste of public lauds and their di
version from actual settlers by tbe party in
power, which has squandered two hundred
million? of acres upon railroad alone, and
out of thrice that, number has disposed of
less than a sixth directly to tillers of tbe soil.
Reform is necessary to correct the omis
sions of Republican congresses nvd tbe er
rors of onr t rea'-ie!" and our d iphunacy, which
have stripped our fellow-citizens of foreign
birth and kindred race recrossing tbe Atlan
tic of the shield of American citizenship,
and exposed onr bretbren-of tbe Pacific coast
to tbe incursions of a race not spru:ig from
tbe same great parent stock and in fact now
by law denied citizenship lb rough naturali
zation, as Ix'ing neither accustomed to tbe
traditions of a progressive civilization nor
exercised in lilH-rty undt-r equal laws. We
denounce tbe policy which thus discards tbe
liberty-loving German and tolerates the re
vival of the Coolie trade in Mongolian wo
men, imported for immoral purposes, and
j Mongolian men hired to pe-lorm servile la
bor contracts, and demand such modification
rr tl.a frntv u-lli tin Cliinpsl r.fTlTliri nrnr-l
legislation by Congress, within a constitu
tional limitation, n to prevent the further
importation or im migration of the Mongolian
race.
He form is nccepar.v ard can never be ef
fected bur by making it the controllitiff issue
of elections and lifting it alxve tbe two false
issues with which tbe office-holding class
ami the party in power seek to smother it;
tbe f.tlse issue with which Iboy would en
kindle Feetarian strife in respect to public
schools, of which tbe establishment ami sup
port belongs exclusively to tbe several States
and which tho Ieinocrntic party tins Cher
isbftd from their foundation and resolved to
maintain without parrialitv or preference
for any class, sect or creed, and without con-
tiibulmg from the treasury to any of the
f.ilse issues by which they seek to lilit anew
tbe dying emliers of sectional bate between
i kindred peoples, once unnaturally estranged,
but now re-umfed in one indivisible rcpubye
and a common destiny.
Reform is necessary in tbe civil service.
K.xpcrience proves that the efficient econom
ical conduct of the governmental business is
not possible if its civil service be subject to
chance at every election, 1o be n p"-iTe fought.
J for at the l;aiIot-l.ox. to be a brief reward of
party zeal instead el posts ot i.onor assigneu
for proved competency aud held for fidelity
iu the public employ ; that tho dispensing of
patronage shonl l neither be a tax npon the
time of ail public mm nor tbe instrument of
their ambition. Here, again, professiotis
falsified in the performance attest that, tbe
parly iu power cati work out nopractieal or
salutarv reform.
Reform is necessary even more in the high
er grades of public service. The President,
Vice President, Judges, Senators, Represent
atives, "Cabinet officers, and all others in au
thority, are the. public servants. The offices
are not a private perquisite, th-y are a
public trust. When tbe annals of this re
public show the disgrace and ceusiire of a
Vice President; a late Speaker of the Honsa
of Representatives marketing his rulings as
a presiding officer ; three Senators profiting
secretly by their voles as law-mnkers; rive
chairmen of '.eadiug committees of the lleuse
of Representatives exposed in jobbery; a
late Secretary of t!f Treasury forcing bal
ances in the public accounts ; a late Attor
ney General misappropriating public funds;
a Secretarv of tbe Navv enriched or enrich
ing friend by percentages levied off the
profit of contracts with his department; an
ambassador to Bngland censured in a dis
honorable speculation; the l'resideul's pri
vate secretary l.-are'.y escapii g conviction
upon trial for guilty complicity in frauds
upon the revenue; a Secretary of War im
peached for high crimes and confessed mis
demeanors, the demonstration is complete
that the first step in reform must be the peo
ple's choice of houest- men from another par
ty, lest the disease of ono political organiza
tion infect the body politic and lest by mak
ing no change of men or party wo can get no
I change of measures and no reform.
All these abuses, wrongs and crimes, tbe
product of sixtten years ascendancy of the
Republican rarty, create a necessity for re-
form confessed by the Republicans them
selves. But their reformers are voted down
in their conventions and displaced from the
cabinet. The party's mass of honest voters
are powerless to resist the 8,0iO office-holders,
its lenders and guides. Reform can
only be had by peaceful civil revolnlion.
Ve demand a change of system, a charge
of administration, a hango of party, so we
may have a change of measures and of men.
tjiiz old suns cm n nit.
He came wearily up tho sanctum steps
yesterday afternoon, and turned tho wastes
basket upsido down and sat down on it
wijh a sijh that might have been cut up
into tornadoes and whirlwinds enough to
go around half a dozen agricultural coun
ties. He had a weary look abouj him, as
though he had Ieen trying to die, but
could not find a doctor. His coat was rag
ged, and patched bereaDd there with pros
jierous and clanish communities of cockle
burs. His boots were of water-proof varie
ty so arranged that if you stuck them in
the river, the water would run out faster
than it came in. We asked how be fared,
and ho glated savagely at a Kansas paper
among our exchanges before he answered
sadly :
"Well, pretty miserable, thank ye. Yo
see, times como on pretty hard, and it was
pretty hard slcddin to get along. I either
bad to sell the six dogs or cut down expen
ses some way else, and so I stopped tho
pajer. I missed it powerful bad for the
tit t few weeks, and then I kind o' got used
to it. Borrowed it once an' a while berti
and there, but folks did not somehow ap
pear to liko to lend their newspapers, and
so I finally lost sight of it altogether. Then
trouble begun light off. First thing I
knew I was arrested and fined f 20 for vi
olating the gamo law. Sec, the thing had
been changed a little, an' I didn't kno
nothing about it, but th judge said as how
ignorance wasn't no excuse in these days
when the State was so full or papers that
you couldn't fire a stone out of tho winder
w ithout hitting an editor. Then in a week
I was arrested and fined $20 for violntiug
the fishery law, and when 1 begged off and
said I dida't know nothin' 'bout it, tho
justice asked me w here I was raised, and
remitted two dollars of the line for ne to
take a paper with. But I kind o' thought
I couldn't get into any more scraps and I
sort o' bung on to the two dollars. An
about two days after I was tc-k up agin
and lined four dollars and c.sts for bunting
on Sunday; au' I bopo I may dio if I
kuowed it was Sunday. Au' I had to sell
the gun to get out of the jug. Then a fel
low conic along and bought every grain of
com I had in tho ciib for six cents less
thau what I found next d ry it was-ortU
in tho niaikot : then I lor.t two of tho bept
cows you ever saw and they was took up
and amvertiFcd and ndveitiscti, and an mo
time I was html in the whole country over
for'cr.i, and when I found them at last, tho
cosls was more than the cows were worth.
The taxes came duo and I didn't know it,
and the farm was sold and I had big cosls
to pay before I knowed a thing about it.
Then I lost $5 on a bet that Pendleton had
a dead shure thing on Ihe Dem.x-ratic
nomination, and another! on abet that
Belknap was Secretary of War, and 1 don't
know anything about Bccchcr, Babcock,
nor Blaine, nor anybody ; and every week
since I stopped tho paper I've paid out
more money to get out of trouble than
would keep me iu newspapers all my days.
Put my name on the list." Berlin jtori
Haitktve.
A TnisTrn's Dufam. A printer sat in
liis'nfiiec chair, his hoots were patched anil
his coat threadbare, and his face looked
weary and worn with care, while sadly
thinking of business debt, old Morpheus
slowly around him crept, and before ho
knew it ho soundly slept; nnd, sleeping, he
dreamed that he was dead, from trouble
and toil his Fpirit hd lied, nnd that not
even a cow bell tolled fjr the peaceful
rest of his cow hide sole. As he wandered
ami-vug the shades that smoke and scor-U
in lower Hades, he shortly observed an iron
door, that crcakingly swung on hinges ajar,
but the entrance was closed by a rrd hot
bar, and Satan himself stood cepi:ig out,
atid watching f r travelers thereabout, and
thus to the passing pi inter spoke, and
with growing voice that echoes woko :
"Come in, my dear, it shall cost yon noth
ing, and never fear ; this is tho place
where I cok tho ones who never pay
their subscription sums, for though in hfa
they may escape, they will find when dead
it is too late ; I will p'now the place where
I melt them thin, w ith red-hot chains ami
scraps of tin, and also where I comb each
head with broken glass and rnglted lead ;
and if of refreshments they only think,
there's boiling water for them to drink ;
there's tho red hot grindstone to grind
down each nose, and red hot rings to wear
on Ihcir tors, and if they mention they
don't lite fire, 111 sew up their mouths
with red-hot wire ; and then, dear sir, yott
hhould sec them rqniun while I roll them
over and cook lo a turn." With these last
worda the printer awoke, and thought it
all a practical joke ; but still at times so
real did it seem that he cannot believe it
was a dream ; and he often thinkswith a
chuckle ai d giin, of the fate of tboe who
save their tin, and never pay the printer.
A Daootah man got mad at the cd'tor
and stopicd his paper. The next week he
sold all ii is old corn four cent s below thn
maiket price ; his place was sold for taxes
because lie didn't know that they were due;
ho hst tho nomination for supervisor tie
cause be only heard of it three days befo.-e
tho convention adjourned ; he lost ten dol
lars by letting on Columbia two days after
Cornell had won both races ; he was ar
rested and fined eight dollars for going
hunting on Sunday, and he paid $300 for a
lot cf forged notestbat bad been advertised,
and the public cautioned not to negotiate
j them, two weeks, Then ho paid a great
uig Irishman v-J to kick htm all tbe way to
the newspaper office, where he paid four
years' subscription in advance, and made
the editor swear to a written agreement t
knock him down and rob him if ho ever
ordered L:3 paper stopped again. Z7j-
At a baptizing last week, the coat collar
of one of tho candidates tore off, and ho
was baptized thieo times before iSic offici-'
ciating clergyman could catch liim. He
I was a book agent, however, and the preach
er drew a beautiful illustration from it in
his sermon that Sunday as a direct and
necessary dispensation of Provideuce.
Nvrtcich Lullttin.
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