Indiana American, Volume 25, Number 3, Brookville, Franklin County, 2 January 1857 — Page 2

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INDIANA AMERICAN.

cars PLEDGED BUT TO TAUTE, TO LIBERTY AND LAW NO FAVOR SWAYS CO, AND NO PEARSHALL AWE T. A. GOODWIN, Editor. BROOKVILLE, INDIANA FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1857 FOR PRESIDENT IN 1860. J. C. FREMONT. GOD, IN PASSING EVENTS. To recognise God, in the events now transpiring, seems to be one of the most difficult tasks of the human mind. It am look backward and see that God mi. The footprint! of Hi acta, in time pact, an to legible that comparatively few fail to mo them. We can look forward end believe that He wiU be, and that, hereafter, He will do that and ao. Moot men, in Christian countries, believe in the general truths, not only of the historic bot the prophetic portion of Hcvelation, bnt to realize that God re that He mm works, He takes as mach Interest in events, as He once, did in events that are put, or at He sr. er will, in events yet to transpire, seeing, much more difficult. This is not peculiar to this age it was .il ways to. It s not confined to the irreligious, for even professors find the same difficulty, to a considerable extent Moset was a man of faith, he could see that the God of his fathers had been in the history of Joseph and his brethren, but it was far more cLfiicult to realize His hand, in the events which drove him from his brethren, at the moment that ho hoped to liberate them from their bondage, and which made hm forty yeara an alien in the land of Midian. When the forty years were ended and he began to work immediately for the benefit of his brethren, be could not understand why so just a cause should be delayed by the obstiaaey of Pharoah. Pharoah knew that God had manifested himself, a God of power, bot he saw no pment God, bat he impiously asked "who is the Lord that shotdd let Israel go ? The suffering and opssMsssd aWkeswi believed in God ; they had seen' Hhn in the history of Jacob and Joseph, and Hey knew that dark events, ii their history, had been the precursors of signal favors, bat they could not ass God in their increased burdens and doub led afilictions. To them, God had been, but was not, His Justice and His mercy seemed both to sleep. Belshaxrar knew that God had dealt with his fathers, in judgment, but he could sea no God in his day. Not even the army of Cyrus, opening the "two-leaved gates," could convinos him of a present God. God had but was not, until the mysterious on the wall convinced him that God was eternal, and omnipotent, and that he hud contemn ! II: authority too long. Our history equally abounds with facts illustrative of this truth. None of the fathers doubted the suporintrailing providence of God in the Uvea and fortunes of the pilgrims. They sought religious liberty, but God directed their steps. The new continent was More them, bnt flesh and blood prefered not to rapplo with tho stern difficulties which lay in that direction. Heaee they wer permitted to try their fortunes) in Holland for a season, whils God wns preparing them fur a degree of liberty that they were not thinking of preparing them to end are joyfully tho toil of planting tho seed of civil and religion liberty, in virgin toil, where it might grow, untrameWd by the conventionalities of tho old world. Though mon of devoted piety, they could not realise that there was a Divine Power directing their stops. Their children, the meu of '76, could look back upon the history of their fath era and see that though Tao bed had aad a bitter teste, Yot svoot bad booa Um lower. Prom their stand-point they could seethe hand of God in all the wanderings, and the final settlement of tho Pilgrims. Yet they could not as readily recognize a God in tho events then transpiring. With their .knowledge and views, they would have preferred a slight modifica tion of the conduct of the mother conn try, and the comforts of peace, but God ordered otherwise. Uk saw it best that th is should be a separate and independent nation. We see it now, but our fathers did not they fought against iL As this event was to be brought about by human instrumentality, God permitted the madness of the king and parliament, to carry measures to such an extent as to sever the tie that bound the old and new world together. There was a God in the events of those times, though the men of the times hardly recognized Him. Franklin, and Quincy, and Adams, and Hancock, and Washington, often used expressions equivalent to the lamentation of Jacob, "Ail these things are against me," but we now see that they were not We, their children, would not now have it otherwise, nor would they, if they could have seen the end from tho beginning What is thus true of nations is true of individuals. None who love God, can fail to look bock upon many a "dark event" his personal history, without seeing that, like Jacob, tho things that appeared to bo against him were: "Whoa rtahtly usdoratood All boom ago ri of Ioto." So in the passing public events, both of this and other countries. There is a God in them. From our several stand-points wo might desire this or that event to be otherwise, but we may be wrong. llav ing done what appears right to us, at a given time, we are to patiently wait the developments of Providence. God yet rules, aiid though the wrath and wickedness of man may asm to triumph, for tho time, Ho will make that wrath praise him, and the remainder of wrath he will restrain. Who; can, for instance, believe that God is an indifferent spectator of tho a well ing struggle for freedom, and the rights of man, now going on in every tart of tho world? It is but the spirit of (iod, stirring within the man, which makes kjssj assert his inalienable birth-right THKRIOHT TO UK a MAN! Tho little i-otniuJtiou caused by increasing efforts to

add chains to the bondage of slavery here, and to include in that shivery, tho poor of all colors, are but ripples on the surface of an ocean whose great deep is stirred. The poor and down-trodden of all lands are looking up, and demanding those rights which God intend they shall enjoy. A few hard sued Pharaoh's may say 'Who is the Lord that should obey his voice, and let the oppressed go free?" but it will only be to male their deliverance more violent and signal. There is a God, in passing events, and those who recognize it not, will fall into the follies of Pharoah and Belshazzar, both to suffer tho plagues of His chastisements, and the overwhelming waves of his anger, and the alarming writing upon the wall. There is a God, in passing events, though our Senators impiously say that His law is inferior to their mandates, and that tho eternal principles of mercy and justice must succumb to the claims of tho modern Pharaohs who doable the tasks, and treat with increased

rigor the poor and needy. There is a God in passing events, and the historian of fifty years hence, who shall record the history of these times, will acknowledge how wise and beneficent were his ways, in overruling for good, those things while to us seem calamitous, and how He res trained those who sought the good of their race, from temporary success, that He might give them more than they then sought for, though at a price they feared to pay, just as the historian of to-day records with pleasure the failure of those schemes of our fathers, that were designed only to alleviate, not remove the wrongs under which they suffered. There is a God, shaping tho destines of this nation, and of other nations. He is a God of Justice and of Mercy, with whom the prayer of faith from the oppressed has more influence than the defiant eloquence of that Pharaoh who impiously asks who is the Lord? There is a God, and he who commits his cause into his hand shall not be confounded. There to a God, and "His purposes will rlpen fast Unfolding everyboor." We look with wonder npon many a strange and painful fact We hear the cry of the oppressed see the blood of the slain, unavenged by human governors. Vile men are exalted to places of honor and power, and the hearts of many all from fear, but there is a God who sees the whole chain which seems to us involved in labyrinthine entanglements. To him it is all manifest, and in due time he will make it known to us. God is his own interprotor And he will make it plan. . A Word to Borrowers of this Paper. We do not wish to give you a hint to quit borrowing, fur that would be useless you never will quit that But for the sake of the man who pays for it, allow us to suggest! First: That you do not send for it till he and his family are done with it This is hardly ever the case, with working men, during the first week. It takes the week, generally, for tho family to get through with a paper the size of the American. At all events, you should not ask for it under a week. Second: Though it is unfashionable, be sure and return it Don't let the baby tear it Don't wrap up tho children's school dinner in it,- take it back in as good order as you can, after you and your half-dozen are done with it Third; Don't take it home with a lie in your mouth. Don't say thore isn't much of interest in it. You know better. The man who sponges tobacco of his friend, and complains that it isn't good enough for him, is not half as mean as you are, to borrow the America every week, and either not return it at all, or return it, lying about it for you know you were perfectly restless untill you saw the paper. Fourth: But if you must sponge the reading of the American, take it home to read. Don't sit down at your neighbor's and read it. That is the meanest thing you can do. In tho first place, you are liable to stay to dinner thus you sponge your intellectual and physical food from a man that is as poor as you are, but this meanness is aggravated by the fact that you get a good dinner at your neighbor's, (for the subscribers of the American are good cooks, we publish good recipes) while your wife and children have nothing to eat, or it is not vsry good what there is of it In the second place, your wife and children have as good a right to read the American as you have. They like it, as well as you do. Take it home, and read it there, and let them read itthen take it home. Fifth, and finally: After all, we believe we will whisper that your neighbor would like you a little better if you would subscribe for tho paper. Try it once just once. It will only cost you two dollars. Then you can read it while it is new-you can read it at your leisure-you can read it when it rains or snows-your children can read it, or you can read it to them. Your wife can read it, and you can have the pleasure of lending it-such a pleasure! The Workingman. We have repeatedly called the attention af our farmers to The Workingmen, as an agricultural paper worthy their patronage, though we seldom see it. Several persons have called upon us for specimen numbers, but never having received it in exchange, we could not gratify them. Will the publishers please send a specimen number to the following persons? J. R. Goodwin, Wynn, Franklin co. Sam'l Shirk, Whitcomb, " J. P. Brady, " " C. B. Moore, Fairfield, A. B, Line, Oak Forest, " E. K. Rockafellar, New Trenton, " L G. Scoby, Mt. Carmel, " J. M. Barbour, Springfield " John Shultz. Mixerville " George Debolt, Bloominggrove " E. B. Jones, Jennings " We think these men will try to get up clubs for the paper. 'Lena Rivvers. We have devoted so much space to the above extract, that we cannot do "LENA" justice this week. It is a wtdl written book, beautifully blending Yankee and 'tucky character. It is got up in ths splendid style of Miller, Orton & Mulligan, of Auburn, which is compliment enough as to its mechanical character. As a taste of its sweets, we shall make an extract in a few weeks.

Our New Dr. ... Some people are habitually so well dresses! that they may don the latest fashion, sad but few will know it, unloss their attention is called to it Such is oar fix. The mechanical appearance of the "American, has been, for two years, second to no paper in Indiana, yot we come out this week with a new dress. Ian't it nice? Look at it Tum it over and over. Isn't that type clear, and legible? Some querulous old liner, who has boon hoping that the American wonld die, says ho doesn't see how we afford it, seeing we get scarcely a nubbin from tho public crib, but wo can afford it Finding our paper too small to contain the vorioty which we wish to preseut to our readers, we have got a smaller type, yot largo enough to be legible. This arrangement will enable us to add largely to the amount of matter that we shall weekly lay before our readers. Gregg mm UcpubiitaaUin. Our friend Gregg of the New Albany Tribune, while professing to desire the restriction of slavery, is very bitter against the Republican party, charging it with designs upon the institutions of the South in the States, and ho proves it, like Mr. Beach, tho old line candidate for Clerk of the Supreme Court did last summer, by quoting from such men as Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker and,' Fred Douglass, and by torturing the language of Greeley, Beecher and others. Now this esay be the best way to promote the restriction which ho goes for "hxabt and soi l." He knows that nine-tenths, if not ninetynine hundredths of the Republicans disavow any such an attack ii)on slavery, where it now exists by law. It may be the best way to set bounds to slavery, by attaching all possible odium to thoso who are laboring with him in the work dear to his "HEAHT AMD SOUL," but WO doubt its being the best for Americanism As an American, we desire, and shall labor for certain modifications of tho laws in regard to aliens, but we have no hope of ovor accomplishing those euds without the co-operation of most of tho Republicans. This we never csn hope to havo if we Americans join the old liners in misrepresenting their policy. How would wo liko it, to have tho Republican press taking up the false accusations of the old liners against the principles of the Americans, and charging us with desiring to oxclude foreigners from all pertici pation in tbo affairs of government not allowing them oven to.land on our shores, and a hundred other things that can be proven against us, just as friend Gregg proves Abolitionism upon tho Republicans? We shall be guilty of no such

a folly, until we wish to pavo the way for sliding into the party that encourages the spread of slavory and msintaius tho present outrages against Americans, by iU complicity with foreign influences. We hope Uro. Gregg don't intend to land among the old liners, though his course, since the election, looks that way. Wo can't spare you, Bro. Gregg. How we give you up ? ut rll. r I n. We lose a subscriber every once in a while. Rome get too poor to tako It, though they are worth thousands some get mad at something some are indifferent about the nows don't care whether there is peaco or war don't coro who is President don't want to know. Some think we are too independent, some not independent enough, and so it goes new onos generally Hock in to fill their places. Rut we lost one of our best friends a fow weeks ago. Ho know that we would be surprised at his discontinuance and told us why. Said he: "I liko your pajier don't see how I can do without it but I have to do without it half the titno any how. When I come in from my work and enquire for it, wife says Mr. sent for it. He said he would send it right back. Then I swear it is wrong to swear, so I will remove this temptation. I'll stop tho paper at least till I turn Mr. to borrowing some where else, or to subtuibe for it" Now, Mr. you ought to bo ashamed. You will borrow this paper of an other neighljor. Just think what you havo done, by your meanness. You made that man swear, and you have roblod us of aft. WHS) le tmm ft easiest fluassT That is a hard questiou, and we will not discuss it in full. But for the benefit of those who have a disposition to discuss it wo will say that wo know of none meaner than certain jKst office loungers who habitually wait the arrival of tho A au.utcan, and either steal behind tho counter and read it, or solicit the Post Master to Just let them look at it a minute, and then sit in the way of honest people aud read every thing in tho paper. Some men that pretend to be honest men do this, ovory week. We should think thev would feel moan, in tho presence of honest meu, after thus stealing the reading of a paper every week. If there is any meaner man than the man, who thus steals his readiug, it is the Poet Master who helps him do it The oath of the Post Master is a nullity or he is a perjured man. The following is the law: "Sac 210. Poet Masters will not suffer newspapers to be read in their offices by persons to whom they are not address ed, nor to be lent out in any cose, without permission of the owners." Now if you wish to keep your Post Master from violating his oath of office, don't ask him to let you see any pajHsr but your ow n. 0 0 "Jameo Klnnrr, Dletamora. Cabthage, Ind., Dec II, '56. Mkssiis. Eos.: Yesterday evening a man, apparently a foreigner, was seen pus v ing on foot up the road leading from Burlington to Carthage. This morning he was seen lying in a fenco corner, by som j children who were going to school; soon after noon, some men being informed of his condition, took him to tho house of John Stepleton, whoro every means weere used to revive him, but in ten or fifteen minutes he expired a victim no doubt of intoxication. He is an entire stronger, and nothing about his person gives evidence of his name or residence, except a slip of paper found in his pocket on which was written, "James Kinney, Metamora." He had two dollars and two cents in money, which was directed to be appliod in part payment of his burial expenses. DAVID MARSHALL. Rushvilk Republican.

irrten I Uro at 4. rrrnratl 71 . . tIsssx ! ttac Bonrd. ' The Trustees of the Asbury University met in Greencostle, at tho call of the President week before last, to consider the late difficulties, growing out of tho order, forbidding night meetings of the Society. After deliberation, they passod the following Resolutions: Resolved, That as a general rule, in all matters of policy and government of the University, and tho students that may entor the University, tho aetion of the Faculty must be deemed and taken as supreme and final, from which we would not encourage any appeal to this Board. 2. That after a careful examination of the matter of thoso difficulties, our clear convictions aro that in all this the Faculty acted with a view to the best interests of tho Institution, though could tho end of these things have been seen from the boginning we might have a different time and manner for the action had. S. That we consider the suspension of a number of the students of this University, during the recent difficulties, as temporary and not as finally condemnatory. 4. That we know of no reason, why all the students remaining in attendance, may not with entire propriety continue; and we are clearly or the opinion that those who have left, may with entire self respect return; and that with the explanation of their action that the Fuculty have given us, and are still willing to givo those returning, they will find their position as pleasant, agreeable, and profitable, ns it was previously to those occurrencees. a. That a copy of tho foregoing pronmblo and resolutions, signed by the President of the Board, and attested by the Secretary, be furnished to tho Western Christian Advocate, and North Western Christiou Advocate, for publication, with a request to all Editors frieudly to ths Institution, to copy tho same. Attest JOHN A. MATSON, Jajus C. Yovno, Pres't. Sec'ry. These resolutions strike us as eminently wise and practical, if wo understand them correctly. While they do not endorse and approve tho course of the faculty, they do not succumb to the demands of those students who were really rebelliousThese demanded that tho tight to

moot at night should bo conceded by tho Trustees. We knew the Trustoes to be men of too good seuso to concede any such a thing. Whatever may be their personal views of tho propriety or impropriety of night meotings, that must in the very nature of tho thing Im left to tho discretion of tho Faculty. Wo would not remain a in umber of a Faculty 4 hours where a board of Trustees should assume to tlirect in a matter so inseparable from the discipline of tho Institution, unless the board would be responsible for all discipline. Tho Resolutions however, remind us very much of tho Platform of the Cincinnati Convoution the languago soems designed to conceal, not to express ideas. Liko ono of Shakespesro's plays, thoy may be styled "As you like It" The first Resolution, expresses tho views we advanced, some time ago. Though, as a genoral thing the course, of the Faculty should be final, this is such an oztraordinary case, as to justify an appoal to tho Hoard. The second, states what every body believed. The Faculty intended to do for the host, but were unfortunate ns to time and mannor. The third is not so clear, but interpreted by the fourth, must moan that thu suspensions aro ended, either by order of tho board or of the Faculty, or it means nothing. The fourth, is also meaningless, mil ess this bo the raoauing of tho third. We can not soe how any young man who was drivon away by suspension, on mere suspicion of rebellion, can return with "en tire self-respect," until that suspension is removed. Wore wo a student or the parent or guardian of one, thus suspended, we would never think of returning whilo the suspension lasted. If the Faculty have explanations, tho parents aud guardi ans interested will no doubt hoar thorn with ploasuro. Wo know a great many who would prefor patronising Greoucastlu to any other Institution, but who will never do it, directly or indirectly, if the right to suspend students bo recognized by tho Board, because they refuse to subscribe to new and unheard of "Declarations of Loyalty," in the midst of a term. A connection with a literary institution can never be either "pleasant agreoablo or profitable" wheu now terms of fellowship may be sprung upon the whole College, at any time, and a refusal to comply, be made a pretext for suspension, and a bar to honorable dismissal. As tho Hoard is composed of mon of good practical sense, we must infer therefore that they have ordered tho suspensions withdrawn. If we aro right in our interpretation of tho language of the Resolution, and if tho Faculty, or the board, iuform thoso interested, of this fact we seo no reason why all thoso who have not entered other institutions may not return, "with entire self-respect " to this institution of their first choice. We are sure that the most of our readers will rejoice with us at the probable termination of tho difficulties; that have threatened tho destruction of ono of the best institutions in the west We deoply regret that any thing of the kind has occurred. If, however, we have misinterpreted the moaning of the Board, and the suspension is to be removed only in individual cases, as thoy may return and beg their way back, the evil is only aggrava ted by tho action, or rather non-action of tho Board. But fow if any will thus return, aud parents understanding tho Board to endorse or to acquiesce in such discipline, will never jeopardize tho standing of their children by sending them whore they muy be thus summarily disgraced. l.rml Your Vmpmr Wo say again to our subscribers, Leml your paper. It may subject you to somo inconvenience, yet endure it Your neigh bor has a largo family, and but for your kindness tho children might grow up in ignorance. It may bo that ho is quite as ablo as you are, to buy a paper, but ho is too mean, or perhaps he thinks it no incon venienco to vou. Lend your paiier. It may benefit the children, and by and by tho man himself may think enough of himself to buy one. - An oxchango paper, announcing tho death of a gentleman, says that "the deceased, though a bank director, is generally believed to have died a Christian, and was much respected while living."

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03 Subscribe for tho AacaaicAJf and begin with the new year and our new drees. fjyWo want some corn. Who will supply us? fy Sugar is high use the less of it, and it will come down. (O Gallion has some powerful nice things for New Years. fcjr The legislature of this state meets next Thursday. They won't do much. Footmen were crossing the East fork on the ice last week. fjr Thomas Skinner, 8r., is tollman on the Bloominggrovo pike. IGT Clint Roberts has bought the Smith farm, noar Ebinozer. 07" There is room for soveral students in the Brookville College. new f4y- The revival at Robins Chapel in Union county is still progressing. Ö3T We would like to got a letter from Maj. Reeks, of Omaha. (7" Read tho beautiful story on tho first pago fäT Tho Canal has boon frozen over, several days. fjy Howland and Morrow havo formod a law partnership. 0r- The Valley House stable is a splendid affair. King has it well kept fyT E. H. Meyer has some pretty saddlery for his customers. Otr For tho Rifle, Ax and Saddlebags, go to Dr. Keely. (Qr Rev. Mr. McFarland is acting as agent for the Dunlapavillo Academy. Tho Commissioners intend to submit the question of a bridgo tax to a vote of the people next April. OCT We hope our farmers are making arrangements to make sugar the coming spring. At present prices it will pay. Qj Court of Common Pleas meets next Monday. Mc Crookshank will prosecute in a horn, he will. 07" The man who says Link does not koep a general assortment of goodsis a know nothing and a fjp Considering they enmo from the country, Slaughter and Williams do a line business. 07" That widower what was coming horo for a wife need'nt come, unloss he come soon, clso Rumor tolls a story. OT Squire Riggs keeps his office in Uailo't building. Why don't ho advertise? 03" J. D. I low Lue I is making arrangements to movo to Indianapolis iu tbs spring. 03" As wo predicted, Bro. Eddy is improving tbo North Wostern Advocate, to our taste, vory much. 03" Tho oyster suppers nt tho College and at tho Prosbyteiran Church wet well attended and yielded well. 0 President Boswiok is w inning golden opinions among tho students. Wn knew ho would take. OCT" Bov. J W Mallendar hi tbo greatest mnn in the S. E. Ind. Conference. Ho ways upwards of 300. 03" Quarterly mooting liegins at tho Methodist church in Laurel next Saturday. 03" Pastors of churches, of all denominations receive tho America at a dollar per year. 03" A friend writes that ho hod intended to cull his first boy John Charles Fremont but it is a girl. Call hor Jessie, thou. L'V Win. Lynn has Sold his farm in Bloominggrove township to Frank Swift, for forty dollars por acre. Mr. Lynn will removo to Bloominggrove. 03" Tho goods at King & Wost's are nono tho worse because tho proprietors aro old liners. Their goods are right on tho goose if thoy are wrong. 03" "Goodwin was right after all" said an old line tax payer, a fow days ago Others will think so before pay day is ovor. 03" Miss Lock wood, tho accomplished Music Teacher at the Colloge, has just bought a new piano of Smith & Nixoa, for tho College. OCT Though thore has been n groat kil ling off of Shanghai's this winter, the Shank-highs on Main street are up and & doing. 0r Chaffee is catching some pretty pictures in his Gallery. Ho hasn't got ours yet Never havo our Sundays on excopt Sunday, then he don't take 03" D. V. Johnston makes a Lotion that cures Rheumatism, quickest kind. It is good for back-ache, but don't cure empty purses. 03" B. F. Webb A Co. have purchased John N. Clements' property in Blooming grove, together with tho stock of mor chandise. Mr. Clements dosigns emigrat ing to Wisconsin in the spring. 03" Wo understand that Blooming grove is putting on city airs. Two dog geries are in successful operation there, and drunken men are seen almost daily on tho street. 03" Clint Roberts's team started)home, in unbecoming haste, Christmas, instiga tod thereto by some fire crackers from the boys. Thoy wore caught alxvo the toll gate. 03" We ask pardon of good boys for not including them in the hint to parents to buy a nice book for a New Years' present. It can bo done yjt. Thoso pretty books are not all gone. 03" Fred Baker is dunning us for what wo owo him. Can't do anything for him till thoso who owo us pay up. Don't like to dun. Who will tako tho hint without waiting for a dun? If vou owo Baker, pay him. 03" The jail caught fire on Saturday morning lost Unfortunately tho flames wore discovered in timo to be extinguished.. A. Trib. That wasn't our jail. It is too mean to burn. We can ' t recommend it to boarders. 0r We would suggest the following Resolution for Congressional consideration: Hesalved, That all cussing and discussing of tho President's message be terminated instanter, aud that wo proceed to pretend to earn our money I"

An interesting revival of Religion

is in progress, at Colloge Comer, Ohio, un der tho labors of Rev. J. W. Winchester. It is expected thst Csssius M. Clay will lecture before the Republican in Covington some timo during tho next month. The assessors of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, where Mr. Buchanan resides, return on their lists of taxableproperty, one slave! Wo never bet hut if we did wo would bet that Qov. Wright wrote the resolutions adopted by the board at Oreenoastle. If Link wants to see a pig of the right kind, lot him inspect tho nice one wo received from Scoby. May be ho can afford to buy one of thesamo kind. Sco by has some left. A lady of Madison, Ind., was com pellod, a fow days since, to undergo tho operation of having a largo portion of the bones of her upper jaw removed. The disoase of the lone was originally caused by neglected tooth. A distinguished gentleman of Indianapolis started to gn to Franklin on the Madison road, a few days ago, but found himsolf on tho Lawrencoburgh cars. It is said he was sober, too. That is equal to losing pocket book, watch and horse, by another of tho samo cloth. Mr. complains that his neighbor always gets the readiug of his American before he does himself, under pretext of tokinir it to him from tho of fice. Ho keeps it a day or two and then sends it read and worn, to him. He would rather go after it to the office, him self. A "Good Wifi"says she will par don hrr husband fur not yet buying her a ncwlxok, if ho will do so at his earliest convenience. Keely has some left. Good wives oao always indulgent and for boariuir, but their! patience mav locomo exhausted. Important Decision. Tho Supremo Court decided, last week, that the Brook ville and Oldcnburgh turnpike company, could compel the payment of thu stock subscribed to it This will at least insure the ereotionof the bridgo, if not tho com pletion of tho pike. Sir Walter Scott was nomcwhat ad lictcd to punning. Among n thousand instances of this propensity wo recorc ono. A Triond borrowing a hook ono day, Sir Walter put it into his hands with thoso words: "Now, I consider it necessary to remind you that this volume should bo soon returned, for, trust me, I find that although many of my friends are bad arithmeticians, almost all of them aro good book-heepere." Ladies' Repoextury. Fink Spkculation. M. G. Bright has sold his interest in the chanco to swindle by the now inctitution called the New State Bank, to tho directors of tho old St..t Bank at Madison, for $26,000. We bolievo that all tho branches havo been sold to tho old Bank ut from $10,000 to $25,000 pej branch. Bright Co. guarantee to tho purchasers whatever legislation may bo nocossary to mako the thing go. Col. Benton, during his visit to the city of Lawrence, visited tho "Oliver School-House," and addrcssod the pupils. He afterwards visited tho Atlantio Cotton Mills with Gon. Oliver, tho Agont, and minutely examined ovory stage of tho process of manufacturing, asking a great variety of quostions of the operatives, with whoso appearance ho was both surprised and ploased. Ho had nover bofore visited oither a public school or a manufactory iu Now England. John P. Williams of Waterloo, Fayette county, has moved to Brookville to educate his children. That is a sensible movo. There are hundreds of families who could do bettor to buy or rent property hero and move horo whilo thoir children ure being educated, than to pay the enormous prico for boarding elsewhorc, aud loso sight of thoir children at the important age of Colic-go life. Rents aro cheap, and there is not a healthier town in tho west. It is both cheaper and hotter to mako such moves than to send children abroad, from un dor tho eyo of tho parent 0T What a pity that tho slaros, who aro so well cared for, and who enjoy so many privileges as they do in tho Southern States, should bo mado miserable by the interference of those who are no better than thioves and murderers at heart ! Nashville Christian Advocate. It ii a pity, Brother McFerin. It is a pity, too, that the slaves who aro so we 11 cared for don't know it Can't you send them the Advocate, and prove to them that slavery is a Christian institution? Can't you prove to them that those who stole them from thoir own froo country, and enslaved them, aro model Christinns, and thoso who would froo them aro thieves? Try it You cau do wonders. Try this. I'ltrsordmsr) News from Utah Judicial Ckarare ag-alnot I'oiigd mr, At the July term of tho Frst Judicial District Court of Utah Territory, held at Geuoa, iu Carson county, Judgo Drummond charged the Grand Jury vory forcibly and earnestly upon the following, among other soctions of the Criminal Code : It is wholly useless and noonday madness for tho Legislature to pass laws, and for the Föderal Government to soud judges and attornoys hero to execute those laws, if tho mandate of ono man clothed with a priestly power and wholly unlearned in tho scienco of the law, is to bo permitted to not only thwart the action of tho Legislature of tho Territory, but boldly and openly bid defiance and sportive rebellion against tho Federal authority of tho United States, and dictate to grand juries when to find bills of indictmen and when not These things cannot be endured in a republican government All these mon, thoroforc, who havo a multiplicity of women residing with them at tho samo house or at the same harem, aro subjects of your investigation. I have already instructed you that there is no law in this territory authorizing any one to perform marnago ceremonies, either in or out of the church; and much sj you may regret to do so, it is nevertheless your duty to respect tho law of tho land, and prefer bills of indictment against all such as havo not boon legally married iu somo other countries, und particularly when two or more women are found cohabiting with the same man.

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en us tne louowmg items from i ascaue, Iowa, dated Dec. 1 4, 1866 : Snow is about 12 inches deep; mercu ry, about ten degrees alve zero very pleasant winter. Ccrn is worth 33 cents; wheat 50 to 66 cents; pork $5 per cwt; flour $6 per barrel; apples 3 for 6 cents; butter 30 cents per lb; bay 10 to 18 dollars per ton. Dry goods and groceries, about the same as in Indiana. Horses and horn cattle very high, although, decidedly tho highest thing I have soon out here, is the shot tower at Dubuque. Te Pooteaaotere. Wo wish to call your attcntiou to the following section of the Post Oftice Law : ".Sue. 210; 'tmaster$ trill not vffn newspapers to be read in tteir qgke by per sons to M they are not aiMressed, nor to be lent out IN ANY CASE, without permission of the owners," Tho repeated complaints which wo roceivo from subscribers, in regard to violations of this law, lead us to conclude that you have either overlooked it or that you disregard your official oath. lie Wltbdrawi. The RushviHe Republican publishes the following withdrawal card of a late Know Nothing of Rush county: "Cord for The .lacksonian to tho members of the Counsil of tho American order of indiana and the World: "Jcntelmeii having tried to obtain a meeting of your AsHociation for tho purpus of renounceing my membership, and hcain in formed that thai re was No more of them in existence by soma of the hod leaders. I take this public method of saying That I nm No longer a memlier of your order I am convince that its principles of aire opposed to good government and union loving meu. . . .therefoar i announce to All whomo it may coneccrnod That I am no longer a member of your organiza tion and party and i will oppose it and its Candidates Hoping it may sink to tho bottomless pyt of cndlcs wo i was borne a No nothing bored by the no Nothings Chyzzled by the fusionists and misod a Damocrat J E W November a l85ß P. S. Brother Democrats please publish this." Prom Hm UfsyottsCourior, Ucc.'.'fl. i ii. Ntrsmp l.and I'rsud. Tho Indianapolis papers aro giving us an inkling of somo stut,cndous frauds re cently committed by certain high d ignite ries, as a result of which about ono hun dred thousand acres of the Swamp Lauds havo passed into their possession. From what we can gather it appears that in tho year 1855, tho sales of Swamp Lands for oash being dull and tlm perquisites of tho ofUcors for making and signing patents greatly reduced, tho Oovornor and tho Treasurer of State issued a circular to tho Swamp Land Commissioners direction them to suspend further operations of draining unless the contractors would re ceive tho lands themselves in payment. Thoso instructions wore finally modified or construed by somebody to authorize tho Commissioners to issue to tho contractors n scrip or warrant redoomablo in lands, authorizing the holder to enter any of the Swamp Lands remaining unsold. From this unwarrantable stretch of power the progress n as easy to tho consuination of the frauds for which tho parties are now arraigned before tho public. Under somebody's instructions, or without any instructions whatever, tho Swamp Land Commissionors of Jasper county proceeded to lot contracts for draining to a few of the initiated, at enormous prices. Tho contractors gave each other, or somebody elso, as security for tho fulfillment of their respective contracts, and before a dollar's worth of work wasdono, tho scrip was issued, the laud located, and the doods ware iu rapid process of preparation, when an injunction was sued out enjoining tho Secretary of Stato from any further procodings. The parties profiting by this land ocration are not all known, but wo understand that among them aro that vory rovcrenced and pious saint Father Laraboc, whoso grasp embraced somo eighteen thousand acres, Col. Allen May, of ponderous paunch, K. B. Collins, Secretary of State, and Messrs. Daggy and Blake of Grecncastlo. Tho Oovornor and Treasurer of State aro exonoratod from any participation in tho frauds, although wo think they erred greatly in tho issue of thoir circular, thereby oponing the door for tho disastrous consequences which havo followed. Wo trust the matter will bo fully investigated, and that strict justice may bo dealt to tho parties, no matter whoro the blow may fall. If Republican ofheors havo encouraged or participated in this speculation, let them be exposed if Father Larabeo is tho guilty party, let him bo compelled to disgorge. It is timo that tho gamo of swiudliug tho State should b arrested; ovon Willard and Hammond havo nover played the State so foul. Wo understand Joe McDonald, our accomplished Attorney General has sworn that ho will put them through "or elso re movo tho Capitol to FreoSoil." Waat the southern CanvenOon liaa done far the south, The Richmond Ifnquirer has n high ap preciation of tho benefits of tho lato Commercial Convention in Savannah to tho South, it says: "Tho most ardont and enterprising minds in the service of tho South, is not surprising that tho enthusiastic pursuit of a glorious object should occasionally betray them into somo slight extravagance of speculation. Despite those drawbacks tho Convention at Savannah imparted impulse to tho movement. It discovered our necessities." If the Convention did that, it performed a good work, for which the South ought to be grateful. But, then, the Convoution ought to havo gono a little further, and, after discovering the necessities of tho South, havo discovered somo means of supplying thorn. The South will by and by discover, possibly, that ono of its necessities is not a Commercial Convention. Tho Enquirer itsolf, judging from the following sentence, seems to havo discovered as much: "Kvory abortive attempt to raise tho Slave States to the dignity of an independent and sclf-siutaining community only results iu tightening tho bonds of their subjection. If this last effort cau be baftled, jicrhai the capital of tho North will be secure of its ascendency." But tho last effort appears to have bulli ed ÜnK-uK r. Tines.

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Tb .Ars In Tlraad Stoffs to Knmna ... ..o. ... . I nwa of which rear hnri Cincinnati lut I Monday, depressed the market though . v .. ,..-A Vtmr is 5: 16 to 6:96; Wheat 1:13 to 1:18; Corn äh-riMw j- Hav cm iö pAf,wM I Ho 6-oo toP:M). W - . Important "lave Trial kfl.r. Nupreme Caart mt tmm Vmltmm ntatao. We have not yet noticed this case which is new pending, because we could nc fully understand tho joints at issue. The following from a Washington letter-writer, gives tho history of the case. We shall apprise our readers of tho result at the earliest moment: "Dr. Emmerson. of the TJ. fl. Armv. took with him from Missouri a slave named Dred Scott as a body servant to a milIa a t.i.j its oii -f l TlUnnim A Ttor rrm h nn !h.r t.wn vn.r. i... tr Vnrt Sn.llini, which ta I north of the line of 38 30. At this post a slave woman, brought there by Major Taliafero, and owned by him, was married w a n 1 it l i a. t 1 3 to urea Bcoit na nu lW0 cnnaren, ono of them bom at this noat and another after tho parties had returned to Missouri. Neither of these slaves were ever manua a .a a . a nutted bv their owners. But under tne Constitution of Illinois, Slavery is prohib ited, and Dred Scott could have asserted his right to freedom in that täte. The .a .1.11 -iii other post wnere ncott ana ms wi e resiaea ir Ac in n Tamtstrv frnm whirh S hviTV ift 1 excluded bv the Missouri act of 1820. " ar tit ta s. j vn. ...w.. - w i "Scott aud his wife were sold by their owners to Saodford, against whom the mit was Mougnc lor men iroeuom. rjcott i p n'mn. fliaf li-ivlnrr lvonn vol un tnml v rar. I riod by his master into a Free State, and having been their domiciled, he was, upon his voluntary return with his master, to Missouri, a free man there, in virtue of his i' mi K i.il v .caiuei ui ... a. ..CD ici.iw.j. . ' - . I ho same claim was mado in behalf of his wife. Tho Missouri Court decided adverssl v to the claim, on the ground that the temporary residence in a Free State uui not MiHKO mum nuo in um tat vi Miasonri, unless thoir owners had signified some intention to manumit them bv taking -.4 i. . r u..t. .r them into free territory, which did not appear to be the fact in this caaa. Una Scott appeals to tho United States Su preme Court" Kcott's claim to foeodom rests upon two grounds, first that he was token volun tarily by his master into a State whose Constitution prohibited Slavery, and resi ded thoro two years; second, that he was afterwards taken into a Territory from which, by act of Congress, Slavery had boon expressly prohibited. His wife's claim rests upon tho last of these two grounds alone. It will bo seen that if the Supreme Court sustains tho right of Congress to prohibit Slavery in a 1 crritory, and also holds that tho muter lost his right of property by taking tho slave into a Territory where Slavery could not legally exist, both Scott and his wifo must be decided to be free, These two points, if decided in favor of tho claimants, will cover tho whole oaso. If tho decision is against them, ou either lMiitit in Hcotl'a roao Ihn romainW mint roust be considered, namely, whethor a rosidonee of two yean in a Free As w,th thoconseut of his roaster, entitles him to his freedom. The question which this iuvolvos is, substantially, whether any tittUc has Ü right to alidisJi Mattery, jt whether slave property is so recognized or protected by the Constitution of the United States that it can not be impaired or divostod by Stato laws. Tho South has of late years claimed that they hold their slaves as absolute properly and that the Federal Constitution regards and recognises them as such. If this is so to its full extent, then all the rights of property must go with them, and they must bo protected iu exercising those rights wherever the Föderal Constitution is th supremo law of tho laud. The opposite view has been that slaves, if property at all, wore so only by virtue of the local law of the State in which they aro held, and that the Constitution recognized property in slaves only so for as it reoogni-.-.es the right of each State to mako such laws, if it seos fit The decision of this point is of the most fundamental importance- It may be evaded by tho Supremo Court in this caao but only by sustaining tho power of Congress to legislate on tho subject of Slavery in tho Tcriterics. son i here Appr. Uratltn la regard to Hurhanan. Tho Now Orleans Delta says; "There are many recent indications which compel us to believe that Mr. Buchanan is likely to disappoint the legitimate expectations of the South, and to select such persons for his govermental advisers as the earnest believers in States', Rights and progressive politics cannot conscientiously accept without some grumbling and discontent at least" Tho Delta scorns to foar that instead of being a Northern man with Southern principles, ho may prove a Southern elected with Northern ideas "opposed to us in K.in.vis, opposed to us in Mexico, opposed to us in Nicaragua, that ho is the same man whoso only argument in favor of the admission of Texas was that Slavery wo'd find its resting place and grave iu her ter ritory a most unstetesmanlike mistake, by the way, as the results have shown, that ho will be as tricky, and insincere, and an ti-progressive, and angular, as Marcy with out Marcy's acknowledged capacity for affairs of State; in a word, that he sho'd be President" In regard to the future course of the South, the same paper says: ''She has gainod a respite of four years; tho worst hypotheses permit that and she should use that respite well. The spirit, the onergy, tho determination which made hor influence indomitable iu the recent struggle, should not bo permitted to flag; heaven knows they v II be necdod still. Her duty can bo sum id up in two words development aud preparation. Tho former covers tho area of Mexico, Central America and Cuba; the latter in volvos the necessity of breaking down the petty cliques by which sho has been affiic ted, and of seizing tho weapons of the foes who are in her midst In any case wo cannot remain quiescent We must rub or rust do or die. The secret of Demosthenic oratory action, action, ac tionis tno secret underlying the political existence of the South. It is better to do a wrong thing, than nothing. Tho movements of railroad trains have boon vory much interrupted in Iowa by deep snows. Tho cold weather expe rienced here prevailed in that State with great sorority.

a l' SVll lm m'tw4. ..lnm. Ih laniiir 1 ftf7 It - Mark Forrester, the wslltaowD writer for the young, who, the reading community will bear in mind, Uecemectod with no other periodical. l be riaymate has uiiu uhvbwiiii i i t .... .... . w .1. - t writer, as "tne see as-aasv vr i ii:i 1 TL. uUUIian goxino puwuuru. p mean to keep it so. its esaMUatttsssnai are new. and the readir.2 matter almost wholly original. An entire number might be filled commendatory notices of the press. The Family Gezette says: "No parent who cares a button for nil childrfjs walfare, can spend a dollar more profitably than in subscribing for the Pisymate." But w Prfcr 1l aEliie H ! owo story. Those parent who have aery choice abont what their children read.oho'd " ' " sell, alter a trial, no rsnnsnsnsadstion of others would be of any The Plsvmate is published monthly, at jJoUar a year, in aifwaee. To dubs, , r f-v-Wi 76 Ct" P rT enclosing 1 y may be sent at our risk, if directed to William Gnild A Co., 156 Washington St. oal. Baiataa's aaaalta. t m ot locture at Boatoa, CoL Bon . ,, , . aimtmtt oaa a a . a 1 aJ W'0" lMm person who had attained an ijmjt wbicb the Psalmial assigns to the line , . . . . ' ' - -oclat with sorrow. and weakness. 1 hus lar he was exempt from these infirmities. How came it that tftjg vaneed age he was blesaed with , , . , lL..lai.liiuir Ihitu inflRnitiM i huh ara v " supposed to belong to it? He owed it to the course of his earl v life. Franklin f h v. warmiv eulOInadl was once callv w w - , , . . .,,,; u , r.,,-- L. th American Aquattc, because be drank nothing but water. In that respect he had imitated Franklin, tie totally abtuined for tho first half of his Ufa. and was temperate the other half. He had not only totally abstiinadl from afaatMsassj aquors, vinous liquors, fermented liquors, and everything of the kind, but he had kept himself free from every kind of diasjpsrffea. A pplause. He knew no game whatever, and to this moment could not teil, when looking at a party playing cards, which was the loser and which the winner. He had often sat up all night watching tho sick, an military duty, and a book a book had often kept him awake; bat h had never spent one night in dissipation Taa Fay mt Pt Ma. Eorron : The Disciplinary allowuce of the Methodist Itinerants d, by most if not all who have given the subject due consideration, to be hardly adequate to a liberal support if that allowance was patd in roll, which is not always the case. To make irsasli I for this, in SODAS degree, allow SM to eattasA mm several Stewards, in ' their collecüons, request each massber to pay the greater part of the amount which he exjeu to pay for the year, the first quarter. And among other rations for making the requoa ing may be presented. The expenses of tho Preacher of this season of tha year are much greater than at any other. Hie moving expenses, if he came from another circuit, are to be paid. Winter clothing for himself and family are more expenses than for the summer. His horso food ought now to be laid in; hay by the ton, corn by the load, else he may have to pay much higher by buying by the small, when these articles become scarce. Provisions, also, for his family, such ss pork, beef, sugar, coffee, etc., can be bought much cheaper by wholesale now, thau in small quantities afterwards. Auother consideration is that when a man has the money to pay down, he is not compeled to buy just when he has a credit whether the articles or the price suits him or not, but he can go where ha can Isy out his money to the beet advantage, and thus procure for the same sum, more, and perhaps better articles than he then could anywhere on credit Now, as money is plontiest at least in the country in the winter, our people can pay more then, and feel it lata, than they can at the close of the conference year, when money is scarce; and, if the proposed plan is adopted, I think the oases in which our preachers will have to report a deficient when they go up to Conference, will be few. Being appointed collector for our Society for this year, I tried to explain to each the necessity of preachers for money, in the winter. All acknowledged the propriety of paying most at this season. Several said it had not occurred to them before, but they would just as soon pay the greater part then, and did so; and some few paid all they expect to pay for tha year. Now, I think it is only neoeeaary that those who attend to the matter of collecting, not only for the Methodist prenchers, but for preachers of other de nominations, also, to mention this matter to those who contribute to their support and the call will be responded to satisfactorily. A FRIEND TO ALL GoSPKL MuUSTKBe. Hhrritb. On Tueaday, Dec 93, 1864, by Bar. Wm. Fleming, Jos H. Jovas, of Rising Sun, Ind., and Man Straw. Orxurrr, of Dearborn county, Ind. On the 18th Dec, by Rev. i. B. Latbrop, Joaw Dan and Mania J. Darn, af Bath township. litt. Meuxda P. Shabt, wife of Johnathan Smart, at Metamora, Monday, 8id inst, aged about SO. On the 18th of December, at his residence near Mt Carmel, Mr. Bnrun Ceaio, aged 70 years. On tho 30th of October, 1866, at his residence near Mt Carmel, Mr. Josun Lowes, aged 7 1 years. The deceased was a native of Basnet set county, New Jersey, lie removed at the age of ten years to Hamilton eeeaty, Ohio, whi re he resided until 1818, when he removed to near Mt Carmel, the place of his death. He united with tho Presbyterian chorea in Springfield, now Spnngdale, Ohio, in the year 1815. He died resting firm II v on the all-atoning blood of Christ for salva tion. His last wonts were, "All is wen." He has left a large cirri of relatives and friends to mourn their leas, hat what is their loss, we trust is his infinite gam. MAL.

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