Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 17 March 1866 — Page 1

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NEW SERIES—VOL. XVII, NO. 28.

BUSINESS CAHD3 Real Estate Agcncy!

/TUIB nniJarjiffnelTvItlsail ot buy Kcal Kstute.— A Any or soil haying Farms or Town Lots for sale v-ll (io Trull tt loavo thaza with ns.

H'orBale!

or 4 Good Fana»,

OH Town Lots. O'Hes idenoes. 113rick 9toro Doom. 1

Brick Residence, with l'J aores ground attached, WEBSTER, MAY 1

KEENKY.

Enquiro at tho Reoordor'a Office. (duc93'n5.

DR. J. W. BAIRD,

-Physician and Surgeon!

litmus permanently located

11 ,1 II' 0 11 I) S I E. ofl'urs hid services to the community. OPI'ICE-OVLT tho National Knnk, nml reaitlenee on College street. (marlO'GG.)

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Wo wint

«.U- _1_ agents everywhere to sell our iMl'itovmi $20 Sewing Machines. Three new kinds. Under and upper feed. Warranted five years.— Above salary or largo commissions paid. Tho ON'I.Y machines sold in tho United States for less than $40, which aro FFI.I.V I.ic'KSSKD NV IIowi:, WIIHKI.HU ,WII.SON, OKOVKHJEJIAKKK, Si.siiEiut Co.. AND KAOIIKt.DKU. A LI, othdr cheap machines aro i.sruisiii:WHNT.sand the SHLI.KHor usKitarc LIAIII.KTO IKUKST, •.FINE. AND IMI'IUSONMENT. Circulars FKKB. Address, or call upon Slir'W A Clark, Hiddeford, Maine.

A IIO.M II!—AUKNTS wanted for SIX KNTIIIKLY NKW AltTIC'l.KS. JUSt OUt.

Address 0. T. UAUKY, City Building, Itidilcl'ord, Maine. doc-3G5-2tgl wey.

Crawlorilsville Meat Market

THE undersigned having purchased tho meat stand formerly owned by S. .1. Chill, would

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respectfully inform tho citizon? of Craw- 41 \M 3d. Soldiers discharged by reason of disease confordsvillc, that they intend keeping a first-class en- tracted in the servico, or wounds received, which

tablishmont, where the very best quality of till disable them, arc entitlod to a TENSION' in adI dill oil TO TlIK A110VK.

IVTTITTO'Pr

A splendid articlo of Frodh Lard Sftiokcd and I'ickled Meats, Ac., can, found and at the lowest cash prices.

AlJdiJl liA A KXj 1T1U A XV/XI l*JwlJj have lost both hands. or both feet or who ih Lard. Sausn^n M«at,

ItyfliC highest prices paid for fat cat tie. mar3'6i.wtr, l-\ 15. CiliTlIRIE & HlitJTIIKR.

Pliysieian ami Surgeon.

EXP1UK BLOOK, Xo. 4,

CRAWFORDSVILLE, ind

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DORSE

J^espectfully tenders Ws services I

the citir.ens of

Crawtord'svillo and vicinity, in allths briinchcs ,of his profession. OFKIdliaud ItcMidciific on Main street., west ,of (iraham's corner. .1 une lrt"C4!i5.

NEW FIRM

MOITETX & BOOK,

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DBAI.BltS IX runE

DRUGS AND

Paints, Oils, Perfumery, Pure Wines

Fancy Articles s&r

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Brandies,

For Medical Purposes.

Tatent Medicines, Also, Lamps, Glassware, Letter, Cap, and Noto Paper, l'cns, Pencils, nnd Ink.

FtWSCRMF TWO JYS Carefully prepared and promptly attended to. Wo rospcctfully solicit patronage trom the public in gonoral. [.Ian20 00.

SHIP!

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Keliabl

BINFORD

Crawfordsville

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». K. BUNKERSON & CO.,

Forwarding and Commission

I'Imerchants,

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s?ecial

RAIL ROAD AND STEAMBOAT AGENTS,

Proprietors of Mammoth Wharf Boat,

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E. J. BINFORD,

E 3 3 1 S AT TUB Ot.D STAl.'I) OF HENRY OTT. Wat Side of Court House Square,

CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA.

LEE & BROTHER'S NEW GROCERY STORE. THIS

establishment is now stocked with a largo assortmentof plain and fancy Grocorios: whioh will be sold for cash orproduco. Farmers of Montgomery county call in and examine our stock before purchasing olscwhore. [Dec3'G4tf.

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A Superior article of Lippencott & Co'n. Doublo

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THE CRAWFORDSVILLE

Pension, Bounty, Back Pay,

Commutations of Rations for Soldiers who have been Prisoners of War and Prize Money also, Claims for Horses and

Other Property lost in the Service, and in fact every species of Claims Against the Government

Collected with Promptness and Dispatch by

JR.

URITTOJ%%

Attorney,

AFD

GOVERNMENT CLAIM AGENT.

Office in Washington Hall Build

ing, over Simpson $ Grocery Store, Crawfordsville."^a

I nder lite present Ltiwx, Soldiers and Soldierf Heirs are entitled as follows: lsr. When a soldier has died from any raupo in thn service of tho United States, since the 13th of April leaviujj widow, she is entitled to pension of 5H per month alson bounty of from $T5 to $10" beaiaes all arrears of pay. 2d. If tho soldier left no willow, his children under 10 yearri of ago aie entitled to the pension, back pay. nnd bounty. 3d. If the soldier left no widow, child or children, I lien the lather is untitled to the bounty and back pay. but no pension. '•Ih- If tho soldier left no widow, child or father, or if the father has abandoned the support of the family, the mother is entitled to tho back pay and bounty, and. if she was dependent in whole or in part on her son for support, to a pension also, ii "i the soldier left none of tho above heirs, then the brothers and sisters arc entitled to tho back pay and bounty.

To Discharged Soldiers: 1st. W hen a soldier is discharged by reason of the expiration of his term of service, ho is entitled to all arrears of pay and tho balance of the bounty promised to him after deducting the installments paid. 2d. Soldiers discharged for wounds rcccived in LINK OK LIT'TY are entitled to a IIOI-NTY.

I"*011.01 ('on^efiS every soldier who

nave lost one hand nnd one foot in tho service,

.to., can. at all times, bo -"hall be entitled to a pension of $20 per month.

Office!» returns to Chief of Ordnance, Surgeon '.,nd yil(irter-M i^ter Ueneral miido (Jcrtiheates ot Aon-lnauijiuauuMii, oDtained. l'ecs Hcasonalilc and no Charge In Any Case I'nless .Successful. {^"Special attention given also io the. settlement of Dccedcntx Estates, and other I.eqal business.

Illyrf'U5. W. I». KKITTOIV.

C. V. SAL'l'KXFIKI.II. K. M. SARI'ESKIELD.

SAPPENFIELD & BRO., Attorneys at Law 8

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REAfi ESTATE A«OTS. "V\7llil

ATTENO to business in tho Circuit and

»T Cournxm l'leas Courts in this and adjoining counties.. Will give prompt attention to tho scttlcmontof Estates, collection of Pensions and Soldiers' laiins. liny and fell on commission. Houses and Lots, Vacant Lots, iCiirms, farming Land in all tho Western States and Territories.

Loans nogotiatcd. collections made. Land ontorcd. Taxes paid and Titles examined in all tho Western States.

Have for salfl a largo number of desirable dwellings in this city, also, a large number of vacant Lots, at very reasonable terms.

Have also at lareo number of Farms in this and adjoining counties for sale, also 15,000 acrcs of Westorn I.and, partially improved.

After property is placed in our hnnds tor sale, should tho owner through our introduction, or by means of publicity given by us, sell the property at tho fixed prico, or for more or loss, tho commiision must, in all cases, bo paid to us.

ITPOflicc over ltrowu's Drug Store, Vernon street, Crawfordsvillo, lnd. HKKEHKNCKS:—McDonald .t Roach, Indianapolis Smith IT Mank. Attorneys,Terro Haute Patterson A Allen, do Hon. I. N. Picrco do Judge S. F. Max-

T)vostuffs. well, Rockvillc Win. Durham, President First National Hank of Crawfordsvillo Campbell, Walker and Cooley. Professors of Law, Michigan University,

Ann Arbor. Mich. [janli

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FOR SALE.

Two story frame houso with Grooms, cistorn.celInr. orchard, and out baildim.'*, •n iih 5 acros of land mile west of Collcgo.

House and lot on Market street, good woll. cistern, cellar, and an excellent selection of growing fruit. Terms easy.

Houso and lot oil corner of Washington and Pike streets. 2 stories. rooms, 2 halls, well, oistorn, and cellar, growing fruit, and good outbuildings, will sell in 3 parcels, suitablo for purchasers, lot82i by 105. Terms easy.

House and lot on Washington street, near college, rooms, good cistern, collar, stable, and growing fruit. Lottt2K by 105. Terms easy.

House and lot on Walnut stroet, near College. 9 rooms, Kood cistern, cellar, stable, and fine selection of growing fruit. Lot 82£ by 105. For terms apply.

llousoandlot of 0 acros in south part of oity, 24 rods on piko road, 40 rods back. 100 good fruit trees, barn,34 by 30, woll, cistern, collar, nnd good out buildings, houso 2 stories high, rooms, with wood houso un dor roof of same building, good selection of small fruits, grapes, Ac., and a lino collection of ornamental trcos. Prico $4,000 in payments.

Out lot No. 4, in Samuel Thompson's addition. House and lot. No. 02, ou Washington street, north of Court House, 5 rooms, good cistcrn, collar, and other out buildings, l'rico $1300, in paymonts.

Farm of I9!i acres, 00 acrcs cloared bottom land, oodsaw and grist mills, saw mill cut 50U0 feet por ay, two run of stonos. building 4 stories high, tirabor onough on promises to run saw mill 3 years, good orchard, oarn, and coinfortablo house, with good out buildings, good spring, and ooal bank on farm,8 miles oast of Kockville, Parko county, lnd. Terms in reasonable paymonts,

Farm 100 acros, 2 miles west of Crawfordsvillo. Tortus $75 por aero.

Farm 271 acres, noar llrownsvillo, Montgomery county. Ind. Farm $45 por acrc in payments. Farm 100 acres north of Crawfordsville $4.1 per acrc, in rensonablopaymonts.

Farm 110 acrcs 1 mile wost of Vountsvllle, in good repair, good house, barn, Ac. Terms $"5 per acre.

Farm 93acrcs in Parke oounty, Ind 6 miloa cast Rockvillo. Terms reasonable. Farm 80 acres2X miles south of Wavcland, Ind.,2 houses and 2 orchards, with all nocessary out buildings, Prico $75 por acre, in payments.

Farm 01 acrcs, 0 milos oast of Rockvillo, Ind„ good house, barn, orchard, and out buildings. Cheap at $75 por acre.

Have also for salo 500 acres in Pago county, Iowa, Will exchange for town proporty in a flourishing town or city. 200 acros in Coffy county, Kansas. Entered ycare ago. Prico $1,50 per acre.

ICQ acros in Dickinson county. Iowa $1,10 por aero. 500 aoros in Missouri at $1,00 per acre. Also a large number of farms in this and adjoining States. For particulars apply.

Western land constantly on hand, for sale or ex change. Also for salo 3 acrcs wost of tho Odd Fellows' Comelory.

Parties wishing to mako quick sales of thoir proporty will do wc'.l by sending us a description of their

Sroperty.

Wchavemado arrangements with ltei

state Agencies in most of tho Western States, as are prepared to mako transfers at a small oxponse. jan20l00. SAPPENFIELD & BROTHER.

FOR THE LADIES. Celebrated Pearl Drops

FOR

and oaring di

boautifying the oomplexlon and oaring diseases of the .skin. For sale onl

Enl£b$IN*FORD.

Pries 95eonts a bottle.1 d»e»-lW,3

DEMOCRATIC AT ALL TIMES AND UNDER

How Hon. D. W. Voorhces was Cheated

Out or

his Seat.

The Committee for increasing tho radical majority iu the House by all means, fair or fou), have not covered their traoks well. They cheated A. C. Baldwin, of Michigan, out of his seat in Congress to give it to a blatant radical. They Mve cheatcd D. W. Voorhces, of Indiana, out of his seat to give it to another, and -are still at work increasing their .majority. But they have worked in the guise of a Committee on Elections. Tho following cxtracls from a speech .of Mr. Voorhees show that the mask was lorn (iff somc-

Mr. Voorhees—1 will

how aud their real character exposed, not'say, and but one favor to ask. You to say avowed

matter under

Now let him answer a direct question. Did not this committee, with the exception of the gentleman himself, once vote, February 1, upon the roll-call of its members, by yeas and nays, that I was entitled to the seat I now claim, and this, too, after full discussion and lengthy advisement? I demand an answer, and dare him to make it. ,'5,

Mr. Davis—Docs the gentleman" suppose that 1 am going to violate the rules of this House and state what transpired in the committee-room [Laughter 011 Democratic side.]

Sir. Voorhces—But for the sake of ar-

gument, suppose we admit all that Mr. Washburnc claims. Suppose we admit er, and the air was he has proven that hu ought to have re- j'i'i object not ceived a hundred more votes than lie did. ol 11 rod. 'Ihcy

Does it follow that therefore the votes which were cast for me, and couccrnin

oa contesting certain who has the most legal votes by ti recouut upon all the evidence that can be furnished? Who doubts in this case as to where the legal majority restsf The contestant himself ma/ces no pretense that he received more votes than I did, nor as many, according to his.oicn estimate, by near four hundred but you are asked to enforce an arbitrary and technical rule, founded neither in law or justice, in order to reduce my majority by taking away votes as pure and legal as any which ever upheld an election. The true rule of law is as it is found in the statutes of

jontestinir an election? Is it not to as- did not take an observation. The sceon

Indiana, and I am defending my rights here according to her laws as well as the laws of the States and Federal Government generally. I quote from 1, Gavin & Hord, statutes of Indiana, page 318: "No irregularity or malconduct of any member or officer of a board of judges or canvassers shall set aside the election of any person, unless such irregularity or malconduct was such as to cause tho eontestee to be dcelared elected when he had not received the highest number of legal votes nor shall any election bo set aside for illegal votes, unless the number thereof given to the oonteetee, if taken from

CIRCUMSTANCES

ORAWFOBDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, MARCH ~T7,

him, would reduce the number of legal votes given to some other person for the same offense."

Sir, where is the evidence of irregularity or malconduct on the part of any officet connected with this election, which caused me to be declared elected when I had not in fact received the highest number of legal votes? There is not a syllable of such proof. Where is the'evidenco that I received illegal votes, which, if taken from me. would reduce my majority of five hundred and thirty-four to a minority? Nowhere. Allow mr. the voteii whose legality/ no one. questions, and allow the contestant all he claims to It'ivr received, and I am content. I Mr. Speaker. T. have but little more to

I know, and 1 know, and this IIousc the country know, that I have the

seat of a member of this House 'ifeon' I "T-T' 'n°i jcommittee is to be sustained let it be done on its true grouud. I have been your fair foe. I have met you'in open, honorable warfare, and 1 am entitled at least to candid hostility at your bands. I have neither skulked nor dodged on this floor,

tested in the usual way that the case is reached and taken up by the Committee of Elections that full"and elaborate argument is heard by both parties to the contest, extending through three days that all the evidence is in, and so far as the eontciit and the sitting member arc conccrncd, the case is closed and submitted to the committee. I will suppose that the sitting member is politically very obuoxious to seven out of the nine members of the committee, and has no charitable constructions to expect at their hands that lie informed them in the argument ol the ease that all he expcctcd or asked was simply what the law and tho facts would compel them to give that bare naked justice, after all' doubtful points have been ruled against him, was all he sought to confirm his title to his seat. I will SUDUOSC. •••*«. aiu close iim argument, the committee, of its own motion and against the wishes of both parties, took the whole matter under advisement during nearly the week, at the end of which hers announced themselves ready to vote. I will suppose that thereon the roll of the. committee was called for the ayes and nays, and that every member of the committee, with but one exception, answered that the sitting member was entitled to his seat that the one dissenting vote was given by the chairman that then, for some reason of which we arc all profoundly ignorant, this action of the committee in favor of the sitting member was withheld from this House, and that after the lapse of nearly another week, during which time no more evidence was taken, no more argument heard, and no further notice given, at least to the sitting member, a different conclusion was reached, and the contestant declared to be elected by the very same men who a few days before had solemnly declared that he was not! I need not stop to characterize such a proceeding with epithets. It will find its proper estimation in the minds of all honest men here and elsewhere. Nor need I pause to inquire into the motives which governed such conduct, There is no eye so blind as not to disccrn them, and no heart so calloused by partisan prejudice not to be pained at their exhibition. Yet such has been the action of the committeeron the_case now under consideration. i: 'I' 't'

IIUJU JW IIU'.II II 1 lilU IV i^O.

r\„ ,• ,• '.1 tamed some very line lovti 11 owe them more 1 or the 1 confidence than ,,

IC space of a'i 1 1 .1 .. I lollowing is a specimen: ..

., 1 can ever pay: but at. least one merit rP1 •, ,,M tunc its 111cm- ii, ,. „. „|„.1 1 1 he 1 resulent, on 1 liur.-sday tnev will always concede to me. have

never shrank from the vindication ol' their lights and may the light of heaven be denied to my eyes when, for the position or place, I prove recreant to their principles.

Correspondence of the St. Paul Press.

Terrible, Calamity in Minnesota—Three ,V'' Youug Girls Frozen to Death. CHAIN LAKK CKNTEII, MARTIN Co.,

February 17. 1SUU.

Let me bring to your notice a distressing casualty that occurred in this place last week.

On Tuesday evening, the loth instant, seven children—four boys and three girls —between the ages of ten and seventeen years, belonging to the families of Messrs. Landakcr and Prestler, attended a singing school two miles distant from their parents' residence. The scope of country around is rolling prairie, thinly settled. Before the school closed, the wind commenced to blow hard and filled the atmosphere with snow as fine as Hour, that had fallen five inches deep a few days before.

Hearing the wind blow, the children soon started for home, with their ox team. After proceeding half a mile, they were bewildered and lost their way. The wind now became violent and the cold intense. After wandering a portion of the night, the oxen stopped in a larire snow drift. The children now protected themselves as well as they could iu the open wagon box 011 the sled. One of tho girls yielded to the intense cold and froze to death. Morning came, but it brought, no relief to (hem. for the wind blew as hard as evfull of snow that be seen the distance of 11 rod. They passed the day in and

around the sled box. Just before night the wind partially subsided, so that

nltltu )YU1U vunl Iui JilUj uuu .. j'"* —w which there is no question of illegality 1 building, I believe, could be seen lrom raised, shall be totally rejected? Wiil their position while another house was you disfranchise a thousand legal voters not more than one hundred rods distant. a such grounds? What is the object in Hut tb: boys were probably asleep, an

night—the coldest night of

1866.

and

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land if a sacrifice is required to appease be expected. the political Moloch which has so knur presided here, you have selected tho prop1 er victim. He will not, shrink from the |blow. God being my helper, this political gibbet shall not be a matter of rciproach to me or mine. If you wish to |"purge Parliament" and reduce this already fractional Congress to a still greater uniformity of opinion, you hold the ax, and I defy its edge as well as the malice of tho executioners. Strike but you cannot kill. Banish 111c, sir my heart is not here. It is *vr WO.HH.IIMI western 1 u^.nc. 1 am thinking of that people who I have so often covered me with their affec- I tion as with a shield in the hour of storm land dancer. To them I will gladly

the little boys wero.^frozen above the knees. The other little boy is not frozen much, though he was more "thinly clothed than the others. He had no mittens for his hands, though he wore a blouse, the sleeves of which came over his hands.

I have visited these suffering families. It was a sad sight to see those three girls, laid on one bed, in the same condition as they were when taken from the sled. 1 saw the limits of the surviving, nearly as black as a stove pipe. The sufferings of the older boys are terrible when the doctor dresses their limbs.' The youngest is quite cheerful, and even heroic, assisting his mother to prick the blisters on his limbs, lie persists in the belief that he could have driven his steer-! home the first niirht if the older boys had let him have his own way.

The doctor is sanguine that he cau save all the limbs except a hand of one of the older boys. It is my opinion that after a few days the flesh of the frozen parts will slaugh off. and amputation will need to I bo resorted to extensively. It' possible to save life. The doctor, however, says all the limbs arc doimr as well as could

That any of them survived such a tor nado of wind and snow for so loner a time, in the coldest weather that has been this winter, is marvelous, not only to me, but also to the crowd of people who throng the abode of the sufferers.

Minister Contrvesntional C'hurch, C.hain

inis'.er Con^ve^ntional Church, C.ha a

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Sir, now let the House proceed, 'flic gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Steven*). two days ago, in connection with the election contest then under consideration, said: '-This question may seem to some gentlemen to be a small matter, but in vidw of thick-coming events one vote may prove to be of great value here."

The President having handed Forney down to posterity as a dead duck, the question most ditlicult of solution is to determine to what spccies of the great family of web-footed waterfowls does Forney belong. We entertain too profound a respect for "canvass-backs," "mallard," •'rcd-nccks." -'sprig-tails." -'black-backs," and teal and summer ducks, to class such a fishy, greedy bird as Forney with any of the excellent spccies.

Forney is a "dead didappcr," and our admiration the President's skill as a quick shot, is intensified when we recollect that it is next to impossible to kill this fishiest and most artful of ducks with an ordinary gut

Ofall the family of-divers,' the "didappcr is ihe most dexterous at dodging and turning somersaults in the water. lie is a voracious and exceedingly fishy little fellow, and bears the same relation to the great, family ol' \uuk» UH Forney does to the editorial fraternity. lie is perpetually diving and when he one can make the slightest calculation as to the exact spot or moment when he will como to the .surface. Having in our younger days paddled hours in pursuit of, and expended pounds of ammunition

the season,

The father saw them halting a mile off. At once he flew to their, relief. The sled was brought to the door of the parents, containing the frozen bodies of the girls, one ol' the little boys insensible, and the others badly «frozeu. The limbs of the two older boys were frozen apparently solid nearly to the knees, while tho hands and arms of one of them were more bndly fronen. The limbo of one of

ccotul upon, this wary and active diver, we can

not too much commend that splendid shot

thirty degrees below zero—overtook them. from the portico of the White House Two srirls froze to death that night. Early Thursday morning the boys awoke almost helpless. The one ncit to the oldest and the youngest, ten years of age, undertook to start the team. The oldest boy begged of them not to halloo, as it would be of 110 use, for they must all perish there. "No," says one of the boys, "we shall yet be rescued," and he crawled to the front of the oxen, and, with his hands frozen stiff, wiped off the ice from their eyes so that they could see, aud kicked their legs till they bled, and then, by desperate hallooing, the oxen put forth their strength aud moved the sled from the drift. Going half a mile they came upon a swell on the prairie.

which "keeled" the political "didappcr over. As this bird can never be killed when his eye is upon the sport man, Forney, the "didappcr," undoubtedly met his fate when he was looking intently at Thad. Stevens, and did not think that "the man at the other end of the avenue" kept a gun, and shot fishy ducks upon National anniversaries.

But the divings and somersaults of Forney, the faithless, are now at an end. The blind rage and insane abuse of the President which defiles the pages of the Chronicle and Press, remind us of the spasmodic flutterings of the "dying didappcr," as he flaps aud quivers convulsively upon the surface, with a heavy charge ot Executive duck-sliot in his brain.

Years hcncc the old men of Washington will tell their grandchildren how, one bright 22d of February morning, "all in the olden time," they saw President Andrew Johnson shoot a foul, greedy, fishy little duck right in front ol the White House, as tin ornithological hero of the nursery, the "dead didappcr" will rank next to the ^lain cock robin.

WHOLE NUMBER 1227

Another Uoosa Tragedy -Uobherj :»n»lProbC »bie Murder or Three Children*. The Madisou Courier of tho 9th haa the following details of an awful tragedy in the vicinity of Paris, Ind. We copy e. have just received information of one of the most fiendish, dark and damning deeds it has ever been our duty to record. The facts, as related to us this morning by Mr. lloruff, are substantially as follows:

A short, time since as Mr, Todd, residing near Bear Creek, half a mile north west of Paris, Jennings County, Indiana, eighteen miles from this city, sold his little farm for $370. On Wednesday last, the 7th instant, at the hour of two o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. Todd having occasion to go out iuto the field for a short time, left the children iu the house together. There were three of the children, aged, respectively, two, four and six years. The parents, of course, suspccted no danger, and all their money &c., was left in the house. In half au hour, however, they returned, and vfrere horror-sticken to find all three of the children stretched 011 the floor as if iu dying condition, and weltering in their blood.

IminediiiLcly giving the alarm to their nearest neighbors, it spread until the people of tho entire vicinity were out, iu arms.

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Vours ti nly, .J. C. SU1UVJ.U,TRONG,

iVS.r

W'c seldom have occasion to copv articles from the Richmond Times, but since General (.!rant issued his order in regard to disloyal papers, the Times has eonval reading. The

last, usurp-

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one of the principal prerogatives of the learned universities, to the great de- ,,| light of all respectable people. lie cou-

ferrcd the degree of D. D." upon For-

uey. Not that he declared that most unscrupulous "artful dodger" of the pross a '"Doctor of Divinity." but he dubbed him a '•Dead Unci:," and as Forney happens to be the tirst man ever thus solemnly proclaimed by a President of the United States to be a defunct water fowl, the epithet has made him famous, Since the publication of his celebrated letter recommending the deliberate intoxication of a certain theatrical ••Star" for the purpose of extracting secrets from hint which he hoped would blast the honor of a defenseless woman, he has well merited the title of "D. D." as the abbreviation of "Dirty Dog but having been formally, upon a solemn anniversary occasion, invested with the honorary degree of "Dead Duck," by that title lie will hereafter be popularly and historically known. We say "historically,"' for history docs sometimes hang such characters in chains, as all will remember who have read of the Vicar of '4%' IFE# Dray.

i'oot and on horseback, scouring

the country in search of the hcll-dcserv-author of tho horrible crime. TW supposition is that the primary object of th'xy liend in human shape was robbery, but after taking the money and such other valuables as he wanted, he feared perhaps that the eldest child might be a witness against him, and therefore deliberately knocked them all three in the head. Mf. Uamnicl stopped at the house of mourning after the occurrence. He says he found the children in a horribly mangled condition, and the attendant physician had given it as his opinion that neither of them could recover.

From the Madison Courier of tho lOtli we copy the following additional details:The father of the children is Mr. William Todd. The youngest child has died from the injuries it received, but the other two will probably recover.

Late on the evening of the murder, the oldest child recovered sufficiently far to" be able to tell the name of the author of the terrible act, who was immediately sought out and arrested.

His name is Wash. Sage, and during the winter he had worked for Mr. Todd. The children ou the day of the tragedy came in from ti.cir play while -the parents were out in the field, and found the scoundrcl ransacking the premises. H0 immediately seized a Bible lying near

with which lie knocked the smallest chilrf in the head. He then grasped a*smoothing iron, and either with it or a pistol which he held in his hand, he beat all three of them until he supposed they were dead, and then left with his booty for his home, three-quarters of a mile" distant, where he was arrested. Upon being taken into custody he mado a full confession. I11 searching for the money he found two-pocket-books, one small one and a larger one filled witlupapefs lie took the last, but left the first, although it contained the money 1 Tho prisoner had a preliminary trial on Thursday, at Paris, before Squire Jones, ancf was recognized to Court. He is now in jail at Vernon, where Mr. Hudson saw him yesterday.

We learn from various parties that Sage has always been a suspicion's character, and generally considered a bad man. He is a married man, about thirty years old, aud a son of John Sage, formerly of this county. He was a terror to the neighborhood when living here.

Out of Tlielr (Mvn Mouths Condemned—The Kepu 1)1 lean Party Composed of Traitors. The Indianapolis Ilerald says: All tl\e leadeis of the llcpublicau party arc traitors. Johnson says Stevens, Sumner, aud

oes under, 110 those who oppose, him aro traitors (see his spcech.) and they squat under the charge. The Cincinnati Gazette (see articles from it to-day.) says Dixon, and all the Republicans who support Johnson, are traitors aud they squat under it. So 011 high llcpublicau authority all the Republican leaders are traitors. We, of coursc, are now authorized to call them so and we never had any doubt of the fact as to a large number of them, but did not, in our opinion, include the whole body of them. But Johnson and the

Gazette arc better informed on the subject than we arc, and we defer to their

opinions. 1

DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.—Mrs. Swisshelm, speaking in a published letter of "Brick" Pomeroy, says she would like to stick a pin in him. To which "Brick reppofds: "Ah! cruel Jane! That would hurt! Severe as you deem us, not for ten dollars would we stick one in you. Alas—yet uot a lass! Have you no fellow feeling in your bosom?"

SINGULAR.—The opposition in Philadelphia, to the observance of Sunday, is led by two D. D's—one tho "dead duck," and the other a doctor of divinity.