Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 5 March 1870 — Page 1

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Kelow we give

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Indianapolis, Bloomington and

Western Railway.

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Lonisrllle. NpTV AlbaiiV & ChlfJlffO

Rail Rood. GOING NORTn

Accommodation Rxrrew. OOINO SOUTH Kiprft'fi. Accommodation.

Arrival a.nAp«partur a of Bf »1J« at the Pout 0(Bco In Crawfbrdirville. Daily—{tiling Sooth F\' A.M. \nrth. P. M. Tbobrtowsi, by Hvk arrive* llcndijn nnd

Fridays 7 I*. M. Departs Tuesdays 1 SatuJay* rllA.M

Alamo. by hack arrive? Tuwdnys and Saturdays 10 A. M" departs tsnme days at.. 1. P. M. W aTj!Ktows. ny hack arrives Tuesdays

itocrvH.LK. by back, arrives Mondays. W ednesdaTS and Friday*....Sj I*. 11 tv, depart* Tuesday*. Thursdays. and Saturdays A. M. •,.**Towjt. by earner arrives Tnesdoys.

Thursdays and Saturdays.... 12 M. departs satnc day? at 11'. M.

-^iNMatcaroLXP. by carrier arrives WodnesJays and Saturdays I'' If. departs fame days at.. P. 1.

STATE TICKET.

Secretary of Slni-, ,f

JiOKMASIKUDY. ..f Sr. Joseph County.

For Auditor of Slate,

JOHN C. 8H0KMAKER, of IVrry CuiiMt.

Fur Trear.itrcr of State,

JAUftS 11. RYAN, cpf Marlon Coun'y.

For Altarnfy General*,

BAYLKSH W. IIANNA, of Vi^o County.

For Superintendent of Public Instructs n,

MILTON 11. UOl'KINS,

W. Voorhcp, which we puiiliili irj this

week's isdun- No voter in .Montiiutii-

erj' count)' should f'jil t« jjive it a

careful reading

'JCJial Li Hie Prayer.

Tht! mct.liodist wir.i of the

Juurual

is evidently sorely (listre^«eil eonceru-

iug the impression made upon our peo

ple by our report of Godfrey's prayer,

and devotes nearly ti column of its val

uable space to second attempt to

deny the correctiir*s thereof. The

statement signed by several persons

who were present and heard the pray

er, as published by our intelligent

friend, simply proves that we were eor

reel. The statement confirms most

thoroughly and completely iur report.

The only matter denied is that the

names ol Ueeeher and Harlan were

used, and this is dune in a very uncer

tain and unsatisfactory sort of it.yle.

It reminds one of the story of the

Justice who aei|tiiifed a man accused

of stealing a ho^, upon the evidence

of f«mr men who swore that they did

not see him commit the thelt, while

ouly otic would swear that he did wit-

ties.} the laveeuy. We. have no doubt

that all the siguer.s in the one case and

the four witnesses in the other told

just whnt they knew, but there is no

proof whatever that otir report is iu-

correct.

Wonder if the

Journal

is u..* afraid

that after all, the good Lord will pay

some attention to that prayer, grant

Godfrey's request, aud so de-trov the

Republican party.

the .statement of

three gentlemen,

members of the

Methodist Church

of this city, who

heard the prayer, nnd substantiate the

*ame in nearly every particular, as

published in the

Itcvitw:

We. the undersigned, were preseut

at the M. E. Church, in this city on

Sunday. Feb. G, 1870, and heard the prnyer above referred to, made by Rev.

S. Godfrey, and we have no hesitancy whatever in saying that the report of

said prayer as published in the

Review

is substantially correct. We would uot say positively that the names of

Beechcr and Harlan were mentioned, but we do know that with that excep

tion the report is correct and true: J. GASK EL.

"V _\. L. GRAIIAM. T. II. FITZGERL.

A LITTLE boj* in Richmond, Vir

ginia, on bein asked by his mother if

he would not like to bo an angel and have wing!, replied that he had rather

b« a hawk and live on chickens.

Tub New York Sun, edit.".! by

Daua, who was nfsistaut Secretary of

War under Stanton, is of thc opinion

that Grant ought to yield the helm to

suve thc Radical ship from .siuking.

tor his military services. If the

over that branch of the government to the real economy party, and one

that will also maintain the honoi ol

the country in till differences with for-

c-ign nntious. and ^ivc aid aud comfort

Golag East.

Mr. Wm. Allen, the leaior member of tbo firm of Alien Brother, will liirt for New Y"rk

THE

NEW SERIES—VOL. XXI, NO 30

Speech of H«h. D. V. Voorbeet In (he United States House of Represcntall res Janaarj 2S, 1810.

{Conclusion, from tetcmdpage.)

nets

^^i

so heavily laden young, free nat erect in the presence

.n .10 a. m. •730 p. m.

... 32 a. in. ....5t0p, di.

Salnrdai—

0\A. M.

depart" ram days at 12 M.

Sir, in the face of all this, standing in the presence of these mighty facts, from which there is no escape, how shall I characterize that policy which makes free from a'l tax or tribute more than one-tenth of the property of the United States, property shat eost less by one-halt* than any other ti obtain it. yields double the interest elsewhere

HtnTci Tr^aftuy notcp

Montgomery County

For JuJyri of Supreme Court,

JAMKS L. WORIlEN*. of Allen County. ALEXANDER C. DOWNEY, of Ohio County. SAMUEL H. RUSK IRK, of Monroe County.. JOLIX I'ETTIT, ot Tippecanoe County.

Speech of Hon. D. W. Yoorhoes.

We call tlu? attention of our rcail-

t'ra to t.lit' nre it f-pt'Ci-h of the Ilmi. D.

S'.Vi.471,Cjl. 53 3."i.51!)..'I N 78.501.990 fij 90,000.: 57 07 130,194,0t2 80

Civil service and mi«ccll.ine.ttis. Pensions and Indians War Department Navy Ik-partmont .... Interest on public debt Premium of thirty seven United

300.000.(100

Total, cjclusivt of it*'ari.w^ .£3^1,490,. Am I told that the bondholder pays a tax on his income? If every dollar is collected which is due by law, it will n« amount to the trilling sum of cm.CMW.OQO a year. The entire tax on all the incomes and salaries of the AJnitcd States together, according to the report of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, is only So-1.701,£0t5. Of this sum the bondholder has paid not over the pitiful sum of 53.000,000 as his miserable contribution toward a revenue of over $000,000,000 raised by the universal exertions of' the people. Every other income is assessed as well, and everything else in the land besides. It is now said in many quarters that even this contemptible levy upon the bonds should be abolished. Not so. Let it stand. Not for its value, but to illustrate human meanness not that it constitutes a single drop in the great ocean of revenue drawn from the busy hands of labor, but for the purpose of showing how despicable the rich man's mite appears in the contrast not that it amounts to more than a miserly and impreeeptible atom to the gigantic general account, but for the purpose of proving, by this beggarly exception, the disgraceful truth that the rich owner of bonds is substantially free from taxation, as the law declares him to be.

Fortunately it is not difficult to demonstrate how much the public Treasury has lost, and correspondingly how much the burdens of the people have increased by this exemption of the bondholder from the common duty of assisting to defray the expenses of his Government. In order to raise the SG00,000,000 necessary for county, State and national purposes, no one will

dispute that the assessment- are over two

percent.—two dollars on the hundred, in the familiar language of the farmer. Tak-

ing the on tire taxable property of the country as a basis of calculation, and two per cent, upon it all will not yield the revenue which is aniTually collected. But assuming safely that low rate, we find that our bonded debt, which the Secretary of the Treasury. a few evenings since, in public address st-ited at ?'j,100,00u.000, escapes annually a tax list, according to the load imposed upon other property, of SI-,000.0011'. If we seek the average lime that this, privilege has been running, it will be determined at about five years, the loss thus sustained in these five years by the Treasury in taxes withheld by the bondholding class, and necessarily made up by the laboring class, swells, by the simplest rule of arithmetic, into the immense sum of S'J 10,000,000. This amount, therefore, may also be added to that long and heavy column of clear gain and profit on the purchase of the bonds which. I have already protraved. When property is withdrawn from the support of the Government which affords it protection, its value is increased exactly to the extent of the burdens which it escapes. Thus the bondholder widens the margin of his riches by every dollar of taxes which he ought to pay, but which is given to him by an iniquitous and unrighteous law. I know not how much will be borne by the laboring interests of this country but if this dark and overshadowing crime embraced in our preseut financial policy shall long bo tolerated, then let the laboring man of America welcome his slavery in name, as. he will have already done in reality.

But there is yet one more provision of I law closely incident to the creation ot the public debt which claim a couspicious place in this review of wrongs and evils. The bonus, the usury, the freedom from taxation were not content with their power-

fill triumvirate of unholy speculation until 1

they added to it the privilege ot banking

by the baudholder on his bonds. Bonds for

which bear a usurious interest of six per

made the basis of a circuiting medium,

trC I ,9

m«f n/» «trtfr*n as fAllAwc-

may be stated as follows:

Thc cost of £33j?40,100 of bonds row I I on filo in the Treasury Department at fifty eents on the dollar il0S.Ti0.u50i

On thi? ectual investment" he is authorized to issnecf ciulation 300,000 0U0 Ten per cent, profit on circulation. .. 30.0u0.00u Amount of deposits 300 000.000 Six percent, profit on deposits lr.0UU.0U0 Annual interest on the bond ic the

Treasury 00.: Annual exemption from taxes fi.7pti.uu-.'

This Grant will not do. He will uot ,,, .•» .1 1 1 Add together the profits on circulation give up his scat until the hst hour he

anJ Jepo (he intercst

oan legally hola it—jnd then he will die (axes saved, and the plainest mind in thiuk the country hasn't half paid him the land will perceive that the banking

Sun

thinks a change iu Administration and

policy are necessary to save the nation

it should labor this year lo elect Douioctatic Congressmen, and thus turn

cree

to all people struggling to overthrow despotic rule, aud substitute Republican institutions in its stead.

and Philadelphia next week. This ii his ie»nd and ita loftiest, which so wantonly preys

trip Kaat for new good* within the lat two 1 upon the industrial masses .and so ravages

month*. Mchs wl

Thi nurMi am) h..) ru». ..e„»r

1. ». 1

corn

to this dreadful truth. The subtnissive subjects of the oldest, and wealthiest ed fortunes from the ruins of the Bonrbons in which they wander and mourn to-day.

derl'ul and amazing injustice which has sprung up from the laws upon which it is founded. The painting has been but feeble and unworthy of the great theme, but the picture is nevertheless repulsive and revolting, because it has been drawn with fidelity

derived, and is owned by those who dwell to the facts. It presents a sinister ant in the palaces of the land? With what pa- shocking aspect to the tax payer. It stands

tience shall I speak of those who stand idly by ami behold the long processions of industry filing out to their daily task who look on with folded arms of indolence while school-houses are erected and highways built. who out of their easily and ill-got-ten millions contribute not a furthing to their State or their local burdens who were treading soft carpets, reclining upon couehea of down, and banqueting upon smiles and wine during the last fiscal year, while from the sweat ot" the laborer?, brow, alone and nnnidod. flowed the following streams of Federal expenditure:

revealed as a baleful monster. The sight of it estorts a desperate cry for relief. It can not and will not be borne htft small we therefore attempt to build the city of our refuge from this disiress upon the shifting quicksands of repudiation? Mighty wrongs and the galling sense of extreme injustice have driven many honest minds to embrace this fearful doctrine, and much more may yet follow with the same disastrous tendency. The issue ia in the hands of the party in power. I am not for repudiation. I see in it neither- safety or honor. The party of which I am a member has always gloried in its obedience to the constitution, to laws, and to contracts. We were not in favor of repudiating one half of the pay of the soldier and sailor, when it was do'.ie duriug the war, by compelling them to take depreciated paper instead of the contract price for their perilous services. Our record has no tarnish such as blights and mildews that of the majority of this House. If repudiation shal! hereafter come, to dishonor our name at home and abroad, it will be. because the now dominant party continuously and presistently enables the creditor class, the bondholding monopoly, to violate their part of the contract and to plunder the people to an unbearable extent. There are are two contracting parties on this subject. I implore you who on this floor represent the bondholder's vast pretensions to advise him to stay within the bounds of the law. Tell him that the advantages which the law actually gives him are so stupendous that the people will not suffer him to break over in order to obtain more. Tell him to keep his part of the compact with scrupulous faiih. Tell him that if he releases himself from its obligations he also releases the other party. Say to him that this is a settled rule of law in all the courts of the world. Sav to him that thev who en-

ftni, roug it ig

I the Government. lie knew, or should have known, that the Government had received

es3 th

which again in turn pours its deep and fifth

kKi

of their owners. There are at this rnomcut I lying in thc vaults of the Treasury in this city ?339.810,100 worth of thc bondholders' cheaply procured possessions. They are there as security for the circulation of a little more than three hundred millions of currency, They pay no taxes, and yields an annual golden interest of $20,368,805, which arc taken directly* from the pockets of the people and placed directly in the pockets of the banking bondholders. Upon the 8300,000,000 circulation issued on these bonds bankers realize at the lowest, estimate ten per cent, in gold on their loans. Their

deposits may safely be reckoned equal to go-ate

.51,400,000.000 for the sale of it,

bonds ns liave shoxvn In thc |nt

ur5urv

which fifty cents on the dollar has been paid, tl, the toiling takers I

wi be

cent in gold, and escapes all burdens are 51.400,000 000 the almost incalculable sum

on the bond,, and

ho announced a idm bv I

compelled to pav for that less than

0 ie

'.L1.0

t,ie a

Secretary of the Treasury laid his re-

"The five-twonty bonds, amountin in the asercijate to $1,602,0*1,100, are either pnyabie or will u.on become payable."

This constitutes over three-fourths of our

wealth of the country is realizing the enor. mous gain of $75,158,403 upon an original once apparent. investment of less than one hundred and seventy million dollars. This ia the crushing payment made by the peopie to a privileged class in order to obtain a circulating payer will be affected by what he medium from the Government with which gest. The provisions which he ask to carry on the trade and business of life, the new bonds bs issued payable in coin,

I call upon the people of all parlies and 8400,000,000 due in twenty-five years, and $400,000,000 due in thirty years that these assail a system, not individuals. I attack bonds shall be exchanged for those now the principle and not the men engaged in outstanding, and that they bear interest at banking. If any page of the world's finan- four and a half pej" cent, in gold. cial history has hitherto been blurred and This is what is known as funding the stained by an outrage of such hideous pro- I debt at a lower rate of interest. I call upon portions as this my eyes have failed to dis- cach one who hears me to make a calcula-

,j to sift aud weijrh my statements. I

cover it and my ears have not beard its damning story. Nor has any living monarchy of to-day, in all the four qtiar trs of the eartli, a rank of nobility, iu haughtiest

eitycan be badat Sunpsons & dukedom in England whose grunts from the debt without ever effecting a release weight of his opinion to the position which

the Crown are so rich as the donations from its unending demands. After bondage I. maintain. I thank him for doing so. made by the present American policy to the of thirty years the labor of the country will Tae law, then, being plain and wit: a a a a a a a whose franchises are as great as the Ameri- it is now. After thirty years of ceasleas can bankers. The new nobles of France exertion the people will still be in a wilderunder the present empire acquired unbound- ness of taxation as thick and dense as that

empires of the earth are not not so easily nor so suddenly as the favor- The mortgage of the bondholder on ail their teen years. An issue of currency for their a.i hbfl tMr 1a/I Art ao fVn /i!f iiAna flx'n I tKia'nf Iftfri do (lAn Kiro li orrt /vVIftvail Kr V,o t. am 1 .i a i_ ). mi «_ .i *i

•n as the citizens of this itesjof legislation have hero achieved by the homes and farms and flocks and herds will payment, according to the demand? of trade ion, and they walk more oppression of labor. yet remain exactly as heavy as it is at this and business from year to year, would ence of their task-muters. Sir, 1 have thus far earned and consider- hour. Their children and their children's brighten the face of .he whole country with ed^ the manner in which the debt ot the na- children will grow up around them subject joy and relief, and at the end of that the taion was created and the system of won-i to the same undiminished burdens: their debt would be reduced to less than five'

perfect as ever wrung unpaid, reluctant labor from any race of any color or kindred. It is the whip, the scourge with which cruel and unrelenting task masters from year to year and from age to a :e will drive the American laborer to his daily servitude It. has long been known in England, and there enslaves the multitude and supports the

force contracts must first fulfill contracts I have painted out should not be bestowed that if he repudiates the restraints of the upon him that he has no claims to be fed law it will not then be repudiation for the as pensioner, and that if lie was paid back tax payer to refuse obedience: that his de- exactly what his bonds cost him, with lawfault will cure the defalcation of the other f„l interest on that amount, he should be party, and that if he continues to overleap fully and amply content. This would be the legal barriers which surround him, the thorough and absolute equity, and might be people will at last arise and drive him out as they would a marauding wolf from amid their folds and flocks. Tell him all these things in order that lie may do his duty in sustaining the public credit and averting this calamity. Cease your lectures to this side of the Chamber and turn your labors in that quarter xvheic repudiation ha3 already commenced. The people are true it is capital lhat is faithless. They are sincere

privileged wealth that

is selfish and unscrupulous. The honor of the country may bo preserved, but it must

pointed out arise from its false construction

by that political party which now controls public affairs. I propose to try that pernicious construction by the correct law of the case.

There are four different plans for the payment of the public debt now in the minds of

lawfully done under the contract. On the chancery side of the court there is always relief to be found against an extortionate transaction. This is a well known principle between private individuals. It will hold good also in behalf of a whole people. They have been imposed upon and defrauded in the creation of the debt, and they may justly and without breach of the contract appeal to the great equities of the case. By the adoption of .this principle the debt diminishes and shrivels away at once to comparatively narrow proportions. My

be done by both parties to ilie covenant and calculations already made demonstrate how not by one alone. much of it is fiction, existing on paper alone Sir, holding as I do that the people are I and destitute of consideration. The day

justly owe. it is very obvious that there remains still a great and fundamental question to be considered. It remains, for the purpose of my argument, to ascertain clearly and distincly what the contract is and where its true interpretation places the rights of parties under it. There are greit evils connected with it when justly interpreted, but the worst of those which I have

willing to abide by their actual obligations, ar now draw near when the usurer wiil oorjtract, and as even more than a just reto make an honest settlement with 'their gladly accept this proposition—take what. nitine'ration to tfie bondholder for his adcreditors, and to pay every dollar that they alone' is his due iiv the sight of God and

man, and ask leave to withdraw from th« great high court of public opinion, where I lodfre this arraignment, and where plead for justice to all.

Bill I now take my stand on the i'ounii and last plan, which I shall discuss. It embraces the payment of the debt, the relief of the people, tho fulfillment of the contract and the preservation of our national honor.

men. The first and prime favorite with the wc are unwilling to do more than lhat, and we bondholding capitalist is the present 83-3 tem. He wishes no chango at all. Ilis exact views were reflected in the inaugural of the Executive on the 4th of last March, The payment of the debt in coin, with no reduction of interest or departure from the policy hitherto prevailing, was then declared to be the chief corner-stone of the new Administration. The President spoke under the inspiration and in the powerful in- 1 torest of unscrupulous wealth and against the equality and the rights of labor. lie ranged himself on the side of heartless 1110nopoly. and against the lowly and the poor. He reared the banner of extortion over all ,, ,. ,, the realms of industry. He declared him- I

contained in the following upright nnd

noble resolution adopted by ihe Democracy of Indiana, assembled in State Coiive!Ui"n on the Sth day of this month

"That wc arc willing to pay our nutioaal debt in strict compliance with our contracts whether was made payable in gold or greenbacks, but II UIUUV juuiv ill fcn.vuvtivu.-t vuv

declare that the five-twenty bonds are payable in greenbacks or their equivalent, and we condemn the polieyof tho Administration, which is squandering millions of money by bujing such bonds at a high rate of premium, when tho Government had a clear right to redeem them at par"

On this doctrine I plant myself with an absolute faith in its legality and justice. The law which authorizes tho issue of the national currency here mentioned says, in very plain and simple words, that it is -legal tender, for all debts, public and private, escept duties on imports and interest on tho public debt." If the people, therefore, owe anything else besides duties on I

,m orts aud lhc ll,c dcb th

self the advocate of those who gather in currency named tins resolution.is a legal from the people what they never paid out to

tcnder for lts

S 1,470.918,930 —an amount equal to one- This view ot thc law was not confined

cutire. is destitute of the slightest support, I either in equity or in law. Is it equitable to compel a patriotic, self-sacrificing people I to pay the national debt nearly four times over lo a privileged class who never sacriI ficed one drop of blood, one dollar of money, or one moment's ease, to hold fast the uubroken boundaries of the Republic?

That it is not legal. I will presently demon-

their issues." and the profit on them at least ihe second plan in the order of mv consix per cent, in Rold. The account, there- }j ration is of more recent origin. At the fore of the bondholding banker with the opening of the present session of Congress I people of the Lnited States, at its be.it tuce,

CRAWFOEDSVULE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, INDIANA, MARCH 5,1870.-

i-i nirnu mejr iiauucr nuu uiuuru UHiai. »iu luuiuiue to no so during Hie next UI-

estntes will descend to their posterity load- hundred million dollars. An annual interest by the same incumbrances that now rest est of over one hundred idillion dollars in upon them. The debt will become a per- gold will cease to drain nnd impoverish tho maneney of a lasting investment far idle people. Three-fourths of the debt would be capit.il pensioned on the indsiry of the na- paid and the balance can He encountered tion. Its final liquiditian is it contem- with hone r.'l withoir systematic oppresplated nor desired by those who own our sior.. bonds and control the polh-y^of the present Ara I met by the crv of inflation There adminstrdtion. Interest, interest with its is not a business man in the land who does ccasless, silent frightful accumulations, will not know that contraction is now raining compel the taspayer to pay it over and over and crushing every active and legitimate again, and yet it will never be canceled. interest. The voice ot distress is heard in The principal of funding establishes an in- every quarter. From the West there comes exhaustible mine of gold for the bondholder, a.n appeal for .an increase of circulating, an eternity of hor-cless toil for the people, medium, strong and universal and rising It is the doom of slavery as absolute and high above the confines of party organiia-

nobility indolence and luxury. It. is as the people have increase by issuing currenfixed and permanent, oo, as the British monarchy itse.f, and will come to no speedier end. Its introduction into our laws will create a rank of American nobility founded upon wealth and fix the badge of serfdom upon the industrious citizen. It. will totally subvert the entire spirit, meaning, and purposes of our institutions. They were made hy the people and for the people in the broadest sense, and not to enrich and elevate the favored few. The funding system therefore, I hold to be the worct known in financial history. It will never reeeivc my support.

I come next however, to present a third way in which many minds now coucur in thinking that the national debt might with entire justice be met. I approach now the ideas of plain and houtst people who believe that the capitalist who made sacrifice for his country should receive no more than his own that he should have no vast and swelling speculation upon what he advanced to his Government, when every other class advanced so much more than ho did that lie is not a proper subject for public charity, that the mighty bounties which

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entire property of the United 1 until recently to the party whose standard I

States an amount more than three times as follow. It was very common among the leadlarge, by actual computation, as the ad-

ers anc

vancement made by the purchaser of bonds floor until the incoming ot the present adwhen thc nation was bowed down in despair ministration proclaimed a new departure in for the want of money. This illimitable the interest of untaxed capital. The Senascheme of plunder proclaimed by the Exe- 'or from Indiana himself [Mr. Morton] was

inevitable

1 and conclusive logic and calls for no elaboration. It is unanswerable. It rises at ouce by a bare statement to the full force of

a demonstration Ihe bonds themselves

contain no

10 bo

on then- face for,

satisfied by tne payment of lawful

mone

the ranks of the majoritj" on this

„f ,1.. a „,,„ rt„f tv,r. irill

of fiuance in ihe Senate. liut «ho p. .m.

not freshly remember when the trechant tongue of the celebrated member from Pennsylvania, Mr. Stevens, pronounced here in this presence that any other construction was a swindle and a robbery? The distin-

port on our tables. It announces a small deviation from the present system. There is an atttempt to lead the laborer into ihe

belief that something at last is to be done I guished gentleman from .Massachusetts

for his benefit. The principal of funding is introduced and strongly urged. It is gilded over with the proposition to place the rate of interest at four and one-half percent. He say:

show what wa? their tree, unbiased con-

bonded debt, even at its fictitious face. The struction of the contract. Though this importance, therefore, of its payment is at House, in March last, enacted the wretched once apparent. The plan of the Secretary farce of attempting to eject a new meaning reaches only SI.200,000,000 of this amount, into a law, then seven years old, by declarand for the remainder he advances no theo- under the guidance of the Chairman of ry. Let us examine, however, how the tax- Committee on Ways and Means [Mr.

does sug- Schenek.] that the whole debt, as it appears sks is that

PaPer, was payable dollar for dollar in

gold, yet there stands the law, and there stands its interpretation as given by him. who, as the then Chairman on the Committee on Ways and Means, drafted and defended it, Mr. Stevens.

Mr. Woodward—If my friend from Indiana will excuse the interruption. I would suggest that he does not do exact justice to the go'' bill. It excepts from its operation all deUs where the law of the creation provided for payment in currency. It did not

lation. By this plan at the end of thirty years, when the last installment falls due, the people will have paid iu gold interest change the question as to the five-twenties thc sum of $1,350,000,000 being$15Q,000.000 an iota.

more than the principal which is thus funded

without reducing the principal a single T'

their work shops, their vineyards, ami their farthing or having a single cent of their tinguished gentleman from Pennsylvania. „»IK-1IC.

daily doing are in our midst. Thurc is not policy signifies the repeated satisfaction of: »m glad to know intends to add the ereat 'rho#i^te 1J»

Mr. Voorhees—Its attempt then failed,

ngle The laws stands as ii did before. The dis

privileged claas whose hard earnings applied to its payment. Thin whose opinion as a jurist is so valuable, I county. dwea*ed.

without

doubt, what are the results which would flow from its enforcement The fi^e-twenty bonds amounting to over sixteen hundred million dollars, are falling due now, and will continue to do so during the next fif-

The people are oppressed, and borr.

tions. to the earth, aftd there is a clamor tor reThe wants of the country, the deciands of trade, will carry $1,000,000 000 of a circulation, not only without injury but.

cy for that amount of bonds, and their taxes will commence diminishing and the prices of their commodities will po up.

The necessity for this large volume of circulation is apparent in our growinir and swelling population. The vast enterprises which are opening up and redeeming the mighty realms which lie between the waters of the Mississippi and the Pacific ocean, the great and valuable staple products of the West and South, as well as the gigantic commerce of the northern lakes and the seaboards of the Eist the corn, the wheat, the cotton, the rice, the sugar, the tobacco, the hogs, the mules, and the cattle on thrice ten thousand hills, and all the other myriad productions of agricultural labor will absorb i'n the coming fifteen years an issue of currency sufficient to liquidate the five-twen-ty bonds. Railroads and steamboats will lift up their giants to welcome the refreshing stream. EnipWment would flow in upon those who now seek labor in vain. Households would smile with plenty which are now pining in want. The toiling millions would have money as well as the untaxed masters of opulence, idlenes1!. ar.d illgotten treasure.

The States that lie in the embraces of the Mississippi and its tributaries, from the far off upper regions of snow down to the yellow groves of the orange, would have a circulating medium for their people as well as the more favored States that lie on the northern coast of the Atlantic. And, above all other blessings, the people would emerge from the shackles of debt no part of which is now being paid. The loud pretensions of the administration on that point can best be met by a single statement which is proven by the record. The interest bearing debt when the last administration closed was 82,0J9.97-5,700. The Secretary of the Treasury stated it a few (lays a?o to be now $2,100,000,000 an increase of £50.024.800., This is :i stubborn fact. While taxation is mountain high the debt ii actually rising higher.

Sir, I plead to-day for a plan to change

__ nil this. I plead for it as the law of the

van-?emnnt.j. I plead for it in the interest of the laborer, whose debt it will pay and whose appalling taxes it will at once reduce. I plead for it in the name of every maimed and wounded soldier on your pension rolls, the price of whoso tlesh and blood you pay in discounted currence. while you pay the speculator in gold. I plead for it in the name of every widow and orphan made by the war, the purchase of whose tears and broken "hearts you provide for in depreciated paper. 1 plead for it in the sacred name of eternal justice, which now lies mangled an.! outraged by the present, flagitious policy. I plead fur it finally in behalf of the mighty interest? of the country. whose languishing energies it would revive, whose drooping iracle it would restore, whose fainting industries it would imbue with new life.

SUCCESSFUL FARMING. The successful farmer is the one that

plows early and plows .deep and ihoi'oiK'h-

ly: in order to do is necessary to

have a good Plow, a good l'iow i- one that is properly constructed, good and thorough

ly seasoned wood, and of the finest quality

of steel, well hardened and polished. Now

Farmers, if vuu would have a good

Plow

call for the Cincinnati Rover Plow, they

are kept nt Gregg's Mammoth Hardware

Store, where every Farmer can be sup

plied with one of those celebrated Plows.

Mr Gregg has itlso just received one car

load of the genuine Richmond Plows, made

by R. Horney Co. Farmers look well at

the name, S. Horney, is3 there are ninny

base imitations of these justly celebrated 1

Plows. Every Farmer in the county is

solicited to call at the Mammoth, and look

through our stock of Plows and Hardware,

all of which wit! be sold at a small profit,

feb!2 '70 S. H. GRHGG. 1

SHERIFF'S SALE.

its advocate, and the party of which lie is so distinguished a member laid it down as their creed in their State convention two vears ago at Indianapolis. The same posi- 'ho Clerk of the Circuit Court of Mont^oma 0 a a tion was assumed b) the .amc party

virtue of an execution, to me directed from

Winn, issued to meas Shuritf of aaid county. I

Ohio under the sanction of one of its iena- wil^ expose to sale at public auction and outcry, tors [Mr. Sherman], so long the chairman

Saturday the 19th day of March, 1^70. bc-

'ween the hour? of 10 o,cluck A. M. and -1 0 clock

ot s:,id

ever forget the support which this construc- the city of Crawfordsville Montgomery county, tion of the law received here in this bodv Indiana, the rents and profits ior a tertn not e.v-

Do you not still hear the hot and bitter clo- 5SJ,1Sru't®)'e/,n Ton^ome^iou^A^i!.^ quencc of your greatest leader? Do you to-wit: The undivided two-thirds is] part of

d:iy, at theCourt House door, in

lot no. eleven ilil ir. the t* wu of Linden, in said county ar.d state, to be sold to.vuisfy said execution, interest. and costs, and if tho same will not bringa sum suliieient to satisfy said execution. I will on the same day at the fame pUce offer tho fee simple of said real estate to si. ?fy a judgement for six hundred and nineteen and -l(Xl ilolliirs. totreiuer with interest and ie!' from valuation or appraise-

[Mr. Butler,] is here, and can answer if his costs, withou views have changed into harmony with the real ennte Administration. Sir, am I not supported by ample testimony, and by many compesent witnesses? Though they now fall off and abandon the cause of the people, and follow the banner of extortion at the command of APPLICATION FOR. LICENSE, the Executive, vet the record still survives

[lir.ua Hughes

ii.'h ore

lor a lieen?e to sell intoxica

ting liquors inale_-s quantity than a quar at a time, under the Temperance Law ol lsi9, for ihe termof one year. My place of bu-iness and the preo.i3es wnereon said liquors are to be sold and drank, is situated on part cf lots number ninety (SO) and ninety-two (jfc) as designated on the original plat of the city of Carwfordsville, beg'm- I ning at tho southwest corner of said lot number ninety-two (92}, and running east one hundred and twenty iU'u feet, thence north forty-one l-ll feet nnd three inche. thi-nce west one hundred and twenty (tit» feet, thence south forty-one Ul) feet, and three inches to the place of beginning, in Union township, Montgomery county. State ot Indiana, in the south lower room o! the briclc building situated on the said Int. febS—«l liENJAMIX F. HAYS.

NOTICE.

NOTICE

is hereby given that the undesigned has been appointed executor of the last will of Margiret Keys, late of Montgomery

klW

MEAT MARKET.

Guthrie & Brother,

lieof,

Pork. 3(nttoii,

Pbopkietor.-.

Third Door South of Elston Bank, Green Street.

TF1K

proprietor' would re."pectfnilv inform the citizens of Orawfordsville and vicinity Ihot thor have removed to tbeir new and elegant rr.om on Green r-troct. three door.® south of KIfton New Bank. Their new market will be foun-.l t.) he ?eeond to nnne in the State, it V.einz fitted up with all the latest modern appliance? and improvement*. Theirstalla will be found stock.'J a: ?M time? T?Uh the choicest qualities if

Smoked HtmiN. Tongnes,

With positive blessings to all classes of busi'ness and industry. This is an increase of $•''.00,000,000 over the present volume Lot

fc&nsage. Pickle Pork

and Corn Hwf.

We pay the Highest Cash Price for Good

Ueef O.ltlo. Hides, and Pelts.

All orders for ir.eai from the country filled vith prnmnrnes" and dispatch. Feb. 19. ltT0m3.

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENT-

WTATK Off E TVni «. I iTIonlKoiiirry Count). In the Circuit. On^t of Montfrf.mery e..iinty "•'tori-h term, April. lf.TO. I.aF'ayetta Mitchell) vs Diwr.'i Mary F. Mitehcll

it renjem!.-rel that on tIto 31st dr.y ot .'nnuar7. A. 1. lfc"0. in vacation of the Circuit Court

Montgomery enunty. Indiana, the

plaintitf I.nKayetto Mitehol'.by OenrseD. TTurley, his attorney, tile'l in tho Clerk's office of the Circuit Court of Montcomery county. Indiana, his complaint for divorce, also the affidavit •nf a disinterested person, setting forth that the lefendnnt. Mary K. .Mitchell, is a non-resident of the State of Indiana. Xow. therefore, notice of the filinc and pendency of his action is hereby given to the defendant Mary K. Mitchell. hat she may bo and appear before the Judge of the Circuit Court of Slontsromcry eounty Ind.. on .Monday, March 14th, A. D. I6"0, then ar.d there to answer to said complaint.

Witness mv linnd ar.d sral of said

W.vj!

ai:.ssinn,

Court this 31st day of January, I). 1?T0. W\|, K. WALLACE.

ff hi—n 1

SALE OP HEAL ESTATE.

"TMIE undersigned Executor of the'last will and te.-tiiment of Willis Itridses. deceased, will sell at private sale 011 or after four weeks from dnte hereof, the following ileseribed renl c=tnte, of which said deoedent died seized, in Montgomery county, lud., to-wit Smith half of the west ha!f_"f the northeast quarter of seetinn thirty-two [32], in town-hio seventeen I IT]. north of ranjfe four'4^ west, tind the south half of the east half of tho northwest qu»rier of said section thirty-two [3ij in said township and range, containing SO acre®.

TEliMS :--Onu third of the purchase money to he paid in hand, one third in eight month", nnd he residue in tit teen month', with interest 011 ihe deferred payments from date of sule. the purchaser to give note with approved security .lurllie deferred in liil!ih.'iit waiving all relief I'm in valuation lv.v l'eb5— iv4 II. II. OOOlilUR.

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE.

"V'OTICli hereby given Union township. Monti?

0 the citizens of «J ...mcry county. In-

diaaa. that I. John HaUardy a white male inhabitant of .Montgomery county. State of Indiana, of the age of twenty-one years, will apply to the Hoard of Commissioners of -Montgomery county, .State fd Indiana, iit their next regular

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE.

"VTOTICK is hereby -riven to the citizens of i' Union township. Mont joinery county, in the State of Indiana that I. Itobert A. Ilavs, a white malo inhabitant, of .MontRriiieiy county, in the saiilState of Indiana, of the iirc twen-ty-one years, v. ill apply to the Hoard of County Commissioners of Montgomery county, in the State of Indiana, at their resular session eommeneins on the first Monday of March, A. I). 1-70, for a license to sell intoxicating liquors in a |l:-.s quantity than a quart nt a time, under tho Temperance Law of 1-o'J. of thc Statu of Indiana for a term of one year. My place of ba-iness an Ihe premises whereon said li mors tire to lie sold nnd drank is situated on the wrs'. half of lot number one hundred and e'mht [ll-'i as the samv is designated on lie original plat of tho city.if Crawfordsville. Union township Montgomery county. Indiana. feh5—wt I'OBEKT A. 11AV-.

DRUGS AND MEDICINES.

NSW FIRM.

iNOFFttTr& KOOK,

*K !tf I li ii LOCK. 0. 1.

CRAWrORDSV!LL£,

I.N' rrh.1-

IVrfuiiKM'V.

i-n. as the properly of

H.I-:. PtiiKNER, .SheritT M.

hereby civen the citjeiu of

VOTICK 1 I'nion township. Montgomery county Indiana, that 1. lien. F. flay-, a white male ichnbi tantof Mon'c.imoty coanty in the State of Indi ana, of the age of twenty-one years, will apply to the Hoard of Commis'ioDers of Montgomery eounty, in the State of Indiana, at the regular session v.mmenoioe on the first Monday of March, A. I). le~0.

WHOLE NTJMBEE 1382

BOOTS AND SHOES.

CITY MAT 9ARKET!I' NEW FIRM.

Wallace & Company's

Boot and Shoe Store,

Yea], .1

ashinston Street?

OH'OSITI. rmr

OOTT3r2/T HOUSE,

Now and Complete Stock ol

Boot and Shoes

KOR T'rlK

A A E

They are all

FIRST CLASS GOODS

And will bo

SOLD CHE^VJ:

Try Them aud See.

Augu-

WAliliACjC

Oaia,

eoinmeneing on the tir-t Monday of

March. -A. l.». 1*70, for a license'to sell intoxicating liquors in a less quantity thim a quart at a time under the Temperance law i,f the State of Indiana approved March 5, lei'.i. f'jr the term of one year. My place ofbu.-ine* and the premise wherenn snid liquor- nro to lie sold and drank is situated on lut numbet two in John Wilson's -eeond' addition in the city i-f Crawfordsville. I'liion township, Montgomery county, .State of Indiana. The tenement where said liquors are to le ?old and drank is situated on the sourhue.-t eorncr of the above described real estate northeast of the Louisville. New A!- 1 bans A- Chicago raihnad depot. Union town.-hip. I Montgomery county Indiana. feW—w-i JOHN II.\ST.U i»V. I

COMPANY.

BAKERY.

EXCELSIQR

o, Is. or

•Sr.Wr^tfrs to

Mahorney & Gcrrard.

Ke-p tn haiid u["'.b

FAMILY GROCERIES,

Confectioneries,

(H a'! Kir. I

Fresh Siva. I.

Pu*.

Cakes.

Buns,

loins

Pii'.h.. «iU.

Rusks, Arc.

lUc.-L^fr-

itjoy .V if*!

Pur,- Wines

rul TJr.iin 1 i»-1

Fnr Mr-t!it-:il

I'ltrposos.

IV.-ih .Mp.iieS.i.-s Ai- .. I.j,n.r». fJta?«*fir., I.»t-ti-r.'Cap, and .Note I'.ip-vr, IV n-. I'er.rii.j. at. link.

Pit E S f: Mi 3 i* VS

f'.ri-fully orepare'l and pro i,it!y iittc-.-idcd to. WeJre'per-ifail-J'.-.ilc:! pntiijcupe from the pjiblic inirenernl. '.lfin2"'rto.

ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE.

"VJOTfCE is liere&y given th-it I vtiil sell at publio suction SATURDAY, MAKCI1 VT0 nt the late residence of Michael Crow, late ot Montgomery conntv. deceased. i.'J miles north of Crawfordsville, hi? personal property con-i-t-ing in part of the t'ol'owing articles, to-wit:

Horse?, Cattle, Hoes, wagon. Harness. Fanning L'tencil*. Household and Kitchen Furniture, •ic.. Ac.

TERMS A credit of one year will b» given on all sums over 53. purchaser giving note with approved security waving valuation r.nd tppr.iijemcnl laws,

S \MUEI. I'OTTS,

febl' w3 Administrator.

NOTICE.

NOTKbeenLrrebjr

.?. „.^.e

Executor,

E it civen that the undersigned has appointed Administrator ot thiestnte of Charles M. Steele, dc'-'ca.-ed, said #ilate is supposed to be solvent.

THOMAS M. STEELE.

fcbl9 wS Vdministrator.

Eating Room

WARM MEALS

AT ALL HOURS.

ill V»uy

PKODL-CF:.

vr v. \yd I

Miighfsi .flat-kit J*rir?

o?r in k- vlt or L-ioner.

^^lll

tiee

No. 2 Washington Street, Next Door to "Graham's.

FKAIC. BAYLKSS A: WEBT.

I.'.nir.

APPLICATION FOR LICENSE.

"VOTIfE is hereby eirec t., the t'r.ion tr,wn«hip. MoctL'omory

SAMUEL I'OTTS.

(t M9 vv3 A irnini-sl rr. r.

NOTICE.

N'ilTICE

is hereby given ti.at the undersigned has been appointed Administrator of the estate if Michael Crow, deceased, said e"t*te i.-. •upposed to be solvent.

W. F. ELSTON,

i- A IiORNE* AT LAW. OfSce "/lobi Crawford's Stono rr^nt dec9Gt

LEW WALLACE,

4 TTORXEY AT LAW, Craivfordiville fnd. Office*-3oath of Pott Office, aoSffWtf,

W. T. Hrnsli.

Attorney at Law. Notory Public I and General Collecting Agent, CHAWPOEDSVILLE IND,

TV'iil attend promptly to all business iutros'cd to him. Particular attention given to the collection of debts, settlement of cendor.t's estates, writineof wills, writing taking acknowledgments of deeds,mortgage* te.

OFFICE —In Mayor'* room. i«(ocd ttorr 'S!cttr" Front, jnlJ3yl

BVFTPEIRCE,

Attorney at Law.

Crawfordsville, Indiana

jrPOKFICK OVfIR CRAWFORD 4

Pona to order, in tho latest styles.

rriP'

ei':zrn» of

_.. .. nnty. Indi-

nna. that I. James Kennedy, a white rr,.!e inhabitant of Montgomery county. State of In .. the age of twenty-one years, will apply to the lkard of Commissioner" of Montgomery founty. .Stiteof Indiana, at their n-tt regular se'»ion, cr.min»neihK on the fir-t Mondny of 1 March. A. 1). Ir70. for a licence to sell intoxicatingliquors in a less quantity thnn qo.vtal a time tinder the

Temperance I.aw of 1?59, for term

of one year. My plaeeof husine-s and the prem-isc-s whereon said liqai rs are to be sold and drank, is situated on p:rt of number one hundred and six of the original plat of the town of Crawfor hville, Union township. Montgomery county. Ind.. cotcmcncing at the northeast Corner of said lot running thencc 1 4 south sixty.two feet, thence we»t eighty-iwo and half [j fiwt, thence north sixty-two 'it-'l feet, thenco east eighty-two and a half ir'v'S) fool to thc pl»o« ot beginning. The tenemoot where said liouorc ure to bu Hold and drank is situated on the northeast corner of the abora described real estate. tebi-wl JAMES KENNEDY.

MCLLI-

N"S STORK. MAIN STRL'KT.«.LTI Will eive prompt attention to bu*ine»* in ustices'. Common Pleas' rfnd Circuit Coorta ef nipnmery count/. Deeds. Mnrtcarcs and all hlr businessuf Notary Publieneatly execud- May 33, lfCS.y

JAMES WRIGHT"^ A I'OBNCV iV CO CXMEI.OR at LAW Gives special attention to probate matters, totthne 01 decedent estates and collection of claims, needs, mortgage*, Ac..carefully exeoutea OtTieem Court Housenp Stairs. teb27 6Py.

PAPER HANGING.

"FVrper TTmipning.

JCXN. M- AVINTON OFFERS

his'service* as a paper hatiget. Ali

work done in Rood st.vlo and on fair terms. li. i-'Ordors lefts at promptly tilled

community a employ.

Old Corner liovk Store »eW70

DENTISTS.

tf. II. OA LEY,

DENTIST.Craw.

fnrdsvtllc Ind Office corner Mnin.t Washington sfrpi«f». overGorbam'a Store.

Dr. B. V. G»lcy. long and a a known to tbo

first-class Dentist, is in my jan&O

Theodore HciTIehon.

13ESIDENT DEXTLST,Crawfordsville, Ind.. X^ rcspectfu'lv tender their sorvieos to the T'lcasc call worn and moderato,'prioc9.

OFFICE—On Main stroet, over Drown .t Ratnscy dry-goods store. foh.2?'09y

REMOVAL.

W. PEARSON

lias removed Ins shop four doors south of his old stand, over Carson's New Grocery Store.

Cutting aud linking

PAINTINGT

ocieostf

T. II. WOTOX,

House, Sign, Ornamental Painter, and Engraver.

Green Strtet, Commercial Row, 8d

Sh.

floor. Feh .27,1^19

II. WIXTOX,

MEDICAL.

asSSBEESifiSSB!!®

01: li i.JWed prlrl.T of l)r ih HumcJ.v

Catarrh

li* '.M nni cure. Iv (ir-iiLi'isti »r M.'iil 'i- C.:oK A pWff nn«\jfMir!»frec Arl'irc.s. J»r. V. I Wc* r.urui.j.N.v.

jnneTc—y

FURNITURE.

REDUCED PRICES!

furniture! Furniture!

otiip.eto stock ef Furniture of all comprising everything from tho the most costly: hoth home-innde hastern made which he will tell

heape«: and the

crrarlr reduced prie Old Old ci.wom'.rs and new ciHtora"r» are respect0 a 1 am in is to

JlVSh.ip south of the

Wiishinsttofi 'ourt lloii'c.

iir:iriu|«t Uh

•street, two

cquare

tan

TOBACCOS.

I.Oim/LARIVS KrifKKA"

ToM.nc. 1 Virginia.

herover introduced it I- universally admired^ It 11 put up in hands,,nie,„!!«!in hair., in which g'i I .r .'l"r"rhn{jm rfprs nro doily pocked':^

LOI?IF,LAUD'S i' YAOFT CLUB"'" SjioVii.'ij Tohnce hn* no superior heins: denleontini/.e.I. it cannot injure ncrvclnts constituHof s. ,. p,..,plo Ot *(.1cnfnry h:i.lit«.

It produe-d Iir.jn "ekclions of the fine-t .' 'ii" no'i r" 11

I'y a patented and ii:lun!

,l(',r".'jr..ti!atie. mild, and iiffht in wci«ht— r.'nee it will lint mufti longer than others

,hc

leave u'dii-

Order-) for genuine. ele?an:ly nrve.l Meerschautn 1 1 pes silver mounted, nnd pucked in'i-5

ru ,n th

J,0.KILLAIi F)'S

«1

LOIULLA KD'S rKNTlRY Chewing Topicco. This hrnnd of Kine Ci I r.o ?uperiorany«herc.

hcwiin Tf/..ICC(i hut

I'n without 11 doubt, the be in the country.

h.le

c'tiewin

to-

SM'FFS

tbo United' kl.OK-ledgCsd

II.a 1 rrf on pener i! u»» o\ ]lf! year", and «:ji .ie he-t Klu-rever u•-r.iJ. It your »loreker.,,..rdoe» not have th .or sale, ir-k ihetn to «ef them. Itieynre very wh'-re. t'ireu'iir.

arti-

,. ar.pli.-Tti hOiilf.I.AUIi ACO..

1 N or

TAILORING.

1: v:7~

IEDXWGREIL & BISHOP'S'

It .'Oil «af.t 11 perfect fittin* jarrnent. cut. or u^d ,Mr. John Ui-bop well kcowt. 10 tUM county. Jivery body iri',ii- that h- i. a No 1 in.-i'h.-in-r.

S E

l'.».

Alvi,'i\s on Hand.

o-'Ii. j,.,,., iiiid hurmniod to fit

THEM A

CALL.

.• if

liu:!dic(t. en-

BLACKSMITHINO.

i.n.vRi as ki iirflv.

1,1111'H S ill lll'lli. BLAOKSMI THING,

On M'lin Stru t, 1 h-tri lh,,

t'o

I'•!.*( "ifti.r,'

\\"UL l.U re-'peeiftilly iU'ormlaoir old frieudi that they are nuw prepared to execute promntly and in the b'M stylo, all :klud}!vf jcaera' Uiackinifbiig.*u-'t as .m

Milt (1 "r) of fctccry iJticri^tmn, Hvi SJiO' in 1/ tunl L'''uit !ru Job M'l/rA-.

All arc invited togi. dearor to give entire -uti^ august 1^. t.^7.

eall.aj wo shall el jotioo to ou^'oiner?