Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 21 January 1869 — Page 1

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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

TIIOS. J. GRIFFITH, M.D.

PHYSICIANall

AND SURGEON, Darlington, ind.,

attends to varieties of practice at all hours of day or night. Medical Examiner for tlie Chicago Life Insurance Company. J"121

J. N. McCORMICK.

ATTORNET-AT-LAW

and Real Estate Brokor

(formerly ot Crawfordaville), Topeka, Kansas. Particular attention given to the collection ot claims, investing of money, payment of taxes of non-residente, redeeming lands sold for taxes, investigation of titles, &c. J81"1

T. HellECHM,

RESIDENT

DENTIST, CrawrordsYflle, Ind., re

spectfully tenders his service* to the public. Motta, "Good work and moderate prices." Pleaee ealL Ornoa—Corner Main and Green streets, next

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Post-Office, up-etaira J.G. McMKCHAN, same place.

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KEIOTEDJA OALIOWAY a TTOHNEYS AT LAW and General Collecting A A«wntiL Cmwtordsville, Indiana.

Being members of the United States Law Awoclatfon and Cotlectioa Union, which has a member •very county in the United Stolen, they have fociliti«s for transacting business in all parte of the coun-

*Orrio. adjoining the Mayors offlce, over the cormar book store.

w. P. BRITT ON, irdsville, 1 i-buslaeM.

TTORN«I»TUW,

.Main street- a88

crer Blmpson's grocery store,

W.T. BRUSH,

ATTORNBY-AT-LAW.

and General Collecting

A^ent, Chrawlordsyille, Ind. entnstod to Wmwni^tve tone^|e1££££&' Office "Vernon St.,newly opposite the Poet Offlce. jaTOTtf

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DAVIS,

A' TTORHBY AT LAW, wingfre special attention A to the settlement of decedent estates, petition for partition, suite on notes and /orec,°!"f ®f morteage. Offlce in G. D. Hurley'•Law ,^cein Ora*rtMfrg'tttlldiDg. Crawfordsvffle, Ind. tJneil'88

SYR. B. DAVIS,

4 'TTORNEY AT LAW, Wave hind, Ind'aaa, will A rive prompt attention to business entrusted to •kn la courts of Montgomery and Parke counties.

"CEOBGED. HVRLET,

4i'sfordsville,ATattend

TTORNEY LAW, and Notary Public, CrawInd. Orrwk over Crawford A Mu gtore.^Wttl totUlrinds1 of legal buelNN entrvBted to him.

n. H. G4LEY,

DHNTI8T,

Crawfordsville, Ind. Office on Wash

ington St., over Mack's Grocery Store. Dr. B. V. GALBY, long and favorably known to ike community as a flrstZlaae Dentiit, lain my employ. augl3yl

R. R. F.PIERCE,

ATTORNEY

AT LAW. Crawfordsville, Indiana

Orrioa over Crawford 3b Mullikin'a store. Will give prompt attention to businew in all the Courte af Montgomery county, a98

H. E. SIDEXER,

"VTOTARY PUBLIC, Crawfordsville, Ind. Oraioa with W. P- Britton. Attends to all business entrusted to him with promptness. *23 C. L. THOMAS. A. D. THOMAS

THOMAS A THOMAS

ATTORNEYS

AT LAW, and Solicitors in Bank

ruptcy, Crawfordsville, Ind. Orrioa in Hughes' Block, Main Street. *23 H. 1. WIITK, FLVKLRLON,

WHITE & PATTERSON

4 TTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, A Crawfordsville, Ind. Offlce—Empire Block, Main Street.

Dr. J. €. SHOT ARD

HOMEOPATHIC

PHYSICIAN, crawfordsville,

Ind. OFKIOR with the Township Trustee.

M. M. WHITEFORD

A TTORNEY-AT-LAW, NoUry Pablic and Generic. al Collecting Agent, Crawfordsville, Indiana. Office in Mayor's Room.

He calls the attention of all in city and country to this card, and solicit for himselta share of the public patronage. Jy9

ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. VTOTICE is hereby given that the under. i.^1 rigned has been appointed Administrator of the estate of Conrad Hartnests, late of Montgomery county, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent.

JOHN W. HARTNESS,

janl4w3 Administrator.*

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From the Philadelphia Ledger. "Wantei-a Clerk."

A fev d»y 4|go, a gentleman advertised in this paper for a clerk, and requested applicants to address their notes to him at the Ledger office.: By the close of the first day on which 'the advertisement appeared, tiiere were four handred and eighteen applicants for this one clerkship. This afforded a most forcible illustration of the extent to which the occupation of clerking and book-keeping is overstocked in this city. But a few months previous, the head of a business establishment, who wished some help in the way of writing, but in which some literary ability wits required, advertised for an assistant, at a moderate salary, and having incidentally mentioned that the position might suit a lawyer or physician not in good practice, got more than a hundred applications, of which flftythree were from young lawyers and doctors. Here was another illustration of an over supply of the professional or "genteel occupations." Another advertiser Jin the Ledger, who wanted a person to take charge of the editorial work of a weekly paper, got fifty-seven applications, not more than half a dozen of the applicants being recognized newspaper writers. but nearly all of them being clerks, book-keeperB and professional men. Still another advertised for two apprentices in a wheel wright and smith shop, in one of the semi-rural wards of the city, requesting applicants to give their address and age. He got! three applications, but in every case the applicamt was too old, two of them being over eighteen, and one nearly twenty. Still another advertised for an office boy, about fourteen years old, and had so many applicants that his place was crowded for more than five hours, and the applicants were of all ages, from mere children not more than twelve years old to full-grown men of twentyone.

These are not very cheerful or encouraging signs. They are such, however, as every man and woman in Philadelphia should give attention to. The present generation of young men seem to have a strong aversion to every kind of trade, business, calling or occupation that requires manual labor, and an equftlly strong tenden cy towards some so-called "genteel" employment or profession. The result is seen in such Lamentable facts as those above stated—a superabundance of elegant penmen, book-keep-ers! and clerks of every kind who can get no employment, and are wasting stheir lives in the vain pursuit of what *is not to be had and a terrific overstock of Kwyers without practice and doctors without patients. The passion on the part of boye and y6nns men to be clerks, office attendants, messengers, anything, so that it is not work of the kind that will make them mechanics or tradesmen, is a deplorable sight to those who have full opportunities to see the distressing effects of it in the struggle for such employments by those unfortunates who hare put it out of their power to do anything else by neglecting to learn some permanent trade of business in which trained skill can always be turned to account. The applications for clerkships and similar positions in large establishments are numerous beyond anything that would be thought ef by those who have no chance to witness it. Parents and relatives, as well as the boys and young men themselves, seem to be afflicted with the same infatuation. To all such we say. that the most unwise advice you can give to your boy is to encourage him to be a clerk or a book-keeper. At the best, it is not a well paid occupation. Very frequently it is among the very poorest. This is the case when the clerk is fortunate enough to be employed but if he should happen to be out of place, then comes the weary search, the fearful struggle mth .the thousands of others looking for places, the never ending disappointments, the hope deferred that makes the heart sick, the strife with poverty, the humiliations that take all the manhood out of the poor souls, the privations and sufferings ef those who depend upon his earnings, and who have no resource when he is earning nothing. No father, no mother, no relative should wish to see their boys or kindred wasting their young lives in striving after the genteel positions that bring such trials and privations upon them in after life.

How do these deplorably false notions as to choice of eccupation get into the heads of boys Why do they or their parents consider it

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more "genteel" or desirable to run errands, sweep out offices, make

fires,

copy letters, &c., than to make hats or shoes, or lay bricks, or wield the saw or jack-plane, or handle the machinist's file, or the black-smith's hammer We have heard that some of them get these notions at school. If this be true, it is a sad perversion of th& mean% of

education provided

for our youth, which are intended to make them useful, as well as intelligent members of society, and not useless drags and drones. Should it be so, that the present generation of boys get it into their heads that, because they have more school learning and book accomplishment than their fathers had, they must therefore look down upon the trades that require skill and handicraft, and whose productions make up the vast mass of the wealth of every country, then it is time for the. Controllers and the Directors to have the interior walls of our school houses covered with maxims and mottoes, warning them against the fatal error.

Save Money.

The following from an article the Philadelphia Ledger on the finances, contains sound advice that is applicable to individuals who are in debt, and may be read with profit. It may not be true, as claimed by the Ledger, that Morton's plan for resuming specie payments is impracticable. but the article is sound on other points

Plans to resume on a fixed day will be of no more effect than Steven's attempt to regulate gold, or the bill now in Congress to regulate the price of cotton. If Congress should pass a hundred acts, with a hundred sections each, to resume specie payments in July, 1871, the country would not be able to do it, or if attempted, it would not last a week, unless it had the means to sustain it. If it has the means, or can control them, it can be done at any time, as well as in July, 1871, without any act of Congress on the subject. It is a mere question of ability to pay, and to maintain that position. There is no mystery about it.

The country is not able to pay now there is no dispute about that. It must then do what is always necessary in such casgs it must earn the money and save it. It is able to earn money: it has the power to save it. To get control of sufficient money

for the purpose will of course be a work of time. It will be along time or a short time, in proportion to what i3 saved, rather than in proportion to •what is earned. Two or three, years, witli afeir^e '6f^s and prd^ '"economy, would in all probability do the work. But, whatever else is sent out of the country, the crop of gold must be kept at home. Also the crop of bonds. Without these essentials the present generation will not live to see a permanent resumption, though Congress should prepare a plan and pass an act every day for the remainder of the youngest member's life.*51

But there can be no such earnings or productiveness as the country is capable of, whilst the monetary system of the country is at the mercy of the Secretary of the Treasury, or of any one man. The assumed power to Sell bonds or gold secretly, to change, increase, or reduce the volume of currency or coin, without the knowledge of any one but the secret agents and the Secretary himself, un til the fatal effects are felt in the derangement of all prices and values, is a power that should not be vested in any man or set of men. So long as such a power is allowed or usurped, we shall continue to have the disturbances, the fluctuations, the disasters, the fears of the future, that have nearly crushed the life out of the enterprise of the country we can have no such settled industry, no such farreaching effort, no such large production as the Nation stands in need of now, because the future is clouded by apprehensions and doubts, instead of being brightened by confidence and hope. Take awjyr or forbid the use of these powers that have been so potent for evil let Congress declare, as the people have declared, that the debt s&all be paid, principal and interest, in gold:: let contracts be made in gold by whoever desires to do so stop the National Banks from paying interest on deposits put an end to all the chances by which some of the banks and all of the speculators are tempted to make currency scarce at will and Congress will then have taken along step towards specie payments and settling the time when and how the

bonds shall be redeemed. The rest, as we have said, is a question of earning and saving money enough to resume with, and that must be settled by industry, economy and time.

Tbe Social Equality Question.

The following conversation between Lieut. Gov. Dunn, of Louisiana, who is a free-born colored man, and a native of New Orleans, and a reporter for the New York Heratd, has some points in it worthy of the attention of all thinking persons: "How will this social equality question be settled "Time. It will be a question of years. I have always said and say still you can not fix the social relations of men by legislation. They must find their own level. I was opposed to this compulsory bill introduced into the Legislature. I thought it foolish and unwise, though in one way it seemed right. Now, if I am up town on a hot day, and am thirsty, I cannot go to a soda fountain and buy a glass of soda, though the dirtiest drayman, if he be only white, can do so. This seems wrong, but still I am opposed to forcing matters. If the bill had passed I don't think it would have done any harm. There is nothing to prevent a white man who sweeps your chimneys or cleans your water-closet from going to the best hotel and paying his five dollars a day and boarding with the rest. But he doesn't do it. He can't afford it, and he would be uncomfortable, and wouldn't do it if he could. This is just how it would be with our people. If they wanted to go to Vicksburg by packet they would not go in the cabin, because that would cost them fifty dollars. They would go in the steerage for fifteen. They only want to feel that all the social bars placed upon them in the times of slavery are gone with slaver}r itself. So it is with education. I think if children of all colors had an equal access to the educational advantages provided by the State it would be just and advantageous, but I did not approve of Mr. Conway's compulsory scheme. These prejudices have grown up and they will have to grow out. I don't believe in Nation al antipathies. It is not so at any rate at the South. The Southern people have grown up with colored servants around them and prefer them. Northern men who come down here go to a barber's where they can be shaved by white men, but Southern men prefer colored barbers and colored servants. See here, (said Mr. Dunn, drawing aside the window blind, and pointing to a group of children, two white, one coal black and one bright quadroon), those children do not know anything about the natural antipathy of races. By and by it will be, 'Tommy, why don't you come to my school And then they will find out that there are different schools, difierent laws and different social customs, and will begin to learn that between them and the little darkey lads they have played with for the first four or five years of their lives there ir a 'natural antipathy.' These prejudices, sir, are the growth of the old system of things. To obtain a sort of balance of power, the rich, slave-owning planters fostered bitter animosities between their slaves and the poor whites, and even between the slaves and the free colored people. Much of the feeling is kept up now by a dislike which the masters have, to see their former slaves placed upon a political equality with them. That is natural enough. Why, take the laboring Irish population of the North, disfranchise them, set them to forced labor without wages, hold the lash over them, and, in a few years, you would hear the Irish spoken of with just as much contempt as the 'niggers' are now."

The engine house at Harper's Ferry so heroicaly defended by old John Brown and his men, has, with other''3 buildings, been presented by Congress to a college for colored men, and the bill was signed by Andrew Johnson.

The Attica Ledger says that silver was discovered in Fountain county, a few days ago. Iron ore has also been discovered in the same vicinity, which yields 48 per cent, of iron.

Six hundred and seventy-three miles of the French Atlantic cable have been manufactured in England and the whole willbe done in season for the Great Eastern to commence the laying of it in August next.

COI9IMXD IHrOBKATIOll.

In the city of Boston, women are taxed upon $28,000,000 of real estate, and $13,000,000 of personal property.'

Shooting school teachers is a favorite pastime in Kentucky and Tennessee.

The Darien canal will be about thirty miles in length, including a seven mile tunnel, and the estimated cost is $65,000,000.

In England, since the beginning of the year 1866, more than six hundred men and boys have been killed by explosions in the collieries.

The best linguist among the European sovereigns is the Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria, who speaks every language spoken in his checkered empire with the greatest ease and fluency.

From St Albans, Vt., from October 1, to December 3d, there were shipped 452,340 pounds of butter, 394,420 pounds of cheese, and 120,232 bottles spring water, the whole representing a business of 8311,321 94.

A citizen of Burlington, Vermont, has invented a clock that runs by electricity, and never requires winding. It has only three wheels, no weights or springs, and it is claimed that it has little friction, is not affected by heat, cold, dampness or jarring. A single clock and battery can be connected with any number of dials and indicators in the same building, or even along the whole line of a railway.

There are 1,113 miles of telegraph line in South Australia. The rates are low, and more messages are sent than in any other part of the globe. In England the annual proportion is one message to every seven of the population. In South Australia it is one to every four. In England there are 121 letters sent to one telegram in South Australia only eighteen letters. The authorities now possess a postal telegraph system.

The importations of dry goods into the port of New York during 1868 are valued at $80,905,834.

An officer of the British Navy states that from eleven years' observations, six years in the arctic regions and five years inthe north of Scotland, he has ascertained that tremendous gales follow 12 to 24 hours after the appearance of the aurora borealis.

The arrivals of vessels at New York from foreign ports, in 1868, were 4861 against 4676 in 1867.

The product of the precious metals in the United States during 1868, it is stated, amounts to $66,500,000.

The stoutest iron plate made has a thickness of fifteen inches, and is used as armor plate. The thinnest plate is so attenuated that 4,700 sheets of it, laid one over the other, are only one ineh in thickness.

The three colleges in Maine, Bowdoin, Colby University, and Bates, contain altogether 226 students, of whom 28 are from other States. -In other colleges in New England and the Middle States, about fifty students are from Maine.

During the past three months there have been 150,000 new rifles sent from Providence, Rhode Island, to Europe. Over 5,000 have been sent to Cuba, and 6,000 muzzle loaders transformed to breech loading, shipped to Mexico.

The wine crop of California, in 1867, amounted to 4,500,000 gallons, and that of 1868, it is estimated, will reach 7,000,000 gallons. The reduction of the United States tax on grape brandy to 50 cents per gallon has favored its manufacture.

The tendency of civilization is toward lessening the number of hours of study for children. An English paper says: "In Germany an experiment is being made upon lads at school, with the object of discovering whether more study can not be got out of, and more learning driven into them, by keeping them hard at it, in the morning, and allowing them to devote the whole afternoon to play."

The Income of Queen Victoria is fixed by law at $1,925,000

per

annum,

but this amount is not under her personal control. The sum mentioned is divided into six items, the first of vrhich, $300,000, is the money paid to the Queen in monthly instalments. Item second is $656,300 for the pay ment of the salaries of the household, from the lord of the bedchamber to the pages. Item third, $862,500 is for the expenses of the household. The remaining items, amounting to $106,200, are for the payment of civil pensions, and are under the oontrol of the Premier.