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C. H. 82.'GHAM, Editor. Horning1. November 5, 1869. m Time of Holding Republican State Con.w ... vention. It is now penerally believed tliat the Republican State Convention will be held ' in Indianapolis on the 22d of February, --a usual. As yet candidates are not numerous. $7,363,883 Is the amount of reduction the public debt o has had to submit to the last month. These i monthly announcements are the severest dispensations that are now visited upon '.the Democratic pirty. Tuesday's Eiec'ions. The results of the elections held last Tuesday may be briefly summed up as 1 follows: "," In Massachusetts the Republican enndi ".didate forGovernor.Gov. CUflin, has been selected by a plurality of some 10,000 or i 15,000 votes, over John Q:iiney Adams, the Democratic candidate, and Mr. Cbamberain, the candidate of the "Labor Referm Movement." The whole Republican State ticket has als- been ekN-d. The Legislature is abcut crcn'y di.ided between the Prohibitionists and Anti-I'ro-tubitioni.'ts. i he Juor ticket received about 10,003 votes. Few reports have been received fro Wisconsin. Those sho?.- ilepublican trains, and indicate the re election of Gov. Fair.child by an increased majority say S 000, .Against 4.TG4 in 1 S(7. ' Weil dono" is vthe verdict the S:a'c has returned. ' !Kew York is c!imrd by the Democrats by a mj -rify of 12,000. This result is attributable to the perpetration of the most tbarcfaced and immense frauds in the city. 'Kighteen thousand illijjal votes, it is estimated, were eas-t there, and it is needless Jo add that (l ey were Democratic votes. And vet, in spite of these, the Democrats omrry the State by only 12. COO majority. One good thing, however, the 1'epublicans gained. The Legislature wc have. Tho new Constitution is defeated. , Minnesota elects Governor -Austin over both the Democratic and Temperance candidates, by an estiii:ited majority of 3,500. Maryland goes Democratic. So did Kentucky. s Paying the Debt. -' When Mr. iioutwell stated that the nation's debt might be paid in twelve years, without increasing the public burden, people were startled at the magnitude of the pitpiMtion. Nor, until the figures were shown, were they ready to believe that it could be paid in twenty years with diminished taxation. Rut Commissioner Wells, known to men of both parties as a careful and accurate statician, has written a letter fully confirming the statements of the ieeretaiy -f the Treasury. .Mt. Wells takes as his basis the established fact that the excess of . receipts over expenditures for the year ending the first of Jul j last was at least forty-eight million dollars. Were no changes to be made, the surplus would remain the same But there are changes to take place in our; favor. Tn the first phce the eighteen ! million dollars required to pay extra! bounties last year, and nir.e and one-half railUous for the Alaska, purchase, should j ha deducted from the expenditure account, j Of course they not be raid ajrain. ! Then the iocre.vo rf ;hc country in wealth apd population will bring a steady increase of revenue, averaging fifteen million dollars, while the rigiJ economy enforced by the Administration effects an annual saving of not lo.-s than thirty millions. Couireisj-i M:cr Delano entirely corroborates these statements. The several items put together amount t r.beut one hundred and twenty million dollr.rs, which sum ap- ' proxin-.atc'y indites the suri lns revenue I ., ,.,t;.t..i , ,i , . 'i After U !ikitsra very liberal nupwance fa expenditures, (mote liberal th.m the estimates of the ii-'crnnirnt ) Mr. Walls calculates that tl i ie v. ill he at Irsst one hundred million dollars a yejr at the disposal of tho government. If this sum were rut in a sinking fund at six rr cent. interest, i! would ex in-uish the debt in !

less than Sl'tecn years. (.- taxation could j now nearly completed, and orders have be reduced, aud the burden of the pcorle i been sent to all squadrons to cease using lightened proportionately, so that only ! C0l,l eltogether, except in cases of nccessifity -millions a year would be applied to!'. d even theu a full report of reasons this otjee?.; still the principal would be j u,Ulft be sent to the department. If these paid in twenty three years. And if the i e not deemed sufficient, the cost cf the debt were funded at a lower rate cf in-, coal used is charged to the officers orderterest, of course the burden would be much j ng it to be burned. Aside from saving lighter and it j ay met t easier. Here is a ; expense, however, the design of the order proof of the sue ." s c! the Administration, also to restore a knowledge of maoagand of its fidelity to i's pledges, that no ; ing sailing Tessels, to which little atten amount of Democrat io aigumrut and abuse : 'ion was given hy our steam navy during caa controvert. The Republican party the war. will 'do well in the canvass to follow Mora- f , .. V

no pcymour s auvice ot um jear, auu "push the financial argument." Inleretdir.g Table. A table has becu prepared at the Internal Revenue cilice showing the differ ence ' between actual collections anj i assessments. 1 he assessments for all tbe States and Territories was in round num-

lers SIPS 000,000, and the collections ! lue A,"n Hien lurn "r rjea wimrcat bed S17, 1,-0,000. In Illinois collee-j ful1' That success may wait upon his iins ,r less .1,,., :1,Pnts l,v 1 000 -1 motions., science is putting forth her best

Oi tO,, in Indiana by 100,000, in Iowa byS2,!00, in Ohio by f-'OO.OOO, in PennsylTania by 5700. COO, in Tennessee by J2OO.0C0, in Yvi.-censn by 150,000, in Mbsouri by 1,000,000.

Terrible Steamboat Disaster. The. steamer Stonewall, which left St. Louis on Sunday evening for New Orleans, heavily laden with passengers, horses, mules, hay, and other freight generally, when near Neely's landing, ten miles from Giaud Tower, took fire about o'clock on Wednesday evening of last week, and, in

spite of all efforts to save her, was burned to the water's edge. The Stonewail had on board thirty-five, registered cabin passengers, five guests, one hundred deck passengers, and sixty officers and crew. Among the number were eleven women and some children. The fire originated about ten feet forward of the deck stove, from the sparks from a match used in lighting a pipe by one of the deck'passengers. A quantity of hay had been stowed in the room. As soon as the alarm was given, confusion worse confounded reigned. A number of deck passengers instantly seized the only yawl remaining, and floated off without oars. The pilot headed the boat for the hore while the efforts were being made to subdue the fire. In a few moments the boat grounded in water six feet deep, and about twe hundred yards from the Missouri shore. A few seconds sufficed to show that there was no hope of saving the boat. In the meantime, everything available doors, shutters, plank, mattresses, and all kinds of furniture were thrown overboard into the river, the passengers springing in after and clinging to them for safely. About this time one of the steam pipes blew off, adding still more to the alarm, and those who were not already struggling in the water pprang in regardless ef the consequences. All except those in the yawl, nearly 250 in number, were battling for life in the current of the Mississippi. Night had gathered around them. Above the screams of the dying passengers and the crackling of the flames, was heard the shrill neigh 1 - I t - ingot crurniiig norses. vvitn no Doat or life preservers, clinging only to frail sup ports, scores were dying from the intense cold of the water, chilled through, with no help in bight and with no hope before them. One by one they sank to rise no more. TIiofo who did reach the shore were not only exhausted but nearly froien One man, Air. Rlumcr, from Galveston, Texas, died after reaching the laad. Of the eleven women, three were saved; one a lady aged sixty years was saved by her son. Soon after the fire broke out, the engi neer attempted to launch the stage, but the passengers crowded on it in such numbers that he could do nothing. He then jumped overboard. They followed. One little girl still remaining clinging to a rope, let herself down from the second deck into the projecting point of the stage, and remained there until burned off, and site floated eff and was saved. The steamer Relle Memphis, on her way to St. Louis, reached the scene about ten o'clock, and gathered up from the shore all the survivors that could be found, 33 in number. Fifteen or twenty are supposed to have reached the shore some distance below, making about fifty or sixty, all told. The conduct of the passengers and ifiicers is said to have been heroic. Such an appalling scene has not been witnessed on the Mississippi for many years. A dispatch from Carbondale says that a party is busily engaged in dragging the river for those who lost their lives. Up to 2 o'clock Monday evening upwards of sixty bodies had been recovered, ten of which have been identified by their friends. Twa or three charred bodies were found on the wreck. Presbyterian Union. The New York Observer, commenting upon the recent union of the Old School and New School Presbyterians, remarks: It is the most interesting and imiortant fcc'cHJstical event that has transpired io 'his country in thirty years. It marks an cPoc'1 in tlie religious history of a leading denomination, and, without doubt, it will have a powerful inlluencc upon the relig ious history of the country, and wc hope also cf the world. Economy in the Navy. One means by which expenses are being rapidly reduced in the Navy Department is the Siting out of all vessels of war wi,n f'1'1 f Fails This chance , i Mnoiner rotar voyage. Dr. Haves announces a Polar vovase j for 1ST0. The only great geographical ! problem that is left for man to solve, he i proposes to again attempt. The Nile has rendered up its secrets; Africa is no longi t-j.A it i er au unknown lanu; virmus ana ina ana : the farthest Last have become our neighbors. Bat to the myMerious regions of 1 at- xr . it -.Ml A t- ; General Butterfield's resignation as Assistant Treasurer, at New York, will not be accepted until his successor shall be appointed, which will take place this week.

Bad News for Pendletonians. The public debt statement shows a reduction for October of over seven million dollars. The following table gives the principal items of the statement: LIABILITIES. Increase in coin interest $8,91 1, 183 25 Increase in fractional currency 4,034,143 88 Increase in gold certificate) 4,318,800 00 Decrease in three per ceats 2,935,362 50 Decrease in matured debt-.... 182,491 46 Decrease in demand note 138,506 00 Net increase in liabilities 15,044,888 17 ASSETS.

Increase in coin 819,005 83 Increase in currency .. 689,291 12 Increase in sinking funds 2,134,842 93 Increase in pecial bond purchase... 11,394,594 00 Net increase in assets 22,408,770 92 Net decrease for the month 7.636,882 75 Total decrease since March 1st 64,332.070 65 Coin balance in the Treasury 1 16,994,711 69 Less gold certificates .... 28,731,520 00 Net gold bslanee 88,263,191 69 Currency balance 7,248,295 24 Net cash in Treasury 95,511,4b6 93 Monetary. Gold has had lower range in New York, during the past week, than for several years past. There was a slight recovery, on Saturday, from its downward tendency; but this was lost on Monday, and it has ruled at still lower points than on any day of the week. The latest quotation is 127g. .. Not a Bad Suggestion. Treasurer Spinner will recommend, in his report, that the amount received and accredited as conscience fund, aud that received from the sale of specimen fraction, al currency, which is not redeemable, be transferred to a sinking fund, and applied to the payment of the national debt. The former is nearly 5114,000 and the latter nearly $23,000. . . i - Opinion of Grant's Character. The London Post, commenting on the action of Gen. Grt(nt in regard to gold speculations, says the habits of life of President Grant are a sure guarantee that he will do his duty impartially to all parties. His character as a. soldier will protect him from temptations to which those who make politics a trade frequently yield, i His judgment as a statesman remains to be tried. Thus far he has given evidence of statesmanlike prudence and good temper. The temporary failure of the Alabama negotiations led him to wisely postpone the reopening of the subject. The course he has pursued with respect to Cuba proves that however anxious for aggrandizement of the Union, he is resolved to observe faithfully the duties prescibed in international law. Schism Among the Mormons. The following is an extract from a private letter from a well informed gentleman living in Salt Lake to one of the editors of the Chicago Tribune: "The schism, of which you may have heard while here, is working. Stcnhouse, and all the editors and proprietors of the Utah Magazine, have been suspended, and if they stand firm, and they will, they will be cut off. It is only valuable as showing what may be expected when the overpowering will and iuterest of Brigham Young shall have been removed a revolution, proceeding from the heart of the ! U,U' 1 e."' 7 '"K majoniT 01 , the TiPonlp. Instead r.t l.nd nf nnnrui ting drop the absurd idea of daily revelations, with which, as it is based upon it, would go polygamy and the preposterous scheme of empire to which they are now so fanatically devoted." Mr. Steuhouse, oaacd in the above extract, is editor of the Salt Lake Telegraph, and has been for many years one of Brigham Young's most trusted friends and ardent admirers. His daughter is one of the, wives of Joseph Young, Brigham's oldest son. The editors of the Magazine arc wealthy and influential. The Richmond Dispatch, speaking of the Tennessee Senatorship, says: "The fate of Mr. Johnson is well merited. We should be far better off had he never lived, and we trust we have seen the last of him." The Department of Agriculture reports that the state of the cotton crop attests an ample sufficiency for all the wants of the country, and that the conditional estimate uf2,7SO,000 bales can be exceeded. It is rumored that an investigation will be ordered by Congress into the gold speculations among the first business of next session, as people everywhere want to know who are concerned. The investi gation will be thorough. An epidemic is raging io the north part of Montgomery County, Ohio, carrying off hogs by scores. Turner's distillery at Sulem has lost over 2G0, and other distilleries large numbers. It is pronounced to be cholera, aud nothing will cure it. Governor Ilulden, of North Carolina, has enrolled a large bdy of negro militia, which it is reported will shortly be sent to Orange and Chatham counties to assist the local authorities there. A large number of negroes from the country are io Raleigh very anxious to be enlisted. It is said arms were nightly shipped to various points for the use of the colored militia. At 2 o'clock Friday forenoon a fire occurrred at tbe Licking County (Ohio) Infirmary, situated two miles south of Maysville. The stone and frame buildings were destroyed. The former waa occupied by ten insane persons, and, when the fire was discovered, it was too late to rescue them tthey being bolted in their rooms), and all perished. A Fort Wayne special describes the passage of a large meteor over that place, early Wednesday morning. On reaching Forest Station, Ohio, it exploded with a loud report, the concussion breaking window glasses and alarming the inhabitants for three miles around. The phenomena deserves the attention of men of science.

Supreme Court Decision. In the Supreme Court on Monday an opinion was delivered by Chief Justice Chase in the case of Thorington vs. Smith & Ilasly, in which the Court decided that a promissory note given in payment for property purchased at Montgomery, Alabama, in 1864, when the authority of the United States was excluded from that part of the State, and the only currency in use was Confederate Treasury notes, is payable in Confederate notes alone, and United States Courts possess the power to enforce the same. The Court also ruled that contracts stipulating for payments in that currency can not be regarded as made in aid of foreign invasion, in the one case, or of domestic insurrection, in the other. They have no necessary relations to the hostile Government, whether invading or insurgent. They were transactions in the ordinary course of civil society, and though they may indirectly and remotely promote the ends of the unlawful Government, are without blame, except when proved to have been entered into with actual intent to further the invasion or insurrection .

The Ohio Election. The total vote in Ohio this year, as com pared with the Presidential vote in 1863, shows a falling off nf 54,591. Of this the Democrats lost 10,451 and the Republicans 44,140. Tbe Democrats polled 1,590 more votes for Thurman in 1867 than for Seymour in 1868, while the Republicans gave Grant 36,617 more votesin 1868 than Hayes received in 1867. These figures show that the Republicans always lose more in a lazy election than the Democrats, aud also that the Democrats have gained nothing in Ohio. There is a majority of forty to fifty thousand in the State against tbe Democrats, on a full vote. Bible Reading In the Schools. The Cincinnati School Board have voted to dispense with Bible reading in the Schools. An injunction was obtained on Tuesday from the Superior Court against the Board of Education, restraining it from excluding the Bible from the schools. This takes the question directly into Court. Sharp Practice. The Clerk and Sheriff of Hancock county sent their resignations to the Governor on Friday, which were accepted. The Commissioners have appointed tbe same men to the same (fficcs, and the supposition is that they expect by this sharp practice to render themselves eligible to another tefns, which they could not be after serving out this one. It looks as though the Commissioners were in league with them. Sensible. General Spinner, in his forthcoming re port, takes the ground that all clerks should be paid according to the work they accomplish. This would give the women an equal opportunity with the men, and he thinks if such a ru'e were established the women would make the most money The wom he are ia rt J in detecting counterfeits, and during the past week two female clerks in his office detected several counterfeit coupons, after the engravers and men clerks had passed them as genuine. To the Credit of Government. Secretary Boutwell has addressed the following letter to Treasurer Spinner: Treasury of the United States, 1 Washington, November 1, 1869. j Sir: In answer to your letter of October 30th, stating that you have $177,277 50 in gold interest due this day on bonds purchased for the sinking fund, and $376, 606 50 in gold interest due this day on bonds specially purchased to await the action of Cougress, aud asking instructions as to the disposition of these amounts. j I have tbe honor to say that you will sell all of said gold, and with the proceeds purchase bouds, and add the same to the respective funds from which the gold was received; that is, the gold received as interest on the silking fund bonds to be expended for the purchase of bonds, and added to that fund, and that received from the bonds specially purchased to be sold and expended in bonds to be added thereto. Very respectfully, Geo. S. B'jtmvELL, Secretary. In addition to the above there was, on the 1st of July, $139,740 gold interest taken, and with it $153,500 of 5-20s purchased and added to the sinking fund. A Disciple of Zaccheus. Commissioner Delano recently received a letter from Cincinnati, inclosing a large amount of revenue stamps, which read as follows: , Dear Sir Inclosed please find three hundred and sixty dollars' worth of stamps, which I stole. I've reformed. The London Midnight Mission has rescued upwards of one thousand girls from a life of shame, either restoring them to their friends, or securing them work at home or in the colonies. Upwards of fourteen thousand have attended meetings held. One hundred and seventy-four . . . , j- . i i were reclaimed in the year ending March I v . isr, or w nom out nny-six were natives or London, while fifty-eight were orphans. . Ill ! The November Elections. This month elections are to be held in the States of New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Mississippi, Maryland and Texas. In New Jersey, Minnesota, Mississippi and Texas the Legislatures to be chosen wiil have to pass upon the pending Fifteenth Amendment. Maryland has not yet voted upon this measure, but last year the Legislature was unanimously Democratic, and there can be no doubt as to its action. Of these elections seven occur to-day: in the States of New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin aud Mary land. Journal, 2d.

TAX LIENS.

Opinion of the Attorney General. The following important opinion has been rendered by the Attorney General: Attorney General's Office, October 27, 1869. f Nathan Kimball, Treasurer of State, Indianapolis, Indiana: Dear Sir: I am in the receipt of your note of the 19th inst., asking my opinion on certain matters touching the lien of taxes on real estate, and whether the land can be relieved of taxes assessed against a former owner by tbe payment of the taxes assessed on the land? The lien of the State for all taxes for State, county, school, road, or township purposes, attaches on all real estate on the 1st day of January, annually, and such lien shall be perpetual for all taxes due from the owner thereof. This lien can in no wise be affected or discharged by the sale of the land. 1 Gott. p. 100, S. 112. All the property, both real and personal, situate in tbe county is liable for the payment of all taxes, penalties, interests and costs charged to the owner thereof, and no partial payment of any such taxes, penalties, interest or cost shall discharge or release any part or portion of such property until the whole be paid. And this lien can in no wise be affected by sale or transfer of the property. If the land is sold it stands good and ie bound for all taxes, penalties, interest and costs that may have accrued against the owner. And if the purchaser of the land desire to make a partial payment, on the amount of tax assessed against the land, be may do so, designating the property on which the partial payment is inteuded to apply. And such property shall not be sold for the residue of tbe taxes due, if property of the same description can be found sufficient to make the balance due; but if such property cannot be found sufficient to meet the residue of tho taxes due, then the land is bound for all taxes, ' penalties, interests and costs that may have accrued against the former owner. I am, respectfully, D. K. Williamson, Attorney General of the State. The Supreme Court and ths Currency. The Cincinnati Gazette closes an editorial on the above subject as follows: If the Supreme Court were to decide the note-tender act illegal as undoubtedly it will as soon as it pronounces on cases that have already been argued before it and if it were in addition to perpetuate the legal montrosity of deciding that all debts that were contracted in greenbacks must be paid at their face in coin, the effect would be the same as if it were to use measures to raise the greenbacks to par with coin. Yet it is a common notion that this would be a blessing. Of course it would be just as easy to pay in coin as in notes exchangeable for coin. But it is a singular instance of newspaper ignorance and foolishness that the majority of them think that a decision of the Court that would chanjre greenback debts to coin would be a calamity and a crime, while they think that the raising of the value of the currency of payment to par with coin would make both dehtor and creditor richer. The fact is, no Government has the legal power to alter the obligation of con tracts by making arbitrary changes in the value of the money of payment; and it is the duty of the Courts to protect both parties against such changes by enforcing the payment of the exact value that was intended. ---<>--- Mr. Colfax has been "bearding thelion in his den" by making a speech in Salt Lake City condemnatory of Mormonism. Of this the New York Tribune says: Mr. Colfax's speech to the Mormons is one of the most refreshing bits of eloquence from the lips of an American political man that we have read for many a year. It is quite contrary to custom for an official personage to go into a public meeting and tell his hearers that they ought to be ashamed of themselves; but this is just what Mr. Colfax did, and we presume the Mormons never before in their lives heard the iniquity of their system so plainly denounced. The speech was certainly, in the Mormon view, not such an one "as becomes genteel good manners," but it appears to have been heard respectfully, and perhaps it may do the people of Salt Lake some good. At any rate, its example will be good for the pubhc speakers generally of the United States. ---<>--- The New York Herald, closing an ar ticle in opposition to the removal of the national capital, says: "Nevertheless, it is worthy of observa tion that Western men keep hammering at this subject they have just had a Con vention in St. Louis for the removal, which locks like business and in the face of the exposed situation cf the capita! in case ef a foreizn war, and the other fact that an approach to it is in the hands of a railroad monopoly, they have arguments that must be beard with respect." Governor Chamberlain has appointed Hon. Lot Jj. Morrill, United S:ates Sen ator, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Fessenden of Maice. Financial. Gold has been steady and quiet all through the week, closing with a slight buoyancy at 131. T he absence of a gold clearing house has proved a blessing. All gold exchanges are now made direct, with out any intermediate agency between payer and receiver. There is no gold exchange bank in operation dow. 1 he receiver has iaiu one uh lutuu u: ... per cent., anu lias , , . , m. - declared another. 1 he 1 reasurer continues to sell gold and buy Uuited States bouds. The case before the United States Courts, contesting the legality of the legal tender act, will be decided irva few mouths, and in case of an adverse decision, which is probable, a large Treasury board of gold would be the only sure defence. The Government Treasuries of Europe keep an immense amount of specie as a security against panic. But were gold tbe regular and only legal tender, we should have no gold bubbles or speculations. Such a trouble as Wall street lately experienced, could not have happened in a time of specie payments. Gold is, at present, a commodity easily speculated in and liable to bubbles at any time. The New York Treasury received , last week $2,495,297 as duties, of which it sold $1,000,000, so that it is accumulating .t j -. . r-vr v f i . i v gotu a uctie.' jvX. vsoservcr, ioui.

Items of State News. A corn stalk fourteen feet nine inches high is on sight at Delphi. At .New Albanj, the malicious poisoning of dam b animals prevails. Gregg Harper, a negro in Jennings County, is one hundred and twenty-four years old. A woman's rights paper, to be published at Crawfordsville, will bear the terrifying name of MThe Avenger." Many apples about Muncie have been injured by the recent frosts. ! Harwan II. Tap.y was found dead, in bed, on the morning of October 23, near Bowling Green. A coal shaft has been sunk about one mile west of Terre Haute, on the Western Railroad. The second trial of Morgan for the murder of John Petri, of Terre Haute, will commence November 22. A colored school at Corydon, kept by day and night, has pupils from six to forty-five years old. Nearly all the apples ungathered, in Harrison County, previous to the cold weather, are ruined. Mrs. Ballerly, the Indiana giantess, who weighs seven hundred and two pounds, and her husband, the "Skeleton Man," have taken winter quarters at Indianapolis.

A party of hunters from Peru brought home, on Wednesday, a large black bear, which they shot near Antwerp, Ohio, last Sunday. Hiram Stowe, sixty-cine years old, committed suicide, last Sunday morning, in Delaware County, by shooting himself in the bead with a pistol. A little boy, named Zoker, at Fairfield, swallowed a bone of a squirrel, which stuck in his wind pipe, causing his death on the 18th ultimo. An extensive establishment for the manufacture of plate glass will go into operation at New Albany early this mouth. Snow fell to the depth of eighteen inches, ot Kokomo, last Saturday, and much of it stiil remains. It has greatly damaged fruit and ornamental trees. Near At wood, recently, a boy named Joseph Arnold struck his mother with bis fi.t wi'h such force ' that she fell over a large chair, breaking her thigh and injuring her side so badly as to cause her death. About two hundred thousand dollars have been paid to pensioners, at the Pens-ion Agency in b'ort Wayne, during the present semi annual paymeut, which commenced on the 4th of September. Professor E. T. Cox, State Geologist, has just returned from a tour of Greene Coun ty, r.nd reports finding large deposits of coal. An appeal to the Supreme Court cf Indiana will piobably be made in ihv case of Henry Clark, sentenced at New Albany to twenty years' imprisonment for the murder of Telle. Deputy Sheriff Mstjor James Fitzwil liatns, of Vandeiburg County, was shot through the heart at 10 o'clock Sunday night in a saloon iu Lratisviile, by one of the city police. Au American eaale waskilled in Union County, a frw days ago. It came down to carry away a goose, and was killed by a' party of men who were tbreshin"' wheat near by. 13 wius measured from tip tot tip seven feet an 1 a half, aud its length was about fiur feet. George Hatch, froai Fort Wayne, injured himself so by filling from a sidewalk into a trcr.t'n, while intoxicated, at Chicago, early last Tuesday morning, that he died iu the 'Hospital oti Wednesday afternoon. The tobacco cut and hanging in bares and tobacco sheds in Warrick, Spencer, Pike, Dubois, and Gibson Counties was frozeu and greatly damaged by recent Irosts. it is said tout otic halt the crop is; . . . . . 1 badly injured, and at least o&e-fourth ruinea. William Moore, a miner, working at Burnett's Slope, near Harmony, was crushed and smothered to death, on Monday, by the falling of several tuns cf the roof upon him. He lived about an hour and a half and couvcised with a companion, who was in the room with him, but who, not entirely buried, was taken out. At Chili, last Sunday morning, two little I girls of John C. Belew, one thirteen and the other eight years old, got up to build a fire, their mother being sick and their father absent from home, and, using the can of coal oil, an explosion followed, their clothing caught fite, and both were so badly burned that they died that night. A young man, with a young lady whom be proposed to marry, and two of his own sex, as friends, drove into Madison, at 2 o'clock last Saturday morning. The wedding was fo'take place bright and early, but, unluckily, they left their spring wagon exposed outside of a livery stable, and before the party, which took to a hotel, was up, the father of the would-be bridegroom rode into town, recognized the ve hicle, found tbe hotel, had his naughty boy ordered up, and carried him off home. In a breach of promise case at Laporte, wherein Alihea Munroe claimed damages of 50,000 from W. O. Leeds, $1,500 were granted recently. At Rolling Prairie, last Monday, a number of hands were engaged in threshing wheat at the farm of a Mr. Brown, the machine being set in the barn, and John Nichols was stationed inhe barn loft to pitch sheaves down to the feeder. While engaged in his duties be made a misstep, and fell headlong from the loft, his head striking the cylinder, which was running at full speed, when he was instantly drawn into the machine head first, and in a mo-

ment his head and the uppper portion of his body were reduced to a shapeless, unrecognizable mass by the teeth of the cylinder. ' At Evansville.on Wednesday afternoon William Paiue, a policeman, went to sleep, leaving his little boy, three years old, play, ing in the room, his wife having gone out but was awakened by tbe child's screams and found him enveloped in flames, which were put out by wrapping a comforter about him. Tbe boy bad been playirj with the fire in the grate, and was severely burned. Hon. Eben C. lngersoll, of Illinois, favorably mentioned by his friends for appointment cs Circuit Judge, under thenew law. for the circuit composed of Indiana, Northern Illinois and Wisconsin,

Presidential Thanksgiving Proclamation The year which is drawing to a clog has been free from pestilence, and health has prevailed throughout the land. Abundant crops reward the labors of the husbandman; commerce and manufactures have successfully prosecuted their peaotful paths; tbe mines and forests have yielded liberally; the Nation has increased in wealth and strength; peace has prevailed) and its blessings have advanced every interest of the people in every part of tho Union; harmony and fraternal intercourse are restored, obliterating the marks of the past conflic'; burdens have been lightened;: means of increased civil and religious liberty are secured to every inhabitant of the land whose soil is trod by none btt free men. It becomes a people thus favored! to make acknowledgements to th Supreme Author from whom blessings flow, of their gratitude for their independence, to render praise and thanksgiving for the same, and devoutly to implore a continuance of" God's mercy; therefore, J, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States, do recommend that Thuri day, the 18h of November next, be observed as a day of thanksgiving of peace and prayer to almighty God, the Greater and the ruler of the universe; and, secondly, I do further rer-omroend to all the people of the Uuited States to assemble on that day in their accustomed places of public worship and to unite in the homage and praise due to the bountiful Father of Merry, in fervent prayers for the enntinaar.CT of tbe merciful b'essit.gs lie h vouch.-afed to us as a peoj.lc. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto sft nt v band and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed, this, the 5th dy of Oftoher, A. D. 18U9, and of tha independence of the United States of" America tbe cincty fourth U. S. Ghaxt. Hamilton Fish. Secretary of State. The word "iCeumenical" comes from twn Greek words mfnir.g "the h-ib'tshle world," and an ''Ecumenical Council" nuirbt to embrace representative!! of the Chur-h from all parts of the globe. The Pope's Council aims at that, but will aot apcrn.p!i.h it. The 'erm ' ultramontane " so frequently ued in spraking of opir ion in the lliirrrish Church, eotee from two litin word signitSini; '-beyond the mountain." In France there has prevailed a hheraliry nf opinion far aheyd of the lli-:h Churchism thru cb'airs beyond the mountains in Italy and Spain. Hence, extreme bigot, ed l it'er P.omani.-ro such a. prevails i r Ireland, Itaiy and Spr.in is called ultra montane. Our American rype of 1'operv is Irih and is nltramntitarc. quite rtjiml? to that, of Home itself. li!(WJ, if thecoming Council should afTiim that infallibility resides solely in the Pop'', without the espres-d voire of the Church, the I r rench, German and Austrian bishops all he Iiih aud American Roiauntsta would swallow Tt with extreme-unction. N. Y. Observer. Tt looks as if there wnnld b need to sij;n the rofe of United States Senator from Tennessee to some other man. For after all the trouble of biographical sketches haa been taken with Mr. Henry Cooper, and after we fondly fancied we bad done with"old Tennessee, "for at least a brief season,, an obstreperous Tennessee legislator has tbe ill manners to discover a musty old rule which forhids the appointment toany place of trust, bv the Governor or the General ) n r ...v.. , V . , . '..,-- . jof the Legislature. J f this is not a dtaI boli(,,, dcvjfe on rhe p;rt of snme defeated candidate, to dash the cup of happiness from tbe Hp cf Mr. Cooper just as he is about to take a lon; draught, why w should like to know how it happened that those wite legislators knew not him: before of this rule. It is remarkably strangethat the Legislature of a State that boastaamon; its citizens Andrew Johnson, and did boast Andrew Jackson, were so ignorant of their own Constitution as this discovery seems to imply. We tender ti Mr. Cooper our sympathies, and we hop he will bear this cruel stroke with equanimity. pGzette. NEW ADVERTI5EM ENTS ST RAIL I). A pale red ccw, eight or nine ytar c!', ttrtytA n tie lith f Oct4 ber, 1S69, from nij premises in Jlr'nnMH, Inir.fclin County, IrdifTLe finder will ho liberally rewarded by giring information of her whereabouts. MATTHEW I.KONAKr. 3Sov. 5 3w Metanoora, 1"wanted. "WANTED AGENTS to cunva.s for Pcrliins & Houses' Nou-ExpIosiTe Lamps. 1. Superior to any other. rrcg. Smith, D'1 mouth College. . 2. AbsoluUlT safe no danger of explosi""--Dr. Jackson, Mass. State A Mayer; Pres't CI' A ie 1) erst Agricultural College. 3. Burn any Petroleum Oil. . 4. Gives uuuch more light with far ,e" ' T Tl C rr 1 A L . 1 1 . 1 ! Tral U tl fHf A IB'1 can Tra'ct Society; lion.G. W. McCrary, K'"' Iowa. 5. Will banish the appalling aoeidenU rkerosene, and is a boon to tho race. Prof. zie. Agricultural College, Mich. 6. No bad odor even when turned low.'" Smith, Dartmeuth. 7. Metallic cannot break nor ?pUt. . 8. Keeps the oil always cool cannot exp Prof. Harris, Anibemt. whunj9. Burns gasoline, naptha, beniine, itB ty. Prof. Seelye, Amherst; Prot. Keane, - 10. TJurablebnau'iful saves life and prep'f -beau'iful saves 1 ty supplies a great public want. pf necuniujcuacd by a nost. 01 emiu- - pf. n;r...n.b T,r .ihr Prof. Snell. f & b.uvvny Aiwa - f -- y Root PrMiJ.n.eturk. Amherst: Prof- '8 . Bowdoin: Prof. Dascomb, Oberlin c',eS'; Uickok, Union College; Dr. -Lord, Iartm and many others. r , . yoST" Call or address with stamp, VOTA" 't'fgt GOMERY. or K. TI CKER, '.p.li.. Indiana, J6J South Mcridan street, Indiae"? ct.29-Iia.