Locomotive, Volume 46, Number 12, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1858 — Page 2

THE LOCOMOTIVE.

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i "- " - SATUKDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1858. " TrjSalurdayis'he day of publication of the Locomotive when It willalwysbereadyforubscribers. In nocasewlll weletaoopyofthepaper go from theoffice befort publica tionitay. " LOCOMOTIVI! STEAM PRESS BOOK AND JOB PRINTING OFriCE. WE woul.l call tlie attention of Kailrod Men, PresiUontaol Collo-ras and Academies, the Meiiieal Profession, and all oiher, to our assortment of ' NEW ND H13AUTIFUL TYPE! Just received from the best Foundries in tho United t"tes. embracine all the Medical Signs. itp!, FractioitM, Frsvct Letters, Algebraical Signs, iwi ail the modern facilities for Join work intliobest stvlo. All our Type and Machinery u new, and in good order, Including two of Adaki" Improved STEAM PRINTING PRESSES which enables us to do our work In a superior style, on asshor lime, and as good terms as i.ny other ortico We have on hand a superior article of IIOOK and Col orcd Paper, and the best of Inks, and na we are practical workmen, we guaranty all work entrusted to us to be dune in the neatest manner, with promptness and accuracy. Our Jt Department is well supplied with all kinds of "Sew and Fashionable Type, and we are prepared to do All Hindis of Tola "tVorlt ! . on the shnrfsl notice, and at tho lowest living rates; and BLANKS OF II V E It V DESCHI PTIO X! on Cap, Letter, Folio Post, Flat Cap, French, or Colored Papers, and Cards or Card Boards. For the diameter of our work we confidently refer to any Book or Job bearing on r imprint. Our prices are regulated nt the lowest cash standard, so as to bi regular and uniform, and equal to all; mid contracts for work will be adhered to. without resorlto extra charges. TTpOrdorsfrom a listanco promptly attended to. and accurary guarantied. TTOmceon Meridian street, immediately oppositcthe Poa OfBce. ELDKK & HARKNKSS. Fires. On Tuesday flight the north end of the horse stalls, on the west side of the Fair grounds, was set on fire and burned to the ground. Loss, probably $500.. - On Wednesday morning the old City Foundery, on Pennsylvania street, was entirely consumed by fire. It is supposed to have originated from a schute in which shavings were passed from the upper story to within a few feet of the mouth of the engine very improperly constructed. The building was occupied as a machine shop by Brown & Greenleaf, and by E. C. Atkins, as a saw factory. Messrs. Brown & Greenleaf loose all their machinery, including sonic valuable lathes. Mr. Atkins' materials were mostly saved loss about $500. Mr. S. Taggart, Millwright, who occupied part of the building, lost in flour packers trom $1,200 to $1,500. Messrs. Weeks & Mayhew occupied part of the building in the manufacture of hominy machines, and lost in the neighborhood of $500. J. M. Kemper, employed in making smut machines, looses his tools and materials, to the amount of about $300. The heavy loss falls on Messrs. Ilasselman & Vinton, who owned the building, and had liens on most of the machinery, with little other security. Messrs. Mears & Newcomer are lessees of Messrs. II. & V, and they may be heavy loosers. The entire loss is from $10,000 to $15,000, with no insurance. Where are we Drifting. A son, in New York, last week, attempted to kill his Father, Mother, two Brothers, and two Servant Girls, and then blew out his own brains. Some of those mangled cannot recover others may get well. There is a short article in another column, headed " The Thirteenth Street Horror," that we copy for the lesson it conveys. On last Saturday three young men, respectably connected, went into a house of ill-fame, in Cincinnati, and twoi of them beat and stabbed one of the inmates, leaving her dead on the floor. They now stand convicted by the Coroners Jury of Murder in the first degree.' What do these things teach ? It appears to us they bear a lesson to parents " resectable" parents that u full of meaning. Reader, if you are raising a family, try and do so in a way that your gray hairs will not be brought down in sorrow to the grave. ' WIDOWS AND ORPHAN'S SOCIETY. : ' The regular monthly meeting of the Orphan's Society was held on Tuesday, the 2d. inst but owing to unpleasantness of the day, but very few of the members were present, i A poorly attended meeting is always to be regreted, but especially at this time, when ' business of importance is before the Society. The meeting was adjourned to Tuesday the 9 th inst., at 2 o'clock, at the residence of Mrs. Paxton on Circle St.i and as the usefulness of the Society during the winter isgroatly dependent upon present effort, it is earnestly hoped the members will respond promptly and cheerfully to the present calL ' ' IL M. Rock wood, Sec'y. fiT Next week will be a busy week in this City. The Legislature convenes on Satuiday week, and the . begining of tbe week will be occupied by politicians , in "fixing things" dividing out the offices and regulating matters generally. The United States and Supreme Courts will be in session next week and the week after altogether we may look out for a big crowd and a busy time. 3 The announcement for Godey's Lady's Book for 1858, will be found in our advertising columns, to which we ask the attention of our Lady readers. This is our favorite magazine, as our readers know, and should be on the table of all that want to keep up ' with the polite literature, fashions, receipts, and other' matters of interest, for which the Book is so justly celebrated. . ' , , Thanksgiving. The proclamation of the Governor will be found in another column, appointing Thursday, the 25th day of November, as a day for general Thanksgiving. . This day lias been appointed in a majority of the states, and will be generally observed. 8" The lectures of Prof. Mitciiel, on Astronomy, attract full houses, and increase in interest as they advance. They will be continued this evening, and on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of next week. Those that fail to attend are the loosers by it. It is conceded by both parties that the Democrats have a majority in both branches of the Legislature in Illinois, which secures the re-election of Judge Douglass to the United States Senate. 63T In Massachusetts the Republican Governor is elected, and the entire delegation to Congress. The opposition will have a clear majority in the next United States House of Representatives. ';.,. tfS" A good and permanent improvement is being made on Pennsylvania street, by walling in the banks of the creek, at the crossing, similar to that at Meridian street This is a solid improvement, and when done will last for ages. . , ' . Hogs iv Kentucky. The assessors in Kentucky report 1,085,943 hogs in 1856, 1,440,394 in 1857,and. 1,107,843 in 1858.

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TptisTi-pfl "Report. We wish to call attention to

two or three points in the Report of the Trustees of I the City Schools, published by us last week, that the public may think of them, and investigate them. 1st. The Trustees announce that they have assessed a tax of 15 cents on the $100, on the County duplicate, for building school houses, buying lots, pro viding furniture, fuel, &c. 2d. The Trustee "express the regret they teel, in common with the mass of their fellow citizens, that so large a portion of the improvements recently made in the school houses of the city, (and which, though much enlarged from the former accommodations, were still below the public requirements,) should be for the present unoccupied and idle." 3d. The amount of indebtedness of the School Fund, as reported in orders overdrawn, is $1,530. The point we want to call attention to is is there a necessity for a tax of 15 cents on the $100 this year, for tho only purpose it can be used? Last year a tax of 10 cents yielded $3,707 S3, as reported by the Trustees taking this same basis, 15 cents will yield one third more or $5,000 00 this year, allowing the assessment to be the same we are informed it has been increased over half a million this year. Allowing the levy of 15 cents to yield $5,000 00, after deducting tho indebtedness on Oct. 1, as reported by the Trustees, it will leave $3,470 for light, fuel, furniture, repairs, and other necessary expenses. Last year there was one school house built, (in the 7th ward,) and payments made for the one repaired, or enlarged, in the 5th ward, and payments made on lots, none of which will be done or required this year, as the houses are now larger than are needed under the present condition of the school law. The expenditures last year for the itemes that this tax is required to cover, exclusive of building houses, buying lots, and rcmoddeling houses, were: ' Furniture $51 81 Pumps and wells and repairing. .. 30 00 Fuel 101 25 Repairing school houses. 911 42 1 . . 1,094 48 Indebtedness, Oct 1, 1858 $1,530 00 Expenses and indebtedness . .$2,624 48 Tax levied this year. $5,000 00 Allowing the expeditures to bo the same this year they were last, counting nothing for the rent received for the houses, as reported, and after paying all the outstanding indebtedness, this will leave an overplus of $2,375 52. . What is this wanted for? .It should be borne in mind that not one dollar of the money for which this tax is levied can be applied to paying for tuition that is an entirely separte and distinct matter, for which a separate tax is levied. COLLECTING TAXES. Editor Locomotive: As you are in the very focus of our city affairs, and are presumed to know what is intended by our council, and their officers. I desire to ask you whether they intend to go on and discharge their duty by collecting the delinquent taxes and paying off their outstanding debts ; or whether all their talk and resolutions are mere gammon, to induce the prompt tax-payers to continue to pay up, and let the delinquents slide on. The truth is, all should be made to pay, if there is law to do it, or none should be asked to pay. If ti e officers refuse to do their duty, let them be sued cn their bonds ; if the council refuses to do their duty, let no man voto for one of them at the next election, irrespective of party. A Heavy Tax-Payee. "A heavy tax-payer" asks some very pertinent questions, of deep interest to tax-payers, and the city generally, and as he is one of the " solid men" of our city, who has done as much as any other to promote its prosperity, and who now feels interest in its advancement, we will, in a few words, give our opinion on the questions asked. , AVe believe the resolutions, directing the city Treasurer to proceed at once to collect the delinquent taxes by distress and sale, were passed in good faith by the council, but with very little idea that they would be carried out their object being to induce some to call and pay, from the fear of prosecution. . But the bulk of delinquent tax-payers understand the matter fully, and will take no step towards payment until they know that active and deter mined efforts are being made by the Treasurer to prosecute, and of this they have little fear. We on derstand there is some doubt about the city being able to collect taxes by law that the power of the city in this respect is questioned, and the city officers are o fearful of failure, that for some years no delinquent list has been made out and published, or eflbrt of any, kind made to collect delinquent tax, other than a request from the officer rather than bring this queftion to an issue, they were willing to receive the tax of all prompt-paying citizens, and let the others pass over as easily as possible. Since the resolutions leferred to were passed, now some three or four montl s we have heard of no single instance in which the Treasurer has levied on personal property, or made any attempt to do so, and w-c have no doubt that i' an attempt of that kind had been made, the public would soon have heard of it through the papers, as a scarecrow to other delinquents. As we understand it, a failure to pay involves the delinquent in no penalty that no per cent, is added for delinquent taxes the law allows none which is virtually offering a premium to citizens not to pay. , ' . As to the best course to pursue to remedy this wrong on the honest and prompt portion of community, we should like to hear at length from ' a heavy tax-payer,' and others, through our columns. A combined plan of operations should be adopted, cither to conpel all to pay, or to require it of none. ' While a portion are willing to pay, we are inclined to the opinion that the council will issue bonds, or pay 25 per cent, advance for work, in orders, as long as their bonds or orders can be used, rather than go to extreme measures to collect We are satisfied that a good many of our heavy tax-payers will pay no taxes this year until they see a determination to make delinquents pay they would be acting unjustly by themselves if they would do otherwise. Don't you think so ? ' '" American Trade with Russia. Our minister to Russia, Mr. Pickens, writes that the increasing settlements and trade in California, and on the Pacific, are bringing us into intercourse with Russian Possessions on the Amour river and the Asiatic coast, as well as with their possessions in America. The trade of the Amour river is immense something like $30,000,000 a year, and growing rapidly. Amencan ships at Cronstadt are more numerous than those of any other nation except . Great Britain. Thirteen ships arrived there this season direct from Charleston and New Orleans loaded with cotton, without having touched at Liverpool at all, as has heretofore been the case. The direct trade must increase every year. Manufactures in cotton are increasing immensely about Moscow; and one may see loads of cotton there every day in the streets, passing to the railroad for that point Baltimore Daily Exchange. JL The following definition of an " Old Line Whig," ascribed to the Hon. Edward Bates, of Missouri, will be recognized as an accurate one in some localities far removed from Missouri : A". Y. Tritiune. " An Old Line Whig is a man trho take his liquor regular!;, and rotes the ftcmocratic ticket occasionally."

OFFICIAL VOTE. j The official vote of tho recent State election is now j all in. Below we give the vote by Congressional Districts, for 'State officers, and Supreme Judges. j

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0MOflOOiCOtD0 ocioocoooococrr.cr CiCiKJtOObOCJitSOOCTiO O -4 U) "4 -4 Ifr- f CC --I Hanna. Griswold. CiCnCOOrfCOCrtCOOOto OOcS''-'WCOhOOO Q O K O Ol C5 GO to O I O The following in the vote for Congress, in the dif- ... . " j districts : " i 1st District Niblaek, Dem 10,339 Hovev, Ind 8,946 2d " "' Ensrlish, Dem 9,292 Wilson, Rep " 7,434 3d , " - Hughes, Dem 8,385 Dunn, Rep 9,363 Carr.Ind...." 1,432 4th ". Holman, Dem. 9,525 Hacklenian, Rep 7,856 5th " "' Develin, Dem 5,921 Kilgore, Rep. '. ... 9,383 6th " Ray, Dem... ...... 9,716 . Torter, Rep...... . 10,776 7th" " : Secrest, Dem............ .. . 7,585 , Davis, Ind...... 10,893 8th :' " Bl;ike,rem.... ...... ....... 10,387 Wilson, Rep 11,028 9th " Walker, Dem 12,610 Colfax, Rep.... 14,541 10th1 ' . Dawson, Dem 9,417 ' ' 1 ': Case, Rep ..,'10,780 11th Coffroth, Dem...... i'. .' 10,038 ' ; Pettit, Rep......... 10,748 The following Judicial officers were elected :. CIRCUIT JUDGES. ; 1 First Circuit -Joseph W. Chapman Democrat. '1 Second " ' G. A. Bicknell, " , Third " ' M. F. Burke, , Sixth' " ' Sol. Claypool, ' ;. Seventh" Jos. S. Bucki.es, ' ." , Eighth " John M. Cowax, Republican. V Tenth " ' Edward W. Wilson, " CIRCUIT PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS. First Circuit Geo. W. Richardson, Democrat. I Fourth " Henry C. Hanna, " Fifth " Wm. P. Fishback, Republican. Sixth " Isaac F. Pierce, " . Eighth " Robert AV. Harrison, " Ninth " Wm. B. Biddle, " Tenth " . James M. Defrees, " Eleventh" Richard P. De Hart, " Twelfth ": John L. Miller, ; " ' i i f '. i common pleas judges. ;,' Flovd David W. Laffoi.lf.t, Republican. . Ohio and Switzenerland J. J. Hayden, Amercan. ( Adams and Allen J. Brackenridge, Democrat. - ; PROCLAMATION. '"' 'r A Pco)le, who have been as highly favored as those of Indiana, in all that makes them free, independent and prosperous, may well, upon one day in each year-a-isemble to return their thanks for these blessings, to! Almightt God: I therefore appoint Thursday, the 25th day of November, A. D. 1858, as a day of Thanksgiving and. Prayer, urginf all to assemble and return thanks to. the Supreme Ruler of the universe, for the blessings He has conferred, and the mercies He has extended to the people of the State of Indiana. , - -.r In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, ,.i . and caused to be affixed the seal seal. of the1 State of Indiana. Done at; the city of Indianapolis, this first day of November, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, the year of the State the fortythird, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-third. By the Governor: ASIIBEL P. WILLARD. Cyrus L. DuxnAM, Secretary of State. Bull's Head. The prosnects of the cattle market this week,' judging from the appearance of things in 1 Forty-fourth street yesterday, are not satisfactory to ' drovers nor butchers, particularly those who wishea to buy catlle of a good quality; for a greater scarcity of that class we never saw. Out of over 2,700 head yarded on Tuesday, we could not pick one hundred first-class cattle, and there were not more than three or four droves that would rate as good fair medium quality of beef. True there were scattered through the yards quite a number of the medium class, but a very large portion of the whole would rank in the third grade, and some of them, anil not a few either, were still lower down in the grades of quality. Two and three year old steer that sell at only $30 a 8 40 a head, when cattle of only decently fair quality sell at prices equivalent to 9 a c. a pound tor the beef, must be pretty poor. Such was the case yesterday. And the case will probably be no better to-day. Although we heard of several hundred more cattle to come in, yet they were expected to be about the same average nualitv. The best, then, will be scarce, and sell readily at 9 a 9J c, and the poorest, an over supply, selling dull enough at prices lower than last week. The number yarded and number exjiccted to ar"ve last evening, it was calculated would make up about 3.500 for this market, and about 3,800 at AlleiWs this week, and near 5,000 for the week in the whole citv. .V. Y. Trilmne.

THE PRESIDENT'S PROCLAMATION. Washington, Saturday, October 30. Whereas, information has reached me from sources which I can not disregard, that certain persons in violation of the neutrality laws of the United States, are making a third attempt to set on foot a military expedition within their territory against Nicaragua, a foreign State with which they are at peace. In order to raise money for equipping and maintaining this ex

pedition, persons connected therewith, as I have rea- . i i i : i i I, i i i , i 1 .

SOU to Deneve, nave jls&uuu miu suiu uonus aim oiuci Abbett, UOlumDus, Vj. yv. xivury win, Aiiumuapcontracts pledging the public land in Nicaragua and 0jj8 Qt Rev. j, ft. Williams, Putnamville, G. Chap.; transit route through its territory as a security of their vm. A. McKenzie, Indianapolis, G. T.; II. W. Hack-

redemption and fullfdment jeyj North Salem, G. C; John II. James, Laurel, G. The hostile design of this expedition is rendered Lieut, manifest by the fact, that these bonds and contracts Cloverdale, Putnam county, was selectedas the place can be of no possible value to their holders, unless the for tue April session. - E resent government of Nicaragua shall be overthrown afternoon session. y force. Besides, the Envoy Extraordinary and After the installation of the officers, the commitee Minister Plenipotentiary of that government in the on memorializing the Legislature, presented the folUnited States had issued a notice, in pursuance of his lowing report which was adopted. " ' instructions, dated twenty-seventh instant, forbidding i -- report. the citizens or subjects of any nation, except passen- -jne committee to whom was referred the subject of gers intending to proceed to Nicaragua over the transit petitioning the next Legislature to provide an Asylum route, from ocean to ocean, to enter its territory with- for uebriates, having considered that subject beg out a regular passport, signed by the proper Minister ieave to report the following; or Consul-General of the Republic, resident in the i y0ur committee regard with abhorence the heartless country from whence they shall have departed. Such doctrine, too common among even temprance men persons, with this exception, will be stopped and com- ; tat tne drunkard is a nuisance, and should be so pelled to return by the same conveyance that took them titated by society. He is a man, though fallen and to the country. . . . degraded; and though debased, in the eyes of strang- - From these circumstances, the inference is irresisti- ne -ls tue center of many hopes and of many at-

blo that persons engaged in this expedition will leave tlie United States with hostile purposes against JNicara"ua. J-iiey can not unuer uie guisa wuieu mc; have assumed, that they are peaceful emigrants, conceal their real intentions, and especially when they know in advance, that their landing will be resisted, and can only be accomplished by an overpowering force. This expedient was successfully resorted to previous to the last expedition, and the vessel in which those composing it were conveyed to Nicaragua, obtained a clearance from the Collector of the Port of Mobile. Although after a careful examination no arms or munitions ot war were discovered on board, yet when they arrived in Nicaragua, they were found to be armed and equipped, and immediately commenced hostilities. ' . ' ' ' ' The leaders of former illegal expedition of the same character, have openly expressed their intentions to renew hostilities against Nicaragua. One of these, who has already been twice expelled from Nicaragua, has invited, through the public newspapers, Ameriepn citizens to emigrate to that Republic, and has designated Mobile as the place of rendezvous and departure, and San Juan del Norte the place to which they are bound. This per.on, who has renounced his allegiance to the United States, and claims to be President of Nicaragua, has given notice to the Collector of tho port of Mobile that two or three hundred of these emigrants will be prepared to embark from that port about the middle of November. . For these and other good reasons, and for the pui pose of saving American citizens who may have been honestly deluded into the belief that they are about to proceed to Nicaragua as peaceful emigrants, if any .... , .,.. it .. : l:u there be, from disastrous consequences, to wmcn iney will be exposed, I, James Buchanan, President of the United States, have thought it fit to issue this, my pro clamation, enjoining upon all officers of the govern- ! . . mem, civil or miuiary, in ineir respeeuvu ucics, iu be vigilant, active and faithful in suppressing these illegal enterprises, in carrying out their standing instructions to that effect, exhorting all good citizens by their respect for the laws, and their regard for the peace and welfare ot the country to aiu tne puDiic au thorities in discharging their duties. In testimony whereof, 1 have set my hand and .caused the seal of the United States seal. ,-.t to be affixed to these presents. Done at the Citv of Washinrton, this, the thirtieth day of October, 1858, and of the Independ ence ot the United btates the eighty-third. By the President : JAMES BUCHANAN. Lewis Cass, Secretary of State. ILLINOIS ELECTION. Chicago. November 4. Legislature: Senate as far as heard from, Dems., i4; Reps., 10, with one dis tinct to hear from. House, Reps.,. 34; items., oo Three districts in doubt. ,- ' The Press and Tribune and the Chairman of the Republican State Committee, acknowledge a Demo cratic majority ot lour in each House. Returns received place the election of Republican Congressmen in the 1st, 2d, 3d, and 4th Districts, and Democrats in the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th, beyond a doubt. The Republican maioritv on the State ticket in the southern counties is somewhat reduced from that of 1856. , Washburn, Rep., for Congress in the 1st District, has 8,500 majority; Farnsworth, Rep., 2d, 8,000; Lovejoy Rep., 3d, 5,000; Kellogg, Rep., 4th, 2,000; Morris, Dem., 5th, 2,000; Harris, Dem., 6 th, 2,000; Robinson, Dem., 7th, 1,500; Fouk, Dem., 8th, 1,800; LoL'an. Dem.. 9th, 8,000. Republican State ticket is elected by about 5,000 maionty. The. Administration vote in the State is not over 2,900. Legislature In the House the Democrats have a maioritv of 5; in the Senate they have a majrity of 3, Springfield, Nov. 4. Republicans here concede the election of Douglas by a majority of 5 in each House. NEW JERSEY ELECTION. Trenton, November 4. In New Jersey the result foots up a total loss to the Democrats. The following Congressmen have been elected by heavy maionties : First District. John H. Nixon, Republican ; Second District, John N. L. Stratton, Republican ; T'lird Dis trict, Uarnett IS. Adram, anti-Liecompton J I mocrat Fourth District, J. R. Riggs, anti-Leeomptou Democrat, vice Huvler, Lecomplon ; Fifth District, AVm. Pennington, Republican, vice Wortendyke, Demo crat. Iu the Legislature the parties will stand : Senate Opposition 8, Democrats 13. House, Opposition about equally divided between Americans and Republicans 35, Democrats 25 ; giving the Opposition five majority on joint ballot. OHIO ELECTION OFFICIAL. " Cleveland. Nov. 4. The official average Tiepublican majority in Ohio is 20,966. michigan"election. Detroit. Nov. 4. The 1st and 2d Congressional Districts are in doubt Howard is probably defeated. Can get nothing definite before morning. , , . . wiscons!nelection. Milwaukee, Nov. 5. First District, complete, gives Potter, Republican, a majority ot 3,232. . , "NETTING HOGS;" . ' Or, in other words, to find the net weight when the gross weight is given, is to some a difficult operation. Anv one who can reau ngures can see ut a jj the following table, what the net weight of a hog is. The table is made from the " Kentucky Rule," that is, for the first hundred pounds deduct twenty-two pounds for gross ; for the second hundred pounds deduct twelve and a half pounds; and for the third hundred pounds deduct six and a quarter. All over the third hundred is net : . ' 1 '

PoimkIs. IIs. oi Pounds. " o. 100 gross will net 70 205 gross will net 162 8 105 " 79 6 210 " " 167 " 3 110 " " 83 12 215 " " 174 14 115 " " 98 2 220 " " 176 9 120 " " 92 8 225 " ' " ' 181 4 125 " : " 96 14 230 " " 185 15 130 " 101 4 235 " " 190 10 135 " 105 10 240 " " 195 5 140 " " 110 1245 " -' " : 200 145 , 114 6 250 " " 209 6 150 " " 118 12 255 " " 214 1 155 . " 123 2 260 " ' 218 12 160 " 127 8 265 " 223 7 165 . 131 14 270 " 223 i 8 170 " , " 136 4 275 . ; . " 232 13 175 140 10 280 " " 237 8 180 " " 143 i285 " : 242 3 185 . 149 6 290 " , . 246 14 190 " " 153 12 295 " " 251 200 " " 158 2 300 " " 256 .

MEETING OF THE GRAND DIVISION OF SONS OF TEMPERANCE.

WEDNrjSDAY MORNING SESSION. The buiness of the morning session was mostly unimportant, consisting chiefly in hearing reports of Grand Officers, and their reference to appropriate committees, and reference of sundry resolutions to committees, when the G. D. went into the election of offiicers, which resulted as follows: T. G. Beharrell, Shelbyville, G. W. P.; J. B. fections to the little circle that call him father or husan or brother. Moreover, the true light m winch he should be regarded is that of a dieased man. This disease is physical, yet it produces mental insanity. His cravings after poisonous potations are the legitimate concequenses of the derangement of his physical functions as surely as thirst is consequent upon fever, and his inability to labor, and his want of mental ca pacity to transact business are consequent upon Ins deranged physical powers. . A o charities have ever been bestowed more cnertutiy by a Christian and philanthropic public than those which support our Slate Asylums. Humanity says that it is privation enough for any family to be denied those social joys that attend health, hence we cheerfully so far share with the suffering as to contribute to the support, and curing, if possible, of those who are insane. Insanity or imbecility from intemperance should not be an exception to this rule, hence we deem it the dictate of pure philanthropy to provide for this class of sufferers, and out of the common funds of those who should bear each others burdens and so tullill the law of Christ. We oiler therefore the following: Resolved: That be a committee to prepare a memorial, and have it as extensively circulated as possible, asking the Legislature to provide an Asylum for Inebriates with the least possible delay, in Indiana. X. A. liOODWIN, Wm. A. McKenzie, ' J. W. Eggleston. The committee on state of the Order, presented the following, which was adopted: Xhe commitee on the state ot the order, would re spectfully report that they have taken such a review of the field of labor as time would allow, and find occasion to congratulate each other, and tho friends of temperanae, on the success that has attended us within the last year. It is needless tor us to recount the struggles ana success of the past, together with seasons of less prosperity which we have experienced. A comparison of the present condition ot the temperance question, with what it was when this Grand Division was first organ ized, must convince every one that our march has been onward, and that much has been accomplished. It is to be regreted that many, becoming weary in well doing, and being impatient in their waitings, have sufferred their organizations to be abandoned, and their divisions to go down, but we are not to infer therefrom an abandonment of the principles and aims of our Order. Were we disposed to do so, we might give many causes for these defections, other than an abandonment of principle or a loss of interest in the temperance qestion. Your committee is of the opinion that much of the seeming defection is attrib utable to the tact that it was thought that, having obtained an eflieent law for the surpression of tippling houses, the work of reformation was so nearly completed as to allow a cessation of active labors. The position of these is more nearly like that of faithful soldiers who, having fought a hard battle and gained as they supposed, a signal victory, take occasion to rest irom ineir lauors anu realize me resua ui meir striiggle. ' ' We are now in a position to realize that, that battle, well fought, though it was, has not released us from further duties. We learn to our regret that the la of the land can not aid us. The manufacture of drunkards is a legitimate business with which law can not interfere. Such atleast is the decision of the Court which is sustained by the people at the recent election. What now is our duty? Shall we give up! Shall the tide of intemperance overflow the land without an effort to stay it? Certainly not. It is fresh in the memory of thousands that under far more discouraging circumstances our Order began its work. Then eveiy village and every cross roads had its tippling house, which was protected by law. We began with all odds against us, we worked like tine men to rescue the victims of these dens from their fearful end, and great was our success. ' Thousands were made to bless us and our organization, and though many have fallen, yet thousands remain as the trophies of our devotion. What prevents a return to these scenes of labor and success? Why may we not organize Divisions as once we did? Though a large per cent, of the new recruits of drunkards may die drnokards, yet many may be saved. This is now our mission, and we should address ourselves to it with all our power. . , : In some respects, the times are propitious for a renewal of our efforts to reform drunkards. We are deprived of all hopes of assistance, from law, for it least a scries of years. Effoits will be made, no doffbt,. to return the long exploded license system, but such laws will never be accepted by temperance men. The power is now in the hands of the enemies of prohibition, and the must have a trial at least.of their plans. Meanwhile we will labor to prevent and cure the evils of intemperance as far as we can, educating the public niind for the future. - On the subject rferred to us, we would report, first, That we prize purely temperance papers, and most cordially recommend The Crusader as every way worthy the confidence of the members of the Order, yet we will not withhold our conviction that the first duty of the temperance men of Indiana is to sustain such local papers as are reliable on this question, and it is their duty to discountenance all others. We would offer the following resolution: Resolved, That we will labor in future for the organizition of Divisions, and for the revival of a healthy temperance sentiment in the State. T. A. GOODWIN, ! MAREUS SHERWOOD,' : ALLEN C. HALLECK. A proposition to increase the salary of G. S. to $1 50, and to allow the G. W. P. $50 per year was lost, as also was a proposition to increase the per capita tax to ten cents per member. On motion, the vote fixing the next session at Cloverdale wasr reconsidered, and Evansville was se-1 lected as the place, and the fourth Wednesday in April, at nine o'clock A. M., was agreed upon as the . time, and the Sherwood House, in that city, was agreed upon as the stopping place in that city. Scn-X tind. - . Newspapers. A man, says Doctor Franklin, cats , up a pound of sugar, and the pleasure he has en joyed is ended; but the information he gets from a ' newspaper is treasured up in the mind, to be used whenever occasion or inclination calls for it. A newspaper is not the wisdom of a man, or two men; it is the wisdom of the age of past ages, too. A family without a newspaper is always half an age behind the times in general information; besides, they never think much, nor find much to think. And there are the little ones growing up in ignorance, without a taste for reading. Besides all these evils, there's the wife, who, when the work islone, has to sit down with her hands in her Lip, and nothing to amuse her mind from the toils and cares of the domestic circle. Who would be without a . newspaper? f3T In New York the Republican Governor is elected by a reduced majority. The opposition gam' several Congressmen, how many is not definitely known.

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