Indiana American, Volume 9, Number 7, Brookville, Franklin County, 18 February 1870 — Page 2

SfnMaiu American.

C. H. BINGHAM, Editor. - nitOOKVILI.KFriday Komisc, TVbrnary 18, 1ST0. " . The Bible Question. M Tlie. majority or the Supreme Court of " .Cincinnati have decreed a perpetual in5wetio as prayed for in the petition of .Join D. Minor, cf ah. plaintiffs, vs. the , Board of F Incation. The Gazette says ; "for the present the new departure party ti'defeated, the Bible is sustained, and our .Awshool system has been paved from a dam- ' aging, if not a destructive blow." Visiting Schools. TJ Ohiilieoth Uiz-stte hia "n1! retnarks on this snhjest which nil parents j should heed. It is the duty of the parents Vto.Tnanifeit some farther interest in the nenool work than merely to send their children thither. The tcicher wants their CO-operation. The scholars need the en- j eonrajjerr.ent of an occasional visit. Ifi parents talk with their children at home freely about their schools, it is well; if they , visit the school room occasionally, and sienV interested in making a pleasant thing - f learning, it is much batter. The presXce qf father or. mother at the child's T6etatian; once a week, or once a month,

v. , , fc i Hie levil ever snoots at is Christian sing tetclier ftnl child, hvan the pirent will . "benefitted. His or hor attention will j ' fee awakened to question which might I The Illinois Woman Suffrage Convenotherwise go un thought of for years, and i tion resolved that under the Fourteenth which have rracticnl hearings on the and Fifteenth Amendments, female Clti

mind." . Texas has ratified the 15th Amendment. Tis makes twenty-nine St?.fes. Senator Morton made a speech in the Senate, last week, in favor of the recognition of Cuba. -:The Ecamcnciil Council has finished Ij the subject of ecclesiastical discipline, and j 4be catechism is no-v aalet discussion. The London ppe discredit the pre-! tended evidence of a conspiracy ia Paris gaiost the life of the E nperor. The Erst train p-el over the Ohio River bridge at Louisville last Saturday evening. The Ultra Moatanes denounce Dr. Dollinger as the anti-Christ, on account of feis letter against infallibility. Senator Morton will attend the Republican State Convention at Indianapolis on tbJ 22d. He is expected to make a peech on the evening of that day. The Alabama man who offered a bribe Of one million dollars for the assassination P.President Lincoln n"v prays Congress toremove bis political disabilities. Thirty-four persons are under arrest in Paris, charged with a conspiracy against tha State and the life of the Emperor. They were all armed when arrested. A proclamation was issue! hy the Canadian Government on Saturday, declaring that on and after the 15;h of April, American silver shill only be current at a discount of twenty per cent. Messrs. Blodgett, Farrow and Whifely were on Tuesday elected, by the Georgia Legislature, to the United States Senate. ' for the long, short and unexpired terms respectively. A committee of whisky manufacturers were before the Ways and Means Committee to urge that the time for taking whisky out of bond bo extended to three years."' Tb& Minnesota House of Representativenas passed, by a decisive n.ijority, a resolution to submit to the people an amendment to the State ConNtitution xtending the suffrage to women. It is thought the Senate will concur. Letters from Gea. Sickles Prim as willing to sell Cuba, b it the people of Spain as unwilling. The latest advices received atthc State Department from Caba'fepresent the insurrection as rarudlv , - decreasing. : The, Peru. Sea'iuel ny: Cincinnati liaa raxsd Ler oi l Fifth Street M irkct - bose-,'whTci was built ia 1SJI.L The first time we sw it, in IS.'U, it ws an imnosinS edifice, and the 'pride of the village.' Now it is wept away as useless rul.bnge, andthe &rkop,!is d uli.s are j ibil ,nt." - j . : Tbe-Rochester l uion thinks the Enquirer's plan to enjoin the 15th Amend-i ment in the Supreme Court ineffectual, and tfeat the better way is for each Democratic . State to nullity the amen l-ttent hy making its OWB election liv-i and miintin them' gainst any and a'.i a-s i !tpiion of Federal potcr." The Lexington (Ivy.) Home Jmrr.si HfS tlsfi ; f-verl Southern pNrCers went to llliaois aad Indiana last seison for lborers to Inrvcst ttjeir crop-s anJ succeeded l a . . : i uey onu iHeir vxK?i'tai:on. as llic cotton nd sugar crops arj uot uu i!y gathered and saved before l ?e n'er, snd yerv'receptiy trot anui t er.raary, anjjtocse, uent-1 iy tter the gram and grass cjops of the , are secured, they obtained rousL'c Bien for tue?e Cnniparativ y ici.-ure motivhs

who wen f ; rk t 'K-orf uliy, std saved the Captain, second Engineer, and five tbeSoutTi jra cop? in i s -client style. 4-f- deck bands. Among the passengers were ter. pi-c$itable late Inland Winter en. a pleasure jariy from Cincinnati, Foriraeaiecr, rthese 'ru'-n rciu. ned home in j tuna-Uly none of the passengers were inaec for priBg s ?r rk It io thought jared. Tfce boat end cargo ere a total larger numbers he cngigcd c:rt yoar. k;s.

j Julian lias prepared a bill prohibiting ! any further grants of land to railroads.

The Colorado Council has passed the Woman Suffrage Bill. Tlie Nebraska legislature was to meet on the 17th to ratify the loth Amendment. Bismarck wants the other great powers to concur in a protest against the Papal syllabus. The coin balance in the Treasury is $53,000,000, currency 613,000,000, and the certificates about $50 000,000. Since the opening of the Ecumenical Council, four of its members have died, two Cardinals and two bishops. It is said that the Ecumenical Council will suspend, and possibly close entirely, in the sprine, on account of the msalubrity of Home. Comn-.iioner Delano has decided that Wheeler's canceling stamp must be used in canceling stamps, and not the Ribbon stamp now allowed to be used. iii -1 The House Military Committee have decided against paji nessce National G incr the so-called Tenuaia lor tne services rendered by them when called out by Burnside. Rev. Flenry Ward Beecher says people would be a great deal happier if they would sins more. That the hardest shield zens have now the same right ta vote as men. The Naval Deficiency bill, as it passed the House, appropriated SI, 500,000, but the Senate bill gives 3,000,000. There will bo a conference commutes to settle the difficulty. In the Missouri Legislature the general scnooi aw was recently amended so as to allow the women over twenty-one years owners of property to vote on j questions affecting the raising of taxes for school purposes. An effort is being made to induce Senator Morton and Pratt, together with our representatives in Congress, to attend the Republican State Convention n the 22d of February. The indications now are that the Convention will be the largest and most harmonious ever held ia the State. The investigation, by Garfield's committee, into the New York gold conspiracy, is ended at last. It is understood no charge of malfeasance against any Government ofSet-r will be made, though Butterfield will be censured. Corbin is understood to have sworn that his famous letter to the President has been either lost or destroyed. The total internal revenue receipts for 1SG9 were 8157. 103.005. New York piid the. most, S3t,513,T2rt, and Ohio stood next, paying SIS,050,0S3. Indiana paid SI, 1 SI, 533. Twenty States paid over a million. In the matter of whisky Ohio stood first, having paid SlO,lS1.77S. In diana paid S2,503,6ut, and Kentucky S,415,097. Nine States paid over a million each. The a?crerate Teeeirts irrre c , a n -k -- ti . . 1. t - . 5 40AiJ'J .;. ltc total tobacco receipts were S25,03( 275. J. J. Wright, the colored man j'ust elect cd Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, was born in Pennsylvania, graduated at the Lancastarian University in New York, studied law for two years at Montrose, Penn., and was the first colored man admitted to the bar in that State. In 1S'j5 he went South, and was mule legal adviser cf the South Carolina freedmen. He was a delegate to the Reconstruction Convention, and afterw.rd was elected to the State Senate. A resolution was introduced, Wednesday, in the Illinois Constitutional Convention, instructing the Committee on the ridit rf siifTrfio' tA rrnrtrl fin tl a Trrtnri i ,' . . ' ; Cty of submitting a proposition to grant i ! r - 5 i -sunragc to woman s an independent one, ! to be voted for or against by the women j f the State, of lawful agt, and. if carried, Jo hecome a part of the Constitution . County, Indiana, claims to hVC hea ,ho first 10 " - ! "h Amcnd.nent. Atthc lleFublican j Convention, held in Noblesvillc, on the jOth of January, the following resolution ws passed: llesolved. That our colored ; fellow-citizens are hereby invited to par ticipate in this convention, and also at the I . coming primary election.1 Ilenry Ward Reecbcr says, in his last letter to Robert Bonner: If I HOI malicious, and had an enemv that I desired j to torment 1 w mi 1.1 m,1o!.itiv'i- cr,r, tV., 1 report tbat he was very rich and very lib- j cral. Ton thousand tiios; An a summer i i.ivvj- i J . . . .... ... ' wouu be; t.,x.,, Vl Wnt iMwnj me steamer 31 aggie Hays, Irom xNew Orleans lor lNttsburg, with a light cargo ' of sugar, exploded her boilers in the Mississippi, near Helena, on Friday, killing

The new Bounty bill is now being considered by the Scnate'Military Committee.

It was put through the House a week ago without debate. It provides that soldiers who enlisted prior to July 22d, 1S61, for one year, shall be paid the allowance of one hundred dollars. If now dead, the widow, children or parents are to get it. It is said this bill will involve the expenditure of not less than two millions, and may be more than three millions. Special correspondence from Rome says it is certain that much confusion prevails among the members of the Council, and that two factions, the Ultramontanes, led by Manning, of Westminster, and the Autonomists, by Dupanloup, of Orleans, carry on an excited warfare in the private sessions at the Quirinal. It is asserted that not all of the American Bishops are Ultramontane. The Bishop of Savannah has argued in Council against the Syllabus, and sundry other American Fathers have refused to sign the papal infallibility of the Pope. Indiana Items. The total amount of dog tax levied on ' duplicate of 1S(39 lor Indiana is$10D,0S0. On Thursday two freight trains collided on the Jefiersonville and Inpianadolis Railroad, nine miles north of Jeffersonvillc. The locomotives were considerably injured, but no one was hurt. A distinguished Democrat of Evansville has written to the Librarv Association of that place, tendering the hospitalities of his tauulc residence to Fred. Douglass on the occasion of his intended lecture there. Alie school tax of Indiana f()r ISUin in. ol-mcn;,! i . claumgfcpcoul levies, was more than twice uiBc as uie entire levy tor general . i. . t , 1 otate purposes, including interest on the State debt., etc. It is s.tated tbat an unusuallv lar-e j quantity ot maple molasses and sugar is 'being made in Southern Indiana. The weather, since the loth of January, has been fine for the flow of sap and tha farm-

ershave made the most of it. ; Congressman at the coming Convention. n o - , . ., , , iGeorge W. Julun is also pressing his Mr. Sexenn, of Aurora, has failed thus ! eaiais but tLercare just two things which, .ar in his attempt to manufacture sugar; as we think, wi 1 defeat him. He is unfrom the sugar beet, but is encouraged to popular with a great number of his party continue his experiments. lie has pr0. I tor some reason. And many others fee! cured severtl hundred pounds of seed j J f d, f' , r, , , ., 1 , lative, faithful aisd true, he has had the from 1-ranee, and distributed it among the j honor long enough, and it would be right farmers of his county. to confer it udoi. some other man. From

Rrn Tulnr nf Vo. All,n.. . i: tie boy who resembles George Washington, at that age. He has a hatchet, whacks away at all the cherry trees, and tells a lie about it. lhe other day, in default of a cherry tree, he whacked off some finders . . ' uhccj3 tor the Old man. A fire at Logansport, on Thursday night, destroyed the boot and shoe store of Geo. Lika. two liverv stables mw!o,l

( T. A T t ,-v n ! 1 .3 . 1 . V . , , posed Louisville and St. Lsuis liailwav. Twenty-two miners have been delvin- in i (TrA nvn-t i, . . e .1 1 ! good earnet lor the past four months, and i f . , ,. , , ' it is beaeved have met with success. j The Marshal! County Gran J Jury return ; a bill of indictment for murder in the second degree against Conner, Halancr I 1 1- - , , x j and Kreger, 1:1 the murder case of J. W ! 0 ' 1 " ; Thornburg, in that county, on the 221 of; January. Haslangcr is LelJ in S10,000 j bonds, and Conner and Kreger e.ich 5 , -000 bonds. Their proseottioa will bs pushed with vigo;. Adam X. Prank and William Lace were drownel at Hob.irt on Thursday evening, ! under uistrcsseing circumstances. They were attempting to cross Deep Iviver on ' the ice. Mr. Frank fir.-t fell through, and : Mr. Lace, in attempting to save him, was ' . , - n,, ". , . . also uriin in. 1 he accident wa witnes- , sod by several persons, and attempts were ! made to rescue them, but of no avail. The ; bodies were recovered after having been j in the water three hours. Bth wore old i jand esteemed residents of that village, and : leave large families to mourn their loss Profecr Cox savs the coal of Clav , " lw,, J vounty is woith about tb.(K)0,000,000. Clay County an pay off the National Debt, buy Cuba and Canada, and have enough left for an oroide watch chain. The body of a Miss Sweet was found in (he river at Indianapolis on lhursday ofternoon, about ten mus from the city j The deceased was an old maid vrho has been in s incurab ! tour cr n,ent ln her. The P'ace roF l,0,n neJ to ,,er rIt , -i . , na ?jeamore tree to prevent it from Coating down t'ream It was evidentlv a .r .3 .,i:i, : . : ,uv o. U.MI.1.J, ana me uoa una ueeo in xA: 1 . 1 . 1 . i 1 j the river lr seme time. At Plymouth there continues considers-j ble excitement over the V heeler abortion ! The Grand Jury found a true bill 1 case

uu,auuvmi otnerstaDies.j reccive the nominaion on the first Lallot. The fire is supposed to be the work ofan in- j Shelby Republican. cendiary. Loss 3,O00, partially covered by insurance. I Astronomers tell us that there is great , commotion in the sun now a-days. One of An Indianapolis woman recently gave ; the ex,-a0rdinary manifestations is birth to a child during her husband's ab-i large current or column of electric light sence, and "the neighbors" borrowed two ' shooting out to an enormous distance." other babies and placed them in bed with I 1 ,lcn lt appears there is excessive combusthe little stranger. When the father ask-1 ti?n U ?"gh be wor? ?hlle tot iruuil'e ,t , . ., , , I whether the agitation ot the sun has anv cd to see his child, the coverlid was turned ! thing to do with the mild winter, or is down. He coolly turned to his wife and i likely to be over in time to give us a reaasked, "Did any get away?"' ! sonablc summer. f Commercial. Coiisiderableexcitemcnt prevails in Har- rp, . ' lhe Arctic Hall wants Congress to help nson C ounty, over the discovery of gold j him go to the North Pole. Now if there and silver mines near the lino of the pro- i is any human being who can go to the

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lc. She was miss,d from home Detroit Free Press for joining the -New Asbury University, to say the least, that! other, and it may aiso compel bun to re- i '.T' llZT'f "

five weeks ago, and an advertise- ' I'epartnre movement, the Etujuirer dis- he is the most egotistical humbug that ever j ceive in payment things absolutely value ! At St. Bernard, Franklin County, Indiana, on. serted for information concerning ous'es tlie forcc of the Fittccnth Arucud- traversed ibis couuirv. The lecture of ! less. j Monday, February, 2S, 1S70, the tollowmg irpr. . T- t:.i.-.. o:.. .... i . . .... ertv: Si Yoke of Oven, three Loff Wagons, "'

body was found in an obscure t , " "-B- . . t . ,. . . """i ounpsou, o me luiure o our lhe dissenting Judges hold that Con- . Iot of ;oz chains, 20,000 feet of Lumber, .

against the accused parties, A. Li. Wheel, j vote wilh the jtepablican party. It will er, J. J. Vinall and 3drs. Hopkins. These (lessen the Republican majority so wonderpersons have not yet been arrested, and filly, for the Enquirer simply to "pay no have all been awav from Plvtuouth several Intention." The Enquirer's views will i ' i " - , , . j undergo a radical change, however, when days, no one knowing their whereabouts. . , , , , ' ,. - J ' , . f w a' it sees the colored brother walking up to The Coroner s jury charged them with thej lbe anj depositing his ballot. The. death of Miss Beaver by attempting tn ory end practice are different. Journal

abortion, bat neither of them was placed

under arrest. They have each been admitted to bail in the sum of fifty thousand dolfars. Wheeler will likely return and furnish the requisite bonds. The time of their trial has not yet been decided. A colored man, named Alexander Barrett, of Indianapolis, went home from church on Thursday night singing, and went to bed singing, but was found dead in bed next morning. The Coroner's investigation revealed the fact that a large tumor existed on his heart, and that he was subject to epilepsy, brought on by a bullet which he had carried eight years in his brain. In 1861 Barrett, then a boy of sixteen, in a row with some soldiers, was shot, the bullet entering his head near the base of the nose, and a little to the left, and passing upward. The 2wsf mortem examination showed that it had lodged within a half-inch of his skull above, after passing two inches through the brain. There it was slightly incrusted, and splinters of bone at the place of entrance had enlarged, taking a funnel shaped orifice over a half an inch deep. Since the scooting he has been affieted with ejUpsy, but has otherwise been teallay. Me had a strong muscular body. The excitement of last night probably brought on a gt from which he died, A Candidate for Congress,. Is the topic of conversation in all leading chcle here- Wilson seems to be the mat ilbiu. ncm rtl ins UWU IlUiUC, lit? IS decidedly p.opuUr with the masses. We were at his residence a few evenings since, ! and were most agreeably entertained by Iiiln ana nis excellent wire, lie has a moae o a oa; not gaaav, ba r am and I .... T . ' " , ' . . . 1 . ,- , ncn. uuu- m usuii is a peoples nun. He has the happy faculty of making men ; feel easy while in his presence. It is too i often the case that public men get away ! Ir0U1 tIie PeoPle I hey have the appear icent. Such is not the case with Judge llson. He is a man of fine abilities. and from all that we can learn, bids fair to i receive the nonjination as a candidate for I our standnoint rif nhsprv:itinn now Wil. is. c ? ?f h. Fourth vong.essiouai listrict in lue xieruoiican party. fConnarsville Cor. Shelby Re- ; publican V, .n i 4 .-. v. .n, Z ,v 1 x n V i. . T feiiow citizen, A. D. Lvnch. will co into j h StatA (Vnrmtinn with Ktorr. i n,);,,.. I almost a unit for him for State Treasurer, I f.lie was as we-! known to the people of u,ls ana counties, we would not have the least fears but that we would i0'5'1 Pole, Hall is the man. If it is ofj 1 m Pcrtance ro cumo me .oitn roie, tiaii 's inestimable. Hall has, we believe, of1 f r 1 . 13 tered to tie a copy ot the star spangled banner upon the pole aforesaid. If tbere is anything else that he proposes to do wcn e Sts there, we have not heard of 'f" Conr?ss must take into consideration the value ot the star spangled banner as a r .v - u ' . . nr streamer from the North Pole, c repeat our confidence in Hall's ability to do fbis thing, and express our judgment that he is the only man who can do it. -Commorctal. A ho that has seen a dangerous dise.se

arrested by an able physician cr a good i . medicine but values both? De it vour!lnlr

janilj V physician to whom vou owe so many escapes irom aches and aiis. or Dr. I Ayer's inimitable remedies: his SarsaParl"a that renewed your vitality or CherTJ. L Cctora' l"at,cul paintul cough, or his Ague Cure that expelled the freezing a i x- i i , ague and burning fever irom your blood. Who that has been relieved by any of these agencies but feels grateful for them all? Bangor Times Th r.r ,.,,;.,;., "rTii i t - v.- . v. . n t LLf t r uitt nta ucfore the House on Thursday. We are glad to say that the House stooc d squtrely j ' : - "ai vvouomy for which the Detroit tree Press and oth-i ; cr new departure, Democratio journals ,' ; are professing their high regard, but which ; ' they are doing nothing to secure, the lie- i jpublican party is accomplishing. The j and fainy by Mr. Dawes. That economy can be relied upon to preseive the natiou' ', jniiy ii.m preservea me national u nity, ; ai credit. Uuzette The Cincinnati Enquirer sticks to it. done in the premises? Our answer is j i ready, hraud and fores sanctify and ,ve vahaity to nothing. Its a . - t . - i action is a nunuy. xo attention snoaia ti be paid to , declaration of the Secretary of State, that ! ,he Fifteenth Amendment ' 1 adorted as a r.art of the . Au the Cincinnati K 14 to P3? no attention T - tL lecrtonl ! lb 9X llilil :(1 (.fill a1apa.4 mon f 1K1

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For the American; A Word to Temperance Men. BT W. W. MAGUIRE. Friends and advocates of the Temperance reform, yon. have very weighty responsibilities devolving upon you. O, how high, how holy, and how heavenly is your mission! To raise up the fallen, to Tescue the perishing, to bind up the broken heart, and send peace and joy and hope and love and purity and fidelity into many a weary and sorrowful heart where these little white-robed messengers from Heaven have long been strangers or unknown. To properly fulfill that mission, you must make it one of love; and, breaking through all the barriers which the false and fastidious usages of society have reared, go forth to the alloys and the gutters, the dens of pollution, corruption, infamy, sin and death, in search of your fallen brothers and whenever yon find the;, and xclierel ever you find them, rv,se them up, gnod-Samaritan-like, ? ,,d see that they are properly cared for, uritil theyare again "clothed and in ;neir right minds." Speak kindly to '.re erring. ' The heart knoweth its own bitterness," and there are times in the lives of the tempted and unfortunate when their hearts are as dreary and as desolate as Arabia's scorched and burning desert sands, and O, at such times, how a kind word or look or smile comes to the desolate one like a bright sunbeam suddenly bursting through a dark winter cloud, like the sweet singing of a bird, deep, deep in the silent solitude of some vast wildernoss, like a fountain gushing up in the desert, or "the shadow of a ereat rock in a weary land.'1 Speak kindly to the erring, for

"You know not .all fbe pivrcrWith which the 'Urk te-njt:tior came, In some unguarde! hour." Speak kindlv to thp prrincr- f.ir it miTthat a single kind word, like the shadow rC ar mrw.nl'o : i:x: .v. ' wiun uneiiug across me I drearv desert r.f th thA i. . J ' im blighted affections, mav touch and trnnhlo into life and motion the stagnant pool of . . - ' -f iovc ana anection, long, long slumbeung there. I cannot think, I do not believe that any human being ever becomes wholly evil in this world. Cast down, they may be, and deSraded, and despised, od siiik to me iofsi uepms 01 inia!ii- ana vice; cut still, amongst tho scattered fragments of the sin-blasted soul, there remains a ami ifferm of its native purity, which, bv be ing properly cared for and cultivated with

the genial sunshine and soul showers of! bce" malkcd by seUi.ness,, by corruption,) those who now indorse, them, 'and we besweet smiles and kindly words, may be I a c'nt disre-ard of human rights, ; Heve that now, if.- ih kUr of tl.eiir made, once again, to bud and blossom and i unrelenting war upon the colorod race, j triumph, to thrust him aside would be a

ocar. men speak kindly to your errin brother; foral'ter all, are we not all brothers and sisters still? For mv part, the world is my home, and every man is my brother, fls "I!"; Jj? t ..,v, j...,.., u.- ' gans; the Illlopher, who looks far vvi iuiw mo .icai ucjjiiis u iiie iiu maw soul; to the starrv-drenminor r,rrt. v?hn r . r f, ' v P, 1 , , deep' drearay blue of the k u an ' star.fo,,,,,, home; to the Christian theologian minis. ter of Messiah's Gospel, whose feet are beautiful oa the mountain tops of sin and of sorrow, as they proclaim the good news and glad tidings to all; and I ask them, oec and all, if we are uot ali brothers and sisters and more still, twin brothers and sisters of the upper ether and all bound together, not as the Siamese twins are by a smgiel igament.but by a binuUc, a sh( af of hcart-fibres, ail twined into one, all spun on the same gulden wheel of heaven, and all baptized in the same sea of mysterious, indefinable, human manwUm' i ilior, speak kindly to your erring brother; and' j in the Great Day, when the Rooks arc j opened, your kind words may be found! cpenea. your Kina woras may be round stortdaway somewhere between the leaves like delicate rose-buas placed there by (he nana ot love and anection, and spread a delightful fragrance throughout the bl;-s-ful regions of the ever-bicssed! Metamora, Ind., Feb. Hth, 1S70. Letter from Grsencastle. Greexcastle, Ind., Feb. li, 1S70. Editor of the American, Dear Sir: Presuming that a few items!

from this city might be read with consid-' . " erablc interest by the many patrons of! Opinions cf Ilia Suprem3 Court. your very worthy p3per, it occurred to me ! '"TT'f T f , T ' ; k c i Supreme Court ou the note tender act, ana that I could not occupy a few moments; tLe comment which has ii excited, aud oonrcoie profitably than by sending you a ! siderabie mit-apprehension as to the real short communication. j scope of the decision, wiil induce its genTho M. E. Churches of this city are i ''reading. Therefore we have present.

j. i - i i i J ' I css for three weeks. corcs have 1 the signs oeen aaaed to the churches, an tnaicate mat many more will vet he add j e before the n;ectings aie brought to a I lose. ihe t.icuitv and students of the : tjniverny are lasmg an eciive part in the revivs.!, laboring earnestly and diligently for the salvation of all the students and citizens who are out of the church, 3 . I ... i. . . - - it- -. . - aim n.c iuxe great reason 10 reioicc. lor their labors have not been in vain. This College year has been characterized with unusual mosreritv io the ITni. ! versity, for it was but last week that she I received an endowment fiind of $25,mO I in seven per cent, bunds of tb -h-.. j er cc:,i. uunus oi me i ec u. li. It., from Hubert SioekweU, cf h if ivette. ! Ind. This is a good precedent, and it is hoped that others wh. are able wiil follow j it, for it is we.! known that a duz?n such ! endowments would not hurt the instituat uon, u.i i wou a tc i unfeia value to it. , Among the iiiusti i..-us n;en who have i lectured before us il.is Wiutcr, were Geo. j I,". ...,.;., iv. ; i:. si: i ii ... ry Vincent the ge.t English reformer, xia.it.ic xiain, u.m... ! v iuiooii ai:u lien, appreciated and relished by all. Mr. Vincent gave us an excellent lecture on Eng- i i:oa ana tl;e cccicsia i j.i ? '.teal condition ofj Euro e. There are three vet to lecture before sW r - tl,iDS from each of these; but for fear my communication wjil bo too loui I will close. Yours, &c, U. Judge Wilson, of Fayette county, has given authority to the Connersville Times to announce his name as a Candidate for Congressional honors. The liberal support Judge Wilson will receive from the people of this ponio a of the district will

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nas been tienrv Aluourn. the bund Treacher: his ! der. a n.i comnel a 1 timi-i.nn nti.,

Constitution.'' ; subject wiil be, what a blind man saw in I be changed to it: that if a person borrows

Inquirer has to do ' I ai is; Anna Dickinson, and Petroleum V. j 100 specie dollars, an act passed subse-

, and theo look I xNasoy. H e are expectinsi a feast of cowd ! ouenttv mav enable him rt n,.,nl h

be well worthy the man to which it will

Judge Wilson will at once command for quenecs, and in the headlonc wav h him a prominent position on the Judicial j which it reaches them, and in the roann Committee where he may be of service to j in which it argues the absolute despotic his constituents and the country. Hejof Government over property rights R would bring harmony to the Republican j it is most weak in abdicating the provi " ranks which have so long been frittering of the judiciary, by allowing that legist away their strength over the 'Julian Quar- tive views of mere monetarv exiPti;

rel.' If we wish to succeed next Fall, and that with a good and true man, we should give Judge Wilson a unanimous support. Cambridge Tribune. The New Departure. It was plain from the first that the Democratic party would soon accept the new order of thiugs, aad give their attention to secuving the votes of the colored citizens. The leaders of that party see that it is of no use to kick against the pricks. The revolution that has just been accomplished is one of those that never go backward. The Enquirer may suggest injunctions, and the Kentucky Democracy kinky-haired restrictions, but the step that has been taken wiil not be retraced. Clearcrsighted politicians than those of the Enquirer office and of Kentucky see this, and they are already urging the Democracy to let the dead past be forgotten. New issues, they say, are coming up, battles on new grounds are to be fought, and the Democracy are called upon ta forget the hate they have so long borne the negroes, and strive to secure their suffrages. The Detroit Free Press is the last paper that is rejoicing. It is now head and heels over in the "new departure" policy, and calls upon the colored voters to help in the fight against the Radicals ou the issues of high tariff, fiuances, taxation aud monopolies. It will probably not be forgotten by coiorea voters tbat just as long as it could 1- 1. . . - be uone the Democratic party kept them in slavery; that just as long as it was pos j ble t0 .n,a?ie tlle ht tUat rarty opposed ! the conferring unim ihpm iif r it t7xxnii irv . - - .7 -1 - - n tbat just as lone as the struggle availed I anything, the Democracy (ought, tooth , - : J -l - . , ... au iiau, auainsi uieir 11g.it. to t lie baliot. It is ouly when further struggling is seen to be futile, that the Democracy pronounces in faw.r of freedom and equality. Oniy w lie 11 u is uiivtn !. justice, does tne Democracy ilu.:k ot Uuu.g justice. It is only when U sees that the path of power is , iy ..mi w,c i.eu.ocracy ceases us tatter at;i uncoil iipruOiistng perse sccu: ion. It wiil, doubtless, occur to the colored voters that this party, whose coarse has ""yB ""i"' creurime suvc Olivers wlj'P a,ui aiui ward the prejudices of the ! ! tu0" ls ll0t tile party u is a!e to iuvest j power. 1 o-.vcr indeed, means only new oppcnuiiiry ior oppression aodirjisstice. lt means the renewed rule of those who, like the politicians vi' the Enquirer, are now attempting to Mud s.xi;8 escnve from the proviMous of the Ih-'h Amendment. It means i-outinued grinding, prolonged op res.-ion. The Greeks, even t f -foring gifts, the shrewd Tr..j-in reared.. The la:r promises of Democracy are eiujiiy to be evaded. A word more as to tlia objects which tiio Ficc Press proposes to accompli.-h. It is our coir, ict ion that if taxation is ever to be brought unvn, if there is t. be real, hor.cst, thorong'i going re'rcticlimcnt in I n'l,;onal expenditures, ii ihe death-biow is to be ever :ivcu to monopolies a ri d COl mption, all this is to he wrought through : ihe agency of the Republican party, not! the Democracy. Lot it be remembered j i'nat it was a Repubiic.in Ad mi n is! ratio n l,at.Crst s,how?,i country h..w the debt entailed on the nation by rebellious States Democratic States- could be reduced; mui-ni,c .aa'w coun ue ruauceu; ! tllHt u was Uctutblicn lea lor that first j rjISa a voice against department extrava. ' K"utc, ttui it is ueputiiean papers that ! arc trt"Jay most vigorous in opn.sing tuonopuues, a"'1 ,he t p-.uudering politicians. 1 ho best security l'ur ti;e !'u - turo is afforded by the experience of the m., I, , ... i ' .1 n past. It is piecic,y uccause the Hem ocr.icy can not St.itll tlit test, and the Ue publican party can, that the peonie will continue ty trust ihe l ater rather th;ui tne former. f"G;.zet;e. tv r'iuiis in i in. i ne scone oi i lie decis! ion is this, and no more: Thft ri.-.tA j teuder act, so far as it is retroactive reachling back to contracts male before the passage ot th3 act, is unconstitunona . The opinion does uot touch upon its con stitutu.nalitv as to contracts h.,!- v! .. the act was in force, although its principle, that the law must enforce contracts as the parties to them expressed and intend, ed, docs logically lead to the conclusion that contracts made in these legal tender notes must be carried out accordingly, and that liovcrnment may not compel the pay ment of these in eoin bv nattier !!, of the legal lender, or bv withdrawing the notes. inevuai argument oi the decision is that Government may not impair the obiiRation of contracts, and that tins note tender act, in its retroactive operation, do.-s destroy the obligation of contracts. It is simply a decision that when a person has The vital argument of the deeb received the value of 100 specie dollars and lias contracted to return 100 specie dollars, the legislature msy not pass an . .. l i . . V - ii. . . 'creditor to lake in full payment cither 50 I act to et o a i.ie uentnr t.i onmnoi tnoi between persons- that it mav oh. conideraiion at its pleasure- tha ment is supreme over rights of property; tnat it my enact laws to operate retroLr.tiv.lv that it n,3 ,h.n .... J ---- - I . j I uv I V, .1 I l t, II lender to take in full payment nominal dollars of half the previous weight, or notes worth but oO cents on the dollar; or that it may so alter the standard of lawtul money as to compel the borrower of da preciated legal teuder notes to pay in coin, or the borrower of specie dollars to pay the same number of dollars of double the previous standard weight. All this is the direct logical consequence

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be of the argument of the dissenting JU(j

es. ! ought to govern the decision of the C Four Judges coincided in the decision. Justice Grier, now retired, had previously united in a decision covering the same principle. Three Judges dissented, fh decision of the majority is far safer for the people, for it holds that the province of law is to protect property rights, and that contracts mut be kept sacred; while K. opinion of the dissenting Juices roal uuvciiniieia ausoiuie over private proper, ty. Gazette. Wayne County Convention. Centerville, February 12. The County Convention, to-day, assembled principally for the purpose of anpointing delegates to the State Convention, was the largest ever held in this place. Julian's friends were on hand ia force, by daylight, organized the convention and carried things all their own way The opposition were not organized, had 00 leader and made no effort. Among the resolutions adopted were the following: Resoh-ei, That while we recognjze tjjff right and propriety of free dicussion ou the part of the press of the district of th merits of the several candidates of the party for Congressional honors, we deprecate the unwarrantable course of the local 1 condemn the dictatorial and uniust nnM j.icc- me utsiiHT, uu especially do we . 0f rlie Cincinnati Gazette j Resolved, That we utterly scou the Uea s( industriously sought to be inculcate.! uiai cuner 01 tne eanaidates named, if found to be the choice of the people, can rot, and will not, be elected, and the base insinuation of such a result is an itysult to the party of whose integrity it is a direct impeachment. Rixoh-t'ti, That we indorse and heartily -1 - .! .! -i j ciliscn. Hon. O. P. Mrtn, in the Unite! 'States Senate, and that we recn-niz i i f'i"c i ' l-.lllrc ui uur ioriiier leiiownon. (i. W. Julian an earlv idvocate of u:e caru;nai principles ; o-u-r party at a time w'fi?i)- few were aUj to perceive them, !artd f ! ,n iaintni Amark cf ingratitude and unjust to him. MEW ADVLR TlitMENTS PUBLIC SALE. S thinhiy, Fibrmry. 2d, 1S70, on t i.irm kn..wn as the "MoInus Farm," one ati.l a h.itfiiulcs .S.ns hwest .f l-'airfieU, rx Fan lift. I rm-!is!tiji, FiamUm Jouuty, Imiianu. .he ioilow cti : .i. scribed f-jiriy , to wil: Five ilcsioi ..a: li.ir.o, Jiic Cuiv, F.,ur II end . S'acep, U.,c Uvo 11 n,v vVa-j,,a, I'wj tha Grit, Hay in th M..w, r:.,, ii ..irow.-', ai.d uian other astities tt.Iious to ip.iu n i-n. S.ilc t K.i.ioiK'e Mt Hi o'ciiiCk A. M. Term made mvvutui d iv ot! Si'i cl. .11 ' P.. C WILSON". Ali'TiCji SALE, i X his l-'.'lin siinatfl ti-.- mtJ . h.lf ...il-.a 1, . , u K-ucrMirnc.i viii c::.r . t-1 li:c ya.p. oa Urjokviilr, n the Vikc, On TiusJuy, Mov,:h I, 1S70-; th tH.-;n aosri;d lUal and Pcional Prn ! wty , t. wit: : Jl 1- TRACT OF TIM BLUED LAN1 con:ir.ing us !res, suuntsd thrv fourth of I mit from ta U&Urm.t, win be dd in trirts t, . ".n-: m-m mo awir.m t, ..e i " v !er :. ai. i u ',vs.b, J:oie, Hi ting Cattle, frbeef--,. , tiu:is, Umhj lUi-inuc, vooj Saw Machine, i '!;--i-'U K u.-Uen t'urn itaro, l..t of Cider ; ana a ,,-,t many other article, too tediou. i menii.-n. ' wranjnpe at 10 o'clock A.M. Ti.RMS il-' SALE. Un Ual One-third etsb ! in h ta.i h t!ll,,e ia oae tw, yearSj secJred by j mo rig at 8 no.- cc.t. iaurest. ! Ou t'ursourl Aitains na-ier i0, e.ih in hand; alls-iui-; ovor -flvl, a creltt of nina months with, aj jiiovca o'ur.tv, 6 jjor cant, nitorost. J. ltdtliUTd. BANKRUPT SALS. rT li K u-i.lorsi; iod, Assignee in Bankruptcy of X the l:tale ol" Sarah Vithers, Bankrupt, will, On iSuiurtlnij (he btk day of March, 1S70, on the premises at Cellar Grove. Frankli n County, Inti:m:it cxp-ee to sale at public auction, the fllowing de crthei Ileal LtUto, situate in saiJ Comity, to tit: J an r"Ted hy br by viitue of a Leae ! ?.",My.ter l'ower 'I 'ilf.",' A:i the interest aj.ipned by ?id Bnkrapt of Lnd ater Valley Canal Co.-np.inv, of d .te Oct. 2S, 1S43, for twenty yesrs from Miroh 1, 1S44, nfl afierwards extended for twenty years from March 1, 1S50, with right ot renewal, to Samuel Knote an j Ephraim Sater, and by various transfers passed to tai4 Bankrupt, lnnl described as follows: The South halt" of a bout two acres of land deeded to the w V. V. Canal Company by Samuel Knote and Ephraim Sater by dped d.-ited Oct. 2S, lS4i, adjoining tho town cf Cedar Grove aloresaid, and on which is located a Flouring Mill. On the above is situated a valuable Flouring Mill propelled by a Steam Engine, all in good order. Also Lots 7 and 8 in Green's plat of Ceear Grove in said County. TERMS OF SALE One-third purchase mmey cash in hard, one-llitd in fix ri d Tesidue ift twelve months, deferred payments secure! by notes waiving valuation and appraUeuicat laws and by ood freehold scfuritv. YV.M. J.'PECK, Assignee. February, 11, 1870-4w. BANKRUPT SALE. GREAT SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. yitE nnderfincd Trustees in B ir.kroptcy of . . . tue 'In order of "th. Dirfot Court Lf'eV.S. Saw l.ntra TERMS OF SALE. All sums of Fire L'o '-p and under, cash in hand; ai! ums ever Five lolJrs, a credit of sis month; will be given, 'y purchaser eirinz his note with approved frecno security, drawing interest at 6 j.er cent., ' ing benefit of valuation and appraisement AV M.J. FECK, t Trustees. JO UK li. MOORMAXN, Feb. 11, 1S70 3w. INFORMATION WANTED OF Jacob Price Erwin, (Erving or Irving.) r any of his family, by the undersigned, 01 only sister. It is not known whether he is " alive, as no letter has ben received from him a number of years. When last heard from, a was a resident of Brookville a builder and tarm ir, and had a numerous family. Any U 1 from him, his children, or from any friends ol 1 family who can throw the faintest light npoo 1 uncertainty, will be most gratefully recenea j Mary U. Triglcr, iu care of H. C. Weeks, Avenue Savings Bank, New York City, fob. 4-4 1