Indiana American, Volume 22, Number 39, Brookville, Franklin County, 15 September 1854 — Page 1

BY T. A. GOODWIN.

BATES Or ADTCRTISItQi Qft.earaorlee, ihr weeks. rW ary ad lKlwtal 4M r Hon ander wava. .................. ... ........ Yoirly Advertising. 85 On., itiar r lees, on year 5, (XI Oaa forte, af a mlamn 3 woe :Sft." M aw iH.tm - I year Oa half of aeolmaa a uui iu.in Sa H U 3o.iNi OlltltBl)MO MM h i'Mai For aaet laeartloa avar Ihraa wnk. au-l MlUaiMfM rauU).,ieaale a euare will la adi-d. A atiaara eaaeUt af I eia ten line. Sonerat I. Aajrialujr thaa a euare lo Im eauuiifall ar: a rrat-tloa over a auar, aee ataav and a teal ft a fraetloa over a iquara anil a lalf, aa treo.Hare audee on. Circuit aad Umio" fUa.Cuart, A- mlnlelra Um end Klier lagal aoileaa, amt Im eld In adtaacaor aiapty eeeared. la an cim will araitlbeleeueafe au I forth printer's fee. Altormj will a hl-l roa'.aaibla for like legal advertl.iftf ordered by than. tr.taiKMinetng eaaiuialee if aeery description. I I. eaeaurlbera, ud tiinik.te wui are not peyia..aliav4ai.air laot.Ki, Advanieemeai not a.rkeU oa lha eojfy for a SpriSi a timber of luenltie. III be eoaüaued mil ordered anil, anil fatynienl reiilrd arvoraiMCty.aaUee tbey rarer lo a leSaile data, what. !) arili be laeenwd i.taal laU. If taerked "Uli forfe...," Met artil, o etixre, balaeertod aolll orSaraJ owl, at lb eeeal rtM. AU advertiae aeuk. fr a imagers ortranilem yra W bapald la advance. -aa lal JtwUeae. fitKa, aad Cotaraealeeltor 4aaWca4 ut prumuva pri.ew latoraau, will beaoid 1 1 air square foreecb Inaarwou. damage an i Ueaibe ara auaotoied iratuiW aeiy. .1 advertlaeaeal will be loierled without etanetiUva. T. A. C00DWI.X, Bd.Amerlcaa. C. H. Htt.iri.ltV, Kd. Democrat. Iproftssional flunk Dr. J. W. KEELY, , frlfim4 Surgeon Dentist. 0FHCKU3K DOOR SOUTH OPTI1K VALLfcY HUUfclt, r Tita. All work warrauld. Ni arge for bjIi .Uoa or adt-e. 41-1; J. D. DAVIS, M. D., PlivMlclau & Surgeon, OmdU at hit reeldenre, eorner of Malaaud Jaaia. etreele. Brook lila, lad. CYRCSKILGOIIE. Ja.tlee of the Peare a al .1 Horary aad Coaaeelloral law, Krook villa, lad. Offloaaouta Kaat Coraaraf fubll bquara. 43, 1833. D. JO?ICSt Allornay and Coao.allor a Uw,irookiU,lad. Offlca la Haila'a bull 4ng a j TT7 nonnow. At lorn ay and CoameUnra' Ii Law, uoea 00. 7 Uaila'. villa, .adlaaa. a. w . u- . . bullUinr. HrookIt 143. IT !C'C. CBOOKSnAKK, Attornay aad Hi Coun.all.iral Law, OfflcalalIaila'.uii lluf . r okvill, Itdlana. JR. WCLUnr, Atlnrnnyat t.aw. OJlra aw Bar(aMut,lwodior.awrUi ofOao. Hoiaad'.OUca.Brookrlll. 4i-'53 EVAN OWENS. " JLTTOSXXT AT LAV NOTARY PXTSL C, IUI. Carintl, Indiaua. JaaoSoSma ALF. WAIIU, ATTORNEY A. COUNSELLOR ATLAW, Brook villa, faillana. Oirioatwo doora north Bartoa'.Ktoro. iv. it. Moiims, i. i).t P Ii y I c i a 11 Sc S 11 r s c o n Mt. Carmel, In J., 2U-?W-jcar. DENTAL SUUOEONS, Wl. Carmclf Ind., Witt do all work aalruawd in ihlr rara wltli aaiooa and diapa'ea. Juo30 3nio MOSES J. KELLEY, Attorney at Law anJ Notary Public, Oao door South of lha Vallny llouaa, Hrookvllle, Ina., WILL Ukaarkawltflniiiar lt4 tak. and A'olitlca Mild Ilia l'ulpll. Th lndrptndtnt, of New York, edited by Iter, lltnry Ward Bwclier, thinka the cltrjjy in tJie?c days re fatored with entirtly too much advice from publicans, the press and other, at to what they ought und ought rut to pre&cb. And ho goes on to remark: 'We hire no doubt that a ri;roroui landlord, having aharked it 11 ihe etk, screwing and griping anions tenant, wcuid be Lvtter pleased on Sunday, to doze through an able Goi

pel sermon on Divine mysttrit a. than'Pfnue,u "n? " '" to do what he tob,lePt,waUbya Lctical r ! of 'hi Vonduct" upon Mher.11 This is Ci moo. that among other things, rvaia, p,,D,old niJ9, u n principle of thedubeaof a Christian landlord. which, if admitted and adopted, woul A broker, who has gambled on mag.! diaordcr, derange, end finally deatroy ni&cent rcaln all iho week, does not go j human society. It Is this principle to chnrch to have his practical swin- which actuates the rumseller, and all dling analyzed und measured bv tho I w''o sustain him and apologise for him.

New Testament. CtcchUm is what he wants doctrine is to his taste. A merchant whoso last bitte of smuggled goods waa stowed cn Saturday night, and bis brother merchant, who, on that same day swore n false invoice throazh the custom hous 3 they go lo church to hear a sermon on fa'uh. on angels, on the resurrection. They have nothing invested in those subjects, they expect the ministers to bo bold and orthodox. But it he wants respectable merchants to Py ample pew rents, let him not vulgarizo the pulpit by introducing commercial subjects. A rich Christun brother own, largely in distillery, and is clamorous about letting down the pulpit to the vulgarity of temperance sermons. Another man buys tax titles, and noaes about all the week to see who .can bt slipped out of a neglected lot A mechanic who plies his craft with tho unscrupulous appliance ofevery means natwill win, he, too, wants 'uoctrinu on the Sabbath, not these ' secular questions. Men wish two departments in life th secular and the religious. Between them a hih wall and opaque is to b built. They wis'i to do just what they pleaie for six long days. Then stepping on the other side of tho wall, they wish 'the minister to assuag .their fears.to comfort their conscience, and famish them a clear ticket and insurance to hewen. By auch a shrewd ,znanagement,our modern financiers nre . delerraiue J to show that a. Christian .can aerre two masters, both God and liammon at the same time." ' XSTThe following is a true copy of . a a'tiro. uron an academr for tcuchinir in one of tbe western biatcs: Treemm aad lluggs. School Teachers. -Freeman teaches the boys and lluggs ' the girls. r'jE3rrbe election in Maine, came off ca ths lltb, aadia Ywcignt, ua.tLe th of September. t-. ;

Who atolo nr I'm kroll. A brljhl round dollar unro I spent, Foraauinbr.lla.whlcallf.nl; And ihongli tha r.ow raalty tnoaot. For iurh ho tulJ wai hi Intent, Hack rlB W Kara U .flit. Tat many an anxlou hour I vpant, M'altin f thut in ma want; IM wln.l or waaiher 1I I prnrenl, Or ha bla rimla did rapant. And oft in tonn tliuu(h out I went, And plainly poko my diaronlent, Yatall in vuin waa my lamoiil And ft a fl -ry loc unenl, RUb In viuatlo t ament, Though very llttlo bUndiahmeot, No doubt to a.tunLhiiienl, Through iha ufflco lo Mm went; Mr'han btek he wrote that accldaat. My umbrella much had rent. IIa hoped my heart benevolent, Would never aak equivalent! Wat ever man to Impudent; Or bra, to awful evident! How could I the de al re.cn t , ' To fleht I wa. too rorpuleat, Had I been belligerent. And to hi J 0 Ifl did rontont, . In rhymo toy anf or to Wo vent. And thouglt pvrbape bot eloquent I've tolJ my hone.l.eullmeul 1 hat money' very poorly .pout. To buy uwbrcllaa to bo lout. 7A&MEBS crais. Soticbody writes in 1I10 following npturous vein of iho Attractions of country uirla. II has evidently been a close observer and an interested one. Up In tha morn Inf early. Jut &l the pep of day, "tlralulng Uto milk in the dairy, turning the cow. away, wevplnf lbs floor In tho kltchon,maklDj thtbod ap .lalra, Watblnjllie braakfoat dlba,duitlostho ar!or attain. Bra.hlng theeru nbi from tho psnlry ,huntlnj far epjnatiha barn,

(.'Iran Inf Uta turnip, for dianer, .pionlnx tha cottun yarn. Spreading the whltoilr linen down on lha buthe. below, Ranaack Inf every meadow where tho rod tlraw borrlee grow. saarchlnj Iho "flxlni" for Sunday, choroliif tha anowy cream, . Rluaiuf Um pall, and drainer down In tho running stream, Feedu. the gaeiaanJturkeji.miklnj tho pamp. klu lee, Jogging lUe lltilo one', cradle, driving away the Diet. Grata In every motion, mutlo In every tone, Ueautj of form in J fcaturo thousands mlht cot et to own, Chewka tbat rival .prlng ioia,teoui tbe whitest of arl One of Uieae country malJt It wor th a score of city g rl. iitcrcstrnxj Salt. (Capyriglit tecured accordiiig to Law.) IE MYSTEHIDHS FlEflllT, OR THE SATANIC LICENSE. CHAPTER XIII. POCSII ARCTJMEfT. "Tbe rumacller live, al.lior.-d by 11 Like adlaw; jet cannot 1 be '.raped, liut, cankcr-llkc,ea:s tliriugblho poor iuen"s hr.ru . Tutllve about him ; novorhMcommerce With any but to ruin them Hach member of th human boJ filla t rery Important olTice. And while eicn him its pruper sphTO and meets Us appropriate d nie 1, health and harmony prevail inronjn the whole system. It 1 a so wiiii mo rnmnidniry. lu tch per. son in tiny neighborhood is a nember of the aortal rnmpnet, ard is ineeparably connected wirh the weal or woe of every other. In nthrr wor J, tho conductor every person will aflVct for good or ill every other person in the the so cietv. A man may think he is indoa. a .... . a a H is mo idea inu no nns a rigni in a free country to du what he pleases that induces him to sow broadcast in tho community tho seeds of disorder, ruin and death. The rumscllct who has a license has a leyal right to d tha, it is true; but he csn have no natural or moral right, eitle or with or without a ' license. That which is wrong in itself, human enact, mente cannot make right. That which results in evil to the cutnmnnity st large . .a. II. I . t a ai.e no man can be properly atuh'trised to perpetrate, though he may have ten thousand legal ennclmen'a to sustain hint. Herod passed a law that all male children of such an ago should be slain; but did that law makn it right 1 Will U, in the final judgment, clear thoe who stained their hands with Innocent blood I When God hall make "inquisition for bloo J," will they bo ablo to establish their innocence by plcadtn? thd legality of their oflVnce I The people of the Stale of New York say the rumseller fur five or ten dollars may sell as a beverage intoxicating liquors, from which results loss of health, character, property, reason, leading men directly to degradation, crime, pauperism, premature death, and a miserable eternity. But is it right because the people say the rumseller msy do all this! V ill the people sny, when closely ques tioned upon tins subject, they have the least shadew of right to authorise men to trsffic in that which unavoidably result in a manner so ruinous and disssterous to the bodies and souls of men 1 Genvle reader, are you a voter 1 If so, you are ono of the aoverelgli people. Come, now, snd let us resson together for a few moments upon this subject. What right hsve you to license the rumseller to destory your neighbor' health, blight his lair character, send misery iuto his family, swallow his substance, dig Uuwn l dwelling, eend him to a premature grave and a drunkard's bell 1 What right luve you for five or teu dollor to multiply paupers, fill our jails w ith criminals, the count' y with heart-broken widows ami orphans, and the land with latntuuti: , wailing, and wool What right have you, my iclluw-cUztn of the Empire State, to give your i.eighbor au

horl:y to light the torch of the inceriliary, to whet the assassin's hnifj, and to scatter through the community firebr ndd, arrows, and death 1 Do you sar you have no right aa a private individual t If you have no right to do il n yotr private . capacity, have you hr-n associated with other. 1 Mavr fou a light, when you co to the pulls, tu vote for a auperviaor or mavfittrat whoro you know tobe In favor of grantinj JUenici.or for an aisemblymin who will vote a.'einet the Maine law. because tlie multitude thus vote I If you have, then you have a right to go through ihe community and inflict upon familiea the evils which result from this traffic. It is both Isw and common ssnse that what a man's agent does he does himself, if yoi vote for a mtn who is in favor of perpetuating this traffic by lirenslcg the rumseller, he i your agent, snd is doing yoir work, for which God will hdd you rerpontible. No man ol common intelligence, it appears to me, csn see any difference in the degree ol criminality between the voter, the officer, and the rumseller. This was the view John Scribner took of this snbject. He believed the rumseller, though hehsd a license, hud no right to sell spiritous liquors as a common beversge. He considered the jre.t mass ef liquor dealers as useless sppsndngps to society. He could see no good resulting from their business, but "evil, snd only evil, snd that continually." He held the doctrine that every person should be t producer, should in aome uaeful way reward the community fur hie aupport and protection. He thought It was just at reasonable for man to ask another to eat his bread as to earn it for him. The great lata of rumsellers he considered consumers, without rendering any equivalent whatever to acietv con.umera not only ol tho fruits of others' toil, but the consumers of peace, happiness, reputation, and the bodies and souls of men. One day Scribner met Pirks on the sidewalk, when the following conversation passed between them : Mr. Psrks, what good da you expect le accomplish in this world I asked Scribner. What good ! Why, I expect to take rare of my family. The Bible says, 'He that provides not for his own is worae th'inan infidel. Yes ; but, in providing for your own, are you not under obligation to regard the welfare ol others 1 I suppoae I have nothing to do with others. My business is to take care of my myself and family, replied Parks, somewhat agitated. If that principle, Mr Parks, was adopted by every man, would it not break up and deatroy aociety 1 I have nothing to do with society. I must look out lor number one, and let every body else take care of themselves. Mf. Parka, you area member of this eotrmunity and, since you are protected in' all your natural rights, we have a right to expect that you will do something to build up and support it; but instead of that you are doing all you can to weaken, injure, and destroy it. What do you mean 1 How, I wish to know, have I weakened and injured society ! Haven't I alwaya paid my taxes I Haven't I alwaya met promptly tny achool bills! And haven't I always paid punctually my corporation taxes 1 naked Parks, in a loud and boisterous manner. I know, Mr Parks, you have paid your taxes ; but you have reduced many in this village 0 low they have no taxea to pay. It is true, you have met punctu

ally your sciiool bills ; but I can point iyu to c'ffhl rten whom youhava rendered unable to nar theirs. And I know too, vou have paid your assessments ; but vour hiiinoaa increase mine and I

every other business nvtn'e to an alarm, business of grsnd juries, shsiiflV, coning extent. stables, and almost theen'.ire police sysMy business increases your taxes? tern in sll the cities is chargeable to inI ahould like to have you make that ap- temperance. So you aee, Mr. I la milpen r ! exclaimed Parks, indignantly, jton, I was right when I told you the The truth Is, Mr. Parka, your bu.ineHS rumseller have a mortgage on your tends directly to aaddlo the community ! property. with a heavy and unjnst tax; and if 1 1 Upon my word, acribner, I never aw

irivfl vou tue evidence, vou wont oelieve it. " j sr I defy you, Mr. Scribner, to prnduco any such eviden e. It la one thing to mtke an asiersion, and lit another to prove it, replied Park. Why was it, Mr. Parks, that .Mose Whipple and Sam L-traby were not able tn pay their achool bills laut winter 1 Was it notnnaccnnnt of intemperance Their bills, which amounted to seven dollars, I had to help pay; and it was all becauao yousnd Doty took their money for rum. Well, there were others who couldn't UUT tjlirir ItltUUI Willie "v awwvv awvww.e.w couldn't pay hers; do you you charge i that to rum too 1 nav their school bills. Widow Scoville Certainly I do. You hsve forgotten the labt drink her htubind took at your bar, whieh caused his death, haven't youl Scribner, I have heard enough about that. It is time that was dropped. You and your fanatical clan are lorever harping about Scovilie'd freezing to death, said Psrks, in a rage. I know you have hoard all you wish to hear on the subject ; but you called for evidence, and I mean you shall hsve it. Hut for thj liquor you sold to Bill Scoville he inihl have been alive now, and been a useiul citizen, and able to educate his children. Out you and Doty killed him, which has made jt necesssry for mo and others to- school his children. Lsy it all to liquor. If it wasn't for liquor and rumsellers, I don't know what you snd Donaldeon would d for aomething to talk about. You have so long harped upon it, that you can t uix or think about any thing else. Parks, I want you to understand that we don't mean to talk about any thing else till you and your brother, rumsellers abandon your wicked traffic, and engage In some honest employment for a living. Do you mean to insinuate, sir, mat my bueines is not honest 1 asked Parks, excited, t'. Most certainly I do. 1 Is It honest to take from a man his money, and give no equivalent 'n return 1 , ' I do give him an equivalent, replied Parks. Yea, a mort fearful equivalent J . It would be a great deal belter for him and bis family if ynu gave him nothing in return for hi inouey. The conduct ol tbe highway man who tak a a man's motiey and lets him go borne to bis family uninjured, la merciful compared with yours. And should you eatablleh your. aeli by the wayside in lomo dark ravine,

BROOKYILLE, FRANKLIN COUNTY,

and filch from every man his money, you would stand fairer in the estimation . the good and virtuous than you now do. Scribner, go and preach your doctrine to the board of excise, and not to me. If am a robber, what are they 1 It is by their authority I do it. They have licensed me to sell, end the people elected them knowing they would do it, replied Parks, with an airof triumph. Parks, having no disposition to further protrsct the unplesssnt conversation, turned away from his hated antagonist. After collecting statistics from the professional and business men of the town who were friendly to the temperance cnuse, he was perfectly astonished to find, on Ijoling up the several sums above enumerated, and aggregated of three thouaand onu hundred and eighty dollars snd three cents! He saw at once the honest and industrions men of the town of Harwood were paying cut annually more than six hundred dollars, besides their regular town taxesthree fourths of which no one disputed was in consequence of this traffic. This he considered a powerful weapon against the legal sale of intoxicating drinks, nor did he hesitate to use it. He made known tho result of his examination to all the business men, and especially to all such as were indifferent or conservative in thiir feelings respecting this reform. He rpintsevcral dsys in visiting tho farmers, to show them what an un just tax the liquar traffic imposed upon thfir property. Among others he saw Mr. John Hamilton, who owned three or fuur hundred acres of land, and who prided himself upon his skill In tilling the soil. lie had generally favored the traffic, and had always cast his vote for men on that side of the question. After the usual aalutaiions were passed, Scribner broached the subject in his abrupt manner by inquiring, Mr. Hamilton, did you know Parks and Doty have a mortgage on your farm ! No. 1 didn't replied Hamilton, with much astonishment. Well, they have. That is impossible. I owe no man a cent. Why, you don't pretend to say your property is clear, do you 1 Most certainly I do. What is the amount of your taxes annually. About forty dollars. Now I will explain myself, said Serib ner. If ytu pay forty dollars, then you give not far from twenty-six dollars to support the rum traffic. How can you make that appear? ask ed Hamilton. From statistics : actual facta. But where do you get your facta! Can they be relied upon 1 You know, Scribner, I am a little incredulous in this matter. Certainly they csn. I take them from the report of the committee appointed by tbe legialature on the exciae question, in March, 1350. 'From returns made to tbe secretary of state,' aays the report, 'the co.t of paupeiiam, in 1849, was eight hundred and seventeen thousand four hundred and forty-one dollars.' Of this the report estimates six hundred and seventy thousand one hundred and forty-three dollars for intem perance. Were there no dram shops, and no intemperance, the whole cost of sjpporting the poor in that yesr would have been but one hundred and fortyseven thou and two hundred and ninetyeight dollars. 'Taxation for crime,' says the report, it is difficult to es Imate. One trial for murder has recently cost tho country of Albany six hun dred dollars. Another, the county of Orleans, one thoussnd collarj, (snd still another, tss county of Alleghany, a tho. sand dollars.) Nearly all the it minis nsmunurr. iui futnuiu - in my psper that intemperance increased taxation, but I never saw the evidence of it before. I recollect now the trial of Sanders, Tor killing Phelps, which cost this county nine hundred dollar. That I know wus chesrgeable to intemperance, because Sunders was drunk when he committed tho murder. Uut, neighbor Hamilton, this is not the only tax it imposes. I have here some statistics, wh.ch show how much our business met. and farmers lose annuully in consequence of this traffic. Alter Scribner had read over the list Hamilton laughed, saying, I can add J - a W ' anot.icr Item to your category of taxes, Some six or eight years ago I sold a cow to Sitn LirabytsnJ agrsed to take his labor in haying for pay; but he never came near me. And what was still more trying, he afterwards sold hor to Doty, no doubt for rum. Well, friend Hamilton, that Is the way it goes and thrtii the way it will continue to gw, unless you and other lax p iycr break away front your party and vote for uieu who will give us the Maine law. I have alwaya been opposed to bringing it iuto politics, but I must confess I believe wo shall bo compelled to do it In self-defence, replied Hamilton. It ia already in politics, aaid Scribner and it is the strong arm of the law that makes you pay twenty-six or twenty eight aollars annually to aupport this wretched system. . Scribner Ibelidveyoti are right. Certainly 1 am. Why, look at Her kinier county, lit 1813, there wore one thousand aeven hund ed and thirty-niue drunken paupers, according to the report of the superintendent of the poor from where atsx waa levied of ten thousand seven huadrcd and fifty dollars, or five hundred snd sixty-five dollars and nineteen cents to each of ita nineteen towns i all of which was csused by one hundred aud forty-seven liquor doalers. Sy you seo I was right about the rumsellers having a claim on your property. Ves, 1 see it now. it is true they have. Well neighbor, what will you dol Why, 1 shall do all 1 can to bare their claim relinquished. In ether words, 1 hall vote for men who retuoe to ilgn licenses, aid fur assemblymen wto will give tho Maine law, that a stop may be put to this unjust and oppres aire avstera.' Scribner left him; feeling he hid , achieved a valuable victory. lie bad often appealed to bio to enlist his fee)

INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1851.

JL-J-L logs and sympathies, but had been an successful. Hie socket appealed, or the disclosure of the fact that the rum traffic iacresscd his tsxes about two third, worked upon 11 feelings like a charm. Scribner tried ito power upon others, and almost wherever he went bt aw evideaco of its power to convince the understanding and enlist the feelinga of nearly all tax payers, who had hitherto atood aloof from the reform. XVi f r r I I tr oftttc? Csj. t 4 t t t U It IWMiJ. EXaJEX.i ron nusEOAX. The Philadelphia Evening Regi$tcr, of July 28, conducted bv William Birney, for a long time resident at Pari and Berlin, cont-iins an article upon the career of the Indiana Ex-Son a tor, which we copy from no disposition to injure him, if he repents of the wrongs he may have done t his country, society, and not least to himself, but Ira friends, if possible, may refute the grave charges made against him. The homocido of his b.othcr-in-law is, however, undisputed. Tho Register says: This wretched and unfortunate man has been re-introduced into public liftby tho Democracy. He is speaking and writing in favor of the Nebrask bill and against the Clergymen who signed the remonstrance to the Senate. Advocate worthy of thecau'e! Gifted with a certain rude eloquence. full of rftcy anecdotes gleaned from newspapers, unscrupulous and passably successful as a stump orator, Ilannegan was sent to the Senate by the Indianr dem-scrat. There, ho became noted for vulgarity and venality. On the Texas Bill, he sold his vote for the appointment of minister to Prussia. As he understood neither manners, nor French, nor German, nor any language except what he had learned in a rough and tumble life' in Indiana, he cut a most rcdiculous figure in the diplomatic corps. Aware of his deficiencies, be ceased parading them in society and betook himself to the most disgusting licentiousness and degarding drunken ness, ills excesses brought on repea.ed attacks of mania-a-potu. T'iese generally assume a dangerous form. If a knife or other weapon were within reach, he would attempt to seize it and kill the friend watching with him, or the faithful servant whom he after ward abandoned, penniless, in a for eign land. On one occasion, he made a murderous assault with a deadly weapon on Capt. Stone, of the V. S. Army an assault whicli it required all that gentleman s well known rigor and address to bade. On another, he threw up the window of !the hotel chamber shouted murder! and tried to leap down into the public street. A crowd was collected, and the drunk en American Minister became the town-talk. In the intervals between his fits of tnania-a-potu, his dejection, want of dignity, nnd weak promises to amend, were calculated to excite pity mingled with contempt. Even when sober, he did not know how to behave himself. Once, on a railroad train between Cologne and Berlin, his passport was demanded. At Grot, he rr fused to givo it, and when it was insisted upon by the officer, who could not under stand English, Uannegan dashed the paper into hts face, swearing that he wo-tld make him suffer for such an in sult to a minister! When the United States Government gave this extraordinary minister leave to become an or dinary mortal, he left Berlin withrut any visit of adieu to the kinur. fur tho good reason that Frederic-William in timated a strong repugnance to receive htm. Uannegan returned home, went bicic to his family, whom ho had left in Indiana, and, soon after, murdered u near relative we believe, his own wife's brother. Theso ftcts are undeniable. Of Ilannegan's course at Berlin, we c in spenk from personal observation at tho time, nnd the murder is it matter of common knowledge. Yet this man viscillating between crime and debasement, between homocide and drunken hess, between manslaughter nnd mania-a-potu, is the champion produced by Indiana democracy in behalf of the Nebraska infamy. It is this mm over whom the Evening Argus extends its protecting arm, claiming it to be 'wick ed and scandalous' in the Sun to spenk of his past acts. If Hanncgan is re pentant, ns the Argus say, let him respect his fellow, citizens enough to livo a quiet nnd unobtrusive lih;, in atonement for his past shameful ca reer. THE QSZAT CALAMITY. And still the ky is brass; the earth is ashes. Day after day passes, nnd brings n shower to lay the dust, no electric flash to purify nnd renovate the heavy atmosphere. We have days of murky haze, almost of cloudino s; wo have even cast winds occasionally tor hours; but never ono drop of rain. Not sinco June, lo tha best of our remembrance, have we had anything worthy to be called a rain, though two or three petty showers afforded some fleeting refreshment lo plants early in July. Springs that never failed be tore are now a' uicir last gasp; many have been utterly dry for weeks. Sinco the great rain which closed the month of April, we havo had nothing calculated to affect tho sources of springs. These, we think, have not been so low hereabout in thirty years as they now are. We shall probably have rain aocn, but to little purpose. It will be too late for Corn; too late for Potatoes; too late for Garden Vegetables; too late for Buckwheat. It will help Turnips, where there are any, be useful to Cabbage, and may give us a lato and Canty supply of Fall Feed; but it connot ensure us a tolerable productof Cutter and Cheese; Jt cannot give us

uoro than half a crop of Corn, nor sven so large a yield of Potatoes. In opitc of (he bounteous harvest in Wisconsin and part of Iowa, in Txas And nost of the cotton-grow'ng region, ind of the moderate yield in Southern Ohio, Northern Indiana nnd Northern Illinois, we Khali have tho shortest :rop of Indian Corn grown in the Jountry t.iis century with two exception;. Tho first was that of 131U mused by tho extraordinary cd J o he entire season for theru was snovt n June nearly all over New England ind frost in every month of the year; the second was that of 1836, produced by the wet, cold nnd backward Sprinr. Uut in both of these years, though Corn was more deficient than now, Grass was good, nnd Potatoes better than this year. We doubt whether :he aggregate of loss in ither year was greater than that which now confronts us. We estimate the total Corn crop of .he United States for this year at lcs han two-thirds of an av.-rnge, or no' tbove fifteen bushels per acre. There ire thousands on thousands of aero .hat will not yield five bubhtls mant in fact, that will never be harvested ai til: One heavy, general, soaking rail, on the 1st of August would have ndded at least One Hundred Million ol Dollars to the aggregate valuo of oui :rop the current year. The total d--dciency of the corn crop cannot fall below Two Hundred Millions of bushels', worth One Hundred Millions ol Dollais for much of our Corn i usually worth scven y livo cents to n lollar per bushel on the farm where it is grown; and the loss on Roots, Gras ind Vegetables cannot fall below another equal amount. In other words, tho Harvest of this year will be worth to the country Two Hundred Million of Dollars less than we had reason to suppose it would be one little month ago. This loss will not all fall on tin farmers; they will be partially compensated for deficiency of yield by cn. hanceracnt of price: but that merel) shifts a part of the burden from their sholders to others. The iggregate loss is quite as severe as if fire, flood, or some other terrible calamity had swept property worth Two Hundred Millions of Dollars completely out ol ex.stence. The maitude of the losi can only be appreciated upon reflection r.nd comparison. Tie total cost of the

Mexican War was computed by Mr. Corwin, when Secretary of the Treasury, at Two Hundred and Fourteen Millions: but that , was spread over several years of general prosperity whilo bixty Millions ot it, by means of a National Debt, was cast upon the future. Hit Great Fire in our City in Dec. 1835 was generally held to have sensibly contributed to the season of disastcrand banktuptcy which commenced the next year The excessive importations of 181G-17 Hnd, 1836 were undoubtedly most influential in bringing on the tremendous commercial revulsion vhich so speedily followed; yet it may be well questioned whether the Short Crops of 18lg and '30 wire not the deeper nnd truei causes of ihoso seasons of calamity. Not that the hcaTV impottations were other than mostuntimely and injurious; but their ill effects wero greatly intensified by the coincident deficiency ol our Harvests. Such importations roust have caused trouble anyhow, but no such jweeping devastations as were actually experienced; because of the largo demands to meet the cost oi iroodi occurring simultaneously with our extreme inability to pay. W needed all the food we produced, and had buta few Millions' worth of Cotton and other non-edible producta wherewith to pay lor over Onu Hundred Millions' worth of European Metals, Wares and Fabric imported that year. And it will be found equally impossible this ye tr to pay for aII tho good already received from Euope or now on the way. The meant (if paying for them do not exist, and they must either be held over for better times, re-exported, ruinously sacrificed, or sold to consumers who will never pay for them. In the face of this heavy visitation of Providence, as many will say, though it might be more instructive to call it ia vsitation of improvidenc brought upon us by our wretched aystern of semi-barbarian cultivation, without half plowing our toils, just about half tilling, andnot at nil draining or irriga'ing them the distilleiie arc still devouring some-hing like One Million bushels ot Gr-in per day, convetting tho staff of life into a deadly nnd crime-inciting poison. Desr ns food now is, it is likely to be dearer, while Millions' worth per week is transformed into tho most demoniac and mischief-making fluid that ever iniulted the bounty of Heaven. But for this, wo should even yet have bread enough and to spare, and might pay Europo promptly for all the imports we actually need. How long bhull this fearful waste and devastation this anenfice of tho sustenance of the poor to a bloodier idol than Moloch be protected and encouraged by Iaw7 nun id ou whisky. We havo already indicated the necessity which the drouth and the short crop have created for abandoning the wasteful modo of feeding corn to animals usual in the not th-western states, but this alone will not suffice for the purpose. We must not only si've what would be ordinarily lost in that way, but we must also save tho still larger quantity converted into the most pernicious of all forms of alcohol whiskv. It is quite within bonnds to estimate that a hnndrcd millions of bushels ot grain nre annually consumed in the manufacture of this and J other liquors, the greater part of.which

re poured into human stomachs nt the innumerublo dramshops of the country. In n year liko It-53. when corn crop was some tight hundred millions df busht-N, this quantity could be abstracted by the distillers without sensible inconvenience to the consumers of food; but in 1C54, when .he utmost yield of iho country will not exceed four hundred millions of 3Uhels, it will be a terrible addition o the distress lo take a quarter of thai luaniity of food for a purpose fio iituch worse than throwing it into the

mud under tke feet ef the cattle nnd wineof Illinois or Indiana. 'J ho low price nt which corn has been solJ of late years by tho great western producers will account for i tx extensive use in distilling, nnd will iitonish oil uninformed reader... Ten cents a bushel has been consdered n paying rate by those la.ge farmers whose prairie fields nru ofu-n measured by miles, and even a much lower price has been received for the g ain. The contracts of Jacob Straun, of IIInois, (his farm contains 7000 acres) he greatest corn-grower in the United States, in buhel.-, though perhaps xceeded in acres by Mr. Johnson, on he Roanoke Hiver in North Carolina, ere made this year at revvn cents a bushel for the labor ot grow'ng .the :rop, deliverable on tin? sUilks in the .it-Id as it grew; the quantity being timated alter examination, or by proving a part of the field by mensire. A few years ago, Henry L. ilUworlh of Lafayette, Ind., had 3J00 acres in one lie-Id, contracted in he same manner at live cents a bushel. The average yield was sixty bushels. rh;re fuels afford nn illustration both if the r.bt'n. lance and cheapness of -hi grain :u ,'ruftful seasons, when it ,tows to Üi j greatest perfection. InJeed, it has been so plenty nnd so cheap that it would not bnr transportation, and as we have before stated, it was thrown in the most wasteful manner to swine, who were compelled to carry their own fat to maret, because its prico was so low it would not pay for hauling1, and wlun tho corn was converted into beef, it was still worse. Under this state of things it is not at nil surprising that the producers of corn have not only countenanced its conversion into whisky, but havft believed that distiller es furnished the farmers their only market. They did not, however, consider that the tame amount of capital invested in a lard oil manufactory would irivc them n better market for their surplus corn, e tr besid retaining upon the land a val - uable portion ut the fertilizing properties of the refuse part of the grain, which could be given back to the so'l. Distillers, of course, contend that they have a right to waste the vasl quantity of human food that their business must, in the very nature of things, put out of existence, though a million of starving fellow-creal tires may stand within call of their estab lishments begging for bread; even while millions of bushels of corn arc converted, right before their eyes, not ...... . t. ....a- ..ri:r. -i ono inu iwri oi nie, i ubinio nie cpirti that nourishes famine, breeds disease, suffering, sorrow, starvation, crime, death. There can bono doubt that the present and future high pi ices of grain will prevent its use in djstilleries to it very considerable extent, but if pos.i'de we would still furtkerdiminiah the amount so employed, by urging the moral considerations against whiskymaking, to which the suffeiings growing out of the short supply of fool may well lend additional emphasis. Certainly there could bo no wrong more gross than to employ in tmch a manner a crop that with extreme economy can barely carry us through tho year without famine. When bred is scarce nnd dear, itisenfjd a crime to transform it into poison; and we call upon tho people at large to use every means to prevent its being si perverted" There is nowhere it surplus of breadstuffs, and in some of the most productive regions there is an alarming scarcity. Whole fields of Central Illinois Are given up as not worth a bushel for the year, nnJ iho most productive nnd best cultivated farms on the Scioto bottoms in Ohio, Are rated from 2.) to Ab b ishels, in place of O, 9J, or 100 bushels to the acre. The am state of tilings exists relatively everywhere. Ihere is no disguising the fact lhat while the present crop of corn is dia-! iressingly shurt, that of wheat is not above the medium; that of buck wheat. which is very much used by all cl tsS t 1 . l .a! ses, is uelicient; wiuie potatoes, nie greatest of nil substitutes lor breadstuffs, arc very small and very few in tho hill, prematurely ripened, h fleeted by disease, unfit inmost cases for wholesome fooJ, nnd now, when it should be a season of plenty, they are selling in our market for $2 a bushel; Hour at tho same time is 812 it barrel at rctoil; corn SI a bushel and lising, and every article of food tdmost beyond the reach of the hard-working poor, while coal is forty per cent, higher than it was last year. Now, while through the effect of the drouth and actual scarcity of Indian corn all over the country, the price of bread, and beef, and porlr, nnd mutton, will naturally be' increased; whilo, through the insufficiency ot feed for cattle, the prodocta of the dairy arc reduced, and the farmer obligi-d to sell his stock half fatted to the butcher, and suspend hit farm improvements because no cannot feed his laborers, while tho laboring men all over the country are wasting their substance to buy bread through n year of scarcity, what will the farmers and laborers do? Will they stand idly folding their hands while the distiller destroys the food that Would sustain themselves, their wives and children? If tho des-

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truction of grain by distillation ia always wron. how much more wicked a " a i it when the poor are crying for head? Butitis a wickedness hieb thofc who most süßer from it can promptly remedy if they choose. All that is necessary,' is to vote for the Maine law nnd to fee that is enforced.' Whatever individuals may think of the Law at other times, iu this j riod of scarcity the dicUtes of du' y are clear and imperativ.. We. would press the subject upon the attention of the com-nrowinj and distilfin 1 States especial! v. While this cistressmg scarcity remains, every conscientious person must vote to "prohibit its destruction by the distiller. . It should be preserved for food, and every individual in the country is under strong obligations to humanity to lind hi ass'atance in Aid of such preservation. -V. V. Tribune. . . . Temperance and Catholic rj-lesu liood. In the prolonged and ardous struggle for the suppression of intempt rance and of the liquor traffic, whether by moral or legal suasion, we have hoped to have the powerful aid of the Catholic clergy, butwi have been disr appointed. Not that we txpected, or desired ihem to come into any organization outside of their ecclesiastical system, or 'o identify themselves with any party; but it has seemed not too much that their influence ahould.be openly nnd otcndily txerted in .favor ol a cause which is not only that of public order and secu.it', but of good morals aud religion. Wj have looked toce them uttering some deca'cd and forcible condemnation of that tradft in ardent liquors, whose horrible consequences no pari of the clergy can have better opportunities if ap'preci.it'n"' than themselves. We have hope3 that they might be led. to use the au--thoriiy they have, especially among the Iiih, for an end so beneficent and, so necessary. Particularly cow that so much odium is excited agains . ihat class of our population on accou t of their polititical subserviency und in-, temperate habits, it would seem that the Catholic priesthood ought to spare. no tffoat that could tend to put their flocks, or at least so numerous a division of them, in another arpecMieforo' the community a, large. ' '' ;. This hope does not seem . likely to be gratified. We hear of no move, ment among the CathoJc hierarchy tor me suppression oi tin? deadly and. crime-generating traöc. And yet there seems to bo great occasion for , Rn -hört of ihe tort. We published ! the other day a statistical p;iperbowniif imti, great, majoruy or me murders committed in thie State are by Irishmen, and those Irishmen drunk. But why were they drunk, when there is an Archbishop and priesthood with such powerr of moral and fpiritual control Among their flocks? Why 19 there not a reform? Why is theft? not a total abstinence association : in ' plce of every rum-bole I i'1 Catholic? kept by an These are not Rt ctarion or untimely i J.-.., . MM i. .i t. Am-v oucii me vum roots of society. It is a fact lhat we have a great amountof crime among us. It is a fact, lhat tho highest crime mxrdcr increases. It is a facL .that murders are due ninety per cent' to drunkenness, It is a fact, l hut of tho drunken murderers, a large proportion are Irishmen. It is a fact, lhat these drunken murdering Irishmen art nearly all Catholics. But leaving the Jrunken murderers out of the question, nmjorityof ihe rum-sellers who make that clas drunU are of the same, origin. Go ih rough ihe 'Democratic streets if you doubt it; look at tho signs above ihe ram-holes; whcnnot ni "Daub," they uro sure to be Irish unmistakably so. Go to tho bar of the rum-holes, look at tho animals behini them dealing out the liquid poison, and look nt the knimals swilling it, and they nre nil Irish, Irish drunken and Irish militant. ' Theso are all facts.. But certainly if iho Catholic pricsdiood chose.lhcro could be a reform. That the evil remains and increases is ono of the causes for the movement of hostility to Catholicism now so Active and potent in the community. It is not merely antagonism to c Ttain religious opinions, but to drunkenness, nnd locrimo thence proceedin f, with whicn, us wa have explained nbove, llioio opinions havo becmu very widely identified by a portion of the public .V. 1". Tribune. jT37"Tho postmaster . nt Emmetsburg, Mil., a bigoted ; Catholic, has been interfering, and endeavoring to suppress the circulation of the Baltimore Clipper. The Harrishurg, Pa., Telegraph, ono of the oldest and mot rcspecitb! papers in ihat S ate, complains of tho same outrage: ' The work of proscription has ben commenced by Mr. Campbell and his Catholic deputies. A system of e$pionuge has been established, anJ all the papers that dare to oppose and denounce political Catholicism arc to be 'Spotted" anJ suppressed J by thi Jesuits who have control of post-ofll-ces iu various parti of the country . In several instances recently, in this Stat, Catholic Postmasters nave interfered with and attempted to suppress the . circulation of Ihe Pennsylvania Telegraph', denouncing the paper as nn infamous sheet, w j.hholding it from regular subscribers nnd adding lying to their other villainies by informing tno subscribers lhat the papers arc not received nt thi office. In one instance, two Democrats, era pi necs on the publio works, . subscribed foj- the Telegraph, and the Postmaster being a Catholic, and having influence with the publio , oEcers, intimidated them from lifting the paper. Y 1