Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 6, Number 19, Jasper, Dubois County, 30 April 1864 — Page 1

THE JASPER WEEKLY COURIER

VOL. 6. JASPKH, INDIANA, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1864, NO. 19.

FlIBUSHEB KVi.Br HAUKDAY, AT JASl'ER

duiiois county, nmrnui, BY CLEMENT DOAHE. FllCK toBast of Mackunald aho Wut Htbbbts. TKRMS-tiTRICTLV IN ADVANlE: iagls Subscription, for fifty Noi., $J 50 Far sis mouths, 1 ou HATES Of A DVERTIMNi;. tViquarsof 10 lines or leas, 1 wcck,l 00 Etch subsequent insertion, 50 eta. Longer advertisement!, at same rate. A fraction over even square or eqoitrcs, counted ss square. 1 hese are tho terms i. r Iransisnt advertise nients; s. reasonable dedue1 1 on will be msds to regular advertisers. Miiticea of sppoiat meat of Administrators nJ I - if I Notices o( like character tu bo paid lor In salve ace. iaiteusciNu cabiupates: For Township olfiree, each, $1.00 Tor County " " 3, For District, Circuit, or State. I1 . II sf.sTBSB H j:hmn;. M. BaXTst!ISB. STEGE, RE I UN G & CO., WHOLESALE BJUltS IN Uroecric, Provision, Ten . TOBACCO, cigai.s. Ftffclti & Dom hi : Lii"i s. Wiuc &c MAHKKT STRKF.T. Murth Side, between Second nod Thin) "trs.! LOUISVILLE. KY. j P R Prompt sttcntioti to ordern from the country. ep tV. C. ADAM'. S, io'io-h o loro it l. BUKTISCR.! ADAMS & 8 UETTN ER, ATT0UNKV8AT LAU, A SD ASEBTf FOB CvLLECTINU LlfBh CLAIMS,' JASFEH. INDIANA. ,f. North east corner McDonald and1 Wsst streets. Msrch I t, 18oi TRACEWEIL & KEKk, ATTORXBISATUU.1 rJMflE osdaraigued will licrralter prsclire! M. Is the Chcuit Court of Dubois County, sd will promp. y slteiid tu all business tneMSlssj la their rare. asio. WILL N. TM AtE WELL 8AMLKL K KAN. RUDOLPNUS SMITH, ATTORN KV AT LAW. JASFf.lt, INDIANA, ILL atteird proviintly to any bttniiuvt. intrusted to him in any of the everts sr Dubois county. Ottiroal thecutnerol J sDouaid and streets. nisrlJ JsHsUsltl, A.J. Hi.tktTT, Yincennes, Ind. JsKri BAKER Sb BECKETT, T TO It XhY A T LA IT, V VI I.I. prastu'siti tte Dubois t ire ml and Coiniuou I'ieah (TuurK Farlit ulsr uttssuan psM to collectionn. lsaS0. Ciforf I. E4't.t Attoruoj ant) Couiisellur at LaftW, HOME, IM).. WILL attend the (Jourta in Terry, Dubois and Crawford counties, aud give t'ssipi attention to all business entrusted to ija Jaa. gl, '61. J. T. lirwrrM', ITTOILMil AT UV. FIT BR HBU RUH, IND. WILL give prompt attention to nil busiaesa entrusted to his care in Dike ami sSjslning counties. Nov. 'J. HOOT & iioii 8T0IIK, Eabt side or Public Sytt a k e. Jssrni. Q WOULD reupcctfully inform the public that ther have a large and splendid tHRortmcni saB of Boots ami Shoes on hand. which they will sell as cheip as can be dune anywhere, and will warrant all their work. Civs ss a trial. ROMUALD RKCK. JoMilt Triiilt'r, MANUFACTURER ASP DBA LRR IB 11AUNKS8 AND SADDLKS, South Esst Corner of the Public Kqnare, JA8FKR. IND., OFFERS his thanks to the cititens of Dubois county and vicinity for their past satronags, and solicits a continuance and xtenaion of the same, feeling confident that he ean make it to the. interest of persons in ant of any thing in Iiis line to deal with hl, as his motto is "einall profits and quick sales," I f.v 15. 2. "money lor our Kka ! ! ! AVE KM! SAVE KM! SAVE EM ' IITE will pay three cents a pound rash . f for good, clean cotton rogs delivere I 'he rOlfRIER OFFICE Jser, January 24. 183

A Cottage Scene. We aat by our cottage fireside, Mother, aiater and 1, Heading of dreadful b . tt t,-9 With many a heavy sigh. Our mother waa pale and feeble, And all our hearta were sore, For her aon, our aoble brother, Has been for months in the war. We feared for our failing mother, Watched her closely the while-,

j We wondered to sec her sad, pale (ace, Light up with a dreamy utile. "In it trange, ''he said, "thai I'm smiling Ah, ycu aee nor what I Mel My bv'a coming homo from the battle My boy's coming home to me. I MCi H e eui'leof Int cliildhood. The light in his laughing eyes; My boy's SSBBMBf, home to mother, If he eny rour'f home to die." Hark! the sounds of wheels and hot so, 'l iny halt at Ihe garden gjBtl ; One! grant tfiat it is our brother, Thai ha rmue era it be too Uie. Up rrc cur trembling mother, The coining; step to gret; Fob men walked in with their burden And bjij it at her feet. "I kaesj you were coming darling, We n ver will he partssj more!" And mother and son together Lty di ail on the cottage tioor. -HM Speakei Colfax on ho Exuubion of Long. The New York HrrsMrelstSstBO lollowing historical incident in eoBasethSB with tho cuuroe of Spesket Cfsx (better known tu this State as little Ureelc) in the Long case: The course of Sornker Colfax in thi pitiful business reflccta no credit on his char acter. With many amiable and ublieiui; qualities, Mr. Col'ax Una always bien s eoodl deal of a demagog ts. S mo lime ago Mr Cottsg niiiioum-ed, w i h soHlte prudery, that he would teiire IrwSB public Ills at tits close of his present term; but he has lately suffer ed himself to be prevailed npun (that is the face he puts opou it) to be once moro it candidate for re-rhciun. He understands ihu temper uf his district, ml ha seixed the oipurtuniiy to thrust himself uuon its favorauie to. me. I nere i. in itie llouso .to lacs ft -1 m a . . I of de inagoguas w ho would have been willing olH-r the resolution lor expelling Mr. ksSBg bul that would not have served Mr. i liiuxa pu'poe toiuuke himself conspicuous tv an act urc to ts applauJeu by ins cuu KtllUCIlTtK Sir. Clay once descended from the Speak

er's chair to the floor of the Hou-e under: to be presented to the military officer who circjmetnnces somewhat similar; but the receives the most votes cast by visitors tu contrail of his course to that of Mi. Celfnxjthe fair, snd tlie other lo the Naval com mark the difference between a statesman mund r who recetvea Ihe most votes in like

and a demagogue. The occasion we refer to was in the lat war with Great Dritain, when si me cf he New Englsnd Federalials wi re plotting for the dissolution of the Union. Josiab Humcy, a Massschusetts member of prominence, had made a violieat and most virulent antiwar and pro Kniish speech. Dm what did Mr. Clay go down to the floor to do? To offer a resolution of repulsion! Nothing of the sort. Truth, in those days, gloried in freedom of debate aa the arena of its triumphs. Mr. Clay delivered a M-athing philippic, a speech abounding, bowever, in powerful argument aa well aa ia galling invective. Al'.heugfi he said Mr. Quincy could not tread the carpet of the House without soiling it, he had nu more thought of his expulsion ihsn ho hsd o abolialnng the oflico of apeaker. Truth, with s majority to bsek it, was then deemed mighty enough to grepple with crnt without danger of gelling worsted, f" ---esaBBrS'BBJBJ laTEKrEREHcR is Klectiobs. On Friday ai.rcu sr, oau.suury conciuueu sis t I. II I.L BS - 13 I -1 I B 1 i speech in me rtcnate on military intcrisr ence with elections in Delaware, in which lis arraigned the President aa a usurper, and iirow a parallel between him and Casar. He ahowed that Mr. Stanton had aent blank commissions to provoat marshals in Deleware, which were filled out by a certain Colonel, assisted by the Republican candi-

k' daye before the electien. The,ncd if ib0B,u oe tbe i., vilv, nauir,

galleries were crowded during the apcech,jei pioua friend "Ob. ye maMa, aBswilliBg 'o make this war s pcrmsasat iastiand the Senators lot. ned with great slteii . ' ' . Itutioa." mob Mr Heslseury r. marks ars eaid to more 100 1 m bc d,"nB,, l00' That is when the war will end ttmtertha have product d e doep impressiok. masta'1' replied Pompey. jacobin rule. ( Springfield, (IH ) Register'

Which Treason is of the Darker Shade'

Cuncering an allusion during the recent Long, Harris debate in the House at Wash ingtoo to a declaration by Mr. Martin F

Conway, representative in hi- isat Cungresaof Representatives on the Uta .he follow. richest, worth over two million ;a Mr Baldfrom Kansas of hie views of the war, that! l,,aT P"rg'sph sppars: ui, o( the saute Sisle, ihs largest; Mr Clay gentleman writes a no?o to a New York "The Committee rose, when r. Garfield, of rVeniuckp, the tallest; Mr Oka of Ohi'

paper, where he appears tu be sojourning. in ich he aaye; "My attention ham just been called

yesterday's proceedings of the National!,,u, recommending a youig was to

Mease of Rcprese utslives, fu which it sp pears that I am charged by Hon. Mr. C x.o, Ol io, with having offered in tho last Con. gres reeoleiloM reeogaialaf the Poatheni Confederacy "I w ish to add to this announcement one word of ex lunation I offered no sash res Olutivas ss the gentle statee; but I did lexprasa in a speech my preference f. rj 'auch recogniiiou to a Prosekution of the war, iura restoratu n o: tlie Union on the old laveaelelag batis." Hv "the ele blaveliohüng Ins!-," he incnn the basis ot the Crittenden resolution, which was psxsed by thw vt.tcs of nearly all ihf Itepiihiicm members, hut from which Mr

Conway dieeeated. His oVelsrstion mj,!1111""""1' further say thst he has k, of New York, ihs best penman, snd Ifssn, that he preferred recognition of th'"c,r'r '"-" a letter to Bre.-keoridge onjIr Stevena, of I'snnaylvania, the poorest.

Southern C lafeoeeasi to isstorslioa of tlr old LTu1"fi MrWr. Long and Harris mid that ihf ) preterre.l rseofaitioB of the udern Con ledVracv to mi juration and extermination i ui tne .louihern p-topir. 7 tec rations o. Xeesm Long and II.rr,..,s not t!.elrea-on I Mr : Caa wa, some shade. darker than theirs? A ml yet, was there one word of rebuke of Mr. Corfway by his partisan Bsseelates in the House? Not one. Is there a Re publican, er Abolition, or Miscegen member uf the House who does not to-day concur with Mr CuBwsyl Not one, wc verily be lieve. His position in really the position of the whole Republican, or Abolition, or Miscegen party. ,,at audacious impudence, then what jn aaraple ol Satan rebuking sin, sre Ihe jPcding' tn ihe House against Messrs L'C sod Harris. Why, Ihe sbsuiutn truth is tbsl the Dr. si drat, and t Cabinet, snd tnejurity uf Congreoa, are aa much in rebellion against the Union and the Constitution as Jt (I Davis himself, and it is beouse iBOf are so that the De mocracy of tins country will make mighty !' r,,,,n n,4 isovemuer to put itieui oul . . . . M - ft . ... and put loysl men ia their places men who "tc Northern as heaitily as they do South ern treason. f Chicago Tiruoa. Ltttlo Mac Victorious. At the Metropolitan Sanitary Fair in New York, there are two ewurde, oue of whirh imanner. The price for each voto is one dollar. Tue army sword ia a gift from Tilfanny 6l Co., and ia valued at f I 000 Up to Wednesday night, nearly five hundred names hsd been signed, of which sll but a few were for McClellan or Grant. The Journal of Commerce says. "On Wednesday, it waa a neck-aud-ncck race between those two candidates, a race which was rendered all the more exciting for the reasou that tho snti-McClellanites had drop ped their first favorites, such as Danks, Fremont, Uutler, and others, snd concen trated their whole strength on Grant. As the contest'uow elands, it ia McClellan againal Ihe field." Thus the cuntesl went on until Friday night to a quarter to eleven u'clork when the votea werj caunlcd, and tho following .inn. tint erneut was made. For Gen. MiClcllsa 1126 For Gen. Grant 991 Msjority for McClellan 135 flon. Frt mont rocpiwoA ihren vote, atui p . , . If a fact of this kind does not show the vital character of McClcllan's popularity at a time when other unemployed genersle are forgotten, we ahould like to know what evidence is wanted on that subject. Evansvillc Times. fU " Pompey, are you willing to be dam-

From the Terra II aute Journal.

An Abolition Lie from the Halls of Congress. In the published ttasiaasBfja of the Hon Ohio, proceeded to make goo J his former assertions, by producing a letter from Judge to! Kekles, of Indiana, which came into his poa- - Jh C. ureekeuridgr, ss desirous o.' enter ing the service ii tt.e S uth in some capacity, snd recommending hitn as a faithful man. The wrilcr said thst the bearer of the letter Wae formerly connected with the Union "rmT bul became) diegnstcd with it. Mr

Osfisje also prrduced siinilsr latter froiul11"3 eat parliainentarisua; Mr Kasson, of 5,r- J"lin H'Vi-, remarking that Mr. Dai lo. sad Fsn'dleton, of On in. the readiest

vi wa" formeiy a ceiiiber of longreaa iron, 'M,ii,,na "J the predecessor of Mr. Voor mwv9' V am Iioriv .,1 f.k lt.... 1.1. n n.

- " .Min j. i - mV v, ,uwa, i7"r o uuu serss wis, to prenuuuee the letter produced bs of lend. 6 000 sheep; W II tee, of Idaho, lives Oarfi. Id. purporting to have been wrnten(he fartnsst from Washington, snd draws

! Mr. Dans i0 Creckenri.fge, a FuTlO KIIY.''" tor mileage, and Davis, of Maryland,

" b""' We froai beginhlng Id end. H. ,nBl ,,r ",,r ',,cr subject . The letter is s I forgery perpetrated ry the abolition leaders iof ,ni dulru t tor p,.;ii:cal purposes a cow. ,Tdlf '! l"'ttJs sviase 'or which they ill be held responsible before the people. OO'A few nviiths ago a roiipU of men

- (....eJupo,,l,r.D,ggs,.re.id,,,tofMi,chd..;eUrr.0cy o, cn Zt. (. (hl- C0UB,.f 1(ld (j. r,.d , Bf I n q( AJUMmJk Ly wiew wiU, him. Dr. B,g8. conducted them to L" abould procl.m.t. .gainst this eustdt.il'

a private room, when to his sorpriss they locked tho door, and mie drew- a pistol and the other a knife. They told him that they had a warrant for hie arrest, fur passing counterfeit munoy, but if he would pay ilium 41200 they would let him IT. Dr. Bigge gave Uu ib s3H) in cash sud hie note lor the bal ance. After keeping him in the ronra until train time they left. The Doctor cooulled his lawyer, and they sgreed to ssy nothing about it, hoping the men would return to collect the note. On last Saturday one ol if. cm returned to coMecl his money. Dr Biggs bad mm arrested, and ho was recog niz d in the sum of $1 SOOto appear at the Circuit Goon. After the trial the man showed s warrant for the BsrBBt of Dr. Bigg", stating thai he was a U'tited States detective. Ho arrested the Doctor and look him to Indianapolis. We will refer to this oc currence again aa eoon as we learn the re suit of it. Bedford Appeal. Gbeat Ihelue.-ce or Little, Tmsea. Ths man who wrote the four simple lines, beginning with "Now I lay me down to sleep," seemed lo do a very small thing He wrote fuur lines for his little child. His name has not come down tons; but he has done more for the good of his race than if he had commanded the victorious army at Waterloo The little Area the gooc" man kindles here and there oa the shoree of time never go out, bat ever and anoo they flame up and throw a light upon Ihe pilgrim's path. There ia hardly anything so fearful, to my mind, aa ths mind reaching down to the coming agee, and writing itself upon the minds of unborn generations. We know not whose hand held tbe pen that wrote the Arabian Nights; but what a book! How few are the children who have not aat spell bound st feet of that enchanter. New York, April 31. The World's Washington special aaya. Governors Brough, Lewie, Morton, Cur tin and Yalee had a long interview with the President to-day, to urge upon him ihe ne cessity of calling "JOO (.J men into tbe ser vice foe tbe defenso ot Stetes bordering en the Ohio river. They claim that if they are authorised they can raise that number by volunteering. Ths President, aa things looke now, seems disposed to issue a sell for 300,000 troops, to be raised only ia ths Western Statee. HOW LoBO WILL TBE WaB LAST.This question is often asked by all sorts of people for the fsct is thst most of them are tired of It. Jim Lane answered ths other day how long it ahould last if he could have hie way. Said ha: "I liks tho way this war is being earrisd on now. So (sr ss I am concerned, J am

Curious Facta afcofet Confresstten. A Waaliiagtun letter writer fives est

curious isrts - bout the present Cwnm He aaya Mr. Autre, of Maaaacitu.ett i ik. the aCsllest;kr Mcralurg, of Massachusetts,' the hono. t; Geo. Humour, 0f Indiana, the oust productive, being the fsther ef nine, tees children; Mr. Ntsvess, ef Penaeylvauis, the oldest, seventy. two years; Oes. Garfield, o Ohio, the youngest, thirty. two yssrs; Mr Windom,of Minnesota, the baadswassasjUr ReDey, of Peunsylvsaia, sad oorhecs, of Indians, the best speakers; If. -a ,ut ... . !A,r (ox. ef Ohio, end Washbnrne. of lllinoi. debaters; Mr Clay, of Kvttacky, the largeet f'armer, having 6 oOU acres of lead 275 - w sneep snd loO blooded cs tie: lurliilu U, i:'.,'.....i ... i k. Vm. - - 'lto' nearest Iiis mileage being only JSas- Mr ine House baa twenty ffVe members with bald heads thirty with uious aches, sad two with wigs. (Krlt now lakes one dollar and seventyeight cents worth ul Mr- Chase's green backs to buy one .lolls r in rhe constitutional proclamate against this conditio or .flairs. It Is not now, however, ss it i to be before Mrs. Lincoln's husband wa promoted fraia high privets in the rail split. ing brigade, and wbea people were fool iah enough to believe a white asaa was kotier than a negro. N. A Lodger. GT K'ltur Wright, a Boston Abolitionist, say a io a letter to the Anglo Alncao, a as-' fro pa par: ll is in view ef ike poverty of white ia. tellect, as exhibited ia tMs war, as e general rule, from the Preeident downward, that I ahould r. juice to ass some colored man, Frederick Douglass, for instance, placed la the Presidential chair What a compliment to Abe Uftebttr. and the dirty Abolition tools by whett it ia aar. roBBded! tLj'A Detroit papsr mentions 1 gentletatn of s statistical turn of mind who has kepi a careful record of the desertions froai the rebel army since tbe first Ba'i Raa, a they have beert reported ia the journals frees time to time, sad ihe sum total shows thai three millions snd three hundred thousand rebel soldiers have abandoned the confede racy and come within our linee. ILj-A curious trick in r Be shooting was performed in Paris not long ainse. A Swiss gentlemen bscbed himself lo take aim witk hie earbias, tbea eupporied ii with kle right arm, then with his left head, pal his hat over the muzzle, end hit tbe coaler of e target This he did three limee ia succession. CO" A man speaking of a place oat West ia a letter which ho writes borne, ssys, it ii a perfect paradise, and that though most of lbs folks bars tbs fever-'n-ag r, yet it's a great bleesiag Jor it's lbs only exercise ihsf lake. We never thought of that be fori. EL? The Catholics of New York City number spout aSo.flOO. There srs en anally 12,100 bspiisms, and from 6,000 lo 8,000 chil dren make oeeh year, their first communion. The city contains 30 Csthelie churches, at tached to which are 67 priests. OCT A asw Cstholic church is to bd erected ia Lafayette, ths bullding I to be 141 by 64 feet, bail! ia tbe Gothic style. aad when completed it will be oae of the fin est church edifices ia that city It ie expect ed to bo got aader roof this OO-Ths butter peaie at the Seal eentinsea. Ia Boston sad Provideare aUfiy peo ple hsvs pledged themselves Uf abstain ens tirely from the ose of batter so long Ii IK Id held abvs 60 cents a poond. A good hies, and oas whieh wilt commend itself to otksrs. OCT In a miner's fight ia Csllforaio ro . . . CSBtly, OBS Of IBO and fifty pistols sh ceped wlfh lift ass party bsd two kandred skois fired si bias, and es aad seventy -five woe da.

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