Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 14, Number 14, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 May 1872 — Page 3

OUR MILITARY DICTATOR.

mmrrrh ofli. ftimrr, mt Ulla rr!""1 for VUUlUa mt !. II, aa rrrirlti Vm. Illiaolal. mm Krpublien. .Ihn M. Palmer lately addressed a large and enthusiastic' meeting of the -' of Siirinitfield, 111., upon the political situation. We give a few extract from his speech : roaci or pasty ties. VVhst is the object of this assembly ? All over lb" country Republicans sre .i.-.-i.lv concerned for the future of their psrty. We love the party as men who love the political associations in which they have passed the most active portions of their lives. 1 need not say to men who hav warm blood eoumng through the r veins, that party attachments, with good men, have their foundation in, but often survive, the questions that originally attached them together. There are old Abolitionists in this audience, and, although they themselves were abolished when slavery fell, yet the memory of old struggles in the noblo cause makes them take each other by the hand when they meet, and they remember the common principles to which they devoted their earnest lives. So of old Democrats. There are men in yu audience mat J i?sve been separated from for twenty years in the changes of political life, and they and 1 have crossed many a sword in political encounters, yet the memory of political association warms my heart toward them, and so it is in regard to this great body of patriotic men that mske up the Republican party. Venal, selti-h, greedy men throw oil political associations without effort. It is the earnest, true men that struggle long and hesitate before they make up their minds to dispute with, much let to eparate from, their political friends. THS IT TL RE Or THE RE ILTiLIC A N PARTY. The Republican party is deeply concerned for its future, for the reason that I have given. Not that the men who compose the party are disposed to keep it up, and continue it for the mere sake of party. They know that party, rightly understood, is a mere association of men that sgree in political ideas. and when the questions perish that unite them, when the object of the or panization is accomplished, then they turn to new subjects and enter into new combinations as their judgment their convictions may invite them vS' UOSEST GOVERNMENT REvjl l REIi. First, wo must have in this country if we maintain our liberties, pure and honest Government. The people of this country must determine to inaugurate reform. They must demand offi cial honesty. They must insist upon f nViul re-iHUiMbility, ami although dur mg the war and during the struggle for reconstruction, and lor the eatabli-h-ment of the principles of equality and liberty over the land, they were the vital issues, and loyalty to freedom and unity were such cardinal virtues that they covered a multitude of sins, yet that hour ha passed away. To-day the naked quosti n is, Shall the officers ot the (government, from the h:ghoi to the lowest, be reKnible to the people and shall they be honest men? CORECrTION KE-n.TIVC r RoH THE WAR. Fellow-citizens, principles are impor tant. and must never le lost sieht of. but no principles are sate in the hands of men who are corrupt and dishonest. 1 do not charge upon any political party the corruptions of the present day. They are p.ohably a part of the sad inheritance of the war. As you will recollect, during that struggle the property and the money of the nation were poured out like water, lavished on every hand ; corrupt, loose and extravagant habits were formed in every branch of the public service. It has been, no doubt, im-oible to entirely eradicate thee abuses, but, at the same time, there has not been enough attention addressed to their eradication. Why is it? Look at the condition of things in the city of New York, where young men from Washington, without commercial experience, without friends in the city, are sent down to levy tribute upon the commerce of this whole country. A thing like that could not happen if all connected with the administration of the Government had the capacity to enforce refurm in the affairs ol the Government. The fact is, every now and then men in office acquire ideas somewhat akin to those entertained by the chieftains of the middle ages. The lord, surrounded by his relatives and retainers, lives in his house or goes to the seatide if need be, and parcels out the proceeds of taxation among these relative, snd friends. These habits are borrowed from the middle ages. We must bring them down to the administration of affairs suitable to the more enlightened era of Christian civilization. We must have official responsibility. AMNISTT REQUIRED AT THE SOtTH. Again, we must have the constitution and laws of the country restored to all parts of the Republic. Applause. During the wax while the war lasted the business ot this nation was war. It is cruel kindness to insist that war shall be prosecuted without vigor, or shall be prosecuted feebly. It is like other evils, if it comes terribly it passes away swiftly. Such was the lesson of the last years of the war. It was also true during the war, and at the close of the war, that the Southern States were left in a peculiar condition, and it was for the Republican party to apply Republican principles to the solution of all the roblenis that grew out of the war. rhat, I ask you, my Republican friends, m the fundamental doctrine of our common creed? It is the equality of all men. It is that all men are equal before the law. That is a principle that we must apply whenever and wherever we can, and 1 state again, no party, no Government can live if it disowns its own cardinal doctrine. Before the close of the wsr the great body of the colored Iople of the South were practically

free, uy an amendment to the Fe leral Constitution, which has, I think, onlv ... . I a. , 1 1 . , I , t . . I I. a

i"irn --llK tt Ii I ns -0.1111 W i, before, the freedom of the hlack nun was secured by an irrepealable law. In that the Republican piinciitle was as .... .i i i i V . ... mmrmmm hu apnpi. nut, at tue same t-me, the Southern States were filled witn men who had been divested of their propei ty in slaves ; they were filled with men who had been engaged in the service of the Rebel Government against tue (government of the United States It was deemed wise, and no man could affirm absolutely that it was not wise that these men should be subjected to some reasonable, vet limited, restraint But experience has shown, in respect to tue Southern white men, as it has shown with respect to the Southern black men, mat toe only mode by which a repuhli can Government can be carried on anv where is to apply ' republican doctrines. ii is, tnereiore, absolutely essential to the future peace of the Southern States. and to the preservation of our own liberties, that the doctrine of republican equality snail oe appneu to all men 1 II t cm . within the limits of this whole lie public All .... mm .... . - au restrictions, ail disabilities, accord ing to the principles of republicanism, must be removed from all citizens of the Inited States. Great applause 0B REASON WHT HE CANNOT SCKTORT GRANT. As I have said before, I declined being a candidate on the Republican ticket. I cannot and will not advocate the election of any man as President of the United States who does not respect the Constitution of the United States and of his State, snd the laws of both. Applause. I Presidents and Governors are but magistrates ; their authority - - ' A . . I t ... . . riiusfc in me oonstitution, and u defined and limited by the Constitution I . 1 I KT mm . . aim me laws. seltner or mem :-rs rulers. Neither the President nor Governor posseftses inherent powers. All their powers originate in the Constitu tion of the United States, with respect to the President, and of the States, with resect to the Governor. I will support no man who does not admit, whenever the question is raised, that the military shall always be in strict subordination to the civil power, Ap p lause. WHAT MILITARY ELLE MEANS. I know what military rule is. It was my misfortune to be sent to mv native State nesr the close of the war, with al most absolute power ; and there, dur mg the supremacy of military rule, which was necessary, owing to the ex istence of a state of war, it was there that my will, yes, the will of the Gen eral commanding the army, was the rule for the government of tke citizen. It was then that the General of the army, when a prisoner was brought before him, in the exercise of his own will, said, " Take this man to the military prison." It was then that the word of the General deprived men of their liberty, or let them forth to enjoy the free air of Heaven. I saw so much of military rule that I would not to-dav intrust the lil-crties of the people of the Mate ot Illinois to any man into whom God ever breathed the breath of life. Applause. The power is terrific! Think of it. Think of the power and let the man tremble, who has exercised it, at the peril in which he was placed, when bis voice was the rule by which the lives and liberties of men were adjudged and taken or given. Think of that fearful thing called Military Law. military rule, and then tell me, ay Republican friends, who have sometimes almost censured me, if I have been too zealous, when I have witnessed these seta at Chicago the act of General Grant in sending troops into this State to act as police. Applause. Now I do think the time has come when we mar safely assert that the war is over. I do not ws.t to fight anybody. During the late struggle, I had five years and a half of tign ting, and, upon my word of honor, I got enough. If there are any of these gentlemen, these "regular" Republicans, who want to fight, let them go and tight, but do not let them rake up mere imaginary enemie, and go to fighting them, or at least do not ask me to help them. I do not propose to carry on the war against the rebellion any longer. I propose to play quits. I have forgiven them for their political sins, because they had not tinned against me but against their country. I propose to in vite all men in this country to perform the duties of good citizens, and I trust that these Ku-Klux, these banditti of the South, will disappear, when republican government is once more restored to the people of the Southern States. Applause. Let us heartily unite in opposition to the nresent corrupt Administration, and we shall succeed in electing a man who will be faithful to the constitution and laws of the country ; one in whom the whole country can confide, and one who loves the institutions of civil liberty, and that we shall have at last a restored Union, re-established laws, and new guarantees for the liberties of the peo ple. I Applause. I Tke Press. An article in the last Government re port on education puts the whole number of periodicals issued in the Union in 1871 at 5,983. In the United States, the first newspaper was issued at Boston, September 25, 1690. The first paper issued in New York was in 1725, October 16. In 1800 there were 200 journals in this country, of which everal were dai .ies. In I Mo there were 1,000. An interesting table shows the comparative development of journalism in Europe and in the United States. The writer claims that much more money is expended on journals here than in Europe. It is curious to note that at the beginning of tne present century the London mwi circulated

only 1,000 copies a day.

Farm and Garden. Give Your Poultry IAme. Do not ex pect your fowls to make egg-shelli i.. . L. A . . iL! a . t B a -

-ruuuui someillillg 10 Uo it Willi, HI1V more than you would ask a mechanic to build a house with no materials We have seen it gravely urged thst as wild birds do not et oyster shells or old mortar, therefore tame ones need not. It is true that the egg-shells of wild siiecies appear to be always of a normal thickness, but it must be remembered that they only lay a normal number. It will never do to reason too closely from nature, for none of our domestic ammals are in a state of nature. We advocate for hens bone-dust, burnt bones, raw bones crushed, or pounded oyster or oiaci shells. Turning Cows to Grat. In turning cows to grass, the question often arises whether it is better to keep them con fined to a small inclosure, until grass becomes so large and plenty that they can till themselves readily and subsist wholly upon it, or to give them the range of the whole pasture, or a larae share of it, and let them change gradually from hay to grass, as the latter slowly come: forward. These questions annually occur to every dairyman, and are answered, sometimes one way and sometimes the other. They are questions that ought to be carefully consid ered. Those who favor the practice of keeping cows yarded and entirely awav from grass till they can live upon it wholly, urge that the appetite of the cows is so much affected by a taste of grass that they will so far lose their relish for hay as not to eat enough to kep up their flesh and strength, and consequently uro best off not to taste it at all, till there ic enough for them to subsist on wholly. This is one view of the question. Those who prefer letting their cows run over a wide range and nip the grass as soon as it starts, say that it is better for them, or any other stock, to change from dry feed to green gradually ; and that the season for dry food, always too long, is stretched to its utmost, by prohibitinc a taste of grass till it is plenty enough to live upon. Ibere is some force in this reasoning. A sudden and radical change of food. either for man or beast, is always at tended with ill consequences. The condition of the stomach and bowels, and the quality of the digestive agents, adapt themselves to the na'ure of the food. To break up at once a long established order of things, deranges all the operations of the system and im pairs their functions. In turning milch cows suddenly to grass, they are usuallymade sick lor several days. They be come unnerved and weak, and their milk is often so much affected as to work badly in the cheese-vat, for a week or more. A diarrhea sets in, and the loss of flesh, by scouring, is often greater than that occasioned by loss of appetite for hay. I have always found dairycows to do better, the season through, to make the change from dry food to green a gradual one. it there shouM be any tendency to falling away from scanty food, it is better to keep them up by the use of a little grain than to make a too sudden change. Livestock Journal. .Scours or Constipation in Young Pigs. To cure either the scours or constipa tion in the young, sucking pigs, the proper way is to treat the sow, for we have often noticed that food may be given the sow without injuring her health in the least, but still injure the health of her offspring, the bad effects of improjer food being very readily communicated through the medium of the milk to the pigs. This is done by giving the same food to the sow that you would to cure the same disease in herself. Cate, also, should be taken in feeding, not to make a sudden change in diet, or feed heavily one day and do the very opposite the next, for the I young porkers invariably show the bad effects of s h a course. As to the sty, the great essentials are that it be in a protected situation ; that it have good ventilation and an abun dance ot sun ; for sun is as necessary an e'ement to the health of a pig as it is of a flower or a tree. It should be com fortably warm and dry, with two apartments, one for the sleeping room and the other for the eating room. A small opening should be left, through which the little ones can pass, and can have a good run whenever they wish, for plenty of exercise conduces to their health, rapid growth and develop ment. HlBU for the Housewife, Economy in the Household, Mrs. O. T., of Missouri, writes sensibly regarding economy in the house and on the farm. Housekeepers should not go in debt to the storekeepers just because they will trust them for a few months. When one cannot pay for table luxuries, it is not wise to use them three times per day. It is not right to give children tea and coffee just because It may look stingy to outside people, when we know that the children are better off without them. Trying to keep up with the fashions is extravagance on the part of the farmer's wife and daughters, unless wealthy. To drcts neatly and comfortably is all that is required. Use more fruits and vegetables. The finest flour is not the best ; mix the shorts with the flour, and the food is more palatable and healthful. She prepares the mixture as follows i Take about one-fourth fine flour and three-fourths shorts, raise with yeast, and bake on a griddle. The cakes are to be eaten with molasses or butter, or both, the same as buckwheat cakes. Her letter closes as follows I " It is the duty of every housekeeper to see that nothing goes to waste in or about the house that she can make use of, and it is the duty of every farmer to see that nothing goes to waste on the farm that he can make use of. If we will attend to these things we will get along better and we shall like farm life better. We let too much of labor come to naugh."

Veiled 'head. Every housekeeper knows that it is not always possible so to projHirtiori the supply to the demand that there shall not oometimes be on hand a loaf of stale bread, which economy requires shall not be wasted. tjur French friends have contrived many ways of converting the stale lo.tt into a delicious dish, and among them is the following : From the half of a com n. on loaf of stale bread cut off all the tract. This is put into a slow oven and dried, and then crushed and rolled into fine crumbs with a rolling-pin. Cut the bread into slices an inch thick, and these into pieces about two inches square. To one pint of sweet milk add a tablespoonful of sugar and one well -beaten egg. Lay the pieces of bread into a broad pud

ding-dish, and pour over them the milk and egg. When the bread is thoroughly moistened, but not soaked so as to fall to pieces, dip. each piece into the dried crumbs of the crust. Then dron into boiling lard, and brown like doughnuts. When done, dust with fine white sucar and cinnamon, and eat while hot. This ''veiled bread" forms a delicate dish for tea. With the addition of a hot winesauce, into which has been stirred halt a pint of Zante currants, it makes an excellent dessert. Potud Shad. Cut a fine shad into three or four pieces, discard ine the tail and head : place a piece in a small stone jar, sprinkle well with salt and whole allspice and whole pepper-corns: fill up wie jar in tnis manner and cover the shad with sharp cider vineear. Cover the jar with a stiff paste, and bake in a slow oven for three or four hours. If the vinegar is strong it will dissolve all the small bones of the shad, and the large one should be removed before baking. This will keep, in a cooi place, if tightly covered, for five or six weeks ; so it is well to pot three or four shad at once. It is a delicious relish for either breakfast or tea. Potted Beef. Take eight pounds of lean rump steak, put it into a stone jar, with a teacup of boiling water, a level tablespoonful of salt, a teaspoon ful of pepper, and a few whole allspice, with one onion chopped fine. Cover with paste and bake for three hours. Turn out all the liquor, and takeout the meat into the chopping lowl. Pound it fine with the pestle ; season with half a teacup of catsup. Taste it, and if not highly seasoned add more salt and pepper. When perfectly fine, press into moulds, or small cups; and if desn-ed to be kept for six weeks, cover the tops with melted butter so thickly that no meat is seen. Wet the moulds or cups with tmter, and the beef will turn out in form. A Brooklyn Church Scandal. From the N. York Herald. April H. A few evenings since the Rev. F. W. Ware, pastor of the Johnson Street Methodist Episcopal Church, at the corner of .lay and Johnson streets, read the following communication before the congregation : To the Members of Johnson Street .trVMotlis'. Episcopal Church : 1 deem it my duty to make a full statement. It is a duty I owe to you and my own soul. At the time I mysteriously disappeared from my home and your midst a few weeks ago, I had fallen into a great sin. It is due you to know that I had eloped with another man's wife. I have committed a terrible sin and God made me a great sufferer. For about six or seven weeks before I left I was walking before God, but I indulged inthoughU and then fell. What induced those thoughts I cannot tell. I put in no plea of insanity. I fell before the temptations of Satan, and inned against God. and my friends and the members of this church, find put a stumbling- : me before unbelievers. I have nc words to express the agony that I have felt, and I ask you to forgive me. At the time that 1 left I stood a member of the Johnson Street Church, and I now say that I am perfectly willing that you should putsue that course with me that will be for the good of the church. I know of nothing that I can do more. Stephen Owen. This communication naturally created some little surprise, not that the facts contained therein were wholly new to the majority of those who listened to the reading of the letter, but that Mr. Owen should make such a confession. Mr. Owen, the author of this remaikable communication, is an Englishman, who came to Brooklyn a few years since and attached himself to the Johnson Street Methodist Episcopal Church, formerly known as the Centenary. He obtained a situation as bookkeeper in a New York shipping house through his connection with the church, and he was subsequently elected Worshipful Master of Fortitude Lodge, F. and A. M., of Brooklyn. He is forty-five years of age, but has a very venerable appearance, from the fact that his hair and whiskers are quite gray. He was elected as Superintendent of the Johnson Street Methodist Episcopal Sunday school, was highly esteemed by all who knew him, and the thought of his backsliding was certainly the last thing which entered the beads of those with whom he was so closely allied by ties of friendship and religion. As will be remembered by paragraphs published at the time, he disappeared in the most mysterious manner on Saturday evening, March 23. leaving his wife, with whom he resided at 100 Hampden street, anxiously awaiting his return. His wife, as well as a host of friends and the members of his lodge, were exceedingly anxious concerning him. Inquiries led to the discovery thst, simultaneously with his disappearance, the wife of a resident of Newark, with whom he had been intimate for some time, had also disappeared, leaving two children. The mystery was therefore solved. Mr. Owen had eloped with another man's wife. After an absence of two weeks the woman again returned to her husband, telling him that she had been

sick at the house of a friend in New York. Her husband, believing her, took her again to his bosom. They came to Brooklyn to reside, snd are now living in Atlantic avenue. This, however, is not the first time the lady has left her home. About two years since she diappeared with a man who was reputed to have contiderable money. He soon became tired of her, and gave her a $500 bill to return home with. She probably left Mr. Owen from the fsct that he did not have a $500 bill to give her. The Rev. Mr. Ware apologized as well as he could for the erring couple, after reading the letter. He said that Mr. Owen, after leaving home, went to Toronto, Canada. There he relented the step he had taken and sent the lady home. His intention, he said, was to go where he was not known and then

send for his wife, making a full confession to her, but he thought of his church and concluded to return and endeavor to lift the stain from it. The reverend gentleman said he was glad that Mr. Owen had returned and made this frank confession. The name of the lndy with whom Mr. Owen eloped is suppressed from prudential rea.-ion- at the present time. The affair has caused quite a little sensation in church circles, and has afforded considerable ges-ip among the members of the Johnson Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Care for a Heartache. Some dsys ago there died in San Francisco one of the roost singular residents of the Pacific Slope. His name was William Hewer, and he was English by birth and a surgeon by profession. The Golden City has long been known as a kind of Mecca for ccentric people ; but of all the oddities who have ever found their way thither, Dr. Hewer was perhaps the most remarkable. He was Timon and Shylock and Kotzebue's Stranger rolled into one. For fourteen years no living soul had been allowed to enter the room he occupied. In it he apparently lived a life of abject poverty ; and in it were found, after bis death, cash and securities to the extent of thousands, besides a rich store of precious gems. This strange man was born at Exeter. England, in 178S. He studied medicine, and got his degree from tla Royal College of Surgery, Et n burgh, in 1810. Soon after, he obtained a commission in sn artillery regiment. He was a man of fine powers, delicate imagination, warm sympathies, and keen sensitiveness endowed him with the susceptibility both to pleasure and pain, common to the possessors of such qualities, and which makes the isue of their lives so critically doubtful. Hewer fell in love with a beautiful girl, who at first returned his pas-ion, but who seems to have been as capricious as she was fair. A few years of happiness followed, and then came bitter sorrow. Mrs. Hewer went off with a -friend" of her husband's, an officer in the same regiment, and the husband was nevtr thereafter the same man. He It me a misanthrope and a wanderer on the face of the earth. W:fhdrawing from society, he lived for the most part in gloomy seclusion, enliven d at times by outbreaks of furious revelry. Only one thing besides drink alone apeared to have charms for him and that was to ship as surgeon on vessels bound for long passages. It was in this way he came to San Francisco. He arrived there in the Agincourt just a'ter the time of Capt. Sutter's memorable discovery, and when the whoie eetern world was aglow with the rage for Eold. The current passion of the hour took rosseesion of Hewer, and thenceforth never left him. The varan, place in his heart was ever after filled by an almost inrane avarice. He began to lend money for usury on diamonds, watches, and other valuables, and he hoarded up his treasures with the jealous cunning of a magpie. Virtually he became a pawnbroker, although he disdained the appellation, and would haughtily resent its being applied. When stray Englishmen es education turned up in San Francisco, the recluse would sometimes emerge irom bis den, and embark with them in frantic orgies that neither age nor shame ever restrained. When thus excited, he would occasionally exhibit huge diamonds and pearls, Verba river gold of the finest quality, and strange, old-fashioned jewels. In these accumulations he took the greatest pride, and although it was notorious that he possessed them, oddly enough he was never robbed. Probably he took unusual precautions to guard his property, and, in truth, quite a magazine of arms was found in his room at the last. The scene in that room when Hewer's body was discovered would make a terrible and impressive subject for a painter. The old man's body, clothed in quaint, parti-colored rags, was found bent backward over an old chair the dead eyes open and staring upward, the white hair sweeping the ground. He had been gloating over s box of trink ets, and there was a burnt-out lamp by its side. All around was a strange medley of filth and finery. Broken spittoons and rich bits of carpets, dned herrings and diamonds ; pieces of old brass and iron, and silver-plate emblazoned with armorial bearings ; strings of onions and of pearls, beer bottles and Etruscan vases, pawn-tickets, commissions, uniforms, and foul platters were all mingled in wild confusion. Besides all these, there was one oilpicture that of a young and lovely woman she, no doubt, who was the original cause of all this wreck and wsste the sign and token of a perverted nature, a crushed heart, and a broken life. Akotdes foolhardy vcy.-ige across the Atlantic i contemplated. A boat twelve feet long, rigced I s a senoomr is to sail shortly for l urojic, carrying a crew of one man.