Indiana American, Volume 8, Number 32, Brookville, Franklin County, 6 August 1869 — Page 2

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Jirtuana Jmmeaiu C. H. BINGHAM, Editor. -BUOOKV1LLE-.

Friday Heroics:, Aurast , ISO. Th President Wintt SeeaTRy-to Ufo - and Property. r Prominent Conservttifs Republicans, ftoro Mississippi, n no had n interview with the President on Thursday, informed ilm that tne only desire of the Conservative Republicans was neutrality on the part of the Administration in the election. V 'The President is represented ts reply; ing that he wished for the success of the party which would, in good faith, carry oat the reconstruction acts, ratify the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and gire protection to life and property in Mississippi. He wants to know whether former enemies of the Government were acting in good faith in their present professions of loyalty, and said this would soon be ascertained, in part by the action of the Conserrative Republicans in Vir: ginia. If they were acting in good faith, lie would be glad to hare, not only the intelligence and influence of that State, but xf the South generally in support of hl idwunistration. . - ,-- - . r Y The President inquired at. what time the Consarratire Republicans would nominate their candidates, and when informed that it would probably be about the 1st of September, he replied that he would see what kind of ticket they put in the field; and his action would be influenced more or less by subsequent events, and the course of affairs in the South, tie added that he desired to see the payment of the public debt insured, and the integrity and honor of the nation rendered inviolate, and when this was accomplished he would be satisfied. Indiana University. We have received a catalogue of the Iadiana University, at Bloomington, for the past year, from which we extract the following: Number of professors and tutors, 13f number of graduates in the collegiate course, 28; in the law department, 13 total, 41. Whole number of students, 239; of which 203 are in the four college classes and law department. Tuition is now free for all, in every Dc partment of the University. Girls are admitted to the College classes on the same terms aa males.. One young lady, Miss Sarah P. Morrison,' graduated at the last Commencement. The Trustees have' enlarged the Law Department by the establishment of two - Chairs instead of one; .tuition is new free in this Department. The Board have also established two more Chairs in the Collegiate Department, via : A Professorship of "Modem Languages and llistory,' and a J'Professoranip of Civil Engineering." Two thousand. dollars have been appropriated for the increase of the Law Library; and the Mineralogical and Geological Cabinet of the late" Dr". David Dale Owen, of New Harmony, has been purchased for the University. New Issue of Greenbacks. In consequence of spurious issue of the ten dollar greenbacks, Secretary Doutwell has concluded to have a new issue of all denominations of greenbacks from SI to f 1,000 notes. The plates are now making at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. . The designs are entirely new. No likeness of any living man will be placed on any note. The engraving of the new issue and the printing of the face and seals of all the denominations will be performed in the Printing and Engraving Bureau, while the backs will be printedin New York. There will be every possible precaution to prevent fraud, including the taking of lead impressions for the electrotype plates. - The Public Debt Statement Shows a reduction of the Government in debtedness during the , month of July amounting to $7,435,744. The amount of coin in treasury is 403,770; coin certificates, 3,672,584. The amount of currency in the Treasury is t"238i ,654. Sinking fund, Stl,932,14t. Other bonds purchased, $15,110,590. The reduction is less than- was indicated a. few days ago,, for the reason that there has been advanced .to the Pacific Railroad Company interest on their bonds amounting to tl,63G,"S61, making the real reduction over uinr millions of dollars. In addition to this there was an excessive amount of warrants paid on Saturday amounting in all to upward of two and a halt' millions of dollars: Instructions to Surveyors Genera!. The Land Office has issued instructions to all the Surveyors General of the United States, railing upon them for information concerning their surveying departments, to the following effect, via: First, the number of acres of agricultural land and the comparative acres of agricultural and mineral land; second, the number of acres of grating land; third, the same, covered by private claims; fourth, the same, of redeemable swamp Unds; fifth, the same, of sterile land that - may be recovered by irrigation or other means; sixth, the number of acres broken by mountain ranges; seventh, the number of acres of timber land; eighth, what is the number, of cities and towns; and ninth, what the aggregate length of railroads completed, in progress of- conttruetiou, and pr..jscted. . The foregoing information is designed to be embodied in the forthcoming annual report ot the Commissioner.

v Virginia Politic... Colonel John' W. Jenkin, Chairman of the WiUawiog of the Republican Virgin State Antral Committee, has written s long letrerto Dr. Gilmer, Chairman of the Walker Vtig, In whieb he reviews the course of tie political action daring the last three or four months, lie claims that there waa no essential difference - in Ik priirei pie aupported by Walker and by tne majority of tbe Wells men, and says that the division i the party was on men father than any thing else. Be concludes as follows: f7r ;; I ' 'AiY Virginian, my highest ambition is to see Virginia prosper, and acting upon grate, cteneid'erationa of public policy, I take thia early opportunity to communicate with yew upon the -propriety of uniting the two wings of the Republican party, and .establishing a liberal Republican organization, in -whose rsnks all who really love the Union, -may join, whether they may hare been clad in gray or blue, and thus create' a permanent, powetful and lasting party which shall secure the permanent prosperity of the State."--r--':-WlMlt.lppI P0!itIC."" General Ames, left Washington for MississippV-entirely satisfied with the i reception tarid. assurances i given htm by the President und toembera Of the Cabinet

I The DeniHiwoent will get no support from-tke'adtttintetrtion and tb Republican party of rte," State will nominate a straight-out' ticket and go into the contest with the confidence of electing it by no (ess than tea thousand majority. -The JPftaident't Movement. The President' was busy on Friday, and saw but very few of the visitors who called.. All the members of the Cabinet were present for a eouple-of hours, but there was not much Veal Cabinet business to transact. - The. President and his Private Secretary left Friday evening for Long Branch. The next Cabinet meeting will, it is understood, be held on Tuesday, the 10th of August. The London .Times on the Chinese Immigration Problem. The London Times has an article on the Chinese question in the United States. It thinks that the conflict of races in California can not be solved by heavy duties on the immigration, or by street outrages. It is impossible to suppose that the Chinese can be kept out of America. Inheriting an ancient civilization, but des titute of the' strength and toughness of moral fiber which supports authority; the Chinese may be welcome as assistants to civilization, and not feared as a race likely to dominate in the future. Geological and, JYHneralogical Cabinet v The Board of Trustees of the State University has confirmed the purchase of the geological and rniueralogtcal -cabinet of the late David Dale Owen, for $20,000, and arranged Tor the erection of a building to contain it. The cabinet contains 85,000 specimens'," is the most valuable one in the United-States, and was worth three or four times the amount paid. The Legislature committed a great blunder last winter in'fajling to buy it and locate it at the Capitol, at the price now paid for it ty the University. Napoleon Is about to abdicate, voluntarily, bis ab solute power, or what he is fond of calling his personal government. He has prepared, and will soon submit to the Senate, a proposition, which, if accepted, as doubtless it will be, will establish a government in form similar to that of Eog land, though not so liberal. Its chief characteristics will be a responsible ministry and the right of the Legislature to take the initiative in enacting laws. This is a great revolution in French affairs, and Napoleon gives another proof of hie politic wisdom in conceding reforms before compelled by the bayonet. .. - .' School Jfuttd Apportionment. Attorney .General Williamson, in response to arlette of inquiry from the Superintendent -of Public Instruction, has given ifas.Jiis opinion that the colored children art entitled, undr the law passed by the last Legislature, to their proportion of tlie: school fund under the apportfdu.njt.rtf farade uppn (he old enumeration, and thVt iris not proper to await the taking of tb.e,iew enumeration, and the making of attew-apportionment. - y -" ' ThVCoolie Trade. Since the Secretary of the Treasury has directed th Collector at New Orleans to nse all efferta to prevent the Chinese coolie. trade, his, attention has been called to the port of San J Francisco, where it is alleged. tb'e .law. or 1803, .prohibiting the importation of ..persons of color who are held Id .service or labor, and the law of 1863, sgaiast the coolie or slave trade, Have been totally disregarded. A movement ia on foot in- Sau Francisco for the organisation of a. society to procure the enforcement of the above laws. .Hon. Geo. W. Julian. "According to theiale8t advices, the Hon. Geo. W Julian was at Portland, Oregon. He expected to go aa far north as Puget's Sound,-when be would -return to California to spend some farther time before his return hoiije.;.. . kofeisot X. Cox, State Geologist f lndlaTraVreifs j.fotintain "and Warren rCuntiesthWeekvin search of block cqi:,jI:v v y ' ."- " . A company! ia organising to lay a telegraph cable between England and Canada, to be controlled by the English Postoffice Department.

Pollard on the Virginia Election. E. A. Pollard, in a letter to the New York Sun, saya the recent Virginia eIeo tion will prove the rutn of the clique in the South which has lived on the hope of

seeing Southern institutions re-established. He writes: Paradoxical as it may appear, it is nevertheless accurately true, that the intelligent party ia the South regards the Virginia election as unfavorable to their interests, for the very reason that the beet men ia the South Lave thus been called into office and -assumed the exercise of power. Itia the very respectability of the successful candidates that is a fatal blow to the aspiration that, since the war, has lingered in the South, of preserving something of a political school and public sentiment distinctively Southern. It means the disintegration of anything like a peculiar Southern civilisation; the abandonment at last, by the intelligence and respectability of the South, of the hope of rescuing anything considerable from the ruins of its old institutions, and of a position toward the course of reconstruction looking for a reaction, or designing to let reconstruction run to the most enaggeratiBg extremity, hoping that it might be dammed up by the difficulties it would accumulate for itself. "The election in Virginia is the first instance in which the best men of the South have come forward at last to participate in reconstruction, and it means 'an acceptance of the situation' in a sense so much broader than that of 'mere acquiescence in the demands of any political party. Counting all its moral effects on the South, it is an event in history the date of a new departure- in the whole moral and political organisation of the South." Senator Morton will speak at Toledo, Ohio, the 14th of August. The last Democratic martyr, Griffin, was guilty of only two. murders. . The last three Cuban prisoners were recently released from Fort Lafayette, on a pledge not to fight against Spain. The closing quotations of Government securities in New York, on Saturday, were higher than ever before.'ii Postmaster General Creswell is still - at his home, near Elkton, .Maryland, suffering from a broken arm. Ku Klux outrages are atill alarmingly prevalent in Anderson and adjoining counties, in Kentucky. Senator Sherman, having returned from his northwestern tour, will soon take the stump for the Republican State ticket in Ohio. ' Eight or ten clerks Were discharged from the Treasury Department on Saturday, by which the entire number of removals was increased to over six hundred. Latest advices from Cuba announce a victory over the Spanish forces under Latonakand the defeat of the Government troops at Nuevitas. The Indian Bureau has ordered an investigation into the recently reported outrages by the Apache Indians in New Mexico. Eight hundred Chinese are to be imported to Indiana. They will pass through our city for Jennings county to work on the railroad. Indianapolis Journal. The Secretary of State has determined to inform the Spanish authorities in Cuba that the business of putting to death American citizens must come to an end, and that soon. The New Tork brokers who plead guilty for violating the usury laws will be sentenced on the 10th of August. It is generally believed they will escape lightly on account of the non-enforcement of the laws hitherto. The colony of Japanese in California is doing well. The Japs are experimenting in tea culture in this country, and have high hopea of success. They are also raising mulberry trees, and next year will plant rice. Late advices from South America via London, do not confirm the previous reports of the complete humiliation and discomfiture of Lopes. In fact, he seems to have had the advantage in all recent encounters. Numerous charges of. fraud upon the customs revenue have recently been preferred against the Collectors of New Orleans. As the Collector, Mr. Casey, is the President's brother-in law, the subject becomes one somewhat delicate to handle, but Secretary Boutwell says the charges shall be impartially investigated, and Collector Casey dealt with accordingly. The excitement at Pekiu, Illinois, in regard to the killing of the Deputy Sheriff of Taxewell County, while arresting two horse-thieves, culminated Sunday morning. Meh from the country burst into the jail, took the leader of the gang out and bung him to a tree. He eut several ofthe lynching partyone of them so badly that be will probably not recover. More of the gang, it is thought, will be lynched. A bill is talked of for .taxing Firetwenty bonds held in Europe, the tax to be deducted when the coupons are pre sented for payment. A number of leading members of Congress are said to have agreed upon a bill for this purpose. They contend that it will be but justice to American holders of tbo bobde who pay such a tax; that it will be in conformity with the custom of other couutiies," and will be more acceptable to .Ihe holders of the bonds than a reduction. in the rate, of interest. -

Mixkhtillc, August 2, 1869. Editor American, My communication of the 19th July, published July 23d, is making a stir among the monkeys about the Court House. . "One who knows" comes to the reseue in your last week's is sue, and he commences his reply by saying, "before writing that communication 'Sam' should have sought correct information, and not received the idle gossip on the e'reets in relation to the proceedings of the Commissioners at their special July term." - - Now, Mr. Editor, there must be something wrongln the fact that it took one and a half days as he says to close the contract with ReedrWinslow and Co. The record showing the closing of the contract on the second day, and at no particular hour, the Board adjourning the third day or we roold not have heard the idle gossip on the streets, which the writer speaks about. . He saya that - if I had. examined the record I would have found that other business waa. done. . Now the record shows

that a few allowances were made that the Auditor could .have, entered upon the reoord in one hour. In regard to allowing the Sheriff three dollars per day, I did not say the Board made Jhe allowance; but the law allows to. the Clerk , and Sheriff three dollars per day for attending Courts, and this is allowed besides their regular fees. Now waa ii untrue for me . to say that the, JaW;lb)wa that pink f perfection, our highly, dccpmptUhtd and intellectual Sheriff, three dollars per day? But I learn that he (the Sheriff) will be attended to hereafter , "One who knows" says that it ia untrue about the allowance to Jacob Gerber as Superintendent, &c. Now I said the allowance wis about three dollars per day. When, lotnd beholdl it turns out by a communication published in last week's Democrat that . Jake actually gets two dollars per day for, doing nothing but looking on, and thatj Jake is doing business for the County. Well, it is true that Jake is about as competent to transact business for the County as either of the Commissioners. But again I ask, what use lias II. H. Schrichte & Co. for a Superintendent? Have they not taken the contract according to certaia specifications? and are they not bound to do the work according to the contract? and have they not given bond for the faithful performance of the same? and it, the work is cot dona according to contract, is it not the duty of the Commissioners to refuse to receive the job or pay one cent for the work? Jake is a very clever fellow, but what does he kuow about building stone piers? Is he a practical workman at the business? But another Question: Are II. H. j Schrichte & Co. honest and competent to perform the contract, and have they given bond for the faithful performance of the tame? If not honest and competent, why did not the Commissioners, when letting the contract, throw themselves back upon their dignity, atVd say, Mr. Sihrivhte, you cannot have the contract; we will give it to au honest man, as we reserve the right to reject any and all bids for the same. But 1 'suppose the Board go upon the principle that all person performing labor or doing business for the County are dishonesty and therefore need to have so honest man to watch them. 1 have been fold' that the Board a short time since let the flooring of a bridge to a competent contractor, and appointed Ja cob Wise to superintend the work. Of course the cOuttactor is honest and competent, but needs watching, and Wise knows a thiug or'iwo at least about making brick. ' ; Mr. Editor, you see the consequence of telling what t aatd in my other communication. "One who knows" says that that communication is a tissue of untruths, and Mr. Robeson says that "Sam" lies. I suppose they are a little mad. But let them answer the questions why it took near two days to make a contract, and why Superintendents' ate needed to look on while other men work. But a word as to Mr. Robeson's communication published in the last week's Ihmocrat. He says that the Board at their special session for July only received each six dollars for their services; that the law would allow them compensation for three days, under such circumstances; but be says, "1 as a member of said Board have only charged for two days." Now what are we to understand by bis last expression? Certainly that the other members of the Board charged for three days. Oh how liberall to give to the County one day's services! Robeson further savs aa to the appoint ment of Gerber Superintendent, Ac., that tl. 11. bchrtchte is doing business for him self, and that the Board of Commissioners are doing businesa for the people of the County, therefore they appointed Jacob Gerber to superintend the work, knowing nim to be a man capable and honest, and satisfied that ha wvuli aee strictly to the interest of the County. There it is again. Jake is honest, and Schrichte is a great scamp net to .be trusted to fill an honest contract entered into with the Honorable Board for the faithful performance of said honest and-solewa contract, he (Schrichte) having given""' bond and security for the performance Of the same. But Jake is honest and competent, knowing all about the work, and Schrichte, of course, is not honest or competent to fill his contract, nor doea his bond secure to the County a faithful performance of the same. I suggest the appointment of some person to watch Jake,' as it might pay the County. , Then Mr. Robeson goes off in a great strain about Abolition Legislatures passing laws, Ac. Now doea all of that answer the question" pat to the gentlemen? There ia no doubt but the Board of Commissioners have "got their foot in it," as the saying is, and the people of the County see it. Let them "pitch io," and I may have occasion to take them back upon their own record. - - 6am. The' State. Central Republican Commit, tee of Pennsylvania has determined to eonduct the canvass quietly, avoiding all partisan demonstrations; that is to say, big conventions, processions and displays. It is believed that the people have had so much polHical excitement as to have an absolute disrelish of it, and will be quite as likely to come out and vote the Republican ticket, if nothing further is done than to thoroughly organize io every school district, " and spread abroad the truth through .the agency of political documents and the press. This course is sensible, and can. 9e solely iQllowed in other States. Commercial.'

Franklin County Sabbath School Convention. Pursuant to call, a meeting was held in the Lecture Room of the Presbyterian Church at Brookville, on Saturday, July 31st 1869, for the purpose of organising a Codnty Sabbath School Association. The exercises were opened with singing, and prayer by Rev. J. S. Alley. An election of temporary officers resulted in the selection of Edward Meyer as President and J. P. D.John as Secretary. -On motion of A. B. Line, it was resolved to organise a County Convention for the benefit of the Sabbath Schools in the County. On motion, a committee of three, consisting of Messrs. Line, Roberts and Alley, was appointed to present a plan for the organization of the Convention. On motion a committee consisting of Messrs. Hitt, Smith, Squire, Shirk and Lacey, was appointed to report permanent officers for the Convention. The Chairman of -the Committee on Organization submitted the following Constitution, which was adopted:

Constitution OFTttx Franklin Countt Sabbath School Union. This organisation shall be known as the Franklin County Sabbath School Union. Its object shall be to promote the interest of the Sabbath School work; gathering its laborers together at least once a year, and by compiling the statistics of their labors, show forth to the world the great blessings of this Institution; also to act as an auxiliary to tbeState Convention. The annual meeting of the Association shall be held on the last Saturday in May. Any person sympathizing with the object of this Association, shall be entitled to a certificate of membership therein for the year.'upon the payment of twenty-five cents to the Treasurer, which certificate shall entitle the holder to a copy ofthe printed report of the proceedings of the Association. The officers of the Association shall consist of a President, one Vice-Presi dent from each township and incorporated city in the county, a Corresponding Secretary, a Becording Secretary, and Treasurer, and a Board of Direction, to consist of the above-named officers, and such other members as may he appointed by the Association, who shall manage the affairs of the Association as hereinafter set forth. The President, (and in his absence one of the Vice Presidents,) shall preside at all the meetings of the Association, and of the Board of Direction. The Vice-Presidents shall assist the Corresponding Secretary in procuring the statistics of the schools and in circulating such . noticea as he may request in the Districts for which they may be appointed. It is also made the duty of each Vice-President to exercise a general supervision over the interests ofthe Association in bis township or district; to labor for the extension of its membership among those who are friendly to its object; to visit each school within its limits at least once a year; to organize meetings of children and adults, and generally to promote such efforts as may be calculated to advance the welfare and harmony of the Sabbath School work. It is expressly understood that neither the Board of Direction nor the Vice-Presidents shall have power to dictate to any School, their acts, in all rases, being purely recommendatory. The Corresponding Secretary shall keep a complete record of all the schools in the county, and the name of the Superintendent or Secretary of each, and their address, so as to be able to notify them of its meetings; to report at each annual meeting complete statistics of all the sohools on such points as shall be prescribed. He Bhall furnish printed blanks to the schools, on or before the first of March of each a 1 . Jll 1 . year, io oe nuea up ana returned on or before the first of April. He shall also correspond with similar bodies, for the promotion of the objects of the Aasocia tion. He shall also transmit as early as Jlay loth in each year, to the Chairman ot the State Executive Committee, a sche dule of statistics for the county, in con formity with the plan furnished for the purpose by such Committee, to be pre sented to the State Sunday School Con vention, in which Convention he shall be the representative of this Association. The Recording Secretary shall keep complete record of Ihe doings of both the Association and Board of Direction. The Treasurer shall hold the funds of the Association, payable to the orders of the President, as tbey may be appropriated by the Association or Board of Direction. The Board of Direction may meet at their own option, and five members 6hall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. They shall have general control of the operations of the Association, providing ways and means for the furtherance of its objects, as set forth in this Constitution. Tbey may also fill all vacancies occurring in their body. I his constitution may be amended at any regular meeting, by a vote of twothirds of the members present. The Chairman of the Committee on Permanent Officers made the following report, which, upon motion, waa adopted: President A. B. Line. Vice Presidents Brookville J. P. D. John. Mt. Carmel J. A. Applegate. Laurel T. G. Pike. Brookville Township John S. Martin. Springfield Tp. E. H. Shirk. Fairfield Tp. Samuel Rose. Metamora Tp. Joseph VanCamp. Laurel Tp. Thomas Gifford. Posey Tp. J. P. Orr. White WaterTp E. K. Rockafellar Jr. Ray Tp. Rev. Henry Dolle. Highland Tp. R. M. Petty. Salt Creek Tp.- I. K. Lee. Bath Tp. L. J. Vablandiogham. Butler Tp. E. W. Foster. Blooming Grove Tp. Wm. Roberts. Treasurer J. W. Hilt. Recording Secretary R. H. Swift. Corresponding Secretary J. W. Keely. itemarks was then made by Messrs. Line, Applegate and Fogel on the general subject of Sabbath Schools. The subject of Blackboard Exercises in connection with Sabbath Schools was briefly discussed by Pres't Line. Remarks on the proper mode of conducting the exercises of Sabbath Schools, were made by Prof. Jobn, Pres't Line, Rev. Alley and Mr. Smith. On motion of JohnS. Martin, it was resolved that when this Convention adlourn it adiourn to meet on me last "Saturday in September, I860, at 10 o'clock

A. M., and that all the Sabbath Schools in the County be invited to be present by delegates ot otherwise. On motion of E. Meyer, the Secretary was Instructed to purchase a suitable book in which to record the Constitution of this

Society, the list of officers, and roll of members. On motion, it was resolved that the proceedings of tbe Convention be furnished our County papers for publication. - On motion, the Convention adjourned. ' A. B. Link, President. R. H. SWIFT, ftec. Secretary. ' The Second democratic Martyr. The murderer John Griffin, executed at Hamilton on Thursday for killing' Prickett, is canonized by the - Cincinnati Enquirer as a Democratic martyr; and the Republican party, the Grand Army Society, the peaceable citizens of Hamilton, the Governor of tbe State and society in general are accused of thirsting for his blood, because tbey bejieve his sentence was just, and made no frantic effort to pervert the trial nor to stay the execution. The Democratic Sheriff is arraigned, because be did not break down with sympathy in tbe execution of his duty. Several prominent citizens of Hamilton are named as demanding the blood of Griffin, because tbey let the law take its course. It is impossible to see soy rational purpose in this io famous tirade, unless it is to . point out these men, and tbe better class of tbe citizens of Hamilton generally, as objects for the lawless vengeance of Griffin's lawless companions and -sympathisers.' It seems to ba continuation of the same vile partisanship that used, countenanced and patrooised Griffin, the known murderer, because he was useful as a Democratic bully. The Enquirer represents Griffin as the mildest mannered man that ever killed his fellow men to indulge a brutal instinct. He had killed an unoffending man. He went to a German festival, announcing his intention to kill one ofthe 'damned Dutch. He boasted of killing a negro., The Enquirer saya he was "pugnaciously inclined," and therefore he frequently became involved in fights and difficulties; that "be was accustomed to drink, and when in this condition was liable to commit acts which were neither commendable nor creditable;" that "his passions were strong and sometimes uncontrollable;" that "he was a strong partisan, and in times of political excitement felt called upon to counteract the fistic influences of the opposition bullied." Even in this euphuistic phraseology there sticks out plainly enough the paid bully of the Democratic party; a man of extraordinary physical powers, and without any of the courageous magnanimity that belongs to superior strength; vicious, quarrelsome, given to drinking, and with passions that liquor inflamed to murderous desires, and the retained tool of a party, which never allows free elections or tree discussion where it has tbe force to prevent them. Take such a man . as the Enquirer delicately describes, and let him have the cowardiy habit of , going continually armed as Griffin did, and ire have about as vicious, ugly and dangerous a speciman of mankind as can well be imagined; a man whose exit is a relief to tbe world. How much the Democratic party has d ne to make Griffin a murderer bvjliabit, we leave to the organ' that rrar unwif-ely ululated on this matter to define. We should have intimated nothing. of the " kind had not the Enquirer' account coutained that which conveys that Griffin was a Demo cratic bully, and that its urief is over tbe loss of a useful party instrumentality. Griffin killed one of his own class, worthless fellow, for whom no public sympathy was felt. But it was another act of the habitual murderer. He had a fair trial by a jury of twelve men, in a strong Democratic county, where the sympathies of tbe dominant and overbearing party were with the murderer. He was found guilty and the general opinion accords the justice ot the verdict. If man is ever to be bungto punish for murder, and to protect society from his muirous disposi tion, bo was eminently tat to tx.hung. He was hung according to justice and law. It is because the best members of society believe that the law should take its course that the Enquirer now points them out as objects of partisan hate, and ofthe vengeance of tbe lawless to which Griffin belonged. To the last, while be made his private arrangement with the priest for the next world, he retained all his viciousness toward his fellow men. He denied his guilt, as many a guilty wretch has done on the gallows before him; but in these denials may be seen qualifications that show that to his mind the great in justice was that tbe others who were with him when he did the murder, had turned against him. tie said: "lleliy was as much and more tn blame than I wan.' "I was tried and convicted by cowardly and false testimony." "I mean such testimony as that of Joe Kelly, a man that was in this jail once. Shedd was in jail; and so was Galloway. Why didn't they keep them here as they did me, and then they would have found who did the killing?" "People were very anxious to find out who murdered Prickett. They had them here once, but didn't hold tbem, and I have to suffer."' Is this the talk of a man innocent of the murder? His talk is not that he is innocent, and that Kelly did the murder; but that "Kelly waa as much and more to blame than I waa." He conveys that be knows who did the killing, and he virtually charges it upon Kelly, and yet he falls to recriminating that "Kelly waa aa much to blame as be. Ibis is like the hate a criminal bears an assooiate, who he thinks ought to stand by bim, but who has testified against him. At the very best, it is the spile of a principal because a confederate has turned against him, and has escaped the just penalty which he has to Buffer. Griflin'plainly implies that he knew who did tbe killing, but he died without telling. If he was desirous of justice and to vindicate his own name, as he pretended, why did be not tell who were the murderers? Because he could not without confessing that he was the man. When a man dies suppression a truth that is necessary to the enda of justice and to clear his own name, his inconsistent and contradictory protestations of his innocence, are worthy of no regard. The Enquirer laments in this strain: "Thus had the gallows, for the first i time, done its work upon a helpless man in a county of a hundred murders, and in a city in whose very streets walked untrammeled men who wore guilter etaius of blood." Men are apt to be helpless when the gallows gets-them in its grip. If Butler

county has recorded a hundred murders it was time for the gallows to do its work'. It has dispatched ODewho.has hitherto walked the streets a known and untrammeled "murdefer; a man of ; Herculean strength, but like a cowardly bully, always armed with deadly weapons. To every, thing in society that is lovely aDd of good report, bis taking off is a gain. If itis such a loss to the Democratic party as this most atrocious lament indicates, it is a most forcible illustration of the character of that party. Gatette.

A Serious Matter. ,The New . York "flunkeys" are not delighted with Prest. Grant's manners, when be visits the great Emporium. He isn't genial; don't like sensations; makes no speeches; selects his own hotel; writes on the door "not at home;' smokes his own Havanas; devours his own luncheon; aod, when the City Fathers propose to "dine'' him. tells them be isn't , hungry. Such "coldness and awkwardness have succeeded io freezing tbe civie functionaries,"we are told. ' And then, Mrs. Grant: she seems to be a "chip from the same block." She"shopa surreptitiously," and when the "fluekej8'r offer their adoration, looks at them "cross, eyed, as though she didn't see them. Scr says a New York letter. What- are we coming to, when Presidents and their ladles won't be adored, toasted and feted? The answer is Imperialism! Standard. Temperance Movement. The indications are that a great revival ofthe temperance cause is about to ba inaugurated. The abatement of the growing evils of drunkenness is claiming wide attention. There has been a long period of apathy upon this question, and the reaction has begun. We say, let it come. The sooner the evil is corrected tbe better. We hope that, instead of taking a political, it will take a moral and religious form. The good fruits of moral suasion have been apparent in times past, and will again be, when brain and energy and earnestness are applied to its furtherance. But we are skeptical of political temperance. One of the great results of the religious revival at Indianapolis was the war on alcohol, and with great success; and a correspondent from Richmond, in this State, writes that ' the spirit of Christ has vanquished the spirit of alcohol in that city." Prohibitory laws, no matter how carefully framed, may be evaded. Let the churches aod tbe temperance people of all denominations unite and try the power of religious and moral suasion,. and mightier work will be done thn anything that can be accomplished through the machinery of politics. They alone can create a sentiment that will effectually and thoroughly suppress the-evils of druukenness. Shelby Republican. Before proceeding to Sarafogi to witness the races, our excellent President takes a run down to Washington to look after business. He must decide, it seems, whether the iron clad oath must be administered to the recently elected Legislators of Virginia, and whether the (lovernment patronage and influence ar to be exerted for Stokes or Seuter in Tennessee, and for the Dents or the Rggletons in Mississippi. President Grant' inclinations, we believe, would lead him to stand for tbe doctrine of universal amnesty and inpartial suffrage in the South. We hope he will not allow himself to be driven from the support of that doctrine, for it is the true basis of reconstruction, and offers still a urat oppirtuuity of statesmanship. Commercial. There is some force in the suggestion of Mr. E. A. Pollard, that the Virginia election signifies an acceptance of the situation more clearly than any other that has yet had place in the South. The best men ofthe State came forward to participate in it, accepting, as the basis of their action, tbe reconstruction policy of Congresi and the Fifteenth Amendment. Should it turn out to be as Mr. Pollard predict, "the date of a new departure in the whole moral, social and political organization of tbe South," a departure from old issues and old political heresies, such as tbe ultra doctrines of State Rights and secession, all the great results of the war will have been secured, and the nation will go forward in its career of unparalleled prosperity. Commercial. Rosecrans has not as yet accepted the honor of being defeated in Ohio. Philadelphia Press. There are rumors in New York of another Fenian raid on Canada:, NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Executor's Notice. NOTICE i hereby given that the undenigDed hai been qualified aa Exeentor of the laat wilt of William Webb, late of I'ranklin County, Iadiana, deceased. Said Ette is solvent. JOSEPH WELSH, Aug. , 1869-Sw. Ejreeator. Administrator's Notice. NOTICE i hereby given that the nnderiigned has this day beeo appointed Administratrix of the estate of John B. Davis, deceased, iate ot Franklin County, Indiaus. All persons knowiag themselves indebted to said estate i ill "a settle at once. ANSA K. U4T i. July 31st 1P69. Administratrix. THE undersigned, while on his way to work at Franiman's. in Highland Township. Monosy morning last, lost from his wagon a aumW valuable tools used in stono-cutuog. . will be liberally rewarded on tearing tbom Knabe fc Brockamp'a Store. aug. 6 tf. . . JOHN F. BUaCH. At Low Water Prices. THE undersigned, at Colter's Corner, lad., I ing purchased the store of S. M. H.tohnsr, haa moved the stock of Goods to his old so, where he is prepared to supply both old ana customers with DRY GOODS. SHAWLS, SKIRTS, GLOVES, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS .mm m tl RFAPV-A4ADF CLOTHINb, Hardware, Queensware, C3r 1 et J3 J3 txY3' FA.MIJLY GROCERIESAll kinds of Country Produce received ia change for Goods. ... ..j it to All persons in need of Goods will their advantage to give us baZIKR' au6 ly. ... Colter's Corner, io-