Indiana American, Volume 8, Number 49, Brookville, Franklin County, 3 December 1869 — Page 2

Jnbiaiui JUuricatu C. H. BINGHAM, Editor. Momine, December 3, 1889.

m .. Republican State Convention. The Republican State Central Committe, at their mectinjr. on Wednesday, de"cided to catl a State Convention, to be held tt Indianapolis on Tuesday, Februry 224. Each county will be entitled to One delegate for every one hundred votes cast for Max. F. A. Uoffman for Secretary " of State at the last election, and one Tor . . I, , ach. fraction over titty. me can win shortly be issued in proper form. t .- .... . . . Who Shall Be Our Candidate for Congress? .' Several of our cotenjpirsries in this District are agitating the question as to rho the Republican candidate for Congress .hall be. They all seem to take it for granted that our present distinguished Representative will not be in the field; not ' because ha is not a faithful Representative, and that all his acts as such do not give entire satisfaction; but because the Republicans of the District are becoming convinced that he cannot agnin be elected. .Tbu i greatly to be regretted, for there is bo man aaaoag us who can fill his place. V'-Tht great object of the party in the hart canvass i sac-rsj, an I it will not do to risk the great interests of the country upon the doubtful success of Mr. Julian. Daring the last canvass we favored the nomination of Mr. Julian, and did our utmost to secure it, and would yet prefer him to all others; but we have become thoroughly couviuced that with him defeat ii certain. This state efface belt. g true, it becomes oar duty, as a public journalist, to state them fairly and candidly to our Republican friends. If, then, it be granted that Mr. Julian cannot be elected, the question . i. o w i - i cones up, wuv cini e nave uu uejiuioa in giving our opio ion that Hon. J. M. Wilson, of Fayette Couuty, is that man. Of hia ability and popularity two itaper tant items in a Congressional race there can be no doubt; neither is there any that he is decidedly the choioe of the Republicans of Franklin County. With Judge Wilsom far our candidate, tucntt is certain. Virginia Pclitics. The political situation in Virginia is far from satisfactory. Governor Walker continues to act in sympathy with tie general policy he advanced during his cauvas, but the old rebel epirit is gradually, in the estimation or General Cauby, getting control of thing in many parts of the State. The Republican Conventiou split, and bout half of the delegates have taken ground against the admission of the Stete Under the present Constitution. The seceders, however, represent the more sensible of the Republican politicians, and will hare the sympathy of the General comennding. Gov. Walker is ut Washington apparently looking over the ground to seo how the administration regards the situation. General Canbj was thete on Monday and left nextday (or Richmond. Public men generally regret the division among Republicans -down there, but find some satisfaction in the fact that efforts are making to put the party on a more liberal basis. Glorious Reduction of the Debt. The United States Treasurer now holds IToTSjSOO in six per cent, bonds on account of the regular sinking fund aud the fund held subjeet to the order of Conirress, all purchased since the 7th of last May, when the Rectetary of the Treasury initiated his new policy; and these bonds cost the Government $3'J.JS2,"270; the interest on them gives an increase of $4,52$,ttS per year to the Government, of which 1704,304, already fallan due, has been in vested in $767,000 worth af bond, which re also held subject to the order of Congress. The Secretary, as heretofore announced, has ordered the purchase of $13,000,000 of bonds d uriog the month j Of Dccomber, and is lively by the first of j next May to have reduced t ho public debt , in this way at least $ 12 t .000.000. I., C & L. R. R. ' At the meeting of the stockholders of the tndiauapolis, Cincinnati & Lafayette Railroad, held on Monday at Morii, Indiana, the following persous wire tinted Directors for tho ensuing year: tie nerd T.' A. Morris, Indianapolis, iudiutia; A. It. Forsyth, tircealurjr, InJiaua; L. R. Lewis, Lwrencebur, Indiana; 11. C. Lord and V. V. iMuith, vt Cmciuuati; Win. A. Booth, Indianapolis; S. Kennedy 'and George Blis. of No-.v Yotk, aud Jo

seph S. Far, ot IJoi-t-.n. j - . . . 1 . . 1 .. . ' j It is again definitely determined that National Bank Notes f Jot Cxucipt From Attorney General Hoar will leave the CabTaxaliotl. j iitet soon after the assembling of Congress, The Supreme Court of Indian has de-'atid accept the vacancy on the Supreme

eidedod that tlu National iijnk iioU arc not exempt from taxation, nluckt decUiou will be found in full on our first page. ' Corriction. Last week, in publishing a roll of the members of the present Congress, said Congress wai denominated tha "Fortyninth, ' whea it should have been "Forty-first." Chief Justice Chuo lias always belioved that wo coud resume specie payment with six weeks' nctk;. General Girtiold is in favor of a gradual return to hard money, and thiuka it shoi! 1 l; clfcoted before 1S73.

The Gold Markets. Gold touched 121J on Monday. This is the lowest point reached since Septem ber, 18(52. The following table shows the monthly fluctuations of gold during that

year: January...... F tbraary ..... MuTvh ......... 1025 April ..... .M- ...... June July August September ...... Octob-r .'.... ....;.. November ......... December . o20 ...12!4-t6 ... 16 J3 ...ll 39 ...28?i 13 ..St Yi 34 The following is the record of the gold market for September 38th, as sent by the Associated Press: American gold fluctuated materially, opening at 123130, afterward falling to 214; then rallying to 23, and finally closing steady at 124130. 1 Ecumenical. The exact meaning of this word . has become theeubjoct of dispute.- The general idea pretails that ecumenical simply signifies "general." The word, however, says the Philadelphia Ledger, is derived from the greek noun otAwmene, meaning the "iuhabited world," which was used by the ancient Hellenes to designate their portion of the earth, as opposed to barbarian lands. Later it became the appellation of the "Roman Kmpire," and persons who adhere to the primitive mean ing of words, and will not admit second ary senses, contend that an ecumenical council can not now be had. The first councils, it is contended, were meetings of the bishops of the Roman Empire, and! were presided over by the reigning mpe. ror or his representative. In tie New Testament "vikumene is employed to denote the ''Kingdom of Christ," and in this sense may be applied to a consultation of the entire household of faith. The Judicial Circuits of the United States, under the new law? of Congress, which goes into operation this month, are thus constituted: 1. Maine, New Hampshire, Massachu setts, Rhode Island, 2. Connecticut, Vermont, New York. 3. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware. 4. Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina. 5. Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana. Mississippi, Texas. G Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee. 7. Indiana, .Illinois, Wisconsin. 8. Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Arkan. sas, Kansas, Nebraska. 0. California, Oregon, Nevada. Father llyacintbe is forty-two. Seven counties of West Florida voted for annexation to Alabama. have Counterfeit new Uuited States ten dollar bills have just made their appearance in Roston, and are excellent imitations. Within three days, fifteen thousand signatures were secured iu Philadelphia to petitions to Congress for the granting of belligerent rights to Cuba. ' ins)'sw The completion of the Suex Canal is already having the effect of seriously depreciating freights to India and China arouud the Cape of Good Hope. An attempt was lately made to incite insurrection among the slaves on the plan tations about Sagua, Cuba. The plot was discovered and the ringleaders executed. The Winnepeg rebels are not actuated by a desire to cast off their allegiance to the Queen, but are determiuedly opposed to being absorbed by the Canada Confederation. Horace Greeley appeals to Den. Butler, in an open letter, to place himself at the head of a movement to grant complete amnesty to all persons who favor the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment. Two of the steamers of tfy,e Mcssagrtes Imperial, of 2,400 tuns burthen, have palely passed through the Suea Canal. The success of the canal pectus no longer doubtful. The Secretary of the Treasury has directed the Assistant Treasurer at New York to continue the sales of gold and the purchases of bonds, without change, through the month of December. Edward U. Ryan has been appointed Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue in the Second District of New York, vice D. McFarland, the person who recently shot Mr. Richardson. ———<>——— On Sunday Brigham Young detailed one hundred and ten preachers and elders to go forth as missionaries to preach the doctrines of the Latter-Day Saints. They came as far as Omaha in a body, and then separated, to go East and West. Fifty of them came East. ———<>—— i'ench. Brewster," of Pennsylvania, is named as his successor. The Assistant Treasurer at New Yerk announced on Monday that tho Govern ment will sell $11,000,000 of gold, and purchase 513,000,000 of bonds during December. This occasioned considerable excitement iu the gold rooai, and there was a great pressure to sell. ' 11 The official newspaper at Copenhagen, Denmark, publishes the following: - "The ratification of the sale of the Island of St. Thomas to the United States , Government, has been postponed six months.'

Brookvillians Abroad. James S. Clatkson, referred to in the

following notices, is native of Brook Title, and is the youngest son of Hon. C. F. Clarkson, for many years an Editor in this town: From the Des Moines (Iowa) Register, Nov. 4. A Jo st Tribute. In the absence of James S. Clarkson, Political Editor of this paper, we deem tt no more than just to htm to copy into these columns tbe tubjoined commendation of the manner in which he conducted the recent political k . . . M. campaign in tots Mate as Lbairman ot the .Republican fetate Central Committee. The time was unpropitious for tbe work he was called upon to discharge. It was tbe "off year" in politics that succeeding a Presidential election. We had carried the State for Grant by an overwhelming majority. Our candidates, locally and generally, had been elected, and our measures endorsed. The whirlwind of political passion had swept by, and here in this Stete, where we have such a large preponderance of Republican strength, there was a general aversion this year, in in both political parties, to a renewal of the active work of campaign. Several influential Republican journals even advocated the policy of eending out no stump speakers and raising no campaign fund. No one comprehended better than the Chairman of the Committee the danger to the welfare of the party which this advice involved, and he worked promptly, energetically to overcome it, and did ultimately overcome it insomuch that the original advocates of it became tbemsetvts champions of a thorough systematic canvass, and aided in conducting it. It was Mr. Clarkson'a first work as a political organ iter, but so modestly, so quietly, yet so effectively did be do his' work that by universal verdict he is judged the equal of any of tbe many able predecessors in tbe chairmanship of the State. CcutraA Committee. We copy the following article from a late number of the Davenport Gazette: A CAurAiap Well Conducted. The substantial and highly satisfactory victory won by the Republican . party of Iowa at the recent election, has not been secured without some effort by the gentlemen to whom the management of the campaign was entrusted by the last Republican State Convention. Nor were the efforts required and made, any the less arduous, but more, rather, because mainly directed to disturbing Republican apathy and arousing from over confidence of victory those who seemed to suppose that the battle, fought a year ago bad driven the last Democrat from the field. Therefore, at least, a word of acknowledgment is due to the Republican State Ceutral Uoatuiittce, and the highest praise to Mr. J. S. Clarkson, their indefatigable chairman. Without the least possible display of ''fuss and feathers"; quietly, with admirable system aud cautinuous energy, Mr. Clarkson has couductcd and successfully closed a campaign which, for skillful and economical management andresults, has throughout compared favorably with the work of any of the hardest-fought party buttles of the past decade. It can scarcely be necessary to add, in view of the election and its results, that not the least of Mr. Clarkson's well earned honors is due to his persistent refusal to heed tbe advice of the penny-wise donothings who so loudly declared that the Iowa Republican party had only to lie lazily on its back, basking in the sun of prosperity, and wait for victory to drop to its hand like a ripe pear. There is s general inclination to increase the volume of currency in tho South and West, probably through the establishment of additional National Ranks in those sections. Dispatches from Rome state that the members of the Ecumencial Council will meet at tbe Vatican on the Sth of Decern her, and at the conclusion of the preliminary ceremonies the Pope will announco the opening of the Council. Further developments are being made of frauds in the New York Custom-house. Tbe frauds are said to have been of tbe most stupendous character, and over two hundred firms, heretofore entirely respectable, are under suspicion. The frauds were accomplished by means of false invoices and undervaluation. The majority forjudge Austin, the Republican candidate for Governor of Minnesota, is increasing as the later returns re received. The St. Paul Pioneer, the Democratic organ, concedes him 1,187 majority. The average majority for the State ticket is about 0,000. The Ways and Means Committee will recommend various modifications of the revenueand tarifflaw. KcIley,of Pennsyl vania, will urge tbe removal of duties from a long list of articles not produced in this country, which will reduce the revenue by 70,000,000 per annum. The scheme is said to find favor with the com uiittee. After the first of December, the Presi dent is authorized by law to sppoint the nine new circuit judge for the nine judicial districts of the country. Thero have been several applications, made indirectly in most cases, by State Judges, lawyers, ex-judges, &c, residing in the various circuits or districts, and there is not a day that the President is not importuned in behalf of some of these applicants. The Supreme Court juJges, who now sit on the circuits which the new judges will occupy as a general thing, refused to endorse the papers of any of the new applicants. The President promises that every one of these life appointments shall be made tho subject of careful Cabinet consultation. The Chicago Advance has private assurances from tha highest and best authority in Ohio that the recently elected Legislature of that State can be relied on to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment aoon after organising. There will be a clear Republican majority of three on joint ballot, after counting out all doubtful and non committal members. The Legislature meets on the first Monday of January.

Albert D. Richardson Shot The Wound Probably Fatal. A New York telegram says: Albert D. Richardson, formerly war correspondent and long an attache of the New York Tribune, was shot in New York on Thursday evening, and it is thought fatally wounded, by Paul McFarland, a lawyer by profession, between whom and Richardson has existed for a considerable time past

an estrangement caused by an alleged intimacy of tho latter with the former's wife. McFarland, who seems to have had entree of the Tribune office, was standing behind tbe Counter in the business department, in conversation with one of tha employes. About 6 o'clock in the evening Mr. Richardson entered the Tribune office, and going up to tbecounter, entered into conversation with a young man who was in the habit of working for him. A few minutes after Richardson's entrance, MeFarland walked over toward him, and without saying a word, fired a pistol, the ball from which wounded Richardson in the abdomen. The wounded man, without saying a word, walked up to the Tribune editorial rooms, whence he was conveyed to the Astor Heuse to have the wound attended to. McFarlaud has been arrested. There seems to have baen no recent incentive to this deliberate deed. A difficulty between McFarlaod snd Richardson occurred over a year ago. Richardson, at the time referred to, denied the charges of improper intimacy with McFarland's wife, but published a card stating his intention to marry her after a divorce had been procured. The shooting of Richardson by McFarland was entitely the result of his old hatred, based on the belief that Rich ardsou has alienated his wife's affections. Richardson's engagement to Mrs. McFarland took place after her separation from her husband. Since Richardson was shot by McFarland, two years ago, he haa met McFarland a number of times, and no demonstration to attack Richardson has taken place. Persons iu the Tribune office think McFarland was under the influence of liquor. The ball was extracted Monday morning. Richardson was in a very precarious condition up to late Tuesday night. He is very weak, and having retained no nourishment for five days, bis friends and physicians fear the worst. Ho was married on Tuesday evening to the late Mrs. McFarland, by tbe Rev. Henry Ward Reecher, assisted by the Rev. Q. B. Frothiogham. Thk School Festival." This beautiful little original Magasine is now ready. It isdevotcd entirely toschool exhibitions, recitations, dialogues, tableaux, charades, etc, and is destined to have a great popularity. It is the only magazine of the kind we know of, has been greatly needed, and meets the want. It is full of good things for the large as well as for the smaller children if7 arijinal, and all Jirst cfas$. We quote only one exercise as a sample. Send for the Magazine, and enjoy the whole of it. It is published quarterly, by Alfred L. Sewoll & Co., the publishers of that popular juvenile magazine, The Little Corporal, Chicago, III., and costs fifty cents a year. Single copy fifteen cents. But here is the sample exercise from the The Festival: CUOICK OF TRADES. A RKCIT1TIOX KOR LITTLC HOT 8. BY MBS. V . 11. C. SLA DR. This recitation should be aecorapanteii with, appropriate action. Thus, tbe farmer ihould make the muttons fur sowing, pluming, biniliug, and pitching awaj; tbe enrucnter fur pinning, ham mering and sawinp; tbe mason fur brick lay in and smoothing; tha smith for hto. on tb anvil and the shoemaker for sowing shoaa, etc First Dot. When I'm a man, a maa, I'll be a farmer if I can and I can! I'll plow the ground, and the ?eed I'll sow; I'M reap the grain, and tbe grass I'll mow; I'll bind the sheaves, and I'll rake the bjt And pitch it up, on the m away I When I'm a man! kcokdBoy. When I'm a mn. a man, I'll be a carpenter, if I oan and I cattl I'll plane like Tats, and I'll hammer set And this it tbe way my bay shall go. I'll make bird houses, and sleds, and boats; And a sLlp that shall race every craft that floatst When I ui a man I Tbiup Bot. Wbcn I'm a man, a mil, A blacksmith I'll be, if t ran and I cam! Clang, clang, clang, shall my anvil ring; And this is the way the blows I'll swing. I'll shae Tour hrso, sir, neat and tight; Then I'll trot round the square to see if it's right. hen 1 in a mam Fourth lior. Wbcn I'm a man, a man, A mason I'll be, if I can -and I can I I'll lay a brick this way, and lay one that; Then tuko my trowel and smooth them flat; Ureal chimneys I '1 1 make; I think I'll be uVJe To build nue as high as the Tower of Babel! When I'm a manl Fifth !?v. Wkm I':u a man, a man, I'll be a shoemaker, if I oan and I cakI I'll sit on a bench, with my 1 if t hkld so; And in and out shall uit needles go. I'll sew so strong that my work shall wear, Till nothing is left but my stitches there! When I'm a man! Sixth Bot. H hen I'm a man, a man, A printer I'll be, if lean and I cakI I'll make prct'y books, and perhaps I shall Print tbe dories in Tbe Little Corporal! I'll have the first reading: ahl won't it be fun To rad all the stories betore they are done? When I'm a man! Skyknth Bov. When I'm a man, a man, A doctor I'll be, if I can and I cas! My powders and pills shall be nice and sweet; And you shall have just what you like, to eat! I'll prescribe for you, riding, and sailing, and such; And 'bore all things, you never must study too When I'm a man! (much Eiohth Bor. When I'm a man, a rain, I'll be a minister if I can and I CanI And, once in wbiio,a sermon I'll make, That can keep little boys and girl awake; For, ah! dear me! if the ministers knew How glad we re when the; do get through! When I'm a suanl Kiktb Bor. When I'm a man, a man, A teacher I'll be, if I can and I can! I'll sing to my scholars, fine stories I'll tell; I'll show them pictures, and, well ah! well. They shall have some lessons I s'pose they ougat; But oh! 1 shall make them so very short! When I'm a man! Tkktr Bor. When I'm a man, a man, I'll he a school committee, if I ran and I Can 'Bout once a week I'll come into school, And say, "Miss Teacher, I've made a rule, That boys and girls need a great deal of play; You may gire these children a holiday!" W ben I'm a man! Elktkkth Bot. When I'm a man, a man, I'll be I'resi ictit, if I can akr 1 can! My ancles and aunts are a jolly set; And I'll hare thetu all in my cabinet! I shall live in the Whit House; and I hop you an, When you hear I'm elected, wilt give me a call! When I ot a manl (All in concert, or if they eannot be trained to speak it ia concert, so as to make every word understood, let the best speaker step forward and repeat alone, in a distinct voice.) When we are men, are men, t bspe we shall do great things, and then. Whatever wo do, this thing we say, We'll do onr work in the very best way, And yen shall see, if you know us then, We'll be good, and honest, and useful mea . Y hen we are men.

General Babcock and Ingalls have sailed for San Domingo on the steamer Albany. The former took sealed instructions as to the course to be pursued regarding the question of annexation. Immediately up on the arrival of the Albany, President Baex will submit to a popular vote of tbe people of the island the question of annexing the Republic to the United States.

If the vote is favorable, Commissioners will at once visit Washington to arrange terms. The conditions exacted by Baca are tbe assumption of the debt of the Republic, and the purchase of the public buildings, forts, &c. less than $2,000,000 in all. We have received from the publishers a Prospectus of a new Western Journal devoted to Field Sports, called the West ern Base Ball Osteite. Tbe paper is designed specially to promote tbe interests of the National Game of Base Ball in the West and South, hut will give considera ble space weekly la other Games and Amusements, beside-s a summary of Mu sical and Dramatic news, with notes crit teal and otherwise. The friends of out door sports owe it to themselves to sustain a Western Journal devoted to their inter ests, and one which will labor to divest the Rational Game of America of all as sociations tending to cast reproach upon it. The Western Base Ball Gazette is pub lished weekly by Cocklin & Warden, at $2,50 per annum. All communications should be addressed to tbe publishers, Lock-bex 977, Cincinnati, Ohio. A Big Row in the Democratic Party. Indianapolis, November 28. There has been a quiet fight going on in the Democratic party in this State for some weeks, growing out of the efforts of the Pendleton and Ileodricka wings of the party to control the next Democratic State Convention, which meets in this city on the Sth of January. On Friday last the Hendricks men held a secret caucus and determined to 6end a strongdelegation of Hendricks men, headed by the ex-Senator himself, to the Convention, as delegates from this county. The proprietor of the Sentinel, who represanta the Pendleton wing of the party, heard of the Hendricks caucus, and launched out on caucus rings and cliques to bia issue, named the men selected as delegates, and called upon the Democrats to defeat the ticket. Tbe Convention met Saturday afternoon. The Pendleton men got the President, but the Hendricks men, being in a large majority, elected the officers, aud af ter considerable noisy discussion, in which numerous epithets were freely indulged, the Hendricks men produced a printed ticket, with the names of the delegates already agreed upon properly printed upon them, and proceeded to elect the del egates to the State Convention, while Dick Hyan swore it was a put up job, and called upon the Peudleton men to with draw from the Convention, which they did, almost one-third of the audicuce leaving. The ring ticket, headed by Hen dricks, were unanimously elected, havin received about fifty votes. Mr. Bright, the proprietor of tho Sen tinel, was not made even an alternate del egate, and as Democratic Conventions in this State are exclusive in their character, nouc but delegates and alternates being admitted on the floor, Mr. Bright will have to witness the proceedings from tbe galleries. He is left out iu the cold, and his chances for bein" Chairman of the State Central Committee are exceedingly slim. The officers of that committee, as agreed upon by the Hendricks ring, are John Love, Chairman; 11. M. Hall, Secretary, and Aquula Joues, Treasurer, all of this city. l uere is considerable curiosity to sec to-morrow's Sentinel, to see whether tho war thus conspicuously commenced is to be continued, or whether Mr. Bright will be whipped in. The Sentinel's article has caused great excitement in the party, and there are silly threats of another paper iu view. Indianapolis, November, 29. The excitement over the Democratic County Couvcntioa has quieted down Air. Brisht, the proprietor of the Senti nel, has gone Kast, Htid lhat paper conies down gracelully, and says it will support Mr. Hendricks aspirations for the Presidency, should the Democracy of Indiana decide to put him in nomination; but that it will not ignore the claims of other gentlemen, not residents of the State, who are equally meritorious. Specie Payment. Rumors are continually flying that the Secretary of the Treasury is going to force specie payment in a short time; and these are re enforced by rumors that General Grant will, in his message, recommend immediate action to that end. And lo this is added that the way he swashed thegold bubble has shovu General Grant tho way to reduce coio to par with greenbacks, and lhat it is tobe done by throwing tho Treasury gold upon the market, and breaking it down; and then, when tbe maikct is surfeited with coin, the Treasury will resume, and thereby force the banks to. Utterly foolish as these rumors suppose the admi nistrntion to be, they havo curreney; and these, milled to the disturbance oreated by the decline in gold, have created general alarm, which has a r.aralvring effect on trade, and which dries up all new enterprises. This ed'eot will probably contiuue till Congress meets, and tbe administrative and legislative utterances give some decided indications of the policy. Gajette. Among ms Indians. Lieut. Ilerndon tells us that no tribes of aboririnees are found in the deepest forests of South America, from the Andes to the Atlantic coast, that do not have and use Doct. Ayer's medicines and Lowell cottons.Treniont, "Suffolk, "Boott," are seen stamped in large red and blue letters upon their garments, while Ayer s f ills and Cherry Pectoral are among the treasures of their habitations. Their native soil furnishes them all their food and most of their remedies, but they suffer from some fHictions which must have tbe interposi tion of higher skill. Sentinel. Liberty, V.

Items of Stale News. ! Nearly the whole of Pike county is said to be underlaid with beds of good coal. Plymouth has a fisher and hunter eighty-eight years old. One Evansville firm haa "bought one hundred and fifty thousand bushels of wheat this season. Lond peals of thunder and vivid flashes of lightning occurred at Lafayette on Monday during a snow-storm. A quail with two distinct hearts was recently shot near Terro Haute. A few days ago, a deer, after a long chase by hunters, near Rock port, ran into the suburbs of that town, and was captured alive. A farmer in Wayne County recently had aoorn-husking, and charged his guests twenty-five cents each for supper. Lafayette use eight million brick this season. New Albany is lively with cock-fights. One hundred and fifteen boys are kept, worked and roformed at the Indiana Reform School at Piaiufield. The trestle-work acrosB the Indiana Chute, at the falls of the Ohio, will not be removed before the middle of December. Joshua Qutnley, thirty-five years old, seduced Bell Shaw, a sixteen-year-old orphan, of Tippeoanoe County, and took her to a house of ill-fame at Louisville. A paper devoted to woman's rights and other wrongs, is to be started next week at Crawfordsville, it ii said. It is to be called tbe Avenue. A little three-year-eld son of Wm. Wehrs, at Huntington, was scalded on Monday morning, by the falling of a pot of hot coffee, and died that night. At Mishawaka, Wednesday night, John Cooper went to bod in usual health, aud, on awaking toward morning, bis wife found him stiff and cold in death, having died without the slightest w&rbing. Mis. Ksther Fj. Cooper, formerly of New Albany, com Milted suicide recently at Sturgis, Michigan, by tying a heavy piece of iron around her uecfc and jumping into a cistern. A. Gilbert,, of Mitchell, was loading bin gun from his powdcr-flusk, while hunting, last Saturday, when the powder took tire in the gun-barrel, the S.tsk exploded, aud his face was terribly burnt. A one-legged rope walker, performing at Yinceuncs-, full from the tight-rupe, Viedues.day, bj-eukiug one of his wrists, knocking one of his eye out of the socket, and injuring Liiuselt so iuterually that recovery is doubtful. Stevens, sentenced to bo hung at Terre Haute on the 2:d of December, takes it coolly, and says he wou't die without a struggle. Not catching the date correctly when the sentence was pronounced, he inquired, "When did you say, your Honor, that occurrence is to lake pUee?" At New Albany on Monday a little boy named Ldward Bell wus kicked by anoihuc boy in the pit of the stomach, causing paralysis of the lower limbs on the next day. His recovery is doubtful. Tho boiler of P. M. Haskett's foundry, at Cannelton, exploded uu the 2Ui)i instant, shooting out endwise from the building, and was found in au adjoining lot, about two hundred and fifty loot from tbe place where- it was located. Nobody was hurt, and little damage was done. It was twenty years old. Nccr iSvauivi'.b, oa Suaday, Louis ScUiuadol and a Mr. Thurliu, wc;a out hunting for quaiis in, corn field, aud when about forty yards apart Thurliug discharged his gun at some qu.tilsr hut in stead of hitting the birds, the discharge 6truck Schmadcl iu the face, instantly destroying the left eye. The Rising Sun Recorder reports a wedding in th:tt city, on Friday evening week, the deeply interested two having

come from Germany to have the ceremony performed in this country, intending to make San Francisco the terminus of the bridal tour, and their home. The bride was a sister of Rev. Mr. Miller, of Rising Sun. Mrs. May, of Lebanon, widow of Colo nel Allen May, has, it is said, made claim for large amounts of land throughout that State, taken from her husband under mort gages made without her consent, and to which her signature was attached without her knowledge. In Jasper County, tweuty thousand acres are said to be affected by this movement. Terre Haute has a negro who is a century or two old. The Journal, of that city, reverently says: "What a fund of information he carries in his head, which is as white as the driven snow." The old dar key must carry his vast intellect in his wool. " We freely confess," continues the Journal, "that we doffed our bat in his venerable presence, connecting, as he does, the long and dreary years between 17C2 I860. ''Let us weep. A man named Hessinger, having only one leg, while giving a performance on a tight rope stretched across Main street, in Vincennc, on Wednesday, fell, breaking both arms, and otherwise injuring himself so there is little hope of recovery. He has a wife and child traveling with hiza. A brakeman on a freight train, going west, on the Toledo, Wabash and Weston Railroad, fell from the top of a car, through the bridge that spans the Wabash Riverat Logansport. He fell a distance of thirty or forty feet, and was badly stunned, although it is thought not fatally injured. Louis Artsett, a conductor cf a freight train going east, en the same road, was instantly killed about 5 o'clock, Monday morning, by falling from the top nf a car across tbe track, and the train backincr over him, severed the head from the body. The body was not otherwise badly mntltated. lis resiaea tn Jjatayette.

Important Judioial Opinions. : Indianapolis, November 2-1. Two highly important questions were decided in the Supreme Court to-dayj One of these was on a case from ' Wells county, where suit was brought upon the bond of a county officer. One of the grounds of defense was that the bond was not stamped as required by law, and was therefore void. The Court, in an opinion pronounced by Judge Ray, after arguing tbe question at great leDgtb, decided that

the General Government has nn noi tv impose such a tax upon officers of a State Government, and that the bond a county officer cannot be rendered void and of no effect by a failure to stamp it. The case of Dobbins rs. the Commissioners of Erie county (16 Peters, 435) is cited, in which the argument against the right of a State to tax the salary of an officer of the United States is, that under ihi Constitution the General Government has the right to employ its officers and agents to execute its laws and fix its compensation for the discharge of those services, and that this being a sovereign power, it cannot be controlled by the State. So the State has, under the same Constitntion, the right to perpetuate itself, to employ its officers to execute its laws and fix their cotcpeosatian. Again, it is said the taxation of the office or its salary is in effect a tax upon the Uuited States Government. If so, a tax upon the Slate officers is to that extent a tax upon the State, and Congress can only impose such a tax by.apportiooment directly. True, the amount exacted is small. So it was in the cse of the Government officer whose office was appraised, for taxatiec. But the power to exact one dollar involves the power to levy one thousand. The power to tax involves the power to destroy. The other decision was in two cases from Morgan and Vermillion counties, where County Clerks had brought suit against the county for costs in criminal cases dismissed on a nolle jyronequi. The Court decide that the county is not liable in such oasc-a any more than iu criminal cases where there was a trial aud failure to convict. - - r W B wu NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Bhiekbcrrles For Sale. K. HOOKAFKLLAR Jr., of New Trents, X-It offers for sale twelve hundred cans af UUe-berrit-s warranted lo It of equality superior t any that can be obtained it Cincinnati. He u( sell them at the uiuil market prieoi. CUll aoox. Dec. 3 3 it. AUUlNISTll VTOirS NOTICEN O TICE ii hereby giv..-n that the under.igne-l Las been appointed A duiinUtratnr of the Rotate of Juliu UiitBS, JatQof Kruiiklin Cuiinty, decH. Said Kst.ilo ia supposed to be sulvent. UlCUAHl 0'ES, Adin'r. deo. 3, 1S09 3w. KOTICK. rl''l Snndersigned having purchased the interX ct of Mr. Altert Kuube, formerly of tha drill uf Knabe .t Bmckauip, ia the Grocery btuiniss opposite the Court lluuxe, thote hatrin; cl.ttius against the alvve firm ar knowing them -selves in' ebted to c aid rin , and also th use with tog to buy viiucutitfii, will oblige me with an early catl. J. 11. UiiOUKAAlr". I hereby express my think. for the liber il p.ilioii:igo given mo while in my buine. in UrooK v Hie, nnd hiipe thtil my forairr pat.ona wtd grant the same Uvur to uiy rai-csnr. 1 will continue tbe buiner ms ir.iirr!y in hichmon l Ind., and bopo iuy li lends when they visit t iebjiiutnil m i 1 1 tr. i . in il i ii I i . dec. 3w. ALBERT KNABK. COSDlISSIOSEfTS SALE OF REAL KSTATK. T'HE undersigned Cni:uist ir.er by order of the i rxitkiiti County Coiainun 1'len Court, in tbec.ua ot kli7.-il.eth Silt, John i . i'uikUv ani others vs. ilry M. llulkley , (if not previous jr eold at private sule,) will te. I at public auction, on the premises, on MWk., 2hl of DccimUr, IStJO, between the hvur of 1 and 4 o'clock V. M . of s:inl day, tbe lollowing do-i-r-Led Real Ke ate. situate in truiikiia County, indrana, to wit: l'arl .l -actional itc'.ion thirly-etie, Town ten, Uaeue West, commencing at the Xeribwet luriicr of said Fractional bection Ho, 31, running thence Suuiu oil the Went line of said Fractional Section to tbe Nortbwevt corner of tho 4i 'i acre tract of lun d convened by Jarar Uorduu t'. Sarah l'ctre, thence Katt on tbe North line uf aaid 47 acre tiactto a take ner two hickoiy trees uixrked as witnesses to tharfouth.et cerncr of a 2 1) acre tract of l.ind conveyed by : U. U. S-'cbrichte to Aaron ounts, thence North piirj.lLi-l with tbe Eat line of laid Fractional Oocliou forty poles to a suke at tbe Kerthwcst corner of sw.id i" acre tract conveyed to said Vounis, tucne-o East eighty poles on the North line of aid 2a acre tract to lue Ea.-t line of raid Fractional iSevtioa sear two small wbite walnut trees marksd as witnesses, thence on the line of said Fractitn al Section JS orth to the Mortbemt corner thereof, thence West on said Fractional Section line dividing Fractional Sections 30 aid 3d to the placi of beginning, containing ICO acre tuoro oc lo.-a. Also the South part of Fractional Section thirty in said Town and Range, described thu": commencing at the Southwest corner of eau Fractional Section 30, thence East ou the South lice of said Ft actional Section one hundred and eixty poles to the Southeast corner thereof, tuence North eutheKast line of said Fractional Section fourteen polen, tbence West parallel with theco'ith line of said -Fractional Section oue hundred poles to the old boundary line, thenow South . bouadary lino fourteen poles U place of.LeginjiingcofltiuMQ aret mere or ta-'S. ... The above land is known as the "Bulkier Homestead Farm," and will be sold at a certam price per acre as 170 acres (be the same more or less. Thia larm is situate in Fairfield Township, about two mile Sou.th.west ol the Town ol Fairfield, and a like distance Southeast cf 100. ' ing Grove. It i in good repair and in a Bit state of cultivation. Tbe noil is lrrtilc snd wen adapted to raising grain and stock. There r several living springs aS'ordrag. abundance water at all teatous, 1( 0 acres eleareV., " ' in timber of the best quality. T house large well built frame with modera improvements, a good cellar, well of water aaa e"u' ' Large frame barn , spacious stablts and t sheds attached . (Jood well in the yard. There is a lge bearing Apple Orvbai eiiw best quality ol grafted lruit, a large Feae chard of well selected fruit, besides a "''' other fruit, such as pears, cherries, p' ' grapes, Ac. 1 hese orohar ds fcsrceiy e 1 here is also a nrat rate Bione vumi jj -.- Diablo yalue. Most of the desired conveu. and corxiforts are found ou this farm. ni.' ii l' fw .11.. nn..lliinl ra.h On n3 of eale, one-third in one year, and the rem ing one-third in two years from day r6,u:"7 deferred payment to be secured by the chaser executing notes and mortgage air premises, bearing interest from dale, and ing valuation and appraisement laws. to Bids for private sale will be received up the 27tb of December. iiFr rnrihor-narrinulara. call onjamei . "V 1 " w..u.m Miller. ley, on me premises, or n o'" ,nKiB.ld. Indiana. WILLIAM I'-J? . ... field, Indiana. Dec. 3, 186tf-4w, Commissi0""' SEALED PROPOSALS. Sealed proposal will be received at this t til the 4th day of December next for ear the mail from the Station on the W " ' tri4t to this office twelve times a week. . biddiof ii required to be executed; but Person' ixn must be honest and oapable, not IeM tD" elr, years old, and pledged to ere at ;" ""tt or until otherwise ordered by tne k. General at the price proposed. J m. ,of th allowed than a reasonable ooP"8";, servi erTice. All person engaged in them kr th are required to take the oath P"8", eomrooBacu of Congress of Jul, 2d, 18b2, d copIt called tbe "test oath.' ra p tf, 'NoTSO-tf. SAMUEL DA IS, r-