The National Banner, Volume 4, Number 32, Ligonier, Noble County, 8 December 1869 — Page 1

; THE NATIONAL BANNER, -« . Published Weekly by. ; . JOHMN B, STOLL, LIGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY, IND. . ¢ .—,4~4l\~,~‘——<.’-g—v%4\/4» —— . TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : Strictlyin advance....b.....oooiivinn... ... 89,00 If not paid within thre¢ m0nth5,............. 2.28 Ifnotplld within six m0nth5,..,............ 2.50 At'theend ofthe year,....................... 3.00 mApy person sending a ¢lub of 20, accompn; nied ‘with the cash, will be entitled to a copy of the paper, for one year, rree of char e. :

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POWER PRESS PRINTING OFFICE. We would respectfuily inform the Merchants and .Business men generally that we are now § prepured}to,do allkindsof - PLAIN & FANCY PRINTING, n as good style and atas low rates as any pubL lishing hous¢ in Northern Indiana. ‘Michigan South. & N. Ind’a R. R. On and after April 25, 1869, trains will leave Stations po follows: : : ! . GOING EAST: : ; )i+ KExpress. ° . Mail Train. Chicago. ... . oiibiansi s 8108 P, M., .. 8200 AL gflkhh'art...;...;;.......2:2‘1‘3’ “‘ ....12:1021 P. M. > vt il Y 8 ravy o IR3OO P, M/ 5 M?fiersburg. ot da o (ORIEREODY sSEsvy va 1521 40 F: Ligonler . .o iiiiis LBoal6 10 oL 1980 46 Wawaka,...........(d0n’t stop) ....... 1:10p. M. By ghn )GRS Ll L R L R Kendsllville ..........10:85 ¢« . .. .1:87 & Arrive at Toledo .......2:80 A ........5:056 ¢ 5 : GOING WEST': ; . ; < Express: . Mail Train: Toladb . b.iicheit s(o SASAIOA M, 70 1950 ¥, N, Kenda11vi11e...........8: 48 A/ M..........4:45 P, M, Brimaeld .. coiv il sidoo 0 0 L a 0 Dol 4 WAWAKA. oo odvbase saadiinesell 4t %0n1er.......‘........4:20 o eao 15 Mi11er5bnrg............ ity Y GORRBN vil DL L a 0 SHURAT, 00l DRI Y o ess B -Argive at Chicago.... 9:28 ¢ .., .....8:85 * ; *Stop 20 minutes for breakfast and supper. Express leaves daily soth ways. - MaYl Train makes close connection at Elkhart with trains going East and West, . ¢ C. F. HATCH, Gen’lSupt., Chicago. J. JOHNSON; Agent, Ligonier. ! ; o .M. DENNY, Attorney at Law,—Albion, Noble co., IndWill give careful and prompt attention to all husiness entrusted to his care. £ 3-6 ' LUTHER H. GREEN, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public. LIGOCNIER, - = - — INDIANA. Office on Cavin Strcet, over Sack Br¢’s. Grocery, opposite Hcl_mer House. “ 41-8-ly D. W. C. DENNY,

Physician and Surgeon,—Ligonier, Ird. Wfl‘g promptly and faithfully attend to all calls in thé line of his profession—day or night—in Jown or any distance in the countrg. lgcrsons wishing his ‘serviees at n(i]ght, will find him at his father’s residence, firat door east of Meagher & Chapman’s Hardware Store, where all calls, when abseut, should be left, 1-1 [ 43 B P.BEEBE, .+ | JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Couvqyandn% done. Notes collected promptly. Office, opposite the Illlellmer House, over Sack's i aker; ! LIGONIER, - - _y,_ ~ INDIANA. i }gly 26th, 1869.—1 y. ! : E. RICHMOND,. | Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer, Cavin street, Ligonier, Indiana. Sx{eclal attention given to conveyancing and collections. Deeds, Bonds aud Mortgages drawn up, and all legal business attended to promptly and accurately. ! May 26th, 1868, WM. L. ANDREWS, - Surgeon Dentist. .M‘itchcl’s-1 Block, Kendallville. All work warranted.” Examinations free. 2-47 = DR, E.W. KNEPPER, ; Eelectic Physician & Surgeon,—Ligonier. _ All diseases of the Lungs and Throat successaful.y treated g‘ly inhalation. - No -charges for consultation, Office with W, W. Skillen, esq. 1-8 }a. woonfirmv, |;, o G. 8, WOODRUFF. WOODRUFF & SON, ECLECTIC PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, LIGONIER, - - «'- » < INDIANA. Will attend promptly allcalls from town and country: Office in Dru;?v Store of Barnett & Co.— -Residence north side of Railroad. " 411

DR. P. W. CRUM, L. Physician and Surgeon, Ligonier, = » = . Imndiana. Office one door south of L. Low & Co’s Cléthing Store, up stairs. ~ May 12th, 1869. G‘,. W_CA;;: b M““W; 'D. RANDALL. CARR & RANDALL, @ ® o Physicians and Surgeons, LIGONIER, - - - - - - IND., Will promptly attend all calls intrusted to them. Office on 4th St,, one/door éast ef the NATIGNAL Bawxer office. 8-43 " SAMUEL E. ALVORD, Attorney at Law, Claim Agent, and Notary Public, Albion, Noble Co., Ind. Business in the Courts, Claims-of soldiers and heir heirs, Conveyancln%, &c., promptly and carefully ‘attended to. Acknowledgments, Depositions and Afildavits, taken and certified. EXCELSIOR LODGE, NO. 267, . O.of O. F., Meets at their Hall on every Saturday evening of each week. A. JACKSON, N. G. M. W.COE, V. G. * R.D, KERR, - Nov/ 25th, 1868.—<tf. . Secretary. ep———————————————k b e Y ee P HELMER HOUSE, A.J. MATTISON, Prop'r, . LIGONIER, - - - INDIANA.

This Heuse has been Refitted and Refurnished : in Wirst Class Style. e R s L S R S NEW FIRM AND NEW GOODS : — AT — ~ : WOLF LAKE, IND. Notice is hereby given that C, B. Wiley and Samuel Beall have entered into a co-partnership in the Merchandise business, and that they bave just unpacked a Inrge stock n§ Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, &¢. Call and see. for yourself, o WILEY & BEALL. Wolf Lake, Nov. 8, 1869.-27tf ’ 3. BITTIKOFFER, : ', DRALRR IN et WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEW'LRY,SILVER WARE,NOTIONS, Spectacles of every Description, : &c., &, &e., &e. AY kinds of work done u¥on the shortest notice and warranted as to durabi itfi - Shop in Bowen'’s. new Brick lock, Kendallville, - Indians. : 2-81 1 . GANTS & MILLER, Surgical and Mechanical Dentists, ; _ 'LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. ) : |4t il Are prepared e ! _to dognghmx o 4 Sy {w:&:’;fluz } . vhat can TIPS Lo SRR “‘fl who may Dew- their pstronsge. §@Offiec. nmy building, A NEW MOVEMENT ! e Vaadt aay el st 4 . ‘Bolomon in new Quarters! ,_‘.tn'_u,fig FEURL L ] R b g * P subseriber would respectfally announce i ~'..n,'; 1‘,“%‘“&3% R Targé stock o ?’“ }\fif“"'%fi (< AR e o | GROCERIES, &c., d is, now prepared to supply every, de man A i P blishmet h‘ SO i iit * ‘Refreshments at all liours, C e, SOL/ACKERMAN. Paoo ol an P

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SACK TBROT}ZHERS, Bakers & Grocers. Cavin Street, Ligonier, Indiana. Fresh Bread, Ples, Cakes, &e., Choice Groceries, Provisions, Yankee Notions, & The hi%hest cash price paid fer aountré P(:ofiue: May 13, '6B-tf. : | BACK BRO'S. KELILEY HOUSE, s Kendallville, Ind. This is a First-class House, situated on Main Street, in the central part of the 'City, making it very convenient for Agents, Runners, and all other transient men vmtElyhonr City,to do business iwithout goinfitar from the Honse, General Stage “office for the North and South. Stabling for fox%y horlses. Livery, deF%el’&‘:mi.Ei’ S . . B. LLd Proprietor. - G.'W. Greex, Clork. gl ek e eI B e STRAUS BROTHERS Would resf)ectfnlly announce to their cnstomers and the public in Eeneral that they continue to Eurchsse PRODUCE at the highest market gricea. aving no bulyer on the streets, farmers having groduce'for sale will please call at our office in the , Brick Clothing Store. Ligonier, April 29, 1869. —tf 4 leiss [F. W. STRATS. " JACOB STRAUS, Exchange and Brokets' Office, ; . LIGONIER, IND. | & Buy and sell Exchange on_ all principal ‘cities of the Jnited States, and sELL Exchan%e on all principal cities of Europe, at the very lowest rates. ’l‘gey'also sell passage tickets, at very lowest figures, to all grincipal seaports of Europe. 3-52tf N. B.—The present price of passage in steerage from New Yor?( to Hambur%. Plimouth. London anfil Cherbourg has been reduce ito only #3O in gold. . M . | 1 1 \

’ JOHN B. GOODSELL & CO., HATS, CAPS, STRAW HATS, CAPS, STk Bedaie ~AND it A A 9 .. . 1 1 Men’s Furnishing (Goods. 131 WATER STREET, i CLEVELAND, OHIO. . May 27,765.~1y. s ; ELKHART BOOK BINDERY, ; s at the office of the | ° ‘ { HERALD OF TRUTH,” ELKHART, - - = = =i = IND. We take pleasure to inform onr friends and the public in general, that we have established a Book Bindery, . In connection witn onr Printing Office, and are now prepared to do all kinds o&Blnding, such as Books, Pamphlets, Magazineg, Music, promptly and ) on reasonable terms. | ; apr. 29th, '6B.~tf. JOHN F. FUNK. e B ""'""""—""__’*"T—_""‘"‘“‘“"'"“_“—‘ GO AND SEE - : GOTSCH & BECKMAN’s —NEW— | JEWELR. STORE, . plaln Street, Kendallville, Ind. Tkey have just received the finest aksortment and . latest styles of ; JEWELRY, IS i ; ! § . SILVERWARE, | CLOCKS, ETC., Also the best American Watches. Only ¢ )me and see them. i 4t All fine work done and satisfaction guaranteed. Shop oHposite Miller’s new block. | | Kendallville, Ind., June 26th, 6T. B 3 | ; : ] S BAKERY AND RESTAURANT BY ] . B. HAYNES, Opposite the Post Office, Ligonier, Ind. My Bakery will be supplied atall times with freeh Biscuits, i Bread; Pies, o Cakes, [ Crackets, i &, &, Wedding parties, pic-nics and private parties will be furnished with anything in'the pastry line, on short notice. and in the very latest style, on reasonable terms. Oysters and ‘warm meals furnished at all honrs. Charges reasgnable. Farmers will find this a good place to satisfy the *‘inner man."” . Jan’y 6, '69.~tf

PHOTOGRAPHIC. H. R. CORNELL, Having purchased the PHOTOGRAPH ROOMS, Lately, occupied by J. F. C%lristman, respectfully announces to the public that he is prepared to take : ‘ 'Any one’s Phiz; Just as it is, | In elery size and style of the Photographic art, from miniatures in rings to large sizes for froming. 'i : Particular Attention Paid to copying old daguerrotypes and ambrotypes into cards or enlarging. Work warranted in“all cases satisfactory. Ligonier, Ind., May 3d,3866. : ib,ksit e G e i ~;,_.f._._..“_.._1..?_.:z?; FANNING MILLS! 3 - . The undersigned is now prepfired {o sell J. J. BRADNES’ Celebrated Patent : Separating Fanning Mill In the’ Counties of Allen, Nohle, Steuben, LaGrange, Whitley, Kosciugko, Elkhart and DeKalb. They have bheen manufactured by Mr. P. D. SmiNviLLe, — a workman of twenty-five fesr_e' .experience — from the best seasoned umber. ; : i . This Celebrated Mill is the' /

Having a separator attéched which divides the different kinds of grain, clover and grass seeds in a perfect manner; also & bagger, which fills the bags as fast as the grainis cleaned, thus saving the expense of at least/ two hands. ALSO: — A large assortment of Sieves, Screens, &c., kept constantly on hand. LEVI DILLER, Meriam, Noble dounty, Indiana: Orders may be addressed to P. D. SmiNnvILLE, Agent, Ligonier, Ind. i Aug. 11th, - HIGGINBOTHAM & SON, : ",Mp "/’ eSS | o i '\ : B s (i fi‘% by . 2 - e ‘& ) ) Q 2 Al '\ X [ ¢ : ‘» ..‘-:.,h“ iy & '3‘ / el sy ] £ RS - { s }: i “// 1 Bl ¢ SR P Watchmakers, Jewelers, frivit A ’“"’"’“""i"“fl ik % (ITRe .. Watches, Clocks, JEWELRY AND FANCY GOODS Repajring neatly snd prom ptly executed, snd PRSI SYRERL L L " gOLD PENS REPOINTED. - i w of the bestkinds kept constantlyon 5 St it o Gocsac g e L M T Jp.rn«bmmb vinfietiiigomie, %

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: » ¥or the Banner, . RETROSPECT. ‘ .BY MISS MANDA 'Lmnme.\y L ‘,‘g’ In the cold gray of the twilight b Ilove to sit and dream, = i Of the by-gones that have vanished, . . - Adown life’s shaded stream. Oh! the thoughts of faded treasures, Fil : 1 recall with tears of joy, | ! Although-among the golden blessings, | Of course, T 'often find alloy, | ] But reclining in the shadows, | * @ Of 'a cheerless Autumn eve, I deem it best to just remember . . The fairest colors fate can weave; : For the many disappointments, Transient were as April showers, And their influence rendered brighter,. . Aye, far sweeter, joyous hours. . : ‘ Be it then a dream of pleasure, That engages fancy now. - ! Let my heart throb to each measure, That faultless mem’ry may allow, ! . 1 see the mile-stones in the distance, | Where roses hang on cither side, | What does it matter that they’re withered, | And are falling in the tide. ' There are blossoms budding for us, ‘ ' In the future, dim, unscen, ‘ Yet, methinks I dare not fancy, . |That I see far up the stream; For the past so loved a memory, _ln iself a life completes, 4 i . With its gems along the wayside, The most fastidious fancy meets. - And, although the darker shadows, : Shade the pathway one by one, There arc landscapes in the vision, ! Ever open to the sun, e Yes, and when the shadows vanish, . And the storms luil on the tide, Sece the gkies of youth’s bright summer. Surely ‘tis the brightest side. | Then let the band in sadness sing . ' Of joys short-lived, and: few; ' : He did not glance adown the stream, As I am wont to do— ok For had he gazed npon the past, With a happy, thankful soul, | o . He would have blessed the| hoary king Who bids the ages glowly roll, ' The Suez Canal—lts History.

The New York -Herald furnishes the following review of the great undertaking which has been inaugurated in the presence of rulers and princes of nations which had no existence ‘when, 1,400 years. before the christian era, King Seti’s “navies” threw up the first spadeful of earth for the line marked out for the original Isthmus of Suez Canal. The period. thence till now includes a space of 3,000 years. ['he work doneis colossal in its character, but the leading incidents are few, and their reeital may be brief. 7 ' The idea of forming'a through wa‘ter communication across the Isthmus of Suez was familiar to the Egyptians under the Pharaohs, though with ends’ in view widely different from those with which’ the nineteenth’ century promoters of the undertaking have been animated. In those days the whole of the lakes which lie across the isthmus were flooded. Nothing required to be done save to dig trenches between each, and so connect them. King Seti I commenced the enterprise, and a thousand years later (326 B. C.) Nechas worked to death 120,000 men in renewingit. ' =

The Romans and the. Arabs, as they successively occupied the country, patched up and extended the canal; but in a more enlightened age, the Caliph Almansour, being at issue with his subjects in a province through which the canal passed, and being desirous of starving them into subjection, destroyed the route by which they were accustomed toreceive provisions. This . was in the eighth century, and. the idea of connecting the Red Sea with ' the Mediterranean slept for a thousand years, when it was reawakened in the mind of a man for whom such a work had a peculiar charm.I 1798 Napoleon Bonaparte the First, then serving the French republic as commander of the expedition to Egypt, proposed that a canal, capable of being navigated by sea-going ships, should be cut across the Isthmus of Suez; but he was met by the curious yet time-honored objection that the waters of the Red Sea were not on the same level as those of the Meéditerranean, and that the consequence of putting them into communication would be gomething :dreadful. ' Bonaparte scouted this idea as being contrary to the scientific laws which govern the globe; but he, nevertheless, directed the commission of savants which aecompanied the expedition- to survey the isthmus ' with the view of . ascertaining the levels of the two seas. . 'The result was astounding. ~Lissere, an engineer of high sianding, who conducted the survey, reported that one sea was higher than the other by several inches, and the idea of connecting them was thereugon abandoned. ‘The ‘statement of the French engineers, though at first accepted as being the result of special survey under competent direction, was so directly opposed to the teachings of science; that . presently it began to 'be hinted that there must be a mistake on one side or the other.and it was generally believed that it was more likely to have been committed by the surveyors. -In 1830, Lieutenant Waghorn ‘ —to,whose memory a monmment has been erected on' the banks of the canal — planning the ‘British ‘overland | route, re-surveyed the Isthmus of Suez, and settled the questionby demonstrating an almost perfect equality of level between the two seas, At this time ‘M, de Lesseps was serving his diplomatic apprenticeship in the French Consulate at Cairo, and the laying of the bugbear, which ‘had hitherto pre--vented engineers from 'serionsly ‘con: ‘sidering both' sides'of the project for ividing dho_contnents, suggested (o i mind the pewaugo‘f?mfisfi out the scheme, He. felt a ; powerful “call” to the work, but it was plaiuly more than might be undertaken by a man aged twenty-six years, and but just started inlife. '~ - ol T Nvide i e Ly sy moass shandon, the. Idea bes | cause ciroumstances happened to make it impracticable at the moment.. He ‘whither he was shortly after removed, ring the siege 1842, He kept ‘*’i‘ffiERRtRA T L e sgtsßlß o b s T eRt B

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suming to'difi‘efh- from hia (}G}ovemment -on the question of the French oecupation of that city, and by honestly avowing his sentiments, and sacrificing his position thereto. | =~ - - In 1854 the op rtu,nitxifor which he had long whites‘:‘:r;ige . . Mahomed Said, the Viceroy of Egypt, invited him to pay a vieit to Cairo, and one day, while crossing the desert from Alexandria to the Capital, M. de Lesseps opened out his scheme to his Highness. Mahomed was delighted with the idea, which he was shrewd enoughdto perceive was fraught with at advantages to Egypt, and pledggrie himself t:‘sfipport gthle) under&kingg' by every meaus in his power.. It was in the beginning of November that this conversation took place, and on the 30th day of the same month M. de Lessepk was in possession of a viceroyal firman, bestowing. upon him the exclusive right to construct a maratime canal across the Isthmus of Suez.

]1- M. Lesseps ‘had reached an age at | which most men began to think ofiest ' when he commenced the work for , which’he was born ; but if he bad on1y been twenty.five inatead of fifty he could not have set about doing it with more ardor. - At the outset difficulties were no sooner overcome than others arose. It was necessary to obtain the Sultan’s confirmation of the Viceroy’s firman, and the Sultan was not greatly disposed to further an enterprise which, whatever became of the original shareholders, could not fail to add to the importance of Egypt—a dependency “already too precocious to suit the jealous policy of the porte. The late Lord Palmerston, possibly foreseeing an ulterior French “annexation” of Egypt, canal and all, get his face against the project, and was supported by those of ‘the British journals, the writers of which in leading articles which M. de Lesseps carefully preserved in his desk and gleefully shows to his friends, styled the promoter of the scheme, the * High Priest of the Egyptian enterprise,” and other funny names. Scientific men demonstrated the impossibility of the undertaking, and even Stephenson lent the weight of -his then great authority to crush it; Bat the energy of M. de Lesseps triumphed over all, and in 1855, years after he had definitely taken the matter in his hands, the subscription list of the Compagnie Universelle de Suez was opened on all the stock exchanges of Europe. ‘Shares were taken up with encouraging alacrity, and on the 25th of April, 1859, possession was taken, in the name of the Suez Isthmus Canal company, of a narrow belt of sand on the northern coast of the Isthmus, washed on one side by the Mediteranean sea, and on the other side by the shallow waters of Lake Menzaleh. ]

. The first point which the engineers under the direction of M. de Lessops turned their attention to was the creation of a port for the shi.[;]s which were to bring from Europe the machinery and the principal supplies of food for the great army of workmen. There was no choice of site. The startingpoint of the canal was fixed, and there must be the port, notwithstanding the fact that the water at the time was so shallow that nothing larger than a barge could approach within half a. mile of the beach.

The only thing to be done was to run out séaward breakwaters; as described in the different maps, on either side of the space required for the harbor, and to deepen the enclosure. But before this could be done it would be necessary 'to land cargoes of provisions and of heavy machinery, and how were they to be discharged? Thus: An island was created at the limit to which the | ships might approach; immense cranes were erected thereon, and by their means the imports were traashipped int? lighters, which conveyed them to the beach. . The building of the breakwaters was then proceeded with, stones being supplied from the quarry of Gex, near Alexandria ; but this course was found to entail great cost and delay, and the men who had made the little island in the Mediteranean determined to make also the stone for the breakwater. They established a manufactory on the seashare, and by an ingenious process, moulded, of sand mixeg with lime, blocks of clay weigh-. ing twenty tons apiece. These being exposed for a due season to the sun and air, became as hard as granite, and of them are' built the breakwaters, which, stretching out into the sea—one a distance of a mile and a balf, and the other upward of a mile—make the harbor of gort Baid, o 7

While the breakwaters were being built-and the harbor deepened, and a town growing up 6n a narrow belt of sand, the construction of the canal itgelf was vigorously pushed on. The course from sea to sea being definitely marked out, the work was simultaneously commenced along the whole line, gangs of men being told off from stations fixed at equi-distances. 'Machinery of the most:ingenious: design: and upon the vastest scale was introduced, and, with an ynlimited supply of hardy workmen, the canal was growin apace, when, in 1862, events occurreg which threatened to put an end to the work altogether. . Three years earlier; when the head of the Turkish government saw the work actually commene: ed, and ‘perceived from the character of the men engaged in’ it. that it was very likely to be carried on to the end, he ordered the Viceroy to send away the Frenchmen, and it was only upon the intervention of the emperor that he withdrew the injunction. i ‘Now, again, in“a manner more: preefmgj.ory‘ ‘than' before, he interposed, forbad the Viceroy to permit ‘his fel;. lahs to labor upon the ¢anal, and de: clared all and void the firmen of 1696, which conceded to the company the lands necessary for the works, Before this mandate of his liege lord the Vieeroy of E%ym powerless, the fellahs ’Wéf_@;én \,"’fl,wh.jin&é tl;fi, Wfie came virtually to a standstill. At tempia wero mads lo sapply the place of e naiives by an imporaton of ~a£e&n' an navvies, but under the sun Iw;gc ‘beats npon;the sands of the Tith‘mus, none Mfl?fit}wx&s&@me cant do a fai day's digging and live, aud, un. i fhe saatsr at s Was seled, the

managers were fain to be content with holding the way already made. Again the emperor of the French came to the | rescue, and being appointed arbiter, he early in- 1864 effected un arrangel ment by which the works were resum‘ed under pretty nearly the same cir- ' cumstances;as those under which they were carried on previous to the Sultants interdict. }gere ends the record of the exceptional difficulties with which the promoters of the Suez Canal have had to deal, © The history of the last five years is simply a chronicle of daily progress, and is best summed up in the statement of the fact that the canal is now being used. i L e -B—- -] RADICAL REPUDIATION. ; - Hon. 8. 8. Cox, in a recent speech in New York, thus refers to the republican roorback “repudiation:” ’ - “Repudiation! It ill becomes the radicals to syllable the word. They huve repudiated every article of our bill of rights during the war.and every promise since made to the country. They promised pesce! Have we peace? They promised on their platform only to give negro suff rage to the rebel states! Now' they seek to make it universal, north and south, by the fiftcenth amendment. They promise, at least in California, to allow suffrage to ‘the Chinese, with" their pig tails and chop-sticks. Will they break them?® Is the key not already pitched? Repudiation! They promised amnesty in lieu of proscription! Yet, are not they endeavoring to repudiate these promises? The business relations,- the commerce, the good will of sections and races, are nothi ing before the barbarism of the Radical. The civilization of the age, the history of political amnesties of all ages—the last amnesty even of the ‘Emperor of the French—should shame these zealots of hate. Even theunthinking negro has ris en out of his debasement to denounce them. Repudiation! What a repudiation is theirs, when they. cast out from our brotherhood ten millions of white Americans, Yonder they stand, wearied with offers of amnesty, voiceless in the anxie: ties for peace—poor, proud, brave— oppressed because not yielding to be ruled by inferiors, or pillaged by strangers.— There they»stnng, anx ous to have capital, immigration and enterprise in their midst—to have the old order, with edu-. cation for their children and freedom for themselves; almost despairing, eertainly lethargic about free government; but there they stand, still waiting for that peace which was to icome under the radical administration. The Democracy do not desire their fourther abasement. As Victor Hugo said: ‘We want not the peace of the bent back and bowed head ;' we want not the peace of despotism under the sword of the negro. We are repudiators in one respect—we would repudiate radicalism and its hollow wards and hated practices in the name of peace. We would, through the clouds of passion, send our prayer upward for that peace which makes a-union as perfect as “The seamless robe our Savior wore,’ ”’

THE NUPIIALS OF MRS. LINCOLN. The . preparations for Mrs. Lincoln’s wedding are said to be well advanced, and it is also said thatthe ceremony will be solemnized early .in December, in view of which facts, the editor of the Huston Aigus thus moralizes : The ‘happy dog,’ as our readers have already been advived, is Count Schneidenbutzen, Grand Chamberlain to the Duke of Baden. Although this title is rather imposing, it does not, in the Count’s own home, imply either an impressive weight of dignity or a purse noticeably beavy. 'The Duke of Baden bas small cash to spare and none to bestow on Grand Chamberlains, who have little to do about his Court, .and who ‘come cheap’ 1n a land where every tourth dutchman is a Count or Baron, ylndeed, a moderate belly full of kraut and pumpernickel every Suunday, ‘is the only kind of ‘government pap’ that ever distends the shriveled skin of Schneidenbutzen, who.is an uncommonly sorry specimen of the Teutonic nobility. The poor fellow is said to be in ecstacies over his good fortune in securing an heiress for a wife, and to be especially joyous: in the pros., pect of falling into the vacapt shirts, socks, breeches and shoes of the ‘late lamented,’ a large number of which’ have not vet followed his coats and hats to the junk shop, A pair of the “martyr’s” trowsers is being cut down for Schneidenbutzen by Count Krotzenbatzen, the Grand Duke’s tailor, 8. being a ishort-legged little fel. low, while the late A. L., as everybody knows, strode the land on & natural pair of stilts, Sy i ;

It will be a funny sight, not, however, without some melancholy suggestiveness to behold poor Schneidenbutzen leading “Mary, relict of Abrabham Lincoln, deceased,” to the altar, clad in the veritable babiliments of his illustrious predecessor; his breeches. shining with autographic grease spots left by White House dinners of the past—his lttle feet shaking about locse in a pair of Illinois boots a mile tod big for them—and lus tiny hands encased in a pair of enormcus yellow kids; in which the fist of the martyr was said to bear a striking reseryblance fo a canvassed Cincinnati ham. Poor little 8! For our part we don’t begrudge him a stitch of the sacred wardrobe. He will have earned it all before he is done with Ma1y L., and as she, only reserved after her bereavement those garments which no. body would buy, her new husband will begin his matrimonial career by falling into uncommonly bad habits. - L

|’ The Bible in the Public Schools. The Bible discussion, which originated in Cincinnati, is spreading eastward,— The ‘New York Tribune discusses the propriety ' of ‘exeluding the’ reading: of it from the public schools, and Henry Ward Beecher, in his Thanksgiving discourse, said: Shn ~_He would be willing even, to exclude the reading of the Bible in our schools, if by that means any class of our people ‘would be better satisfied and moroc zealous in supporting the system. And certainly he, the son of a Puritan, and a Puritan himself,” could not be suspected of deprecating the importance of Bible read‘in%. . The Puritdns took their stand on religious toleration; let them stick to their ;gxt; vgnd;{i‘eveihagandziéthe,.‘p_rincile of perfect, free religious taleration, nor fifl,‘ef ,gt'efiébsgol wfigffl'fl:fi principle upon them. "What, says the Catholic, “Do you ‘th};;‘ it proper to encoiirage infidelity—to bring up childres withont ro ligious instruction?” 'Not at sll.” We domot teach’, husbandry it the comitmon schools, but it does not, ' therefore, follow hat e wish ko ke iy children, By ery thiing in it placs. Lt the Chirch o deic, b o oo ve intelligence. ~ Let religious instrucBl e tatight 1 the nouse Hld: 3u the ‘r&\;fidhy*aiz'fiool, in the Ofi‘*_',.':%:,} :'!&M"fi' By il “means, Jet our pepts dard and hera ths o shole O 1 ot iy, Tazes fo hifcaupport are thie wis.‘fifigfififlitfifi%fi ‘mv‘;nfikgigfi”;}%v e TR TR A R Ar et i Bl A EEELY "‘\{Ei’f'.:"t;ié

e e et & OUTCROPPINGS OF DESPOTISH. He has erccted a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms -of officers to ‘harrass our people, and eat ‘out beir sab BBnce. — Declaraicn o) Im@epondoe. - From the St. Paul, Minn., Piogeer., Operation of the Infamous Radi 1| Revenue Stamp and Tax Law— easy of Keefer, Enderlein and Minges. A few weeks ago, a German named Enderlein at St. Cloud, sold a of beer without cancelling the stamp by writing his name across it. He was arrested, tried and convicted of the offense in the Ufnibed States Court, and.fined $2OO and sentenced to three months’ imprisonment for this enormous offense. He was| in Ramsey county jail, and the turnkey, at his solicitation, took him from the jail and accompanied him to Grubert's Hotel, | where he expected to borrow the money ang pay the fine. For shis heinous act of mercy to a prisoner who had failed to cancel a stamp on & beer keg, the officers in charge of Ramsey county jail 6 were overhauled and denounced, but that is not the worst of it. Two other prisoners, named John Minges and Joseph Kecter had been arrested for a similar heinous offense, and bad been sentenced to three monthg' im: prisonwent and to.pay heavy fines in addition, and were confined i msey Co.. jail. Growing out of the row raised about Enderlein, the safety of these two prisoners in the Ramsey county jail was questioned,galthough no doubt of their safety existed. But to gratify somql:o?y's spite, or to prove somebody’s consistency, and to re-establish ' the dignity &f he court, - which had been betrayed inti A»ve y un comfortable ‘position, these , poor rgevils must also be made to suffer. They were accordingly, last Monday, dragged from their cells where they had ‘se!t'v out part -of the term of their im})riso‘m nt, taken into court, possession of thei ymons reclaimed by the United Stfiie Marshal, and they were then newly sentenced to three months' imprisonment and the! fine. Thus fifteen days each were 4dvv3ed to the term of imprisonment, which was already severe out of all proportion tl;) their offenges. -We do not comment o t]‘bese facts, we merely state them. e This is buta repetition of the doings farther east. Merchants whao bad once paid the Revenue Tax upon fine-cut chewing and smoking tobacco, wete, at the instance of Government spies; arrested and fined heavily by ‘the U| 8: Court at Cleveland, for merely ,:tging the same, not being aware of a change in the law, compelling them to pay tHe tax a sec: ondtime’ = ' by | WHO CAN RESIST? ‘ We find the following pathetic appeal to delinquent subscribers in a recent issue of the Elkhart Demodcratic Unipr. W hat | effect the article will have on the readers of that sheet, we do not know, but feel confident that the hearts of ur readers will be touched by its petusal, and prompt the last delinquent to “step .Ep to the captain’s office” with the requisite green-° backs. But hear . what Brolther Sweet says : : : e

~ “Delinquents will please notice that this week’s issue is No. 1 of the 3d Vol ume of the Union, published at Elkhart. “And now we want those owing us for one, two, three, and some fout,ny.ears and over, to pay up the 'little sums due on subscription. Don’t go on' through another year and have remorse, as ‘Neuknqw_ it has done, gnawing like a l,egcx; bed-bug ‘about your heart:strings beécause you have neglected ‘to pay the printer. Pay him at once, and gecto bed at night and sleep like a man, so that your future condition will not be unduly calorical.— -Pay him in.‘sunthin’—cats, dogs, ‘purps’ —if they've got their eyes open, and not of a peculiar gender. - For we don't care to have a surplus of tom cats to caterwaul, as we feel bad enough without.. Nor any of that species of ‘dorgs,’ which oceasion ally give promiscuous entertainments, for they are apt to lead to growli_n_%, and our subscribers and debtors are fully competent to do that whenever we ask for our pay. Bringon‘lawe ducks, broken-back: geese, that you can’t sell—frozen-footed-mumble-crop-combless chickens, that can not scratch—for printers have to scrateh and don't need any kelp. When poultry, ‘an’ sich,” become scase, put in the ‘runty pins;’ such as will be apt to reut as long a 8 they can stand np—-for with the print. er it is ‘root hog or die’—who cares ? “When all these valuable products are exhausted, pick up all the old cast'off boots; shoes, and ladies’: gaiters—they’re good to temper gun locks—hold on now ! we've lost the train of ideas we started out' on. One of our subscribers—heaven smile ‘upon his- manly, generous soul—comes upon’ us unawares, and wants to. know: how printers live. All we dare apswer, is—‘by faith and long suffering,’ He says he would like to pay for a year or two in advance, in besf and wood.

““Good:by . to “cats, dogs, ‘purps’—old shoes ; qudun’t take anything but what white folks eat, drink, wear, and pay their debts with—until we get hard np again. ' Then you can come in with that other ‘dicker.’ But comein now and pay us while we are in good humor, for there is no telling what may happen when we are ‘driven to the wall.’” . S 4 E————— < 'The Pablic Schools of Indiana, The Superintendent of Public Instfuction has received the returns of the School Examiners of all the countiés except %ass | The enumeration shows the total number of children between the ages of six and tweuty-one, years, .to be 610,784, an increase of of 19,124 over last year, .. | Townships, 989; increase, 1. B Incorporated towns, 125; increase, 17, - :(Cities, 4% increase, 5. '/ v aioan . Districts, 8,684 ; increase;4o. = = j ‘Districts in which schools were taught, 8,545 ; increase, 92. 5 ey 'Pfi‘pils‘a‘tteiiéing primary schools, 447, 416 increase, 21,671. '~ ! PR DL Pupils attending high. school, 12,500 ; increase, 1,5600. Paema b saraed o . Average length of schools in months of 20 days each, 4 months, 15 days ; increase, Bdays. H e S :Male teachersemployed, 6,730 ; increase, 268’ P . s isgenty donilindl s Female teachers employed, 4,274 ; increase, 38, L e ' Monthly compensation of male teachers in. primary : schools, $387.40; :in" high §9h9°'srs?qx69v e aniy oab agals osy .- Monthly compensation of female ‘each‘ers in primary schools, $38.40; in high eenxm;*m.‘xo:f ded f ‘1 353 - Amount expen or tuition; '51,686g 1o boen buitt ithin, tho yat, " Total number: of school-houses, 8,661 ; dncreneey 35840 1T altivag s , Valueofschool property, $6,677,268.38; mcreu? §IBAIRE - 0 . pec af sohool reventio’ dxpended within tho yesr, STOTETOTSI ; fnorense, 404, RURER es o } L e :nggg%mmmm?fi»mw Lb g AR s et . Yolumes in. library, 285,100 ; ini T St IR b The totl amoatit of sohool fana is now TR stiq et o S ’~'; tn e

No. 32

- MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. . - "The colored ladiesof Nashville, Tern., g_ntf; organized a co-operative sewing soRy . T , Ul, JUsepli HOOPET, THE eminent Knglish natmst, has received the Order of the Beth.) 157 e A giant powder explosion at San Francisco killed two jpen and injured eight Chinsmen, . ~ /"« 000 S . The treachery of a kitchen girl caused an elopement in Ft. Wayne to be nipped in the bed. = : £Wi ‘The Lord Mayor of London, baving. been a- 'firinte:, will, probably keep jup greatforms. = . Ce i Gen. G! P. Ihrie, United States Arfny, is elected delegate to Congress from Alaska Territory. = T 5 Cespedes has sent his wife's jewels gnd his own to be sold for -the benefit of he Cuban cduse; PRI b It is rumored that the Pope has ,aispatched a special messenger with a legter ! to Pere Hyacinthe: . =~ L

- The Erie suit will bring about similar suits against all roads in New Jersey, And that part of Rome will howl. - 15 . On Balt creek, in_Lawrence co., Ind,, there is a sycamore tree forty feet and seven inches in circumference. = |

Victoria will probably find opinioh in Ireland digided between the many who have ire and the'few who have land.§ ~ Henry Wheeler and Charley lale,two young men of Evansville, Indiana, are making Davenport brothers of thems ves.

Rev. W. H. Barbour, of the Bafigor ‘Theological Seminary, will delivers the funeral oration over Mr. »P,e'abody?.remainps. T b - Mr. Grant has appointed a privntéfi}overnor for Utah ; at least, we are told:that the appointment will not be made piiblic for some days. e RT g The Real Estate Savings Institute of Pittsburg, Pa., was robbed of $ll,OOO a month ago, but it was not found out until the 28th ult. ; g o ,

A scoundrel named Charles Jolinson mock-married a young girl ‘at BSt. Louis, and then relieved her. of all her money and a gold watch. b’ §

- Mrs. Matchett has presented the public library trustees of Brighton, Mass., with a S3OQ clock, and now they want maritel ornaments to match it, = '

The Crawfordsville (Ind.) Repiew announces ‘that Lizzie Boynton will be a candidate for Congress from that: district, in opposition to Lew. Wallace, .

Alexander : Chamberlain, of Seymonr, is the champion fool of this Statg, 'He held one end of an old gun barrel An the fire, and put his eye to the muzzld to see if it was loaded. *He saw, g ; Professor Shields, of Princeton, g preparing misery for students in theZshape of'a prolegomenated and ‘an‘notat'e‘s% edition of Bacon. To publish Baconiat all is rash; to edit is rasher. = o

Henry H. Dunn, of Albany, who was bitten by a dog in August last, taken with hydrophobia on Thqr:&'sy of week before last, and, after intensdsuffering, died on the following Saturdgy. - ~‘The Princess ot Wales, the ex-Queeh of Naples, Princess Margaret of Ttaly, and the Duchess of Parma, areall expecting to become mothers this month. The "Empress. of France had her mal de mere on the way to Suez. S !

2, It is natural enough that the opposite sexes'should come to terms on the neutral ground of Middlesex, and accordingly 321 applicatigns for diverce have come to:a single court-term in the county of that name in Massachusetts. sl 2

Down in Kentucky they have had “another great battle.” ~ The field was Somerset. One hundred and fifty shots were fired, killing three. - This was all the ammunition on hand, and when each ‘party had-got ready the citizens stopped the amusement. Kentucky in those 'parts; is 8 pice place to stay away from. i i They have a_wealthy man at Worthing: ton, Ind., who makes his living ffby pick ing up old seraps of iron, &c. ~Every time he buys a dozen eggs he examines each one by holding it up towards the sun’ to see if it is sound,. Rather than loap o cow: be goes four miles to tha country to beg milk. He is said to be worth thirty thousand dollars. S L Ya b R e

The Spanish troops are having a hard time of it at Cienfuegas. ' Twe 'y estates were lately burhed in that townand the insurgents seem to be having if all their own way, defying attack. -~ Thé Captain General has telegraphed to his fAmily not to visit Havana. Gen."Jordan,gie' American, has been made ‘chief of s aff to the commanding general, . MiEer An old man named Fisher, éf Patoka, nd, loaded his pistol and nAtified his wife that he was going into th# cellar to commit suicide. She kept ,og knitting when she 'heard the report: of Ehe pistol, and in about an hourthe old mak snéaked out, ragher inclined to believe that it did not make much difference tof his :wife whether he succeeded atipob oo 'Pwelve hundred negroes ‘at ' New .:Or: leans, in order to get pensions, kave sworn that they llellgedzf()}d Hickory to lick the red coats at New Orleans. -As only 200 negroes were with O. H. on that memorable occasion, and as the deaths of at least 500 of these haye sinee been published-in the New Orleans papers, we are afraid there is a lie out, somewhere. 5 __ The prolonged controversy between the Union and Central Pacific Railroad Com: ‘panies, as to" the point of junction, has ‘beén finally settled by the delection of Ogden, in the Balt Lake valldy, instead of Promontory, The Central pays to the Union,ss,qoo;dgo for the eighly miles of road bétiveen the two ‘places,fwhich the Union bailt, and for which'it feceives the Government subsidy, .« - Wi ln v ~President Cerpedes, of Cub# ‘writes to & friead that since the sth of July twelve thousand men have enlisted in'the Cuban army, that the army is confidint of success, and willing to submit!t hi\rdshigs. ‘They' meed 'arms and ammubiition. On 4he Bth-of Ncyember & small force of insurgents attacked and captured the. Fort Potecilllo, hiu shmmgdmim : Diztrigt.; Recently the Spaniards took one hundry and ‘W}it’;‘;‘t@figvfi %üb&ds inaswamp, and'killed thewi all. ia iy A correspondent of the Charleston (lou“riery thus siims up ‘ifi'é“"Gebrgsia. Btate Fair: | *“The bad m]gsfifm enterprise a:e,%« ‘fuin of tm%:tm,thmnd ollars’ worth: of human attire; = _youn, i ngfio, aly e b, Whild riilog o “the!‘tour “M:H m %:?fiéfign% gro boy; Killed by!the" kiclk of 4 horse: /nd. it is snid .that a very considerable FR S o BEBA OOHRNE . s e e SADAGVAR s b dionn toiig mll s

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- All of the Italian ‘ministers have re.sxgned_ s iR "fll'tm.h Afnm-aff’. o cvmn Do s ek ® ' _The bishop of Hayana has been arrest--ed at Cadiz. - : ’, - Eathquakes are reported in the Sand‘wich Islands, = P 3 ~ Prussia_is about to annex the Grand Duchy of Baden. : i - A treaty between Austria and Japan has been ratified. = ~ Mr. Burlingame is in Berlin, with the Chinese embassy. . - : The Suez canal is completed, and boats now pass through. - ° : . Wheat is being shipped from Minnesota to Liverpool, England. BaE e A bright light was recently observed on theslope of Manno Loa. 3 . The tides in Hilo Bay are reported to have acted singularly lately. ik Emi)eror Napoleon has decided to remain in Paris for the present. | ‘The Duke of Ediaburg is in Pekin, in the character of a private citizen. . ' The California Tmmigrant Union will soon appoint agents in.the principal cities in Europe. : L At the late Mecca pilgrimage, 110,000 pilgrims assembléd at Mount Ararat, an increase of 25,000 over 1868. - ' The insurgent generals in Cubd are being killed by their own: troops. ‘/ Col. Cespedes is reported. mortally wounded. Large meetings have been held recent” ly in Honolulu, which passed resofutions strongly condemning coolie immigration. The Maury Silver Mines, which have been. closed for years in the hands of the military authorities, are about to reOpen.' i i { oy In Paris, the supplement electionshave passed off quietly. Some cries of “Vive Rochefort” were raised, but eaused no dis- - turbance. [ Ha! |

The ship ‘Hawk,’ belonging to the telegraph service, will lay 4 telegraph cable from" Port Said to Suez on the bottom of the canal, { { 1 7

Another tin mine has been discovered a few miles north-east of San Befnardino. The oreis pronounced superior to the San Jacinto. = A

~_The Spanish government has determined to adopt rigorous measures h%finst certain bishops who left the country for Rome without passports, - Wm. Gamble, the superintendent of the American Presbyterian Mission. Press, bas'resigned, and, after a brief sojourn in Japan, will return"to America. =~

The Sultan of Turkey protests: agairist the act of the Viceroy of Egypt in proclaiming the neutrality of the Suez canal as a trespass upon his sovereignty.

.. Japan, from all accounts, may be considered in'a bad way. ' Mich spurious money is in circulation ; the paper mone,f is at a discount, and trade is dull and almost at a standstill,

- Violent earthquake shocks, with loss of life and wide-spread destruction of property, are reported-in the: Phillippine Islands. The shock was felt one hundred miles from the coast at sea.. : Ny

- Extensive 'preparations ‘were being made at Hong Kong for the reception of Prince Alfred. During the Duke’s visit in Shanghai business was suspended and a general holiday indulged in. = | - The- pope has ordered that a general exhibition of works of Christian art, embracing painting and sculpture, be opened on ‘the 'lst of February, 1870, and to last during the session of the Ecumenical couneil. SN i

The Anglo-American Telepraph Company of London have leased one of their two Atlantic cables to a German compaBy, with whom: negotiations to this end ‘have long been pending. The term of the lease is five years. & At last accounts the flood at Hangkow 3 was subsiding. Tens: of thousands ofii destitute Chinese were hovering around the scene of the flood, and imsome imstances the rice shops have been broken into by the almost famished people. . . By a decree recently published,:vessals . under the United States, English, French, ¢ Duteh, Danish,.and North German flags, seeking freight, are exempt from fonnage dues, and sub{'ect to the same charges as Spanish vessels, at the port of Manila.

Prince Humbert, who will succeed Victor Emanuel as king of Italy, is about 24 years.of age, married, of equable tempera: ment, but, owing to the influence of his early “associates and the example of his father, is by no means a nice young man. " An amusing in¢idént in the voyage of the empress of the French ‘is the fact that the Turks take all' her male’ escort’ for ‘Erench eunuchs. . Nothing can take the notions out of their heads, and therefore they look down ‘with contemptuous’ glances upon the officers of her escort, who are at a loss to understand this treatment:- . ‘The;Duke of Norfolk. is toreceive the garter. which ' belonged to the late Lord Derby. “His grace is quite young, having come:;of age not: many - years: since; but the objections. of his yonth and- his -Roman’ Catholicism ‘are overcome by the fact’ that, as carl marshal of England, he -i8 the highest nobleman not belonging to the royal family. ; Lol The. princess of Metternich asked Dje mil Pasha, the other day, "whether they were still eudu¢hs'in “the 's&‘afilio of the sultan ' “Mon Diew, madame; there are a few,” wag the somewhat . émbarrassed reply. “How singular,” continued the prin, cess ; “I knew there were formerly a good many, but I thought they weére incaps Skreproduction . o v eV . It-is mow absolutely -certain’that the great African. trayeler, Dr. .David Liv ingstone, is safe. The Duke of Ar, yle, November 22nd, received h‘tbfigfl‘.iil%bm' the Governor of Bonibiy, containing the information i&h&bz he (fi)& M&&orfm Just_ Teceived a Jetter fron fim— Jving: tone et daied T 3 My 15, 1808 Mr L. as'in good Health, and was évery. where well treated. 1« 3569 Ik ob | o 1 A demonstration’ it fevor of the'im!) prisoned Feninns has taken place in Lo ~aon, in which six thousand citizens ‘ticipated, and at the“n‘\éatifié‘h‘hi’of lfife mem glfimof Parliament condemned the English government for the prolonged’ Ffi%fi@el‘nggfi‘hi :fitéfifio‘@mg@ "OR, zmfi&gomw;jugfiam%%& |-that of other States in Enrope and: Amerien, and mm%@mw | pniybeMWfi}hß s | B Paris correspondent,of the London "qag . "3:5 Y UsLßte. Whitch : al’é: ,-;-v*";':?;i; o 2 L‘ nfi’h. :::I"__,'-“;? . :;A\i.?y_“:;“‘. ~~(t 93,:;» fgoge Tl SISO GBI By SRt 25@*‘**@*#?? wemm;f A 3;; |5 are Jor. tlange Wheq ithe -dealh of the TRL T T O