Indiana American, Volume 9, Number 6, Brookville, Franklin County, 11 February 1870 — Page 2

C. H. BINGHAM, Editor. -FJHOOKVILLK-

Friday Morning;, February 11, 1870. The State Convention Half-Fare Arrangements. The follewing railroads have agreed to carry delega.tes.to the Republican Convention on the 22d of February at half fare rates: Terre Haute and Indianapolis. Evansvill(Land Crawfordsville. Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis Railway (Central road.) Jeffersouville, , Madison aud Iudiananolis. t , A t1!!! unilui: Cincinnati ana Indianapolis. Louisville, New Albany and Chicago. Peru and Indianapolis, Indianapolis and Craw fords viKe. Indianapolis and Yinceunes. Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette. Cincinnati and Indianapolis J unction. Delegates must make their own arrangements with the respective roads about return tickets. Some of the roads have blanks already 'prepared and will not use a certificate of the President of the Convention or Chairman of the State Central Committee. ,' Our County Convention. The Republican County Convention which met in this place on Saturday last was a decided success. The number iu attendance, when we take into accouut that there is at this tin.e very little political excitement in the country, was much larger thajir -we had . any reason to expect. The CqnyeaUan.was not only respectable in point of numbers but was composed of the very best'men of the County. A more orderly. ojuiet and attentive assembly never convened; in tlie Court House. After the main 'business of the Convention was transacted, Hon. 0. M. Wilson addressed the meeting upon the subjects of finance, reconstruction, &c. II is speech was well received by the assembly, and gave great satisfaction to the Republicans in particulars The J udge is very popular in Franklin County, and is undoubtedly the first choice. of its voters for Representative to the next Congress. . Should he be nominated, over Mr. Julian and there geenis very little Mount that he will be we have no feaT of his election by a triumphant majority."' , Deciafan of the U. S. Supreme Court on the Legal Tender Act. The decision in the case of Hepburn vs. Norwald, involving the constitutionality of the. Legal .tender Law, was announced by Chief Justice Chase on Monday. It hold?, that Government has no right to make its notes a legal tender for pre existing debts, but docs not touch the question of contracts made since its passage. The opinion is concurred in by Justices JNelson, Clifford and Field. Justices Miller, Swayne and Davis dissented. , The Colored Citizens. The colored voters of Indianapolis held a meeting on lucsday evening, to make arrangements to participate in the coming political canvass. There are about eight t hundred colored voters in that city. Georgia on Wednesday ratified the Fiftcenth!Amcndmcnt of the Constitution. The Pope declines to argue the case of infallibility any more. The Assembly of New Jersey on Thurs day rejected the Fifteenth Amcndmcut by vote of 32 to 27. . i. . ' .' oShelby and Rush eounties support Judge Wiljob Jor. Congress from the Fourth In - diafla District, and censure Mr. Julian for his circular letter. Letters received in Washington from Alaska t-how there is great suffering and ttarvatiou among the inhabitants. The military have been obliged to issue rations. The nomination of Mr. Hoar for the Supreme' Bench was rejected by the Senate ;by a 'vote1 of 24 to 33. Mr. Hoar will remain in the Cabinet. .Te colored residents of New York city are- making arrangements to hold a grand

celebration, over the complete ratiiicatiou j Haihoad and the Toledo and Louisville of the Fifteenth Amendment. j Railroad. The proposition was carried - , by ayes 1,712; nays 414. Majority io An official statement shows the Eeumen ! ,avor uf ,he subficriptil)I1 ,3 icak Council consists f 7U0 members, the! A ifi jMper CoutVf who h,j number having been somewhat thinned by , iQ ll0tj0I1 of being .'one n,orc unlortulfedeath indjlHechon j BrmeJ hcr,f wUh a revw,vcr ,ld rode on Tbe Kansas Senate Las passed a bill j horseback tweuty miles, to where her beretuoviog disabilities, to tale effect after j irayer was chopping wood all alone, iu a the promulgation of the passage of tbe j lorcst. He married her that tveuing. Fifteenth Aniendu cut. A young girl on a farm io Jackson ".,"..---'---- i- jCouuty heard a Doie under her window, VRoutweU, i ii hi- i.,iim..i.y L-f..re the h o, nit-lit. od reei-in out. saw a

camtnitteo, gave a li.t d ..nl lo the claim oftthe gold, conspirator that they lud any : foreknowledge ot t. is iutcuiiuti to se ju itiinjti.. T O ...... 1 .. T:X Sl.'itp (niiMiti(;i nl ili.- colored nn rile of Kentucky has been called to meet at Frankfort, on lU? ll of February, 'to lisc u,ss all aiattar.. appertaining to the polttical issues of the - d y aiid lo the vital .utervests of ourrace. throughout the State." . ; he Funding bill, as reported from the Finance "CVmai it ;, i u uiproinise betVeeo Sherman an a Uwuiwcil. Oue section provides ' fW destroy in-; the hoods Bavtwcll has been .buying aud tuo-e he may by). Those vu bund auiovn.t to jri",032 33.

TIib New Jersey Senate on Monday rejected the Fifteenth Amendment, by a vote of 13 to 8.

The Kansas Legislature have requested j the removal of all the Indians from that . State. They have also appointed a comj mittee to investigate the affairs connected with the Cherokee neutral lauds. The Democrats in Congress keep up their practice of talking economy and voting against it. Thus a majority of them voted for the bill transferring the Philadelphia Navy Yard from its present eite to League Island. The House Judiciary Committee has agreed to report in favor of an additional Circuit Judge under the new law, eo that Southern States may bring forward their business, which has so largely accumulated during and since the war. The public debt statement shows a reduction io the public debt of 3, 993, 664,39 during the month of January, and a decrease of SSO G49.971 09 for the eleven months since the inauguration of President Grant. A Washington special says that persons who have taken the pains to inquire as sert that nearly every one of the Massachusetts delegation in Congress stands by Mr. Dawes in the fight for economy, and believe that in the main his facts are correct. Every member in the Senate and House condemn the attack upon his record as an anti-slavery Republican. Indiana Items. Noblesville has decided to build a 20, 000 high school. About three hundred persons rose for prayers at Mr. Hammond's meeting in Ev-at-sville, on the night of the 2d inst. Samuel llelam was thrown from a flour wagon in Richmond, last week, and killed Chili has a new bridge, which reminded a Peru editor, when h? saw it, of "a lithe greyhound." Professor Cox, the State Geologist, says there is enough coal in Clay county alone to pay the Goveruibent debt. The old man Boehmer, who jumped into the river at Evansville, on Monday night, has since died. PetcrMarkley, of Hazelton, slipped from a load of straw, tell under the horses' heels, and was instantly killed. A convict, named Switzer, was killed at the Southern Indiana Penitentiary, on Monday, by a stick of timber accidentally falling on him. A quarrel among the members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Mitchell resulted in the organ being ripped to pieces, one night recently. The officers of the Indiana Democratic State Central Committee have received no intimation from Colonel Eddy of his intention of declining the nomination for Secretary of State. At Newton, Orange County, on Thursday, a desperate fight, resulting from a family quarrel, took place between two men named Smith aud Denbo, brothers-in-law. Each party received serious Lf not fatal wounds. A dancing master named McBride, who has been figuring, for some weeks past, in Evansville, was arrested on Wednesday night, and lodged iu jail, at the suit of a young lady of Petersburg, on a charge of bastardy. Ord Parker, Weigh-master at the StarMine coal shaft of the Indianapolis Roiling Mill Company, in Clay Couuty, fit II down the shaft, eighty feet deep, on Mouday evening, and was instantly killed. The boiler in Sinker & Co.'s Western j Machine Works, Indianapolis, exploded I " aturJaJ- Patrick Lynch, the enginleer, was badly injured. Two or three j ollicJ. empIoe3 were Snghtly injured. j Tlie wiJe of Dr ,iaj of Rockford was tnrown fl0U) a 6icin on Wednesday, while ,j)e llorsc8 wete running away, and so ' bi"--IJ' injured that she died in a few mioutcs. Auotucr laoy was seriously injured. The Baptists of Indiana are making more decided progress than they ever have before, both in material aud moral respects Ttie tables how that the increase during the past year in Indiana was nearly three times as great as iu Ohio. On Saturday Decatur County voted on the question of subscribing 150,000 to the St. Louis and Cincinnati Air line . L ,ar t.iajblil up a ja(lder. yiieil te J was within one step of the window, she " lashed him to the earth, and next day a , burglar with a broken leg was carried off ! ,0 ja' J. W. Whitney, a blasksmith, had his leg broken in Booue county, last Saturday, by a kick of a horse, but set it himsalf with two boards, aud rode alone forty miles, to his home iu Indianapolis. I t... vjiruij;o i uuii, me luiu wuu was mioi : by a policeman, in Terre Haute, a few j nights ago, died on Monday from the effect j of his wouuda. The shooting was done in j self defeuse, aud is regarded as entireiy justifiable. Joseph Edmondi, of Peru, a brakeman iu the employ of the Chicago, Cincinnati

and Louisville Railroad, had his leg crushed while coupling cars, on Monday. He

will probably die. A destructive fire occurred at Cambridge on Monday evcuing about half past G, wholly destroying the extensive flax mills of Morrey & Co., together with all the machinery, a large amount of straw and other material. The losses may reach 87,000 no insurance. The stockholders of the Indianapolis Hotel Company met on Saturday, and located the new hotel on the northwest corner of Pennsylvania and Market streets, opposite the Post-office. There is only 25,000 stock yet to be subscribed, which, it is believed, will be taken in a few days, when the organization will be perfected and work commenced as soon as possible. A Hagerstown School Superintendent and Deacon in the Presbyterian Church, Justice of the Peace, merchant and express agent, is charged with embezzlement of money, and leaving for parts unknown. His name is Thomas N. Anderson. His last words were, "Good bye, I'm gone forever," but the man he said it to required twenty-four hours to comprehend it. A man named Kluck was murdered in his own house io Vincennes, being phot through the window as he was sitting by his stove. Seven buck-shot enteredhis back between the shoulders, killing him instantly. No clue has yet been obtained as to who the murderer was. It is supposed that the complicity of" the murdered man in the burning of a mill in that county, several years ago, may have prompted the murder, but nothing is known in regard to it. The following has been received at the Internal Revenue Office in Washington: Evansville, Ind., January 4. To the Hon. G Delano: I have ordered the seizure of the large distillery of Bingham & Barton, at Hazelton, Ind. 214 packagesof spirits have been fraudulently removed. The evidence is completed. f Signed, George B. Williams, Supervisor for Indiana. Progress of the Fifteenth Amendment. The States which have declared that "the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or l)y any State, on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, and that Congress shall have power to euforee this article by oppropri. ate legislation ,? are Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida. Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana. Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota. Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire New York. North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsvlvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont. Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin. In all twenty eight the required constitutional number.' Nebraska will ratify as scon as the Legislature- meets,, which will he within a fortnight. There is no doubt, either, that Texas will give her sanction to the Amendment. The Legislature of New York has reversed the action bad by the previous Assembly, and there is alleged informality in the action of the Indiana Legislature; but eren omitting these, a sufficient number will have ratified to secure- this great measure of jntiee n equality of political rights. Once made a part of the Const i tution, the fieree ppositioa which the Amendment has encountered will gradually die out, and with it the prejudice which has kept it alive. Once it is an es tablished fact that citizens of the United States, no matter of what race or color they may be, can and do vote, no political party will thereafter risk its chances of success upon an avowed policy of the disfranchisement of any class of the people, and there will be general assent to a principle which has its foundation in common sense and equal and exact justice. Any feeling of regret at the abridgement of the light of a State to regulate the franchise will vanish, as men are made more and more conscious that it was abused by them to perpetuate inequalities that lead to the creation of a governing class possessing all the powers of the State, and a governed clasa having no adequate representation, though subjected, equally with the other, to the burdens of taxation. Commercial. Mr. Julian's Card. Last week, just before going to press, we received through a gentleman of this county, Hon. Geo. W. Julian's card, announcing himself a candidate for renomination for the position of Representative to Congress from this District. The friend who sent us the caTd stated that Mr. Julian wished it published, ereti if he had to pay for it. it is the universal custom to charge candidates for office for announcing them as such, and although we see no reason why Mr. Julian should be especially lavored in that respect, yet in. order that he should have no cause to complain that he had been treated unfairly, we published his card in our next issue, at some inconvenience to ourselves, without any design of demanding payment for our Isbor. No other candidate has asked this much of us, and he, to say the least, exhibits an ungenerous spirit when, in this eard which he demanded we should publish, he imputes iiupri per motives to us and all our, friends who have expressed a preference fur some other man. Mr. Julian must learn that he is not the sole exponent of Republicanism in this iJistrict, and that le.ilty to the party is not to be measured by fealty to bim or any other man. Those who do not think him the most available candidate, are not such as will ufterward combine with our political foes iu the use of fair means and foul,' to defeat Mr. Julian should he be nominated, nor will the flag of Republicanism "be trailed in the dust" at their 'dictation." But they are men who will remain in the party and can not be driven out of it by anything Mr. Julian may s iy. Almost the entire press of the district has favored the nomination of Hon. J. M. Wilson as our Congressional Candidate, aud it is a serious matter for Mr. Julian to intimate that it haa been subsidized. For our part, we have entered the Campaign with the intention of dealing fairly with all the Candidates, and while we certainly have a preference, and shall aways exercise our undoubted right of making it known, yet our columns shall be as free to

the friends of Mr. Julian as to those of Judge Wilson. Mr. Julian's friends are all good Republicans, and we deprecate any effort to create ill feeling between them and other Republicans. We were sorry to see the resolution, in regard to Mr. Julian's address, introduced in our late Convention, but it is only the legitimate result of the language used by that gentleman, for it is but natural that sentitive men should retort, when 6uch aspersions are cast upon them. We hope, however, the matter will rest here. Let us save our bitterness for the common foe. Rusbville Republican.

Dawes on the Administration. We claim to be a pretty sound Republican, but we do not adhere to the doctrine that the party can do no wrong. Nor, do wo sympathize with those journals that deem any aud all criticism, upon tbe conduct of those iu power, an insidious attack upon the party. We feel that we can afford to tell the truth it pays in the long run. An exposure of mismanagement, or extravagance in any department of the public service, and a bold and outspoken protest against it, is better for the country and the party than concealment in any form. The people demand economy our party has promised it, aud must observe it, or it will deserve and receive their condemnation. Instead, therefore, of attacking Mr. Dawes and reading him out of the party, as a few of the extremely loyal have done, for his fearless speech in the House upon the public expenditures and appropriatious. a few days ago, we are disposed to commend him. He has done the party and the country a service that entitles him to gratitude. We had better look into bis facts and learn the lessou they suggest, rather than attack his motives and his loy alty to the party. What Mr. Dawes insists upon, as we understand it, is, that the expenses of the Government should be brought down from the plane of war to that of peace. He is pursuing the line of his duty as Chairman of the Committee of Appropriations, and taking a practical step toward economy in the expenditure. If Congress acts upon his suggestions, it will necessarily cut off many tat appropriations that laembers have set their hearts on, for their respective localities. Right here is where the di!Iiculty in securing retrenchment begins, fhero are railroad schemes, ship canals, river and harbor improvements, League Island, and so. on, of more or- les local importance, demanding Government aid. When, therefore, any member suggests a course that will interfere with these pet schemes, a stojea. begins to brew at once. 1 he So-loas who have them in charge ar shocked at sask an exhibition of dilyalty,aud read him out of tbe party the very first opportunity. They wiLl combine', one interest will assist another, and to-o often their schemes of plunder are successful. All such are denouncing Dawes as a disorganizer, a.nd an enemy of the party. So far the AdmiiJs-i'a-tk)n of President Graut has done well in purging tbe Revenue service of iucouipetent and dishonest officials. The taxes are, wo belLe-vo,, honestly and faithfully collected, that is. a great i&int gained But that is not the entire mission of the Administration. It promised more than lUat it pledged strict economy in the expenditures. And now wheu the first steps in that direction are beiug proposed, it is a bad sign to see the proposition so savagely attacked by promiuent Republicans iu Congress. Are we to be told tkat oar professions aud our pledges in this regard were meant to deeivt'i We hope not. The people are iu no humor to be trifled with upon this question, aud members uf Cougress had better learn this now, than when it is too late. The Negro question being virtually settled, the question of the debt, revenue and expenditures, is the question to which the Administration should vigorously devote itself. When it goes before the people in lb72, it will be judged by its record iu this regard. Whatever it do3 to commend itself to popular favor must be done in this line. If it shall maintain the public credit, honestly and faithfully collect the revenue, aud exhibit strict economy in conducting tbe Government, it will go before the people with the assurance of an indorsement. But, if it fail to do this if extravagance shall mark its conduct if every scheme of plunder that is introduced in Congress shall receive recognition, it will be swept from power. It will deserve no other fate. Te believe, though, its conduct will be characterized by honesty and economy, and that the counsel of such men as Dawes will be heeded. If so, all will be well. Greeusburg Standard. Letter from Logansport. LooANsroRT, Ind , Feb. 2nd, 1870. Editor Ameuican, isir: It may not be uninteresting to some of your readers to hear that Old Cass has not exploded over the 15th Amendment. Our Colored Fellow Citizen of African persuasion are as civil and quiet as usual, notwithstanding the fact that one of their brethren was inveigled into matrimony by the winning smiles of an Anglo-Saxon Democratic Female Woman. It is evident that the Democracy will bid high for colored votes uext Fall, to prevent tbe scepter from departing from the Court House Riug. It is thought that some of our virtuous Democralic officials are already casting hopeful glances at the colored population. Be that as it may, there is another element that they appear to be anxious to rid themselves of. I need hardly say that I refer to the 6ons of the Emerald Isle. ' The first step made in that direction was the ousting of the Couuty Examiner. Fred Douglass is to be here soon, but I i have not heard whether they contemplate tendering the position to him as a bonus for colored votes or not. There is but one solution of this Democratic problem, and that is found in the fact that the Irish of this county are too well educated tu be of further service to the party, heoce you need not be surprised to hear of their turning to the new political element for salvation. Yours truly, Vattell. Tbe whole civilized world will hope that ibe ghastly story of the burning of Dr. Livingstone, the African explorer, as a wizard, by & Chief ia the interior of the benighted continent, may turn out like the story of his assassination, two years ago, a falsehood; but the knowledge that the Doctor haa ventured alone into the most remot and savage region on the globe, where h is subject to the greatest perils, will caus

the most painful solicitude in his behalf, and anxious'watchfulnees for definite intelligence. Commercial. For the American. Facts and Figures Concerning the New Bridge. MR. C. H. Bingham, Sir: Having noticed a communication of Mr. Robeson in the Democrat of the 23th of January last, concerning the bridge on the Fairfield road, I beg leave to give the following facts to the public through your paper. On the 12th of July last I made a contract with the Board of Commissioners, by which I was to put up the abutments and pier for the bridge, under which contract I was to be paid for excavations above low water mark 50 cts. per cubic yard and for excavations below low water mark S4 per cubic yard, 35 cts. per foot for timber, 10 cts. per pound for wrought iron spikes, 88 per perch for masonry below low water mark and G, 75 per perch above low water mark, and 3,50 per barrel for hydraulic cement. The foundations of abutments and pier were to be made of timber 8 inches thick, the first course to be laid across stream 16 feet long and cover 36 feet up and down stream, tbe second course to be laid up and down stream 36 feet lone and li feet wide, tbe third to cross

the second 34 feet up and down stream and 12 feet wide, to be spiked at each alternate crossing with wrought '.ion spikes, all of which was to be done under the direction of the Euginecir employed by the Commissioners. On the 17th. day of July, 1869, after said coutr-ict was made, the contract was altered in accordance with a letter I ieceived from Mr. Robeson, and Mr. Buth, which letter reads as follows: Auditor's Offick, Franklin County, 1 Buookyille, Ind., July 17, 1869. Mr. 'A B. Reev, StV: The Engineer has just examined fhe location for the bridge on the Fairfield pike, and reports that much less timber will be required than is named vn your aontraet. The bill for timber will be as foll'ows, according to his estimate: 27 pieces of hewn timber, 30 feet long,. 10- by 12 inches; 810 feet of sawed white oak timber, full measure, Qi feet long by 4 iuche thick, making 3,240 of board measure-. This being the estimate of the Engineer, you will have to work to it, as this will largely decrease your expenses in the work you- have undertaken, and the Board being desirous of saving to the County all that can be saved. We would like to see you about the matter, and come to some arrangement looking toward a reduction on the part of the work. You can eail on Mr. Robeson for further information on this subject. Respectfully yours, Wm Robeson, NjfClIC4.AS Batii. The above letter was handed me by Mr. Bentley. 1 saw Mr. Robeson and Mr Bath immediately after I received the letter, and-agreed, to do the work n directed in the letter, and did so do it, with the following exceptions: I put two courses of timber in the foundation for the pier, making the first one 11 feet wide instead of 9 and the second course 10 feet wide, and made the foundations for the abutments Langes thaa specified in the letter, so that the stoue work did not projeot over the timber. '1 his work was alt done under the direction and superintendence of the Engineer. I put no foundation down until after the Engineer had examined tbe excavation and ordered tli foundation to bo put in- it. The whole job was done in a workmanlike manner, aud to the entire satisfaction c-f the Engineer. The Engineer laid off ti e work, making the top of the abutments l'JO- feet apart. The superstructure or iron work was ei-y iy0 feet long be inn auly jut Kng enough to reach from one abutment to the other, and could not rest on the abutments if the spans met on the pier. Whose fault this was, I am unable to say. The foundations of abottuents aud piers were left exposed and subject to be undermined by water. I called the attention of the Engineer and Commissioners to this fact, and in farmed them that it was unsafe to leave the work iu that condition, and offered to put the nec essary protection around the pier for 50. They said it ought to be done, but did not employ me to do it, and no protection was put in. I have examined the pier since it fell, and find that on the Northeast side the water has washed a hole ten feet deeper than was ever known before at that place, and the pier leans in that direction. The falling of the pier was evidently caused by the water washing and undermining it, which probably might have beeu prevented by protecting it with brush and stone. 1 am not responsible for the foundation being too weak or too small, or for it beiug undermined by water. If it had been put down iu compliance with the original contract, it would have been a good, substantial job; and if properly protected, would have stood; and might have been sufficient as it was put down, under the direction of Commissioners and Eogioeer, if it had been protected as piers ur-utlly arc. 1 derived no benefit by tbe change of the specifications aud contract; that change took off a large amount of the most prulitable part if the work. Z. B. Reed. The Portuguese Mission. We are informed that Lieutenant Govnor Cumback, ef Indiana, soon after he received notice of his appointment aa MiniMer residiut at Portugal, addressed a note to the I're.-idcnt, thanking bi n for this mark of his confidence, but declined the position. Mr. Cumback is a young man; lias an important and growing law practice; has a family to support, and can ' not, therefore, afford to accept a niis.ioo, the salary of which (7.500 a year) would not pay the expenses of himself and family abroad. If he should accept he would be compelled to abandon his praotice, and would return, after a year's absence, as poor as he is now, with the disadvantage of having to seek a practice again. Under these circumstances his friends will fully approve of his course. There are few men more popular with the people of Indiana than Governor Oumback, and his State is the best place for him to reside, aud the practice of his profession the most honorable and profitable employment for the time. Gazette. New Jersey is a good State. Its Democracy ia above or below suspicion. Not content with one failure to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment, its Legislature thfs week repeated the innocent amusement of taking another kick at the now eufrancished negro. Journal.

Letter from Washington City. Correspondence of the Indiana, meriean. Washington, D. C , Feb. 5th, 1870. Winter is wearing away without much of the character of Winter even for this climate. What the ground hog may do by having returned to his hole so speedily on his appointed day for augury, remains yet to be Been. Really we have had no cold weather, and much Spring like sunshine since the first of December. In the early part of this week I saw a peach twig that was bearing a dozen or more full blossoms. Fruit is safe by that. No Life Assurance Company here, however, will issue it a policy for six months, even at extravagant rates. Washington is, gay exceedingly gay. The upper circles, supported generally b7

distaut and humble constituencies, level in gay pleasures that distance the Court of Solomon, and the ladies outdo Ine lilies of the field in tbeir splendid array. The Queen of the South could not find words to express her admiration and amazement of all this, if sh should drop down here officially; especially if she had been a guest at t'ue recent ball in honor of Prince Arthn,-. It is said that nosingle occasion hee ever surpassed that oue for splendor, ''u- i r.,. ...... r.l,;CT .. T, Ilie UJOab UUUIllltlUUg KilVUiC Ul luia ouail was, that on the morning after the ball the unticketed hesd crowded the hall to see where the Prince had been, and to obtain a sprig of cedar, or other memento of the occasion. It is not much marvel that Englishmen wsita funny things, of our people. On tbe other extreme of society there is great poverty and destitution. Perhaps in no city in America are Dives and Lazaru3 so numerously represantedr or is the distance between the two-so great. There are great and good people here, however, who care for the poor, and on account of ikeis efforts not many die of starvation Some doubtless do, and many suffer worse than death. All this within the sound of offieval revelry, witliin tb smell of banqueting halls, and undr tbe shadows of church soiies which point to the "batter land." It is greatly to the credit of Congress that, by a resolution passed yesterday, the Secietary of War is- authorized to issue rations to the destitute. Uy this arrange uient the suff-.-rers will more surely get relief than if Cougress should appropriate money to be expended by local politicians. It tiiay seem to some o&t of place to appropriate tbe pibJic io.ne-y i'or the support of tha poor of this city. The fact is, that most of tKe destitute are old helpless colored people, formerly slaves. They e-aaic heie during the war and since, because they bad nowhere else to go. T'uey are therefore property the charge of the Government rather than the city. '1 hey are mnniriil.flil tlj!l 1 l f rt n 1.. .2 . ," .' ', ,"" ," rTi Conuress is wurkiug ULodevatly. lucre has not been, as mud important work finished as tbere is yet to fii-iish. There ,. . , was ease to hope tliat this Congress was going to take hold &olJiy ot tlie SUbjtfCt Ot tV""r? - J J retrenchment cf expenditures, and obey the voice of the people. Several important references gave ground for this hope, Such was the abolition of the franking privilege, the abolition of the Agricultural and Educational Departments, the teJuc tion of the Army and Navy, the return to the former pay of members of Congress, the reduction ol forces in the Department, S;c. Some thitigs now look as though the lo-bby was at work. Tbe lobby voice too ofteu drowns the voice of the people. A j sweeping bill to jib)!i?h the fra nki ng pri v - ilege passed the House, but yesterday in j the Senate was scut to the yrravevar l of a I committee, from which there are too few . , resurreouo.113. li, however, the almost , , j i . universal demand of the country cannot eHect the passage of this reform measure, j it should at l&ast secure a vote on a final passage, th it its. friend j aud its enemies could be known. Tbe sauu of the other reform measuies. J. 11. G. For the American. Effects cF Uncari-jonial Marriages. These conspire to destroy tho tone and vigor of both tha nervovn an 1 vascular fluids. The min i, chaQng in tha galling fetters WrhicU bind it to an uncongenial companionship, aluvist forgots its cotporeal dependency, and consumes within itself tbe nervo-elcctriity which should be dispensed through tlu tiarv u system, to impart healthy action to the b'ooJ and the organic machinery. Unh-ippy marriages are unlike other troubles, because society is so constituted that a ni ijority of their victims prefer rather to full suicides to their self inflictions than to encounter the frowns of their friends and acquaintances, by practically severing a contract which yields little but mental disquietude, affectionate suffocation, and nervous and vascular debility - w " " . - " - taatrimonitl inharmony. Each p ir who finds themselves unhaiiDll? mated, ima-iine I ha vnrl.l littla tnnaa tho PTtpnt fit that they belong to the unfortunate jew who have made the "great mistake of a lifetime;" but the physician, in whom is generally court led the secrets of a broken tieart after the constitution has also be come broken, knows from 'he frequency of such confessions that they form a part of the great majority instead of the minority. An English papar states that in the year 1S51 there were in London 1,132 runaway wives, 2.318 runaway husbands, 4 175 married people legally divorced, 17,345 living in open warfare, 13 279 living in private misunderstanding, 55, 310 living in mutual indifference, while only 3,175 were regarded as happy, 127 nearlv happy, and 13 perfectly happy. ii In what way the English statistician obtained these facts, if they are facts, lam unable to say. In this country it would be impossible to gain correct information of the amount of connubial infelicity as compared with the real happiness iuthe domestic relation, unless every physician of extensive practice should contribute the result of his observations. Seldou) are the most gossipping neighborhoods of the United States acquainted with the actual state of feeling existing between the husband and wives which live therein, and it is not uncommon fur husbands and wives to deceive each other with regard to their real sentiments when they find that tbey have mistakenly entered into a companionship distasteful and perhaps disgusting to one or both. A physician once told me he was called upon hy a lady in one of the New England States, whose mind was distracted and nervous system nearly exhausted, be.

cause she bad formed an unhappy alliance with a man whom she found she could neither respect nor love. But she had great benevolence, and rather than make him unhappy by disclosure of her feeliogs she bad concealed them from him, and they were secretly gnawing away the nervous thread that connected her spirit with her body. Ah! how many wives whose eyes fall upon this 6tory will see it io the mirror which reflects their own miserable situation! , Rest assured, that lady is not the only one whose benevolence and pride bind her to an unnatural union and concealment of her wretchedness. Unhappily, the victims to uncongenial marriages are not alone sufferers thereby. The liervous puny offspring which is the

l iSaue of such adulterous alliances opens his eyes on a world of physical and mora) wretchedness, and hence the sms of parents are visited upon their children of the firsr and every succeeding generation . So marked are the physical influences of unhappy marriages on tbe offspring, that I can generally tell at once, when I see a family of children, whether the father and mother are happily mated. Both mental and physical suffering are the inevitable inheritance of the unfortunate child wbo is born of ill-mated parents; and if he survives the fatal tendencies of a poor constitution till he himself becomes a father his child in turn will possess at least a trace of his progenitors inSi-mitres, and so on through the whole line of his posterity. f Metamora, Ind., Feb. 6th, 1S"0. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Fleetwood's Life of Christ. Anew edition ef this popular book will soon ba read for unlivery to subscribers. It is highly recoiue-a.dd by all denominations of Christians. It will be illustrated with IS fine steel plates, containing 75(J octavo ptgef, printed on tine white paper, and bound in tbe most sufestaatial binding. Mr. Kobert S tewart, of Erookrille. is Agent lor tbe sale of this book, in Franklin County. feb.ll 3m. PUBLIC SALE. TUB undersigned will offer at public auction on Siturd,ty, February. 2G, 1S70., on tio iitrin known as tle "Mc.Inus- Farm," one and ; ho I f miles Southwest of Fair.iaelil. in Fairfield Townglii p. Franklin County, Indiana, the following described prnpertj, So.wi; Five Head of Horses. Jne Cow, Four Head of Sheep, One two-H orse Wagon, Corn ia the Crib, Hay in tho Mow, 1'ionri. lianows, aiid louuy other articles too tedious to mention. ""ale to commence at 10 o'cluck A. M. Teraij mnde known on day of sale. Veb.ll Jit. R.C.WILSON. AUCTION SALE. TMI E undersigned will offer at pubii pale, on his i''ariu timatoil oue and a half utiles below ttrook ville, oa tbe l'lke. On Tuesday, March I, 1870, I tbo tollnwing dcs.-Tiljcd Real and Personal Pron- ! erty,!,, wiu J j-- p"7' TL,-1 "J'til VI) I ND I . , . r f est.-iining 1 t-5 acres, sUu:itfi.l thrte fnurtln of a luiU fro, the Kaiircad, will l.e ,..t in tr..cu t j sutc pvironast-rs. Aitdu, liorsts, Uxixid. Marea, " ! j", ' j teni L(ilt.M!es milieu. 1 K.ag fit" tBief), Wilsons, .-a;;ics, llarue.-!, if-artniii); usil?. Re;njtnT M.-.lainn. Wiui Saw M n - h nt;. j H.)uschoi.i::i:i..i 'win'ian Kumrure. a ii -.rCidtr V inegar, u lui ot t ence Lumber and. N ul l'onrds, antt a grout lu-id- utl.er articles tso Iciljuuji tu mention. Salo to (rotii'nsn.oa- at 10o'clo:-k A. M. TlillMS uKjAi.a. Jn Lan-I 'Joe third eiift in h'tud, h 1 1 L ii-i; i; on 3 i;id tvv y v.its, aeoared h$ uiortjj-in, :it S j.ir eo .t. iiitrt?t. Ua l'oii;i:' 1 tlMi-a- nn lei- i ID ,.c...h in li.ind ; all sains uvjr it ', a Hpji.ove.l so u.ity, a" r.t lit of niii-: iuo:u'ui wu a. ti per cent, inter est. A. J. KJKr'iVX-k, Fcbiuiry 9, IS7.1 3 BANKRUPT SALS, I . , , , , . ' , ,.?... ,, , , ;,, : X tha :..st.-ite ui Saruli i Khars, ijarikr.ijjt, will,, ! n - . i j w t iq-,i 1 Oh &alnnta the. :).' i.jy of Much, lSiU,, ta'j tlw. Ota 'lay on the premises at Ced-ir Qrove. Frnklin Cuntv Indiana, expose to sale tt public and ion, the f'illowiniy .! e-rilviJ Real K;tjt, situate in sail County, tu wi: A 1 the interest a'ipned by Faid Dankrupt and owned by her by virtue of a Lease of Land ami Water Power from the W bite nter Valley Canal Co:iip;.r.y, of d te Oct. 2S, IS43, for twenty years fr'm M i roll 1, lS4t, and afterwards ei;er. led f:r twenty years from March t, lSnO, with ht ot renewal, to Sa-mucl ICnoto an I Kphraiui n .1 r. a IranRfcrfi TtftfiAI-d t ) Said j Uavrut. land desenbed s follows: TheSoath halt' of about two acres of land deeded to the W. W. V. Canal Company by Sairuel Kncte and Epbraim Saier by dred dated Oct. SS, 1843, ad ji-inirg Ihe town fcf Cedar Grove aloretaid, and on wfcith is located a Flouring Mill. On the above ia Mtuatid a valuable Flouring Mill propelled by a Steam Engine, oil in good order. Also Lots 7 and 8 in Green's p'at of Cc?ar Grove in said County. TERMS OF SA One-third purcba se money cath in hand, ci e-tl.iid in fix r,d refidue in twtlve months, deferred payments secured by Butts waiving valuation and appruuouicnt lawi, and by eood lreebold security. W.VJ . J. PECK, Assignee. February, 11, 1ST0-4K. BANKRUPT SALE. GllLAT SALE OF PERSONAL MIOPEUTY. Til E undersigned Trustees in Ba-nkraptey of ,be Kstate of Bernard Kamps, Bankrupt, by virtue of an order of the District Court of the l. & for the District of Indiana, will expose to sale at i ? - . : . i . .- .. n . 1 ni... hereiDAI 1 . ' r ... ;,1 Ttankiter niinei, taa personal property ot rupt transferred to the-u, at follows: I At St. Bernard, Franklin County, Indiana, on . L'l Osi 1V71I tha tnllOWlBZ V'"r erty: Six Yoke of Oxen, three Log Wagons, na a lot of Los Chains, 20.0UU toet ol i.uuiv., a lot of Saw Logs. TERMS OF SALE. All sums of Five Doll-" and under, cash in hand; all hums ever live Wi lars, a credit of six months will bo g1"11' T purchaser giving his note with approved rreencu security, drawing interest at 6 per cent., w ing benefit of valuation and appraisement la V M.J. PECK, Trustec!. joiin u. aiooRMAxy, Feb. 11, 1870 3w. IIORNUNG'S SHOP. It TIE undersigned at his shop in . Post office Building, on the "Old MS httc uur ner," in Brookville, is prepared to repair eordeons, Umbrellas, Parasols, Door l"08'.;" and will also sharpen Shears, Scissors, Kun ie., renovate Window Blinds, file and " -?' of all kinds, and repair Lamps, Clocks, ' Jewelry. Sewing Machines, KnittiDg a" chines, Ac ..:. He is also Agent for the Lamb k' " Machine the best machine in the world i ;r 1 rne . - . . At ting. It knits over twentj different """ liffe annarel. Thesn machines can he xaese raacuiues - -- . sei u - - shop on the "Old White Corner," wnere i cated for business. . liberal I respectfully solicit tho patronage of" ' public LEWIS K0RNL-N,J-Feb. 11-Bra. WANTED AGENTS Canvassing1 Bosk SENT FREE, FOB "OUR RULEUS AND OUR KlGIIT,f; or "Thr Outlines of thk V. S. Govern"-' Judge Willis, of New York. A work " 8ftha merit, and intrinsic value to every clt"'e tt United States. Selling with great uu; ,t every one who sees it appreciates its . jB once. Price to suit the times. One Kentucky reports 29 copies in one j5 Indianapolis, 45 in two days; one in wic't the flrat week; and ao it goes. Can .fELEi and circulars feke, by addressing K A CO., 181 Race Street, Cincinnati, U. feb. ll-6w