Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 11, Number 11, Jasper, Dubois County, 9 April 1869 — Page 1

THE JASPER WEEKLY

COURIER

VOL If. JASPER, INDIANA, FRIDAY. APRIL 9, 1869. NO. 11.

n in rsnrn f.vkky rmiiAY, AT JAtlTR MMH COUNT!', INDIANA, UY CLEMENT DO A NE. OFFICE. Dj Coram BviLMxa om

iM.if v. or si s mi l ion. tftagtt Subscription, tor titty Ao., BO . . . . r or mX momns. j i i i w HAT Ks of AU V Fit T I si Mi. rar sonarc of K) linen or less, welt, fl 00 Each auhaaonmiit Innetilon, 7ö i. Lanier advertisement at the name rate, fraction over even square or squares,' i-onnled an a square, These are the tortus lortraiisiiiii advertisements ;h reasonable deduction win uu mauo io regtuar auverliirri. Notices or appointment nf ndroinistrn Inn and legal notices of like character to Ik- paid in advnnee. ANMtt M IMi CAXIllOATEa. For Town-hip olllccr, each 1j0O j.50 J. or I oiiiity J-'or IMslrict, Circuit, wr Stale 6.0U BRUNO I01TTKE It, ATTOBNKY AT LAW. And Notary Public, JASPEU INDIANA. WDI pr.v In II ids CiKirt. i.f rul".i an. I lvrry Clement Uunnr. ATTORNEY AT LAW JASPER, INDIANA. WVTttA MtMMl promi'Tl v t- nr businr.j NatOVtH I liiin in MM "I '' ' "H" ul IMwU 'uOMjr. Ollii I In MMl'MltlM awlaiwa, n ar( M..u MrMit. . T. R, Cnrr, ATTORNEY AT LAW. jasi'kr, rant ax a. ww wtai in u tb('"'iM.- tf Pai li "' ajriataj o'iiilW-. Oflrt nc U.e OmmIi ii- d tUt NMh1 RfaMW. a... H. 'to. v. anmntan. w. a traylob llHtSRULER & TBAYLQR, ATTORNEYS & COUNSELORS AT LAW. laavati Imdmka, Will-jiTnir In Iii Ci.nri if Iinl ..i. Ml 'j'.ininf: MMlH. 1'arMruKit niinii ni.n i ii,ii.-,:-lllrh 30, 'li-v MAL01t7cOBB & SCHWER. MHHEU, INDIANA, Win Faaemca la t'ouiiTt or Doaow Cam y.

OCT Special attention given to thcAlK RRyt.K turn toil their eyes

C'olU'etion of Claims.. Ajirll IT, 'C. W. HHi V CO. FORWARDING & COMMISSION MERC H A:NTS, bfiiKHi in Prodnco, Parley. I )at and Lime. Lower. W hari-Hoat 1 'r prietorc, TROY. INDIANAs. it. n, 'ff-flm Furniture! Furniture! THK wwlrrnlirnH Monnt th mhiic rtwi i"' i saa will cMMttitl Ki 'p .'ii Basal, or SMMUatafw to nt4Wl nil Ifc l ' 1 1 and bmwI halifcai. M vaStntM "f r iirnitiitv, micIi u., Wr(trolr, Ilurrauf . I'.' M.I. tniia. SSMtalarn nrtmmi "1 rhiir,if thr hvt nolo, J!.. rpei(aUjr lavllra il...- . irine nxiliiiiK tu Iii- Hu

.. mU mi. PumltHj' rk M . r. . ivi:,K ipjitv ,,.,ri,, to decline hocoiiiing extinct rhaf, m kr it iilMia hr rah plr. thna, at aw a'wl .".; r

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Curiiir f ill riMlC Su.irc, rl w IMInl nhout fiftv.

"Url-li.... Novin ii,r 1, ls; JACOa ALUSa. . STK0B- H. RKIMRG. JOB. HAXTHAUSEN STEGE, REI LING & CO., WHOLESALE DEALKRS IB Groceries), Proviioii, Ten, TOBACCO, CIGAB8, MARKKT fTHKITT, North side between BeOdnd & Third Sts. LOÜIBVILLE.KY. r. S Prompt MtaMton to or.lrrc frm tlir rftimtry. m. n, '6a-if. VALENTINE MERCK ER

BOOT AMD SHOE lAKKR,i1illl(1 lll0 Lotion of rrerlasting life.

Cokseb or West Mais a PostebsvillkSts' JASPER, INDIANA. mn KKF.rs roii'tnnilv M rmnd a aooil W I awfn:.t '"'"'"'' lts tirt . - Slim ., which lie oflVr fur nl- nt tin-1 flhw ninkr. nnd ropnlr work, with nnnt nS nd ill.pntch. Tlistikfnl fur lli nSwil iitrona' arctofur.' Iientowcil on Mm, h.' nollcii. anil will radoavor to m.-rlt a fiirlhpr axtrlwton of Um aaasi nmi, '-iv. GLASS WARE. I a rrt vrl. t)-. htmI of iliV bra nunlity nt w pri 'r. on. a 'a ! iu. uriiL' si,., ION 17. Rl'KKIlT

rrmii llnitiO VagMSM Brainerd's Roclc jiv CHABI.M cati:.

In Berkshire, where two mountains lift Their urn. to cloud indsuu, T.,.,. i ...i ..!,-. in" -miiiir i vi KU 1 Ii im n L' Are blended Into one. And there tin- hillslopi yield then i Unto Ihr lowland' rare Kneeling lo drink a parting etip, And breathe i parting prayer. Cioae hy i giant boniderrcara jS gray ,,,i furrowed fare, A wanderer of primeral years From Koine loot, rorky race. Four live ago around its thrum. I'er many an odoroUl rood Foot "deep hi amber -pine and cone, A hemlock threat itnod. Around the roek, in jeweled rinj.', The 1 lock bridge Indians huilt Their 0rea, when impulse of cpring Were fell by fpawu and milt. And David Urn i nerd Ihithereame, Through pathways dim and w i I I To preach the evertttxtlng Name Into the I ore -I child. The pale A)o-lJc of the nice Whom 'Illness could not part I.Jod' Image from one shadow v lace. If ix oe from one dark heart. And from the roek when star- were pale. And Babing toil Wert done. He told the Nweet pathetic tan of Chritft the l Inly s.u. m Bt range eene ! The fires. the ncea round Fptumed the word to hear, The Savage -hadnws on the .'round, Dach leaning on spear. The light In uralnerdV lifted eyn, The rock hall-hid in shade. Type of the Dock of A get high On Which hi feet were play ed : The gloom Within the hemlock houjhc A - of the radical night, A new light OH the mvage hrows An of eternal lidit. Strange midnight scene! Porhapf it lie iiliin the Book above. Thai only turn to love. Kor hy the brooks no hemlock now Drop amher apines and cones Dual ties on the ApotdJe'a brow, And oc'r the Indian-.' hone.-. Inly the great rock's mighty will IIa eouquercd death and dust, As if to keep the memory still Of Bmmerd's loU uMd fruat. Small-Pox From extended and i loe observation, it may he .-aid. that vaccination in infancy, is an almost perfect safeguard, until the fourteenth year. At fourteen, the ay item gradually loeea üs capability of rcakrtance until abotq twentjMme, when many persons become almost aaHahk to small-po a if they had not been vaccinated. This liability remains in full force unt.l anoui lony-iwo. wne ...e w n - ... .... . i .. .. The nractical use to ho observed, is.Iet every youth ho re-vaciuatcd on entering fourteen. Let several attempts he made. so us to he certain of safety. lb ai-tiki rtt lfivv.it. The Sabbath day Ii the beautiful river in the week of time. The other days are troubled stream., whose imrry w aters arc disturbed by lue counties crafts that lloat upon them : but the pure river Sabbath tlow s,on to eternal rest, uhantlisg the sublime music of the silent, throbbing shore, and noting l - Beautiful river Sabbath, glide on ! Bear forth on thy bosom the poor, tired spirit Jto the rest which it seeks, and the vateh- ,,,, M)U lo ,.dless bliss. fO'IIoward Paul recently annomieod that he would deliver a live minutes' rod

hot lecture on "Woman's Hights" in kind Ol literary adventurer, who is to he Preston. Englund : but the printer set it jtolenited for his genius, hut not to bo up "Woman's Tights" which causodltiiisted in busines-. They are ipitonuit considerable scandal. that iv U the njawapap ,!,r" ,,u''"

1 1 f in WUkM' Spirit of tin Ilium The fitipn-macy of th PreisIn this mil hit u new empire hnsuriscn.

greater already limn the Koni of (nsar

or tlio Pope, yet only in Itslnmucy. UM Uvo 1IlolH!U1(l iwioti,of .ianul is the empire of the prow. The world Th(.v dn Ilot Wllou, M ,,(iwin

i mm vn ii um ? tun. m imim ri i in of the Freemasons, who have secretly in-

T I! 73 "f live hundred tho,ia,,cl ,(((norfll)(l foint' of viPW whi(.h JeanUUi he mew tn the war. They do no. know that Lw th o proportion it rorered. Then e orProteaUat;tha army. ,,,,. mww of Amertea will uomlJ, ,,,: ' s

'llucnccd all l. , , ... . ... . ,,, i..,ti. Cathol the law hut none ol (heao powen Um terrible power of the pw i in- puipit i. I - i ru'ii ii a rvvvinj Iii HIV "i in flueneing the iiuuMea of mankind ; lac army isat Deal mere Unite ton e : the law is now nothing hut an umpire in dis juites : um im- uewapaper is every iniiig. It lakes ttie place ol tlie purljainciit, ot revolutionizing the convlctiona of u nutiou. of inspiring new ideas and directing popular movements. w hich compares with it in rapidity, directness nnd ex tent. All other method mo rlnm.v

hnoecfeel : hut this la sJnuud like 111.... . ... .... 7.

light of tin " ' - - i H o, ' v is it influence, v at now universal young ami developed i the now empire. Journalfem aa a profCMkm la n creation 01 tin lait tlurty years: as I great pro-

fession it Is no older thai, the telegraph ! .,. wn..tB,inh. nt. . I. " . . .... i"" -. ' -"-f n ' ? f( . ,l,v it I .he no,,..,,. .1... ..ri P n.oiiopoh . 1 sliiiriii'.'in thcpublic esteem. I could not But lc-da) Iti the Mipicie poe, rd in(lt.p(Mld,.m.0 r tftandthe rivalry be imtUtlod til I aammd vou of the inllie world. Ihlrty yearn ago tin oraiorsL,.-:.,,. 5t ,lw, 1W . .. ..: . . v 111

ruled America; to-day it U ruled hy the editors. This sway will become far more absolute than any of us can realize !See what has already been done. We haVO put a newspaper Into the hand of every man who read- in the United States, i'or ti lucre trifle the new.- of the whole world i spread out before him. day after day. Can the pulpit or the (brum do a noch 'i Thev, at the most, can but proclaim ab solute truths, which were the NuTM three hundred years ago, but the newspapers rives the facts. We have brought the telegraph, the steamboat and the railroad Into our service, and w ith other inven tions will come more varied means of; obtaining Information and dlfttrfbutina it rapidly and cheaply. This secures us the entrance to every household, and then follow the use of the opportunity. The orator and the pronchera hart not this invaluable advantage, They must ask for hearing, we obtain it by force. The people can avoid the lecliirc-rooin or the church, but they can not avoid the newspapers, i litis we compel our audiencc.aiid may say to it what w c please. And though the spanker has none of our advantage we have all of his. The newspaper can le as eloquent as the orator. and can preach us earnestly as the clergyman. We duplicate all their functionas teachers of man kind, ami have otheroi our own which a re foreverdei.ied them. Henry Clay or Daniel Wähnt er, In the days when their mimes were on every tOnffUC. did not cert one-third of the Influence OVer men that the newspaperof New York do to-day. Why What Is the ambition of the orator nw? Slot to make his speeches, but to get them published. Mr. Colfax and Mr. Seymour cared very little for the audiences their voices reached at the recent meetings in this city, for behind the few thousand people there they beheld the million readers of the Tribune and the Herald. ;T,(. ofnV) of f j. p(,,ker as the leader of men has perished forever. Demosthenes i dumb: in his stead is "the pale, silent man who. Writing alone at midnight, hold the fate of empires upon the point of his pen." Therefore it will no longer do for the novelist or the satirist to present the Hon. .leflerson Brick, or the Katansville (iazetto as typo of journalism. There I ..! K ..I - are ineail ami imserauie men in an prownlonsfrom midien to thierlng lawyefl at the Tombs, quacks it. medicine, am I JudasOS who betray Christ in the pulpit and journalism is no exception. is ,,ot hnaly itnpl id ;.. 1.;.. .1,,, .,., .,1.1 4 . . 11 , can revive in this day the old talk about Bohemia and Grub street. There isa class of men among bunkem and merchants and lawyers w ho affect a condescension toward the journalists, which is intensely amusing. The writer for the newspaper appears to their blinking eyes n

goods, furnishes all their fads and pros - cuts Ibcm gratuitously with their opin - .... m , , ' ,..

,U(.. lhut . Bowmabari of AnerieJ .. m w. ..,,, ... i. i... i of .,.;,. Mtil -1 ,,,, -

inapcni of America will lnimi-',,!,

nata the candidate for the Prcsideuey.l,

determine the election dictate the leartVltL. .,m i i. ... ..1

I latloll Of ( olP'res-. KeWipaper men lead them by the nose h,.,.,.v,.i- il.ev mm i,..t tw ,i . ri ' ' ........ . s-'l.,. .:..!. : ,i. .! the pressure, which is the particular rcH - HOn why wc give this special tweak.

AVe write thi tor the good of our pro- nurpoM,.f nivid(.d OIlt as fa,njIy propcr. fcKsion. That it will b read by the puh- , Adan,g deJrrMi hinH.If infi. He b something We cannot help, nor do'y br Jlfs (,)mlm, 0 f)li9 Mlbjo(,f M we care, though the argument may ap- Wft,i,ingto had done himself the greatponr too much of a hoast. But we are in L, i. w:.v. ....-i. i, L.

.. -uv.- - v n i'miiio'ii I lid I J r I 4 I 1 1 l I 1 1 1 1 1 ! . 1. a i 4 Äa ii i. . ; a t a i ' is incsrrcHicsi ni mi nroicssionft. iiip most i ui. ftien.eMo. an p. o.esMons. ine mot iHawrenrnal imnnene I tbe prement denilnex ... k ,,.ir.i.-,. ,r.ii ;.... 1.1 to ho triply powerful in the future.

deatiny in America is especially nohle,phlir pood whjrl) ran not u cff(.rfed f

u,, ," n or r- Journal,

" ism would ho a tvrannv were it not t'nr'r... ii . j -

v" " i ' " " of progress and freedom. It moves with the p((ple, and as it inlluonrcs them i' influenced in return. Thus, it will prow with the nation. Kvery man who edits a papcr.oven though it be an ob-eure ,-heet on the borders of civilization, should know hi responsiblity. He should remember the dignity of his profession, and sustain it. We make noblie opin ion and the men who make the btWl und execute them, are appointed by our will. The Hawaiianer is the enaine which -w moves and directs the mases of mankind. We foresee, the day when all other professions will bo in oonfe.im as they are in fact, dependencies of this absolute empire over thought. How She had Him. A gentleman, pleasantly situated, mar-

ried, and blessed with two boantiful'.uja-i iorto the neirru, than any tiveStaiea

daughters, the pride of the neighbor hood and their parents' joy. would seem to have all thai was needed to make life cheerful, but strange as it may appear, be took hi-chief pleasure in propounding to the wife of his bosom hard conundrums. which she, unable lo guess, would gl TO up. nying, ! can't gm and he invariably answered. "That's a nut for you to crack," while she poor woman, kept quiet, having no way of redress, and thinking that sometime she might repay the debt with interest, ThUS matters remained until the patient wife was laid low upon her sick hod. mill her dissolution was fa-t proaebing. She asked in a feeble voi for her husband, lo w bom on his coming to her bed side she said. ".Joshua, we have two beautiful und affectionate children." ' Yes." said the stricken father and husband, "Yes. they are indeed beautiful and affectionate children." u Well, .loshua, I can't leave the world without tolling you something that 1ms long been weighing upon my mind, ami may perhaps surprise you. You are the father of only one of those children !" "What !" exclaimed the astonished husband, "Great God! which is my daughter!" She turned to him with a look of triumph, ns she said. "That's a nut for you to enick !" And before he could rally to ask more, the spirit of hi wife was wafted away, leaving him with the bandest nut to crack bv himself. fC3rA wag bad kept up u eonthnml fire of Witfeiams at a social party, when puritanical gentleman sharply observed, "If yon keep on you will make every decent person leave the Irouse." That would be a sorry joke," was the dry reply ; "yon would certainly be very lonesome when left Itevc. alone.'' (TT" A physician was called to a man in this town the other day, who on being asked if ho hadn't taken something strange into his stomach, replied that he believed he had. "It 11111 have been that glas of w ater. Haven't been -o imprudent, doctor, for ten year."

' Frulu aiHtair uf f jnUjMM,Vt. t, west iM Jrifcraon on Appointing his Relattweito Offloe- Lsttef to his Kiw

. 8, . I Lr P"? ,fl0iJ ot,M:,T '4,b::,,,tVo;x: in w m.u me uciitfiii win ffmcn i - "TV "? nonotwne point oi view in which vou a. ...i a , j J.A a tJZJlj rv..,. ,?ii n in ii," . . r in- iiiiinr 10 iit-iirvi; iiiui I lie appofntmeill Of a relative is made on the ground of merit alone, nnlnnnenoed by Z . . . ' . i mmiiy vtowa; nor can tneyereraee with !1)pi.obafi,(I, vfi(.Ps nispo,a, 0f which thv intnist to the President for nnhlic ....... Wu ru.., ,.,,, ,., , p. oeeeu o , I m.u.i .u oe ooumy inexcu1 . T .1 U 1.- J . 1 'v, . . . . nv,,p Ii ie I rne that this nlarps tlie 1 mT tmPraaidentl in a worse sit uation than it he wore a stranger, hut the f- confidence be lost, reourre this Rcricreased e-teem with which thi transactfaaj fills me for von. Accept mv afleclionntc expression of it. i Thomas JtyrEnsnx. (fc7" An Rttgliah paper states, that Mas sachusetts lias nioro " JJolijrfon and Kewi papers and more drunkanK than any other Hintes of the Fnion." And the Brandon, Vermont, Republican" adds: "And more .-ioon-tliioves.wal h thieves, piano talt en ami United Suite thhreee of every grade ; more men in petticoats and women in pants; more Ppiritualim ; free love nnd net?ro fanaticism: more politician and fewer patriots ; more Do. pubHcaOJ nnd fewer true friends of the negro; more ladies with false tenth, false hair, false eyes and false breast a ; more ehildretl not knowing their father, and more people thinking themselves much in the Union taken together; ftpnm OF A TtNNKSSEE SCAr.AWAO IV Covohkss. "I will stand here. Mr. Spenker, "roared Mullins. "till the Angel t.altriel nana Iii last gnu. I w ill stand awe tin the pis-nut anry me out

what is ItFrhy piceeful tliroujrh the key-hole. I will

stand here until the Archangel files the crack of doni, amid the wreck of matter nnd n crush of boards, and Asia tumbles Into Africa, leaving the pine star to gleam like the eve) of hell upon a mighty void of collateral ohaos."I)onn. Piatt. AT Grant is the youiurcst President

"''"Ithe Cnited States; ever elected. This

month ho will be 47 years old. Washington was ft7 years old when inaugurated, John Adam 61, Thos. Jefferson 57. Madison s9, Monroe fis, jno. Quinoy Adams 58, Andrew .lack-on above 6'K Martin Van Huron 52. William II. Harrion (58. .la. K. Polk 49, Zaehary Taylor i3. Franklin Pierce 4J, .lames Huchanan 65 ami Abrnhnm Lincoln 67 year of age, ma-i..wB-fCy" While New York City pays an army of 1WÜQ poilrameu to protect a population of about one million, the record show a daily average of two murders and a few hundred of thefts or robberies. London has a population of three to four millions, keeps only .T3(K polieomon.aiid the YEAKL.Y avemgo of murders is one with hardlv nnv lnu'env. " Mack" says tbnt the House and Let Brlgwde, the Rig Dinner Squad nud Compaay A., of the Poor Kelationp form the l'residential bodyguanlat present. The satno writer says that the earriaga in which Grunt rode on Ihe 4th will cost the country a fbmign appointment, as it was a donation from rich New Y orker. (TTlt is reported, that during I8PS in KngUncl, there returned 2200 persons to tbe Ronan Catholic church, Muoug whom were !! clergviiten and 2 Lords. A lock of hair from a. yung woman'-' head. Notion the key lo a young man' heart. Poul play to bo served with an old Ken when yon rail for a spring chicken