Indiana American, Volume 9, Number 21, Brookville, Franklin County, 27 May 1870 — Page 2

tana mencatu C. H. BINGHAM, Editor. nTujiOKvii.i.K-Fri-Iy Mimine, Wj 2T, 180. Dermcratio CauMy Convonlion. Tk Democratic County Convention licU In this place on Saturday last wis qtttteiUmly attenuVl, the Court room being only about half full, and a large number of those present beinjj Republicans. One Township was not represented at all, and orne Township but. maagerly represented. Dare Goading was the orator oF the occasion, which accounts for the Republicans beins present, who were curious to hear the mJer "war horse' of the democracy. He spoke fully two hours, ,1 frttin most dreadfully. Hie - forte is the "nicker, discusses to perfection, appealing ,Me prejudices of bis hearers iustesd of their common sense. He expects to receive the Democratic nomination for Consress, and desires to be "let loose" in the District, so lhat he may stir up the voters. His speech was unpopular with the Democrats, many of whom left the room almost as noon as he commenced. He evidently relies upon Hepuhliean votes to elect him should he receive the nomination, as he ddresses himself to Republicans to a great extent, on the ground of his having been sod continuing to be an Andy Johnson man. But the Republicans are not much for Andy now-a-days, he being "dead in the shell," so Dave ucedn't count much on the Republicans. Cut his speech was auite amusinsr. and we aive him credit - c- i lor being fully able to dis-jim d-js 1 issues. The Convention was not at all harnioaious. At first the Robeson men appeared to have the "insiJa track" for Commissioner. The Franklin Democtat had published an apportionment of the townkhips on the basis of the Rail vote, which would have nominated Meyncke by one vote. There had been a good deal of bhenauegau" or wire-working going on outside of the Court roo:n, (ll.beson 5s an expert wire-worker, an I hard to beat in a nomination ) and the Committee on Apportionment reported on the basis of the Seymour vote, whioh would have nominated Robeson. So the Meyncke men, having the majority in Convention, instructed the Apportionment Committee to retire and report the vote of the townships on the basis of the Rcid vote, as originally published. While the committee were deliberating, (ihey were a long while about it,) Meyncke was declared the nominee, together with the rest of the ticket as voted in the primary meetings on the first Monday in April. So the ticket is the same as heretofore publi.-hei. Another serious diSij-ilty sprung up in regard to instructing for Gooding the Keid men being opposed to instructing the Franklin County delegites. Rut the Gooding men were determined, and finally succeeded in iustructinz for their choice.

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The delegates to the Judicial Conven-' Land Monopoly, tiou were instructed to vote for HannaJ The evils of land monopolies are strikPhil T Jones was nominated for County j ingly exemplified in California. The tenSurveyor. A new County Central Com. ! ure to vast tracts of land in California is mittce was appointed, with Samusl S. Uar- i held under grants made by Mexico, to io-

rell chairman.

Altogether, the meeting was the most j 'bat State by the United States. Thousinharruoraous of any Democratic Conven. j ands upon thousands of acres of fertile tion that his a?e nV.ai h:r? fr many j lands in some of the finest agricultural years, and au-jura tho triumphant ejccess I portion of the State which, under cultiva-

of the people's favorite, Jerry Wilson. The Bill to Redacts lha Taxes. The bill reported by Senator Shorman to reduce taxation, strikes out f.r the salariea of officers and employes, S3G1.9J3; special taxes on banks and b inkers, Sl,139,432; other special taxes, $8,S01,45rt; gross reoepts, $15,300,999; sales, SS,20(,S39; income about 14 00.1,0 M; legacies, 81,241,837; successions, $1,1S9.7.I; schedule A, SSS2,S'; passports, ?29,43; raisccllaucojs, 1,210,159 -total, 7,77 1. Tha Plea of Insanity. Uov. Alcorn, of Mississippi, has sent a special mcstagc to the State Legislature in regard to tho pie. of itistnity in trials lor murder, manslaughter, and assaults with intent to kill. He recommends that in all cases in which that plea is iutcrpos j d, the question shall be tried in equity, the prisoner to be held in custody meanwhile, without b.iil, to await the decree. If the decree shall be that the prisoner is sane, lie shall then be tried, as sueh, for the crime committed; if he shall be found to he in - , . ane. the Court shall ordor hun confined . in a lunatie asylum, and iu that portion , . ... , , . thereof designated for the "dangerous in - aane." Last week Mr. Julian preseuted two pctitioas to the House, asking the impeachment of Justice Field, of the C. S. Supreme Court, and J udo lloffuiau of lhe IT. S. District Court of California. The matter is being investigated. From all along the Canadian border and

M t M.S. RO lt waa asscriea an expeumon was io t...).rt M;1uIca Tiiea,tv niaKt in iit j m dasaent ton Godench, Canada West. At It ii AT. tn St Alhm and nth.'r nhtep tho .,,-"!. . . i 'i wild Irishmen have concentrated. v irienuiy oioux vuiei arts in asui i Upton, and Red Cloud and-the hostile chiefs will arrive there the lat of the week. tbf Indian Bureau expects to convince He! Cloud that it will not be fur his interest to mkae var. rat r. ci: r. 1 .VI

"om,ine P"nc,Pal rmes ut ine coun,r3 j ton, Yt., all the vehicles have been engacome tales of Fenian activity. At Chiea-1 u fM over 0Q0 lef, Brook,jri

The Ninth Census. We havo rereived from the Interior

jDepaitnient advanced copies of the fio schedules to be used in takiog the census. The tensns takers are required ta obtain an authentic record' vf the population, j mortality, wealth, j.ro;tcs8 and resources id the nation, in accordance with the following schedules: 1. All the dwelling houses in the district, all the families, name of every inhabitant, age, eex, color, occupation, or profession of each male person, over fifteen years, value of real estate owned, place of birth of each inhabitant, marriages within the preceding year, number of persons who have attended school, persoos over twenty years of age who can read and write, the deaf and dumb, blind, insane, idiotic and paupers. 2. Number of deaths during the preceding year, with age, sex, color, domestic ..i p i.r.ii. . ...I of deceased, together with the time and cause of death. 3. Number of acres of land improved and unimproved, with the name of the owner, agent or manager, live stock on hand of the different kinds, produce of the farm of every kind during the year preceding 1st ef June, 1ST0. 4. Products of industry of every kiod, with the name of manufacturer producing articles in each rear of the value of five hundred dollars, name and kind of business, capital invested, raw material used, with statement of the quantities, kinds land values, kinds of motive power aud I machinery, average number of hands em ployed, wages paid, !tc. 5. Aggregate valuation of real and per sonal estate, aggregate of taxes assessed, colleges, academies, schools, school houses, etc., public libraries, periodicals, newspapers, how often published, number of circulation. Has the season produced average crops? What are short? To what extent, and the average crop per year. Average wages of farm hands, of laborers, with board; wages without board; of carpenters; female domestics; price of board of laboring men per week; uutnber of churches, of persons each will accommodate; value of church property, with statistics relating to the paupers and convicts. Important Arrests. A number of arrasts of whisky dealers and distillers in Cincinnati have recently been made on the affidavit of Special Informer Saunders. The parties complained of are Sigmund Levi, John Rockhill and j0hn A. Eberhardt, of Cincinnati; Caleb Dodsworth, of Cumminsville; Willard Wheeler, of Lafayette, Indiana; William Duffy, of lligginsport, Ohio; and Peter Schwab, Thomas McGehan aud Johu C. Lindley, of Hamilton. It is announced, in liberal figures, that these suits cover Revenue claims to the amount of three millions of dollars, and the par- ; tje8 were nej j oniv $2,000 each, to ap pear before a Commissioner in Cincinnati on Friday. dividuals, long prior to the acquisition of tion, would support a vast industrious population, nI dd to its material wealth and power, remain as when the country passed under the control of the United States. This land monopoly is dwarni the growth of California. These lands are held at prices which the class of men who would improve them cannot afford to j pay, and hence the labor necessary to their development is repelled. Late Southern papers are teeming with accounts of the decoration of the graves of the rebel dead throughout the South. The Wayne County Horse Fair will be held at Ceatcrville, on the 9;h and 10th of June. The leaders of the Fenian enterprise ay that preparations are completed for operations on a scale never before attempted, and one which will astonish the country. ! A letter of Archbishops Purcell and j Kcnrick, sustaining Bishop Dupanloup in his dispute with Archbishop Spalding on the infallibility question, is published. ', 7, TT ! lhe hoston t ost, excellent Democratic - P authority, thinks there is no necessity for . i he law enforcing the fifteenth Amend- . , r ' went, because the Democracy is going to ! ., j oenave irseu. ! .-v motion io set asiue a ueeree ui uivorce obtained in New York, because the pirties i were previously legally divorced in Indii ana, was detied in the Superior Court of ! New York City. J i Rii.,irts nf l'oniin moYiMiipnlfi primp from , t . various points in the East. At Burling- , ,as, Monj,y ni hu Buffilo 5e reported .. .. .- ; iuii oi vauani raiuers Hon. Dave Gooding made a spread eagle speech before the Franklin county convention, a Rr0akville, on Saturday. fConnersvilla Examiner. v The Marion Chronicle suggests Mr. R. Hull as the limb for the Democrats to sacrifice upon the Congressional altar next fall. A right good idea that, but Gooding is gsod enough. Connersville Times.

Sensible Remarks. The Monticello Herald in its last issue

has the following sensible remarks in reference to an item which has appeared in nearly all the Democratic, as well as quite a number of Republican papers: We notice a silly item goiog the rounds of the Republican press entitled "Cumback a Uraveyard. If this matter is to be kept before the people, it will prove to be the burying ground of the Republican party. Fraaer, Orth, Julian, Kinley, Cravens, Fisher and other men of equal talent, are not going to be buried so easy. It will require a struggle to dispose of talent like this, and that struggle may cost the party its life. Better go Blow, gentlemen. The party can ill afford to spare bo much brain. Let ns maintain principle, and not devote our time woolly to men. Cumback is one of the best men of the State; bo is Julian, Fraaer and others, equally as good. Sectarianism. Aaron F. Perry, Esq., in a letter de clining, on aecount jf other engagements, an invitation to be present at a meeting of the Alumni and friends of Marietta College, uses this striking and memorable language in regard to sectarianism, and his relations to the Presbyterian Church: The rceent union of different branches of the Presbyterian Church may be taken to be one of the favorable auspices of Marietta College. Perhaps I ought to be ashamed to say that it would be difficult for any oue to think more tightly of de nominational or sectarian differences in religion than I do. Vet I do not see how religion itself, or the feelings most nearly allied to it, can be better cherished than by encouraging all to accept the aspects which most engage them. I often doubt the fitness of my own relations with the Presbyterian Church. I have no likm for Calvin, John Knox or the Roundheads; but I like still less the men with whom they antagonized. On the whole, Prcsbyterunisin is a study supporter of civil and religious liberty. It attributes to the individual man unmitigated respon sibility for himself. It does not inculcate a duty to give in before beini convinced. It is not a bad thing to have about a col lege for the education of democrats. The Louisville Commercial publishes Senator Pratts's speejU in full, accompanying it with the following editorial comments: The Senator's position is undoubtedly the correct one, and the nation should pay all just claims of Union men for property taken for its use or destroverl fur its rtnr poses. The trouble is that unless ueD like Senator Pratt can be put to work on the investigation of their claims, a most astonishing number of Ubiou men, duly vouched for as truly loyal, would put iu their little bills. The flood gates of corruption and perjury would be opened and the virtue ot ordinary Washington committees would be swept eff in the tide. It is not usually of a quality to staud washing. Says the New York Times, and says it well: "The same growth and development which have hitherto marked the brief life of the Republican party, will attend it in the future. The idea that such a party, composed of such elements, can have already completed its mission, is preposterous. Changed as the political situation of 1S72 will be, the party will easily conform itself to it, as it responded to similar requirements in the past. The process is already going on. We are clearing away the dibrts of rebellion, and letting it drift from us. The fact that old issues have been decided does not necessarily affect the vitality of the party. New issues are supplying their places, and new ideas and new measures are urging us forward." "Wo have faith that the party will adapt iiself to the requirements of the time, and develop a policy which will be productive ot harmony in its ranks. We cannot cling to the past, but must move on in obedience to our destiny, and to the spirit of progress which controls our age." The President, in talking about the prospt-C-'ve Indian war, says thathe thinks all danger has noW passed, and that when the hostile Sioux chiefs arrivC !t w11 be an easy matter to convince them that it t their advantage to remain at peace, and not attempt to get up a general Indian war. Senator Sumner has introduced a bill supplementary to the Civil Rights Act which proposes to secure equal rights to blacks and whites alike, oi railroads, steamboats, and public conveyances, hotels, licensed tbrcatres, and bouse of public entertainment, common schools and institutions of learning authorized by law, church institutions and cemetery associations incorporated by National or State authority; also on juries and in courts, National and State. The bill euforcing the 15th Amendment has gooe to a Committee of Conference, who will adopt the Senate bill with the exception, possibly, of the last section. The bill is in twenty-one sections. The first thirteen sections enforce the 15ih Amendment. Fourteen and fifteen pun

ish all holdini: office in violation ofthe'uot this or that man in our own party

14th Amendment Sixteen, seventeen and eighteen extend all civil rights to the Chinese. Nineteen aud twenty punish illegal voting for Congressmen. Twenty one provides how those disfranchised by refusing legal votes may regain their rights. Tug Lady's Friend roa June. The steel plate for this number is a pretty rural i ""V' """"" of little children picture, natural and amusing a couple cowering before the wrath of the mother hen, from whom the boy has stolen one of her chicks. The principal Fashion plate is very gay and richly colored; and the engraving of "Gathering Violets," pleasantly suggestive. Tin music is a song "If you Love me, Say So." The patterns of Children's and Ladies' Fashion -hats, bonnets, &c., are just what the ladies want. The literary matter, as usual with this magazine, is fresh

and entertaining. "Married at Thirty-

Five," by Lucy Lea; "Before and after Marriage;" "Weekday;" A Translation from Elise Polka; "Courting by Proxy;" "The Cascannons' Aunt;" "History of the Bonnet" (illustrated); Work Table Novel ties (illustrated); and Editorials, Remarks on the Fashions, &c, are the principal con tents. Published by Deacon & Peterson, 319 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. Price $2 50 a year (which also includes a large steel engraving). Four copies, $tf. Five copies (and one gratis), $3. "The Lady's Friend" and "The Saturday Evening Post" (and one engraving), $4.00. Sample copies 15 cents. Judge Reid Declines. We publish this week Judge Reid's card declining the nomination as a can didate for Congress by the Democracy of tins District. Lie says when he announ ced himself he was "under the impression that Mr. Julian would be the nominee of the Republican party," but now "another gentlemau, whom 1 respect, has been placed in nomination." By that we infer the Judge has little or no respect for Julian, but so much respect (strange word to convey the idea of fear of defeat) for Wilson that he declines to be his competitor. Then the Judge has another reason. He is afraid it would injure his prospects in his contest with Julian. How strange he never thought of that before. He has still one more reason. New principles and measures have been introduced, "demanding both time and study to master, which 1 would be unable to give with my present contest pending here." All these things have suddenly convinced the Judge that be must not be a candidate. Again, we cannot help thinking how strange he never thought of them before. That the conviction was a sudden one we have ample evidence. His card is dated May 14, and in his letter from Washing ton of May 12, he is rather hopeful. In speaking of his contest, he says, "the information which I received" "is decidedly good." And again we quote: "Iu the tlgglcston vs. Strader contest, although the report is ready, it has pot yet been preseuted; bat the same Com mittee that has decided theirs, and also that of Taylor vs. Reading, has mine, and the principles on which they were decided, govern my contest, and I do not think that the Committee will go back on these decisions." Further on be is not so sanguine, but is afraid his course in vindicating the rights of the voters of this District will not be appreciated. Then he again refers to the present campaign, speaks ot the defeat of Mr. Julian, and closes up his letter with an eloquent appeal not to throw him over board. We give the close of his letter: "In doitig this defeating Julian every Republican paper of note sustained them for their action. W hat will the Democracy uo to ine man who contributed so largely to this result, as well as the vin dication of the W'eaud independent risrht to vote the choice ot the elcctorf We will see.' Two days after writing the above, be publicly declines. We suspect the Judge, like Julian, or most any oue, clung to it as long as there was hope, but when he saw that Gooding was virtually nominated, he declined; and as some reasons must be given, he suddenly thinks of the foregoing. It is a little strange that his card aud letter, of nearly the same date, but so widely different, should both appear simultaneously in fact in the same column. We always thought Judge Reid too sharp to be the candidate under the present circumstances. Connersville Times. Our Nominee for Congress. Speaking of the result of the Congressional contest in this District, the Greensburg Standard says: "Of Judge Wilson, who is well known to our weople, it is scarcely necessary to say a word. He is not much known as a politician during his career as a Judge he has not deemed it prudent to engage actively in the political contests of the times. He is, therefore, better known as a lawyer and Judge than a politician. It was the fact that he has not been identified with the numerous political quarrels with Mr. Julian, and his great personal popularity, that drew the attention of the anti-Julian Republicans to him as a candidate, lie will come more nearly reconciling the warring elements in his district than any man who could have been chosen ti J na9 very decided ability, is a man of the strict:' integrity, i the pu rity of his private life Is :bo?e suspicion, lie possesses as few of the ail? 0 e demagogue, perhaps, as any man who evCJ received a nomination for Congress. We do not know that this will enhance his prospects very materially; however, it is an article that is lamentably effective. With those better qualities intellect, integrity and purity of character he is abundantly suppiieJ. As a representative in Congress he will discharge his duty ably and conscientiously, and will reflect credit upon our State. More such men are ueeded in Congress. Let the Republicans of the Fourth District now drop theirquarrelsand triumphantly elect him." We can assure the Standard that it will require affidavits to prove that a quarrel ever existed among the Republicans of the Fourth District. There is no vestige of such a thing we have no Julian men or Wilson men now, only Republicans who support the nominee of the party because he is a better man than cau be fouud in the ranks of the opposition. Whether or would have been a better candidate is not a question at issue now. Greenfield Commercial. Perplexed. The Democratic party is in a state of unusual perplexity. The want of an issue leaves them in a state of dubious reflection. The colored oitizeu occupies a situation so different from the situation formerly occupied by the "nigger," that the entire machinery of that organization is out of joint. Their old state right doctrines. which led to secession, have been stran gled by constitutional amendments, and the present state of the national debt makes their tariff hobby an absurdity. The highflown Voorhees, with his attempt to succeed as a ground and lofty tumbler, only makes the worthlessness of their condition more plainly apparent. While here and there the more thoughtful and outspoken of the party are announcing the utter folly of hoping for success under the present organisation, and talking of a new deal,

of an American party, of a Chase movement, of anything that will bundle the corrupt old carcass of Democracy, neck and heels, out of existence and into oblivion. Taking it all and in all, the wretched condition of Democracy is deplorable to those who had any love for the party, organized and maintained for so many years by the slave power. f Decatur Press.

The Wabash and Erie Canal Swindle. The Indianpolis Journal says: When our foreign creditors agreed to take the Wabash and Erie Canal, and the lands donated by Congress to cfomplete it, on payment of half of their claim, they thought themselves, and were thought by everybody else, to have made a good bar gain. It teas a good bargain, and that it has not proved so is their own fault. lbey used it, not as an investment, but as a speculation. If they had completed it to the Ohio river, and kept it in naviga ble condition, there is no reason why it should not have been proportionably as valuable as the .New lork and Erie Canal. But they slept upon their advantages. Instead of making a canal, they scooped a ditch. They overflowed a township of Clay county to make a feeder. The ditch. as oeoator Morton stated in his speech to the Republican Convention, has been navigated by two boats. The feeder has fed malarious diseases, and more than once created local disturbances that compelled an armed interference by the State. This is the sum of the work done by our cred itors in fulfillment of their bargain.) They cheated the State and the people. We have adhered rigidly to our agreement. We have paid interest promptly and always, until we have paid the whole principal of the debt in interest while the lower half of the Canal has been a nuisance. The densely populated ond productive region traversed from Fort Wayne to Evaosville could not rest upon inadequate commercial facilities. It must find a way to ship its produce and bring back its necessary supplies. Railroads were the inevitable result of the negligence of the canal owners. Sooner or later, of course, tbey woul have been constructed in any event. The best water transportation possible to human skill, could not have shoved away forever the resort to rail and cars for passengers and light freights. But for heavy freigh ts coal, iron, lumber, salt, grain, ttoue, aud the mass of bulky but invaluable material that lies at the foundation of all trade, it would have been in constant and profitable demand. No railroad could have taken away this class of business. No railroad could now prevent it from going to the canal, if the canal could take it. Lafayette made a strong bid for the Sewing .Machine Cabinet establishment because the northern fragment of the canal held the railroad freights down. The construction of rail roads in competition, with, the canal was therefore, as much the necessity of the owners' negligence, as of the development of the resources aud industry of the State, and of the progress of the age. The New York aud Eiie canal has been eularged and doubled in capacity, with the best paying railroad in the United States running in sight of it from the Hudson to Lake Eiie, because the canal could do profitably what the railroad could not do at ull, or so advantageously. The Wabash and Erie canal could easily have done as well. That their bargain h&a proved a loss to our creditors, is now evident, but they will not see that it is their own fault. They say that we ruined it by railroad competition, and having made it valueless wc ought in equity to make their loss good. We can't see that. We say jtrst, that if they had used their advantages promptly and wisely, uo railroads could have prevented the canal from paying as well as the original investment would have paid; and tecond. that there is no equity in a demand which implies that a State shall bind itself to refrain from using the advantages offered by the progress of science and the march of enterprise. The patentee of a fuel saving furnace would have as much right to claim damage for loss caused by the adoption of Ericsson's system of concentrated sunlight. No State can bind itself to remain a cripple, for no State can abdicate its sovereignty and its power to protect its citizens. The claim is inequitable and absurd. Yet the creditors have argued it time and again, and mean to keep arguing it. There is more than one prominent Democrat in Indiana concerned in the scheme to force the resumption of the canal, and the cash payment of the debt it discharged, upon the State. Wall street stock gamblers are confident thit they will get it done. They have said, and will say all the time when they feel safe io the listener, that they have bought legislation in more than one StaJ an they can afford to give a million of dolia." ,be sumption act. A million will give ten thousand dollars to each of a hundred men. i1 might buy a majority of both houses of the Lee,'ii'a" ture. rsow is there not a serious fear, very serious, that ten thousand dollars will buy a vote from men who can urge a plausible pretext for the act? Does any body doubt that Congressmen were bought to remit the tax on the stock of whisky in ISGo? The Wall street men are shrewd and they are not going to waste money. When they begin buying, they will buy ciear lurougn io me success ot llieir scheme. No small body of men can be trusted to resist the influence of a bribe that will make each wealthy. That is, enough of them to turn the balance, with lhe incorruptible agaiust the project. What is to be done? We don't owe, in law or equity, in any construction of our contract, a dollar on account of the debt for which the canal was taken. It failed through the lactrt of the owners more than through the inevitable and irresistible influences of human progress. We must not be forced to resume that debt. It may be that years hence it will be worth our while - to buy the canal and oompletc it, and we should not put it out of our power to do so. But we should not bo left in a position where we cau be forced to take it back by a dozen or two venal legislators holding the balance of power. The only security is that proposed in the Republican platform of February 22i, that the Constitution shall be amended so as to prohibit the resumption without the consent of the people. That will make all safe, and allow ua to bay the canal if it should ever appear worth while. The sooner this is done the better, for now that the dominant party in tho State has declared emphati cally against the resumption, the Wall street shirks and creditor's agents will be-1 gin vigorous work, to secure a resumption

before a constitutional amendment can pass through the alow forms required by the constitution. The need is urgent, far more urgent than many who are looking on at a distance will believeNow, we suggest that Governor Baker call a short session of the present Legislaturea week or two will be enough and let the amendment be adopted. The next session of January, 1871, can readopt it. and the people can ratify, either by a special election or at tbe regular election of 1872. Thus the amendment will be completed, and the State made safe against- the Wall street speculations in two years, and with but a single session of the Legislature to risk in their clutches. If there is a general expression of the Republican party in favor of this movement, we have no doubt that Governor Baker will make the necessary call for an extra session of the present General Assembly. What say our Republican papers? Let us add one further consideration: In the State Senate in 1867, Bayless W. Hanna, of Vigo, when the subject of prohibiting the resumption of the canal, and of the debt for which it was surrendered, was under discussion, denounced it as a form of "rrjudialun." That shows which way he leans. The Democratic party have endorsed his opinion by nominating him for Attorney.General. If he is elected he will give his official opinion, as the law officer of the State, in favor of resuming a debt of seven millions and a half of dollars, and fastening upon the people for

years the three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars annual tax to pay the interest. The Democratic party is virtually committed to the scheme, and its leaders will hold the rank and file steady to its support. We must put it out of the power of any party to saddle us with this enormous and unjust debt. mi. The Southeastern Indiana Conference Sunday School Convention. Special Corie?j)on Jence IndianapolU Journal. COLUMBUS, May IS, 1S70. A goodly number of preachers, spiced with a heavier proportion of laymen than has formerly attended, are assembled here to consult over Sabbath sehool interests. Columbus, the lar-re and growing capital of Bartholomew county, has displayed a lavish amount of "latch string," insomuch that halt of us are already in a fair way to founder if we stay much longer. Brother Adkinson, Pastor of the Metho'dist Church lucre, as is bis wont, has ev erything in ''apple pic frdtr," church renovated throughout, :ts, tables and stationary tt your hand, kind friends waiting to pilot you home, and all that. Hospitality is not ii;caMired by denominational lines, but sifter churches are. doing the handsome thing in this detainment. Rut it won't do to attempt a description of Columbus hospitality; it is "better fell than told." The Convention m?t on Tuesday afternoon, May 17th. Rev. T. II. Lynch, I) I)., of BrooJivil!-, was m.ido ChairtB-an tern , and Wm Newkirk, of Connersville, was made temporary Secretary. lfev. J. li L-uhrop read the xix Psalm, and Rev. S. Tiucher made- tke- opening prayer. Revs. Jenkins, Tevis and Sder were made a Com mi tree on Permanent Organization. The first hour was spent iu hearing several reports on the state of the work. The Committee on Pes-iuaneat Organization reported Rev. S. Tiucher President, Dr. F. A. Sjymour Yiee President, and William Newkirk and E. K. llosford Secretaries-. The regular progr.irsr.c wrs- then taken up, and ilev. R. M. Bimes read an- osay on The relation our Sabbath Schools should sustain to our foreign population." lie was followed by Revs Jenkins, Chafec, Terrell, Tinsley, G. W. 1)C and Maiian, each supplementing the essay with further suggestions upon that subject. After appointing a ciMiMniitoe to SM tbe vacancies in the programme, and another on music, the Convention adjourned till evening. TUESDAY" EVENIN&. Dr Tincher took the chair and R. S. Ileiskill opened services with prayer. The committee to till vacancies in programme reported as follows: To fill vacancy of M. II. Meudenhall, 11. S. Ileiskill; of A. C. Downy, S. B. Folkei.bug; of C. Rohel, A. II. Kois; of Will Cumback, Vv. II. Freediy. Then followed an essay by Dr. F. A. Seymour, of J effersonvillc, on "How to gain the attendance of" parents on our Sab bath Schools." It was able, and ably supplemented in brief speeches by Messrs. Lynch, Frisby, Lathrop, J. Ileiskill and Crawford. On motion of Dr. Terrell, all visiting friends were invited to participate in the proceedings of the Convention. WEDNESDAY, opened with thirty minutes of prayer, followed by regular opening services by Rev. William Harrison, of Seymour. Colonel J. W. Ray, of Indianapolis, or" the State Sunday School Associatlon, theJ entertained the Convention with an elaborate auJ: on 'he method of opening, conducting and closing a . 8 tehool. lie had with him a speeimy black-board lesson drawn by Jo. Phipps, of Roberts Sabbath School, which elicited favorable notice. Colonel Ray was followed by Revs. Cotton, Chafec, Jcukins and Snyder upon tbe same subject. Then came Dr. Lynch, of. Brookvillc, with an essay "How can we best promote the Spirituality of Sunday Schools." This elicited more discussion than any other performance of the session. The discussion continued chiefly around tha question of employing unconverted teachers in Sabbath-schools. Messrs. Lathrop, Tinsley, Terrill,Lozicr, Maupin, Harrison, Snyder, Jenkins, Chafee, Ray, Marlott, Sargent, Mawl, Curtiss, Harris, Cotton, Saunders, Hosford, Ileiskill, Jones, WTright, and Alyers. The conclusion of the whole matter was that while it should be the constant endeavor of Superintendents to secure converted teachers, nevertheless circumstances must make the rule for each school. A few unimportant items of business and the Convention took a recess till AFTERNOON. Dr. Seymour took the chair, and Dr. Lathrop opened with religious exercises. After a few items of business, Rev. J. R. Pye of Edinburg opened the discussion on "How to develop the latent teaching power in the church." Nobody seemed disposed to take issue with the speaker, but supplementary remarks were made by itevs. itay and lozicr. .Next nut vauic uby. v imam i. oanuers. oi Madison, with a keen little speech oa

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ful teaching' E. K. Hosford, of Edinburg, followed in a captivating little speech. The remainder of the afternoon was consumed is an address, with illustrations. by Rev. G. P. Jenkins, on "The Berean Series," 8d another by Rev E. L. Dolph' on "The advantages of uniform lessons." Both were highly entertaining. A committee was appointed to call future meetings, and make such other arrangements as the developments of the future may suggest. AT NIOHT. Rev. G. P. Jenkins gave the children a "specimen lesson," and was followed briefly and profitably bv R. M. Barnes, E. IC Hosfard, J. II. V. Smith and Col. Ray. The Convention then fixed upon Madison as the next place of meeting, and the fourth Tuesday in May, 1871, as the time. Then came a vote of thanks, and a response by M. Kerr of Columbus, and tbe Convention adjourned until morning, When, after hurriedly winding up the usual business, the Convention "broke camp" about the middle of the forenoon, and left with light hearts, but increased development in the "commissary department." Jargo. Senator Pratt. Senator Pratt is one of the most industrious members of the Senate. His habits and ability seem to have been taken advantage of by the Senate, far his budget is loaded down with business within the jurisdiction of tbe Committee of Claims. He makes laborious investigations and voluminous reports, which are printed, and accumulating in a large collection of valuable legal and statistical matter. Mr. Pratt has recently rendered an important service to the State of Indiana in securing a large amount of money which had been appropriated by Congress to the State- to reimburse it for its expenditures in raising and equipping the militia along the border during the latter years of the war. The appropriation was made in terms which seemed to justify the Secretary of the Treasury to withhold payment on the more important items. Mr. Pratt made an argument before Attorney General aud obtained an opinion adverse to the Secretary, and last week another one before the Secretary, who consents to pay over the money. The amount is 4.30,tH)l) enough, to pay the balance of the 5 per cent. debt and !e:ve the State with nothing, oa it but the domestic debt. Governor Biker has written a highly com jilimentary letter to Mr. l'rait, in acknowledgement of thi-?-ser viiirj. La S.:tmtors Mar too. ri lVitt. Li liai a ! re fully as eSfectiveiy representel as any Stat. in the Union. Ijiwreneeburg Press. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS K07IU1S 15 licr-V.y given tVint on Paturilsy the 11th lihy of June, . D.1ST0, IxMween the hours of 11 o'clock A. M. anJ 2 o'clock l'..M.ni s;id iiy,. at or in the Church building of the ri Cel:ir Urvve ltcgnTar liaj'ti?t (ihtjruh, in iirin gfielil Township, l'rnnklin CouriT. Indiana, lhe members of said I'.ig Cedir ViroMe Ucgular liar-Met Cliureb will meet lor the jiurp' t ttcUrxiuin p tho -tieftioii as to who re Trustee! of uU Chjfc-vh, t rcmovi such Trustees as they may itcciu rfjer, debtee vacancies-, and elect Tru' tets t-.i fill vacancies I '.Kit m.y be deemed to existBv s Jor. of tb Ctiur;."?i. m"iY27-2w-. JUlfN P.BNADY, Clerk. 3EEE O 233lO t; O CL AND PRE-E!!PTIOFy. IlfAVE compiled a full, ennciwe and o.mplctb statement, plainly jrintd, fcir tho informal tion cf perrons intei.ding to take up a Homestead or Pre-Kmption ia thi portion of tha Wcsiv cinbraeing Iowa, Dakota. aad ' brii--K and othew sections. It explain bow t proceed securo IC'J acres f Itich Tinning Land for Nothing-, sis months b-ef-. re you leave your home, in thr most iVe;il:hfu! climate. In short it contain. j us t such instructions as ara needed by those intending to tr;iUe a Home and Fortuae in tha Free Lauds of the West. I will send one of these print -ed Wuides to any person sending me 23 cents. Thoinformation alone which it gWes is worth tilth nybdy.. Jien who came hr two and three years ago, and took a, firm, re ti)-da-y iadepeodect. To YorsB M b.s . This co-antTj is being crossed with, numerous Rai Iroads f rom every direction to Sioux. City, Iowa. !ix H.iilroads wilt be oiade to tb'rs city witLiu one jcar. One is already in operMiva connecting us with Chicago, and the U. F. Kailroad, aud two in ore will be completed before spring, coniicuting us with Dubuque aud McGregor, direct. Three more will be c implete-t within a. year, connecting as cirect with t. Pa,uir Mine-, Yankton, LSvkota., and Columbus, Nebraska., oj tbe U. I. Kailr-Md. The Missouri Hiver give us the Mountain fade. Thus it will be sceu that no section of country offers such unprecedented advantages for business, speculation and making: a fortune. For the country is being populated, and towns and cities are being built, and fortune made almost beyond belief. Every man wh.takes a homestead bow will have a railroad market at hig own door. And aDy enterprising young man with a small capital can esta.bli.-h himself ia a permanent and paying business, if he selects the right location and right branch of tradeEighteen years residence in tbe westera country r and a large portion of the time employed as a Mercantile Agrnt in this country, has a-ade m familiar with all the branches of business an the best locations in this country. For one dollar remitted to me 1 will giTe truthful and definl' answers to all questions on this subject desired by such persons. Toil thein the best place to ltrt' and what business is overcrowded and what branch is neglected. Address, DANIF.T. SCOTT, S. C. Ctm.of Emigration, m n 2T-1 v. Vox Siou City, CHURCH MEETING. TftTTPV i - -eby given that a meeting :!! ATOTICE i. h. . VorU liecuUr B.iuti held at the Joli." Church, one mile North of Drewe.-oorg, uruay, May asm, ioiu, ai - ..!,,.. el.etO ClOCK I the purpose of re-organiziug the - ot.r irg three Trustees, and transacting Su business as may come before the HW'"!' , may 17 2w J. II. CLOUD AuW T TT I) T Tn C A T VJ Two Farms, Four Town Lots, a Two Out Lots at Auction. THE undersigned will sell at puttie ..action, d the premises, On Saturday, June 1th, 1S70, at 2 o'clock P.M., (if not previously soU I"" vate sale,) the following described prop Lots 6, 7, 20 and 21, in Butler's A "'J plat of the town of Brookville, lraklin--Indiana. . . ,,,trn. A Iso two valuable out lots adjoining Also at the same timn and place will o the farm known as the Rinkard Farm, ".v'D ;J miles north of Brookville, and conUiuiug Also 148 acres in See. 9, Town 9, Range , joining the Rinkard Farm. .7 k,"",POa dJAfAcARTj NOTICE. THE undersigned havisg leased the House Livery Stable fr term of je.ris conduct the same in connection with . the opposite side of the tr'et- 1 mBd increased stock of good Horses, Bugg' 4 ilv Carriae-ei. kent for hire. Persons a - feed and the best stable in town, will P .11. March ll-3m. A. m. v -