Indiana American, Volume 9, Number 26, Brookville, Franklin County, 1 July 1870 — Page 1

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PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAT BT C. U. BINGII4M, Proprietor. Office la the National Bank Building, Third Story)

TERMS Qr SUBSCRIPTION: 12.50 PEK YEAU, is advancb. $3.00 " " to? NOT PAID IS ADVAKCK. Jso poMfte on papers delivered within this County. Pomeroy'a Land-Grab. The enormous land erant. Tor the benefit of sundry (peculators concerned in ronMructine what they call the Central Branch of the I'acifie Railroad; with which Senator IVtneroy's name has long been connected, did not pass the Senate the other day without a thorough showing up of its demerits by Senator Sherman. How the bill should have received the support of a roajoiity of the Senate, under any circumstance, seems unaccountable. It introduces a new feature to the land-grab business, by proposing to give twenty sections to the mile to the corporator in question, instead of granting alternate sections, as hitherto, under the plea that the government land retained was made o much more valuable, and could be Tadi!y sold at the double price fixed for such lands when brought into market. There can be no such plea in this case, as the bill grants continuous sections, a prand principality by itself, three hundred miles Ion j and tea broad. Hereto tore, the road had been munificently endowed by Congress. It could have no further claims for consideration, though ever so valuable or important to the country. Hut, in point of tact, the route is one altogether unnecessary, where tle proprietors are constructing it, contrary to the understanding had bv those who first agreed to the branch i charter. It runs parallel to the St. Joseph & Denver road, now under construction, and ata distance of only ten or twelve miles. It it is anything better than a swindle, we tail to see wherein the difference consists. Here arc some of the plain things which .Senator Sherman said ot" this bill: " f his company aione, of all the locil railroads built in the Uuitel States, has lire dv received a subsidy of Sl.tiUlUlOO ((.veruuient bonds bonds which are now j j , north pir in gold ; so that it has releived mre than any local road ever chartered or favored in the United States. It WfcS intended originally to be a branch if t tie I nion Tactile road a grant that vauht never

, i , . i i . j v am wear i it uia r"I' cr e i to have been adopted: but' , , .- . 1 . ,, ... , j I.rttie, from the clou Is ot white billovvy doptcd, I have no lurthcr!. ' , , . ,'

iiaung iitcii auor laue io complain, except that by tho otlcinat trant it was exprc?slv hiipulatcJ , .i . . i it . i " i ... i! tli it should not exceed one hundred; , . . . ... , iji,. . i ! ii, ms in it'iigiu, auu ii iiuuucn iriuuu cue bundled ihilcs in length should only lave the bt'iitlh of the land grant. It was extended one hundred inilis, and tm-ivd i? l.btvl,ttV)0; so that it has bctn favored thus far. "Now, Mr. President, what is the amount t be made up by this enormous graut? Tl-.e ;ratit, a wording to the act of ImU, was ten alternate sections on ah tide of tlie railroad, or a solid body id' land ten miics wide and not tt ss thin two hundred and lift y to tlttee humtred miles long. From the terminus ot this railroad to Fort Kearney is oxer two hundred miles, an! to the i-t.e bundtcth tneridiiti is over three bun t'ud miles. so there is one solid body t land ton miles wide and say three hundred miics long given to this railroad com - j tativ anywhere within twenty five miles j l either side of the road, so that the rouit will le that this whole vast territory niU be given away nithoat yiej liog to the I isited Slates the cxpeuse even of its sur , iy.' We do not know how long Senators and Kepi esiMitatives will bo permitted to betray the public interests and abuse the patience their constituents, by voting for such eheiues as these. We think there will be a day of reckoning, sotn-i time. The last Pacific land grant wa had enough. ' ft was an intorleab'.e wrong to tiansfer. tlm immense domain, the property of the! tiation, merely to enrich individuals who . had no ethei edaim to it than sheer itopu-; ience in asking. But this Pomeroy ioi- ; U'ty is even worse than the other, as we bae explained, and is strongly suggestive J of corruption. We hope there is no posMli'.ity d its pasing the House, and yet wiiakuowswh.it may happen after whats c nave already seeu.' (. icinn,it L.tron 'e. Pension Bill, general pension bill The ps.-d which bss Congress makes an important r.unce m the manner of paying pensions. It provides for the payment q trtcrly inftead of jiomi-annualiv. vii . in September. lecembcr, March and June. It requires the Agents to furnish vouchers to each f'tisioiici: lorbids payment to any claim si:vnt, attorney, broker, or to any person x''it the pensioner: it reduces the fees ! the Agent to about one halt the present ihat,. and ,ue rocs herealier are to be lij by tlie liovernmcnt an 1 not by the ft iisietiers. The bill will greatly increase 'ewotkand responsibility of the Agcntut it is, in many respects, an iui-rrvv:iu-iit over the picsent system, espeU!!y in forbidding the Agents, uuder cavy penalties, from recogniiing any "viat u agents, " "attorneys," or "brokers,"' ln the payment of the soldier's due. The ley ijicif j;o to the pensioner and no u.m t u,,u agents who are accusitued to advance mouev to rensioners. 1 'ipeetinj. i0 collect the pension with large -ur, win j, Weu to govern themselves X"otdii,j;ly. Indianapolis Journal. a nan a ri;ht to commit a nnisact.' .Ved a prisoner of a magistrate. 'No. .sir: not even ihe Mayor.' r 'II li,J sir, I claim my liberty I was ar festej a a nuisance i n, i,. . . ana as no cue ds I move for a nouw commit me. 'Joe. why vera yuu out so late last i. J.' lt WSI' t so late only a quar- " vifweKo.' 'llow dare you eit there J tell me that lie! I was awake when -came, and looking at my wateh it was !Well, isu't three a quarof i,,etve ?" 0 a certain occasion of an eelinsa in 'If riuia. a r-nl.irorl ,n.l.r;.l,..l -c.uj elated 'Uress de Liord'. said he. i-.mBleser 8 time come at last, acd U "C8 gwioe to hab a brack euo.

"THE UNION, THE CONSTITUTION, ANJ) THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS! VOL. 9, NO. 26. BROOK VILLES IND., FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1870. WHOLE NO. 43.

JANET S FORTUiNE. And when 1 die I shall leave my fortune to the one who will use it to the best advantage,' aid Grandma Leeds, smilintr from behind her spectacles to the young girls around her. 'Your fortune, grandma? whtt will it be? That old basket, with its horrid yarn and needles, and never ending knitting work? If so, you need not leave it with me. Janet wi I use it to a far better advantage than I could,' 'Yes. Lettie. YOU are right, and I'm sure I don t waut it, either, UL'in what a fortune, to be sure!' 'I'll accept it. grandma, and prize it, if

you will only add your sweet, contented! rje came eiCyrtei Lettie to parties, disposition. It would be a fortune which atlll someUme5 chatted with grttlui, but none of us need despise. j nothins more. Sne MW nothing more Janet Leeds was the youngest of the She did not, as usual, catch the goolfamily, and the plainest. She had a sweet, natured smiles he gave her from the sleig'i fresh face, and tender eye-; but these paled ; as he rode away and Lettie neer told into ugliness before Let Me' black orbs and her how often he asked tor her. shining curls, and the blonde loveliness ofj Aione with gran(l!tia) Jir1et wishe 1 for belle Margaret. So she settled back like better xhn ani WOoderel why she was

,uu,.CSt ,u ,c i-,u.c. VUI cr, anu waitea on I i . : . i .i. . maid in the housework. Once in a while she ventured out to a paity in the village, but so seldom t'iat ! people never observed her. That made it !; unpleasant, and she staid at borne still j ! closer. But that morning, while they sat chtting with grandma, she felt a deal of real j uiscontenr, tor tio nrst time in months. soontent, for the hrst time in months. Clara Bosworth, her bosom Iriend. was i to give a party that evening, and she could not ;o. For weeks preparations h;id I been coing on in their uuiet family. She 1.,- . ... 1 ivavi given up the money saved t r a new ' winter cl-ak that Lettie's green silk might be retri mined for the occasion, and the best dress she bad in the world was a plain gariet-colored poplin with b!a:k velvet trim mings. She bad faintly suggested that site i might wear thai, hut the dismay of her j siMers Miencc'l tier. ,i .i. . ii I : i r-l . - .t. . . i , , . l bhould think s,' chimed Atargirct, , . , ' , who was fitting a lace b-Mthe over the waist of delicate lilac satin. 'Do you want Austin Bosworth to think us a Tamily of paupers? It is to be a grand affair, and Clara expects all who honor it will try to piy her respect enough to dtes ; res-pectably. It is Austin's first appear ; aiu-e after his European lour, and surely! you do not want him to think mean ' j of n?' The teirs came up, but Janet was brave, ' and no one saw them. i That night, when tho two girls the one in her d irk beauty and wonderfully becoming array, the other all delicacy, her fair, pearl loveliness enhanced by the paie . purple color of her splendid dress came laughing iato grandma's room, a littli) shadow darkened her face, and she found it very I. at 1 to keep bark the tears, i ' 'l-'ir.e feathers make tine birds, but Gnhirds do not always sing the sweetest. Janie, 'said grand. oi, after they were gone. I know who i the true One in the family. I know my little singing bird, Janie, an 1 she is dorer than a dozen fine ladies. Au-lin and Clara will come to-morro.v, and he will toil us ab ut his travels in foreign lands, and you wiil be far happier than you wo ild lid at the hoise to-uight, with dancing and confusion.' 'I suppose so, grinduia,' and Janet took her 5eat by the fire and went on knitting, with peaceful face. The elder sifters cvna hone with rumpled plumage, but in high spirits. Austin Bosworth had returned, a hand some polished gentleman, and had tlirtod desperately with l.cttie. "Wtvy, grandma, be almost proposed to her!' laughed Margaret, who was e.igiged to Judge Leonard's hopeful son, and therefore bad no place for jealousy. 'More than one ol the company predicted that it would be a match." 'Don't count your chickens before ihey are hatched, called grandma from her pillow; .Mr. Austiu Bosworth is no fool, 1 cau tell you!" 'What an old croaker!" They were entering their chamber across the hall, but grandmother's ears were not dulled by old age, and she clearly heard them. 'Don't mind them, grandma,' whispered Janet, who had waitcJ to help thciu lay aside their finery. 'Mind them! Do you think I shall,! Janet heedf?' Next day Austin Bosworth cvne. lie was too familiar with the old bouse to stop for bell. ringing, and he entered, crosiug the hall directly past the parlor door, where Margaret and Lettie waited iu their tasteful afternoon costume, and walked straight ou to Grandma Leeds room. She was there with her work, her placid face beaming beneath the white lace-bordered cap. A graceful, girlih figure half knelt before her, wreathing with deft fiugers a bunch of evergreens into a frame for a mautl! ornament, and her eyes were lilted smiling into tbe old lady's face. lie entered and closed the door before cither saw him. 'tiraudma Leeds!' 'Why, bless my heart, it is Austiu! Come here, ny boyT And the tine gentleman came and gave both bands to her in bis delight. 'Janie, my little playmate, too! What a happy meeting'. Clara came down, dressed for a call, and declared she would come, but I told her no! I knew the auiouut of gallantry I should feel obliged to use, anil preferred that my tir&t visit should be like the old ones.' You are right. We are better pleased to have it so, are we not, Janet? His call lengthened itself into two hours, and during the time he told pleasant stories and chatted like the boy of by-goue days, but not once did Margaret's or Lettie'e name pass his lips.

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When he went away he met thetu com- ' ng. wiih disappointel faces, fro n the . Prlor, where tliey ha I been waiii-ig for h'm DUt he only liltel his hat and passed out. Then grand in and Janie received a sound scolding, such as only these tw knew how to give, and the shidowa of discontent again fell on Janet spirit, : Ah, that long, cheerless winter! What ' a story Janet could tell you of disappoiut. ments, of happy parties of which she h id j no share, of moonlight rides, of joy and 'merriment? She had nnlv that one no tit. forter, kind, p-iticnt grandma: for now that Austin Bosworth had come, the way was harder than before. harshl dea t w th. At last even the society of her good aged comforter was denied her, and ia her bed the old lady gradually faded away. Day and niht Janet sat beside her with the knowledge that she was beyond earth lv help wailing upoo her, yielding to the rtlillillK vhtillj 1 ri I tthtlttlmr ttltf HIf)rv ,)in joututul' and beautitul from her gjj,lt. .ii....:.. i....,i.i i i Margaret v laying iiuuciiuiu aiici, .id. 'Working for grandma's fortune of old shoes and worsted stockings,' Lettie cruelly added. ' 'Doing her duty by the faithful woman who had taken the three motherless children into her heart, and tilled the lost one's plaee, so far as God permitted,' her own heart said, aud steadily she worked on. The first of May brought invitations to the ,a,t ball at the B0SWartU House, and while the two elder ..-isters laid out the finery, Janet folded her tiny missive and i hid it away next to her heart, ss a sacred bit of paper, bearing Austin s firm, broad chtroraphy upon it. That night grandma wis very ill, and and when Margaret and Lettie fluttered in with their gay dresses Janet met them and almost forcibly put thetu out of the roo u. 'I htvr vou. "iris, to have a little respect 0f daii she is very ill totl jl, t. '.or-sense! Don't be a fool, Janet .,vk,,.i .,1,i.i i.:t Uo was dsiu' v .j .. - -0. " 1 bel leve she is. Their reply came in a violent 6lam of the door, and Janet was left alone with her patient. The hours dragged wearily, and over come by her loug, sleepless watches, Janet fell fast asleep. Two hours later she awoke with a start, and iu an instant she saw that dread change in her grandma's face. Like one in a dream, she walked to her father's door, and avakencd him. 'Father, grandma is worse. I believe her dying Vou must go to Dr. Berne, lou wiil find htm at the ball. Go quickly!' She went back, and sat there wearily waiting for something for a sound, a .-iirn from the dviu woman; but none lo hut nirf,nti tl v. tlie lines I settled around the i.lcasant mouth, and the dark shadows crept over the placid face, but do sound issued from tbe ale f 1 lips. Janet bent her head. There was a faint fiuiter no mote, and Janet clasped her hands. Would grandma die there before her eyes, and never speak a word? She caught the cold baud iu her own, ii A itlililttGrandma! speak to me! Speak to your little Jauet! Don't you hear tue, grand-

But grandma beard nothing. The chill-; l done; that a Democrat, one Jao .b MersS of death had settled down, and even klc, pocketed 127,000 ol what money was .she knelt there the breath fled, and , pad, that Gov. tilard reappointed him

ne as Janet was alone. She understood it all when she arose, and she sauk back; half fainting in the t arm-oli lir, near the bed. (met. niv noor darling!

She lifted her head. Austin Bosworth ! y xore of the culpability iu this transacwas leaning over her. 'o iha lr. Eddy torces us to infer He

'My ):.,!.. ..;1 Whr fli.t rnii nnt Kim1 f,.... - j . WOld to me ;ht, aud let we share your sorrow; 'You, Austin?' Yes, have I not . Ah, forgive me! This is no time or place. I missed you as I have always missed you, but thought it was your ovn pleaso.ro to remain at home. When your father came in with a white, frightened la'e, aui whispered to Dr. Berne, I knew you were in trouble. I came at once, and, Jauie, I shall not again leave you. She knew bis meaning, and did not put hiut away, when he held her close in his arms and drew her into the parlor. Margaret and Lettie coming io with their facts horror-stricken saw him holding her iu his arms, her tired head resting wearily upon his shoulder, aud the proud Lettie said: 'Mr. Bosworth, 1 am surprised!' 'You need not be. This is my privilege now and forever. Three days after they gathered in that same parlor, to hear graudmamma's last will aud testameut read. After some little directions, it said: 'Aud to my beloved grand-daughter, Janet Leeds, I bequeath the Holmes estate, together ith my entire stock of furniture and money, amounting to tea thousand dollars. Janet's father smiled upon his astonished and cretfallen daughters. It was mother's whim! She never desired it to be known. Therefore you were ignorant of the fact that she had a dollar beyond the annuity I held for her.' When, six months later, Austin and Janet were married, ber elder sisters dared to say that he married her for her money, lie knew better, and eo did I. The Thee for Lawyers Sioux city.

Through the Wheat. One, when tar haart -S d t war yoangi We wandered, rtsttese, bj tea and strand, And lingered a li'tle tpaee among The grassj velvets of Switterland. Where watchful rummtt forever frown,' Through blue air slanting, eler and keen, iV earing proudly their iey crown, A hile happier hamleU mnile between; Where rapid torrents rejoiolng run, Leaping the cliff ioftrengta and pride. Like snow-white ribbons, in wind and tun, Fluttering down the uiou ntain -side ; Where smoke-like cloudingi of tender bine i Rpple the elopes in sunny spots, And sweetly change op a nearer iew, To drifts ef f&iresta'forget-ine-nots. . Oft tt the eve, when the sun was low, Aa.l th mountain shewe grew drk and vast, I watehe tha cottiger, wending slow liome to reft whea their toil was pat. Two walked lovingly side by sido, Speakio $ s ftly as lovers speak He with an airuftnanly prile, She with a, bluih on her sun -brow noJI cheok. H mJ in hand, through the evening red They went througn tbo shadows damp and sweet Choosing a narrow path that led On and on through tae growing wheat. Sunset tounbed him with rosy light, Sunset brightened her loosened hair Poor and plain, they were fair to sight, Forjouthand lore are forever fair. And often as sunset charms the air For the time and soene are vanished now I think of that si.nple loving pair, And woaiir whethor t'aey kept their vow hether under some mossy roof, Their wedded spirits serenely blent, They weave the even warp and woof Of their quiet lives in calm content; Or whether they parted in scorn and wrath, As myriads of lovers have done before, And chousing each other a separate path, Were thence divided forcvermore ; Or whether still, as across the land The deny shadows grow damp and swee. Perron ni at lovers, with hand in hand, Tiiey nU, dnee-decji, in the gro .ving wheat.

"oenlly Over tha Stones." "iVe urge our neightnr of the fountain and ihe gold d-t'a, to Ity this exh trillion to heart. It starts o!f over t!ie rough places in Do noeratie history with a bulga that will break its neck if it happens to stumble. We alluded the other day to certain, once notorious, now nearly forgotten, incidents of Democratic manage nijtit of our State affairs, and asked the Houtinefs attention to them, in connection with its examination of 1 U-'puhlican cxtra vauanee," on the oriticiple that 'it is better to look at home lhau look out of the! win low. One of tliese incidents was the mysterious disappearance of thirteen hundred thousand acre? of swamp lauds, given by Congress to this Slate, and appropriated by tlie Legislature to the school fund, after the deduction of tho expenses of reclamation. Governor Wright, io his message of Janmry 7th, 1853, stated that this donation, with honest management, would yield one million of dollars to the schools. The Democracy made and administered all the laws that affected those lands. Now the State Auditor will inform anybodv w'10 asks t,,at the '"""d has tiMcr ff' w jrom tnrm. oo.ue wueru cue ! "iUit of dollars they ouht to have yiclii ii.. i. i.i I. .... . .i. . i. i. ilea oas teastM out. iiktc are mo lauua in somebody's hands. And here is the school fund without dolla r of i heir value. How is this 'thinly'? We don't know. Dr. Norman El ly, who leads the Democratic Estate ticket, tells us, in his report of ISdl, all that is known, and that is, hat these lao.ls were partly paid toe witu j 'advance certificates' :t ditehiiw that has never beeo done, and was never iu. nt to ! t.ft w rti tliilii) iv 1 1 1, Ikiu .ft? i ii I I .ft I, ;i n ir V tiftftj n.ftav. . n v. -, a.o w . . w " ing over him; and that certain Democrats, of whom we mcuiioned two or three, had been dealing in these mysteriously wasted lauds. Now, we did not, and do not, say i luenuous ceriai u Louioerais woo nciu tuesc . , , . . lands lie also mentions the slightly sug gestive fact that tho school fund has got nothing from them. It is not our business to explain how it is that no money got to the Treasury while the lands got to Democratic hands. That is the business of those who have dealt iu tho lauds. If it is a 'private' aud 'family' matter, as the Sentinel suggests, it must blame its Candida e, Dr. Eddy, for making it a public matter. Being public, by no act of ours, we shall discuss it at our pleis ire, aud it the conductor of tin Sentinel thinks it will 'pay' to compare private records with us, as he threatens, we shall make the pro.Iournal. Scene in the Mayor's Court at Grand Rapids, Mayor Cnurch presiding. Witucss called up to be sworn by the clerk : Clerk. 'You do solemnly swear Mayor, (with dignity ) 'Stop! f he witness will bold up ms right hand.' Clerk. 'The man has no right hand, your Honor. Mayor, (with some asperity). 'Let him hold up his left, then.' Clerk. 'He has had the misfortune to lose his left hand also, as your Honor will perceive.' Mayor, (savagely). 'Tell him to hold up his right leg, then; a man cannot be sworn ia this court without holding up komething ? Silence, gentlemen our dignity must be preserved !' (Witness sworn ou one leg.) A Reason. A Wisconsin paper alleges that the secret of the success of Chicago newspapers lies io the fact that every man and woman in the town takes every paper, tor fear a divorce notice in which tbey are interested may be published, and they not find it out.

Tha Great Ulah Mystery. The Disco eery of the Outlet of Great Salt L'lhe. From the Utah Reporter, June 10. To-day we give the facts, as we have (hem, relative to the discovery of a subter ranean outlet to Great Salt Lake. This inland sea. the briniest of all the waters of of the world, and which foroier investigations pronounced as beini kept at its level by the action of evaporation, his itself solved the mystery. The ru lunttin, the lofty bills and all the lovely islands have for counties aeos found a mirror for their grand majesty in the bosom of our lake. .in uurui-ueu .ace , ?a oeen aepr orignt -jitU the crystal suppl.es of a thousand strums from out the roartng canyons, clefts and snowy reservoirs of the Uock, chain. .... u. ,CHUe , as scanneu witn c.re Hi l n ..o i 11 n i .l-...l. ....... - - .... J 1 I 1 C II I C 1 l UILH, 11 W I ! MjippiJSeU. IIC'U the aijueous louder in its place, and the Ilumholdts and Sillimins of two continents saw no escspement for the 'Uanjinsi sea' save through tho aerial pathways of the sun. Mauv vears aro the Bureau .. rp , , - . . ot Topography sought o explain the permanen equilibrium of Great Salt Lake . whose t.nr.t absorbs a greater supply of st?ii -a i. vj i iiiiu mo iUiuuiaii ur jrie, but stiil the reduction was the smue. Every trial said ile shores were saved frnm Ik fi.liirl !0 ills ananiirnlini maikop This is no longer a theorv. nnJ nv r ' j correct, a JW i One night last week the schooner Pioneer, Capt Hannah, on her voyage from Coriune to Stockton, when at a point in the lake between Fremont and Kimball Islands, nearly opposite this city, cime suddenly in contact with something which the Captain thought more solid than water, believing his vessel to have stranded upon rocks. Instead of this, however, the men on the Pioneer discovered that shi was in the whirl of a maelstrom, for the vessel immediately revolved as if io a circular current, and the motion was eo rapid in the revolutions made that the men could scarce stand at their duties. j Capt. Hinnah being an old sailor, and , understanding the danger he was in, at j ouce added sail, and a brisk wind blowing! at thetitiu. tha craft was, afterahout half an j hour s detention, borne beyond the vortex oftheedJy. He informs Gen. Connor, the ower of the schooner, and from whom we yet these interesting facts, that while in the trough of the ugly hole the deck was far lower th in the water outside the whirlpool, and that he owes the safety of vessel and men to tbe stiff breeza which fortu nately sprang up at the time. Tiic noise of the waters as they descended, denoted th some mighty airless cavity below gave strength to the suction, and the surging, frothy foam above was like the boiling of "ra mammotli cauldron. lliat tins Is the' D.r... .. I..- . . i. t i .i , safety valve ot Great bait Lake there seems I to be no doubt, and wc can reasonably as- j . . . . sume mat similar openings are numerous i on the bottom. The steamer Kate Connor i will be re i ly in two or three days to go on the lake, when the General, aeoo npanied by a party of gentla uoii fro u this city, will go out and examine tho maelstrom. The meu of the collega and university will again be e tiled to make scientific survey of this great discovery, and geologist and chemist will, in the waters of the Utah Mediterranean, find many valuable lessons to impart to student and graduate. How marvelous are nature's works around us! An exchange can't deci le whether it was malice, fun or wisdom which prompted the answer of a Suu liy-school expert tho other day. The, question was, 'What is ihe best tnethol uf distributing libnry book:-?' Ani his answer: 'Throw uiuetenths of them out of the window!' Caleb Whitford, of punning notoriety, once observing a young lady earnestly at work knotting fringe for a petticoat, asked her what she was doiu IC it rt t i it it sir. replied she. 'Dray, Mr. Whitford, can you knot?' '1 caniif, in i Inn,' lie answered Uncle Sam hit a neighbor who was in the habit of working on Suuiay, but after a white he joined a church. Oue diy he met a minister to whosa ed. church he beloug 'Weil, Uncle Sam,' said he, 'do you see any di.lerencc in .Ur. I . at nee tie joined the church. 'O i, yes, said Uocle Saui, '& great dil- '-',',,. . . , ' n. . . fereuce. Before,, whea he went out to ..... . , . iimend his fence ou 5a lay, he carried his ax on Ins shoulder, hut now he carries it Uuder h,a CJJt ... . j My dear boy, sai l a UJy to precocious youth of sixteen 'does your father de,.,., -rti Irj.l Uia mlriiialA anil thiiriit' . . .. . . ... . I . since he joined J"" to tread the intricate nod pattis ol a protession, trie straigtii and narrow pattis of the ministry, ur revel in the flowery fields of literature'' Xo, tuirjj; dl says ho's goin to set oic to work in the tater field.' . A fashionable undertaker in one of Uie northern towns of Kentucky indulgod his taste by purchasing a very elegint hearse, with plate glass, silver mouutings, aud mournfully waving plumes. A gentleman seeing the heirs-3 passing down the streets in gloomy pomp, inquired anxiously of the nearest frieud : VVho is dead?' The reply was : Nobody he's only drumming !' As Dr. Dwight once passed through, a region of very poor land, be said to a farmer: 'Sir, I perceive your land here is not very productive.' No, sir said tbe honest farmer; 'our land is just like self. righteousness.' 'Ah! how is that?' 'Why, the more a man has of it the poorer he is.' Josh Billings says: 'Many people spend their time in trying to find the hole whar sin got into the world. If two men break through the ice into a mill pond, they had better hunt for some good hole to get out, rather than git into a long argumant about tbe bolo they fell io.'

Correspondence St. Lauii Democrat. Letter from Indiana.

Reatont why the State it Behind Some of its Western Jnniort Its G rent JKc' serves of Materia Rtorces Its Grand Future Its Htccnt Rt.markublc Pro grtts. Indianapolis, June 9. CAUSES OF TARDINESS. Why should Indiana be so far behind Illinois and some other Western States which are considerably younger than it ? : is a question that puzzles macy tourists. Hut to those who hnve talsen the pains to . ilia f.i.lil..l!A' V A ftBS1eajn?.s A a A fT In th(J , Ir)diana WB9 atld vet i pre em.neutly a forest State, while Illinois Missouri. Ac., aIC prairie States. It lir n0 Kreat JtQlc ofmemorv to reach ,he ;od when tliuh fQ far from T being an important source of revenue, as it now is, was a drug io the market and a serious detriment to agriculture. Whoover heard of anybody purchasing land twenty years ago and paying for it in one year with less ,than one-fourth tho trees JCTUI nilU IL'3 .lllttll gtooJ on' it ? bceo d;)ne j sevp cinil of Indiunap( The like has lately eral instances in tho viity ot Indiunapolii. During the early settlement of the West the emigrant from the East, by merely passing through Indiana, could hsve his choice of counties rich planfaiions, almost - J.K tl,.., i v: d i j ut iiit'Jiu, aiiu .uua save all the drudgery of grubbing, chopping, log-roll-i ing, etc. That this inducement, at a time I when agriculture was everything aud man- ; ufacturing was nothing, operated as much against Iloosierdom as it did in favor of 1 the Upper Mississippi States, there can be no reasonable doubt. In the second place, Indiana, like Illinois, has an Egypt, and , this Egypt, settled almost entirely by Kentucktans, North Carolinians and Ten ! nesseeans people whose ambition was i fully gratified by an as, a frying-pan, a I rifle, a pack of hounds and a log cabin for a long time controlled tho affairs of the Stsfe. It located the first capitol at Corydon, away down on the Ohio, instituted the miserable code of '"black laws," vehemently opposed the free school system, perpetrated the "Stover Fraud-' -and the swamp land swindle, and up to the year ISliO. so butchered the Staie finances that j the credit of Indiana was anything but a ! good ad vei tisement. Nothing has so much to do in shaping the destiny of a State as its peop'c; and it is admitttcd by all well instructed persons that those who framed the primary political structure of this State were by no means tho people to put it on

. ' the high road of progress. It was not till at.,.'. , ' . . , ,

within the last ten years since me destruction of Democracy and tho restoration of the State credit that energy, gena i 1 l 1111. l'HIIIIll II Ml KIIIMI I IISK Uillllitll. LIl'L' UII ' ,r , ,. . ,,r. ' to seek Indiana in telling amounts, KESEttVED BESOURCES--T11E FUTUUE. The foregoing the forests and the Egyptian supremacy aro unquestionably tbe two principal causes of Indiana's being somewhat in the rear of a few of her younger sisters; but these reasons, at ihe same time, furnish the best of grounds upon which to predict a future. The superior agricultural attractions of Illinois and Iowa have saved hundreds of acres of timber, for which the rapidly multiplying manufactures of tlie country are creating a most proGtablo demand. The slowness of the Egyptians to develope the State has not spared the trees, but deferred, till mitftft ltit-ft.li- tin, it i 4fi, vnr v i,fk t Yi u ii s t lisv. ..f. i .... . i.i, . i i.;..i. CI!M7rftftH Ufl'll-ft lt .T..tl.ll T '.. . liivftl , , . i ,-. . i i . i. . . i . ,v, . , . , on the continent. These great material , i j , i j rcscrvos have already secured to Indiana a .. . , - , . i railway system which brings a pood . . i . S. . 7 . market to H!mo:-t every mans door, , , -, P. .-, and are dally manufacturing cn total and enterprise from the La.t. lt is not at all extravagant to careful collection (if statistics say that a ' would show ! 'but within tho past six years the Hoositr state has more than doubled its wealth, its I population, its productive facilities. In i a some places tlie ratio tit increase nas gi early exceeded that. Take, for example, the city of INDIANAPOLIS. In ISGt this city could not, opon the highest count, have claimed a population 7- i t , of moro than t,lirty t!)oas,ni. It, busijness blocks, few in number, were cd ! ;nrriP ..(. .mptr and in business men , interior tnaracter, ana us Durness men ,nirod in little mora than a local tiade i"!iPlrea 10 ii'ic more man a total uauc. j With the exception of a few found, ies and ; ,nacI)ine si,op,t it had nd mauu facturi i.g fueilities to speak of. Its capitalists were ! chiefly of the Kentucky order sti ngy, j ,ert-sighted. non-,nterprisingsee.og , no protit ia nn,lhin!, lut Ilt,,eshavir.g fl.J ana speculating in reai-esi-d.e. u nau uu-

ly eight railroads, ana scarcely deserved care Bnd ,!e ,emperatnre of every room, that many, if public spirit constitutes any ijn fco coldest day or winter, D.ild and part of metroprjlitan deserts. To-day the j edt!e as a bamwct't day cauted by every llooster Capital contains a population ff room j0 ,lie ed,fice being boated or wariaetl seveuty-tive thousand, end scores of bust- (' . 8tean.. ne comic.rt aud cleanliness buildings which Ste fully con.paraldci H.,ss a, arouud ,iim Ie oes to their to those of the largest .Northwestern ; fci!k roon, alJ fec9 0B,elhig iu full blast ccs. ! wonderful to heboid. lie goes to titif Its busincs men are, generally speak-! TQom ujd yudi ,hcrt u lar.e nbrary, id

ing, as talented, as wide-awase, s auieii

ica produces, are building up a large trade s,etI j hol,rs with pleasure and advantage, throughout tha West and South Its cap-! IJe can RO ,u ,hc JI() Cla0ufi.c,urig esitalistshave, by their energy, libera. ity j tliljii(filtneotf wt,ere orders come from diand enterprise, induced at least a four. .aj, of ,he wprJd ,or njiuki Leari fiJt fold multiplication of its manufactories, ; a ud oftcf r- and wiU learil Ht. ita tl among which may bo named as hrst-class , )a8t re JMIfJ about tw million of thesrf establishments those of iron, bras, car- , ,jave bet, 9old ,hat jla9e been Ujau, riages, glass-ware, sewing machines nnJ j uiV.c-turcd at ibis establibhmtnt. At i. agricultural implements. It has a radius , O'tlock he caiI go to llie hliU ,j bear a of fourteen railroads, and is moving right mUiio f,OUJ ,Lt.ir Lal d aS j. Leard forward in the projection of other Csotral Park, excepting that their bau-l so that in the all important matter " i8 o0y about half tho aiio c-f thai wLitli shipping facilities it has no inUud rival ; at tbe I'ark; but the uic ia lull west of the Allcghenies. as CutcrtiiuiL-g. Thence he cau go rigb'. OTHER PLAC1I3. ' to Wall street, N tw York, and a fetling '! What is true of Indianapolis ia at least j ccoe over him tLut be Las left a plat t measurably true of nearly all the towns In ! heuesty a'ud rnt-rcd 4 bawd of ;.tuiators. the State. Lafayette has doubled its pop- - : ulation, built street railways, secured new A raive vt-ro.' &.nd ,'::fc'r steam Hues of travel. and comiutircav ruort- rer-ive of ifie "nature i7?rTvfrig' an ac than treble its jobbing trjde, and is this ; tion, as. I'cuf k k.nii..' -N. w what Ik year investing largely in tnanutaciurcs. ' IVio tin?" -Well, I doc'r "" Tte si ibq ioy bo said of IVit W.sy t.e( .vhcUr, Cel. lvi.!i. -..- Iv5

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IRAXSIKST Oa tquM, (fa i;OCi.) one iacrtiu.......v....f 1 t On aqaare, two Insertion. t One tquar, tiree InnerfToiK. ...... J W All aahsequext iat tiona, jr qoaro 6 TIARLT. Oat eoltina, kaac.tb quarterly ... Tki-qnMtr t.f a olna.a . . Ona-baff it a column............ .... Oae-jafr of a eotunra Oaa-ichU t a eolnma 11 09 Transient advertisements shevld in oil ease b' paid fox la ad vase. Unless a particular tine Is speoiied when ed ia, advertisaients will be pabltabel natU orderedont ana eharxed aoocrdinsly. .... Evfnsvillc, llicbmcnd, Anderson, Kokw mo. Terre Haute, and New Albs-nv. Even old Peru, of which it was not long sinej said, that its only hope lay in several big fires and a few first class funerals, has within the last year put up over a half million of dollars into manufactures. And what is true of tbs town is true of the rural districts. The improvement ia fences, barns, dwellings, live stock, frail culture, grain culture, farming tools and of draining, fully at led the truth of thi statement. In fact, it u,-sy be Raid that agriculture as a science is jast begiouiug to be fairly intiodi.ccd. At the pectt late cf f regress, Indiana will fn titeuty years, at least, be even with the proudest of her sisters, and will theu merely Lave couiruenrcd tbe developeineot of her resources It is, tody, in reality a much ycunger State tban Illinois. A great deal of ta!er,t and capital that have hitherto pasted tbiouh it to n.oic attract ivo territory arc bow returning to iemaii here. Tkai.i.ocx. The Oneida Ccrrmunity. .1 Visit to Thtf iVmyc Ifpl? TH Workings of 7htir SfisteM Jit liyiv w attd Mimd 1'urify .1 i'luyful Forty vf Outsiders litbukcd Stciitt and Fumes tic Habits Miuhuc v.rm. Madiron (N. Y.) Correffvondeuoa oi" tin ioik iiral.i, June Il'ih. Much of late has been said und wiitfeu relative to the Oneida community, situated neut Oneida, in thj count; of Madison , of this State. Having lately paid a visit l. this community and seen its praciicul workings, it can well challenge the Slat of New York to produce another number of three thousand persous who lire so contest ted and so well. From small beginnings, t lie community in less tban a quarter of a century has ad' vanced to become the owner cf the finest place aud surroui. dings iu the county of Madison. Tlie mewbers cultivate good will toward each other, and common cour tesy marks their daily walk and conversation. They wish no person to belong to them who dots not firmly Ltlieve in their religion, and who docs not join them With heart and sool forever. They are not anxious for any new rowers, as their family is now about full and .complete. They trust in God hs their j ewer and might from day to day, ard It n cue places bis foot on their pic-ii: fees, Le lc!s secure in hi ptison and pic ptrty, nbd that eterything is cafe stout. d him. They aim to practice no deceit r.luotig the ti.t-civis, ui;d hold outno falfe colors to the world. They user no profane or obscene language; they U8 no tobacco in any shape; ihey use no intoxicating drinks; drink no tea or coffee. They sell at their store no tobacco, nor wovld they if they could make a hundred dollars a day by so doing. Tbey meet daily in their ball for mutual criticism and general conversation, to tbe end that each may benefit tbe other, and thereby bind themselves in a bond which may endure as long as life ehall last, and that pcu.ee, happiness and contentmeet may abide aud rtu:&in with tbem forever. Whoever goes to the Oneida community with the expectation of .oing to a plactf if ill-repute will be greatly mistaken. Thc-y have nuthing to do with the world at large, in politics or .sociability. Tbey wish j to treat the outward woild vsith respect, j h nd expect ihe satLO treutmc-tit Io return, I without t'a in il iu rt t v in cither p&rty4 i A gay lively and respectable party of i,,. .- , n i ladies were there pres-ent on the day of my visit, and while restme io tho parlor of tbo ' . . .. . . . ,. , community building, ftoin their walks over i . ' r ' , , . the prttuiscs. they mdulgek in an lonoceoC . , ,. . .1 x f'lay of tossing a ball f lorn one to tbe otbei . ' ' ... , , , ,. rri. i connected with i-oii o loud laughing. Jen , . , . ,. . T . . niperintendent immediately checked ibciu by slating that 'visitors were expected, in coming here, not to lo oo itseived, and still not lo be too familiar. The ladict) look the hint, and found they were more inside of a cLurch than a piece of fiolick ing. The world is said to be a riheat, end lie is a fool who h.-is no hand in it.' This poiu : tii unity has withdrawn itself from thee beats imr n-mtil Hful h rrsirpd A ffi on n mptifi j coai,try, founded on tiuth, justice, . i..... i i it-ill itif m in:?, lair iiKuiinir ut' urcu uioiii a , wilhcut dcc uni withoul iraud, j Krrorg, like all mortals, tbey undoubtedly ' . I - . iiave iul tIO!C B(.j experience mav vet ' i .i .- . corrctt 8t)J prune the otijectiouable part. . whi h u 8Q uc, critici,eJd and coudemnc 1 L (l0 worId ,t ,,re. No fi r-mii.dcl j m0 can belp admiring their thrift, iodus- . arjd ?enera prosperity. Mace dn in thiir mid,tf and he is welcomc visitor t0 view , lhcif pfcai!, T 11. . , , 1 ifir. rii.r..l w ilt wlii..h .,,, ii,..r.rv ins tes can l-o and r j c

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