Daily State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 September 1869 — Page 2

DAILY SENTINEL.

B. 1. BRIGHT, Proprietor.

OFPXOH* .*4 161-2 LWatHnf MSfrad.StnlfMl Building

Monday Morata*, Beptombor IS.

THE CAWVAflB KV OHIO. •—Lfe - fT" 9P i Speech of Hob. George H. P«mdletoa. f] i 11 i * a . Fall DlaenNaiea of the Political .. tlaestloas of the Duj.

ted General Grant declared, as part of Its creed: “The <iuestion of suffrage In all the loyal States properly belongs to the [Staple of those .St utes.” . And yet In one

^eap.e or t hose St utes.” . And yet In one ^'Parinir tbe same time the ezpeaaunrea ihort year the teat of loyalty and patriot, are stated for ordinary expenses at 966,* Ism.by this same party, Is to deny to the 011024. or reduoltur the Intereat on the

States the regulation of the suffrage. I object to Its adoption, because by the

Speech ef Hon. Oserge H. Peadleton. We publish this morning the speech delivered by Mr. Pknolktok, at his home, on Friday aiternoon last, to anum* ber of citizens who called upon him on their way home from a Fair held In the neighborhood of his residence, and who insisted upon his giving them his views upon the political questions of the day. It is needless for us to say that Mr. Pen. dleton discussed the issues that occupy the attention of the people In an able and statesmanlike manner. The remarks of Mr. Pewdlktox are exceedingly happy and courteous, and in these respects they are in striking contrast with the vituperative speeches of Senator Morton and partisans ot that ilk. Mr. Pendleton handles the reconstruction and financial questions in a masterly manner, and his views can not fail to find acceptance with the great body of the people. He expresses the true solution of our financial difficulties and the means by which we can successfully overcome our financial embarrassments, and restore an economical administration of the government. If it is an evidence of genius in an orator to give back to people their own thoughts, then Mr. Pendleton can be credited with genius of a high order, for his speech that we publish this morning, is but the echo of what tbe people are thinking and talking about, elegantly and forcibly expressed. This effort of Mr. Pendleton can not fall to raise him still higher in the estimation of bis political friends and the country generally as a sagacious statesman, in full sympathy with the mass of the people. The accident that Mr. Pendleton met with some weeks since will prevent bis canvassing the State, and it is reported that it will take some time for him to recover from it. —^ The Illinois nod Inoisna Central Ballroad—lls ronstrurlion Depends upon the Vote Toelay. The prosperity of Indianapolis is due mainly to railroads. She is one oLthe great railroad centers of tbe country, if not the most Important, and her future prosperity depends much upon maintaining her ascendancy in that regard. Every new road that is built increaass the importance of Indianapolis as a railroad center, hence every new enterprise should receive encouragement by our citizens—by all who ars interested In the prosperity and progress of our city. The Indiana aud Illinois Central Railroad, If built, will contribute largely to the prosperity of Indianapolis. It passes through the best portions of Indiana and Illinois—one of the finest sections in the entire West. On tbe route Is the best of timber, coal and stone, and a finely im proved country. The line of tbe road strikes Hannibal, on the Mississippi River,'two hundred miles above St. Louis and thence west to Kansas City. No new road will bring so large a trade to this city as will the Illinois and Indian Central, if built. The principal argument used against aiding any new railroad enterprise is the increase of our present heavy taxation. This Is a consideration that should not be overlooked; but it is a question of even economy whether it will not be better to increase taxation a trifie, II that policy will bring to us more than compensating advantages; and no well informed person will controvert the proposition, that both rotids asking aid will be of far more advantage to the city than the appropriations they ask to secure their construction. There is u misapprehension, also, in regard to the taxation. If the vote is favorable, tho tax will not be assessed until next .June, the earliest time it can lie, ami then only one half. 1 f the levy is made next June, the tax will not bo collectable until Hie spring following. And the second tax of one half will not be assessed and collected until the year following, so that the tax will be spread over a good deal of space, and not crowded into one payment, as many bare been led to believe. There Is another matter wwthy of attention. The present ownersof what isleftof the old Indiana and Illinois Central Railroad propose to give all the assets In their hands, including the right of way and the work done upon tho old road lied, and Urn pledged contributions .to build the road, to aid in its construction. There is 110 speculation In the project, and the directors of the old company have no private purposes to servo. They have no interest in the building of the road, except wliai. every citizen has, the general development of the country through which it

will pass.

The result of the vote in ibis county today will decide the fate of the enterprise. If it is in favor ot the appropriation the road will be built, but if otherwise it will defeat tho project. If the appropriation carries there are responsible parties ready to take hold and build the road promptly. The counties in Illinois through which tbe road passes have voted the appropriations required of them. The vote to-day in this county will lie the first taken in this State. If the appropriation carries in this county, the counties west of this in Indiana will vote likewise. In fact, the responsibility of building tbe road or defeating its construction rests with Marion county. We submit tbe matter to our business men. Their infiuetiue will go far to determine it one way or another. Believing that the prosperity of Indianapolis and Marion county, and in fact the entire, section of country through which tbe line of the proposed road passes will be greatly benelitted by Us construction, we favor the enterprise, and we shall regard it a iiilstakedf our citizens do not take that view of the question. We hope that all who favor the enterprise will not only vote for tbe appropriation to-day, but will labor diligently to bring out a full vote. m • m The Vote on the HnllroiMl Appropriations To-day. Tho voters of Marion county will today determine upon granting aid for the construction of tho Air Lino Rosd to Chicago, and the Indiana and Illinois Central Road, a direct west line to Decatur, Illinois. The building of both these roads will add materially to the business interests aud general prosperity of Indianapolis. There can lie no doubt about this. And the vote in this county today will seal the fate of both en terprlses. The former road asks an appropriation of fti>0,0U0, and the latter $100,000, but nothing is to bo paid until the roads shall have been permanently located, and work done thereon, and paid for by the Company equal to the amount of donation made, nor shall to exceed flO// jirr cent, of tho money voted to be appropriated, bo devoted and paid over, until the Iron is laid upon the road, and a train of cars shall have passed oyer the entire length thereof, In the county or township making the appropriation. Roth roads will lie built if Marion county votes the appropriation asked of ber lor each, for ine other counties through which tbe roads pass, tbst have not already made the appropriation, will be governed by the vote to-day. There can be no doubt but Ipdlanapolia will reap far greater benefits from eitner or botn of those enterprises than tbe cost to secure them, aud It Is for tbe voters and business men of our city to determine whether they will secure or reject these slds to our prosperity and progress.^ We hops there will be interest enough taken In the matter to get out s full vote.

[Reported ft? the OlasianaU Boqsiftr.] The reader will not be more surprised this morning to see a speech from Mr. Pendleton In tbe Enquirer, than we were, yesterday, to learn of an intention to extract one from him by .the not always agreeble process of an “unexpected call.” But so it happened. A number of gentlemen—mostly, but not all, Democrats— while visiting tbe fair grounds conceived the idea of calling upon Mr. Pendleton on their Way home and insisting on a speech. They reached Clifton at about four in the afternoon, and found our distinguished candidate at home. .AAst • brief sodlal

talk, some one in tnfe

that Mr. Pendlr to them. Mr. 1

on the ground tin

cans aa well

I object to Its adoption, because by the strongest implication it confers upon Congress, snd reserves to tbe States the bt to exclude from tbe ballot persons of our own white race because of their nativity or their creed, or their want of educatioif, or their poverty, and prohiUts the exclusion only of another race. And thus, if the interpretation of Senator Morton and Senator Howard be oorreet* under this amendment of Congress the States may exclude an Irishman, or a German, or a Catholic, or a Protestant, or a poor man, from tbe enjoyment of the

t may not exclude the Negro

naiatlng on a speec; at aboutTfour jn tl l our dlatlnguiahc AAer s brief aod

ie in tbbNjMrty suggested leton shoprd make a speech Pendleton*! first declined i that there were RenubHas Democrats among his

guests, and he did not feellnoUned, snder such circumstances, to xnaks^a poMtical address. This objection was quickly overruled by the Republicans themselves, who unanimously expressed their desire to hear a speech from Mr. P., snd, as s still further inducement, It was suggested that there was an Enquirer reporter present who would give the distinguished speaker an audience of several hundred

thousand. •

Finding farther declinations of no avail, Mr. Pendleton asked hla auditors to be seated Ss comfortably aa could be on the lewn in front of his residence, and, supporting himself on his crutches, he spoke

as follows:

My Friends: As you Insist upon It, I suppose 1 shall have to submit. If you shall repent, say but a word, and I will relieve you. Since I have been confined here, I have had leisure, and have taken pains to collect some statistics which I had expected to use during the canvass. To-day my physician has ordered me to be more quiet—to take leee exercise—and gives me little hope that I shall be able to leave the city before the election. As you desire that I shall give my views on political questions, I will have to aak your Indulgence for whatever want of form or coherence there may be, as I put these facts and reflectiona together with-

out further preparation.

I ask your impartial attention—I ask

I ask your impartial attention—1 ssk you to hear me without prejudice. I will say nothing tn the war—'-** —*—

Bient which I do not be

I have strong convictions. You know I am bound by strong party ties; but I am happy to believe that you know also that I love my country, aud that I hold every opinion, every party tie subordinate to my desire to promote its welfare aud the happiness o! its people. Many ot my acquaintances, of my relatives, of my friends, differ widely from me. They are members of the Republican party. I am glad to possess their personal good will and confidence. I am glad to have such pleasant social relations with them, that even in this little company I find some of them. I frankly confess that I covet their good will. I am aorry we differ in opinion. The difference is honest. 1 can not question their motives, have full confidence in their integrity, respect their judgment. I would not 1 _ one word to wound their susceptibility. We have the same interesta and the aame duties. We have tbe same country to love, th9 same liberties to preaerve, the same Government to maintain, tbe aame

a iixceuj ji i/ixa

suffrage, but may not

or the Mongolian.

CDINEBE IMPORTATION. I object to its adoption, becanse it la part and parcel of a scheme to flood the country with a forced Importation of an immense number of Chinese—of coolies— and thus for a second time to bring into our midst an alien race, and to repeat in * more difficult form tbe social and governmental questions which have so unhappily divided our people. The opening ofthe Faclflo Railroad, the demand for laboc at the South, the deetre for nimbler bands and less voracious appetites in the factories, have tnt ned the attention of speculators to the teeming populations of the East. They find these warm and fertile countries densely crowded with a patient, degraded and

heathen race.

“Their skilled laborers get three or four dollars per mouth, and with this they seem content. They work from daylight to sunset, and have but a single holiday in tbe year. Their food conaists of rice, salt, * few vegetables and sometimes flab.” The plan proposed is to bring immense numbers of those people here to supply the demand for labor in the fields and'the factorissand the abops. We in Ohio have not appreciated the importance

of this movement.

I protest against it now, in time, before is carried out—before they come among us—before we are confronted with dntiee and obligations and Interesta growing oat of their presence. They are an alien, an inferior and idolatrous race. Thev have not our tastes, or hsbits. or manners, or development, or religion. They are not fit to become eitizena, or to enjoy the right of suffrage. Amalgamation would Injure both tfieir race and oura. Isolation will give rise to great troubles. England, IiB'.and, Germany, Norway, France have an overflowing population of our own race, similar to us in blood, in manners, in hsbits, snd In reilg- — ‘ irdy, sslf-

Thsy are

Hayes, mr Na-

same sincerity, the aame sense of responaibility, which I believe they accord

to me.'

I c»n not agree with Governor that all the vexed questions of our

tloiial politics are wisely and happily settled—that “the great questions ot liberty jul union and reconstruction of the Union have been made safe.” 1 can not agree that retrenchment, economy and honesty have been introduced into the management of tbe Federal expenditures. I can not agree that the debt has been decreased, and is decreasing, as he states it. I can not agree that the burdens of taxation have been reduced, and their weight upon tbe people baa been lightened. I can not agree that sound judgment and freedom from bad influ enceshave been brought to the exercise oi tiie immense power of the Secretary of the Treasury. I can not agree that business is active; that enterprise is active; that vigor and energy and industry are tKnintiiully rewarded; that employment is abundant; that daily toil is fairly compensated; that commerce on the ocean and on the land is prosperous—and, therefore, 1 can not serenely, as does our worthy Governor, turn my face from all these questions of Federal politics aud

look only at .State affairs.

It ought to he so. If it were not for the schemes of consolidation; if Hlate affairs were left to 8tale management; if Federal affairs were kept within the scope of uonstftivtional provisions, It would be so. But I can not pretend to believe what 1 know to. be falsa. 1 can not say the Union is restored when Virginia and Mississippi and Texas are nnder military Governors, and Georgia is without representation in Congress. I can not say peace is restored when justice is administered by a drum-head court martial, can not say the Constitution is maintained when we know that theSapreme Court is only waiting an opportunity to declare the reconstruction acts unconstitutional. I can not say the harmony of our Federal system is maintained when Federal power is brought to bear, with all its force of law anil of arms, to compel the States to change their Constitutions and the Constitution of the Federal Govern

ment.

I can not say that the people burdened, when a debt of 9^.50(J

are not

........ 92,600,000,000 is

piled upon their shoulders; aud this 1m meuse smouut is increased six hundred millions by a resolution of Congress “to

improve the public credit.”

1 can not say their burdens are light, when9 , i30,000 l 000areannaallydrawn from tbe products of active labor, aud nothing

from dead capital.

lean not say that taxation is equal, when bonds are exempted and labor is crushed beneath Us exactions. I can not say that economy and honesty mark the coUection and dfsbarsemen. of .be revenue, when the Becretary of the Treasury pays one hundred and twenty dollars lor a bond which he may redeem for one bandred dollars, and when the Commissioner of internal Revenue wishes, above all things, that he may aend a Supervisor to

the Penitentiary.

1 can not say that all la proaperous, when agricultural products are so low, and employment so scarce, and wages so reduced, and Interest on money so high and good, honest, honorable men every branch of eommerelal,’and morcantile, and mechanical Industry, are on the very verge of hopeless bankruptcy. And because I can not aay ail these things, can not turn from them with such eutlr complacency, to consider whether tbe last Legislature aat a few days too long, or did right to create the offices which Governor Hayes recommended, or to allow counties, and cities, and towna to tax

themselves.

I f it be true that tiie session of this Legislature cost more than tbe last, it was bec-uise the last Republican legislature increased the per diem of the members, aud if the Legislature unwisely oreatec some offices which the Governor recommended, it is also true that they refused to pass itn expensive and odious registry law, which he twice urged upon their fa-

vorable atteutlon.

Tiie scheme of reconstruction of this Administration, its action toward Virulnia, itn administration of foreign affairs, Its neglect of American citizens who have been imprisoned or murdered In Irelsud or Cuba, Ita utter shamelessness in selling high offices, its utter want of appreciation of its grave duties and

responsibilities, all these are subjects of discussion, but I reft

this time.

I will dlsousn Federal politics so far only as they directly affect the people of our owu Htato. FIKTKKNTII AMENDMENT. I oppoae tbe adoption of tbe fifteenth constitutional amendment, because it Is ma.erlal radical change in our system a govern rioent; because It destroys tbe relation of tbe Htates to the Federal Union, which the Constitution established, am degrades them; because it takes away from the Htates, without their consent, thst essential attribute of a self-govern-ing community, the right to determine who shall execoisa the right of suffrage. I object to ita adoption, because Itwaa Intended to, and it will, Introdnee negro suffrage in Ohio against tbe will of her people. Two years ago, the people Ohio, without distinction of party, by an immense majority, refused to amend the Htate Constitution. They did this after fall argument—after ftall consideration ol negro suffrage. I see no reason to believe they have changed their opinion. Yet no# the attempt is to be made to torse thorn AO submit to tbs system which they so emphatiqally and deliberately rejected. Hie Convention which nomlna-

tempting refrain at

months from ail aonroca. In currency, of hundred sod etxtjT'ZrtBe' million* of

1 t|ms the expenditures

s^and' J

Tr h

or reducing tho

lie debt to currency 975,161,169, and

” nt

011,924,

This Jugglery about tbe debt I hardly comprehend. It seems wa borrowed

as an excess of rev-

of forty-five

five

come

loos faith—sn industrious, sturdy, reliant, self-respecting people,

fit to become citizens. They will mix with ns, and our commingled blood la purer for tbe association. Let ns invite them with open arms to come to us. Let

us people our country with the beat

of men.

But the Chinese will give ns cheap labor! Cheap human labor/ I deeplae tbe wort. It signifies a crime and a shame. It signifies squalor, degradation, Ignorance, vice. Are not laborers men— our fellow men? They have bodies to clothe and stomachs to feed, and minds to educate, and spirits to elevate, and old age to provide for. They have homee which they love, and wives whom they cherish, snd children whom they hope to make worthy citizens—the honest fathers snd the virtuous mothers of a succeeding generation. And can yon remember these duties and see tljese aspirations; can you oontomplato tbe patient hopeful 1 of cheerful aud contented, because fairly compensated, industry, and talk of cheap labor? I.abor Is too cheap now. Labor does not receive its lust reward. This country needs skilled laborers, snd honest, Intelligent, unflagging, zealous industry; it needs that such labor shall not be cheap, but that It shall be moat bountifully rewarded. The relation of capital and labor ia now badly adjusted, idle money—money which has no human wants or affections, or sympathies—earns more than labor, w ilh nil its sweat, and toll, and suffering. Money combine# with money, and seeks increase and Immunity under acts of Incorporation. When laborers combine for their protection, they sre in some of our Htates denounced by tiie law, and everywhere looked upon with suspicion. They should not antagonize. They should co-operate. They should be in harmony. I do not know tnat the full solution of this great roblem has 4>een discovered, but I hoove great progress has been made in late years to establish a juster and better relation. That progress will uoutinuo. It must command the efforts of an advanp, ing civilization, and the tavor of a Jnat God, until at last tho human intellect, and hand aud blood, as they constitute the nobler, shall also he the Iwllor paid member In the great partnership of labor

and capital.

' CONDITION OF THE rorNTRY. I hold in my hand tiie Cincinnati tbmmrreial of the 7ib of Heptember. It contains a review of tbe markets for the week. Tho story is very aignifiesnt: “Trade dull—almost stagnant. Hales of dry goods, of groceries, of manufactures, almost nothing. Collections Impossibleinterest on money from eight to fifteen per cent., and in some osacs to eighteen per cent. Wheat from 9i 1^ to 91 and very dull. Hay. corn, oats, ruling low, and few sales, except for local demand.’’ And In the same paper of that and a few preceding days 1 saw failures and assignments of bankers, manufactures, tradesmen and lumber merchants—and column after cotumu filled with the advertisements of men and women and children seeking employment, and of stores which are empty and* for rent. The condition, the reason and the remedy are well amnined up in one siuglA sentence in tiie money articles of that day: “A shrinkage ot values generally has not yet taken place, or at least values have not been adjusted in their relation to each other to that plane on which business can move

briskly and prosperously,

sequently,

th the ci

matters by variations in the measure of

enuaa over expenditures

millions, and tbs Secretary paid a preml* urn of ODD million three hundred and seventy-fdur thousand six hundred and eighty dollars, or more than twenty-five

per cent. ,

EXPENSES OF ARMY AND NAVT. v

The army consists of 50,000 men, and costa 950,000,000 a year. The navy costs 925,000,000. Why do we need these vast armaments? For what usefttl purposes they kept up? And, If it is neoesr to have so many men, why should we have general and staff offloen anfflcient for an army ten times as grsst? It is said (I do not vouch for Its troth) thst a Brigadier General sits in ths antechamber of the White House snd plays usher to the President. An expenditure of 915,000,000 for tbe army and 96,000,000

tor tbe navy would be ample.

I said the taxation was enormous. Have I not proved It? I aald It was unequally and unjustly distributed. Tbe last official statement of the value of all property lu the United Htates was 916,000,000,WO. The last official statement of the bonds outstanding la 12,172,000,000. Taking these figures as nearly correct, the capital invested in bonds ia more than oue-eighth of tbe whole. We know that tbe only tax paid by the bonds la

per sent, on the hi come. The !n1 for that quarter was 997.450,400,

upon which five per cent, would be fl,372,620—that la to say, one-eighth of tbe capital of the oonntry paid 91,800,000, while seven-eighths paid 9123.000,000. Active capital engaged In business, requiring labor to make it profitable, supporting men and women asd children, and giving health to the commercial and social system, and liable to reverses snd losses, paid seventeen times ae much, dollar for dollar, as the dead, inactive capital of the bondholder, which, without labor and without loos, brought him

six per cent, interest in gold.

TARIFF.

But this is not sll. Of the whole amount of taxes thus collected for three months, tbs tariff duties paid 944,021,834 In gold, or 958,695,445 in currency. Mr. Senator Sherman, I perceive, says this is a just, honest, reasonable tariff, based on the principle of taxing luxuries—not necessaries—and of furnishing reasonable protection to American Industrv. Let ns see. Coral, pearl and tortoise anella ars admitted duty free; cameos, diamonds, emerals, garnets, gems and rubies pay a duty of ten per cent., ad valorem; bracelets, chains, of gold or silver, ear-rings, studs, gold rings and manufactured Jewelry pay a duty sf twenty-five per cent.: clothing, forty per cent., ad valorem, and fifty cents a pound in addition; hats snd stockings pay thirty-five per eent., and fifty cents s pound in addition; linen clothing pays forty per cent.; gloves, fifty per eent.; sheetings, thirty-five per cent., snd flannels and blankets thirty-five per oent., and fifty cents per pound In addition; carpeting, thirty-five per cent., and forty cents a yard in addition; sole leather pays thirty-five per cent.; gl ware, forty per cent.; hatchets,

chisels and brace-bits, cent.; coal oil about tn _ _

Iron nails about fifty per cent.'; bar iron about fifty-five per cent.; pig Iron alsjut slxty-tive per cent.; tea pays sixty per cent.; sugar thirty to fifty per cent.; and salt one hundred and twenty-five per cent. And this Mr. Sherman calls taxing luxuries and not taxing necessaries. Jewelry of tbe most expensive character pays nothing, or at most ten per cent., but hoes and spades and hatchets and nails, articles used by workingmen, pay thirty to

Aiagisow vv mm ^a^-xoa v VW v VWe ft aaj f £vaatlmi*n^^ev^ry^ot^er^8e«etary thought the public debt. Chase and McCulloch

They amount to to the 91,481,600,- * to be 99,545,000.-

tlfly per cent. A lace shawl, worn only by the very rich, cornea in at twenty-five percent.; a worsted shawl, worn by woalio live by washing or sewing—I ilinost said who die by washing or ■9—P*** forty P«r cent, and fifty per for every pound of ita weight. Dials are admitted at twenty-five per

There is, con-

some disposition to tinker

no to seek to adjust

men who live by washing or sewing—I bad almost said who die by washing or

sc win cent.

mondi are admitted at twenty-five per cent, ad valorem, hut coffee, and tea, and sugar must pay forty to sixty-five per cent. Every article of luxury* is taxed lightly. Every article of necessity, every implement of industry, every tool by which tbe farmer, tbe mechanic, or the day laliorer plies his vocation, is taxed

heavily.

TAX ON WOOL.

And as If there were a special design to oppress our Western agricultural interests, the raw material, such as we produce, is admitted at a very low rate, while tiie manufactured article is largely

protected.

Tim manufactured woolen goods are taxed heavily, as I have told you, but the wool of our IVestern Reserve is subjected to such stiarp competltiou that tbe farmers there have been almost driven from tho market. In every county in Ohio the number of sheop has been largely dliniii ished within the last year, and the total decrease ia not less than one million and

sJiElf.

Well has an Intelligent writer said “that onr legislators have blunderingly

*d ‘ "

be

ug classes, the articles of luxury j against articles of necessity.” Not Uunderinglt/. for Governor Haves was in Congress when tills tariff was revised, and Mr. Sherman boasts that for ten years he has taken part In preparing every law on finance or taxation, and both are going around the State congratulating the people that they are so justly, so evenly, so wisely and so lightly taxed. I do not wonder that Mr. Sherman told us at Canton, and told us truly, that he never knew the difference between a revenue

nd a protective tariff.

These gentlemen, when driven on these

DEBT HOT DIMINmHMB. —

And In the midst of transactions like these we hear of large payments ob account of the pnblie debt, and Governor

* “ '* *

mark placed upon the brow of Gain, aa ^Jd^lh^ea^^wil^Bei^ghts^t^ What a dark fhtare, and what fearful and Moody epeenealt will bring up l-Cbtriap-

ton Friend.

,-MABTUr CopHTY-s-THB COUHTT SEAT Quxtmo’N.-A-Tke Scanty seat question In

public del

. congratulates himself that in four ^S.OO^Dod! 1 * Herty^ntluSb^^Wte W

of March was 92,525,000,000, anc of Augnst

taMrppbtto

always included them. They amount to

964.000. 000. Add these to tbe

000, and tbe total appears to be f*,o«M*sf,000, or twenty milliona more than In March. “Figures won’t be" may be ar very true saying, but they ean be so turned and twisted that they convey to us oommon people, who are aat secretaries, bat only tax papers, a vary false Impression If tbe public debt statement were^made on August 1, It would show, aocording to Mr. Cbaae’a rule of statement, 12.662.000. 000—according to Mr. McCulloch’s plan, 92,535,000,000, Instead of 12.481.000. 000, according to Mr. Boutwall’a

plan.

But, even according to his plan; tha statement abowa an increase of more than eleven milliona of dollars of bonds which bear interest in coin. And as if these causes combined were not enough to palay trade and produce that stagnation which we call “hard times,” ths Hecrstary has continued the contraction of tha currency. On the 1st of September, 1865, the currency, consisting or bank notes and legal tender notes, amounted to 9961,625.000. On tbe 1st of Heptember, 1868, it amounted to 9871.455,000, a contraction of 9290.000. 000 in three years. If the reports published la the newspapers sre correct, tbe currency on the 1st of September, 1869, consisting of the same two Items, amounted to 9655,920,000, a still further redaction of 916,000,000. Bat tbe Secretary boasts that be has reduced tbe three per oent. certifies tea nearly 912,000,000, and the compound interest notea more than 910,000,000. These war# used aa the reserves of tbe banks. If they have been thus reduced, their places are supplied with legal tender notes, hod these amounts moat be added to the 916,000,000, and thus we have a contraction tills year

of 938,000,000.

Why, gentlemen, after the dose of the war in 1815, (he oonntry banks of GreaT Britain contracted their Issues seven mil' lion ponnds, snd tha joy produced by the peace was turned into agony by the prospect of universal bankruptcy.

EFFECTS OF CONTRACTION.

Have you considered what contraction bringa with it? It brings universal fall of prices of goods snd labor, while debts, taxes sad moneyed obligations remain fixed. Tbe man who has money becomes much richer, because his money will pay for more land, more wheat, more labor. But tbe man who owes money becomes much poorer, because he most sell more land, mere wheat, and perform more labor to pay his debt. It breaks down all

1, tbe ir bis

discriminatea tn tavor »r the rich sga tiie poor; the idle Haasce against llie la-

the poor boring 1

with the currency, an,

>y

values.” Which, translated into common language, means that debtors are pressed to the very verge of ruin by declining prices and stagnant business, and beg that money may be allowed to oirculste and perform ita duty of effecting exchanges; and in tbe same paper I see the extraordinary statement that the Treasury Department has official information “that tbe merchants and other commercial men of tbe West, owing to the scarcity of currency, are compelled to take any tnlng offered to them which representa fractional values of greenbacks, and consequently are/orced to receive and pose

countcr/eit stamps."

Now, my friends, is this a truthful statement of the condition of affairs? I have taken it, almost word for word, from the Commercial, that no man might say I had colored it too highly. I ask you—each one of you—does this statement accord with your own observation? Why is it so? Large crops have awarded the industry of the farmer. The beneficence of God has not failed. The promise of seed time and harvest has been fulfilled. We have had neither war nor pestilence in our midst. Why should the products of agriculture be so low and so slow of sale? They cost as much plowing, and sowing, and planting, and reaping, as many hours of toil, and as many acres to produce them as last year or the year before. There are as many mouths to fill; as many craving appetites as then. Why is employment so scarce, and why are the sea ity wages of laborers reduced? There are strong arms all around lying Idle—end every element of growth in our country is every moment demanding greater development. Laborers are

raw are

full: railroads and rivers andoanalsare ready to do all transportation. All the appliances of active business which our modem civilization has created or demands lie ready for instant use. They need but to be joined and put in motion— andyettbey lie inactive, dead and useless, as the parts of an engine before the machinist has put them together and tbe engineer has let on his steam. Why is this? Enormous taxation unequally, unjustly distributed; enormous expenditure unnecessarily and wastefully made— and both taxation and expenditure are managed in auch wise as to give every advantage to dead, inactive capital, and to impose their burdens upon active capital and labor—both are managed so as to advance the interests of tbe bondholder and to depress the interests of the business of the country. RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. I have in my hand an official statement of tbe receipts and expenditures of the Federal Treasury, published in pursnance of law, for the three months ending on tbo last day of June, 1869. It shows tbe receipts to have been, from taxation and sale of pnblie lands, 8109,847,618 97, or reducing tbe amount collected in gold from tbe customs (944,021,834 77) to currency, at 33Ji per cent., the receipts for three months were 9124,521,229 99, or more than five hundred millions for the year at tbe same rate. It also ahows that in addition to this enormous amount from taxation there was realized from loans 944,952,422 20, making a total for three

plenty; broadstuffs arein abundance; r material is at hand; stocks ol goods 1

points, tell ns that the poor, tbo laboring

. do not use Imported

c.v., tuciu/ore, do not pay these tariff duties. It is true they do not use

men, the farmers, do hot use Import

men, the farmers, goods, and, therofr

these

business, because, if prices decline,

does tbe greats

produces unsteadiness and

WMMg tuvev wuxFsew, m bor to pay hla debt, business, because, more business a man looses. It produces

panic, sad gives rise only to illegitimate

gambling transactions.

And yet in the presence of these truths— in tbe presence of this immense taxation and of tbia crushing pnblie debt—the Administration continues to contract tbe currency. This system enhances the value of the bonds—it enhances the value of tbe gold interest—it enhances the value of money, but it requires more wheat from the farmer, more machinery Lrom tbe manufacturer, more toll from the la-

borer, to raise the money to pay hie tax

and It sweeps away the profits of yei

to pay ordinary indebtedness. •

We are trying to do what no nation

trying ea wit

of years

....... ..... u._w dollar

paid wortb twice aa much, sad therefore

betwiceasdiffloBlt for the

which were in aession this week at Dover Hill. About six months ago Shoals filed patitiona sufficient to Entitle them to the order, bat owing to some defect in tbe title to tbe site offered for tbe scanty buildings, the decisio* was carried over ' a—*-* which

Com-

89*1 petitioners presented a perfect title, and aaked (hat the order be made to remove the county seat to West Shoals; but, in the meantime, remonstrators were on hand; also, petitions to repair the old building, and the'Board finally made an order for repairs. So Shoals will not be the connty seat for a while, at least.—Vincennes Sun. —The New Albany Commercial says: From gentlemen who have recently traveled through the counties of Harrison. Crawford, Dubois, Glbeon and Pike, we learn that the corn crop in those counties promises a good yield, fully up to the average of the past ten years. More tobacco bas been grown in Southern Indiana the present year thjR in any single year of the past. From gentlemen who are well posted in this great staple, and who have lately traveled extensively in the southern part of the State, we learn that the farmers report the crop the beat they hare ever raised. This is especially true in the

the State the present year. The farmers will soon commence getting it boused, preparatory to putting it in condition for

market.

Who SHALL BE OUR NEXT CANDIDATE for Governor.—A correspondent of the Plymonth Democrat suggests Hon. Thomas R. Cobb as tbe next Democratic candidate far Governor. He eaye: Already I have noticed that several

imported goods, and do not nay these du ties to the Government. That is one of the enormities of this system. The price of the domestic article Is regulated by the tariff. Tbe home manufacturer fixes his price that he may just undersell tho foreigner. The consumer pays the price, and he bas the exquisite satisfaction of knowing that none of it goes into the Treasury, but sll of it goes into the pockets of tbe manufacturer. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Mr. Wells, in bis last report, says that the duty on lumber paid into tbe Treasury in 1868 was two millions two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, bnt that it cost the people sixteen millions to collect it. The duties on salt yielded In 1867 one million of dollars, but the price of every bushel of salt made In this country was raised to the consumer from twenty-throo to forty-

eight cents a bushel.

The effect on agricultural Interesta produced by this tariff, I need not illustrate to an Intelligent Western audience. Yon feel it. Tiie effect on commerce is stated by Commissioner Wells to branch that if snips, available for foreign trade, were ii'.rnished us without cost, we could not

employ them.

SKCRETART PAYS PREMIUM ON RONDS. I said the expenditnres were unnecessary and wasteful, and tiiat they were Mi in the interest of dead, inactive capital. Tho last report of tbe .Secretary shows that he Is hoarding 9101,214,336 tn coin, and 913,144,600 in currency. Why? To what good purpose? Tho customs of a halt year are there. The people are paying six per oent. in go!d as interest on tbe public debt, and the Secretary is boarding this immense amount. Each month, with great parade, he sella six or nine millions, and with the proceeds he buys bonds.glving in the market for them twen-ty-five per cent, above par. They are now redeemable. On their face—by tbe lawin equity, they are payable in legal tender notes. The holders gave legal tender for them, when IcksI tender notes were not wofth more than half what they now are. and yet the Secretary of the Treasury insists on payings premium of twentyfive f>er cent. I will not argue again this question, I prefer to rely on the authority ot Sherman, aud Morton, and Stevens, aud Ewing. They say the bonds are payable in greenbacks. Then theyought to be so paid; and the people are robbed when a premium is paid. If they are payable in gold, the Secretary onght to pay them In gold, and not buy up tbe paper of the Government at a discount. It is difficult to speak of this conduct of the Heerotary with the respect which is due to his high office. It costs tbe people, as Mr. Ewing has well said, more than all the frauds of the whisky ring, and is scarcely more honest than they. Under this process of paying premium the market value of tbe bonds has gone up from ten to twelve per oent^ and lo! the Secretary exclaims, “What a marvel of financial ability! My magic touch has, in three months, raised so high the credit of the GovernmentM” My friend, pay off a few of your notes in the same wav; then stint yonr family, cramp your' business, seize upon the earnings of your children, and insist on giving to yonr creditors twenty-five pax cent, more than

trying to do what

did, or ever will do. We are trying to pay a war debt and war taxes with a peace currency. Great Britain made the attempt for ten years after the Wan of Napoleon, but three times In ten years the distress became so great that she ex pamled the currency; and at last she funded the debt, abandoned all Idea of ever paying the principal, and repealed the most onerous taxes. The system la radically unjust. Tbe debt contracted on onr expanded ourreney should be paid in tbe same currency. The dollar which paid should be or the same value aa tL_ dollar which waa loaned. No dovioebY the public creditor, no scheme of tbe Treasury Department, should bo permitted, which wilt make the dollar which

here

tax payer to

earn, aa the dollar which wa# loaned, This cry for a speedy “return to specie payments’' before the debt—which was incurred on an immensely inflated currency—bae been substantially reduced, Is a plan to increase the wealth of the beadholder forty per oent. at tbe expense of tbe tax payer; it ia a device to cheat labor snd to enrich hoarded capital; it ia a scheme to despoil honest industry of ita rewards, and to heap treasures upon idleness; It ia another Instance of tbe fact that in this ante-millennial world “to him that hath shall more be given, and from him that hath not shall pe taken away, even that-which he aoemelh to

have.”

Tbe administration, for the first time in the history of tbe republie, baa the power to make times hard or make times good; in other words, it has the-power to make money plenty or make money scarce. Who are responsible for the present hard, and I may say deplorable times? Why, ot course, the administration, which controls the Government in favor of the bondholder; or in other words, the bondholders control the Government in favor of themselves.' Who are responsible for the acts ol tbe administratloii? Gentlemen, it is you, tbe people. While the administration haa the power to make money plenty or scarce, you have tbe power to make the administration do its duty—a hint from you tn October will he sufficient. I regard the sodden contraction which baa been brought about—a contraction which haa ruined thousands of our best men—one of the most heartless and cruel acta ever perpetrated upon a people by their rulers. I have so often expressed my opinion as to the propriety of dispensing with the national banks, of the substituting of legal tender notes for their circulstion, and thus saving twenty-two millione of dollars a year in gold, and aa to the best mode of paying the public debt, that 1 will not weary you heie by their recapit-

ulation.

Tbe whole policy of the administration should be reversed. Pay the debt, pay it

honestly, according to the contract, pay it in money as valuable as that which was received for it; pay it in legal tender notes; abolish the national bank system; pay off the bonda on which they are founded; save the yearly interest; use every appliance of economy and management ia advancing this policy. Then, when the debt is paid, when taxes are reduced, when seventy-five milliona suffice for the Government, when all property ia subjected to a j oat rule of taxation, If it be advisable to contract the currency and resume specie payments, it can be effected without great disaster, and the inevitable suffering can be borne. Mr. Pendleton closed by thanking bis hearers for their pstlence, and suggested that as the details of figures furnished

only dry entertainment, he their permission, change It.

Woqld, with

•TATE 1TBMR. —A Hebrew fair at Evanavilte netted 92,200. —A slight froat in New Albany on last Thursday night. —There haa been an interesting revival among tbe Catholics of Jasper, Duboia county. —A considerable more than tbe average number of acres will be sowed In wheat in Adams county. —The Terre Hante Journal jmyu that corn on the sand prairies la about oat of the danger of frost. —Over ^fty-six thousand bushels of wheat were shipped from Delphi during the month of Angnst. —A Mr. Wischer, who waa reported robbed at Evansville of 93,600, found the missing money in hit other trunk. —There ia a lively competition in Vigo county for the 950 premium offered for the best farm by the County Agricultural Hooiety. Ten farms have been entered. —The Marion Chronicle intimates that Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks is expected to agriculturally address the Grant County Fair on Friday next. Mr. H. is a practical agrioultariat. Trial of Rbmstkr.—The case ef Remster produced a great excitement in onr oommnnity, the court room being constantly filled with an anxious snd eager crowd, who strove to catch every word of the evidence that fell from thewitnesses Ups. 80 anxious were the people to bear that they kept continually crowding toward the bar, and it waa only by aevese threats from tbe Judge that the ° r ' ow d couid be kept in tolerable order. The trial ia over, the verdict found, and the sentence pronounced, yet, while it is not so severe as many expected, it ie a feariul one—imprisonment for life! All hoph of ever again intermingling with the human family u lost to him. Th*

Democratic journals of this State have bean casting about for a suitable candidate for Governor. While I would not in the least detract from the worth of the eminent men mentioned in connection with that position, I am certain that I shall do the Democracy of Indiana no harm when I mention the name of Thomas R. Cobb, of Vincennes, as a suitable candidate for the highest office ia

their gift.

Mr. Cobb ia not unknown to the people of Indiana; bnt whore he ia beet known, he is most admired, not only for bis eminent ability, but for bis unblemished private character and genial natnre. Hie long service in the Senate of Indiana bas stamped him ae one of tbe beet legislators of the country, while bis faithful devotion to tbe people,are an earnest that the executive interests of Indiana con Id not be entrusted to safer bands. Aa a public debater be ia one of tbe most forcible and eloquent speakers in the State, and aa an Elector oa the Presidential ticket for the last two or three campaigns baa done herculean service for the Democracy. Pleasing In address, sccessible, genial in nature, sad gentlemanly in deportment, he la eminently one of tbe people, and one to command their respect and confidence. Mr. Cobb stands pre-eminently to-day one of tbe foremost statesman of this, in point of stateamen, foremost State

of the Union.

Tbe writer Is not aware that Mr. Oebb

made by aider of tbe Board of Connty ss.’iBS^'irs.^’orco.i.»

the follow-

ing estimate, which, without proceeding to absolute accuracy as to fractional parts of sections, etc., will, nevertheless be in the vicinity of the truth, rather under than over the ameuAt. - - 7 r - . “There ia in Paitke county about 18* square miles underlaid with coal seam No. 1, which varies In thickness from two to five feet; say in round numbers 100,000 acres of coal, three feet thick, will yield 130,560 cable feet of coal per acre. Tbi* coal having a specific gravity of 127, wilt therefore weigh about seventy-three unde per cubic foot; and as seventy wands is a bushel of coal by the law of Indiana, we may safely say that this seam will yield 130,000 bushels per acre; or 83,558,400 buahela to each square mile, which give an aggregate in the county, from this seam alone, of 8,355,840,000,000

bushels.

The amount from the seam No. 2, and from the local seams, will at least be equal to twenty-five square miles of a seam three feet thick, which will add 2,088,960,000 bushels to the former amount, WObusbeb? * grand 101,11 of e . 35 7 ) 928,960,“Thia is an amount of which the mind ean torm no con -option. A faint idea of its enormous valae may be had when we estimate that if an annual draft be made 00 this ‘bank’ to the amount of 9200,000, at three oenta per bushel, the supply will not be exhausted in a million years. The truth ia, that Parke oonnty alone could supply ail the demands for coal tor the whole State of Indiana, if the population were as dense aa that of China, for the next thousand years.” WHAT IT WILL DO FOR THIS COUNTY. Again, on page 43, Dr. Brown says: “The opening of the Indiana and Illinois Central Railroad will inaugurates new .era in the mining interests of tbia region. The line of this road reaches the meet easterly outcrop of coal seam No. 1, in section 12 town 15, range 7, at a point fifty-four miles directly west of Indiana- ‘ ’ 1, and ia the nearest available coal to that city. The supply from Ihia point westward to the Wabash river, s distance of nearly fourteen miles, is ample and uninterrupted. Indeed,coal may be profitably mined on every mile of the like, with perhaps the exception of the immediate yiciuity of the Little Raccoon. About five miles of this distance the road will pass over land underlaid by two seams of coal, (Nos. 1 and 2.) differing very materially in character and adaptation, as we have already intimated. No. 1 will supply a coal similar to the coal at Canneleon, and admirably adapted to the purposes of fuel, both iu open grates and oloae stoves, and to the production of steam; while No. 2 affords a coal not much Inferior to the best Monongahela coals for the purpose of working metals, etc. Indianapolis, and tbe counties of Putnam and Hendricka, lying between that city and the coal fields,and traversed by the fine of the Indiana and Illnois Central road, can supply themselves with fuel from this region at a cheaper rate than from any other source; and even the lines of railroad east and north of that city ean supply from this source coal for manufacturing purposes at a very economical rate.” If you want the advantages of this competing line to the coal fields, vote for tho appropriation.

could be Induced to give up a large and lucrative law practice, to wbicb be ia devoutly attached, to accept this or any other position the Democracy ml upon him to fill, but certain be the chief standard of the party oc be entrusted to abler or worthier

any

might call he la, that could not

hands.

■eetlac mf DemaeraUe State Central Cnmaslttee.

Awarded the Brat PBUUVM and DI- ^ | . PLOMA at the \ DTOIAXA STATE FAIR the Tears lft«7 and ISei.

ALSO, OS HASS.

RUBBER BELTING HOSE PAGE’S PATENT LACE LEATHER, Oak Tanned Leather,' ! I

Of every description,

French Rklns, Sole Leather, Etc.,' AT WH0LESALK PRICES.

JOHN FIHHBACK,

125 Sooth Meridian ftreet, aprlS 46mtopcol2dor4thp lndi «» pon »-

Cambridoe Citt, Indiana, Heptember 9, 1869. There will be a meeting of tbe Democratic State Central Committee of Indiana at the Hbntinki. office, In Indianapolis, on Thursday, September 30, at two o’clock p. M. Important bomlnena will come before tbe Committee and a full attendance la requested. Lafk Devlin Chairman. IQ-dfit&wit. TlfB INDIANA AND ILLINOIS Central Railway Company.

7b the Voters of Dulinna: You ars asked to vote on Monday next, tbe 13th day of Sc|>tcml>er, for or against an appropriation of One Hundred Thousand Dollars 1 being less t/tan one-fourth of one per cent, on the present tsxsbles of Marion county,) as a moans of procuring the building of said railway into the City of Indianapolis, as ongiaally con-

templated.

The trials and vicissitudes through which this “Old Air Line” has passed in the sixteen years of its existence, would hav* long swept it into oblivion, had it not been for its superior merits as a trunk line of railway, and the unyielding patience and indomitable perseverance of the men along the line, who, notwithstanding much bitterness of feeling that has resulted from the heavy loesee and repeated disappointments, and the many new lines that are now being projected, traversing almost every township along the line of said road, in various directions, they will stand ready to do more for this old road than any other that can be presented to them. PRESENT STOCK (IOI.DKRS AND TUEIR

MOVEMENTS.

Until within the last two years, the control of the company was hold by capitalists, whose Interests did not seem to harmonise with that of stockholders on tbe line of the road, aud whose management gave the impression that the objeot sought for was of a speculative character, other than merely building the road. In January, 1868, the people along the line represented at aix several points, three in Illinois and three In Indiana, outside of Marion county, obtained, for the first time in Its history, the control of the company, abd so bold It to-day. This waa accomplished through the cash purchase of 9600,000 of the atock, at twelve cents to tbe dollar of par value, which waa obtained by them through Messrs.

this city.

ugi

Talbot, Roache 'and Vinton or

Under tbe present management over 946,000 In principal and intereat of old indebtedness has been paid off, and the

company haa now no debts.

Eight of the present directors reside npon the line in Illinois, and four in Indiana. The new organization Immediately aet to work to procure the completion of the road, but found the means of the company totally inadequate, and were compelled to await the action of the Legislatures in both States, to enable the localities interested to furnish the necessary means, and which, under the Illinois law. has been promptly voted on the west half of the line, and the first vote on this side of the State line will bo cast next

Monday, by Marion county.

THE LINE, ITS POINTS AND CONNECTIONS, It ia the only direct west line that can or Will be projected from Indianapolis, and la a fraction under one hundred and fifty miles in length, Decatur, a railroad center of Illinois, being the other terminus. Thirty-nine miles further, aud almost doe west from Indianapolis, is Springfield, the capital of that State, and reaching ftirther on ia Hannibal, Missouri; Kansas City, Missouri; Quincy, Illinois; snd Ksoknk, lows, by the shortest 1 bis line from this point. Also, mak:

Iowa, by the shortest posais point. Also, making at

Decatur aa short a line aa any we have to

St. LOula, as well as Peoria and Rock Island, Illinois; Burlington, Iowa; Omaha, aud the Union Pacific Railroad, upon aa short, if not shorter line than any present or future route. This trade, at least for tbe one hundred sad fifty miles to Decutur, can and ought lobe secured tv Indianapolis, and it can only be

secured by this road.

CHARACTER OF THE COUNTRY THROUGH WHICH TH E ROAD PASSEM. West of the Wabash it is tbe very center of the corn belt, and in all respects it is superior, as an agricultural region, to anf section north or sooth sf it Hr the State of Illinois. And thereto certainly no road psasing to or through, this city that traverses a richer agricultural region in Indiana than the present line of tbe Indiana and Illinois Central Railway.

CHEAP FUEL.

In order to show the immense advantages this road will possess over all others, in bringing to tbia city cheap tael, we quote two egteacte .from tbe report of a geological examinatiou of Parke county,

Efd

•ELTtMe.

LEATHER BELTING, eafvfaottjoxd raox Flahbmek’s Celebrated Jak Tanned Leather,

QUEENS WARE.

JOHN WOODBRIDGE, Importer and Wholesale Dealer in

aUEENSWARE, GLASSWARE, LAMPS, LUG film FRUIT JARS, ETC, 36 South Moridi&n Street, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. jr28 d3m

DOORS, SASH, ETC.

BROWN BUILDING STONE.

Directly on the line of this road, in Parke county, is inexhaustible depoeits ot .brown sandstone, beautiful iu color, easily worked, and indestructible by ex poaure to the weather. This is the only atone of tbe kind in Indiana. Dr. Brown, In his report reierred to above, speaks of

this atone as follows:

“Taking into consideration its beaut

permanence, durability, aud the ease a cheapness with which it can be worked, I regard the brown sandstone of Parke county, the inoet economical building material in the West, and as soon aa it shall be introduced into our cities its merits will not fail to be acknowledged.” The Indiana and Illinois Central Railway is the only rood from this city, built or contemplated, tbat runs through these immense quarries of red sandstoue. Do you want it brought to this city, so that bouses can be built of it as cheap s* of brick? If you do, vote for the appropria-

tion of this road next Monday.

THE LUMUBU REGION.

On and near this road, in tho counties of Putnam snd Parke, is tbe finest timber in the State of Indiana, that will t>e brought at once within reach of our city.

NEW BUSINESS OPENED.

The towns in Indiana that tho Indiana and Illinois Central Railway route runs through, or nfcar, are Hampton, Danville, Williamsburg, Winchester, Groveiand, Hainbridge, Portland Mills, Hollandsbnrg, Bellevue, Rockville, Armiesburg, Montezuma, Highland and Toronto. All this business will be brought to this city by the construction of this road, beshle's the business on the line in Illinois. This road reaches to no competing city—it carries ail tho trade to Indianapolis, and unless this line is built, the roads now being constructed west of the Wabash, leading north and northeast, wi|i carry all that trade and business away from

Indianapolis,

the work shops. The superior advantages in this city will compel the company to locate their principal work shops in this city, snd this will be on the ground they now own, on the corner of Georgia and West streets. There is no point on the line where iron, timber and labor can be as advantageously obtained, and her shops will be located here. THE MONEY SPENT HERE. Let it be remembered that the appropriation asked for will not grade and bridge ths road as far west of this city as Eagle creek. All the money asked for, and twice as much, will be spent in this city snd county before we can got one dollar of the money appropriated. NO ROAD NO PAY. Under the law the commissioners ean not pay one dollar of the money appropriated until the company has spent a like amount in the county. If no road is built no money will be paid. Your commissioners control this matter, and they are men that will guard your interests,

well.

CAN WK AFFORD TO LOSE IT? The amount of taxable property in this county is alnuit $45,000,000. The amount asked for, 9100,000, is about twenty-two cents on each 9100 of taxable property. By this a man taxed at 91,000 will pay |2 20; a man worth 916,000 will pay 922 to secure this road. Are you willing to lose the advantages this road will give you for this amount? Can eur city and county afford to let this proposition be voted down—this road lost to us, and the trade and business it would bring carried to other points? Marion county being the first to vote in this State, the result here will affbet favorably or otherwise all the elections on the line this side of the Wabash. To vote against it, therefore, will be notice to all concerned that fee do not want «<. ■ - ■ -c — Indianapolis, September 8,1869. AOkll'VLTTKAL* KXUIB1 riONS. List of Nt*to aa* Caantjr rain far 1M69.

STATS mss.

Illinois, l>«catur. September 27 till October 2. Obio, Toledo, September 13till September i7. Kentucky, Louisville, September 13 till Sep-

tember 18.

^JNewYurk, Klmira, September 14 UUSeptemlowa. Keokuk. September 14 till September 17. South Wieooniin, Janesville, September 14 tiff

September 17.

Mechanic)’! Institute. Sen Francisco, SeptemMlekitan, Jackson, September 11 till -epteot-

her 2t.

Mew Jersey, BUisbeth, September 21 till SepWlKoniin, Madison. September KtiUOetoIndiana, Indlanapalte, Septembers? tiUOcto-

ber 2.

^Minnesota, Boeheeter, September SS till Oetoto gebra»ka, Nebraska City, September 28 till OcKentorky Atrieuitefal and Mechanical. Lexajrton, September 28 nil October 2. Fenns|rlvaala, Harrisburg, September 28 fill Missouri, St. Louis, October 4 tiU October 9.

j IXIIAEA COOXTT FAiaa.

Bwitserlaad and Obio, East Enterprise, Sep-

tejnkmrU till September 17.

jj£»*h' BuafaviUe, September M till Septom^telgsJoB, Franklin, September 14 tiUSeptem. Futa*m, Green castle, September 13 till SepDeeatur, Qreensburg, September 21 till Septem£ranklin, Brookviile, September 21 till Sep-

*—ber 04

ant 24.

WARR’iX TATE, MAXurscTrun or DOORS, SASB BLlfflS AMD IAIT1ES, Mouldings, Brackets, Etc., And wholesale and retail dealer in Flooring, Ceiling, Veatfcer Boarding, Rough am* Piwnavd Pi me. Poplar stud Ash Lumber.

Flooring worked, lumber dressr.l and order, and scroll sawinr.

tawed to

Factory and Lumber i Mo, SS Hwntb New Jcrwe,

fUomapotia, 1

juiyl dim,

street,

iw -a.

GALLERY.

A. R. MILLER’S

1’ II O T O O It -A. I? III C

PORTRAIT GALLERY,’ So. 4.1 East M ANhlngton Street, INDIANAPOLIS. - - - INDIANA. 5 /"AUK speciality i« Enlareinr and Painting in OIL and WATER COLORS, from old Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes and Photographs. £ P. 8.—Our Photograph work is designed te be the best in the Stale. We guarantee our Portraits on Canvass, and Colored Photographs, in Oil, to give entire satisfaction. jy27d3m.

d Warren, Attica. September 14 till

tnmker]M. _'

Hancock, Qreenfleld, September2itiU Septem-

•^Unton, Bdinburg, September 21 till SeptemMartin. Shoals. September21 till Septomber24. Wells, nieffton. Septembers till September ^Vermillion. Newport, September 28 till Octo-

ber 1,

^5 tiU October 9.

BAKING POWDER. Balding’ I*o waIoi*. Universal Verdict: The Very Best in Use. JOH3ST 13AIT.I"E Ac CO.’S ? EXCELSIOR BAKING POWDER.

K Mrs. 1 rBtail*dealers h eepe<daUy rto'our ?en Cent Packages, which, for quality, quantity and styie, are "still ahead of tbo times.” Our pounds, halves and quarters, are all put up in tin. Try it. It speaks lor itselt. UA-Manufactured only at our Steam Bakery and Excelsior Baking Powder Works, southeast corner Second and Ludlow streets. Cincinnati. A liberal discount to the trade. sepT dim.

SEWING MACHINES.

e im: e t e e

Shuttle

Sewing Machine.

Patented Feb. 14, 1860, and Sept. 18, I860.

RECEIVED TBE FIRST PRIZE

Great Fair of tiie American Institute Im Hew York, October 36, 1M7, | And highest premium ter Best Manufacturing Machine At Parle Exponitlom, July, 1867.

riiHIS Maohine Is eoustrneted ea anewprineiA. pie of mechanism, possessing many rare and valuable improvements, having been examined by the most profound experts, and pronounced to bo SIMPLICITY k PERFECTION COMBINED.

etion, wbinb . and is alika on both sides; performs perfeotsowing on every description of material, with cotton, linen, or silk thread, from tbo coarsest to the finest number. It Heiaa, Fella, Blmda. Bralsta. Tacks, QnlllM, Flails, aud Gist fern.

As a Family Sewing Machine it has no Superior WHY IS IT THE BEST? It runs Over Seams all right. It will take fifty stitches to the ineh finer than any other machine. It will sew heavier and thicker goods than any other machine. It nsee any and every hind of thread. It sews starched goods as well as unstarched. It sews tbe most delicate, thin, soft fabric, without drawing. It sows a bias seam as well as aay other. For tailoring or teatkor work, they are not only eonal.but much superior to any other machine that has ever been offered to too public. . aw An Agent wanted for ovary county in Indiana. ! HN8MINQBR k NICHOLSON. Room No. 19 North Ponnsylvania'stroet, ^uijlJdAwaji^^^^^^^^^ndiana^ttns.

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JOHN W. BLA.KE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, AHto HOTAKY PUBLIC.

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