The National Banner, Volume 4, Number 29, Ligonier, Noble County, 17 November 1869 — Page 2

I e A k Pational Banner. | . ‘Denistance to Tyrants 1s Obedience to Goa.’ J. B, STOLL, EDITOR. - rw\l\/\MANM}V\,\/W\_V\«\/V\/WW WEDNESDAY, NOV. 17, 1869, ~ TO OUR READERS. Upon mature reflection, we have determined to adopt the cash in adyance system with all our subscribers. No paper will bé sent from this office after the first day of January next that is not prepaid, ! Bills. will be made out agsinst all who \ . are in ‘arrears, and if not paid at the ‘ bove stated time, their names will be erased from our list, and the amdunt collected according to law. We earnestly call upon all our readers to aid us in in. augurating the advance system—the only one upon which a paper can be successfully published.

Democratic County Convention. The Democrats of Noble county are requeeted to meet at the courthouse in Al Yion, on SATURDAY, the 20th day of November, at 1 o'clock . M. for the purpose of electing fuurteen delegates to the Democratic State Convention, to be held at Indianapolis on the Bfh of January next. ~A full attendance is earnestly desired. ) J.B. STOLL, Chairman Democratic Central Gommiittee. Worthy of Consideration: = ' The democratic press has repeatedly. charged that most of the legislation done by the party in power, both in Congress and in the various State Legislatures under their control, was of a very: loose character, with far less regard for thé public welfare than the benefit it might confer on the radical organization. It some time occurs, however, that this sort of legi?ation -proves to their disadvantage. In Pennsylvania, for instance, the radical Legislature emacted a'law requir ing township elections to be held on the day set apart for chosing State and county officers; the radical press fully endorsed the measure, and claimed great credit ‘ tor saving the expense incident to spring | clections, At the recent election the “great reform measure” received its first ‘application, and lo! almost every radical sheet in the State clamors for its repeal ! They pronounce. it an impracticable measure, a grand legislative absurdity. It created “confusion worse confounded,” and in large precincts the election officers required a full night and day to.count the votes for the township, municipal, county, judicial, and State officers. It is quite probable /that we shall hear of similar complaints in this State when the new election’law receives its first test in Octo ber of next year.

Take Yc{)’nr Home Paper. Reader, do you take the Banner? If not, why-not? Don’t answer that you are not able, for that would be uttering an untruth. There are not a dozen men in Noble county too poor to take our paper. It costs less than four cents a week, and you could not ipossibly invess that amount of money more profitably. Thousands of people freely squander in one day what would pay for a/good family newspaper & whole year. Ask them to subscribe and they will turn you off with the plead of poverty. Hundreds upon hundreds of ' people read our paper regularly that are nct subscribers, preferingto annoy their neighbors by the reprehensible practice of borrowing. - If evﬁy man would take thé Banner who is able and in duty bound to do so, our list “would be mnch greater than it is, and we could afford to still-fucther iox:* prove our paper. -Let every one to whom. these remarks apply—and particalarly every Democrat-—think seriously on this subjgct, and determine soat once subscribe. Two dollars will pay for the Banner a full year; one dollar forsix months, and fifty cents for three months. ~ = - | A Fortunate Newspaper. The Indianapolis Journal is a most fortunate newspaper. It has the State printing, the county printing for Marion county, the city printing for Indianapolis, and now it has been given the advertising of the mail lettings for Indiana, One of its proprietors, to add to the liberality of the Government, ig. Postmaster at Indianapolis. It is a comfortable thing to be a proprietor of the Indianapolis Journal—wen derfully prolific of “fat takes.”—New Al- | bany - Commercial. : : A. H. Conner is State Printer, James G. Douglass is City Printer, and W. R. Holloway is Postmaster. Every word of the county printing goes "to_the Journal office, and every word ,that the Government can control. And yet the proprietors of that establishment try to make members of the Logislature believe that their establishment doés not pay—that is, whenever they want & new job put thro’.

Joseph Davis, Jeff Davis' brother, opposes the Dent party in Mississippi.— Whitley Commercial. A 5 )l And why shouldn’t he? Gen. Alcorn, the Radical canpidate for Governor, was an ardent rebel, whilst Dent, the Conservative candidate, was a eonsistent Union man. Every dyed-in-the-wool rebel who. was, and still is, opposed tp maintaining the constitution of our fathers, as the rad_jeal leaders are, properly belongs to the radical party. The arch-traitor, Hangman “Foote; led the Radicals in Tennessee ; i is emidently ,proﬂsr. therefore, that Davis “and Alcorn shohld be the Jeaders of the radieal party in Mississippi. o AxornEß CANDIDATE.—We are credi‘bly informed that Col. A. M. Tucker, the present incumbént of the Auditor’s office of mmwmmm for Auditor ato before the Republican State Convention. . If the rumor proves “correct, ‘the Tenth Distriot will present ,tbm&hdida&mm body—E. H, Fish--er of Noble, Cpl. A. M. Tucker of Elk--hart, and Joseph A. Funk, of Kosciusko. Sorßexe ,E‘; aE. — It is stated that Judge Worden, of Ft. Wayne, has finalof the Democatic State Convention.— ;ig% i Wiy Judge m

A ~ree Patriot Statesmen. * ..ugthe past week three distinguished statesmen of this country departed their lives. On Wednesday morning the venerable Major-General ‘Jonx <ELris Woor died at Troy, N.Y.,aged 80 years; on Thursday, Hon. ROBERT J AMES WALKER breathed his last in the city of Wash ington, aged 68 years, and on Friday Hon. Amos KENDALL ended his eventful career in the same city at the ripe age of 80 years,

Gen. Wool began business as a bookseller in Troy, afterwards studied law, entered the ammy in 1812, served with distinction as Captain in the 13th U. S. Infantry, was shot through both thighs at Queenstown, was promoted to Lieut.Colonel in 1814 and to Brigadier General “for 10 years’ faithful service” in 1826.— He filled various prominent military positions after tlﬁat period, both at home and abroad, served with great gallantry throughout the Mexican war as MajorGeneral, ré‘éeivihg the thanks of Congress for his distinguished conduct. At the opening of the late civil war he went fo ‘New York and assisted in sending forward to-Washington the first regiments for the defence of the National Capital, was subseq¥ently placed in charge of the Departient of Virginia, assumed command of Baltimore in 1862, and was raised to the rank of a full Major-Gen eral. 2y Robert J. Walker was born in Pennsylvania, commenced the practice of law in.Pgttabur'g in 1821, and became prominent there by putting the name of Gen. Jackson in nomination for the Presidency before it Had been suggested in any othier quarter., In 1826, he removed to Natchez, Mississippi, where he soon acquired an extensive and luerative practice. In 1834, he defeated the Hon. Geo. Poindexter ag candidate for the United States Senate, and had scarcely taken his seat in that body, when, on a question connected with the public lands, he came in collision with Mr. Clay, making a spirited reply!to that statesman, by which he acquired | great popaularity in the Western States. In 1845 he was appointed Sccretary iof the Treasury by President Polk, and at the expiration. of his term of office; returned to the practice of law ; 1a 1857 he was appointed Governor of Kansas by Buchauan, but soon resigncd for reasons still fresh in the memory of the peaple. Mr. Walker was a true patriot, an able statesman, and strictly an honest man. | |

Amos Kendall was born in Massachusetts, studied law at the age of thlnty, emigrated to!Lexington, Ky., in 1814] was' for several months a tutor in the family of Henry Ow, was subsequently appointed Postmaster of Georgetown, Ky., and edited a newspaper with marked ability. For his zealpus advocacy of the election of General Jackson to the Presidency, he was awarded by the latter with an appointment as Fourth Auditor of the Treasury. -He was appointed Postmaster General in 1835. He found this depaitment of the civil service in an inefficient condition ; | without organizatioz, not self-sustaining and in debt. In a little more than one year he had organized hir Department/upon a secure financial basis, and released it from the debt with which he had found it encumbered. The efficient Postoffice Department of to-day, in ‘ all cardinal respeects, is the system of Amos Kendall. | He was retained in this office by President Van Buren, until he voluntarily relinquished it in 1840, in order to actively "aid the Democratic party in the Presidential canvass of that year. He has not been in public life since, and ‘evidently preferred the part of a private citizen and the practice of his profession to qulitical disticetion, for when tendered a foreign mission by President Polk he refused to accept it. ° Military Fallures in Civil Office. To rewand personal devotion and show his preferehée for military men, President Grant appointed to important civil offices two (Colonels in the regular army —Sickles as' Minister to Spain and Butfmd as| Assistant Treasurer at New York. - What Sickles was before be en tered the army and before he was sent to Madrid, (says the New Albany Ledger) the country knows to well ; what he has done since he has been there to disgrace us in the eyes of Spain and the world they partially, but not fully, know. His high sounding but ridiculous offer of mediation ‘inithe saffairs of Cuba, and his hasty withdrawal of them as goon as they were rejected, prove him to be utterly unfit for thel place, even were he not morally and personally a disgrace to the country which be was sent to represent. And Butterfield, as Sub-Treasurer in New York, has been as great a failure as Sickles in! Spain, He may have been a passible army officer and a good enough stump speaker, but asa financial officer in the greut money centre of the country, hé has shown himself to be either the accomplice or the dupe of the desperate gamblers who recently held high carnival in New York. Gen. Butterfield, it is understogd, first proposes to get out of his dilemma and retain his office by going to trial before a military commissfon or court of inquiry! But this proposition was so. tl;orougbly preposterous “that; however -willing Gen, @rant may ‘have been at first to accede to the re«quest, he was at length compelled to re. fuse it, and Butterfield thereupon handed in his réjbignation,ﬂand; retires upon his damaged reputation. ‘We presume he will ‘now bé reinstated in his command in the regular prmy. It would be well if Sickles should follow his exawple.

'The failure of Sickles and Butterfield is but another evidence of the botchwork made by the President. in his appointments. ‘He merely sought to reward his personal friends and 'his military toadies, without! regard to their fitness or the public ‘jinterests, lln their ' disgrace he and his administration are disgraced in the eyes of the country and the world. Instead of parading himself before cattle shows and in public places he should hide himself in the cole hole of the Ex‘ecutive mangion; 1 1 e 4 b el B : - Eacu Evangelical ‘Ohurch of Indiana is invited to send two delegates, besides ‘the Pdstor, to 'meet in Convention, at Terre Haute, on Tuesday, 'Wedﬁés‘dtij'ﬁ‘:d Thursday, the 7¢h, Bth and 9th of Décemder. 'The object of the convention is to i endebqii)r to awaken a deepen ififercst ‘among the people, to gain light from the _experience of many successful workers in the vineyard of the Liord, t develop pracJy Bpon some sshers of Ohrlatian dotlon,”

' AN HONEST CONFESSION, - The republican party owes its strength in the West chiefly to the German vote. Whenever that yarty is deprived of the support of that powerful element, it will cease to control the Western States, and, with the departure of that influence, the control of national affairs will pass into the bhands of the Democracy. The slavery question drove thousands of Ger%j mans into the republican ranks ; now that that institution is abolished and can no longer be used to inflame the minds of the people, German, Republicans begin. to fell uncomfortable in their present political association, and are preparing to seek refuge under the folds of a party that represents their wishes more fully on questions of practical importance—on the living issues of the day. No better evidence ot this fact can be desired than the following letter from a German Republican in Bt. Clair, county to the St. Louis. Westliche Post, the organ of Senator Carl . Schurz:

“A formidable wing of our party has always: done and does now, all In'its power to make life a burden; it is known that this class respect our personal, social and religious K‘eedom as littls as the former slaveholder respected the rights of his nigfger, and ~'thgt they resort to ali manner of schemes to fully destroy the same for the purpose of making supreme the r dark, despotically puritanical views and prejudices. It has for a long time been a great hardship with us to act with such narrow-minded party associates, and we are altogether tired of dragging along the old, corrupt party car. Times change, apd political parties are also subject to changes. No one will have the temerity to contend that the republican party of to-day is the expression of free ideas and that all free elements are embodied within its ranks. Tog much of the exact reverse is precisely the case.” ' The Tennessee Conspiracy. The New (Albany Ledger tersely says that the Nashville Union and Americaﬂ characterizes the chucusing of the opponents of Mr. Johnson, resulting in the election of Judge Cooper to the Senate, as a “corspiracy ;" whereat some of the newspaper opponeats of Mr. Johnson get angry and deny the accusation in terms more or less violent. But let us see 1f conspiracy is not the proper name for the transaction. The Legislature was composed of a’'very large majority of Conservatives—we will not use the term Democrats, for many did not profess to be such in name. - Mr. Johuson received the votes of a decided majority of these Conservatives for United States Senator. He came within four votes of receiving a majority over all his opponents combined. Unde: such circumstances he was entitled, by all party usage, to the unanimous vote of the Conservatives. ‘Seeing that his election was very probable unless some desperate and combined--effort was made to defeat him, the enemies of Mr, Johnson held a secret caucus in the night time, attended alike by the professed Conservatives and the radicals, In the Legislature were two brothers, named Cooper, both former Whigs, both Conservatives, and both under great personal obligations to Johnson, for he had conferred office on both. One of these brothers had voted for Mr. Johnson, and was regarded as one of his most steadfast friends. Here was a chance for a dicker. It was decided to nominate the brother of Mr. Cooper as Johnsor’s opponent, with the understanding, of course, that a brother would support a brother in preference to a friend, to whoua he was pledged. The radicals gladly ratified this bargain, for althsugh they must have despised th¢ breach of faith which it involved, they saw in it an "n&poftuni'ty for wreaking their vengeanceagainst the man who, above all others, they hated. And shall we be told that “conspiracy” is too harsh a word to apply to sucha tiansaction ? It seems to us a mild phraze considering the outrageous character of the whole affair. We know but little of the usages which prevail in Tennessee,j but we are sure that any Conservative member of the Indiana Legislature who‘ had lent himself to the Radicals to defeat the favorite of his party, would be consigned by his constituents to everlasting infamy. s T i

The anti-Johnson Conservatives of Tennessee will hilve the gratification of secing themselves bepuffed and bepraised by every Radical newspaper in the Union, while we are sure not a half dozen. Democratic journals outside of Tennessee will sustain them, or even excuse their conduct. If it has come to this, that Conservatives, where they have the power, must elect men to officé solely bécause they will be acceptable to Radicals, they may as well ‘abandon the field at once and .allow the Radicals to do their own electing, as, indeed, they did, in effect, in this Tennessee case, i ¢

A New Style of Torture. | The Inquisition is credited with hay ing invented the most diabolical tortures ever known, buta Prosecuting Attorney of Rockland county, New York, has surpassed all the echievements of Torquema‘da and Dominic. A special dispatch to he Cincinnati Hnquirer tells the story e e et AR e L bi “

The District Attorney, W. C. Pratt, conceived the idea ®f forcing a ¢onfession from the unforténgte prisoner by placing before him suddenly the head of the muidered man, which had been preserved for identification. The scheme was put in practice. One day Maurer asked leave to wash his hands somewhere, as there was ne water in his cell. He was told to go to the 'adjoining- cell where there was a bucket. He entered the cell, watched by the District AttOrne);], and bent down to dip his hands info the pail. Msaurer gave a shriek of fear. There, floating on ‘the surface of the water, was the head! The contracted fuce looking into his, the glassy eyes glaring at him as if yet in the agony of death, the waxen lips curled as if in pain, and the white gleaming teeth clinched together! He started back ‘in surprise, in fear, and in madness, and rushed -from that carnel-house of death, and again and again the same ordeal was gone through, until the unhapy man made two or three confessions, in which insanity is clearly discernable, and in his sleepless nights the gbastly head came before him in his lonely cell ; it haunted him in his dreams, appalled his senses until his brain racked with terror, and he leaped l"fmm his bed, stark, staring mad. A correspondent, who seems to be “posted,” in speaking of the Congressionl Library, says:. “Not five. per cent. of Congressmen are readers, in the ardent sense. of lovers of full scholarship, and not above twenty per cent. read anythiog ‘but govels, The library,so far as Con‘gress is conderned, is & repository of novel for thele Wives and deughters”

[Trani ‘B, 1 ! | m :a ﬁ:ﬂ mm: : ~ That the ruin of the country is an accomplished fact if the dominant party is. kept in power, can no longer remaina matter of doubt, however mueh the Radicals may ‘attempt to deny it. The enor- ‘ mous corruption; the alarming extravagance, the terrible depression of business incident to senseless tariff duties and a depreciated currency, - constitute & verdict ‘against that party whicn all the editorials of the N. Y. Tribune and similar radical productions, and all the pictures in Harper's Weekly cannot reverse, and which all possessed of the least knowledge of history and capable of learning anything therefrom, must recognize as an unmistakable indication of the people’s ruin.

In this particular the opponents of the party in power have an easy game, yet not so light as its appearance may Indicate. A weak enemy, too, is dangerous if ‘we do not possess weapons to attack him and are unable to deprive him of his re-| sources. As easy as the contest may be made if properly conducted, just as difficult and unsuccessful must prove the attack if made under a misapprehension of the situation. ; ; By S

’ The experience of the past has demon)\strated, or at least ghould have demon strated, all this. In their attacks upon the criminal deeds of the radical party the Democracy were clearly in the right, lzand yet defeat awaited their efforts from, yearto year. :Why® First, because they failed to take things as they existed, neglected to become masters of the situation ard use the same to their advantage, but arrayed themselves against matters that could not be prevented, and thus offered their adversaries two-fold advantages—. The democratic party was represented as being an ossified or callous organization, drawing its sustenance from former recol: lectiors, and utterly incapable of comprehending the march of time ; ;t was brand| ed as aclique opposed to all progress and everything that was great and noble, and was made to serve as an excellent materi. al for Buncombe speeches and high-sound- - ing newspaper articles that were the more greedily sought for Ly the rabble as they were less understood. By these empty declamations, for the indulgence in which the course of the Democracy was most inviting, the real position was deranged, and the plainest, simplest facts, a knowledge of which would have sufficed to open the eyes of any one at all capable of think:ing, were pushed aside with the utmost complacency. The narrow-mindedness of the great rabble served the radicals as a grand expedient, and tbey rejoiced in the fact that the Democracy graciously permitted them to partake to their heart's content of the advantages accruing thereffom. Should the Democracy continue to pursue such a course, it requires no prophetic gift to predict like results. She must determine to mark out a new path. Negro suffrage, forced as it has been upon the people by the most shameless fraud, must be regarded as settled ; every moment spent in discussing that question is wasted time. The “reconstruction” of the South, however cutrageous the means resorted to for its accomplishment, is viewed with indifference by the mass of the people; the objections may be ever so just, yet all arguments fall upon desf ears, and are effectually wiped away by the tirades with which the injustice of that policy is ingeniously covered up and its arbitrary character justified. The greenback theory, too, should bé allowed to rest; it only supplies the enemy with material to indulge in declamations for which we have no equivalent. Would ‘we triumph, it will become necessary to drop all these things, and compel the cnemy to follow wus upon grounds that bid us advantages. - Upon these grounds we meet the question of tariff, the injurious effects of which need only be presented in their proper light to be thoroughly understood by all; the absurd policy of having two different kinds of money, by which the commercial relations of the country are placeditinder the control of a set of swinoci_ous corruption of Congressae¥lie horde of officers who are fatteningbfi‘the substance ot the country withouﬁiﬁ:ﬁib\lting to its prosperity ; the fearful squandering of public monies that can clearly be proven in spite of the “doctored” reports of the Secretary of the Treasury ; further, a revision of the public service, a change of the present election laws by which the minority (with but one vote less than the majority) liB etitirely excluded from a voice in framing the laws of the land—all these are questions that must be mastered by the Democracy if she desives again to become powerful and honored. With such a programme we could go before the people and fill our rgnks with recruits from the republican party. He wha is disinclined or incagable of adapting himselfto this “pew departure,” cannot be entrusted with the leadership of the party, however great his personal merits may be in other respects, and if he does not have sense enough to see this himself, he must. be 'appl;ﬁéd of the fact, in order that the party may be spared from anotber defeat And it should be conmstantly borne in mind that pvegquiﬁmlidem renders our rise more lﬁcnlﬂm HE RO . Here in Indiana we will have the Democratic State Convention on the Bth of J 3"“,“’?: and in the several counties delegate elections will be hel *?&gmbﬂ once ‘W 8 victory in this State, we can be ‘imbued with ‘no more sincere wish than that the convention will steer elwafemaemfand zvhi:gngﬂl ‘earnestness enter the proper

’ Signifieant. i It is rather g singular fact that whenever the people of a State desire the formation of a new constitution, they usually elect a majority of Democrats for that purpose, although the Radicals may be largely in the majority in such States. ‘When the Republicans nccasionally have = majority in & constitutional convention, in two cases out of three their action is ‘repudisted when submitted to a vote of the people. ' Fhis conclusively proves one or two things—that it is far more safe to enprust, Democrsts with theseimportant cares of staté, and that the Demooracy contains within its numbers much. better ‘material for such purposes than may be found among our opponents. The radical party being of a revolutionary character, it is nat: copsidered sound policy to make ‘them framers of constitutions. They unMnd ‘the . mnw of MQO‘»‘ better than buildingmp, =

Fillmore and Johnson are the only exPhesldemtn 00 = = Montgomery, Ala., produces ten candidates for the office of Mayor. . The President commenced the preparation of his message on Tuesday of last week. . : A : At a late election in Brookline, Mass., there was a woman at the polls distributing labor-reform fickets. e ! Judge D. M. Cooley, of lows, is a candidate for the ‘United States Senate, as the successor of Senator Grimes. : The robbery of General Butlerin Philadelphia is the best of evidence that there is not always honor among thieves. : - John Covode is fighting hard to reclaim his seat in Congiess, and claims to have made terrible discoveries in the way of illegal voting. ‘ ' The next elections occur on the 80th of this ‘month in Mississippi and Texas — The vote will be on the adoption of the new State constitution and for officers un der them.

~ The commanding General of Mississippi orders that a certsin . prosecution, brought by the District Attorney in the Circuit Cotrt of Hanover county, be dismissed forthwith. | by The election for the Constitutional Con‘vention in Tennessee will be held on the 2nd Saturday of December, and the Convention will be held on the first Monday in January, if carried. A -political berth in Chicago is worth having. The county clerk receives a yearly income of not less than $24,000, while the salary and perquisites of the circuit clerk annually foot up to fully $25,000, and so with other offices. :

The Memphis Avalanche says: “We understand that there are about twenty members of the legislature who are not worth five thousand dollars.” This fact will seem the less remarkable when it is remembered that more than half the members of the preceeding legislature could have been bought for less than half the money. L

At the Judicial election in San Francisco, on the 20th ult.. there were less than 13,000 votes in all polled, out of 21,378 in September, and 25,870 in November, 1868. The total vote of the State at the Presidential election was about 108,000 ; - last September it fell as low as 91,000; on the 20th it did not exceed 56,500.

Hon. Garrett Davis has written -a long letter to Gov. Stevenson, of Kentucky, giving his views concerning a removal of the national capital. He opposes a removal, aniasks: “Why should not Washington City run the parallel of Rome in the duration and splendor of metropolitan history *” : v

The New Orleans Picayune says of Jefferson Davis: “Mr. Davis will not and canuot, under any possible circumstances, be induced to enter into the politics of the day, or accept any position in public life.- As to this he is content to be of the past ; as to works of material ‘usefuluess, he desires to be‘of the present.” |

It now seems that the Democrats’ will bhave a majority 1n the Constitutiona% Convention which is to meet in Spring¥ field next month to revise the ‘constitution of Illinois, This shows that the political revolution has reached that State. The Republicans did not suppose that the Democrats would carry more than onefourth the delegates: to the Convention, but at last rccounts they were ten ahead. /Ex Secretary Borie has given Mrs. Pres: ident .Grant a medallion representing George Washington, Abfaham- Lincoln, and Ulysses 8. Grant. It is understood that it wat the original intention of Mr. Borie to have John Smith represented also, and that he was deterred by the fear that Lincoln and Grant wouldn’t like it. As the thing now 'ggmd‘s, Washington wouldn’t have objected, of course, , A leading Ohio Republican sees the bhandwriting, and concludes a letter to the Cincinnati Commercial as follows :— “The Republican losses indicate coming defeat unless we take a new departure.— As the Fifteenth Amendment takes the negro. out of polities, the future issues will be of a financial sort, and then where are we? Put your house in order, my Republican friends, tor to-morrow you die.” Bk {

- Chief ‘Justice Chase has delivered another decision to the effect tbpt a promissory note given in payment for property purchased at Montgomery, Alabama, in 1864, when the authority of the United States was excluded from that part of the State, and the only currency in use was the Confederate Treasury notes, is payable in Confederate notes, and the United States courts possess the power to enforce the ssme, § The Houston, Texas, Times sounds its warning against black possibilities in the ‘ following form: “We warn the people’ not to believe what the Hamilton papers ‘ and leaders fell them of the piroj\)baed{ constitution. If they vote for that infamous ingtrument, they open the way for negro citizens, negro voters, negro judges, negro lawyers, negro jurors, negro witnesses, Negro governors; Negro legislators, ? negro State officers, negro county officers, ‘negro Congressmen, negro on front seats, negro in dress circle, negro in ball room, negro in drawing room, negro in parlor, ‘ negro in state-room, negro in church pews, negro in white bed-room, negro in best car, negro in stage coach, negro. with white scholar, negro marrying white folks, negro everywhere.” i s At the last session of the Legisiature of New York the Radical majority, without taking time to consult their constitu. ents, made haste to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment %o the Constitation of the ‘United States. In Ohio theDmo?mm majority of the Legislature, who had been wmww%wﬁyﬁam ”3“3';*” egidlature. hﬁ 6 {fie recéht. plect] ' o " Yor P raC -“,' b ¢ e gty T Gk Leontos A, gt . gawer bo W 020 Sttt Aneadiass il n hsend bodefoted,

... | STATEITEMS. e Terre Haute is fifty-one years old, _Madison wants a first class saw mill. - Laporte - has faster horses than Porter County. ‘ AT e ~ Eggs are thirty centsa dozen at Connersyille. T e The Evansville Hebrew school has 122 pupils. ; S : A colored school is to be organized at Greensburg. - Terre Haute is infested with juvenile street beggars.- 5 v The ‘court house at Goshen will ot be roofed before June. ‘ Richmond people have cold and malignant sore throat. : ; _ Bayard Taylor did not make expe:@ by $4O at Richmond. - A citizen iz Terre Haute has fallen heir to $500,000 in France. Richmond is building largely, and the Telegram glories init. = L ' James Walker died in Lafayette of intemperance and explosure. . A woman’s rights convention cofivened at "Lafaygtte on the 10th inst. 5 Fort Wayne paid $4,783 87 Internal Revenue collections for October. Chicken—pé\x, searlet fever and whooping cough are raging at Plymouth. Judge J. M. Wilson is wentioned as a good man for the Supreme Bench. John Gregg of Connersville, challenges McCracken on the billiard question. - More goods were stolen than were burned at the late fire in Kendallville. -

The opening of the railroad from Ft. Wayne to Bluftton has been celebrated. A corn thief in Corydon set the jail on fire, and while it was burniing he “lit” out. : _, Evansville has voted to subscribe $200,000, to the Evansville Carmi & Paducah R.R. : ; The Indianapolis - Sentinel announces the fire alarm telegraph in that city asa failure. : A woman named Carter went blind in Lafayette last week, without any apparent cawse. - » | Senator Morton fell and broke . his thumb while stepping from a _car at Pittsburg. Col. John McCrea becomes Moral In: structor in the Soldiers Home, Knightstown, at s§Boo per year. With favorable weather trains will be running between North: Vernon and Jeffersonville by December 20th. i The young people of Lagrange are soon to have a Moot legisiature, to meet once a week, through the winter. The Indianapolis Journal unintentionally says that the scaffolding around the Christ-Church spire is a handsome one. .~ Wm. Hedges has been arrested at Evansville | for having in his possession, and trying to pass, counterfeit greenbacks. New’ Albany has had a church squabble all by the Africans. It got into the city court and cost the squablers $31.05. A New Albany woman carries a cow hide for the back of a.curly haired man in Jeffersonville who has slandered her.

R.-Shiel shipped two thousand hogs and six hundred sheep from Noblesrille last week, and will do nearly the same this week. ' g Cumberland Oldham, atramping "}Lrinter, stole four bacon hams, in Richmond, and a-pair of scissors from the Humming, Bird office. i A country exchange is publishing a list of eclipses to take place in 1870, so that its readers may get their smoked glasses ready.

' Floyd county has' what the Bloom field 7'rebune would call a big crop of genus carya.” This is the Green county lingo for nuts. ;' o ;

James I. Smith, of .Corydon, had his house burned down last week. His insane father is thought to have been the originator of the fire.

Seventeen wagons manufactured at Racine, Wisconsin, have been sold in Sullivan in two weeks. Sullivan should make its own wagons. i General Bennett, Mayor of Richmond, had an accident to himself and family in the running away of his team, None of the family much injured. o The New Albany Rolling Mill is making street railroad iron for Evansville.— A lot of twenty-five tons were skipped on.the Rose Hite a tew days ago. 2 ‘The season for spare-ribs, .tenderlions, pigs’ feet, and “sich,” is at hand, and there is a great rush for these cheap but delicious meats by all classes throughout the State. | : ; %

‘Bodies of dresses are now worn open in front, coming dowing dcwa to a point to the waistband, with a pleating of lace tucked inside. This style is called Indiana bodice. : : The Bloomington Progress prints three papers—the “Polar'Star,” “Ocean Waves,” and. the “Evening Star,”—for the public schools of that city, It does it at less thah cost, too. . ; : A woman named Abigal J Brewer has been undertaking to blackmail Rev. 8. Lamb, of Columbia City out of two hundred dollars, but her true character was discovered, and she “lit.out,® Hon. W. E. Niblack, Representative in Congress from the First District, bas taken up ‘his residence, with his family, for the coming session, at Georgetown, adjoining Washington City. - The Fort Wayne Democrat has a copy of the Fort Wayné Sentinel of January 1, 1885, containing among other things, an admirable carrier’s address, written by Hon. Hugh McCaulloch, late Scretary of The Lexingfon - Enterprise says: “Mr. W. Gibson returning home fmn{?(}haﬂeltown one day last week, was overtaken by Theodore Fitch and Andrew Robison, residents of New Washington, who knocked him down and rifled his pockets, rob bing him ‘mmmd‘“};é@ﬁng‘ him genseJeda on the #68@.% =0 00l i

‘ The Fort Wayne Democrat says that 'Mr. Zimmerman met with a serious acci‘dent while returning from a funeral, at Leo,in Allen County, on the 9th inst.— ; A numberof boys were threwing stones, hooting, yelling, &e., ‘when the horse ' which he was driving took fright and ran _through the place, throwing Mr. Z. out and injuring him quite severely. Two of his children were in the buggy at the time, but they escaped with a few bruises, | s }' A curious commentary on the bearing ~of the divorce laws is embodied in the recent action of the Su&r:mg Court of New York. William Hoffman obtained &' di‘voree from Emma Hoffman in the Circuit ‘Court-of Howard county, this State, A "New York court set the Indiana divoroe ‘aside, on the ground of fraud, and’ the .Bupreme Court sustains the decision of the lOWr.cguza In the ‘gxe( ggﬁ'.“ children by her. Xf \ g 88 ,inl in Indiana, Mr. Hoffman 18 8 law-shiding citisen, but/ the mowsiié Be' sets foot ‘on Now York fereliory_lie bocomes an adulterer ‘andis bigamist, nﬂ&hﬂ%ﬁht% the/enitentiary if any one will take the man’ s head s lovel ho will keop away

' GENERAL NEWS ItEms. = - Nevada is dig’ging.up tbree'a@éient. Snow is a foot deep in Northern T 00 Geo, Peabody died of congestion of the lungs. kL Savannah is having the first street railroad laidT i i Milap rivals Paris in the manufacture of gloves. o e . Secretary Seward and King Victor Emanuel a:e ill. v e Admiral Stewart was buried at Philadelphia on the 10th insg. 1 ~ The school fand of Minnesota is now upward of 2,300,000 dollars. Brigham Young - says . his is a poor religion if it won't stand one railroad. The duties on all imports collected at Toledo, in October, were 15,606.91 dollars. i By There is still: considerable excitement in Ireland over the imprisoned Fenians. i - Father Hyacinthe is going to escape Papal bulls by coming west to hunt buffaloes. Slipes ¢

The remaius of Mr. Peabody are expected to arrive in December ‘in the Meidper Beotiy. . - 0 o o 0 The Friends’ meeting-house at St. Clairsville, Ohio, is closed. A ‘dead ekunk isthecauge. - . = " Charles. Barnard, -of Lonisiana, has been appointed Register of the Land Office at New Orleans. - . - @ - -Greneral Grant says he will not be present at the re union of the Army of the Tennessee, to be held at Louisville. P e e Ex-queen Mary of Naples. recertly. gave birth to a child said t 2 be illegitimate, one reputed father being her equerry. s _ - «Secretary Boutwell has come to the conclusion that the west and south need more currency. We are glad hehisfound ftout.: = = o il Poor whisky is called “fifteenth amendment” in the south because iv's hard to swallow, and doesn’t amount to anything after it’s down. = =~ = ¢ . McEttrick and Oddy walked a match of 25 miles at Boston, Monday. night of last week, the former winning it by three or four feet. Time—3:sBl-2. "A plague has broken out among cattleata disti}lery near Cincinnati.— Forty have “.died. . The disease is thought to be the result ot feeding still glops. B L Colored Sally Waters, of Louisville, charges colored Elizabeth Cravens, also of that ecity, ‘with “conjuring’’ her child to death. The charge will not he investigated, . oot s The Saxon house of deputies have. unanimouslg resolved that the government. should endeaver to procure the abolition of capital punisgme'ut thro’out North Germany. . = ° - Dr. Livingston sends home for almanacs of 1870, thus indicating an intention to remain where he is for gome time to, come. He ¢laims to have discovered the true source of the Nile. = e

The travel on the two united Pacific railroads is about twice as large westward as it is eastward. Last month the western end earned $105,000 in gold, and the other, the Union Pacific, earned 662,000 dollars in gold. 15 The Onondaga giant is now on exhibition at Syrdcuse. He “rests on a slight elevation covered with black velvet and surrounded by iron railing. The body rests on rub{)er ~cushions aud lies in the same position in which it was discovered,” = i

. The East India postal officials protest against the Oriental flowers of language. Here is the address of a letter :leceived at Bengal ; “Most worshipful and whose feet are worshipped Father Thakur with prosperity Noble in mind. This letter to his respected feet Mai ol o T The New Orleans T'im¢s says that the cotton shipment at that port is now in full blast, and that “the brokers fly about as gaily as bees through a clover patch on a June day. . Cotton does not stick as in the olden time.— It goes off like hot cakes. It is hardly landed and the list made out before: it is snapped up.” T John Gordon, a planter of Wharton County, Texas, was murdered recertly by negroes, amd his body burned to prevent discovery. He was missed. A negro was arrested on suspicion, confessed to the burning of the body, and made full confession. The-negroes implicated have been. tarned over to the military authorities. - A good illustration of the earelessness of emigrants to the far west, whether school keeps and where it keeps, is furnished by an Jowa paper. A party of emigrants from Minnesota was passing through Winterset, lowa, on the way" to Kansas, where it had been pé‘oq‘ozed vo seule, In Winterset the trave y were informed that there had been #snow storm in Kansas, and not wishing to settle in Bo’ cold a country, they determined to remain and set up their penates there |.« 1. 10 60

The officers of the Cuban ‘war vesgel, late the Hornet, have beentaken ta Brooklyn and held to bail in ten ‘thousand dollars each, to answer at the next term of the United Statex Circnit Court. Withount waiting for the judicial condemnation of the vessel, as an offender against our neutrality laws, the government- has ta.ken'he}{; and set to work to dismantle her.— Which looks a good deal as if the government did not | care much whether she was guilty or not, and meant to ‘have her anyhow. A fillibusterinf expedition is said 40 be-in preparation A portion of Brigham Young’s army, eomprising cavalry, infantry and artilTery, have been in eamp near Salt Lake Qity, and made.a fine' appearance.— The Deseret News'eays :.. *The order, sobriety, good feeling "and innocent mirth ftia’t reigned every where thronﬁ< the encampment may: pofsibly b ‘oqualed, but never excelledigutside of Usah: The troop,from the Your. Bt dr 'ﬂw he. commanding ng aud devaionto i ‘enabled at all time: i@eﬁg“ ‘and act as gentlemen,” .~

.~ WESTERN CONGRESSMEN. ’ Qm‘?;nnmber of members of Con-. gress ){jo:ﬁ"thé West have departed for Washington to enter upon the discharge of their duties at the session on’the 6th of Decemmber. ‘ . The extreme hard times which have ‘been brought upon the people through the agency of radical rule, will compel the constituents of Western Congrossmén to look to their. Representatives fot a change in the legislation of the country ; a change that will aid the business interests of the west, and ‘restore confidence and prosperity to the most important section of our vast country. The people of the Western States, are growing weary of the long continued legislation in favor of the ‘manufacturers and bondholders of the -east, and now ask for a recognition of their claims. b : Since the advent of the radical party to power, our western members of ‘Congress hiave een content to occupy the ornamental position of second violinists to the high tariff tunes played by the Greeleys and Kelleys of the east.” The good people of the west have danced to these radical jigs until they are foot sore and exhausted.— Chey now call for relief. They ask for a consideration of the plain- interests of the millions of people west of the Alleganies, who are struggling ‘against the buffetings of a business wrecked and ruined by legislation that ~onstantly adds dollars to the pockets of easfern capitalists at the expense of the laboring masses:of the west.

‘Onevery hand we Ace the tendency of rich .cerporations@* to consolidate their interests, and th% ‘render their ' power.more complete.;| The glittering dollars of .the Nationtil Banks, meet - and mingle with the illigotten gains of the manufacturers of ge east, and the tempting bait-drawn ffom this com‘mon pool, catehes the gotes of Western Representatives. Thus the east lays a tribute on every:interest of -the ~west. . Our people Qa‘%s every reason to be alarmed at the signs of the times; for it seems that nothing- short of a civil convulsion throughout ‘the west, ‘i‘s likely 'to break he fetters with which. we are bounf. We need a change in our politiGl policy. We need representatives ®ho will guard with a jealous eye fhe interests of their constituents, and Who have a cash value beyond the influbnce of railroad bonds or-corner lots in gveétern villages. < Unprincipled speculators and swindling railway corporations are licking up the mostéivaluablié of our public lands, and gradually but greedily taking possession of everything thatis . of worth to the common people.— 'T'here seems to be -a well conceived and deliberate plan to bind the working masses in a hopeless bondage of toil aud poverty, and Western Reprosentatives in Congress are the willing - tools by which the shameful designs of these capitalists are to be carried out. T'wo thirds of the Representatives from the west are Republicans. By meekly obeying the party lash of their eastern masters, they stifle the voice of their Democratic colleagues, and lio radical has yet been found who dare denounce this worse than highway robbery or rise from his seat and become the earnest. champion of the people. s

One interest which calls for the attention of our Representatives is perhaps paramount to all others ; that is the present onerous system of taxation. The interest on our public debt should not only be reduced, but every species of property should be subject to & fair rate of taxation, government bonds ‘included. . Ehe present high rate of interest is"‘a-dead weight upon the welfare and prosperity of the pegple, and a 8 long as capitalists can get a high per cent, for money invested in United States securities, they will not give themselves trouble by embarking in perplexing ~ business enterprisés.— Capital thus becomes dead, and the business interests of the country paralyzed. No revenue is eolleetod from the vast amount of money thus émployed, and all taxable property is as-. sessed at.a, rate sufficiently high fo meet the exhorbitant demands of ‘the government. ' The laboring'men of the country demand that these bonds shall be subject to the same rate.of taxatjon as other property,| and . western. Con- . T T e

L Carpet Bag Rule, " Under the reconstructed government of North Carolina, that state has become.s, nice place for the residence of pea(#gf@jj citizens, 'Gov. Holden, the head!of the radical party, recently issued & proclamation, threatening to call out. the, militia to suppress the rampant lawlessness. in eéyé@‘épuh—ties. [Private dwelliugs are being entered i:nd pillaged. Bands of armed negrogs prowl about in different section 9f the state. ' Murder:holds high carnival, and. society is in a Jamentably yhsettled condition. . It looks as thougth. reconstruction needed a Jittle recopstructing.. ... .. . . _UNDER the combined manipulations of Grant’s family andihis favorite New York °ﬂ¢°h°l4°m-mt:imn§§qn 133{0160. The business of the country was! paralized, -#lid' thousand of men straggle 16 'pay the ‘taxes’; when the fands reach ‘the ‘dub Frehsury! Butter-