The National Banner, Volume 4, Number 21, Ligonier, Noble County, 22 September 1869 — Page 1

"THE N AT&ON AL BANNER, ; - . Published Weekly by .. - : JOIIN"EB. STOLL, 4 LIGON{ER, NOBLE COUNTY, IND. L RR R ; . TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : Strictlyin adeancel. .. ... ..iaviiiaiii. ... ..$9.00 If not paid within three m0nth5,............. 2.9 If not paid within six m0nth5,...........:... 250 At the end of the YOAT, iieriaanaions Vrriaasia B 0 “B¥~ Any person sending a club of 20, accompanied with the cash, willbe entitled to a copy of the paper, for one year, irée ofchar e.

Newspaper, Book and Job L BRETe a7V o ~’ (,_"b,,f_. e ’Q: é L e -\ e R = . -v,'~., T A |G SR S T gt LRI R u oSk _~; warrea- o POWER PRIESS ’ 7 l , ol “ PRINTING OFFICE L l.; LTI By 5y " . We wounld .respedtfully. inform the Merchants and Businesg mien generally that we are now { prcpur{:d to do allkinds of 1 PLAIN & FANCY PRINTING, In ag good style gnd ataslow. rates as any pub-’ lishiing house in Northern Indipna. ~ .t ist ittt A B ot gt ettt .:y i v Michigan South. & N. Ind’a R. R. . On and after April 25, 1869, trains will leave Stations as follows: | A ¢ J 0 1 'GOING EAST: . i Express. MNail Train., Qhicago: cuige v duvwdoner B 8 P Moy . 800 A, M, *Rlkhart .5.50 a b 0 00 Ll9BO v, w Goshen: A i 00l 300088 Colß Fagisiei ny Millersburg. .\.... s.(don’t 8t0p).,........ 1311 ¢ Ligotdor i oua il oo@ e iy s Al s Wawaka.........i..(don’t stop) ....... L 6 M. Brimfield &-L4 L gl st gE AS T Korttallville (ii L 0400 s ooyl i 9190 S Arrive at Toledo J..... .2:% AM L, ide...5505, 4 ' GOING WEST: | : ; ; ; Faxpress: | Mail Train: Toledos ..o dulies s XROB R ML o 0 | 0 0200 Ko Kendallvitle.'. .il SoB9BT AM o 7 02390 2, M, Brimfleld. |.. ovfi 088 A 0 LRGN DR o Wawaka,ie, vuad. v | M i Rißh . ¢ Ligonleri ooyt L aueom 05 ebl 8010 4 Millersbung. .....iv.e.e adviacg;Bß GoBNeN 2oV Gl s R IBT be B iDL TEIRhaRt esl Sl Mel Arrive at:Chicagg.... 9:20 L, .5....8:85 % ‘SLQR 20 minuteg for breakfast and supper. ; Tixppress leaves ?(nﬂy soth ways. Mail Train§'makes close connection at Elkhart with traingigoing Hast and West. | , C. F. HATCH, Gen’lSupt., Chicago. 'J. JOHNSON, Agent, Ligonter. .~ ~ J.M. DENNY, y Attorney at Law,—Albion, Nobleco., Ind. Will give careful and prompt attention to. all business entrusted to his care, . 3-6 3 . Dl _W- CI DENNY, Phygician and Surgeon,—Ligonder; Ind. Will promptly and faithfully attend to all calls in the line of his profession—day or nilghb—iu; town or any distance in the countrY. crsons wighing his serviees at ng):ht, will find him at his father’s residence, first door east of Meagher & Chapman’s Hardware Store, where all calls, when absecut, should be/left. i 141

"WHE, L. ANDREWS, Frtta Surgeon Dentist. Yy TPMitchel’s Block; Kendallville. All work warmn»ﬂ;cd.‘ Examinations free. 2-47 PR. L. W. KNEPPER, felectic Physician & Surgeon,—Ligonier. All diseascs of the Lungs and Throat successful.y treatod byinhxilutlon. No charges for consultation. Office swith W. W. Skillen, esg. 18 " DR. P. Wi. CRUM, || o Ayl G 3 25 Physician and Surgeon, ! ‘Ll;.':onie'r;, « = = . Indiana. -Office one door south of L. Low & Co’s Clothing Store, up Bttlil‘S.‘ 4 ! May 12th, 1869. G.W.Can |=~ W, D, RARDALL, CARR & RANDALL, el : b | Physicians and Surgeons, - LIGONIER, = aF = - = IND; | Will promptlylattend all calls intrusted to them. Ofice on 4th St., one door east ef the NarioNan Banxer-ofiice, | | 3-43

EXCELSIOR LODGE, NO. 2067, T DL of OB ¢« Meots at their. ITall on cvery Saturday evening of cach week, q H. R. CORNELL, N, G. AL JACKSON, V. G. WM. MANNING, ‘ “Nov. 25th, 1868.—tf. Secretary. A. €. JENNINGS, ' Attorney at Law, Insurance and Collect- . ing Agent.—Zßome City, Fnd. " business oﬁtmsted to him ﬁromlptly attended Inalso AGENT FOR THE NATIONAL BANT January 1, 1868. WorvgN & i[ottms, : .« B, ALvorD, Ft. Wayne. : * Albion. WORDEN, MORRIS & ALVORD, i Attorney’s at Law. Will ‘attend, in connection, to litigated suitsin the several Conrts of Noble County. 2-18t1 e A____A_..._..___:.________-——-——————;*‘-——-‘ THOMAS L. GRAVES, iy Attorney at Law and Justice of the Peace. . Will give caréful and prompt attention to all busfiess entrustedito his care. Bmce i? the building ately oceupied by the First National Bank of Kendallville, Ind. '~ o s e may 22 ; JAMES McCONNELL, - 7 ENERAIE COLLEGTING AGENIT, COUMERCIAL BROKER. REAL - EBPYTE" AGENT, . SURVEYOR, OONVEYANCER. | I ol SRS B i . -NOTARY PUBLIC, Ligonier; Noble County, Indiana SAMUEL E. ALVORD, Attorney |at Law, Claim Agent, and Notary Public, Albion, Noble Co., Ind. Business in the Courts, Claims of soldiers and heir heirs, C veyuncinﬁ, &c., promptly and carefully attended to. Ac nowle%nts,' Depositions and Affidavits, taken md _:_d_._«

GANTS B MILLER, / Surgical and Mechanical Dentists, . ! LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. - it ' Areprepared i ,%%, to do ‘gnl{thin | 7 ﬂ», Zai, I thgshrju Ine. ﬁ S e S suce prack"(,%} tice of over 10 LT e o P years justifies ‘?’?‘;W’@‘ﬁr them in sayiug G @mo e ) that they. can, ¢SN #ii' A i {;ive entiresab—# NV S ST ‘M © -{sfaction to all; ok B .“ who may bg-}‘ stow their Eatronb,ge. @~Offiec ‘h'my bullding, Cavin Street, ! ; © J.BITTIKOFFER, | DEALERIN WATGHES, - CLOCKS, JEWLRY,SILVER WA}RE;NOTIONS," : Spectacles of every mscriptgbn, . L &e., &c. &e., &c. i All kinds bf work done uﬁ)on the shortest hotice and wamngg‘”w durab 'i% £ _‘Shop in Bowen’s new Brick Block, Kendallville, Indiana, ! L Rl :‘ bl ; s ik G SA.pK, BROTHERS, Bakers & Grocers. . Cavin Street, Ligonier, Indiana. s fi ¢l o PR e Fresh Bread, Pies, Uakes, &c., Choice Gr 8, Provisions, 'ha'keelioﬂ%'&e’. The hltihe t cash price paid fer Oountrﬁ Produce,) . May 18, %81, i< BACK BRO'S. HATS, CAPS, STRAW £ SRR R sabH S ot ‘Men’s Furnishing Groods. T gl ST S 4 ¥ {W’”’@ »1 ; xa‘:v:;“-.«;;;‘: ;. }4l % s,,:i"»’ o il ”},ﬂ , nio. | MapSLI IR o g g o RSN e % ‘r wv . [ “‘hw) ' ‘J: T ;'. . vy‘,ﬁ}"g Dl SOUNGMEN, S g 3!@s@?@% ;;;', 3*,;«,. fh J"%’%*W %‘;': —ig» . 4%5{ “:?;Xy;% 3 4:@ | Be oo _v.;;:“,. 4o '(‘-;‘L'v, .».'R e e :,rn‘z“g‘:’ ATTION ,‘,:(f eo > fg"’\ e S*wyij*t: T b A fka&g‘#“ § A/. XAy T HBAy oo P OB BRN e R D e

~ ABEL MULLIN, Licensed Auctioneer, icensed Auctioneer, Residence in York township, nedr Port o e Post Office Address — WOLF LAKE, INDIANA, © Will attend prowmptly to all calls in this line of business, and ¢ndeavor to give entire satisfaction. Charges]reasonable. i4e3m 0. WOOTIRUFF, .G. B, WOODRUFY. WOODRUFF & SON, ECLECTIC PIH}S’IC’IAA’S’ AND SURGEONS, LIGONIER, « « -i. o « INDIANA, Will attend promptly all calls from town and country. Office in D Store of Barnett & Co.— Residence north siderrolgkaixroad. 4-11 | B. P. BEEBE, ¢ JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Conveyancing dome. Notes collected promptly. Omce,y?ggpos%te the lliltiimer'nonse, ovlzzr St?ck!s ! i akery, LIGONIER, - - -y— ~ INDIANA. . May 20th, 1869.—1 y. : | E. REICHMOND, ; Justice of the Peace & Comveyancer, (Javin street, Ligonier, Indiana. Special attention given to convejvanclng and ¢ollections. Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages drawn up, and all. legal business attended to promptly and accurately. . May 26th, 1868, PRODUCE BROKERS. STRAUS BROTHERS ‘.V*Wodlld respectfully. announce 6 their cagtomers and thie public in ieneral that they contintie to. urchiase PRODUCE at the highest market Krjc_cs. f[awing no buyer on the streetd, farmers having roduge for saly;: will please call at our office in the Yirick Clothing Store. : . - Ligomnier, April 29, 1869, —tf >

F. W./STRAUS. JACOB STRAUS. Exchange and Brokers' Office, o LIc¢oNIER, IND. ﬁ’ﬁ‘}' and sell Exchange on all principal cities of the United States, and sELt Exchan%e' on all princignl l,jfitiea of Europe, at the verylowest rates. They #lso sell passage tickets, at very lowest fig--ures, to all Erincipnl seaports of Europe, 8-52tf N. B.—The L;resent price of ggssuge in steerage from New York to }lnmburié, lgmouth,- London an;ldcpgrbourg has been zeduced fo only §3O in goid. | :

N KELILEY HOUSLKE, | NKendallville, Ind. 4 This is a Tirst-class House, sitnated on Main Street, in the central part of the City, making it very convenient for Agents, Runners, and all other transient men visitmizhour City, to: do business withont going far from the House. General Stage ‘office for the North and South. Smbg;u g for forty horses. Livery,and Free ’Bus. A ¢ { i J. B. KELLEY, Proprietor. G. W. Gerex, Clork.,, . I ;

BAKER_Y "AND RESTAURANT ot ‘ By ik . 18. HAYNES, Opposité the Post Office, Ligonier, Ind. My Bikery will be supplied atall times with fresh Biscuits; Bread, o [ Bies, e ) . Cakes, s + Crackers, .&e., &c,, “Wedding partics, pic-nics and private parties will bb furnished with anything in the pistry line; on short notice, and in the very latest style, on reasonable terms. Oysters-and warm meals farnighed at all hours. Charges reaspnable. Farmers w}ll find this a good place to satisfy the “inner man,” i Jan'y 6, '69.~tf |

B, ¢. MISSELHORN, Ll - MANUFAOTURER OF CHOICESEGARS, Main Street, Kendallville, Ind. - Nojember 6th, 1867. . " i GO AND SEE | GOTSCH & BECKMAN’s e W ’ JEWELE ~ STORE, ‘Main Street, Kendallville, Ind. They have just received the finest assortment and . - latest styles of JEWELRY, =~ I i SILVERWARE, g sy : B CLOCKS; ETC., Also the best Ameriean Watches, Only ¢ )me and se¢ them. S All fine work done and satisfaction guaranteed. Shop o{wposite Miller’s new block. ! Kpnd?. lville, Ind., June 26th, ’67. tf. ELKHART BOOK BIWERY, | " at the office of the I “HERALD OF TRUTH,. ~ ERRHIRE, "0 o e o O U IRDC We take pleasure to inform our friends and the public in general, that we have established a '+ Book Bindery, In connection wit®our Yrinting Office, and are . 'now prepared to do all kinds.of Binding, . . guch as Books, Pamphlets, MagaIk zines, Mus{c, promptly and . | on reasonable terms, apr. 29th, ’6B.~tf. JOHN F. FUNK. et e e e e A et et e AR b o 5 : 'CITY BREWERY, KENDALLYILLE, - -~ = - » - INDIANA SCHWARZKOPF & AICHELE, Would annoufice to the public that they have jast completed & new Brewery, for the manufacture of Beer and Lager Beer, which they will sell 3ho trade at Prices reasonable and satisfactory. yur Beer will be Warranted, The highest price for Barley. J e L e-20-tf

HIGGINBOTHAM & SON, | M’d}\“ Voed i B 0 o e | | Bl ATt 4 3 ‘/6 N i lad ‘:'.' \ £ il s s R s 3 i Fomy et O S B i RO B ; : gSO IR ANt R 3 T N | Q%'*«g“% =L : RN P g g R -‘ s i i b “‘{u*g Sy el Watchmakers, Jewelers, 1 it Sl e Watches, Clocks, JEWELRY AND FANCY GOODS. | Repairing meatly mdrpgo':apﬁy ‘executed, and } ¢ . warranted.. 1 ! ' GOLD PENS REPOINTED. : isﬁ&cmm of the best kinds kept constantlyon an E 2 g 5 . B#¥"Bign of the big watch, Cavin Street,msgom,r', fqdiapa._a. S 5 'may 8,’66.-tf,

BAKERY! . T have made an addition to m}r Restaurant of a Bakery, and will be able -hereafter to supply the public with good - ; Bread, Cakes, Pies," | And anything usnally kept in a first-class BAKERY AND RESTAURANT., 1 am now receiving Early Strawberries, and will continue, as usual, to supg}y.my mnn"{ecustomers with Choice Early Friits, and Veg- ‘ etables, grown for City Market. £k *. 'WEDDING PARTIES mgplied with fine1y ornamented ¢akes on short*notice. . Sopa WATTER AND IcE CREAM always on Hand, m%thet with the choicest kinds of Cons b roeriss e wotiginad, ¥ i atronage is" Hy solicited. '~ 4 - 7 st r‘,,,,:;’-n St S i L el . Reader, Have you Paid 3‘ Xllﬁ &ﬁ "”’?‘;j s Eae gy 6&"% o . ‘3:?:1‘.,;};;“4‘1 ,“‘_L:"f, e yi b Lonierd pllin: e o ) ‘Ln " '7.’."71?‘. ‘. ﬁ ; ST SCTRTRT T Rt M . ¥ l" Y gn

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L 'For thig National Banner. S et ©.l .BY MISS MANDA LEVERING. . . ‘Roek him gently, calm blue tidal, o .. Into peaceful dreamless sleep, i So that naught disturb his slumbers, = _ Ere he launchies on the Deep. 1 Lull his dreams of wild ambition | -+ Boftly, with thy sounding swell, And while yet he's in the harbor, : Guard him safetly, gently, well. s o Gty : ¢ +Ob! how fast the fleeting hours, | | . Will into oblivion glide, .~ Then, he’ll leave the low brown homestead, With the ebbing of the tide; kg For his beart, and mind arg centered, = ‘On the dangers sailors brave, And he longs to stand the tempest, And to sleep upon the wave. : Yes, for ere again the shadows = : . Bhall betoken close of day, i He shall be a thoughtless rover, . : ; On ‘the billows far away. - o But, although his thoughts grow wilder, He is still a mother’s joy, - Though his youthful heart may wander, . He is still a darling boy.. 3 He in trouble, ‘or in safety, Sl Has at laeﬁt a mother’s PHEeR N Ry Guardian angel be thy nearhim, = Shield him by thy tender care. 1 Guard him tenderly, and trmy, "‘ ~ re he risks a watery grave; ‘ While to-night, he all unconscious, . - & i i : ; i Is asleep upon the wave.

THE WYOMING MASSACRE. Full Resume of the Avondale Col- ; . liery Calamity, ((lORRESPONDE,\‘:CE OF THE N, Y. WORLDH) AVONDALE SHAFT, { Wednesday Night, September 8. ¢ ° You have had an infinitude of scattered facts about this slaughter. Itis time they were collated into with some kind of coherence. e 1 . The Scene. The thronged train that left Seranton this morning ran twenty*two miles to. the south-west and halted, here.— Just opposite, within twenty feet. of the ' track, is a shapeless . heap of anlthracite, still sullenly and intensely burning, though it was kindled on Monday morning. Over it quivers icontinually an air-wave of fervent heat ; hereand there, under the hoary ash, its red heart could be seen glowing, and the breath of it blisters onr faces where we stand. A few feet to the left a piece of rail, which atits lower extremity joins our track, slopes sharply over lengthening tréstles forty feet or so-up the steep hill, where it is broken short off. . The upper ends of the beams are charred. At thé bottom of it a couple of coal cars are tumbled together, and a wire cable, connected with -the uppermost, runs up the incline, and dangles useless over the | burnt-off beams. Rising from the burning heap in our immediate front is ‘a stone wall, built to gecure a road along. “its cdge. . This" road is filled with men and women, the former mostly in rough woollens, with little tin lamps hooked on to their hats; the latter “in bright and motley calico.— | It ends in a black hole which we ecan | just diseern in. the hill-side. Beyond the road is another high - stone wall, 'the top of which is a little more than midway up the hill. The front rank of another great ecrowd is the parapet | of this wall also. The smoke rising. from their feet tells of a building lately burnt. ‘Just above them, and to the left, is a square foundation, from which, “also the superstructure has been burnt away. Themason.y of the side-walls, twenty = feet apart, is'standing still, ‘though’ shattered, and across them is lashed a stout sapling, from the middle of which depends a pulley that creaks continually under the strain of a rope | rove and running through it. Just over this' pulley a man is hanging from the cross-beam, head ' downwards, like an acrobat from his trapeze, with one hand on the pulley and the other apparently adjusting it. The limber beam bends and squeaks with the weight of whatever may beat the lower end of the rope. Just over this, again, is a great, gaunt, brick chimney, the only edifice left uninjured in: all this wreck of matter. Below the cors nice of it, a clear fitty feet above its base, -is the date “1867.” : Standing solitary there, this huge chimney looks like & monument. And a monument it is, ‘awith a vengeance.” . Over this the thick woods, of oak and chestnut ‘mainly, climb.the Lill, and the nearest trees are parched, brown, and 'sere.— To. a person unaware of what had happened here, all this might seem only the result of an ordinary fire, ' But it would astonish even such a person to find how vast a crowd had gathered in this wilderness—for the railway here i laid through a wood—to look at the ravages of a fire. The two human terraces I have mentioned cgnnot be made up "of less than three thousand atoms, and in and about the lines ot clapboarded cottages on | either = hand a_ng along the track are full two thousand more. = And the: crowd has a seciousness and even sol‘emnity. that we are not used to_seeing. in the demeanor of crowds at fires.— 'While we are looking the creak of the | ‘pulley ceases and the gymnast. abdicates his perch. Half a minute after, ‘there can justbe seen through the Tower terace of people men ssger. | ing out from the black hole in the hill with something white between them. ‘As they set down their burden on the | | road a gr,cfﬂf’fﬁm athers about it, and, a minntﬁafté:a& ig-bearded miner comes ~ont to the edge of the wall, cntreating and. securing perfect silence - with a; ~W%V%%ﬁﬂﬁ ‘haaéa@ﬂ. SEys s A Al | “The last man that has been bro’t | mexmﬂlm»oﬁ %&mz | This: is.repeated twice, and then. the, .‘ W“”%‘Jk’” o Dl a 3 s aniid ée‘ ?u William Allen myf;m& Nl 0 oD St | " Tlttaks ehnigorof Whok ot s | walks quietly up to it o L N S i 9&;? oy *"Aﬂ’,““(é ;( e :§ s :g‘h e »i' : " rive there., . But, if yon are a,reporter, SR e B T SR e s

L -» R '.;,j"""% - LIGONIER, IND., NESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1569.

a conmmitteeman appears in the fullness of tﬁag and lets you in. A horse, ch&% ged every ten minutes, is travel+ing his dullgznhd, ‘working a ﬁnﬂ&} | that" winds up the rope. A gang ‘of { twenty men are helping him by haul- | ing . in. 'The ruins are still warm to the touch as you ste(f into the enclosure, and the foothold is insecure.: But you cling with both hands to the nearest points of support and survey the scene. Far below you the fruitfal Valley of Wyoming spreads and glistens | under the bland September sunlight. The slow Susquehanna trails his broad and shallow current towards the sea. Beyond the plains the serried hills of Luzerne lift their round tops: Bat closer by,and just bve‘rheag, is the acrobat, "hanging head downwards, over a chasm, and pouring, as you now perceiv%pailfqls of water on the pulley, which is almost on fire -with the friction. Around you are Jhe, foundations of four gtone{valls, enclosing a rectangle abont. twenty feet by thirty. Beside you the rope is comin up, and just behind you a fan, whirleg_ ‘ by a steam engine-lbroufht up yesterday, 'sends a current down a canvas eylinder. Below youis the abyss. These walls, while these 'walé‘\vére, surrognded what looks like the bot-

‘tomless pit. 'The rectangle is besect|ed by a vertical series of"charred beams, fitted on the side towards you with cogs, and running down, ' down, down, till théy are indistinguishably blent, and at last lost in the bottomless blackness. . Agyou peer cautiously down, trembling for the reckless miner above, who hangs by one knee directly over this wall, which, to the eye, is endless, and which is, in fact, 237 feet deep, you become aware of lights twinkling far below. As the rope is wound up ftheyghow clearer, and at last you can discern that dheye are fast to the foreheads of four men, who are rising towards you on a platy form that just filly the pit. Another man, or what seems a man, lieg on the platform between them. His body is naked to the waist, and bhis only clothing .is a pairjof heavy trousers stuffed into great miining boots. The platform stops fifty feet or so below you, and the four men pass the fifth seniblance of a man out at an aperture in the side, of which you are thus for the first time notittad, another four replace them on the platform, and the windlass slowly ﬂ?wers it again, the gymnast all the while keeping hig perilons position, and drenching the Sallaw iy g A

" This platform has been lifted and lowered in this way, by this lerazy tackle, at intervals ‘ever since the hero, Charles Vartue, went down on Monday night, and ‘without intermission every ten minutes since 6 1-2 g’clock this morning, At every ascent it brings back from thebowels bf the earth into 'the sad light of this gray September day the dead body of what on Monday was a man.” This black mouth _here, which gaps before me, swallowed near two - hundred of my kind on Monday morning, and is now vomiting -up each after each their empty husks. - Over it migkt be written, with a sighificance almost more ‘'stupendous than where Dante imagined it to stand, his/ dreadful line:* ¢ Lasciate ogul speranza, voi chi entrate,” ~ All ye who enter here, leave hope behind. For this is the mouth of the Avondale shaft. These are the gates of .death. Even now, while God’s fresh breeze is sweeping -the 'foul cloacae belpw, and even here, so far above the -Golgotha, the air comes u laden with fatal fumes, and it is -s,t.iﬂ death to a novice to.venture down the ghaft. I was not there above a minute, but my head swam when I withdrew it. ot ' ' ‘l> have said that the bodies of .the men were not brought up to the top of the shaft, but taken off some fifty feet. below. There is a tunnel which intersects ' the shaft there, and. runs almost horizontally about fifty feet out to the face of the hill. Its embouchure there is what I have described as a black hole in the hill. It is a vanlted passage, just high enough to - walk through without stooping. It is a dark, noisome place, although it is soo_ short, and is only half lit 'b% the hatlamps of the men within it. These are the reliefs; who are waiting their turn to’ go dofn the shaff, and the men who take the bodies from those who have brought them from the mine. Hence they arg carried out upon ‘the embanked road to the sight - of the anxious crowd. The only view one. can get of them|is from that little plateau, This iz a matter of extreme difficnlty, for while the men who are on guard above are the regular or the special constakulary, the men on guard here are deputed by the miners. If the general temper of the miners is' to be. judged by the demeanor of these men, dark days are coming for the capitalists of this region very soon.— The Welshmen, who predoniinate, are sullen and dogged, after their kind. Their wrath is evidently of the slowburning kind, like the fire of the anthracite they mine here, but it is smoul-. dering” towards a flame, The, Irish‘men are less numerous, but far naisier and fiercer, also, after their kindi— Both ‘classes feel that the men in the ‘mings were magsacred. ~ I do not, jukt’ ‘now, justify this feeling. 1 only state it 'i‘h‘eiir, resentment at this, at least that of the illogical Celtic part.of them, shows itself in fury against every man ‘whom they consider to belong to: the iclass: ‘of dtew ~oppressors; videlicet, Soainat overy. smad WU wakr deit

linen. A gray-headed miner at the barrier; to whom I civilly enough presented niy credentials, and stated my purposes, broke ‘out u%n me fiercely : " “Get their names, is it? Pat a lamp ' on'yer hat, then, and go down the ghaft like a man for their names. 1 suppose yer here here to make money ~out ’o this. God damn ye.” .. ' .o " The bull involved in the suggestio® to agly;taa;‘&ead ‘man for his nam® ‘and address would have revealed ‘the nationality of my interlocat :»‘;;thﬁﬁ%h ; neither his brogtie nor ks berediction, b 8 botrayed ity N Jie Jas 15 bRy w{it o temper ghown by this by most of I‘ia‘%ﬁﬂow miners. . Eup:

| posing his absurd assumption to be | Just, who cannot understand his wrath | g;h""’;“’ whiown the slaughter of his ns was for a profif, as well as for 1&:“;?1?7'?, which dﬁlyj%is to thous--ands of the gaping idlers here? By explanation ‘ans objurgation, however, the patient committee-man induces him ‘-tolng:te hig club, and we go on to ' the e vhere the coroner’s jury are sittin?‘_ When the platform came up, early this morning, the first sign they had of it here wab the rushing out to this wee of pale and gasping miners, whose inured lungs had given in to the carburétted air below, and who were laid under this tree for resuscitation. But ng other restoratives than fresh air have been used or needed all day, and now-that the fan is working so well the new arrivals are indistinguishable from their comrades of the uppeér air, except by an additional smear or two of grime. After the wreckers have emerged, the groups before the tunnel part, aad a stretcher appears, covered with a sheet, excegt _ak the foot, where two ponderous hob‘nailed boots are thrust out. The stretcher is deposited, the jury is' mustered, and the foreman inquires : ; XWho brought up this man 7 - . A miner steps forward with «I for one, gir.” bt “Did yeu bring him out of the shaft ; “Yes, sir,”” or sometimes pettishly, “ why of course I did.”" “Was hedead when you brought him out ?”* ; : (Reverently)—¢ Yes, sir.” Then the man at the head draws down the cloth from the dead face, and any miner who can identify it is iuvited to do so. What follows is something like this : : :

. “Did you know the man?’ . ° W : ! “ What was his name 7 . . “Owen Jones:.” . - : “ Where did he ljye #* e “ Over the river, somewhere.” | Over the river turns out to mean Hanover, and when the identity is as_certained to the satisfaction of the jury, the big miner with the beard goes to the wall’s edge and repeats his formula ut supra. The sheet is drawn over the face again, the bearers carry the stretcher on through the lines; and deliver their burden to his friends to be taken to his own house. - This is the scene that has been enacted to-day in almost. every one of these houses in sight, and will have been enacted before the week is out in'quite every one. Sometimes there is-a dispute about the identity. Probably itis a mere mistake of names, for I have seen no dead face to-day that had been so far disfigured as to be irrecognizable.— When such a dispute arises, the ~disputants persist, gravely and qnuietly, each in his own belief, until other acquaintances are called in and the ques-. tion is settled l;y the weight of evidence. It is curious what mistakes oceur, even with regard to the: best known men in the mine. The eighth body taken out was identified, reported and published as that of Mr. Evan Hughes, the ‘inside boss.”” The twentieth body was identified as his Wiﬂi equal readiness, and reported and published as his with equal tranquility. On the other hand, I was told by the ; superintendent of another mine that his body would be left'to the last. The miners, in their. present mood, would break out, it is feared, in" open revolt at the notion of any preference’ being given' to the superintendent, in: the order: of exhumation, over fhe humblest mule-driver in the mine.

The a’pge‘arance of the dead men is awful, as how could it fail to be. 'But it is merely that. It is not in theleast nauseating, = These collier’s bodies, now to decent burial slowly borne, are. unwounded, in by far the most ecases. Sometimes clots of blood, exuded from the nostrils, are stiffened on the lips. One or two only have frothed -at the “mouth-in the agony of death, and the ‘bubbles of spume puff over their “mouths when the cloth is drawn.— ' One' man was badly wounded in the cheek, and this ‘was the only real disfigurtment I saw. The expression is, for the most part, pea,cefu{ and denotes that the congpmmation of the asphyxia “had been ajost perfectly painless. It is not likeby that it is agonizing, for this is the samé€ form of death which Paris, monopolist of lnxuries, for so long enjoin'ej,, in the. form of the charcoal-brazier, upon such of her childrer-as wished to leave life.— There is a wonderful ruddiness about the faces and bodies of all these men. | It pleases some of the bystanders to calfit “Dbloat,” but it is not attended by any puffy look of the flesh, and I, ‘at least, cannot distinguish it from the glow of health, It geems as if their destroyer. had the grace to preserve ‘them from corruption. Kil%ng, he died " upon a kiss.” ‘I have seen only one man whose face was ghastly, and it was also the only face I have seen - contorted.. -But he: was spare -and consumptive-looking, and it mayvery well be that what seemed to me a -deathly ' pallor' by contrast with his normal hue in life. But nearly all | ‘'were fortia corpora virum—fit "to be the mighty bodies of heroes.. L. have certainly never seen in‘any like num: ber of men in the same rank of life so many noble heads and %nnk faces as -thoge ‘which this mortcloth has uncovsered here to-day.. ‘They were almost all Welshmen, %or‘ few Irish names af‘pear upon the list of them, and only 'one'American, Peter Johnson, isknown ‘to have been in the mine, and ‘certainly this dead array speaks well for the. sons of Cymri. . When the smears: of the miné aro waskod away, thero ap- ' yw close enrling locks, fine clear-cut { busts, . Leaving out:the mmﬁsﬂiﬁ effect that . déath: has, whon death | tion or disease, these bodies show their’ ﬁ““;‘ i, 1192, FRORD GRANG, NOLRO, BAO RS, ;i@ﬁﬁ@ tvio many. : 1 v; e 4 . \“\' /_-" s :"5\ lb- j:_',:__-.;, *Q:‘bj_‘ﬂ z

borne him down, or an appeal to a ~po}ve3' l}igl;le'r fnigl. ‘ = S 0 R t.lB T 4 o bl iheslend that ate et TR CAGIE at snch a terrible time as this. Those ‘are beyond his sympathy, because they are beyond his apprehension.— But he has in some measure suffered what these also suffer, and he can partly feel with them. But a stroke 8o sudden and so awful as this almost disarms an attempt at consolation to those who have been smitten by it.— All round him, if not here in the erowd, in the cabins hard by, are those who last Sunday were happy and hopgful wives and mothers and daughters who are now widows and - childless and fatherlese. I know not whéther this _community of grief alleviates or aggravates its burden to the individual snfferers, but certainly it impresses one with a feeling of awe differing in kind as well as in degree from the pity he might have were each stricken by an individual pang. ‘Those of these poor women must be accounted least unhappy who have taken home their 1 dead for the few hours that remain before ‘the hour of final parting, as it seems to ng, who are incapable of dividing body and soul even in our; thoughts,shall have irrevocably struck. ‘They at least know the very worst.— They have all that is left to watch with and fo we? over. But those whose hearts’ and thoughts are still groping ‘and darkling in the mine, to whom eachnew out-come from it brings only up anew the agonizing question, “Is it xi:e 1” are in a suspense far more maddening than the very worst of the reality can be. ~Let us hope that by to-morrow all this misery at least will | be over. e Lo

I read with surprise that loud wails of grief arc to be heard all over this smitten spot. - Perhaps they are, but I have not heard them, ‘This i 8 the third day sinee the calamity was known, and the second since hope was forbid‘den to hope, and it is very possible that the fountain of tears has gone dry. The widowed women sit in their thresholds, or just within them, in silence, and look straight before them with a. stolid, stony stare, as if all things in heaven and earth were dead, that is infinitely-more mournfal than the wildest bursts of wailing could be. Their neighbors glide in, and sit in" silence, and glide out again, but these heed not their going nor their coming. Always the ‘same straight and unregarding stare, as if behind it there were a kind of wonder that the sun! should shine, and the river flow, and men and women go and come, now when all that made life worth living was blotted out. I have only seen two exceptions to ‘this sepulchral sadness. One was an’ old Irish woman, who sat upon the steps of her cabin this morning, rocking herself toand fro, andcrooning | just arqicula.te}y in time to her sway- | ng i - e | ,% Oh Tom! 0h Tom!” (I wish it were * within the resources of print to convey some far-off shadow of the intonation she gave to these two monogyllables.) “Oh T'¢m! oh Tom! Why did you die? Why did you leave me? Oh Tqm, Tom, Tom! Oh Tom! Oh Tom? ' -

The other was a young Welsh girl writhing and groveling beside the road late this afternoon, i spite of the entreaties of the other Welsh girl who was with her, and burying her face in the dirt, with wild tumultuous bursts of sobbing, and broken ejaculations that she might die.. - . ~~ What acontrastto this was that Welsh widow who sat in her door, still as a statue, and looked out upon but not at the careless crowd, with an .expression of 80 utter wee on her handsome face, th&? many could not help turning from the path fo offer her a kind word or two. ; She made no answer to them ; but looked at them as if they were vﬁiving: her her due, for ‘which she owed them neither | thanks nor notice. ' She ‘seemed ‘to feel with Queen Constance, thongh she could not read her own thoughts in “Shakey spear’s words: - : : “To me and to the state of my: great grief Let kings assemble; for my grief’s so great That no supporter but the huge, firm earth: Can hold it up.' :Here 1 and sorrow sit. ' Here is my throne; bid kings come bow to it

[ Theé Working Men. ' | v _The subjoined outspoken and sensible views were promulgated .at a convention of workingmen, which met in ‘Philadelphia some weeks since. - Delegates from all parts of the country ‘oceupied seats in this convention.— | That it was composed of men of intelligence, penetration” and experience, is evidenced by the reésolutions which" | 'were adopted : | - B q Resolved, That laborers in all departments - of useful industry are suffering from a system of monetary laws which were enacted during the late ‘war as measures, it was assumed, ‘“necessary to the life of the nation,” and which™ is now sought to be perpetuated 'in the interest of bondholders and bankers, as a means to subvert the govern‘ment of our fathers; and establish on its ruins an empire in which all political power shall’' be centralized to. ‘restrain and oppress the rights of la: bor, and subordinate its votaries to the ‘merciless demands of aggregated capi-’ ﬁ%ﬁ;ﬂ,supqzrcilious- authority. =~ + ~Resolved, That the National B anking system, being inimical to the spirit ot liberty, and cubversive of the gx‘in_ciples of justice, and without warrant in the Constitution of the United Smm.mmmngfnny inereasing. the “burdens of the ;yéﬁﬁ?g%odﬂeiﬁg clas‘ses millions of dollars annually, justice, ‘the upixd&nsidffhongg&indngtr)'r and ' the spirit ‘of imperiled -liberty, demand: tp immediate repeal, and the substitu; “tion of leg -ixoteias;t.he‘.exclu-_ sive currencysof the nation.. .« .7 s Amﬁﬁ” rkhouse at. Ohelsen, England, lo @aw‘rg? 2 the. BEs, "of one hundred years. . Being aplﬁd bow she would Tike to celebrate the' bo e duaenai B cade bFRI R R T \- e e mj}ﬁ,‘gf e ! o tako effct December 15, 1

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; i - From the Goshen Times. | SOMETHING ABOUT WHEAT. i O mwiaa ~L e B e | un? . many farmers are unwilling to gell at current rates., . The high prices for a few years past raised their expectation . for the fature. = Many ~thought undoubtedly, that the old price of two dollars per bushel would be reached ; others were sure that it couldn't be less than a dollar and a half, and nobody believed it would run down to a dollar. Men forgot that the intrinsic value-of the article is not what regulates the price. 'The real value of the diamond is but trifling, a mere ornament, but its scarcity,. and the law of supply and demand, create the walue. If every man produced all the wheat needed for his own use, the surplus would not sell at all —nobody would want to buy, and so if there is.a large supply in every wheat-producing country, as hap< pens to be the case this year, the price must go down. - While there is no. gcarcity anywhere, ' the United States never produced so large a crop before. Anl this is true, not simply in Elkhart county, but from the Lakes to the Gulf, and from the Eastern to the Western_ sea. Rt

What -can we do with the surplus? After we have supplied every non-pro-ducing man in 't%e. Union, we must look abroad for our market, and then Great: Britain -is the great purchaser, and all the wheat-ptoducing world is. supplying her. She buys largely from the South of Europe and largely from us. From Sep. lst, 1868, to Sep. 1869, we sent to Great Britain 875,941 barrals “of flour, and 13,725, 988 bushels of wheat. She regulates the price, and we are compelled ta ¢onform to it. oaiei e R R

Wil it be lower or higher 7 Nobody can tell. The crop is good ev‘erywhere, a little lighter in Great Brittain than usual, but still good. It is all harvested an secured, and there is no contingency that can now destroy the erop. The bad weather a few days since advanced the price in Liverpool and the price here, but latterly it%has been st#adily declining. There is more - prospect of the price going down than going up. There is no possibility of a large advance, and there is a probability of a still further decline. - . Ought the farmers to sell at present prices? That is their. business, If ‘they are out of debt, and think the prices must go up, and are willing to take the chances, they have a perfect right to hold théir wheat, and try the experiment. But' last years’ experiment was a bad one, as those can tell who were offered twao dollars, and kept their wheat and sold it for a dollar and a guarter.f o b It is certain that if they would sell, and put the money in circulation it wouls give a_stimulus to every branch of business—trade, manufacture, everything. If Smith sells his ‘wheat he pays the debtowing to Brown, and%}rown pays the next man, and so on. The same load of wheat ‘will perhaps pay a hundred debts and after the debts are all paid, and the hearts of the merchant and manufacturer made light, there is money leftto put in operatiou and carry on various industries of the country. Then . the cry of hard “times will be over—then the dog-fennel will stop growing in our streets, and the wheels of trade, and commerce and ‘manufactures, will bhum with cheering music. . .~ " st 2 AGRICOLA: &

Criminal Careclessness. - : Fuller accounts from the Pennsylvania coal mine disaster show criminal carelessness in rendering the .accident posgible, and imbecility in the efforts to remedy it+* The" mine, as is the case’ with 'all, we believe, had bat - one entrance, and was without a ventilating’ ghaft. It ‘had wuut been wourke@: 10r three months, on aceount of a strike among+the workmen, and was full of the deadly damp. An explosion of this gas caused the fire. . Work should. not have been resumed until this foul gas was expelled. Worse than . all, however, was the criminal blunder of forcing pure air into the mine, after the accident, -instead of pumping out. the foul air. The poor miners, makinga desperate fight against death, had walled themselves in, and *had eveutaken off their shirts and other clothing to stop up the crevices, in order toexclude the deadly vapor. ' Their inconsiderate friends on the outside rendered all these precautions vain by forcing in pure air, which drove the bad airupon the imprisoned miners, and killed them. Had it not been for this fatal blunder, at least some of the men, in all human probability, would - have been rescued alive. ks Lk s We trust” the next strike of the miners will be for safety, rather than higher wages. Let them strike for two entrances, ventilation, and iron instead ‘of ‘woodwork in the shafts. — Indianapolis Mirror. . =

: A New Party. The Good Templars of this District held a Couvention at Aunburn, on the 30th ult., and among other resolutions, they unanimously adopted the following :- LRI S “ Resolved, That we are in favoriof organizing a National Temperance party and of.submitting the issues to the people at the ballot box, - | Resolved, That henceforth, at all elections, ‘whether State or National, we will, as far as possible, vote for tem-. perance men and againgt tipplers, alt othg’r - things being equal, without regar .9" : ‘ ,?’. 30 S tia " The prominent movers in the new organization ‘are L. H. Stocker, Ea@,; of Steuben county, and Col. W. W. Griswold and J. W. Hamil, Esq., of DeKalb county. We notice that the Gouvention xefused to incorporate in s platforss o plauk favoring womas sufftage. Our ‘advice, probably, will ot be heeded; but ‘we canriot resist ‘recommiending that they come' together, as' soon a 8 possible, and reconsider ‘their action on. the sufirage:‘question: , ~ i R R Gelidedy Bivists n _Gormtil dddidid to. whisky 14 disappointment_ln- love was' fotindßalnging t 0 & 'trea near the county furmn, at St. Lotis, on' the Snd inkt

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| ~ MR. PENDLETON'S SPEECH. AP GVT B i _way from the fair, on the 10th inst, and | insisted on a speech. Heg begged off; but finally consented, and spoke over an hour, -supported on his crutches. Among other things, Hemid: = e . -“I cannot agree with Gov. Hayes, that all vexed questions of our national politics.are wisely and happily settled,—that the great questions of liberty and union, and the reconstruction-of the nnion, have ‘been made safe. I cannot agree that re--trenchment, oconomy, and honesty have been introduced intd the management of the federal expenditures; that the debt has been decreased, and i€ in the course of decreasing, as he states it ; that the .burdens of taxation have been reduced, -and’ their weight updn the people had, been lightened ; that sougd judgment and freedom from ‘bad influences have been " brought into exercise by the im‘miense power of the secretary of the treasury ; . that business is active; that enterprise is active; that fvifor, and cnergy, and industry are bounttfully rewarded ; that employment is abundant ; that daily toil is fairly mmé:qgsaqu; that commerce ~on the ocean and on the land is prosperous; and, therefore, cannot serenely, as does our worthy governor, turn -my face from all the questions of federal politics, and look only at state affgirs. It ought to be.. If it were not for schemes of consolidation ; if state affairs were left to ‘state management ; if federal affairs were - kept within the scope of the constitutional provisions, it would be so. But I can- . not pretend to believe what 1 know to be false. - T cannot sag' that the union is” restored, when Virginia, and Mississippi, . and Texas are un?er military govern-. ‘ments ; union is restored when justice is ‘administered by a Qrum-head court-mar-tial; the constitution is maintained when ‘we know that the gsupreme court is only a ‘waiting an opportuhity to declare the reconstruction acts unconstitutional.: ‘I oppose the adoption af the fifteenth amendment, because it fs a material, radical changc in our system of government. ‘lt destroys the relation of the states of ‘the | federal union. | The government “then takes away from the states," without their consent, that essential attribute of a‘selfgoverning country— the right to determ‘ine who shall exercise thie right of suff- - rage, because it ‘was intended to, and wili, introduce degro suffrage .in Ohio ‘against the willj of the people. }gT(jVO-_ years 'ago the, péople of Ohio, without distinetion of party, by an immense maJority, refused to Bmend the state constitution, after full argument and full consideration of negro suffrage. I see no reason to believe that they have changed their opinion. I object tor its adoption, because by the strongest implication it confers upon Congress and' reserves |to the States the right to exclude from the ballot persons of our own white race, because of their nativity, creed, waut of education, of poverty, and prehibits the exclusion of another race. If tlre interpretation_of. Senator Morton and Secnator Howard be correct, under this amend-

ment ‘of Congress, States may-exclude Irishmen, - Germans, Catholies, Protest--ants, or poor men from enjoying suffrage, but not negroes or Mongolians. - T object to its n.doptioﬁ;g because it is part and parcel of a ‘schéme to flood the country with the forced importation of an im mense number of Chinese; of coolics, and Ming into our ‘midst an alien race, and repeat, in' a more difficult form, the social and governmental questions “which lhave. so unhappily divided our people. | “The last re}grt of the secretary of the treasury shows thathe is hoarding $lOl,- | 214,386 in coix}z and $12,144,000 incurréncy. “ Why 2% To what good purpose? -« The customs of half a year are thus pay‘ing 6 per centi in gold interest on the public’ debt, aAd the sccretary is hoard- . ing the immehse amount each. month with a great parade. ¥lesells six or nine millions, and with the proceeds he buys ‘bonds; giving fn the market for:them 25 _pgr"qelxt;..,abaie:par. They are now. re: deemable on their face, by law, in legal,Fmder notes. 5 Holders gave legal-tender for them when I'egalftendeh‘ notes werc worth not mose than half what they are now: C'onti's%idon brings a universal fall of prices of gobds and labor, w;gle debts, . taxes, and money obligations remain fixed.. The man who§lla3 vmon,e¥'; becomes richer. Tha eyatom lic ‘»a ¥ Unjuck. = Tho . debt contractdd on our expanded curren-

cy should bd paid in the same currency. The dollar 'x&lich is paid ';Bould be of the same valde as the dollar which was loaned. - Thé¢! whole policy of the administration 'should be reversed. Pay the debt; pay it honestly, according to contract; pay it in money as valuable as . that which Was received for it ;. payhit in legal-tendér notes ; abolish the national bank systtm; pay off the bonds on which they are founded ; save the yearly interest ; useievery appliance of economy and management in advancing that polis cy—then, when the debt is paid, when the taxes are reduced, when $75,000,000 . will suffice for the government, when all property -is :Bubjected to a ‘rule of taxation,if it be advisable to contract a.cur- ) rency and résume Eip«;cie payments, it can be effected without disaster, and the inevitable sufféring can be borne.” ‘

Removal of Another Gallant Soldier. - Norman [Eddy, the gallant Colonel who led ofie of Indiana’s regiments through a portion of the late war, and - received a ,{;ﬁangerous wound on the bloody ﬁel% of ‘lnka, one too, from which he ¢an never entirely recover, . has been rémoved fromethe Collectorship of thei;ﬂ th District. His successor is one R. J. Chestnutwood, who, had it not beenfor this little streak of luck, - would in all probability have remained in that congenial darkness that usually suxrounds men of meagre ability. ~Theé?nblic records ara silent as’ to the pamt played by Mr. Chestnut- - wood durifig the dark hours of the rebellion. Kt is even: hinted that he allowed his patriotism to ooze out at his fingers erdds. Farther than to en‘courage ‘the distinguished patriots who formed ‘themselves into “Homs Guards,” we. are unable to learn that this new: gﬂi@al comet shed any particular lustre upon' the fame of his country. All a‘gfnit. ‘that Col.’ Eddy ‘made one of the best Collectors in the governmont. With a name %ndrfdme; ~co-equal with the bounds of his countryy it was fait to presume. that the ; b&ited iéix%éf _' of&e a(;h‘i{er would - . PWWVK ird of fan Gﬁﬁgo{e{ ywed by An-. for,the foldier ia notiosabln, ably 86 s e e o oM e