Indiana American, Volume 8, Number 18, Brookville, Franklin County, 30 April 1869 — Page 2

C. H. BINGHAM, Editor. -BUOOKVILI.bl-Friday Morning. April 30, 1869. Mr. SmfTak Rejoinder Again. TT publish in oh issue of this wek n tnonjnious communicatiou iened "Fair rUy," Vitnrled tt by one rF Mr. Swift's deputies, but which we hare reason to believe emanated from Mr. Swift's own pen. Who ele wouM have known fo exactly the word in z of Judge Lamb's letter to Morton and Pratt, from which "Fair Play" quotes? Ferhap it is as well for ns to say now, ma at ny future time, that we are not favorable to Mr. Swift being retained in the office of Assessor. And we will fur thcr say that we firmly believe that nine out of ten of the Republicans of Franklin County are opposed to his being retained. We will give our reasons. Our business in the collection and Foliciting of subscriptions for our paper takes us to every part of the County. Everywhere we go we find evidences of Mr. Swift's unpopularity. Not a day passes but some one speaks to us about the matter, urging that he should be removed. The main fault seems to be on account of bis Johnson proclivities during the campaign of ISG(, and his spirit of faultfinding with all with whom he has business transactions. Regarding his Jolinsonism, "we know whereof we affirm." We were publishing the American at the . time, snd had contracted with Mr. Swift to edit the paper. Duiing the campaign of ISG'5, so strong a Johnson roan was he, that he came very near ru'ning the paper. Strong sympttros appeared that unless something was done, another Uepublican paper would be started here. Finallv we

gave notice through the prer that at a ! i-ertaiti time (s soon as we could get rid j of him,) iiis connection with the piper would cease. We lost many sublet ibcrs, and we firmly bolievc if wo had not got tid of Mr. Swift we should hae lost onehalf of our li.-f, so strong was the feeling j asiainst him and his course. If Mr. Swift! Fays that he was r.ot n:urh of a Jnhnsoti j man. perhaps we could refresh his memory i by the publication of foiuo extracts friiu the paper doting ti e time I e edited it. As to the spiiit of IVil finding with tho-c with whom he has business transactions. Why is it that Mr. Swift is on bad term- with almost every individual with whom I e has ever had anv business to ttmisapt? We believe it is because of his dictatori il and overbearing disposition; because of his desiie to put peop'e to unnecessary trouble about their business natters; in hort. heoause of a self-important largeness of feeling on account of his little brief authority.

Now a word regarding the editorial of j superintendents, all of whom are Q lakers Feb. 12th, i;., commending Mr. Swift for They come from Virginia, Maryland, Pennhi zeal and liberality in the canvass of sylvania, Iowa and Kmsas, aud are as last year. Mr. Swift knows how it bap- follows: pened to appear in our columus, and we j Fiicnd Howard White, Indian Agent, have nothing further to say on that tub-1 Omaha; Friend Laurie Tothem, for Kan-jt-t. sas, Apaches and Ceinanches; Friend We bhe bad our say. We think it Bienton Darlington, Upper Arkansas preferable to be plain about this matter, ' 2-p3; Albert I., iireen, Ur per Mistourt .i . i i ,i i-i i .i 1 Agency; hnend h. Fainter, Upper Piatte rather than to "whin the devil round the! v i i i i i , 1 I Agency ; r riend Reuben L. Roberts, bhaw stump.' As before stared, we firmly be-1 nce Agency, Kansas; Thos. II. Stanley , lieve the timjoiity ol' the Republicans of for Pottawatomie Indians, Kansas; Jacub this County tW.re Mr. Swift's removal,! M- Frach, for Pawnees, Missouri; Thornend as their organ we cannot do less than j ?f Li,,!j0,:t' ?r 1Jl,eat '-," Agency; , , , , , rneiiu A Mescal, tor the Sao and r ox to .ay so, in order that "the power that i ndians; Friend A. M. Jovey, for the Sante be" may understand matters and govern 8ioux Agency; Edward Prague, tor the

themselves accordingly. Civilization cf the Indians.

The United States Indian Commission!'"0 1)law'e Indiana in Kansas; Jos. , . in.! Newson, lor the Kansas Agency; Enoch in "New lork have been informed of the; n w" . i . r i- - Uoge, Superintendent ol Indian Affairs arrival of their agent at Medicine Creek, J f,,r the Central Supetintendency; Samuel Washita mountains, with garden seeds, t M. Jonuery, Superintendent tor the hoes, vtc; bis hearty welcome by the mili- j Northern Superintendency.

tary and ludians; his putting the plow in ( , . , - i!., l i..i -...I nr.., , lodges of (. heveune and Arrapahoe In , - ..... diaas were expected to arrive daily. I he , , ' . . J . . lodians take great interest in what is be-I , , , . as the Indian appropriation failed. Mv-

A later dispatch says Roman Nose, j Vork: Colouel J. W Forney, Wm. PresLittle Big Mouth. Yellow Bear and Oldott Smith, and others. Col. Forney Storm, with six hundred Arrapahoes, have j stated that they had deemed it proper to come in, ready to go to their reservation . j eall upon him previous to their departure They are willing to be taught to follow j for the South. Their visit was a purely the ways ot the white men. disinterested one, entirely devoid of poli

The New Election Law. ! The Journal savs that the effect of the new election law upon the present Couuty , . and Township effi "ers can be stated in a very ii'w woio. Those cffioers whose commissions ari granted for a specified time, "and until their successors arc elected and quilifiod, 1 hold ovr for another year, precisely as stated in their commissions. Where commissions do r.ot contain this extension, but terminate at a day certain, the vacancy will be filled as in J case of death, resignation or removal. The Editorial Convention Meets at (ndianapolis on Thursday the 3th dy of M. ay next, when an address will he delivered by Hon. Joseph Medill of Chicago, o "the best method of con, ducting country newspapers.' Expunged, The resolutions of the State Senate in .... relation to the correspondencj ol Lieut. liovej jior Couibaek with Governor Baker, Mtid the proceedings of the Senate in rela tioii i Inn to, hate been expunged from (,-; j.ii; of ihe oenaie by a vote of 35 Io .

The Bridge Question Finally Solved. We understand the Commissioners of Franklin County have- adopted a very liberal policy in regard to Bridges in this County; that in accordance with this policy they have not rescinded the location at New Trenton, but have located one at Cedar drove, one at Brookville, one at Laurel, and one at the crossing below Fairfield. This will give us five bridges in addition to those already built, and will be the means of opening communication between the different parts of the County. When the system is completed as we hope it will be in the course of a few years it will enhance the value of rent estate to such an extent that our County treasury will feel the effects of this policy in a marked degree. Let the money be

Judiciously and honestly expended, and no stealings allowed, and the people of the County will sustain the measure without grumbling. Then let the bridges be built in the order the people designate, and all will be well. We hope this policy will be carried out in good faith. A "Brick." We very seldom stoop to notice the harum-scarum Editor of the Frank lin Democrat; but we commend that delectable sheet as the outpouring of doublerefined Democracy. The fellow is trying to ape Brick Pomeroy, and in his last week's issue uses some of the dirty offcasts of the LaCrosse Democrat, and applies them to citizens of this County. Poor fellow! in his ravings he doubtless thinks he carriis the Democracy of this County in his breeches' pocket, and that if he takes snull the Democracy should all sneite in concert wiih hi tn. lie does represent Democracy pure and undefi'.ed of the Pomeroy stripe, and imagines that he is paving his way into the Auditor's ifik-c. Well, go ahead, neighbor, and see if you cau e.-nti the Aulitoij liip by abusing some of the best citizens ol the County, and by vomiting your siiaie on some of the most eminent citizens of the nation. Go ahead. Like the monkey on shipboard, the higher you ascend the scale in this direction, the more ycu will show your own moral depravity. We have often heard Democrats declare that "they would vote for the Devil if he was a Democrat and got the nomination," and to this class you make your appeals, Mr. Maddoek. Again we say, go on. The more you show the "cloven fool," the letter you please us. But we wonder what the fellow will do when the "everlasting nigger'' is knocked clean out of the Democratic platform, as it is in I a fair way of being done. What will our neighbor then dc? Repeat Brick Pomeroy 's stale i hrases, as he does now, we suppose. To use one of bis own slang phiascs,"he will do nothing else." The Quaker Nominations. The Indian appointments by the President comprise sixteen acents and two I iwnee Agency; J. li. lysou, tor the .Winnebago Agency; James Stauley, for the Usage river Agency ; J. Richards, for rOnrthfrnfrc Hninn n:ilS ..... W W . . VJ u w u I Jj!,st wcett party of gentlemen who intended leaving Washington next day for I , , '. . . c 1 1 ''ie purpose of visiting the South, had an i . . , ' . , . j interview with the President at the Lxe- ,, ( cutive Mansion. I he party consists ol 1 " V" " ' . v I- , .no kAvmai j lien?. L.educ and van vck. of rscvr tics, to do w hat they could to promote good feeling between the two sections, and assist in th de vplonnipnt of the South. The !,,-, ,- , . . . t President replied that he was very nappy ; . . ., . . , , . . . - to hear they intended to make the trip, and hoped it would be productive of the best results. Nothing would do more to properly reconstruct the South than white j loyal immigration, and he had no doubt Northern capital and Northern men would readily avail themselves of the superior inducements offered, as soon as thev could , , - ... , ,. , , be assured of protection and a cordial welI come. Vigorous Enforcement of Revenue Laws. In addition to the new regulations al ready published regarding business of the ,,,, Revenue Bureau, it J tetU)ined lhlt no CM wiU b has been debe coropromiscd or dismissed except by the decision of the Solipitor in ashington, and no Col1 lector, Assessor or District Attorney will I I. - 1 . . .1.- 1 I uo pi-runueu io negotiate uu Miujcct Compromises will be made only where the evidence shows absence of intent to defraud. Iu all other cases the law will be vigorously enforced by the newly appointed officers, wjio will be dismissed upon tUp

first evidence of neglect of duty. No j suboidinate in the Bureau in Washington wilt be allowed to confer with claimauts concerning their cases. Our Guess. Maddoek, of the Danocrat, is extremely anxious to know who is the author of an article that appeared in the American of the lGth inst. on bridge repairs. It naj be a relief to him to know that we have the naughty fellow about to a "dot." We take it that it is a direct "fling" at the Editor of the Democrat, and was made by some person who owes him some personal ill will, for the following reason: No person ever became angry at another unless for some departure, iu act, from that which is known to be a fixed trait in that pertnt's charaettr. Now, Maddoek has two Jixrd traits of character one is, to drink copiously with every person who will pay lor the drinks; the other is, never to drink with bis friends when he has to pay for them himself. Ergo, it must have been some person with whom Maddoek has refused to drink, or some person whom be has treated. We think we have the matter narrowed down to one or two persons, and are willing to bet the "post iffi3 atCoufedrite X lodes" that our conclusion will prove correct; hut others more intimately acquainted with him than our humble self, say that no such circumstance as we refer to has occurred in the last fifteen years. mi-mwm Andsrsonvii.lr, Ixn., "I April 2G, lSU'J. j Brick Po.mkrot. Jr.. A'tornry ftr the XVhi&kg Ring of Andei soncilfe, 1ml , Sl: The classic effort of yours, published iu the Brookville Democrat of April 2".hl, in attack on an article of mine in

the American of April 2d, has been read i and devoured by all your admirers iu this I vi.-miiv It i Kv il I . ! ' J Such a feast is j ist suited to ; fu! effort. their taste. As Sherwood can no longer assist you to cater to their cultivated appetites, you must exert y ourself to select and present viands such as your congenial natures will most readily consume. Strange that some systems assimilate thr excrescence and offal of their own and kindred natures, more readily than healthful and legitimate food. Like the American buzzard, they pass over all the blight and beautiful objects iu nature, and feast only on dead and putrescent matters. Judging others by themselves, they imagine that everybody is wrong end up." And when proposing to defend their own wastcd lives, or attempting to hide their ' chagrin at failures iu wickedt ess. instead of manly reply, prudent silence or decent retreat, they begin to vomit out the gathered r tiem..'ss ot a soured and purid i morale, and the hastily swallowed morse's of decayed carcasses that their preverted taste has stowed their moral stomachs w ith Now, sir, in my last article, written as a jubilant over the flight of your friend and client, Mr. Sherwood, I made certain direct and definite assertions. I did not deal iu insinuations, nor depart from a decent aud lawful style of defense or attack. I wrote for the Temperance caue. For three years I have, been writing, speaking, expending time and money in the interests of this cause, and have all the time

been opposed, maligned and slandered by a,ld boe" exempted from the draft when you and your clients. No opportunity j lM,r ta'e a"'1 country was threatened with lias escaped you; no means but what you j ,,a'ger, I would be in favor of publishing have used to try and ruin me and mine in ! something about "Dr. J. P. Oir being disbnsiness, in reputation, at home and gracefully dismissed from the U.S. service abroad. This is the third time your clients' ,or drunkenness and disorderly conduct." hounds have assailed me in this sty le i ileH !"'e ,,ot p0 ,11U"U ,0 blame for going through the Brookville Democrat. First, it one-sided when they have only one eye. theVpublished me as a quack, a broken' 1 wrote as I did to show these gentledown Campbellite preacher, a hypocrite, j xwu where the public places ihem. The

&c,&c, Jfcc. Next I was charged with i conniving at the escape of a thief from ijustice. Now that our success in defeat nig the whisky ring has" goaded you tc , desperation. disappointment and maliu-i nant jealousy have riled your spleen, 5nd you attempt to '"spew me under" by the above tirade of low abuse, under villaiu-

ous insinuations and cowardly lies. i cine, l cannot see. 1 despise the lnsinuaWhathasmydefen.se of Temperance j ,ion' " "J 1 l''1' the extremity to which or mt plan of'afack on her secret or 'ou throe g-"utlemen were pushed when avowed enemies to do with my practice j Jou concocted such a reply. As well or the practice of my competitor? Are the ' ,ui-,Jt ou arraign r honorablo State public acts of a physician so sacred as not Senator, Dr. Gilford, for attacking somelobe amenable to law or criticism? What j body's practice, when announcing his has mv preaching or mv reliVior.ro .J principles or defendi ng his positions. All

with him or his professional success? Why must every tffjrt at moral or religious advance be warped, lamed and entangled by the jealousy of some contemptible sneaks, who, having no moral courage of their own, suppo-e that "practice"or money" the only object of existence, or tlujonly mo t,ves ,hatirire others to high and noble ciiiicuvi'i . i uj iiiiim udi ou iiu ay ccuoois, our Churches, our Temperance Societies, our pure and holy desires, and even our very prayers for pardon, be mangled, betrayed aud destroyed, because some man suspects that the venal motivesthat prompt his life are the soul of action in those whose health, time and means are devoted to the higher and holier objects of our existence? The great difficulty, Mr. Pomeroy, lies in the tact, that moral cowards and moral assassins have so tarintimidated those who desire to do good, that fears of the impu tation of base motivecause many to shrink from the advocacy of truth and righteous ness which these interests demand. You hold your club over our heads, and say if you do not keep silent or compromise with us, we will impugn your motives, scandalise your life, ruin your reputation, and disgrace your family. My offjnse rqns this far and no farther that 1 can not be bought; that I cannot be intimidated. I have not been defeated; but ear nestly, and I believe consistently, ' I have fought with wild beasts." In the cause of Qod and IJuminity I have braved passion, prejudice and power, and the last is Illal JUU liltv uixil iciailicif iu nun HI Ulc this mess of bad grammar, reckless oal - Utnny, dirty, filthy iuuendo, and pusillunimous insinuation, intended to iniiuiidate me and those who with me are striving to preveut you and your clients from re cursiug our town wi'h the presence of a drinking, gambling, whoring saloon for your accommodation since the Avfs turner corn-fhia ft.is Ox n wn lo jraq$. Community despise men whom they fear will do private injury to retaliate on those who offend them. How much more contemptible is he whose cowardice alone pro tcpts your property, but who seeks to staiu

or ruin your reputation, that his already outlawed character may gloat over the destruction he has wrought. 1 desire to repeat a part of what so offended you iu my first article, and then to appeal to the public as to whether you have manfully replied to my charge, or whether ycu have not been retained as the fittest man to hide the facts and change the issue, by opening the sluices of your pregnant carcass, and attempt to distract attention by charging that jealousy has prompted me to undertake what hypoi r'sy, mnial and physical deformity and disreputable antecedents have instigated and tilted me to accomplish, v?n: the injury of a medical competitor, through false pretense. And you are informed that I am losing business, "not iretting employment." Pray, sir, do not judge me by those who have detailed you io make this attack on me. Practice, professional success, is not the only object of existence or test of worth. I intend to have the respect of all whose respect is worth having. 1 intend at all hazards to plead for Humanity, anil keep my integrity if I lose my practice. But of this there is no danger. Let me inform you, sir, that while 1 do not see what my practice has to do with this subject, or why your client should

! prompt you to drag professional matters into your attack on me, I have a practice that euables me to pay my debts without stealing dry goods stores, forging landjitlcs, or peijuiing myself to save the price of a few bushels 'of c ru. But to the facts 1 stated at which you do such umbrage take, and the publishing of which demonstrate to you that my ''hat is out of place," and that "I hate the man who is outstripping me in business." I wrote aud I write again that "a certain worthy aud respectable physician" went all the way to Brookville without being subccnied. managed to get into the case, and then testified thai Lewis Sherwood was a man of good character." I believed the iuteresls of Temperance demanded" that statement. It was true; and now what are vou going to elo about it? Do you desire mo to give all the facts of that disraoerul nnd humiliating scene where the judge hud to interfere to induce the witness to answer; hts subsequent besiging back; his crawnMiin-i and his testimony as anecting the character ot oherwood in full? Let me leave that chapter of shame for another letter. At a subsequent time, when we desired your clients services at Shelbyville to prove that Shannon stole a bottle of morphine and attempted self-de-structiou in a druukeu fit, he informed us he had no business at Shelbyville, and if he weut he must have his fees advanced. I advanced his fees and he went. Is this true? What are vou going to do about it? There is uioie eviieuce of my hatred, I suppose. Yon have dragged my practice, my deformities, my vermin, and my canine diseases, together wiih such other misfortunes at,d unsightly development as have struck Jmii,s """''J !' being paraded, in replj to J Mmple f .ct that L James P. O.r j ""own m you, nave luci.ioniaiiy loucneu a tender spot in the past public life of oneot your clients. temperance then hui;g her head; fortune seemed against her. She seemed doomed. No inducements then to toil and sacrifice for her. And stab after stab was iufl.eted. N w she is triumphant here, and I expect it hurts to have history published If I thought I was a descendant of Benedict Arnold, or had myself ever betrayed, as far us I could, any cause dear to humanity, I should be in favor of suppressing history. And, in fact, if I had marched to Brookville town, Kumies consider them I heir friends, and the Temperance people regret to have to consider them dangerous enemies. I wrote tor the purpose ot letting them see themsel vcs as "'hers see Ihem, and to endeavor to persuade, frighten or force them into an , attitude favorable to Temperance. What this has to do with the practice of medihumbug, Mr. Bob-iov jr. If mv article was an attack on the man who "outstrips me iu business," and if it reuders me such a "monstrosity, "such n moral and physical nuisanee,' "such an uncivilized, hypocritical, unstratified (?) Hottentot, ' "such a wretched" "Golock," to whose performances the "contortions aud music of a hyena are preferable"! what shall be the conclusion from a cautious smell at your odorifeious production? What must be the case and what ihe client that has no other defense thau your drunken vomit oT dirty slanders? I deny that I complain that people refuse to employ me; nor do run whining over the country charging any one with attacking me or my practice in the pulpit or Temperance lecture. I have and am getting all the practice I want. I rely on ! my education, experience, success and support, and I intend to keep all the prac tice I want. 1 have now a host of friends here who I know will never desert or betray me. I remember that Dr. D. D. Boss was charged with malpractice aud murder. I have seen a paper signed by a physcian charging hiiu with administering medicine producing death. I know that Dr. J. P. Orr now stands libelously charged with po:s oning a patient io this community, and it is unfortunate, to say the least, that both these reports were started immediately after the same physician was called to see both of these cases. A desperate effort is i being made to worry me iuto a slander j suit over this poisoning case, but I'll wait llv, j 'ou nor your client cannot point to a 1 single utterance of mine, or of a friend of ! mine, calculated to reflect on his profes - j eional or private character, until now driven j to defense by these thrice-repeated public, i attacks in the paper. I accept the chal - j lenge, and defy you lawyer, doctor, ; whiskey-glass, and all. The people know you, and they know me and my labors and sacrifices here, and I 'defy you; in the name of the cause I plead and the God I serve, I defy you. .Now, Mr. Pomeroy, attorney, &e., once more, Yoa sy that if 1 reply you will

unearth me. You refer to my standing where I have formerly lived, &e. On this point I have directed my attorneys to attend to you at the proper time. This much I will say here. 1 have lived at Cincinnati, Ohio, in Union County, Fayette County and Franklin County, Indiana, with a few weeks' residence at Greensburg, Indiana, all my life; bom and raised and resided all my life within fifty miles of Brookville, from where you write your Andersnnville letter. When you, over a fictitious name, and in a cowardly aud dastardly manner, insinuate or charge th.it I have not been iu good repute among decent people wherever I have lived, you are guilty of a base, unqualified and unmitigated lie. 1 hold you and your clients and abettors here as common slanderers. I denounce you and brand you all ns reckless and unprincipled villi tiers of other men's private character. Like thetomiuou mud dauber, you enter the church, the parlor and the home circle, and wherever you see anything whose finish or luster attracts attention or gives delight, you begin to slime it over with your own foul breath, and daub it with nests to breed your own vile spawn in. I defy you and yours to attempt to sub stantiate any of the many unjustified and recklessly mean insinuations you make. On this point you are a liar, and you know it. I defy you lo publish over a responsible name any of the charges your poltroon Spirit has prompted you to threaten over an anouytnous signature. Dear as a man's seif-respect is to him,

nothing but the more precious boon of his private character ought to excuse him for thus dealing in Anglo Saxon, and going so low as to classify such devilish and unqualified lies. You and your "clients have been peddling these slanders over the country a id telling them behind my back for a long time; but this is the first time that any one has had the audacity, even over a cowardly nomtne de-plume, to place them even by insinuation before my face. Now, Mr. Pomeroy, Attorney, &c, let us bear from you. You know that I am responsible for all I say; you know I profess to fear God and love my fellow man. But when, like a brute or an infuriated demon, a fellow attacks me as you have been induced to do, I treat him as I would a dangerous rabid cur. And, sir, again I defy you. I shall advocate Temperance and Christianity. I shall strike for these interests, and if the blows hurt any one, I shall not cease to strike because some thin skinned doctor, some bloated lawyer, or some crack-brained whisky-glass gets in the way of my weapons. James P. OaR. Andersonviile, April 2d, 1Si9. P.- S. My apology to the friends of Temperance and Christianity for the style of this article, is the necessity that demauds its appearanoc. OliR. Letter from Indianapolis. jEVIEW GF THE Wefk The Gl Al.;,K01.aiATloS 1JILLS K, ENERAL ECllON Bill a Law The Cumbvck-Bakek CulVRESlOMESCK A GAIN, &C , &C. Special Correspondence uf the Cincinnati Gar.eUe. Indianapolis, April 24. The House did not meet until 9, and the Senate 2 o'clock on Tuesday. In the Senate, the uewly elected member from Floyd county, Geo. V. llowk, appeared and qualified. The consideration of the election bill was postponed until Thursday. An ineffectual effort was made to vote each Senator an additional supply of stationery and stamps. The Governor transmitted to the Senate the proposition of John Purdue, to donate ?150,0(K to the Agricultural College, payable in ten annual payments, upon the following conditions: "First. Locate the said college at such point iu Tippecanoe county as may be decided upon by a majority of the present Board of Ti ustces of the Indiana Agricultural College, to whom I be added as a member. ' Second. Name the institution by an irrepealable law 'Purdue University.' 'Third. Provide that I be a member of the Board of Trustees having the control of said Instituticn, and should I cease to be such, I be retained as an advisory member thereof, and have visitational power over the University during my lifetime." Mr. Jvin ley's prohibitory liquor law, declaring places of sale nuisances, and prescribing fines of from 20 to 8100 and imprisonment, as punishment of the vendor, was rejected by a vote of ayes 10, uoes 20. The Judges' Salary bill was made the special order for Friday. The bill to protect the citizens of Indiana from empiricism aud elevate the standing of the medical profession was discussed at some length and finally failed for want of a constitutional majority the vote being ayes 23, noes 12. Mr. Gray's bill, amending the city incorporation act of I8t7, so as to extend the power of cities to aid any public im provement lor which a majority may pe tition, was passed. Iu the House, the Legislative Appro priation bill, providiug $00,000 for the expenses of the preseut session, was passed. John S. Davis, member elect from Floyd county, appeared and was qualified. The specific appropriation bill was reported back by the Committee on Ways and Means, with thirty new sections added siuce the last session, was discuaaed at length aud passed. Mr. Stanton introduced a bill framed in accordance with the suggestion of the Governor in his last message, to provide for meeting the expenses of the benevolent institutions wheu the Legislature shall fail to make the requisite appropriations. WEDNESDAY. The Senate made another desperate ef- , fort to supply itself with stamps and staj tionery, and succeeded to tho extent of ' thirty dollars for each officer and member. i i itc uvuiiiii ;i''jmh'imiicim umi naa j considered at length in Committee of the Whole, and feveral amendments and j changes made. It was finally reported back to the Senaie immediately before the j evening adjournment. j In the House, Mr. Stanton introduced i a resolution, which was adopted, for the ! appointment of a committee of three on I the part of the House and two on the part . of tho Senate, to visit the National Asy- ! lum at Dayton, Ohio, with a view to the transfer of the inmates of tho Soldiers' Home to that institution. In oounccUou wil'u it he hal n IcUcr

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periutendent of the Dayton Asylum, in response to one written to him, stating that there was plenty of room for the accommodation of the Indiana soldiers. A lengthy discussion took place concerning the investigation into the affairs of the Southern Prison, and a charge that the testimony taken had not all been reported. The House finally ordered the publication of the whole of it. The omitted testimony was a portion of that of the late Warden, J. B. Merriwether, and referred to the buying off of a director named Ponaldsou a few years ago, in order to have him resign. The committee, thinking it had nothing to do with recent charges, had not reported it. The bill taking Union, Franklin, Dearborn and Ohio counties from the present Fourth Circuit, forming them into the Twenty-sixth Circuit, and fixing the times for holding courts iu both circuits, was passed. THURSDAY. In the Senate the general appropriation was discussed during the morning session. In the afternoon the Election bill was passed. It had already gone through the House at the last session. It provides that elections shall only be held once iu two years, commenting in October, 1S70. Township elections will also be held at that time, and not before. Officers whose commissions read, "or until their successors are elected and qualified," will hold over until that time. In the other cases, the vacancies will be filled by appointment the same as in cases of death or resignation. This law will cause a saving of fully 150,000 to the State, and it is to be hoped that it will be found to work well. The bill repealing several sections of the registry law was discussed, and finally referred to the Judiciary Committee, with instructions to report concerning the provision requiring the Inspector to place on the back of the ticket the number corresponding with that on tho election list. It is objected by many that this provision is unconstitutional. The Legislative Appropriation bill was passed. In the House, a committee, consisting of Messrs. Wildman, Furnas, Welboru and Carnahan was granted leave of absence uutil Wednesday next to examine the geological and miueralogical cabinet of the late David Dale Oweu, which is now offered for sale to the State at 20,000. It is spoken of as execedin.ly valuable, and worth fully four times that amount. A large number of new bills were introduce.!. Mr. Underwood's bill to authorize cities to purchase as well as build or repair school houses was passed. The bill to provide a Criminal Court for Floyd and Clarke counties, jointly, was past-ed. The bill to an, end the act concerning the employment of children in cotton or woolen mills was amended by striking out eleven and inserting leu hours, and was then indefinitely postponed. '1 be Sheriff's Mijeage bill, fixing the distance from each county seat to the State Prisons, was perfected and passed. FRIDAY. The General Appropriation bill was passed by the Senate. The Specific Appropriation bill,, as it came from the llou-e, was read and referred to the Committee on Finance. The Senate bill, to allow the Governor to draw bis warrant on the Treasurer to sustaiu the benevolent institutions in the absence of an appropriation, was passed. The bill fixing the salaries of Supreme Judges at 3,500. Circuit Judges at 2.5(10, Common Pleas Judges at 2 000, Circuit aud Criminal Prosecutors at Si0, and Common Pleas Prosecutors at 400, was passed. Mr. Fisher's bill, authorizing parties losing money or property in betting to sue for and recover it, was passed. At twelve o'c'ock, the two IF uses in joint sission elected Dr. U. S Heiskell, of Jefferson vi i Ie. a Director of the South ern I risou, vice W 1 . Unee resigned. At the afternoon session, Mr. ltice offered the following resolution: "Ktaolvcd. That the resolutions- of the Senate in relation to the correspondence of Lieutenant Governor Cuiuback with Governor Baker, and the proceedings of the Senate in relation thereto, be expunged from the Journal of the Senate, and that the Secretary of the Senate be directed to write across the face of said resolutions and proceedings: 'Kxpungcd by order of the Senate.' " After a discussion it was made the special order for Tuesday next at 2 o'clock. It seems quite probable that it will pass, as the Democrats, who do not altogether like the way that Governor Baker brought them back here, are as ready now to vote to "censure" him as they were before to censure Cumback. The bill to encourage the construction of levees, dykes and drains, and the reclamation of wet aud overflowed lands, was passed. Mr. Hooper's bill, which provides that the wife may be a competent witness against her husband as to her own property, permitting both parties in administrators' suits to testify, and striking out the last proviso iu the Witness act of 18G7, was passed. '1 he bill establishing a Criminal Court for Vandcrburg county was passed. A resolution to appoint a committee of three to visit, with the House Committee, the cabinet of the late David Dale Owen, was adopted. The General Appropriation bill coming up with the Senate amendments, was considered in Committee of the Whole and reported back with an amendment. The committee appointed to investigate the charges of corruption made against the Doorkeeper, Thomas C. McConn, reported that there was no evidence to sustain them, and that he is entitled to the confidence aud respect of the House. Mr. Osborn had a letter read from lion. Thos C. Slaughter, denying the statements made by Col. Merriwether before the Southern Prison Investigating Committee, concerning the former Director. DonaldJ son. i Mr. Stephenson's bill to regulate the I fees of county oiheers was discussed at length and passed. 1 he change is not great from the present law. . County Treasurers receive a smaller per contage , on large amounts, and a greater one on I delinquent taxes increasing it to 10 per cent. bhcnfiV fees are cut down to I per cent, on all sums over 200, and to 50 cents a day for feeding prisoners. - Both Houses were iu sussiou this morn

ing, but, without transacting any business of importance, adjourned until Tuesday, to enable members to attend the Odd Fel ' lows anniversary celebrations here aud elsewhere. Chronicle. The Revenue Assessorship.

Editor of American, I notice that some anonymous scribblers, Writing in the interest of Major Burton, have been permitted to use th columns of the Amprican for the purpose of abusing and vilhfying Mr. R. H. Swift, the Assessor of Internal Revenue for this District. We meet these .calumniators with these facts: Last year, during Mr. Johnson's Aduinistralion, and at a time when it seemed prnbuhlq that an effort would be made to remove Mr Swift, Major Hurton signed a reommen, laiion to Ser.a'or Morton, vouching for his (8ifi's) past and present fidelity to the Republican party, and his faithfulness and efficiency ai an officer. On the I2tll day of Ftbruary, the Brookville American contained an editorial in which the statement was truthfully made lhat in the la'e canvass none excelled Mr. Swift in zpal, efficiency and liberality; that many others made liberal use of their money and time for ibe cause, but that he excelled them all. In your last issue you say lhat the "article" to which Mr. Swift refers was written by a correspondent fvom Moore's Hill, and did NOT ATPKAR A EDITORIAL IX TUB ADVOCATE; that it skkms to have been written by a Republican, and was evidently not written by the Editor. Hut "Mr. Swift refers," not to an "article," but to "articles," as he expressly saysone of which was a pretended communication, but tub other as editorial; the latter of which appears in the third column of your spcond pane, under the head of "The Fourth District Assessorship," which you introduce by saying, "The Aurora Advocate understand that Judge Lamb of Moore's Hill is an applicant for the office of Fourth District Assessor in place of the present incumbent, 'lha Advocate says," &c. The result, if not ihe in tent of this, was to convince ninety-nine hundredths of those reading it lhat it was an editorial copied from a Republican newspaper ; whereas, it was, as Mr. S. says, extracted from one of the vilest Copperhead sheets in the land. The iufmous attempt to connect the name of Judjre Lamb with this nefarious transac tion, meets with the indignation il deserves Upon being apprised of the transaciion, he at once wrote to Senators Morton and Pratt, informing them of the status of the Advocute, which he fitly characterized aa ' Judge llolmau's organ"; stated that the pretended communication purporting to emanate from Moore's Hill was doubtless of Democratic palernity; that he was not and had not been u i applicant for the Assessorship; and e'o-ie.l by endorsing Mr. Silt ns one who had "alwayi been an active, earnest, hard-working Republican," with "ihe lepuiatiou of bemt an excellent otfiefr." Fair Play. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS HOTIUE OF ASSESSMENT OS ST03K UF BROOKVILLjS & OXFORD GRAVEL ROAD COMPANY. NOTICE is hereby given, that by virtuo of an orier of the BuarJ of 'Directors of snid Company, an assessment ot three pur cent, has !een niacin on the mbsorip tiona to the Capital Stock of said Company, to be paid on or before the 1st day of June, 1SH9. Stockholders will take n iiica and pay said assessments accordingly to the uqderyigued on oi before June 1, 18(59. atcd April 2-1, Ib(i9. DANIELS. SHAFER, ap!3fl 3w. Treasurer of said Company. Yellow S a list in anil Sweet Potato Plants. rrHK undersigned offers for sale the TeHmr -1. Nansetunnd variety of Sweet Potat.i l'iants, at bin residence in Ccdai Grove, and at Wiley Care's, in Brookville, at all times during the se.ison, and will also deliver them in person at Sharptown and Drewerburg every Thursday. They will be sold at the reguiar 'uirkel prices. W.M. Li. CASK, apl 3)-3w. Cedar Grove, Ind. AND Ice Cream Saloon! CHRISTIAN KCEBER, THAN KFU I. for past favors, Hg tin announces that he has made large additions to his establishment, ami is (rep:ied, better tliau ever, to accommodate customers with the very beat arjiol e of FilESU BREAD, CAKES OF ALL KINDS, PIES, Ac. lie will furnish Cakes and Crackers of all kia U at wholesale or retail, n reasonable terms. Also, a good supply of Lemons and Oranges on baud. CONFECTIONERY. His assortment of Confectioneries is complete, embracing c.iudies of the best quality, nuts, fruits. ICE CUE AH. Having fitted up a room for tho purpose, h will bo prepared, during the warm season, tfurnish loo Cream, Lemonade, lc, to thoe who may call. Families and others can be accotnm d itod with the bert White Water Ice, stt this establishment, during the summer souths, at rea.-oa-Dts prices. ad3U 6m. AT AUCTION! T HE undersigned, Assignee in Bankruptcy of the estate of F.M.Stone, wili sell at pubhe aucti-jn, on FRIDAY, May th, 1S6U, at .i o'clock A. M., on the premises, in Brotkville, Indiana, the large and well arranged mill, known as the White Water Paper Mill, In complete running order in every respect. karR and convenient frame building, containing 6--inch Four-drinier machine, with 6 copper dryers; 18 calendar rolls, so arranged as to give excellent finish on heavy book ppers; 4 large rag engines, capacity of 5,000 pounds per 24 hours: largo rotary bleach; tub bleach, with all the necessary pumps; stuff and half stuff chests, tanks, c.,c;. lor a first-class paper mill. The water power n ample forriyining the whole mill. Ihe situation of the mill on the direct railroad from Cinninnati to Chicago, affords facilities for receiving anH shipping freight at mill door. Also, at the same lime and place, one Sfi-inc1" Cylinder Machine. 4.4-inch dryers, good cabndars; one tHeam Engine, 37 horse power. , One Garote cutter; machinists' and carpenters tools; a large lot of book, cews and wrappi"? paiiers; a lot of rags, eanvass, hemp stock. ' papers; a lot of half stuff; lot new Fourdrm.er felts and wires, bleaching powders, vitriol; desK safe and other office furniture, 4c. , Also on the same day, the following describe parcels of real estate: . Lot No. J5 in W. W. Butler's plat of w town of Brookville, in the vicinity of the can basin, with two story frame building, subjec t i the payment of two notes of $100 each, one au Oct. 11th, 1SC8, the other Oct. ll'.h, 1S69- , Aiso, lots K'2 and 103, and parts of lots and 105, and one rod on the quarter section from the canal basin t W. W. V. Kailrend. ' plat of Mary and W. W. Butler, iu town of Uroo ville, Ind. y.t TERMS OF SALE For the Mill, one cash, one fourth in six months, balance in '"j moo ths; deferred payments to bear interest ba cecured to the satisfaction of Assignee, alt other property, terms cash on delivery. A rnhar information can be had by"' j on or addressing the Assignee or his AttorneyJAM fcS K. S lUA., ssig"" . ' . 141 Walnut itreet, Uineinu-' Rrfbkm Tti.kb, Attornev for Assignee, ISo. 5 Masonic Temple, Cincinnati, uapl 16 4w. XoUcc"to Persons Havlnja: lrojfe Business to Settle- l( IN pursuance of nn order of the Judge o js Frankiin Court of Common r8'' n0 m, hereby given t all persons whom it ma? c ,.tter -.k,. K...;. ! Court will hore 1 bo heard by the Judge thereof on the first, j and third days of each term of said Court. Attest: S. S. II ARHELL, Clerk l.t-"-April 23, 1S69 3w.