Indiana American, Volume 8, Number 24, Brookville, Franklin County, 11 June 1869 — Page 1

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c. n Office BINGHAM, Proprietor. in the National Bank Building, (third ttory.) rERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: PER YEAR, IK ADVANCE. IF NOT PAID IK ADVANCE. $2.50 $3,00 " No postage on County. papers delivered within this Plan f Reunion of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Bciieving that the interest, of the Redeemer's kingdom would be promoted by the healing of our divisions, and that the two bodies bearing the same name, having the same constitution, and each recognizing the other as a sound and orthodox body according to ihe principles of the confession common ta boih, can not be justified by any but the most imperative .reasons in maintaining separate and, in .some respects, rival organizations, we are now clearly of the opinion that the reTunion of those bodies ought, as soon as tie necessary steps can be taken, to be accomplished, upon the basis hereinafter set forth: 1. The Presbyterian Churches in the United States of America, namely, that whose General Assembly convened in the Brick Church in the city of 2s'ew York, on the 20 dav of May, 1SG9, and that whose general Assembly met in the Church. of the Covenant in the said city on the same day, shall be reunited as one church, under the name and style of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, posses-sing all legsl and corporate rights and powers pertaining to the church previous to the division in less and all the lecal and corporate rights and powers which the separate churches now possess. 2. The reunion shall be effected on the i doctrinal and ecclesiastical basis of our common standards; the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments shall be acknowledged to he the inspired word of; God, and the only infallible rule of faith j and practice; the confession of faith shall continue to he sincerely received and I adapted as containing the system of doc trine taught in the Holy Se-iiptures; ar.di the Government and discipline i f the i Presbyterian Church in the United States ! hil le arptoed as containing the pii. ei- ; pies ana rules o! our policy. 3. Each of the said assemblies shall sulurit the foregoing basis to its resbyteries, which shall be required to meet on or before ti c l.Vh day of October, ISG'J to express their approval or disapproval of the same, by a categorical answer to the following question: ! you pproe of the reunion of the two Ix ilies now ehuii;ii g rights of the Presbyterian I nited Stales of An.ciiea, the iinme and Church in the on the fo!li-w-ina basis, nuti.eh: '"The reunioii shall be clhcted mi the d c-iitial and Fcc!esi:isti-al basis of i ur e imi.i-ii standards; lb. e Scriptures of the (hi and New Testaments shall l e ju-'miow :ed -od to be the inspired I ' ord of (i.'d, .-. t d tlie only ini'iiliibic rule ; 'M.iiih au.l praetifc; the confession of ; tiiith -h;.H font!:. uo to bo sinceieJy re-j veived and :.l('i'(td as containing the vs ! tern of di c'i ii:c t..ht iii the Holy Scriptures; aiul the U ici iiiiient slid diseipiine i't the l'le-lMei ian Church in the United tate shuli Co ap; roved as con tai ning the prineij los and 1 uit s of our policy ? ' Each presbytery shall, leioie the 1st day of Aowi.'.ler, 1m!L, forward to the Staled (.'leik ef she General Assemluy with which it is c-oi, Heeled; a state n. cut of its Voe on the said hists of reunion. 4. The said Genera! Assemblies now fitting shall, s,ftcr finishing their business, arijourn, to meet in the city of Tittsluirg. lVonsylvania. on the s.cond Wednesday oi November, liU!, at 1 1 o'clock, A. M If the tsvo then find and eneral Assemblies shall declare that the abovc tamed t'asis e.f reunion has approved by to-tl ir-is el tic j sesby tcrics connected itheach him, di el the church, then the two asscu.liics sLail take lv. action according 0. The sai l G, iu r;l Assoml.lioc lill tlt-n aud these make provision for the i meeting t,f she General Assemblv of the ' tnited Chmeh.on the third Thursday of! J, 170. The Moderators of the two! present assemblies shall jointly preside at the said assembly of lSTtt. until another! wierator is chosen. The Moderator of jhe assemWy now Mttinsj at the Brick vburch aforesaid, shall if present, put all th,eianJ JtHide questions of order; and he Moderator of tne other assembly shall, iresent, preach the opening sermon; Uhe stated cleiks of the present assembles shall act 8S stated clerks of the aetLbly of the sini-ed church until a Mated clerk or clerks shall have been H i! ,lurc,J") "d- no commissioner il hae a right to vote or deliberate in ia assemble .,t;i i,: . be, name shall have 'en enrolled bv said .WL- I w fc,ion examined and filed anions- the frers cf the assembly. ,6- Kac' rrcsbvtcrv r Ti . at- a - lurches shall be entitled to the same repectat.on in the assembly of the united eburch , as it is entit!eJ t0 itl the Mimi.ij wuh wiiitll it i3 10W connectej COXCCRRExt PKCLARATION OF THE GEN ek.vl assembles of lStJ'.). As there are matters pertainsnc; to the SL 9 Cf ,hc church which il haH tMr "U,!i,eJ bien iU manifestly tr of 6 UStn"Cnt on I,e cominS togethtn.r, totlios whkb have so long acted F ratcly, and concerning some of which Euk!1.3.1 -sirable that there bciild be the t - i '" n'us goou understanding, a v. . ...a i . fnlK- , agree to adopt the , -v osse eon , " dlCiarations, not as articles of ka r ccve,ianN but, as in their eSetDo,ri't'1 " aDd c'lttilaM arrange-bracf-lt,le "''"'ers and churches emto tlw! :,n,wo bodies should be admitted ,u me sanio .i: . , .... "hich th e un,tc body, ti. ... J . J l,ave "eld in their re sspec-j consummation iUirpr!".i' - ectttiseli i J ur?anzea churches are Ouivp a'i' txlecte to become thor.) nnj: &ri!n' ai ear,-v as. vUh'm ailed- i h,hest tuterests to be fc.ef, n 0,.ber such churches per-con-shall 3 , ' 'eeeivea. Vetie.,i ndaries of the several pres. ,h Gen i J'noJs 8houlJ be adjusted by Aweh Asseaibly of the united

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VOL. 8, NO. 24. 4. The official i records of the two branches of the church for the period of separation should be preserved and held as making up the one history of the church; and no rule or precedent which does not - J . J I 1. . I. .1 I ! t t 5 ctduu appiuteu vy duiu tue oouies, tuuuiu i be of any authority until re established in rule or precedent may affect the .... rJ, .v.r. . . . ; rights of property founded thereon. 5. The corporate rights now held by the two General Assemblies, and by their boards and committees, should, as far as practicable, be consolidated, and applied for their several objects as defined by law. 6. There should be one set of com ruitees or boards for home and foreign missions and the other religious enterprises of the church; which the churches should be encouraged to sustain, though free to cast their contributions into other channels if they desire to do so. 7. As soon as practicable after the union shall have been effected, the General 'Assembly should reconstruct and consoli date the several permanent committees and boards which now belong to the two assemblies, so as to represent, as far as possible with impartiality, the views and wishes of the two bodies constituting the united church. 8. The publications of the Board of Publication and of the Publication Committee should continue to be issued as at present, leaving it to the Board of Publication of the united church to revise these issues and perfect a catalogue for the united church so as to exclude invidious ref : erences to past controversies, j U. Iii order to a uniform system of ecclesiastical supervision, those theological I seu.inaries that are now under assembly I control may, if thtir boards of direction so j elect, be transferred to the watch and care I of ot.e or more of the adjacent syuod ; and i the other seminaries are advised to intro- ; duce, ss far as may be, into their constitutions, the principle of sy nodical of assem- ! bly supervision; in which case they shall j be entitled to an official recognition and nu ; approbation on the part of the enera i Assembly, j 10. It should be regarded as the duty I of all our judicatories, ministers asid peo ple in the united church to study the things which make for peace and to guard against all needless and effensive refer ences to the causes that have divided us; and in order to avoid the revival of past issues nv me eon 1 1 n ua nee oi any usaye in . . ,J , .. , , , , J, p ! euner -ursiu-ii or tne cnurcn mat nas grown out of the former conflicts, it is earnestly s coons mended to the lower juiiieateu ies of the church that they conform their prac sice in relation roan sucn usages, as tar as is consistent with their convictions of duty, to the genrsl custom of the church prior to the controversies that resulted iu the separation. HF.COIIMKXUATIOS OF A DAY OF ritAVER. ! Ttiat the counsels of infinite wisdom : may guide our decisions, and the blessings j of the Great Head of the church rest upon the result of our efforts for reunion, it is earnestly recommended to the churches i throughout both branches i f the Prcsby- ; teiian Church, that they obses ve the secotid j Sebbath in September, 1(30, as a day of ! fervent and united prayer to Almighty ! God, that he would grant unto us all ''the j i spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of, knowledge and of the fear of the Lord," and in the new relations now contemplated, "au Vs V" , ,ue cI"r" " tUe bonds of peace. ' A-veil Aiu.E Stack A woman s face. Common Aku.itiks Lie-abilities. A Bkugaulv Shame Robbing a pauper. The "Woman orF.sriON'' What shall get for a spriug bonnes? A BArrisr Constellation The Dip per. "She Sf.oops to Conquer" The belle with a Grecian bend. Refined. "Professor of the accumulative art" is the polite term for thief. j l is j When is money damp? When it dew iu the morning and mist at night. How to Make the Hours oo Fast Use the "spur of the moment." MM. Red cheeks are only oxygen in another shape. Girls anxious to wear a pair will find them where the roses do out of doors. Leisure is sweet to those who have earned it, but burdensome to those who get it for nothing. In cold, northern countries, by a wise provision of nature, the mountains are clad in "firs." Man may he a worm; but a glar.ce at the dandies proves thut he is not the worm that never dves. If a man and his wife go to Europe to gether, what is the difference in their mode of traveling? He goes abroad, and she goes along. A gentleman, talking with his gardener, expressed his admiration at the rapid growtli of the trees. "Why, yes, sir," says the man; please to consider that they have nothing else to do." A nobleman, who was a great amateur painter, showed one of his performances to Turner. This great artist said to him, "My lord, you want nothing but poverty i to become a very excellent painter." j Neat Thing in Laughs. "Mrs. C , I though masked," says an imaginative re-' porter, "was easily detected by the soulfelt laugh which springs up like sea-foam from a gay heart." The Drunkards' Sole Aim and End. The aim; trying to catch hold of the lamp-post. The end; finding himself in the guttey.

THE UNION, THE G-0 NSTITUTIONi AND THE E NF

A NIGHT IN A STORM. It was a private parlor of a hotel in the Provinces. Two men sat at a well spread breakfast table. The younger had just pushed back from the table with an impatient movement ..No fce said abruptly, "I cannnot eat, jl cannot. arniK. it 1 believed in presen timents I should say I felt a warning of something disagreeable if not horrible "Well, then, my dear nephew," said the elder, "as you not believe in such things, why not make yourself comfortable and enjoy your breakfast? You are not to start until to-morrow, any way you know." i The young man arose from his seat and ' walked to the window, throwing it open j and looking out into the frosty, brilliant) sunshine. The air was intensely cold, and reddened his cheeks instantly, lie drew in his head, saying "I shall start this morning. There's going to be a storm, and I must go. Will you accompany me to the train starts in an hour?1' stapn ? Tl, The uncle shivered and drew his dress-ing-gown closer. "No," he said. "I'll not leave the house unless I am obliged to. I did not leave Eugland to get f rozen by a Canadian winter. I did not know you were so sentimentally foolish. Alice will not thank you for coming a day sooner. Women don't like a bridegroom around when the wedding prepartions are going on, no matter how much in love they are. Take my advice, and stay here until the time apt pointed for you to start." Robert Russell, the young man address;ed, listened with bare civility to his companion's words. What was such advice

in comparison with the urgent cries of his ' she fell down helplessly , sank inaoimatewhcle nature? He had left England three i lv with no wish to stir. But in a moment

weeks before, to claim the woman of his choice, who had been a year in Montreal, whither she had emigrated with her parents; carrying with her the love and promise of one in whom she believed with utter devotion. Russell's uncle and adoptil l iil . I,.,.4 :.l i,:. .,.i sat smiling at the impatience, the whims ot youth. ''There is a storm in the air in spite of this sunlight," Russell said, still standing by the window. "1 should not like being blockaded in by snow on my journey." "Probably not, but you miyht as well expect it in this climate." "Well, I shall take Alice back to Ensrl ... i land as soon as possible," Russell said ; witii hand on the door. Good bye, uncle, and then good bye." Russeli was soon speeding- from the town, his eyes looking eagerly forward over the stretehes of snow as if he would outstrip even the steam which bore him. ; lie was not half through his journey by ; rail, when from the west, where it had j lingered throughout the sunny morning, i rose the filmy white veil that is the herald J of snow. Weatb.erwise people looked out of the car windows and shook their heads, saying "This will be a hard one. It's itist a year ago si nee the terrible storm that blockaded in this train." Russell, looking, felt his f;ice grow pallid in spite of his hopes, his youthful energy. He did not fear the storm on the cars; he knew they would get to their destination before the storm would be sufficiently advanced to retaid them much. Rut he remembered the twenty miles he must go in a cutter after the last station, for Alice waited him at the residence of a reiative beyond Montreal. Her aunt had persuaded here to have the wedding there, where wealth could give its glow to the ceremony, and what girl could resist such an invitation. "If she were only in Montreal!" murmured Russell, and the first few flakes began to dtift slowly downward. Soon the air was filled with fine sharp particles. It grew colder instead of warmer, or apparently so, for the wind rose and whiiled the snow fiercely. It had snowed two hours when Russeil alighted at the station in Montreal. It was already dark, save that the gloom was mitigated by a full moon. He was half benumbed by cold and sitting so long, but lie could not wait. Reason tolel him that he wis a day early, and might easily stay in the city until to morrow; out some feverish, morbid haste urged him on it was impossible for him to rest quiet a moment. He stood a few moments by the bright fire in the waiting room. Then he decided to go to the house occupied by Alice's parents Arrived at the house be learned with dismay that Alice had left two or three hours previous. Oppressed with fearful foreboding he hurried on, taking the road which his servant supposed ber dtiver had selected. As he emerged into the open country the runners of the cutter sauk deep mto the snow. tlhe horses struggled desperately through the drifts, while the blinding storm and benumbing cold almost overpowered him. To arouse himself from the lethargy which he felt was the precursor of death, he stepped out of the sleigh and plodded on beside it. Fer hours it seemed to him, he traveled, alternately walking and riding, the animals he drove being almost exhausted. Suddenly, with a snort of surprise or alarm, his horses stopped and threw up their heaels, their eyes starting in their sockets at something indistinct in the gloom ahead. There is something infecting in the alarm ot an animal, and Itusselt telt Ins ! cheeks pale as he moved slowly forward, ! leaving the horses standing there. A j shudder like the first chill of an impendj ing doom, shook the young man as he came upon a cutter overturned in the snow. He was close to it before he could I make out what it was. There were no I horses attached that he saw at a glance but the tugs cut short off, were fastened there. The snow had blown away from one side of the sieigh while the other was deeply imbedded. He leaned upon the runner, and hurriedly pulled the buffalo j lobes away, a tear came upon him sucn j as he had never known before. At last, I it seemed to him so long, though it was j hardly a moment in that suowy suoou-

BROOKVILLE, IND., FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1869.

shine he saw the pallid face of ft woman ' The Decoration of the Graves. lying motionless among ber fats. With The spectacle presented last Saturday, a suppressed, cry he lifted that beautiful of multitudes thronging to the cemeteries form to his shoulder, and sat down on the j to Btrew our soldiera' graves with flowers, cutter, bending his lips to the cold ones t gives the lie to the assertion, so often made that could not respond to his caress. And ; by travelers, that Americans have no poetyet she was not dead a faint breath just; 1Ci instincts. Hard, practical, driving, sighed across his cheek. Was it thus he ! workaday people that we are, there is a had thought to greet his promised wife? substratum of feeling in us as fine as that He could not think he knew nothing butj which has characterized any nation, in that he had found Alice and his whole . any 'ge. The splendid outburst of patbeing rose to the resolTe that he would riotisin which came whe the national flag save her that neither enow nor ice nor Was fired uron, in '61, surprised not qnlv cold should take her from him. She was the insolrent South, which had thought his and he claimed her despite everything, i tts cowards and mere money grabbers, but But he could not linger there; he must ' even ourselves; and this grand wave "of be mcvins on. though ever so slowly. He enthusiasm swept the whole people, as one

bore his burden to his own cutter, taking with hi ni the furs that could not save her after that fearful sleep had begun.' His horses walked on agai they needed no guiding they could find their way better than man cculd direct. Anything but intense love would have despaired in that tempest of snow, with that pitiless wind freezing across the earth, raising no glow on the blue white face sgainst his own. lie roughly chafed with snow her hands and face; but he Boon saw that severer measures must be tried; that the lethargy was too deep. She dircly felt the fierce friction, for she moaned and seemed to shrink from it a wordless request to be left alone. Russell had forgotten the cold for himself, the snow swept by Litu unheeded. Again he lifted her in his arms and stepped out into the snow, letting her stand beside him, then trying to make her fight her way on, knowing that if she could once be aroused she was saved. At first his ceaseless efforts had some effect, and and he could compel her to use her muscles slightly though her head drooped in an unknown stupor. Russell felt that he had never suffered before. He thought the pain and sorrows of all his life were crowded into that one night. By slow degrees, almost hopelessly slow, consciousness and horrible suffering returned. His lace was pale and sick, as he knew the agonies she endured. Rut pain was the signal of life and not now would he despair. At lust she looked at htm with recognizing eyes, and when everything else had failed, love reached the fountain of crimson, and seut alwave of its red to her face. Weak, suffering, she reclined on his arm, unable to move or speak. Could he keep the life he bad saved, through a much longer jouri;ey. When he left the city there were a few houses scattered by the roadside lor two or three miles, The dim glimmer of their lights he had seen, but since then he had noticed nothing it was a waste through which he was riding, with no lamp of hope held out to him. And the delicate jiitl, but halt resuscitated he thought oh! how many miles before safety? A half-four passed, and through Russeil s brave soul had already darted the first doubt. Human endurance could not last iurever, and it was more than he could do to preserve the feeble life he had lecalled. In another half-hour ice and snow might conquer him. He would die with her; he could not live when that dear face was beueath the sod. A quarter of a mile further on, and he saw through the storm a dark object by the roadside. It was a building of some kisid, and could shelter them. He turned his horses' heads that way and plunged through the snow to the door. There was no door. It was a dismantled log hut, with its door gone, and its one litslo window broken out. Rut it was better than the fury without, and in another five minutes Alice was sheltered from the wind. With painful and patient fumbling he succeeded in fastening the buffalo skin in front of the doorway, thus forming an insufficient barrier. Theu he drew from his pocket his cigar case and his matches, aud lighted oue of the latter, looking eagerly round the room iu the flickering light. That glance told him that there was an imniense fireplace at oue side of the hut, and a divine light streamed into his soul at the sight. As his hoises had dragged the cutter to the house, the runners had grated over the top rail of a fence, and the unseen post had nearly upset the light cutter. The white fingered, fair faced Englishman worked with a power that was more like fury, and when at last a ruddy blaze flew up the broad chimney, actually started to his eyes, happy, he knelt at the feet hid his face in her hands. tears of joy Exhausted, of Alice and With that reviving warmth came a liuht of strength in her weary soul, the leaned forward, a smile upon her lips and iu her eyes, and murmured: "It v.a heaven itself that sent you here, Russell." Two hours later a gray dawn was strngjiling through the clouds; a troad strip of t biue encircled the west; the wind moaned iu low tones. The old hut was golden with wood fire it threw its radieuce over the two horses that had been led in, and stood wild aud grateful in a corner, their eyes staring at the fire. Renovated, j though weak, with a happiness beyond words, warm in her heart, Alice Malcolm greeted her wedding day. She had told her story to Russell the story of her desertion in the snow. As the storai came on more furiously, her driver whom she believed trustworthy, announced his in-teutionc-f returning. She discovered that he was in a semi intoxicated state, but she refused to return, and he would not go a step farther, and had cut tbe traces, and mounting one of the "horses left her to her fate. She did not know when she spoke that a mile back, within a few miles of the city, he lay frozao to death, the eddying snow drifting over his body. He bad found a fate which his mistress had escaped. Rackward, through a vista of happy years, looked Russell ud his wife to that nisrht of horror in Canada, when peril revealed to them the full depth of their devotion tbe infinitude of their love.

OR C E M E N T OF THE LAWS man, into Heroic sacrifices and heroic acuievemenis. n was somes Ling, alter that demonstration, to be an American cititen; and our touutrynieu abroad felt 1. : . . . . - I proud to bear the title among the king ridden masses of Eurore. In that sub lime moment this "plain people," of whom so little was expected, exhibited all the unselfishness of true patriotism, and made good their claim to be considered the inheritors of the virtue cf ancient Sparta and Rome. All through the war the self-seacrific ing labors of the christian and Sanitary Commissions, the sewing circles in every neighborhood, the contributions of delicacies on the national holidays, the eating saloons and temporary hospitals along the great lines of travel.1 the voluntary services of eminent surgeons and physicians who abandoned all private affairs to help the sick and wounded, attested the fraternal affection which the whole body of the people bore our soldiers. We felt that our brave oues were fighting for our homes and liberties as well as for their own, Bnd we had not only words of comfort to encourage tire hi in action, but our arms wrapped about their wasted forms, and our hands' stauche'd their, bleeding wounds. We took them iuto our hearts, aud followed them through all their marchings and sufferings; their! battles aud victories, with tender and affectionate solicitude. And now, that all the excitement and sacrifice of the war are over, aud our liberties are firmly established, we follow these d ear dead heroes, these martyrs of Liberty, to their last homes, and bedeck their graves with flowers. We mingle our tears with those oV the widow arid, orphan, our own little children, whose innocent hands strew fte ground with vernal blossoms, get lessons of patriotism by the side of the soldier's tomb. For a cause so holy as ours was it worth an A mericaii's while lo die. If anything can rob the grave of its terrors it is for a soldier lo feel that a whole uation of brothers and sisters, moved by one impulse i f love, is following his fortunes with anxiety, and (Will gather around hisgrave after his death j to honor his memory, and with moistened j eyes and clasped hands tell euch other the i story of his bravery and his sacrifice. If anything can tempt the spirits of our ! dead soldiers to revisit the scenes of their I mortal life, it is the swarming of multij tudes to their grave sides to I.iy crow ns and garlands on their hallowed dust. If i drawn back by any attraction to earth jit must he by the power of such love as j warmed the iiearts of the millions of their countrymeu on this anniversary day, and j prompted its appropriate and beautiful : ceremonies. We went to the graves on Saturday, not to rewaken "bitterness and hatred" lor the South, but to shed tears lor our own dead. It was an hour of sorrow, and prayer, and bcieavemetit of heart, not an occasion for hatred, animosity and revenge. The asigry passions of the war were long since extinguished, the flames of hatred long since died out; iu that holypresence we ouly felt that our beloved had been taken from us, and that, as it was or- ' daiued ot God, our loss must surely be their gain. Gazette. A Smart Little Boy. A little five year okl boy was being instructed in morals by his mother. The old lady told hiui that all sii'jli terms as 'Ry golly," "Ry thunder;" "Ry jingo," &c , were only minced ouths, and but littie better than any other profanity. In fact, she said, lie could tell a profane oath by the piefix of "by" ail such were oaths. "Well, then, mother," said the little hopeful, "there's a big oath iu the newspaper 'Ry Telegraph!'" The old lady gave it up, and the boy is bewi'deied oil morals. Forest Remains Saw-dust. Flags of ail Nati ins Paving stones. A bachelor editor, who had a pretty unmarried sister, lately wrote to another editor similarly circumstanced "Please excb ange! j been accused of , excused himself; . A e'ergyman who had preaching King sermons nn tYia rrrnunit ll?f f li a ii roll w:i-a n 1 : iA O & one. "Mick," said a bricklayer to hisfellow laborer, "If you meet Patrick, tell him to make haste, as we are wailing for him." "Shurean' I will," replied Mick, "hut what will I tell him if I don't meet him'" "Where is the hoe, Sambu?" . "Wid de rake, massa!'' "Well, where is the rake?' "Why, wid d hoe.; 'Well, well where are they both?" . . . "Why, both togedder, massa you 'pears to be beny 'ticular dis mornin'l" Uld lii.ly H. was dying, ue was! an ignorant man, and a very wicked one. J Dr. D. ,an excellent physicsan and af very pious man, was attending mm. I nc old fellow asked for bread. The Doctor approacl.el the bedside, and, iu a very solemn tone, remarked: "My dear fellow, man can Dot live by bread alone." "No," said the old fellow, slightly re yiving; "he'a 'bleeged to have a few vegetables." The subject was dropped.

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jli :'aj3 i a.: 77 'jT pjL CL I' ..!S V mnoLH:Na;ag9. - Grant and. Grumblers. ), r -. ; The Democratic jouroah. of j he eounfrv are begioning to feliuitute tberostjvra. over what . they are pleased to consider the fail ure of President Grant's, administration. Evidence of the failure that so 'gratifies our old line friends teems to com, in some sort, from a few republican papers,. whose editors or particular friends have failed to secure official patronage and power.', The

most common and ff ppantobjeciidVotirged ). Watch. Ttielbands that are Sees are-bfic against the President is, that Jie has been j the passive instrument of the sprinejwhih governed in his appointments' largely by ; is never seen; so in. a cewspaper, tne most family and personal considerations. r It is worthy- .causes of its prosper.lyr ,Af! not charged," a far we have heard., that least observed or known.. ' .)Vh;,SuspeTts his appointments were uot.good, had suehthe benefit which the fcaper derives ; from

as were proper to he made with reference to fitness and qualification.' But' the sole objection rests upon the fact,' though 'tirt stated, that some aspiring trie rid otj the administration has been overlooked in the great scramble .for . cmee. ; AY e. do Bot know, neither do we care, how many relatives aud personal friends the President has appointed to office; this is a matter alone for him to settle, keeping steadily in view the question of honestly and capability. It matters but a little who fill the offices of the coun ry, so they are filled acceptably to the people and creditably to the Government. Genera! Grant is not a politician; his field of action and thought has been in quite another direction, and it occurs to us that naturally on being called to the grave and responsible duties of the Presidency, he would ' Surround himself w ith f riends, a whose devotion aud honestly he could rely at all 'times. If the President were playing the part of a professional politician, it would then be well enough to bestow favcr 'of some kind npon every editor and politician of the country who should clamor after place without reference to personal devotion or ntuess. Rut General Grant is not a professional politician in any sense of the word, and is not actuated by the dissembling 'tricks of the politician he isTrank, straightforward, and honest, and believes there is more in the manner iu which an official trust is conducted aud discharged than in the. ..fact . of., wha - discharges it. Meritorious and honest aspirants for office have, doubtless, been overlooked- hut1.caB it be oihexwise in a country where office seeking 'in said to he ore of the industrial pursuits of life? Much has been said about the, Cabinet of ;the- President, and great fault has been found -because old political hacks were not. selected fir official 'work and advice. We believe the Cabinet good one; it is composed of true, earnest, and hardworking men, men without even a taint of suspicion of dishouesty or e lliii.il peculation upon their garments It is true uo one i f them has a great national reputation, but it is true a great national reputation, does not half the time imply honest qualifications. We are among that number who believe the PifsiUeiit aud Cabinet mean just what they say when reform and retrenchment are talked about, and that it is not intended to comnicuce these promised blessings away from home first, but that it is to be commenced, and has already commenced in the Departments at Washington, and will extend from there .throughout the country. It will be time enough to con demn the Administration of General Giant when it fails faithfully to collect the revonues or the country, aud otherwise honestly discharge the duties belonging to the Presidency. Mere disappointment of this or that office. seeker, or . the fact that this or that jonr.nal has been overlooked is "no just or sufficient reason for condemning shis or any other Administration. J ouvnal. Important Opinion. Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Gazette. iNlHANAroLlS, IND., May 31. The following important decision has been rendered by the Attorney General upon the ell cot of the election law: A tto un e v Ge.nehal's Office, Indianapolis, May l!5, ltSu9. J D. lectins, Jj'.-Hj-, Auditor vf HUiIl; Dear Sir 1 have the pleasure to ac knowledge the receipt of your note .of the 2 I'll ittst., asking my opinion as to the effect of the act of t tie last General Asseiti bly postponing all elections until the second Tuesday in October, 1870, and whether vacancies will likely occur uudcr such legislation, where the official term expires before that time. The Constitution, article 15, section 3, provides that whenever it is provided in tliis Constitution, or in any law which may hereafter be passed, that any ufib-er other than n member of the General Assembly shall hold his office lor any given term, the sasne shull be construed to mean that such officers, shall hold his ofiiee feir such term aud until his suecessor shall have beeu elected and qualified. This section cf ihe Constituiiou provides an ample remedy by continuing the iucutu i 1 ip ii t lit n fB in until R upfis i r fctiuH tut .. . elected and qualified. Tins view of the ease can uot apply to officers holding by appoiutment, as the law does not affici such cases. . 1 am, respectfully, , D. E. Williamson, ; ' '''''' ' 'Attorney Ueuera Won't Vote for Webster. Ah Arkansas Judge had his law office cloee to a certain doctor's iu fact, ;, they were separated only by a plank partition in it. The Judge was at his table, busy with briefs and bills in chancery. The doctor was wriii.ig a letter, and. pausiBg a mutueut, called out: "J udge, isu't e-q-u-t the way to spell equliiouiieal?" "Yes, 1 think it is," said the Judge; "hut here's Webster's dictionary I can soon tell you." He opens tho book aud turns over the leaves, repeating aloud, "e-qui-nouii-ca! e-quinomieal." Fiuding the proper place he runs his eye and finger up and down the coiumn two or three times, until he is thoroughly satisfied that the word in question is not there. Closiug the book with a slam, the Judg&iays Ms specs on I the table; aod rising slowly breaks forth:

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r ??r i ft r f If TltANSIEITTV' I mnar, (! liaea,) iw.rliPn..,ro,.nlt uaaaquar, toirtioi.-..i.. .w. 1 M Una Kiuare, three JnMrtion ....'. ..'........ ...... 2 M atl aabivtjnext inaertione, -per aqnare 6 - YEARLY, . - "t)tie column, ebaofeaMe artortr-."-.-"- ; i nrww-fjnartcrs r eoluteD ;.. One-half of a column . One-quarter of a column "TTlTTTTTrrrrT 0 i oaa-eixath nt d nlsiii T a Tt-nieat adrertisemenU akaald in all aaaes k paid Jo r i n idvugt. . . Unless a particular time la p'foifleVwliea landed in, adTertisrmenta will be nvbltahad M11'N dered oat, and charged aoo jr,nlj.. ' Wc'L sir,:I've always been been a Daniel Webster man. and I voted for bim'for President,'' buVanT man that wifl ' writers - i as l'g' " dictionary as this and not put'.us common a word as etiuinomical in it, can't get my vote for anything hereafter..jy y Tbft Mvsfprv of PrtltTnn " ? ft The world at large do not understand the mysteries of newppetj and, a ift-Ii t the enterprise, the vigilance and fhs watefcful fidelity of the publisher? . Whs eatijti to think how much of the pleasure, of. r fading is derived from the .skill and" care, of the printei? 'We feel blemishes 0? pointing if they ex.st, but seldom observe 'tax? excellencies. 1 T" t vui .We eat a hearty dinner, bnt dq; pot think of the farmer that raised-the ruato tiaU thereof, or the cook that, prepared them wiib infinite pains and skill. Rut's! cook of vegetables, meat, pastries and in finite bonbons, has a paradisaical office compared with an editor. Reforebim pafa in review all the exchange newspapers. He is to know all their contents; to marie for other eyes the matters that requtre7a,t tention. His scissors are to be alert, and clip with incessaut industry all '.the .litUp iterns.that together form so large i ap iujterest in the news department, . ' He passes in review each week ' everry' State in the Union, through the newspaper lens. He lodks across the ocean and gees strange lands, and following the sun, 1l searches all around the world for material. It will require but one- second's time for the readers to take in what ten hwjr'a search produced. Ry him are read 'the manuscripts that swarm the office like Bies in July. It is his f rown that dooms them; it is his baud that condenses a whole pag into a line; it is bis sternness thut restrict sentimental obituaries, that gives. younj; poets a twig on which to sit and sing theirfirst lays, : ' :.,r... ' ...n fits Aud the power behind the throne,' ji newspapers as in higher places is .sornern times as important as the throne, itself. Correspondents, occasional' or regular, stand iii awe at that silent power whien has the last chance at an artiele, and nia send it forth in glory or , humility, And, in short as the body depends on good.digestion, so the heulth of a paper depends upon tint vigorous digestion which goes i on by niea ns of the editor.' ' ,-.';m Ought they uot to he honored? And since little fame attends them, they shoujdj at least have their creature comforts multiplied until from that dark and' dismal? den in which they have so Ions endured purgatorial residence, they are at leugtK translated. ,.- The End of Four Great Men. ,! .The four conquerors who occupy ths most conspicuous places in the history- of the world, are Alexander, Hannibal, Cae--sar and Bonaparte. . Alexander, after having climbed tbb' dizzy bights of his ambition, with ' ftijf temples bound with chaplets dipped in thf bloixi ot millions, looked dow u upon At f conquered world, and wept that there, was, not any other world lur him to conquer, set a city ou fire, and died in a scene of debauch. Hannibal, after having, to the asfOnishmen and consternation of Rome, passe'd' the Alps, and having put to flight -thai armies of the mistress of the world,. and stripped "three bushels of gold rings from the fingers of lur slaughtered "'knights and made her foundations quake, flea flora his country being hated ' by those who it once oxultiugly united his name to tbat;qC Hani-liaal; and died at last by poison ad,-, ixiuistered with his own hand, uulameu-1 ted and unwept in a foreign land. ' ' ' ' Crcsar, after having conquered eight i iiuii'iicii tints, hiiu ujcii ins ga riucoia i it i ( the b'.ood of one million of his foes, after J having pursued to death the only rival he , had on earth, was miserably assassinated I by t hose he con sidered his nearest friends, jand in that very place the attainment , of j which had been his greate.-t ambition.' '' 10 Ronaparte, whose mandates kings ''and ! popes obeyed, after having fiiled the earth: i with the terror of his name, after haviiuiv deluged Kurope with tears and. blood, aud clothed the world iii -sackcloth, ' closed his days in lonely banishment, almost liter7ally exiled from the world; yet -where couid sometimes sue his country's banner, waving over the deep, but did not aud, could not bring him aid.. . .. Thus these four great men, who see'meaT to stand the representatives of all thba whom the world calls gieat these four men, who each in turu nude ihj earth tremble to its very center, by their iuplon tread, severally died one by intoxication, or, as supposed by poison mior!ed in his-- ' Wine O 11 0 H iriij one m ui dered by ii -.'l t j ris irieu-i i (:i a one! j CAUL': iiut, such earthly j wretehe ; greatues j en 1 of ail "So.Nei Iviti." roit an Acrist Come back to. i . . . b A Southern ediitor is bitterly oppose dV to toe education oi woman as Uiti Sunnnse. hfi 'Sji-s. a irr.n I !e:n in wefd "but f f 1 j j rs . f under the influence of chloroform by k acta doctresa,: what it to prevent the'' wuumu. j from kissing him , -( . , a; A little boy and girl had been cautioned never to take the iest-egg when galr-:' ering the eggs; but one evening the girl;' reached the nest ficst seiiid mi egg, audi. j Matted for the house. Her dis.ijqjoiuted-s brother followed., crying: "AlutheiL Motheil Su.sy ho's bveu and jiot the egi the old nvi measures byl' ' Arrt MARRiAtit "Ilo.iry, $uvej,'"'I wish viu wuuid ti.ro a aay ihi OooW ami -t la Ik ro tnci 1 loei I a ue uud no icp dull." -'Henry, def, tin well, 6i.a 'taii; . . -,. : ' v t i lvr , tvst asieeo." ' It i ke it up. wu mi :h w-a

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