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‘Besistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God~ | e B BTOLL, EDITOR. ' WEDNESDAY,SEPT. 29, 1869. O ST S SR S ST AT 50 i R R RARUITS AARDAYAUANUE, "Lt the toiling masses remember that President' Grant’s ‘recent trip to Long Branch, in & government vessel, cost the people of this country the modest little sum of nineteen thousand four hundred ~ond seventy,dollars. Who says we are not drifting towards a monarchy? How much longer we ask in the name of liberty and freedom, will the American people submit * to such reckless extravagance “upon the part of their public servants.— Does any one for a momeut think that the great and good father of his Country. —who was inaugurated as the first president in home made elothes,—could have been made believe that ere a hundred years had rolled away, that one of his successors in office would be cutting the ridiculous farce of aping the crowned _nincompoops of the old world, by going to fashionable watering places at the ex-pense-of the toiling and tax oppressed peoplé of the Country? Is it not about time that this thing be looked squarely in the face, and thesé aping demagogues .be hurled from place and position? Can it be possible that the American people are going to allow the fires of the patriotism of 1776 to gie out, and tamely submit to having the iron heel of a tyrannical despotism placed 'upon their necks? We must confess that our confidence in their love of freedom, ‘sometimes grows weak : yet, we earnestly hope jthat they will arise in their avenging might, and trample these leeching vampires into hopeless oblivion. ’ ‘. ; '

s Signs of the Times. Colonel John G. Klinck, a veteran offi- *® cer of the war and latterly one of the ablest of the Republican speakers in Western New York, has abandoned the Republican party and anounced his determination to act hereafter with the Democra: cy. In aletter to'the Rochester Union, Colonel Klinck writes : : © At the dl;gnnization of the Republican ‘ }m'ty, and from'that time to the present, have voted the entire ticket “unscratched,” never having split a ticket. In doing this I have voted tor many unworthy men, but have swallowed everything for the sake of the party. I have given as much time and money as my circumstances would allow, have stumped-several of the States, and ‘all in all, have done a good deal of hard work. I have persecuted the Democratic “saints” as far as in me lay, and in all ways blocked the Dem~ocratic wheels. All thishave I done con-. - cientiously, and, as I thought, for the best interests of the country. I cannot further sustain the so-called Republican party, and will not, and if I live shall vote the entire Democratic ticket at the ‘approaching election. * Hon. O. H. Browning, Secretary of the - Interior, who has not hitherto been identified with the Democratic - party, has signified his willinguess to accept the Democratic nomination for delegate to the Illineis Constitutional C€Convention from Adams County. The Quincy Herald says of Mr. Browning's views : . He does not regard the framing of a new Btate constitution—a fundamental law which is to operate, or at least should operate, equally upon men of all parties ~—as a partisan measure, He is, however, : foppoaeg——decidedly. hearfily, and defiantly opposed—to striking the word “white” out o¥ the constitution of this State, and he does not hesitate to say that the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution of “the United States, if ratified, will be inconsistent with the other provisions, and with pearly all of them. to whizh it is an - amendment, and necessarily, therefore, . .void—as much so as if it were a GPropo- ' sition to set aside and abolish the Constitution of the Uinited States, -

We have heretofore taken occasion to say that, if the Legislature of Virginia is to ratify the proposed fifteentll amenament before the admiseion of the State into the Union, then such a ratification will be but a provisional ratification and subject to the revision of the Legislature when, by the admission of the State, such Legislature ceases to be provisional and becomes regular. A Virginia paper, the Fredericksburg Herald, draws a second conclusion from our premises, to-wit: that the Legislature should expressly condition the validity of their act of ratification on the admission of the State. The Herald's view is: - - : t The passage of the ordinance adopting it shllrdate, and be of ‘binding effect, from the date of Virginia’s admission to representation in Congress, and her rehabilitation, with all the rights, priviliges, and immaunities of any ¢o-equal State in the Federal Union. This is highly proper. A .provisional Legislature cannot be expected to give anything more than a provisional 'ratification.—%. Y. World. Eoiai

} Ignorance and Radicalism. - According to the census of 1865, Rhode Island has something over ten thousand inhabitants that are unable to read and write. Now, from time out of mind it has been the custom of radical newspapers to assert thdt all .the ignorance in the land had its home in the ranks of the Demoeracy, but it 60 happens that this little State, containing a population of only about. 185,000, regularly rolls up a majority of several thousand for the “black and tan” ticket; in fact they have about two republicans to one democrat.— This little cire;mstam might;a lead an inquiring, ‘mind to suppose that igno'tazce angd radicalism v?cgr well inx?he same hiu:fne;s. Whergver tbe‘n;loutgrowt ' igng , bigotry and intolerance -ho;fi -away, tilfere);he radi- ) ;,_,,.‘_;- M !g” zoritiaa. That gwpottianof ‘ignorauce and is a reliale republican state is not an unnatural coincidence. a . .M=. A.T.Stawart, who reports an ~income of three million two hundred * declared " i willingness ¢0 de sside sl parpoois & tio vl Mieniby 56 Ibs & member of Gen. Grant’s Cubinet, has givS "",’”"‘.{ el «fi*u‘usw" '-\17?1;«:5,_&) -"Tu,,\ }';‘g

WHAT WE EXPORT, It may be interesting to our readers to know the leading articles, and their value, which we exported t;rom the coun-. try last year: L g Cotton (Southern Production) $195,000,000 Cotton manufacturers (New : , ‘England) £ - 5,800,000 Other cotton manufacturers . (New England) gic o 14,000,000 Indian Corn ?w estern) L 6,820,000 Wheat %Wntcrn)‘ 24,349,000 / Wheat Flour (Western) 18,044,445 . Beef (Western) _ ©1,429,967 Cheese (Western o 6,437,866 Hams and bacon E‘Wemn] ; Z,gg,zg J baid [W:mi ; U 8/409,898 Tallow | Western] : 2,872,620

} It will be'seen that our agricultural yroduets mainly Western, brought nearly }‘380,000,000 in & foreign market last year, The BSouthern cotton was $165,000,000, ‘,‘and the Southern tobacco (for it is South‘ern in a great degree) was $20,000,000 more. When weadd to thése rice, sugar, tar and turpentine, and other articles, it will be found that the Southern exports were fully $200,000,000, yes, most likely, $225,000,000. When we add to this the Western products of $80,000,000, we have $800,000,000 of our exports Soiith and West, out of the 454,000,000 which constitute the whole amount. In other words, the foreign trade is more than two-thirds supplied by the South and West, exclusively. 'Of cotton manufactured articles, upon which there is such great protection, and for which our people pay so highly, there isin value less than 0?20,000,000. This is equal to wheat but less than flour, exported from the West. - In other eastern manufactures there are $2,000,000 for hardware, $2,000,000 f?r firearms, $3,000,000 for machinery, and $500,000 for boots and shoes ~in all $7,5600,000. In the meantime the oil springs of Pennsylvania and the West have produced $35,000,000 millions for exportation, a sum which is half equal to gll our agricultural exportations of ‘ articles of food. : e

There is much thought suggested by this table of fifiures. Our capacity for importation of oreign—g‘oods is guaged by the amount that we export.- When the West and South do two-thirds of it, it ‘shows where the wealth and productions of the land are to be found.' Oar gold production and exportation of coin is falling off. : ; ' We exported last gear, in round numbers, about $40,000,000. The year before it wasabout $77,000,000. The California and Rocky Mountain places are evidently drying up,.and do not possess their former fruitfulness. » The interest on the $1,000,000,000 of bonds held abroad is $60,000,000 in gold. Allthat we dig from our mines fall short of its payment by $20,000,000. = Our exports of wheat and flour, and beef and corn; will hardly square our annual jndebtedness for interest on the bonds in Europe, This is a very bad posi‘tion to occupy. A drain of $60,000,000 a year will, in time, exhaust the resources of the most wealthy nations. The administration .is doing its best to add greatly to the exhaustion. It has added to and increased the price of the bonds twentyfive ‘fer cent. and this addsto their demand in Europe, The usual rates for bonds and money on that continent is three per cent. When they can get ‘six per cent. in gold, free from taxation, and have the principal paid in gold, for that which costs them less than seventy cents. on the dollar we may be assured that there willl be a large increase of the bonds which are held ¢ over the water.” The entire debt, or the.greater portion of it, will, in time, be found in Europe. The annual interest of $50,000,000, which is now so oppressive, will then be $100,000,000, a sum sufficient to impoverish the richest country on the globe. The only interest on the bonds bought of the United States government thirtythree per cent. which would reduce the net profits of foreign capitalists .to four per cent, Now they escape without any taxation whatever. Then the plan should be to issue new greenbacks in moderate and limited quantities, and take up the bonds at an early period, and so end the depleting process, which is so fatal to our business and to our industry. .

Tage gallant democracy of Minnesota, have put in nowination, perhaps, one of the most incorruptable tickets ever presented to the voters of that State for their suffrages. Mr. George L. Otis, formerly mayo# of St, Paul; heads the ticket as candidate for Gtovernor. He is represented as a gentleman of a_high order of intellect ; a finished scholar, and an eloquent and impressive speaker., With such a ticket before them, it is earnestly hoped 1 that the toiling masses of that hitherto radical ridden State will rise in their might and forever trample to insignificant oblivion, the blatapt demagogues who have in the past used all ' their ef forts to lead them to vote against their® own and their posterities interests. = ©

' Let the Eagle Scream ! - For Bronherg Jonathan has won a victory atthe oar which realy does hlm credit~—~double eredit since she defeat of the Havards. Our frigate Sabine was ot Cherbourg, on the 15th of Angust, and was invited to take part in the games of the Emperor’s fete days. Lieutenant Commander Bartlett, notwithstanding he had but twe days’ notice, determined to compete in a race for which the French tars had been training for months.” When the hour of contest arrived, many of the French crews were found to consist of sixteen men, with no heavier boat than our boys had.. In the race Sabines were in- the rear for the first five hundred yards, they then overhauled their advervesaries, one by one gaining the 'b'inoi' at the distance of a mile, eight lengths ahead, and finally coming .in the winner by ten lengths. The prize was 200 and a silver medal. Of course the cable gave us no hint of all this, though it somehow got: hold of a very ridiculous fable of ax{}gtiny by these same brave tars of the frigate Sabine.: = ‘ 2

: Old Jesse. pee s The Kentueky Sepatorship is now the: ‘absorbing topic with our neighbors of the South. A correspondent giving & resume of the situation, and of the candidates who are pressing forward, makes this notice of Indiana’s former Senator. . “The opposition to Jesse D. Bright in some -quarters will be very bitter and fierce, He is considered as disqualified by law for the glace, and his purpose of pushing forward to the front under these circumstances is looked upon with distrust and impatience. Some even' go 8o far as to planout the strategy that he Wi in gaining the affections of the B Pemocraey; by his- pretonding, when the Bpeakership of the House shall be placed at his disposa], to resign so magnificent a gift in favor of some member from that section, therebfi con--gilisting to himeelf the good will and favor of the associates of the gentleman o nominated. - We place little confidence in this &rrofhr:nm,u it js 5 little too’ shallow for the thoroughly skilled mind of Mr. Bright. lie knowledge of the inm’fl bat_pertain fo_political diplomacy is a littlo too deep to risk the sucS i ‘would destroy his chsnces entirely.” ] el s 5 ¢ you wish to purchage No.l'Boots

A Temperate Hailo_le Temperance ; ,; Parti ' f = e The microsocpic vote received in Malne by My. Hichborn, the andidate for governbr gf the newly established national | anti-dram shop party, is an evidence that an attempt to control the social habits of the American people by prohibitory legislation, is a total failure. 'The late national convention so|says the St. Louis Republican of the prohibitionists was not the culminating point lof this ridiculous movement. It appears rather as the last flashing out of the concentrated spite of a class of reformers who mistook a mere - symptom of our social |condition for its ‘essential cause, and who so misunder‘stand the idea of the s?ate as to make it an institution similar in its effects to a police ‘coui't, a scho%l"rciom or a sectarian consistory. In a state like Maine, where & prohibitory policy has twice been in-

augurated by a L?ajoriky of the people, the candidate of the new Lits doen shop party, failed to-éoncentrate more than about five thousand - votes of the nincty thousand polled at the last state election, aud of the one hundred and twenty ihousand - given at the presidential election of 1868. The power of the fanaics who twice ruled the state of Maine is how reduced to something like one vote in twen-ty-four ; for it may be assuined, with certainty, that” only a very small number of prnfiibitiouists‘were among those who, at the election, did not cast their votesat all. The new . party, having still less hope of success in the other states, may therefore be fairly regarded as défunct, and the dead will have ample leisure to bury their dead, without fear that any of them will interrupt this last duty by !)ccom'ir?g IcB- - ‘ §

But, whilst a false remedy agaiosta real disease had to be abandoned,.the evil itself is neither cured, nor will tlie cm lightened portion of the A_niaicaie people cease to arrest its spreading. The wrong in this now defunct. temperance' ‘movement was not theaim, but the means, by which it is hoped fo reach the end in view. This is particulaly clear, if, as we believe, the prohibitation of any intoxi- | cating Dcverage was pnly desired because it was really regarded as the only means to_arrest habitual drunkenness, and not because the drinking of spirituous liquors wag an evil in. itself. There nevef was, and there is not now, a reasonable man who does not condemn habitual drunkenness s self.degradation. and aslong as the evil ::exists crvilization will always istruggle ggainst it. But it will do so by the aplication of the only means by iwhich social evils can be eradicated and this is by the enlture and education of all the classes of population, and by a tend‘ency to.equalize, more and more, the material and moral condition of men. The more the differences between thelow and high shall disapyear, the more occupations | arc created for the many, in which they will need the fall power of their mental, faculties, and wherein they may find en-' Joyment in more elevated 'excitements. than those originating in a mere physical tension and relaxation of their nerves; thet prouder men shall become of the uninterrupted use of their intellectual capaci-’ ities, and the more concious they shall be‘of the highest dogmas of the civilized world, of that liberty wlicly'is niueh more the result of self control than of béing controlled by others, the more will drank-. enness disappear, and wine and other exhilerating drinks be consumed within the limits of temperance, = - =

That such an epoch is far distant fiom the present will not prevent any thinking man from the pu_fisqit of the salution of this problem Manrkind has performed greater things than this, The now uni. versally acknowledged dogma of relig- | ious toleration ; the imense progress 'in | the -realization of the doctrine of chris-’ tian charity; the universal disbelief in witcheraft ; the abrogation of eruel punishments; the recognized obligation of the state to give an average education to | every . lady; and many ‘other things | which, in our times, are regarded as matters of course arc greater achicvements than the reduction of the prevalence of drunkenness. If there were corrct. statistics in regard to the vice of habitual drunkenness, they would undoubtly show a great decline of the evil since the middle ages. They would especially show that the temperate use of spirituous liguors has inereased in the same proportion as knowledge and culture has becomé™ ‘more and more the common property of all, and that habitual drunkenness has decended from the higher ranks in society to the more unedugated and inferior classes. No be tter proof of this asserfioq lis needed than the horror which all feel at the sight of a drunkard who bhas filled any of the higher positions in life. ‘ Neither a national nor a logal party can successfully be orgb.pized upon a pro hibitory police for parties express by their crganization ‘the various sides of the whole life of & nation, or of a community, as represented in the public managemient of their affairs. Tlf they assume .the role of mentors through the labyrinths, of social liif'é,kpt of dactors of private morality, they will always discover that the remedy is- more Hateful to the people than the disease against which it is directed. But no sooner shall they be driven out of their usurped aughority than society itself will examine the true merits of their movements, investigate the sources of the evil and discover means to - mitigate it. ' The game of base ball has _probably - prevented more drunkeness ‘than all the temperance speeches of the New England puritans combined, whilst. the necessity for maintaining an; excite‘menty uncogenial o the American people, during the lgst war, created more drunk ~ards than all the other cayses-of this vice _combined. - Let the political parties try to give peace to. the country ; o re-estab mhmmfimmm L" eoogoise tho uninterrapted neivity of- | mkeras"ie‘flflt?sgg, Cad Dl T e %%“ iy i Speenis ipios: v Went b 0 Rkt abaut : Toriv s'slodk B T W‘fi%f‘w% e iy o o i L R flrsé%h’g‘”w« dosd rith & bities hnke thuoust his TR B b e G v g from, bim rifled of itd: conter ts. - The: s e . o

. MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS; & The stables of the Street Railuy Company in St. Lonis were bur Saturday night, the 18th, with :T: of twelve or fifteen horniea | The New York Central and Hudsn River roads dreto be éonsoli&_med n the 28th, simultdneously with-the n. veiling of the Vanderbilt'statue. J An iron-clad. Cnban privateer, wth one hnndred men on board, has ben captured by the Goverment officils near New Bedford.

Four dredge boats have left St. Low is, to aid in cutting a canal from the Mississippi to Lake Borgne, by which shipments in bulk fan be made to Shi) Islapd in all weathers. =

. Pat, Wildeck, a highvay robber was taken from the Portage City jail by aband of masked citizens, and strangulated.” The goose is not the only thing that hanlgs high in Wisconsin. - ‘ ket

Three men of distinetion in our na tional ' affairs were|lying unburied a: the same hour; but what different ages seem brought together in the several histories of Fessenden, Rawlins, and John Bell! Ty { A hen in West | Winstead, Conn., has been. sitting for several weeks on seven potatoes, which have é}irouted: and grown above her head. | An exchange wants to get Susan B. Anthony married, as a means of quieting her. Is'there a man on earth who is deserving of Fuch punishmept ! The Cincinnati G'azette, having pub. lished an article agast stealing, is assailed by some of its radical associates -as having almost deserted: Grant’s party and gone over to the i,fl)e::nocira.— ey, LS g

The official ~re?txirns of the Idaho election have just been ‘pub]ial*ed.—-b Batler, democrat, was elected delegate to Congress by a | majority . of 820 votes. The total number of votes thrown was 5,384, |

Fhe radicals are in quite a stew over the election fizfie in Maine. ' The morjority given for Grant has been reduced over 20,000 votes. . A like lukewarmness in Massachusetts will cost the state. {5B 1

It is believed .tha{t Rawlins alone, stood between Grant and the Boutwell style of radicals. gow that his restraining influence ig removed, New England will ran the‘ machine’, without let or hinderance. | o i

A Liverpool - woman., doubtful whether the fire in her stove was out, poured gunpowder on the embers in order to, ascertain [the fact. Her doubts and the rest of her were removed, el

~ Grant is becoming mighty particu: lar about his real estate presents. He is said lately to have refused to accept a house and lot until the donor had made a visitto the proper county office and procured an abstract of title. Some one in New Jersey has presented to President Grant a black-and-tan pup, which a local papet says is worth sl,Boo—we presume worth that much to the donor, I‘ll the shape of a clerkship or post office at that salary. ~ The world stands feady to supply us 'with an abundance of food, fuel, shelter and clothing in exchange for the results of our own lzbor, and it is alleged that we shall be ruined by such an abundance, if imported. Mr. Ramsey telegraphs to Washington, that he cannot persdade the French government to abandon its claims to two-thirds of the postage on mails between the two countries. If his undertaking sh’ou% finally prove a failure, the administration will find it difficult to justify his mission. - A General Sheridan is stumping Ohio for the radical ticket. It is not ‘Greneral Philip Sheridan, but a carpetbag sheriff from Lousiana. The radicals don’t know the difference, however, and lustily cheer ‘“the gallant cavalry charger.” ¢«“Where ignorance is bliss it is folly to be wise.” -

Two Duxbury (Donn-.,) ladies, descendants af the Winslow‘family, possess, ‘among, other| curious relics, the wedding shoes of Cotton Mather’s grandmother. On ong of the shoesis pasted -the original publishment of her marriage, taken from the church door* where it was first posted, ,

* (Qalifornia is now lfimding us black Hamburg grapes in abundance, Cali: fornia will become the:fruit garden of the United States Ouly t%ose who have visited her vineytard‘s can form g proper idea of her importance as a grape raising country. . ‘ The trial of the notorious Reddy, the blacksmith, prominent ward politician. ete., accused of robbery, will he commenced in New York on Tuesday next. It is stated that great interest’ is taken in the trial by politicians of that city, who will make a strong effort to get him clear, fearing unplesant dis.. closures. pane : ,f

Sir Samuel Baker’s expedition left Alexandria on September .first for the Lake of Nyansi. It consists of ten steamers ‘and thirty sailing vessels, freighted with merchandise and provision, as well as presents for the nptives who are to be cajoled out of their possessions. Baker beats Cleopatra’s fleet and Robeson’s Tallapoosa hollow, and the pyramids look down upon him with amazement. ; s ‘T'wo coal miners in Pittsburg named John Grimm and James Shovlin, paid their gddresses to the sgame lady, and she having to choose between them gave the preference to Grimm-—— whereupon Shovlin threatened to whip Grimm. Grimm hearing of this procured; a . revolver and paid Shovlina vigit, A scuffle ensued, in which Shovlin roving . the stronger man, Grimm dl:"ew his pistol and fired, the ball taking - effect in a.vital part of Shovlin’s body, Infitwe}}vg honrs the rejected lover died, and Grimm: found ‘himself in jail charged with murder, it ga s o ed on the farm of Mr. Conley, in Carrol county Ga., on the zh which mads ifioen hundred rails, After the tree was tat ‘down, cheslozzgast cross cut saw wa procured that was possiDlo to be had; and tivo men, wih fully for & wholo day tawing the first cut. The t4p of thie siamp “sssaire ‘ning feet in diamet "m tfuabeyc eBE e 2 ;‘*’f\f‘% ~ Come to the Fair everyboc y and see the ‘P“‘@d ghie ¢

STATE ITEMS. . Joe laoixég, an 614 pioneer of Koscinsko county died lnst week, aged seventy-five yosem L i All the business men in Fort Wayne selem to be advertising. Sensible people! : . Fring - - Milford, in Kosciusko:County, has been’ terribly scourged with sickness this sumReE

- A Mr. Wicher who was reported robbed at Evansville of $3.500 found the missing money in his other trunk.

Hon. O. Bird, of Fort ‘W’a.yne, was severely kicked by a horse last week. His injuries are not dangerous. - - 3

Therg are in Montgomery county 3,300 farms. | The wheat crop for 1869; on those farms, it is estimated, = will reach 800,000 bushels, or a surplus of 500,000 bushels.

" There i:;more fever and ague in the country than has been known for ten years past. In some localities whole families are_down with the disagreeable disease.— Terre Haute Journal.

The Evansville Journal says the saloon licenses at Princeton expired st Thursday, and.all the old drinkers are having the chills in consequence of being debarred from taking their dsual “snifters”-

The Pacific Lightning Express train on the P. Ft. W. & C, R. R, madé- the distance of nine miles, from Arcola to Fort Wayne, in ten minutes, one night last week. That’s lightning speed ! '

' WonbERFUL.—The only stage coach in which there was not room for “one more,” left the city this morning for Kendallrille, containing twelve inside and thirleen- outside, leaving five behind to wait b-morrow’s trip.— Hort Wayne Gazette. '

Fred Measil, an employee in Clark & Rhinésmith’s flooring mills, met with a second accident this year. Yesterday he arelessly took a board from the plane, getting 'his right hand. too near the reyolving saw, and it was cut off near the wrist. Inside of this year he has had the third finger of the same hand cut off in a similar manner,—#ort Wayne Democrat.

Judging from the dray loads of coffins which have passed down Chestnut street the last few days, our physicians have made a raide upon the health of the’ people, and they must have been extremely successful in killing their patients, if the number of wooden overcoats Joe Swift carried around was any test.—OQuwen County Journal, .

The population of Fort Wanye is increasing immensly. A few weeks ago it was put "down at thirty thousand, whech astonished- the outside world somewhat.—But the last number of the Deinocrat brings it up to thirty-two thousand. At this rate Indiafla will have a Chicago on its hands before the census is taken,

- A. Link, the dead animal remover, met with a singular and almost fatal acciden; on Tuesday of Last week. In cutting a .dead horse he cut an intestine, and the ador struck him with such force in the face as to knock him senseless upon the ground ; and required -the utmost attention of several physicians to bring him' to again. One or two of the doctors gave him up as a dead man.—lnd. Commercial.

" Abramsstill asserts his entire innocence of the crime of murdet, and his ignorance of the motives which prompted the taking off of Mr. and Mrs. Young. He, .of course, is dissatisfied with the result of the trial, and is disposed to blame the attorney for the defense for his conviction, claiming that he was sacrificed by their trying Mrs. Clem first. However that may be, it is certain that' Abrams was ably defended, that he was tried by a most excellent and “upright Judge, and that the jury wag composed of the best “good and trite men” in the county.—7lnd. Mirror.

The pension office under thie agency of Captain Hiram Iddings, was on last Tuesday honored by the presence of Daniel Davis, the oldest pension creditor of the government.. Mr, Davis is thrice a hero, having ‘served in the war of 1812, that with Mexico, and in the late unpleasantness. He is ninety-three years of age; and, although his datural force is greatly abated, his eye is not dimmed. He dispenses with spectacles and ‘writes a fluent and legible autograph. The venerable vetran lives at Walton, Casscounty. We regret ignorance of the leading features of. the sergeant’s eventful career; but we cannot forbear to remark his distinguished presence, and bid him hail and God speed to his centennigl.—Fort . Wayne Gazette.

It is estimated, by comflpetent ‘Judges, that $300,000 will complete the road bed of the Terre Haute and Bloomfield Rail: road and put down the ties—that is, will pnt the road in condition to receive the iron. Of thissum $lOO,OOO will, we have no doubt, be pledged by the City Council. Private individuals, in this city, will make up another 100,000, including the $50,000 already pledged by Mr. Rose, and considerable sums pledged by others. As soon as these 200,000 are secured, Greene county will vote the remaining - $lOO,OOO. This being done, work will be commenced and the _entire line wiil be graded and tied as’speedily as possible. Then a first mortgage bond will bea read yand sufficient means of procuring iron, rolling stock, &c.-—Zerre Houte Hzpress. SR ¢ o

' ArreMPr AT Moumicmne.—On Saturday last, a gifi named Jane Thomas, secing one George Hamner standing on the pavement deliberately drew a revolyer, - placed-the muzzle within two inches of the back of his head, and pulled the trigger. The girl was evidentally unsc. quainted ‘with the use of fire arms. and had only half cocked the “pistol; so that it ‘missed fire, or Hamner to-day. would not be able to tell fhe tale of his -narrow escape. That “distance lends' en--chantment to the scene” was however, a - favorite of his,and he vamosed. The girl took the pistol to Schofield & Alexander’s and told.them she “wanted one that would shoot,” whereupon Dr. Schofield took it into the bacdk yard and fired off every barrel without an exception. The cause, we believe, was broken vows, mis.placed confidence, ruined vitue, or something of the kind ; we could not exactly learn which. Hamner is a married man, “and the girl is his sister-in-law.— Franklin (Johnson County) Democrat. - The Fort Wayne Demoerat says: Some few monthsisince, our city was blessed with a real sensation in the shape of an elopement. By diligent and persistent: efforts upon the part of the lady’s friends, the affair was Kept from the ‘newspaper men ; consequently, extensive gn‘ahmw Was_ Ut QNG W B S TLow, comeg the sequel, which is far'too good to keep. The father, at first, requested, in. letters written to the daughter, a return of the wayward fledglings to the parental roof, bu his Rlsadings peived & cold, [email protected]fir?q;sanmrs.m%;s:iggzl&men; the couple returned, sick and disgusted. wfih% et 3 he bride's home, where. she humbly sued for'the forgive. finotlm?éfi? 8 0N SOO N tion Bl or. yot boos W he b : buf it sometimes recurs fo us, had we le 8 s S ~hm¢(>“'«~t T b %‘ Bentles g,fiyi?gw% keen, ther, o would b 8 e e Ll Tl e b i iy i e

. Fon ;A?up‘n oF Srare.—The Goshen Demotrat ‘in a very able }a‘%highly coimplimentary article nominatesilohn B.Stoll, ?hmjoviqll.;;nd gentlemanly editor of the Ligonier Banner, for Auditor of State, and ‘sustains its proposition with some plausible Agomente, Mr- Sloll is segEl qui, jpular with.his party in this part of the §°m,e,t as an evidence of which it will b remembered that in the last Democratic Congr 9,535'0. ial District. Convention he .ve--ceived the}hrgeet vote cast in that Assem‘bly ‘as a candidate for nomination to Congress. Should Mr, Stoll be. & candidate‘we believe he will receive the nomination of the' Democratic party ‘if they are disposed to deal fairly in their distribution of local favors. T

Mr. Stoll’s careeriin this State has been of a flattering nature, he has done a great deal of hard work for his party and did it well, and we are not disposed tp begrudge him any of the honors his party may feel disposed to bestow upon bim.—Lagrange Standard. irg] o Bulie b Ll g

- "AuprToß oF STATE.—The Goshen Demoerat, announces the name of John B. Stoll, of the: Nalional> Banner at Ligonier, as a candidate for Auditor of State, subject to the deeision of the people.— Waterloo City The Géshen ,fiemocflxt: nominates Mr. J. B. Stoll;sof the Ligonier Bunner, as a can-. didatd before the %emcufifa State Convention:for, nomination as its candidate for Auditar of State. The Convention ‘would hayve hard work to get a better man. —Mishawaka Enterprise.’ .. '

_-.The Goshen. Democrat hominates J.. Stoll, of the Ligonier Danner, as & candidate for Auditor of State. We don’t kng another mén in the party who would fil the bill any better than Stoll, He'is's Democrat if Brick | Pomeroy- is.—Steuben Republican.| . : Slafe oo

‘A worman died recently in Trenton, Michigan, in giving birth to her thirt; (first child:, Among the thirty-on | were three pairs, of twins, and the eldest of them- all, if livindg, ‘wounld b only twenty-one years old. . £ r

. A Charleston paper. tells of an ex: rebel soldier whose leg was amputated near the thigh during the war. It is now growing out' again rapidly like a lobster’s claw. and if nothing happens he will have as good a leg as ever. Yonng Joaes always complained to his father-in-law .of the temper an: waywardness of his wife. “I'll cur her,” said the father, “I’ll cut her o without a shilling ifshe don’t behave.”’ Young Jones always told his father-in-law after “that. “She’s a model of a wite. o | = o

Hon. J. A!Rayce, of Cincinnati, herctofore a prominent Radical, in a communjeation to the Cincinnati Fhquirer, says : “I'havesevered mys"egf from the Republican ‘party, because it is an organized hypoerisy, a shu’fiiing' dissimulation, a fraud, delusion and snare, a combination of grasping fanatics, ' fattening 'on the ‘vitals “of the wealth-producers and wealth distribytors of the country,” Mr! Royce evidently understands the organization from which he has parted. o

Grant’s - pleasure trip’ to . Long Branch, ina U. S. vessel, cost the people of the United States nineteen: thousand four hundred and seventy dol-, lars, Nineteen thousand -four huadred and seventy dollars the ipeople pay for a|single tgig‘to _amuse Grang. This is the way the money goes.— Bow your necks, Oye asses, and take the yoke that is offered you. Let, Grant drink, and smoke, and sail, and dance, while you pay. the fiddler. A double-headed locomotive of an improved design and great pov‘ver has been sorne months in process of building at Taunton, Mass., for the Paciic‘ Railroad. 1t resémbles two engines connected together as oné, which will travel pither wity, ob-iating the necessity of turn-tables, It hassix pair of 3-feet 9-inch wheels, thiree at each end, and each group driven by a pair of 15inch cylinders, 24-inch’ stroke, combining a power of 25,700 pounds.— The whole weighs fifty-four tons, with tanks holding 3,000 gallons of water, and earries 2 1-2:tonsof coal. = . | -

Recently a bag containing a cat and kittens was left on the doorstep of Mir. Hamer, in Coldwater: county, Michigan, and, a few evenings after, another bundle was left in the same place.—— Supposing ' it to be a repetition of the previous prank. Mr. Hamer took it, without opening it, thtew it into the St. Joseph - river; .which flowa near his house. Hisawife, feeling somewhat apr prehensive concerning the: bundle, went and fished it out: of the river,. when her worst fears werg realized, for it - contained the body of an infant child, apparently about eighteen hours old. Pinned to its clathing wasa fivedollar bill, and a note addressed to Mr. Hamer’s people, telling them to ‘bring: the child up in a christian-like manner, and they. would recieve their reward Hereafter. | o roaviiuiing 0l ienl o

A Drsearch fromy Washington' says the workmen in the nayy yard there are to be docked for lost time on the.day of Secretary - Rawlin’s - funeral; - notwithstanding the Becretary ‘of tha. Nayy ordered the workshops to be closéd théat day. ' These workmen think they have as much right to be allowed for the day as ‘the clerks in the departments, V’v’i?o‘£ got - thie holiday and are not docked, or Grant, Boutwell, and company, who have been- holidaying over the country for the: past-two or| three months.. - v a ‘I'A - New FasmroN.—The last.'horrid invention of fashion is the bird hat, which jis copied from the English modes for ladies thig fall. The round hat is entirely covered with the breast of a'partridge or golden pheasant as'it was stripped from thebird ; and, to Bdd to the fout ensemble, the head of the cresture; with uplifted ‘boak an angry eye, is put on as a orest, pébriq‘; ‘and _peokin%‘ direotly-on the front. Itisia horrid and' savage-looking fashion; suggestive of bloody fingers. and greasy sealping knives. /The/gentle maidon might add ‘o lock: of hain torn from the head of her ‘wotst enemy or'most devoted ‘lover. - With ‘s spear in the end of her parakol, 'and |a ‘Japaneso dpath’s head rattling among’ the -ohdrms at Her watch-guard, the war painf on hor ok, sad (ks deadly sigual dn her brow, she is far from a paoifiq or 4lJiing s Th sl . sxprossive Tefrain of the alown will sogn 'hfintenn%hnfififis'g“*fifi anmelodions ears of husbands in*our ity ovar tha cdebs ,ears °rh“smd;‘4§i¥?m %‘ SR i s S s A colebratud Now York Torber dai %fiflz is bm oot st AR LG U g{fir:;&?@w?v%wf%{%‘ & S ”l —bioton g el L L s Ch NG B ST St ol e OF SR Swan, i o Nobi o NA SWEET, Aowivistharsin)

m the Cineinnati Free Nation; Dea. 21, *O9. | ébngem%o Dr. -Robwk’s-'adigrtis&-; , ment, on the third page, it will e seen that the d‘r‘ hs]g:t introduced a new | fi‘: iiclc"l.:fimiot‘ #Stomach Bitters.”) 3¢ Bitters are destined: to become: very popalar, from the fact that they are genuine in every sense of the term—i. 4, -they derive. their-stimiulous from the powerful tonic nature of the Toots @?hétbp | of which they are ’colfipbc:ecéfl;._an I hence thir oot i paturel.- Wo-bvo. had e ¢asure of testing. the -gi ities of these ,Il;itters; an&m*hesiggwgnnoung them the “one thing néeded in every well I: regulated family.” % ggdfi 5 M* ' ExperienTiA DockT.—Yes surely exerienge teaches those who use Dr. Mor- | Ee’s Indian Root Pills ‘that it is better to ‘take a medicine '\_i;{_on’ the first symptoms of dicease, that will surely restore health, than to wait until the complaint becomes chronie. - Use these pills in all“eases of Billiousness, Indigestion; ‘Headach, Liver complaint, Female Irregularities, &eis ‘Get the Omdta Almanac from 'your storekeeper, it containg, much information for the invalid and convalescent.. Ifyou are ailing use Dr. Morse’s Indian Root Pils -and you wall * find theni ‘of great value.— Sold by sll déalers. [0 T 1046, L LIGONIER MARKET REPORT. Whitewheat, I,oo’ Corn . . 90 “Amber red; * = 1,00 Boes wax. . <B5 Oats, s S 0 Ruthar. iSOOB - Potatoes "¢ < MALSRG Rapd: . e ‘Flax:sced, © " 995 Bggs | s Wool ' © +4O/tO4D Feathers : 75 Rye, - .o 80 Dried apples’lo P A N AR «u\fw-,\’ ARG .\_—\«:L\_a_.\;z KEENDALLVILLE MAR KM-' (Qorrected Weekly by Kawfman & Jacovs.) mfl{:—whfic -+ 408116 Butter, Lo vy 6740800 heat—red.. .. ¢ TS BEese. Jid, car el S «"12 Cot;:x;x;. recleieeniiis g'}‘&afigw Seeasiehesd :ng Ry, o e D Teathan. . o 80 Potatoes: ;. .ol anudo-Perltly. vl Hag @ L.y ; Clover 5eed........ 8.00 Hay-—tame.....:v » 1500 Flaxsgeed '«....:0.. 800 Enyb—m&l‘fih. 4ot TA‘W

& %Y SR e ¥ ey b B @ Eh SR ~ Administratrix’s Notiee,+ . N otice is hereby given that the ppéers:';gd‘eé; Administratrix of the estate of Jerome Sweet, ~deceased, will ofter for sale at public eutery, at the late residence of the deceased, in Jef ferson Township, Noble Uounty, en Thurgday, October 21st, 1869, the personal . prop’epgf. ot said - estate, consisting of ‘horses, cows, hops, wagons and farming implements, and of household and kitchen furniture, and various other articles. ‘Sale to begin at 10 o’elock A, M ° Terxs—Bums ofthree dollars and vinder, cash; over three dollars, a credit of nine monthg’ the purchaser giving note, at interest, waving benefit: of vyaluation and. ‘appraisement laws, with good and approved seeurity. =~ 0 L © 0 JOANNA 'SWEET, ApMINISTRATEIN. Sept. 29, 1869—~n22-w§ ' Tyo - Eaw CAR L Ge e e s e FQMY THOUSAND:CASES OF GOOBS were shipped from our "hpuggjg_} One Year, to families; clut s, “and *merchants ‘in every part of the country; from Mrine to Californin; amounting in yalue to over : S : ? ST . .ONE MILLION -DOLLARS.. - Our facilities for transacting this’'immense business are Wetter than ever before. Wo have agen® in all the prineipal cities to purchase zoods fromr'the Manufaetarers, Importers, and jothers; for Cash, and offen at an immense: sacritice from the original eost of production. . S e e R "&n stack consists in part, of thegfollowiog goods Shawls, Blankets, Quilts, Cottons, Ginghams, Dress Goods, Table Linen, Towels, Hoslery, Gloves, Skirts, Cor« sets, &e., &e. B B R B Silver-Plated Ware, Spaoons plated on Nickel Silver, Dessert Forks, five= bottle plated Castors, Britannia Ware; Glass Ware, Table and Pocket Cuts dery, in great variety. e '{';-»”-f.' Elegant French and German Fancy Goodls, Beautiful Phetograph Albums, the newest and choicest'styles in: Moroeco and Velwebßindings. 3 L 8 SHI-RG Soangt natt i Morocco: 'l‘rh._v%!:‘ng‘ Bags, Handker= chief and Glove Boxes,&e, .. . .., Gold and Plated Jewelry, of the nevw= est styles. .. = . Pk eAR We have also made arrangements. with some 6f the leading Publishing Houses, that will enable ns to sell the standard’ and latestiworks of; popular ?fxthors at about one-halt the regular price—such as YRON, MOORE, BURNS, MILTON, and TENNYSON'S WORKS, in fall Gilt'and Oloth’ Bindings—and huxdoedh of otfrs. oTBk St SREn S g AGTT AR e These and everything else for 77 - dniL 1

55b % e g [Ns DULLAR FOR-ACH ARTICAE. We do mot offer a single article of merehandise, that dan ‘b 501 by ‘regular dealers nt our' price;— We do not ask you to bay. goods from’ us anless we can sell them cheaper than’ you -can ‘obtain themin any other way—hile the greater part.of onr goods are sold at abowt . | i e S One-Half the Regular Rates. . We want good, reliable agents in every part of the country. By employing your spare time “to- fofm’ clubs. and sending-us ' orders, you can obtain the most liberal ¢ommissions, either in Cash or Mer= ‘chandise, and all goods sent by us will be as represented, and we %uara'u‘-toe satisfaction to every one dealing with our Rouge. '« i Agents should collect ten cents from each cugton: er and forward to us in advance, fur Déscriptive Checks of the goods we gell.” , © =@ v The holders of the thecks have the privilege of' either purchasing the atticle thereon 'desdribed, é)!'ip,f. exchanging “for any article mentioned. on our-Cata-logue, numbering over 350 different articles-~not one of which ean.be purchased in the. usnal,;gmy, for the same monpys 1 1 uioc s AL oo et s The advantages of first sonding for Cheoks: are: thdse* We are constantly buying small lots of very, valugble goods,. which ‘are: not on our Catalogues, and for which we issue checks till all are.sold; besides, in every, large - club we -will put’ checks for ' WATCHES, QUILTS, BLANKETS,” DRESS PAT-| TERNS, or.some other article of yalue, ‘giving some | members of the club an opportunity of ‘parchasing an_article for about one-quarter of its' value. = . : In every order amounting toover £5O, -agcompanied by the cash, tge Agent may retain $2.00, and in eyery order over 100,_%3.00 ma§ be retaifl YO5 S PAY EXPRESS CHARGES.

* This offer-is-more’ to assist-agents in'the Western and Southern States, but is open to all customers. . - COM MIESSEONS:

' Agonts® will be paid ten per cent. in Cash or Merchandise, when they FILL.UP THEIR ENTIRE CLUB, {or which " below. we' give @ partial List of comnissQDE ASR e T SRI N P P G R S e

. For an order of $3O, from a club of Thirty’. we will: pag thie Agent, as commission; 28 yards o Brown o 0: Bleached Sheeting, Good Dress Pattern ‘Wool Square' Bhawl, Poplin Dreéss pattern; FreachCassimere Pants and Vest Pattern, Fine Large White Counterpane, ete., etc., or $3.00 in cash, ‘ - For an ordexr of $5O, from aclub of Fifty, ‘we will pay the Agent,, a 8 commission, 45 yards of Sheeting, One pair of Heavy wool Blankets, Poplin ‘Dress pattern, Handsome wool Square Shawl, Silver Case Watch, ete., etc., or $5,00 in cash. : :

For an order of $lOO, from a club'of One Hundred, we will pay the Agent, as commission, 100 {ards of good yard-wide Sheeting, Coin Silver Huntng Case Wateh, Rich Long' Wool Shawl, Suit of all Wool French Cassimere,. &to., etc., or $lO,OO in cash. We do not ,a‘mdglov:an'y traveling Agents; and customers should not pay money to persons purporting 1Q be our agents, uniess personally acquainted. .

SEND MONEY ALWAYS BY : REGISTERED LETTER.: - Forfurther partioulars send for Catalogues, : 98 & 100 Summer -gggqgf., Boston Mass. Short Settlements -Make Long Wishing to keep his accounts and business ‘in agood, hedlthy condition, the uudersigned ‘rlequ:sts all who t’&ar,e—l?v’vii’ag him to call and settle their aceounts. If not prepared: to pay: .amount in ready cash, w‘muofia&*’*fimg% .be granted to do 8o by g-;wiu%l ‘their notes, but settlement must be made without fail, Having ever been ready to-6xtend favors toiis ougiomers, it is but ‘ju"st‘ that an early response be caadeSodhisvalbrssr s 8 e h coeo T : : ‘: : Wui CROW. ¢ Kendallville, Sept. 22, 769 ..= =0 8t

' 'The’ undersigned would respectfully ‘call.the attention of all who, are indehted to them " that they . have been ‘entirely too lenient, : waiting from harvest to harvest for pay——only. with dis-. "ap&)iutment added to_disappoictment. - . We are now forcedto say to all who owe us on Accguats or Notes thatyouhave had.a bouns “tifal harvest, and.we now éxpect.our ggy, The ‘ruinous practice’of waiting - indefinitely* for onr gay must.be abandoned; for we cannot carry. on usiness 'w,;th-gnqhz‘:l-policiy,without«doiag.. ins’ justice to ourselves as well as to -our patrong; 1 We shall_a@c%t\ 70 excuses of waiting for better Pl‘l%e;s for;vhu ;%-.et?." d i & A | We wan? ourpay ! and aword to the wise ought tb%m&%néfiimwé Ll C e LU TELARO Y S SRR TOON A Ligontet, tnd., Sept, 15,700, © = | g L S w 0 Suaay 0N Séptenh Ssiih. Uatneas the ce of the undersigned and, the Ligonie D%w%t%g&rm‘m*fiéfif $26 in Money. A liberal‘réward Wil o petd (0 Whe lnder-on peturning: i to o b T Lo L R B WEMPLE apr g % 3 : ;fi% ;&;mtwmflmy. < Sfipfigflfi,» §O9.- gf ;uifi_ s S’.f?:“““”_;“f}.""‘iyf ?;.I!\'};il.‘: | Al persons indebted to Dr. G W. Outr; ‘on ace qup! ..,-fi‘l years' standi » and t Drs, ity ?fl‘i’é&w AP remuEa e DI NS, o e et bl Wl ST Y P e R R R ST R _Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public. ,3:* . %%a,wui, 4:% B i e DA Shipdc SR b i B B s Dt T Poweosovast Ve i e e

READ! READ! For:the” Informao ook '-4. FhAY (.7. 80l i -.;.5. e . people lin this re0L Ds Hopd Jgotfsgawoar, | gwn,fi@m‘e not already: aware of i ta e s the faet, we would ‘announce that we have made. ample arrangements, for the fall trade by filling., our. large and ' commodious establishment with a full and

complete stock of goods, especially adapted: to the seasorg ~and thewants of the com= has been selected

with' |eare; “and |bought atthevery lowest CASH prices. | In . the |different branehes of staple and jand, fancy. Dry |Goods, Men’s and Boy ,S, g Clothmg, Ladies,” Men’s & Children’s Boots and Shoes, Hats and Caps, Grocers ies, Queensware, Furs,.’ Rohes,.. Shawls, Carpets, . &c., &c., our stock is _ full; - ehoice, fresh, and of the latest styles-and being, purchased, at “Low water mark’, figures-we are enahled. to of - ducemeénts to parties wanting any-" thing fn the & erent -.lines .of . goods kept inour stock. We would call the especial - attention -of -the Ladies to our. Dress goods de-" collection” of the

richest:-and-most 3 ; G ° Ty e e e Lk heautiful patterns SLR ERAT R SRR LS 30 T ever displayed in . : Gk ian RN RO mAI G v g -We cordially ifivite ‘dn examination of our stock GG WAL L €=,..-: '.'.“3«.{‘.5.‘ EAN A and prices, and will atall o e SANR A WS SRR S times deem-it & pleasuxe to-show our goods Taad* *fi"‘;‘:“sw"‘hw& ol ige b A o hynrish s bprios oty LAy ?yali Al Ol }J;} GEh _i' YSI S MMEOOR tinue”'t6 pPay THE. HIGHEST price Ilor Wheat, 00l Fork, \el . .:j“ ".‘ ,'l\?’ Gl '. ':‘:'-‘.;5,".:- i ;Amw% - UAw L 4 - - G