Indiana American, Volume 8, Number 9, Brookville, Franklin County, 26 February 1869 — Page 2

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it American. C. H. BINGHAM, Editor. . -BROOKYILLE-Friday Morning, February 28, 1869. Proceedings of County Boards. In our suggestions, a few days since, in regard to the reduction of taxes, (says the Journal, we said that the levy for county and town&hip purposes was the largest and raost burtbensome that the people Lad to tear, la half the counties in the State it i nearly double the State tax. It is the dread of tax payers. The Legislature can reach it indirectly, by limiting the rate for general purposes, and requiring special levies f.r 'debts already incurred, but it can be reached more effectually by giving the people the means of knowing all the transactions cf the County Board. Nice allowances to friends, and "fat jobs" to good, party workers, are less likely to be m'ade when every order and argument for or againet it, are put in every voter's hands within a week. Much of the intolerable burthen of county taxes is due to the fact the County Boards are not watched, and in the present condition of things can not be waicLed. In large counties like thi3, where there are daily newspapers, and men employed especially to report all public business, the proceedings of the Bosrd.1 ave published regularly, and as fully as public interest demands. But in small counties, wiih but one or two weekly .papers, the editors of which are generally their own foremen, mail packers, Look keepers, -and business managers, as well as news-readers, political writers, and local reporters, the publication of the proceedings of County Boards is very nearly impossible, unless they are furnished by the Boards or the Auditors. In order that the people may know why they are to heavily taxed, and, if they see cause, put a check upon the operations that produco it, these proceedings should be re quired by law of the county officers for j publication; and to secure them against j suppression by the connivance of editors, i they should be published as adrtiseinents. In any other form they would be, of course, at the disposal of editors, like other news matter, aud might be left out or rejected at will. As leul advertisements they could not be so carelessly treated. The cost to the ouuty of a monthly or quarterly publication would be too trifling to weigh 8gainst the importance of giving the people full and prompt information of all the business which may load them with taxes. At present County Boards, though nominally public, are practically as secret as a "Star Chamber" Court. Few know, or even caie to know, the. transactions of the two or three men who create the heaviest public burthens of this most wearilytaxed nation. Give them the means of knowing, put the knowledge in their way, in the papers which they read every week, and interest will take root and grow at once. Men don't care now because they don't know. When they begin to become familiar, by constant information, with county business, they will begin to care, and thcu the leakages of county "jobs," which are row so serious an evil, will be f topped. A bill, which we think will secure this result, is now before the Legislature, and c hope it will pass. It requires that the proceedings of the Board of" County Commissioners, including the report of Township Trustees, shall be published in two newspapers, having the j largest circulation, and representing the j two political parties, if there shall be two! such papers, and if there be not, then in j the two paper having the largest circula- j tion, cf the same party, in each county. ! It also requires the County Clerk to pub- I II I III, H J'MI 1C VI .'1U'HI J Ul IV : 1,1 i VJ to the condition tf jails and other public property, and the c facial statement of the vote of the county at every election, in the same manner as the proceedings of County Boarda. For the publication the papers sh&ii be paid as follows: For the official statement ol the results c f elections. x per thousand "ems," and for proceed-j ings cf County Boards and ic ports of Grand J Juries, not to exceed I lor each one bun- J dred words, and cot to exceed TiOc for each j aubscquent publication. At these rates, I which, measured by the ordinary rates of j advertising, arc very low, the people j every county will have a chance to know' their own business, and keep track of their ; county a fiairs at an expense so trifiintr ! that it can not be felt. The fact that the j heaviest taxes we pay are assessed for! county ar.d heal expenses, should alone' be a eor.eiuie argument for the fre i publication ol" every tiling relating to the! fixing or expending such taxes. The ' State gives full information to everybody.' The county, taxing an average t f one-half more than the State, gives no ii -formation at all. In one county, as stated recent-j Jy by an editor at the Editorial Convention, allowances were made last year to the County Auditor amounting to $10,000, j which, if the people had been informed of j the proceedings, would not have been j made, and some cents on the hundred dol- j ?ars of the Uvy would have been saved. Let the people know by official publication how their own home business is done, and we shall cither have lower taxes or fe-jrer complaints of high ones. CctnmissSoner of Internal Revenue, j The CoroniUsioner of Internal Revenue- j under Vresi lent Grant, will be Hon. Co-)

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Financial. United States Bonda are now quoted in European markets at the highest figures they have ever reached. The shipment of Bonds during the past two weeks to meet the demand abroad are estimated at 5,000,000. According to advices from foreign bankers this movement is due entirely to the confidence that is "constantly gaining ground among European capitalists that our securities will eventually be paid dollar for dollar. When they are fully persuaded, we may expect to see prices advance to par in gold. The incoming Administration, and the disposition shown by Congress to check all further increase of Government obligations by refusing to v;rant Railroad subsidies, are regarded as indicative of a more healthy tone in the administration of financial affairs, and have doubtless been the chief causes of foreign confidence in our good faith. -- The House of Representatives has also passed the following bills, which, if they should become laws, will impart increased strength to the Government credit. The substance of them is as follows: First That all authority to the Secretary of the Treasury to increase the Funded (Gold-bearing) Public Debt, and also his authority to make further issues of Currency Bonds, except for the Pacific Road subsidies now authorized by law, is repealed. He can continue to turn Coupon Bonds into Registered Stock of the same tenor and date of Loan; but may net substitute or exchange one Loan for another, nor convert cr re-convert Registered Stock'into Coupon Bonds, nor make further sales of Gold, except publicly, and on three days' advertised notice of time, place, Ac. Second The National Bank reports are to be made monthly in place of quarterly to the Currency Bureau, and the reports of January and July shall be verified and advertised by the President and Cashier of each Bank. Third The National Banks are prohibited from certifying cheeks, except on funds in hand of the depositor; nor can they loan upon United States Notes (Greenbacks) or National Bank Notes.

The Darien Canal. Mr. Caleb Gushing has returned, having negotiated a treaty with the government of Colombia conceding to the United States the exclusive right to construct an interoceanic canal across the Isthmus of Darien at any point which may be selected by the United States. The Colombian government cedes six miles of land on each side of the canal one-half for its own benefit, and the other for that of the party undertaking the construction of the work. The Colombian government is to receive ten per cent, of the net profits. The treaty is to be ratified by the United States within ten months, the surveys to be made within two years after the ratification, otheiwise the chaster fails. The charter runs for one hundred years. The canal is to be under the control of the U nited States, and Congress can fix the rate of tolls. The navigation is to be open to all nations in time of peace, but closed to belligerents who may seek to avail themselves of its advantages. It is estimated that the canal will cost 100,000,000. A company was not long ago organized in New York under a charter of that State, with Peter Cooper as President. It is said that this company have the capital and is ready to commence the work. Congress, however, is at liberty to give the preference to this or any other private company; or the United States can itself undertake the construction of the canal. The treaty was seat to the United States Senate. Report of Joint Select Committee. In the United StatesSenate on the loth day of tl.e present month, Mr. Morton, from the Joint Select Committee, reported the fulfillment of their mission to notify the President and Vice President elect of their election, and submitted the following reply from Gen. Grant: Gentlemen: Please notify the two Houses of Congress .of my acceptance of the important trust you have just notified me of my election to the ofiicc of President of the Unite! States and say to them that I shall endeavor that they, and those who elected them, shall have no cause to regret their action. Ah-o the following from Mr. Colfax: Gentlemen: Please convey to the two Houses of Congress my acceptance of the office to which I have been elected by the people of the United States, and assure them that I shall endeavor to prove worthy of this mark of confideuce by fidelity to principle and duty. . Foreign. The Eastern question, as between Turkey a nd G reece, is regarded as settled, and Crete is reported as in entire submission to Turkey. War is reported as imminent between Turkey and Persia. The Persian army, with the Shah at its head, has gone to Bagdad. In the meantime the Turkish troops are pushing forward to the Persian frontier. The Spanish Cortes assembled and was organized on the 13th. The insurrection in Cuba is making progress. The whole island is rjpe for revolt, and martial law is declared. The Tariff Bill. The copper tariff bill was put through the House, over the veto, by 115 to 56. A change of one vote, or the presence of two more votes in the negative, would have defeated it. The vote was the closest ever had in that body on any one of Johnson's vetoes. The Tenure-of Office Bill. The Senate, on Tuesday, by a decided vote of 14 to 36, refused to take up the bill relative to the Ten are -of-Office act. Thurlow Weed writes from South Carolina indorsing Grant's response to the Congressional Committee, and prophesying economy in his administration, and a return of prosperity to the country.

An Inkling of Grant's "Policy" Cold ; Comfort for Office-Seekers. General Grant, in his response to the

committee appointed to notify him of his j election, made use of the following important declaration: ' In the matter of removals I shall be governed alone by the interests of the service. I would just as soon remove from their positions my own appointees as j I should those of my predecessor. There is a hint in this that will not be encouraging to the host of office seekers who are impatiently waiting for the 4th of March, to press their claims upon the new administration, and receive the reward of their invaluable services. There is no promise of radical changes being made by General Grant. If he finds an efficient man in office one who is capable, honest, faithful and energetic he will not be ousted merely to accommodate an aspirant for his place. It looks as though it was Grant's, purpose to return fo the ante-Jackson practice of retaining competent men in the places they fill, it being a wise policy for the Government to avail itself of the experience they have gained, especially where no cause for removal can be assigned. Who shall say that this is not alike demanded by policy and patriotism? Ihat some other credential for office than mere party service will be demanded by the new President, we most sincerely hope and believe. Party relations wrll not, of course, be disregarded by him, for he is pre-eminently a man of sagacity, and he knows that in our political situation the result at which he aims can be achieved only with party support. But that regard to party alone can secure those results, he is doubtless wholesomely skeptical. Capacity, knowledge, integrity, experience, prudence, sagacity, are quite as essential in all the offices of Administration as "claims" founded upon "doing all the dirty work of the party." Cliques and rings and factions in the Republican party, as in all other parties under the same circumstances, will doubtless be disappointed and disgusted with the conduct and appointments of the new Administration. But there is net the slightest reason to doubt that the great mass of the party, its intelligence and character, will most heartily sustain the new President, and that his Administration will unite and strengthen it. I Why Don't Boys Learn Trades? The Philadelphia Ledger justly remarks that the present generation of young men. seems to have a strong aversion to every kind of trade, business, calling, or occu pation that requires manual labor, and an equal strong tendency toward some socalled "genteel" employment or profession. The result is seen in a superabundance of elegant penmen, book-keepers, and clerks of every kind who can get no employment, and are wasting their lives in the vain pursuit of what is not to be had; and a terrible overstock of lawyers without prao tice and doctors without patients. The passioa on the part of the boys and young men to be clerks, officers, attendants, messengers, anything, so that it is not work of the kind that will make them mechanics or tradesmen, is a deplorable sight to those who have full opportunities to see the distressing effects of it in the struggle for such employments by those unfortunates who have put it out of their power to do anything else by neglecting to learn some permanent trade or business iu which trained skill can always be turned to account. The applications for clerkships and similar positions in large establishments are numerous beyoud anything that would be thought of by those who have no chauce to witness it. ; Parents and relatives, as well as the boys and young men themselves, seem to be afSicted with the same infatuation. To all such we say, that the most unwise advice you can give your boy is to encourage him to be a clerk or book-keeper. At the best it is not a well-paid occupation. Very frequently it is among the poorest. This is the case when the clerk is fortunate enough to be employed; but if he should happen to be out of place, then comes the weary search, the fearful struggle with the thousands of others looking for places, the never ending disappointments, the hope deferred that makes the heart sick, the strife with poverty, the humiliations that takes all the manhood out of the poor souls, the privations and sufferings of those who depeud on his earn ings, and who have no resource when he is earning nothing. No father, no mother, no relative should wish to see their boys or kindred wasting their young lives in striving after j the genteel positions that bring such trials and privations upon them in after life. How do these deplorably false notions as to choice of occupation get into the heads of boys? Why do they or their parents consider it more "genteel" or desirable to run errands, sweep out offices, make fires, copy letters, etc., than to make hats or shoes, or lay bricks, or wield the saw or jackplane, or handle the machinist's file or the blacksmith's hammer? We have heard that some of them get these notions at school. If this be true, it is a sad perversion of the means of education provided for our youth, which are intended to make them useful, as well as intelligent members of society, and not useless drags and drones. Should it be so, that the present generation of the boys get it into their heads that, because they have more school learning and book accomplishment than their fathers, they must therefore look dawn upon the trades that require skill and handicraft, and whose productions make up the vast mass of wealth of every country, then it is time for the controllers and the directors to have the interior walls of our schoolhouses covered with' maxims and mottoes warning them against the fatal error.

Senator Morton's Bill. The following is the bill introducedinto the Senate of the United States, by

Senator Morton, to reimburse States ; for amounts expended in interest and discount on money borrowed to equip, pay, supply and transport troops in the service of the United States, in the recent war. It will give Indiana about six hundred thousand dollars, should it become a law: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America m Congress assembled, lhat any State or States which, during the recent war, was compelled to and did borrow j money to purchase supplies, equip troops, and to pay expenses incurred in raising, equipping, furnishing and transporting troops for the service of the United States, shall have refunded the interest paid by such States on such borrowed money and the discount suffered on bonds sold to borrow such money, the discount being necessary in order to sell said bonds; and the accounting officers of the treasury are hereby required to examine and adjust any and ail claims that may be presented under this act. Butler's Circus Performance. The Chicago Tribune speaks of the recent disturbance in Congress as "General Butler's circus performance," and says: "General Butler's performance in the ! joint convention of the two houses of Con gress, and his subsequent resolutions in the House of Representatives, to censure the presiding officers of both, (for. both Wade and Colfax are iucluded iu it,) constitute one of those nine days' wonders in which Butler delights to figure. He draws the eyes of the nation upon himself for a brief space of time, and wheth

er tie succeeds or laiis in the luimeaiate ! reas0ES- It leaves out one of theaccounts" and apparent purpose of his action, makes ; for wliich a denial of the right of suffrage no difference. It makes no difference ! was f0,bidden by the Seuate's first amend -whether his resolution of censure is voted ! mfJ,lt naniiv ,Wntirtr. tklia i.v; .,. nr.

down or voted ip. The public are impressed with the fact that iJutler is somebody, and that is enough. Hughes, Cravens and Stein. Under the head of "Personal Notes," the Howard Tribune, printed at Ivokomo, says ot distinguished Indiana Senators: With all his erratic ways, no one will deny that Senator James Hughes is a man of large and active brain. There is a sort of don't-care-a-durn style about him that we like even when we believe be is not doing right. We have heard it stated that he received as his share of the income from the business of the Uw firm of which he is a member, for the year 1SGS,- the sum of forty thousand dollars. Maj. Cravens and Mr. Stein, also of the Indiana Senate and also "bolters," are both gentlemen of brains. All three of these Senators were opposed to Cumback from the beginning, aud we hope no one will accuse us of favoring "bolters" when we say it would require some trouble to find three heads in the Indiana Senate that contain as much brains as those of these three." Benedict Arnold was a man of active brains, yet he betrayed his country. Burr was pround of his talents. Coming down to our own times, we have Seward, Chase, Blair, and Andy Johnson, all men of ability, yet all of them bolters, and traitors to their party. The Republican party lived over the defection of these eminent men. Their plunge into the cesspool of modern Democracy made something of a "splash," but these Indiana brain bolters have gone under without a ripple. Poor devils, the party will never miss them. Madison Courier. Instructions to Revenue Officers. Treasury Department, ") Office of Internal Revenue, y Wasuington, February 15tb, 1S09. ) Sir, The additional time given by the Act of December 22nd, 1S6S, during which dealers might sell smoking and fine-cut chewing tobacco without packing and tamping the same, as required by See tions 02 and 78, Act of July 20th, 1SGS, expires to-day, and hereafter all such tobacco, before being sold or offered for sale, must be put up in the packages prescribed by law and stamped ped. Severe penalties are violation of the law in imposed for any this regard. ersons naving in ineir possession such tobacco, incur no liability lor keeping it U110i.u.il,cu, ou 5 luej uo uoi sew it. or oner it lor sale. The stamping is not to be done by internal revenue officers, or under their inspection, but by the owners of the tobacco. It becomes the duty of all revenue officers to cause the law in this respect to be complied with, and to report all violations cf it for prosecution. Respectfully, E. A. Rollins, Commissioner. Richard H. Swift, Esq., Assessor Fourth District, Brookville, Indiana. Rail Road Matters. The standing committee on Rail Roads have reported favorably, in the House, on a bill fixing the rates of freight charges as follows: Companies are allowed to add one hundred per cent, to through rates for carrying freight a less distance than twenty miles. For carrying over twenty and under fifty miles, seventy-five per cent, may be added over. For carrying more than fifty miles, fifty per cent, may be added, provided that they shall not charge-more than through rates for carrying freight less than the whole distance. The bill makes it the duty of the company to post up sworn statements cf what their through rates are, and limits passenger fare so that the same shall not exceed three and one-halt cents per mile. It is questionable as to whether there is time to get this bill through this session or not. If it does pass the.e will be a revolution in Rail Road matters in this State. Rushville Republican. Election of the Hon. J. N Tynerto Congress. Fort Watne, Ind., Feb. 20. The candidates for Congress in the special election, held in tbe Eighth Indiana i District to-dayf were J. Tyner (Repub-' lican) and S. A. Hall (Democrat). The election, which was to fiil the vacancy occurring by the election cf D. D. Pratt to the United States Senate, passed off quietly. A majority of the townships along the line of the railroad heard from. sb,ow

large Republican gains, and it is general-!

1 . i m - .11 ly coneeuea mat Lyner is elected by an increased majority over Pratt's last fall. Fuller returns will be received to-morrow. Progress of the Proposed Amendment. : The Senate amended the proposition of the House; the House refused to concur; the Senate receded from its amendment; then the Senate refused to concur in the House amendment; then the Senate adop ted the following proposition: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote aad hold office shall not be denied or abridged by the United States,, or any State, on account of race, color or previous condition of slavery. in was rue proposition aaoptea ny toe j ucuse, an.enaea in nnraseoiogy, ana witn i tee 3ddition ot forbidding any abudement of the right to hold office on the same accounts. It simply forbids any disfranchisement of colored men Cecause they are colored; and it permits any qualification of the suffrage, such as educational, property, tax paying, provided color be not mentioned. It was certainly a great change from the Senate's previous amendment to the House proposition. This was taken up by the House on Saturday, and amended and adopted in the following shape: "The right of citizens of the United States to vote or hold office shall not be denied or abridged by any State, on account of race, color, nativity, property, creed or previous condition of servitude." By this the House adds to the "accounts" for which disfranchisement was forbidden in its first proposition, three of those added by the Senate, namely, nativity, property aud creed. It also accepts the change made by the Senate, which coufines the prohibition to "any State," and thus leaves the National Government i free, to abridge the right to vote for these State free to prescribe an educational qualification for the suffrage. If this proposition shall be adopted the status of the enfranchising and disfranchising powers will be as follows: 1. A State may not deny the franchise to eiti i zens of the United States for the specified reason or race, color, nativity, property, religion, or previous slaverv. 2. A State may deny the franchise for lack of any re quired educational qualification. 3. A State j may deny the franchise to inhabitants who I are not citizens of the United State?; and ! as our naturalization laws admit none but whites, a State may exclude the Asiatic and other colored immigrants from the suffrage. 4. A State may deny the franchise on account of participation in the rebellion, or for any other reasons not pro hiblted. 5. The United States may deny the franchise to citizens of the United States on account of race, color, nativity, property, lack of education, religion, previous condition of servitude, rebellion, or for any other reasons. If this proposition shall be adopted, what will it secure? It will not secure the franchise to the colored citizens, because any State may exclude them by educational qualifications. For the same reason it will not secure universal manhood suffrage to the white citizens. It therefore will guarantee nothing to the colored citaeus, and it will place the franchise of the poorer class of white citizens in jeopardy. It will not secure the disfranchisement of the rebels, for it merely permits any State to disfranchise them, and that a State may do now if the National Government does not interfere. It does not secure the colored citizens against dis frauchiscment by the National Government; but on the coutrary, it virtually ie - cognizes the general power ci chisement iu that Government, , , . both of white aud colored citizens. Will any rights or privileges be gained to the colored race if this proposition be adopted? We can see none. It will not guarantee them the right to vote, nor the right to hold oiiiee. They may still be ex eluded from voting ana office holding bv an educational qualification by any State. I, is a virtual recognition that Congress mav denv the franchise to both black and white for any reason. It will widen tlie breach made in the Constitution by the iinf.iriinu Ui) . . . ..i.:, ; " " ' ITiu .X tut UVJ UIC U I', YlllV.ll ill" troduced into the instrument the first j cognition of the existence of the power to ! ! den v the franchise to citizens of the Uni-i ny ted States. It was passed amid great conflict of opinion in the House, under tbe ; pressure of a suspension of tbe rules, and ; a suppreion of debate. It is not exneeted that it can be ratified bv the States - M. that have self-supporting governments. It is not expected that it would be ratified even by such reliable Republican States as Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. It is our belief that it would defeat the Republican party in these States if they should go before the people on this issue. The proposition is supported by an expectation that it can be ratified by most of tllC rtrflSPtlt RpnnWlMn T,P(ri'aluroa r.f the Northern States, without tettinK it be made a question in a popular election, and that these and such of the Southern State Governments as exist by the creation and holding of the National Government, with the addition of one or two to be reconstructed for that purpose, may give this amendment a formal ratifieatioo. But that is not a proper way to make changes in the Constitution. The Republican party can not avoid, and ought not to try to avoid, taking this question squarely before the people, and meeting the consequences. Nothing of good would be gained by the amendment. Much evil would be intro duced into the Constitution by it. There fore, there is no necessity for this forcing process in Congress, nor for the use of use ot any irregular means to procure the ratification of such an amendment. Gazette. The constitutional amendment was taken up in the Senate on Tuesday, the House amendment disagreed to, and a Committee of Conference appointed. Grant and His Cabinet. Washington, Fjeb. 23. a conversation at Armv HeadouarIn ters this morning, with Senator Thayer Gen. Grant remarked, "l want to say to you that I shall send into the Senate the name of Major General Schofield, as Secretary of War; but it is likely that he will decline and return to his position in the army, i shall then nominate a civilian for that of&ce, and I want the Senate to know this." Turning to Congressmen Dickey, Morrill, of Pennsylvania, and Roots, of Arkansas, who were at a short distance from hira, he said bs had

nonobjections to their hearing what he had

to say on tbe question ot the Cabiuet. He remarked: "I am opposed to appointing officers of the army and navy to civil offices and shall, therefore, have a civilian at the head of each department."' This statement comes from members of Congress who were present, and they express their satisfaction at the sentiments of the General, and believe from the conversation that he will have a straightout Republican Cabinet. Illinois Correspondence. Lincoln, 111., Feb. IS, 1SG9. Dear American; If I remember righti lv. I heard, when a bov. Brother S .. now of Laure, then a :nter or merchant in ,, , .,, - . ,, Brookville, offer the following; toast at a public meeting: "The Abolitionists May they be lathered with aqua-fortis.and shaved with a hand-saw." Since then, Brc. S. might have been suspected of being a candidate for that "barbcrous" process himself, 8S ethers whom the logic of events converted to the truth. But that humane toast was recalled to my mind last night while listening to Fred. Douglass as he lectured to nearly a thousand persons in our large city hall. The Young Men's Christian Association had engaged his services, but had not been able to obtain a home for him among our citizens, and the hotel keeper, being a good Democrat, refused to let him eat at the table as he allowed his other guests to do. At length one of cur citizens consented to entertain him. Wlien Fred, reached the platform, he found about twenty colored people on each side of the rostrum, shut off from the crowd by partitions. His soul was vexed within him, and it spoiled the lecture. At its close he gave us the worth of our money in a plain talk, and if he did not lather us with aqua-fortis and shave us with a dull hand-saw, it was because he did more than that. Tie calmly stated the case, and then gave caste and prejudice and the people cf Lincoln such a lecture as man seldom near. It took courage to do it, but he did it grandly, j and that postscript to- that leeture will be j remembered here for years. Aside from the lecture, we have noih-j ing of general interest, unless it be our religious meetings. Aoout IiU have united with the Methodi&t church since January 3d, and the meetings still continue. Hut for these I would have paid the ftiends m lrookvu.e a visit "tins month. i he Cumberland Presbyterian Church has been holdire meetings for over two months. more. The other churches will probably j begin soon. J he interest is general, and Un braces all ages aud classes of society, ; I1 Uiy tt seem a strange thing, but I ! luaJ lhat flui;e a number of those who havc b'iaed the church are men who be long to the Doaa-ocratic party, and are men of itifl e ice in the city. 1 note this because for some reason but fw of that class have heretofore united with ud. 1 presume that bct-iue-s the moral strength added to our e-hurch dujing the meeting, we will be twaor three hundred thousand dol-lars. stronger financially, and this will be so detriment tt our new Church enterprise. I hope to drop into your ssanttum in a week or two. Yoursv W. R. Goodwin. Jottings from Every Day Life Mo 3. 3Ir. Editor, An occasional steamboat ride is ouite a relief frois tlie monotony of sameness in railroad travel. To feel that one's legs are free to car?y him whiih ersoever he may, up and down the length arjj breadth of a steamboat, is a laxurv not to be enjoyed m tbe 1 ., , ' J narrow limits of a railroad car. Stepping lightly wp tbe sttps o? the JIajor Anderson, we paid our fare, which St.;urfcd to us a pleasant state-rooai and mea.r6 for the trip. We thought the fare hi-h, but on counting tbe distance, found it to be ibcut jour cents per mile, average raiirohd fare, while they charge extra for other accommodations and a big estra j for meals by ie way. Drawing near to j 8 KT0UP .around Ot SOUK 1CIMJ j'flfl'ris rcairu around tne iront i iu-, v t- uim-vivieu iuc i . f . . . ... . . i t, . ' 1-nr . rations, viz: oermany, rrance, :1a nd, Dealing from the latana i tan; lor a mjssioi. y ter Da,10n with his Hini'ish friends, was nronr.hi' no- r, lln'i n-rrtV f-l.W tbe GITlnl r""". " . " ty and beauty ot jJorraonism.- attention was drawn to the next stove, by the passing around of a bank check V e drew near, and had the check submit! cd to us, with a question as to it gen .linen'sWe gave our answer, when an old gentleman broke out with "theieby hangs a tale, mister." We give in substance the said tale: While wandering about the streets of the city, the old gentleman was met by a beautiful woman, who invited him to go home with her. The next morning si e i introduced him to her uncle, a gentleman ly looking fellow "a rather good looking chap," said the old man. This uncle was to show him about the city. They had traveled around sometime, when suddenly stopping in front of a large bifiiding on the corner of the street, the uncle put on a troubled look, and said, "Mr. , my friend Mr. , a lawyer whose office is up stairs, goes away on the 10J o'clock train. I promised to bring him 50 by this time, but have forgotten it; let me have S50 on this check for 100, and I will slip up and pay him, and you hold the check until w; can go to the bank." The old gentleman waited some time for uncle to return: but beginning to see t Vi mil rr tKo r- nsV- a wont nn fctqirS find ; " - -r - tound that another pair lea out on me other street. In answer to the question as to why he did not tell the Police, he said, "Wall, I knowed it was no use, and it would only git into the papers and mought find it way to Tennessee, and then I'd never hear the last on't." Mr. Editor, how would it do to Bend him this issue of the American? In conversation with a gentleman who a few years ago wielded the editorial pen of one of the river city papers, he spoke of the fatality attending the boats in the "Mail Line. lie reminded me ol the ill-fated steamer General Lvtle. He said from facts which he regarded as reliable data, he had made he assertion through j his paper that the number of persons lost) by the explosion of that boat was twice as many as admitted by the officers. This statement was denied by the Mail Company with the promise that the exact num ber should be triven, which, tbsy failed to do, thoueh repcaed!y asked for the said 1

statement. This conversation was suggested by the fact that we were approaching the place, the scene of the late terrible disaster, by the collision and burning of the steamers United States and America. As in the former case, so in the latter, eternity alone will reveal the number lost. The river for the present may conceal and hide the terrible guilt cf carelessness in that sad affair, but there is a future to all these things. We looked upon the surroundings where the two boats met, and imagined all the horrible circumstancea. We gazed along the water and shore to see if perchance some floating form might arise to tell of that dark night's tragedy. Such reflections drove away very much of the novelty expressed above, for we felt unpleasant sensations creeping over us as we thought how suddenly we might be hurled into eternity. But why thus ruminate? We are always in danger at home on "terra firma." How many, by a fall or some other alight accident, are hurried out of the world, or on a railroad train drivii-g along suddenly whirled into eternity! But we grow melancholy, and would close our '"Jottings" by saying that steamboat ride was a pleasant trip and ended well. Occasional. Equalization of Bounties. Hon. H. D. Washburne from the Committee on Military Affairs, has reported a , bill to the House iuteuded to equalize the bountiss of soldiers. The bill proposes to allow every 6oldier, sailor, or marine, honorably discharged from the service, the sum of eight and one-third dollars per month for the time he served. If the soldier was discharged on account of wounds received in buttle or in the discharge of his duty, the allowance shall be computed to the end of the time for which he enlisted. W hen tire soldier has died, his heirs are to receive the bounty to which he would have been entitled. But in computing the bounty due the soldier, all bounties heretofore paid by State, county, town, city, or nation or that are due under present laws shall be deducted This is substantially the same as the bill introduced by Gen.Scheuck previous to the adoption of the act of July, 1S66 which g.ave 100 to those men who enlisted in the early part of the war and did not receive the large bounty. Palladium. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

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