The National Banner, Volume 4, Number 9, Ligonier, Noble County, 30 June 1869 — Page 2

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*Resistonce to Tyrants is Obedlence to ok i J. B._sﬁ, ¢ LL;‘,EDITI oR AA A A A A e WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1869, _ GRAND CELEBRATION UOR TRDEPENTER U 1 G r | S el ; At LIGONIER, IND.,, On Saturday, July 3d, 1869. For particulars [eée Programmes and Posters. . Let Byerybody Come ! “W(');ﬁ‘ lAN’S RIGHTS,” Under the abgve title we find in a recent dssue of the Mishawaks Hnterprise a very sensible-and timely article upon a subject ' which has recently attracted” s large share of public attention. We heartily commend its eareful perusal to our lady readers in general, but more especially to that class of females who have a desire to wade into the dirty pool of ‘politics ; and we| submit to their candid and thoughtful judgment whether or not it is better forithem to unsex themselves in violation of the laws of nature and nature’s God, The Enterprisc says: - Mrs. Livermore in the great Woman's Rights Convention at Indianapolis, last week, told how | that wi#@n she became a mother, slie “Curned her face to the wall and wept ecause it was a girl,”—This is a very strangestatement for a woman of Mrs, Livermore’s agknowledged grace, womanly attainments, and übility, to make. It is generally supposed that both sexes are pleased with their place in the grand distribution of things—and it must be acknowledged to be a very natural supposition. Wept because it was a: giri—that was a woma_ﬁly weakness. Mrs, Livermore meant to illustrate by the statement, Liow deplorable woman's situation was, without “the ballot. This was » side thrust at us ‘men, who have tlie ballot and the ‘power, and who in Mus. Livermore’s opinion, sadly misuse that power. ‘T'hat-this is the case cannot be successfully disputed—the right dees not always win and if we were satisfied such would: be the case, or that the real in.t(;;z:ts of woman, dear woman, would be enbanced, by obtaining the ballot, we should at once bccomg an earnest heart-warm worker that this end ‘might be attained.— But when we reflect how unnatural it is, that woman should be transferred from lier natural place in the home,—made dear and holy by her presence—its quiet, its sanctity, and where she is Priestess, ito take part/in the bitter strife,ithe passion” generating influence of a | political campaign, we shudder. “Do not tell us' that if woman was allowed the ballot, her presence at the polls wounld tame down these things, or quell the heated passion of the men, or tone down their language. * Bhe would appear there as the rival of man, competing with him for ‘the meeds of office, or to defeat his aﬁel'ished plans, When we know whiat means men sometimes use.to defeat each otlir, is it possible to use the ¥ame «means to defeat & woman? . And Lh(}{? to think of the altered ¢onditionof'socicty; the mother off on a campaign tour, house in disorder; children ditty, ragged and saucy, in the care of seryants—husband wondering what man his wife speaks with, or against, to-night. * But we do not wish to enlarge upon this subject, and will jonly say that the riging generation will nced, as well as the past has necded, all the care and the talent thie mothers, the natural. instructors of their early years, may have to devote, after attending to their Louschold duties. Let Mrs. Cady. Stanton, Miss Anthony, and the rést of ‘these well-mean-ing “but mistaken women’s rights agitatogs, rather agitate the stibject of how we shall educate the rising generation, to a pure, ‘a’lofty and enlightened manhood and womanhood,~—the surest way to obtain’ “rights,” and the best way to promoté the interests of a glorious nationality, ' o e j

Mrs. Surrail’s Apparitieon at Washg i [ington. 'ﬁ Dispéfches from Washington the other day, (mnnuiiccd the fact that orders w had been issued from theé War Department, dircbt‘ing the I'cr‘mwnl of [l‘os’pit‘al Steward W, P. Lowry, from the service. The reason of this unblushingly outrageous. removal, is .ﬂm; Mr. Lowry, o few days since, maurried Miss Annie Sarratt, Ll tunocent Qaagtiter of that tnfocens woman whom: Edwin M. Stanton and the great party of moral ideas murdered at Washing ten a few years ago, Wiell, after all, it isnot strange that ‘these people should wish to get rid of. the man who ‘dared to lift this poor, fuultless girl from her great grief to be his wife. s presence in official circles Swould have il)e effect of vividly bribging before them—with a chill of horror—the vision of a guiltless ’;womsm hanging by -the neck, ‘and her dying' struggles con: fined by being enveloped in & bag. The shock 'to their disordered “nervous systems would T)QCOlncjintoleﬁ‘&ble, and they wonld be led to exclaim in the language ot Macbeth, e . “‘ln the afliiction of these terrible dreams = "l;}})n()t;hske ﬂ: 1;3&!1:;1‘);: ]Betfte;j b'? withttthe dead, “Than on fhe torture of the mind to e = In restless eestacy, Maljce, envy, anL{ their lust for power can touch her farther,” ~ . | i ; E 5 " - . g 2 | The iton Peace Xubilee, ‘The greré musical convention closed on the 19th with a grand concert by the pubic school ehildren, numbering 8,000 voices,. The children presented a beantifal and picthrqufuef”appcnmnce. The audienco nunibered about £O,OOO. The full orchesira, Parepd, Phillips, and Ole Bull assisted. The multitade have dispersed, and Boston' is again left to its own reMORIREs 1 L Tlie Radieals ¢f Pennsylvania have re nominated John W, Geary for Governor, ‘3 Henfy W. Williams for Suprenie Judge. In Ohjo, Gov. Hayes has also been renominated by the Radicals, and miost of the old officers have been retainW B oo S e St Iy rsed Uy o Tuge nanber of g e D Al R e S L e e A g BT R o méxﬂ% of e sign Sl ‘,4& ) Wh bt

A NEW SECRETARY OF THE N, vy. ~ Grant has a new Becrctary of thé Nayy—the famous or lafamioms Ziorle, we don't know which to call Mmé%ﬁ%f“ ‘tendered his resignatior, q littlé over a week agb. He has agaiy startled the country by appointing ir, his stead an obscure individual, hailir.g from Camden, N.J. If the Presideo’, were possessed with any of the comryonest attributes of a states man, or ¢%en the moiety of a man of limited sagacity, he ‘certainly would not thus transcend the bounds of sll precedent by | disregarding the wishes and good opinion. | of his countrymen, by stubbornly @fﬂ%@“ﬂ,f repiitition in Tis cabinet. R - In order to show with what loathing disgust his conduct is held by his party, we quote entire the following satirical sarcasm from the leading Republican paper of the West, the Chicago Zribune, of last Sgturday: | Thé" appointment of Mr. Adolph E. Borie was a surprise.to the wakld,—the only one with which . that gentleman’s brief “biography is filled. But his resignation had been so long and. patiently waited for that it was also a surprise that it came :g slowly. Andnow the country has‘a new* surprise in the appointment of the Ezlon. ‘Geo. M. Robeson, of Camden, N. J., formerly Attorney General of the State, which takes half its name from the citX of his residence. : Ithough the name of the Hon. Geo. M. Robeson has not heretofore figured - prominently in the history of his country, an intimate acquaintance with human nature in general enables us to state that ‘he. was born at a very early period r§ life, | that be survived in safety all the comimon perils of hig infancy, and that throughout this period he won the affections of those | in whose charge the fortunes of life bad “placed him. f:ew of them doubted that he would one day attain toa very high - position in the government of the country, though it cannot/ be authentically shown thatthe predictions pointed specially to’ the office of the Secretary of the Navy as th* for which his great talents and maritime experiences naturally fitted him. At this early period of life, the attention of his nurse, if not of himself, was very much } given tonaval affairs, and the benefits of the experience thys acquired will doubtless be of service to him in his. new and enlarged field. As he entered fairly up-, on his growing period, the rapidity with ‘ which lie rose in wisdom and stature was the subject of occasional if hot frequent comment among all who watched the “toddling and for.a time uncertain footsteps of the future Secretary of the Navy. The old phrase, “As quick as you can say - Jagk Robinson,” though nog- founded on ~any prior incident in the fife of thesub- | ject of this sketch, nevertheless indicates very happily the rapidity with which he shot upward into @ national reputation after President Grant’ nominated him to the office of Secretary of the Navy — (George M. Robeson stands therefore before the country to-day a man of a national reputation as unsullied as the new fallen snow. True, the dispatch which thrills the country with the intelligence of his appointment conveys to us the pleasing information that he had already enjoyed the high distinction -of being Attorney General 'of New Jersey,—a result which we might have predicted from the -fact that he resided at Camden. He would only neéd a’country house at Amboy to make him Governor. But tbe trifling episode in ‘the history of the Hon. George M. Roleson was not mentioned by way of laadation: or as an argument, however convincing, that he, would perform the functions of Secretary of the Navy with distinguished credit to himself, and with ‘honor to the American name as pertain"ing to one of the leading maritime nations on the globe. Far from it. It isassumed that the people of America " know the fitness of the Hon. George M. Robeson for his important office. But as there might be several George M. Robesons in the country, and, in fact, it is believed there areat least eleven, each of whom might be subjected to the cost of a journey to Washington and an unsuegessful effort to be sworn in as Secretary of the Navy, the official announcement has kindly designated the name and place of residence of the genuine George M., and thus saved the department the expense of transportation to ard fro on tlie othérs. For it must be undepstood that no. ‘George M. Robeson pretending to be Secretary of the Navy is genuine unless labelled and countersigned withe the signature of; the manufacturer, As, in this case, the President himself makes the selection, we think there can be no doubt that he has got the light and genuine George M, and that the ‘country’ will rejoiee with oursclves shat the President took the precaution, while e had Lim, to swear him inj since a bird. in the palm ofthe hand is at all times better than sevéral warblers in the adjacent shrubbery. Having thus given our read CIY Gy Actatl fn ome pm?ece;hry mlpb;T_C to our new and distinguished Secrctary of the Navy, we adjare them not to keep their flags standing long 4t half'aast in | grief over the declination of Borie, lest it might appearito evince a semblancd of the absence of that enthusiasm with whicha 'gratetul republic miglit naturally be expected to regara the future achievements of the Hon. George M. Robeson. e Ro: est mort ; vive le Roi! Borie s dead. Hurrah for Robesen! .~ | 14

The Valparaiso Vidette contains uhder its editorial head the following admirably written article on fast boys and girls, the attentive perusal and study of [which might be of benefit to adarge poition of the people in évery community : This is o fast age.;* [he old lumbering stage-coach has beéen superseded by the iron horse, which goes dashing oer the iron rails at the rate of forty miles an hour. Steam has annihilated distance, and the lightning has been eaughtrand tamed and taught to read and write. We cannot endure the old prosaic way of living in our grandfather’s days. We must have a fust horse, a gold watch and & diamond ring. “The child is father to the man” now, and Charles Augustus knows more at twelve than his father at thirty.. He ‘sports lavendar kids, a buff moustache and a switch of a cane. He speaks of his father as the “old governor,” and by the ‘time he ie twenty has nad a dozen ilirta: tions. Tho girls, too, have -caught the' prevailing epi’(lemic. Their grandmoth‘ers wore the linsey-woolsy dresses, and ‘took pride in beabmihg proficient in the mysteries of house-keeping: Susan Maria. pores aver the last new noyel, plays and sings sentimental n%s. and discusses the: last new fashion. Tler hands are white and delicate, and siie is quite proud ot her ignorance of the domestic arts.” She falls in love with-a fellow whose head is’ as brainiess as g summer gqhiash, gets married at eighteen, and assymes the duties ot a wife, with as little ides of the new g'stion as‘g;ﬂfdrﬁb. has of }geometiy. gg ‘ “her lrasband is so unfortunate as not to be blessed avithmush of this world's goods, Aakeipies Sl igsplbie, folit, and rushing on madly throngl Jife, bound.up g Little six by nine sclfishness, doing oty i b baeil wrw doodt B s o thind sl hanos %estasm i ﬁzﬂ unwegg:;%%hmm o yell for ug to diaw down ghe reins and best feelings oPour pature for the sake of e e iy }?«:&'f?’ﬁ* S 'b e s "Dhiicaso on 'the 4th of Tuly next. A, e L s Se s

The Power of Money or up&ﬁ‘ﬁ; ~ But few ealculate the rapid increase of money when put at inferest and the gains “constantly reinvested semi-annually of annually. Those who pay interest on money or indebtedness, saysthe Indianapolis Sentinel, know that it is a devouring clement which rapidly consumes the substance’ upon which it fastens. Intaer 7 est never stops. It goes on whether it is sunshine or storm, whether there is prosperity or adversity, alike on Sundays and week days, in sickness and it_; hm?.;.;d"{; P i aftel. Wos-3Fedken until stopped by payment and cancellation, or until it has | eaten up all there is to constime. How many hundreds of thousands are ruined by the payment of usurious interest, and even lawfual interest, to sustain credit or in| struggles to overcome misfortunes! Interest is like the worm that never dies. It spreads desolation in its track. It adds nothing to the general weslth| While it consumes the substance of thdse who get in its clutches, it is not a producer. It adds to the capital of thase who receive the tribute, but it does not cause & blade of grass or a kernel of wheat to grow. ot i

‘The cheapest rates for money in Indianapolis and throughout the West are ten and twelve per cent, ‘and from that up to whatever the necessities of the bprrower and the greed of the lender may dictate. Even in New York, where the capital of the country concentrates, mopney is dear. The Commercial Advertier, of that city, in its issue of the 18th inst, says: yai : “Wall street borrowers have to pay rates equivalent to 30 per cent. per|annum‘on Governmeunt collateralg, and fiftytwo per cent. on stocks, while the|demand from the country is increasing.”’ Can such enormous, consuming rates be paid without ruin to those whose necessities compel such a sacrifice? Throughout the Western States the legal rate of interest has “been fixed at six per cent., because in the common judgment that was the highest that borrowers could afford to pay. Six and seven per cent are the legal rates in all the States, although in some the interest laws have bee#n 80 modified or relaxed as to allow higher rates, up_to ten per cent, by special a%ree’ ment. Ja e

The high price of money is the éurse of the country. Its evil influence is felt in withdrawing money from the channels of trade and industry, and. Idying its clammy hand upon business enterprise. The most indifferent observer, of passing events cannot fail to notice thé stagnation of business and all trading andﬁmat:faeturing enterpriscs throughout ' the West: The scarcity of money, to.-use. a‘meg‘_cjhautile phrase, is caused by the diversion of capital from trading, mercantile nmi manufacturing operations to ‘investment in government securities that pay a high rate of interest, which is certain and free from taxation. Bonds and natiopal ‘banking are .absorbing the surplufs capital of the country, and will as loﬁg!as the investment pays as well as it doefs'no'w,’ ‘and is exempt from public burdens.

To illustrate the accnmulative incréase of money at interest we ‘publish herewith some statements and calcuélatioms which we find in the New York Mercantile Journal, the correctness of | which that paper, which is good authority, vouches for. One fact in con-}\ecti'on with the calculations must not be overlooked, and that is, simple and conrpound interest are not strangers, but as inscparable as the Siamese twins. - As/a basis of the calculations, the wealth of a New York merchant prince is taken, which is estimated at forty .millions of dollars, and upon the supposition that hefhasqthe sagacity amd opportunity to inyest his present wealth and that which accumu. lates in safe and permenent investments, so that the interest may be collected annually without losses, and at ;oiicc reinlested. ki,

| Here are the results: | ‘ At 10 per cent. per annum it the expiration of one hundred years, the present sum of $40,000,000 would rdach a total of 546,132,000,000 or more than two hundred and twenty five times the amount of eur presént national dobt. L At 20 per cent. per annum [it would only require fifty-seven years for the accumulation to amount to the enormous sum .of $1,310,720,000,000, an amount sufficiently large to pay one ‘thousand dollars each for every man,' woman'and child in the known world, taking the usual estimate of 1,000,000,000 souls, and we would “then have a balance large enough to cloth all in silks and broadcloth, with an additional present of a first class (hunting case) gold watch, with an claborate- chain ‘appended, for each inhabitant, even at the present inflated currency prices.’ vt e | At forty per cent. per annuum, in a period of fifty years, the total would assume gigantic proportions, being no less a sum than $898,000,000,000,000, an amount several hundred times the estimated value of all the real and persopal property of the globe, even after 'adding ong thougand dollars each for gl its inhabitants, or a siim: more than three hundred and fifty-nine’ thousand and two hundred times the amount of our.national debt. .

The tendency of the times, and the present 'condition of affairs, is mainly owing to the class legislation of the past eight years, is make the rich richer and the poor poorer. The income returns illustrate this, The money or capital of the country concentrating in a’few hands and the accumulations or surplus earnings of the people are seeking the profitable investusents that the Government offers. There must be some plan devised and put in execution for the cheapening of money to stop its accumulation in few hands, and we know of no better way o accom;plish “this desirable object or end than the funding of the publjc ‘debt at a low rate of interest, the effécts of which will be to make a steady moncy market at a low rate of interest, and give impulse totrade -and- -fmtfnufacturing, enterprises generallysn vt e {ik i | L — - G—— i Tuxr daughter of a wealthy merchant in Boston bas . eloped with a colored ‘groom, that her father had in his employ. Buricnt, while “voting for Grant," said n darkey wa fist 05 good a 8 8 white man, His beavtiful little .daughtes. of sweet e RTRE 0, apa 18 BOW GlStracieq an( Ants to snoo?’emnsagp&amw&* niggers” 46 Oliesbomdingy. Bimß. heh His datling little daughter in his odiforous embrage,. and there:is nothing left - to oomfort him w 8 wWas in, - deanwilie the Pl el the bondlolder dtaws bis gold on coupe B R (el Tl S e

* "The Hon. Alex. H, Stephens has written 8 letter, covering several columns, in re. ply to Judge Nicholas, o f Kentucky, both of whiich appeared in the National Intelli_gencer. We have only space for the conclusion of Mr. Stephens’ Jetter, but wisk ik was in our power to| place the entire document in the hands of every man wh feels any concern in the future ol this country. With desoni}}ion is the lani made desolate, because there are non¢ who -thinketh in their hearts, may be truly applied to the mejority at the presant day, which yields but little encouragement ‘to the siuoeﬂfe and thoughtful student to the science of Government to appear before the public. His warnings are treated as complainings, or ignored as the murmers of som*e dyspeptic unable himself to enjoy what seems to be the property of the mun:ry, and - therefore wishes to impress all| with his gloomy forbodings. Mr. Stephens says truly there is no difference between centralism and

l imperialism, between consolidation and empire, yet the party now entrusted with the management of our political affairs pronounces for consolidation and central- | ization as a cardinal doctrine, and if it i succeeds, there is nothing more certain | than that the Republic has vanished: = - This new idea of sq constituting a fed- | eral republic as to make of its separate members “one nation| as to all foreigh concerns, and to keep them distinct as to domestic ones,” with a division of the powers delegated into “legislative, exec‘ative and judicial departments,” with a perfect machinery of government to operate within preseribed limits; in the execution of the delegated powers, constitutes the most striking difference between our present Federal Union and all former republics of |its class. It marks the greatest stride of progress in free institutions ever before made. . It is thls which has so impressed the minds and excited the admiration of intelligent foreigners in. contemplating the wonderfual workings of the Américan system. This is the feature to which the learned and philosophical De Tocgueville refers when, speaking of our Constitution, he says: “This Constitution, which may at first be confounded with the Federal Constitutions which} haye |preceded it, rests, in truth upon a wholly novel theory, which may be considered as a great discovery in modern science. * * And this difference produced the most momentous consequences.” : Of the same feature/Lord Brougham has recorded his opiifion in the following words of high import: ' . . “It'is not at all refinement that a federal union should be formed ; this is the natural result of men's joint operations in a very rude state of society. But the regulation of such a union upon preestablished principles, the formation of a system of government and'legislation in which the different|subjects shall not be individuals but States, the application of legislative principlés to such a body of States, and the devising means for keeping 'its integrity as|a federacy while the rights and powerg of the individual States are maintained entire, -is the very greatest refinement| in social policy to which any state of ¢ircumstance has ever given rise or to which any age has ever given birth.”—Broughton's Political Philosophy, V 01.38, Page 336. This grand conception of so forming, and constituting gur union of States ' whieh so impressel|De Tocqueville, and' ~which Lord Bro‘ugfham " considered “the very greatest refinement in social policy” “to which any age has ever given birth,” originated with Mr. Jefferson. It came from the samejmaster mind whose master hand drew the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and in 1768 set forth with 80 much clearness gnd power the true, if 'not at present the arthodox, principles of the whole structure of our Federal organization in the [entire series of Kentucky’s famous resplutions, before leferred to, and which were so thoroughly endorsed and established by the country in 1801. To the admijnistration of the Gov ernment in conformity with these principles, or with but slight ~departures from them, “the momentous consequences” spo‘ken of by De Tocqueville, distinguishing our unparalleled career for sixty years in growth, prosperity, happiness and real greatness is mainl)i attributable. ; And now, Messrs. Editors, do you ask Oui bono # - Why so much written upon the dead issues-of -the past, when questious of so much magnitude of a practical character press upon the public mind? If so, the reply is two-fold.. First, to vindicate the truth of history, 'which is it setf a bigh duty on the part of any ope who has power to do it; and, in the sec ond plage, to show the pepple of these States, in this vindjcation, not only the true cause, ‘the real “Causa Causans,” of, the late war, -but the real causé of their present troubles. The Federal machine ry for the last ten years has been abnormalin Its, action. It must be brought back to the Jeffersonian doctrine and made to conform in its workings with the organic principles of its structure, before there can possibly be a return of the days of peace, harmony, prosperity and happiness which formerly marked our course. There is no othier hope for constitutional liberty on this continent. Judge Nicholas may “dream dreams” about anothef constitutional amendment, providing a new mode of clecting the President, but the remedy lies in no such device as that. It lies simply in bringing back the Government in its administration to its origi- | nal first principles. This is to be done not by secession, however rightful and efficient a remedy that might be. That is to be wholly abandoned., Nor lis it to be done by violence of any kind, except the forge of reason apd the l'pQWer of truth, It is to be qone if at ail, atthe ballot box. Free institutions are more gengrally - lost than established, or strengthened by a nesors to physical force. They are eminently the achievement of vietue, pg.?}: otism, and reason.. That'our institutions, and even nom(ilnal form of government, is now in great danger, the prodent, sagacions, and‘,wisefegverywhsfg virtually ads -mit. “Anable editorial in yonr own pa per, not long since,lgut the pertinent and -grave question, “Whither are we drift‘ing?” To this question T take the occa~sion for once to.give you a direct and _positive answer. We are drifting to consolidation and empire, and will land there . ‘at no distant period as certainly as the | “sun will set this day, unless the people of the several Btates awske to ﬁm{’e‘ ap preciation of the danger, and save themselves from the impending catrastrophe --.bxaumstia,gm-mwﬁﬁémz of public affairs. This they gan pro 1&53?‘@1: » ab the ballot-box, Al friends ﬁmtz “tuticnal liberty, ﬂi ion and ' State, must unite in his grand effort.— principles of their Governinent, and pro- | vide secarity for_the futuro by’ studying | ‘and correcting themm&'mm o . This is the mg%%;@um | for the continuance of even our present nominal form of %mmggm : S D e e end of either, as well as all of these, isthe | gk despotism.; L g ive you the words | of truth 5,%‘1}”%@& roceivod or neeqged no 1L De rendered eternally | ﬁag the devélopment of thie futare, | e A i ) Sen e LTRe e B Db (e Liw s Ty S il 40 b e sl aeae et e a

“ > ‘"“ Ty - e .“h g mulm ‘. T R T el (Mothoßdilorof the Tmen) - - TreMoNT Housg, Chicago, June 16.— ‘While spending a few days in.your city, and?knowing_the‘igjﬁxfeot,m of most of the peorle of the Northwest with legard to the stafus of the people South, and the character of the soil, I will give | them, through the columns of your paper, a true desc;i‘ption ot west Tennessee, the condition the people, their present hoFes and future prospects. e have resided in west Tennessee 40 ~years, and know the people in all the Western counties as, well, perhaps, as any { man living. * ‘ J . Weare now engaged in the paths of peace, and working, as best we can, to rebuild the waste places and make beautiful again our once prosperous section. We desire immigration; and with that view societies have been formed in almost every county, and agents will be sent north this summer to represent us truly before the fair-minded men of that por: tion of the Union. We know that bad men have come among us, for selfish purposes, have slandered us by letters published in northern papers, thereby poison ing the minds of thousands of homest men. But these Iﬂisretpresentations are rapidly giving way before the power of truth, and we look hopefully to the future of west Tennessee. ]

- The truth is, we ardently desire to see gentlemen from the North come and settle among us. All stories about Union men not being safe down South are fabrications for base, selfish and political purposes. If 4 man comes from the North, South, East or West and clans with the ignorant negroes, we simply give him a wide ' berth, have no social intercourse with him, but do him no personal harm. If he prefers the. association of negroes to the company of white men, we let him enjoy it to his heart’s content. Bo much for the status of our people. Now for a brief description of west Tennessee, This fertile peninsula, bounded by two rivers, (Mississippi and Tennesse,) and by the States of Kentucky and Mississippi, is certainly not surpassed, if equaled, by any other division of our great State, for its-agricultural resourcea&-{:s' climate and s&ir%]{aces it between the subsistence region of the northwest and the true planting region of the southwest. Here all the substantial comforts of life may be raised in abundance, and here (at the present highly remunerative price of the great staple —cotton) money may be made to the amount that will satisfy any reasonable mind not distempered with the cravings of morbid avarice. With the exception of wet, bottom lands, nearly the whole surface of west Tennessee . will yield a good living to agricultural skill and energy. And these wet lands are destined, at no distant day, with the influx of skilled labor, (which we éxpect,) to become the most valuabie of the whole country, so that the proportion of waste and unproductive land in this division of the State is destined to be far less than in any other ; for in the east and middle Tennessee a much larger proportion is rendered unavailable by the cropping out of limestone rock, preventing the use of the plow. : To give a more specific idea under this head, I will say that it is the estimate of practical citizens of Davidson county, (one of the best counties of midd%ennessee,) that about one-tenth onlysof its area is good, arable land, the balance being made up of sharp declivities, and rocky or sterile surface. From all this it may be predicted that the temperate climate and productive soil of west Tennessee, with its great facilities for trans portatlon of products and the high price of cotton and tobacco, will invite a:large immigration from points Noith.. The northern tier of counties adjoining Kentucky are fine tobacco counties ; the middle and southern counties are better for ¢otton—all produce wheat and corn in ‘aLundance, and the whole country could be made a fine stock region. It may be asserted safely, that no farm in west Tennessee is more than 15 miles a railroad depot, or navigable river, so that the country is fully blessed with facilities for moving and exchanging its valuable products. Rt e I wonld, before closing thisarticle, call the attention of capitalists and skilled mechanics of the northwest to west Tennessee, as & land of promise for manufactu--ring enterprises. Here (with the raw. material at our doors,) and in the country, below, traversed by railroad, will be. opened an extensive market for a great variety of manufactures and machinery. There is now a great. demand “for laborsaving impliments, growing out of the changed system of labor, | , The health of the country is. proverbially good. We have never had cholera or yellow fever in west Tennessee, save a few cases at points on the Mississippi river. Lands are now cheap, ranging from $5 to $25 per acre. Jackson is the geogeaphical centre of this very desirable -country, with great railroad facilities, excellent schools and colleges, and -the best coiinty of land in west Tennessce.” The population of the place is rapidly increasing, there having been over 500 houses built since the close of the war. It has become a great point to sell and ship cotton, and it is confidently believed that it will be a city of 25.000 inhabitants in less than five years. We invite honest men from the northwest to come and cast their lots with us. -W. W. GATES, Editor West Tennessee Whig, Jackson, . Tennessee. = ~ Gt .

: MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. : New Albany closes her cemeteries -against the public because they have become places of assignation for prostitutes. " Kansas City, Missouri, has a young lady somnambulist with a propensity to take midnight rides thraugh the streets of the town in her mght clothes, The Pope recently urged a grand nejee ta become ‘a nun, but she gave him to understand that she would become a husband bctter.‘ : : Central Park, New York, hasa new thorough bred elephant. - Being only thirty eight years old, it has not yet got very large. Its weight is eigiteen thousand poupds, . > 0 TG ;

Twe minnie balls, fired from opposite armies before Petersburg, during the war, and which met in mid air with such foree as to weld them together, have ‘been on exhibition at Richmond, Virginia,

A man hearing of ‘another who was a hundred years old, said contemptuously, ‘Pshaw | what a fuss' about’ nothing! why, if my grandfather was alive, he would now be a hundred and fifty years Old;” ; 3 j A Printer who employed a number of female compositors, lately inquired of a friend if he had fany daugﬁlters who would make good type setters” To which his acyuaintance replied, “No, but I have a wife who would make an excellent devil.” s Most of the leading merchants of San Francisco hlave signed an agreement not to receive silvér at par in larger sums than ten dollars,. This move has been found necessary from the fact that many “close business men,” buy up silver at ten per. cent. discount and ﬁ?y all their bills with it. By this little dodge, on ay days some of ‘the extensive houses {gn(] themselves..flooded with argentic “lthy ; Duﬁn‘%‘ﬁthe late war ‘a number of soldiers..enlisted in California and served with, Mamhwgs ‘regiments. . On ze. ceiving their final ¢ nclidigs they wete ol lowed travel pay to California, amm»% g to 855,000, By tho Second. Compiroller with the &gﬁﬂbﬁﬁvﬂéfﬁew e e Pl Ml & settloment of ‘her claims, objécts to His um being dedusted for them.

THE ASSASSINATION mrmcx( REVIVED. " Edmund Spangler on the Stand. . Wmmﬁox,.l une 23.-Edmund Spangler, ofie of the alleged conspirdtors in the plot to aesassinate President Lgncoln’.gwb‘lf was sentenced by a Military Commission /in 1863 to six years’ imprhozgent_at the ‘Dry Tortugas, and pardo by President Johnson in March last, has made a full statement, under oath, of his trial _and imprisonment, in which he asserts his entire innocence. This will b? published _here to-morrow. jpall e

- Spangler, it will be remembered, was a carpenter, or scene shifter, at Ford’s Theater, and was on the stage when Booth jumped from the box after shooting the President. He also took care of | his horse, and brought the latter to the theater on the afternoon, & few hours’ evious to the assassination. The evig:nce was ciraumstantial ‘s t Spang-. ler, one witness intimating \Lthat he attempted to obstruct the pursuit of Booth across the stage. The wilitary commission seemed to have some doubt of Spangler's guilt, as he was sentenced to six ‘years imprisonment, while Mudd, Arnold | and O'Laughlin were sentenced for life. - -In the opening of his statement Spangler says that he heard Payne, Harold and Atzerot, who were cxecuted, implicate -the famous witness, Weichman, in ‘that part of the plot to abduct the President. Weichman’s evideuce caused the conviction of Mrs. Surratt. Spangler opens his statement as follows. Hesays: I have deemed it due to truth to prepare for publication the following statement, at & time when I'hope the temper of the people will give me a patient hearing, bf the arrest, trial and imprisonment for alleged complicity in the plot to assassinate President Lincoln, I have suffered much, but I solemnly assert now, as I always havé since I was arraigned for trial at the Washington Arsenal, that I am entirely innocent of any fore or after knowledge of the crimel which John Wilkes Booth committed, save what I knew in common with everybody after it took place;and I further s?l-emnl'y assert that John Wilkes Booth nor any other person never mentioned to| me any plot or any intimation of any plot for the abduction or asassination of President Lincoln, that I did not know when Booth leaped down to the stage from the box at the theater that he shott Mr. Lincoln ; and that I did not in any. way, so help me God, assistin his escape ; and further, I declare that I am entirejly innocent of any and all charges made against me'in that connection. I never knew Payne, Surrat, Atzerodt, Arnold or Harold, or any of the so-called conspirators, nor did I ever see any of them l.tmtil they appeared in custody. While imprisoned with ‘Atzerodt, Payne anq& Harold, and after the trial was over, I was allowed a few minutes exercise in the prison yard. I heard the ghree asserting Mrs. Surratt’s entire innocence, and acknowl--edge their own guilt, confining their crime as they did to themselves; but implicating the witness, Weichman, in the ‘ knowledge of the original plot to abduet, and with furnishing information from ‘the Commissary ‘General of prisoners, where he wasa clerk. = | ;

Spangler then goes on ﬁo detail his imprisonment, how he was arrested, released and re arrested ; the sufferﬁ)’g he endured from the padded nook drawn over his head during his_incarceration, and the punishment inflieted” on Frisonem at the Dry Tortugas. He mentions that punislrment was to load a prisoner with irons, then tica rope around his body and throw him into the water and let him sink, but before drowning to draw him out again. He gives names and dates to support these assertions. | :

The President’s Lack of Veracity. There is corsiderable excitemedt at Mt. Vermm,.(_)hi'o, over the removal of Mrs, Hood, late postmistress of that city, and the appointment of N%,mh Boynton, a brawling, radical politician. Mrs. Hood is the widow of a soldier, and was appointed to the post office pbout two years ago on account of her g_or{d character and the needs of herself and| her orphallas.—— While she wae--in officd, no charge or complaint was ;nade?gﬁ%‘st her, and she kept herself aloof from parties. None supposed that she would not be continued in office by Grant, but, to make all sure, she visited Washington jome weeks ago ‘and received his ‘positivljg promise that. she should not be disturbed. Shc returned home, conﬁding I#l his word and assuring her family and friends that all was right, but to her utter amazement, she was removed in a. fel'w days without previous warning, -_nnd%no éxplanation was given her or has gince been given her. Such breach of fait 1 toward a woman, such downright lyiTg.to":a soldier’s ‘widow, is indeed utterly disgraceful, A meeting of the citizens' was held a few evenings ago in the Court House at Mt. Vernon, which is thus sketched by a correspondent of a mdicar paper, the Cincinnati Commercial ¢ |

One of the largest i%dign‘htion meet‘ings ever held in M¢t. Vernon was held in the Court House on Saturday evening, June sth.. The Hon. Henry B. Curtis, Presidert of the Knox County National Bank, presided. ‘ The meeting was composed of Republicans, and held to protedt against the removal of Mrs. M. L. ,H?od, the present efficient postmistress at Mt¢. Vernon.— Mrs. Hood is the widow of one of our brave soldiers who died while in service, and as amark of the high esteem in which his services were held by/the Government, his widow had been appointed Postmistress of this eity, and h%’ogiven universal satisfaction. Strong resolutions, deploring the removal and 're pectfully requesting the President to reconsider his action in the case and retain Mrs. Hood in the position she now holds, were adopted without & dissenting voice ~,4«;4,1@: removal does mnot meet the apngal of & large majority of the Republipans of this oity,

- New Marriage Form. . The Tipton: F¥mes eays the following “carefully ~propesed form” was recently found among the papers of an ex-justice of the Peace in that county, which were turned over to his succesj{sor. The ‘Squire, during his term of | four years, hever had occasion toiuse the ‘‘document % “If there'is| any Body have atiy objections to these to Joing in matrimony will Let it Knoing or for rggv«:r hold their peace Join your write hands By the thority Given to me from the State of Ind and the thority that I Hold in ‘my hand I pronounce you man and Wigs take your Seats.” R For the three years past there have been a small ‘number_oi_(]\hinese laborers in Natehitoshs' parish, La. This year there'are about a dozen ‘working on one plantation near Natchitoches, and their employer speaks very favorably of their conduct, Frénnunq, ing them superior ta the African in almost every respect, b ng careful, indugtrious, respectful ‘and regular in their labor. l?hey .are working for a <dhq,re‘£‘pf-ehe oo \ e : t7o bmg;néfg&m& ,; ~young daughters of the late ederN e eLt ek, m%’“‘*ﬁ d, of Columbia, Tennesseo, and Miss Otavia,

Brutal Ountrage by a Negro. hw city. While three danghtérs of the Rev. Dr. Nichols city limits on Thursday, a stalwart. and very black negro, who had beén lying in" ambush among the bushes, sg»ra.n‘g out before them, seizing the “oldest one, a well-grown young lady {of about seventeen years, threw her down. Her sisters, aged about thir teen and fifleen years, went to her asgistance, and with sticks and stones beat him to make him desist from his hellish -purposes, and added their sereams to those of the victim to brin gome one to the rescue, but theydig not succeed in driving him off until he had committed a erime for which it is to be hoped he will be yet made to suffer. The young ladies, who are well grown and looi much older than they really are, made their way back to their father’s residence, and he immediately gave information to the police, who went in search of the miscreant, but have thus far been unable to arrest him, although they have a clue which may yet lead to his arrest and . conviction. Fae s :

‘ John Chinaman. . s The arrival of several thousand Chi--nese in California, and the announcement that this is but the commencement of a Mongolian emigration to this country, have suggested the idea of introducing Chinese labor into the South for the ecnltivation of cotton and rice. A company has already been organized in Bt. Louis, and another is forming in Memphis, for the purpose of bringing a portion of the Chinese who arrive in California over the Pacific Railroad and securing their labor in the Southern States. There are said to be about two hundred thousand Chinese now in California and- thousands more on their way or about to start from China to make this country their future home. In view of the trouble and the uncertainties which are experienced with. negro labor, since the Radicals have turned their heads ta office-hunting, this movement to introduce the Mangolians —a hardy, industrious, and frugal race—in the place of the blacks, is not only important, but, if attended with success, will work eut a great revolution in the South.—The World. e , . Mexican Troubles. Mexico continues in a state of fer ment.. The authorities. at Acapuleo had some difficulty with the Un‘ted States steamer Pensacola, and an order was served on her commarnder that she must' not leave the harbor.— Without paying any attention” to the order, the Pensacola sailed the next day. The troubles in Queretaro are increaging. ~ The- federal . forces in Michozan and Guanajuato have been ordered to reinforce the troops in the state of Querstaro, There is much excitement over the elections, The two Republics bews;lmpérs predict that ‘the government will surely carry the day. Tennado allows the chuych many privileges, and will gain its‘aid in the elections. A revolution i 8 in progress in %adalqiara. Gen, Placido Vega has arrived at Zepic, - Gén Lozado has issued an order for a division of lands and haciendas among the Indians. This is looked upon as the beginning of a war of races. .

President Grant has given an office to a poor fellow who had botharms blown offin firing a salutein his honor. Thisz was very | good for the man whotired the blank cartridge.— But Grant has: forgotten hundreds of brave fellows whose.limbs were lost,. not in performing the idle /ceremony of a salute, but in front of the enemy’s cannon, at the Wilderness, at Vici'sburg and at Donelson, under his orders. Their salutes were at the enemy from shotted guns, but G:ant had no sympathy for them. Had they recieved wounds in firing a salute to. gratify his vanity, they would have had a sure passport to honor and office,— . They merely served their - country, not Grant, and must, therefore, be turned out of office to make room for the blank cartridge, fourth of July home guards. ey ; i

Miss Susan B. Anthony says in her paper : . /“T’he women of the Revolution canvassed Kansas, Illinois, Missouri, New York and the District of Columbia, and never kissed one son of Adam over two years old.” That is, perhaps, one reason they met with no better success. Let the revolutionary sisterhood try it again, changing the programme so far as mot kiss any “sonof Adam’ or any other man under voting age.. Possibly a few good looking young ladies, to take charge of the osculatory department, while the elders devoted - themselves to ageech-ma;ﬁigg, -~ would improve the chances of the canvass. = = -/

Among other queer things discovered by the committee of Commerce, in examining the consalar nominnations, was that Washburne procured the appointment of a number of persons from the State of Illinois, and had credited them to the territories. There is a sort of a rule at the State Deépartment that each State shall have a eertain number of consuls in the ratio of their population anl representation in Congress. Washburne, after ‘giving Tllinois her full share, found that he had not supplied the wants of all his friends, and proceeded to carpet-bag them over the- territories. - =

- There is a merchant doing business in Logk Haven, Pa.; who has an advertisement in the Democrat, printed there, of eight columns, covering an entire page of the paper, at an expense of $l,OOO. That merhant will .coin money this year. He has already made a. fortune by - pursuing . this course. A rule among successful men 18 to payas much ‘for advertising as they do for rent and to change their advertisement at least as often as they do their goods. = -~ - _« Abijah Couch, an actor, reached Columbus, Indiana,a fortnight ago, for the purpose of filling an’ engagement there, and almost immediately after his arrival was attacked with ‘dgliitium tremens, in a violent - attack of which, on oné day. of week hefore last, ho rushed out of a second story window fo the pavement, bruisiug him 50 severely that he died the same night,— Ho was buried at the expense_of the sonnty. . o o 4 oo * (General Lee is o come out in & lek ber

rs oo potiwey of Gencal Ko whore things. G'r%? ‘s emember - his ‘peace mission to Niagara, ahd keep his The Grand Army of the Republic is ‘now engaged in raising a subscription . to erect a home for negroes, some place inIndiana, This is done at the instance of hondholders ‘to invite negroes . into the State, for the purpose of not enly compe‘ting with and degradingavhite labor, but to make the African the equal of the ‘white man at the polls. It is the bond‘holder’s only hope of ‘maintaining power. -.Ponm;ﬁ‘, of Kansas, a Senator from the fact that any sort of Radical timber does in a new State, has startled the Chicagoans by declaring that Robinson was acquitted of the murder: of Benator Mc Connell because be was & Mason. Of course this was a slander, -but unfortu- | pately there ie no legal way to get redress out of Pomeroy forit. ' Pomeroy’s friends, however, if he has any, ought toarn him not to speak positively of anything except the price which the railroad ring ‘pay in Washington. That and all other acts of corruption and scoundrelism he knows all about. %

‘There is not a laboring man in the country that does not know that it costs him twice as much to live now as it did in 1860, and that his earnings, even in depreciated carrency, are not twice as much greater than they were then. We know as & consequence of this, he is compelled to-deny himself and family many comforts to which they were accustomed, and that, indeed, he even thenishardly able to make both ends meet. ~AI this sad state _of affairs is due to the fact that we are ‘taxed to death, to pay the outrageous expenditures of the corrupt Administra‘tion of the Government, and the interest of the Public Debt. The policy of the country is gold to.the untaxed money lords of tlic Jand at the expense otp%abor:

“Waan is good government for bondholders and banks,’ says a thoughtful writer, ‘scems much like chains and slavery for industry and labor.” “Even so, and labor should open its eyes to the fact before the chains are riveted. - The boadholder loaned the Government a dollar, and we make it equal tojone dollar and forty cents. The laborer receives a dollar for his work, but we make him sell his dollar for sixty ‘cents in gold to pay the Government creditor. | So the work of robbing the poor for the benefit of the rich goes on. ‘All'men are created equal,’ it is true; but Radicalism, while howling for equal rights, effectually destroys all equality, and dooms the destroyed to be {forever a hewer of wood and drawer of water, for his better protected neighbor, the money-lender. - b : ¢ Our newly married Vice President is, _circulatin% through the country, smiling onthe inhabitants at various points of interest, on.the behefits derived from #2terest bearing bonds, paid in gold by the people. From a Radical stand point, Schuyler is & good: looking fellow, and notwithstanding his pernicious principles, ‘has many excellent and generous qualities, which must commend him very ‘highly to bis party. While, a short time ‘before his election to the Vice Presidency, he was reading his “Across the Conti: nent,” in every town and city in the Union, he was salicited to give his “popular lecture” in a town in West Virginia, for the bencfit of the-widows and orphans of the fallen herces of the rebellion. Smiler, with a heart bursting with generosi-’ ty, and only too glad to dry the tearsof hungry children crying for bread, mag: nanimously extended his services. He read his “Across the Continent” to a $lOO house and benevolently charged $2OO. for it. 'The little orphans of dead heroes and the wives of departed braves munched their erusts the next morning, in'consternation over an act so_full of self sacrificing gererosity. But 1t was all made right, a few days before an election, by the Grand Army of the Republicans seattering a few cheap, second-handed boquets over.the graves of the -patriotic dead, who sleep their last sleep on the soil of Virginia.—#¢. Wayne. Democrat.

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