Indiana American, Volume 8, Number 13, Brookville, Franklin County, 26 March 1869 — Page 2

Minna American.

C. H. BINGHAM, Editor. -DHOOKVir-LK-Frid&y Morning:, March 26, 18G9. Constitutional Amendment. The 15th amendment has been ratified by Maine, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nevada, West Virginia, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan and Massachusetts te n States. It takes eii;hteeu more State ratilieatioin to make it part of the Constitu , . : ic papers mid speak- . . ! nmsr to express the: tion. The - Democratic era arc already beginning to expre opinion that three fourths vf the State Lcuislaiurcs win rainy it, ana mm, i, " .... , i i very soon. Why should Indiana be be- . . , , . . . ., i hind other States u this important matter of petting the "niggct" out of our local politics? The Democracy of this State re of course nervously anxious to prolong the contest until the next political campaign; but why gratify their desire to use this last hobby of theirs in order to help them into power again? Let us grapple with the enemy at once, and quickly rnd forever conquer him Wlinf v rmr . ., . ,j 1 I.i ... . II a AAtu onAr.t4 k0ct:llin' c ! The SpeciaTElections. j A dispatch from Indianapolis says that j the election for members of the Legislature was held in forty six counties on Tuesday, and resulted of course in the re ," ' ,, , t. . i i, ; rn of tll the Democratic members who, , . , , r . .1 ! d resigned. In few counties was there t ' ... , . . ,i . y opposition, and in all the vote east j turn had any opposition was quite light. It has been impossible to excite any enthusiasm over such an election. Financial Condition of the Government, j The financial condition of .the Government at the close of the present fiscal year, in .1 une, will undoubtedly be very

favorable. Every department of business j appointment to official positions. The teems to feel the good t fleet of last fall's ! President assured them that he felt a warm elections, and the receipts from all sources I interest in this class of eitizens, and plainare much lar-er than they were last win- ! if their claims would not . ...... he overlooked.

tcr. Ine customs receipts lor the nscal year will probably reach one hundred and i fiitTrttr.firA r r gt : liiftiilra.l i tt ! itinatv ' " , ,, , , T . million dollars, and those from Internal Revenue at least one hundred and sixty millions of dollars. Secretary Boutwell is on the whole very well pleased with the condition and prospects of his department. Grant on the Tenure-of Office Law. The President has expressed his views quite freely to Senators and others on the Tenure of Offict law. lie holds that it protects office holders jut as much during the session as during the vacation of Congress, lie says it authorizes suspension during vacation for certain specific reasons, and, in bis opinion, a strict and fair interpretation of its provisions will not allow of removal duiing the session, cx.af Fi-tf a-ooorttia n-OTrd llllntr ciichniiciiin , . , ,", I uiiiiii nv n ivu, I'm iiiii v ii v.. v uviu i having political views different from those . of the administration does not, in his judgment, constitute a proper ground for sus pension, and, therefore, of course not for removal. It may be noted in this connection that he has made but one removal, all his other nominations having been for acancies. The paper in the case of King, head of the Engineering Bureau of the Navy Department, read: "In place of B. F. Isherwood, whom I desire removed;" but no reasons were given. He could, of course, use a similar formula in other cases, but whether he would choose to do to is a question he alone can answer. It can also be stated that the views of the

President were communicated at a Cabi-j Emigralion to Virginia, net meeting recently, and were indorsed The Bkhmond (Virginia) Whig snys by all the members. The President is 1 ,cvera Austrians will arrive tins week to well aware that many public men want,,le a few miles In low that city. A larcc

him to give a different construction to the law, hut he has fully considered it in all Its provisions, and is ab'e to reach no other interpretation than that given. He has no purpose to antagonize Congress or the Senate, hut must under the Constitution nee that the laws are faithfully rxecuted, and has no advisers but members of the Cabinet. Congressional Itams. J . House a bin ordering mat nsru-unurai lands sold for non-payment of taxes in the late rebel Stales be sold in .subdivisions, not exceeding forty acres each, and so much only sold as will discharge the legal obligations, lloferrcd to the Public Lands Committee. Mr. Julian recently remarked in the ; House of Representatives that General Grant had intimated his intention of placing the Indians under control of the j sect of Quakers, and he had told him ! (Julian) expressly, that he was opposed j to every form of taking the lands if the ; United. States and giving them to corpora-! tioos, either through Indiin treaties, or by any other way. Lopez with a New Army, and Fortifying. Later advices from Itio Janeiro state that Lopcj has collected an army of 4,000 Paraguayans, and is fortifying Grasse, a town in the interior. The President has signed the bill for the further security of equal tights in the I2iKtrift nf Cr 11 m hia . mm iLtneral Sherman is going to work furiouslf. He has destroyed the Departii en of Washington, consolidated regi-j uwsnt, ordered officers out of town, and isi er ryiu o. generally with a high hand and o ouUtreU:hcd arm. I . ,

Sensible Talk. The Rushville Republican believes that negroes, as a class, will make peaceable, law-abiding citiEens, whereas a large class of Democrats have proved traitors ta their government. It is, therefore, almost forced to the conclusion that the Democrats have just cause to fear that the negroes will outstrip them in the race, if they are allowed equal privileges. The amendmeut would have been ratified by ihe Indiana Legislature if the vote had been taken. The Republican party have planted themselves upon the proposition that on this Continent the rich, the poor, the high,

the low, the white and the black should ,. . ,. , - , stand, civilly and politically, equal in the . ' J . . J . licut ot freedoms dav. As to social I ' ... , , , ... , - and the races never will or can be socially J equal. Laws cannot bind the two races IO !uuuie iiu racii uiuti, unu u uccus no legislation to keep them apart. We believe that the time has come when piejudice against color and previous condition must go down before the good sense of the reople. Ii justice and oppn s.-ion heaped upon one class of citizens by another will no longer be tolerated; strife between sections and classes must cease, ! .. . .1 nil ti.ufr triirl- l.i 1 1 .. i n r Ii n r i i ir , i AUU UH UiUCl tlUlK III liQIUiVIl . IIDHLj; III J ' view not the prosperity of a single race of FeoP,e but ,he wboIc Peor:- To defeat doctrines like these, the Indiana Legi.lature has been broken up by the resigna- .: p i-n-tmn sufficient ntimlier of l)f m ncra t s ta liav( lh llmihlin:ina without n nun rum in either House, aud at a cost to the I ' i people of the State of 200X00. They j , ' have left the maimed soldiers, the deaf " and dumb, the bait aud blind, and the un fortunate insane withcut any provision for iheir support. Crippled Soldiers for Gface. A committee, delegated by the Washington Citv Post of the Grand Aimv of the I Bepublic, waited on the President recently, i to nn'O the claims of crinrded soldiers to This is as it should be. Nothing less just could be expected from the man who 'saved and will guard our liberties for the i . next four years. The President recognized the fact, that to our soldiers we owe everything; and as the chief of the great party who sustained and endorsed the army, be propn-es, in accordance with the wishes of the majority of his political friends, to re-' ward them more substantially than by high-sounding promises and empty praises. Let them have all the offices they arc capable cf filling. Many citizens furnished substitutes, but they should claim no credit for it. In doing so, they were but paying a small price for the inestimable privileges and immunities they enjoy as citizens and subjects of the best of all governments. But the men who left home, friends and happiness to incur the privations and dangers of a soldier's life, throwing their all into the good cause, should be repaid to the last farthing. If he be a crippled soldier, no man should stand in his way for a moment. The means of earning a livelihood being taken away, he is thrown upon the charities of friends who too often neglect him, and eventually his wouuds almost become a reproach to him. Many if not all of our officers owe their election to their avowed love for the soldiers. If they deceive them now, their lease on office must eud with their present term. During the election promises were not wanting. We will see if there was any truth in them. influx of Englishmen will arrive at Norfolk in April, and arrangements have been made for the importation of Germans. Letters received from the Nstherlauds, Kussia and other European States show that theie will soon be a large emigration to Virginia. Xorthcru men are also prospecting for settlement. j Indian Agsnts. i Th. lVMsii..nt will s.ian lip.iin urnninl. inir Indian airents from the society of society Quakers, selecting iu all ciscs persons recommended to hitu by the leading men of ihat sect, with some of whom he has had imuh correspondence. There is great excitement iu Havana, ami there will, probably, be a great deal more blood shed there, before there is au 0f the troubles in the island. - M". Eliza T. Evans, the newly appoint ed Postmistress at Bavenua, Ohio, is the widow of Lieutenant Evans, late nf the " Hundred and lenm juio, wuo was tilled at Atlanta Georgia. The Xvbjery is a very interesting I j little monthly magazine for youngest readers. They delight in it, and should have it. Only ?l 50 a year. John L. Shorey, No. 13 Washington street, Boston, Mass. Just before Grant was inaugurated, he drove down to a school on Thirteenth ' t,,e "P1. in his Frivatc i and set his little boy, a new comer at the . . . school, ou tue sidewaiK. iue oruer ooys, who were no respecters of persons, cried out, "There's little Grant, let's paste him!" And did so effectually paste him with bails made from the newly fallen snow, that he called his fathers aid, but Ulysses laughed at him and drove off.

English Comments on Grant's Inaugural. The inaugural address of the President was telegraphed entire to the London papers. The Times says of it: In the principles General Grant enunciates throughout this document, briefly as they are expressed, we see hopes of a beneficial and honorable career. The President has been and remains unpledged in a part' sense; lie tells us that the office which has been conferred upon him was unsought. What is of still more importance, he is not committed to the employment of any set of men, and remains

Lis own n,:iMor ami tl,P. triifi Kxppii t i v' ! J 7 of the country. Here are ad vantages i which few Presidents have possessed, and, I if thev were well used by General Grant, I I,;., i nf nffio n,. ho tlm u;ni nfi a new period of prosperity, surpassing even that which came to an eud eight years ago amid the flames of civil war. The Pall Mall Gazette observes: The determination to "protect Iavr-abid-ing citizens, whether of native or foreign biith, wherever their rights are jeopardized," can lead to no ill will, now that the naturalization laws are everywhere either revised, or in a fair way to be re-I vised, and, even apart from this consider . . , , i i .i i presslv uesined to exclude the reman visitors to Irelaiid. ior will any one quarrel with General Grant for his determination to "respect the rights of all the nations, and demand equal respect"' for those of the United Sta;es. If the sentence that follows "If others depart from this rule iu dealing with us, we mav be compelled to follow the precedent" has ;

any occult reference to the Alabama case, j tn!lt powerful and deeply interesting story, Great Britain will have no reason f..rL,. . , . ... ' J

Great Britain will have IIO ia ar,U si fr a rd ,,r fi, ot the States has . chants wu -. in nae no rignc 10 compiaiu u an oncni lie irntnr t. ) . i n ! , ) )iarnif lir r, i , , - . i i i from an American nort merelv ihrmnh the accidental illness of one of the United States law otiiccrs, or through a mis conception on their pirt of the weight of the evidence submitted to them by the President. The Examiner says: General Grant has acceded to power iu , . ,. i - , . i the prime of his maturity and at the zenit li of bis fame. Scraps of sentences from his inaugural address, conveyed to us by telegraph, hardly justify any surmise for more it couid not be as to the policy he contemplates. With Mr. Fessenden or Mr. Adams for his adviser in foreign affairs, the well-wishers of peace will have no reason to fear its interruption. Iu matters of fiuance we have already ail assurance that the credit of the country will be strictly maintained. On the vexed questiou of Southern reorganization we only know for certain that President Grant is neither a fanatic, au enthusiast, nor a pnrtsian. He has won his way to supreme civil power by his almost unbroken reticence on political disputes. The curds are in his hands, and he can deal them as he will. It is a great thing iu a country so fond of talk of all kinds, that a man so singularly fond of silence should have gained the upper hand. His refusal to acknowledge the obligation of ,' ausweiiug or even parrying obtrusive puestions, is a proof of moral courage and sell-possession both of them qualities of great value in a ruler. It is a portion of that which we always set a very high estimate upon, namely, disregard of popularity, io man assuredly, since the time of Washington, has taken so little pains to ingtatiate himself either with cliques or with masters and men. Does this conie of poverty of speech or of the moral wealth of lofty independence and (rue ambition? Wc shall wait with no ordinary interest to see the development of so remarkable a character, and the progress of so striking a career. The News says: The inaugural address of President Grant has been received on this side of the Atlantic with a good deal of interest and satisfaction. The world has of laie been so accustomed to bear from the occupant ot the H bite House the language cf pol - itical partisanship, that it is refreshing to read the address of a President who bclongs to and represents the whole people rather than anj- section of it. General Grant is one of the few Presidents in modern times who have been able to say with the simplicity of au honest pride "The office which lias been conferred on me was unsought. jw declaration that he accepts the position without fear has an air of simplicity about it which at once puts the new President out of the catego-J .y oi ,v.u cniodus. ii HL.j aiso oe ... i . , i. ..i.- i held to indicate the entire im in.liinnii.lanna of his position. No party can fully claim . . v. .i' j. iniv ii v v.

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l . 1 1 r 1 -i i in 1 - i , . i ' .. , ------- j .- iurujoiui.resoiuuon;aiiuas me ie.uuI resident brant nor can he be fairly said ; the defendant judgment for twelve dollars j want of candor in presenting the subject, j cratiJc , of Iudi'ana indorsed the rulto have incurred responsibilities to either, j all she claimed and the plaintiffjudg- j He intentionally conveys the impression in of the Democratic Senate in the cases

The Lafayette Journal and the Fort Wayne Democrat both say the wheat crop prospects in Northern Indiana aro of the most promising character. The action of the Michigan Legislature in continuing tlw land grant of the Grand llipids and Indiana Uailroad, secures to that Company the use of two millions from K.istern capitalists for the completion of the road. It is understood that they will commence work on tlie Fort Wayne eud of the road immediately, and continue the work as rapidly as possible. Dkmorest's Monthly. This is justly called the "Qaeen of the Monthlies." It is tl. ohIjt real woman's magazine iu America. It is full of good, sound sense, and practical information. It gives awav money value in its valuable full-sized patterns with everv issue, and contains a miue of iuterest to every woman in its "Ladies' Club." Published at 838 Broadway, N. Y., S3. 00 per year. Send 15 cents for a specimcu. This Dkmorest's Young America interesting juvenile looks bright, quaint, aud saucy as ever, in a new colored cover, that will set all the children wild with j d , Alu0 its leatures are a kite a puzzle picture, and lots of stories and charades. A 'Tlesolve Club" is the latest editorial novelty, and each subscriber who joins it receives a badge. No wonder the children like Young America. Published at S3S Broadway, N Y., SI 50 per year. Scud 10 cts. for a specimen.

A Grievance. A writer in the Lawrenceburg Press makes the following statement: There is a large amount of money kept off of the Tax Duplicate by men who have money at their command. It is done in the following manner: They will call in their money about the last of December go to the Banks and deposit the money and take certificates for United States Bonds and then, right away alter the first day of January, they lift their money, loan it out again at ten per cent., and

when the Assessor comes along aud asks .1 l 1 I 1. . J 1. 7 1 1,e' "ow money mey miu on nanu or on dePit, they will reply, "NONE; our onpJ was a11 1,1 Lnied States Bonds, lhus they keeP (,ff of the laX Duplicate, 1 suppose, not less tlianone hundred thousand dollars and, by so doing, caue the widow and minor heirs to pay an 8rnouut of tax that they should not pay; thus, by duplicity, causing others to pay money that they themselves should pay. The Ladv's Friend for. Atril. "The Fortune-Teller" is the subject of the fine steel engraving which leads off the last number of this charming monthly. This is followed by a handsome and refined steel plate ot the latest Pans fashions men we nave a striding picture or at Avalanche among the Alps, followed by a number of engravings devoted to ladies' andchildrcu's dresses, bodices, fancy work, etc. The music of this number is the j popular song, "Pulling hard against tLc j Stream." As to the literary contents, n,n,,ipl ainr:p, nf rt,,, Mimo! nf the Dice," by Mrs Spofford; ,-Iveeninr j I'"'1"' I e? Toll Gate," by Miss Bolles (August Beli);

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Walter; "Samuel Barker's lister, by . iraucis liee, and Jjditonals, 1 ashionable Intelligence, etc. Published by Deacon i & Peterson, 319 Walnut street, Philadel-! nhi-i at 0 "ill -i vp-ir fwhicli ikn inilniiM F,JKI' al " OK) a e'lr ,w tuca f 180 1DCluues i a large steel ergraving). Four copies, fcu. 1'ive copies (and one gratis), fco. "The Lady s 1- nend" and "Ihe Saturday Evening Sl.OO. Post" (and one engraving). For the American. Court Decision. March 8th, IS59-. Afc. Editor, I thought I would take my rusty peu iu hand this morning to scratch you a few liues. And as court!!,"seems to be the order of the day in our County, while Court has been in session in your town for some time, perhaps you and many of your readers did not know that there had been qniie a business going on in one of the higher courts of our Countv; that is, in one of the couits fi 1 u i ther up the liver. As the decision in this Court mav be of i.oi.ortanee we propose to give tne proceeuu in one case. There was a joung man who Lad done some work for a widow lady. She thought he wanted too much for his labor; so the could not settle, and he brought suit to recover some twentv-cisiht dollars. Tl. . widow sent for a bachelor t'riund of hers to know what she must do. He had auctionce,,'s ''"nee; so he took the case in hand as her attorney. The trial came on; plain tiff's witnesses examined prove but very little. Attorney for defendant "If jour Honor pleases, you will swear myself and Mr. S. aud C." Attorney examines hiui-

self first; witnesses all through, very little -ford to wait; that there need be no haste, proven. Defendant brings in a bill for jard simply begs for more time to consid house-rent against the young man, who j cr- The answer to this is plain and patlives with his brother-in-law, who had the e,,t. The people of these States can not house rented of the defendant. Hill was j afford to protract an injustice. If the ueallovved. The auctioneer (attorney. 1 pro is at all qualified to vote, if the mere

. should have said,) makes a speecu. lie claimed that the plaintiff had proved nothing, and asked for a judgment for de feiidant. telling the J. 1'. that he could give a decision now, or take the matter : under advisement. 1 he J ustice informed him that he was ready to give a decision, ; The attorney stepped" out'of the office a few moments to talk with a friend. Justice ' goes to bguntig. Attorney comes in in . a rcat Lurry aud says: ''If your Honor: pleases, there is one thing I forgot; we j tendered the plaintiff our uote for "all we iir..ii. i .i.- ii. i 'i , oweu mm; inereiore we iiwuh. lie suouia pay ! 1a n.icl C llitj in if " T noli..., on.-., oil : vut iv.-io . . w .o c-ui. v udiild eaj, o, savs, j, ! yes, he shall pay the costs lie then save

mCUl iui t.A.eCu uo,..!ls, jMauuiu to pa t ,al uie aruc.e iaKes away irom me states of 3right and Fitch, its organs are estop-COx-S" , , , , rC7rC-r ?vcrtlie subject of suffrage, and ; ped fyQm oalUn , in qUCStion ,he constituNow, iir Lditor, we thought the decis invests it ia Congress. Mr. Hendricks tioDa, r of CaD'ress to pass the resolon 111 regard to a note being legil tender . knows better. The article simplv declares ! i.:n v infrnAMA L Spn.ft,vr Mmdon

rather a strange decision. We remember when gold was legal tender; later, greeubacks; but never knew before that a note of band was. liut it the decision should be sustained, I think it will work quite a change in financial matters, as greenbacks are liard tor some ot us to get. It

will be much easier for some of us to give j write a test of eligibility. This would not our notes, payable when received. I think, - afiVet Mr. Hendricks Democratic constiif this deciMon is sustained, our Govern- tuents, of course, who are all able to read mcut can soou resume specie payment. ibis eloquent speeches and write their Sl'ECTATOU. j names, but it would cut off all the blacks. : Or there might be a property qualification The Louisville Courier-Journal does not ! 7:sa $300 which would include all the seem to have the most uubounJed con ' De,tJOCrats '? the .J?ta!e' anJ -ep the ne-

fidence in the official honesty c-f Mr. Hoiman, one of the Democratic rcpre.-enta-lives in Congress from this State. It ex-r-resses the oidnion that the mutilation of 1 e "Fpropriation bill to which Ge 1 r ener se, was not occasioned by accident, but bv de-; sign, and slaps Ilolmao in the face iu this j vigorous style: "The public, we think, has a good right! to conclude, that, guilty as the enrobing ouuci viinev.1 ii. tj i.i.t.iuu.1 01 1 iie 11 ou ! clerk may have been, Schenck and IIol- ! man were not less so. If, as is probably -s coo 1 and deliberate in .ue (jiiioiiiiicui ui lue inn, me whisky ring, into whose pockets the million and a half of money was to go,was in all probability at the bottom of the iniquity. We are glad that Butler, bad as ' he is, is capable of making himself ofi some account when his malignant passions happen to blaze in the right direction." in .ur. iiolman resent tins att from the organ of the Democracy of Ke tucky, by asking for a committee of invc ligation, or otherwise? Journal

Ex-Senator Hendricks on the Fifteenth

. Amendment In his speech against the Fifteenth Article of Amendment to the Constitution, ex-Senator Hendricks rather weakens than enforces his argument, by the assumption that Congress, in proposing the amendment to the Legislatures, has usurped power. Had Congress, as was, indeed, proposed by some of the most radical men in that body, undertaken to declare the nature and qualifications of suffrage throughout the United States by law, under the specious plea of guaranteeing republican governments to the States and the people thereof, there might have been some force in the accusation of an attempt to usurp power. But Mr. Ilendricfks knows that nothing ia the nature of that proposition attaches to the article cf amendment under discussion. On the contrary, Congress has followed the coustiutional form, in letter and spirit, and, according to its specific! direction, ha submitted the article to the Legislatures of the several States for ratification or rejection. The ex-Senator is fond of appealing" to the usages of the fathers, who submitted the Constitution originally tw the people of the States for their adop. lou. J his precedent he-believes to be en titled to great weight, and we are not dis posed to deny it If the time ever should tome when ir shall be thought best to form a new Constitution for the United States, the propriety of its submission to the people will hardly be questioned. But it j8 so evident that while the fathers so actcd, it did tot occur to them that such a ioriiiaUty ought to he observed every time :a mouiacauon or me instrument mijiutDe iT, Vr,,vi VpV in l r . T, n.V III U .If haxe pio! in .the Constitution itself 1 . 1. J I. ! ! I '.I... 1 , stitutin, virtually consented to that mode ot determining ihe fate of amendments. '1'h attempt, therefore, to con vi net Congress ot' a" outrage upon the rights of the peo..i., i i r.ii 3 l. ,j,e pe0pe js not only a failure, but an evidence ot the weakness of the position taken by the opponents cf the proposed ar"5,e or amenuiiient. I-' rim Mr I 1 0 II ili'irl-a id nl.1i.ioit til nnn v. a v,. v. fess that amendments have been adopted, j .,, one time or auotlier, without going ! down to the people tor an express sanctiiiu of them; but then, he says, "they were so obviously right and so plainly agreeable to use win oi tlie peopie that it was not important to go through the detail ob served by the lathers in getting the popular sanction to the Constitution. Very well. Now, we have gone through thespech of 51 r. Hendrioks to discover what tl.ero is in ihe amendment that' is i , obviously wrong, without diseoverin :t ,;10 oJe nowhere attacks the lustncss of piii.eiple embodied in the amendment, aid about the vio - i here is a good deal

latioti of party pledges; we arc assured for ; oiistit ut lonu. power to enact it. Those few hours should have been s euitt e ten thousandth 'time that Democracy,! J5u, lest we n.ay be an.-'.veied that this ; j.h.ycd. Tiie am. iidment had been p;tis opposed to negro suftVaan in every 1:,w owes u P;'r::iiy to the "ceiitralizing p0i,e-l until the hour of 2 o'clock i K, shapv; the action oi the Democratic mem - i,"lic3" -'' t1,1' Bcpublicnn p'irty," we ten- oaVinK over six hours for tiher i i.sin-ss

bers of the Legislature in it-signing, and thus staving off the isuc of unification, is approved and defended, and it is at ten p'f-vl to manufacture some political e.ipital out nf the fact that the special election to 1 ic vara neie made by their resignation will cot the Slate iome thousands oi' dollars; but we nowhere find any

; thin sroinsx to show that the principle of t,wn oor" I'00'1 ol ",!;'""y ' '' cnate 'inipaitial suffiaoe, as put in the Fifteenth 1 a ,1Ji:j!i,y d' the H'n.-e of B.-presen-: Auieie, is unfair, unjust, or conflicting . tatives, the two hod-.os combined being i . . . . . ' ' , : : i i .. l . . . i ...... -i-i i- . l

' Willi ti.e mil fits and ust prero-'atives of any citizen ot Ihe State of Indiana. r tt ' i - . i . , . . Air. ISendrieks is two slirpwl n nnliti. cian. too eiear-headnd, to attack that. It! is one of those thinos "obviously rh-ht," : . - , . i ' , i i . .i -i, if not so evidently "airreeable to the will of the people," that it cannot ha success-, fully assailed. Indeed, he almost con- i cedes this when he savs the ne-ro can af- I color of his skin and the kink of his hair arc not disqualifications in and of themselves, then the sooner he is cudowed with all the political rights to which, as a citizen of the United States, he is entitled, the better; for then we shall have reniov ed all cause of complaint, and equitably settled a question that will continue to be ; a scurco of vexation and agitation till it 14 'airiy ue'crtuiucd. Having advcr'.ed to these points in Mr. lit ndru ks' speech, and to the especial fact that it shows the ex-Senator more i . , . . . . opposeu to tne manner ot suDmitting tlie article ior rauucation than to tne matter ' .;. .1 .. - . . . . : . - 1 ...... dOli:iC n.'. lilllUailUIlll.UMIO ' of if. we have further to cnmnlain of his , that the right of suffrage shall be imparj tially distributed; but the conditions of i suffrage, the qualifications admitting the icilizeu to the exercise ot it, are wholly for the States to determine. In Indiana, for instance, the State Constitution may be so modified as to make 'fthilitv to read and ! p.roe8 .'V U', l,0'l,,ri al1 tll"i to coaie, ! O4."'1 V 0 tuei1)r!uocr"t,e autLor- 1 i lt ,or ,l) '';e are a lit Soss, lazy, va,dnt sct' wl' ut'vor do and never will j I a.itniiviil'itiv tM-moM. it 1 ... ... 1 1 r.. . A. ! '-v 1e a". ea.V" '".'.y to orange all this so s praencauy to defeat negro Uftrage, and "ot Vlcie a a,r Pnnc,P or.d. au "'Juf; Uee. Of cou.se the white cmiju would have ,0 K" "'".''t. or own the amount ,1 property required to pass the test; but 1 w,e,, ue,l, 7 u,e sP"or rce. Having :n:ate,r opacity, to leai n, ana more energy X! f' a " n r 1 1 ! 1 J vi w.ose v, no ! f,now .Ilou- 1 ' , ie 6tra,S,,t j ft""? 1 a,,d dama the Ulr ., . ., . ... . , A , 1 lie Atlanta (Ija.) correspondent of the "lu ) ,t!-l"'uucul ul i,ui j 'ncinnati Commercial writes:

ack I OUld It not be a good plan to swan I all claims for the additional bounties I declared probably insolvent. Creditors are i"

n-jsoroe Indiana Democrats for tJeoriria Ke- ! granted iu sections twelve and thirteen of 1 fre notified that the samo will be settled c

s- : publicans, or would tb .t ba to both parties the act of July '28, lSGti, shall, after the '"f,, Rnk w v VI, lav's. '

hkc swapping the devil for a witch? I'or 1st of ilay ncit, be adjusted aud settled March 12-3w.

j my part, I think Georgia would be deci-

dedly worsted. The Indi ana Democrats 1.! it, i . i .i are making their runaway fight with their white brothers, and expect to et into office by kicking a while longer at the poor negro. Our politicians are struggling for peace and quiet, and only differ as to the best means of securing this end. Senator Morton's Joint Resolution. The conspirators against the Constitution of Indiana the fugitive legislators and their backers were horrified on yesterday morning when they saw in the Congressional proceedings of Monday this ominous paragraph: "Mr. Morton offered a joint resolution, providing that a majority of any State Legislature shall be sufficient to ratify any amendment to the Constitution of the United States proposed by Congress, and that the resignation or withdrawal, or temporary refusal to act, of the minority, shall not affect the validity of such ratification by a majority." "More Centralization!" shrieks the Sentinel. "Shall our perennial supply of mileage, stationery and stamps be cut off by the interference of a usurping and centralizing Congress," cry the alarmed runaways from our legislative chambers. "Must free diiuks come to an end so soon?' sigh the most blatant of the "antinigger" Democracy, with whom frequent elections and unlimited supplies of whisky I are convertible terms. Well, really we don't know whether these calamities are to overtake the demagogues who deserted from the Legislature, and the negro-hating masses of intolerance who sustain them, but the prospect for a long continuance of their revolutionary course is, to say the least, dubious. The resolution of Seuator Morton is simply a recognition of the foundation principle of representative government, namely, that the majority shall rule. By parliamentary usage a majority of any legislative body is competent to pass a law or joint resolution, and the Constitution of our State so declares in express terms. Nor was it contemplated by the framers of that instrument, nor by the people who adopted it, that a minority should assume to dictate what tha majority might, or should not do. The process of bolting by a minority, for the purpose of prevention lnwldlitin id r.n .il.n.a tf" (Ti.ifr nrnvidirtn . ....... ,..-.. .. ... ..... of the Constitution which prescribes the i number necessary to eor.-rfityic a quorum j ot ei iher house 1 the General Assemtly. j and it shouUl be met "with all the resotirj ces of statesmanship" when indulged in. The principle of Sector Morten's resolution has been sifhrmed at least once by j both bratsches of Congress, a nd twice by ! the Seuatc. The existing ;ict of Conaress, ) prescribing the manner of fleeting United j States Senators, lacogr.iz.-. a m:ij.rity of all the members of the Legislature, of a! j tate as the -oi.,,ture and competent as i such to elect Senators. This law has been j actea l''on ln ' ,,ie 'es, and no uitel:,,eent u'!,n doubts that Congress had the derly call the attcution oi the femo'-rutie press of tlie State to the dec'sion of the Cnited States Senate, when it had a twothirds major: tv of De morra is, in the famous cases of Messrs. Briyht and Fitch, who claimed to have leru elicd u Senator? tiy the "1 niat:a jegihiturc of lb57. The election was made a ioint convencoiiMoeiaoi ie man iwu.iurtis oi uie i-eocii a,.i.nnj. j .. oooooi .m9 oi 1 Bright and Fitch insisied that they had '. .... . J V K - e ', J ,hat he ""VT" ' t'"'6 rc,l,111';d. two thirds of each house to he present in , , ,. , , . .h . '"" !td uy legisiat.ve act, "nd th,a ' I,lor1 , 'ia" 0,,,e" of ' ,e U.,emberS "Kcutcd e"8elvcs from the, joint convention j Acting on (his theory, the succeeding I Legislature chose two other Senators and I sent them to Washington to demand the seats then occupied by Bri-iht and Fitch. The Senate, as we have said, was then strongly Democratic, a ml after hearing the .arguments advanced by the contending! parties, it decided that Messrs. Bright ' and Fitch had been legally elected, and refused to rccognizi the centestors. , By that deeitdon the Democratic merni Vers of the United States Senate declared that in cases where the Constitution of; the United States empowers the Lcgisla- j : ture of a State to do a pariicubar act, a! inajoiity of its members shall be held to be the Legislature, the Constitution cf the U, . ,"- ', , .-,i . j-1-'u"; iu vuiiiu.j uu..,..ainiu.i.s. l r , , ( . i , 1.1 - 1 . ii one orancn oi Longress nau ine rignii ! tri Kn A.,;Aa 0,(,;l it nn,nnitnt for i ,u0 rrr n An..,ro ,h c l,ino- Vr k i J ' J . r ... j .1 n Indeed both political parties have solemnly affirmed the existence of this power, and surely no stronger argument i'or its expr1 cige need i,e rrentC(I lha ti,narv and disorganizing ! lr'inority 0f our l'le LeR tnan tue revolu course of the inority of our late .Legislature. 0 ournal. Important to Soldiers. Public No 47 An act in relation to additional bounties, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Jiejyresentafiits of the United States of America in. Congress asscmuh a, 1 hat when a soldier's discharge states that he is discharged by reason of "expiration of term of service," he shall be held to have completed the full term of his enlistment and Sec. 2. And be it f, a ther enacted. That : he vid njinor children or parents, in ! the order named, of any soldier who shall haye djed affer honorabIy d;s. (., d fr'm the military service of the ljniil te? shan bo entitled to receive : (ho additiona, bounty to which such ; goIJier would be entitieJ if- ivi under , the ,vrovisions of ihe twelfth and thir- ' teeutn sections oi an act einiuea "an act makiDS appropriil,i0aS for sundry civil ex- ! penseof the Government for the vear endig June 30, 1SGG, and for other purI poses," approved July 23, 18G6, and the i said provisions of said act shall be so cou1 , strued. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That

j by the accounting officers of the Trea

j uoder the proTisioos of said act and I . urv. nil ucn claims as may, on tne said 1st of May, be remaining in the office of the Paymaster General, unsettled, 6hall be transferred to the Second Auditor of the Treasury for settlement. Sec. -4. And be it further enacted, That all claims tor bounty under the provisions of the act cited in the foregoing section shall be void, unless presented in due form prior to the 1st day of December, 1S69. Approved March 3, 18G0. A Cowardly Dodge. The guilty demagogues who dissolved the Legislature by resigning and running away, are frightened at the legitimate consequences of their stampede. The people don't fancy the idea of being taxed afresh to pay the cost of their folly, so the fugitives attempt to shift the responsibility from themselves to the Governor, as though he had an agency in their guilt. Oneof their organs defends them in this wise: "Governor Baker's haste to have the negro suffrage amendment forced on the people of Indiana, before they have a chance to pass upon it at the polls, will cost us many thousands of dollars, which might have been just as well saved as not but for the Governor's indecent haste. Could he have waifpii r.Vinnr. ten ri:iv lrn ger the election might have been held on the same day as the spring elections, and saved at each precinct the expense of three registers one day for correcting the lists, the expense of holding a special election on the 23i, and of the board of canvassers; also, a large sum for the poll books, tally papers, registry lists, etc." If the Mileage and Postage Stamp Brigade had wished to so arrange matters as to have their vacancies filled at the regular township elections in April, all they had to do was to hand in their resignations ten days later, or what would have been better, passed the appropriation bill before resigning. They knew that they were leaving the Governor without means to carry on the State government, or a dollar to feed the hundreds of insa,nef blind and deaf and dumb persons in the State asylums, and they were not ignorant of the fact that he would be forced to call an extra session at the earliest possible day. lhere is another rumit lor the people ' -1 . 1 T . .1? .1 , consider in 11115 connection. uaa tne ; Juaith e Senators remained in tlu-ir seats .even two hours longer the expense ol sho j April elect iou as well as itlo s;..vc:al ' lilatsve election could have been saved, J jle y-t abolishing' the April election had t,ussed the House of Benrescntauvcs and oeeu twice read in the Senate.- That and the Appropriation biil would both have passed uu Thursday foren-oo-n but for thu premature resignation of the Democrat-'-' Senators. This would have saved m-.:rt than glOU.UUO to the hjpavcrs tf the ; Slate, in the item of election- csy-.-n-H-i j aloue, sayina nothing of the cast- t.fi:-i , cxtra session of the Legislature, wl.'.t'i j would then have been unnrcess r bnfoie that could come up. l lo-ic therefore, no excu-e lor their on ih. morning of that day. Why did not the resign i tig St i:a tors so use tho.-e houis as to ohvi iti! tb.; t.tcu.-sity of an ex'ra session, or au Apiii ele'-iici.? Can anybody lell? lias a single reason been given for their precipitancy, except their anxiety to come back lor more mileage and stationeiv? The Governor manifested no haste, ' in decent" or otherwise That was uone by ihe men who refused to stay and pass ihe a I'liropriution bill. Nor did the Governor ! at.cmpt to force the amenamcnt on th people or the Legislature. It came -o l.i... .. tlip l-'xf i-ni i vp of ihe St it- and it was ; d ,IJe J-xetuuve oi un ...u, anu u ; his duty n, lay h .before the Le-.-lature. i This he did, and nothing more. Solar 1Vou. using any forcing process, be did m.t even make a recommoiidation ou the sub ject to the Legislature. Journal. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS iirnpike Election. TOTICliis hereby given, thnt on Tu?.iy, IN fith day of A (Til, at 10 i."el :; A. M. oi said day, hd el-i',ti-n will be lieM by tin.- st : holders of iho l.rimkville A Oxford iloivcl il ' i I Company, Bt the store of A. L. A I iin, ia Sjir i!4 field Townfli'-p. Franklin Courily, liii.u-ii, i elejt five liireoiors for sj.id ('onii;iny. J. Vf. McCLLKK, .n d othc-". mar IC-2w. ttoeUhol liAdministrator's iNotice. j XTOTICE U hereby given that the un ilerignol i-N has this day been P-'net A.lmi:.isvt.-.r ' of the estate of Martha J. l.ucHg, lte uf i iai.h.1 Hn Couiity, Indiana, Heceaxed. J ' . . . ...... March 2, 1SG9 3w. COMMISSIONER'S SALE. THE undersigned Cointuissioner, appoin ted l y the Court ol'Commm l'leas of Fraaklin County, Indian, make sale of the land ordered to be sold in the case of Nany Siaughtor am! ct h -er vs. Nancy Johnson and others, pondiu said Court, will, on the premises, Oi Saturday, April 2ith, 18G9, (unlef. previously sold at private sale,) expose Ii gale at public auction the fallowing lauda in sail Countv : Part cf Iot So. 31, commencing SO feet from the N. E. corner of said lot, thenee 37 feet, West, thence South 62 feet, thenco East 37 feet, theriM North 52 feot to the place of begin iiing. Situate in the Town of Blooming Grove, County of Franklin and State of Indiana. . Bids for said lot at private sale will bo revived up to the 15th of April, 1S6U. TERMS OF SALE. One half down, the remaining half in one year from date, deferrel payment to be secured by note with mortgage on premises, bearing interest from date, without any relief from valuation or appraisement laws. DAVID SuAl'tiUIEK, Comuiisrioner. March 26th, 1309 4w. Wliolesale Dealers d Manufacturers of MILLINERY GOODS, S3 & 85 Pearl Street, CINCINNATI, 0. We would respectfully inform our friends anil alldealersin Millinery and Fancy Goods, that our stock is now complete and has been careful. selected. STRAY GOODS, HATS, EONNETS, Plowers, Frames, Ornaments, and all other articles used in the business are of th latest styles and of all qualities. As we buy our goirds exclusively for Cah, offer to Cash Buyers most liberal inducement?. We cordially invite Milliners and Merchant, when visiting our city, to call and see u3 belor having elsewhere. Respectfully, mar 19-4. DEVOUACO. NOTICE OF INSOLVENCYAT the November Term (1863) of the Court 0 Common Picas of Franklin County, IcdlaI1, the Estate of Claiborne W. Brison, deceased, w