Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 28 January 1869 — Page 4

THE JOURNAL.

T. H. B. MeCAIN and J. T. TALBOT, Editors

CBAWFOKDSVILLB, I3STX.:

THURSDAY, JANUARY* 28. 1869.

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Journal Office, January T, 1869.

OFFICE-SEEKING-

The Republican party has great cause to rejoice over the happy termination of the late bitter Senatoiial contest in our Legislature. Daniel D.

Pratt, the man selected, has a private character which even his political opponents admit to be without stain. He has worked his way up in the world and has long stood at the head of the Bar in Indiana. He is everywhere recognized as an able and incorruptible man.

Bat,

besides the purity and ability

of the man selected, there is another cause fur rejoicing. Mr. Pratt was not elected because he sought the office. Perhaps the Legislature did not intend that its action in the present case should be an example to all future

office-seekers.

But the very fact

that the office has been bestowed upon a man who had not sought it, when there were so many others present who were urging their claims, carries with it the moral force of rebuke to all greedy aud impudent of-fice-seekers. Perhaps the Legislature has not established a standard of purity for officers, but its course has shown that such a standard is at least thought of. These are hopeful indications. Office-seeking has long been established as a profession. The means resorted to to obtain office aic excused on the ground of availability or previous devotion to party, and our tickets are often filled with the names of men who are only elements of weakness to the party supporting them. Respectable men avoid the consideration of measures of importance because they are made .disreputable by the character of the men supporting them. Competent and worthy men are crowded out of office by the superior impudence of the modern office-seeker. Aspiring politicians get into office and then complain because the fair salaries allowed them are not sufficient to allow them to mete out the promised rewards which have helped them into office. Thus it is that corruption in office and the demand for increased compensation go hand in hand. These are some of the evils of the present system of office-seeking, and it is a hopeful sign to see the system attacked even by example. It would be a matter of rejoicing if the law, or custom, which is quite as good, made of-fice-seeking a ground for ineligibility to office. Then the people would look to the merits of men in selecting their candidates, and then it would be an honor to fill a State or National office. "LET US HAVE PEACE."

Geo. Grant has written an unusually long letter, twelve lines, to the Secretary of the Committee of Arrangements for the Inauguration, on the 4th of March next, informing him that it would b"e just as agreeable to the General if the Committee should decide that the ball is unnecessary. It need not be added that the Commit tee took the hint.

Mr..

PRATT'S

election to the United

States Senate has created a vacancy in the 8th Congressional District. The District is composed of Cass, Miami, Wabash, Howard, Grant, Tipton, Hamilton and Madison counties. The Republican majority in October was 2,28"

As

usual, several name

have alr ady been mentioned in connection with the vacancy.

GBN. BUTLER

is said to be interested

in a paper mill, and hence his partiality for a universal paper currency.

EDITORIAL NOTES FROM THE CAPITAE.

As yet but little has been done in the way of legislation. A hundred or more bills have been introduced in the House, and perhaps as many in the Senate. The most important bills yet introduced is one granting Land Appraisers power to appoint and remove deputies and to legalize appointments already made, and another requiring assessors, both of real and personal property, to make their assessments on a gold basis. Both these bills will more than likely passs both Houses. The interest law will be amended so that when a contract is made for ten per cent a judgment can be obtained. The House was flooded with petitions from all parts of the State Friday morning last, on the subject of the evil growing out of railroad monopolies. The railroad corporations of the State may as well begin to tremble in their boots! However, it may end, as it generally does, in snfoke! THE BAKKR-CUMBACK CORRESPONDENCE Has absorbed the time of the Senate, until the Democrats, aided by a few Republican?, jealous of their chances for the U. S. Senate, succeeded in passing the resolutions of censure on the Lieutenant Governor. The correspondence which lias been published in full in the JOURNAL, has been the ostensible basis for a bitter warfare against the Lieutenant Governor for the purpose of blasting his chances for the elevation. And the organizations were partially successful in their aims, though not altogether. The prime mover. Jim Hughes, was prompted by nothing purer than sordid selfishness. He expected that with the vote o£ the Democrats and tile bolting Republicans, he would be the successful contestant. But he was doomed to disappointment. The Lieutenant Governor. although almost unanimously nominated in caucus, deeming the success and unity of the Republican party of paramount importance to personal considerations, placcd his declension in the hands of the sixty-eight, who so nobly stood by him until it became apparent that lie could not be elected. A candid public will judge correctly the motives and means which defeated Mr. (. umback, and in accordance witli this judgment lite eigliten bolting Republicans will lie forever shelved. And Will Cumback is not dead When the circumstances surrounding this correspondence are fully known and understood, the public judgment will decide in favor the Lieutenant Governor, and against the Governor. It must be remembered that at the time the correspondence took place that the relaxations between Governor Baker and Mr. Cumback were not of the most pleasant character. Yet, soon after the Republican Convention placed on the State ticket these two gentlemen. They canvassed the State in apparent cordiality, and yet during all this time the Governor had in his posseision the "corrupt and indecent"' -letter of his associate on the ticket. The question is, why did Governor Baker accept a place on the ticket with this* "corrupt and indecent" man, and why did lie keep the letter concealed until Cumback was likely to bear off the Senatorial honors Certainly the proper time to liaVc made this letter public, was at the Republican Convention. If his motive was the fearful injury to himself politically, if the correspondence was made public, he then is as politically "corrupt and indecent,"' and equally as selfish a'.she estimates Cumback. This long silence in withholding the correspondence, and his opposition to him for Senatorial honors, and the letters of Rev. C. A. Sims and John W. Burson, published last week in the city papers, will plaee the Governor in no enviable light in this attmpt to crush the popularity and blight the prospects of his political rival. As I have before said Cumback is not dead!

TLLK SENATOR ELECT.

The great conflict ended in the election of Hon. Daniel D. Pratt, at present the Representative in Congress from the Logansport District. The vote in caucus stood as follows: For Pratt 41 for Gen. Veatch, 34 scattering, 4. Mr. Pratt was brought forward by the supporters of Mr. Cumback, who, failing to elect their favorite, were determined that the bolters should not profit thereby. The vote stood as follows: For Pratt. 85 for Hendricks, 61. Mr. Pratt is a lawyer, and as such has a line reputation, and besides possesses the confidence of all the people who are intimately acquainted with him. He is also a man of great physical proportions, measuring six feet four inches in his stockings, and his avoirdupois being two hundred and seventy pounds.

DISAPPOINTMENT OK THE DEMOCRATS. By this happy termination of a difficulty which for a time seemed irreparable the Democrats are badly disappointed. If they had managed their forces with any d«gree of judgment, they could have had a Johnsonized Republican, or a Republican who would have Johnsonized. But they didn't, and they had the mortification of seeing a genuine Republican elected. T. H. B. McC.

CRAWFORDSVILLE JOURNAL: JANUARY 28,1869.

QUESTIONS AJfD AHSWEBS.

QUESTION.—Can

a Christian lawyer

consistently with his Christian profession, defend a whisky seller ANSWER.—The question is one of opinion, but we answer, yes. The true object of a defense, in law, is to secure justice according to the law. If the law is just, or such as Christians live under without complaint, it is right that every man should be defended by it. The sin attending the practice of law lies not in the defense of criminals but in the abuse of privileges practiced in the defense. In a question of law, Justice demands that both sides be represented.

QUKSTION.—Is

Horace Greeley a

member of any church—if so, what ANSWER.—Mr. Greeley is a Universalist, and regularly attends and helps to support Dr. Chapin's church in New York City.

QUESTION.—Who

is the author of

the sentence—"These'are the times that try men's souls ANSWER.—The sentence was written by Thomas Paine, and may be found in one of the numbers of "Common Sense," a scries of articles written during a gloomy period of the American Revolution.

QUESTION.—What

kind of a relig­

ion is Unitarian ism ANSWER.—Rev. Charles Buck, in his Theological Dictionary, gives the following as the main points in the Unitarian creed: "1st. That Christ is not a Divine Being, but an exalted and pre-eminent pattern of human perfection. 2d. That the Scriptures are not a revelation, but only the record of a revelation. [Same as that the picture of a horse is not a horse.] 3d. That the Sabbath or Lord's Day of Christians under the New Testament, has no connection whatever with the ancient Jewish Sabbath— that although it is to be honored by resting from secular business, yet it is not to be considered as "set apart from our common lives to religion,"' nor is it to be regarded as more I10I3' than any other day of the week. 4th. That it is doubtful whether the soul is a substance or principle separate from the body. 5th. That there are no such spiritual beings as the devil or evil angels.''

There are several noted Unitarian churches in the United States, with able preachers and large congrega tion, yet the doctrine seems in reality to be little else than a fashionable kind of Deism or Infidelity.

(0N«RESN10.\AI..

Since the summary of Congressional proceedings, which appeared in last week's

JOURNAL,

the House, by

a vote of 118 to 57, has passed a bill to regulate the Franking Privilege. The bill requires the autograph signature of the officer who avails liimhimself of the privilege. An ineffectual attempt was made to repeal the whole law, but the House did not feel able to make farther restrictions on the "privileges of its members." The present restriction has been not inaptly styled "a Homeopathic reform of the Franking iniquity."

Mr. Schenck, of Ohio, has introduced another financial bill, repeating a pledge already made, that certain United States bonds shall be paid in gold. The bill legalizes future gold contracts as the Senate finance bill does.

The House spent the whole of Saturday in considering the Suffrage bill and Constitutional Amendmant pro-, posed by Mr. Boutwell, who made a strong argument in favor of the measure. The same subject is made the special order for to day in the Senate. In this body Mr. Stewart of Navada is engineering the measure.

The Senate on Saturday passed the joint resolution, with amendments by the House, respecting the provisional governments of Virginia, Texas and Mississippi. The resolution requires that persons now holding offices in these States, who can not take the '"iron-clad oath" of July 1866, shall be removed therefrom, and that their places shall be filled by District Commanders with such persons as can take the oath.

Mr. Menard, the colored member elect from Louisiana, is meeting with poor encouragement. There is at present no prospect of his obtaining a seat in the present Congress, and the Committee to whom his claims were referred will probably report in favor of anew election.

Mrs. Lincoln, who is now residing Germany, has petitioned Congress for a pension. She complaims that her financial means do not admit of her living "in a style becoming the widow of the Chief Magistrate of a great Nation." Respect to the mem ory of Lincoln demands a due regard to the necessities of his widow, but it is to be feared that Mrs. Lincoln's ideas of a "becoming style" are sadly at variance with the present condition of the public finances.

I.ITERARY NOTICES.

Tine SOROSIS.—We have received several copies of The Xerosis, a paper published in Chicago, "devoted to the interests of woman." It is a sixteen page weekly, price $3 per annum. Mrs. Mary L. Walker & Co., editors and publishers, 104 Randolph street. The Sorosis is an advocate of the advancement of woman's industrial interests, and is marked by an able editorial management. Its object is to improve the condition of the class of women compelled to be self maintaining, by opening a wider field for labor and obtaining better wages. Its mission is one which will receive the sympathy of all, and deserves the hearty co-operation of both sexes. Miss Mary II. Krout. of our city, is a frequent contributor to its columns. We cordially commend The Porosis to our readers, and we know of no more beneficial present to a woman than a year's subscription. Copies may be seen at the JOURNAL office, and we will, if solicited, forward subscriptions.

PUTNAM'S MAGAZINE, for February, has been received. It contains: '-The Ass in Life aud Letters "Work, Wages, Combinations, etc..'' by C. C. I*. Clark, in which the writer takes strong grounds against the benefits of Co-operation: "A new CEdipus," a rather improbable, but well-written story: "In the Saddle on the Plains:" "In Invocation "Substance and Shadow "A Violin Stop "Without and Within

Sermon at Notre Dame:'-' a further installment of "To-day," Mr. Kimball's romance "Men's Rights," wlncli suggests several things to the advocates of Women's Wrights "The Gallows in America," a strong plea for the abolition of capital punishment "Love Cancels All "A New York Business Man in Rome Correspondence, Monthly Chronicle, Notes on Foreign Literature, Table Talk, ete. Those who desire this American magazine (and there should be many) can order it through the Corner Book Store.

HEARTH AND HOME, the new weekly conducted by Donald G. Mitchell and Mrs. Stowe, although but live numbers have been issued, has met with such marked success that it is aiready regarded as established. The number for January 23, which is before us, is replete with fresh and interesting articles on almost every subject most thought about and discussed in the family circle in th-J country.

FOR SALE.

Ipoll

SALE—Farm and Houses and Lots. The farm known as the Alex. McConnel farm, situated on the Darlington road, 1% miles from Crawfordsville: containing 16t acres, 100 cleared and the balance well set in blue grass supplied with a good dwelling house, good barn and other out-build-ings, and a fine young orchard. Also three houses and lots." situated on College street, in the southeast part of Crawfordsville.

Terms will be made easy, as'the owner is determined to sell. For further infoamation call upon, or address J. II. Prewitt, Crawfordsville, Indiana. ja2S\v5

BANKRUPT NOTICE.

IN

BANKRUPTCY—This is to give notice that on the 21st day of January, A.D. 1869. a Warrant in Bankruptcy was "issued against the estate of Benjamin M. Vancleve, of Parkersburg, in the county of Montgomery and State of Indiana, who has been adjudged a Bankrupt, on his own petition: That the payment of any debts and delivery of any" property belonging to such Bankrupt to him, or for his use, and the transfer of any property by him is forbidden by law that a meeting of the Creditors of the"said Bankrupt, to prove their debts and choose one or more Assignees of his estate, will be held at a Court of Bankruptcy, to be holden at the office of John W. Ray,

East Washington street, Indianapolis, on the 20th day of Februiry, A.D. 186!), at o'clock, A.M. BEN. J. SPOONER, IT. S. Marshal, Dist. of Indiana, Messenger.

MARBLE WORK.

Phoenix Marble Works. SINCE,

Phoenix-like, we have arisen literally from the ashes, we have moved the remnant of our stock to the east side of Washington street, next to Miller's new buiiding, north of the court? house, where we have now a nice assortment of

Grave-Yard Work,

Su«li as Monuments, Tablets, Slabs, Ac., which we will sell cheap. 12T"As the late fire did us much damage, we must work hard and sell cheap, to make money to meet our liabilities.

I. F. WADE & SOIV.

N.B.—If any of our friends want to give us a little, "material aid" on account of our loss, they can do so by if they owe "us, call and pay if they want any work in our line, either Grave-Yard or Building Work, give us a call. We will do you XICK WORK at LOW PRICKS, and be much obliged.

BUILDING WORK done to order. Crawfordsrille, Dec. 30,1868.

CORNER BOOK STORE.

THE OLD CORNER

BOOK STORE.

T:HE

lire of December 23 has caused a removal of the old

CORNER BOOK STORE

To the

South Room, National Block,

WASMsroTour STREET,

Where may be found a full stock of Miscellaneous, School, College, Toy, and Blank

O O S

Including a choice lot of Bibles, Prayer and Hymn Books. Note, Letter, Cap, Bill and Wrapping

A E S

Buff and White ENVELOPES, Slates, Ink, Mucilage, Crayons, Pencils, and all that is necessary to make a full stock of Stationers' Goods.

A full and nice line of

Pocket Cutlery and Pocket Books

Haviag lost our entire stock of

WALL AND WINDOW PAPERS,

we have received since an entire new stockin that line, and ask your attention to the best, prettiest, and cheapest assortment ever offered in this city.

Curtains, Goods and Fixtures,

A nice assortment.

PICTURE FRAMES & MOLDINGS.

We had also to lay in a new stock of Frames and Moldings, which are cheaper than ever. Particular attention paid to FRA3IING Pictures, and no extra charge for work. Cords, Tassels and Picture Nails.

Toys and Notions by the Million.

We receive all the leading

Magazines and Newspapers,

Having over fifty different kinds, and any not on our list promptly supplied.

The Indianapolis Daily Papers,

Journal and Sentinel, and the Lafayette Journal, received every morning, and delivered to subscribers at publishers' rates.

We cannot begin to enumerate all that we have to sell, but ask you to hunt up the old establishment, and see what we have. And while we would thank the public for their former liberal patronage, we would ask a continuance of the same, and shall try and deserve it by our attention to the wants of the community, and selling at such prices as will suit all reasonable people.

L. A. FOOTE & CO.

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FINANCIAL.

First National Bank, Crawfordsrille.

Capital $100,000 00 Surplus $40,000 OO

DIRKCT0RS.

W.H.DURHAM, S BINFORD. A. THOMSON, M. RAMSEY J. S. BKOWS, D. GILKEY.

JNO. M. COWAN. OFFICERS.

W. II. DURHAM. President. S. BINFORD, Vice-President. B. WASSON, Cashier. ja21\v4

DENTAL CARD.

T. M'MECHAN,

RESIDENT DENTIST,

WOULD'informthatfriendsand

his the pub­

lic generally he has removed to the rooms on the corner of Green and Main streets, up stairs—entrance next door to the post office—where he will be fouud at all times ready to do any kind of Dental Work in a satisfactory manner. He asks an examination of his work and prices. jB3f"Dr. McMechan will fill all contracts for work made by the late firm ofMcMaclian & Wolfe.

J. G. McMechan, M.D., can be found at the same place. ja21

PICTURE GALLERY.

:E£:B3rirolsrs CALIFORNIA

PICTURE GALLEBY,

HUGHES' BLOCK,

Opposite Court House, Main Street

From the smallest to Life Size Photograph,' finished in Oil or Water Color*, Small Pictures copied and enlarged. ijrl] W. KENTON, Prop.