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; his ownoffi’eri. Not every Fenian Head i Centre will hold office in the Irish Republic; nor will every ordained functionary . be office bearer in the Kingdom of ( I God I Our own pro f und cqnvic'ion is, therei fore, that any man wh > de.cline* entering the ministry’ because ot insufficient honor ' and slender pay, is no loss to the church , iofClirist. And conversely, any man i who enters the service ol the church because of Ui* honors and emoluments she ' proffers, l« no gain to the ebu'eh O' Christ. A goo I minis!' r can neither be| bought with money, nor scared off tiy i poverty He who is 1-d of the Holy Glii'St needs n ver chaffer as to sal ’ ary nor stop to ask about honor find influence J Il then, as the Round Table asserts, •'the ministry is d-a liumg.” the fnc' > proves only this: "-that exist ng cfiutche- ■ do not keep with the world in ih<- wretch ed race of worldly aggrandiz-m-nt and I prosperity. AnC if the time should ever coine in which never a man c uLi be ■ | found to officer these nominal churches lot Christ, and all the meeting houses I should he closed, and the organ* c»a*e their s uinding; a d shrewd men begin to • wag ther head at the ’‘old superstition” and "exploded mummeries,” then may the poor iii spiel r-j-»ice. lor the day is not afar when the L >rd himself eb ill ap i pear, and gather his elect, to array them in the shining tanks ol immortality, Visible churches may bn'U ! sh when •officers’ salaries dry up. But tie church ol J-sus Christ does not depend on »m • such contingency. Ther- for" we are neither grieved when "the ministry de ; clines” nor r-jiic* when it prospers.— ! These u«eiul machines called churches 'hat rail at each oth-r, and run races to j gather, to 8“e who shall have the biggest i l.otl-e or organ, pastor and income, are I : ephemeral trifles, however useful. Wi on’t care which one we bet* ng to. But , I the church of Jesus Christ, o 1 which the ■ J roll is .wi it ten in the Limb’a bo. k of life. 1 1 i* a sfici'-ty, to attain membership in which, lie.'is wise who sacttfic s all else -1 beside. To sum the matter —a Christian is one I thing, a church m> mher may be quit" a.i i other. A minister f Jesus Christ is one Jilting —a clergyman quite another. A I del gVhian. mav be poor pay poor preach 1 But a chrisfia minister preach*-* pay or • no pay. — Elmira .V Y Advocate. ■—■lll I ■ - Did You hear m«* Crow! J •‘[Tow did I crow then? 1 ’ said acock Ito bis favorite speckled h'n, ‘'Magnificently!’’ said the speckled , I hen "I’ll get up on the gate and crow a ; gain, ihiit all in the yard miy hear. You teli them ilv n.” Ant up It- flew to the . ’ . top of the gate, and flappe I his wings, ' and stretched hisneck. and crowed with 1 I all Lis might; then, holding hi* h<-a-l < n ! one side, lie looked tlown with one "ye jat the hens who were huddled together i before the gate. ! “Fine!” said the hen. ‘‘Fine!’ Said i the white hen, and th" brown hen, and ' i all tht h" is, and as many chickens as bad ' not >h-ir mouths lull of b*rl*y. •‘Do you hear that brown thing von ’er?” Sai I he, as he s'rntteil up and Io- n .the yard, looking coiit"mp'tiou*ly a> al thrti-h in a wtckei cage, who was ihril I'ng on** of his ricbe-t songs. " W hat do you think of th- noise it makes?” All ihe hens chicki d with contempt. I • Eriend?” srd th* cock to him. “you mean Well, but yo-i havn’i a n ite of mu sic— you should” bst<-n to me;” and then he crowed with all his rn<gh' "gon i it" hens all sio.id on on- leg, wit i .heir eves closed, and their heads on one side,-in. mu'e admiration At tfii« m -ment, Sh >ck, the house dog ■ c .me out "f his kennel «n*l shook himselt i las if I'lstur * d out of a sound sleep. •*D d you hear me crow?’’ said tin eta led cock ' "Hear you! I should like to know who did'nt,” Said Shock. “Th*ie's no peace for you. morning, noon or nigh'; ■ lor the the only lime you are quiet I'm ’ obliged to turn out to keep you from the : ; t*'X." The cock shook his gills, and he looked I astonished; and 'he liens whisper.d into on* - aootii. r s ear "Your Lens, indeed!” said Shock "Why they know nothing but what you 1 t. II them; and if they don’t do as you 1 like, ion drive them from the barley.— J You’re ail very Well to call up the mai ls In the morning, and to sing out when I t. e tlrevrs come near the roOst; hut i< I 1 vou w-re not the m ist con-*um»te cox comb, you Wuidd never attempt to decry ’ a th'U*h ” i | ‘•I have wafeeped hitn outof his sleep said the cock, in an *xpl..* a'ory voice, io his h-ns; and.he led the way to Ins fold s wk<r« he fl <pp—d his wings and crowed again, but nou with lhe-at.e v'vaci'y; y and ahhoogh they were afraid of talking g O' it nlou I, 'he hens n-t-re I one tn ano'.h r , r |,e ni Ver crowd much from that day io the ptesecce ol Shock. t

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

DECATUR, ADAMS COUNTY, INDIANA, JULY «, 1866.

From the'’leveland Plaindealer. Wendell Philips’ Fortune—Where he Got it. i "Wend*-ll Phillips has an income of 860 000 a year.-— Exchange | The above announcement, which is going the rounds of the newvpap**rs is of no extraordinary imp-rtanc', only it ' serves “to point a moral and adorn a >taie.” That Wendell Phillips is a man of great wealth, i« a fact which nobody who knows him will d-nv An income o' 86-1 000 a year is c-rtanly nn evidence that, he is in no imminent danger of ' coming to want But the fact that he is immensely rich provokes the inqurr Low he became so Although a gentlemen of education, weT have naver hoard *>f h s ’ hiini* di«t*’ugm«h *d in either rd’ t'" I ■ 'in- "’ pr-.-’es ’on. It is not kn iw. Cat he e‘ r l* r irnri'd a <)ay'a labor tn his li’e, m anv d* paj’trr.ent of productive in dn«try Wu h-ar nothing of him as a sitcess’lll tn> r-hant. He is only known as a strenuous nd vocaie of di- i.liikc'l from of abolitionism. and is an ex remist am-ng the most CXT'-me the most ex'l'eme haters of the Miuth am! its institutions; hut the public »r • not informe lof anv in*tince*in which the sincerely of hi* regard lor the African race has been illusteated by any I tic's ol generosliy inward th" infortunate class of mankind. If it will not he con ‘ -idereil disrespectful, we would like to he told, by som" ol his many admirers, how much of that income of $611,1)90 a v-ar lias been expended by that distinguished philanthropist, either f-r the benefit of'he poor whi’e p-ople in his vicinitr, or forth- ameliora'ion of the condi,ion of the poor black people in olh er and more remote localities. And while they are about it, thew will confer a favor, a great fivor, up >n an admiring I public by Luing us know how this Mr. I Phillips can eby this wealth. We know I ihat he never earned it by the sweat o' > his brow, nor bv the useful emplo-ment ot the mental abilities which the God ot nature bestowed upon him The pre i sumption is that l e inherited the for'une hhat ri-.'d* him an annual incuneof J?6tl,000. and it is more than prob hie -Lat he knows wh*-re it came <rmn and how it was acciirnnhit- d | Mnce ns w*- dislike the principles of the tn in we cannot be pursuaded io say word to his disparagement not founded jiniruih. But the snnounc-nienl which •stands a' the head of this article should h- accompani-d, wherever it goes, by the If.ct, which will hardly* be denied, that VVend*-ll Phillips inberiit-d his weahh jfrom ancestors who accumulated immense •or unes bp the rnanil'aclure of. and ,ii .ffic in N'w England rnm ami the African trade. Eor a confirmation o' the ■ (tilth of this stalemen we appeal to Dr. Che-ver, now of New Y"l’k, who was horsewhipped in the streets of Salem, j Massachusetts, for writing the story about Deacon Giles’ distillery, and to • those now living who w* re in the employ of (lie Phillipses wi jle their vessel* were in the trade off the we*t coast of Africa. • The wonder is that this man, who knows • where his money came from, and how it was t.bti.ined, does uwt make restitution ho the extent of his ability, instead ol a vast and w. rthless expenditure of word* in profession of pliil •nthr.iphy Restitu'ion, whde the highest proofs of sincer■tv, '* also an essential Jiem-nt of honor, ! lionystv, and justice And, now that the n-groe* are en> tncipeted at the ins'tg a i in o’ AV nd- ii Piulltps and hi* adtlltrer* ar. in a h Ipl -s and liop -l-ss con diti-.ii, it may m t b- too much to ex pe-t that * portion f his wealth will be , disgorg. il tor their relief. i — ... The Preachers. The Advocate of Peace says the preach er* have not preached the gosple. It proC'-'-ds: •‘Would to God that ail min : *t-rs l.a I 'always dme so. But. alas! now few have? Had tl ev, Would christendom haveb-en for fi teen centuri-s, one vast aceldama? Would its surface have been to this day so wid !y whitened with human boms? Would its thousands of war ships Lave now been ready to launch their v.illets o' r’leath; its our or five millions of warriors now be on tiptoe tor carnage and devastation, and its thousand millions of Hollars was'ed ev.ry year lerihe supnort of its war system even in peace? One thing is e*ram, either the gospel <>n this subject l.a* not b'en preached, or it has no power to make m- n 'beat, their swords imo plough shares, and their spears into pruning b.Qok*.” of a mod-rn preacher, it say*: H*»w applicable to such s pre»»h»r. is Volt .ir’* keen rebuke: "Ye bungling S«ul physiciar! tol.edow t.j.v an hour or more agdnst a few flea hi es, and not gay a word ab ’Ut this horrid duiempvr which tears u» to pieces." /

Studying Politics Under Difficulties. ■■ An old farmer in the interior of Ohio writes to the Cincinnati Commercial, f among other readable matters, tlie following. which is too good to be lost, and too true to be lor gotten. I ‘ One day, some time ago. John had been to the station for me, and brought ’ home a paper that wal filled with a great many speeches th-it had been made against a hill that *iur President had s* en fi' to disapprove of. Well. 1 took tin- piper to my corn-r, nd, although it was alt in I very small p’int and tried my eyes very much, I read it everv bit. My good wile J ■ got tired of my lor-ver sitting th-re. j 1 p-uring over those long “Boration*,” as J she terrn-d them, and »"id 'h -t ! would do wi ll to L*.-rceiling rhy B’l ' m .‘re. arid ii"h j.r > U-1 .ns less ‘ \Vsaid I, • i' e k gio u if’leaven isn't tn an y par■licutar danger lust now, f>ut my country is ” A'ter that she said nothing more 1 . ■ ° i.hotit it to me. Bu' the more I read in that paper the more both*red I become. I tetd a long t soeech by Mr H tt-ry Be'-cher. who , seems to know so much abuut everything J but divinity, an I I like it because he ' supported our Pre-ident. and our President, I thought must ba in a very trying position now a-days. . Then I was Upset by Mrs Phillips, who went into Mr B. like I have seen , little b~ys attack hornets’nest in the winter time. ‘‘lf such m-n differ,” said i I. "who will decile?” I had always be- . fore thought these two would agree . though the earth split. , Tli n I turned over the leaf wrong and . , commenced on the 1-ttt-r part of someholy e’se's ap-ech. I lik-d it so much | that I rea lon and on until I finished it - ‘‘Surely,” said I to mys-D, "surely we have got one goo.! an 1 true man in the I hind.” The tone oi the speech r-mind-d r lme of the good oil! fashioned ‘ farewell i address” of G- neral Washington, and I t lliankel G.*d and took courage. t \ Then I hunted up the beginning of the speech, an I c >til.l n.*t heli-ve my eyes „ wh. n I aw Ali x H. Stephen's name to fit I thought it .oust b- I’liadd. u- S - . v-n*. as lie wa* "Union,” though the | composition was very much unlike the style ol the gentleman from Penn»ylva (■ nia. • Wife,” said I, .“look here, my glassI es are a little dim; is that Ahx, H?” "Al-X. II ” said she. | • ‘Not Tlia-’detts,” said I. , -‘Not Thaddeus,” said she. • Is the last name spelt with a *v,’ or i with a ‘ph?’ I "Ph,” salt) she, “and what are your reading rebel sp< eches lor Id like to ■ i know H.-'s the Viee-Pie*i‘ient ol the. - Confederacy, and ought to b- hanging to a sour apple tree instead Ol being loose and making borations.” (My wile is a little nebulous about names and titles, but is a thorcugb going Union woman, and hates rebels with a perfect haired. She was a chairman of an aid society during the war, and many a time I’ve walked up in the night and ( found her still sitting hv the site, knit ling socks lor the poor soldiers who were “a lying out on the cold ground with nothirg hut their knapsacks and pontoons to cover them.”) Then T found that the speech wa* addressed to the Georgia Legislature, and I knew that “Thad Stevens would never take the tnuibl" to toil erring-people how .ogo lignt, through i" is great on abu sieg them when ti>< v go wrong. ’’ An Incident ot the Fort Erie Skirmish. Dunr.g the skirmish near Fort Erie, on ’Saturday, an anci-nt fislietltlsn was seat •vd at his accu’tomed p'sce on the dock ' patiently waiting for bites, and blissfully ignorant of the proximity o* danger — ' Presently, bullet's whistled about him. • i and not relishing the situation he undertook a “change of base,” ar.t *. ook refuge in the rear ot a wood pile, which served «’ a protection from bullets, and enabled hint to maintain his “neutrality” by continuing his angling. Very soon a Canadian Li-ulenant made hi* appearance in a high state of perspiration and exci'em-nt, and demanded protection of the fisherman and the wood pile. The knight of the rod protested that the presence of a belhgerenl of the “redcoat persuasion would compromise the neutrality he desired as an Ainrtican citiz-n to maintain The officer declared that while he had the highest r-spect lor American neutrality, he had -.ore for his own personal sa'etv. The fi-herman, being p-ace'ully inclined, consented to share .his r-fuge with the officer on condition that ha should throw his c»p. co”, and arm* iuto tlie river. This having ben (done, a fishing rod was placed in his hand and the brave soldier and the ancient fi-dierman preserved the'r COtnhip. d neu trality until the danger was ovirpt**t — Th- cortsctness of this nariative is i vouched for by an authentic fizbermaQ. —, 1 Courier.

Tht Treaty of 1813. I MAIN FOISTS OF THK THKATT OF VIENNA AND j TUB KOI.T ALLIANCE ARRANGEMENT. As the treaty of Vienna tn iy cnce ' more be made the stalking horse of Bon I apartists ambition, it may be interesting to the gen. ra| render who is more taarn,ed in present politics than in p-st history to be reminded what that famous treaty really w*s In the first pbc--, it was signed by a large number of States than had ever b-tore united in a settlement of European alt irs, including Austria, France, England, Russia, Prussia, Spain Porttfga! ,iti;l Bwerlen. Coming almost itnmmediately after the widespr-ad shat teriog of landmarks consequent upon I Ft. itch conquests the irra.igetnent ol territories amounted almost to a reconstruction. This reconstruction was , based almost exclusively oh dynastic considerations, the real welfare of Fnat'ons sud the tendencies of what are now Called “national.sts” beiag scarcely thought of Everywhere nstionist* or I fragments of nations, placed under for’feign sovereignities. England’s gain, indeed, was fully equaled by her loss in the new plan. She (k-pt Malta wh'cli was essential 10 her position in the Mediterranean, and wh -r---h-r rule was not unw.-lcvtn, sot the sake ' of Europe gen-rafly site undertook the 1 i protectorate of the lonian Islands, now got rid of; an I to satisfy royal pn-jud.«<« ' she also preserved the kingdom ol Hau ! over, now al,o rot rid of In Italy, Miltan and Nenice were I ' given to Austria, and Sardinia was con firmed to Piedmont; while the DillchieS ) ot Tuscany Parma, Modena an.l Placet! j tia were recognized as sham independent I sovereignties, governed by collateral branches of the Austrian Ilapshurg. i Austria still itirilier obtained pKsessiun I o' the Tytol. Il.lysia and Dalmatia. [ Prussia’s g un* were enormous, and, unlike many of the Autrian, were ac- . qui-l'ions ol real power. With hall if J Saxony nearly all Westphals, Swedish , - P.imerani'i, and almost all the Lower Rl.ii.e provinces sl.e stnriel . fresh us a . • rival of Austria far more fertnidable than , j before. In the north of Europr, Russia received Finland from Sweeden; as acorn pensation for whice Sweden received , Norway, which was tak«c Tom Denmark , who wa* not repfes-nied al the Congress , • got nothing in return. As to Poland, the three great parti . doners made some fresh rectifications o’ ' I boundaries. The innumerable small German States

which hid existed heiore the French revI olulion, and which had been what diplotnatisis called mediatised, or, as plain ’ people call i', swunpyd, at the setting up of the Bonapartist Confederation by their powerful neighbors. Holland, having cede! her German possession, was consoled with the Bel • gic provinces and become a kingdom, and Switlerland remains much as be(fore. In the same year of 1815, political pharisaism accomplished its masterpiece, I ’he ‘-H< ly Alliance” between Austria. Rits-oa and Prussia by which they I bound themselves to act for the future on Christian principles only, and imme- | , diatelv proceeded to enforce the absolute suprenv cy of kings as the one great pt.he; m of Ohris'ianity. All Europe ■ qui-sced in the announcement with ■ line notable exceptions — the Sultan, J whose opinion was not asked, and En gland ane the Pope who both declined to hav« anything to do with the impos tore. | m . Amended Tax Bill. Wa-hington. June 19. The senate finance committee in th-ir amendment to the lax bill included in the free list the following: Prussiate of potash, retorts and tiles, of clay, stam ped copper bottoms, deer skins shaked or not oil dressed, india rubber springs used exclusively for railroad cars, iron, drain and sewer pipes, cordage ropes and cable made of vegetable fibres, peat, printing paper ol all descriptions, and tarred paper lor roofing and other purposes, fish, slates, saltpetre, safes, lo'ms, I spinning machines, pumps, steam engines, hot water ard hot air furnaces, sewing | machines, spokes, hubs, bolls and felloes; wood tanks and cisterns for crude mineral oil. sugar Irom corn, flour of sulphur and sulphur, paints, oil. and spices; wine made fiom grap-s, currants or other ! fruit an rhubarb. The committee promise to strike out from the tree lb*t iron bridges and castings for bridges, reapers moans, threshing machines and separator«, corn shellers and woodtU ware, and sulphate of baryls. A I-ngthy discussion took plans or <h is bill las’ evening, from hall past one to 1 half past four o'clock, when the bill was 1 1 passed—-y®as 80: says 18-

A Venerable Relic of the Washington , Family. When McC’eltan ietresfed from before Richmond, in the summer of 186?, the portion of his forces ported in the j vicinity of the White House, on the Pa ' munky, burnt that ancient budding, with all its tmlniure, etc. The White House estate, it nill be. remembered, was beqn a'h-d by the late George Washington Park Custis, who was the grandson of 1 Mrs. General Washington, and adopted I son of the father of of his country, to his ’• grandchildren, (the children of General J Robert E L-e.) to whom it now b-lon?s At the time ol the burning ol the White House, a tedersl sutler, who had learned 1 ill antiquity and interesting associations conn, clou with it, raised from the flames a chair which had be. n the property.of Washington, and then ot Mr. Custis; and ' from him Lad descended to the Lee fam- ; i'yThe sutler carried the chair to Baltimore and S-ld it. tl.e purchaser b-ing Mr. John T YVa'kin*, dealer in cabinet furniture. No 47 Sou'h street. Mr. Watkins'object in purchasing this h-ir ' loom, was the laudable one of returning - it to th- family to whom it belonged.— r Could he have been swerved from this • • ut pose by mon-v, h" might several times ■ hav- •..hl it for a thousand dollars. But ■ he waited only lor more settled limes to restore it to t’s owners. In the mean- • time the Balti more southern relief fair bui ing set on loot, Mr Watkins lent the i chair to the ladies to be exhibited. It . I attracted much attention <!ui ing the fair an.l the sum of fitly dollars was realiz-d >- by levying a charge of ten cents on each person who Sat iii it. At the close of ths • Bab.itrore lair it was lent to the ladies of I sever-l minor lairs inangerated for southern relie'; wlirn it having been returned to him, he slopped it to Messrs Sty 11 <fc Divis. Franklin street, io this city, tubs forwarded to General R. E L-e | Tn- chair his arrived, and w- had th# plea-ure oi ex .mining it yesterday. It is a bti-al bottomed, high backed chair, made of oak. and though over a century . old, is «s tii i> and in as good preservation is on t e day ol us manuiacture. All who d-sire to see this relic of lha past which has passed unscathed through two . mighty revolutions, can do so by calling •at the commission house ot Messrs Still <fc Davis. We may h ra state that through the court-ay of these gentlemen, the ladies of St. Marks Episcop-il church will b- per- ■ nutted to . xhibit ti e chair at their fair, which opens i.i-x'- M 'nday, on the- corner o' Main and Etqht streets. — Richmond Times.

in MM ii ......— Elopement of a wh te Woman with a Negro. About ti e Ist ol May, says th-Somer-set, (Pa.,) Dtmocray. a daughter ol Mr. William Griffith, <>i Jenner township, in this country, aged about seventeen years eloped with a lull blooded negro, black as Erubus. Some time alter nigiit Miss Griffith slipped out from her lather's house, met the negro on the road according to previous arrangements, and the I same night wal .ed to Johnstown, eighi teen miles distant, with a view of taking the morning (rain for Harrisb trg, where they were to be married. Mr. Griffith, j discovered the absence o' th? parties, and . s impacting their intentions, proceeded 'orth with to Stoy own. ih“ naan st telegrar h office, and there telegraph' d.’lo the police at John-town to arrest them on i their arrival, which was accordingly done. Miss Gnffi h was taken to her lathers’s house, and the negro was, on the 4th of May, committed to the jail of this county to await his trial at court, which will amount simply to nothing, as it is not legal offence, but purely a matter of taste and sniell. Ti.is negro has been in ti e employ of Mr. Grffith for sotne time. Dining this Hast winter he frequently took this daughter and Mrs. Griffith, and other female members of the tamily sleighI riding He was on a perfect equality I with the family—ate at 'he same table, i slep under the roof, and enjoy all the rights and privileges that Mr. Griffith’s I chd in n did. Mr Griffith is one of the original abolitionists of the countr , has voted that ticket for the last twenty-two ye«rs, to I our certain knowledge, and has advocated the cause of negro equality in a zealous manner. He often said before iris I family that a “negro was plenty good enough (or a poor white girl,” and similar expressions, showing the hiss of hi* mind The daughter, having confidents in her fa i er. einbibed Irs tsaching, and concluded to act upon them. She was perfectly innocent, and no blame sbou.d attach to her. I The sanitary condition ofT. Steven*, 1* such as to induce tr.e belief that when he avid “to h—l with the constitution,” hs bad soma idea of taking that vtduabla work with him

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