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VOL. 10, NO. 10.) The Power of the Government. AN KLOt5CT DEFENSK OP IT3 RIGHTPROTECT its CIT1ZEN8. TO From Senator MortdnS'Cincin'!ifc(i Speeck. I wtnt to cbhdider the Fourteenth Amendment in Tdfekfa to Its power. It ajs no State shall deny to any portion of its cttiiens equal protection of th laws. But what amounts to a denial? That is the great question. What amounts to a denial on the part of a State of equal protection of the laws to any class of its citiaensf According to Mr. (Jroesbeck, it can only be done by an act of the Legislature' which witholds equal protection of the law. I say, not so. If the State should pass a law witholding equal protection from any portion of the people, that is one way; or if the State fails to enact laws which are necessary for the protection of her people, that is another way, aodifthe State enacts a law and fails to execute it as to a part of the people, that is still another way; or if the State has enacted a law, and the condition of public opinion, as in North and South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, is such as to render it impossible to administer the law and give equal protection, that is another way of deojiDg equal protection of the laws to all classes of the people. What have we to do about it? We have go to do simply with the fret. All that we can inquire into is the faot. Is the equal protection of the law denied, or is it wanting to any class of people in any State? It is no difference how it comes about; whether the Ssate has willfully refused to pass the necessary laws, or, having passed them, refuses to enforce them, or has not can can cot the power to enforce thera. We not inquire into the cause. All we deal with is the great fact that equal proteciion by the law is denied, and if the State does not give to a portion of its people equal justice we can not inquire into the motives, but we can compel the State to the enforcement of the law; we can compel the State officers to enforce the law by United States officers. But if the State fails from any of these causes, to give equal protection of the laws, we deal with the fact, and the Government of the Uuited States must step in, under the fourtaontti iniAnHmftnt .nil fiirnich t K t rtrrt , . l"""lri tection. How furnish it? By punishing ' l the men who are the instruments of crime, and who have denied to a portion of the people equal protection of the law. This is all we can do, and that is what we are required to do. Mr. Groesbeclr says we have our home governments and our fireside governments, and we must cherish and maintain them: and I say so, too. But he goes further, and says we must leave to them the exclusive protection of our lives, liberty and property. But, when men are invaded by night in their bomes and massacred, and when violence, murder, outrage, and crimes without name are committed by the light of the fireside, and there is no relief, no protection from the State, then the government ot the United States must step in and become tho home government and the government of the fireside. Loud applause Nero fiddled while Rome was burning, and how much better than Nero are these politicians who fiddle over fine-spun theo ries, while murder, violence, and anarchy stalk through the land? The Democratic doctor savs it is better the people should be murdered, whipped, pillaged, and ex iled by the 100,000, unless they can be protected exclusively by State sovereignty. So during the war they said it was better for the Union to ba destroyed, and the country overturned, rather than to violate the Constitution by the exercise ot a doubtful power. We protect American cititens abroad. If a mob in London was to murder half a doaen American citizens, we would call upon the British Government to punish the murderers, and if it wss not done it would be regarded as a cause of war, and public opinion would cause us to go to war. When Martin Kosta was arrested by the Austrian Government, we threatened Austria with war if she did not release him. which she did. And when the King of Abyssinia arrested aad held ic prison four British subjects, England organized a costly expedition for the purpose of compelling their release. It was one of the noble passages in the history of England. More recently, when two citizens were murdered by brigands in Greece, war was threatened if sho did not exercise all her power to discover and punish the murderers. More recently we have gone to war with Corea, a country on the coast of Asia, and battered down her forts. Whj? Because some three or four years ago her people murdered the crew of an American vessel that was wrecked upon her coast. The Democratic party Beems to think that the government has power to protect the American citizen in every country but his own laughter; while our doctrine is, that this government has the power to protect an American citizsn wherever our flag floats, at home or abroad. Great applause Protection of life, liberty, and nronertv is the highest exercise of sover eignty, and the government that has not cot that power is not worthy of being oalied a government, and should be styled . - a - ! . n);!!ana KaVA tt t riA 1 1f m (llTILlu liuiivivtaus called a mere confederate agent. Cheers mi i Don't trouble busy editors. Qailp stepped into the imperial sanctuta this morning to ask what he'd better write bo.uJ; .Writ about!' erowled the dis&usted chiet, I thitk you had better right about tacei A iihrewd waiter at one of our waterplaces eaya that ''Them as is most plaio in what they eats, are ths most accomplished and lady like. A young Bostoniao, wrestling with hia But moustache, ia going to name it ner two celebrated base ball clubs, bcotoao theie are ttfoe on aid.

' r ..eJr m. aiii .m. li ! ij n xiJt!IiujlIJ. "THE UNIN, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS."

BROOKVILLE, IND., FRIDAY, QCTOBER 6, 187i.

Iabor iteform and Education. The opposition of the Democracy to the amelioration of the condition of the laboring men, and its enmity to universal education, fotmtd the theme of the fol lowing paragraph of Senator Morton's Cincinnati speech. There is much said now-a-days about labor refjrm. I want to ttav that the Re publican party is the friend of labor; its history shows the dignity of labor, and that labor shall be free, is a fundamental idea of the republican party. It is one of the ideas that brought our party into existence; that labor should be free; that labor could not bo honorable without it was free; and if a part of the labor of this country was performed by slaves, that by association degraded labor performed by even those who were free. Therefore, it was a fundamental idea of the Republican party in its very origin that labor should be honorable, and to be honorable it must be free. Applause J Labor was the penalty first tired for th disobedience of nan, but by the mercy of God it has been made his highest honor and his sureest reward. Labor should be educated. The Republican party is in favor of educating everybody. The children of the laboring class should be educated. It is import ant in every point of view. By being educated they are placed upon a level with the children of the rich and opulent. T hey may rise to the highest honors in the State. Education is the great equaliter of men. Where two men are educa- ! ted and have full possession of faculties they may be said to be equals, though one starts without a fortune and the other with one. It is an essential principle of the Republican party which we have tried to carry out in the Southern States, which we are in favor of executing elsewhere, that labor should be executed. Now the Democratic party can not be said to be friendly to edueation or free schools not but what the majority of that party are in favor of free schools but it is true every where that tho enemies of free schools are members ef the Democratic party, f Applause J The Democ ratio party is not very friendly to free schools, for the very natural reason that frse schools have not been very friendly to the Democratic party. I Then, my friends, we want no perms neat laboriug class in this country. In Europe there are permanent laboring classes, where the children of the laborer are expected to follow the same business, and so on for generations; where there is no prospect of change from one to the other, and scarcely any ambition for it. We desire that there should be no permanent laboring class. The child of the laborer may become a Governor, or the President of the nation; he may rise to power in the State, while the children of the rich, by imprudence, want of industry, or good morals, may become the laborers of the country. It is tho honor of our institutions that wo do not cultivate and we will not have a permanent laboring cla83 a class of men that shall perform tho drudgery of the nation to the relief of others. Applause. The Great Rice-fields at the South. A Southern correspondent of the Syracuse Courier writes of the rico lands: 'There is a belt of land stretching froai. Virginia down the ooast to the Gulf of Mexico, and most of the distance it lies low, very little above the level cf the ocean, and some of it is covered with water by every high tide. The greater portion of this land may properly be called swamp land not altogether given up to the domain of the water, but always damp, and too wet for any grain except rice. It is not every swaaip or wet ptecs of land that is fit for the cultivation of rice. The al luvial swamps lying along the banks of rivers, having a deep soil, composed of decayed vegetables, is best fitted for the purpose, but it must be so located that it can be overflowed at high tide, or it is useless for the purpose. The lard must also be protected from the salt water, and from the rapid currents occasioned by freshets South Carolina is the great rice State, more being cultivated than in all the United States beside. The rivers flowing down from the table land of the interior reach this low land, and force themselves to the sea, spreading aud forming a broad deep channel. There is volume of water sufficient, so that the tide will cause it to set back for many miles. Along many of these ravines, tne land is as level as the sea, and it can he fiooded at pleasure. Gates are constructed through artificial embankments along the banks of the river, and when the tide is high the water is let in, and the land flooded and the gates closed. When it becomes necessary to draw the water off the gates are opened at low tide. Some of these fields are very large and interesting when being prepared for a crop, and are very beautiful when the rice comes up through the water and shows its needle-hke spears. These fields must have a secure embankment along the river, and must be thoroughly drained by artificial channels, so as to take the water entirely away when necessary. In large fields some of the channels have capacity enough to float a fiat bottom boat, which is used to convey the harvest to the place of storage. 'The land is plowed in winter, and in the first warm days of spring is flooded. The preparation of the ground commences in March. The ground is made as mellow as a garden. The seed is sown in trenches about fifteen inches apart. It requires about three bushels of seed to an . . , 1 . 1 I tore, rne eeea is ugniiy covered wun the soil, and the water let in, to remain about a week, by which time the grain sprouts, when the water is drawn off, but when the grain is a few inches above the ground, it is again flooded for four or fire days then drawn off, and the grain is then allowed to grow for four or fire weeks,

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oughly stirred; and then the water is let on, and it is flooded for a few days, and then gradually drawn down- aad again cultivated; and after the second cultivation the water is again let on to remain till the crop matures, wtnea takes about two months, when the water is drawn off, and it is harvested very much as we harvest buckwheat. The crop in a favorable season is a profitable one. The grain is threshed and cleaned in mills. It is fre quently sent to market before the hulls are removed. There are extensive mill at Liverpool and New York for hulling the rice, and they enable -the dealer to pat it oa the market fresh and white. There are mills at Savannah and Charleston, where the rice is hulled for the local market. The best hulling machines cost frook $15,000 to $18,000, and have very intricate Machinery. The rice, before being hulled is called poddy. The machine takes off the hulls and assorts the grain. After the hulls are removed, it is moved out on inclined screens, which are fine at first, and all the small and broken rice passes throuh, and then a little coarser, and the rice called 'middling rice' drops through, and last tho 'Prince rice.' The latter quality is passed through another screen, which is called polishing, and in that process is swept clean and bright. Rico is cultivated in all the warm countries of the world, and is used for food by more people than any other cereal except wheat. t is cultivated very extensively in the East, Indies; and along the coast, where the lands are marshy, it is the only crop raised. It is a staple crop in Africa, the south of Europe, North and South Amer ica. Ceylon produces a large quantity in excess of consumption. The are several varieties, some of which grow on dry land, but the Carolina or water-rice, as it is called, is as fine as any in the world. It grows very rapidly, and is often six feet nigu. vvuen it is Bumciently high to cover and hide the water, it presents a beautiful sight.' Fro the ScientiSe American. A Chapter on American Geology. In the western corner of the Statu of Nebraska is a locality fearfully inhospitable to the husbandmen, an extensive region untouoed by pre-emption claims, and forcing the team of the emigrant, who would seek yet further westward more fertile iaods, to wind far and slowly through labyrinthine defiles ere he can pass ita difficult barrier. l et, though treeless and barren, seldom visited by the kindty waters of the skies, and undtmmed by the oabin smoke of the settler, these Muvaitet Terres, or "Bad Lands," as they are appropriately named, are to the geologist a true land of promise, no other locality in our country yielding so strange an array of fo&Bil remains. This region is a veritable mirage to the traveler whose adventurous foot leads him so far into the prairies of the great West. From ai'air there seem to rise the towers and temples of a mighty city, ltftiug their fair proportions high into the cloudless air, vast columns as of the capital of some unknown empire of tho West. As he ap proaches, these pinnacles and towers lose their harmonious proportions, and the city sinks into a graud ruin, uplifted in mighty disarray above the level suriaoo of the prairie. But now, with every step, tho mirage fades, and the unlucky Barmecide stops at last before a lofty deposit of hardened clay and marl, through which ages of rain and tte slow appetite of ruuuiog streams have cut, in every direction, canons, winding in labytintbine defiles through the Mouvaiscs Ttrres, rugged patses lor the wheels of the dauntiess emigrant bound "Westward, llo!" Here was, in ancient times, a great fresh water lake, which for ages dropped to its bottom the early deposits brought in by the present White river and other streams till in time the lake was extinguished under its silt of marl, sand and clay, which has since been uplifted into tho elevated and waterworn ruin above described. The Bid Linda comprise an area of about 10J.000 square miles,"the lake they represent having covered the most ot Western Nebraska, with an area of some 150,000 square miles. From tho sourco of tho White Kiver to what is technically known as the Forks, the surface is, gaologicaliy, tertiary, having been laid in that grand third age, of the building of the earth, which has yielded in all parts of the globe aucii marvellous animal remains. Thence to where it merges in the muddy Missouri, it runs through cretaceous beds, strata agreeing in age with those white chalk and green sand deposits of Europe, which are noted as mausoleums of the gigintic sea lizards of the old oceans, whose exhumed bones have been ths marvel and delight of savant than aught beside that the earth has yielded, to the chisel and ham :aer of tho indefatigable roek dclver. At some distance from this stream is another, called the Niobrara, running through similar deposits, the tertiary beds stretching from river to river. South of the Niobrara to tho Platte river is a second etrange region known as the Sand Hills. Here an extensive area is covered with conical hills of sand, constantly shifting before the wind, and frequently scooped out at their summits into incipient craters. This sandy region is not, however destititute of vegetation, as it forms a favorite range of the bufftlo and antelope. While the waters were slowly filling up these lowlands with the mud denuded from upland regioas, leaves of trees and bones of animals dropped or drifted into the lakes and marshes, and, buried in the niui of the bottom, have been preserved intact to our time. Modern naturalists do not ask much. Give them a well defia 1 . . ! . , , , . 4 V - . ed leaf and they will reconstruct the tree, give them the bones of a skull and they will rebuild an extinct animal. Even this ia frequently denied them, a single tooth being sometimes the basis of an animal reconstruction. Fortunately the teeth, the moat durable of animal bones, aro the most significant, being full of e?i-

food prociwuies ot their owners. In the Bad Lands are found the remains of two distioat animal communities, as described by Dr. Leidy, in Dr. Owen's "Geological Report of the North West." While the lowest bed was being deposited, the lake was probably a great marsh, in which wallowed numerous kinnnnotimi ot ai least two distinct ppecies. But the rl ia 1 1 n , ,.1. . m. 4 . 1 - - -....uftu.su.ug .rcaiure or mis period was a micK s-inned animal, named from hia greai siae, tne XitaHotkerium, or Titanic animal. At the period of. the second tin. posits, there roamed the prairies great herds of an ancient species ef hog, partly carnivorous, yet chwiag the cud like modern ruminating animals. Of this Oreoduu, as it has been named, were several species, of ono of which Dr. Jjeidy has found remains ef more than 700 individuals. Three species of hyaiaa inhabited these plains, together with a tiger, with sabre like teeth. Pierce coufhets took plaoe between these beasts, the marks of which still remain in their fossil skulls. In one hyena bkull wore found two wounds on each side of the nose, while near by was another Bkull whose canine teeth exactly fitted the apertures. Besides these creatures, no longer found on American soil, there existed two species of rhinoceros, supposed unlike their African representative, to have been hornless. A gigantic weasel, an immense turtle, and numerous othsr strange creatures, lived and multiplied here, long before these lands had deserved their sobriquet of "Bad." Great has been the change from the oeupation of this region by animals no longer found anywhere on the continent, by avast lake, and umbrageous forests, to its preient treeless ! and lifeless condition. j But these are not all the organic marvels of tho region. The more modern beds of the Niobrara yield an entirely different series of animals, of which more than thirty species have been examined, all new to science. A vast period of time must have elapsed between these two formations, for an extensive series of animals to utterly die out, and new and distinct series to take its place. In this new commonwealth lived a species of that American elephant known as the Mastodon; much smaller, however, than that which afterwards existed. But this dwarf is balanced by a giaat, or, as Dr. Leidy has appropriately named it, Tho Emperor of tbo Eiephaats (Elephat Imperator). This massive brute was one third larger than any other elephant known, living or fossil, yet to attest his imperial dignity there only remain a few scattered bones. There lived here, also, native representatives of that sand loving creature which modern legislators have of late sought to ro introduce to his old rauge on the Western plains. No less than four species of camels roamed here, unburdened and unridden. Besides these there was a rhin. occros, resembling that now living in India, two species of deer, an animal like the mountain sheep, a ruminant hog resembling the oreodon, a porcupine, a small beaver, four species of wolves, two animals cf the cat tribe, and various others. Another animal has been introduced by man into this country without any idea that it had ever previously trodden the soil of America. When Darwin discovered the bones of a fossil horse in South America, it was an unexpected revelation to science. Bat in this region of the Niobrara, no less than twelve distinc ppecies of ths horse have been found, ranging in size from that of the Newfoundland dog to that of the largest horse, thus sceuiiug to prove this the true native land of the charger. Though ail these animals have long since departed from the earth, their genera ere "till presented in moat cases, but strangely enough most of these representatives are now only found in Asia and Africa. . In tho cretaceous deposits arc found leaves much more modern than thosa of the European chalk beds. For the flora 0f the European chalk is no longer repre sented on that continent, and its family relations connect it with Indo-Australian instead of modern European plants. It had theuce become a maxim that the cretaceous period was entirely unrepresented in modern plants. But these American beda have quite overthrown this idea, yielding plants that oloaely conform' to those now living. These planted are related to those found in European tertiary beds, showing that America was far ahead of Europe in in its organic development, and has far better claims to the title of the Old World. Order in the Household. System and order must be strictly observed iu all household arrangements. 'A place for everything and everytuing in its place.' . There should be a time for certain duties, and the housekeeper must see that there are ho infringment of the lawe that are laid down, Ctfildren cannot too aooo be taught the importance of order, neatness and economy. A habit of system may be early formed, and prove a blessing through life. An ill governed household, where there is neither system, order, neatness, nor frugality, ia a bad 6ohool for children. Never leave things lying about a shawl here, a pair of slippers there, a bonnet somewhere else trusting to a servant to put them in place. No matter how many servants you may havo it ia a miserable habit. If you set an example of oaralessness do not blame your servants for following it. Children should be taught to put things back in their places as soon as they are old enough to use them, and if each member "of a family were to observe this simple rule, the bouse would never got niuoh out of order. Western Rural. The Qacvuinnapassanktssonagng House ia the name under whieh a Nw Hauipehiro tayern struggles,

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WHOLE NO- 508 The Civil Enginer' Story. BT FRKD TATLECK. 'It is not much to tell,' said the engin eer, as he struck the ashes from the end of his cigar; 'but if you want to hear how close 1 came to 'passing in my checks i once oa a time, 1 will tell yob. , One cf the mest wonderful things about I eur late army was thitevery profession and 'trade was so well represented in eac presented in each rest ment thereof. I reiue.iiber how surprised our colonel was wben -ordered to build railroad betweed two points and complete ly puzxled how to begin; but in half an hour, he had the men who knew the bssi oess thoroughly, picked out from his own regiments, and myself detailed te take charge. That's the way w did things lae roaa was wuoir to ie rear ot our lines, and away from danger '( uot that we cared for that, where tho original dwellers were undisturoed negroes and all, so you may believe that the change, to us poor feliows who had been in camp so long was most agrsablo. I was fortunate enough to be billeted upon a most intelligent and pleasant Southern family, not the le-st pleasant member (to me) of which was a Yankee schoolmarm, who had some how got staaded there. Aftr running levels aU day, through woods and swamps, 1 would come back, to a delicious te,' and etiil more delicious evening with Mary Doe (such was her fitting name), you may be sure that those eveuing were never, too long. I needn't make a short story long. It came to what such things always will come to before long; soldiers learn to do quick wooing, and in two weeks I was bound heart and soul to' the service of the school .arm. We kept our engagement secret from motives of policy, but there was one person who seemed to watob our meetiogs aud movements with most observant and suspicious eyes. 1 have said that the family were 'intelligent and pleasaut;' but I must except this person the oaly son. He was a lumpish, brutal, yet mean looking fellow, and I always believed htm to be in secret sympathy with the Confederates, but too cowardly to openly join them like a man. It was manifested to every one but Mary herself that this boor was in love with her; but she in her innocence, never dreamed of such a thing, and when I told her that we must beware of Carrol Stewart, her eyes were first opened. Then Bhe remembered mauy little things which told her how deep a love the man must have held for her this long time. Her fears on my account were excessive, and I could not laugh them' away. She knew, she said, of many a; treacherous deed done by Stewart, and that ho would hesitate at nothing that could bo done underhanded, though he would never openly injure any oue. j One night. I found upon my bed an anonymous note, telling me to bewara of Mary Doe, for that she was a spy of the enemy, and had arranged with them for my capture. It implored me to fly back to safety, and was as stupid a production as well can be imagined, considering that it was addressed to a soldier. Of course I knew the writer; but said nothing, even to JUary. I resolved, however, to be on the watch, as I believed if I remained I should have the craft and wickedness of Stewart to combat. A day or two otter, whi'o directing my work (wc had 'rushed' matters and were now laying track), I was shot at from a close thorn thicket, which was empty before 1 could reach it. Though uuhit, I fslt by no means comfortable you may believe for, stick it out as we may in battle, it's hard to go through ordiuary business with the constant expectation of a bullet into some part of your person. Our labor was completed at last, and as I walked back from my section to the house of Mr Stewart, through the woods, I was pondering my love affairs, and arranging the future in bright lines of castles ia the air. Suddenly, before I had heard a sound of footsteps, 1 was seized from behind, blinded, aud my hands bound. Struggles! were useless, aud I found that they only made my situation more unpleasant, so 1 resigned my self to the fates, and was led away, not far, to some kind of a largo, empty building, as I judged from tho echoing of our footsteps on the walls. After my lega had been also bound, 1 was cast in a small room of this same building J Not a word had my captors spoken from first to last, and the only sound I heard from them was a peal of triumphant laughter as a lock was turned on me. I managed to work off the bandage from my eyes, but, though I found my prison anything but secure, I was to tightly bound to think of escapiug. My cries (for I began to bhout at once, and most vigorously too) brought Eome one to the door in a moment, and a surly negroe voice informed me that if I didn't 'quit dat ar 'operiaiog' I should be gagged. Having no notion of that I quieted. Here i lay for twenty-four hours, at least without food, or drink, or sleep. At last the door opened to Carrol Stewart, who stood and smiled upon me for a little time, aud then iu the most blunt manner, told me that unless I promised never to see Mary Doe again, I must die. I answered as bluntly, 'Die it is, then!' and without a word he disappeared, but returned iu a moment, and said that 1 need hope for no rescue, as my comrades had gone back to the army, thinking me a prisoner to the enemy. When he had finally gone, I lay in a state impossible to describe or think of now, until a sort of sleep stole over me, in the midst of whieh I thought I heard my name called I was all attention in a moment. I recognized Mary's voice in another second, and such joy as only a lover can feel at such a time, rushed through my veins. But I am talking too loo. It teems that she had watched Carrol, and was now come to tell me to take courage, for she would release me in one more day. Alas! it was thirty miles to the regiment, and we conld expect no help Bhort of thatl 'Every moment is precious cried the irl, and before could apeak she wasoae.

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A rope was fateTred about my neck, and the other end run over the limb of a tree close by, which end the negroes held. 'Once for all; will you promise as I de sire?' coldy asked Stewart. My courage revived, i haTled defiance at him. He motioned to the slaves, wbj nstar taneously twitched the rope, and t was dangling in the air. How long I hung 1 cannot telly it was years ef agony to my brain, when suddenly there was distant rumble. The negroes turned, and there, at the end of the track appeared a monster, shaking the earth as it advariced. and scattering fire. They were filled with wonder, for they had never seen apecginr nd at this moment, it gave an unearthly yell, which they echoed, and dropping tho rope fied. l tainted but wneo 1 revived, friends were about me, and one nearar than any friend, who now sits here quietly, wan bending over me with tekts n her cheeks, bhe had run thirty miles. 'That's all about it,' said the engineer. Peoples' Literary Companion. Xiife "Without Hove. We sometimes meet with men who seem to think that any indulgence in an affec tionate feeling is a weakness. They will return from a journey and greet their families with a distant dignity, and move mong their children with the eold and ofty splendor of an iceberg surrounded by ita broken fragments. There is hardly more unnatural Bight on earth than ono of those families without a heart. A fath er had better extinguish a boy's eyes than. take away his heart. Who that has experimenced the joys of friendship, and values sympathy and affection, would not rather lose all that is beautiful ia nature' scenery than be robbed of the hidden treasures of his heart? Cherished then your heart's best affections. Indulge ia the warm and gushing emotions cf filial, parental and fraternal love. An Important Discovery in Can cer Therapeutics. At the recent annual scientific meeting he'd at the New York Medical University, Professor Scott read an interesting paper upon an entirely new method of treating Cancer, which gives promise of the alleviation of much human misery. The treatment of cancer has hitherto been empirical and unsatisfactory chloride of line, nitric acid, and arsenic, the remedies usually employed, being painful, dangerous, and unreliable. Professo r See It's discovery consists in applying to the surface of the sore the chloride of chromium a new salt of this rare metal incorporated into stramonium ointment. This preparation, in a few hours, converts the tumor into perfect carbon and it crumbles away. Specimens of cancers thus carbonised were inspected bj a number of physicians present, which bad tho appearance of charcoal, and were easily pulverised between the fingers. The remedy causes little or no pain, and is not poisonous. A considerable number of cancers have been cured by this means, and an agent of such marvelous etSuacy must ere long be adopted by tho entire profession. New York Commetcial Advertiser. The Terra Haute Express meets the announcement of the candidacy ofji he Slate Cat Skiuner for re-election to the office of Skinmaster General, with the following pointed words fo advice: 'With no persooal malice against R. J. Bright, arid having treated him fairly from the comusencement of hie troubles, we wish to say to him, plainly but kindly, that the people of this part of the State irrespective if nartv. believe that he is sruilty of hav ing obtained a large amount of money from the State Treasury by eweanng to aoounis, or bills, fcr an immaose quantity of book paper that he never puroiiased and nevec dreamed of purchasing; paper that Was not needed, and will aot be needed for years. They believe that he escaped the peniten-. tiary from causes entirely disconnected, with any merit that he possesses, and thty regard his present bloviatiug as a disgusting exhibition of brazen 'cheek.' They expected him to drop quietly out of polity ical life, and if he will not lake the hiat, his Demoeratic friends here will unite with, those in the First District in making open war on him iu the Dam c acic State Con vention. There are many honest and worthy men in the Demoorattc party in Indiana who wiil feel averse to continuing the tfforts to carry so heavy a load as Bright had now become; iu fee, the whole Bright family has grown to be a bnrden too grievous to be borne. Jesse disgraced hia party and the State by his infamous treason, for which he was expelled from the Senate of the United States; his brother, if Colonel Eddy Btated tho facta truly in hia report to the Legislature, was a party to a disgraceful swindle that cheated the school children of Indiana out of a million dollars; and now comes the young and promising Richard, who signalises hi advent into public life by a series of unblushing frauds and perjuries by which the tax payers are robbed of thousanda. The Demcracy of Indiana are certainly to be con. gratulated upon their sole and undisputed ownership of Buch a useful and promiaipjt family. JaaraaV

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