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THE REVIEW

Paper for tlie PeopI^

OfSotfal and

Paliucal

OEFIOE—

Reform,

It publish** *Tcry Satorday,

CRAWFORDSTILLE. IXD.

TEBM8:

Sin#)* copy, one year *•«.&* tix month# thrva months T«a ecptea, one year. to one addr«»!.

ion

And so the long years gtcw.

A *«Bt sea rolls between us, A gulf that time haa made. New habits grown upon us,

Old beautiea faint and fade

Take one last look behind yon. Into the Tale of years, Doea my face come before yotij8e through a milt. of tears

LIFE IN MEXICO CITY.

When the winter }iun beams down qpon it when the cool wi /from the great hills and lovingly fan your cheek when the clear waters that bind the Aztec city round, ripple musically beneath an unclouded when the sunsets arc gra'ndest, then visit Mexico. High up, and miles away in the blazing sun, glares the snow-capped Popocatepetl beneath, a boundless green, patched with flowery fields of red, and yellow, and blue little brooks hurry from the hills, and sheets of water—like flakes of silver—leaping from the clifft, nearer yet, boats decked in gaudy colors, and swept by sinewy firms across the crystal sea, aud "airs of flute and guitar" drift out from a hundred canoes. All these turn one back tu the golden age of Mexico, when the halls of tho Montezumas echoed the bymnB of peace, and when the looms and busy fingers of tho people were working out a wonderful destiny for the red man.

The "balls of the Montezumas" went to dust years ago the fabled floating gardens drifted out of sight, and the great causeways, so famous in Mexican annals, crumbled nway leaving but a wreck behind. The palace of the Viceroy, Emperor, and President, stands upon the very spot where the line of Indian emperors gavo audience and laws. Long rows of stono fronts—three stories and balcooied—rise up from the site of the adobe huts of the aborigines. The stranger inherits tho wealth, while the descendants of the kings arc hewers, and packers, and carriers. The Indian, blanketed and in rags—with visage and characteristics of a slave— staggers through sun and dust, bearing water jug, of panniers, or charcoal box, or refuge sack upon his back and the co'mpanifin with whom he is mated—hooded and barefoot—at his heels, vends her tortillas from door to door, or Bits on the curb till the buyer comes. Here arc wealth and want beauty and deformity. Life is here with all its luxuries and all its wretchedness. To think of the magnificence of this city the thousand palaces where wealth is garnered the two hundred temples filled with treasure the fountains that play from silver pipes the buildings that cost millions of money and thousands of human lives tho piles of stone and mortar to think that all these were wrung from the toil and blood of millions of disfranchised Aztecs and Tolccs, who once were masters of this valley and "city act in a silver son.''^

Cortez, commissioned by a Spanish a king put to death the Indian emperor. Three and a half centurics roll away, and, strange retribution, a representative of tho Montezumas—in turn—puts to death Maximillian, a descendant, of the same Spanish king.

When Maxiuiilliau came to the Mexico City tho plaza was a dead level —ten acres in extent—of bouldercd ground, treeless, shrubless, grassless, and bleak as any desert. To day, trees, rare shrubs and flowers fill up the waste, and mounds rise amid the green

jetsof waters that parklo in the sunlight. The place is a marvel of tasto and beauty and hero thousands congregato on the evening of every day.

U»INEW

LOST.

The moon coax* out and glimmers. Tie atftra like diatsondi gleam, And long grten bough* arc wiiTing 0 er a pleeaant mountain stream.

And my thoughts travel backward. Into the long dead years, '?f And your fac« comes before me, f«en through amiatof team.

We met—we loved—wc parted The atory ever new, We IWed—wo hoped—we waited.

nds ^teal

This is the handiwork of the late Emperor. His genius and taste planned.' fellows, then surely, He and his money executed it. Chapulte- these miscreants: for thi peo, his country seat grew iuto a perfect paradise of beauty under his eyes and bymeans of his private purse. To him the Congressional Hall owes its architectural beauty and finish. Ho jdid more for Mexico, of the solid, use-

Mexican. He never permits principle or patriotism to interfere with his in-

A man with large mouth, thick lips,

low forehead, and aogainly figure—the 'profile of the southern tribes

Mex-

SERIES—VOL XXI, NO

?co—that is the Indian president. His face is homely as Indian's ever was his arms rest uncouthly on bis chair and while his lips more, once in a while from the dnll eye snaps out a flp.sh of fire. Benito Juaraz, the same who made and sold cigarritos in New Orleans when the reactionists held the reigns in Mexico the same who, by use of bayonet and past prcstige, holds the president's chair to day. I One cannot doubt the nature of the man after hi3 share of official cruelty in the Queretaro tragedy. In that sunken eye lurks no mercy for a defenceless anti-.Tuarist: and there is stuff in that grim face that angels could not move to pity.

In the Congress, near 150 members repre.-ent the twenty odd States of the

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an* business for the na-

tion. This body when in council is a curious picture. Here is theCastilian —fair and dark the Indian the mixed-blood*—the whole comprisin every shade of color, from the whitest to the darkest and every cos tume, from that of the teamster to the dandy to the statesman. Oratory there is none of rant and "beating the wind," enough. In legislating there is a looseness ajid lack of method while some sound thinkers grace the assembly there is a host of egotists and emty-beads. Here lady never comes. In the galleries linger small groups. whoEe eyes wan dcr about the paintings and scrolls rather than towardsjthe dull treadmill below. The few busy men are those on the stairway—and these seek con cessions, or arc pushing an account through the circumlocution office. When the President's hammer falls the usual buzz breaks into a noisy voci-. feration and down the Bteps they go, gesticulating and laughing like BO many schoolboys. If on the Alameda at sunset, you may see many stripling statesmen on a drive, or, later, in the fashionable cafes, or at faro, monte, poker. The Congress changes its presiding officer every month. The scramble for this oflicc is not undignified nor in the least exciting.

Although land outside of cities is not subject to taxation, within the gates the tax upon real and personal property is enormous. Iior everything a man possesses and consumes he is heavily taxed. In nothing is he exempt. This buiden is grievous upon the people and in many cases, not only consumes the profits of business, but swallows up the capital and stock besides. With characteristic meanness,(the authorities call it necessity). Government is not cootent with immediate payment of the present tax, but compels payment agaiu of that wrung from tho people during the Empire. It is a clear case of grinding between -tho upper and nether millstones of power. Complaints arc futile. Uusurpations and oppressions are the people's inheritance and they beud their necks to them, and wait for better times. The products of tho soil in Central Mexico are cheap enough but the cost of shipping by wagon from Vera Cruz puts ^foreign articles at fabulous prices. Duties upon goods in transitu and at the seaboard arc tho main wource of revenue

to the Government. The latter ex-

erciEes wonderful ingenuity in track-

exists. Skirmishes are not unfrequcnt upon the streets. Assassinations arc fearfully prevalent. A man must be bold indeed to walk, unarmed, the streets at night-time.

The ladrones ore a desperate class of men—unprincipled and reckless. They have no visible means of support they number twenty thousand and they burrow in hovels on the outer limits of the capital. Their real vocation is to assassinate, kidnap, and rob. They congregate sometimes on the Alameda, and if God ever wrote on the faces of men warning to their did upou assembly types every shade of scouudrelism, duplicity, mendicancy—an aggregation of filth and rags and crimc, the most loathsome, the most villainous, that eye ever looked upon in any land. Remove the bayonet, and the city

ful, and ornamental in the fine arts, would be condemned tosack and pillage education, benevolence, than all the ^presidents and usurpers from Iturbidc to Juarez. Is it a marvel, then, that they celebrate grand mass in the churches for the dead, that this unstable race once acquiescing in his death, should to-day clamor for the martjr's image'to be placed, for worship, among the saints? This is oo new thing in Mexico. Instability is a erowning characteristic of the

before sunset. Hungry, like wolves, they scent every whiff of hlood in the winds. They arc first, last, aud loudest at an execution, and will mob without pretence or provocation. When old General Vidauri was so brutally shot by the Liberals, in 1SG7, these fiends jeered at him, and the same night, in a fit of indignation, mobbed the same man who betrayed the General to the authorities.

fcunday is the principal business day. Then the stores arc filled all

terests. To-day he is a Liberal, to- day long, the markets thronged, morrow an Imperialist.i'"-And he will, if a 6oldier, fight on both sides the 6ame day.i

the theatres open, and, if there is a bull-figlit in contemplation, (althis diversion is now prowithin the gates) Sabbath evening is sure to be selected. Concubinage is one of the crying sins.

though hibitcd

The general looseness of morals and easy virtue prevailing, may be estimated by knowing that the illegitimates annually bom number one-third of the population. This the law, instead of preventing, sanctions by its silence. The women are subject to every caprice of fortune helpless and ignorant, with no vocation, no avenue to hanest support educated to despise chastity, to love money more than all else, it is not marvelous that thousands embrace, as a sort of necessity, a life of lewdness and shame. The sin of licentiousness penetrates all classes, and the opeu and sovereign contempt for chastity has ri practical demonstrations in the unblushing record of men in high position.

The governmenVof' the capital is, in a great measure, vested in a goberna dor, whose will is the supreme law. From his decree there is no ap peal. He levels barricades, widens streets, demolishes buildings, and cuts canals at his discretion. The genius of this functionary has lately been directed toward that difficult problem—the drainage of the city The lake Tezcuco, when swollen by summer rains, backs up to the main plaza and floods the entire city. In 1629, for a period of three months, the whole capital was deleuged in three feet of water. Lesser inundations have been frequent since then. During these times, water bursts from the earth—in the streets—in the houses—everywhere over tho city. The site of Mexico is lower than the surrounding country, and for the two lakes—one fresh, one salt—no outlet exists. The centre of the city is but a few feet above the ordinary level of the lakes. The place is therefore liable to inundation during the prevalence of each rainy season. Native engineers have heretofore exhausted their inventive talent in ditching and throwing up levees this proving useless in some seasons.

The press of the capital, though dignified in style, is not vigorous. License of speech is not a privilege enjoyed within the boundaries of the. republic. Ten sheets—one is in the French, one in the Spanish, and one the American interest—daily and weekly, are scattered sparsely among the populace not one of which dares speak above its breath. A special aw to curb free utterance was enacted and so whenever a newspaper is published a censor is posted, and whenever thought runs too freely for thi3 democratic administration the press stops, and the editor goes to prison. It is criminal to speak of the wrong-doings of a government official it is a crime to expose corruptien, malfeasance, or usurpation.* Literature is in swad-dling-clothes the few efforts at the poetic, dramatic, and historical are not startling conceptions. The rich aro of foreign extraction they owe no allegiance to the government, and have nothing in common with the masses. They toil to accumulate money, and while doing this they identify themselves with no party, and feel interest in tho reign of anarchy or peace only so far as their pockets arc concerned. As to the institutions, aud lovo of country they

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Mexico is, indeed, a nation of fragments, having no common sympathies, no past to reverence, no future in prospective, no ancestral fires, no national virtues—absolutely nothing to stir up enthusiasm. Liberty—boasted of betimes in harangues—is a myth, a watchword for unlicensed crusades upon the property and lives of men. If there is any true patriotism in the land it never finds expression in acts, or is lost in the debris of government, or strangled in the struggles for power, or by force of faction. The dawn of better times, as predicted by the sanguine well-wishers of the uation, is a shadow, whereupon the flimsiest hope cannot hinge. Here is luxury, and in select circles a perceptible leaning toward cultivation here are types of higher civilization and marvels of wealth. The balconies at uight, and palors by day. blaze with diamonds and beauty. But the thousands of this metropolis who struggle in servile wretchedness and wallow in the lower deeps of existence, are. for very numbers, as clouds of locusts that darken the sun.

It was but yesterday that from a 1 princely dwelling near the plaza emerged a funeral cortege. It passed down the street with all the pomp and show of a royal pagaent. The solid men of the city, chiefs in flaming uniforms and trappings of silver, the savans. the wise men who dispense laws, followed the black-plumed hearse—all doing honor to wealth and position. It was a "Lope" funeral, and thousands watched from the windows and balconies and on the streets.

ceremonies and a grand parade. Later

an®

€RA WFORDSVILLE VVEEkL 1

But no one asked his neighbor of the dead no curious eyes looked from curtained windows as the mourners passed on in the same road beyond the gates of the city. No coffin this time, covered with velvet and gold. The body, shrouded in coarse muslin, with face exposed to the sun, was borne on a wooden slab, on the head of a blanketed carrier and the cortege—a mother in rags and with bare feet, following, alone, her child to the great city of the dead. Such is the gulf separating the descendants of the Europeans who came to these shores centuries ago, and the millions of plebeian aborigines and their descendants.

Near a quarter of a million of peolive in the capital. How do all gain a subsistence The inquiry is a puzzle. With no mills, machine-shops, factories, or public works, what is there for the thousands who people this city to do? The food of the poor is simple and cheap but whence comes even the little required to purchase their corn tortillna nnd pepper soup? Many are carriers and servants thousands are in the chain gang, and subsist upon the city. Thousands steal their bread and apparel thousands live, no one knows how: and thousands more are paupers and mendicants, treading daily the streets as an army. Many live upon the strangers that come and go. Beggars, eyeless and legless, beleaguer you on the streets and markets—piteous sights, holding out their withered limbs and leprous eaten arms—pleading all day long of every passer-by for alms, bread or money, to prolong their weretched lives. In Mexico there are no asylums for the poor or homes for the crippled no institutions for the blind or insane. They are licensed to beg so many hours each day: so you arc encompassed and prayed to and threatened. The country swarms with these gentry they meet you at every turn and a stranger scarcely sets foot upon shore before he is beset by scoures of professional beggars. Many may be seen sad and weeping, haggard and hungry, in the morning, and again at night happy, insulting and drunk.

A.pleasant enough city to live in is Mexico clean and healthy, with good water, bracing winds, cool nights, and surrounding scenery of peculiar beauty and grandeur. But with all these advantages it is a city that consumes, but gives nothing in return a city without a bank, insurance office, or public library, except in contemplation a city guiltless of genius, invention, or letters. Gold it worshipped. and gold it gained. The things of to-day are as those of two centuries past. The post-office is a century be-

ing down insurrections.. Spies scent the whole of Mexico. out disaffection and revolts, and the bullet docs its work. Between the polico and the military a mortal feud

ie cit es

]nnd and as in the cities, so in

ble only for insubordination andimbe cility. a city government expensive and oppressive, with an expenditure— municipal and national—that wrings twelve per cent from every hundred worth of property, one need not wonder at the scores of vacant store-rooms in the heart of the place, and the exodus of foreigners and business men from the capitol.

The Government is hero, the bulk of the army, the military chiefs—the intellect and sinew of the nation and there are grand balls and festivals, and rounds of gayety and costly show, and the national and city treasuries pay the bills. The merchant extorts from the consumer the government in turn drains the merchant. In brief, there is bebt beyond the possibility of re

CEAWFOEDSVIILE, MOMTGOMEBY COUNTY, INDIANA, NOVEMBER 6, 1869.

demption a treasury depleted, and a ported in Urehm's popular description populace bankrupt and clamorous. the animal kingdom), while hcat-

opefully, indeed, the people look- ,, wetz, my dog came suddenly on a wild ed forward for the consummation of

growing, and solvent republic. The

has

away. It will never come while bif-

era men ru the land,

and stay progress through the.r ha-

and make the country weal seconda "i ,. -tv-uu

times is well illustrated in the following A Sunday School teacher was giving a lesson on Ruth. She wanted to bring out the kindness of Boaz in

The bells tolled, aud in the commanding the reapers to drop large great cathedral there were

Eolemn ^andfulla of wheat. Now children,"

tlHn or

Tbe Wild Cut In Europe—Its Strength and Ferocity. A writer in the GentIanaji"R Magazine furnishes an interesting paper on the wild eat. which he regards as the most ferocious and destructive of all living animals. The following anecdotes illustrate its desparate character in fight- j. "The courase of the wild cat, though not proverbial, is undeniably of the highest and most distinguished order. The bull-dog's brutal ardor has something in it of insensibility to danger. Without cause or provicatiou 8 bulldog attacks a bear, and his annihilation, from being courted gratuitously, becomes an inglorious aud vulgar martyrdom. Men vaunt the panther, but with such an auimal the scope for pure courage must be narrowed considerably by the consciousness of might. The lion stands discredited by repeated acts of doubtful valor and applied to the blind rage of the tiger, »o test, of bravery can be a r-or i*-.

•^Tae wild cat is no less prudent than courageous. In conflict with dogs or men he is never the aggressor, and when assailed by numbers he usually endeavors to escape but he speedily grows fearless with the approach of peril, and becomes in turn a determined and desperate assailant. The combat is at all times dangerous and exciting, and in many occasions are on record of a tragical termination of the strife. "In the neighborhood of Givry, in the department of the Saone and Loire, a wild cat had for soma time haunted a pond, where it had been observed watching eels from the locks of an abandoned mill. Adjoining the mill was an old building which had been formerly used as a grunge for housing corn. Iuto this building the wild eat had been traced, in company with a tame one with whom it had contracted an alliance. The alarm was quickly given, and the maire of the village, accompanied with his staff, had shortly surrounded the building

with dogs and cartwhips, the maire and his son having each a double barreled gun. The tame cat bolted immediately, and in less than a minute was caught and strangled by the dogs. The wild one lay close, and refused to stir, notwithstanding the hooting of the men and the deafening cracks of the cartwhips. It was even feared, from his persevering quiesccnce, that he had effected an escape through some unguarded hole but, on examination, it appeared the holes were all stopped, and that there was no issue possible, except that of the open window, through which the tame cat. had just passed. The door was then part opeG£ct and a terrier introduced. The dog began immediately sniffling about and after scouring once or twice rouud the floor of the building, stood barking furiously with his gaze intent upon the rafters. Still the cat lay motionless, fixing the dog with its savage eyes, and evidently waiting to outsit I the danger. The maire's son then squeezed through the half open door,

,. ronnn and calling to his friends outside, was with another animal, no less renowned equaling that of a town of 3,000 popu-j

preparing t0

dislodge the cat, when

lation in the United States, and post- suddenly, regardless of the dog, it ite(]t divided with him the honors of age for 200 miles on a single letter I flew down like a fury, and fixing its the day. This occurred iu the north being 25 cents, and by "cxtraordina- I

aws in

tl}e

wT'ti. i• necktie, seized him fiercely by the un- for rabbits was witness of au ry -oO cents. NVith a police remarka-| ,• im „u„t ,i ,.„p

piece four

John Adams, but was abolished under

Democratic Administration. In 1861, un-|

and hundreds of editors and priTate citi-

tens were imprisoned and their property destroyed by mob violence.

hollow from the base up to the separation of the stem. Sure of his game, the tracker prepares his piece, which be rests in readiness against the trunk of the tree. He then draws his hammer and taps smartly on the bark. Nothing appears aud again the tracker strikes the tree, and this time with louder and more telling blows. Still nothingstirs, and the tracker begins to fear there has been some unaccountable escape. But this is not possible: the snow bears not the minutest tracc beyond the one imprinted by the return home of the animal. •'The cat is surely in the tree, and the tracker at last decides on starting it with a sudden and irrisistable alarm Waiting silently by the tree, in order to increase by stillness the unexpectedness of the shock, he strikes all at once upon the trunk a loud volley of resounding and rapidly repeated blows, at the same moment throwing down his hammer and catching up his gun, in immediate expectation of a sudden bolt. But alas before he had even time to adjust his posture, the savage animal is already on his shoulder, clutching fast at his throat and fiercely tearing at his eyes and face. So utterly unawares is the attack that the tracker, in his surprise and terror. drop3 his piece, and, raising his hands instinctively, thinks only of defending his head. In a twinkle the cat has clawed off his large fur and cap. and torn through the carvat that still protects his neck. Wild with pain, and blind with blood, the wretched man calls loudly to his son, who is somewhere near liim in the forest. Monnwbile the cat has scored the flesh from the old man's hands, aud is mercilessly furrowing his bald scalp. His cries become more plaintive, his anguish grows intense till, at length, he sinks to the earth distracted and insensible.

The son arrives iu haste, but only to find his father relinquishing all consciousness of the horrid strife. His first impulse is to drag off the cat. but the brute holds on, and tho son. with the cat, fears to tca'c up also the lascerated flesh. He then spies the hammer, and huiridly deals with it a mammoth blow. The cat cries, but continues not the less to tear its victim. A second and well-aimed blow stretches it lifclcoe on tlic grtiss and tlio son then bends in dread over his helpless father. '•The noise of the struggle has by this time attracted a passer-by. The poor tracker is removed to his cottage, where care and restoratives revive him sufficiently to recall his consciousness, and enable him with effort to relate his story but no skill suffices to avert the end, which takes place on the evening of the da}r of the adventure, the patient expiring in tho midst of much and frightful suffering. "Another incident, nearer home, shows the wild cat iu mortal conflict

young man's head and

t_ x- dcr lip. All was now no^i and scul- expected and exciting combat. I j)0gs and men rushed to the rescue, and in the midst of the confusion the eat escaped into a tree. Here its fate was soon decided. At first it layconcealed among the foliage, and protected by the branches on all sides but a shot from one of the guns soon scared it into sight a second soon broughtii headlong to the ground, where, after a furious fight, it required the interference of the men to pre jng to the utmost his instinctive vent its being torn to pieces by the deaaliness. The it gnashed aud dogs. The maire son was gravel}* raved, rending his opponent's breast wounded. His lip was swooleu and

valor, and which, on the occasion

Ireland, where a sportsman, ferret-

8 Ruea

and

3 a a a

cat an(

the prophecy that went out in times of The cat rau up a tree, round which Imperial overthrow, that this bcauti- the dog kept barking eagerly, for he ful city should, iu the space of six

immediately gave chase to it.

was a rcso ute an

a with an extreme antipathy for cats. I. months, be the centre of a prosperous, ]eveljjJ

powerful animal

was l00

day which was to have witnessed the the bushes before I had time to fire. fulfilment of the prediction

iarcc

fhe

tred of utilitarianism. It will never I .u ., ...

come while men who decree and

presi&t in following a suicidal policy

thwi tlli but the eal

quick for me, and leaped into

passed The dog flew after and seized it by

'5ac'c

wlt out a

moment a jiau?-.- or

hesitation. I was now unable to dis-

piece for fear of wounding

Vd I therefore drew my dirk

rushed into the cover, where the

two anima 3 ]av rolIi t0 th cou

fused an un

di,tinouishab!e souffle.

t.c hcd my moment, and at hist ran

ry to self-aggrandizement. .u j- .r .i .. I .-. the dirk completely through the cat affirm that the eat in its dire »-«mbit iw

a 0

a nimble movement that I was

THE tendency of the prevailing effectual thrust.' London, are said to

'Brebm informs us further that near his native village, a certain division of the forest bears the apparently descriptive title of Die Wildlatze.' But the name is simply commemorative of a particular event, and perpetu ates the authentic story of au encoun ter with a wild cat which had indeed

she said, "Boaz did another very nice a disasterous ending. Au old track-

from the same street,! was?" "Married her!" said one of freBhly-fallen snow the footsteps of a filed ont another funeral procession. I the boys. I full-grown cat. Joyfully he sets to

Kuth can you tell me what: er one early morning discovers on the

un-

pected and exciting combat. The ferrit had scarcely disappeared in the entrance of an earth, when an unusual scuffle announced a surprise below ground. The sound, by degrees, approached the surface, aud just afterward a cat dashed-out. dragging with him the ferrit. firmly fastened on his neck. Once outside the two animals redoubled their efforts each one striving for the other's life, and each exert-

covering his side with cruel claw

lareerated, his face and head torn se- wounds. The ferret, calm and exas vercly, and a vein opened iu his throat pcratinc. kept to the one deadly gripe i, rti in spite of the thickness of his tie. which had begun the battle. No CxOOClS £tnd Clotlllll^,* He was removed to his home imiuedi- whock. no provocation could persuade ately and surgical aid procured, but him to unlock those onr-o closed jaws: his recovery cost hiiu a month seclu- aud, doubtless, with a foe less cruc!l}* IN sion and a long interval of fererish arniedj though twice the weight, his T/-~\ -vt' ,, anxiety, lucky at last to escape with grim tactics would prevail at last.

his life aud a scar two indhes long. ]}ut here his power failed him through 'In 1G-10', writes Ilobburg (as re- loss of blood and when he dropped I

from his antagonist he wa.s quite unable to stand. The sportsman, anxious for the event, stood motionless on the spot from which he had witnessed the combat, merely holding his piece in readiness to fire, in ease tho eat should offer to attack him. The precaution was needless. On being liberated by the ferret the eat moved off a few paces, and then stood perfectly still, with its head bent downward, and its muzzle resting on the ground. Things lasted thus for several minutes, tiil the sportsman, observing the rut 's eyes to turn dim. took the symptom as eonclusivc. and approached with some impatience. On this the cat shuffled off toward the earth and the .-portaman. fcatin-: to lose it under ground, shot it dead at the entrance of tho hole. He was consequently unable to

l« tore Irom the los with it» IcrrtL l,:J1 or l,».l ,pv- I

dirk with a mortal wound. 1 here was no doubt

der the so-called Republican adminiatra- compelled hastily to let go the handle, ken up by its owiu-r. the ferret was tion of Abraham Lincoln, the liberty of in order to protect my hand. The finite dead speech and the press was again destroyed, then seized the cat by the back, I

and held it sufficiently long to enable

me to draw out the dirk, and dispatch the dying animal with a second

to those it had inflicted whrn t:t-

ThnEJJ

niul

alhuI bv ohll

j»*t Pu.h*hed by Longman & (o

CMKCTl.AKS

be by the Kng-

lish critics manly and vigorous. I'

hfips they are. Take a specimen

At 1:15 Lord Nelson fell. And forty men aroitnil himA hall from the Heriouht able p&l.

Most grievously did waund hiui: At hftlf-pa3t -1 clock iie died. And clory fame and crowned hit.i.

of etcry tir.-cription neatly ex-

ecuted on common white er colored paper, 'etter paper, note paper, or in fact, on any kind or quality cf paper desired: and price" accordingly. at the Review Office.

WHOLE NUMBER 1366

following them up, already congratu-j CARRIAGE MANUFACTORY.: lating himself on the possession not I

of the handsome premium claimable

of right on presenting an adult wild cat at the Ralhhcius of fhe communal section. The track leads him to the foot of an enormous beech tree, where

the cat lies certainly concealed. On the branches, however, it is nowhere to be seen, and mutt be therefore hidden somewhere in the trunk, which

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In wood-work done to order. Ttl:ckmitliihit Paintingnndr Trimming done with neatness and dispatch. invited all to cull and see as our work will.recommend itself.

Superior Farm Wagons!

Onr Knrm Wagons built expressly for this market by .Stndcbnkerllros.. of Kouth Rend. Ind..ofthe *,

VERY Ili:ST TDfBEIt.

and more with the view of giving entire satisfaction to purchasers than profit to the manufacturers or to us. Wo fully

Warrant Tin in For

Kvi'ri) in I'artinilar Onr Year,

JITReineiuher the place, Market Street. North of Court House. JulylT.lPcy S. MILLER .t CO.

BLACKSMITHING.

ft! tlil.EK MIUPHV.

GHIFIl & MURPHY,

A S IT IN

t. a fun

Mill Wm l: Slim inn

DRY GOODS AND CLOTHING.

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•xamiiji hi- M•,(•!( ..I

I)EY GOODS (leiit's In 11 is 111 IiihmW

uS'-hMMi ay

I'opl n. J)cl:iin-.. tiinirli tnis

l. i\uis. i.iis.'iTs.

1'rint.s. Hosiery. (ollurs.

Cloths. issiiii-n-s.

Tweeds. Trimming. •.••vsVest in^-s,

FiJI-fllt I

-Siltill.

Huts. Taps. Notions.

Ready Made Clothing,

A -N

[licl l:I IT UllJHJ we!! re?ni:ite.|

Furnishing Establishment.

1 hIunfa have tli.- h-.-rt (,f tailor.will be p|en-erl t-, have lny frirn.l.-' tr.y

llani-.n

WORK AND PRICES

Befnre pun.-fcr.*im: elM-hwere. I will u!-'u

ut tho (iat inents from Malt-rial I Bought here FItKKOF MIA 1U»K.

M«y CU. .i'JOilN M.\ AS.

ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTCE.

OT1CK i.- hcrhy given that tho uudersigtieJ ha* bei-n appointed uiliniui.-lrHtor ot thu estate of Alphrox Grcgj?. late of Montg-imorr ou nty deceased. Said wta-.e julvent. r^-t.ltiwS If. (srtKtJtf. Ailm'r.

BATES FOB ADVERTISING:

E'aoh square, (9 lines or low) first insertion

I en I ami transient matter list r,ach additional insertion, of each iqntre for fix weeks orles* oo Unc cnlnmn— three months ... ... 35 OO —six months .. 80 00 —one year .100 OO Half column—throe months ........ i...... so OO «i.T months ..... 37 30 —one year flow rojirtri^cM.—thre« month*, 12 SO ~«ix month' 80 00 on«Tenr... 35 OO j.oc.il business notion pcrline. In insertion 10 tach subsequent insertion per lino CIBCULATION 2000

Job Printing Prewptlj aa« Seam KjetwteJ.

CARRIAGE FA ('TORY' FARMERS THIS WAY

Mcrht Street. North of i-nurt I/mist.

CRAU POKDMVIM.h. Il).

AKTKR

rcturninu tlninks U. the puliiie for th liberal patronage bestowed up^n us Tor the last thirteen years, we wouM respectfully cal the attention of frienilsiunl the public generally to an inspection of our

Carriages, ItuggicvM.

SPRING WAGOXS.

Sulkies and Sleigh*.

Patent Anti-Rattling Fifth Wheel

WAGON FACTOBY. V^0

/f you want a

GOOD AV OGON

.. :j

SMITH & BONNEL!

return thanks to the .farmers and others, fnrtho liberal patronaeo heretofore bestowed on us. We invite yon to call and exnmino our stock wagons, which aro erected of the best material, and of the best of workmanship. Alsw

Wagons Itofiairod and Repainted,

On short notice and most reasonable terms, also

PLOWS OF ALL KINDS

repaired to order nnd the best

WAGOIT SEATS

.• I In the country, the REVERSAIU.E SPRISO,

A fino assortment nn.l vnriuty of which we keep which is more durable nnd cheaper than the constantly on hand in our new brick show room old stool sprinffs, which wo ofTer for ubont oneon Washington street, second floor. Wo claim half tho money* to bo unsurpassed in strength and finish, usinc none but. the best selected well seasoned second growth timber, nnd employing none but tho most skillful and experienced workmon. Tho high reputation our work has sustained in the thtrteenJyears Jpast gives us confidence'in our ability as Carriage Makers. Boing 'exclusively engaged in manufacturing only light work enables us to keep a much finer, larger, nnd better stock than any other house in the West. We confidently assert that onr work and prices can not be excelled by any other establishment. The continual incrcaso in business has made is neeossary to enlarge our facilities for manufacturing, Wo call especial attention to VV. II, Rnmson's

All work wammtril IHh to rran.

rLpRemomber tho placo. on Vernon Street East of tho I'ost-Olfice. April 3. leeo.ly SMITH A BONNEL.

DRUGS.

T. W. FRY CO.

Hnvo jnst opened a fine assortment ot

Drugs, Faints, Chemicals, Oils, Dye Stuffs,

Toilet & Fancy

ARTICLES, Cigars & Tobacco,

OK THE F/NET QUALITY.

fl tALIj and see us, on Greon Itroot. IIi'V./' two doors above J. W. Lynn A Son jun-3'iitnvot T.W FRY &

f,DKUGS AND MEDICINES.

NEW FIRM.

1UOFFETT&

BOOE,

I O N 4

CR A!WFO RDSVILLE,

l»..W.KIt9 IN PCKS

DIUKiS AND MB,

I'aints.. Oils, Dyestuffs, Perfumery. Fancy Articles I'urc Wines and Brandien

Kor Medical Purposes-^

Putent Medicine*, Also, Lnmpi, Olassware, Letter.'Ciip, and Note Paper. Pens, Pencils, and Ink.

I* Tfo.vs

On Mam S'rii t. fr.W Dctnr.' Kilt! of (,'iirefully prepared and promptly attended to. \W'!re.-peetfull.v|solicit patronage from tho public in general. [JanSO'M.

th I'•'* Ojjh-",

LD rc'p'.vlluily iniorin their old friends that they »ro now prepared to extent'promptly and in tho best style nil {kinds (of sen. er.'.l Itiaeksmiihing. such it".

'J i'J D' si eijifn ni'I Coini/etj Jul,

a. IIors: Work.

Ail ur-j invited tngivt- us a call, as deliver to eive entire. sati-f:i tirii t'. aueu.-t 1". Ir07.

EMPIRE SEWING MACHINE.

Galey & Applegate

A Af'iBNTS FOB TIIK

ive shall ei eii.-iciner-

Empire Sowing Machine,

Crawfords^ille:

wi-rk. en!I

[Indiana.

Tin- iiiin'hirio reached tho

I S E I

At ili«* f.n-M fnii of tho

American Institute,

/n Xi'W Y"rk. Mnber 2»», 1807.'

A'".t the hiKb«-»t premium for

Best Manufacturing Machine

JULY. 1867.

I J.f. i-li'Mtthl needle, pi: 1 innke" tlie //ock

ifp^ndictilftr iictlou

lliutllo Stitch which will

i.-ither rip nor ravel, nri'l i« itliki on both Jid'.'S perform' perfect «»win»{ on every le«eription of nintcri:ii. v.itn cfiltun, linen, or »ilk thread fp.m tho cr.ars'Jt to the firie«t number. It hem?, fi !Ia, lIn•-1. hrm)". suck', quilt, plnflg. and cntlier*. As family ««.winn riiiichiue ithas.no •jwperior. 1 111! i.lllnwu,!.' i*

prirtiiil. li't of tho penunt t-wing Mnchinu K^q Cluafettnr l.cwia Clark lcrim(in

Will in in WiJ'inarhnn il"'hei •l..hr-r.. .• At.y .1 sum-* .-•-Uern Miirir.'nn Mi lei Th(.» I.af' ilettrt Jacob Lrtoilette Will .Srilera (itcrzo Wl'. -n John Murtui lii.l.t Uruee Win 1- i-her J.ilin Krntnc .-.iimi"! ilull .A I.ui-kj II. -t. -r 1! riv-tei.-r li ivnl 1) Suiith A hratiRm l.n .li Hrit/ llll.rkA',!i IIn-W 1 hotsin* (.ton J..|in Sh'-op.irii .1'ihn W lli.rman .l.ihn Kinkiulc Will ."Mundli-r Will St'.ne l'.enj anclrave «.-»l.ri' MtloheH I- A White Williiiiu i111« A law Gunklo Siinuel Gunltlo Joi (jrliuei lllteli®'! :f

Kmpir h»rt

S W I.ytlo William Hano* E-ler May* Ju-on Thonii-i :.v Msehael Love

Mat Ellniore ,Urne.« Hall v--• Itobert Hall

Henry Thompson l)r ltasi -Mike Brown John Campbell \V MCC:I11Iklt Jame.H Amen John Wiilener Sarah MeDobln Oeor?ij Bible r-nLcuel Simpson KdM ant Uoll s*l*a!ie Shoemaker

Alex Beaver The» kelley Jo- iianna (ienrstt 1' Hotimaa .. .1 W llt'iiJrickj liartner

W Fullcnwl.ier S-.atTonl John Wiijou Jaine*Darl* S Bunnel (J Fo»ter ...

Jnr 5 tr«».