The National Banner, Volume 4, Number 30, Ligonier, Noble County, 24 November 1869 — Page 2

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e ————————————————————————ppieeet ‘Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God.’ J.-B. BTOLL, EDITOR. WEDNESDAY, NOV. 24, 1869, R A AT LGS 7 © ' 70 OUR READERS. ; Upon mature reflection, we have determined to adopt the eash. in advance system with-all our subscribers. No paper will be sent from this office after the first day of January pext that is not prepaid. Bills will be made out against all who are in arrears, and if not paid at the above stated time, their names will be érased from our list, and the amount 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. e Lei i s

INDIANA PRESS ASSOCIATION. To the Editors and Publishers of Indiana: The Indiana Prese Association will meet at Indianapolis, January 6, 1870, for the transaction of such business as may -be properly brought before it. The editors and publishers are requested to be present at that time, It is desired that the Association be made a working organizavion, and an order to do this theremust be co-operation. Therefore, let every paper in the State be represented. | T. H, Bl McCAIN, President. - J. N. ScArck, Secretary. | e~ A — et ey TOO LATE, | At a meeting of the Democratic Central Committee'of Cass county, held at Tiogansport on the 15th inst., the following resolutions were adopted : ; Resolved, That the -Democratic State Central Committee are earnestly requested to change the time of holding the Democratic - State Convention from the Bth of January to some day about the Ist, »of June, 1870, as we think the success of the Democratic party in Indiana and the plablic interests will be thereby promoted. Resolved, That the delegates to the State Convention shall be appointed at a mass meeting of the Democrats of Cass | county, at the call of the chairman of the ‘ County Committee. | | We are quite ready to admit that many good reasons could be assigned against holding the State convention at so early a day as the Bth of January, but since the State Central Committee has fixed the

day, and everybody is making arrangements accordingly, it is folly to insist up- | on a postponement. Many counties have | . already elected their delegates, and imasmuch as the State Central Commitéoe was almost unanimous in fixing upon January Bth, there is no Q_xjo'bnbility that it would consent to & change at this late period.— Nor cen any one seriously think of post- . ponement when the corvention once assembles at Indianapolis. o Whatever differences ot opinion may lrave existed on this subject heretofore, all carnest Democrats should now direct their attention to procuring the nomination of a strong ticket, the adoption of a sound platform, and the overthrow of radicalism. Such efforts will bring good résutts —bickerings can not. , : The Minnesota Eleetion. The latest returns from the election in Minnesota elect the Republican candidate for Governor by a few hundred votes.— “There.are four or fiye counties yet to hear from; the precise figures cannot, therefore, be given yet. - The World says if the ~ Democracy had been vigilant in the canvass there, and worked with the same zeal as the Republicans, that State would have been placed by the side of New York in the Democratic columa. As it is, the vote is sufficiently elose to show that it is within their reach at the next election. . Large gains have been made in the Legislature of the State, and the.Republican majority on joint ballot has been reduced more than one half. In addition to this, Democratic county officers have been elected in several of the Republigan counties. - All this very plainly shows that the Democratic -gains ‘are not con. fined to one State and one locality, but that they extend to all parts of the country. . Also, that the Republican party is weakening -in all quarters, opening the ~way for still greater triumphs’in the Con"gressional elections next year. W

Admh;-.1l Farragut and Porter. A Waghington correspondent of the Pittsburg Commercial, under date of the 10th inst.,in speaking of the rigal claims of Admiral Farragut and Porter for sey- . eral millions of prize money in the capture of New Orleans, says that the former claims that Porter’s mortar fleet hombarded the enemy’s position for seven days without doing any serjous damage, or in any way diminishing the offensive power _of the forts; and further, that he did not capture or destroy any portion of the-en-emy’s fleet, and that he (Farragut) or- - dered an aftack in accordance with the directions of the sectetary of war. The reply of Admiral Porter claims \that he was first to suggest the attack ; that he worked with his whole force eight days. to get Farragut’s fleet over the bar; that the statements in Farragut’s paper are not true in fact; that he did damage the forts; and that he did capture and destroy part of the fleet. It is a very pretty fight as it stands, Gen. Butler is ~ attorney for Farragut, and J. Haley Ashton for Porter, who are both actively en gaged in searching for the truth, which evidently lies somewhere between the conflicting statements of ‘the two admi: Cpalln i Ninete e g Meeting of Jewish Rabbis, A number of Jewish Rabbis from tl:; . principsl cities of the Union were recent- - snbject. of reform in the Jewlsh Charch, + They sfsptod redilotions abolishiag the use of prayers in the Hebrew tongue as - unintelligible to the masses, disclaiming the doctrine of bodily resurrection, or the (R e diigh Sk s ho Aaroni priesthood sad.the Masonic preparatory steps to Istael, and therefore in prayer jo fhels edacationsl. capecity, G O R

' OHIO ALL RIGHT. A Cincinnati correspondent of the Indianapolis Journal furnishes some valuable information in regard to the probable action of the Ohio Legislature on the Fifteenth Amendment., If Ifiufisfimefifs prove correct, the friends of self government throughout the land will rejoice at being saved from the disgrace attending the success of 4 measure which forever deprives sovereign States of their dearest nghts. 'We quete the tollowing from the letter referred to above : :

) . The Republidan. -majority.in the press ent Legislatnre Qmi%bt_ just as well gave been Demfocratic, for all of the service they will be to the Republican 'ft;.—— The mag:rity as it is ne‘:w\cluimecf’ia one in the Senate and three in the House, In Hamilton county, the ten Representatives are five Democrats and five “reform” Republicans. These five are counted in-to belp make up the mejority on the Republican side. When the Legislature assembles, the Democrats. will probably elect tor Speaker Mr. Cunningham, reform Republican, who, in refurn, will vote with them on the “Fifteenth Amendment” and re districting the State. Another of the reformers. will be allowed to select the Clerk for the same considerations, and a third one will have the Sergeant-at-Arms, and thus for thege three petty offices will be bartered away the Republican majority, the Fifteenth Amendment, and the redistricting of the Btate, and consejuently the Republican majority at the next election. ! It may be that the “bolters” will prove to be made of ‘sterner stuff,’ hut indications are against them at present. We are quite certain that the Democracy will gladly yield all the offices to theé “Reform Republicans” if they will only defeat that most: infamous mesrurg, the Fifteenth Amendment’ The Demoeracy can well afford to dispense with official patronage in order to avert the consummation of a most wicked plot against the independence of State governments.

¢ Cari Schurz on the Chinese. | Carl Schurz, one of the United States Senators from the State of Missouri, has recently been among the Chinese in San Francisco, and writes that he visited various factories wherein many hundred Chinese were employed at almost every branch of labor,| and that because they are enabled by their fewer wants to work for less wages, they are preferred in &)’ these-bmnches‘i&é;:&vhite laborers, He says further : i

The Chinese need ir.credib’_y little to live on. Theyare satisfled ith q little rice, a few . eggs, and a'lit* jo meat for a change. - Most of their yictuals are imported from China; ev’.p the eggs, which, for preservation, are’ covercd with a res. inous crust. Yet ') am told by this proCess they acquire a taste which does not much suit the palate of our people. : These importe.cion, are exclusively made by Chinese merchiants, and the Chinese laborer who lives within their reach purchases of thev: everything he needs. The savings of the'.CHinese are not invested in this country, but are transmitted to China, so that inireality here they do not bring much meney into circulation. The oorer clasges among themn are uncultivatgd ngdfi;zeraat, bugt I was told they generally read and write their own language. They adopt very little of American life, and they stick as closely as possible to their own nAtive habits, although that is not' always free from inconvenience to them. ) ‘

The Currency. ; The Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot says there is something wrong in the west, ~ What it is is not exactly known. Business is dull and money very scarce. The people forget that the farmers of the west are not receiving half as much for their grain ‘pow as they have been in the habit of receiving for the last severai years. And this accounts, in a great measure, for the scarcity of money.. But they cannot realize that such is the fact, and the demand for an ;increase of the currency is almost universal. Senator Morton is now at Washington engaged in drafting a bill to meet the wants of the west and south in this matter, Thus, while the producers of the west and south are clamoring for an expansion of the eircalating medium, the manufacturers and traders of the east are pleading for contraction and a speedy return| to specie payment. - A Hiovrvor of the Sena. The Havana correspondent of the . World gives a most horrible story of a terrible scence on board of the French bark “Tamaris”—a “drama of the sea” that in scenes of horror and incidents of death, 'stands forth with unfortunate prominence, It is a tale of the coolie trade, and exceeds in grotesque horror the story which reached usonly & few daysago concerning ‘the massacre 10&' Chinese emigrants on a ship coming to SBan Francisco. In this case, 3 French bark was on the voyage, there was first & mutiny and the crew were driven .to, abandon the vessel. By the aid of the Dutch authorities at Java, however, theE vessel, which had been left in possession of the coolies,was recaptured, the crew, strongly reinforced, was again placed on board, and the voyage resume.d. But when the coolies ascertained that. they were to: be conveyed to Havana, to which place, |it appears, they had some strong objections, they commenced to jump overboard, and ' continued to do so, one after the otber, until, out of the original 800, only 68 remained, who were brought into, Havana, sorely against their will. If this is thesort of entertainment that Mr. Koopmanschaap is preparing for us, the less we have of it the better.

Grant and Delano. ; ~ A book maker has forwarded to Commissioner Délano & work called the “Ancestry of General Grant.” The author sends this note to Delano, which explains fully to the public, for the first time, whyDelano was made €ommissioner of Internal Revenue, Hesays: “You will find in the volume some notice of the Delano family. The Delano blood is the oldest ‘American blood which’ General Grant has. It dates from a year after the Mayflower landed.” | = ad " . Btate, "l're‘uury., The following statement will show the aggregate operations of the treasury of the ‘State offlnfiY:na, for the fiscal year ending October:3l, 1869 : - - ! ‘Balance in the treasury November 1, as “per last rep0rt......................8 591,870.04 Receipts dm the:Ml year.......v 4,197,480.21 WAL 10 R s e e Disbursments jtlnring fiscal year....... 4,478,129.66 . Balance injtreasury Nov. 1, 1869,..8 815,799.59 ~This balance has been reduced :about .30100‘? since November llst. The balanca that r@}a&f,flh:wflk owever, be fully sufficient éo,eom' all h: inary diisburse‘ments, and slso pay'the January interest M&M&Mh «'The“follovifg “coun: ties hiave not as yet settled their semi-an-N e DAL, Dy viess, Jay, Kosciusko, Lake, Montgomery, Fortss, Suelby, Verailion tan pioer? ey i ""2""";""';-’-‘*13".' . $ , | % s R ‘,,.w_'.v."‘”; "7>'fl' JoR .

NEW YORK AND THE 15TH AMEND- - The Democracy of New York achieved. & most gloricus triumph. Their State ticket was _elected by majorities tanging {from 20,000 to 80,000, and they have secured handsome working majorities in both branches of the Legislature. The ' new constitution—including a clause creating univéersal suffrage—was defeated by an overwhelming majority. We entirely ‘dgree with 'a contemporary that inasmuch as the preceding Legislature, without -authority from its constituency, ratified the fifteenth awnendment, we shall expect, and the country expects, now that the people have spoken against negro suffrage among themselves, that the newly celected Democratic Legislature will take early occasion to rescind the action of its predecessor. ‘This would be no more than an act of simple justice towards the peole of those States, who do not desire, and ‘ are unwilling to surrender all their rights of self-government into the hands of a’ dictatorial and centralized’ power. That which New York would scorn to clasp to its own bosom as a thing of beauty,, and joy forever, they will surely scorn to| trust in the arms of éthers who may not or dare not refuse the odious guilt. * Justice, as well as reason, demand this action of the New York Legislature. One by one the pillars of the temple of: liberty are falling. State self goverament is the key stone in the arch of the great gate of the edifice. Our unscrupulous and ambitious rulers have already loosened it in | ite pocket, and but two. or three blows are nceded to send it crashing] down among the pillars already prostrate. Let New York hold back its hand and rgf_"use'} to give one of those fatal blows. If our Ephesian Dome i 3 to be destror ed, let no Democratic hand apply & ‘torch to the pile. - ik g

Negro sufl’n?ge, P and of itself;is a matter of but Wt i portance. It would be adding bu* o 5 more corrupt element to our alre” v $OO corrupt politics. But it is tb” | forcible wrenching from States, o dJ:fi»,m':e of their protestations, of a I".ght their founders and the framers of the instrument which is the charter of our federation were careful to leave them the uncontrolled possession of. Admit- ’ ting that Congress has the right, or if we surrender to it the power, to control the question of suffrage in the States, a question which the Constitution left exclusively to the States, we admit, we surren~der, to Congress the light and power to ‘control any other matter which at pres‘ent belongs exclusively to the States.— The plainest principles of justice point out the ‘wrong and injustice of the Fifteenth Amendmeént being engrafted upon the fundamental law, even if onlyione State objects to surrendering up its right to icontrol the question of suffrage ‘in its own way. The Democrats of New York know this; and the country will _expect them to act as becomes patriots and citizens who love justice, respect law and would preserve the country from | the rapacious pack which would tear it to pieces in order to aggrandize them- ‘ selves. : . ‘News frem the Stormn. 3 Heavy storms have prevailed all over the country of late, and damages on land -and ‘water are comsiderable, Below we L give a partial summary of the . principal losses so far as reported : <

- The Cleveland rink was blown down—loss $12,000. ; Thirteer barges and two-boats, laden, with 175,000 bushels of coal, valued at $75,000, were lost at Jeffersonville, Ind. - Mobile, Ala., was greatly damaged, and several lives lost. : : ! A train on the Harlem road was blown from the track near ‘Boston, and hurled seventy-five feet. Max:iy passengers were hurt and one boy killed. ‘ :

Toronto dispatches announce serious damage to shipping on the lake and in POrt. 7 oia HE BRI s B

- The gale was unprecedentedly heavy at Chicago, but the damages reported are inconsiderable as yet. = ey

Some damage was done to the bridge over the Ohio River at Louisville, which will delay its completion for a time.— The harm, however, was much less than the builders anticipated. -~ = :

Several steamers were blown away from the wharf at Cairo, and went meangering down the Mississippi, but all were brought back safely. o

The propellor Thos. A. Scott was wrecked in the Straits of Mackinac, during the great on storm Tuesday night of last week. No lives lost. . The schooner Arrow: was wrecked on the same night, fifteen miles north of Chicago, and the officers and crew, eighteen in number, were all lost.

The Fort Wayne Democrat says that Wabash, on the Valley Road, is enjoying a period of spasmodic religion. Men, women, and children are indicted for fishing, sewing, knitting, and blacking boots, respectively, o’ Sunday. About one hurdred indictments were lately returngd into Court against the best citizens of the town, including several ladies; and, behold, the very essence of the “Fifteenth Amehdment," three darkey ‘barbers, were in the list for about $2O. Ovr readers will doubtless remember a case of murder which occurred over a year ago in Whitley ‘county, and wherein the Shepler boys (for a short time residents of this place) were implicated. The case has been on the docket for one year, and after consuming almost the entire térm of the Circuit Court now in session at Columbia City, was suddenly dismissed by consent of both parties. All the parties implicated in the affray have been discharged. : : ! ) Sl 4 S —e . Two of the livest newspapers in northern Indiana are the Ligonier ‘Banner and the Laporte Argus. With a newspaper press managed after the fashion of these papers, the daysof radicalism in Indiana are numbered.— Hvansville Courier. S Many thanks, friend Whittlesey. By incessant labor we hope to extirpate the evils of radicalism in northern Indiana, and in due course of time supplantthem with the pure principles of genuine, progressive Democracy. Bk o i s Hondr, Judge Lowsy, will make pretty near a clean sweep of all the cases on the docket, during the present session of the Circuit Court. The Judge is comet T e abi v . ‘he: ,buhifizqs % him. Withol tnmtf‘ rating the abilities of the great number of sble men who now occupy the position as Judges if this State, we ~r?rdi Judge Lowry as one of the ablest legal. minds in e country. Long may he coninao to Lring credt and honge 1o e judicial ermine gf State. w L o o T sol olumbia City Post.” '~ f{y* { g adeh il dn

. The Laporte Herald hasjust di e>vered ‘that “the democratic press in this part of ladiana is strongly urging the claims of Mr. Stoll for the Auditor of State Candidacy.” : 1 « The New Hampshire Statesman thinks that “General Grant’s head has got dizzy.” Grant needn’t trouble himself about | that. So long as his head -swims, he: won't sink. . - y e

MY, Pennington, Republican, has introduced a resolution into the Georgia Leg islature requesting Congress to remove all the disabilities of the fourteenth amendment. . Do al e

Grant is engaged on his message and intends to remain in Washington until it is finished. He has decided to send it to Congress in manuscript to prevent premature publication of the important document.’

The “colored people” of Tennessee have called a convention to meet on the 3d of December, to investigate the condition of their race in the State.” This will open a splendid field for the operations ofua “Swirdling Committee.” ' , ~ In thegJerritory of Wyoming the Democrats carried every county and elected every member of the Legislature in both branches. For Delegates to Congress, Nuckolls (Democrat) had 8,801 votes; Oorbett (Radical) 1,963 votes. = | Mr. Seward has placed on exhibition in New York the presents he received while in California, Mr, Grant could| probebly be induced to exhibit his presouts there also if he could find ‘vacant space enough in the city to hold them. The radicals have had their own way since 1861. The people complain of hard times. A change of administration may bring about a change for the better. Radical control will continue radical policy. Will the people vote soas to bring about a change ?

The drawback frauds in the New York Custom House, so far as investigated, amount to over one million. Twenty-five or thirty persons are implicated. It is neeales to say, all are virtuous “loil” Republicans, and “that's the way the money goes, pop goes the weasel.” One good radical in the interior of the state of New York substituted the name of Jefferson- Davis for that of Horace Greeley, on the state ticket, for the office of comptroller. If this were not a Roland for an Oliver, it certainly was a Jefferson for a. Horace. o The official returns of the late Massachusetts State elections show the following result for Governor: Whole number of votes, 138,510; William Claflin received 74,106; John Quincy Adams, 50,785 ; Edwin: M, Chamberlin, 18,667.— Claflin's plurality over Adams, 23,871. There is a widesi)reaq rumor that the SupremejCourt of the United States will at its session in December, -deliver its opinion in the several cases heretofore argued, involving the constitutionality of the acts of Congress making Treasury notes a legal tender, and that the decision will be adverse to the law. R

The Philadelphia Press characterizes the New | York Custom House as ' the “hotbed of eorruption,” and says that frauds have been perpetrated there to the extent of one million dollars. It is hardly necessary 'to add that the mushrooms that have flourished in that hot-bed are Radicals of the straiglitest sect. | The demoeratic majority in the late election in New York exceeds twentyseven thousand upon all candidates except secretary of State. .Abouttwo thousand German democrats in the state voted for Gen. Siegel. Horace Greeley, though leading his ticket' in New York city, falls behind it in the balanceef the State.

Greetey publishes a list of counties "in New York, which voted at the late election, under the head of “official.” In every single county, Mr. Greeley is himself the hindmost candidate! For a wonder, that number of the ?Hbune does not say a single word about frauds in the election! The principal editor was evidently sick—at heart. ;

The next elections to take place are those of State officers and members of congress in Mississippi and Texas. They will be held under unconstitutional acts of congress, and if they go “loyal” will be ranked as “reconstructed,” like their neighboring sisters. If “disloyal” they will probably be continued under military rule. Tyrannical injustice. is better than involuntary abasement. 5

Our Radical brethren have come to the conclusion that President Grant too studiously conceals the negro in the woodpile, and that the ebony brother should be inducted into a front seat. The gentleman from Africa don’t knuow how to take his excellency. ' If he would present the President with a two-horned rhinoceros or some thing of that kind for the juvenile Presidents andP residentesses, he would immediately receive proper consideration., - f } e

As the time approaches for the meeting of congress, Washington is filling up with ‘the usual number of dead-beats, speculators; end beggars. There will be much life in the capital city this winter among the shoddy, while the taxpayers will enjoy the luxury of footing the bills. A continuance of “hard times,” for a few years longer, may induce the people to change their minds from the continuous verdict. rendered the last few years. General Butterficld was not_‘tx#ned out of office as he should have been, but permitted to resign. But the singular feature of the case is, that he cannot get a civil® or military court to investigate his conduct. He clamors for investigation, but is informed he must seek remedy at the hands of Congress. When ' Stanton and Holt were in power they did not ask Congress to investigate or hang, but, that was for disloyalty—not for steal: ing; which may make a difference. =

The Logansport Pharos says: The Cumback men are already beginning to make open war upon those -of the Radi. cal party who opposed the election of the “Christian statesman” to the United States Senate. In southern Indiana Comback’s partisans are formidable and determined, and they will undoubtedly make trouble in the next Radical State Convention. Some of the most active of the anti-Cumbackers live inthis Congressional Distriet, and among ‘them are Tynerand his faglemen. ATe

Mfi “"’m!!wfi‘“‘“ B e Knox cdnnty ia'albjeét to having pan- . Hogs are sclling at Vincennes at $8.50 A citizen of Floyd coucty has invented el 8. N. Pike is to build an opera house at Indianapolis. Two Goshen editors are “W. 0. G.” to Templar Lodges. : : . A erim. con. case at - Columbid City is stirrng up a muss. | . . Lafayette had raided the “social evil” ‘outside of her limits. : : - The building containing the State offices is in a bad condition. | ¢ The law term of the State University opened on Monday of last week. Papers throttgh_out the State are urging the necessity of helping the poor: : . Col. Eddy peremptorily refuses to be‘come a candidate for Secretary of State. A severe tornado visited the southern portion of the State, on ‘Wednesday last. _ All the “official county “papers” in the State are publishing delinquent tax-lists. The citizens of Lagrange county are agitating the subject og having a new courthouse. e : M. F. Shuey denies being implicated in the insolvency of Mr. [Cole, of Elk‘hart.

A temperance pafper at Kendallyille publishes notices of “application for license.” i L

J. W. Burson, of Muncie, has been appointed Government Director on the Union Pacific railroad. i

- An exchange proposes the using of all loafers in the State for anatomical subjects in our Medical Institute. ' Johu Stevens, on trial at Terre Haute for the murder of John Reeves, has been found guilty, and sentenced to hang. - The Warsaw Indianian is offering copies'of John Morgan as premium to subscribers. 'We beleive Williams did help catch himi : L

Frederick Gertsinger, affiicted with the delirium tremens, jumped from the third story of a Teire Haute hotel, and broke couple of ribs. :

. Wm. Hedges was arrested at Evansviile on the 10th inst. for having on his person and attempting to pass §6OO in counterfeit greenbacks. )

The boot-blacks bad a Thanksgiving dinner’ at Indianapolis on Thursday of last week. Tle newsboys of the Mirror printing establishment wcre also feasted. . The Fountain county jailor went for a bucket of eoal the other day and left the door open, upon ‘which the prisoners scooted. They were recaptured on the next day. |, . :

A confiding chap in Evansville advanced his betrothed $l5O to complete the matrimonial outfit, whereon she pocketed the stamps and left him disconsolate and indignant. - The capital used by the contractors at the Jeffersonville Prison is/ stated at $2,000,000. The State Prison is the largest workshop and manufacturing establishment in the State. Pl

The Lafayette papers are going to publish the real names of all the male and fe male prostitutes arrested by the police force of that city, which will kill off a many John Smiths, o § Near Warsaw, on the evening of the 20th, a young lady named Alice Wilson, while drawing a bucket of water, slipped and - fell, striking her side upon the bucket, causing her death in a few minutes.. i g ] #

Thé wind in Evansville, on Tuesday. night of last week, reached the height of a tornado. Three steamers, the Armada, Louisa and New Camden, were completely wrecked, and several buildings were destroyed.

The Lebanon ' Patriot speaks in fitting terms of censure of those persons who ride their horses to town and allow them to stand out in the roughest weather for hours together. The practice is a very common and a very barbarous one.

Madison county, on the 10th, voted an appropriation of $185,000 to the White Pigeon, Wabash & Cincinnati Railroad, the terminus of which is at Anderson.— Kosciusko, Wabash'‘and Grant counties having previously voted appropriations, the construction of the road is rendered certain. 4 HE

A child was found on Wednesday of last week, in & vau't in the rear of the residence of Martin Haley, Monroeville, Allen county. The coroner’sjury brought in a verdict that the infant had come to its death at the hand of Barah Oats, a young lady who had been living in the family of Haley.

An ear of sweet corn: was left at the store of A. 8. Purvianc & Co., a few days since, which forms a perfect hand and wrist.— The thumb, anfiofir fingers are as plainly marked as if they were human’; and the wrist is'as exquisitely-shaped as a pretty plump little woman’s. Cap. keeps it to kiss.— Huntington Democrat. :

A girl named Nolan, living near Oxford, committed suicide, on Friday night of last week by taking strychnine. The only cause which can be assigned for the rash act is that her father had purchasea her a dress in the city which did not suit her.. The poison was/in the house, having been kept on hand for necessary domestic. purposes. - |

Lieut. W. W, Daitigherty, of the regular army, shot and killed Joseph Van Horn, on the 18th, in the Sherman House, Kokomo. Van Horn had circulated scandalous reports concerning. Daughertys’ sister, and refused to retract when repeatedly requested to do so, whereupon Mr. Daugherty shot him. Great excitement prevails over the deplorable: event, as both parties belong to prominent families in that city.” Daugherty was arrested and confined in jail. - - R

Mr, James Geist, the contractor for the carpenter work of the German Evangelical Church in New Albany, was standing upon a platform in the second story of the steeple, on Wednesday afternoon of last week. Some sixty feet above him a young man was at work upon. the top of the steeple. The young man stepped upon & piece of scantling,: which broke under his weight. A part of it fell through the joists and struck Mr. Geist upon the head, krocking him out of the steeple | through an opening in the wall to the ground floor, where he fell across the Jjoists, producing serious contusions in t wo .or three_‘places upon his head, and very severelyt bruising him' on the back and side, and causing internal injuries and paralysis. His injuries are of a very seri-. ons character and may prove fatal. - Columbia City has had a sensation.— The: “reverend” Samuel Lamb—*brother” . Lamb, of the Methodist persuasion—well, but not very favorably, known in this city and county, was arrested at the former place, wyere he is at lgx“ese_m; engaged in ministering to the spiritual yearnings ota respye’cuglefipgk, on the chg:gd ol what do our pious and kind-hearted christian brethren suppose —Well, the affidavit "é? butsrdi _Tell it not in_Gath! 'The friends of the lamb like Samuel qé‘nl eted the matter by raising a purse for the mother of the prospective little lamb, whereupon she declined to "l)f)m at the trial’ against :‘,hefzgirtnoua bellweather,— Rumors of Samuel’s ipgcuug:,pgqgenmieh for calico were' rife in this region when e lived in this place.— Huntington Dem-

' GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. _ A telegraph cable is to be lid between this country and Belgium. = - The latest fashion for ladies is to wear a corner of their shawl thrown over the left shoulder. - i

‘The Massachusetts House of Representatives stands on the whiskey question, 75 prohibition, 128 against n S

- The annexation of St. Domingo is said to have been finally “arranged, and congress will act upon itduring the next session. o Jefferson Davis has been elected President of the Carolina Insurance Company, at Memphis, and will reside in that city hereafier. :

The old Republican Wigwam in Chicago, in which Abraham Lincoln was nominated in the spring of 1860, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 14th inst. fo 5

The telegraphic advices from India give acconnts of the ravages of the most deadly type of cholera, and ‘it seems to be following almost the desolate wake it left in its march ‘of 1849~ 50. : L

_ln Virginia, a policeman who shot a soldier, is to be tried by the soldiers, under a special order from. General Canby. But if a soldier were to shoot a policeman ought the case to be tried by a juryof policemen ? A boy of Drumeonra, Ireland, found a package of flourin the road and took it home. They made cakes from it for breakfast the next morning, and before night the whole family: was dead. It was mixed with arsenic. il The small schooner Belle was burned to the waters edge, off Port Washington, Mich., on. Sunday night.— There are no signs of the crew, but it is supposed they escaped in a boat.— -There were no passengers. £ Cartis L. North, an insurance agent‘ of Brooklyn, gave his beloved pastor a raw potato the other evening. The beloved pastor opened the potato and found a $5OO bill inside. - This variety of potato is more valuable than the Early Rose. : + The New York special to the Ciuncinnati Enquirer says: A canvass of ‘Senators shows that Minister Sickles cannot be confirmed. 'Hence, Grant and Fish have resolved upon recalling him from Madrid with the' intention of replacing him by General Dix.. |

- It is said that General Grant is so satisfied that the great agricultural interests of the country want specie payment, that he has determined to bring our currency to a specie standard by some meaus or rather, even to the extent of a coup d'efat, by selling at once all the gold in the Treasury.

A letter from New Orleans rays more than a thousand white laborers, mostly Germans, tegether with some colored, have arrived there lzst week, to work on sugar plantations in the Teche country. ' They get forty-five dollars a month, and their board, and free passage. ' '

_ The bark George Thornton, with 19,000 bushels of Milwaukee wheat on board, from the Welland Railroad, for Oswego, went a shore on Wednesday night, 17th, one mile east of Nicholson’s Island, on the Canada shore, Liake Ontario. - She will probably bea total loss. auitsl

A riot occurred at a colored church in Washington, last week, and the police were called in, two of whom were beaten and cut with razors. It geems singular that Christian worshippers should feel obliged to carry razors and such pleasant playthings with them to church. But loyaltyis what ails them. - | s 1

A terrible railway accident, whereby ten or fifteen persons lost . their lives, and fifty were more or less seri ougly. wounded, occurred near San Leandro, Cal., .on Sunday, the 14th, by, the collision of a Western Pacific railroad train with the Alameda Texry one. The stupidity of a - switch-ten-der caused the terrible disaster. -

A building in St. Louis fell on Friday morning burying ten or twelve men in the ruins. Six had been recovered, some slightly and others ‘seriously injured. It was feared "the remainder would not be taken out alive. ' The building wasin process of erection, aud the fall was occasioned by ' the foundation walls settling. - _The Gaiety Theater, Main street, Milwunkee, was burned on the night of the 16th, and two of the audience were burned to death—a young man named Willie Brewer, employed in the Daily News office, and a young man named Brown, clerk for Kummel & Rempf. Several others were more or less injured. = The fire was caused by the explosion of kerosene. i The family of a' Mr, Bergethal, consgisting of himself, wife and a boy named Gardner, were murdered in Huntington, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday the 17th, while at supper, by two desperadoeés, who then plundered the house and “set it on fire. They were captured at Altoona soon after, and part of Mr. Bergethal’s money found in their possession. '

At Adrian, Mich., a lady partially filled a lamp with kerosene oil, a few mornings ago, placed it on a shelf, under a chimney, in a room in which there was no fire. About dark, without any flre having been near- the lamp, it exploded, doing considerable damage to the furniture, and it was only by great exertions that the house was saved.. k it '

General Hampton, in his address at the opening of tge Georgia State Fair, ‘said that he thought negro labor better than any other class the Bouth could posaigly procure. He believed ;the South would in a short time regain herformer prosperity. He counselled ' the cultivation of more patriarchal re‘lations ‘with 'the "freedmen, and he ~wanted their moral and intellectual ‘status improved. Sot B

. The Army of the Tennegsece re-nni-on at. Louisville was aicomplete . suecess.. (reneral Sherman presided, and ‘was - re-elected President for the ensuing year. Gen. E, 8. Parker pro ‘nounced an’ enlogy upon the latelamented | Rawling. Tfie Galt House banquet was a grand affair, there being quite . enouglg\: to drink. 'The society of the- Cgvgf‘xyi of the West _participated: in the ba m"}n'eg, The next /meetiug of the Army of the Tennessee will be held in Cinginnati, in October nexh. i R R e

- JL.B.STOLEL. . - Webave not heretofore expressed, through the columns of the Democrat, a preference for any aspirant whose name will probably appear before theDemocratic State Convention next January ; but the press of the State has almost universally indulged in recommendations and ‘suggestions, and we now deem it but justice to a most worthy man to urge' his claims. - We are very confident that the nomination of J. B. Stoll, Esq., of Ligonier, as candidate for Auditor of State, wonld be most judicious and advisable.”

Mzr. Stoll is a worthy and competent man, -and would materially iqg:en‘sé the strength of the ticket in every section of the State. The German element'in the Demoeratic . party of Indiana is very strong, and certainly merits a recognition. = Mr. Stoll is a representative German, and would give universal satisfaction to the Germans of the whole- State. 'We know his strength in the northern' part of the State and have no doubt he would prove ‘equally strong in the eentral and southern. His nomination would be a just tribute to the fidelity of the thousands of German Democrats - of the State, and a merited ‘' reward for his untiring and efficient labors for the Democratic party.—Plymouth Democrat. —— Mt ey

At the editorial convention in Warsaw, we had the pleasure of forming the acqguaintance of J. B. Stoll of Ligonier, President of that body. :Having kuown that gentleman by reputa. tion for some length of time, as an able and efiicient:ecgii:br,;d foreible and energetic advocate of democratic principles and measures, we had formed a favorable opinion of him as a man; and a democrat; - but a personal acquaintance greatly increased our former impression. : . Mr. Stoll is a man of fine personal appearance, of pleasing address, superior literary acquirements, his countenance being the ‘index of a mindofa high order of cultivation,—gentlemanly and pleasing in_conversation,—he deservedly merits the popularity awarded him in northern Indiana.— All parties: acknowledge his talents and popularity, even his opponents in politics can find no fault in him. Such a man would add - immense strength to the democratic State ticket, and we second his nomination for Auditor, with both uplifted hands. Being a fine ' speaker in two langnages, he would awaken an enthusiasm in the democratic party that would insure success.— A wburn Times. - -

Brother Stoll, the very able editor - of the Ligonier Banner and. Laporte Argus, called on us this (Friday) morning. There is not an editor in Northern Indiana we like to take by the hand better than' this same J. B. He is prominently talked of as a candidate for the office of State Auditor, and wé thiok: would be the right man in the right place.—South Bend Union. e —— Butler’s Spoons. Gen. Butler was last week arrested in New York on a charge of having stolen silver-ware from the residence of Gen. Twiggs, to the amount of $7O. 000 whilst in command of New Orleans. The trial will probably finally determine whether Butler actually stolé spoons. or not. i T Another Family Murdered. : One of the most-horrible-and ‘inhuman butcheries that has oceurred in Indiana since the murdezr of an entire family at Valparaiso, a few years ago, was committed in Perry County,” Suturday, The scene of the murder is a log hut, two. and a half miles from Troy. On Saturday morning the owner ot this hut, Mr. ‘Geldreich, left home, going to Troy, where he remained until afternoon, attending to some business. Upon his return he was. unable to open the door of his cabin, and finally he burst it open, and was horrified to ‘witness- the scene of blood that had, been enacted there. Behind the door he' found the ghastly corpse of his son; aged 10, years, whom he had left bright and happy in the morning, now cut-and .mangled by an inhuman butcher. Necai the bureau, on the opposite side of the room, lay Mrs. Geldreich, stark; stiff, and cold; surroundedsby a great pool of blood.— In addition to three pistol-shot wounds, one ball entering the left eye and lodging in the brain, another on the left cheek,. and a third above the ear on the same side, there were thirteen gaping wounds about the head, neck, and shoulders of the murdered woman. The shots were most probably fired in rapid succession, and for fear life was not extinct, she was. ‘mutilated with & hatchet., The youngest child, aged, 4 years, was found in one cor- } ner of the room with two serious wounds, ‘one in the neck, the otber in the shoulder. Tt was taken to the house of a neighbor, and Dr. Booker dressed the wounds and has hopes of its recovery. - The drawers of the bureau were opened and had been ransacked, doubtless'in searching for $l,600 in gold, which Geldreich recently received from Germany. Upon the investigation of the coroner’s jury the fact was. developed thata man named Swartz—first name not learned—had been seen in the neighborhood: the day previous to. the murder, and a watch was placed over his movements. He was found in Troy Sunday, and had an entire c%a-ngq of'elothing, which fact created suspicion, and hee was arrested on suspicion of being implicated in the tragedy. A ‘measure of his foot corresponded exactly with the tracks near the cabin.— New Albany Ledger, November 16th. e Rl He o ion g ‘The Q&J_mbia City Post informs us. that Mr. Sol. D. Bayless, of Fort Wayne, is trying to resurrect the defunct Great American Central Railroad. ‘The propo: sition is to build a road from Ft. Wayne to some point on the Illinois State line, there to connect with a road -already built.. : ilé R SUBSCRIPTION RECEIPTS. ~ The following persons have paid their subscription to the NATIONAL: BANNER during the past week. The figures opposite each name indicate the Vol.and No.. to which payment is made: Vol. No. J. Wilkinson, Cherubusco,. .... 4 — 26 ‘Abr. H. Smith, Wawaka,...... 4. — p 2 Reub. Forker, Wolf Lake,..... 4 = 28 ggs'iah‘Lane, SR e g B 8 muel C. Fairbanks, Lisbon,.. 4 — 52John Hoffman, Brimfield,...... 4 — 28 H. W. Schaefer, Kendallville,.. 4 — 41. A, Crg‘tr‘oof, o f)l an e i"j-—- 20 C.J. Weeks, Noble C. H...... 4— 52 Levi Sommers, DeKalb-¢e0,.... 5§ — 10 Thos. Storey, Avi11a,.......... 4 — 53 Harrison Fullk, “ “oii.a b — 7 James Amos, ¢ ........0 .04 —53 Jacob Fightner, ¢ ....c..... 4. — 15 Rev. G. Weber, 5wan,......... 4 — 52 Jacob Singrey, A1bi0n,........ 4 — 53 B :M:;Pg“s: A:: :.“ it i —-glfi Jonath. Seymour, * .. cxiae . &— Qd D. @&Wfimrm»‘“%%fi;fli D. 8. Hibbard, Ligonier,...... 5 — 16 Reub. McDevitt, = * oiy.. 4 =253

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o Reud she following e 1T trom g of @B sld.mfnidfmmflflgflg trocegf mere ants 1o the city of Davenporg.z 7 1o ns i snuxn.:w,»4m: Agregable to my promise to you when bere, I write yon (‘“MMN! if ‘you see m‘p.ré a true statement of the good ef¥ect&;of Eoble 's Stomach Bitters upon myself. ‘I bad been tronbled with indigestion®or a long time, attended with severe headache,: particu. l‘artif after eating, when, fortunately,an old goldier friexd came ioto the store _nnd.td;sgmr mended me to use-Roback’s Bitters. I did so, By taking a small wine-glass full just hefore each meal, and -to my great joy I was relieyed at once, and am now well by their use. I wouid not be without them at any price. - I have not taken any other medicine since I commenced using the bitters. .-And 1 can say, 8 clesr conseiénce, try Roback’s Bitters'; they -will ‘do all they are recommended to do, it taken accordAng to instructions. Yours truly, gl oo o Frask H, Misgy/t Of the firm of Biedeback & Miller, wholesale grocers, Davenport, Tows. s

/The universal cry, *“What sball I buy for Holiday Presents ' ‘oan be mgfi’ d best by Parker & Coy, 98:and 100 Sumnter St., Boston, who hidve an immense variety of holiday and uséfal ar}iclgqjlflfli"flifi&iu&flf Fancy Boxes and Writing. W flm%mw in Morogeo, Gilt and Velvet. Qfl% Morocco Shopping Bags, Furnished Reticales, Silver Plated Ware, and cutlery of évery description, %Wimi_u_fiau,qfi:hg; atest styles ot solid gold; which cannot be distinguished from the real, &c, and, bundreds of t qklgtesg and most interesting ‘books.’ ‘Their stock"contains almost” everything necessary to supply the wants and gratify the tastes of 'everybody, and they claim that their superior ‘dmt!ggg fgg buying these goods enable them‘to Sell ‘at ve g much ‘utider the regalar prices paid for suc articles.” They want Agents everywheére, to whom they offer most liberal'inducements, We call attention to their advertisement in another column. - e T 80t4

© Arwateh, pairof Blenkets, Quiltor Shawl, for one dollar, appesars almost impossible, but such may be had, and hundreds of other useful articles, by patrouizinq Gro A. PLummer & Co.’s ““Ope Dollar-Sale.”” - 3o 0F 2y i _Their system of doing business has been ‘examined by the auathorities, and a decission rendered from the laternal Revenue Department at Washington, - dated Nov. 4th, 1868, declating their business perfectly fair and legitimate, and entirely different from the different gift qn’te'r?riqes. 70f course all do not get watches ete ;. for One Dollar, but in everoy large Club one of their.articles ave sold for One Dollar, as an extra inducement, and some member of the club bag the chance of obtaining it. A new. feature introduced by this enter’frising firm, is to pay their agents in either cask or merchandise, and to prepay the express charges. No better ~opportunity can be offered to either ladies or gentlemen, havitg leisure time, than ‘to form clubs for this firm. Read their advertisement in another column, and send for catalogue. 80t4

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: HEAR YEA! pabiiayacd All persons indebted;to Dr. G, W, Carr, on accounts of several years’ standing; and to Drs, Carr & Raudall, are requested to make imme- - diate settlement. .. . . a 2 i Ligonier, August 18, 1869, st ' SHERIFI'S SALE, , By virtue of, a certified cq%y qf a decree, to me-directed from the Clerk’s bffice of the Court of Common Pleas' of Noble ‘county, ' Indiana, in 4 cause. wherein James W. Pearce is plaintiff, and Morris W." Monroe and Augusta R. Monroe are defendants, requiring me to.make’ the sum of five hundred and sixty-feur dollars and ninety-two cents, with interest on said decree and costs, I will expose at Public Sale, to the highest biddér,'on’ Sata¥day,.tße 18th day of December, A. D. 1869, between.the hours of 10 o’clock 4; . and 4 o’clock . u. of said day, ’ at.the door of the Court’ House of said¥Noble county, Indiana, the rents and profits, for a term not‘exccedinlg seven years, of the follow-, ing described Real Estate, to-wit: The undi.: vided ‘one-fourth of the following described: premises in Section twenty-seven [27], in Town--ship thirty-five (35}, North of Range eight [B] East, - Beginning at a stake on the west bank of the Elgbifl river, ‘North twent’yo%qr and one-half; Hegrees West, two. chains and seven‘teen links from the centre line of the Pigeon ‘State Road,’ where the same crosses the west line of ‘said river and runping thence three chains and - thirty-one links, thence North fifteen links, thence 'eighty and one-half degrees: East, one chain and seventi-'éine' ‘links, thence South to the Pigeon State Road one chain and sixty-three links, theénce along the center line’ of said Road South seventy-nine and one-half .degrees ‘West, four' chains and twenty-four links to (the west bank of said’ river, thence along the bank of said river.to the:place. of be-: ginning, all in the county of Noble, 1n the State of Indiana. 5 e R - Ifsilich rents and Prqflu:will: not._ sell for a sufficjent sum to salisfy said decres, interekt and costs, I will, at the same time and place, expose.at Public Sale the feedmpw:oé) said Real Estate, or. Bo-much thereof ‘as ? be sufficient to discharge said decree, intérvst and. coats, Lt g -TR BBE s SR ETORS Wiy Baid sale will be mdde without any’ relief whatever from valuation or afipraisgment laws. nts : ‘ _ — MOSES KISER' LERD 7 Sheriff ‘of Noble County. Beér & Kxisevy, Attorneys for Plaintiff. " - Albion, November 24th, ’69.—Pr. f.: $15.00 i g : 5 3 , X % - SHERIFE'S SALE. . By virtue’ of & certified-- copy of a'decree; to me directed from the Clerk’s offic (&f tbhe Court’ of Comton Pleas of N’oh?sv.codnfigi ndigng, in" a cause wherein Solomon Mier and Jacob Kann are plaintiffs, and Peter Banta and-others are defendants, requiring me o' make the ‘sim’ of two Hundred and twenty oné dollars and twen- | ty cents; with interest on said decree and costs, I will expose at Public Sale, tm%hut bid-. der, on Saturday, ‘the 18th day 'of December, - A D. 1869, between the hoursof 10 o’elock a. . and 4 o’clock p. u of said day, at the door. of the Court House of said Noble county, Indiana, the rents and profits, for a term not exceeding: seven. years, of the following deseribed Bmfi, Estate, to-wit: Village lot Number thirty-one [3l]in-Welman’s :Addition to the Town of {.igo- : nier, in.Nohle county, in the State of Indians. . ‘lt such rents and profits will not sell for & ‘sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and: costs, I will, at the same time tndépllce. expose at Public Sale the fee-simple of said Real Estate;-or 80 much thereof as may be sufficient to “discharge said .decree, interest and costs. : Rip LR R ETGEET © ‘Said sale will be made without any relief, whatever from valuation or afi)prnjnment laws. Cosid s tatial o OSES‘KISER, - : o Sherif of Noble County. BEsr & Knisery, Attorneys for Plaintiffs. .~ Albion, November-24th, 1369.—Pr. fee. $9.60.

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