Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 12 October 1865 — Page 1
eremiah Keeney,
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
VOL. XVIII.--NO.5.
THE JOURNAL.
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1st. When a soldier is discharged by reason of
the expiration of his term of service, he is enti-
in addition TO THE ABOVE.
By a late act of Congress every soldier who shall have lost both hands, or both feet; or, who shall have lost one hand and one foot in the service, shall be entitled to a pension of $20 per month.
Officers returns to Chief of Ordnance, SurgeonGeneral and Quartermaster-General made up, and Certificates of Non-Indebtedness, obtained.
Fees reasonable, and no charge in any case unless successful. Special attention given also to the settlement of decedents' Estates, and other Legal business. W. P. BRITTON,
Attorney and Gov't Claim Agent, Office with the County Treasurer, Crawfordsville, Ind. July 13, 1865.
MISS
GREEN
MAGGIE WOODS,
STREET, ONE DOOR SOUTH BENEFIEL'S STORE,
Crawfordsville, Ind.,
IS
now in receipt of a complete stock of MILLINERY GOODS. consisting of Bonnets and Hats for Ladies, Misses and Children, of the newest and most desirable styles, also a nice line of Ribbons, Feathers and Flowers, of every variety Caps of all kinds for old Ladies.
BLEACHING AND PRESSING done to order, on short notice. Will be receiving new Goods every few days throughout the season; and shall spare no pains to please all who may favor me with their patronage.
may 4 '65] MAGGIE WOODS.
S. G.
pay special attention to diseases of a
stubborn or dangerous character. Fees will
fluctuate with the times.
Office hours from 6 to 8 A. M., and from 12 to 1 o'clock P. M., closely observed. Address: Mace Postoffice, Montgomery county, Indiana. [jan 5 '65-tf.
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Card, 1 year, 6 months, All the above advertisements subject to semi-an-nual change, at the same rates.
Transient Advertising: All Public Sales, Transient Advertisements, &c., 1 per square, for first insertion and 50 cts. for each additional insertion.
THE
All Soldiers interested are requested to call on me at the office of the County Treasurer and put their names to such a petition. The friends of soldiers are requested to call their attention to this matter. A general effort to this effect is now being made throughout the United States. The petitions are now ready and will be forwarded as soon as Congress meets. Call immediately.
Under the present Laws Soldiers and Soldiers Heirs are entitled as follows: 1st. When a soldier has died from any cause in the service of the United States, since the 13th of April, 1861, leaving a widow, she is entitled to a pension of $8 per month; also a bounty of from $75 to $402, besides all arrears of pay. 2d. If the soldier left no widow, his children under 16 years of age are entitled to the pension, back pay and bounty. 3d. If the soldier left no widow, child or children, then the father is entitled to the bounty and back pay, but no pension. 4th. If the soldier left no widow, child or father, or if the father has abandoned the support of the family, the mother is entitled to the back pay and bounty, and, if she was dependent in whole or in part on her son for support, to a pension also. 6th. If the soldier left none of the above heirs, then the brothers and sisters are entitled to the back pay and bounty.
To Discharged Soldiers:
6,00
The latter class of advertisements should
ATTENTION
Discharged Soldiers
attention of all Soldiers who enlisted
for
three years and have been honorably discharged from the service by reason, either
of dis
ability, or expiration of term of service, is call to the fact that an effort will be made at the next session of Congress to secure the passage of a law giving an additional Bounty of Two Hundred Dollars to all those who volunteered in 186l-'62 and part of the year 1863 for the $100 bounty and did not re enlist for the large bounty. This ad ditional bounty is to make them equal with those who have received Three Hundred Dollars bounty.
B. V. & M. H. GALEY, DENTISTS.
OFFICE—North side, Main street, over Brown's Drug Store,
Waverly.
2d. Soldiers discharged for wounds received in also We also offer for sale the reliable Family SEWLINE OF DUTY, are entitled to a BOUNTY. ING MACHINE of 3d. Soldiers discharged by reason of disease contracted in the service, or wounds received, which still disable them, are entitled to a PENSION-
IND.
august 3, 1865. 17n47ly.
ELSTON BANK,
Green St., south of the Post Office,
CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA,
CONTINUES
to discount good paper and sell
exchange on New York and Cincinnati, and to receive on deposit U. S. Legal Tender Notes, Bank of the State of Indiana. Free Banks of Indiana, and notes of all solvent Banks of Ohio. dec 1 '64-yl*
P. S. KENNEDY,
Attorney at Law,
OFFICE NO. 4, OVER NATIONAL BANK.
H
10,00 12,00
13,00 15,00 25,00 14,00
AVING removed to CRAWFORDSVILLE,
IND.,
will devote his time exclusively to
meets every Saturday evening, at 7 1/2 o'clock.
his
profession. [apr 27 '65-.*
Crawfordsville Lodge No. 223--I. O. O. F.
BETHESDA ENCAMPMENT meets the 1st and 3d Tuesday of each month.
L. A. FOOTE. S. S. THOMSON.
FOOTE & THOMSON, Booksellers and Stationers,
CRAWFORDSVILLE, INDIANA,
AVING enlarged and entirely refitted the old Book Store corner, and having increased the stock to correspond, would respectfully and confidently offer to the public generally the best assortment of goods, in their line, in the place, and at prices to suit the times. Our stock consists in part of the following:
BIBLES, HYMN & PRAYER
Books: all the School and Text Books used in Colleges and Common Schools; Histories, Standard Novels, in cloth and paper; Testaments, in variety, Tract Society Books, Miscellaneous and Music Books, and Sheet Music, in variety.
A splendid assortment of Photograph Albums. Photographs for the million Pictures in great variety Oval, square and rustic frames Moulding, all sizes and kinds.
Particular attention paid to Framing Pictures.
Legal, Bill. Cap, Letter, Note & Billet paper and the largest and best assortment of Wall Paper and Bordering in the place.
Envelopes in great variety. Ink. Slates, Chalk and Lead Crayons, Gold an Steel Pens, Pen Holders, Pencils. Pocket Books, Portmonnies, Ladies' Purses, Backgammon and Checker Boards, Dice and Cups, Chess men, and various Games; drawing Paper and Pencils.
A select assortment of Pocket Cutlery Visiting and Merchant's cards.
BLANK BOOKS OF ALL KINDS.
Blank Notes. Receipts, Mortgages, Deeds, &c. Pocket Diaries and Bill Holders. Window Shades and Paper, cords and Tassels, various colors.
Vases, mugs, china Figures, Dolls, Doll heads, combs, brushes, Fish hooks, Lines and Floats, Rubber balls, marbles, Rattles, Toy Drums. Flags and Swords, and a general assortment of small NOTIONS and TOYS, too numerous to enumerate; also Ladies' Writing Desks and Baskets.
We also keep a general
where you will find of Magazines, the Atlantic,
Harper, Eclectic, Godey, Ballon, Young Folks,
Frank Leslie, Madame Demorest, Hours at Home,
and
Of papers, N. Y. Ledger, N. Y. Weekly, Mer-
cury, Harper's
tled to all arrears of pay and the balance of the Leslie's Illustrated, Yankee Notions, Nick Nax, bounty promised to him after deducting the in-
1
which you are especially invited to call and see before purchasing elsewhere. Particular attention given to orders for any
thing not on hands.
ns
y1
his WATCH and
JEWELRY
complete stock of
School, Blank and Miscellaneous
O O K S
Writing Paper, Envelopes. Pens, Inks, and every article used in public & private schools. Teachand pupils will find it to their advantage to call and examine my stock and prices before pur-
chasing elsewhere.
ceived and sold at prices to
lios and
IRWIN,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, Fredericksburg, Indiana,
Fancy Articles
of all descriptions in most magnificent profusion. All the New York Weeklies and Monthlies the Ledger, Weekly, Clipper, Wilkes' Spirit, Waverly, Harper's, Atlantic and Eclectic Monthlies, constantly on hand. Also agent for
RAVEN, BACON & CO'S
CELEBRATED PIANOS!
Don't fail to visit Patterson's
FANCY BAZAAR & BOOK STORE!
Two doors west of the old stand, at the sign of
the
OL
DEN WATCH
Horrible Case of Snakebite in Connecticut—Life Saved by Drinking Cider Brandy.
The Litchfield Sentinel gives the particulars of the biting of Dwight, son of Martin S. Todd, of Bethlehem, on the 1st inst. He was sowing rye on the farm of Horace Cowles, and being thirsty started for a spring of water, and as he jumped over the fence, a copperhead or "chunkhead" snake fastened to his leg and refused to let go his hold until the young man pulled his body in twain. The youth, not thinking anything about the poisonous qualities of the snake, paid no attention to his bite until he began to grow dizzy. Having a few days pre vious read in newspaper that alcohol was an antidote to the bite of a poisonous snake, he started immedi ately for the house of Mr. Cowles, about a mile distant, where he knew there was some fourth-proof cider brandy, (unconsciously carrying the tail of the reptile with him) but be fore reaching the house his tongue be came
so
a
ed
Weekly, Chimney Corner, Frank
mic Monthly, &c.; also the
LA
FAYETTE
DAILY
WILCOX & GIBBS. make him equal to a 'middling nigg one or the other would have to be born again and entirely made over.
Remember the old stand, corner of Green rang outang, or a
and Vernon streets, where we will be pleased to
wait upon all who will favor us with a call.
uly 13 '65.] FOOTE & THOMSON.
THE NEW
BOOK STORE!
JAMES PATTERSON
KEEPS c
State. He talked rapidly, but
admitted that he could not read nor write. His great hobby was nigger votin. He was afeerd the Abolishin ers would make the negro his equal Never, never, thought we. The Abo litionists have no such power. To
be made
lL
the
cross, but
tantly on hand, in connection with of the Herald theatrical imbroglio.
establishment, a
A most magnificent, stock of ALBUMS, just re-
magnificent stock of ALBUMS just re- corner of
DEFY COMPETITION!
Hymn and Prayer Books, Scrap Books, Porte Fo-
CRAWFORDSVILLE, IND., OCTOBER 12, 1865.
swollen that he had to breathe
through his nostrils, and his strength gave out so that he could not walk, and for several rods he crawled upon his hands and knees. He succeeded in reaching the house, however, but unfortunately the family was absent. He crawled around the house until he found the cider brandy and drank about two quarts of it. He was afterwards attended by Drs. Davis, of Bethlehem, and Webb, of Woodbury. It is supposed that when Todd sprang over the fence he jumped upon the snake.
AFRAID
OF NEGRO
News Depot him thought he was crazy, but on ap-
EQUALITY.—The
Kokomo Tribune has the following account of a "curious specimen" seen in that town a few days since. If he could read, we think his apprehensions would be quieted by an attentive perusal of Phillips's notice. "We saw a curious looking fellow on the street yesterday. His clothing was all of Southern manufacture.— He had a hump on his back, pipe-stem legs, white hair, a pumpkin face, was barefoot, and his feet as flat as those of a goose. As he stood about the corners he would run his hands, to his elbows, in his pockets. His body described several curves. His head, and the seat of his breeches, were up ward from his feet in nearly a straight line. but the hump on his back, his digestive organs, and his knees were
badly out of line. Persons who saw
proaching him they found he was of
one of the leading families of
co-
equal
of an ou
never
that Mr. Barnum presented his advertisement at the counter of the Herald office, and it was refused. The clerk declined to give any reason further than that he had received orders to that effect from the editor. It is sta ted informally that Mr. Bennett is not satisfied with the terms of the pur-
chase of the late museum property,
Ann
fl
up-the-cr
eek, of
which two animals he is evidently a
equal
to
a
negro.—
The Republicans are a powerful party and have done and can do much, but the power to work miracles has never been claimed by them."
The New York Evening Post says
Street and Broadway,
and seeks to modify the transaction.— This Mr. Barnum declines to do, and
the Post, it is
er
tisements
TTERSON
August 17, 1865. ylv17n49
ere refused.
The books of the Federal underta
ker at Nashville, Tenn., shows that he subscribed to permit them to do so.
has buried, since the Federal occupa tion of the city, 13.634 soldiers and Government employes (1.000 of the latter) also 8,000 rebel soldiers, and 10,000 contrabands and refugees.
Carl Schurz is in St. Louis. It is reported he is about to start an En-
glish radical paper in that city, suffi-
cient funds having been subscribed to
make it financially secure.
The Union, in any event." Terms:
The Aerial Voyage of Prof. Lowe and Harry Leslie.
From the New York Times.
The recent detached ascension of' the great war balloon "United States,'' on Saturday last, was one of peculiar interest. As was stated in Sunday's Times the ascension took place, at six o'clock P. M., from the balloon inclosure, in Sixth Avenue, near the Central Park. The high wind which prevailed all day having subsided sufficiently to admit of a voyage being taken to the skies, preparations were soon made to that end. Prof. Lowe, the experienced aeronaut, entered the car, followed by Mr. Fleury, a passenger, and by Harry Leslie, who is so well known as "the hero of Niagara." The appearance of this renowned gymnast created great excitement, and he surprised every one present by his
fro at their will. Being requested to return to the balloon car, and feeling somewhat fatigued, Leslie suffered himself to be hauled up by the Professor and his friend, and so closed his share of the remarkable programme.
The balloon meanwhile had been slowly sailing northward, passing over the park, and making a stand over the great reservoir of some ten minutes, the wind having nearly died away
air the ship got up extra speed, going up the Hudson at a terrific pace, rising and descending alternately, as the Pro fessor willed.
The scene at this time was splendid, and is not easily described. The everrecurring forests, meadows, villages, rivers and meandering brooks, pre
where he intended making the descent, and after some time and a number of false descents, the balloon was finally brought within striking distance of mother earth. Eighty feet of rope and
Crowds of spectators naturally flocked in to see the balloon and it's occupants, coming in from Yonkers, Mount Vernon, White Plains, and the entire neighborhood. Leaving the now collapsed balloon in charge of the owners of the place, the party soon found themselves in Yonkers. The Professor and his companion accepted the hospitalities of the Messrs. De Witt. while Harry Leslie took the next train for New York, he having engagements at the Falls. Thus ended the fifth detached ascension.
Michigan City Harbor. As we have published the past two weeks, the Michigan City Harbor Company will meet for permanent organizaon Thursday, 12th proximo. The necessary amount of funds have been
At this organization permanent officers will be elected by stock-holders.-— There is nothing like determination in any thing a person may get at. The people of the City made up their minds to what they would do and they are doing it. There will be no failure in is enttrprise.--LaPorte Heral
The number of persons now drawing pensions is 97,875
At the word the impatient balloon "Gone or going into oblivion, leaving was cast adrift, and she steadily rose a nation in tears—a country in ruins from the platform, amid the cheers of a once happy people in debt and taxathe assembled crowds, and firing of tion—a treasury once well filled with cannon. When at the altitude of some coin empty, and thousands of miliions three hundred feet, Harry Leslie rap- for us to pay. They have gone to peridly descended from the wicker car of dition and their victims are many— the balloon, sliding down the rope They have gone from their field of with agility and perfect self-possession. power. In a moment, almost, he was at the end of the rope and hun by the thighs, swinging the most reckless style rope was quickly thrown him by the occupants of the car, and he then commenced a series of evolutions, remarkable for their skill and daring. Hanging by the feet, the hands, and by the thighs, he continued thus to swing be-
tween heaven and earth, until he people of America. It broke the spell, reached the hight of more than fifteen hundred feet above the earth. Leslie seemingly had exhausted his repertoire
of gymnastic performances, for here strands of our western boundaries, and he placed his feet in one noose, and his halted the advance of usurpation most neck in another. and thus secured effectually. Lincoln has suffered the winds to sway him to and nation wept, and yet for what it did not know.
At this time the balloon was almost only true principles of government. stationary moving very slowly until Democracy still lives, It can not die, 6:30 P. M., when striking a current of for with it dies the hope of the nation
sented an enchanting panorama; but organ is. you will notice that it has not the most delightful scene of all was quite courage to glory in the act of asthe lighting-up of the city. sassination—only in its consequences,
The Professor at length sighted at saying "We deprecate assassination." the distance of four miles the house But as to this, it lied on the 2d of Oc-
an anchor is thrown from the car, and lic good!" Some bold hand did "pierce catches on the roof of a house occupied his heart,'' and now you "deprecate asby Mr. Archer. The landing was ef- sassination!" fected in the lawn at 7:45 P. M., and was very successful.
Democratic.
[From the Chicago Journal.]
The Copperhead spirit, like that of its ally at the South, is gradually coming to its surface again. Cowed for a time before the terrible wrath of a people mad with sorrow over the loss of
2d,
t:
tober, 1865, and told the truth on the 29th of August, 1864, when it said Lincoln is elected for another four years we trust some bold hand will pierce
his
heart with a dagger point
their beloved Chief Magistrate, it now many Inuits. Having guns and plenavails itself of the imagined slumber ty of ammunition, they were enabled of that public wrath, and spits its old to shoot ducks, nowicers, &c. The venom with all its fury. Inuits treated them very kindly. At
The LaCrosse (Wis.) Democrat of length they started for the Kobnunas October
ventures out of its am- country, since which they have not bush to this extent: been seen. All this was previous to "The war is virtually ended. 1854, but the Inuits insist that Cros"Where are the will-o'-the-wisp sier and his friends are not dead. statesmen and Generals who led the Abolition party through the bloody lanes of tyranny and power, from plunder to corruption
Where is Lincoln, the patron saint of ordinance of secession null and void, niggerism, who owes so much to John and accepted the emancipation of
end by his niggerism, who owes so much to John and accepted the
slight phisique, not appearing at all Wilkes Booth, and who is well nigh for- slavery as a fait acompli,— something like what fancy had painted him. His gotten already, with hardly a dozen in the beyond recall or help. But both were dress was one of those handsome gymland to revere his memory? bitter pills to swallow. nastic costumes, so much worn by "Where is Chase? Where is Brough? On the 12th of January, 1861, the grotesques in the French cirque, and Where is that crowd of Constitution- ordinance of secession was adopted by as elaborately embroidered. breaking,
law-despising fungus?
in Heaven. Not all the cannon in the world ever sent an echo so far into the future as did the report of a pistol that fatal night in a Washington theatre, where great men were players and nations the spectators. It woke up the
It gave the country a statesman for a President. It flashed its sic semper tyrannis from Maine to the golden
"Democracy" is coming to our help. Read! ••Peering through the bloody vista rising gradually in lovable sublimity —lifting itself to meet the wish of millions there once more comes to the nation Democracy. talismanic word of blessed hopes and joyous memories.— The people have tired of strange doctrines, and every breeze comes laden with glad tidings of a return to the
the Republic itself. '•And we shall live to chronicle its full restoration to power, and to mingle our voice with those who will rejoice, as surely as we have lived to see come and go the men named above and the principles they advocated."
Boldly diabolical as this Democratic
for
the pub-
As the LaCrosse Democrat led off before in its treasonable appeals and Billingsgate abuse of President Lincoln, and was followed with alacrity by the
New York World and Chicago Times.
we may expect these two journals to follow their leader now again as it vomits its bile upon the grave of the great martyr.
Resolved, that in the future as in the past," &c.—Democratic Platforms.
Three of the Franklin Expedition Probably Living. Mr. H. Grinnell of Now York, has received a very important and interesting letter from C. F. Hall, the Arctic explorer, which announces that he has learned such facts in his expedition as to lead to the belief that there are yet surviving, three men of Sir John Franklin's expedition.
Crossier, who succeeded Franklin in command of the expedition, and three men have been seen. Crossier was reduced to a skeleton, and nearly starved to death, While his three men were fat, they having lived on human flesh —the flesh of their companions, who all deserted the two ships that were surrounded by mountains of ice.— Crossier would not eat human flesh.— The natives finding the party, at once took them in charge, and catching a seal fed Crossier sparingly day by
$1 50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE 2 00 WITHIN THE YEAR.
WHOLE NO. 898
day until his life was saved. They thus cared for the men through the whole winter, during which one of them died.
Crossier and the two remaining men were then taken to Neithille on Boothie, Felix Peninsula, where there were
Alabama Then and Now. The Alabama Convention, after making many wry
faces,
week or ten
has declared the
emancipation of
a vote of yeas 61, nays 39. The President of the convention announced that 'the ordinance of secession was adopted, and Alabama was a free, sovereign and independent State." The doors were thrown open, and the scene which followed is thus graphically sketched by a correspondent: "The most beautiful and refined ladies of Montgomery crowded the lower
wly gained liber-
ties. Mr. Yancey presented the flag on the part of the ladies, to the convention, and Mr. Barber replied in eloquent language in behalf of the delegates. The convention, unfit for business, soon adjourned. Till midnight, the air was burdened with the reverberation of guns, and the fair and gay reveled in the intoxication of music and the dance. In public halls, wild hurrahs greeted orators, who proclaimed that the golden age had dawned upon them, and the listeners to their brilliant visions grew wild with joy and mad with dreams of glory. Party differences which had separated men for years, melted in the glow of State patriotism, and hands long at variance were clasped again with vows of eternal friendship and Union."
New Traffic—Importations from Greenland to Philadelphia. The first vessel from Greenland that ever arrived here came into port yesterday morning. She comes from Ivigtut, consigned to the Pensylvania Salt Manufacturing Company of this city, with a cargo of kryolite, an article of rock, from which a certain chemical is eliminated. The kryolite is almost as white as marble, and is dug by the natives out of the hills near by the harbor where it is shipped. From it is to be made soda ash, an article made only in this country by the Pennsylvania Salt Company, and of which 40.000 tons were imported from England last year. The glass factories of Pittsburg alone use 6,000 tons per annum. Though it costs but about two and a half cents per pound, English manufacturers have been landing it here at a rate that sorely competed with the home production. It now looks as though our Philadelphia company had gained a decided advantage, The kryolite is dug from the hills that form the profile of the harbor of Ivigtut. Those hills are owned in Copenhagen, and a permanent contract with the Danish owner has been made by the party above named. Within a
days several more cargoes
arriv
and
unes.
when the Captains of
the vessels, most of whom are Yankees, arrive in port and compare notes, interesting data will be arrived at.— There are thirteen vessels in all, chartered by the same company, a fact which shows their confidence in the success of the undertaking.—Philadelphia. North American, Sept. 23d.
Maj.-Gen. Hooker was married on Tuesday of last week to Miss Olivia Groesbeck, of Cincinnati. She is reported to be worth $3,000,000.
A speaker at a recent Fenian meeting in Worcester mysteriously intimated that a Fenian on board the Great Eastern purposely damaged the cable, because he was determined that informers should not have the use of the Atlantic cable until Irish independence is achieved.
In the course of six mouths the Italian Government has suppressed eleven convents of monks and six nunneries in Naples alone.
General Howard estimates that ten thousand freedmen have learned to read and write during the war.