Indiana American, Volume 8, Number 22, Brookville, Franklin County, 28 May 1869 — Page 2

Jntianii American.

C. H. BINGHAM, Editor. -BllOOKVIIXE-

Friday MorniEg, My 28, 1869.

MediU's Address.

On our first pape tins week we publish lin .bie address of Joseph Medilt Esq. of Chicago, delivered before the recent Convention of Editors and Publishers of Indiana, assembled at Indianapolis. Brother MediU possesses the secret of conducting a country newspaper, and gives his experience in a, comprehensive manner. The address will repay careful perusal, eoineiding as it docs with the experience

. of successful conductors of newspapers Terjwhere. The Gravel Road Law. We have received numerous requests from friends in various parts of the County to publish the Gravel Road Law, passed t the recent session of the Legislature. The bill is too lengthy for our columns, butt.ll who desire a copy of the law can have one mailed them by addressing Governor Baker, who has had the law printed for general circulation.

, Texas. The President stated to Judge Pascal,

ho recently called on him in behalf of Gov. Pease, of Texas, that the time for holding the election in that Stale and Mississippi would not be decided upon until after the election in Virginia. He thought the best time would be between the times of sowing grain and the commencement of the cotton picking Eeason. Mr. Pascal suggested that the first Monday in August had always been election day in Texas. The Presideut said that he should direct General Reynolds to pro-

ceed with the work of registration, and remarked that he had n cntioned the first Monday io November to Major Moore, but had immediately corrected bimsclfbv mentioning an earlier day. The President

Butler on the Alabama Business. General Butler has been urging the administration to adopt very decided meas. ures in regard to the Alabama claims, lie says Motley has gone to England instructed to merely look on for the present and do nothing. lie thinks the course should be to make a definite demand for

. .oMlomont. Mnd if not complied with at

the end of a reasonable time, non-inter

ftmirco ell mi Id be croclaimed; that this

would be followed by a state of affairs at home which would soon cause a settlement with this country. . The Bupply of fractional currency in the Treasury being exhausted, no new fractional notes or notes of the denomina

tions of one or two dollars will be issued in exchange for old currency until the new plates and the water marked paper

recently ordered by the Secretary are ready, which will be about the 1st of next July. The London Times does not think that Minister Motley will make any fresh over

tures on the Alabama claims. It admits, however, that the dead lock on the question excites apprehensions. It is staled that Secretary Rawlins is determined to secure protection to the lives of Union men in the South. He will probably declare martial law in Georgia, in neighborhoods where recently murders have been committed, and where the mnrorpre are not eiven ud will arrest a

number of sympathizing citizens and hold them as hostages, until the criminals arc given up.

A bill contracted by Secretary Seward in telegraphing over the cable to Reverdy

Johnson, has been presented to Secretary Fish by the agent of the telegraph company, for payment. It consists of a single item, and amounts to 40,000. Secretary Fish declined to pay it, and when it was presented to President Grant, he sent it to Attorney General Hoar for an opinion, which he is now engaged on.

had been informed by gentlemen in whom

le had much reliance, that the division in be issued, the advance sheets of which has the Union party would be healed, and he j been sent us by publishers. It is written earnestly hoped such would be the case. by Edward A. Pollard, author of the "Lost Cause," the most fluent and graceful writer Sale of West Florida to Alabama. a the South, and whose position duriug The Commissoners representing Ala- te rebellion better fitted him tJ write tie bma and Florid, who have for Eome time . eere,3 0r tue Southern Confederacy than past been dhcusng the preliminaries for j nv other man. The work will give un

insiuht into the late struggle not attainable in any other book. Published by the

Two Months of Grant as President. In last week's New York Independent we find the following vindication of President Grant's administration, from the pen of Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts: "Two months have now passed since General Grant, in the presence of assembled thousands of his admiring countrymen, took the oath prescribed for the President of the United States. To him, these have been months of trials such as

he has never known. From all sections or

the land came an earnest, persistent, vehe

ment pressure for place such as no Presi

dent had ever encountered, remaps tne

rressure for offices was for a Few days in

18G1 auite as strone; but the impending

civil war checkedit. Many whothen sought

civil service hastened to join the nation's defenders, and patriotism demanded the

retention in office or some Democrats who were loyal to their country. Then disappointed aspirations were forgotten or silenced in tle clash of arms. Now nothing came to break the terrible pressure upon the President. Now, nothing comes to arouse to high deeds, ungratified ambitions, nor to silence disappointed aspirations. Many seek, but few can be taken.

That few are, doubtless, more than satisfied that their own merits, rather than the

President's favor, won for them the glitfprinor nri7.es. The uianv who were not

taken ste no merit in their successful rivals, nor sagacity in a President who

pnnld overlook claims like their own. The

successful few having won only that which

thev think of right belong to thera, are

charv of their thanks. The unsuccessful

manv, having had that which they think

should be theirs of right, withheld by an

unaf predating and ungrateful 1. resident, are profuse in their censures. "Several appointments have been made that were 'not fit to be made.' The truest fiiends of the President see this; but they confidently hope that these errors will be speedily corrected, that these errors will be admonitions in the future. In spite, however, of the mistakes, for which the President is not alone responsible, the new

appointments have been, as a whole, marked improvements. Four-fiflhs of the appointees are abler and purer men than the men whose places they take. No man

at all acquainted with the public men of the country no man who has any knowledge of the men removed, or the men appointed can doubt the correctness of this declaration. More especially is this true of the internal revenue appointments! The Commissioner of Internal Revenue is

a gentleman of large capacity and practi-

disappoiuted ambitions, the patriotic, the

just, the humane, the men who would

make this nation what it protesses 10 De a free and Christian nation should re

member the great work President brant is doing for the country and for its people of all races. They should remember, too, that the counterfeiters and the thieves no longer look to the President for pardon and protection. And they should not forget that an honest effort is now making, with high hopes of success, to collect the revenues, reduce the expenses, diminish the public debt, and maintain the nation's faith and honor. "The people who trusted General Grant

when he was struggling in the storms of the "Wilderness, and in the trenches before

Richmond, were not mistaken, lhey who

now trust President Grant in the grand work in which he is engaged, may find that no faction or party can disturb or defeat his administration."

lute" on the negro suffrage question, and to electioneer for the votes of colored men. We don't know but they may need the time in other Counties, but io this one three days would be sufficient to enable them to turn a complete summersault on any question. Greenfield Commercial.

"The Life of Jf.fferson Davis, with a Secret History of the Southern Confed

eracy," is the title of a new book soon to jcal experience, and he has brought to the

the sale of West Florida to Alabama, have come to a decision as to terms. All that portion of Florida ly in? west of the Aplatchiccla is to le sold to the State of Alabama for one million in Alabama bond. The bonds are to le delivered when all legal furms ate complied with. West Florida first votes on the matter, then the Legislature of loth States to act on it, and then to le submitted to Congess for approval. Instructions to Minister Motley. The most that can le reliably ascertained of the instructions to Minister Mot-

National Publishing Co., Chicago, and sold only by subscription. Agents are wanted in every county.

General James C. Vcatch, of Spencer county, who was the Republican candidate for Congress in the First District last year, has been appointed Adjutant General, in place of General W. 11. H. Terrell, who has resigned, in order to accept the position of Third Assistant Postmaster General at Washington. General Terrell started to Washington last evening, to look after the work connected with his

public service an inflexible purpose to reform abuses and collect the revenues. The future will demonstrate the fact that the Assessors and Collectors he has appointed are, as a whole, greatly superior to the of

ficers whose places they take. "Whatever may le the merits or the demerits of the appointees to office, there is, and there will continue to be for some time, expressions of disappointment, unfriendly criticisms and carping censures. Rut the patriot and liberty-loving masses that made Grant President should not allow themselves to be blinded by the dust or prejudiced by the clamor raised by the disappointed applicants for places. In the multiplicity of Lis appointments the President his sometimes failed "to put the right man in the right place;'' but he has not failed to firmly maintain the patriotic, liberty -loving, just and humane ideas, principles and policies that made him Chief Magistrate. Never before has the nation been so exalted. Never before has the Government been administered for sixty days, so in harmony with the de

mands of patriotism, liberty, justice and a

England Getting Madder all the Time. The London correspondent of the Tribune writes as follows, under date of May 6: The irritation caused by Mr. Sumner'B speech goes on increasing instead of diminishing, as I hoped it might after a little reflection. I have already described it as extending through all classes, turning old friendships into ill-will, and uniting those who were for us and those who were against us, in one common purpose of resistance to the demands supposed to be made by Mr. Sumner. With a good

deal of reluctance, and with some qualifications, 1 said we had a few friends left, if approval or even toleration of Mr. Sum -ner's speech was to be the condition of

friendship. AVith a good, deal more reluctance, but without any qualification, I say to day that so far as I know we have not, in that sense, a single friend in England. Of course I do not mean that men long conspicuous for their sympathy with us, have on a sudden become enemies, or that they recant anything they ever said on our side. But they dissent wholly from Mr. Sumner's statement of the American claims and grievances. They find fault with the tone of the speech and the extent of his demands. In more than

one particular they are misled, or some of

I lit UJ U I v- Kr 1 1 11 v ill 11 V'l - iv, 1 o v 1 London papers, all of which make Mr. Sumner say more things which he clearly dots not say. Comment on the speech continues daily in the press and every where else, and while there is a difference in the degree of resentment expressed in different quarters, the agreement of opinion is practically unanimous. England will fiibt rather than yield to the claims made or indicated iu this speech. She will fight rather than even negotiate on any such basis. If Mr. Motley's instructions cover

anything like the ground taken by Mr. Sumner, he will be met by a point blank refusal to consider his proposals. At this moment, I doubt whether any proposals whatever would le listened to. If popular feelinsr counts for anvtliinc: in the

Foreign office? they would be simply scouted. Of course, I dou't mean that Mr. Motley is likely to be received with incivility. The most furious would greet him with politeness encugh, but all parties will resist with equal resolution an attempt to enter upon any negotiation which does not disavow, in fact, if not in terms, Mr. Sumner's authority to speak for the American Government.

new position, but will return in a few t Lum.ltie ai)ti Christian civilian ion

Gen-

;. i,,i iKpv r mm- of a ppneral than ' weeks on a brief leave of absence

a special character, and do net contemplate j Vcatch who is a most worthy gentle- . , . ! man and who will make a popular othcer, any speedy action on bis part with regard J (ook possess;on ast evening. Journal.

tr the Alabama and other claims. In

view of the present sentiment in England upon the subject, if for no other reason, Mr. Motley will inform her Majesty's Government of the desire of our own to

adjust all pending questions on

that will strengthen the friendly relations between the two countries.

Journal

achieved

The Indiana Legislature has

the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment under difficulties. The substantial fact that a majority of the members of

, both Houses voted for it, and that the

a basis j oflicisl records of each are likely to le ac

cepted without inquiry into any alleged irregularity, leaves little doubt that the ratification will be regarded as valid, ll

"There no longer goes out from the Ex

ecutive mansion words that embitter men against their country and their countrymen. The Chief Magistrate now seeks to biir.g all branches of the Government in accord, and to inspire hope, confidence and good 'A ill among the people. He joins Congress or, rather, leads Congress and his loyal countrymen in the grand work of

any conudaint of proceeding irregularly is

The Board of Directors of the Fort to be made, it comes with a bad grace,

Wayne, Muncie and Cincinnati Railway i certainly, fiom those Democrats who re

the 1 Ith ' sorted 10 nnwirrannuic lacucs 10 tni

lair expression ol the will ol tne jjcgisia-

Comranv. at their meeting on

inst., ordered the immediate letting of the j forty miles intervening between Muneie j and Bluffton, to le completed by the first j of December next. The iron is now being laid from New Castle to Muneic, on i the Bellefontainc Road, and that town J

will be brought into connection with Cincinnati by the 1st of August. The Motion from Fort Wayne to Bluffton will be in running order by the 1st of September.

ture. Cincinnati Chronicle.

j Henry Ward llccchor is an "optimist,'' one of those fellows who put the lest face ; on everything, and expect everything to turn out well. On the whole, it is a pleas J ant sort of disposition, tut there is such a thing as having too much even of a hope--ful and cheerful feeling. Mr. Beecher has I too much, altogether too much. Ilis op- ! timism verges on insanity. He said the other day, in a sermon in which he alluded 1 to the politics of New York city: I believe

.. , lje ,i,lie wjn conie whcn our offices will Valentine Shank, an old citizen of j be filled with honest men; that men can go to Ripley county, was found dead in his field the Legisdsturc and not become corrupted; on Tuesday of last week. Mr. Shank has' that a man can le a Judge and yet go to . ", . r - j i heaven." Mr. Bcccher is clearly bound to been complaining for some time, and while 1 ' 1 . ,T . .. .r . , , , ,-i ! land in Umvcrsalism. It a New lork plowing had apparently sat on his plow j pt mocratic JUtlge can get to heaven, there rt, and suddenly died. The Coroner j ;4 no u$0 for hell. It may as well be

went to hold an inquest on the same evening.

A Salt Like correspondent of the Na- I tional Intelligencer says that the Pacific) Railroad is one hundred miles shorter j than the company claim it to le, and that ; they have icccivcd bonds and grants on j this one hundred miles, to which they are j not entitled. He further alleges that on j two hundred and fifty miles of the west- j em portion of the road, the work of con-j atructing a fust-class railway has scarcely'

commenced.

filled up and floored wigwam. Journal.

over for a Tammany

"The Radical party is mad mad as a March hare mad at the people mad at themselves mad at the Republic mad at all the recollections that make America great, grand and glorious; mad, worse than mad, and to do something desperate in Indiana, they kicked over Constitutional law and Parliamentary usages and "ratified the Fifteenth Amendment." Fort Wayne Democrat. They ratified the Amendment by a majority of both Houses or the Legislature, and the Constitution only requires a majority of both Houses to do anything. It requires in addition that twothirds shall be present to witness what the majority does, but a Democratic United States Senate, in the case of Jesse 1). Bright and Graham N. Fitch, decided that if the majority chooses to disregard that requirement in any action relating to the United States, it may, and its action will still be valid. Now if anything "desper-

. J ate" has been done, or if anybody is the In- . uwor?c than mad," it is the Democratic

loDB! Legislature of 1857, which elected Bright

;!and Fitch, without a quorum, and the ' 1 1 . I T I ,1 I3r-laa Kunila vrtliri

did not prf vent the members of the Legis-, w eru!in lhtt when

lalMff M ffinoined, from l.!y ratify- j hfi jarns a jttje ,nore about his own parji, tht tficenth constitution?! amendment Uy he rgy find it wise to say less about ar cuu.cnt is very able and elaborate any other. Journal.

The French elections for members of je Corps Lfpislatif have resulted very favorably for tha Opposition. It is re

ported that there will be ninety Opposi

lion members in the next Corps

Lcgisla-

Ptrainst forty-five jn !hi last.

Senator Morton publishes, io

dUnapolis JoftrHl of Tudaj.

letter PH M' of quorums, takin

A ibai the recent Democratio bolt

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lestoiinir the Union, and of making the

nation one in affection and purpose. Inspired by his words and acts, tens of thousands of his countrymen in the States lately in rebellion are now striving to restore the unity of the nation on the laais of loyalty and equality of rights. Patriotism applauds the firm, wise and practical action of President Grant for the restoration of the States and the unity of the people. "President Grant is the first Chief Magis

trate of the Republic who is committed to the policy of securing to ciliicns without distinction of color or race the right of suiFragc. He accepts in all its fullness the policy of human rights that recognizes the equal citizenship of the black man. In appointments to official positions he has bravely recognized the rights and privileges of tho colored race. Two color

ed citizens represeut the nation abroad;

two colored citizens have been made Assessors of Internal Revenue; aud another colored citizen is Postmaster of Columbia, the capital of haughty South Carolina. Through all our history the conduct of the nation toward the black race has been in violation of the spirit of Christianity. Grant was elected by the friends of the despised and wronged black man to assure to him equality of rights. To that nolle woik he is giving practical evidences of personal and official devotion . Surely liberty applauds this firm and consistent action of President Grant. "The couduct of this professedly Christian nation towards the red man has, for generations, been in violation not only of the precepts of Christianity, but even of the sense of justice among men. General Grant, in his Inaugural address, remembered the wronged Indian, and reminded the nation of disregarded if not forgotten duties. Presideut Grant has inaugurated a policy that seeks to redress the wrongs of the red man, to save his perishing race from annihilation, and to lift him up to tha blessiogs of civilization and to the rights cf American citijeuship. As one evidence of this and the nation's sincerity, he has placed au Indian at the head of the Indian Ilureaii. He has dismissed agents more than suspected of cheating Indians out of portions of the sums the nation deles out with sparing hand.

He has summoned ifie followers of William i'enn to the task of securing peace with and dealing justly by the red man. He has selected men honored for their disinterestedness, benevolence and oharities to aid him in this grand work of justice and humanity. Humanity applauds and Christianity blesses this work inaugurated by the President, "In this time of the noisy clamors of

The Amendment in Indiana.

The Chicago Tribune, in the course of an able article on the Ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment by tho Legislature, says: The speaker decided and announced that the Fifteenth Amendment had been duly ratified by the State of Indiana, it having received a majority of votes of both houses of the Legislature of that Sute. The Senate of Indiana consists of fifty members, of whom twenty-seven voted to ratify the amendment. The House consists

of one hundred members, of whom fiftyfive voted for the amendment. It is thus indisputable that it received a clear majority of each house, nor can it be disputed that a quorum was present when the rcsoltuion passed the Senate, and the only

question that can possibly ba raised is,

whether the action of the House is legal

and binding. This question must be determined by Congress, and there is but little doubt that Congress will declare the amendment duly ratified by the State of Indiana, in spite of the revolutionary action of the minority of the House. This is the firm opinion of Senator Morton of that State. There is some obscurity in the language of the Constitution of Indiana as to what number of members constitute a quorum. Some of the ablest lawyers ot the State hold that a quorum consists of two thirds of all the members of

each honsc cbiimig seats providing that number is a majority of the whole number who can le elected. If a member resigns, or die, or leaves the State, he should oot count in making or breaking a quorum, because to do that places it in the power of oue-third of the members elect to either house, virtually, to destroy the govern

ment ot the iMate by resignation, and, so long as a majority of their constituents would support them in such revolutionary conduct, no laws or appropriation bills could be passed. Thus one third of one house, lacked by a bare majority of onethird of tho pecpio of Indiana being onesixth of the whole have it in their power to dissolve their State Government, if the Democratic interpretation is to be placed on the constitution of the State.

P. Orr that 1

A Card. To the Readers 0 (he American: A full defense to all that Dr. J has said of me, also the exposure

promised him, will shortly appear in a circular, which I will issue over my own signatured I shall state nothing against tho Dr. but provable facts. Judge of the Dr. when you read them. Just when I shall publuh the circular, I cannot now say. I am waiting for an event to transpire, So soon as that passes, the Dr. will "catch it." To the Editor of the American for his kindness iii giving me the use p" his columns on the 14th inst., J. return my thanks. Very truly, &c., "Brick Pom erov," Jr. P. S. I bes to say another word. I

had a reply ready for this week's issue of

the American, but the editor preferred tht so far as the use of his paper is concerned, the matter ought to stop. B. p. JR.

It has been said that the reason for patting off the elections until 1S70 was to srive the Democrats a fair chance to "revo

Brookville, Indiana. Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial. Broolvillk, May 16. RURAL GENIUS.

But few of the villages of the State of

Indiana have sent upon the world's stage intellects of more brilliancy than this

ancient town of Brookville. When it was

a small village, lying in the quiet insignificance of its rural simplicity, and when

not even the most sanguine of her citizen

ship had ever dreamed of one in a thou

sand of our modern facilities, it had among its unpretending inhabitants quite a number of men who were giants in their day. The life's history of many men points definitely to the fact that genius with them is a hereditary talent. It is not the gift of the soil, nor the mere fortunate produets of the locality. They were born of mothers who, though obscure, had many natural claims to queenly excellence, and hencn they gleaned from their maternal ancestors those principles of pride, and character, and laudable ambition, which ultimately gave them position and made them men. Among the names which this place has given to eminent distinction, and which are now written on the pages of Indiana history, I may mention the

Nobles, the Wallaces, the Rays, the Tests

and the McCarties. These families gave to ths State three of its former Governors, one of its United States Senators, two members of Congress, and two Circuit Judges. GOVERNOR NOBLE. Noah Noble, who was perhaps one of the most popular Governors the State has ever had, was the noblest Roman of them all. He lived in the days when politicians were honest, and he left a record of personal iutegrity and political honesty which no one has ever attempted to blur or mar. GOVERNOR DAVID WALLACE. Governor Wallace, who was a West Point graduate aud a lawyer of eminence, was one of the fiucst orators I have ever

heard in the State. Full of the fire of an impetuous and lofty eloquence, he bore down upon his delighted audiences with

living illustrations of the argument of the hour, which no opponent could ever annihilate, because the people believed that he was almost inspired. now he was elected governor. 1 think it was in the year 1S3C that Wallace and John Dumont ran for Gorernor, and, as all know, the former was elec ted. The internal improvement system

was the great State question on which the j contest rested. Wallace was its warm friend aud eloquent advocate, while Dumont was opposed to it, because it would involve the State in a hopeless debt, and

therefore ruin it. 1 he arguments ot Dumont were able and statesmanlike, and among the thoughtful and more cautious were deemed unanswerable. But the facetious and winning eloquence of Wullace moved and carried the multitude. He told the people the debt would be but an insignificant one, and that if each voter would keepan extra ben, her eggs and chickens would meet the whole liability. ' And as to ruining the State," he would say, "I can illustrate that point by a

Utile story I heard the other day: "Down here in one of the villages in

the Southern part cf the State, lives a

widow, who has a larc-e amount of that

supcreautious piety which so much

troubles my worthy and venerable oppo

nent. This good lady has a daughter who

is said to be pretty and smart enough al

ways to know on which side of her bread

is buttered. Sal. as the old woman calls

her, by the way of being domestic as well as commanding, came borne a few days ago from a little trip she had taken up street to the store, and tossing up her head as she entered her mother's room, she at the same time tossed a bundle upon the bed. The old lady seeing the mysterious bundle, and knowing that Sal was totally destitute of all means of purchasing "She asked: 'Sal, what is that bundle you tossed there on the led?'

" 'O, it s only a new dress, mother, answered Sal. '"Now, Sal, said the venerable parent,

as she raised up her spectacles and looked daggers at her daughter, 'what on earth did you get it?' " 'Why, Jim Simpson gave it to me, was Sal's response. "'Now, Sal,' said the old woman, with all the s ernness of a threatening thunderbolt, 'if you don't mind, that Jim Simpson will ruin you yet.' " 'Pooh!' responded Sal, 'if you call that ruin, I would like to be ruined that way every day.' " Wallace told this Sal story all over the State, and the people said if that was all there was to be of it, Wallace should be their Governor, and so it was done. But, brilliant in the geuius of a lofty intellect, and orator as he was, he had one fault, which doubtless did mudh to eclipse the honor of his eminent character ana position, if it did not prematurely end his

days. JUDGE GEORGE HOLLAND. This gentleman, now a citizen of Richmond, Indiana, and who has just been appointed Judge of the Criminal Court of Wayne County, to fill the vacancy made by the death of Judge Nimrod Johnson, was born near this place, and was raised

iu this town. Losing his father and mother when he was but a little boy, be and his six or eight young brothers aad sisters were brought upon the county, and according to the laws of those days they were all sold out to the lowest bidders. Younz George was bid off by one of the

best men Franklin County ever held

Robert John, Ksq. who was for many years Clerk of the Court. He took little

George into his family as a son, educated him and made him his assistant in the ofljee. The boy grew in stature, studied law, and became a man of honor, intelligence and high respeptability, and the on-inIaw of his patron father. But few lawyers who have ever lived in the Whitewater Valley have maintained through life a belter character than Jdge Holland; modpst and Unassuming, he has never been a politician, never sought office, but has given himself wholly to his profession. I am glad that Governor Baker has appointed him Judge, for the appointment was one fit to be mado, and it may add te the years of the Judge's life; for his closo

application to the business of his office has

been telling upon bis constitutional

health, and as he is only about fifty-five, he should yet have some twenty years more of useful service in him. Our country needs the services of such men, that law may be properly administered and justice duly meted out. Whitewater.

Woman's Suffrage Convention. There will be a Woman's Suffrage Convention held in Indianapolis on the 8th and 9th of June. Mrs. M. A. Livermore, of Chicago, has promised to be there and address the Convention. We also expect Lucy Stone, Mrs. Stanton and other noted speakers from abroad, and we have a number of our own citizens from different parts of the State who will Freak and work not

only for the success of the convention, but of the cause. We appeal to the large-hearted friends of humanity everywhere throughout the State, to come up and discuss with us, vital questions which are now before the people, which Lave a direct bearing upon the political enfranchisement of women. While the friends of temperance and of manhood suffrage are with energy and ability pressing their claims before our law-givers and people, we deem it just and right that we, also, bring unto fair

light, the fact that one-half the people of

our State are denied representation denied the right of consenting to the laws by which they are governed, and denied

the privilege of sustaining their princi

ples, because many of these principlesean be sustained only through the ballot.

The best minds of our country have

recocrnized the iustice and expediency of

giving all human rights to women. Old

prejudices, bitter and cruel, have lost their

vitality and are ready to die. We need only a little well directed effort to remove the legal disabilities of woman. And as closely allied to the right of suffrage, we deem tbij convention also a propitious time to discuss the right of a larger range of employments, jnstcr wages and more efficient education to woman. Come up, friends, and let us have an earnest, honest, free interchange of thought. Amanda M. Way, Indianapolis. Mrs. M. C. Bland, Indianapolis. Mrs. M. M. B. Goodwin, Indianapolis. Mrs Henry Blanchard, Indianapolis. Mrs. Umi B. Swank, Indianapolis.

Mrs. Isaac Kiuley, Richmond. Dr. Mary A Thomas, Camden. Dr Mary 11. White, Crawurdville. Miss Lizzie Boynti ti, Craw fordsvilie. Miss Mollie Krout, Crawfordsville. Dr. E. E Birrett, Crawfordsville. Mrs. B. Ninde, Fort Wayne. Mis. L. G. Bedell, Crown Point. Rev. E P. Ingersoll, Indianapolis. Rev. J. V. R. Miller, Indianapolis. Rev. Henry Blanchard, Indianapolis. Dr. William Hannaman, Indianapolis

Professor A. C. Shortridge, Indiauapo-

Professor R. T. Brown, Indianapolis. Professor Thomas Charles, Indianapolis. Dr. T. A. B'and, Indianapolis, lion. Isaac Kiniey, Richmond. Hon. L. M. Ninde, Fort Wayne. Hon. S. T. Montgomery, Kokuuio. D. R. Pershing, Warsaw. Rev. T. Sells. Isaac 11. Julian, Richmond. EXECUTIVE COM XI ITT EE. Amanda H. Way, Indianapolis. Rev. E." P. Ingersoll, 1 ndianapolis. Professor Thomas Charles, Indiauapo-

The Indiana Democratic Bolt.

It is strange that the Indiana Democratshave not learned the bolting trick better in all the praetice they have had in that State. When the Democrats of the Sen--ate resigned in order to prevent the ratification of the 15th Amendment, they

tried to play the game so fine in order that they might be members for. other business

and not members for the ratification, that

the Senate had not been officially advised

of their resignation when the amendment

was called up. And so they helped to form the constitntional quorum. In the House the trick was played differently, but with no better success. The Democrats resigned completely and op--portunely, and thus ceased to be a part of the House. The Constitution provides that two-thirds of the House shall constitute a quorum. Of course the Democrats having ceased to be members, were no more a part of the House than if they had, never been elected. Two-thirds of the members formed a quorum, and proceeded to ratify the amendment in a constitutional manner. Some smart Democrat ought to be sent to Indiana to teach the Hoosier Democrats the bolting trick. Gazette.

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such, ai ' JEANS, SATTIXETTS. CASS 1 MERES, BLANKETS,. FLANNELS AND STOCKING YARNS. Also a fnTl stor of

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Rev. II. Blai chard, Indianapolis. Mrs. M. C. Bland, Indianapolis. Dr. Mary F. Thomas. Camden. Mrs. Emi U. Swank, Indianapolis.

Morgan Raid Claims. Tho bill compensating the sufferers by

ilia M iircra n Kid tailed tor wantot a con-

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currence by the Mouse in au auii-uumem by the Senate, dividing the payment into three annual installments. The House would, in all probability, have concurred, or a conference cjuld have readily adjusted all differences, if the Democrats had remained and continued the organization. But they resigned, ran away, expressly and avowedly because they could uot get the Raid till put in such a position that it must be sale, whatever became of other

business, and haviiiir dune all the mischief

they could, it was uot tho duty of their opponents to repair it ler them by passiug a bill after official no'e that there was no ... . . 1

quorum present, ire Uemocrats ruinea

the liuid bill themselves, soieiy ana Bimply because they insisted on having more done for it than it needed, and more than was to be done for other matters of just as much importance, embodying more real

justice. To tne counties tnrougu woien . v - 1 I t

Morgan passed, this Uemocratic joo win prove rather unsatisfactory, but to the remainder of the State it may not be unwelcome. It saves nearly a half million dollars of taxation; in payment of which,

in five cases out of six, are no longer in the hands of the sufferers by the Raid, but bought up by speculators, who have lobbyed the compensation bill to a nearer approach to success than they will ever get again. If the oiiginal sufferers, the farmers who lost horses and the merchants who lost goods, had alone been interested, they never could have commanded influence enough to have made a formidable show for-a measure which transcends all State actioneverknown. The acts of "the public enemy' no government has ever pretended to make compensation for to the sufferers. No government can do it, as a settled practioe, and live. The injuries inflicted by a hostile army are set down in all human affiirs to the same account as the "acts of God," to be settled at the

Last Judgment. The Government can not with any more justice be asked to pay for goods plundered or houses burned by an invader, thau it can to compensate the sufferers by a hurricane or an earthquake. That a low hundred farmers, with claims of a hundrcJ dollars or so each, would never lose the time necessary to lobby a bill of so unprecedented a character through the Legislature, is as certain as anything can be. It could only be done by speculators who he'd ten, twenty, or fifty thousand dollars worth of claims, which they had bought for a sang, and were able to affor.d good pay for legislative help. If the bill had passed, a few already wealthy men would have pocketed thousands of dollars for their shrewdness in buying up Baid claims, and that would have been the extent and end of the business. We have no regrets to express at the failure of such a measure, though compensation to some extent, to the actual sufferers, as we said yesterday, might be just. Indianapolis Journal.

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No. 42 Cedar street,

VALUABLE HEAL ESTATE

I offer for sale one two-story uoinic." Jcf House with eight rooms, U m E" with a good cellar, cistern, and a large i Also a one-story Frame containing ' in good order, with eellar, cUtern, ana oi venienees. 50 f"f Also eight good Building Lot. w ,n front, running back to a,leJ '.g.stre1frontingon Main Streetand Main Unrgc , Also 150 acres of good Farming V8'1":' roogood two-story Brick Uouao containing s (t. Urge hall, well furnished, with all ' E,ri 1 t - a r., house, a large Fra.n ,

40 by 60 feet, a , frame corn crib w , ,i 1 all under ten

oeiween, carriage i. 111 " about 100 acres cleared. This ean h of ti, inrl tek farm. It is Within Zs

V alley K&nroaa. rtT on I will sell uny of the above TVj fc,l.of following terms: one fourth cat, lf! in;er in three annual payments with ea j-jjtf.

J est until paid, may 21 2 in.