Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 4 June 1868 — Page 1

E O N A

A PUBLISHED WKEKTA- BY

McCAOf & HEVDKK IW,

AT CBJLWFOKDSVIIXKJ 1SMAXA.

OKV'ICFI-In CM*ford's Block, K»ST of Con rt House.

TERMS.

One year.... I Six months.

W. F. ELSTOx\,

A TTORNEY AT LAW, Crawfordsvilie, Indiana, _£\_ Collections promptly attended to. OlHce, coroner of Main and Green streets. ii23

m. I.

wumt. THOMAS rATTF.USOS.

WHITS: «fc PATTERSON

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TTORNKYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAWCrawfordsvilie, Ind. Office—Empire Block, ain Street. a23

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r. 8. KENNEDY.

ATTORNEYS

It. H. G.M.I.OUMT.

KENNEDY «& GALLOWAY

AT LAW, Crawfordsvilie, Indiana.

Orv.oE adjoining the Mayor's office, over the corner book store. a23

C. L. THOMAS. A. D. THOMAS

THOMAS & TIIOMAS,

4 TTORNKYS AT LAW, and Solicitors in BankXX' "ruptcy, Crawfordsvilie, Ind. OFFICE in Hughes' Block, Main Street. a'23

R. B. F. PIERCE,

TTORNEY AT LAW. Crawfordsvilie, Indiana OFFICE over Crawford fc Mullikin's store. Will j^ire prompt attention to business in all the Courts of Montgomery county, a'23

P. MRITTOX.

A TTORNPY AT LAW, Crawfordsvilie, Ind. AtJ\. tends to all kinds of leiral-bnsiness.

It E. SIDEXER,

NOTARY

PUBLIC, Crawfordsvilie, Ind. OIKICK

with W. P- Britton. Attends to all business entrusted to him with promptness. a-23

OEOR6E ». mi RLY,

ATTORNEY

AT LAW, and Notary Public, Craw­

fordsvilie, Ind. OFFICE over Crawford & Mullikin's store. Will attend to all kinds of legal business entrusted to him. jj.23

Dr. J. €. WXYARI),

OMEOI'ATHIC PHYSICIAN, Crawfordsvilie, Ind. OFEIOE with the Township Trustee.

T. M'MECIIAX. AV. .1 WOLFE.

Mc-JIECHAW fc WOLFE,

KE5IDENT

DENTISTS, Crawrordsville, Ind., re­

spectfully tender their services to the public. Motto, "Good work and moderate prices." Please call- Officii—Ou Mala street over R. K. Krout's Drug Store. apr23

AUCTIONEER.

7l. W* CIJMBERm iK

LICENSED AUCTIONEER

OFFERS

his professional services to the public. Prompt attention given to Fnblfc SuleS of all kinds.

April 23, 1868.

PAINTING.

T. H. WINTON,

LLOUSK, SIGN, ANI)

ORNAMENTAL PAINTER,

WOULD

RETURN HIS THANKS

to the public for past favors. Hop­

ing by strict attention to business and reasonable priecs to share a continuance of public favor. As a Glazier, Gilder, Paper Hanger, Engraver on Wood, fce., lie is equal to tfcc best workmen in the State.

Shop over R. J. Vance's Drv Goods Store, Green street. nnr»8

WANTED.

$2,000 Wortii of Lumber

WANTED.—Suitablesuchas

for manufactu­

ring into Wagons, Oak, Black Hickory and Poplar. Persons wishing to contract for this kind of lumber will please call at the Carriage Factorv of J. S. Miller & Co. IIEFFNER, MILLER & CO.

SHOEMAKER.

BOOT & SHOEMAKING.

W. H. VANSLYKE HAS

established himself in the above business in the Graham building one door west of Wilhite's Tailor Shop, on Main street, and deals only in

CUSTOM MADE WORK

He manufactures Boots on the patent Plumer last, which enables him to give a neat and easy fit. He is prepared to do custom work, either sewed or pegged, on short notice. Repairing done, with "neatness and despatch. lie solicits a share of the public custom. [apr23

PICTURE GALLERY.

Kii nSr iroiT'

CALIFORNIA

PICTURE GALLERY, HUGHES' BLOCK,

OPPOSITE CO Cli IIO (-SE.

MAIX STREET.

From the smallest to Life Size Photograph, finished in Oil or Water Colors. Small Pictures copied and enlarged. »pr23j W. KEN YON, Prop.

WACONS.

Superior agons.

JS.

MILLER & CO. have on hand and for sale the celebrated Studcbaker Wagons. aprii.'i

SADDLES AND HARNESS.

ENSMINGER & NICHOLSON,

DEALEliS IN

SADDLERY & HARNESS,

WASHINGTON

WOULDof

STREET,

respf-ctfully

zens

inform the citi­

Mon

joinery county Ilia

they have new on linnd a' general assortment of custom made work ?utno line ot

HARNESS, SADDLES,,... BRIDLES,

HALTERS,

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WHIPS, SPURS. I S

and in fact everything connected with their trade. Repairing of every description done with promptness, and upon reasonable terms.

Those wishing anything in their line will do weir to call at their shop, north of the court house. They are determined

JYot To JBe Undersold

bv any house in the city.

KrT Highest market price in cash paid for Hides and .Sheep Pells. [aprilo

VOL. 20.--NO. 89.

$2 00 1 00

PROFESSIONAL CARDS.^ I A IS TTOBNEY AT LAW, WnvelanC, Indiana, will ive prompt attention to business entrusted to in courts of Montgomery and Parke counties.

OKKICK

over Simpson': grocery store, Main street- a"23

BUTCHERS.

F. B. GUTHRIE & BBO.

-DEALERS IN—

FRESH MEATS

OF ALL KINDS.

Pay the highest market prices for

BEEF CATTLE, HOGS, STIEEP.

Hides and Peltries Wanted.

!N"o. 10 Grreen Street CRAWFORESVILLE, IND.

april 13' 1SUS. tf

MERCHANT TAILOR/

Merchant Tailoring: Goods.

NEW GOODS.

JOHN MAAS, MERCHANT TAILOR,

No. (i Commercial Row,

GREEN STREET

HAVINGpleasure

SPRING & SUMMER

wli.ch he will make up in

11)7/ Goofte,

(TOODS

JYotions,

BOOKS AND STATIONERY.

A.T THE

CORNER BOOK STORE.

Miseellaneous, School,

College, Blank. Gift,

A

Toy and

ALL MODS OF BOOKS.

BILL.

LETTER, NOTE, BILLET,

WINDOW, WALL, &

WRAPPING PAPERS. PENS, INKS,

PENCILS, SLATES, ENVELOPES, fcc.,

&c., &c. a large fc

Complete Stock. PICTURES, PICTURE FRAMES,

MOLDING,, CORD, TASSELS,

WiiulowXliirtaiiis .Shades

of the different styles and patterns.

Notions & Fancy Articles,

both useful and ornamental, come& sec.

TOYS of ALL DESCRIPTIONS

liriug in your children pleased.

and thev ui be

PiSTOLS AND CARTRIDGES

of the finest manufacture.

All the leading Literary

PAPERS & MAGAZINES

kept constantly on hand.

Wilcox itGibbg'

Family Sewing Machines.

The best. Call and see them.

Remember

THE COMER BOOK STOEE,

northwest corner Vernon "and Green streets, Crawfordsvilie, Ind. apr23-1868] L. A. FOOTE A CO.

TO A CAGED CABTAltY.

What, subtle, pulse is in thy blood, Poor bird, that teaches thee to King, That tells thee that the fair-eyed Spring Again to these rough shores is wooed?

How dost thou know that skies are fair, Close pent within a curtained room? Jlow ciinsttliou argue from thy gloom, The light and rapture ol'the air?

I know that home-bound swallows flit Across the opal of the sky, Mv brain is servant to inv eye: But'how had st thou a hint of it?

IIow canst thou know that ash-buds swell. That violets peep in sweet surprise, By what sense dost thou recognize The* Spring-soug of the crocus-bell

am upbraided by thy voice:

i'

fom

Boots Shoes, tints Caps,

the lowest prices for cash, or exchanged for good merchantable Produce. april-J.'! l!56fi.-tf

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For, barred froni all'thatmakes the Spring To human thought a blessed tiling, Thou dost unwenringlv rejoice.

learn a lesson, bird, from thee: Shanii, were mv son®: less glad than thine, When Spring with all her waelth, is mine, And the wide world's aglow for me.

W1IITTIICR TO COLFAX.

Colfax!—well chosen to preside O'er Freedom's Congress, and to guide, As one who holds the reins of fate, The current of its great debate Prompted by one too wise, and good, And fair, withal, to be withstood, Here, from our northern river-banks, I send to thee my hearty thanks For all the pat ice which has borne The weary toot of Buifkum's horn, The hissing of the Copperhead. And Folly dropping words of lead! Still wisely ready when the scale Hangs poised to make the right prevail, Still foremost, though succession's head Be crushed, with scornful heel to tread The life out from its writhing tail! As wise, firm, faithful to the end God keep thee, prays thy sincere friend,

Joux G. W'LHTTIKK.

CL£1IKS A"I APPRENTICES.

BY JAMES I'ARTOX.

Sixteen years of age! What shall I be? what shall I do? how shall 1 make

just returned from the East, the most of this one life which 1 have to takes in announcing to his live in the world numerous friends and the public generally, Here we are, with the huge continent that he is prepared to show an elegant and

0f

carefully selected stock of the handsomest .,]K,

America to subdue, people, civilize

render

and latest pattern* of work lies before the next two generations of American citizens! Three or

accessible. What a piece of

LI]RO ILS

"FROSS

OIIU^U tt OUlUJIiHl JIsvstem of ship canals .between the Far

1

the Continent—A

A a A a O a Is

IUUs

ofDaricn to be pieced-the national l» •IWu.rgA-th. liovornment puritier! ami simplified—Cauail*. C'tibn (ivt-ll placed awl wellcomlucted) anct the land Mexico not conquered, not absorbed, overshadowing clothing houses of not even annexed, perhaps, yet united to I Brooks or Devlin? Why. nothing but us by the unrestricted interchange of thirty years'growth! products and services—our cities reor- The knowledge Avhich a clerk acquires gani/.ed and rebuilt, and the blessings of is part of the indispensable equipment of civilization far more equally diffused man of business but it is far from bethan has ever yet been contemplated! ing so vital to a grand success as that I These arc hut a few items in the great! which comes of a true apprenticeship task of preparing the. Continent of Amcr-

Lug, curing ami selling furs. He knew it, not as a clerk might know it ho, knew it as a man knows the trade to which lie has served'a long apprenticeship under a watchful and exacting master.

Another case in point was the first Rothschild, who, from lii.s twelfth to his twenty-seventli year, laboriously acquired a knowledge of money, first as er-rend-boy and money-counter to his father, and afterwards as banker's clerk.

Girard, too, was a thorough sailor before he ever owned a ship, and was personally familiar with most of the commercial ports long before he ever conconsigned a cargo to one of them,

There is my valued friend, Join Gorham, Providence, the head of thclargest manufactory of silver ware in the world. He did not go into his father's countingroom as a clerk, but into his father's shop as an apprentice and he learned how to do with his own hands whatever he has since had to direct others in doing.

But such examples are numberless. All my acquaintance with business men teaches me that the fundamental of success in business is

1

I ica to play that leading and controlling

... _• I part in tlie affairs of mankind for which A splendid line of Prints, and Domestics \r„tm.(1 utfocl it la abundance, all of which will be sold at 'Sixte(i

vcarfi 0f affc!

How shall 1

prepare myself to do a man part in this

great work and. by so doing, ^procure secret of complicated battles and great

for myself a fair share of safe and ration- campaigns. al happiness. Leania trade, tbpn 1»J who as pv j.-ti io co scsmetning credstalSe am^uu the leading men in Chieiteo, _iiiciniiati. stmitial during your life. Won UK you St. Louis, Omaha, ban iraneisco. and i„.

ask them what kind of men they want in the western country, they will all make you the same answer: j* ''We want men out here," they say. 'who know who to no something or I MAKE .something. Of buyers and sellers

I we have a superfluity: and ofprolessional

men, such as they are, there is no lack. We want men wlio can start a factory and work in one. We want men who reallj" know how to cultivate the land. Send"us doers and makers, as many as you please if they are really competent, we stand ready to give them a start."

Such language as this have myself repeatedly heard in the western country, and any one who goes there can see for himself what a field there is for men who know how to take hold of work and do

Few persons have looked into the lives of so many remarkable men as I have, yet I cannot call to mind one of the acknowledged kings of business who did not in early life serve a long, rigorous apprenticeship to some occupation akin to that which he afterwards exercised, and in which his great success was made.

Vanderbilt. for example, was a boatman, sloop captain, and steamboat, captain, for nineteen years before he setup for himself ill the business of building and running steamboats, in which lie gained more money than was ever before gained in a single life-time, except by plunder. There is not to-day in the whole world a man who knows as much about steamboats and steamships as this same Cornelius Vanderbuilt.

Astor is another illustration. He learned the fur business from the very rudiments. He used to beat furs from morning till night in his master's back shop, and after doing this awhile, he lused to take a basket of trinkets and nickdacks, and go round among the sloops and markets, driving hard bargains with boatmen, Indians and market-men for such skins as they had brought town

he went to Europe, and learned all about

Cst

it. \ou can also see for yourself that! countenances, I find it difficult to believe the strong, rooted men of the West, as of ju

I remember visiting, in Cincinnati, a large manufactory of bolts and nuts, in which two hundred men were employed. This establishment was one of five different cities, owned by the same company, and managed by its chief. Great- indeed was my astonishment, on being introduced to this captain of industry, to find him a brisk and smiling young gentleman of thirty-two. 1 thought it must be a mistake. 1 supposed lie was the son of "the old man." But no he was the veritable founder, chief owner and manager of five extensive iron works, and during the war he had worked a contract for supplying an army with biscuit.— This youngster of thirty-two had done these things! and with"the generosity natural to youth, he was in the habit of giving away $25,000 a year to the benevolent operations of the city. This young fellow had been inured" to work and to responsibility from his boyhood, and he carried on these enterprises with an ease and gayety wonderful to witness.

KXOW--#secret DGE—

real, knowledge—such knowledge as is only acquired by becoming practically familiar with methods and processes— such knowledge, in fact, as a mini gets by taking hold of work, and doing it until he can do it easily and perfectly.

There is a noble establishment in Broadway,where many of us go,occasionally, for the rehabilitation of our outer man. It was in the grand upper room of this palace-like store, while I w:is being measused for a coat, that I conceived the idea of writing this article. In wellconducted establishments of every kind you will notice the same faces year after year for able men naturally gather able men around them, and employers and employed, by reciprocal justice and courtesy, become attached to one another, and have neither motive nor desire to sever the connection. And .vet. on that occasion, seeing around mc the same skilful and obliging persons that I had seen there ten years before, I could not but reflect, how little chance they had to advance from clerkship to mastership. -.Suppose."' thought 1, "a lad of sixteen or seventeen should propose to himself, as an object in life, to become klie proprietor of an establishment like this— what would be the shortest and •likeliest path for him to strike into?" 1 feci certain that the best thing lie could do would he to apprentice himself to a good tailor, and learn all there is to be known about the making of clothes. Having acquired that knowcldge—not with his head only but witli his lingers as well—nothing would be easier than to set up a small shop. \ow, what is the dill'crcnce between a small tailor-shop

a])]i'

Gibbon says, that going out with the militia on training days was of material assistance to him in writing the history of the great Roman wars. Just giving the word of command to a few eompa-

Mj(Vi 0f

country militia let him into the

:in

architect, and build the new Capi-

!"1 west of the Mississippi Well, then, go apprentice to the best carpenter or mason within your reach. Do you wish to be a sculptor, and yet cannot pay a master's fee Instead of pining in your mother's chimney corner, go to the ncar-

stone-cutter's and cut tombstones'.

The educating effect of learning a good trade has never been sufficiently considered.

Why have we. now-a-days, so many simpering, silly girls about, who know nothing, can (io nothing, and are nothing? They have been'at school long enough to get a little knowledge, and they do not apear to be wanting in natural capacity and yet, so empty are they of sense and reflection, that, often ... .when I look into their expressionless

the

the East, arc men who in their youth seems more reasonable to think that such learned that subtle, incommunicable abortive efforts of Xature would be quietwisdom which comes of doing homely lv absorbed or dissipated, like the leaves work with their own hands and mind, which flutter to the ground, and are no

patiently and WUI.L. One of the most thriving establishments in Chicago is a wagon factory, founded twenty years ago by a poor mechanic, whose entire capital at starting just sufficed to enable him to complete one rough fanner's wagon but it was a good strong wagon it gave great satisfaction to the man who bought it it brought in plenty of new orders to the maker, and the factory is now turning out from five to seven hundred wagons a week.

immortality of their souls. It

more seen. What is the matter with these creatures The matter is: they have never boiled potatoes, ironed clothes, made pudding, cleaned paint, made beds, nor in any other way seriously applied their minds and hands to the exact and skilful performance of lonely tasks. They have missed the precious education which comes of carefully-done work. Ifany good soul would take half a dozen of these unfortunate beings, and give them a good three years' drill in the work of a well-ordered house, the educating effect would astonish every one who knew them. You canuot boil an egg precisely right without getting a little education out of it.

Compare tlie mechanics in the Novelty Works with the clerks in Stewart's store. The clsrks arc excellent fellows they look well, dress well, understand their business, and are. in every respect worthy members of society but our best mechanics have a certain force of manhood, a weight of character, and a depth of reflection rarely seen in those who only buy and sell.

I should be sorry to say anything to disparage our institution's of" learning. Nevertheless, I feel confident that an intelligent youth, who remains at school until he is sixteen or seventeen, and then apprentices himself to a good trade, can get a better education out of his shop (with an hour's study of principles in the evening) than it is possible to get in any college in existence—that is to say, a better education for this new and forming country, where, for fifty years at least to come, no man can hope to play a leading part, except in wielding material forces. 1 say, then, lads of sixteen, if you would lay a foundation for a sure prosperity, begin by learning a trade. If you would escape the perdition of being a fool, learn a-trade. If you would do a man's part for your country, begin the work of preparation by learning a trade.

How grandly the following eulogy on the brief but noble history of the Republican party, contrasts with the miserable appeals to caste, prejudice and rascality that from the staple of Democratic, speeches. It is a paragraph from the speech of Gen. W. H. Gibson, of Ohio, delivered at the impromptu ratification meeting held in Chicago after the nominations of Grant and Colfax:

The Republican party of the United States was the creature of necessity, not of choice, and with the strength of agiajit ithas'fouglit the battle of the age, and to-pav points to a nation saved from rebellion, and a union preserved from dissolution, as the trophies

of her triumph. [Renewed applause.] I

By-and-by he shouldered his pack and thank God to-night that I belong to that I tramped the country for peltries and, [party, and that you belong to that party extending his journey, at length he be-I that trampled upon the. shackles of four came familiar with every place, every millions of slaves, and all earth gives back tribe, and every person connected with the echo "hail to America," and the course the fur trade in North America. Then

of

h,u1'

is stm to bo

wal'd-

tlie market for furs and their prices in |. .j-fis paid that Ross of Kansas was, in his every part of the world. I1 ew men have better days, an excellent job printer. His ever understood a thing so well as Mr. imprint on Impeachment, however, shows Astor understood the business of collect- it to have been the worst job of his life,

°"vard

and

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CRAWFORDSVILIE INDIANA, JUNE 4, 1868. $2 PER ANNUM.

OUR CANDIDATES.

OKNKKAI, t'. S. GHAXT.

Eight years ago, when a Republican Convention at- Chicago nominated Abraham Lincoln, a man not altogether unknown, and wherever known respected, the country was taken by surprise, but rallied to his support as no'okl favorite had ever been supported, and in the terrible years that followed gave him a place in the popular heart never accorded to any one except Washington. Now the country is not only not surprised at, but actually demands tlie nomination of a man then living at Galena, whose name the people had never heard when Lincoln was called'from his quiet life at Springfield. Both Western men, and both residents of Illinois, though born the one in Kentucky and the other in Ohio, they were nominated for the first office in the people's gift.by National Conventions held in the metropolis of their adopted State. Lincoln had a mission to perforin, and the Convention of 1 SCO called him forth to perform it Grant has that work to complete, and the Convention oflSGS asks him to complete it. His record in the past shows the singleness of purpose, with which he will pursue the task allotted to him in the future.

Ulysses S. Grant was born April 27, 1822, at Point Pleasant, Clermont county, Ohio. Like Lincoln, his early intellectual advantages were of the most ordinary kind, but he was enabled to educate himself sufficiently to (snter the Military Academy at West Point, to which he was fortunate in procuring a cadetsliip, though at the expenses of his name, Ilirani Ulysses, which was given him in infancy for which he has became known all over the world. If the clerical blunder which inscribed him Ulysses S. could not be erased from the records of the Academy, neither can that name be blotted i'roin the scroll of honorable of history. He graduated in 1813, and was breveted ii Second Lieutentaut in the 4th Infantry. He served through tlie Mexican, war receiving brevets of First Lieutenant and Captain for meritorious conduct at the battles of Molina del Rev and Chepultepec. After the war with Mexico he continued in the army for a few years, and while serving in Oregon in l.S V2, was promoted to a Captaincy. The next year he resigned, going into business at, St. Louis, and in 1859 he removed to Galena, Illinois, where he was conducting an extensive tannery when the late war broke out. Captain Grant was among the first to offer his services to the Government. and was given command of a regiment In the Governor of Illinois, with which he went into active service in Missouri. It was not long until he was appointed a Brigadier General of Volunteers (August, 1861), and assigned to the comniond of the District of Cairo.

•her, 1862. He was then appointed to the command of the Army of West Tennessee, his force consistituting the 13th Army Corps, and fixed his headquarters at Jackson iu that State. In the meantime McClellan had been driven from before Richmond, Pope had been defeated at the second battle of Bull Run, and an uncertain victory at Antietam had closed the career of a General who was called to the head of the army in the fever of popular enthusiasm, and had been restored to command in a moment of despair. During the dark and terrible winter that followed", the Army of the Potomac under its successive commanders lay on the banks of the Rappahannock, and fought the ill fated battles of Fredericksburg ancl Chaneellorsville, while Grant and Sherman were quietly working out their plans on the Mississippi and Yazoo. When Lee moved northward in the spring and summer of 18GM, and Meade, was enabled to gain his great victory at Gettysburg, the capitulation of Pemberton added Vicksburg to Gcttvsburgli in the associations connected with the ever glorious Fourth of July. In detailing the appointments of Major Generals which had been made in the regular army, Grant once modestly said: "After the capitulation of Vicksburg was added,'' as if himself unconscious of the importance of an event that had given the army a leader who had conquered a peace for the country, and makes him to-day the candidate of the* great Republican party for President, an office which he would not desire were not the people intent on giving him this last mark of their confidence and esteem.

One who was within the rebel lines during the invasion of Pennsylvania in 1803, was told by an arrogant Southerner, whose deserted home was near the spot where Grant's army lay, that the dark and fetid waters of the Yazoo would destroy his men even if there were no intrenched enemy in front to piektfiem off in detail. But the same flash of the lightning that brought the news of Meade's victory at Gettysburg brought word of Pemberton's defeat at Vicksburg. As a reward for this victory, Grant, in Bis own modest words, was added to the Major Generals already appointed for the regular armv, but unlike the time when he was commissioned a Major General of Volunteers, no fortune could now doom him to inactivity. Before he was ordered to assume command at Chattanooga, after the unfortunate battle of Chickainauga, President Lincoln wrote him a characteristic letter. It was dated July loth, and was as follows: "Dear General: I do not ^remember that you and I ever met personally. I write this now as a grateful acknowledgement for the almost inestimable service you have done the country. I wish to say further. When you first reached the vicinity of Vicksburg, I thought you should do what you finally did—march the troops across the neck, run tlie batteries with transports, and thus go below and I never had any faith, except a general hope that you knew better than I, that the Yazoo expedition and the like could succeed.— When you got below and took Port Gibson, Grand Gulf, and vicinity, I thought you should go down the river and join General Banks and when you turned northward, east of the Big Black, I thought it was a mistake, I now wish to make the personal acknowledgement that you were right and I was wrong.

A victory which could call forth such a letter as this from President Lincoln would produce in the mind of the Executive the most unbounded confidence "in the commander bv whom it was gained. It is grattifying that that confidence was never betrayed, ancl never disappointed. He first justified the Presidents l'aitli, soon after he assumed the chief command in Tennessee, bv the brilliant victory at Lookout Mountain, driving the rebel General Braggfrom theChattanoogo Valley and Mission Ridge, and opening up the way for Sherman's great march to the sea. Then the House, of Representatives passed a unanimous vote of thanks to General GranWor his victories, and ordered a medal to be struck in his honor, while both Houses of Congress concurred in the passage of an act reviving the grade of Lieutenant General, a rank never held bv anv one except Washington, and Grant was recommended for the post, it being prescribed that the Lieutenant General should have command of the armies. President Lincoln formally presented him with his commission, March 9,1864, and having opened up the path to the final victory in the

Southwest, he at once proceeded to pave the way to success in the Southeast. The Grand Army of the Potomac, smarting under its many misfortunes, notwithstanding the bright spot of Gettysburg upon its banners, and its imperishable record for heroism, needed the prestige of General Grant to give it confidence in itself. Those noble v«terans felt that success was assured when they found him willing to join his great fame with theirs, and to link his destinies with their fortune. He received his commission from the hands of the President, with but few words, and without indicating his purpose left the Executive presence to begin his advance upon Richmond. The Rapidan was crossed, and Lee fought in the terrible battle of the Wilderness then he anvaneed to North Anna River, and making a flank movement upon Cold Harbor, fought another sanguinary battle, the assult upon the rebel works at that, place: and then swinging around the intrenched lines of the enemy, he crossed the James and inverted Petersburg. Desperate engagements followed, and, during the investment, he mined and blew up Fort Hell, a rebel stronghold, with a view to taking the town by assault but the operation failed, with severe punishment on our side, and heavy losses to the enemy. Tfiis, together wun ("instraits to which Lee was reduced, emboldened him to take the offensive, and on the night of the 27th of March, 1H05, he moved three divisions of his troops before Fort Steadiuan, and surprised and captured the position. Before night it had been retaken, and at the same time the battle of Hatcher's Run was fought, continuing until evening. On the 2d of April the rebel intrenchments, with six thousand men, at Big Five Forks, were captured, and an attack was ordered along the while line, under Grant's direction, which ended in driving Lee from his works and the abandonment of Richmond. Lee's retreat was cut off by the rapid movements which Grant instituted, and on the Otli of April, just one week after the last great battle, the army of Northern Virginia capitulated. Soon after the rebel General Johnson surrendered to General Sherman, on the same terms granted by Grant to Lee, and the Great Civil'War was ended.

If General Grant was appointed to the command of the armies with a rank never held by any one before except \Vashiugton, a greater honor, if possible, was in store for him. He is now simply General of the United States Army, and soon lie will be President of the. United States.

THE HOX. SCHVVLBU COLFAX. Schuvler Colfax, the popular candidate of the National Union Republican party for the office of Vice-President, is a native of New York Citv. He was boru in North Moore street, March 2.'!, 1S23, his father having died but a short, time previous. With but limited means, his widowed mother could afford to keep him at school but a short time, and at the age of ten he was placed in a mercantile establishment Avliere he remained three years, contributing from his small salary to the support of both himself and mother. In 18J(, he and his mother, in company with others, left their home in this citv and settled in St. Joseph county, Indiana. Shortly after his arrival in west, lie was appointed Deputy County Auditor for St. Joseph county, "and employed his leisure hours in the study of State law, in which he is said soon to have become an acknowledged expounder. He read law pretty thoroughly during his leisure hours, but. not with a view of adopting it as a profession. He had but little-idea of what great benefit the information lie was then gaining would prove to him in after years. In 1815 lie started a weekly journai at South Bend, the county seat of St. Joseph county, called The St. Joseph Valley ItoAjistrr, becoming its sole proprietor anil editor. A writer in the Indianapolis Journnl corrects a mistake into which the public has fallen relative to Mr. Colfax's connection with the printing business. Mr. Lanman, in hi« Directory of Congress, says: "He was bred a printer." Ho never was apprenticed to the printing business, and knew nothing of the practical part of the "art preservative of all arts" until after he had commenced the publication of the Ji'eijister. With his ready tact and quick perception, however, and great anxi-

The unfortunate battle of Bull Run and the varying fortunes in the Southwest had a depressing effect upon the country, and the people were willing to take a leader on trust, if lie would only conn heralded with a victory, however insignificant. Rich Mountain gave McClellan command of the armies of the United States the unfortunate expedition to Belmont doomed Grant to comparative obscurity at Cairo until near the close of the first year of the war. Then the brilliant victories of Fort Donelson and Pittsburg Landing—the first of any significant. gained by a Union army—"could do little for him, and while the former made him a Major General the latter deprived him of a command. All eyes were turned toward the Grand Army of the Potomac, in anticipation of the great things it would acomplish when its leader choose to move upon Lee at Manassas and decisive actions' upon the Cumberland and the Tennessee were not considered, while people were amused with promises never to be realized, ind kept in constant expectation by assurances that all was quiet along lines a little nearer home. It were useless to attempt a description of these actions now, but when •n/j/ivtvri tUo.t hud hojruii as a defrat, by leading in person a chnrgi- of six regiments, lie showed that a General might promise little and yet accomplish much. Soon atter he had worsted the ablest rebel leader in the South, who was killed in that fierce engagement at Shiloh Church, Hallcck assumed command in the Southwest, and the victor was rewarded for his two sue- ... cesses by subsequent neglect until Septem-! ety to economize, for his means were very

limited, he soon mastered the art sufficiently to "help out of the drag," but he never attained to any great proficiency in the business, his editorial labors, the business of the office and other duties soon claiming his entire attention. The Jiff/isler prospered, and soon became a source of profit to its proprietor. It was ably edited, and was a model of courtesy and dignity. Every paragraph, however small, seemed to have passed under the supervision of and to reflect the mind and elevated thoughts of its editor. 1 le continued his connection with this paper until three or four years ago, writing a regular weekly letter "for its columns during his first two terms in Congress. It was during the early days of the Jteyister that Mr. Colfax was laying the foundation for the reputation lie has since attained as a debater. A debating club was formed, which held regular weekly meetings during the winter season, and it was a rare occurrence indeed to find Mr. Colfax absent from one of these stated gatherings. Politics, the temperance reform, and other subjects were ^iften as ably debated in this society as kindred questions are iu many deliberate bodies of much greater pretensions of the present day. The lion. John I). Defrees, now Superintendent of Government Printing, and for many years editor and proprietor of the Indianapolis Journal, to which Mr. Colfax was also attached as Senate Rcportor for some time, after he commenced the publication of the Jit'i/isler, was a participant in these debates. They were both Whigs, both ardent and sincere advocates of, and believers in the temperance reform, and were consequently seldom pitted against each other in tliese debates. The attachment formed at this early day between those, gentlemen still continues with unabated fervor. In 1848 Mr. Colfax was chosen as a delegate, aud elected Secretary of the convention that nominated General Taylor for the Presidency. In 1850 he represented Saint Joseph county in the convention which framed the present constitution of Indiana. In this convention he opposed, with all his-ability, the adoption of the clause prohibiting free colored men from settling iu the State. His opposition to this measure, was the cause of his defeat the following year when nominated for Congress, in opposition to Dr. Fitch. But, with all the ability, tact, and shrewdness of this old political wire-worker, he

and was consequently more active than ever before. His experience as a debater, and familiarity Avith State and national politics, rendered "liim an overmatch for his opponents, Avhoni he

Avas

always anxious to meet-

in an open and fair discussion before the people, AVhere he Avas always certain of a victory. In 1856 he Avas again nominated for Congress, and re.clected by handsome majority. His entrance into Congress was in the midst of the great struggle over the Lecompton

SAvindle.

A writer says of his

maiden speech in the House: "His first speech in Congress went forth to repel the tide of terror which was sweeping over struggling Kansas, and clearly shoAved that eveii then lie

Avas

one of the best debaters in

the lower house." Over "00,000 copies of this speech were printed and circulated

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that it more than repaid him for all the dangers and hardships he passed through. This trip prepared him for one. of the most entertaining lectures ever delivered in this country. It lias been listened to with wrapt attention by the people of almost, every city in the North. Pecuniarily, however, it "lias profited him but little, for with that liberality which has ever been a marked trait in his character, the entire proceeds of a lecture have as often been donated to some charitable object as they have found their way into his own pocket. He has now served in succession fourteen years in the House. He was urged but lie declined to accept a seat in the United States Senate, prefering his presiding chair in the House. As a presiding officer he is the most popular the House has had since Henry Clay.

A writer in "Putnam's Magazine'' truly observes that Mr. Colfax "has no eccentricities. but great tact. His talents administrative rather than executive, rather than deliberative. He would make good appointments. and adopt sure policies. He would make a better President, or Speaker of the House than Senator. He knows men well, estimates them correctly, treats them all fairly and candidly. No man will get through his business with you in fewer "mid vet none is more free from tlie horrid brx.vjui'ttesx of busy men. heart and kindness in Mr. Colfax's politeness. Men leave liis presence with the impression that he is at once an able, honest, and kind man. Political opponents like hitn personally, as well as his political friends. We have never heard that he has any enemies. The breath of slander has been silent toward his fair, spotless fame. The wife of his youth, after being for a long time an invalid, sank to her final rest several years ago, leaving liini childless. His mother and'sister preside at his receptions, which for many years have been, not the most brilliant, but the most popular of any given at the Capital. Socially, Mr. Colfax is.frank, lively, jolly. It may be that he feels his oats in some degree, but dignity hasn't spoiled him. The everlasting I-hooil and Ts-ness of great men is forgotten in his presence. His manners are not quite so familiar as those, of Lincoln, but nearly so. They are gentle, natural, graceful, with a bird-like, or business-like quickness of thought and motion. But they are very far from the. high and mighty style of Sunnier, or the judicial coldness of Fcssenden, Sherman and Trumbull. Though manly, they arc genial and winning. American mothers believe in Schuyler Colfax. There are more babies named for him than for any public man since Clav.'' The intimacy and confidential relations of Mr. Colfax with Mr. Liucoln are well known! They labored hand in hand as brothers iu the cause of the Union, holding frequent and protracted interviews on all subjects looking to the overthrow of the rebellion, for there were no divisions between the executive and legislative branches of the Government then as there now. During the darkest hours of thatbloodly drama which shall ever remain a reproach upon the people of one section of the nation, they were ever cheerful and hopeful. Confident in the justness of the war waged for the preservation of the Union, and placing a Christian reliance in that providence which guides and shapes the destiny of nations, great reverses, which caused others to fear and tremble at times, almost to despair, seemed only to inspire them with greater zeal and a firmer belief in the ultimate triumph of our cuase.

Mr. Colfax is rather under the medium hight, with a form firmly and compactly molded. Ilis hair is brown, now slightly sprinkled with grey eyes blue forehead high and arching, indicating great perceprive faculties, and deep veneration. His face is open and frank, and as yet unmarked by age. lie possesses great vitality, and can endure an extradinary amount of labor with but little fatigue. This, coupled with his temperate habits, has caused him to wear his iige so well-that but few persons would place him even at forty. He is yet in the prime and vigor of manhood, with all his cares rnd responsibilities, as buoyant as most people at thirty.

How Black BctomiM M'hitr.

The. Georgia Democracy are becoming so demoralized on the subject of negro suffrage that the champions of the "white man's party" in the North should take immediate measures to stop the defection now going on, otherwise they will ere long be forced into a surrender of their "time honored principles," or find themselves without allies at the South.

The Albany (Georgia) Xeics was, before the late election iu that State, as frantically fearful of negro equality, and as desperately opposed to negro miff rage as the La Crosse Democrat, Indianapolis Sentinel, or even General Love's quaking blue boys but a marvelous change has come orer it, and it awakes from its trance of fear, an outspoken supporter of the black man's right to 'sote, and has, indeed, gone so far to the other extreme as to call in question the capacity of the white electors of Georgia to vote as intelligently as their late slaves. It says:

Early in the canvass we appealed to the white people of Middle and Upper Georgia to save Southern and Southwestern Georgia from the horrible fate that, threatened.— Heavy majorities for radicalism were naturally expected from the "black belt," and for same reasons that induced this conviction the white settlements were expected to go Democratic. "^re are astonished at the reversal of this natural order of things, aud feel so keenly the deep disgrace aud stinging humiliation," that we dare not indulge our inclination to write.

At oue time we entertained a purpose to change our base, in the event of Radical success, and seek repose among the white people in a different portion of the State, but the developments of the election havo fastened upon our mind the conviction that the negro is a better man than the white scallawag, and that we should suffer by the change. There scema to be as much political virtue and intr.f/rity among the colored people of Southwestern Georgia as exists amonq a lanjc portion of xr.hites in Middle and Cpper Georgia and we proudly assert that tnoj arc safer custodians of the franchise. Ive see no reason longer to oppose

negro suffrage. We are disposed to make hiin a voter in order to secure the State from

only distanced li'is young competitor 200 carpet-baggers and scallawags. votes in a district which had been Demo-1 .,,••* cratic for years. In 1S52 he was again a del-1 Tnu Jacksonville Journal says: "Sergeant egate to the Whig National Convention. He I Bates carried a double flag, which could be took an active part in the campaign which turned inside out in an instant—one side followed, speaking often and writing much. representing the starsnnd^stripe^andthe

the national colors, he would fling out the rebel side of the flag. Thus he was enabled to make the trip in safety, but the discovery of the seercct has taken all the romance and buncombe out of his adventure."

DETOCQI:EVILLK says of the newspaper: "A newspaper can drop the same thought into a thousand minds at the same moment. A newspaper is an advertiser that does not require to be sought, but comes to you without distracting your private affairs. Newspapers, therefore, become more necessary in proportion as men become more equal individuals, and more to be feared. To suppose that they only serve to protect freedom is to diminish their importance thev maintain civilization." a com­

pliment perhaps never before received by Ax unsuccessful ellort Avas made to blow anv member of Congress. ITe was first open the safe of the Toledo and Wabash chosen Speaker of the NXX VIHth Congress Railway, in this city, on last Friday evenbv a vote of 101 to 81. He has been thrice ing. Pieces of the paper fuse Avcre found.

elected in the same position,' each time by partly burnt, on the floor next morning, and Wheat and tlie planteiV-trK an increased majority. lie was appointed I the iron above, and below the keyhole was

Chairman of the Committee on Post Offices discolored by the burnt powder. The key i'

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one of "the warmest friends' of the Pacific' THKY had an interesting subterranean the 10th of June to the secoud Wednesday

nent." His trip AvasM* perilous one, but his rounding territory Avas following its exam- with a view to obtaiuiflg the commutation

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welcome at "the other end of the line" Avas pie, and iu this way four acres so spontaneous, truly genuine and heartfelt: peared at last accounts. ing bis immediate release.

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Senator Tan Winkle.

The Pittsburgh Commercial says Senator Van Winkle, in company with those other recreant Senators who went over body and soul to Andrew Johnson, is reaping the reward of his treachery in the just indignation of liis constituents. The Wheeling (West Virginia) Intelligencer devotes ov*r a whole column to Senator Van Winkle, from which we extract the following: "To all his other offences Mr. Van Winkle has added the blackest ingratitude. It wa« the-party upholding the great cause, which he now stabs like an assassin, that gave West Virginia leave to place two men on the floor of the United States Senate and the spokesman of that party who plead for us then and then was Benjamin F. Wade. Now our loval Representatives at Washington are overwhelmed with the reproached of Republicans in both Houses, whose confidence in West Virginia loyalty is almost destroyed. But 'for'"these men "five years ago, West Virginia would to-dav be but an outlying providence of old Virginia, governed, like her, by the sWord. Yet Van Winkle had scarcely warmed liis seat in the Senate before he began to show his antipathy to the principles and his hatred to the men who alone have ever befriended us. But the. crowning act-of treachery and ma-Hg'cu-.f ri-rjj for. .th» crisis, chosen by him and his coadjutors with a iieiini tlie life of the organization they sought to destroy might be taken at a single blow. Whatever men may say of Fcssenden and Grimes, or any onc'clse," their conduct is as fair as the suri compared with that of Van Winkle, who seems to have been dead to every sentiment cf honor or gratitude or duty to his people and his friends."

A Ruiucd Rebel.

A correspondent of the Chicago Trihune says:' I saw on the streets of Nashville yesterday, an attenuated and emanciated form belonging to a man who filled quite a large, space in the public eye during the war. It was none other than Clement C. Clay, one of the commissioners of the rebels abroad, and the companion of Mason and Slidcll iu their negotiations with France and England. Clay .was the man who was met by Horace Greeley, at Niagara Falla, towards the close of the war, the ostensibly coming together for the purpose of arranging for some sort of peace. The negotiations were all futile, as will be remembered.

Clement- Clay was one of the most remarkable men in the South at the brceking out of the war. lie had just been elected from the Iluntsville, Alabama, district to the National Congress, and had only reached his majority a few months before, liis family "were wealthy and powerful, and Mr. Clay entered upon what seemed destined to prove a most brilliant career in public life. By the war he lost all his property, and is now racked with asthma and consumption. He was riding through the counlry on horseback, seeking by the change of ciimate and excitement to better his health. He lives in Iluntsville still, and practices law. "We are all poor folks now," he said to a friend of ours, "and we have to work for a living*"

A Secular Paper's View.

The Chicago L'epublicoit makes prominent editorial mention of the gathering of the General Conference in that city. We quote a few sentences:

All the Bishops were present excepting Bishop Baker, who is detained at home on account of severe and long-protaacted illness. It is uncertain whether he will be able to attend at all. Bishop Morris is present, but in such feeble condition as to render it out of the question for him to participate in any of the proceedings. In fact, he almost immediately left the Conference-room after the opening exercises. The rest of the Bishops appear fro be in excellent health. The scssiou uf yesterday was presided orer by Bishops Janes, Scott and Clark.

The delegates are all present, with but very lew exceptions, and taken together are certainly as fine appearing a body of men as ever convened. Neither House of the American Congress can surpass them in dignity and decorum. Aud in knowledge of Parliamentary law, they will compare favorably with any deliberative body.

While there is quite a sprinkling of gray hairs, showing that the "fathers" have notbeen slighted, the majority of the delegate* are in middle life, representing both the mental and physical vigor of the Church.

Hit 'Era Again, Cornier.

Conner, of the North A'ernon l'ltn'nd"nlrr, talks in the following strain about his advertising friends: "The people will do well to read the advertisements of our enterprising business men.- Nine men out of every ten who advertise may be set down as liberal hearted, fair dealers. Trade will always find thein. up with the limes in variety, and selling a margin lower than he who is too tight-fisted to inform the public, what he has and where he is. No one overheard of a liberal advertiser cutting his fingers while supplying his customers with drvgoods. Neither'dothey weigh Out groceries on false scalcs, or measure a gallon of molasses in a quart cup. The fact that a man don't advertise his business may be summed up in the following reasons: He is either loo penurious, ashamed of his old stock, don't want the people to call on him, can't sell as cheap as: others because he don't sell as much, or lie has all the money that he wants, and lives onlv for him sell."

*~r Facts. During the five years the Re-publicans-of Indiana have been in power, they have reduced the State debt more than one-half, besides paying all the war expenses of the State. And a still more significant commentary is the fact that since the close of the Avar, by which the national debt AVH* created, the Republican Congress, by its prudent management, has succeeded in causing that debt to be reduced $2&S,479,Mi. This has been accomplsshed in only about two years and a half and during that time the Republican Congress has also four times modified the internal taxes about two hundred million dollars a year. If the Democrats, hungry for spoils* should bo restored to power in the Government, Ave would soon sec quite a different state of things.— Chtcayo Journal.

IT is well to remember some of the formulas in Avhich the Democratic party is now loudly declaring its creed. Here arc a few which AVC select from our Copperhead exchanges: "Slavery is right freedom is Avrong." "The cause which Abraham Lincoln led was the most unnatural, impious and sinful that has ever afflicted the world." "The cause upheld by Jefferson Davis is the cause of God, liberty and American civilization.'" "It is the President's duty to disperse Congress." "We want none of your soldiers Ave've had enough of them."

Grant and Sheridan must be snuffed out."

Trout Pom! Destroyed.

We regret to learn that the late heavy rain Avashcd out the dam of Mr. Jaines Mathew's trout pond, near Bainbridgc, entirely destroying his valuable school offish, Avhich he had obtained in New York at- so mueli expense. He had fully demonstrated the fact that trout culture can be made a success in this State, and Avill rebuild his dam in such away as to hereafter resist the high water.

ACCOUNTS from Southwestern Georgia represent that the negroes are working well, and one-third less "eottoh has-been planted than last year. The pla are looking vigand healthy. There is plenty of corn

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