Decatur Eagle, Volume 2, Number 49, Decatur, Adams County, 14 January 1859 — Page 2

’frKajl JTlriin- -I'Miiiii ■ r'—l.r <- i • • r ii i; i'. a <; i,i: U. L. PHILLIPS,) W. G SPKNCEaJ DECATUR, INDIANA. ■u-JTV-- - E=x=xa FRIDAY MORNING, JAN. 14, 1859. BLANKS! BLANKS!! BLANKS!!! Blank Deeds, Mortgages, Justice’s Blanks, of all kinds; Constable’s Blanks, of all kinds; Blank Notes, &c., , of the best quality for Sale at this Office. JlgrWe clip the following paragraphs from an article in the last Fort Wayne Sentinel, and we must confess that, for political egotism it exceeds anything of the kind we ha v e ever seen: •‘From all we can learn from Mr. Douglas himself, or those who are authorized to speak for him, we have no reason to believe—notwithstanding his unfortunate DIFFERENCE with the President and the DEMOCRATIC PARTY last year.” His unfortunate difference with the President and the Democratic party! Pray, Mr. Sentinel, in what instance has Mr. Douglas ever differed from the Democratic party? Was it when lu> •»- ...< . .esuent on the Lecompton question? The next rich idea is: ‘‘Much depends upon his course in the Senate. If he, as we believe he will, cordially acts with the Democratic party, he will REINSTATE himself in the public confidence.” If the Sentinel had not been so very dull of apprehension it would have discovered long before this, that the success of the President depended a great deal upon Mr. Douglas’ course in the Senate. And as for Mr. Douglas reinstatin'/ himself in the public confidence, the Sentinel need only contrast his late victory in Illinois, his triumphant receptions throughout the length and breadth of this great Union, and his re election to the United States i Senate with the defeat of the Danites, in ! Illinois, Glancy Jones, of Pennsylvania, Jim Hughes, of Ind., &c. to convince him that it was not Douglas that lost the con - 1 fidence of the public; but, on the contrary,l it was his own kin who were rejected bv 1 the public as unworthy of trust. _ , Jesse I>. Bright. The DeKalb Democrat hoists the name of Jesse D. Bright, as a candidate for the ! Presidency in 1360, and remarks that it ■ would be unnecessary for him to write a < eulogy upon his public life. We agree with the Democrat, that a eulogy upon the man is unnecessary; but ■ ( in order to place him more prominently < before the people, we would suggest the < Democrat that he publish his speech, de- ’ livered in the Senate of the United States, f March 20, 1853. in order that the people , may learn that it is a vicious principle to f rote upon constitutions. i \ I Senator Douglas. , The long agony is over and we are re- i joiced to learn that Hon. S. A. Douglas : was re-elected United States Senator by ' the Illinois Legislature, on the sth inst., . for six years, from and after the 4th of | March 1859. He received the vote of every Democrat in both branches of the Legislature, notwithstanding the boast that a portion of the Democrats were bri- , bed to vote against him. He stands now , before the world as the great champion of j Popular Sovereignty. ‘‘The Youmg America.”—This is the I title of anew Republican paper just com- 1 menced in this place, the first number of ' which is before us. Il is edited and pub- ■ lished by T. J. &I. J. Tolan. They , r.peak quite flatteringly of their prospects i and we hope they may not be disappoiu- ' ted. Newville Brass Band.— We are au- ' thorized to say that the Newville Brass I ’ Band will give a Concert at the Court ' House, in this place, on Saturday evening' 22d inst. Let there be a general turn oqt Peterson Ahead—The February! number for 1359 of this higlv popu’ar magazine is upon our table in advance of ••'.her monthlies. The plate ‘‘Papa’s Breakfast” is worthy the place it occupies. The general appearance of this number is superior to any former one. Governor’s Message.— We this week publish Gov. A. P. Willard’s message/ •o the exclusion of almost all other matter, it will doubtless be read with interest by our readers Legislature —The regular session of ’he legislature melon ttio 6th inst., and the same officers were elected, that presided during the extra session fanning pars no regard to virtue, and u b:r the 1 iw mini - i»f wi- lorn

►*■ Wl . •- ■ - ■ J . IT |-| .I ,J L \_ - - —■ II l _! a~| II Ilf—ir i linn GOVERNOR’S MESSAGE. Senators and Representatives: At the special session of the General . Assembly, I asked your consideration of those questions only which I thought demanded your immediate attention, and deferred, until the present, any recommendations except those which should be presented to you at the time when the Constitution of the State required that you should assemble as the rapresentatives of the people. CRIMINALS SHOULD NOT DE ILLEGALLY PUNISHED. On the Sth of March, 1852, an act was approved, entitled ‘An Act to authorize the formation of companies for the detection and apprehension of horse thieves and other felons, and defining their power. Under this law ass iciations have been formed that have arrested and punished individuals without “bringing them before tribunals! of the State. It is better that every person charged with a violation of the law should be arraigned before and tried by the courts of Justice. I recommend to you the repeal of that law. There would be no necessity at any time for honest men to form associations for the purpose of arresting and punishing criminals, if the State and counties made a -ufficient allowance to indemnify their nn. ~ ... . .. .mig ana bringiag to trial those who violated the law. You can not expect that the sheriffs and other I police officers will devote their time and I ! expend their money to bring those who violate the law before the tribunals of justice, unless thev receive a reasonable compensation. While this class of officers are unpaid, we may expect that an indignant people, who have been outraged by criminals, will disregard the law, and punish without authority those whom they believe have done wrong. SURRENDER OF FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE Section 2of Article 4 of the Constitution of the United States requires that “a person charged in any State of treason, •• felony or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, on demand of the Excutive authority of the. State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurisj diction of the crime.’ During my term of service I have declined to surrender to the authorities !of other States those persons who are : charged with offenses which, at the time of the establishment of the Constitution of the Unitied States, were misdemeanors. ’ Since the adoption of this section of the Constitution; several ot the States have ( so changed their laws that many offenses j which were then misdemeanors are now ■ declared felonies. The authors of this ' , section, evidently, in providing for the | ( sui render of fugitives from justice, in- j, tended to include those only who are j charged with misdemeanors. It was not ' | their intension to require of a State that i < one of her citizens should be surrendered ( to another State, when he was simplv , charged with that which was then a mis- ■ demeanor, although a State making such , demand, should, by her law, declare that/ what was then a misdemeanor, is now a felony. For instance, when the constitu- . ( tion was adopted, an assault and battery : , was a well known offense and legally de- j! fined a misdemeanor. No State had a ( right to change the character of that of- , sense from a misdemeanor to a felony, i, an! upon a person being so charged with j such alleged felony, escaping from the State of his residence to another State, , require of the autorities of that State his, ( return. Without any such provision in ;, the Constitution, each State would be at ; liberty to surrender oi not any person within her borders charged with an of- ( sense. There being no act of the Legislature directing that a person should be delivered up, I have consided the Constitution of the United States as alone controlling the surrender of fugitives from ' justice. J PRESERVATION GF PUBLIC RECORDS. I ' The citizens of the State are deeplv in- , terested in the preservation of the public records. Hitherto there has been no safe depository forthem. The officers of the State have been compelled to rent rooms in which to place the records. It is impossible in this city to secure the use of rooms that are safe against accident or crime. If many of the counties are willing to make large expenditures in the erection of buildings for the preservation of their records, I am satisfied that the State can, with far greater propriety, pro- ' vide a building for a similar purpose.— The destruction of the records of the State would entail upon her citizens lasting conflicts concerning the rights of property. — 1 The expense of the litigation which would arise from their destruction would far exceed any expense in the erection of a building suitable to accomodate all the officers jof State. I suggest to you, therefore, the : propriety of erecting at an early day, upon some of the public grounds, a building, wherein the Judges of the Supreme Court and the officers of State may be enabled to preserve the public records. WBBASH AND ERIE CANAL. The Trustees qf the Wabash and Erie ■ Canal reported to me, in Dec. 1857. the condition of that work. The report for the year 1853 will be laid before you at an early day, which will inform you as to its present condition. I regretted to see, in their report of 1857, tha; its revenues were greatly diminished; and I am informed that during the past year there has been no improvement. It is, indeed, feared that the revenues will prove wholly inadequate to keep the canal in repair and that bv them alon* it cannot be maintained. lam further informed that the bondholders are unwilling to sustain the

work by any other means than those derived from its revenues, having already ] invested one-half of the entire debt of the j State in the work itself, besides advanc- . ing 8800,000 for its completion. They [ have informed the Board of Trustees, in the most formal manner, their determina- . tion to close the Canal, and abandon the . work, whenever its tolls and revenue shall ; be inadequate to its support. The report . of 1858 will disclose the extent and nature oi the action of the bondholders. The abandonment of the work would seriously embaruass those who reside in the vicinity of the Canal. If the work should be abandoned by the Trustees, there is no law under which it could be , maintained. INCREASE OF JI DGES SALARIES. Frequently the attention of the Legis--1 lature has been called to the necessity of increasing the salaries of the judicial, administrative and executive officers of the . State. Section 12, of Art. lof the Constitution declares that ‘justice shall be administered freely and without purchase completely and without denial, speedily and without delay.’ Upon examination I find there are more than nine hundred undecided cases in the Supreme Court. The law requires the J udges of the Supreme Court to be pre» CUl ' al v '’ 4 Capital L m eacn year. That is as much time as they can spend here upon their present salary. If they recieve a compensation sufficient to enable them to devote more of their time at the Capital to the consideration of the-judgements they are required to revise, the number of undecided causes would be much diminished. The citizens of the State must be greatly embarrassed for the want of decisions concerning their personal liberty and rights of property. Believing that the most ready mode of securing early decisions would be to enable the Judges of the Supreme Court to remain longer in consultation, I recommend to you such an increase in their salaries as will sup- ' port them in the discharge of their duties : and afford them a reasonable compensator their expense and labor. They would be greatly aided if they were supplied with a sufficient library. They should be authorized to purchase, for the use ■ of the Court, a library over which they! shall have the entire control. While I have thus urged the necessity of the increase of the salaries of Judges j of the Supreme Court, I do not regard it as less your duty to provide for the Judg- i es of the Circuit Courts. Many able and | accomplished lawyers have accepted po- j sitions as Circuit J udges, entertaining the ■ hope that the Legislature would be will- i ing to pay them a reasonable compensa- | tion for their services. It would be diffi- ' cult to select many among them who! would not recieve in the practice of their I profession more than twice that which ; they receive for their official services.— I The State has no right to require of one I of her citizens that he should toil to see that crime is punished and justice administered, without giving that citizen a reasonable compensation. INCREASE OF GOVERNOR'S SALARY. No increase or diminution of the salary of the Governor of the State can be made after his term of service commences.— Before the next regular session of the General .Assembly the people of the State will have elected a Governor. Inasmuch ; as much as there is but a short time in-, tervening between the commencement of said session and the inauguration of the Governor elect, I regard it your duty to take into consideration the subject of his salary. I have no hesition in recommending to you that you provide for him such a compensation as is worthy of the State I of Indiana. ELECTION FRAUDS. The laws of the State in regard to the ' qualification of voters and the election of officers are inadequate to protect the suffrages of honest men against fraud. On ' several occasions within the last few years j men have left the county of their resi-l dence, gone toother’s, where they had no ; permanent homes, where they did not intend to remain longer than the dav of! election, have there cast their votes and • thus determined who should be the officers end representatives of the counties they visited. The inspectors of elections, in some of the townships, have denied to legal voters the right of expressing their choice of officers. A government which depends entirely upon the action of a majority of her people cannot be maintained for any length of time ttnless that people are permitted to determine, without voilence or fraud, who shall be their officers and representatives. Every citizen who is desirious of maintaining peace, every citizen who is attached to and willing to sustain our form of goverment, should be anxious that no illegal vote should ever be cast, and that no legal voter should be deprived of the right to cast his vote. A law should be passed inflicting severe penalties upon the officers who superintend elections, if they decline to receive a legal vote, or if they admit one which is illegal. Likewise provision should be made to punish criminally any man who leaves the county of his residence, goes to another with the intention of there voting and then returning to , his home. If an illegal voter could be punished by imprisonment in the State Prison, bad men would be deterred from wrongfully voting. THE BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS. The Genera! Assembly of 1857 failed to make any appropriations for the benevolent institutions. The reason for that failure was, I think, not to be found in any hostility entertained by the members of the Legislature to those institutions,—

1 M»" 111- ■"» ■ '■•■•— " "T* ' - They knew that the constitution of State / provided for there support, and that they 3 were objects of charity around which the - hearts of theii constituency clustered with ■ affection. No appropriation having been i made for their support, the question arose - whether they should be closed or the ; money in the treasury paid out for their 1 support. Believing that the Constitution t of the State reflected the will of her peo- ■ pie, and not being authorized by law to control the action of the Treasurer of State I I did not hesitate to advise him to adi vance anv unappropriated funds in his ; possession to maintain every institution. , He doubted whether be had the power / thus to act. Bv his failure to advance the necessary means the Hospital for the insane was closed on the Nd day of April ■ 1857, and the Institution for the Educa- !; tion of the Deaf and Dumb, on the 10th of the same month, that for the Education ■ of the Blind not until the close of the regular term. The Treasurer of State, upon ' more mature reflection, became satisfied ■ that you would approve his conduct if he advanced the means to sustain the instii tutions. He accordingly signified his I willingness 'thus to act. Thereupon the officers of State of the 16th of September, 1857. by unanimous re’olnfinn. arlvisp.l him to pay the money of the State in his • possession to sustain those institutions and they were opened. He has paid from . the treasury the money for their support, 1 and for this advance by him I recommend that an appropriation be made. Whatever conflict of opinion may exist concerning national or State policy, on other subjects, 1 am unwilling to believe that it is essential to the success of those who entertain either the one opinion oi the other, that the most afflicted of our oeople should be deprived of the education and comfoits which can alone make life to them desirable, much less that those who have been deprived of reason ■ should be denied the best hope of restoration. If economy alone was consulted, ! these institutions cost less than the counties would be required to pay in sustaining their inmates at home. In addition to that, there are secured to the Deaf and Dumb and Blind, far better opportunities for improvement, where they are gathered j together in numbers, competent teachers : secured, who devote the service of a life to their improvement. And as to the inmates of the Insane Hospital, every well ‘advised physician will express his opinion ' that the best prospect for the restoration |of their reason is to be found in placing I them in the asylum. The institutions have been conducted with economy and skill. The reports of their officers urge ! upon you that appropriations be made j for the enlargement of the Hospital fori : the Insane, and the repair of the others. I most cheerfully join with them in their I recommendations. i

STATE PRISON. I recall your attention to the condition of the Penitentiary. The number of convicts there confined is 484. The prison is crowded so that they can not be employed with profit. When the warm season arrives there will be great danger of disease. With reference to the remedy which should be applied, I refer you to the message delivered at the special session. The reports of the Directors and Warden will be laid before you. They I exhibit the result of the system adopted • for the government and management of the State Prison. So far as the health and discipline of the prisoners are concerned, the result of the new organization has been beneficial. The State has pecuniarily suffered no loss. I STATE BANK, SINKING FUND AND COMMON SCHOOLS. • On the 28lh of January, 1834, an act i was approved establishing a Slate Bank. ! Said act, by its terms, ceased to be a law on the Ist of January, 1859. Under this law the Bank commenced and continued , its operations as a corporation authorised 'to issue and circulate notes, discount paper, and transact all other ordinary banking business until the Ist of January, 1857 At that time its outstanding circulation

was 84,208,725, with a debt due to the institution, principally from citizens of , this State, of 86,095,368 12. Between J the Ist of January, 1857 and 1859, the I Bank redeemed nearly its entire circula- ; lion ahd provided amply for the redemption of that which has not been returned. She has collected from most of her debt- ; ors the money which they owed. The gentlemen who have conducted this in-stituti'-.n are entitled to credit for the . ability .aey have exhibited in the management of its affairs. The State was interested in the Bunk. She invested in its stock 81,390,000. The money to that investment was procured by the isi suing of 5 per cent, bonds, the last of which will be payable July Ist, 1866.— ■ The President of the Bank and four Dii rectors, ail chosen by the Legislature, : were constituted a Board of Commission- ■ era of a sinking Fund. They were charged with the duty of receiving the dividends upon the State stock, paying the • interest upon the bonds, and invesiigat--5 ing the surplus in mortgages upon real estate, for the benefit of the fund. The > gentlemen who at various times have had charge of this Fund have managed the r same with care and fidelity. The re--1 port of the Commissioners show that its r nominal profits are 82,980,604 36. Bv the law creating the Sinking Fund that Fund was appropriated: First, to pay the 1 principle and interest upon the bonds; - second, the expenses of the Commissiont i era; and lastly, to the cause of Common i School education. s The faith of the State being thus solemnly pledged, enabled those who nego-

3 fisted the bonds to sell them at a premium ' of 829,496 92. There is now due upon ‘ these bonds 8979,000, payable between > the 13th of September, 1865. and July i Ist, 1866. Unless the fund should bedi--3 verted from its original purpose, those 3 who control it will at all times be able to t pay promptly this indebtedness. But had i there been no interference on the part of ■ the Legislature with the original act, that > fund would now amount to 83,000,000, - and by the time the interest can be drawn • for common school purposes more than ’ 84.000,000. Unfortunately, however, during the ' years 1841 and 1842,8676,308 04 were ■ applied to other purposes. True, the 3 State engaged to return the amount with I interest. This, however, has not been • done. But without resorting to the coli lection of the mortgages held by the Com- > missioners, there are 81.052,896 25 of • available means. This will be sufficient > to pay the bonded debt. 1 i think the State should not divert any ■ more of the fund to the ordinary expen- • ses of the Government. Justice to the s holders of the bank bonds requires that ‘ the amount sufficient to meet them when , due, should always be at th* command of 1 tho C-m,missioners. And the interest of ’ education in this State, requires not only ! the preservation of what remains of the 1 fund but an early return of all that the ■ State has drawn from it. Those who, I twenty-four years ago, saw in the future ! the prospect of creating a common school ; fund, not by taxation, but by a faithful 1 administration of the law, are worthy of! our commendation. They believed dial ■ it was the duty of every citizen of the ! State to lend whatever influence he had to the education of the sons and daughters of Indiana. Shall we, at this day, when from the result of their action a no ble fund has been created, lay our hands upon and destroy it forever? Some there are who do not favor the education of the children of the State. Great injustice is sometimes done in providing by tax ition the means necessary to sustain the schools. But here is a fund which never cost a citizen of the State one dollar, which, il left untouched will in 1866, amount to over 84,000,000. I After that its annual interest will be equal to one half our present school tax i I hope therefore, that this fund may re main where it was originally placed. The term of service of the Sinking Fund Commissioners having expired on the first, of January, 1859, I recommend that you esI tablish by law, a Board, conferring upon them power to settle with the late Commissioners, and receive from them the fundsand securities in their possession. At your last session a bill was passed ' continuing the late Board until the first Monday of April, 1359. I withheld my i ' approval of that bill for the reasons pre-

| sented in my message. I entertain no , i doubt that the fund would be entirely safe in the hands of the late Commissioners, and that they would manage it with : integrity and ability. THE BANKING STSTEM OF THE STATE. The Constitution gave the Legislature the power of establishing two systems of /banking in this State. The first Leg islature which assembled after the adop tion of that Constitution p issed a general banking law, under which ninety-one banks were organized. Before the meeting of the Legislature in 1855, experience showed that the law which authorized . their establishment was insufficient. forty-one of them had fail -d to redeemtheir circulation. The friends of the the general banking system seeing the ; deficiency in the law, urged the passage of the act of March 3, 1855 Since tl. £ passage of that law there has been but one bank, organized under it, that has failed to redeem its circulation. At the . same session of the Legislature, an act I was passed establishing the Bank of the i Slate of Indiana. The full amount of . Stock required by law was subscribed, . and the bank commenced its business.— r Its circulation is now 84.502.346. Its ! notes and bills discounted, 85,151,549 07

Its cash on hand in gold and-silver, 81,•685,894 93. From the time that these laws were passed, the currency authorized by the State has been promptly redeemed, although in the intermediate time, the financial crisis of 1857 has been passed. When you consider that between the passage oi these laws an 1 the present time, the State Bank lias withdrawn four millions of dollars of circulation and called in six millions of dollars of idebtedness in which the State deeply interested, and without which laws the State Bank would have been unable in so short a period of time to collect the debts due to her, —one half of which belonged in reality to the State, you must regard the legislation of that session as highly beneficial to the financial interests of the people as anv could have which provided for the establishment ol banks and the circulation of a paper currency. lue Bank of State has quietly acquired the position occupied by the old State Bank. Those who formerly directed the one now control the other. It the rule could be uniform throughout the United States.it would perhaps be better that no paper currency was circulated. But, inasmuch as that uniformity is practical? impossible. I think Indiana has established as safe systems of banking as any other State in the Union, giving to her people as high security for the redemption of the notes of the banks as any other State. the revenue deficiency. | The last Legislature levied no taxes for the years 1857 and 1851 The officers of State wi re therefore deprived of the

ordinary revenue which should provided to sustain the vari O n I ments and institutions of t| le St .“'?*■ lievingthat there was no re asfl ' ,i W that the members of that Levi | 'V reassembled would change th-i/' l ,“ re 'O action. I did not cal! them touet? 0 sing rather to wait till elected other representatives standing the failure of the L efr ;, levy the taxes, the officers of endeavored to carry on the and in so doing they present to the result of their action, that th/ o ’/’® : only been required to borrow -8165,000 in June and xm-, December, 1858-which has be/'*’W to the payment of the interest „/ f ® public debt. They have paid J Genera! Fund to the Swamp L, nd p® 833,000. They have drawn ?’■ lunds about 8200,000. If the revenue for those yearsJ collected, upon an assessment ■that of 1856, it would have anj ’ the two years to 81,200.000, w | lich w ■ have left in the Treasury now gpaniv® of a surplus. Still, with ail this' fai j,' B to raise the revenue, there is Vet j..® Treasury sufficient means t 0 ® 'government until the Ist o( '■ land if authority is given to J “i/-■ temporary loan for 8250,000, tV rev ß nue which will be derived from the tn■ of 1859 and 1860, levied at yourlast JB •sion, will pay every debt created and su’B tain the government until the endn',,® year 1861. "'® INDEPENDENT STATE TREASURY mended. ■ The taxes of the State must necessMi'j® Ibe collected by the county /th.»"'■ Hitherto they have had no' direction ® law, as to the kind of money t;/B i should receive; the result of has been that tha Treasurer of Slate,'tS times of financial difficulty, has been coir'® pelled to exercise his discretion in rece v® ; ing from the Treasurers the money :/® had collected, Between the time '•'r-® ceipt of such money by the County liras-® urers and the paying of the same to ® State, much of it has deprectiated in v ® ue. While the county Treasurers ne'ed® in good faith, receiving for the Sta>\® taxes the ordinary currency of/e ex:--® try.it would have been wrong fcr/e® State to decline accepting the same from® . them, and it would have been eq-r/.v® wrong to hold the Treasurer cf State re-® sponsible for any depreciation in such® i currency while in his possession. Bp.H ,in the recieving, holding and paying out® of the money thus collected the Slate has ® sustained many losses. ■ The State has never yet provided a safe ® | depository for her money. While tlii> M Treasurer has been required to give s| j bond for the faithlui return of ah by him I collected, lie has been compelled to ex-1

1 . • * -v... >'ercise his judgment in selecting the place ■ where it should be deposited. The re j suit of the exercise of this judgement has i sometimes been unfortunate. Jsitnot, I therefore, better that the legislature ’should determine bylaw the kind of money which shall be received by the va p rious County Treasurers for State, taxes 1 and provide a suitable place of deposit in J which the Treasurer of State shall retain it, until the laws require its disburse- , ment? In determing the kind of money ■to be received, is not the highest safety , j of the State secured in requiring it in ths constitutional currency ot the government If you provide that the taxes may be pud j in tiie notes of banks, you simply loan U those institutions the taxes you have collected. You also confer upon the Trett’ urer the power to discriminate between the various banks what bills be will first disburse. The effects of conferring upon the , Treasurer this power to discriminate as to what money he will pay out endangers , public funds. I therefore earnestly re- ; commend that a law he passed providing that the taxes of the State shall be collec- . ted in legal currency; that a safe build- . ing be erected, in which such money ■ shall be placed; that the Treasurer of

State receive proper compensation for I guarding and preserving the same, and he 1 be required to pay, when legally deman- I ded, the same money he has received; ani I that if he deposits any of it in anv other place than the one stablished bv law, or loans anj' of it to any individual or corporation he shall be punished. CONCLUSION. I am desirous of co operating with vou in the enacting of any law which wi.. ,n tire to the welfare of the people w ref c sent and the interest and honor of tb» State of Indiana. ASHBELP. WILLARD. A short time since a man in Peterborough Canada ’Vest, wishing to do some thing to the harness of his horse, took a dirk-knife from his pocket, and opening it with a jirk, it flew from his hand an. the point entered his thigh, severing artery. On withdrawing the i r 7 - the wound, a stream of blood sh<> the air, and the unfortunote man ex • ■ ing, ‘I am done for, now!’ fell to the ea>'--and in twenty minutes was a corpse. A short time since a lady in ? s' o '*' ,n Cincinnati was detected in the act of cl*. destinelv putting a package of gloves in - her pocket. On being accused of the", she wept bitterly, said she had no inten tion oi stealing the gloves, hands the merchant a twenty dollar bill and to him to take his pay out of it. He did so, giving her fifteen dolars in change; and at night, on making up his account, 1° discovered that the bill was counterfeitMud, is the order of the day