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GEO. BANCROFT,

TB GRK1T IHEWC.lN HCT6R11N 6* THE

Leoompton fraud.

READ AND E E

_* .HON. GEORGE BANCROFT, who WAS to

'-i'h»ve

Jlold,

cnalty

presided at the contemplated Anti-

Lecompton meeting in New York on Friday ^evening last, publishes in the New York ,%l papers, the following remarks which he had ^prepared for

U*M'J

occasion:—

FELLOW-CITIZENS:—The proper solution pt the question before the conntry, which, soms of itfc aspects, is the most momen-1 ^tous that has been presented sincc the .^adoption of the Federal Constitution, is self-evident but that solution has been so thwarted thatitis made necessary to revert y.to first principles, and to take counsel of

the People, who arc the source of wisdom •nd power. We arc assembled to-night, Dot in hostility to the Administration.— We venerate the President for his age and past services, and desire to remove out of bis path the great obstacle to his present usefulness. Still less are we at variance with the South. We have never feared to BQBtaib tho South on any question in which theSouth was in the right, and we are justified in its co-operation to prevent a great national wrong which, if consummated, will injure its friends. Far from opposing Democracy, we comc here to-night to uphold it, by freshening in our ininds the love of Justice and Freedom, without which, Democracy is a delusion

We are assembled to protest against forcing the Lecompton Constitution upon the people of Kansas against their will.— Bear with me, fellow-citizens, if, in the fewest possible words, I speak to the facts in the case, to the right, and to the means of redress.

As to the facts of the ease, the Lecompton Constitution was authorized in advance fri by no one branch of the General Government, The Senate of the United States passed a bill for a Convention in Kansas, having in view very different mode of procedure. The House, by a decided vote declared itself willing to accept the real and true opinion of the majority of Kansas,

Jjpwev?'" it might be expressed. The Present, through his agent, the Coventor of the Tciiitory, vetoed the bill for the Convention. Ttio

onate, the

House, the President of the United States, Arc all innocent of the Lecompton Convention. 'flic people of the Territory never .cloctcd that Convention, and never had an opportmiitr to do eo. The lists of voters -wore •made out by partisan officers, who nctcd under no penalties for neglect of tlaly. Fifteen counties, by no fault of their own, had

possible opportunity to vote at all.

The Convention, therefore, never had even pretext for binding the people. Before 4he Convention did its work, a new clectinn of a Kansas Legislature took plane, and, thanks Walker and Stanton, itUse," fraudulent and forged rcfurns svene rejectis cd, and a Legislaiurc was formed of unquestioned legality. The Convent ion knovrin"' the true will of the people, iu defiance of°lhat will, refused to refer the Constituit ion to the people, sequestcro their indilicn.'ible 'rights, and made themselves masters. They-acknowledged that such a reference should have been made at least on

The Convention further assumed most jit }s wrong. It wae hardly worth the while -extraordinary pcTwcr, and sought in ad-

vnnce lo nullify and render vx)id the acts of the newly elected Legislature. Tbey lid what they could'to show approbation if the fraudulent voto which Walker and Stanton, *rith 4he «p|K'ov«] it as to be hop-

J, of tiie President, had rejected. Moreover, it ordered an •election of State officers, uudcr their unratified Constitution, without requiring an oath of the election •officers, or affixing a penalty on fraudulent voting or forged returns and they, moreover, directed returns to be made, not lo ike Governor or the legal Legislature, but to ouc man alone, the President of their Convention a man holding a most lucralive office and a large patrouagc under the •General Government clothed with power to judge at his discretion of all returns of a Legislature before which he might become a candidate for office kmad by no oath to fidelity, and exposed tu no legal

for the abuse of his trust We then, that the Convention had no •claim to the sovereignty Kansas but by usurpation that it had in no wise the (sanction-of Congress, nor of tho President, •nor of Hie people of Kansas, and was but a cunning dcvicc to defraud that people of Its sovereignty.

The cardinal point on which the great •question turns is this: Is the Lecompton Constitution the voice and will of the people of Kansas 2 I say it is not, and I shall prove it. The first witness is the Convention itself they were urged "to refer the matter to the people the President in his high office pledged himself over and over, and over agaiu, to the approbation of that •course,rand by the authority and with the knowledge of the President, the Governor, Ttnd officers of the President's appointment, quieted the discontents of the people of Iyansas by advocating the ncresjsjty of such submission before the Constitution could claim any vilidity. And yet the Convention refused to submit its doings to the people thus confessing its consciousness that ita work would be rejected.

The second witness is the newspaper press of Kansas that press is against the Constitution by a majority of seven or eight to one.

Next: Kansas, by act of Congress, has a right to a delegate in Congress, charged with the duty to speak for its people.— They hare now a delegate who is undoubtedly the choice of the people, and is the first Kansas delegate ever cho^eu by the people. He is my third witness.*

Next: «sk the line of Governors appointed by Presidents themselves Geary, Walker, formerly Sepator from Mississippi, and recently proposed for a place.in the present President's Cabinet, and highly commended by the President himself Stanton, so lately member of: Congress from Tennessee, all agree. And would not fear to ask Denver, the present incumbent he will certify that' even a fraction of the party against the Lecompton Consftitotion is more numerous tt»»n the whole of itifriendi.

Fifth the people of Kansas now hap-

pily, thanks to Walker and Stanton, have a Legislature indisputably representing that people and so soon as they could lift up their voice, they protested against the Lecompton Constitution.

Sixth Those State officers who receiv ed the largest number of votes at the election on the 4th of January last, have likewise sent their protest to Congress.

Seventh The voice of the people of Kansas itself should be heard. On the4th of January they

repaired

to the polls un

der no ordinary circumstances of solemnity. The

President had

proceedings by

sanctioned the

his

special protection the

Legislature and Denver took care that the vote should be an honest one, and by that vote it appears that an overwhelming majority of the people of Kansas reject the Constitution of Lecompton.

So, then, we have seven sets of witnesses against Lecompton the circumstantial evidence of the Lecompton Convention the Kansas press the Kansas Delegate in Congress the series of Kansas Governors—four in one year the Kansas Legislature the Kansas People. All, all declares that the People of Kansas reject the Lecompton Constitution.

If I could hope that the words of one so humble as myself could rea^h the presence of one so high as the President of the United States, I would entreat him to lend his car reverently, and hear and respect the voice of the people of Kansas, however lowly they ma}' seem in the log cabins and homes that they have made for themselves !n the wilderness. "What they have accomplished there

under

unexampled

trials and difficulties is the miracle of the age. A commonwealth in all its fair proportions has grown up, as it were, in the night-time. If the President of the U. S. will have a peaceful administration if lie will, by and by, have dignity in retirement if lie will stand well with the world of mankind if, like Washington and all our great Presidents, he wishes to stand well with posterity, let him respect the will of the people of Kansas.

It is said that the whole affair is of little consequence that the wrong, if it bo a wrong, is a small one. But there is in political justice no such thing as a small wrong. A small wrong contains within itself the seeds of all evil.

It is further said that the people were factious, and as they meant at any rate to eject the Lecompton Constitution, it was iglit not to give them a chance to do so. But if the Constitution for any reason did not please them,-they had a right to reject nothing is so factious as a minority attempting to rule a majority.

It io said they should be punrs'ied for not goiu:' to the polls at the bidding of men who were believed to be disposed to defraud them, 'lboy went to the polls the first moment that tL"• were satisfied of any chance of'a fair return, even though suffering under great disadvantages in the apportionment of representatives.

It is said tli.it the people of l?a:is:ii: or.es admitted into the Union, may change their Constitution. If this is dishonestly said, I will not use the language which would properly describe the proposition. If, as it is to be "pr.tsiumod, it is honoslly said, and I am sure it is honestly said by the President, then why give (o the men of Kansas a reversionary right where they have aright of possession? Why do wrong simply that wrong may be undone? If this is all that is intended, if there lies nothing behind this, if there are no indications of a wish perplex the national councils, and so p..ie the way for a change of tho

the Slavery clause, and then they framed .a schedule which made no true reference •oven of that clause, butidisfrancbised all national policy or for disunion, then miscxccpt those would acknowledge their chief has been done wantonly and gratuitiiEMrpation, and were willing to take test I ou.sly ,i!:e couatry is convulsed by its puboaths to support it. lie authorities, for an issue as ludicrous as

shatter -'he Democratic pai'ty for

iy-

thing so paltry.. But while it is admitted that the submission of a Constitution to the people is the correct principle, it is said that fourteen States would be displeased if this correct principle were to be followed out. Now the South, iu the organic act for Kansas obtained ail that it asked for, and the main result has been exactly what Southern men foresaw. The South has nothing whatever to -gain by the adoption of the Lecompton Constitution It prcscuts no question of practical advantage to-the-Synth, and it cannot be pretended that the admission of Kansas under it will carry with it sny advantage for the South. As a question on the score of expediency, it Joes nothing but injury to the South the issue presented as a Southern one, is untimely and mistaken, unwise, andjauything but national.

And would it wound any at the South less to have the people of Kansas, as soon as the General Government is out of the way, undo all -that has been done? Is it not more respectful to the South to state the case manfully and temperately and rely on Southern magnanimity and sense of justice?

Again: it is said that the Union is in danger the Union is to be dissolved. There is no present danger to the Union. The sufferers of wrong in Kansas have been almost all Northern men and the North has no wish to desert, or dissolve, or weaken the Union.

But it is urged the men of Kansas arc in rebellion. The impositiou of a loathsome and rejected Constitution is an odd remedy for pretended rebellion, which, as far as I know, has no precedent, except in King George and the British Parliament, in 177-i, If Gov. Walker found discontents there, the promises of equity which he made iu the nntne of the President quelled rebelliou by mcans^f' the ballot-box. The waves never rise uuless the wind blowe. If the menace of the Leeoruptaa Constitution seemed likely to excite disturbances, Governor Stanton, to his honor be it said, lulled rising commotion, not by calling in the Army of the United States, but by peacefully convoking the legal Legislature of the Territory,

There is now jio insurrection in Kansas there is no rebellion there. Cease to dispute the unquestionable right of the majority, and the star of peace will rise serenely, tho storm will be hushed, and the waves subside. The Government will not find a rbellion there let it not provoke one.

And wh&t cpntj-ast between a Governor of a Territory restoring peace through the representatives of the people, find an officer of the General Government, calling himself a President of a Convention, taking an escort from the Army of the United States, to make his entry into the Capitol of Kansas amid the murmurs of its people.

If to the question between the Lecompton Constitution and the people of Kansas we apply the test of principle, we find that the enforcement of that Constitution

will be an act of power against right of the Army agairist the people of force against reason of usurpation against the rightful will of a majority. It will be a violation of the fundamental principle of free government, which is government by consent. It is directly at-war with democracy, whose cardinal point is the power of the people. The supporters of the Lecompton Constitution have not one square inch of democratic ground to stand upon. A con stitution for its validity needs the concurrence of the majority of the people, either silently by a general acquiescence or by an appeal to the polls. Shall full and undoubted evidence be required for a deed of afoot of land or a gift by will of a shilling? Shall a merchant or banker have power to stop payment of a check fraudulently held, and shall the people have no power to stop their servants from seques"tering their rights Shall the most insignificant treaty of a Minister Plenipotentiary want validity till it is ratified And shall the highest treaty of the people with themselves be made in a corner by their servants without their assent Is form everything and substance nothing? Is appearance everything, and truth and right and reality nothing

There is not a precedent for enforcing a Constitution against the consent of the people. The principle of popular ratification is sanctioned in the Minnesota act.

The President in his annual message emphatically declares that the example of submitting a Constitution to the people is founded on a correct principle so that his instructions to Gov. Walker-.on that subject were properly expressed in unqualified terms.

Again: Congress has power to admit States, but no power whatever-to make a Constitution for a State still less to impose on a State a Constitution which the majority of its people loathe and reject.— The tendency to centralization of power in the General Government is rapid andtlangerous. We protest against its further increase and against its present excess.— The true basis of jsolitical organization between all parts of the Union was, from its beginning, the rights of the States, and that basis offers for the future, as it has for the past, the most perfect guaranty for security and Union.

Redress must comc from the people of the United States. They in their strength must remedy the existing evil, by a distinct expression of their will. The moment is fraught with dangers, which the

adoption of the Lecompton Constitution would only aggravate. A departure from the principles oh which a Government rests, is an evidence of its decay. The violation of the principle of Popular Sovereignty wastes the lifeblood of the Republic.

Again: in a popular Government, where the rulers are but servants, anarchy steps ill when principle is forgotten and expediency is made the guide.

Again: tho concentration of power in the hands of a Convention like that of Lecompton, is not American idea. It is borrowed from those republics of Europe which were not capable of existing long, for the very reason that power was so concentrated. It is derived from the worst examples of tlri worst- periods of revolutionary Franse, when minorities usurped power over a nation by terror and re el less daring. If the rule of the minority Convention is now formally sanctioned by Congress, it will be a most dangerous precedent an instrument of wratii, treasured up for a day of wrath. We appeal against this system to the whole Democracy of the country we appeal to all people who love order, and justice, and freedom.

This city, for its numbers, is the wealthiest in the world. I call on the men of wealth in this great city, to take to heart the danger of establishing as a principle that a majority of a single body, clected to a Convention perhaps in times of high cxcitemcut, filled, as will sometimes happen, with men desperately daring and corrupt, animated, as men under such circumstances are apt to be, by personal and party jiassions, should assume the absolute right to change the fundamental law of the country, without a reference to the people. If they are not alarmed on account of their own fortunes, I ask them to consider what disposition, under such an absolute convention, might be made of corporate property—what changes in the management of trust funds, set apart for purposes of eharify, or education, or the support .of religious worship- Especially, speaking in sober earnestness to reflecting men, I remind the Catholics of what might happen, calling to their recollection the grievance to which they were exposed iu an Eastern State, «.nd from which they only escaped by the reference of the Constitution to the people. We call on our naturalized citizens to rcflcct on their danger from the priuciplc involved in accepting the decision of a Convention as final, and without appeal. Our country is subject to periodical excitements on the franchise of naturalized citizens and it may happen that a Convention possessed of this absolute power, may seek to perpetuate themselves and their party in office, by one sweeping disfranchisement of the foreign, born. We call on the poor, and on the laboring men, to come up to the rescue for, in the division that prevails on universal suffrage, sooner or later a Convention would be found ready to limit the right to suffrage, and to maintain the limitation by force. We claim the aid of every Irishman to a man, and every descendant of an Irishman for Ireland, through three centuries, shows the bitter fruits of a government imposed by the complicity between a shameless minority and the central power.

We will not make an appeal to the South as such but if any part of the Union has cause for alarm at an increase of the power of a convention suddenly called together, we should say it is tho South and were Jefferson alive, we should on this occasion have a protest from his pen. The guiding principle of his statesmanship was to con^ suit the people and to revere the people. But what do I say? A voice comes to us from one of Jefferson's successors in the chair of state in the Old Dominion, and iu clear and distinct terms he rejects the Lecompton Constitution as not the act and deed of the people of Kansas, and he rightly condemns the Lecompton schedule as not republican. New York will respond to Virginia, and the great NorthWcst will'swell the echo. "The policy of enforcing the Lecompton Constitution on an unwilling people is neither wise nor expedient nor possible.— Principle is the true diviner's wand by which -the President of a free people sways the millions, and secures majorities for his measures in Congress. The neglect of

principle for temporixing expediency al* ways loses the respect of majorities in Con gress and out of it. The ship of estate is water-logged throw the fraudulent Le compton Constitution overboard let prin ciple take the helm, and the bark wall spring forward on its way as in the best years of our republic. Ours is the cause of peace, of order, of true democracy, of union, of freedom. All good omens are with us. For our part we are resolved to walk in the ccntral path of humanity, shun ning sectionalism and fanaticism oir the one side, anl subserviency to dictation on the other. True democracy inscribes on its banners the rights of the States and the sovereignty of the people it upholds freedom to the individual in the State freedom, to the State in the Union, and the indefeasible right of the majority, whether in a State or in a Territory, calmly, delib erately, and undisturbed to form arid ac cept, or reject a Constitution for them

Ives.

AR1ZONIA—ITS MINES, &c. H. P. Sweetland, a gentleman who has held honorable positions in California, lately made a trip through Arazonia, and from San Antonio, on the 24th ult., wrote a distinguished Senator at Washington his impressions of the country. We give a short extract:"-. \v:^

I was at Fort Yuma, Arizonia Mines, Teuson, Colabozas and Sopori, in all some twenty-five days at Mesilla, on the Rio Grande, five days. In a word, 'tis a great grazing country. The valleys of the Rio San Perdo and Rio Minnefres cannot be surpassed in-beauty and extent, and from Fort Yuma to the Rio Grande is the best natural road in the world.

I became acquainted with nearly all the American inhabitants in the Territory, the most of whom arc from Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia. The}' are principally engaged in mining for silver, copper and lead, in which the western portion of the Territory abounds. I have been to a great many mines have seen silver, copper and lead taken out almost pure. There are pieces of natural iron lying in the plaza, at Teuson, that will weigh over a tun each, taken from the surface of a neighboring mountain. All that these enterprising people want to insure success is protection.

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I J, IjIXOI-S OEM N fOX.

In seventy or more of the hundred counties of Illinois, meetings have bean held by the Democracy and resolutions unanimously adopted, disapproving, iu the strongest terms, the policy of admitting Kansas with the Lecompton Constitution. The Democracy of the remaining counties will hold meetings and utter similar opinions. The Illinois Democracy arc united on this question. What a farce is it then, in the Washington Union to be uttering its impotent edicts reading Douglas, Harris, 1 and otner Democrats in Congress out of the Democrat'c party. Tho entire Democratic party of the State that never elected an anti-Democratic doctoral ticket read out of the party by a hireling metropolitan organ! Strange what absurd notions possess some people when invested with a little "brief authority." Ere long the Union will hear a unanimous expression of the people rej rescnted by the people it foolishly "reads out" that will teach such imbiciie dictators a lesson in honesty and party tactics that even they can readily comprc•hend. If the Union's Democratic party can do without the Democracy of Illinois, it can do more than the real Democracy could in times of its greatest need.—State Register.

'EST" Senator Douglas has received from Kansas the united testimony of the three judges of election at the Delaware Crossing precinct, showing that only fortythree votes were polled there and sent by Jack Henderson to Lecompton, when Calhoun's brother-in-law counted them, and entered them as three hundred and seventy odd, thus giving a pro-slavery majority in the Legislature.

This fact probably explains the sudden coming down of Calhoun in regard to the vote for State officers on the 4th ult.— Toledo Commercial.

LIST OF I-KTTKUS

EMA1X1NG in the Pot office at CrawfordsV- vilie. Indiana, on the 13th of February. 1$ S. whi^h if not taken out within three months, will he sent to to the General Pc.it office as dead letters.

Persons calling for the same will please say "Advertised." Alfored Josephine: Adkins John L.: Annable Edward:iSinnev Charles C.: Illack Francis M.: Beasley rtavler George: Bell John IJrown Johii I'c.vnKiti W. I!. Butter Margaret 131. rgess Miry

Collin? L. G.: C'ullison John: Otilley .Tamos: Corin Corin: Conner .1. it C. W. Cox Klijah. Dale William ). Daugherty James is. Davison Martha: Davis Nancy:

Eauer A. K.: Earl Dr. Ellis William English Susan: Edwards A by: Ferguson Linvillc Funk Morritt C. Fullenwider E'eazitr FIc.-her II. 15. Foxworfhv Enoch met .James Grimes Hamilton Gilbert John 2: Garland Benjamin:

Iliyuii Lewis: Hillcr V"illinm: Nandv Mr.: Harlan Stephen: Hall Mary W,: Hill Richard l'nniron K. E.: Ilufmond Elizabeth Ibtll Kachel Ann Howe John F. 1 lodges Morris F.

Ja_rvcs Amos Johnson J. It.: Kennedy Marinda Jane Koohler Kritz I.cnr.cdy John

Larosc Elizabeth Lee William L. Lee Samuel Line Joseph F. Leuman Martha Messmore Andrew Michel Amelia P.: Miiler David Maxwell Samuel C-: Miller Henry Miller MissC. Mathews S. H. Miller Kobait: McCoy Samuel: Me Dole Mrs. F. McDowell C. C. ileClure It. M.

Phclips James Pitman Joseph Perry John Kider Gilbert Rowland Isaac Ross Hannah Robinson John L.: RL-e R. M. Headv Ilf-nnuh. Roberts Ii. D.

Smith Amy Kiioop Noah Slocuin Herbert •Scott Julcv A.: Smiley Samuel Slewm^r Charle-: Sargent William Sargent John Smitl- T. D.: Seaman A. II. Steward Eliza: Stanton Franklin Stubbing & Elmore Stonebraker Cobastion Stanton Almeda Stanford Alonzo

Vaujinndy Samuel Yail Martha An"} Vance Ann Yoris Mary Wliitrsides. McCreaifc McXammee Walter John P.: Wilkinson Eleanor: Will hi to Henry President Wat-kins Agnes: Wilson Lafayette: Wilson Jonathan: Wilson Amanda: Ward Cl.aries Wood-

craft, Mrs. E. 2: Wurtz Marv E,No. Ho. G. W, SNVDER. I'. M.

MHV YOISK MARKET. NEW YonK, Feb. 17—P.M.

Flour steady, and in moderate demand sales of 13,000 brls at S4 15@4 25 for superfine State S4 30@4 50 for extra Ltate $4 15@4 30 for superfine Western $4 30@4 90 for common to medium extra Western, $4 80@4 95 for shipping brands of round-hoop extra, closing steady.

Grain—Wheat is quiet and unchanged sales 4,000 bushels White Southern at SI 40@1 42$. Rye is steady at 69@72c. Barley 70@78c. Corn is active, but prices unchanged sales of new Southern at 35@ 69c. There is nothing doing doing in mixed Western. Oats dull at 44@45c. for State and Western.

Whiskey is better sales of 300 brls at 23@24c. held firmly at tly latter figure.

Insurance Advertisement.

Statement of the Condition of the

PHCENIX INSURANCE COMPANY

OP HARTFOItD, CONNECTICUT

JiX. 1st. 1S5S, .s

A cxnmincd and approved by the

PEC. 1.

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II. KEI.LOC.G, SCI-'V. STATE OF CONNECTICUT.) .lunTFORD COUNTY.)'

IHi-

tors of Ohio. Indiana. Illinois, Towa n«d Tennessee, in compliance with the laws of tlie*e States: Capital Stock nil paid np ?2fK.no6 00.

Total Assctts 8341,719.59! Cash on hands and in lank #4"..M7.G3 Cash in hands of and due from neonts 42.-1S2.84. Amt* loaned on mortnjars of real estate 17.700 00 loaned ^n pledge of hanks A stocks 19.000 00 Bills receivable for loans aud approved

Collateral and personal security 53.773,47 Stock in N. Y. city banks market value 100.30(V.Stock in New England banks do SS.SIS^OO Accumulated interests on investments 2.127.PU

.Assctts $241,719,59

Inabilities due or it due to banks or other credinone. none, gio.r, 14,00 17.900, oo 5900,00 500,00

tors Losses adjusted arid duo do not duo Losses unndjustcil do waitine for further proof All other claims estimated at

S. L. LOOM IS, President.

SS.

HAKTFORD, January. 15th. 1S5S.

Personally appeared II. Kellogg. Secretary of the Phff.nix Insurance Con pany and made oath that the foregoing statement by him subscribed is true and correct to his st knowledge and belief before inc.

C. J. JTOADLY. Justice of the Peace. The undersigned acent iW Crawfordsvillo and vicinity will be glad to receive applications and 'fisne politics on all good risks at fair rates.— Please 11. A ES 11 EATON, Agent.

Eeb. 20, 'oS-v9-nSl-Gm.

ORDINANCE.

Be it ordained by the President and

Trusteis of the Town of Ciawfordsville that no person hereafter shall be permitted to sell at pnbie auction any speeies of property within the corporate limits of said town, without beins licensed to do. except officers acting in their official capacity. and persons acting tinder theauthor"ty of tlie several Courts of the State of Indiana.

SJ:C. 2. lie it further Ordained that any per011 desirous to act as a public auctioneer for the ale of any species of property within the corpoite limits of said Town, shall b^ be permitted so to do by paying to the Trea.Mirer of said Town two doiiar.s i'or the first day and one dollar fur ieh consecutive day thereafter lie may desire to 11. and upon such payment the Treasurer shall •sue a liceme to such per.sr-n permitting him to net as such auctioneer within such corporate limts for the length of time desired by such person.

Src. 3. Ee it further Ordaintd. that any per011 or persons who shall act as a public auetioner within the corporate limits of said Town for the sale of any species of property (except those pc1 sons above herein excepted.) without first I'.av'ng procured a license as in this Ordinenee above equired. shall be deemed guilty of a misdemcanand upon conviction thereof shall le fined ill the sum of ten dollars fur each, day he or they act as such auctioneers. SEC. V. And be it further orduincd that any pers-in desirous of acting as a public auctioneer for the sale of ar.y s-peeies of property within the corporate limits'of said Town for and during a period of one year, shall upon application to the Treasurer of said corporation obtain a license for that purpose but no license shall bj granted until the person wishing to act as such auctioneer for such period of time shall pay to such Treasurer the sum of fifteen dollars and upon such payment the said Treasurer shall issue to such person a license permitting them toa -t a- a public auctioneer within such corporate limits for t!ie term of one year from the date of such license.

Si:e. 5. This Ordinance shall be in full force and etl'eel on and after the first day of March liiS. Attest Win. llOKKKTSQN. President,

II. P. CA2\1NE, Clerk of tho Hoard.

FRENCH

Mrs.

MILLINERY:

IR, S O

\T XJ_

HENDERSON,

Would respectfully iuf'otm her customers and the public generally, that she will remove to her

Hew aiyi Elegant Store,

No. 02 Fourth St., 2nd door West of Vine St

AND DIRECTLY OPPOSITE THE 1»0£T or.FICE,

On the 15th of March

On which day she will open the largest and beat assortment of

E N O N N E S

Bound Ribbon?, Artificial Flevrers.

AND OTHER

MILLINERY TEIMMINGS,

Ever brought to Cincinnati. With her increased facilities for doing a much larger business than she has heretofore done, her Store and Show Rooms being the lanrest West of New York, she will be enabled to oiler

N E l" A LED IN CE E N S To Customers in her line, at

\y II O E S ALE A N DUE A I L.

Persons visiting Cincinnati re particularly invited to call at

No- 92 Fourth Street,

OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE. J. A. HENDERSON*.

Feb. 13 IS55 v0n"0 lv.

CAEEIAGE AND BUGGIES

I I E 1 E A E E

Compciliion Distanced!!!

?. MILLER being about to increase his already cxte'.i.-.ive facilities for mam facti:i ing

CAIUilAGES, BUG OIKS & LIGHT IJHICLMS

cf every description by associ itin£r as partners the

Sept. 5, 1057. v9-n7 lv.

For tho Review.

Union Agricultural Society.

At a meeting of the above Society, bold Satur day January 30th, 1S5S. the following persons were elected officers JOT the ensninsr vcar:

J. B. FORDICE, President.

•Edward C. Ifodgkin. Secretary. D. Evans. Assistant Secretary." Jacob Durham, Treasurer. .10 EOAKD OF:DIRECTORS: Stephen Allen. E. Yansolioie, J. Y. Durham,

Jcsse_II. Eurdicc, Porry. Yuiten. Samuel li. llnntIlamiiton. James S. Wi'son. George Proctor. _'l he follow'rnggpntlejnen were apyiin'eda Committee to dr.-il't a New Constitution "and Bye-Laws for iho Societv, and report at tho next meetinz

Samuel U. 'ilamihon. W W. Ncl-ou. Parke county Htnjai'jiin W'nhlcn, D. Evans. Putnam county: Preston MjCormie'. J. Y. Df.rlnun. Montgomery county. 1 lie ne.\t meeting will be held at Russcluille, on the 2d Saturday in March lic-vt. -EDWAKD C. 1IODGKIN, Secretary.

TO TFLL 15 &• A TTERS OR OLD

MONTGOMERY, COME GREETING.

A Small Quantity of the llun^nrien Cross Seed is Offered for Sale in Crnwfordsville.

Tljis Grass is justly prized, above any other, bv the iarniers of Iowa, wheie it has been thoroiiirlilv tested in the jiast two or tliree years. It yields "a liu- drcd ret- cent mine than any liny no-.v known and is better for fntier.iujr Stock than Clover or 'limotby. Sow any time!r in the middle of Apt 1 to the middle of June, one bushel to three acrcsoi ground. Enquire at the stores of

Meters. p. II. FRY. ., CAMPBELL. GALEY it IIAKTKU, CliHISTMAN &. GKKGG,

GIJ1MKS BUKBKIDGE,

LEE, GILKhl & cVs. Ware house.

DISSOLUTION.,

MOTICE is hereby given that the firm of Shnc. J.* ilaitman vt Jordan, i* this day dissolved by mutual consent. All person? indebted to said firm will make payment to

John II. Shnu. who has pur

chased the entire sto-k ol G'»ods, X«»?cs. Accounts fcc., of tho concern. J. H. SsllUE. S. L. 11ARTMAN,

Feb. SO, 13o3.-3w W. K. JORDAN. N. J{. 1 still intended to continue the business at the old stand of Sline. iliirtiuan Jordan, wheic my customers wi

II still rct great bargains by call

ing aud pu rchasini: of inc. j/il. SHl'E*

fAlKEES^CHOICE! a S E E O W S

CA.dPBELL, GALEY it IIARTEK, arc now receiving a large assortment of the above Plows, all Sizes, with and without Cutters. ^Corn Plows, and they will also have for the Sprin.' Trad a larire assortment of Cultivators, Single, Dotibleand Three Shoveled.

Plows. Revolving Horse-Rakes iSrc. ite.. Having engaged the services of Mr. Jc.-se Cumberland (!orine.i'.y of t!ic Ii«.u?c of Cumberland, Gregg & Co.) who willgive special attention to this department. we propose to furnish all the latest improved agiiciiltural Implements of the day, Mich as Reapers. Mowers, TlneshingMachines, Separators, Grain Drills, Coin Planters itc. ifce.,

Remember the place No. Commercial Row. CrawfordsviHo. I ml. CAMPBELL, GALEY & II ARTER. 1 Feb. 20, lsos, tf.

WMTPT WATSON

VTJ'OULD inform the citizens of Montg mcry County that he keeps on hand, one door North of Elston Cc Lane's Bank,

LBATH3SH.

Of almost every description, v:.s:

CINCINNATI OAK-TANXK1) SOLE BUFFALO SOLE,

CINCINNATI KIP UPPER AND CALF,

FBENCH KIP AND CALF,

CITY HARNESS.

ALSO FINDINGS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.

Tash Paid ior FOde-s,

Nov. '2S-v?n10tf.

FOR SALE.

II E A II E Yv 0 S OR

BUILDING AT DARLINGTON. C'fiilcrl

Wsiitaiiig three store rooms, one ol them already v.-lib country shelving, i\'-e., all in gotwl order: aiso the house and lot known as the Cook property, with good water and fruit Ac., all for sale cheap. One

liiider.-igncd practical workmen from date takes fam.v. (Joed* to suit auv and'e\cry bodv. Uu'r this method to inform his numerous customers and sfoi of I the public in genera! that they have facilities for getting lip

Cheaper, Better and Neater H'or/c than any similar establishment of the kii.d. Any person in wriitof good wvrk would do well to call aivl examine fur themselves before purchasing elsewhere. Biin^ all practical workmen aud employing none but the most skillful, aud using the very best of material, toother with our long acquaintance with the wants of this section of country, enables us to give the best satisfaction as regards

PRICE, AND DURABILITY OF H'OKK.

Heparins executed with neatness and dispatch. also IJlacksmithin^', Trimming. Painting ifcc. All our work warrented one year.

Proi'undiy grateful to a rcnerous public for their past patronage, the senior partners respectfully solicit a continuance of the same to the new tinri. pg"* Sisrn-J. S. Miller & Co., Market Street North of the Court house Square.

J. S. MILLER, II. flEFrNER, S.MILLER.

Notice cf Sale.

NOTICEis

hereby given that we

WMI

sell, at

public auction, on Tuesday the Oth day of Mr.reh next at the residence of'Joseph Stipe late of Franklin township Montgomery County, dec., all his personal property consisting of horses, hogs. sheep, cattle, Wheat, corn, hay, farming utensils, household and kitchen furniture, aud other property sueh as farmers usually have. A credit ot 0 months will be given on all sums over $8 dollars, the purchaser giving his note with approved surety, waiving valuation and appraisement laws'

JOIIN STIPE.

WILLIAM STIPE, Administrators.

Fob. 6 185Sw3*

Aalways

J. SNYDER'S Excelsior N o. 1 Family Flour in store and for said-by the Barrel or sack, bv

LAYMON BROTHERS dr CO.

Feb.13

•58 vOnSOtf.

tlu b:iUn."j in oa

vcar with interest. Enquire of urn. 30-1 v.- .M. D. WHITE.

GUARDIAN SALE. N'OTICE

is hereby (riven that in pursuance of an

order of tho Court of Common Picas, I will sell at private sale on or after -1 weeks from the date thereof, the following described real estate owned by Margaret J. Steele et. al. infant heirs of Sam'l Steele deceased, to-wit: The undivided thro fourths of tiia east half of the north oast o,r. of section thirty two in township nineteen north of range fiva west, containing SO acres, subject to a life ./statute therein.

Terms: On. third of the purchase money to be" paii'i in hand, one third iu six. and residue iu twelve months from day of sale, the purchaser giving l.is to with approved surely fur payment of the dcl'orcd ihstal mc-i.t. JOHN .S. (ih'EV'

Jan. 30, IsOS. *lw. Guardiau.

Still Mere Important!

NOT AHEAD

'NOR THE TIMES AHEAD OF US!!

NO BETTER ARTICLES KEPT

0 llOUhtE CAN UNDERSELL US

"fTJ~K arc with you in anything you wr.ir,' VV you can buy ul the New btore of

DRY GOODS, BOOTS, SHOES,

HATS, CAPS

O I N

FANCY DRY GOODS,

QUEENS WARE & CUTjySRY.w,

foi tiie

FALL AND WINTER TRADE,

Is now complete, and we invite the attention purchasers to an examination of cur

STYLES A.\Ii PES

P.ofore purchasing elsewhere, as ive fed confide r.t that wo can ori'cr induced ents, quite as extraordinary as any other establishment in the Country. f,

NO TROUBLE TO SHOW GOODS

Our Motto is

"LIVE AND LET LIVE!"

COI WTUY product

Of all kinds taken in exchange for goods. Store on Main St., 2 doors East of Crane House, and imm°diately opposite the Court House. CrnwtV.rdsville, lnd. C. W. PUATIIEB.

Oct. 24, lS07-v0nl4-tf.

fiT MORE of Ford's Superior Pat. Straw CatI O tera, jnst received by Campbell t£ Co.

*. x. PARXISa. H. FARRKtt.

W. R. Parrish & €o.,K

'V. J.:-,

HATTERS.

The Only Exclusive Hat Cap House in

MONTGOMERY COUNTY.

By the use of the French Comfbr-

mature we warrant a perfect fit

Wc'aro manufacturing and receiving from tho eastern manufactures ali of the most fashionablo nd improved stylos of liata and Caps,consisting of K.'aver. Otter, silk, Soft Eur and wool Mats, Cloth and Plush Caps. We rise none but tho best material and warrant yatisfaetion. We make to order and re pair at short noiicc, don't forget tho pleco two doors west of tho Knappef llotise main street, Cra.vfordr.vilic Ind.

N. 15. Cash paid for Furs. Jan23 v0u20 '53.

TO I'EVI tt AND AV.uFsUI"FKitKKS»

DR. EASTERLY'S

FEVER AND AGUE KILLER.

I'liis

Medicine will lire Ajrue nnil Fever, Chills :uid Fever, l)iii:ib ARIIC, Intermittent and Kciiiiltejit Fevers, mul every foimo! Fever inculenttothe West. Among all the CKLEUKATUD REMEDIES for Ague and Fever, first and foremost in rank standi

Dr. Easterly's Fever and Ague Killer. During the last five ycs.rs this remedy has etired aver two hundred thousand eases, which has established its efficacy hevond all doubt and controvercy as the BEST and ONLY CERTAIN CUI1E for this distressing disease. It is a POSITIVE CUi:E, both SPEEDY and PERMANENT. It will cure the \VO?ST CASES, no matter of how long standing or 1IOW BAD. It will also euro Enlargement oftl Spleen, Agauc C.ikos, otc.

Header, have yon tho Ague and Fever? Then procure Dr. Easterly's Fovcrmid Ague Killr, aud use it according to tho directions—it

WILL

critE

YOU.

Have you Fill ENDS sulfccing

with Ague and Fever? Co tell them to procuru l)r. Easterly's Fever and Ague Killer, and suffer no longer. This is the medicine TO USE. for this plain reason: IT ALWAYS CUI'ES, and is perfectly HARMLESS to the most delicatu constitution, or tender infant.

ZSjfl'riee §1 per bottle, or six bottles for $3. 257"Pi'cparcd by Dr. EASTERLY, co.ner of' fiimland Chestnut streets, St. Louis, Mo., to whom all ordors must be addressed.

For sale by '1\ D, BROWN, Druggist Craw ford .I vi lie and by Druggists generally throughout th United States.

Layraoia Brothers & Co.,

HAYINO tr.l en the North Ro^ni of McC'IolJsnd'a large and and splendid building oa

WASHINGTON STREET, ..

Nearly oppo-ite the old corner, formerly occupied by Laymon & Co., and lillcd it with an entirely uew stock of

O E I E S

They are now prepared to supply the public with every article in the Grocery line at

Wholesale or Eetail,

At Prices which Deft/ COMPETITION.

Their S.ock of

Wooden Ware, Hardware, GlassWare, Notions, Hats, Caps,

BOOTS, SH0ESr& C„

Will be sold at prices to correspond

WIUI

Choice OLD

OF THE TIMES!!

ano

C. W. PRATHES,

Whatever the jrav. eaudv. or plain and neat msiv

been engaged :u, we wil

10L

wie times.

Tliey have also the lajgcst & best selected stock of

LIQUORS,

Ever broucht this market and which will all bear chemical anaivsis and urn: I

WARRANTED PURE,

Which will he put up in iiny sized pnckngo.i at a reduction of lit tv per Tent upon tho pi ices usually charced iu this Market.

Determined to coniinc themselves strictly to a

CASH AND PRODUCE TRADE,

They can a'Tord. with their large stock and great facilities of bii.viijK at tin lowest figures, to givoI rare b.-rirains toall wlm give them their patrouago

Hesiire to call hofora bnvin a',

Feb. 6 l35ii-tf. LAYMON DUO'S & CO.

A I I E N S

me busir.usH wo havo '.'.v otlir to you a

Larger and More Complete Stock of

FALL &c "W NTER

6 0 0

Ever

Offered

in our ROOMS Before,

We ask all that want good .« to call and examine on stoc

ylcs and cheap good*. wc will tako

Or ANYTHING- YOU Have to SELL,

For goods, at small profits, loufgoods. I LTZllOTlI.

ICES,

Coll on us. and seo

IIARDING

t. i'J 15.r7v'.inl2mu.

& Co.

S O O O O S

AND

STATIONERY 1

VSupply

of School Ho.-.Vs and Stationery, Envelopes, Pens, Pen-holders. Ink. Visiting Cards. Slates, and a'nioxt everything suitable for schools, kept CounUtiitiv on hand at the P«»t Oflico.

Jan. 2-1 105" Cw. 1- G. KilLSEY.

A KNOLD'S & EL'TLLIi'S Inks, Gillot's Pens. x"\_ Fabcr's IVncils, M' .1 at ru por qhottle wit Brush, at FRANK IIEATON'S,

Dee. 1S H"7. No. 1. Knipiro Itlock.

Appointment of Administrators,

NOTICEbeen

is hereby given that the undersigned have appointed administrators of tho estate of Joseph Stipe, iato of Montgomery County, dec. Said estate is supnosed to bo solvent.

JOHN STIPE. WILLIAM

STirE.

Fob?, V?J3-w3* Adm:ni»trutnrj.