Indiana American, Volume 9, Number 5, Brookville, Franklin County, 4 February 1870 — Page 1

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PUBLISHED IVIRT FRIDAY BT , a. BINGHAM, Proprietor. oSce in the National Bank Building-, (fAirci story.)

TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION! $250 PERYEAR.tB abtakce. $3 00 " " IfHOTPAirtKlDUKCI So postage on papers delivered within this County. Louisville and Sandusky Railroad. From the Eatoa(Ohio) Democrat. Every day gives us new accessions of trenTth and fresh offers of money and in fluence for the prosecution of this great enterprise, and we feel more flattered with ili present indications of success than we hive ever ten nuuetiu. n me noaa is not now built, it will be simply for the nt of intelligence and discernment on the part of our people in failing t see their true interest in the matter. We maintain that no enterpise waserer 5et on foot in the Miami Valley which promised so much to our people, both generally and specially, as this Road. By this we mean the interest that will accrue when this LINK of the great line of transit from the southwest to the northeast of the Union shall be forged out and fitted in its proper place. Now in order to show that this view is not merely imaginary, let tis call your attention first to a few facts in reference to a Jew of the ad van - tog that will be furnished by this Road. Itke our own county as ao instance. We have in the northern part of the county a line cf Railroad running from East to VTest which affords to some extent an outlet to the Eastern market, although not the most direct route by any means. Sow, everybody in our county who Inows anything, knows, that everything ri'idiieed or manufacture! in this county, which has to be sent to the east or norther; fr market, commands about 10 per cent, higher price on the road running eat and west than it does at the depots iiiJ trading houses on the road running to Cincinnati. Hence Wheat, Corn, Rye Jt?., commands at Manchester and Sonora at a'l times from eiht to ten cents on the !u!iel more than it does at the grain depot at Eaton. Now, why is this, it is imply because the depots at Manchester ar.J Sonora arc immediately upon the line of road that carries these articles directly, r nearly so, to their market, while the depots at Eaton must sen! their grain away to Hamilton or Cincinnati in order to cot to a point, where they can staut hast. l iaruiesi w.iy ruuim im uo i round may bo omet.mes tne nearest road home, but it is not alwavs the chearcst, as isclearly shown l in this instance. And this state of facts arr-'.ies to every county through which tbi line of lload parses. Ai-iin, everything whu'i is produced by us. and which seeks a market in the South, vnj.t to reach th-it market by the shortest iw-il'e route, because by so d tug it will .... . . , -. ii ion:U!:tn-t aliiner price here man uwouiu j -;lici wise. The prices here of most ntti-j !es furnished by in for the Southern mar- I let, are at this time materially influenced, ! .p..nii. tlia f.i-.f tUtt nir ! t . t -t -1 ti tht ! " i - i.v i llKlKCl 19 SO toriUiMiM a;in inuiiuiuuui, 'hat much of what we should and would otherwise receive in price is couuoied in height, and by middlemen. Every sensille man knows that this state of facts 5ht not. to esif, if it is at all possible to avoid it, and it em be avoided by sim j'y building a ;5 11 Aid to the market A !ar;e amount of the productions of the OKUtn arc usevl iv us, a;.; a mucn greater amount would t used if matters wrs so arranged that our peoplo could procure ilietn without being c-! polled to pty three iinies their vain a in the. shine of unneces- . i 4 t- i . .i ,,r ,re,rm- ;v :s,7;' r,,a? .0"y-'cn ! adantaie to. and i:it as mvieli to . , i' ''- s-irod by the people of the South ss it is by i:s in the .North. I tie great practical tact 's. that the cotton field., the su:ar planta'i"tis, snd the orange troves ot the South rvi: he eanneetel with the grout wheat, oni as,.: re fields of the North by a cauiilote and direct line of tr:iiiit, commcnMirite ai;h the wjiits of trade are the reMoments t our people, and that line of, ranit h ;s tit yet been given to us. !o.i oiven fii H Hilt ! te-o are not the only local advantages 'hnt ml! a.vrue to our people bv the con-ttucii.i-i v,f this Uoad. Take again our own county as an cxHe; this road, by cutting the county rem northeast to southwest, will open up ;nj give egress and ingress to a large por- j "on ot the county which hitherto has had railroad communication whatever. se tor instance, the township ot Israel, tie ot the most populous .and wealthy j wnuj s io the county, its construction ';lle to her kverythixh. She can to tier KVF.RYTHlXa. - - . je.UiLird to build every iuch of the road ej that touches her soil. And if she rever receives one cent back in the shape "dividends. Yet the increased value ol r real etate, and the profits arising from !t"i!in"cs of trade and market thus T--"t!t-l up and furnished to her, would, in es tin ten eirs, repay her more than I fr every dollar expended. And he ss,; c lrnc p Harrison, Twin, Wash,nSton, tinper and Dixon Townships, through which the line of Road passes, all he benefitted alike, and each should 1 e C'l i iliy interested in the building '' Hea I. And what is true of this counequally true of every county, both "O-iijani Indiana, between Sandusky ad Louisville trade. The exchange of otiiti;o iities and facilities tor traveling r, whit are, or should be desired by ev,fy civilize,! people. Pigs in the woods Jctu to he sAtitied when they meet with sutli ten t amount of nuts to 6upply the fit:tid appeti-e. and in what we ask. do they differ from men who sit down 'ton a jieee of land, and are perfectly ,h land a sud sutlieiciicy of bread and meat b. 'irjMV their rihrsiil mnN tf- hvive 1 ,u-' who can discern the difference to tcnt it out. uUt we wish n.in .i nli lln attention t" reader to the ceneral advantages u'ts hne of road and it connections, as pfeat national TiionocuuFARE, and in 'tis respect we must request your atten- - . 1 1 v.. iiv.n.,.i ....-. ,va to the man ofihi. Pountrv for while. '1V.C, IX Hill UL J'lTl tCl VVA ere H "ow no road, or chain of roads "tending in a right line through the fi'on, horn the North-east to the South -t?tPart of the way there are roads in j direction, but the chain is rot corad. Commencing at Louisville, Ken-

VOL. 9, NO. 5. tueky, is a railroad now In operation, running Southerly and Westerly, to the town of llutubolt; in the Western part of the State of Tennessee, and from thence in a South-westerly direction, to the city of Memphis, on the East bank of the Mississippi river. At Ilnmbolt is a railroad running a little East of South, to a station called Jackson, in the State of Tennessee. From this point start two roads, diverging right and left, the one leadine to the citv of Mobile, on the Mobile Ray, and the other pursuing its way almost due South, and very nearly in a right line, terminating in the city of New Orleans, passing through Jackson, Mississippi and other important towns on its way. Thus it will be seen that there is already direct rail road communication from the far South and South-west as far Northwardly as LouisTille, Kentucky. Now, another glance at the map will show that the great South-west of our Union lies West of, and beyond the Mis sissippi River. And looking at the pres ent mode of progress and improvement, it will be but a short space of time until this huge section of our country will be teeming with civilization and commerce. To meet these want, a railroad, called the Memphis, LI Passo and Pacific Railroad, is now in process of construction from the city of Memphis, Tennessee, running thence in a South westerly direction to the Pacific Ocean, piercing the Andes of the North, at El Passo 1)1 Xorte, thus opening up the whole of the South and South-west, and giving it a direct and convenient line of transit in a Northeasterly direction, as far North as Louis ville. Kentucky. Now observe the map of Ohio and you will perceive that the whole Northern and middle part of the State is perfectly grid imnd with railroads, all and each of which afford direct transit either to the East or Northeast. Now; between this gridiron in Ohio and Louisville, in Kentucky, the Northern terminus of the great roads to the South and Southwest there is no direct connection. Now, lay a rule and draw a straight line from Louisville in a v , . : ,: !,;:... !.: :j 0 &t Pi l4 ,e,,0ll. . ' . . ... , i taine, Foicst or Sandusky, and you have i marked me line ot me Jjouisvnle ana j Sandusky Railroad. This little link (and itis only a little one comparatively) of road f is all that is wanting therefore to complete 1 une cf the greatest and most practicable thoroughfares in the United States. Because, over it the cotton, sugar and other productions of the South and Southwest can find their way to the North and East, their greatest end best market in the United States, in a direct line here. And in return, the products of the Eastern looms ' anil nthfr tiiannfaetnrfis so much needed ; in the Sooth and Southwest, will find their j way there through the same channel. Bei sides, it opens up to the people of the i great Miami Valley a direct and easy line j of transit both to the South and South- ; west. The mind now on scarcely conive the amount of travel and freight .' . i i s -Aver this road if it was fairly op 1 up and inaugurated. The jdiv that marks the opening up ol this i great thoroughfare, will mark an cporh iu I the trade and commerce of the West. its geogvapn its geographical position is such that it cannot ho otherwise, end do what you will, 'and say all vou can say, Geographical po stnon in . . -i . i ..i i .. . ... i me eiivi always ukumis uumau skill and energy. If it wiil pay Cincinnati to spend millions of nio'isv, and to make the herculean effr?s that she is now making to pien'o a direct wav to the cotton Cells of the South, wiil it not pay those to spend thousands who alre idy have that conncc . . . ' v,i,k :1v oti;pr rifv . "... on me otu i iiver as n i iu v i uem nii, and it is doubly to those cities that happen to lie immediately on tho natornal line cf transit and travel to and from the different sections of the Union. We trust that our citizens will look well into the facts we have stated, and to the conclusions we b.iv.e pndeavored to draw from them. The j j,rosent position of affairs, and our natural 'situation in the premises, we think, derui the premises, we think, dem-1 hat w have said beyond a reasbt. Our people have tho means j n to construct this road, if they ontrittes w nn,h;(, d,iuht 0 p ,iiejr 0Wn ,;,iJ.i nu an. tint t.m lHlt; UllllUU 1W WJW ink'") vvj vvitUovtt injuring themselves in the least. Let us all go forward then to this great work as one min nn ncVer cease until oru. finished, courting the rood will of all, but yielding to the evil iulluence of cone. Mvir.E HEt.r. The PAard of Trade of Liuisviilc, Kentucky, a low days ago, appointed a committee to aid in furthering the construction of the Louisville and Sandusky Railroad. This is a movement in the right r! direction, and at the right place. The ini ... . .... , terest ia tlia construction ot the uoaa is now becoming general all along the line, 1 and it is not going too tar to say that the OUllUing Ol me iwau is now a aici uci. A ticklish position Standing oa trifles. Who is the straitest man mentioned in the Riblc? Joseph, because 1 haraob made a ruler of him. Why is a dog longer in the morning that at night? Because you take him in at night and let him out in the inoruing. ,!Not for Josephus," as that worthy historian playfully observed when some funny Jews attempted to cram him with sfiirirs for. his own work. j - - - j "Mynheer, do you know what for we j call our boy Hans?" "I do not, really." " ell. I tell vou. ler reason that we call our bov Hans is it is ish name Stranger. "Do they sell good whiskey at this hotel. Mister?'' Respectable-looking Man (But ) "Mos'd d'schid'ly. Look't (hie) me, sir, for qu'r dolV

"THE UNION, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS."

BROOK VILLE, IND., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY i, 1870.

Fiom the Indepeadont. COLFAX ON GRANT. The Vice President's Estimate of the President's Administration. Standing on the threshold of the new year, with ten months of the administration of President Grant before the country and the world, it is a fitting time to consider the present condition of affairs, and to contrast it with March last, when he took the solemn oath tha invested him with the power conferred on him by the popular vote. Economy. In every branch of the public service his orders initiated retrenchments, which have been and are being carried out with zeal and fidelity. Useless offices have been discontinued; the clerical force in the departments has been largely decreased, the army was promptly reduced; very many of the surplus military officers, resulting from the reorganization of the regiments, have been ordered into service as Indian agents, thus saving the salaries of an equal number of civillians; and unnecessary appropriations have not been used. Honest Collections. With taxation diminished from last year, the revenue has already increased, abating the discontent which always exists when the honest tax-payer is compelled to bear his own burden, and the burden that should fall on the dishonest tax-payer besides. Rinjis. With this increased efficiency !n1 t n Ijincii nr Ihn narf nl ho rovonno ! o- r .i - i i : i 141 iaii v i 1 1 u n- iiiutTTT ri n n n r a mi w 1 ti i spreading and powerful, no longer exists in an organized capacity anywhere in our cities or throughout the land. And the gold ring, which caused such wild excitement a few months ago, felt the power ol the President and his Finacial Secretary at a timely moment, so that it has not since shown signs of life or action. The Debt. Month by month tha people have witnessed with intense satisfaction the steady reduction of the National Debt. The monthly bulletins of the Treasury Department have been successive cam. paign documents in favor of the Adminis tration, and, when the year expires, over II CiUlIC?, UVT1 one-twentieth of the bonded debt will,., have been paid. Gold. Steadily, with the exception already alluded to, the premium on gold has decliued; not by any extraordinary attempt by the Administration to force or hasten the resumption of specie payments,! but vy the improved credit of the nation .J . , , ., reacting unoti it. Already the very nar- . , . ., J 1 , , row margin between the premium on gold , ... . r ' i , - . and the selling prtce of our bonds, points , , . " 1 o .i .- unm.stakably to the nearness of the time when the debt can be funded at a much lo.ver rate of interest, enab.mg the country, in connection with other savings to dtspense withsco-.es of millions of dollars of taxation. Pardons. Instead of the daily re ease or convicted offenders against the laws, the exercise of Executive clemency has been confined within proper and healthy restrictions, alike just to the criminal and the country he has wronged Public Officers. Whatever discontents j there may have been as to this or that ap pointtnent, no fair man can deny that, as I a whole, the nation has never had anyj better array of officers. If the President j could possibly have been guided by un- j erring inspiration, all would not have been i atisfied with his choice; for, even if dozen applicants were thoroughly qualiGed, but one could be selected, and eleven with all their friends dissatisfied. And, j as there is no Congressman who will de-j ny that, he has sometimes made mistakes ; in selections in his own district, where he J knows personally so many ot his constitu-1 ents, how could any President be lnUIUble when he must depend for knowledge as to a very large proportion of applicants on the recommendations of others? Reconstruction. By the prompt and judicious action of the President, under the largo authority given to him last April, in the closing hours of the first session of the Forty-first Congress, the work of reconstruction draws rapidly to its close, and, before the resurrection of spring gladdens our hearts, we may hope to see g' 0 w c-w. , every State in the Union fully represented " National Councils. j The Indians. Under the President s j firm but humane policy, there have been tewer Indian outrages and outbreaks between the Mississippi and the Sierras than during any year since 1SG3. Peace to the frontier settlements is a boon whose blessings and joy few here can adequately realize. Caste. In nothing has the Administration been more positive and outspoken than in the advocacy of the Fifteenth Amendment, from the day that it was recommended in the Inaugural to the present hour, when its final ratification seems so near at hand. And, before its formal adoption, the President has illus- : irated his belief in its iustica bv appointj,)0, ,0 Q$ce 0f bo,h higher and lower dej e mA.ls whosc race and color, irrespec live of their intellectual qualifications, j had previously placed them under the ban of official ostracism, the following terse Sand emphatic remark of the President to Attorney General Hoar, and quoted by me lairer ai me reveai iiew ljugmm mutter in New York, is worthy to be printed in letters of gold: "I hope to see the time when every s man in this country may have the power 'to express his own opinion, to follow j whom he pleases, to vote as he likes, and to have his vote counted, without molestation, or hindrance, or insult. If we can only unite in maintaining public faith and credit, our political differences wiil not be of much account." The Alabama Claims. The brief but pointed allusions in the President's anual message to "the only .grave question which the United States have with any foreign nation must be fresh in the memory of all. And also his emphatic sen tence: "A sensitive people, conscious of their power, are more at ease under a great wrong, wholly unatoned than under the

restraint of ft settlement which satisfies

neither their ideas of justice nor their grave sense of the grievance.' If any amplification of the ground on which the nation stands on this question was needed, the masterly and unanswerable argument of Secretary Fish, recently published, investing as it does with new interest a theme so elaborately argued heretofore, shows how faithfully the Administration is vindicating "the rights, dignity, and honor" of the United States. Cuba. The President's sympathies with "all people struggling for liberty and Belfgovernment" are frankly stated in his message. Rut while thus openly expressing them, he as frankly declares that, "no matter how unpleasant the task," he has endeavored to execute our neutrality laws in good faith. On the -main subject he thus spoke: "The people and Government of the United States entertain the same warm feelings and sympathies for the people of j Cuba in their pending struggle that they j manifestod throughout the previous struggle between Spain and the former colonies in behalf of the latter, but the contest at no time assumed the conditions which amount to a war in the sense of interna, tional law, or which would show the existence of a de facto political organization of the insurgents sufficient to justify a recognition of belligerency." And he adds: "Our course shall al. - J ...... and law, international and local, which none of those criticising bitn can deny. The President believes; as his whole message proves, in me uoiaen ivui lor nations ncu no luuiiiuuAia, 11 uaiici vui sympathies may be, he holds that we should act toward others exactly as we would have had others act toward us du ring our recent struggle for national existence, or as we would have them act hereafter if unhappily another dark cloud of civil war should ever overshadow our land. But, while thus performing "the unpleasant task," he submits the whole matter to Congress, which, representing the people, and fresh from their midst, is . ,j. . - . i. . .. :.l itiai luigiii- t'lfuvurtiu iu will nuu a tuicijiu power and its possible allies, and the in. creased debt and taxes, diminished com. merce, and reuewed bloodshed that might result, if recognition was not justified by ! ii lm a l! it 1 . ? tn tinA i 11 tVkitltiii Ik J ,, . ' , ....i,!:. , . .- . i .i . ! ly and emphatically condem tied at the bar v., - ,- , T. L . - 1 of the civilized world. It is a remarkable , . t, . i,. . , coincidence that, while the President was ' ... - . , , i.,: I writinsi tins message, Cespedes, the 1 icsi- ; Jent cf. , Q be Free i,, oa Qf Novcmb wro!e iu od;lmatioa roows. , ,.,erh s it u t that the Administraion uf lthe ashi ngton Government should delay recognizing us until Congress I sha1 brjef and Jispa99iottAte retrospect mi!!ht bc cs,etlJed, but enough has been . . t0 ve tbat lhe Administration r., . , a ,,i.. p,infi.i,,,D it is won. ScuirrLEU Colfax. Skimmings. FROM JOSH BU-LINUS' "FARMERS ALMANAC." A lie iz like a kat, it cums tew yu in a straight line What iz an old bachelor? The hero ov a cot bedstead. ieDl i alwu if it don't lTr0 ia 6jZ3 it crows in heft Tew git wrong things out ov jure child's head comb it often. xhe time to be karefullest is when we hav 0 hand Full ov trumps. lew rind the suuare root ov a ho X s ncze, turn him into a gardiu-patch. Tew learn yure offspring to steal, make them beg hard for all that you give them. lie kerful how yu soke yure makrel, too much sokcing takes the wear out ov them. If a man haint got a well ballanced bed. i like tew see him part his hair in the middle. Q. How long kan a coose stand on one log? A. Try it that's the way the goose .v,,. . found out. lhe devil l keeps luz own iz a mean kuss, ne never a promises, but ahvus makes jus keep ours Dandylions planted in April are almost sure tew hed out so are tudstools, so are hed-cheeze. Q. What iz the best kure for lazyness? A. Milking a cow on the run, and living ou tho milk. If 1 had a mule who wouldn't neither kick nor bite, I should watch him dredful cluss till 1 Fouud out whare Liz malice did lie. When yu see 13 geese walking injun file, and toeing in, yu kan deliberately bet yure last surviving dollar on a hard winter. Thare iz only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that ia the endearments ov sum other phellow's sister Love iz sed tew be blind: but i know lots ov phellows in love, who kan see twice az mutch iu their sweethearts as i kan. Thare will be a domestic eklipse this year (visible only tew the naked eye,) kauzed bi the new Comet Sorosis jumping out ov her pasture, and cantering around promiskuss. April 13th. To Ezra Push, Jun., a pattent'was issued for a one-wheeled velospele. This wise instrumentality has two handles tew it, and iz purswaded by taking hold ov the handles, and walking between them with a shove moshun. If it wasn't a velosipede, it wuuld be an oil fashioned wheelbarrow. February. This month has but 28 days, the extreme kold weather that prevails haz puckered up the month. Once in four years thare is a big melt, and then the month swell, and has 29 days. This month is looked upon as unpleasant; and it is unpleasant for digging oat woodchucks, but for sitting ia front ov the tire. una1 skinning spnles, and throwing tho

seeds at the gals, it kant be beat. The name or this month is derived from an old Chinese word (now lost), which means condem kold. RECONSTRUCTION. Opinions of Senator Morton. The following is the Globe's report of the remarks of Senator Morton, of Indiana, on the 10th inst., in regard to recon struction in Virginia particularly and the South generally: Mr. President, without discussing the question as to what the Governor is required to do, it will be admitted that the members of this Legislature are not required to take the test oath unless there be some provision of law demanding it. Now the only provision of law that is relied upon is the 9th section of the act of July 19, 1867: and I show: and I think there can be no doubt about it, that the words used there referred to then existing eo called States, because that was ti e language we then employed to describe those pretended organizations brought about by President Johnson; and the same language employ ed in the Jd section, authorizing the Gen. eral of the army to fill any vacancies in office in the place of any persons elected or appointed to office under so called State or municipal authority settles the question as to the meaning of it. Rut now I come to a broader proposition,to which I invite the attention of the Senator from Michigan, and that is, that the whole spirit ot the reconstruction acts. from beginning to end, permits all rebels to take a part in the reconstruction of these States, who were not embraced in the third clause of the 14th Amendment. I make the broad statement that tho spirit of the reconstruction acts is that all rebels might take part in the reorganization of these States, except those who are embraced in the third clause of the 14th Amendment; that mere participation in the rebellion is not to bo regarded as an ineligibility, but that being embraced in the third clause of the 14th Amendment was to be regarded an ineligibility; and, to show that, I was begin by reference to the original reconstruction act, which was passed on the 2d of Match, 18G7. What was the qualification of a voter, one who was authorized to vote for members of the convention, under that act? Was a man disqualified from voting because he had participated in the rebellion? xso: but if he was embraced by the third clause of the 1 1th Amendment he was disqualified. Then, when was the disqualification of a member of tho convention? lie was not disqualified because he participated in the rebellion, but he was disqualified if he was embraced in the 14th Amendment. The proviso to the fifth j I soction of the first of the series of acts is I as follows: j "Provided, That no person can be excluded from the privilege of holding office by the said proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States" referring to the 14th Amendment, which hid before been named "shall be eligible as a n ember of the convention to frame a constitution for any of said rebel States; nor shall any such person voto for members of such convention." If it was not designed to exclude a man from the convention that was to frame the fundamental law, because he had taken part in the rebellion and only in case of his beiug embraced in the fourteenth article, is it reasonable to suppose that Congress meant to exclude a man from a seat in the Legislature, to be afterward elected, because he had participated in the rebellion? No, sir; the very spirit of these acts from the beginning is that rebels shall be allowed to participate in the reorganization of these States, unless they are persons embraced within the disability created by the third clause of the 14t.li Amendment. That is the way it starts out. Now, t come down to the net of July 25, 1SG8, providing for the admission of certain States. It will be found, by reference to that act, that the original idea and spirit is carried out; that the only disability to tke part in tbo reconstruction of these States i3 that embraced by the third clause of the 14th Amendment. I will ask the Secretary to read the concluding part of the third section of the act of 1SG3. The Chief Clerk read as follows: "But no person prohibited from holding office under the United States, or under any State, by sectiou three of the proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States known as article fourteen, shall bc deemed eligible to any office iu cither of States, unless relieved from disability as provided in sail amendment; and it is hereby made the duty of the President, within ten days after receiving official information of the Legislature of either of said States, to issue a proclamation announcing that Fiat." Mr. Morton That was simply the declaration, upon the admission of the States named in this act that the disability for office in those States should be the disability under the 14th Amendment and none other. The amendment introduced by the Senator from Massachusetts requires that lhe members of this Legislature shall take the test oath; that is to say, that they have not been concerned in tho rebellion, either directly or indirectly. If that was not the law at the time of the election, then those men were eligible to be elected unless they were embraced ia the fourteenth article. Therefore, the effect of the adoption of the amendment of the Senator from Massachusetts would be this; that ho would now create ft qualification for office which did not exist at the time these members wore elected; that they were eligible to election, but that they were afterward required to take an oath which they could not take. Sir, that would not be good faith. We are required to keep good faith, as well as to require tha rebels to do it; and, whan we lay down our conditions and say that if those conditions are complied with they ehftU bq entitled to admission, if they fair-

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ly comply with those conditions, we can not, without some very grave reason, some new and important development, refuse to admit them. As I before remarked, for my part I regret that the reorganization of these States was not confined to men who could take the test oath; but we did not start but with that principle, bat we started oat with the principle of thro wiog open to every body to take part io this reorganisation who was not embraced ia the third clause of the 14th Amendment; and no fair eon struction of section nine or of section two of the act of July 19, 1867, can require tho members of this Legislature to take the test oath. Waiting. Learn to wait life'i hardest tttton, Conuod, perchance, tarnagb. blia dirg ttart. While the beart-throbi aadlj echo To the tread of patting year. Learn to wait hope's claw fraittoa: Faint not, though the waj seems long; There ia jo; in each condition; Hearts, though differing, may grow itrong. Constant tonsbine, howe'er welcome. Ne'er would ripen fruit or flower; Giant oak owe half their grentneM To the scathing tempest's power. Tta a soul, untouched by sorrow, Aims cot at a higher state; Joj seeks not a brighter morrow; Only sad hearts learu to wait. Unman strength and human greatness Spring not from life's sunny side; Heroes must be more than driftwood, Fioatingon a waTeless tide. From the Book Notices of the Satur-lay RstIow. A Nice Modest Kiss Mentioned Discreetly. For ft novice Buch as De Denham most have been in the art of lovo-making, his first essay was decidedly creditable, and by no means cold or weak. He and his fair friend, Juliet Alleyne, are in the little Welsh church together, while the father, Mr. Alleyne, is comfortably asleep in one of the pows below. Archie Rlyth, Temple's Hits A chuti s; is at the back of the organ, blowing; Temple is improvising magnificently the miybeing Romeo and Juliet; and Juliet Alleyne understands this "song without words,'' and responds to it. The talk begins, at first uncertain and allusive, then bolder, warmer, moro direct; then come the inevitable blushes and handtouching, and then the still more inevitable, "I love you," followed by a pretty little girlish coquetry ou her part, and by this proceeding on his: Miss Allej ue's hand had by this time returned, somehow or another, to the ourt u i n rail, lie kissed it again, imprisoned it fast within his own, laid his cheek against it, felt it tremble, struggle for a moment to be free, and then yield itself passively into captivity. "I know I am not worthy of you," lie said tenderly, "but I love you, and 1 will work for you, aud some day you shall be proud of me." "I am proud of you already," bhe whispered. His arm was around her waist now, but he was still sitting, she still standing, the envious curtain-rail still between them. He drew her nearer, but still not near enough. He laid his head back against the curtain-rail, but also against ber bosom, for she was half bending over it. He looked up into her face with those dark, deep, passionate eyes, that were his! only personal beauty. "If it is true," he said, if it is not all ! a dream kiss me." But she averted her face, and held back silently. "I have never been kissed in my life," he said simply, "except by my mother." "For your mother's sake, then,' she whispered, and blushing crimson, bent forward and touched his forehead lightly with her lips. So what with the vox hurnana, Juliet in the Garden, the kiss over the curtain-rail, and Mendelssohu's wedding-march to end with, Tmple Debenham's first lesson in love-making was ciarvelously quickly studied. But what on earth Archie Blyth was doing behind tho organ all the time the kissing was going on and the playing discontinued, and how Temple could have his arm round Miss Alleyne's waist, yet lay his head back over the rail and on her bosom, we can not quite make out. These, however, are but minor matters, and of no importance either way. A German Cofoe and Pie Dealer. Immediately opposite the Sun office there is a stand full of all kinds of pies, pretzels, cakes aud sandwiches, it is owned by a German, who occupies a seat at one end of it close to an urn, from which he serves out colFee as called for. Beneth the urn is a small charcoal-atovo that acts in the double capacity of heating the cof fee and the feet of the Dutchman. After endeavoring to swallow ft piffce of one of his pies, I stiid: "Isn't your name lloffmeister?" "No, sur, ect is not. I am anoder mans aldegeder. I makes my lifin init my own hands all times, you bet." "Oh! well, I was not sure, it makes no difference. Is business good?" "Pesioess goot! hear that mans. I nev er see it so badt I come here ten year

joost to-day, un I never see so pad pessi- .twice as large as a pea; let it slowly dry ness. Un when I see mens eoing away away to the. consistency ef a lve, whieU mit demselves mit degelteen Waui street, j apply to the felon. Tho saltpeter L the it make me feels pad mit him, uu I theeuk cure, but tbe elder bark and sweet cream I want be pack again een Shennany. Mine 'aid in euj the pain. A felon some frow she not like soch teengs." time ru:ke it neve.v-try to amputate fie"When you opened here first, how much !gr or li; d (if left alone,) l-ey should U used you clear in a week?" j attended to atwuec. By puttiogin enough "Whell, sometime I make more un j saltpetre, any lei o it can be cured in 4i sometime tuiko less. I gief in. un J hours, and the pis wilt cease almost iuwhane I make more I ay nausin, un whane ; mediately. un whano I make less l say oaains, yoo j j3 WBPfy see' T - Work is ht altln; ein h trdty t wore Cure for freeklas. A fellow in New upon a man than h i-.an or. Worrj Orleans is sai I to h ive eaten a box of Caa- ru.-t upon the blade. It U ut the revotile soip to g?t rid of freckles. He still brion that destroys the machinery, but has a few on his fatse, b it iusila be insa't the friction. L'er eeorete.i acid; but Utt f ecktei ft bit. ud, truth are swuct juiwea,

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Hell Broth for Topers. t It ia perhaps not knows) yet to any costoiJerable extent amongst the lovers of tbe ardent, that ft new process has been recently invented by which the production of distilled spirits is largely increased from ft given quantity of grain. It is believed to be Hungarian invention, aftd will for time at least, greatly enhance tbe profits of distillers. It consists in tho use of vitriol or some eheatteal preparation of extraordinary corrosive qualities. This in the form of steam or vapor, is infused into the mash, and ia few hoar destroys the starch or feremaceous sub stanee of the malt. After it has performed this function, tbe distiller, by tbe n of lime, neutralises or expels this vitriol from the mash, and it ia then run into the tub to undergo tbe process of ferments tton. Ne were informed by one of tho distillers at Patoka, who employs this process at bis distillery, that so powerful is this corrosive agent, that the steam arising Irom it, it it can penetrate to iron, will corrode it with fearful rapidity, and related several incidents illustrating its intense corrosive properties. The tank in which the steam is generated from this chemical preparation, is bound with strong iron hoops three-eighths of an inch in thickness. A slave opposite one of the hoops was perforated by worm with a hole of the size of common knitting needle, and the steam penetrated through this to the iron, and in four or five days corroded an orifice through the iron hoop? more than half an inch in diameter. One day one of the employees at tbe distillery happened to get a few drops of lhe prepation on his knuckles, and experiencing n smarting sensation, he rubbed it off on his pantaloons, and in less than half an hour his pantaloons parted to the extent that he bad brought tbe substance io contact with theni. Viocennes Times. A Hot-Cake Woman. She was tall, masculine, and had a fierce expressions of face. When I attracted her attention, she was engaged in mixing a muddy substance composed of browu. flour and water in an old tin kettle, preparatory to beiug poured into revolving honey-combed oven, which drew its heat from a little charcoal, and was only large enough to turn out a square cake of abont hvo by two, at the rate of three per minute. For each of these cakes she received one cent.,, and a hungry group of Italian and American hoot-blacks stood near al hand ready to pounce upon them as quick as they were rolled out of the "maohiae." 'My good woman, I ventured, "te your trade in this line entirely confined to small boy? ' "No, aare," she responded;"! sometimes gief to hold poys, and they cat urn very nice soon. ' "How much oan you make per week mt this business?" "Well, sare, it depend on xe coostimair. They no cooui, 1 no gief. I no make, they no cooni. Much that iz all." "Why do you continue at it?' "That is bekaus I haf not moch in sis kontree to make for my lief. Zy weel not gief, sare, to me in sis kontree to do se vaurk. I haf to keep in te place to lief or I go in ze groundt, an I lief do more." Mail. A Short Sermon for Editors. It is only of late years that journalism has risen to the dignity of profession which requires as much education social standing, nnd moral worth, combined with energy, to succeed in, as medicine, law or commerce. The majority of men now in it did not take it up because they preferred it. Some who have failed as lawyers, ministers and physicians have been driven to journalism and achieved success. Tbe fascination of the life, with all its wear and tear, cannot be denied. There is an ex liberation to the mini in the constant changes of the kaleidoscope made of tbe new of the world, which keeps the time constantly occupied with something; novel. To have the events of the day passing, as it were, in panorama before the mind's eye is of itself absorbing We hear a great deal about the "exhaustive effects ef the life of a journalist on the mind and body,' but it may be doubted whether the life of of a physician or sailor is not equally as hard, yet men retain their Leilth snd cheerfulness in both of these professions. The truth is that the reason ao many brilliant men of letters have been borne to untimely graves is not that they are worn out by their work, but by their habits. The hours many of iheui keep tempt then to dissipate. Once on that road, their descent and ultima e ruin U certain. But it cannot be gaiusayed that, if j arnali.t will lead regular lives and cultivate habit of c'eaiiliocsa aud sobernesn, they will live and last as long as other men. Whuky" is the epitaph ot hilf the literary meu who have sunk iotj early graves within the past twenty years. Cure for Felons. As there is much needless suffering from felons, we deem it a duty to give a remedy which we know to be perfectly reliable: Take a portion of the bark of sweet elder, or hops will d; pot it with some mveet crsitu into a cup, and boil n short time; then pat s lump of saltpetre