Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 March 1871 — Page 1

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Til 5IW BAIPSIIRB ELECTION

THE OBANITE STATE BECLAIMED.

A Complete Democratic Triumph

A DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR

GRANTS POLICY NOT INJDORSED.

NEW YORK March 14—10:40 P. M. Special dispatches from New Hampshire up to this hour are all encouraging. At the World office great hope? -I are entertained that the State has gone Democratic. It is known that hundreds of Republicans were so disgusted with the Grant-Sumner imbroglio that they stayed away from the polls.

NKW YORK March 14—11:06 p. x. Spccial dispatches just received from Concord, N. II., at ten p. m., 1 state that the Radicals bare given up tbo State. -CONCORD, March 15—1 A. M.—The returns from 172 towns foot up:

Pike, 28,241 Weston, 28,139 Cooper, 253 Scattering, 132. The Republican not loss is 2,47G. Weston will probably be elcetcd by over 1,000 plurality.

CONCORD, N. H., March 15.—The Domocrata are jubilant and are parading tho street in front of the State Houso. The Republicans have elected Senators in the Sccond, Third, Fifth, Seventh and Ninth Districts. The Democrats havo probably carried tho other seven districts. The Councilor Districts three and four aro Republican, the other three Democratic, a? Tho Houso will probably have a Ropublican majority of about 20.

Tho election of thrco Democratic Congressmen is conceded, namely, Ilibbard, of Laconia, in tho First District, Bell, of Manchester, in the Second District, and Parker, of Claromont, ID the Third District.

PORTSMOUTH, N. II., March 14.— The Republicans give up the contcst for Governor, aud tho Democrats are jubilant. The Republicans have carried tho County officers. The voto for Senator is close, but probably Marcy, Democrat, is elocted. The voto ia this city for Governor is

Pike, 1,044 Weston, 914 Scattering, 5. Republican loss sinco last year 417.

C^NCOUD, N. H., Midnight.—One hundred and fifty-four towns give Piko, 26,365 Weston, 26,178: Cooper, 253 scattering, 132. Net Republican loss, 2,233.

—^.The First-Gun for 1872.

N'cw Hampshire Leads tho Van and Returns to the Democratic Household

The Democratic Governor and the Three Democratic Congreimcn Elected.

Tho Chairman of the New Hampshire Republican State Central Committee concedes the total rout of the Republican party in that State, in tho election hold last Monday, lip to 1S54 tho Granite State was reliably Democratic, but she tlieu turned over to tho Republicans, and for seventeen years has been carried by that party. Put tho peoplo would not stand Radical misrulo any longer. Tho abuses of power by tho Radical leaders finally became unbearable, and they have culminated in the overwhelming defeat of Radicalism in Now Ilampvhire, an appropriate State to load o" in the glorious reform, tho progress of which will not bo stayed uo-'il tho last vostigo of the party rf corruption, extravagance, and fioJatod pledges is swept from po*cr. All hail New Hampshire i9 Star in the East that ga'« hopo for redemption S from politic*' misrule. For long years havo a gs^ant minority struggled and waited f'r th° victory which now rewards -heir persistent efforts in the jnaintinance of sound principles. This plonoqs triumph will bo hailed by tbo pfoplo all ovor the laud as the dawn (i better days for the oountry and will givo assurance of tho national victory jn 1872 which will restoro that equality in tho administration of tho Government, that respect for tho rights and interests of all sections and classes, which Will bring with it the peace, unity, prosperity

an

progress that

characterized tho bettor (lajs of the Republio. Again we congratulate the glorious Democracy of New Hampshire over their glorious triumph.— State Sentinel.

THAT must havo been a touching scene, when the Godlove S. Orth called, in tho language of the telegraph, "to 6ay good by" to the President. Surely there was sadness enough in such a parting to fill the soul with sorrow—but work remained behind. Tbo same dippatch adds, with cruel indifierence, that the Hon. G. S. O. had "made up his mind that he was to be left out in tbo cold." Ho bad sought the mission to Berlin, but with no better succcss than to be tendered that to Brazil—which, adds the telegraph. "was not to liis taste." This ruthless disregard of Mr. Orth's "taste" will toe a foul blot upon the Administration upon the length and breadth of the Lafayette district. Others may pipe the praises of Grant and sing pleads to tho hero of Appomattak bnttb« muse of Orth will find no inspiration in the theme. Sic transit gloria—Orth.

I I I mm V,

A Radical exchange says that Grant "stuoked one thousand cigars while composing his last message." The rads are very anxions to make the people believe thlt Grant composes his own messages, ain!t dtej

BRASS andirons are made of brass and iron.

A GREAT CHANGE.

The grand ground swell has certainly set in The gravel train has arrived The prayers of the righteous and long-suffering Democracy of New Hampshire have at- last been answered with victory and redemption. The State of New Hampshire, for seventeen years groaning under the misrule of Radical tyranny and proscription, has agaiu become free

Every Radical Congressman has been defeated Every Democratic Congressional candidate has been elected Tho Democratic candidate for Governor is elected The State Council is Democratic. The Senate is Democratic and the power cf the tyrants who insulted, arrested and domineered over the people ia broken. All hail the gallant and persevering Democracy of New Hampshire The victory they have achieved is Llic fuiuruuuui of the redemption of New England from the grasp of the monopolists! It announces the glorious election of a Democratic Congress and President in 1872. It is freedom for the white man North and South. It is the downfall of the tariff rascality, the land gjrant enormity, the force and fraud and the military domination of Grant and his-bayonets everywhere! It assures us equal States and free speech, free press, and free men 1 Push on the column! Lafayette. Dispatch.

"A Wonderful City Is London." It is four times more populous than New York and St. Petersburg, twice as populous as Constantinople, has two-thirds more people in it than Paris, and one-fourth more than Pekin. It contains as many people as Scotland, twice as many as Denmark, and three times the number of Greece. Every eight minutes, night and day, one person dies every five minntes one is born. Eight hundred thousand havo been added to the population since 1851. Only half a million of all this population attend public worship, and there arc a million ot absentees, who, if clined to attend, would require to have 800 new places of worship built 100,000 people work on Sundays thero are 140,000 habitual gin drinkers 190,000 intoxicated people taken every year off tho streets 100,000 fallen women, 10,000 professional gamblers", 20,000 children trained to crime 30,000 thieves and receivers of of stolen goods. There are 10,000 public houses and beer shops, frequented regularly by 500,000 persons. In every eight hundred of the population one is insane. There is one baker for every 1,205 persooe*, one butcher for every 1,553 one grocer for every 1,800, and one policemen for every 608 inhabitants. On the other hand, out of 00,000 street Arabs, 30,000 arc at ragged schools. There are 400 Bible women 380 City Missionaries, and 20.000 parsons attending public worship in the theatres every Sunday morning. It is a world —in itself.

Sumncrlana. dss

The Cincinnati Commercial, the organ of Sumner, makes the following points in its issue of Wednesday "Charles Sumner has no brotbers-in-law, and nary living father. "Senator Morton must make haste to Indiana. The 'breechin's broke,' and if repairs arc not made speedily, thero will be a grand smash at the bottom of the hill. "Mr. Sumner has been at it again— that is to say, he has been getting his social relations into further confusion. Not only has ho diabolically refused to be lobbied into the San Domingo job by the President, or bullied out of his opposition to it by Babcock, he has openly upon tho floor of the Senate received the Hon. Georgo II. Pend'eton as an old friend, and ostentatiously patted him upon the back. Can a man be truly loyal who refuses to speak,to the President, and pats George II. Pendleton on the back? "The administration of Gen. Grant is distinctively ono of personal relations. There was, first, provision for blood relatives, then relatives by marriagc, afterwards personal friends, and then the friends and relatives of relatives and friends, and so on. The remaining energies now appear to be devoted to the punishment of personal enemies. The Cabinet was originally made up of those who had brought gifts in their hands to the hero of Vicksburg. Political considerations were discarded, and men selected for some of the heads of departments who were unknown and without influence in the party that had borne General Grant on its shoulders into the White House. "In connection with the 'no policy' declaration of the President, this original deal of the cards was presumed to mean a determination to organize an administration in which there should be a minimum of politics and a maximum of practicality. The result does not show this to have been the controlling idea. The most practical of the Cabinet officers proved also to be the most political. The President seems to have made his choice upon personal grounds alone.

In the distribution of offices throughout the country, personal rela tions wore not forgotten. Those had the preference who were in any way related to the Grant family. The nepotism of the President waa scandalous. Family influences were soon discovered by the quiclr-eyed officeseekers to be potent in the Executive chamber, and suit was assiduously paid to such members of the family as had the Presidential car. The father of the Pte&iient was more influential than the Vice President himself, and by'his garrulousness ttad pretention added to the scandal which Republicans were compelled to listen to ib silence and with a sense of sbame.

"In changes made in offices at home and abroad, persooal considerations seem to have been paramount. Motley offended, not because he violated instructions, for even Secretary Fish was unable successfully to convict him of that delinquency, but because hi was a man of independent bearing, and the friend of Senator Sumner. It is now doubtful whether it was not because of the Senator's refusal to be agreeably social at the White House that gave peremptory force to the President's order of recall. It is not impossible that Secretary Cox's gentlemanly reserve and high bearing in the presence of Republican majesty had as much to do with his exit from the Cabinet as his views upon civil service reform and his actiou in the McGarrahan case. The failure of Commissioner Wilson to draft a law that would allow a Dent to occupy and possess the Carondelet property cost him his place. And now we have the Executive dictating to the Senate of the United States, and demanding the removal of the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations because be is not personally agreeable to the President, and lacks the suavity of the courtier and the sycophancy of the flatterer.

The public await with curious expectancy the next development under an administration which runs on the strength of personal predilections and social relations.

From all this it would look as though the Commercial has crossed the bridge, and then blowed it sky high to prevent a retreat.

Rascally Oppression of Women Radicals Officials In the Patent Office. The Patent Office has been in" a high state of excitement during the past "week, occasioned by the discovery of the operations of E. W- W. Griffin, clerk in charge of the Draughtsman's Division, who, it appears, has been levying blackmail on lady employes of the offico for nearly two years. During tho administration of Col. Fisher, late Commissioner of Patents,, a large number of ladies were employed for the purpose of recopying the drawings of those already on file, when ordered by inveDtors. These ladies wero placed under the charge of Griffin, with power to retain them in office so long as their services were satisfactory. It has been p.roved that Griffin hired the ladies at regular salaries of 81,000 per annum, and the most of them he blackmailed to the amount of $400 per year each. It is estimated that he has made 51,000 per month for the past two years. The matter brought to the notice of Commissioner Duncan and an investigation ordered, which resulted in the dismissal of Griffin. It is thought there are other cases of this kind, and the Commissioner expresses a determination to ferret them all out, and make a clean sweep of all the parties in his department engaged in swindling operations against the government or against individuals. The Patent Office has, for a long time, been considered a n-'b field for operations of this kind, and investigations, have often been suggested, but the suggp-stions passed unheeded by the proper authorities. It is openly stated that an investigation into the rations existing between certain examiners of patents and patent agenfs would disclose a more fearful state of blackmailing than exists in all the other government departments combined.— Chicago Republican.

A PHILADELPHIA paper, of a recent date, ventures to say "It would seem that New Orleans is recovering her world-wide celebrity for assassination and mob violence." Which is certainly pretty cool for Philadelphia. For a full generation past the name of that city hos been almost a synonym for mob violenco. Old men of to-day can well remember the accounts of the murderous rioting o"Philadelphia firemen, with which the newspapers of their boyish days abounded and occurrences of the same kind, frequent enough to maintain the evil reputation the city then ^quired, ever since, must be within t.H recollection of everybody. Of**e thing the City of Brotherly Love cannot afford to reproach any other town in America, and that is misrule and mob violence. When the time comes for punishing sins of that character, Philadelbhia should avoid the responsibility of casting the first stone.

I Jfew Tork Farmer's Experience with Lightning. George Mills writes as follows: I was struck by lightning under the following circumstances: I am a farmer, and had gone to the pasture, threefourths of a mile from the house, on horseback, to drive home the cows. A heavy shower had just fallen, accompanied by much lightning and loud thunder, and a little rain was still falling—we would say it was 'sprinkling.' While riding through the field, I discovered a small cluster of cockle burrs, a noxious weed that invests many farms in this section of the country. The lattle were feeding near me. I dismounted and held the horse in one hand, and proceeded to pull up the burrs with the other.

While stooping to pull up the last one, my hand grasped it close to the root, the horse standing with his head partly over my stooping body, a flash of lightning struch the horse, entaring his head in and behind his left ear, tearing two holes in the skulljbehind the ear aud, though he was wet with the rain, the hair was singed from his head, neck shoulders and one front leg to the ground. He, of course, was instantly killed. A small portion of the elcctric fluid struck me in the right temple, sioging the lashes of the right eye, and burning or scalding the face, rendering me unconscious for a little time. The following were the sensations and phenomena a3 I observed and remembered them First, I felt myself enveloped in a sheet of perfectly white light, accompanied by a sense of suffocating heat. kiasyv.-

The light ooald be seen as well through the back of the head as with

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the eyes, and appeared to extend several feet on all sides of me then I experienced a sense of danger, and tried to escape injury from my horse. Then follewed a troubled dream, in which I was hauling a load of hay in company with another person, and in spite of all the effort I could make to avoid it, the load of bay was about to fall on me. When in the dream I made the last desperate effort to spring from under the hay, I found myself standing on my feet. The first thing that I observed was that the cattle in fright were running from me, and next that I stood in front of the prostrate horse.

This was a phenomenon I never had heard of, probably because a person near enough to see it is most always rendered unconscious too long to make the observation. Judging from the distance the cattle had to run, I was probably unconscious less than six seconds.

Finding that the horse did not VirPntVin,

regarded

as a fixed

fact. The Indiana portion will be assured through the aid of municipal subscriptions and the doubt in regard to the Ohio section grows out of the fact that such aid is not now available here, and will not be unless the muchlesired Griffith bill shall become a

Elephantine Sagacity.

One evening, whilst riding in the vicinity of Kanay, my horse evinced some cxcitement at a noise which approached us in the thick jungle, and which consisted of a repetition of the ejaculation "Urmphl urmph in a hoarse and dissatisfied tone. A turn in the forest explained the mystery, by bringing me face to face with a trme elephant, unaccompanied by an attendant. He was laboring painfully to carry a heavy beam of timber, which he balanced across his tusks but the pathway being narrow, be was forced to bend his head to one side to permit the load to pass endwise and the exertiou and this inconvenience combined, led him to utter the dissatisfied sounds which disturbed the composure of my horse. On seeing us halt, the elephant raised his head, rcconnoitered us for a moment, then flung down the timber, and voluntarily forced himself backward amoug the brushwood, so as to leave a passage, of which he expected us to avail ourselves. My horse hesitated the elephant observed it, and impatiently thrust himseif still deeper into the jungle, repeating his cry of "Urmph!" but in a vouce evidently meant to encourage us to advance. Still the horse trembled and, anxious to observe the instinct of the two sagacious animals, I laid the reiu upon his neck, and forbore any interference again the elephant, of his own accord, wedged himself farther in amongst the trees, and manifested some impatience that we did not pass him. At length the horse moved forward and when he had fairly passed the elephant, I looked back, and saw the wise creature stoop and take up his unwieldy burden, trim and balance it on his tusks, and resume his route as before, still hoarsely snorting his discontented remonstrance.

The San Domingo Job—Its Consummation. The fact that the Tennessee is soon to arrive in the United States with reports from the Commissioners in favor of annexation, and that the Administration, or rather Grant and his military secretaries are preparing to make a desperate struggle to put the scheme through immediately is a significant illustration of its rascality. The time taken by the Commission will have been hardly sixty days, not more than half of which has been spent in the legitimate discharge of its duties. A report thus hastily made indicates that it was cut and dried in the commencement—a fact, indeed, which everybody knew. The attempted detention of Congress—tho prospect that if it adjourns an extra session of the Senate will be called—shows that the friends of the frand and rascality ace afraid to postpone the matter for a few months, and that a reasonable time for investi­

gation will, so far as they are concerned, spoil everything. The plan for the robbery has been made, and the parties are anxious to divide the spoils. Senator Sumner is said to be confident that this rascally private swindle and job can be defeated—that it will not get a majority of the Senate, much less the two-thirds which the Constitution requires. We hope he is right, but we have grave fears and apprehensions. The money and administrative influence which has thus far pushed the foul thing along, will still continue to do so more actively and unblushingly than before. The corrupt, of whom there are many in the Senate, will be bought up with jSan Domiogo bonds, scrip and land, and by Executive patronage used for the benefit of those interested in the project. There will be an application of the' caucus screws arid machinery that proved so ef£cient in the case of Sumner's depqsition, and every man of honesty and independeace who hesitates to ovpport the job will be denounced as an enemy of the Administration and of the Republican party. Cameron, who has been selected to

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saddle and bridle, and theu I felt a severe pain in my head, which continued for several hours, followed by soreness, which seemed to be in the substance of the brain, with an inclination to inflammation, but at the end of a week no effects of the lightning were felt.

THE Toledo Commercial of the 25th ult. says H. Y. Morrison, Esq., of Frankfort, Indiana, was in the city yesterday, for the purpose of conferring with our citizens in regard to a railroad project in which Toledo is interested. Some twenty years since, a railroad was projected fr5m Evansville, Ind., northwardly through Vincennes to Terre Haute, since which time it haa been completed to Rockville, Park county, and within four months'time will be extended through Crawfordsville to Frankfort, Clinton county, a distance of over two hundred miles from Evansville. An organization has been effected for the extension of the road from Frankfort to Kokomo, Howard county, with the grade already within nine miles of Kokomo, and a contract nearly closed for the remainder of the work. This will complete the entire line from Evansville to Kokomo, some 230 miles. Steps are now in progress for company to continue the road from Kokomo through Marion, Bluffton and Decatur to the Ohio line in the direction of Van Wert, with Toledo for its northern objective point. As we understand it, the Indiana friends of the road will be able to secure its construction through the State to the Ohio line, and the question which now embarrassfe3 them is connected with that portion of the line in Ohio. This settled, and the completion of the road from Evansville to Toledo would be

manago

the

affair, is an experienced hand in such business, and none know better where money will tell, or who will clutch at it with a willing hand. It will be a great triumph indeed for purity if these schemes prove unsuccessful.

How They Do at Court.

Hard times and high taxes have but little if any effect upon the regal expenditures of his Imperial Majesty at the Washington Court. The utmost extravagance in expenditures is indulged in, at the cost of the people, .and the gold spoons of the princes of the blood royal are but a small part of the squandering, as may be judged by the following account of a recent dinner at the White House

The dinner table was not only brilliant in appearance but very beautiful. It was literally loaded with flowers, mostly the azaleas. A boquet in a .slender vase of ground glass stood at every plate. The horizontal mirror always used at state dinners occupied the center of table, stretching almost from end to end. Gilt female figures stood on the frame of this, extending their arms and supporting arches of flowers. From the center rose a gilt stand supporting eight boquets and surmounted by a crown of flowers formed to represent the British crown. Pots of flowering plants stood upon the mirror, and large vases containing cut flowers, beautifully arranged, were on the sides of the table. On each plate was a plain white card, with a pink half-wreath on the upper edge, enclosing the number of the seat. Below was the name of the guest. The company woo roootvod in (Ko blufi-rOOUl, to which they adjourned after dinner, when the gentlemen left the ladies and took a quiet smoke in a side room. The toilets of the ladies were in keeping with the occasion. Mrs.^Grant wore'a peach-blossom silk, brocaded, made with court train, and petticoat of white satin." "Gold and silver" dishes with all the costly extravagance here set forth, are but a poor exemplification of a Republican simplicity. Everything points to the speedy assumption of the Imperial Purple.—Lafayette Dispatch.

The L., X. A. & C. Railroad Again in Court. Charles E. Bill, Trustee of the New York bondholders of the Louisville, New Albany and Chicago Railroad Company, yesterday filed his petition in the United States Circuit Court in the case of which so much has lately been heard, rccit'mg that the value of the road and all its property does not exceed two millions, while their bonds and coupons are not less than three millions so that in auy event, upon a foreclosure and sale they will be in a position to demand and receive all that the sale can bring, and they offer to file bond in any amount and with any surety to the satisfaction of the Court, and pray that the road may, pending proceeding, be placed in the hands of Mr. Bill as Trustee, pursuant to the old agreement and decren by which it was placed in the hands of Hon. W. D. Williamson, deceased. Judge Drummond has appointed the 30th instant to hear this petition, and will attend at Indianapolis to dispose of it. The magnitude of the interests and the ability of the counsel will attract no little attention on the part of the public.—State Sentinel.

THE Indianapolis Journal, which has been one of the most strait-laced of Administration organs, East or West, contains a long article on the Grant-Sumner controversy, in the course of which it says

We pass the Executive and charge upon the men who have his confidence and who have been his chief advisers in all the blunders he has committed, that they have deliberately blown the coal between the President and Senator Sumner, hoping thereby to make Grant odious and his nomination impossible, in order that they may carry off the honors of the party in 1872. We have good reason to believe that such a game is on foot, and while it may result in the enforced retiracy of Grant from the candidacy in 1872, it will not redound to the advancement of those who have contrived the treacherous scheme. No man who has made himself prominent or obnoxious in this business can expect the approval of the Republican party, and when it is once made clear that Grant cannot longer command the support aod confidence of the people, a new man will be called to carry the Republican standard of 1872. It is fortunate for the Republican party that there is no dearth of great men in its ranks, and while it is to be regretted that Gr^nt seems determined to alienate his friends there are othera whose military deeds and civic virtues will qualify them to be his saeeesscr."

Considering that Senator Morton

has been one of the chief advisers in this matter, and that the Journal has always been Mr. Morton's political mouthpiece, it is difficult to know exactly what construction to put npon the above article. It will not do, however, to abuse men for giving bad advice to the President. The baby act will not be accepted as a good and sufficient plea against the multitudinous blunders of the present administration. It doubles the crime instead of extenuating it it adds a weak mind to a bad purpose. The loudest praise of Gen. Grant used to be struck from the note of his knowledge of men." We were told that a general who selected Sherman and Sheridan for his lioutenants in the field could be relied on for a wise nhoice in the Cabinet recent events, howerer, prove this to have been a sad non sequitur. One after another, Grant has quarreled with the best and the ablest mea in the Republican party—some of them its founders, all of them its trusted champions. This fact is not pleasant to contemplate, but it must be looked squarely in the face, and acted upon. Tho Republican party has done more for Gen. Grant than Gen. Grant has done for the Republican party —Chi cago Republican (radical).

Richard Smith and Don Piatt oil the Military Administration. That General Grant transferred from the camp to the Executive Department of the Government the military way of doing business, the reader may satisfy himself by reading what these two prominent Western Radicals say on the subject, Richard Smith, of the Cincinnati Gazette, and Don Piatt, of the Commercial. The reader will not wonder after this that President Grant made use of the military to effect an alteration in the constitution of his country, in a matter deemed vital to the Republican party. Mr. Smith writes "President Grant, when elected, was not a politician. He was a soldier, and he is a soldier still, in his ways. When he entered the White House, he took with him members of bis staff, aud, to a large extent, he has imagined himself a general commanding in the field, rather than a President in the executive chair, to be commanded by the people that elected him. This is to be seen in the way in which he makes and refuses to make appointments as it is in the way in which he has heretofore chosen his cabinet officers. The latter he supposed would be to him, as President, what his staff officers would be to him in the field as general."

Don Piatt confirms the remarks of his brother Radical of the Gazette, and refers to the military and imperial countenance in the inner or social sanctuary.. Writing to the Com il, he says

We are getting to be just the least bit imperial in our ways here, and have tlic countenance. For the fir.st time in the history of the Excutivo Mansion, the servants appear in livery. Ilis Excellency is surrounded by the military. There is a continual jingling of spurs and clank of sabres, and the illustrious "tanner," now grown so great, can only be reached through a battalion of flunkeys, and brigadier generals (by brevet) are as thick as blackberries. Mrs. Grant, when she receives, is surrounded by her ladies of honor, and the handsome, jolly General Michler acts as a master of ceremonies, and presents the vulgar crowd to their exclusive Excellencies."

The outward and visible signs of the inward disposition are very manifest. It is not real republicanism, however it is the sham material, which, did the opportunity offer, would, on to morrow, throw itself into the arms of an emperor, with as much delight and alacrity as would the maid into the arms of her betrothed.— Cin. Enqu.

Sumner's Organ.

The Cincinnati Commercial has 'blazoned' the name of Charles Sumner on its banner for President in 1872, paying no attention to the appeals of the Indianapolis Journal, not to do so. The Commercial pitches in right merrily for its candidate, and does not spare the "feelinks" of the President in its outspoken course. There is nothing "wishey-washey" in the Commercial. It don't know Morton or any other man] save Charles Sumner, and it is going to fight it out on that line if it takes two summers. This is the way the Sumner organ battles for its man

"A strong point for Sumner as a candidate lor the Presidency, is that he is not troubled with relatives. He would not be a bad case of brother-in-law." "Senators Morton and Sherman are on the wrong track in trying to bolster up the President. He is not a political necessity. He is played out, and must not be thought of as a candidate for re election. The thing to do with him is to shove him upon a side track." "The New York World asks 'What is the excuse offered by Gen. Grant's sycophants for supplanting a thoroughly equipped publicist like Sumner with an ignoramus in foreign matters like Simon Cameron '•The excuse is that Sumner don't speak respectfully of Grant. He found Grant iu the Senate, pulling and hauling for the ^n Domiogo job, and has talked like an honest man about it. If the President had not become a lobby member of the Senate, be would not have got into trouble with Snmner. When the President degrades bis office by using his "personal influence" for jobs that have a bad smell, in the Senate, it is certain that his personal relations with the honest men in the Senate will not remain amicable but

it does not follow that the Senate should debase itself by such a reorganization as will please the lobby." "The Cincinnati Gazette, with its belly filled with Whito House dinners, says 'There is, it is well known, existing between Mr.- Sumner and the President a feeling of bitter hostility. In this unfortunate affair Mr. Sumner was the aggressor, and he ba3 not sought to disguise his hostility, or to restrain himself wheu speaking to his friends of the President.' "Tho President forced this quarrel upon Mr. Sumner. The difficulty originated in the lobbying that the President did for Mr. Babcock's San Domingo job. Never before did a President degrade himself by entering into the lobby of the Senate, and by button-holing Senators and importuning them to vote for a treaty to which the Chief Magistrate had, through a 'military secretary,' pledged his 'personal influence.' Mr. Sumner's sense of propriety was outraged by the gross misconduct of the President, and when hunted and importuced by Grant and his real estate agents until hnrrassed and disgusted, he expressed himself with the indignation becoming an honest man. Such was Sumner's aggression."

The Commercial is the only up-and-down, squarc-tocd, out and-out- Sumner paper in the country. We like its pluck. The Journal pronounccs it "indiscreet," but the Commercial will go on, pell mell, helter skelter, in spite of Morton's organ, right straight along in the pathway it has marked out. Go ahead, Murat we'll hold your hat!—State Sentinel.

The Heavens In March.

The planets Venus and Jupiter aro now most conspicuous, and will attract the attention of the most indifferent observer who casts his eyes unward. Facing to the south, and looking over the right shoulder, and above the point at which the sun disappeared, the queen of planets, Venus, is now revealed to view. She is the most brilliant "wanderer" in the solar system, and is now the evening star.

The next object that attracts attention is Jupiter, situated now almost exactly overhead, forming a triangle with two stars in the tips of Taurus. For lack of a telescope, a good operaglass will reveal the four moons that attend him.

But besides these two great planets, the whole heavens are lighted up with a display which it would be worso than vain to compare with any spectacle that human skill could furnish. Constcllatioas whose separate stars sparkle with silver lustre, strike the eye in every direction. Truly it is strange that so many persons, even of intelligence, so seldom cast a glance at the glories of the heavens and yet no one can look upward and bestow even a passing thought upon the view, without feeling the glow of nobler and better impulses.

THE new House of Representatives, with its 9(3 Democratic members to 130 Republicans, is commencing very well. By a vote of 145 to 4G it enacts that salt shall bo on the fi'&e list. Another necessary of life—coal—was ordered to be free by the decisive vote of 145 to 57. Tea and coffee were put on the free list—141 for to 49 against. The people ore unanimously for these measures. But they are almost certain to bo rejected by a Republican Senate, and if they should not, they would be vetoed by the President. The final triumph of this reliel to the nation will be postponed until the 4th of Marsh 1873, when we shall have a Democratic Administrating

HARPER'S WEEKLY has a portrait of King William of Prussia, throwing far into the shade Napoleon I. '11'is idea is wholly imaginative. The great Corsican's exploits, who from being a Lieutenant of Artillery rose to.be Emperor of France and Dictator of l^arope for ten years, who conquered Austria, Prussia, Germany, Spain, Italy, and forced terms upon Russia, are not dimmed in the least by the late campaign of the Prussian King. The old ligitimist monarch, the successor •of Frederick, has an immense work to 4o before, even in a military point of view, bis life will be equal in historical glory to the old French hero of the commencement of this eentury.

AMUSEMENT

ELTZ ROTH'S HALL!

CABHiRI CO'fei

Dramatic Troupe!

For a few nights only, commencing

MONDAY, MvlRC.lt 20th JS71,

When will be produced, tho Great Drama entitled

KIP VAN WINKLE.

MISS CORDELIA CAPPEL^

An Cirrlcbcn.

MR. J. H. O'KEANE At Rip.

Supported by a full Dramati* Troupe.

Tho public of Crawfordsville will find that this Is no Amateur party, but a first-class Dramatic Troupe. This troupe supported John E. Owens 100 nights in the principal cities of the United States this season, and with him opened the Terre Haute Opera House. Hip Van Winkle, Our American Cousin, Solon Shingle, and Wilkie Collins will follow in rapid suc%t&si°n during the season here. ,0 -O« /r

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New 7-30 Gold Loan

SAFE! PROFITAELS PERMANENT

1

JAY COOKK& ۩,

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They are iasued in denominations of SJWJ, £«^X) $l,Oo6andSio,«X». The Trustees under the Mortgage aro Messrs. Jay Cooke, of Fhiludelphi*. and J. Edgar Thompson, of tho Fcnn«y!vani» Central Kailroad Company.

These .Northern Facific 7-30 Bonds will stall times before maturity. Vie receivable a- TENF*H CKMr. FKEHII:* '.or l-V). in exchange for the Company's lands at their cash price.

In addition to their absolute safety, theje Bonds yield an income larger, wo believe, than any other first-ela«s security. Ferson" holding United States Z-UO't can. by converting Uiurn into Northern Pacific, increase their yearly iacome ONB-TftixD, and still havo a perfectly reliable investment.

HOW TO IJKT THEM.—Your nearest Bank or Bunker will supply theio Uf.i is iu any dedred amount, and of any needed denomination.— Fersons wishing to exchange stocks or bonds for for these, can do so with any of our Agents, who will allow the highest currciu price for ALL MAKKKTABLK SF.CI BITIES.

Those lit iug in localities remote from Banks. may send money, or other bonds, directly lu by express, and we will send back Northern Facltic Bon is a*, our own risk, and without .st to the investor. For further !nf"r:n«liin. £imphlets. rntui-. etc., call on or address tho undersigned, or any of the Banks (,-r Uankers employed U) sell thi-" Loan.

Li'M. l'KESTO.Vi k£AN, Banker*, Chicago. 111. For sale by the First National Bank. Crawfordsville.

ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE.

NOTICE

is hereby given that the undersigned ha* been appointed Administrator of tho estate of Waihington Dewey, late of Montgomery county, Indiana, deceased. Said estate ia lolvent. GEO. \V. DEWEY, mar 11 ICTlwi. Administrator,