Indiana American, Volume 8, Number 50, Brookville, Franklin County, 10 December 1869 — Page 2

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C. H. BINGHAM, Editor.

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Friday Morning. December 10, 1869

: Congress President's Message. The Forty-first Congress met on Monday, and proceeded promptly to business. We are able to give only a portion of the 'President's Message this week, but will publish the balance in our next number. The Fifteenth Amendment. "The bill of Senator MoTton, introduced in the Senate on Monday, requiring the tatification of the Fifteenth Amendment fcy the Legislature of Georgia, will place its adoption beyond the possibility of failure. -. Sale of Land for Taxes.

Attorney General Williamson has given an opinion that real estate can not be sold far taxes until the personal property of the owner is disposed of, although the tax is a perpetual incumbrance on the real estate until paid by some mode known to the law. It follows that until personal property is disposed of, the officer need not advertise land as delinquent, for the law does not require a useless and foolish act. The Position of Senator Morton. r , The Indianapolis Journal denies, authoritatively, the report from Washington that Senator Morton had expressed hiaelf as in favor of a tariff for protection, and opposed to a reduction of taxes, the funding of the public debt, and the bill "providing for the eiualiztiun of the curttney, thus giving the West and South their proper proportion of circulation.

Raid on Distilleries. A raid was made last Friday on a large number of distilleries in Brooklyn. At daybreak a force of six hundred regular troops landed at the Navy Yard, where they were joined by a working party of fifty, armed with ax.ee and crowtar?, and proceeded to the scene of action. A compie surprise was effected, a cordon of military, with loaded rifles and fixed bayonets, being thrown around that quarter before any concealment could be made or operations stopped. The revenue officials then went to work destroying every still for which the proper papers could not be shown. The tubs and vats were rolled into the streets and knocked to pieces, while the stills, worms and copper fixtures

were carried to the Navy Yard. The locality is mainly iuhabited by Iriih, and these thronged the sidewalks and filled the windows, inducing in oaths and abuse, but feared to make any serious disturbance. Hy noon thirteen distilleries had been utterly demolished, a large quantity of whisky seized, and a still larger aaiount, in process of manufacture, pumped into the gutter. On the return to the Navy Yard an immense throng made riotous demonstrations upon the revenue officers, but the military evincing a determination to charge upon the crowd, the attempt was abandoned. The property destroyed and coufisoated cannot bo less than $501), 000.

Our Candidate for Congress. j As the time is not distant when the Republicans of this ('ongressioual District must select a candidate for Congress, we deem it of the utmost, importance to the party that the subject be at once earnestly considered. It must be remembered that im re than ordinary care should be exercised in the selectiou of a candidate for that posiron. We have no Presidential or Gubernatorial election next year, and our success in the main in this State then will depend on prudent and popular men to canvass the several Congressional Districts as candidates for Congress. While we want

available men, we want, and must have.

men of such ability that, when elected,

they will do honor to the State, and sus

tain themselves in their position. In this District the contest is close, but

with the right man for our candidate there

can be no doubt of our success, and for

tnnatelv t'sr us. as we think, we have that

very man in in the person of the Uon. J. M. Wilson, of Fayette County. There is do roan in the District who has so strong aholdon the confidence of the Republicans,

and, indted, we may say, men of all parli. He was until recently the

J uue of our Circuit Court, and the unsurpassed ability he displayed on the Bench, has placed him in the foremost ranks of the many able Jurists of the State. But he is not only one cf the best lawyers and ablest Judges in the State, but he is a man thoroughly posted in politics, and as a canvasser and debater has few equals. Id is pure and upright life, his universal popularity and his matchless

ability will secure for bim nd the party more votes, in tar opinion, than any other man we could nominate for the position. lie is many more votes stronger, we are confident, in Shelby County, than any other man we could choose. Let us sot suffer our party to be beaten in order to please men who are constantly fastening the mselves upon us ag .iiiSt the judgment of therxasses of the party. Give us Judge Wilson for a candidate, aud he will be elec

ted by such a majority as will break down all hope on the part of the Democrats that they can make this a Democratic District. We hope that the Republicans will at once wake up to the consideration of this matter; and we feel confident that, it" the masses of the party are lel'traa they should be, to make the choice of a candidate, without the interference of aspiring men and intriguing politicians, that Jude WiU son will be the uuanimous choice of the patty for the position. Shelby Republics. At present Judge Wilson is absent holding court at G reeusburg. Withoutknow. ing whether or not be would consent to become a candidate for Congress, we feel as

sured in saying there is no man who would I

Items of State News.

On Saturday night five pipes were sto-j

leu from the organ of the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Terre Haute.

Nicholas Elles, of Evansville, has a whisky bottle one hundred and thirty-eight

years old.

On Salt Creek, in Lawrence County, there is a sycamore tree forty feet and seven inches in circumference. There are now two convicts in the jail at Terre Haute, under sentence of death John Stevens and Oliver Morgan. Louia Baker, a carpenter residing at

Jcffersonville, fell from the Ohio river

bridge, on Friday, a distance of 100 feet, and received mortal injuries. Minnie Buck, five years old, was killed at Madison, on Sunday, by being struck in the back with a stone rolled by a boy down

hill, at the foot of which she was playing.

Oliver A. Morgan, on trial in Terre Haute for the murder of John Petri, in

Ju'y last, was on Saturday found guilty of

murder in me nrsi aegree, nuu scuicu to be hung. Abrams, one of the murderers of the Young family, at Indianapolis, is in the cooper business, at the Michigan City Penitentiary. The Ohio Falls Iron-Works, of New AlbiT have furnished eisht and a half il-

j i - - - lion pounds of iron for the bridge over the

Ohio River at the falls. A farmer in Putnam County has kept a pair of black snakes in his barn several years, and rats and mice, disliking such company, left long since. By a lamp explosion ia a millinery shop at Fort Wayne, on Wednesday night, a young girl named Amelia Hemmerwasse riously, and, perhaps, fatally burnt. A possum huat took place near Milltown, Crawford County, a few nights agot in which a large number of citiaeus joiued, and two hundred possums were caught. At Indianapolis, on Wednesday, Curraa E. McDonald, deputy United States Mar. shal, lost his feet by jumping off a train in

motion on the Junction Road. Saturday morning, at Fort Wayne, a couple of ladies discovered some hogs eating the body of a child supposed to be about three weeks old, on WasbiagUn street. It is not known where it came from. Twenty. two thousand dollars toward a

I and that the speedy arrest of the criminal

is expected. The little boy who was lett for dead is recovering, and is able to de

scribe the murderer.

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. To the Senate and JUoute of Erpresentatives: In coming before you for the first time

as Chief Magistrate of this great nation,

it is with great gratitude to the Giver ot all good for the many benefits we enjoy. We are blessed with peace at home, and are without entangling alliances abroad to foment trouble. With a territory unsurpassed in fertility, of an area equal to the abundant support of five hundred millions of people, and abounding in every variety of useful mineral, in quantity sufficient to supply the world for generations, with exuberant crops, with a variety of climate adapted to the production of every species of earth's riches and suited to the

habits, tastes and requirements of every living thing, with a population of40,000,000 of free people, all speaking one language, with facilities for every mortal to acquire an education, with institutions closing to

none the avenues to lame or any blessing of fortune that may be coveted, with freedom of pulpit, the press and the school, with a revenue flowing into the National Treasury beyond the requirements of government supply, harmony is being rapidly restored within our own borders. Manufactures hitherto unknown in our coun

try are springing up in all directions, producing a degree of national independence

unequaled by any other power, these blessings and couutless others are intrust, ed to your care, and more, for safe keep-

iug for the brief period of ur tenure of otiice. In a short time we must each of

us return to the ranks of the people, who

have conferred uioa us our honors, and

a account to them for our stewardship. 1 earnestly desire that neither you or L may be condemned by a fiee and enlightened constituency, nor by our own conscience.

receive more votes in this county than j rink have been subscribed at Fort Way ne.

: Hon. Geo. W what better.

Julian's health is some-

It is understood that Julga lleid has the inside track for the Democratic nomination for Cougress.

Over two hundred bills for the creation of a new banking law; will be pn-seuted

to Congress within the next ten days. j Mr. Albert D. Richardson died at 5 o'clock Thursday morning. He was buried at Mcdway, Massachusetts. The Dearborn County Democratic Convention instructed its delegates to v-te lor an adjournment of the Stale Conteutiwn until My. . In the Tennessee Senate tUe IIouc resolution was unanimously adopted requesting Congress to remove all disabilities imposed by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Richmoud Telejjiam says it is rumored that Williavi A. Dickie will compete with Judge Rcid (or the Democratic nomination for Congress in lhir Dittrtct.

Gen. Sherman received Jhn O. Breck ioridge at the War Department on Thurs

day. They conversed on old urn-y scenes t

with great cordiality, and the sulject of politics was uot evvn alluded to. !- Senator Muitou wutcs to his friends in Indianapolis, from Washington, that he is coufident the Fii'tteiitli Amendment will become a part of the Cons-titution before Congress ailj iurn. . . , , Commissioner Wells expressed ike opin

ion that the revenue ci;i be leducod one

hundred and twenty m:i!bin d tiljr, to this end the Committee on -ivs

Jud;e Wilson. Universally popular in

both parties, as a Judge, his many friends have every asfurauce that he would ably and satisfactorily represent them in Congress. Give hiui a fair open field, and there can be no question of his election.

Couuersviila limes. Won't Give Him Up. A few weeks since we expressed our preference for Judge J. M. Wilson lor Supreme Judge, and everybody iu this coin in unity said amen. But since that time we have met and conversed with some cf the prominent men of tbe 4th Congressional District, and they beg to enter a most solemn aud earnest protest. Not that they do not think he is amply qualified for the position, and would be an honor to the party electing him, and an ornameut to tbe Supreme Bench, but they have another place for him. The name of Judge J. M. Wilson is in itself a tower of strength in his District, and the people there demand his services in the uext Congressional race. They propose t set.d him to Cougress in place of Geo. W . Julian. While we would be pleased to see his came upon the ticket for the Supreme

Judgebbip, if it is thought best te send him to Congress we give a hearty acquiescence. He is worthy of any position in

the gilt of the State, and our wish is that I

if he has any preference between the two positions named, he may get his choice. Greeusburg Standard. The New Yotk Herald says the President's Messige is that of an honest, clearheaded, practical mail. The Titaes says it coutaiuH good news throughout. TueTribune regards it as one of the wisest and most judicious ever written. The Wrld

says it is the weakest ever sent to Ccat:rCfS. A resolution was introduced into the Tennessee House on Friday, recommending the coming Constitutional Convention

to enact a provision in the ( cnstitution extending towomen the rii;ht to vote, hold office aud tit oojuiies. Alter a facetious discussion the motion to tylie the resolu-

tion wus lost by a vote of 42 to "9, and

the resolution was rt fared to a select committee.

The Junction City (Kansas) Union sas: ''Charles Brown, who has been a cuptive three years among the Cheyenne Indians, and who has just escaped, states that there are iu the several bunds of that tribe ruoie than twenty white boys and "iris captives. Among them Henrietta Floyd, sixteen jers old, daughter of Wil iiato H. Floyd, a furniture dealer in Beaten. This girl was visiting friends in Texas with a brother when the Indians

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a,.j ! rit d her into captivity."

Means propose to cut uou the lanfj twen- i x0TU Wksteun Farmer. We invite tj-fivc millions, and the internal liven uo ' attention to the prospectus of the Jsoith fifty tnilliuus. Western Farmer in another column, with j At the request ut a number f Tcr.no;- j the simple statement that it is all it claims tee Republicans now in Washington, a j to be a fiist-CUs Rural Magazine. The

resolution of inquiry will be presented in

both House of Congress at an early day as to the right cf the Legislature of that tLc to repeal tj;a laws secured to the citizens by the Civil Rights bill. A formidable whisky rinj; at St. Louis us almost outirflv roKeu up. It contain-

December number is a superb affair. The farmers of tho West should give this monthly a rousing circulation. Great excitement prevails in Wabash, over the enforcement of the Sunday law Men, women and children are indicted for fishing, sewing, knitting and blacking

ed a capital of some ?M,OUO,0 JO, and em- i boots on that day. About one hundred bracpd in it organization many wealthy j indictments were lately returned into Court men and a number of Government olScials. i against the best citizens of the town, inA loboecc rio-' has thured the mine ! eluding several ladies. Three negro bar-

Two thousand dollars more is required,

and comes slowly. Alexander Chamberlain, af Seymour, i held one end of an old gun barrel in the fire, and put his eye to the muxzle to see if it was loaded. It was. In a drunken row at Columbia City, on Monday, Charles Howell subbed Lewis Lavine three times in the abdomen and four times in tbe head. Lavine will probably die. Howell was arrested. At Aurera, en Friday, a littla son of Philip Ilariug, niue years old, having been missed over night, was found in a vat at Wyntond's steam coopering establishiaeat, into which he had falleu and was drowned. Near Evansville, on Weduesday, a small boy named Edward Rodgers watching sasie persons kllliug hogs, accidentally fell iuto a kettle of boiling water and was severely scalded. Henry Harter, a manufacturer of cutlery near Richmond, Indiana, brought seventeen men whom he employs, frani Europe, where they had previously worked for him in the same business. Augustus Coors, who recently sued a

man named Coughran, of Indianapolis, for thirty thousand dollar damagesfor seduction of bis wife, having been divorced and

remarried, has withdrawn the suit. A fire broke out in the warehouse of Small & Co., Aurora, about 4 o'clock Saturday morning, and the building and two hundred bales of hay were speedily consumed, all efforts to subdue the fames proving unavailing. No other property

wis '. linked. An old man named Fiihcr, at Patoka, told his wife he was going into the cellar to commit suicide. She heard his pistol and kept on knitting. In about an hour Fisher came up, thinking they didn't miss

him at home. Morgan Kean, a saloon keeper in Mitch ell, was killed by being run over on the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad in that town on Friday night. His body was reduced to an indistinguishable mass. Three or four trains had passed over it. A lighted pipe filled with powder, but with a light covering of tobacco, was put to the face of a little boy named Kavanaugh by another boy at Indianapolis, on Wed uesday, when it exploded, and the little fellow's eye was put out. In Union township, Vanderburg County, Tuesday evening, in a quarrel between Thomas Ball and William Thomas, about four dollars, which the latter owed the former, Thomas struck Ball with a club, and he died in two hours. At New Albany, a few nights ago, the floor of a house gave way with a wedding

party, when the ceremony was but half done, and there were shrieks and screams, but, nobody being hart, the guests assembled in another room and all was ended well. Abram D. Allen, a fcighly resectable citizen of Vigo County, took down his gun, Wednesday, to shoot a hawk. Wishing to

ascertain whether the gun was loaded, he put his foot upon the hammer and his mouth to the muzzle, when his foot slipped and the top of his head came off. The New Albany Commercial says that one of the best detectives of Indiana is in

vestigating the recent murder of the Gear-

STATE OF THE COUNTRY. Emerging from a rebellion of gigantic magnitude, aided as it was by the sympathies and assistance of nations with which we were at peace, eleven Statesof the Union were, four years ago, left without legal State Government, a debt had been contracted, American commerce was almost driven from the seas, tha industry of one half of the country had been taken from the control af the capitalist, and placed where all labor rightfully belongs in the keeping of tke laborer. The work of restoring the State Governments loyal to the Union, of protecting and fostering free labor and providing means for paying the interest on the public debt has received ample attention from Congress, although your members have not met with the success iu all particulars that might have been desired. Yet, on the whole, they kave beeu more successful than could have been reaseuubty anticipated. Seven States which passed ordinances of secession have been fully restored to their places in the Union. On the 8th Geor-ia held an election, at which. she ratified her Coustituiioti, republican in form, elected a Governor, members of Cengres?, a Slate Legislature, and all other officers required, 'i he Governor was duly installed, and the Legislature met and performed all the acts theu reauired ef them by the reconstruc

tion acts of Cougress. Subsequently, however, in violation of tbe Constitution which they bad just ratified, as since decided by the Supreme Court of the State, they unseated the colored membsrs of the Legislature, and admitted to seats some members who aie disqualified by the third clause of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, an article which ihey themselves had contributed to ratify. Under these

circumstances I would submit to you, whether it would not be wise without delay to pass a law aulhoriziug the Governor of Georgia to convene the members

- - originally elected to the Legislature requiring each meaber to take the oath prescribed by the Recoustructiou act, aud none to be admitted who are ineligible under the third clause of the Fourteenth Ameudment. The freedmen, under the protection which they have received, are making rapid progress in learning, and uo complaints are heard of the lack of industry on their

part wien they receive fair remuneration for their labor.

a tair regard to me interest oi me aeoior class. Immediate resumption, if practicable, would not be desirable. It would compel the debtor class to pay beyond their contract the premium on gold at the date of their purchase, and would bring bankruptcy and ruin to thousands. Fluctuations, however, in the paper value of

the measure of all values of gold is detrimental to the interests of trade. It makes

the man of business an involuntary gambler; for in all sales, when future payment is to be made, both parties speculate as to what will be the value of the currency to be paid agd received. I earnestly recommend to yon, then, such legislation as will insure a gradual return to specie payments, and to put an immediate stop to fluctuation in tbe value of currency. The methods to secure these results are as numerous as are the speculators on political economy. To secure the latter I see but

one way, and that is to authorize the treas

ury to redeem its own paper at a fixed ps ice whenever presented; to withhold from circulation all such currency redeemed until sold again for gold. The vast resources of the nation, both developed and undeveloped, ought to make our credit the best on earth. With less burden of taxation than the citizen has endured for six

years past, the ecrire public debt could be paid in ten years, but it is not desirable that the people should be taxed to pay it ia that time year by jear. The ability to pay increases in a rapid ratio, but the burden of interest ought to be reduced as rapidly as can be done without the violation of contract. The public debt is represented ia great part by bonds having from five to twenty, and from ten to forty years to run, bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent, and 5 peY cent, respectively. It is optional with the Government to pay these bonds at any period after the expiration of the last time mentioned upon their face. The time has already expired

when a great part f them may be taken up. The time is rapidly approaching when all may be. It is believed that ail which s.re now due may be replaced by bouds bearing a rate of interest not exceeding 4 per cent., and as rapidly as the remainder couae due, that they may be

replaced in the same way. To accomplish this it may be necessary to authorise the interest to be paid at either of three or four of the money centers of Europe, or by any Assistant Treasurer of the Uuited States, at the option of the holder of the bond. 1 suggest this subject for the consideration of Congress. Also, simultaneously with this, the propriety of redeeming our currency, as beiore suggested, at its market value at the time the law goes into effect, increasing the rate at wkich currency will be broughtand sold from day to day or week to week, at the same rate of interest as the Government pays upon its bouds.

TARIFF AND TAXATION.

The subject of tariff and internal taxation will necessarily receive your attention. The revenues of the country are greater than tbe requirements, and may with safety be reduced. But as the funding of the debt at a four or a four and one half per ceut. rate would reduce the annual current expense largely, thus after, funding, justifying a greater reduction of taxatiou than would now be expedient, I suggest that the postponement ef this question until the next uieeiiug of Congress way

be advisable. Of a geuera! revision f the laws regulating this subject, I recommeud tbe postponement lor the present. 1 also suggest the renewal of the tax on incomes,

but at a reduced rate, say ot three per cent., and this tax to expire in three years. With tbe funding of the national debt as suggested, 1 l'eel safe iu saying the taxes aud revcuue iroai imports may be reduced safely from tdxty to eighty millions per annum at once, and still further reduced hotu year to year as the resources of the couutry are developed. The report of the Secretary of Treasury shows

the receipts of Government for the fiscal year, vudiug June 30, 1809, to be $370,1)43,747, aud tbe expenditures, including interest, bounties, Lc, to be 8321,490,597. The estimates for the ensuing year are more favorable to the Government, and will, no doubt, show a lr;e decrease of

the public debt. Tbe receipts in the Treasury, beyond the expenditures, have exceeded the amount necessary to place to the credit of the sinking fuud, a? pioviJed by law. To lock up the surplus iu the Treasury, and withhold it from circula

tion, would lead to sucn contraction oi the currency as to cripple trade and seriously affect the prosperity of the country. Under these circumstances the Secretary oi the Treasury aDd myself heartily concurred iu the propriety of using all the surplus currency in the Treasury in the purchase of Government bonds, thus reducing tbe interest bearing debt of the country, and of submitting to Congress the question of the disposition to be made of the Lo:.ds so purchased. The bonds now held by the Treasury amount to about S75 C0!),L-OU, includiug those belonging to the sicking fund. 1 recommended that the whole be placed to the credit of the SinLing Fund. Your attention is respect

fully invited to the recommendation of the

able province of Spain and a near neigh

bor of ours, ia which all our people can not but feel a deep interest, has been struggling for independence and freedom. The people and Government of theUnited States entertain the same warm feelings and spmpatbies for the people of Cuba

in their pending struggles that they manifested throughout the previous struggles between Spain and her former colonies in behalf of the latter. But the contest at do time assumed the conditions which amount to a war in the sense of international law, or which would show the existence of a de facto political organization of tbe insurgents sufficient to justify a recognition of belligerency. The principle is maintained, however, that this na

tion is its own judge when to accord the rights of belligerency either to people struggling to free themselves from a Government they believe to be oppressive, or to independent nations at war with each ther. The United States have no disposiiion to interfere with the existing relation of Spain to her colonial possessions on this Continent. They believe that in due time Spain and other European powers will find their interest in terminating these relations and establishing their present

dependencies as independent powers, members of the family of nations. The dependencies are no longer regarded as subjects of tran&fer from one European power to another. When the present relations of colonies cease, they are to become independent powers exercising the right

of choice and of self-centrol in the determination of their future condition and re

lations with other powers. The United States, in order to put a stop to bloodshed in Cuba and in the interest of a neighboring people, proposed their good offices to bring the existing contest to a termination. The offer not being accepted by Spain on a basis which we believed could be received by Cuba, was withdrawn. It is hoped that the good offices of tbe United States may yet prove advantageous for the settlement of this unhappy ttrife. Meanwhile, a number of illegal expeditions against Cuba have been broken up. It has been the eudeavor of the Administration to execute

the neutrality laws in good faith, no matter how unpleasant the task is made by

the suffering we have endured from Jack of like gt od faith toward us by other na tions. The .United States schooner Liziie Maj r was arrested on the hih seas, by a branch fria'e, nd two pis

aengtrs taken from it and c.riird as prisoners to Cuba. Representations tf thee facts were made to tbe Spanish Government as soon as official information of them reached Washington. The two p;s seugers were set at liberty, and the Spanish Government assured the United States that the Captain of the frigate, iu making the capture, had acted without law; that he bad been reprimanded for the irregularity of his conduct, aud that the Spanish authorities iu Cuba would Dot sanction any act thbt could violate the right or treat with disrespect the sovereignty of this nation. Conclusion next iceclc.

repudiated by tbe people. Good for . the

President and good lor the people. Colonel Alcorn, Governor elect, is an old citizen of the State. Drawing his sword for tbe Confederacy when the war broke out, he fought as best and valiantly as he could. When the war was over he; laid aside bis sword, and confessing himself beaten, went to work in the cause of the Union and harmony. His election can not but prove gratifying to the North, as a proof that Mississippi is in earnest in her desire for restoration. Gazette. The State Treasury. Some of the Democratic papers of tbe State, pitching their key note in harmony

with that sounded by the Sentinel, affect to be seriously alarmed at the fact that the receipts of the State Treasury for the mouth of November were not so large by alrnost 50,000 as the disbursements, "thereby showing that the State funds are fearfully on the decrease." They should know that this is always the case at certain seasons of the year, while at other times the receipts exceed the disbursements. The school fund was nearly all paid out during the month of November, under the fall distribution, and, as might have been seen, aa the various county settlements were noted; the amount paid out exceeded that received, from nearly every county. The present State administration is going upon the principle that it is not good policj to have a large "surplus lying idle in the treasury, but that it should be paid out toward the extinguishment of the debt.

By the way, the Democratic papers are verycareful to make no mention of the fact that over 1,600,000 of the State debtwas extinuuished during the past year, reduccing it almost one half. That is a morsel which would give tbeir readers a very poor appetite for growling. "Journal. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

BUOOKVILLE NATIONAL BANK. Til E annual meeting of the Stockholders of tbe BrooVv iile National Bauk, lor the election of (even Director, mill be held at its Banking House (n Tut sduy, January 11, 1S7I, between the hours f IB A. M and 4 P.M. Dec. 10 4w. JOHN V . Ill TT, Cashier.

Administrator's Notice "VTOTICK is hereby given that the unIcrigned -L has tlii day Veen n) i ioie.t Aiimini? trutnr f bc Kriaiei t .Vault HuuliinM.n. dcreareJ. SaiU K.-tate is st.lvrnt. Persons irnltblad to aaut K sTate will call sr.d tettlc. null jt-rrcr.s baring ciaiius ug::iut tie Kst.ite will fill- ihem for rente Kent. ZACllAKY . ll U Ti il IN50S , lice. 6, 109 3w. .Adoiiiistratur.

ADMIN lSTRATOIi'S'SALK. HpIIF. tini!fTriiicd A J . iu'ntrator of the tte JL ot John Hales, dec'J, will oiler at pub'ic sale, oa tbe premises, Oil WetlhtSihiy, Jiinuary hlh, 1SG9, the following JoseribaJ perio.l property, to wit: Hni-fen. Onttlo, 20 head of Stock Hog, 25 head iC fattening Hags, 20 he.-id of Uctp, Wheat and Oato in ibe granary, Furiuing I'tessilj f tvtiy kind, Sprtng Wnjt.n, l!ugy , twu tetn of UarXjes. and other article too tedious to iiieutiun. Sale to coiiiuienco at 3 o'o!ok A. M. Term made ksiown on day of f!e. df-c. 10-:;w. R. 1 C II A It & !ATES, Ailm'r. IX 3AXKil'PTCy. ryilTS is to (iive r.,tice that on the 22t day tf A Koveiui-cr A. D. lM'i9, a Wairant in Uankruj'tey was i?uid wuiiit tlir t?iaie I Uarrftrti K.im.?, ot" tiidciiburg, in th- Cuii'y of r'rnklin and"::i:e of Imtina, who has i.eeu aljudeJ Bui krupt, on Lis own petition: That the vyiat of auj debts ami de'.iveiy of i.i.y injerty !- long. tig t tuvh BnkrU.t to uim. or !r b u,, anil tl.u UacftVr ot any Mojeiiy by hiui is fTi. : i i . i i ... . i' '...t:

more or leas interested, 1 wi.l cnueavor to ; thl. s..u. i;.lUuuV t. to Vrw e tt.vi: Ci.-s ;..uU give them a few of the inuat important , t,i.e ,,r u.ore Asinee . t' '-.i.-. estate, w;ii u noi-i-f-iets in Ihe case j e. at a Curt ot lUnkrtH-y, t . be bolJet. t tie ffutts in me tae. i iicc ot J. hn vy u iV . u ;.-bi..u.n Mre... bo met line &ifee the ni rity ot tle , , .- ... ,h.. ..,. d .. ,f u,.,.cu,itr. i.

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tXN. J. SPOftNKH, V. S. ?!-T.-h..!, BiUii.;! of Indiana. P?. 10, li-rt.l-Cw. .i K.SSKNCKE.

Letter From Cir.cipnsti. Cincinnati, December 1, I860. Correspondence of the Ia iianat'olis Journal. A question of vast imyort tnee is being agitated here tho liib'e in the Vubtic Schools and as' your readers ara all

PUBLIC DEBT. The means provided for paying the interest on the public debt, with all other

expenses of (he Government, are more than ample. The los of our commerce is the only result of the late rebellion which has not received sufficient attention from you. To this subject I call your earnest attention. I will not now suggest plans by which this object may be effected, but will, if uecessary, make it the subject of a special message during the session of C ingress. RECOXSTRt'CTIOK. At the March term Congress, by joint resolution, authorized the Executive to order an election in the States of Virginia, Mississippi aud Texas, and to submit to them the Constitution which each had

previously in convention framed, and to Secretary cf tho Treasury for tha creation

submit the Constitution either entire or in separate purts, to be voted on at the discretion of the Executive. Under this au. thority elections were called. In Virginia the election took place on the U:b of July, lSilO. Tbe Governor oud Lieutenant Goveraor elected have been installed. The Legislature met aud did all required by this resolution aud by all the Reconstruction acts of Congress, aud abstaiucd front all daubiful authority. I recommend that her Senator and Representatives be admitted, and that the State be fully restored to its place in the family of States. Elections were called in Mississippi and Texas to commence on the 30th of November, ISU9, and to last two days in Mississippi and four days in Texas. The elections have taken place, but tbe result is not known. It is t be hoped that the

acts oi tbe Legislatures ot tuese siaies ; ; it properly

when they meet will be sueii as to receive j

your approbation and thus close tue work of reconstruction. IRREDEEMABLE CURRENCT. Among the evils growing out of tho rebellion and not yet refenei to is that of an irredeemable currency. It is an evil which I hope will receive your most earuest attention. It is a duty, and one of the highest duties of the Government, to secure to tbe citizens a medium of exchange of fixed, unvarying value. This implies a return to a specie basis, and no substitute for it can be devised. It should be

commenced now and reached at the ear-

of the oiii'ja of Couimisbiouer of C ustoms

Revenue, for the increase of salary to certain classes cf officials, aud the substitution of increased Is'atioual Bank circulation to replace the outstanding three per cent, certificates, and most especially to his rtcommenduliou for tho reptjal of laws ailowiag shares of flues, petialtic, forfeitures, JLc, to officers of the Government, or to it.lbin ers. The otiice of Commissioner of internal Revenue is one of the most arduous and lo-ponsible under the Government. It falls but little, if any, short of a Caliut t position iu its import, atice and re.-ponMbiaiics. I would ak fur it, therefore, t-uch legislation as iu your judgment will place tbe ollice on a footing of dignity commensurate with its impor ance, and with the character and qualifications of the class of men required to

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As the United States is the freecst of ail nations, so too its people sympathize with ail people struggling for liberty and self government, but wl iie so sympathizing, it is due to ourhonor that wc should abstain from enforcing our views upon unwilling nations, and from taking au in terested part without invitation in the quarrels between different nations or between Governments aud their subjects. Our course should always be in conformity with strict justice and law, international aad local. Such has been the policy

of the administration in dealing with these

School Board decided t- ord. r tht ti.e

reading of the Scriptures and singi-ic.fj hymns be dicontiuued at the opening ef I school. (This was done at the in-tancc j. of tho Jewish and Catholic citizens.)!

Thereupon Jir. Johti 1). inor, and

some cibcr citizens, twisre out an njunc-tii-n restraining them from the ci.!rceraect of that order, and the ivjuitction

suit was commenced in tho

Couit here l:.st Monday mcrni'ig, with

Judges Storer, Ilagins and Tuft on the j bench, and some of the brightest lights ot ; the leal profession engaged as counsel on j both sides. Judges Siallo. Hoadicv and j

Goldr-on by those iu favor of its expulsion, and Messrs. Matthews, liaisisey and Sa.e

by the oppobite tide. Listening to the speeches 3 person wil! be very much surprised at he amount of good sound reasons that can be used, both in favor of its discontinuance and its not being read. At first thought perrons of Protestant belief will verj naturally suppose that there is no good reason why the Bible should not be read at any time, and in any place, but such is not the case, considered as a point of law and justice. There are really many good reasons why the reading of it should be dispensed with, and especially in this city, where a very large class of the voters, and owners, aud tax-payers on millions of dollars' worth of property, are Jews and Catholics, and in a land that boasts of its free institutions, and where all are guaranteed by the Constitution of the country the right to worship God after the dictates of his or her own conscinnce. Can you compel a man to pay taxes for the support ot a theory in which he has been taught from his infancy to disbelieve? Judge lloadley preseuted this fact yesterday with e loarness aud force, and with sucli logic that bis opponents will ii d his argumeuts very hard to gainsay. Mr. Sage, who is a young man of marked ability, followed hiui this morning in a strong, manly and exhaustive speech, in which the whole grounds iu controversy were gone over, in a manner which left eo doubt in the minds of bis hearers but that he had given his subject that careful study that the deep importance of hi3 subject demands. It was one of the strongest pleas for humanity: throughout he evinced that holy admiration for and belief in the Divine and Uolv religion of our blessed Lord and Savior that always characterizes the true man. It has never been my good fortune to hear a more able or manly argument in so worthy a cause. The court room is constantly crowded, a great many ladies being present.

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W uhcrs. of Ceil., r litove , in t Vie County ot Ir'ilin i li ft ta te of I ii diana , h o has ben 8'iju

Supcri';r ed a !at: krupt. oil his o-n petition: 1 hat th

!ameutu! aay ileols unit iletivcry ot any erty br.loi'i.'ijc t" suth Batik nipt tu him, or for ki jsu, aii.l :uu transfer of any property by htia is ;orbi.td.ti by law; tb vt a mooting of t!ie Creditorsot'tbo said Bankrupt, to prove their dbt and ctoi.se ono or ui'ire Assignees of hi "U"' wili be bolderi at a Court of Lankruptry, t.i b solden kt thd Offico ot Jhn . Kay, Kt V a.-bing'ou Street, I ndianpolis, on the 2Mi1 of Ifocoiuber A. K. 1S6D at 'J .t'jtocc, A. M. BKN. J. Sl'uOSER, 1T. S. Marshal, District of Iodin. Tec. !. lM'..-2w. MkssksiSk. Let the Afilicted Read! Dit. T. B. Talsott's G reat System Ken-

It a Vi'muhrful Cures of Dheasts Arising from Vcraiigimcnt vf the Blood. TWO-T1I1KDS of tbe diseases to which hunan-

The Mississippi Election. The better news comes last. Our dispatches announce the election of Colonel Alcorn by a majority of some ten thousand. The Northern camp-follower Dent, the man who is charged with having used his military position and that of Presidential brother. in law for purposes of private speculation, who found it best lor his health to come North, who afterward returned to Mississippi to play in the honorable role of a cat's paw, and who was

questions for more than a year. A valu- repudiated by the President, has been

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ity is heir, hnve their origin iu ierangemfn" disorder ef the blood. The oewent and nJ"

important medical discovery of modern fciec

jtnd one from which humanity is reoeivipe . . . . . . . . . . n l' L' II U I- . -

greatest blesfing is tbe UK fa A j. ti'i " OVATOK of 1b. T. B. Talbottof Mtaio Imhana. Ihe best medical intellect through"" the land me daily admitting the fuperioritT ' the Renovator, in diseasis of tho blood, to other medicines. I am not only persuaded tr what I comprehend of its vegetable and bota' ingredients, of its great medical cflicaey, from my enervation of its almost nnracai cures of the most complicated diseases from the impurities of tbe blood. In tn'' V nection I can bat remark upon Ihe wonderful p limivR and curative aeencv of the 8ystein f

vatorin all the cutaneous diseases, relieving curing an it docs the most aggravated and hopeless forms of Scrofula or King's Evil, lievo I am not over sanguine in my conn that the greatest medical blessing of ,

times ist'uU wenderlul discovery anu

Ur. A . U. laiDoll, . ,!,, I am sustained by the medical worm ( statement that the worst furms ot bcroi Kings Kvil and all scrofulous affestions yielding, as by magic, to the ystciu t

Jiruptive inn cutaneous aiti :-,!.. Anthony's Fire, Kose or Erysipelas, '""v,, Pustules, Blotches, Boils, Tumors, Tetter, K heum, Scald Uead, Ringworm, Ulcers " Rheumatism, Pain in the Bones, S.v I'D" '. , t,-..,,i,.l riiaojispa- Ulceration of the Kii. -

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Ilence it affords great protection iron- .

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