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TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: $3,50 53.00 PER YEAH, IK ABTASCB. c ' IF SOI PAID IX ADTAKCS. No postage on papers delivered within this County. COULDN'T AFFORD TO MARRY. It was noticed among the friends of Mr. n T1. Tan a that, for pome case unknown to them, a sober hue had fallen on his thoughts. The reason was inferred, and correctly. Arrows from a pair of bright eyes bad wounded him. and the pain found no abatement night or day. Was the maiden coy or unkind? No the maiden was familiar and tender. there was healing in the eves that shot forth arrows. And the rain found no abatement night nor day? None! George Lane was no blind ; lover, ready to risk all consequences in pursuit of any object our a young man who counted the cost. This was the reason of his trouble. Love is sweet, but life is a thing of sober earnest; and George put the love and life together, taking things as they were, he could not see how love was to leave any permaneut SWeetllCSS. I An intimate friend, holding him by the 1 hand ore day, said: George. mv dear fellow, what has come j over you? I don't believe you have smiled lor a month, Are you in love." "Yes," was the frank reply. j "Aha! a sickness of the mind. Well; I'm clad to know it's nothing more seri- j ( -.u. Love wouuds to heal. If, as the j poet says, "Kevn tnn.-irt throb? through every vein" i it is also tiue that we never knew . "?u sweet a pain. ' j There is no sweetness in my case "! said the young man. The pain is sharp.! an 1 there was uo medieiue on the arrow Hat." "Tl en the maiden is unkind." "No."' She loves you in return?" "It I have any skill in reading eyes." "What, then? Are her parents uuwilU 11H T have never asked them." 'You are a strange lover to look so Woe j begone. Wheie rests the trouble. "lucre is much beyond love,' aid I re. 1 es. "Mnrriasre and cost of living. "Title. But ymi have a s. 11ji4 trip vim it inttu not hi ti i'? jd salary. - - j - r 1 " "!it- has a father who is doing an ex ct Pent business; but the family live at an e.cnsr which tuu-t cover, if not more than cxh-iust, all the rrt tits." "Who is the vmitig ladv? letray ur coi.tMetM e " '"liic vuuuuest daughter West.'" " will not of Abraham "Hardware merchant?' j "'I he sa me." "1 kt.uvv her, and a sweet girl she is.' Nellie W est. Why Gcotge she's tho very oue lor you. And you have lavor in her ees! I congratulate jou." , You necdii't then," was the sombrelaced reply of Lane; for I am not wii!es enough to he ir my neck to ihn tialtcr of matrimony if t he act is to bind me to a pitpvtual serfdom.' "What do you meat.?"' "."simply, that the manner in which Mr. "V est has raised his daughters utjfi's tin to for the po-ition of wives for yovng men d my condition. I hey have the education, t tie tastes, and the accomplishments we desire and must have; but their habits acd expectations are fatal dowries for any poor jounr man to accept. They have no fortune to bring their husbands, and yet mast be supported iu comparative elegance. 1 he iota ol useful employment does not seem to hae entered their minds. Work iu their view, involves something of degledatton. Ah, well I must dismiss a fond allusion which was sweet while it lasted. 1 shall s:o no further in this unsafe ditection. bome other n an, bolder or less inclined to count the cort, must win the consent fioiti a heart it would be a life long happiness to call my own.'' "Nonsense, George," replied the friend. 'lt the joung lady really loves )ou, she will adapt hciscif to your cirevmstunces. Neliie is a charming gitl. Pi ess your suit and after gaining her consent, talk oer life's sober realities with her. iShe has .sense and right feeling and will readily comprehend how much happiness is involved in your prudential ideas. A woman who loves a man well enough to marry him, will cheerfully accommodate herself to his circumstances.' "Accommodate!" said the youns man. curling l is lips. -I don't like the word' It hurts my pride." "Piide is never a good counsellor, friend George." "My manhood, then. It hurts my manhood. A young woman without a dollar in tne world, 'accommodate' herself to th re circumstances of a young man whose inerne is twelve hundred a year! You can t reconcile me to the case "under that plea. My frtdc, manliness, self-love or seif esteemas you will revolts against the humiliation. No, no George 'Lane has independence as well prudence, aud thinks their counsels worth heeding." 'While I think,' answered the fnend that Gee rge Lane is a little too hi-h strung f r the case under consideration! know Nillie very well, and thi,,l- I,.,wnsible girl. True, the way in which her 1 stents have conducted her home education is not favorable to just views in life lytt love is clear sighted strong-hearted. Jake her out of her present false relation to society, aud she will make you, I am sure, a g ,od wife in every respect.' 'No, sir,' was firmly answered. 'Even as 1 talk with you, and listen to what you M5 1 grow more resolute in my purpose Jo recede from a dangerous position. It Nellie was alone in the world, I might act differently. But look nt the case as it stands, and see what risks are involved. 1 here a e two older sisters both married; rul their husband's noses, to use a homely rhrase, are well down upon the grindstone and hkeiy to remain there. Already both j'ave gone through the ordeal of a fall in business and no wonder.' !Not being able as clerks to maintain "eir domestic establishments they were

"THE UNION, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS." VOL. 8, NO. 2. BROOK VILLE, IND., FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1869. WHOLE NO. 367.

foolish enough to sit up in imitation of . other people silly as themselves: thev; must have stores of their own, from the income of which they drew with such unscrupulous hands, that more than all the profits were consumed in costly living ' 'Somehow or other, in their breakdown they have managed to keep their fine furniture and houses, and s!ill live before the world in what to ma is shameless ex travagance. Both are clerks again: but how the manage to keep up appearances as thev do, passes my comprehension. I have met their wives a few times at Mr. j West's, and they hold their heads as high j ; as queens. I am nobody in their estimation? Why, the jewelry, lace, tnd other I showy things the flaunt in other people's eyes so shamelessly seeing that somebody besides their husbands have actually paid tor them cost more than a third of my year's salary ' 'YTou have nothing to do with these ' interrmsf d the f. ipnd l q w thing to do with them. But the anycase would have another bearing were I a ! brother-in-law. I would have their bad I influences operating on my wife. She must have as costly outfitting as they.; She must have as hue a house to live in, and as fiue furniture to display to her friends; and my nose must come down to i a grindstone, like the noses of their un- ! fortune husbands. I've gone over the matter twenty times or more, and can see t it uo different, it won't do and there is uo use iu trying to harmonize things that are utterly incongruous. ; 'Take another view. Suppose Nellie came into my views of these things, and turned herself away from all these allure- j nients. Suppose we, like sensible people, lived below our income, and set ourselves to make provision for a time when expenses would gradually accumulate; set up business, perhaps, and rise into a position ot some influence in tne way or mouev tat!e,s. Then I must consent to I e rumed, or written down as a miser and a churl tj the whole tamuy. l'apa lives on the ! extension principle, just making both ends meet, as 1 infer. Well, tight times come , every now and then, tie has failed once in his life, and may fail again. When the strain cjulils resistanc e, a slight ini crease of force snaps shafts of timber. If pspa gets in trouble, and son in-law is all right, son in law, must go to the rescue, tink or swim. It wont answer you see.' ; 'I've counted the cost, and think it too ;ieat, have looked over the hcde before ieaping, and am aftaid of the ditch on the ; otlu r side.' I T see how it is,' answered the friend. ( 'you have large can! ion." j 'Am I not right?' 'Perhaps so. But lovers, whose hoar's are as much interested as vours seems to b are not apt to throw prudential reasons oi tuts cnaracicr in ine way or ineir nat . 1 - 1. . 1 . 1 pi ness. fhev arc usually inclined to take council el love atone. 'I have seen pictures of love blindfolded, but I think love a false god.' 'As you wili," said the friend. 'But this I know; if my heart were interested in Nellie, I would never abandon her on the plea that you have advanced; at least nor before I w;s well assured that the false lile which a kind of domestic necessity she has thus far led, had so fostered pride and vanity a to deprave her understanding. Be assured, George, that inthisyou sin not against your own heart, but the maiden s!" T spent an evening with her last week,' he replied. 'I went with my mind more than half made up to let my lips betray my feelings. It so happened that she was not alone. A young lady was her guest; a very sprightly, out spoken, critical, rather sharp tongtud girl of eigh'een or twenty smart enough for sixteen. People and things were talked about with a flippancy and freedom neither charitable nor delicate. Among other subji-ots the marriage of a friend was discus-ed, and the weli or ill of the case settled in a manner that made my cheek burn." 'I never thought Amy the simpleton to get married in that iiimo sort of a w:y," remarked the young lady. 'She must have i i j i wanted a hus'oam ? If a man can not do to better bv me than that, I'd advise him give my door a wide berth. 'Nellie laughed at her friend, returned a few assenting words that stung me to t lie r i. ti. . r : i .i . q-iictL. i ne; preseui oi a ring oy r ue i young husband was remarked upon. Nellie ; said it was an emerald, but her f riend I jronounced it green glass, adding that! nothing but a diamond would have suited her ideas. I waited iu uncomfortable suspense for Nellie's response. It came in these words. Nothing but diarxcuds for' me; 'Thoughtlessly said, George! remarked i his fiieud. You j light speeches of I without thinking, I talk.' i 'It. was jesting. take too seriously the l itis, who of.cn talk just to hear themselves answered Line, 'the subject was unfortunate at the time. But - j I this was not all. My ears were quick: n"d

1 took in every reflection of voice. Neliie said many other things connected with' We have lately been reading of some i the subject of their youtig friends marriage ' person w ho was killed by a cork, which to a poor young man who could not afford struck him in the eye wh.eu drawing it, her a respectab'e place in society that it But if the curb has killed its one man, conwould be folly for me to forget. When I j sider how many thousands the Lottie has left her house that evening, I drew a veil killed without a word being saiibout it! over her image in my heart, and I havel 1 tried not to hft that veil since. The pain ! Ore of the roysl generals in Spain reit is costing me I have not been able to ' cently condemned a child-only five years j entirely to conceal, as witness your obser- old to be shot as the son of a rebel. The I vation of a change in my appearance. But child not understanding the situation,

i I am strong enough to do what reason tells me is right. No word or intimatiou of what was in my heart have I passed to the young lady so that lean turn from her without dishonor. Heaven seud her a happy lot in life.' 1 he voice of George Lane faltered a lit - tie on the closinc: sentence. IIq was fuliv tn earnest, as shown in his subsequent conduct. Mote deeply than he imagined was the heart of Nellie interested, as her pale face, dreamy eyes, and quiet manner long afterward witnessed. But he did not return. 1 wo years afterward she married,

beginning life with a young husband just in business who drew from his lisbt card tal two thousand dollars to furnish his house in style suited to the social grade in which she had been moving. In three years extravagant living had consumed more than all he was worth, and under pressure of a 'tight money market' he failed and was sold out by the sheriff, Nellie being forced to go back with her two children to her father's house. The husband, in a fit of desperation, went off to California, and died from exposure ainorg the mines. In the meantime George Lane, who could never obliterate Nellie's image from his heart, continued to live a single life. lie was now in business, and gradually accumulated property. '1 he death of her husband, and in a month afterwards the death of her father, awakened anew his interest. lie knew she was poor and dependent aud he learned incidentally, with pain, that since the time of her father's death she was living in the house of a brother-iu-law who Was not able to support his own Jamily. That one still dear to him should be thus dependent, and as he felt humiliated, hurt the young man. lie could not bear the thought, and began turning overdo his mind one suggestion of means after another, looking to her relief. But here considerations of delicacy and propriety were in the way. iie felt he could do nothing. One morning he met her in the street. He was walking with his eyes on the pavenieet, thinking of Nellie, when looking up suddenly he saw her at a distance approaching. She was poorly clad, and had a bundle on her aim, which Lane recognized at a glance, as work from a clothing store. Their eyes met and rested on each other. Lane made a motion as if he w;ts going to speak; but Nellie dropped her veil, over her face aud moved on with a quicker pace. Ere the viel fell he saw an expression in her eyes, and on her changed aud waisted countenance, that fi led his heart with the tenderest and saddest feelings. What a history of suffering was ; revealed! ; The rest need not be told. If : lost her lover when the skies wove 1 she found him when the rain was into the dark days of her life, and painful experience has made her : clear. bright, i falling j v. hen ' VI i on i On the lovers X , - - , conduct turtiini from i .Nellie 1 tl tier sunny days we give no opinion. H e only yive the reason. Ii record the fact and Terences and oi iuious are with the reader and the lesson a ;S'J. Passions are like (heves, that watch enter undefended .laces. to Trish Toast. "And m iy he cat the hen that scratches over Ins iive to Why is a four quart measure li ke a saddle? Because it holds a o;,il-oii. It is doubtful if any man possibility do h is noblest, or deepest, without a preparation intr. Could by think his of sulfcrA tradesman in an Ohio city appends to his adertisen out, 'Ministers ot t lie uosrel supplied with goods at cost, if they airvee to mention the tact to their cc ngre gti tions.' Life is divided into three terms: that which was, whtch is, and whicii wui tie Let us learn from the past to profit by tl present, and from the present to live ter for the future. betNever get angry. It does no goodsi ol corn pensat ion or apology, a some sort, but present gratification ot anger has none. A man for it. It is really a feels no torment. better A girl presenting herself for a situation at a house 'where no Irish need apply,' in answer to the question where she came from, said, Shure, couldn't ye persave by me accieut that it's Flinch i am.' Lady Beaulieu was complaiuing of being awoke by a noise iu the night; her ioid , (an Irishman) replied, 'Oh, tor my part, I there's no disturbing me; if they don't wake me up before I go to sleep, there's j no waking me afterwards. Bismarck met his barber at Baden. Baden and affably epoke to him. The barber gave himself hairs, and complained of the mixed society at Baden Baden. The CYunt gave him a happy quid pro qffo, by remarking, 'Weil C , we cannot all be barbers, you know.' i It having been hinted to the barrister who was worrying the court with a long ; and dull argument, that he ought to bring i it to a close, he angrily replied: 'I will speak as long as I please! 'lou have speak as long as 1 spoken longer than said bis antagonist. .i t you jdcase already'. ' moved about, and by extraordinary luck : was not touched. The general then eoolv threw it an orange, and while stooping to pick it up, a second volley stretched it dead. No wonder the people rebelled and j overthrew such tyranny. ! ' A cnlKpriniinn rn rnr fnr ci-inm rfOioirm object was handed to n nealous church , member, when he remarked,," Well, I oati '' give five dollars and not feel it." 'Then,' said the solicitor, "give ten and feel it." ' The point was seen at once, and the "ten enot" was fWtlieominj'.

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Be a Woman. Oft I've heard a gentle mother, As the twilight hours began, , Pleading with a ton, ef duty, -" Urging him to be a man. But unto her blue-eyed daughter. Though with love's words quite as ready, Points sLe out this other duty, "Strive, my dear, to be lady?" What's a lady! Ts is something Made of hoops, and silks, and airs, Used to decorate the parlor, Like the fancy rugs and chairs? Is it one who wastes on novels Every feeling that i human? If 'tis this to be a lady, . 'lis not this to be a woman. Mother then unto yoar daughter, Speak of something higher far, Than to be a mere fashion's lady "Woman"' is the brighter star. If ye, ia your streng affection, t-rge your son to ba a true mas, "Urge your daughter no lc s strongly To arise and be a woui-jii. Yes. a woman brightest model Of that high and perfect heaaty, Where the uiiad, and soul, and body, Blend to work out life's great duty Be a woman nought is higher On the gilded list of fame; On the catalogue of virtue There's nobrighier, holier name. Be a woman on to duty Knis the world from all that's low, Place high in the social heaven Virtue's fair and radiant bow, Lend thy influence to each effort, That shall raiseour natures human; Be not fashion's gilded lady, Be a braie, whole-souled true woman. Alphscs.

Anecdotes of Grant and Sherman. J A correspondent, writing from Chicago j relative to the reunion of soldiers of the j Western armies iu that city last week, says: . . , .... ! What a pity it is that it will be impossi- j ble to preserve in printer's ink aud trans- j mit to posterity the spirit of the occasion. What anecdotes will be told around those festive board! What reminiscences will ! be conjured up to cause a moment's sad- ; ness only to be laughed away over recol- ; lections of a livelie kind. And, above! all. how these reunited comrades will de light in tellino; eood iokes at the expense of their fellows, and how the fellows will enjoy it. Indeed, they have already begun to circulate them, aud some of the best I send you as a preliminary dish to i the telegraphic surfeit. ! j I heard of one told ot the expense of i General Grnt, which is quite characteristic and not without burner. It is stated ' that at the late dinner given to the President elect Jt.y Mr. A. T. Stewart, converJ sation turned upon the subject of naturalization frauds which hud enahled the Democrats to carry New York for Seymour, and the amounts of money spent by prominent individuals to secure - the . i election of their favoritie. Scnie one .jocosely turned to General Grant and asked him how'many speeches he had made.

and how much money he had spent toisined Debt hez bin my rock ahead thro secure his election. lie said in reply that life and I'ebt is kiiiin me now. It ain't lie had expected when he accepted the ! Pebt exactly, neither, wich hurts us its

nomination of the party to be more round ly abused during the campaign by the newspai (irs of the other party than he had been, and he had early resolved to let all abuse pass unnoticed. lie had heard j ears before of a farmer in the West w ho had been repeatedly urged to run for Congress, a fid who at last consented, on condition that he was not to be asked to make a speech or wiite a letter during the can vass. lie was nominated, and soon alter it was rumored far and near that he was iti the -habit of stealing the hogs of his neighbors. lie rushed iuto print and " tuouuted the stumr. indignantly denying

the charges, throwing them back (in the j ekally rite to apply to matters uv mdiusuai sty le) into tlie teeth of his villifiers. j vidooals. 1 approve uv the President's "Of course he proved his in uocence," j method uv pacing debts, becoz it shows suggested one of the listeners. "By no me an escape from iuy troubles. 1 hev a means," returned General Grant; "his small puce uv land onto which my esneighbors' hogs had occasionally strayed j teemed Iriend Bacoiu hold a mortgage for into his itielosures; and so they proved it j money loaned ten years ago. I hev paid on him. I was afraid to deny any char- interest onto that note promptly fur ten

ges, he added with a smiie, "tor tear! they'd prove it on me.'' The moral of which story, especially dedicated to politi- i cians, is, "make deuiais and explanations only after an election," as Grant did iu the Jew order case. There are new and true stories totd, too, of Sherman, who is to anive to-morrow. One or two of him I hae uot previously seen in print, aud the best one he tells himself. The Lieutenant General, as is well knowu, is not the neatest of mortals, and one day an intimate friend, iu the Army of the Tennessee, asked him why he dressed so. "I'll tell yoti," said the General. "When I was a seeond lieutenant I was ordered one day to Washington City, and went in all the glory of a bran new uniform. I was standing in front of the hotel sunuing myself and quietly smoking a cigar when I became aware that I had attracted lha attention of a number of small boys, who gathered around in such numbers and with such admiring countenances upturned to mine, that I could uot but notice them. As 1 did so, one of the boldest of them spoke up in a loud voice and asked: "Mister where is your engine goiu' to squirt?"' General Sherman has never been guilty of a completely ucw uuiiorm since; he buys his uniforms in detachments and wears them out in instalments. Cleveland lias a bird that sings by machinery. It cost 8200, and there is but one more like it in the United States. This one came from the Paris Exposition. Its plumage is so perfect and beautiful that persons are frequently deceived in supposing the bird is alive. When the chirping, warbling, and whistling is startj ed by machinery, that causes the bird to ! open and close its mouth between every note and turn its head from side to side, ' the etteet upon the spectator is perfect as i tonishment. The bird is perched upon the j limb of a large artificial tijwer that rests ! in a handsomely painted China fljwer-pot, wliich contains tut machinery. flhe ma-i 1 chinery connects with the bird through a j delicate looking limb of the flower. It is j concealed entirely from the view, and j works so smoothly that one can not detect the sound occasioned by its movements 1 unless quite close to the casket, and then

only for an instant after the bird concludes a warble. , From the Toledo Blade. NASBY. Mr. 2fasoy and las Friends Dismiss the Message The Financial Policy of the ! . President Particularly is Approved at the Beginning, but , Post Offis, Confederit X PiOads,") j (Wich is iu the iStait of Kentucky.) v j December 13, lbGS. J The message wuz reseeved by us at the j Cot ners, es mite hev biu expected, with rapcher. Its astoueshin how persistent ', A. Johnson isl How delitefully and reglerv he does throw them old ideas uv hist.eu at Contrress, and how shamefully thev bev got into a habit uv treeiin uv em! Why, they ref'oosed to hear his message! f What a pity it is that one who hez so much faith iu hisself Cdnt sit any one else ' to hev any faith in him! When I red uv 1 the iuhuman treetnient Congress gave bun, 1 ez a Federal oliis holder shed tears. 1 A. Johnson hezn't yoosed me well he j hez put me into a plate wher ther is fkase ly uothiug to steal but so b ug t z 1 hold j a commishn I sbel drop the ofli.-hl tear at inj-ults piled upon him Poor Johnson! Me and Secretary Welles are the only two I who do stand by him, onless we indeed John Quincy Adams, Jr., wit hdon't count j much ez he is only one ciuhih Adams any- ! how. " j The finanshel policy uv the Pusident struck us the most favorable uv a ny pat t , uv it. Troo, we don't none uv us pay taxes, but Bascom, Pentiibacker and Jic- j Pelter, who hev distilleries, and who, in j ad.lishn. hold rim risi-hin nv Assessor. I Collector and Whisky Inspector, know that" under the butcher Grant, wich i. eomin, there'll be. a new deal, and that they'll hev to pay. We're well pleased with the ijee, vd the balance uv us liked it becoz ef the Nashuel debt aint to be : Paia tlie tax on whisky kiu be put at a i lower hgger. j 1 Indeed, so well pleased were we, lhat we ; ! lelt u nte aild proper to caii a meettii ti muorse it, wicn wuz held at the cLurcu, 1 cz yoosual presidin. Bascom interdoosed a resolooshett corumendin the Suanshel policy uv the President, wich we wuz a goiu to pass, when to our disgust, Joe Bigler r.z. Ef the cholera wood be quite shoor to take that cuss, I believe the Coroners weti'd be willin to take its chances uv it. But nothin will kill Joseph, lie spoke ez follows: "I approve uv this rf so'.ooshen; and hope it may pass yoonanimusly. Pebt, my feilow citizens, is a Boa-constrikter I wieh crushes all who Cud themselves within its folds. Pebt hez blited the underine ravin uv Debts. Now, A. Johnson's policy soots me. lie takes the debt wieh bears interest, and in the most simple manner possible, makes the interest pay the piiuciple. lie takes this LJoa-constiikter, puts its tail in its mouth, and makes it eat itself up. Sich finaoshel skill hez bin ekalled by few and surpassed by none. 1 move the passage uv the resoloosheu, and three cheers for A. Johnson." The resolooshen wuz passed and the ; cheers "iveu with a will, when Joef riz j agin. i "I hev one more remark to make," 6 ed is ! he, "wat is rite iu nashnel matters years, wich at ten per cent, amounts to ez much tz the principle. Now " "Wat in thunder are yoo gettin at?'' spoke up Bascom, turnin white. "The gentleman is clearly out uv order," replied Josef. "I hev the floor. Will the Chair pertect me in my rites or must I pertect myself?'' "To resoom. 1 mite in justis demand uv Bascom my note, heviti paid him in interest more than the principle amounts to. But 1 sbel temper my justis with mercy. 1 forgive him for taking the interest I hev paid him all these weary years and sbel make this proposition: Keep the note till the interest amounts to as much as the principle aud then rive it to me, canceled. "But how about the money wich yoo hev, yoo swind'ei?'' 'Tleviu't I paid it to yoo in the interest?" asked Josef. "Weil theu how about the interest?" yelled Bascom, ver3' much excited. 'Why, hevin't I paid it reglerly, and aon t i perpose to Keep paytn it, repneu Josef, -km anything be fair? yoo bed better take my proposition, or I may possibly repudiate altogether. The creditor class must, t bear too heavy onto the deb! - or class. liiere s a limit bey. won't be drove." class. lucres a limit beyond wicir we lo.wunst tner wuz a excitement in tne; house. Ueaeon l'ogram swore that Ias com shood give up a note wich he held onto him, aud Issaker Gavitt, who wua also in debt, fell onto Bigier's neck in a delirium uv joy at this happy releese from his troubles. And they all demanded of Bason m their notes. One, Patrick, who hedn't paid any interest for six years, insisted on heviu the s mount he hedn't paid eudorsed on the note, aud beoox Bascom I called him a ' tool he went for him. Ihey j cnnc i the 1 clinched, and the lite become general ite-s were put out aud tu- meetiu broke up in coufoosiou. This discussion didn't interest me he cnx Debt don't bother me. I hsv been j livin on an improvement on A. .lohnsonV idea all my life, viz: I don't pay neither interest or priooipal. I kin therefore look at the question calmly and without preiudis. I must confess that Bascom wuz not rite, lie ought to practia wat he

preeches. Ef the government sbel pay its debt with the interest, why shall not that suSYiu saint, Deekiti Pogratn? But men ain't alius willia to apply great principles to their own cases. Ita one uv the weaknesses of human r.acher. Petroleum V. Nart, P. M., (With is Postmaster.)

PROSPECT OF AN EASTERN WAR. Religious Aspects of the Conflict.

The Eastern question is on the eve of . tion, lest the throwing out of the south new complications, and before these liaes : poll might, result in the defeat of Got. are read, the Powers of Europe may be j Bakr and the loss of the State to Reinvolvcd in a coutiict not to be settled publican party whereat the Copperhead without biood. We learn that Bussia and : candidate for Congress was, of cours France aud England are united in advis- sorely troubled! fliichniond Radical.

intr Greece to be moderate, and all are exerting themselves to avert the war that; now threatens to break out instantly between Greece and Turkey. ! The cc-ion of the war is well known j The inhabitants of Crete, chiefly Greeks, . but under the government ot Turkey,; se 111 a st:"e ot revolt lor some yeai s past, and the sympathies of the Christian world have been enlisted in their behalf.' The Greek Government has ot rendered material aid to the Cretans, but G reece has been the refuge of the women and children of Crete who have been reduced to want and misery by the war, aud the Greeks have gone , over in great numbers to as-itt th;r brethern in casting off the Ottoman yoke. This gives offence to Turkey, aud the Sultan has at last result ed to mae war upon Greece, d put ati eud to interference with his affairs in Crete. Prance and Ergland still uphold the Turkish Government. Bussia is the natural enemy of Turkey, and the protector of the Greek Chuicli within it boundaries. If war iu the East hi eaks out. Bussia will be found on the side of Greece. France and England will support the Mo hamiLendau Power. If Prussia is draw n io o it she will take sidis with Greece It will he a religious war, as in some sense the (. riiiicaii couti-jt had its origin in the religious quarrels of the East. But with France and England it is only a political game, which they pj 1 a y to keep Bussia aw.iy from the Mediterranean, and maintain their own power iu the Levant aud the farther East. 11 tins cot.K ct should come now, we V n h:. , ... . ' K K ilwuiT I t-wr..-.l ,1 , , ji t,rt . ..,.1. uowciaii oi ute i urtisn f-mpire. it is .. .1 i? .... .r i . an uioe utspuusuj. Jy one ui niosc wonuerous oispensations of Providence which we cannot fathom, that bloody and persecuting power has been permitted to! ) liv0 vcirli its twd on tl.ft ti?fb .if' in 1 1 1 i ti c i who are sighing to be free. Of the 15,-1 000,000 of European Turkey, only 4,500, j 000 are Mohammedans, and all the rest 1 are professed Christians of the Church. These Christians are far "'ore in s in oat by with G reece a nd 1 ussia than witn the Mohammedan Government tnat oppresses them. And if (he time comes for them to assert their rights, they will - - - be found Ii -hting for religious and civil liberty. Thus the war now imminent is one with which the Christian religion is more i;i!med:atc' v identified than it has been in any war of the last century. We look at! the overthrow of tho Turkish power as one cf the grand events to precede the j triumph of Cristianity in the earth, audi therefore we study with intense interest I the signs of the times when they are in j dicating events connected with the stabil-j ity of the Sultan's throne. We do not pretend to prophesy. That is the poorest! business in tho world for an uniuspirtd; man. We do not pretend to fay that; there will be any war now, or if war, that j it will be the destruction of Turkey. But we anticipate the day as not far off when ! the crescent will cease to be crescent, and j will wane before the Cross: when the Gos ! pel will have free course and be glorified ; among the millions of the Levant, and ' the highway of the Lord will be opened ; up through the Holy Land into the heart i of A-ia, and all those kingdoms will be! subdued to the King of saints. X. Y. ; Observer. ". F.eid vs. Julian. The Washington correspondent of the Boston Post, wiiiir-g to that paper under the date ef Nov. lio'th, speaks ot the contest for the Congressional seat between fveid and Julian in the following language: Till". SEAT OF -Ma. JCUAN OF I N PI A N A . will not only be contested, but the proslet i ;, .,ll . ,...!,, it i.i.i k,. pi t I I, Ii n ill V'C ruv vc.-i u.ijl . v'li,.?,, try his Democratic opponent. There seem to exist a strong rnjudice, even among the Republican members of Congress, aud ; especially among those from Indiana against Julian, in consequence conduct during the last canvas: i:i wl. ii li , je niade eVery thin- suUei vient to his own j re ck,ction regardless oT tho interest of ; ,,e . in U'lat S;ata $enator Morton j js UI)(c.Is;oo,j fl5 favoring 1he unseating of ; j uU.ltl ,d uivill., ,uo fet to the iK-um. crat, who, Morton says, was fairly elected by a decided majority. Iu order to give; ju;;an (he iHcta v,f election, the vote of a large precinct was rejected, first because the judges suspended the count while they took refreshments, and second ly, because the name of Democratic candidate had been printed on many d" the Republican tickets ias'ejd of Julian Both objections to the rejected votes beins frivolous, Mr. Julian will probably be required to vacate. ihe Boston Post is a Copperl 1,-i.t ..i,o0i and the above is out a sample of similar silly lies put in cireui ition by that class of papers, including the Cinciiiiiati En,t uuiier and nat.ers nearer home. The i papers statement that a strong prejudice prevails - J against our Liepresentative on the part of, his Kepubbcan associates, is il.e ex n:t rt Verse of the truth. Even the Democrati. members tram this Siate do not bvHcve that Beid has the shadow of a chance. As to Gov. Morton he has, as' we are reliably informed, repeatedly said to the friem of our ilepii:.-t'utatie uot only

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By the Witv, i e eoneern of ft tanding of oar fellow , KepubliIt reminds us Copperhead sheet l-.-r j B-'preseutative with hi 'cans rather remarkable? j of a similar concern expressed by Judge Keid in a card just after the October e!ec !N RE RENOS. The Indiana Lynching and the Extradi tion Treaty. From the New York Tinief, lSkh. . j Efforts have been made in various di j rections to fasten upon the United States 'the charge of violating the Extradition i Treaty, under which the Western Express J robbers, Keno and Anderson, were delivered up by tLe Canadian authorities, j Whatever the motives prompting such efj lorts, cither here or in Canada, they are ! whotly without foundation. When, the ; Canadian court had decided upon sending j back these men, the Governor General, I Lord Mouck, was assured by parties rep- ! resenting one of our Departments at : Washington, lhat, if the prisoners were j sent back, they would be rescued from the ; otUvers having thcui iu charge en route tj Indiana aud hanged. So steadily did the 1 friends ol Be no and Anderson persever iin assuring Lord Monck of this that he hesitated about granting the warrant of i extradition, lie wrote to Mr. Thornton, i the BiitUh Minister at Washington, on i the subject, asking him if he could obtain j from Secretary Seward the necessary guarantee for the safe transit of the prisoner J to Indiana. Mr. Thorton had an iutcr I view with Mr. Seward on the sutject,when j the Secretary, taking the grouud that the : case was purely one of State jurisdiction iatid not within the authority of the Unified States Government, decided not to j touch it. The Governor of Indiana tras j then telegraphed about the matter and he I l X? in!irl''p-l f 1 i . f th. Stf.ita i,P T n ,-t I n n . J J was alundiuflv lutjy competent to loot alter its own responsibilities and would do so. Mr. Seward subsequently waived his objection to the extent of promising n safia delivery of the prisoners to the Indiana authorities who were to try them. Thereupon, Mr. Allen Pinkerton proceeded to Canada, and with assistants received the prisoners, and making a circuitous route . .j t...k . j Stward mihI tonkin iijuiaiiB, c iiruuiuvt uij; puiuc uuu I siers by the way, and being reinforced at ! , i,v u r i i j i .1... - .i.. - -i c v iiicf I ' I rs in io a nr f New Albany, that being regarded as a '.stronger prison than the one at Seymour. These are the facts in the case, and to far j liom indicating that the extradition treaty I or even any temporary arrangement whieh , was made, has been violated, they show , the contrary to be the case. The prisonI ers were saieiy delivered to the Indiana authorities. At that point Canada was reiitvel of ail further responsibility in the premises, and the United States had not assumed any. As to the action of the Vigilants of Seymour in hanging the prisoners subsequently, that is another matter. There are few of our citizens who will regard it otherwise than as an outrage ct the worst kind, and as utterly disgraceful to the community in which it ocean ed. The Danger of Spain. Spain has been losing ground. Her prospects are not so bright as they were a month ago. The leaders of the great revolution have been too slow, and the dan otT of re action increases daily. It was a gieat day for Spain wheu the Queen was expelled. The world never saw so great a revolution acoompihhed without hlood. ! And when the firet blow was stiuck with j such triumphant success it should have ; been followed up immediately. Butwhilo ; ihe provisional government has been hes--I itating, the old enemies of liberty havebeen plotting and planning. .It ought ! necr to be forgotten that, throughout i Spain there are Homi.-h priests to the j number of one to every 400 men, and women and children, that is one to every 5t) who will vote on the question of governj meut. What a power will these priests i wield in the coming contest! They are ; united in hostility to the revolution I hey will work night and day to retdoro : the Bourbon Queen. And they will be foil before this struggle is ever. In the meantime the wily and powerful Svt-perur of Borne is watchful of events-., lie h:is called in stats upon the exiled ijueen in P.r; Ilia. favs are roused hy rii pr spcus of a republic in the Peuiiim. .-ular. and un the borders uf France. Hevouid be only loo ghid of an excuse for icudi: aid to vcitoiu the fugitive Isabels la. (n Priui his. no? mot tha expeca--tiotis of the world. lie is su-pected of st!C-h ends. liis namo i- airc.idy luncl up with those of spirants to ite vacant throne. P.epubiiean ie.-ide.rs are not ruaueof such stuff. lie should act fur thecouutry and abjure self. Spain want a ,,1;,n- cue ,s "'""?-' 'u she may not go on the ncks and b. ! wrecked just as we thought lur comic; into port. TN. Y. Observer. """""" . ? Sir Walter-Scott one day met and Irish, bfiigar iu tha street ' w ho asks i hitu for j sixpence. Sir Walter could not tiod one, sod he gave him a shilling, s.yug wUh a laugh: "Buf mind,. how, you owe ma a sixpence." , (.Xch,, sure enough! " said thebeggar: '.nd God grant that you maj live till I pay it." . , Time never sits heavily aper us but w hen it is badly employed.