Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 13 May 1869 — Page 4

THE JOURNAL.

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

Crawfordsvillc, Ind., May 13.

KDITORIAIJ 5TOTES FROM TUB CAPITAL. As the session draws to a close, the business is in such a chaotic state that it cannot yet be told exactly what has been done and what has not been done. Chief among the things that ought to have been left undone, is the passage of a bill in the House, with every chance in its favor in the Senate, allowing a claim of §413,599 1,0 those who lived along the line of march of that illustrious Democrat, John Morgans®This famous individual and his band were welcomed to this State by thousands of his friends and sympathizers who are now paid for their losses, indiscriminately with union citizens. A whole day can be spent in discussing the question of "stationary and stamps," but when it comes to a measure which takes half a million ont of the peoples pocljpts at one fell swoop, it requires only

about ten minutes. he people will

I'HK SOI.WKK S HO.Mi:.

lu accordance with the recommendation of the Joint Committee on the Soldiers' Home, a joint resolution has been adopted in both Houses, transferring by voluntary consent the soldiers and seamen now in the Soldiers1 Home it Ivnightstown, to the. National Home at Dayton. Ohio, or Milwaukee Wisconsin: and as fast as transferred, to fill their! places bv orphans of soldiers and I seamen. This arrangement will obviate the necessity of erecting additional buildings for the orphan.--.

KEES or

COtTNTV OFFICER

A revisct

I fee bill lor countv ot-

tieers ha?

1(",

°llrit

been sent to .he Senate

ia"S

nhci( lt:

to cut oil' the stealages of county officer.-,, it cuts off all construction Ices and make it so plain that, every officer will receive the same pay for the same work. The fees charged now by county officers are different in almost every county of the State,f which is a crying evil, and if the bill fails, of course it will (lease the countv officers, bur not i-he puoplr 15ANKS.

amm.s isANiv

bill has parsed the Hon*- au-

Banks. The bill provides that any number of voters—not less than seven—who shall each be the owner of unencumbered real estate worth at least 8"-000, may form and organize a bank. An endless number of sections is tacked on providing for its management.

KEPOKM l'KISONS I-'OK Wo.MI'.N. Although the bill establishing a. Reformatory Prison for Females was rejeeted in the. House last week by a vote of 12 to ol, yet when it was reconsidered, a day or two afterwards, it passed the House by a vote of 02 to I. The Senate has also passed the bill, which has been signed by the Governor and is now a law. The law is excellent one and the wonder is th it the State did not have one long siui e. Bv the courtesy of each House Mrs. Sarah Smith, the manager of the "Home for Friendless Women," was requested to present itiie matter to the members thereof, which she did in a clear and forcible manner, making many friends for the •measure. In the course of her remarks she said that the General Assembly, two years ago, made a liberal .-and beneficent provision for the homeless and friendless boys of the State, who for want of counsel and parental care, are tinder the controlling influence of profanity, theft and crime. This benefaction has already proved a blessing, and will bring forth good fruit for many years to come. The same protecting shield should be thrown around the friendless and homeless girls and women, who are alike waifs upon the world, without a friendly counsellor, contisantly exposed to crime, and in

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the path of ruin, not so much because of any predisposing fault of their own as because parents, church and State have failed to give, them sympathy and to inspire them to seek a better and higher life. It is needless to say that Mrs. Smith's speech was the very best made on the subject, surpassing in diction, argument and oratory, even the best of those from the lordly males. I was more than ever convinced, upon hearing her in behalf of this beneficent and noble enterprise. that the voice and vote ot woman were absolutely -iier.eitsary in our halls of legislation.

TIIB RENEVOIEXT INSTITUTIONS.

A bill has passed both Houses, and is now a law, providing for continuous appropriations for the benevolent institutions of the State in cases where the Legislature fails to pass the usual bill. Ihe law is doubtless a good one, though it has the appearance, of giving the color of sanction to the revolutionary action of members of the Legislature

THE GKAVEI. ROAD LAW.

,, changes will be made the law, but it a formidable array of strength hold those gentlemen responsible. :cu .. I .. so manv amendments have been ol- which 110 arrangement of iorees

the changes will be. THE LlQliOK LAW. Mr. Chapman's bill regulating the liquor traffic passed the House by a vote of *7 to •!!.

the House is concerned. It will be

thc

thorizing tin organization ol Savings eojiduet, of the- management of the

Southern Prison, revealed the fact that the action of some of the officials connected with that prison was black and damning enough to

'1 he House has been hammering at tained its existence and continued the

,,,, *n! the (Jrav»l Road Law. Some fijrht. The Republican party found

he bill was

amendatory of sections and 8 of the present law. and provides that applicants to retail intoxicating drinks tition. ithe voters of the ward, city or township in which he proposes to sell, lit takes the responsibility partially from the shoulders of the Conimlsii

sioners and places it on the shoulders

itory, as it will be almost impossible

hnngS ii.-.-- The hill simply proposes ,w.mK ,vllsIlil,

o-et a majority of the voters of r^ny

must first present on his pe- the past year the organization has the names of a majority of been as complete as ever. The con-

It in effect is prolsib-

ol the people.

put their

names on a petition ot this kind. If the bill passes the Senate the friends of temperance mav hold a jubilee. DlttEOTO) ol" SOUTHERN i'l.MSON RE

MOVED.

F. M. Meredith, one of the Direc-

tors of the Southern Prison, has

now

been removed, so Jar as the vote ol What substitute is there lor it. This

remembered that the investigation of hesive power by which it has

Committee on Prisons, on t-tve kent intact. Will the thing

serving, nnpli-

i.im tiir mnvk

That monstrous humbii". the Agricultural College, has at last, after four years of wrangling, been located at some point in Tippecanoc county, the General Ass ted the proposition, I RepuWIcu. party that he is pmmttod tl.c Purdue, making a donation of 8150,000, provided the child be

FORDS VILLE JOURNAL: MAY lo, 1869.

WHAT WILL BKCOME OF IT?

By some mysterious cohesive power the Democratic party has been held together through defeat after defeat. The history of the party has been one of continual opposition, and no opposition lias been more stubborn and persistent. All that it has even accomplished has beed done through a discipline which is not less effective than that of a well-regulated army. The control of its leaders over the masses has not been less effective than that of the priesthood over the Romish church. Its measures have been supported with a fatalistic belief in their fint»l success. The ignorance of the party has always backed itself against the "Constitution" and fought with the "nigger," and the battle be one of aggres sion or defence the support and the weapon are always the same. Argument has failed to convince. Even against the logic of events which culminated in the abolition of slavery and the downfall of the Confederacy, the Democratic party has yet main-

-i

fered that ono cannot tell lust. what could weaken, and it is only by the

gradual acccssion of young and vigorous men to its own ranks that the result which is foreshadowed in the almost certain ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment has been reached. The Democratic party has not been defeated thus finally through any reduction of its own forces. During

But what will become of Democracy in the event of the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment'? The "nigger'' has been its capital stock for the past twenty years. Its battle

jry

has been "nigger, nigger," and it

about to be deprived of this,

send them to that place as convicts. party be content to retire from the a necessity, demonstrated bv the

vERsn-K" advancing career, even though

Tippecanoe county, if ,»« iv

ition Of Hon. John

named 'Purdue University."

II.'

THK A6BICCLTIBAI- tOlJ.KKK

Tippecanoe has succeeded in getting the Agricultural College. Mr. Purdue's liberal offer and, perhaps, a slight inclination among the Legisla-, Boston paper sets out to say tors to believe that Indianapolis is

seeking to monopolize things have done thc work. The location is a good one, however, and the liberal donations made ought to be sufficient to make it a first-class institution, if anybody knows what that is. Mr. Purdue has manifested a very common greed for fame by making his donation on condition that the College be styled the "Purdue Institute." The gift would have been a little more acceptable without the conditions, and the people would have been a little more satisfied if the claims of the United States could have been recognized in some way in the name, but these things could not be.

thc

ol'

thej

THE XSYANSVILB.iS CBAWFOKDS VILLK BAILBitAD EXTENSION. "While it is probable that most persons living along the line of the proposed extension of the E. & C. Railroad to Logausport, regard the road as a certainty, there is yet danger that the enterprise will not be pushed forward as rapidly as its importance demands. The Evansvillc journal is looking to the connection of that city with Chicago by the extension of the road to meet the Chicago & Danville road, already under contract, at the State line. It is necessary then for us to hasten the extension to the northeast, not because the completion of the connection with Chicago by the other route will kill the road or make it unnecessary, but because the encouragement and the assistance which the road will receive south of Crawfordsvillc depend upon the speed with which it is pushed forward. The struggles of the trade south of Rockville for an outlet to the north will operate favorably for one of the roads, and the one which is likely to be first completed will receive the greater support from this source. If Rockville and the country south of it are furnished a communication with Chicago cat- Danville their immediate want" will be supplied.

We hope the persons who have the matter in hand arc not asleep, and that they will hasten the building of the road to Logansport, by some one of the proposed routes, with all the energy and means which they can command.

OOWAKDIi'E,

trol of leaders has not been less ef-1 bers of the House in voting to inl'ectual. Other comities, as well as definitely postpone tiie bill making it Montgomery, have been voted by the a misdemeanor for any member or directions of two or three prominent men. The plans ol the party have not been changed, and its course is still that of opposition, [t is beaten because the Republican party has outgrown it. Fate has been against it.

The action of the Republican mcm-

members of the Legislature to resign for the- purpose of breaking a quorum is simply cowardly. Those who have been looking to the Legislature for some manifestation of pluck can regard it in no other light. The re-elected resigned members went back to the Legislature rc-eleet-ed it is true. But their stampede was regarded by the sober, sensible majority of the State as revolutionary. When they again threatened to resign if the consideration of the Amendment was pressed during the

Special Session, this bill was intro-

has been the main element of the co-1 duced to prevent the revolutionary been I action. The same sober kept intact. Will the thing stick majority in the without it Is there yet enough of the bill. The the progressive element in the Re-! largely in favor of it. We had been publican party to justify Democrats led to believe that the majority of iu maintaining their organization to the Republican members of the Legoppose it Or will the Democratic islaturc were in favor of it. It was

The House has exeicised its powci contest, a [tarty without a hope and I tion of two parties each of which! of a young German girl named Marto the full extent, in the removal ot without a causer While the events had broken a quorum by bolting or tin, living one mile north of the vilthe only officer now serving, impli-j ji* the next two years are. answering, I by resignation, and some moderate has been ten weeks in a jcated. Proceedings may b«- had iet the Republican party go on in its I Democrats could not reasonably ob-

fthe next two years are. answering. I by resignation, and some moderate

-may be had lot, the Republican party go on in its I Democrats could not reasonably obadvancing career, even though thel ject to it, although they would feel mission for which it was born has humiliated at its passage on the pres-j Fletcher, in charge, pronounces it been accomplished. And while it is ent occasion. With such a sentiment eatelepsy. due that every young man should re- iu favor of the bill, and with its own The Delphi .1 our.iol. thus chuckles member that, whether he be Demo-1 merits so strongly recommending it. Prospect ol the air-line road

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Wome»'.

Movement is to make women better, but by a sad typographical blunder it says the end of the movement is to "make women betters.'1' We trust this misprint is not prophetic of the real end of the movement. We prefer to see the betting business monopolized by the sterner sex.— Chicago Post.

Perhaps it is not a typographical blunder after all. Wives are spoken of as the "better" half of men, and if the object of the movement is to procure husbands, or make wives of themselves, the announcement of the Boston paper is correct as it stands.

Go to the L. R. A. Social to-night, Thursday.

crat 01 Kcpuoiican, it is mainn ow-, it is a great disappointment to see it I .fi ,1 ,• embly having accep- ,, .1

i- .,

workings ol the thns rtclcatcJ by the very men whom |ile i,01,

1SDIANA HEWS.

Tippecanoc county gets the Agri cultural College or "Purdue Uni versity."

The sessions of the Sunday School Convention at Indianapolis closed last Thursday.

Covington has elected a liepubli can marshal. The Councilmen are mostly anti-whisky Democrats.

The Indianapolis, Peru and Chic* go Railroad has been appraised at five thousand dollars per mile.

The millers and grain dealers of Terre Haute have formed an organi zation, and hold weekly meetings.

There will be fourteen graduates in the High School, at Terre Haute, at. the close of the present year.

A religious revival has been in progress at Indianapolis for the past two weeks. Great interest and many conversions are reported.

The Commissioners of Fountain.' county have voted in favor of a donation of $20,000 to the 1., C. & D. Railroad.

Hon. George Holland, of Richmond, succeeds the late N. H. John son as Judge of the Wayne Criminal Court.

The next annual meeting of the State Medical Society will begin on Tuesday, MajrlSth, and continue un til Thursday night.

Last year several ol' our farmers sowed a new variety of oats, known, as "Surprise Oats." The grain is represented as fully equal to the common grade, while the yield is much more plentiful—Frankfort Jiunncv.

During the late storm, a woman and her child were killed by lightning at Sharpsville, in Tipton county. The child was sitting on its mother's knee, when the lightning came down the chimney, killing them both instantly.

Old Aleck White was stabbed to death in Salem, Indiana, while on his way home from church. But as "Old Aleck" was "only a nigger." the vir tuous-minded Salemites enjoyed the sensation for a day or more, and the affair died off.

For the first time for years, the regular Democratic ticket was defeated at the recent municipal election in Covington. Wonder if this feat is not owing to the advent of Frank Seaman and his sprightly journal?

The Western Mirror, published at Cambridge City, has been sold by Lafe Develin to Henry C. Meredith,* son of Sol. Meredith, who will change its politics and name. It will hereafter be called the Cambridge. City Iribiuu.

There is .said to be a pear tree on the farm of-1. W. Mathes, near Beth-

sensible ^iem' 'n Clark county, that measures iten feet in circumference. It has

State appun ed ot pim|uce('{ }ri

onc

jectto it, although they would feci startling revelations. Dr.

to witness a constant extension of his It is a manifestation of weakness and to Chicago, and the conductor calling rights, privileges and facilities', it isi cowardice humiliating to the i'^ut I'lankfoit. RosiilIe. Wild Cat, Repubalso proper to bear in mind thai the lican party, and shows how just were Republican party, along with its in- the strictures of the 8t. Louis Dcmocrements, has received some of a dif- crnL made a short time ago. on Indilerent character, which need to be ana Republicanism. Will the Rewatched. publican members irv to ledeem themselves by standing up squarely

for thc Fifteenth Amendment resignation or no resignation, or will they again bow the knee and lick the dust, looking up to Democratic "Saints of Purity" with fear and trembling?

The last rail on thc great line of railroad connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific has been laid. Though the people may have been swindled by the operations of the contractors, the road is nevertheless an accomplished fact, marking a grand epoch in the Nation's material development. Thirty years, and what wonders have been accomplished in the time! It almost makes one hopeful that some thing good tnay yet come out of Alaska-

season a crop of sev-

Press ot the State was enty-live bushels, at picking time. and of course must have produced several bushels more that fell off before picking time. The tree is now, sixty-two years old.

The community of Mishawaka, lnare excited over the condition':

ac-|diana,

trance

ATlth

,, I vals, during which, it is said, she

occasional^ lucid mter-

..from Indianapolis to Chicago: How

.. .. pleasant it will be to hear the purl of

ll0rM ls ilc

people expected to support it. along the air-line from Indianapolis

speeds l.is way

Delphi. Pittsburgh. Monticllo, Ren sselacr. Crown Point, etc. Keep thc ball rolling and you will

soon

hear

these welcome sounds. The Rushville Jlcpublicun dolefully say*: Our old friend, Harvey Dinwiddie, brought into the office one day this week, a twig, plucked from an"apple tree, the buds on which were literally covered with small, green bugs, of the species of cirzixopie, which is considered very dangerous to the fruit crop. Wo suppore this is general throughout the county. Let no one be disappointed if ther# is a scarcity .of apples this year.

Articles of Association have been filed in the office of thc Secretary of State of Indiana, of the Lake Michigan, Wabash «fc Cincinnati Railroad. The capital stock is three million dollars, in shares of $50 each. The line of the proposed road is about one hundred and twenty miles in length, commencing at Elkhart, and running through Goshen, Warsaw, Wabash, Marion and Muncie, and terminating at such point in Henry or Wayne, as the Board of Director* may determine.