Indiana American, Volume 9, Number 17, Brookville, Franklin County, 29 April 1870 — Page 1

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Office in the National Bank Building', Third Story) TERMS Or SUBSCRIPTION: j 2.50 PER YEAU, in advancr. $3.00 " " 1F NOT pAID I ADTAKCK. j,o pottage on papers delivered within this County. The Day of Jubilee. To-day a race commemorates its full enfranchisement. Lifted up from the unutterable depths of slavery, its emancipation has been filled out and supplemented by its admission to the rights of citizen, thip. Overborne by wrongs greater than those any people have endured, it has emeraed from them into the glad sunlight of freedom, and to-day rejoices in the assurance that henceforth all proscription is over, all legislative hostility ended, all oppression enacted into law terminated. Itbas heard it declared by the highest of American tribunals that "the black man had no rights that a white man was bound to respect." It has listened while Senators of the nation have asserted the attempt of a black "man to escape from bondage "an atrocious crime.'! It has seen thirtv thousand of its people, rrsidenj in the Northern States, fleeing from their homes lest under the forms of law they night be hurried into a condition of servitude. It has waited while three millions were toiling for masters who gave to them no cent of remuneration for their work. It has seen itself denied every attribute, every prerogative of manhood denied a rilit of property in either its person or its labor, denied a right to life or liberty or happiness; denied even any right or part in the life that is to come. Is it strange that they would march through the streets to-Jaj? Is it to be wondered at that they call their celebration a Jubilee. Events have moved with so swift a propress that their full import to the colored race is perhaps hardly vet realized. It is only ten years ago that the land was yet full of memories of John Brown, only ten jears since Breckinridge and Lane were running as the Presidential candidates of a party whose single and avowed aim was the perpetuation and extension of slavery; only ten years since the Republican party, while declaring "freedom the normal condition of the Territories." was protesting its policy of non-interference with the States. It is only nine years this very week since the first guns of the great war were fired. Who then anticipated that the war was avowedly undertaken solely for the preservation of the Union was goin to end only alter the emancipation of the slaves, and as a direct logical result of their emancipation, their enfranchisement? N'nt i-prfninlv the 1'rpsiilent Fpw for uinly.of the people. But as slowly and ! wearily the nation struggled on, the great; trutu came to be seen that the war was (he fearful punishment the land bad brought upon itself for its toleration of a antic wrong. It became at last, plain that only by the doing ofju;-tiee could the national life be saved. Ilow slow the nation was to learn the solemn lesson, none hut remember. Not until lSt3 was justice done, and even then the Proclamation that was sent throushout the land brought the message of freedom only to those who wrie in the territory jet occupied by the lebel lorcea. Hut the first step taken, others followed soon. W it inn a little more than two vents ,.ft...,.i .k-i... c,ur,..ua,., - surrendered, and the loth Amendment to , ,i,,v , , .-. ,- . , j j the National (. onstitulion was adopted, de-I : ,i . -,i i i j c.arini; that " neither slavery nor voluntary .. -.' i . - , .. c set vitmip pti'pn ns it iiniiKhiiii'nt ,t crime, whereof the paity shall have been duly convicted, shail exist within the rutted States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Tl I , i ...... - ... . . i... I vic inert uv eiuaucipaieu were maue, nv the lltli Amendment. American citizens Now all previous measures of partial justice are completed and rounded out. The black man sees, to day, what Abraham Lincoln "Father Abraham," as he loves to well to call him rueattt when he said that this is "a (iovernment of the people, for the people, by the people." Equal he stinds to-day before the law with every citizen, equal in all rights, all franchise, 'len years have been sufficient to accomplish this mighty change. As the procession marches to day through the streets of the city, there harass them no fears of violence, no mob watches their movements, no armed soldiery is called out for their protection. The dajs for wild disorders are gone. Cincinnati has seen its last slave riot, has taken part in its last slave hunt. Its crusade against the colored men and Abolitionists is ended. The dismal wrongs that ere perpetrated against right and justice it has repented of, and to day it will watch ith deep and unaffected interest the investment of the colored race in its new fhts. Israel celebrated every fiftieth year a solemn jubilee. That year was hallowed, nd in it was proclaimed liberty throughcut all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof. Every man was returned unto is possessions and unto his family. EvtrJ debtor was discharged, and hired servr.ts and bondmen were set free. To-day 'be colored people celebrate, and celebrate once for all, their jubilee. They were enved, and now they are free. They had 6 rights to which respect was paid, and now they are equal to all. in all. They wre the children of no land, owned by o nation, protected by no banner. Now 'bey are under the care of the Great RePubUc, freemen, and not alone freedmen; "ot only Degroes, but American citizens. Alette of Thursday. A Rare Plant. , "hen the great American aloe, belonging to Mr. Van Kensselear, of Albany, bavins; Ven in New York on exhibition, &a rj its way up the river, under the care t the gatdener or keeper, a gentleman, Mrct with the beauty of the plant, made Biny inquiries regarding it. "In the course cf the passage -the inquirer remarked: bat belongs to the cactus family, does it p0t?' 'No, sir; it belongs to the Van Keossclaer family, was the reply. - pi Hints to Banters To get rid of corMence, turn lighter-man. Safety Match Ten thousand a year 08 both sides.

"THE UNION, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS." VOL. 9, NO. 17. BROOKVILLE, IND.. FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1870. WHOLE NO. 425.

Prof. Wilber's Opinion of the Block Letter from Judge Chase. .p Coal. The following important and remarkable ,11 ?; 5L T a iIber'J Wh LS, reco?ni"d i letter f Chief Justice Chase was receivall over the land as indisputable authority , . , . . , in matters pertaining to coal and other j ed h the Committee of Conespondence minerals, writes the following letter to ! ot" 'be colored citizens of Cincinnati, who

Prof. Cox, in which he eives hia ODinion of the Clap county block coal: Bates Hocse, Indianapolis, ") April8, 1870. j E. T. Cox, State Geologist: Dear Sir In behalf of many who, during this excursion, have by your courtesy been for the first time made acquainted with the peculiar qualities of "block coal," I desire to express our gratitude, and also for advance copies of your excellent paper on the "Geology of the State of Indiana," which explains so minutely and clearly the position, extent and quality of the remarkable coals which have already distinguished your State in all countries. Your report will stimulate examinations everywhere, but especially upon outer edges of all great coalfields, and thus the amount of this most valuable class of coals may be largely increased. The many proofs which we had in numerous furnaces and rolling mills during the excursion demonstrated its perfect adaptation and mastery over iron in every form, as well as its capacity to produce the best iron at the lowest rate of cost; and hence, as far as these coals relate, the manufacture of the cheapest and best qualities of iron, is now merely a question of supply of suitable iron, ores, whether from Missouri or Lake Superior. The extent to which theEe coals will be used, will depend largely upon favorable rates of transportation; both for iron ores to the coal region and for coals to the iron districts. It is probable that masters of transportation will favor this most important trade in every legitimate way, and enable the block coals to find their way cheaply to the great manufacturing centers. We hope that our researches and discoveries may enable you still further to enlarge the domain of these excellent coals, and lhat your survey may continue to be, as it is now, the pride of the people of Indiana. Yours respectfully, C. D. Wilber, Inspector of Mining Lands. A Bold True View. The Christian Uuion, in "Tho fifteenth Amendment," gives an able historical review of the causes that have brought it about. The article con- . eludes: J The Fifteenth Amendment is the boldj est avowal ever made of our faith in the j safety of self-government. (Jive men a j cha nee, educate vhe manly side of character, leave them free, and they will frame better i laws and better policies than can be made for them by thinkers, philosophers, or the : wisest statesmen, actios as a governing '. class. Upon one side ef the Continent are pouring Asiatic emigrants, on the other ' European, wJiile already the African largely possesses the land. We have our thrown our laws, our government, t h ro w n our laws. r .. , der the power ot their miscellaneous vote, T - . . , . , , ,. It is a sublime oee a ration ihat Ut-pubh . . , nanism is not a sectarian government, but " is the one rightful univer.-al government! No government in this world is sale. But self-government is the safest. Human nature is not wholly trustworthy, but it is i'.. ... 1. . . ... .1 . V. I. .J ... I. ... J mi faifi w lit; u uusu-'i inaii nut'ii uuuuu'U. Human nature is, after all, the one thins; we have to build on. Like a field, it may raise weeds or it may produce wheat, according to the cultivation given. The American doctrine is: "Trust Human Nature, and then see that it is kept worthy of trust!" For ourselves, we look forward to the future with confidence. Universal suffrage is logically consistent with our organic truths, congenial to human nature in political association, and as we firmly believe, safe, and fruitful in good. It's an awful thing to be financial poiut of view. short" in a Flowers fling their wealth upon the vacant air, and rich men often tiing theirs upon the vacant heir. "Mother," said a boy of six God has any more babies to gi don't you take 'em. years, 'if ve away, " 'Tis the voice of the sluggard, I hear him complain," as Paddy said when he heard the pig grunt. The bachelor has to look out for number one the married man for number two. The school commissioners in Iowa prohibit "lady teacher" kissing sehool boys over eighteen years of age. Cats do not like water, and yet there is a similarity between a feline and the rain both of them paw sometimes. Some invalid old men get to be like a page of music, full of crotchets and quavers. New Paint. llay sprinkled with a little chloride of lime, and left for one hour in a closed room, will remove the smell of new paint. An Augusta man after advertising for his lost watch, and looking for it all day, found it at night banging down his back. "Ilow are you getting on?" cried the captain of a steamboat to the people of the Ohio. "Oh, a submerged towu twimmingfg!" on Mark Twain says that the Sandwich Islands dish of plain dog "is only the cherished American sausage with the mystery removed. Did you ever know a young lady too weak to stand up during psalm time in church, who could not dance all niht without being tired.

recently celebrated the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment: "Washington, March 30, 1S70. "Gentlemen Accept my thanks for the invitation you have tendered me, in behalf of the colored people of Cinoinnati, to attend their celebration of the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment. My duties here will not permit me to be present, except by good will and good wishes. "Almost a quarter of a century has passed since some of yon, probably, heard me declare, on the 6th of May, 1835.T8 an assembly composed chiefly of the people whom you now represent, that all legal distinctions between individuals of the same community founded on any such circumstances as color, origin, and the like, are hostile to the genius of our institutions, and incompatible with the true theory of American liberty; that true Democracy makes no inquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity, or any other similar circumstance of condition, and that the exclusion of the colored people, as a body, from the elective franchise is incompatible with true Democratic principles. "I congratulate you on the fact that these principles, not then avowed by me for the first time, nor ever since abandoned or compromised, have been at length incorporated into the Constitution and made

part of the supreme law of the land. "Many, no doubt, have been glad, as I should have been, had the great work consummated by he ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, could have been accomplished by the States, through amendment of State Constitutions and through appropriate State legislation; but the delays and uncertainties, prejudicial to every interest, inseparable from that mode of proceeding, seemed to necessitate the course actually adopted. Nor does the Amendment impair the real rights of any State. It leaves the whole regulation of suffrage to the whole people of each State, subject only to the fundamental law, that the right of no citizen to vote shall be denied, or abridged, on account of color, race, or previous condition ot servitude, it is to be hoped that each State will so conform iia Constitution and laws to this fundamenilaw that no occasion may be given to legislation by Congress. "But the best vindication of the wisdom as well as justice of the Amendment must be found in the conduct of that large class of citizens whom yoo represent. On the occasion to which I have referred, I ventured to say that the best way to insure the peaceful dwelling together of the different races, is the cordial reciprocation of the benefits, not the mutual infliction of injuries; and I can not now give you better council than I offered then: "Go forward, having perfect faith in your own manhood, and in God's providence, adding to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; and to knowledge, patience; and to patience, temperance; and to temperance, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, charity.' "Why not signalize your rejoicing in the rights secured under the Fifteenth Amendment, by urging upon Congress the prompt removal of all political disabilities, imposed upon our fellow-citizens by the Fourteenth Amendment? so that, through universal suffrage and universal amnesty, peace, good will and prosperity may be established throughout our coun"Every good man must rejoice in the progress which the colored citizens of the United States have made in education, in religious culture, aod in the general improvement of their condition. Every good man must earnestly desire their continued and accelerated progress in the same direction. All public and all private interests will be promoted by it; and it will insure, at no distant day, cordial recognition of their rights, even from those of theirfellow.citizens who have most earnestly opposed them. "No man can now be found who would restore slavery; a few years hence, if the colored men are wise, it will be impossible to find a man who will avow himself in favor of denying or abridging their rights to vote. "Very respectfully yours, "S. P. Chase." How He Whipped Him. A young John Phccnix tells how it was as follows: "I'll tell you how it was. You see, Bill and me went down to the wharf to fish; and I felt in my pocket aod found my knife, and it was gone, and I said, 'Bill, you stole my knife;' and be said I was another, and I said go there yourself, and he said it was no euch thing; and I said he was a liar, and I could whip him, if I was bigger' n him, and he said he would rock me to sleep, mother, and I said he was a bigger one, and he said 1 never had the measles, and I said for him to fork over that knife or I'd fix him for a tombstone at Laurel Hill; and he said my grandmother was no gentleman, and I said he darsn't take it up, but he did, you bet; then I got up again, and said be was too much afraid to do it again, and he tried to, but be didn't, and I grabbed him and threw him down on the top of me like seveal bricks, and I tell you It beat all and so did he: and my little dog got up behind Bill and bit him, and Bill kicked at the dog, and the dog ran, and I ran after the dog to fetch him back, and 1 didn't catch him till I got clear home, and I'll whip him more yet. Is my eye black?" In starching clothes, mix raw starch with water and pour boiling water upon it but do not boil the 6tarch. It will take about halt the usual quantity. Stir it round with a little end of a spermaceti candle to make it iron glossy.

Truth and Freedom. For the troth, then, let as battle, Whatsoever fate betide! Long, the beast that we are Freemen, We have made, and pabliahed wide, lie who has the Truth, and keeps it. Keeps what aot to him belongs, But performs a selfish action, That his fellow mortal wrongs. He who seeks the Troth, and trembles At the dangers he mast brave, Is not fit to be a Freeman He at least is but a slave. He who hears the Truth and places Its high promptings under ban, Loud may boast of all that's manly, But can nerer be a man. Friend, tnia simple lay, who readest, Be not thou like unto them, But to Truth give utmort freedom, And the tide it raises, stem. Bold in speech, and bold in action, Be forever Time will test, Of the free-souled and the slavish, Which fulfills life's mission best. Be thou like the noble Roman Soorn the threat that bias thee fearSpeak I no matter what betides thee; Let them stirke, but male them hear! Bethon like the first ApostlesBe thou like heroic Paul: If a free thought seek expression, Speak it boldly! speak it alll Face thine enemies, deceivers, Scorn. the prison, rack f rod! Aod if thou hast a Truth to utter, Speak! and leave the rest to God.

How They Know the Yankee. One day last fall, says a writer, in com pany with a eminent clergyman of London I was making my way toward the Thames Tunnel, when we weie Btopped by an itinerant vender of pictures, who seemed to know my companio). "Buy some of these pictures of the public buildings of London, sir," he said ,"and you can give them to your American friend to take home with him." I was in a hurry bit my wonderment would have stopped tut if I had been run ning to a fire. "How in creation did you know I was an American?" 1 asked. "Why, I couldn't mistake that" the picture-seller replied, with a quiet laugh. "You're American all over." I purchased a picture, and then asked jbun to explain himself. I would know you by your soft beaver hat," he said. "That's an American fashion." .Vell if it were net for that?" He glanced down tmy feet. "Your boots would betray you. Nobodv but Americans wear square toes." "Well wht eise?" "Your chin whiskers. Englishmen always wear the mutton-chop style." "Well anyiiing more?" "If you won't be offended, sir?" "Not at all; I am seeking for information." "I should knw you by your thin, peaked face." "Well, my friend," I said, "I fancy you are at the end of tour catalogue now. Suppose that I vore a stiff, high-crowned hat, round-toed .boots, mutton-chopped whiskers, and had a face as red and chubby as any Britain would you be able to know me for an American then?" 'Certainly I should, as 6on I heard you speak," the fellow triumphantly answered. "You Americans invariably commence every sentence with a ccll.,' My English friend laughed long and loud at the man's adroitness. "I believe he is more than half right," he said. "See if your nationality is not detected everywhere you go." It was even so. 1 was importuned to buy a photograph of La Fayette, because he was "ze friend of all Americans;" in Genoa a dirty vagabond was clamorous to exhibit to me the house where Columbus n-ao Kj-.vn hflf)4neA Via A lnvp P All 4'thA Rlfr nor s great countree; ana at Aiexanarta the climax was capped by a ragged little descendant of the Pharaoh, who besought him to take a ride on his donkey. "Strong donkee fast donkee nice Yankee Doodle donkee!" was his irresistible appeal, in the only English words be knew." So it seems that the individual American is known all over the world. ...... 1 A Lesson in Rhetoric. Brown was invited to visit a town in the extreme rural districts for the purpose of lecturing the people on temperance. He arrived at his destination late in the evening, and was invited to the cottage of a farmer to partake of supper previous to the display of his eloquence. The farmer had two sons, twenty to twenty-five years of age, and to them a temperance lecturer appeared something more than an ordinary man. Brown had great difficulty in drawing them into conversation, but at length the ice was broken, and the following colloquy was the result: "I suppose you've both affixed your names to' the pledge long ago?" queried our friend. "Which?" "I suppose you are both temperance men, and have pledged yourselves to abstain from the use of everything that intoxicates?" "The which, stranger?" "You do not get the. idea clearly. I was expressing the hope that you do not indulge in intoxicating beverages?" "Eh?" That you do not indulge in the inebrU ating cup." "Sir?" "Do either of you, drink liquor? That's what I am trying to get at." "Waal, stranger'." exclaimed the eldest, "I didn't know but ye waa a-talkin' French jabber. Why didn't ye ax the thing right eout? Sam and me don't drink no liquor to speak on, 'cept bayin' and harvest, and then we drink right smart So does fayther and everybody 'round here. .If je talk French studio yer, lecture, stran-

ger, "twont du much good, I tell ye, for nobody won't know a word what yer means in this yer neck o timber, Bar tin and sure." Brown declares this to be the best lesson in rhetoric he ever received, and he made an unusual effort to adapt his words to the comprehension of his hearers in that "neck o' timber." Other speakers may profit by the hint.

SENATOR MORTON'S SPEECH. Letter of Col. Forney to the Philadelphia Press. Washington, April 14, 1870. The Republican party ought never to forget Oliver Perry Morton, of Indiana. His speech to. jay was a candid recapitulation of its duties and its dangers. It b$ like a bugle-call to battle, and will be read everywhere with delight by those who have sorrowfully watched the signs of discord in our ranks. That he reflects the sentiments of the mass of Republicans is as true as that he represents the purposes of Congress and the Executive. This is not the first time his warning voice has been raised. In 1862, when the rebel leaders of the Democracy of Indiana had perfected a conspiracy to seize the State government and to embarrass him as its execu. tive in his determined measures against the enemy with whom they were in close sympathy, he sounded the alarm, and rallied the people to the old flag. In 1S67, as a Senator in Congress, his great argument in favor of reconstruction on the basis of equality electrified the oountry, and cleared away many misapprehensions. His speech to-day was inspired by the same hope that of recalling us from merely personal or subordinate issues to fundamental principles and obligations. It is simply monstrous that this Government should permit a wrong to be perpetrated upon a single American citizen. It is pledged a thousand ways to protect those who saved it from ruin, and are now contributing to its strength. The Republican party, as the champion of that Government, and now in all the branohes of its administration, is bound to make these pledges good. Peace rules over the North and West, and prosperity rewards uninterrupted enterprise and toil. But there is no such peace in many parts of the South. There is no real safety for the lives and property of the freedmen in Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tenuessee and Louisiana. Let any one who doubts this statement read the accumulated evidence laid before the Senate this afternoon by Senator Morton. It is a melancholy, an awful record one, in fact, that should touch the heart of our whole people, and teach our leaders and organs the necessity of uuity, harmony and toleration. It has, indeed, come to this shall we abandon our friends iu the South to the violence of their enemies? By what right do the ex-Uonfederates dare to interfere with the expression of any man's opinion, or to ms tun ana iree enjoyment oi nis property and the fruits of his labor? That is the question for Congress and the Republican party to answer. They have the power to answer it in the affirmative. They should enact laws toenfo cothe Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, and these laws will be executed, at whatever cost. If they fail, they need not be surprised to see the South again the theater of prolonged strife. Bold action, fearlessly persisted in, will save our friends and check their enemies. The new turbulence in the South is in perfect consistency with the rebellion. It is equally unprovoked and ungrateful. The blacks are even more industrious and peaceful as freedmen than they were as slaves. But they will not vote with the old slave masters. That is their offense; and for that, as Governor Morton shows, and as Senators Hamilton and Flanagan, of Texas, Governor Ilelden, of North Carolina, Governor Senter, of Ten nessee, Governor Bullock, of Georgia, Governor Scott, of South Carolina, and others equally reliable, all testify, the freedmen are threatened, robbed, beaten, and frequently murdered. The perpetrators of these outrages are in every instance active members of the Democratic party. As Governor Morton proves, they act under its shelter if not with its sanction. Excused and frequently defended by the Democratic papers, they are rarelv denounced. They are, in fact, 'encouraged to rapine and revenge by such articles as the Conservative New Orleans Picayune prints against the patriotic Geo. George H. Thomas; by attacks upon President Grant; by threats of repudiation; and by the sympathizing visits of Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. But nothing stimulates these murders and ptrseoutions so much as the expectation of what is called Universal Amnesty. A proclamation of that sort over General Grant's signature, would be accepted by the Ku Klux as an indorsement of their proceedings, and an invitation to go on with the work of death. No Union man could live after that in parts of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Louisiana and Tennessee. I am convinced that the Pietident has no such present intention, however he may have felt some months ago, when there seemed to be a disposition on the part of the Southern whites to put down these organized ruffians. Until they are driven out by the communities they infest; until human life is as safe in the South as it is in the North; until every man, white and black, can worship God, send bis children to school, vote aod speak his sentiments without fear or favor, amnesty to the old leaders of the pro-slavery Democracy would be a crime in the sight of God and man. Governor Morton began bis speech by reminding the Senate that this was was the anniversary ot the day wnen Abraham Lincoln waa struck down by tbe chief of Democratio Ku-Klux, and he conclud ed by a solemn invocation to tbe lvepublioans to remember their covenant to atand

by the Union people of the South. He was warmly greeted by tbe Senators and members of that section, with the exception of tbe Democrats and one or two Re. publicans wbo favor the Bingham amendment, and still believe tbe Ku-Klux Democracy are ready to ebey tbe laws. The faith of the American people in the immortal troths that prevailed in the late conflict, and their gratitude to the men who defeated the rebellion, most be utterly dead if the tremendous logio and forcible facts of this powerful appeal do not induce them to demand that their servaots in Congress shall instantly unite against the infernal spirit that is oppressing aod persecuting the loyal millions of the South. The time is come fcr ns to decide whether these infamies are to be permitted. President Grant declared ia bis inaugural that tbe rights of person, property, and opinion abould be sacred all over tbe land. And he meant what ti6 said: The Union men oj the South can take rare of themsehet, if Onfy Gtngress tcill sustain, the President in taking rare of their entmis. Assert the power of the Government everywhere against those who resist the laws, and we shall have peace perpetual. Occasional.

The Ruling Passion Still. The Enquirer is determined to abate nothing of its bitter hostility to negro suffrage. It is in a great partisan rage over the unfurling of tbe National flag from tbe Custom House yesterday, on the occasion of the Fifteenth Amendment celebration. It was "a desecration" to the glorious emblem, according this high Democratic authority, to let it float on the breeze above a Federal building while a colored procession was passing. Here are the Enquirer's words, and let all concerned take note of them: THE NATIONAL FtAQ AT THE POSTOFFICE. The flag of the United States floated , yesterday from the Government Postoffiee ; and Custom House building, in honor of the celebration, by tbe class interested in it, of the Fifteenth Amendment. This, we cannot but observe, was a desecration of the stars and stripes. They ought never to float iroru the nagstatt controlled by me uauun except wiieu a national iriuaipii ; has. been attained that appeals to all men, without distinction of party or sect. It should never be permitted to draggle in the mire and mud of party conflicts. No I ever way could be invented to weaken the love and regard of the people (or the old j nag to make them lukewarm in its support to induce them to believe that it had become a party emblem than to see it waving on such an occasion as yesterday. We know not by whose authority it was dene, but whoever did it made a grave and serious mistake. There are hundreds of thousands of Americans, patriotic men, j who would freely offer up their life-blood for the country, who would see with tbe J deepest conoern this insult in the name of t lie nation otterea to their t.sed, conscientious principles. How unfortunate it is that the demon of party hate and jealousy will not be content with its triumph, but must insist upon rendering it as offensive to their opponents as possible! Comment on such trash seems almost superfluous. Our contemporary bad no such fond love and respect for that flag when, nine years ago it was tardily raided over the Enquirer office, on compulsion and for self-protection. During all tbe late war, there was never a time when its friends rejoiced to see the stars and stripes "float from the flag staff controlled by the nation" in honor of "a national triumph' plaud a "partisan" victory. Tho taking of Richmond and the surrender of the tlelid army at Appomattox, could not be hailed "without distinction of party," according to the Enquirer's notions, any more than tbe great crowning act aud necessary consequence celebrated yesterday. Its narrow partisan soul was shut up meanly within tbe darkness of gloomy discontent, as tbe colored people went joyously by exulting in their enfranchisement. Such is tbe Enquirer, and such we suppose it is destined to be as long as it lives. Bread Fruit. It is generally about the site of a melon, a little fibrous towards the centre, but everywhere else quite smooth and puddingy we thank Mr. Wallace for this cxrrpn.iiA term. 1 Bnmethini? in consistence between yeast dumplings and batter - pud - Aincr It i hiked pntire in the hot em. bcrs, and the inside scooped out with a spoon. I compared it to Yorkshire pud ding, Charles Allen said it was like mash ed potatoes and milk. In no way is it so good as simply baked. With meat and gravy it is a vegetable superior to any 1 know, either in temperate or tropical cli mates. With 6ugar, miiK, Duuer, or treacle, it is a delicious pudding, having a verv slisrht and delicate, but characteristic k Ml 1 flavor, which, like that of good bread aod potatoes, one never gets tired of. VerySickMassa's berry 6ick de doctor says he can't lih mo' dan two, three, four days longer!" exclaimed Peter Snow, with a sad countenance. "Uerry 6orry lor you I'cte but do bessof massas will die, dat am a facdar ain't no help for dem. Wot am de perticlar diagosense ob bis case, Peter" "De Doctor says he hab got twobuckles on his luegs and tu-tnore on his stutnio: den ne nans a aigesuon oi ue brain, a palpitation ob de aleruentary canawl, an de hydsofogy in do kid knee, an surnfiu or oder am de matter in de re gion of de nz.zjrd! Oh! it am a dretful case! Caper bat. Sauc-e Insolence frora an aero-. v

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I witb tbe greatest justice? Some of the farmers' clubs in. Iowa are discussing the question, "Is the retroactive element magojtfced by oleaginous uutiLnxenlT

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TBAKJIBKT. Oae ajMM, (IS Haet.) eae iaiectfea One eqaare, tw U.erti. O" "laare, three inrtiei ... 1 M AU aahMaeat taeertiont, per . TIAM.T. Oae eolunn, ehage.lIe atertocly. ...Tt M uro- tartan ei a eolama .... M 94 One-half of eolama IS Oae-xUr ef a column ln w Oa-ichth f eoUa .,.wwtt. w U H Tratat adTerUteateat keaM t eOl mm ft paid for la advasoe. Ualeas aparUealartiaie la apeeM vkea ka4ed ta, a4Tertiment wilt he pahlUhed ealtl deredeet aatd eharxed aeeoraiazlj. The Heart. BT AN EMINENT PQYKICIAN. Death from beart-disease ia of alarming frequency. Almost daily wa bear that friends or acquaintances or publie mca have suddenly died, and on inquiry it ia found that the beart was at fault. This fact has frequently given rise to the remark; that it is strange the hart should ao often be the seat of mortal da-ease. But the truth is, pe attach far too little importance to this organ and its funetiena. It performs its great office 10 quietly and so uninterruptedly that we even fwrgtt iu existence. From a period anterior ta birth until dnath, during sleeping as well as waking hours, ceaselesely and noiaeleMj i j v.i . j , oit.uj auu Hieuurea idjidui 11 circulates the vital fluids through everj tissue of the body. Seventy-five tiaea it pulsates in a tuiuute, or 10S,(H)0 times lay the day, without exhaustion or ap need of repose. The beart is a hollow, ra oscular orpae, weighing but ten ounces, aad is apad4 in tbe cavity of the chest by delicate ligaments. And yet it performs, quietly and noiselessly, and with but the slightest jar, an incredible amount of labor. In twee-ty-four hours it ia estimated that the heart accomplishes more than three times as much work as a common laborer in tea hours. '-Three old women sitting by the fire," says a recent scientific writer "alterv nately spinning and sleeping, do mere work by the constant beating of their hearts than cau be done jo a day by the youngest and strongest laborer," He adds) ' No labor that we pan undertake ia regarded as more severe than that of tbe muscles employed during a boat-race; and yet this labor, severe as it is, ia only three fourths of that exerted day an) night, during life, by each of our heaits.' If the entire force of the heart were expended in liftjmg its own weight vertically. it would be raised 19 754 feet in one hour, Compare this with the exertions of an ae live pedestrian, wpp can raue bia own weight but 1000 feet per hour, and we fiat the heart exerts about twenty times as much force; or with the beat loeomotrve, j which can raise itself 270Q feet iq an boiif, which is but one eighth part of tbe energy ui ine uuruau ueari. To a reflective mind, it oannut be a matt ter of surprise that thiadelicately construe ted organ, laboring so vigorously without a moment's rest, night or day, should frequently, and ofteu suddenly, give over its labor, and cease to act. On the contrary, it is rather a matter of astonishment that the heart should maintain its integrity, year after year, amid all the scenes of ex citement through which tbe individual passes for threescore years and tin. la severest sickness, when other organs fail, the heart pursues the even tenor of its way, continuing its pulsation to tbe leak moment of life. Like a strong warrior in a citadel, it yields only when every TesQUroe has been exhausted. In the performance of its functions, the heart acts on the principle of a pump. It has its applied force, Its receiving and dis tributing leservoirs or eavitica, it valves, etc. The diseases of the heart may be di viued into those aflectiug its muscular for ; ces and those affecting its valvular trraa gerueuu. A Narrow Esoape. That it is but a slight ridge of circumstances which often divides iuccea and fame from failure and obscurity, has a re. markable illustration in the ease of the' j late General Thomas. Judging by the I enthusiastic culoniums which we aee oa all sides, Thomas was not inferior either to Grant or Sherman as a general, while: he was perhaps the superior of both ia certain respects as a man. And yet Uea. Thomas, it appears, came as aear being superseded, just before his great victory over Hood, as could well be. It was tbe earl? part of December, 1864 , Grant was at Petersburg. Hood waa advancing on Nashville Affairs looked erit ical in Tennessee. Thomas was not read to take the offensive His apparent alow ness seemed unreasonable at the East. Stanton telegraphed GrantGrant re plied; "If Thomas has not struck yet, he ought to hand over his command to Schofield. There is no better man to repel an attack than Thomas, but I fear he is too cautious to take the initiative." S'ill nothing from Thouiae. And. oa j the 9ih, Grant again telegraphed to UalI leek as follows: "No attack yet made by Thomas. Pleeae telegraph orders relieving him at once, and placing Schofield in command. Thomas should be directed to tura star all orders aud despatches received si aee the buttle of Franklin to Svho&eld. - r Still there was hesitation in Wa.hintj 1 a en e h a r. er dswbiA IklnAfeimi k in H A A I j puuu.j --Hit VIUi..iUji .uc j by Mr. Lincoln; but at leugth Logan waa ordered to Tennessee, either to pat Schofield in command or take command him sef. : But on the night of December 14th. can. a telegram from Thomas; ' The ice having melted away to-day, the enemy will be attacked to morrow ninrntnv VI nih sk .x T - irat la antutwalal delay in attacking the enemy, it could a OA " B" uuuc "J prpj of '" And th-n, the nest day: P We ack th y Mkf n. J drove it from the liter below tho 'city to the Franklin Pike; dwtance Wt ; - - And ao. Thomas waa not superseded; h4 won a grand victory, saved tho We, aad became a great naute. tt was soon that if he was sowetitiies shvw, he was atwayn very pure a fact which du one was readier to acknowledge than Geav. Graat himself. Unt in how many cases, in the history of j the world,, iu j aot the recall have cocao Saturday Evening PoK Maids ef Honor. -jilt tbek soiioxax -Tboi m d ao