Indiana American, Volume 9, Number 22, Brookville, Franklin County, 3 June 1870 — Page 2

Indiana American.

C. H. BlftGHAM, tUitcr. - HKOOtiVll.l.hFrtdsy Mern'i r, Jane 3, 1870. Qcading Nominated. A dispatch from Rushvilio announces that Dave G odinR was nominate! by the Pemecratic Congressional Convention on Wednesday. The Census of IS70. : The Assistant Marshals hare eomuien- j ced taking the ninth cn.us of the United j States under the provisions of the act of Mat o31 1S50 Thev ate paid as follows: ! 3 ' " . , . Two cents Tor every name taken; ten cents , for every fiirtr.; fif een ct uts i,-r every pro-;

ductive establishment of industry; twoastauieJ

r, rrv nprs:.i: and two ner ! . - . . j. ! cent, et t&e eross ani.vni 01 na-nct vm- . meratrd, for social statistics, and ten cents per wile for travel. It will lo een by tho foregoing that the cooop-snsation allowed an assistant or enumerator, proviea m uisinet. a...i, contain les, than 20,000 persons, wiil be ; about StiO.) or more. The United States Marshal is forbidden by law to accept, any Lribo or consideration for an appointment of assistants, and is Viable to a Ins of 31,000 should he be convicted of so doinz. The law provides that e-ich as-isttnt, after qiilifyinir, shall perform his duties by personal visit to each dwelling house, and to each family in its subdivision , and shall ascertain by inquiries made of some member of each family, if any one can be found capable of aiin;r the information butif not, then of the agent of such family tho name f each member thereof, the age and plaeo of bin a of each, sex, color, etc., and shall also visit personally 1 V j. A.... mallti cStta m 1 .1 O J II 1 fl f V. l T 1 ' . . p.suea re..j.etMi, ...-.. .u.m.... . .- , juired; and when such mtoriuarion is ob- i taincd and entered iu his blanks, then his j wetnoran shall 1 ? read to the person j forni.hin- the facts for revision. K . T lirti-a j .1 r.- r. ... 1 1 t- J ! 11 t t nr fur.' ..... - ,.,..T nun tnc required m. .jrojution to the aseistant. The act provides that every per-1 son more than twenty years of auc be-j lomMnsr to anv family, in cae of the ab- j isenco jf t!; hcid. and other numbers of the family, shall be aii aant of sue'.i family, and is require 1 to render a true state -tueut of the information req i're3, on pain of forfeiting thirty dollars, to V.e sued for and recovered in an action of debt by the assistant, to the use of the United Siates. Woman Su.Trags. The Woman iviffrage cause docs not ficcm to gaiu ;ru.i 1 as fast as its ardent friends coal I u v-iro. Iu Mia.iesota a propositioi to sub.ult the j isti .j to a vote of the poojilo .vas uoitea oy tiii Governor's ney.t'tva. Tno Illinois C institutional Ujuvonti )i atou u u 5 popisel to submit t. the p-j.iplj a sep trite article embracing this piiooipie, bat thj iiea was ubseq-iently abandoned. The Misstehuectts Legijlaturo dcJeate 1 Woaitn SutTiage by a devisivc vote, while the people of Vermont have recently d ne s. siiH mora overwhelniingly. In fac-t, the o ily State in which anythi-i bko socjc-s tias been gained is in Iowa. In that State, hs'.vevor, as wo i-.fcr from the tone of the press an 1 froai other indications, the success is more nominal than real. The propositi to submit the tiuestioa to tho people must be carried through another Legislature, an i then sustained by a popular vote, before it can become a part of the Constitution. It is said that the people are averse to the movement, but that they are willing a fair trial shall be given to it. In States like Massachusetts and Vermont, where the friends of the ctuie hal most to hnpa for, the defeat has boon the most overwhelming. The Enforcement Bill. The scope an I substance cf tbe above Kill who n. mi rah! V state Viv V :..- lVii - i- . i- i i iiot CnliiiS, in tn.in;" oa a p nut ot order; juade by SuUV.iry an was his lauguage: "The Ho-.isc ptsoI a bill r the Fifteenth Amendment. Tfv c" Senate btruck it ail out, an i inserto-i v. no -.as propositions to force tho Fourteenth Amendine-it; to c.t'irvo the 15;h Amendment; to pal down illegal binds .-f marauder-; to jiuard agiiust lll-.'al voting ul its results; to pruteet the c i t il righrs of oitiiens under the I s, to reeuact the CivilIMS It IS law l, il uif ui'nvut i'i n;c . uiursv and tj provi'la a teiody for a per-sou tail i - v . . l ... 1 r . . r . i. . hi.:...., lug to bo elected in consequence of a reliitial to receive votes that eviuul bt vast under the Constitution." Decoration Dty was univcrsaliy olserYed throughout the country. Tho Fenian rai l o i t'.n.iti completely ended, and the disvitod invaders are getting home as fast as poxib e. The U. S. Senate, after a very pr. trailed discussion, has decided to give lou.a.e ulerks the same salaries as ui-!c, where they perform the same service. A gold dollar in New Vorfc exchanges for 811 currency, and a U. S. paper QOllar exenanges wr oo eeuui spctie an San Francisco.

Lewis C.Stinson, an Evansville attorney, ; phe Esaru;ner is out for a reform coonwas assaulted at dinner on Thursday, at j ty ticket. We suppose tbe kind of reform the Palmer House, Indianapolis, by Kiix-j Democrats would ,lead us to is like that abeth Klder. She inflicted three wounds dowo io klin county where they levy . , . , . . , .. ... , . . seventv-five cents on the $100 valuation in his tape with a kuiie. She claims that for co 'nty ,ffjirsjust five ti!D M much Stinson insulted her hi!e cx&tuiaiog her jag Republicans levy in Fayette for the as a witness. 1 same purpose. fConncrsville Times,

Ir.disn Ccmmissicn. The United States Indian Commission, ! whose aim is to accomplish a peaceable

I settlement of alt our difficulties with the ; Indians aud to bring them under ci?Uiiig influence, held a .Convention, on Wednesday and Thursday, at Cooper InUtitutc, New York. The meeting was ! called to order bj Peter Cooper, and Benjlanm Tatham. Esq.. was elected ChairI M man. A number of letters from prominent gentlemen were read, the most important uf which was from Gen. Cox, Secretary of the Interior. It stated that the aim of the official Indian Commission, ap pointed by the President soon after his inauguration. "was to establish a cordial connection between the officers of the Indian eervice and those citizens who are in earnest in po,ipy onft of wbich a cjviiizetj nation need not be The appointment of Friends to the several asencies wa was another step in the same direction. It was designed i to proclaim to those who are interested in - the welfare of the Indians that we wished our agents to be co-workers with the missionaries, and to assist their work instead of thwartiner it. The Government bas I thus held out its hand to the moral and ,-:.. 1 r .I, r . J . , 'lBore int; mate mutual understanding is the efforts to save from destruction, both physical and moral, the remnants of theoriginal inhabitants of the land. Pardon me for saying that this response has neither been as prompt nor as hearty as we thought we had a right to expect. We hoped for a concentration of benevolent effort, and a revival of ttissiooary enterprise in this di rection which would at least equal what we are willing to do for foreign heathen The Friends have shown praiseworthy interest in the agency under the charge of meoibcrs of their society, and have had committees of their own to visdt them, and to give them both moral and material aid. But what have otheYs done? With the bright exception of the Santee Sioux mission, we have heard of but little here. The one practical thing I have to say is that in the administration of Indian affairs, as an officer of the Government, and in benafof tbe prcs,clent, I ask the or iraiiizsd help of the pood people of the land; and J tell yon that nnless roe. have it, on a scale entirely beyond anything hitherto tempted in this direction, the doom of the Indian is sealed, and a quick ex'eimina - - . , tiontcith the sward would be mercy com. pnrej u-t the influence aj our oiWKa tion.1' A Committee, appointed to prepare an address to the people of the United States on the Indian question, submitted a paper calling the country's attention to the above letter of the Secretary of the Interior, and urging the puoiic to take an interest in this subject and strengthen those members of Congress and officers of the Govern ment who wish to act with justice and hu manity towards the red man. The peace policy of the President is heartily eu dorscd. A large number of resolutions were passed by the Convention; interesting speeches were made by Col. Downing, Chief of the Cherokees, Vincent Collyer, Col. Tappan, Rev. Dr. lioldich, and others, and the Convention adjourned, fully awakened to the importance of taking up more earnestly the cause of the Indians and demanding that they shall be treated as friends, furnished with ample reservations, be honorably dealt with and provided with the means of education and a comfortable living, instead of being given up to the perfidy of agents and the mercy of the sword. Damagss Against ai Indiana Railroad for Injuries. In the case of Tracy li. Roberts against the Toledo & Wabash Railroad Company for damages for injuries received by the overturning of a car near Lafayette, Indiana, in Jan., 1SG5, the jury gave a verdict in New York on Monday to Roberts for $u,rt00. The defense claimed that the accident was unavoidable, and that Roberts was traveling on a free pass, which be denied. Judge Brady charged tho jury that if they found he had a pass, he was bound by its conditions and was without remedy. Railroad Bridge Burned at Richmond. The large bridge at Richmond, Ind., over White Water, on the Central Railroad . was burned about midnight Friday night. A train bad passed over it thirty minutes j before. The bridge was about six buudred !iv. i i v i j.,.a r..-. peiuaps uuc uuuuicu ii above the water. It was one of the most valuable structures on the line. Its cost originally was aboutsixty thousand dollars, but it will take considerably more to replace it. A large number of bands are at ! work on the bridge, and the cars will again cross it the last of this week. Intercession Sought for Fenians. ! The President has been asked, by some ! of the Fenians who were opposed to the ! recent movement, to intercede in behalf of : the captured Fenians now in tho hands of Canadian authorities. The , . State wiil probably confer with the Knglih Minister oq the subject The latter says that the Canadians are very much ; exaperatcd, and are disposed to let the law take its course. Tiie Little Corporal Magazisf, for June, is received In July this tterling Juvcuile i to be enlarged and improved. j Thoge fubgcribing now Veceive one 0u0lber free -f h k f h wheQ ,h ey 8ubscribe. ; ,x Hollar a Year. Published by Sewell & Miller, Chicago, III.

! Pvnlnstinn fit Hamilton TlfcO Men Kill

ed. Monday morning, at half past one o'clock, the large still attached to tbe distillery of Peter Schwab, in Hamilton, Ohio, exploded with great violence, almost instantly killing John Kline, the beer runner, and resulting,, also, in the death of August Frederick, mash hand, who was found after the explosion, with life extinct, in one of the fermenting tubs, on the first floor. How Mr. Frederick got into the place will probably never be known. The fermenting tuba are on the first floor of the distillery, while the mash tabs are on the second floor, where Mr. Frederick was at the time of the disaster. The still was outside of the main building, and when the explosion occurred a part of the brick wall was forced inwardly with so much violence as to destroy one of the mash tubs against which it was thrown, permitting the contents to run out upon the floor. Immediately above the fermenting tubs are trap doors communicating with the upper or second floor. These doors are usually kept closed; but the one above the tub in which Mr. Frederick was found was open, having probably been thrown up by the violence of the concussion. Mr. Kline was doubtless scalded to death, and Mr. Frederick was probably also burned by the 6team, and in making an effort to es cape fell through the open trap door into the fermenting material below, where he found his death. The still was a huge wooden vessel, thirty-five feet in height and about twelve feet in diameter. It was constructed of staves about eight inches in thickness, the full length of the still. I he whole was inclosed by huge iron bands. Notwithstanding its strength, it was literally bro ken into fragments and scattered to the winds. What could have caused the disaster has been a matter of much speculation. Various reasons are assigned, but inasmuch as the only man that was in possession of the facts was killed, the real cause will probably not be discovered. It seems that on account of an accident to the boiler last Thursday, work bad been suspended till late Saturday afternoon, when they resumed and continued until midnight. At twelve o'clock Monday morning, they fired up again, and owing to having fallen behind by the accident referred to, were pushing the machinery, no doubt, to its utmost capacity. Mr. Kline was a man who had long been in the business, was bli years of age, and leaves a wife and seven children. Mr. Frederick was a middle aged man, with a wife and family of five or six children, by no means in independent circumstances. The loss to Mr. Schwab will be from five thousand to six thousand dollars, fully ont-half of which is from grain in procets of distillation. The building was not seriously injured. It will take probably two weeks to restore the still, during which time work will be suspended. The Fenian Raid. The intelligence from the scat of war is that the Fenian operations have become absurd, and that there is no serious intention to attempt further hostilities. The result is about as predicted by all persons of sound mind and reasonable information from the start. The ridiculous and disgraceful failure of the movement against Canada will be beneficial in putting an end to the Fenian agitation in this country. That there are among the Fenians a great number of men who are brave and sincere, is not doubtful, but they seem wholly incapable of organizing and handling their forces. Address by the Emperor. Napoleon's address to the Freneh Legislative bodies, on receiving the official announcement of the vote on the Phbiacitttm, contains these sentences: Honest persons of all parties will now unite to soften the asperities of partisan passion, to preserve social interests from ihe contagion of faise doctrines, and to augment by all lawful means the grandeur and prosperity of France. We shall labor to diffuse instiuction, to simplify administrative measures, to introduce into the code ameliorations in favor of tbe agricultural interest, and to develop public works. We shall give our time to the reduction and best distribution cf taxation. Such is our programme, which, if realised, will increase the progress of civilization." Judge J. M. Wilson. We understand that the members of tbe Greensburg Bar, without distinction of party, have addressed a note lo Judge Wilson, asking him not to resign his position as Judge until his successor is elected, as tbey want bim to hold another teiui of Court for them before he leaves the Bench. The answer of the Judge, we are iulormi l LI W . 1 t llAA I T I I ' II J ude ilson is t v , una uu. wcu Kilt.' ! ih.i mniit noriilar itiii,a veft hivA ever liail in this part of the State. Oar lawyers will never cease to regret that they allowed this County to be taken out of his Circuit. We have no doubt that he will acquire the same distinetiou as a member of Congress, and while be has the finest reputation of anv man in the State as a iurist. J be vx k0on tequire a National reputation as a pureaod clear-headed Statesman, lie has a brilliant future before hiai. SheU by Republican. A Democratic Convention. Cesteryille, Isd., May 28. A handful of Democrats assembled in this plaoa to day to nominate delegates to attend the District Convention to be held at Rushville on Wednesday. Joshua Dye was called to the chair, and twenty. five delegates were duly appointed. Then the Hon. D. S. Gooding ripped and snorted ' round for a tine, and was cheered when

he said the Republican party was corrupt,

and that its leaders ought to be hung. The convention was very small, and utterly lacking in enthusiasm. The Pope in Washington. Quite an excitement was suddenly raised in the House of Representatives, by the proposition of Mr. Brooks to restore the appropriation for the support of a Minister Resident at Rome. Mr. Dawes objected, J as Rome was a spiritual and not a civil government. Mr. Brooks (New York) remarked that the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Dawes) developed the real source of his opposition to the amendment in stating that it arose from the fact that Rome was a spiritual power. Turkey was almost al together a spiritual power, and Quite as spiritual as that of Rome, governed as much, if not more, by religious authority; but Mr. Dawes preferred tbe Moslem in point of fact to the Christian. But Rome was a temporal as well as a spiritual power, and there was more business done with tbe city of Rome through the artists of this country than there was with Costa Rica and several other places to which ministers were allowed by this bill perhaps more than there was with Greece. He would beg the gentleman from Massachusetts, who represented the Puritan element in the House, from which element alone this opposition sprung, to throw by, as he himself did, his religious education, and look to higher motives and impulses than those which he had stated to the House. It was of the highest importance in a business point of view that they should encourage immigration to and imigration from and constant representation at the city of Rome. It was the headquarters of arts and artists, and, if there was one thing of which this country was more destitute than anything else, it was of taste and of the means of cultivating taste, which such great capitals as Rome could only afford. Mr. Bingham regretted very much that the gentleman f'rciu New York had seen fit to impute to this side of the House any disposition to persecute Rome on account of the peculiar religious notions entertained by the See of the Papal State. He would have done well to inform the House, instead of making any such bid as that for the vote of any religious sect in America, several members, '-That is it, exactly," J to have told the House and the country what occasion there was for any other ! representation in Rome than that already provided for in this bi'l. the bill appropriated for a Consul at Rome, and that answered at ouce the gentleman's suggestion that there was any intention to strike at the people on account of their peculiar religious tenets. Recent events had shown lo reflecting men that tbe Church of Rome was no longer a unit, aud could not be. The Syllabus recently uttered by the bead of that organization was a declaration of principles which the gentleman from New York dared not endorse and go home among his people. It was an attempt to fetter the freedom of" conscience miif r.f I ch Talk , him t this ,ime f d about Homo being the patron of science and the mother of arts! Why, there was this day more of that genius which made even the marble itself wear the divine beauty of life, ia living America than ever was dreamed of in Rome, living or dead. Growing excitement Why, thn, talk ai this time of day about dignifying that little principality with a resident minister from the United States? Did not gentlemen know that the foremost of all the men reared in tbe faith vf the Church of Rome (and he admitted that she had bred many great and noble men, who knew bow to make humanity itself beautiful by the sacrifice of martyrdom), the Augustinian monk, found out for himself and repeated to mankind the great central fact which to-day possessed the enlightened mind of the nineteenth century, that no mitred bead may, in the grace of God or divine right, interpose its dark shadow between man and his Maker. Excitement Under the omnipotent power of that utterance, every tyrant, whether in Rome or out of it, held to-day the reins of power with a tremulous and unsteady band, and the day was not far distant when the very throne of his power would turn to dust and ashes before the consuming breath of the enlightened public opinion of tho civilized world, which declared for free government, free churches, free Bibles and free men. Sensatioo.J Then followed a very excited personal debate, io which Messrs. Brooks, Dawes, Covode, Voorhees, Hoar and others participated. Mr. Voorhees assailed Massachusetts for burning witches in olden time. Mr. Hoar declared the statement as to the burning of witches in Massachusetts entirely false. No human being had ever been burned at the stake within the limits of the Commonwealth of Massachussetts. Mr. Voorhees (excitedly) That is not true. Mr. Hoar went on to say that two hundred and forty years ago, when the whole civilized world believed in witchcraft on ihe authority of the Old Testament, the Courts of Massachusetts Lad condemned and executed some nioeteen or twenty petsons of both sexes; but it was also true that, first among men, the people of Massa. chttsetts had seen the error and wickedness of their proceeding. After much altercation, the subject was dropped, withoutany action being taken. Important Decision. The decision of Judge Davis, in the United States Court on Saturday, in the Uuited States vs. Briggs, is a very important event. In an early case in the Supreme Court of ihe United States, C.J. Marshall remarked, in a case not, however, calling for any remark upon tbe subject, that if one sign a bond as surety for another, upon the express condition that the instrument shall not be delivered to the payee having no knowledge whatever of the condition upon which the surety signed, the latter is not liable. This, of course, was what lawyers call a dictum not being a point in the case but dictu, from such Judges as Marshall, are often potent in ehanging the law. It would be astonishing if the creditor might thus be the victim of private understandings of which he is wholly ignorant and has no reason to suspect. On Saturday Judge Davis held that it was not the law. If it

was, it can be readily seen that there

would, in a great multitude of caees, be no security for any public money. It will be remembered that seven years ago there was no little interest felt in this matter when our Supreme Court, contrary to what had previously been held in this State upon this ground, discharged the sureties of Batzner, a County Treasurer, thus involving a loss to the State of some 50,000. Since that the highest court of New York has declared th? same doctrine, and there seemed a disposition in most of the States to regard it as the law. Kentucky was the first State to resist this new tendency." Next our present Supreme Court placed itself squarely against it by two or three opinions delivered by Judue Ray, which, for power of reasoning and an exhautive and discriminating review and criticism of tha authorities, will compare favorably with any opinions ever delivered by any court. They can not be read, we think, without convincing the reader of tbe truth of the conclusion reached. Maine follows the later Indiana decisions, and it is believed that the Supreme Court of tbe Uuited Spates will, at the first opportunity, put itself on the same ground, and probably then all the States will follow. Journal. It Should be Vetoed. After the recommitment of the Northern Pacific bill to Mr. Wheeler's committee, with the pendingaamendments, its passage by the House in precisely tho shape in which it came from the Senate is hard to understand. We accepted the vote sending it back to committee as exponential of the fact that the House was determined that the unrestricted granting of the public domain to private corporations should be hereafter checked. We are not disposed to combat the grant of lands to companies who propose to engage in a needed and perilous work, such as the construction of a long line of Railroad through a comparatively undeveloped country might be, if that grant be so restricted and conditioned that actual settlers may obtain the public lands at some thing like a fair valuation, and not be subjected to the complete control of a graspiug corporation. Such grants as that to the Northern Pacific Railroad will have the elect to hinder and retard the settlement and development of the country, rather than to assist it. The lands will be hold at speculative prices, by which means the labor and energy of the country will be deterred from settling, rather than invited by the cheapness of: ' . I the land and the consequent promise of a rich return for t'eir small capital, hard work, and sacrifice. The following is the i vote on the bill in detail: Yeas Messrs. Allison, Ames, Areher, Armstrong, Atwood, xtell, Ajer, Bailey, Banks, Barnuni, Barry, Bennett, Benton, Bingham, Blair, Booker, Bowen, Boyd. George M. Brooks, Buckley, Burden, Roderick R. Butler. Cake, Calkin, Churchill, William T. Clark, Clinton L Cobb, Conger, Conner, Covode, Cowles, Diwes, Degeuer. Dickey, Dixon, Dockery, Dox, Ferris. Ferry Fitch, Fox, Garfield, Gibson, Hamilton, Harris, Hays, Horn, Hooper, liotchktss, Johnson, Ales. 11. Jones, Kelley, Kellog:, Kelsey, Ketcham, Knapp, Latiiti, Lash, Logan, Lynch, May nard. McCatthy, Mcivee, McKenzie, Mor phis, Daniel J. Morrcll, Motrissey, Myers, Negley, Newsham, O'Neill, Peck, Pierce, Peters, Phelps, Pollard, Pomeroy, Prosscr, Root, Sawyer, Schenck, Schumaker, Lion el A. Sheldon, Porter Sheldon, Sherrod, Shober, Jos. S. Sniiih, W-n. J. Smith, Wortbington C. Smith, Win. Smyth, Starkweather, Stokes, Stoughton, Strickland, Taffe, Tanner, Tillman, Townsend, Trimble, T. Mitchel, M. Van Aukcn Cadwalader C. Washburn, Wm. B. Washburn. Wheeler, Whitmore, Wilkinson and Eugene M. Wilson. Nays Ambler. Arnell, Asper, Beatfy, Book, Biggs, Bird, James Brooks, Buliington, Burchard, Cessna, Sidney Clarke, Cleveland, Cobb, Coburn, Cook, Cox, Crebs, Cullom, Dickinson, Donnelly, Duvall, Dyer, Ela, Eldridge, Farnsworth, Finkelnburg, Getz, Griswold, Haight, Haldemao, Hale, Hamlin, Hawkins, Hawley, Hay, lleflin, If ill, Holuiao, Ingersoll, Kerr, Knott, Lawrence, Lewis, Marshall, Mayham, McCrary, McGrew, McXeely, Mercur, Eliakiin ti. Moore, Jesse Moore, Wm. Moore, Morgan, Orth, Packard. Paine, Potter, Randall, Reeves, Rice, Rogers, Sargent, Scofield, John A. Smith, Shan ks, Stevens, Stevenson, Stiles, &tone, Strong, Swann, Taylor, Tyneer, Upson, Van Wyck, Voorhees. Ward, Willard, Williams, John T. Wilson, Winaus, Witcher and Woodward. Absent and not voting Adams, Beaman, Benjamin, Boles, Buck, Burr, B. F. Butler, Davis, Fisher, Gildlian, Hatubletoo, Heaton, Hoze, Jcnckes, Thomas L. j Jones, Juid, Julian, Loughridge, Mo Cormick, Milncs, Samuel P. Morrell, Mungen, Niblack, Palmer, Piatt, Porter, Ridgeway, Sauford, Slocum, Strader, Sweeney, an Horn, Van 'I rump, Welker, Wells, Wiuehester and Wood. I bis vote will do to study. The affirmative is a combination of interests the Southern road, the tariff, etc. Eleven Democratic names are on the list. The State cf 1 ndiana stands fair on the record. Every name is recorded either in the neg alive or among those not voting. Mr. Niblaek's and Mr. Julian's positions aro well understood. Tbe course of Mr. Voorhees is known to bis constituents. lie retrained lroui voting upon any one ! 0f the amendments, but when he saw the blil was carried, he voted in the negative to save himself at home. The dode wiil not answer. His former votes cive the emphatic tic to this one. This bill is now before the President. Its character is understood, the objections to it have been reiterated in every uewspper in the land, save those io some manner interested in the grant. Tbe people are opposed to it. By a majority of two votes it has been declared, iu e fleet, that the United States is responsible for the Company's bonds. This guarautee is in addition to seventy millions of acres of land. That this guarantee is understood. can be seen from the language of Mr. Wheeler, who had charge of the bill: "The company is not here to-day to ask for money or enlarged subsidies in lands. It seeks by this legislation three things: "First, It to tals to put the nitionil impress upon its mortff-iyes, by recording and tiling it in the office ot the Secretary of the Interior. This makes the bonds more desirable in the estimation of foreign capitalists, who have great respect for Uncle Sam's sign-manual." Secretary Boutwell has given his opin ion without reserve, that if the bonds of this Northern Pacific Company were laid

open to negotiations in Europe, the act!

would have a tendency to injure our cred it and obstruct the work of funding our national debt at a low rate of interest. Though by authorizing ths issue of the mortgage bonds the United States would not become really liable for the amount of the indebtedness, yet her faith in fulfillment of contract would naturally follow and be judged by the manner in which the faith of the company would be kept. In his inaugural address, President Grant used the following language: "Ultimately it may be necessary to increase the facilities to reach these riches (the Western mines), and it may be nec essary also that the General Government should give its aid to secure this access. But that should only be when dollars of obligation to pay secures precisely the same sort of dollars to use now, and not betore. iv nne the question ot specie payment is in abeyance the prudent ousiness man is careful about contracting debts payable in the distant future. The nation should follow the same rule." In the face of these facts, in the face of the declared policy of his administration, can President Grant afford to give his signature to this bill? The country will look with deep interest for his action. A clear, ringing veto of the measnre from the White House, setting forth the reason for the restriction whereby the rights of settlers should be protected, would create an enthusiasm for General Grant not behind that which greeted his veto of the rebellion at Appomattox. Will the President veto this bill? Journal. The Future of the Republican Party. Many people, and particularly the copperhead fraternity, affect to think that with the adoption of the 15th Amendment aud the restoration of the late rebel States to their old places in the Union, the mission of the Republican party is ended, a:id that its exigence as a par'y must necessarily cease. But, although the Republican party has done infinitely more for the country and for humanity, theo it was organized to accomplish, its labors are by no means concluded, nor its necessity done away wiih. The 1'epublican party was organized for the sole and only purpose of resisting the spread of slavery. It did not propose U ItllCIICIC Willi II1C 1 II M ; .. i.,.-r.,- ,;.i. . 1... : r. 1 crnal system in the Stales in Inch it already existed, but simply sought to prevent its extension into the fiee territories of the country, and its virtual t,diffuioiiM over the entire ua - i .: t. : t. : . . i - . ' WUIL" supporters were enaeavor- j iiiv t.i l-a.ii.- t i ..k ..;;..! 1 "o v f-v.ut iiuvMiif iiiu i r . i u me iM'i u ot the Democratic party. This work it speedily accomplished, or bad very near ly accomplished, when it unexpectedly fouud that it had a still larger job upon its hands in the shape of a triaiitio dem ocratic slaveheldets' lebelliou. The Republican party, however, was equal to the emergency, for it not only conquered the rebellion and preserved the unity of the nation, but it alsoi, iu a petfectly legal and eonstit uiiooal mail Her, abolished the system to perpetuate and rxttn.J which said lebellion was inaugurated. Nor was this all. It was reserved tor tho Republican party, in the reconstruction aud re-ad-mission of the conquered States, to ele - vatc to ihe condition of manhood aud citi zenship the entire negro raco uf the coun - try, thus making a similar rebellion forever impossible. Many oiher great and good things, pertaining to the welfare and future prosperity of the country, have also been accomplished by tuc Republican party within the past (en years. Bat iet not the Democracy "lay the flattering unction to their souls" (if they have any) that the people -.ii . ii are jet reauy to wuuoraw ueir allegiance from that party and again tnrn over to them and the. r ' tender merciea" the aftairs ot the nation. It has still other and very important duties to perform, in the settlement of the financial and social questions, Krowiiiir out of the late war for i the preservation of the Union, and the previous mal-.id ministration of the government by the rebellious Democracy. It may have committed many errors, but fortunately its seveiett critics are to be found within its owu ranks. Its errors will be pointed out and remedied, instead of being covered up and wioked at as has beeu tbe wont of the I'emoeracy when in power. Hence the deep and abidiug faith in ihe hearts of the people. Steadily paving the work of retrenchment and tbe reduction of the public debt, while at the same time encouraging and protecting the industrial interests of the country, the strength of the Republican party is unquestionable, and its definite lease of power, in the nation which it has saved and made prosperous, without precedent, is most fully assured. Shelby Republican. Consider these Facts Under a Republican administration of the General Government the finances of the Government are more faithfully and cconimically administered, the taxes are more booestly collected and properly applied, than uuder any Democratic Administration. The same is true of State Gov eroments. The last Democratic Administration of this State left a heavy load of debt, which Republican officials have now nearly paid off, although a gigantic Democratic rebellion has intervened, paralyziuK the productive interests of the country and adding immensely to the necessary expenditures. Republican cities are better governed, more valuable and substantial improvements are made, and with a less rate of taxation, than io Democratic cities. The citizens of Indianapolis pay but DO cents per $100, while the residents of Toledo, which has beeu Democratic for a long series ot years, pay nearly six times as much without reaping one-balf the benefit. Democratic New York is totori. ously the worst managed city ia any civilized couutry, while the taxes are enormously high. Republican counties always pay their orders promptly on presentation, with a less average rate of taxation than in Democratic counties wnero for fully half the year the orders are protested for want of fuuds. Scott county bas always been Democratic, and never hus paid its orders as they were issued. Hamilton county has been Republican ever since the party was orgauized, and neeer refused to pay an order on presentation. These are general facts which will outweigh, with thiuking, intelligent men, who, pages of diatribes on "Republican extravagance." Republican officers use public money for the beuefit of the public; Democratic officials make what thev can for themselves first, rendering the least possible service to the people. There are occasionally individual exceptions to both rules, but they ate as a few scattered

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do not affect the general result. Green field Commercial. For the American. Raising Corn. Editoe American, I see in your paper an article headed "An Iodiana Farmer's Method of Raising Corn," signed "L. II. D." I fear he has been asleep as long as 'Rip Van Winkle," or else was brought up by some kind and doting grandfather from whom he learned to till the soil. I think he is a little in the dark as to corn raising. I will givo him a few hints as to how we plant and raise corn iu this part of Indiana. Before planting, get tbe ground in good order by rolliog and harrowing, if necessary. Then "drill," as corn planted in this way will produce from ten to twenty bushels more per acre than when hilled. It is also much easier cultivated, and done with less labor. The first plowiug should be done with a double shovel or its equivalent, with a gofer next the corn. This will throw but little dirt, but will loosen the ground nicely. In tbe second plowing use a little larger shovel, aud keep on increasing the size of your shovel as long as it is necessary. Plant and cultivate your corn this way, and I feel confident you will drag no logs in the furrow, nor be to the expense of furrowing out one way. You can save from one to three hands by drilling, and raise more corn and do it easier. Can t some other farmers enlighten us on this subject some more, as it is of great importance? I wish there was a little more pains taken to write upon this one of the i greatest subjects we now have. Let us hear from others, and also different methods of raising wheat R. Hon. Jno S Reid Declines. Hon. John S. Reid declines to be a candidate for re-nominatiou to ihe Fortysecond Congress from this District, because "Mr. Julian has not been reno;ninated by the Republicans, but has withdrawn with much dignity, aud another gentleman, whom he respects, has been placed in nomination, changing the whole front ol battle, and the causes which induced i his uomi nation by the Demoeracy in lcoo. is H to be interred troui this that J uiian's nomination was one of the causes j which led to Raid's nomination? Was it I Reid's anti.slavery antecedents that made ! him the most fitting opponent for Julian? i .i- i j.,- . iui me ouige nas also expressed other ... i, u l - 1 1 1 i jivu.iiis .us tiiiwi ii n it i , tie nas not titne to study the n-io principles introduoed into the Constitution. The Judge ought to understand these '-new principles that have been introduced into the Cons:itunon. Ihey are those which he ad vocated when ho stoo l on the same platform with Juiiiin in the fiee soil caue. Further, the Judge doub s his his ability to grapple with the finances. None will deny he has reason here. Finances may well awe him. He does well in determining not to meddle fith the fijiauces of the country. But Judge Reid is a liber&l, social gentleman, personally popular, and the deli jcacy wiih which he avoids mentioning iKe j real caue of his withdrawal fiois ths ! contest, does honor to his heart. Tlu I Democracy don't want him because he i to dce-ent a iau for them. Tlvey need a rabble-rouser one who c-n work upoi the prejudices of the ignorant one who can sing the sweet song of 'nigger." The Judge won't do his antecedents are not good his manners won't suit so he po litely steps asida for Andy s marshal. 1 1" Rushville Republican iL j The Murder Trial. The of lhe time lst week ! . " ,i v , v. .,,: r V.rt3i IJI.-LUIC'i in. in iii.i in im Steinmetz tor the murder of llciry Schnit ger;er. on the llth of February last, near i Pctinsylvaniaburg. in this County. After hearing all the evidence the jury brought in a verdict of manslaughter, and sentenced the prisoner lo 14 years to the Slates' prison. The prisoner was prosecuted by Henry flanna,of Brookviile, and defended by Messrs. Wilson & Ferris. Versailles Gazotte. The first rail on the Richmond & Fort Wayne Railroad was laid on Moaday. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS Wool Wanted AT THE OLD WHITE CORNER, BROOKVILLB. XT E are buying Wool for the St. Joseph WoelVV en Mill atUl.ienbutg. We keep a large -eort merit ot their Good, an J pJ fur Wool, "'f in Goods or Cash, the UIUHKrfr MARKET PRICE. CLOT Hia. Having made an arrangement with MR H. SEuJl we are able to arcouiino late our friend with th best fitting Clothing. Mr. Selin is known a a "ouTGENERAL STOCK, composed of BOOTS & SHOhJS, H ATS & CAPS, FANCY DRY GOODS, DOMESTICS AND NOTIONS, is selected with great care to aij le aad qnli'J and sold with small prufiiafor Cash or Produce. DEHZ& :;eis. Brookviile, Jane 3, tS70-y. ADAM ROTHERMik, LAURLL, INDIANA TS prepared to repair Watches, Clock n y 1 elry of all kinds promptly to ord-jf reasonable terms. Call ana see un june 3 lm 4T.T.PV & PEPPER'S Situated 2 mile South of ON TRACE BRANCH OF PIPE CBJJ The undersigned are now prepared to a Lumber of All &(13 AND eiZK. ,Vortableaw mine r . " n kinds of " primitive foresta containing ' ,ai at U Orders filled on the shurteH notiee.a lowest market prioes. ALLBr