Decatur Eagle, Volume 10, Number 5, Decatur, Adams County, 27 April 1866 — Page 1

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•YBL'’MF W JB C DECATUR EAGLE, ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING, I Y A J HILL, PUBLISHER AND PRCTRIETOK OFFICE —On Monroe Street in the second story of the building, forhie.rly occupied by ■ Jessv Niblick as a Shoe Store. Terms of Subscription: One ropy one vear. in aJ.MI-e, $1 J>o If paid within th" year. 2.00 If not paid until the year has expired, 2.V1 ILTNo paper » ill be discontinued until alt nrrerayes are paid, except at the option of the ipubljaher Rates of Advertising: One coluinii, one year, SOO,OO One half column, one year 3 ~o't One-fourth column one year, 20.00 Less than one fonrth column, proportional rates will be charged. Legal Advcitiscmeilt*: One square [die spa-e of ten Hues bre vierjoue insertion, tl.s' Each subsequent insertion. 50 HD No advertisement will be considered less titan one square; over one square will be Conn I ted and chatged as two; over two as three,<tc. I r Local notices fifteen Cents a line for each insertion IT Religious an,l F.duentihnnl notices or advert! entente, niav be contracted for al lower rates,by application at the office. Udli aths and Marriages published as news — free. JOB PRINTING. We are prepared to do all kinds of Plain and 1 Fancy Job Printing, at the most reaomable rates. Give ns a call, we feel confident that satisfaction can be give •. 'I he Tnriti lor tlie Western I'nrmer, 1 In illustration of and in accordance with doctrine* we have advocated an.l Hit< mp'ed to enforce in the Herald. w<m ike the fullowing extract from the | Chicago Time*. The E ist-rn manufacturer r quires large qwin"lies of wool, and if the tvs ! tern ol ••protection” had been made j equal in its application todeger.nl sue ( lions mid interests. the Western lai uwi would be ••protected” by the same tar ; id as the mniiufuctur r, and give n mon- ; op ly ol the home maiki ts, to the ext’ nt ! nt least, of his ability to supply them But the buying ,»l Wo. | is rntinly a different thing lioni the selling of g o.ls. and although the argument may be strongly in favor ol “patronizing home industry,” and ••sustaining and c msum ( ing home productions ’ when woolen i goods are to be sold, it does not apply Io all win tithe raw wool is to b” bought; and if the West! in farmer will not sell j liis wool at the price ask d by h.dfcivi’ z d Indians an ! n groes of S 'Uth America. the E t tern rnsnufiiitur. r insists' upon hi> right to goto South America for his wool, and has had the tariff S” framed that De can go there lol’ it, if he finds it to his interest Now this, con si 1,-red by itself, is all ri hl enough; fo' wool growing, even nt pnsent prices, is very profitable, anti there is no “pro j ti ction” n q'tired to encourage it. Hut. I when wo consider tint the wool growe) is obliged to pay s ; x y per, cent, mon j than tlnir value tor Lis wihn clotlt-s. we e n not conceive the justice of denying hitn the privilege of demanding six t per cent, more tor his Wool, and 1< g’«l , «n ictmetits to eu'orce this th inttii i, as ( the extortionate demands of the min uLncluters of woolen goods are enforced Tito tariff on wool is entitely nominal, being k* follows; Wool valued not over 12c. per pound, ,5-.. per pound. Wool valued over 12c., but not over 24c per pound, 6c. per pound. Wool viilind iver 24c. but not over 3ic per pound, 10c. per pound and 10c ; per hundred wiight. Wool valued ov.r 32c. per pound and ■ lllc. per hundred weight. Now it is a notorious fact that nearly one-half of all the wool impelled is vs!-; ued under 12c. per pound. So that the tariff virtually imposes no tan fide duty It is quite ettsy to evade the law, and fix a low value upon the finest grads ofwool. A bouse importing buys through a clerk at, perhaps 40 or 60c. per pound or whatever it may be and that clerk, •occupying a position as an independent dealer ostensibly sells the wool to bis em- , ployersat 10 or 20c. per pound, giving ' bills lor the same, which his employers | can show if the matter attracts any at tendon. It is difficult to detect frauds of this character, because evidence can only , be procured in foreign countries, where * United States office™ have no power to ( •take testimony, unless parties voluntarily come before them. As a proof of, this state of facts, we find the following; statistics of the imports of wool during. Allie fiscal year ending June 30, 1865, in the recent reports of the Secretary of the Treasury. Value Pounds. R, venue; 12c and und r 67,072,500 12c and undar 24c 63,071.033 4,114,262 24e and undir 32c 403,130 h-ri 3Scandover 73,056 8,0’6 Tht number of pounds is not given in

‘ the report, nothing hut the revenue received, but Irani this it is etsy to as- ' certain the number of pounds imported, | save where the wool is worth oyer 24 . and in this case we have dropped the 10 per cent, ad valorem, so that really less i Wool was imported valued at 24c. than we have given credit for Now tit s matter should be promptly remedied by Congress, by the imposition of a specific duty of at least 15c. per pound upon all foreign wool, or the duty upon manufactured woolen, or the duty upon manufactured wcolt-n goods at once repealed. Compelling the western farmer to pay two prices for 1 is clothing and then allowing the eastern tnanulac- , I turer to buy thtir wool at half price, will 1 not do. _lf all dulls wire take off, so that the farmers could buy their clothing from the cheap labor of Europe, they would be content to let lite eastern man j n acturers buv the wool of the cheap , laborers of S att'.i America All they tt’k is to have ma'ters adjusted fairly. Thue is one other point upon which j the West will insist strongly, as lung as| “protect! n” is a feature in the policy of the Government. A Dirge portion of I our peop'e employ themselves in inis ng j stock, and, as long as Congress m ikes ti e west a mnik I for the manu'actures ol Pennsylvania and New England, tie Western p-o.’le demand that Congress s'. ( ]| »iv th- We-t a monopoly of supplying P nc-ylvania and N w England with prov sions. Win n tl)-y want beef Or pol k they go to Ctnidi. if tiler can 'buv it clo api r than we wi-.lt to sell it, an I frequently when th-y buy it no. cheaper, which compels u< ' > lower our I prices. Now during ill-* fiscal year en ( i ding June 30, 1865. the C ina.li.an trade ■ I returns show, alter deducting imports, I that they imported to the Un.ted lyate* ( c title an 1 beef to the value of 51.7 13,- i 1115, and hogs and hog products to the value of $658,436. making a "sand total |of 823,76 551. Now n duty of four j cents per pound upon this beef and bai con, tin 1 these cattle aud hogs, would . ( probably It .VC kept them all out, and i given the West th” nmnoply ol the | iprovis -n mark is of Pennsylvania itn<! IN' w Enol.tn 1; and if the duty is pl >ced i it four cents p-r pound in the future, we. ■ will guarantee that the AV estern farmer ; will not ask more than four cents p. r i I pound more for hia cattle and hogs than ; I lie is receiving now. . ■ : We know that the western Lirin rs i cin make money in raising cattle tin! ; hog* without any duty, but th t. does ' not make any dilL fence. We are tom ’■jelled to buy the manuficlures of New England and Peitnsyiv utia at thepiic’ tlu-V fix upon them and i vety desenp ion of foreign product which comes into , 1 competition with them, is sul j.-oted to [ neav, duties, which exclude them altogether, or make it impossible to sill j them at anything less than the price*, i fixed by our domestic manufacturers . Tlie west, in return for th,i*, demands an ■ qual prot’C’ion—'hit the people' <y j i Pt-cnsy Ivanin and New England shall be: Icuniptlled to bty out beef and pork at the prices we fix upon thttm, and that all foreign pro lucts he subj-cted to ?. heavy ' • lulr, wliicli will i xciu ie it altogether, to: prevent its being sold at less than the ■ ' prices we demand for ours. The East n gul <U’s i’s pri' cs, not by the cost ol : production,but hv our neevs’i ies. We demand the ptivikge of ri gul..ting our prices; not by the eost ol production, , but by their necessities. If they tax, us through whit we wear, we demand q from them tax's upon what they eatin th s manner there will be reciprocal : b nefits and advantages, and the princi- ; I pie of “protection,” being thus placed fairly and squ trely upon its trial, the i country can form an intelligent opinion t as to whether it is a national advantage. I or national disadvantage. It might be ' I continu’d permanently, as our national policy. Or the peon!" of the East might consent to let us have untaxed clothing, I in considi ration of having untaxed provisions. And the people of the West, might find the privilege of buying un- ‘ taxed clothing a sufficient inducement to give the people of New England snd Pennsylvania nntaxed beef and pork, j At any rate, 'he West demands soraei thing reciprocal and uniform in this matI ter, and will not consent to be taxed to ■ death without receiving some compensation advantage. it? M r - Wise, of Virginia, in a late ' speech, is reported to have said respecting that State: “She has an iton chain of mountains running through her c-ntre which God has placed thore to milk the clouds, and to be tho source of her silver rivers.” The Rochester Ameri-. can remarks: “The figure is borrowed from the New York milkmen, who milk .the clouds as much as they dotheir cows, and thaw from the former the most palatable and healthful portion of the ( II compound fluid ” ;

• Our Country’s Good shall ever be our Aim—Willing to Praise and not afraid to Blame.”

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, APRIL 27. 1866.

The New I'lnnd*—Latest Report of tl|C | Volcanic Wonder in tin’ Archipelago— I Graphic Report of hh Englii,h Captain, j ~ . i Her M.’ijesty’s ship Surprise, Com mander Tyron, which had be-n tlie-, patched to 6aiitonni to render assistauce I to the iiihaliilai’ts, relurti’-d to Malta ,u: Friday the 23d of February- We have! been kindly favored with lite following interesting p irticulars of th- r- cent vol i cnitic eruption: As soon as Santorini was sighted by thu. Surprise a deuse j white mas* o: vapor was observed rising; from the sea, which nppear.d to be boil ing fr«in an miknown ctutse. am! wit n the island was appro iehed a strange ‘sight was sreti—the sett evid r.fly was I boiling, and clouds of the white-f st’am rushed out, soaring heavenward like an .enonnotis avalanche, and looking lik. I -now. Something black was then seen rising slowly frmn the sea, which after-: ‘ wards turned out to be no less than an I i-land springing from the deep. It ap-. peaces that th. re were no earthquak s, I but Convulsion? “I uature caused by vol | ' cariie islands luving beep iltrovvn up; from the sea an I as violent eruptions . had tak’ it place ths inhabitants wen- , gt eatly alarmed, b it at the time the Snr ! prise no immediate danger wa* ! appreh tided. The position of the ves.s. 1 . ,vas a very good one to watch the 'flip ; itions fr uit th- volcano on tho b truing I ; island that h id lately risen from the de p. Ths sei for several miles looke 1 very! 1 strange, the sulphur git ing it a yellowish I a; pjanttice, and round the volcanic island ’ the sea was boiling at some one hundred , I yards distance from the shore. Th j steam rose with great g' andeur, the ’ whole island emitting smoke and sulphu- | rotis vapors, co’ored bv th,- flames inside I the volcano, in s .itt- plac -s being cracked and through the fissures an immenu- ' mass of red hot lava was visible. The I volcano was in ac nstant state of life, and an crup ion to k place on the morningot the ariiv.d oi the surprise. A .back mass of vapor w-s von.ited forth , from the vole mo, [louring ttpw n ils; but i the fury of the eruption was soon expen- : .led, and it .suddenly -ceased. j On the following day her Majesty's I -hips l > htx‘ , >e an 1 I’yrlin arrive 1 to the i succor i f 11--Island. A Gr ek man of \ rar had cone in, and tlie. next day a i lltt-si n fiigat- was seen apjtroaclui.g i but she did not -ccin to like appctirancis, ' mid kept at a distance, watchi ig the phe | nomenon for som- ho ir* be pro going ! r.lo-er in. Ihe second night .liter tlie ar i rival . f the Surprise another erup'iou took p'li-e I lie to.r iv. s very fL-rie. stit’ ke poured foil th from the volcan ” : with tirr’fic liny, and larg- blocks of i ”cK .mid stone were hurried into the air, ; the whole presenting a most imposing; (-ight During that night it was said that . a new island had been thrown up; the. 1 one pointed out was ahout three hundred i q yards long, and was a black sinking; mass. Close to the anchorage of the | Surprise there had been a place called . ! “Mineral Cre>k,” which was then nd j more; a large hill had ti-eii out of it, It made its a; pe trance b. fore the ar rival of that vessel, but it roe higliet 1 ami h'glter, during h« r pr‘ j senc ' th, re, j i while the old island was sinking gfaduI ally, as if about to return to the dep'h-■ •of the sea from which it hat! ris. n. On this sinking island were sbvetal Imuses, : many of n hic.lt were gone altogether, ami others were being washed by the sen; 'of one house there was little more th.mt ' the roof and chimney pot above the wa- : ter, while abmltling sm.k and rose again. It was retnarable that rocks were con- ' stnndy appearing above the sea and then ■ disappearing; and hence the position taken up by tha Surprise was not very ■pl asant. On the S'C’>nd night a slight j concussion was felt two or three times on , ; board, and as islands had been spring ing up in the immediate neighborhood, i it appeared likely that one would come up , | under the ships bottom. At the time the wind and sea were heavy, and the vessel drifted rapidly in the direction 1 of the volcano, round which the sea was boiling, and a world of steam, va|>or and smoke arising. The Surprise immedi ately got up steam. A large number of houses were bnried in the lava and by the new h l; that rose from Mineral Creek: but., fortunately, no lives were lost, as tiinelv warning had been given, and the inhabitants had escaped. The damage done to property was not so great as might have been expected. ®-“Why, Bill what's the matter with you? you look "down in the mouth?' “Well, Pete, I guess H you’d been through wlint I have, you'd look 'bad too." ‘‘What’s the matter?” | “Well, you know Strait Snivel*, don't ' you, Pete?” “Yes.” “I discarded her last night.” “You did! What for?” •'W<ll, I'll tel! you. She said she wouldn’t marry me, and I'll discard any g : rl that would tieat me in that i Way ”

| Letter to Bill Arp. Wc tike the I llowiug extract from a letter horn “Brick” Pomery to Bill Arp, j on the subject of reconstruction; i Your States are kept nut of the Union, I which is still preserved! You wanted ( .reconstruction. We’ll reconstruct yotlll You 'oik* tire very wicked, Bdl. Goii ‘ ptihisheS wickedness. God's ag nts live in tie North exclusively'. Bill! Andi I we’ll let you b-re.k tn the Union, whtuh has been pr< serv’ d, when we get ready. i F.rst, you must I ui,t up the balance ol lyotf property niql give it to some of our I j great itnd good agents or generals. Then ( you nitt-i urove oat of your houses, that I*. what are It fl. and L-l the niggers in. • And you must give the niggers your planItalions, Att’l, Bill, you must give them all yout prop'lty, end then support the i 'tinoeeni cause <rt th- la v wsr by manual labor And you must let the nigg.-ruj : ’.ole, for tiivy «re wanted for Republican ■ Congressmen, Senators and such. Ami ; y.’U must ignore all your personal or war ■ deh s, and not p;y them even upon the j ( ba-i ol honor. And you must help uI pay for licking vou. And ere you do I this, yntt must haxe nil vmir property taken from you so it will be ensv. We lure a just and magnanimous p ople in ’ll’ N o lli! We are liberal and brotherly ! \Ve want p. ace and harmony! We don't j want you folks to go to hell, nor do we want you to dress better than we do -—- Personally, we know but little of this 1 country. In eighteen hundred and s : xty three 'we left your country immedi itely 'n nd , vance of a bayonet, for say'ng that some j of cur folks were stealing from your folks, and for writing naughty lei’ers to the Ln : Cros-e Democrat, charging some of our ! Generals with robbintr and cowardice. ; And we h ,ve had a v. ry pleasant time of ii at home for thinking much as you j think, but now we are convinced that the I war f r the preservation of the Un on was i a splendid success—that th- country i* belttf off—that the negroes are happier ; —that penpl arc in better circumstances, I especially the th> iv.es and robbers will. have fa’lem d upon blood and stolen their enemies poor—that the way to exalt one , ; section is to fight, rob. steal and desolate ■ them into happiness—'hat our taxes are . light, r — 'hat Republic>n retrenchment and reform is a good f iling fur poor peo ■ j pie and tax payers—th t the sure way to j nation’ll greatness is to quarrel with sec : tions continually—'hat a people are ap' to love th ir persecutors—that it is honorable and evidence of manlv Christianity ' to hi’tnni’ r a m in a'ti-r he is down—that it is a blessing for a poor man to pav in Cereet tut b nth- the rich hold untax ihle—that the negroes are Lett t off in rags. : sickness and shallow graves than -it con ! j tented labor—that it is unchristain to resent insults, and that yon folks down > , South, especially you, Bill Arp, so called, I are an ungrati tul people not tn admit the ' present state of affairs in the Union, so j Called, Indignantlv yours, “Buick” Pomerot. The Slates V» here Negros Vote. The Adr-utv Argus, in R comprehett sive statement of the exis ing condition j id this question in diff- rent Sta'es, denies the truth of a statement lately made by ; a Worcester paper, that negroes vote in Massachusetts on paying a poll tax There are only two States in the Union where the negro is allowed to vote without property qualification They are Vermont and New Hampshire, the former of which has eighty negro voters and the latter one hundred and ninety. In Massachusetts every voter must, within two years, have paid a State or county tax, unless excused from taxuj lion. In Rhode Island » voter must own real .e-tate of ono hundred and thirty-four dollars value, or of the clear yearly value o f seven dollars over any ground rent. A colored person is not allo wed to vot” in New York unless he has resided in the Slate three years, and is a freenolder in value ol two hundred and fitly dollars, and paid taxes thereon. Massachusetts, which does not at home allow anv man to vote who does not pav a State or county tax direct, for they all pay it indirectly, is very desiiotts that the Southern States shall allow negroes to vote without such discrimination. She goes in for universal black suffrage at) the South, while denying it to her poor whites at home. This is Mii'sachuselte philanthropy, or preference for negro to white. girA boy was caught in the act of ! stealing dried berries in front of a stere the other day, and was locked tip in a dark closet by the grocer. Then the boy commenced begging most pathetically for release, and after using all the persuasion that his young imagination could invent, proposed: “Now, if you'll let me out and send for my daddy, he’ll pay you for the berries, and lick me besides!” This appeal was to much for ; the grocery man to stand out against. ,

—»A- *—j- k—t — j i — -S-- * Gen. Grant and the President. The Radicals lave been claiming that G, itern‘l GRaftT was unfavorable to the President’s pniiry. A cart cspond. nt of the Chicago Times says: “G. n. Gram, always wisely reticent ■on politicd subject.-; is rnttre retip ni than ever jusl now; but he has said enough within two weeks to convince al! who heard him that he is the fast and I firm fi aqd adtyser of the Presidiefnt, ‘ and that bis only complaint on this score l is that the Pr< indent “has not gone far i enough.” The Rmflcals have made, d- sp’ rate efforts to convert the Lieu'enant General, bjtuhiy have not succeeded. \\ ushbiiin has pledged to him the next j Presidency, thfongh it was difficult to find but ii has bud no effect. Gen Grant has d tie too much for the cause ol U nion to be alinated by a party of IN. rthern disunionists from sj mpathy with a min who is honestly and sincere | endeavoring to give to the country the ! fruits of the vic.uries of Gettysburg, I Vick*burgii and Richmond. I repeat that lam very conflJ’ nt the PrisiiDnt has never ent’rtained the idea of using lores to interrupt, the tevolutionary proceedings of the A9dt Congress but they are greatly mistaken who believe that General Grant either side will) Congress or is an indifferent spectator of 111“ excitin; scenees now being enacted here. He and all his staff are .o day the warmest friends that Andrew Johnson has got in the United States, and nothing has been done si far by the Pr sident, nor in all likelihood will be dine in future, that Las nol and will no: me; t the hearty appraval of other Lieu j ten nt General*. And th’re .is another I Gem ral to whom the country Is not less ’indebted than to Grant f r i's victory i over the rib li m—G it, Sherman. He: I has always differed from Giant in illspi tying a wi lingneis to sprak hi* mind i fully. It is not no'es-ary to sav that he indorses all that the Pre-idelit has done, and favors a good deal more than tin Preiiden's is likely to do.” .>> The Largest .Man in the World. ' It seems lliat Tennessee can boastol having produced the largest man in the world. The Jackson Whig of the 21st ultimo siy»: “Our attention has been directed tn a sta’em’ nt, going the rounds of the news-' papers, giving the weight ofafatGer-| man, said to be the largest nun in the j world. He weighed something over I five hundred pounds. ‘ “Now. published, in 1857, the death of Miles Dar 'en, a c ; tizen of Henderson, in an adjoining county, in this Slate We mentioned his weight at tlie time of his I death, wliich was so enormous that the ! ggn'os excited less of wunder than dei risi.l’l. Now we know that we can find one I hundred citizens in Henderson county, who will vou'h for the truth of the -t itement we are going to make; and at tlie risk of being roked down hv somincredulous radical we will r. publish the substance of our former article. MJ * Darden was, beyond all question, th” ( largest man in the world, at Bast since the days wl en there w re giants in the ! land. His height wa* seven feet s x : inches—two inciter high’r th in Porter I the Kentucky t'iant. His weight was a 1 fraction over nne thousand pounds. He ; mi asnred, around lhe waist six feet and four inches, and it took one hundred 'eet ■ of plank to make his ci ffin. He was j fifty five years old when he died, full o‘ humor and possessed of fine senes, j tl.ongh very sensitive on the subject of; corpulency. We knew Mr. Durden fifteen years before his death. L ether, weighed only four hundred pounds, but | continued to increase as he became older. Raising a Revexi e.— A friend explains the present system of rai inir reve- ■ nue as follows: "Now, you see, in the i first place, they get the hung of a 'eller’s business. That is taxed. Then thev find out how much he earns every month and that’s 'axed. Then they find out all about his prnfits, and on that they ley their tax. Then they manage to get some tax on what he owes. Next Contes ' what they’ call income, and that’s taxed; I Then, if anything is left, the preacher rails around and gets it to sustain lhe church and convert the heathen. C-irA day or two ago, at the North i Pennsylvania Hotel, Philadelphia, were' lan orderly sergeant and thirty two nri- i vates, wearing the uniform of the Aus-: trian army. They were suppos’d al first to be rebels, and as they marched along a string of boys followed them. They ■ announced themselves deserters from Maximilian's army, exceedingly glad to’ obtain a free passage to a land of freedom and to have escaped from a militai.y | 1 servitude in the land of red pepper and 1 cayuties. There Lave friends in this country, whom they are now engaged i i in looking ujt. >

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Misappficatlon of Words. The New York Tribune object to the word "donate” inslead of “give or grant,” to which the Philadelphia Ntws responds in this way: "Nery well; but is there not an i equally gieac impropriety ‘in misusing words to deceive unthinking people with r. gard to political measures and move-m'-nts? The whole power of tfe« radical . faction in Congress is derived from this i misuse as words. It is establishing an unlimited oligrachy while calling itself a Republican party. It calls Itself‘Crn- ! gress,’ when it Is but a frigmeni of Con-gi-'-ss. It excludes a mntfbcr of States, and yet callsits if, ‘the Union party,’ intending by that designation to create the impression tliat it desires the pre*' etvation of lhe Federal Union, which is formed by tie Constitution. If the ra Heal* leaders would designate themselves and their measures by honest names, they would find but little popularity wi h the American people. Mr. Shellabarger, of Ohio, intTbJuceff in the Hott*o on Monday last a bill to declare the i i.nittnities and privileges of i.eitiz ns of the several States. The first s h ction declares the ri rht of national citizenship to be the right to go through and into, and sojourn and reside in each State, and there to acquire, and dispose, and enjoy protection for person# and property; to be exempt from unusual taxes, and tn have equal redress in tho courts. The second section punishea lhe attempt to deprive a citizen of nnv of these rights, by any manner of intimidation, bnt without violence. The third section punishes with death a murder committed in the attempt to deprive tKa citizen of tlie right to gt> into or throug.U any S ate, and of Lis r'ght to abide or do business therein. The fourth section punishes as a felony manslaughter, or great bodily harm inflicted in attempting to deprive a citizen of any right secured by the bill. Th<- fifth section confers the benefit of the bill to persons not criminals, and to loyal men. The Work GOB* on—Mure Preachers Indicteh.—The grand jury at Palmers has found true bills against the following ministers lor preaching the 1 Gospel without a dispensation from Governm Fletcher, the "head center” of the j radical loyal faction of the State of I Missouri. All there preachers are of Hannibal: Rev. Mr. Dunn, of the Episcop lian church; Ri-v. Mr. Wilkes, ofthc Christian ehnrclt; Rev. Mr. Fuller, of the Presbyterian church; and Father Crnn>in, ol d e Catholic church. Per contra, a negro charged with larceny, against whom, we are told, there was overwhelming testimony, was not indieed by tHisr same jury — Hannibal Monitor. CV'A few hours as era recent wedding in Shaftsbury, Massachusetts, the officiating clergyman discovered that the fact of bis residence out of the State dis- ■ qualified him from legally marrying. He burned the couple with all possible speed ‘ Ln', did not find them until the next dhy, wh’-n l e offer’d to refund the fee. but ■ tlie brid’ gro< tn would n”t tnk<? it—said I “twas with it.” They were (ben mari ried by the parson of lhe parish. A subscriber asks us the qu'S'ion;—“By what right do editors use the plural “we” and “our” and the contradictory “ourself,” in the singular number?” Grammatically, we don’t know. Pru- ; dentielly we might explain it on the same ground that we say “my trousers” on I the street, and “our trousers” in the famj ily circle.— Sioux City Journal. About nineteen thousand pounds of tobacco, mostly of Floridaurowth, were sole at auction in New Y’ork on Monday, on Government account. Th» I sale was not largely attended, and'there was bit' little competition among the Bidders, the whole amount being finally taken by two purchasers at six cents per pound. “I don’t miss my church so much as (you suppose,” said a lady to her minister, who had called upon her during her illness, "lor I make B-t«v sit at t-Le window as somt as the belli begin to I chime, and tel) me who are going to .church, and whether they have got any I thing new on.” j rJi' lloop skirts, like gun-barrels, are : not dangerous unless they have someI thing in them. But when the former nre ; charged — powdered, wadded, end M'aterfall capped'—they should be hand)”*! will) the greatest caution. In many instances it is dangerous to even look at them. If a police officer is after you, the but thing you can d" is to lock the Jpg[ and then b' It yourself. r