Indiana American, Volume 8, Number 17, Brookville, Franklin County, 23 April 1869 — Page 2

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C. H. BINGHAM, Editor. -BHOOKVILLKFriday Hornicg, Apiil 23, 1869. The President's yuaner roucy With the Indian, will probably be do- j . . . . ' veloped in the course of the present wee"k, by a letter to a representative committee of Orthodox Quakers, whieh meets in 1ul!ad'phia. He wrote one of them a let. ter in February, asking a list of the names f the member of their society, who could be recommended for agents, and said he would gic them all the encouragement and protection he c-.mM in any attempt they were willing to m;ike to improve, edu cate aud civilize the Indians. They responded two weeks ago that they would like to undertake but one supevintendency at present, and if the President designated it, they would select an Executive Committee of three or five from their society, who should receive no compensa- , . " should take the place of a superintendent ; on supervising the agents. J hey now ex - pect a reply from the President to th,s letter, and one of their nutuler is in I U'iicliinirtnn r.t rpi'pive if anil rarrv it to Philadelphia. j The recommendations of the society j have been laid before the Secretary of the . Interior. The Orthodox branch are to-j take charge of what i known as the Cen- j tral Superintendency, comprising Kansas . and the Indian territory, while the Hixite ! branch are to undertake the Northern j Superintendency, comprising Nebraska j and part of Dakota. i The President has written to a number j of gentlemen whom he would like to have j aid him under the clause of the last! Indian bill, empowering him to appoint an j unpaid commission of ten. They are to ' , , ! have charge of the I rFer .Sioux country. Among theiu are Ueoige H. Swait and , William Wel.-h, of Philadelphia; E. Dodge, j of .New York; C. E. Farwell, of Chieago: j i v i i j t i c i . and Edward h. loby, ot Boston. Ao-i J . i a.c uu.jti uccii mtmu irum an, j and so it cannot now be said of whom the body will be composed

The Governor's Message. . Britain swept ours from the seas, and itl. i' . i i. : I transferred our srreat carrying trade to her lne message of tmxernor Uiker, in ; , , 3 , r , ,' , . n i !own vessels. i hat she robbed us of was reference to the business of the extra ses- j mare than fen im the va,e of ,e prop. sion, will be found in our columns this j erty captured, and what she gained by week. It is devoted mainly to showing ! this foul play was more than ten times the necessity of a general law lor the sup- j what ihe would Pay u.s if we Eettled on 4 v o. . , . the basis of the property actually taken port ot tate institutions and payment of' jhe priviteers debts, to obviate the evil consequences of j Under Johnson's administration the the failure of appropriation bills. He policy was to belittle our claims asainst makes this so e'.eir. enforces it so cogently, i jreat Biitain to the cost of the ships ai.d not only as an act of mere consistency, ! c,ar"oes aclua,1y taken On this basis , , . . , -"they were estimated at about ten mtllions, that to refuse to do it is a hardly less fla- aod these werC) hy ileVerdy Johnson's grant defi ince of duty than the abandon-! treaty, thrown into a pool with a vague ment of the appropriations. Wc may add running account of a quarter of a centuanother suggestion to those unred by him.iry l.'atk; al1 to int0 the char,ces of an ... e .. c. . . arbitration. In this way we were to allt the necessities of the State are provided i ,i . . r - u. j . n ' low that Great Britain might destroy ail lor, so that the failure of the regular ap- j our commerce by paying for less than a propriations cin work no very great evil, j tithe of it. This treaty has been rejected.

there will be less inducement for cither party to push them behind some favorite measure, to insure action upon it. When the necessity of an appropriation becomes less, its value as a coerceive imple ment to a party becomes less. If the Legislature will pass such a bill as (iovernor advises, it will give excellent se curity against any future failure of legish-i

tion. ; the burning ot our merchants ships, and ' i.m -- - j drove our merchants to force the sale of Cuban Recognition. j their ships, at any sacrifice, to foreign The New Yoik Times editorially com hands. The day of reckoning is come, tnents on the proposed demand for Cuban I and lhe amount of damage actually done :.: i .l it ., . w. . by this Englit-h poiicy is the measure ol recognition by the Ij nited States. It says i . n J I our claim upon that Government, lo asthe pleas for such recognition may be j sert our jU!-t claim docs not mean war, for urged by Great Britain and France in 1 it is not to be presumed that England will justification of their recognition of the ' deny our just claim. But to accept less Southern Confederacy. If the Houe res- i t,iV1 a ,e,,lh.of . of tle i?e ....... " , . , . : which was directly mllicteo on us, and li r ohition is rijht now, they were risjht in' i - i . i i i vi " ' 3 v . v ii , wjucu t,re;,t Britain is clearly responsible, lStH. Ifvre may accord belligerent rights j WOuld be a uational humiliation. Gazto an itisurrei ti. il which, by compart on, is ette.

trifling, they were wai ranted iu proclaiming the belligerent privileges of a rebellion, which, by comparison, was gigantic. From this dilemma there is no deUvereuce. Its i proportions are rendered more striking by ! the fresh phases that have been imparted ' into the Alabama cont,overy. The re-i .. . . ... . ... , , . lusal to ratitv tne t taretnlon .lolnison, treaty proceeds on the assumption that a ; wrong was done by the recognition of the; Confederacy. That hypothesis would be' demolished if the demand for Cuban re j cognition were complied with. We must ; be consistent in this matter, or limit the: Alabama controversy to the sing'e ques. ! tion of money. Virginia Reconstruction. ! The effect of the recent action of the

President and Cungre-son reconstruction, j oe informal; if it be so, the necessary corespecially in Virginia, is of the most cheer-i rection will surely be made next Novemin character. Letters from Richmond ! l)er wl,e e Legislature again meets, say that it seems as ir a load , f depression The following States are morally certain , , , , , to ratify he to re the year closes: had been lifted from the spirits ol the peo Vermont, New Hampshire, pie, and that the satisfaction with the ae- I Connecticut, Georgia 4. tion of Congress is well nigh unanimous' Rhode Island, Virginia, Mississippi and the only exceptions being some few sul-1 Texas will give us the residue that we need, , . , , ...i , i ,t i , and more too; and we hope for help also len reactionists, who still harbor the ghost , ,. , ',. .,- j ' . , ! Irom Ohio, Indiana, talifornu and Oregon, of the rebellion and fpit on the flag. fiuc.cef!s is almost beyond contingeucy. Business is already reviving, as a conse. j Land ho! New York Tribune, quence, and the doubt and uncertainty which have been consequent upon their ' , .,,,. . . .... , . , , At the right of the ice President, ot. chaotic condition being removed, people. . ,7 ... , 4 & . , posite the Republican side of the Lbamare already beginning to install plans for befi niay be seen the Hon. p. jj. lraU the future and prepare for largely in-j the successor of Mr. Hendricks. Informt'ttafccd activity. It is believed that the j ed of his great weight, one would expect

material interest of the State will be ad. ! to be reminded of the late Preston King, , .... . ... .. rlofNewxork. It is true, Senator I ratt is v.noed many million, by this action of 1 a Urge m!in, but tbe ferial is so deftly t OUgre4. ! nackert in th rnrnora where it is most

Jude Ni;rud II Johnson, uf the iie L'riiiiinul CourC presides on the trial of Abrauis, whioh begau on TuesJay .

Mr. Swifl's Rejoinder. In another place we publish Mr. Swift's

.rejoinder to the Aurora Advocate, written by himself and signed "Justiee." The somewhat lengthy article copied from that paper, to which Mr. Swift refers, was written by a correspondent from Moore's Hill, signed "Quilp," and did not appear na oil irnria i in iiie --iu ivtu i. . - . , ... . ve been wntten by . Kepubl.can n the interest of Judge Lamb, urging the Judge's appointment as the successor of Mr. Swift. We cannot, therefore, see the i propriety of Mr. Swift's harsh and severe language towards the Lditor of the Advocate, when the article was evidently written by another individual. Kor can we see the propriety of Mr. Swiffs insinuation that Mcjor Burton instigated said article, writteu from Moore's Hill in Dearborn County. These gentlemen, however, are fully able to defend themselves in this matter, and our only object in thus speak ing i to disapprove of Mr. Swift's manner of hastily and severely reflecting upon apparently innocent parties. Ex-Alderman Johnson spoke to about. !5 000 people, o.. Thursday afternoon, t i j ilroru a stana at tbe Overton Hotel, in 1 r -t ' tion of those made in lvnoxville and vtu..:ii.. well received and I u inc. It was hearti,J FP f1K Galaxy for May (New York: sl,eldoii & Co ) contains two chapters ol' Charles Ueadc's novel, Put Yourself in h-g p,. ,be conc,usion of Words and hejr pa;rs anJ Bepair?; English Torjism and itg Leader;!; susan Fielding, chapte 11 to 17; James T. Brad; A Cho5r cf Songsterjs; Gillaxy JWllany; DlifiWOoJ; literature and Art; Nebula'. Mr. Sumner's Spsech. Mr. Sumner has taken ground on the depredatious committed by Anglo-rebel amed fhlV on LUF co,mmerce- ".hicll .ris,es to the level ot the subject; aud in this he h carried with him hJoth paries in ,he Senate. From the first this journal has maintained that the amount of property actually captured, burned and sunk by thee privateers was no criterion of the , 1 ,. , . . A , damage d rectly inflicted on our commerce; aijd tuat we had letter decline awy ad justment or compensation tl an to accept as a satisfaction the cost ot the property actually captured. By these ships (Jieat and Mr. Sumner has laid down the true measure of the injury which Great Britain has done us, and for which we shall hold her accountable. One hundred millions would not pay the injury done to our commerce by these Anglo-rebel vessels. They were sent out ! by the connivance of the British Govthe j f ... , ernuieiu; anu me press anu tne governj ing classes exulted and applauded while these vessels lighted up the ocean with Twenty One States Have Ratified. New York has fully ratified the Fifteenth Constitutional Amendment. The St n :ilt coiu'iii i-eil with lhe A ssem M w in doing so by a full vote on a strict party division -je;is 17. nays 15. So we are wel1, on ,l,e w"y t0Wald ,he incorporation of that amendtnent into the lederal Con ... m, . , - . ..e , stitutiou. 1 1. e States which have ratified it, according to our couut, are as follows: M iliif, M assai-hnsetts, New York, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, A labama, Tennessee, Florida. Illinois, Wisconsin, M in nesota, Iowa, M issouri, N ebraska, Nevada, At kansas, Louisiana, Kansas - Michigan. The ratification bv this State is said to i n ciA a A tliat T" 1 1 Ark nrtt ritliTA Vita ni7P -ft,,, nt r. nmnnar him with a brother Senator, and then he loses noth. i"g ia your estimation by this freak of

the human mind.

lie has a fine, good looking face, after the colossal style of beauty, and if he should be whisked off to fill a first-class mission abroad, it is safe to predict that we never should look upon his. like again. His countenance is aglow with good humor and benevolence, and yet if every tbirg happens as Senator Sprague predicts, there is nothing to prevent this able Senator from pulling the marble pillars from their foundations, and, after the most approved Samsonian fashion, bringing the National Capitol to grief. Washington Letter. ASSESSOR OF THE 4TH DISTRICT. Copperheads Opposed to Swift and in Favor of Burton. U. II. Bingham Esq., Editor American, Sir: You will please inform your readers that the Aurora Advocate, from which the articles relative to the District Assessorship in your last issue were copied, is one of the vilest Copperhead sheets published in Eastern Indiana. Aside from its political proclivities, the malignity of the Advocate's articles can be accounted for from the fact that its Editor was an Assistant Assessor when the present Assessor was appointed, from which position J Mr. bwiit speedily caused his removal tor gross, if not criminal inetrivieccy. The foregoine facts are a sufficient reply -to the lies and misrepresentations of this Copperhead organ. Mr. Swift may we'll congratulate himself upon the situation of affairs, when none urge his removal except his political opponents, the whisky ring, and professional office-seekers. It is gratifying to know that Judge Liimb is neither immediately nor remote j ly responsible for the publicity given to the foul-mouthed rantings of the Advocate. Its hostility and extreme auxiety for the removal of a Republican official, is one of the strongest reasons for that officer's retention. If Major Burton has instigated the Advocate s malicious and slanderous ai ticies, it in no wise redound; to his credit; if they are simply the ema nations of its Editor's veuom, they amount f to nothing J CSTICE. Wuitcomk, Apuil 19th, 1SG9. Ed. American, The communication in your last issue subscribed "Disinterested" has attracted universal attention in this section, and seems to have been endorsed by all the Republicans. We most earnest ly desire Major Burton to be appointed Mr. Swift's successor, and in this matter the Major is the universal favorite. We are tired of voting for men for high positions, when they foist and bind upon us such men as Swifr, who has done more to injure our party thaa aiy other member of it in this county. We don't simply de sire his removal; we demand it. I am not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet, nor are my ueighburs; but it is the universal opinion here that if Swift is retained, Morton, Julian and Pratt will be as politically damned iu this District as though they had already suffered the righteous condemnation of au outraged constituency. Major B. is universally esteemed among us, and we want to reward hiua for his noble sacrifices for his country; and if it can be done, we in tend to do it. Swift's course has been such as to disgust his party. Nothing more powerful was urged against Mr. Farquhar when he sought the nomination for Congress, than that he was in league with Swift, and he owes his defeat iu County almost solely to this. Ws pledge ourselves to remember Representatives should they forget wishes in this matter. this oar our Mere anon. WutT. Indiana Legislature. Indianapolis, April 15. The election bill proposing to make elections bienuial was debated at length, and was then made the special older for nt-xt Tuesday. The bill to increase salaries of Judges was ordered after a lengthy discussion to engrossment. In the House a bill appropriating 40,000 dollars for legislative expenses was introduced. Much time was consumed in advancing bills towards engrossment and in discussion cf minor matters. Inpianapoms, April 1G. The Senate met this forenoon, and, without transacting any business, adjourned till Tuesday next, at two o'clock. In the House Mr. Osborne introduced a bill, making a penal offense for a member of the Legislature to resign for the purpose of breaking a quorum, which was discussed until the expiration of the forenoon hour. The Specific Appropriation bill, with some additions since last session, was then introduced, and discussed until 11 o'clock, when the House adjourned until Tuesday A. M. at l o clock. Inpianapoms, April 20. In the Senate that Election bill was made the special order lor Thursday at 2 o'clock. , - , ai- .ir..- 1 i' vide .Senators tlo worth of stationery aud ' stamps Mr. Kinley's Prohibitory Liquor bill was rejected by 10 to 26. The Contrast. As stated in our last week's issue, every soldier who dared present his name before "the Gieat Democratic party of this country," was beaten. The sight of a man hobbling over the County on his crutches,

'or groping his way along, his sight almost , The "logic of events' is driving irresisgone, procures very little sympathy from tibly towards impartial suffrage - Why ; the great Democratic heart. Its sympa- j should the party that enacted negro sufj thics do net run in that direction. Men j frage.in Ohio, in New York, in North ; who lost their money by buying substi- i Carolina, years ago, thrust itself against

j tutes or spent it dodging druft officers, i stand much better chance for office in this pent it dodging dralt officers, iLounty, thau do thej who bared tneir I

i breasts to the rebel storm, and came home to the future, aud far deeper into the in his veins, and then charged the jury until Tuesday morning. Jmaimed. "The Government grants pen-j hidden influences which mould the eon-j that if a porson had more white blood than What course will be pursued when Tuessions and furnishes homes lor such men," ditions of nations, occur to us. The i netrro or Indian blood in his veins, he day atrives, remains to be seen. Perhaps

siy the Democratic politicians. In comparison with this action on the , part of the Democratic party of this ! county, we call attention to the noble con-j ' duct of the Republican party in counties ' j where they have the power to control the j omoes. in ueiaware county a wounaea ; soldier was nominated tor Auditor, anoth-I er for Recorder, and another for post mas-j ter at Muucie. Sneaking of the result, the Tinusof that place says: 'The soldiers are completely victorious, carrying every : position." In Wayne County a soldier was i;onnuattd lor Ticasurer-r- the only

office of importance to fill this year.

And so it is, all ever the btate. We might go on enumerating instances until our paper was lull, aud not get all. Iu Henry, Itusb, Hamilton. Marion and other Republican Counties the most important i ffices are all filled by soldiers, and io some of them it is useless for any one who was not a soldier to come out for an office. Take this and compare it, if you will, with the Democratic Counties. See how many soldiers hold county offices in Madisou, Shelby, Franklin, Jackson, or any other Democratic county. There is not a single office of any importance held by a soldier in any of these counties. Greenfield Commercial. The Constitutional Amendment. The Legislature having wisely, as we think, put off the consideration of the Fifteenth Amendment In the ( insfi tntinn of the United States, till indispensable bus uess has been conic eted. the Democrats may feel easy enough to give their attention to a few suggestions iu regard to it which we propose to make. Wise men are aDt to look to circumstaoces and possi bilities in lieterm i ni 11 cr a rnnrse imnelieil i even by principle. It they see that what they would do can not be done, cr that what they do not want done can not be prevented, they are apt to let consequences take care of themselves. A few Demo crats did this during the war, when the abolition of slavery was proclaimed. They saw that the eradication of the root of all our evils, conspiring with the suppression of the rebellion, was a measure that could not be resisted, and while they deplored the ruin of rights which it entailed, they wisely forebore to put themselves in the way ot being run over by what they could not resist or divert. Now, the leading Uemociatic paper of the country admits that the result having been i!:evitable from the first, resistance to it was folly. When Sir iiobert Peel saw that the Corn LawLeague was strong enough to force its measures through Parliament, he gave TTrtJ , UUl UUIJ Itl U1V.-U1 liO UJIUUgll, UUt j helped tLcui through. He saved his head i by it, and did not change the inevitable j result nothing but egotism, which can I never be convinced that anything it be j lieves is not right, and that nothing it duu't believe can be right, will stand J battling for its suspicion of a principle I against the current of facts, and resist the J "logic of eveuts"' with the puerile logic of I personal consistency. It may be self! (sacrificing, hut it is silly; and iu a Demo- I crat, at least, it is much more likely to be credited to stupidity than to stern' principle, an element which has never appeared conspicuously or to advautaiie in the aver age Democratic character. Keeping these j lessons of the past in view, let us see what ! course they iudicate in reference- to the ' constitutional amendment. J heie are thirty seven States in the j Union, three-fourths of which must ratify j tbe amendment to make it part of the Con - ; stituiion. Three fourths of thirty seven are twentj- seen and three-fourths, say j twenty eight, to cover the fraction. Four- j teen, or exuetly one-half of. the requisite ! number, have already ratified it,--Kansas, Louisiana, Nevada, Missouri, West V ir- I ginia, North Carolina, Illinois. Michigan,! Wisconsin, Maine, South Carolina, Mussa- j chusetts, Aikausas and Pennsylvania, j Three of these, Missouri, Kansas and Ne vada, acted upo'n an imperfect form of it. and will have'to repeat the act upon a i proper form, but no one doubts that they j will do it. Rhode Island will approve it ! iu May, to which time, as with us, its ' consideration has been postponed. She j will make the fifteenth. The amendment j proposed by Senator Morton, of this State, i to the reconstruction bill just passed at the President's request, will secure the approval of Virginia, Texas and Mississippi . They will make eighteen. The recent! morougu aereai or t lie I'cmocracy in t onueciicut, upon the single issue forced by themselves, secures that Stale, and makes nineteen. In New York the Assembly has approved, and the Senate, standing seventeen llepublica ns to fifteen Demo crats, will be very likely to follow. This will make twenty. Now add to these Vermont, Tennessee, New Hampshire, Ne braska, Minnesota, Iowa, Alabama and Florida, which are morally ccrtaiu to ratify as soon as their Legislatures meet, and is it not a pretty clear case that the amendment is going to be adopted and made a part of the Constitution, "though Indiana and Ohio may, by resignations, or adverse popular voles, refuse their approval? Therefore, the suggestion wiih which we commenced this article, that it is the part of wisdom to give way to the inevitable, if not pleasant is at least pertinent. We commend it to the Democrats of the Legis lature. Let them be warned in time and prepare for that dread day when the "nig ger" will have a vote. They have some things lo learn, which they can certainly learn easily, but which Jhey had better learn soon than late. They will, of course, fawn and crawl in the dust for 'ni'er j votes, but they will do it with more sue cess it tney begin now. lliey will have more trouble to explain to the "nigger" constituency, upon whose votes in a close race their success may depend, why they opposed negro suffrage, resigued to defeat it, put the people to an extra expense of Sli0, 000 to defeat ir. if they wait until ., i . - ' - , 3 , i me Biiituuiuetii iscarneu over tneir lieaus. than they will if they give way at once, j It won't be so hard to chew their "anti. nigger" speeches if they will soften them j by a little timely retraction now. It is 'entirely in their own interests that we make the Democracy appear to have been always the negro's friend. They ic7 do it, aud the sooner they begin, the easier i the work will be. its own record, as well as fate, to resist j nesiro suffrage now? Two other suggestions, reaching far in - j amendment does not impose negro suf- i frage upon any State. It merely requires ! that race and color shall not be the line of distinction in admitting citizens to the ballot-box. A State, under the amend, ment, may exclude every negro who can not reaa or write, or wno aoes not pay taxes. The only necessary condition of! doing so, is that it shall exclude every white man with the same disqualification. 1 The rule does not create universal but impartial suffrage. Now, why should a 1 negro who knows what he is about, is honest, industrious and serviceable in a

community, be excluded from the polls, when a worthless, rascally, lying, ignorant white man is admitted? Should the line, in such cases, be drawn upon color or brains, race or character? With the amendment, any State can draw it upon brains or character, but not upon color or race. What is the objection to the amendment, then?" Another effect is to make the creation of "castes," of upper classes with privileges and lower classes with undying enmities, impossible. Where all races are admitted cr excluded alike, where no distinctions of right are based upon physical differences, and all have, or may easily have, the same privileges, there can be iu the law no inferior classes. Color and race are broad marks, making social distinctions as ineffaceable as those that separate the filthy Democrat of the Five Points from the rich Democrat of the Fifth Aveuue. Add. now.

distinctions, classes made superior ,UK "" tr.e case of the dirty Democrat of the Five Points and the rich Democrat of the Fifth Avenue, and what will this double wall of separation do? The dirty Demcarat is not ( impelled to revolt against the rich Demoi crat, simply because, before the law, in political privileges, he is equal to his neighbor. But add to his social inferiority, which is his own act, political inferiority, which is not his own act; double his causes of hatred to the rich by making him no voter, as well as no parlor visitor, and what will be the effect? How long does any rational man imagine New York city would stand, if every man who is ex-, eluded from the society of the Fifth avenue were excluded from the polls too? Not a month. The double serfs, the degraded of social and political cas c;, would become powers for evile such ns we have had no experience of in this country, such as the massacres of Hay t i would shrink before, and to which lhe wild guillotiueists of 1793 in France would offer the only parallel. Political equality is the neutralizing influence of social inequality. Suppose the piiiiciple of the Constitutional Amendment should never become the law of our country. Wc should have year by year, as emigrants from China, from Japan, from the Pacific islands, poured in upon us, an increasing class of political serfs. Standing between Asia ou the one hand, and Europe on the other, the only country equally accessible to both, the only country ilfeiing ample means of life to all, the United States is as certain as the continu aiice of the universe to become a combina'ion of races such as was never known befoie since the confusion of tongues. Kxe'.usive laws, duties on iitimi;ratiou. won't prevent it or delay it. No act of i Conjiress is half so stroi g as the necessity j of living, and emigrants who come here to live will get here through seven acts of j Congress a week. Now what arc we to do ' with this miscellaneous population? "Make them a maiked and degraded class, say! the Democrats and opponeuts of the j amendment. 1 Hat is, a4d political to social degradation, .ive thetu no chance ever to become equal to their privileged neighbors. Without the prospect and inducement they never will become equal, for tliey will never try. -By this policy we shall plant in our midst the frightful element that blew France to atoms in the first i evolution; that would have blown England to atoms if her laws had not allowed a chance of political advancement to the lower classes without revolution; that sooner or later, by force or fair means, will assert the rights of humanity and the essentia! equality in law of all, in all lands, who bear God's image. An inferior class, dominated by a superior, is a fatal evil in every nation. All history shows it. In a republic it will be swift as weil as fatal. The question to be decided, therefore, in the Fifteenth Amendment is, "shall we create and maintain, never to be removed, a privileged class and an iuferior class; a class full of contempt and a class full of malignity; which, sometime, will be dashed together aud one or the other destroyed, as iu all time past one or the other has been in tbe collisions of castes?" The Amendment reaches far beyond the negro population. That is a trifle. It reaches to the very life of the nation. Shall we allow poliiical equality, that inevitable social in equality shall never become mischievous, or shall wc make social inequality doubly mischievous by pushing it into political and legal inequalit? This is a question that it will uot do to discuss with the stereotyped Democratic arguments, which may be generalized as, 1st. A nigger is nothing; 2d. A nigger can learn nothing: ild. A nigger ought to have nothing, aud 4?h. D u a nigger. Journal. Judge Wilson's Decision. The case of Jeff, ies vs. tbe Electiou Bourd of llij.iley towiifhtp, lias decided a very important question to a portion of the citizens of our county. The facts in lhe ca.-e were substantially as follows: William Jefl'iies bad generally been regarded iu the neighborhood where be re. sides, as a man of African descent, though as white as ordinary white men. He never offered to vote iu life until the last Presidential election when he concluded to east a vote (for Grant of course.) He presented himself at the polls with an affidavit and offered to vote; he was challenged and refused the right to vote, on the ground that l;c was a colored man. He brought suit in the liush Circuit Court against the Hoard for refusing hia vote, and established by the evidence that he was an admixture of the Indian and white races; that he was less than one-eighth Indian, and that there was no negro blood in his veins. The main question which arose in the case was, how much African or Indian blood does it take to disqualify a person from votitg? Our Constitution saya that! free white persons shall vote, and that j negroes and mulattoes shall not vote. The di:-qualifieatioii rests there upon negroes: and mulattoes. J udVe l.s e l.son denned a mulatto as the child of a rure white per son and a neiro. or a half breed, hav-insr the same amount of white and neno blood would be in law a white man and entitled to vote. Ho i- sustained in this view bv the Supreme Courts of Ohio and Alassachusetts; and it is doubtless the law. i This is getting pretty close to negro suf-; frage, aud has been the law of the State of! Indiana ever since the new constitution went into force. The trouble has been has been given to the language used in the constitution. land persons of Afiiean descent have been sleen-ng on their rights in the same for seventeen years. 'I here is a ; general desire upon the part of this c?ass '

now they The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff and gave him one dollar in damages. The soit was prosecuted to decide the question as to what race the plaintiff belonged, and to test his right to vote, and not for money. liushville Republican. Letter from Indianapolis. Review of the Week in the Legislature The Time Remaining Necessity fob Work. Special Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette. Indianapolis, April 17. TherLegislature was finally organized on Monday afternoon. The Democrats took the risk of coming into the House first, and, presenting their credentials, were sworn in. A resolution was then presented, by a Republican, postponing action upon the 15th amendment until Tuesday, May 11th, a week before the adjournment. This was adopted, and a motion to reconsider the vote was laid on the table, which puts an end to action upon it. in that body until the time named. With their fears thus put at rest, tbe Democrats went into the Senate, and that branch was also organized, and the two Houses adjourned until morning. On Tuesday morning, the Democrats were frightened worse than ever, by a resolution offered by Mr. Cravens, in the Senate, proposing to postpone acting upon the amendment until Tuesday, May 11. at 2 o'clock, P. M., at which time it should be considered and acted upon in joint session. This aroused a violent discussion, lasting until 4 o'clock P. M., in which tho Democrats alleged that the I?epublicans were acting in bad faith, as it was the understanding that no action should be taken upon it until that time, and that, by providing for the way it should be acted upon, was a violation of this understanding. They argued that, by thus providing for a joint session, that body might act upon it. whether a quorum of both Houses should be present or not, as the power of the .Legislature would be dele gated to the joint session in the same man -ncr as to a commi'tee. The discussion was participated in by a number of Senators, but some hostility to the resolution on the part of the llepublica us was developed, and the 'rcsolr.'icr. was at length withdrawn, and quiet reigned again, 'lhe two Houses then met in joint session to listen to the reading of -the Governor's message, whisrh was quite short, and recommends the adoption of such a law as will enable the proper State i tticeis to provide funds for rootling the benevolent institutions of the Stat-.: when there shall be a failure to make the proper appropiiations. A good deal of time w:is corsumed in both Houses in the discussion oft lie newspaper, stationery. and postage stamp question. The newspapers were cut e tf iu both Houses, with the exception that the llou-e takes ono copy of cacii of the morning papers foi each of its members. 'I ho j House also voted fifteen dollars' worth of ' statioi ery and stain ps for each member, al though they eanied away luliy forty dollars1 worth at the regular session as clear gain. In both Houses, were read a second a large nnmherof hill lime, and ordored engrossed, anil several i.ew bills wire introduced. Much t me was also expended in matters connected with employes and the preliminary business of (he scsmoii. In the liouiC, a lengthy report w;is pre sented upon the Southern i'etiireutiury, being based upon the s;iti.e evidence as that published iu the G; actie just before the breaking up of the last cession. The committee recommend the removal of tlm two Directors, M. V. Ghee and F. M. Meiedith. I:i the Fenafe, on Fiiday, the bill proposing an increase iu the salaries of judges was under discussion. A number ol amendments were proposed, and it was finally ordered to be engross-ed, with the salaries fixed at the following atrounts: Supreme J udges 3,30U; Circuit Judges. 2 500; Common Pleas J ude-, 2,000; Cir cuit Prosecutors, fi-Oi!; Common Picas Prosecutors, 100. The bill pioviding for elections to be held biennially, commencing in the fall ol 1S70, was also discussed at length. The Democrats knowing the jopularity of the bill with the people, as it is destined to save a large amount of money to the Slate, dare not oppose it openly, but they are ex ceedingly industrious in interposing objections to it. It was finally postponed, and made the special order for next Tues day, at two o'clock. In the House a resolution for the appointment of a cou-uiittee to investigate charges made against the doorkeeper, Thomas C. McConn, was passed. It is alleged that he has compelled his assistants to pay a large per centage to him on their salary, before giving them their ap pointments. Whatever may be the result in this case, and I do not venture to give an opinion, there is a strong suspicion afloat that this custom prevails to a considerable extent among the officers of the Legislature, and it would not be very surprising if it should turn out to be the ruie rather than the exception upon a thorough investigation. On Friday morning, the Senate having got into a good condition to do business, Senators began asking and obtaining leave of absence, until there was not a quorum remaining, and, without doing anything, the Senate adjourned until Tuesday at 2 o'clock P. M., making four days and a half, without any business being done. In the House, Mr. Osborn introduced a bill to extend tbe provisions of the act which makes boiling to break a quorum a criminal offense, to resignations for the same purpose. It developed a very strong oPDOsition from the Democrats, and a heated discussion, indicatingtbat they will defeat it if possible, even perhaps although ! it should compel them to resign in order to do so. The House at noon aojourneu i it would be the best thing for the State if ' the Republicans would realize the fact I that a large amount of work remains to be done which is absolutely essential to tbe welfare of the State, and that there is neither much time left to do it in, nor much capacity in the Legislature for work at the best. The people of the State, who pay the expenses, I am inclined to believe have no disposition to encourage their representatives in pushing forward propo-

of persons to vote, and they will doubtless exercise the rights which have.

of'sitions which will bring on heated and

violent political discusions and will acti uiplish nothing else. Perhaps Major

Osborn's bill would be a good one if passed, but it is quite repugnant to the spirit of our institutions to undertake to compel the Representatives of the people to perform their plain duty by means of penal legislation. There is but little good that can result from this course, when a sense of propriety and public opinion are alike insufficient, and such special legislation is very apt to return upon and "plague its authors at a time wheu they least expect or desire it. Chronicle.

NEW ADVERTISEMENTS VALUABLE PROPERTY FOB SALE. THE undersigned offers for sale, on reasonable terms, 120 acres of (rood land, known as th Kinkard farm.lyitg 2K miles North of Brookville, with good house and barn and ether improTements. Also 148 acres Iving adjacent to the Rinkard farm, with good house and some other improvements. Also eight or ten unimproved lots at the north end of town, lying adjacent to the W. V. V. Railroad. Also her present residence lrf the town of Brookville. apl 23 4w. JANE McCARTY. IN BANKRUPTCY. DISTRICT OF INDIANA, SS. At Ikdianapoi.is, Indiaxa, Aran. 23o, 18t59. TQE undersigned hereby gires notice of his appointment as Assignee of Laban Godwin antf Samuel Cameron, of Brookville, in the County of Franklin and State of Indiana, within said District, who have been adjudged bankrupts on their own petition by the District Court of said District. WILLIAM J. PECK, Assignee, apl 23 3w. Notice to Persons Having Probate Business to Settle IN pursuance of an order of tbe Judge of the Frankiin Court of Common Pleas, notice is hereby given to all persons whom it may coDcernr that probate business in said Court will hereafter bo heard by the Judge thereof on the first, second and third days of each terra of said Court. Atlct: S. S. U ARK ELL, Clerk F. C. C. P. April 23, ISG'J 3w. 50,000 Lbs. AT HARRISON WOOLEN rVilLLS! CUSTOM ROIL CARDING. SPINNING, &C, done at short notice, aud all work warranted to give satisfaction. We pay the highest market prices for WOOl. iH.fJASl, Have a large Assortment of WOOLM GOODS of all kinds, such as SATIXETTS, I'LAID FLANNELS, JEANS Vi' ALL COLORS, C A I Ni ii ES, ELAN K E TS PLAIN FLANNELS, 10-4 FLANNELS. XA11NS, &c., &-. all of wKich we ofT.-r at low prices, either f .r Cash or in exchange f..r WOOL, SU.U' A N 1 G " K AK. Fanners, consult u either by mail or personally nlieil you are ready to sell yi.ur Wool, or n hfi you wish to exchange WvjoI lor.guods, as we offer rare inducements. V. DAVISON VS0N.. IlarrUtn, O., April :.:. lstjO Sm.. -AT iilENew York ( ;ih Stare. SUSR'G iv W iim. I t, Hate received an Tipiuen.-e Stock ot Brown & Bleached Muslin, TICKING, SHIRTING CHECK, COTTON A D ES, DENIMS. LINEN & COTTON TA RLE CLOTH, mW EHESS GOODS, SHAWLS, fc KIM'S, GLOVES, HOSIERY, Sic &e. All in crcd of Dry Corde will find itto their advantage ti give Ub h cail. One Price CLd ILg 1 ( v.ist. WANTED Old nnj Ken Customers to remember that wi l sell GOODS AS CHEAP as on n bo bought iu the coue try, and h.ii on Land iv nice rfupiily uf rREiSH DRY GOODS, GROCERIES, HATS. CARS, ROOTS. SHOE-. HARDWARE, QUE E N S YY A 1 1 K, and a General Assortment of tioodi found ia a Country Store. Also Wool taken In Exchange Tor Factory Goods, lams, or anything in my line of trade, und the HIGHEST FACTORY PRICE allowed for it. Den't forget to give me oh II, and I will try to satisfy vou both in prices and quality. A. h. ADAMS, apl 23 1m. Springfield, Ind. CMS PAID FOR WOOL AT THE "Old White Corner, 99 BROOKY1LLE. The undersigned keeps oonstamly on baud large stock of WOOLEN GOODS, each as FLANNELS, BLANKETS, STOGSISS f &SSSi Domestic & Fancy Dry Goods, SHOES, BOOTS, HATS, CAPS . n . f A (linf Till Jte.,iSc. lUetr rnces are uniiorm nun j , ,ell at vcrv small profits for Cash or all Kin"; Country Produce. DEITZ A Ufclsap 1 23-lS6l. MILK! MILK! iPIIE undersigned will commence running 1 MILK WAGON in Brookville the fir5' May next, and will furnish good new milk ' evenine at five cents a quart. Leave you r or" at hoekafeller's and Teinpleton's stores. ai.HG.4w. Jl'.aUILT. aji

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