The National Banner, Volume 4, Number 33, Ligonier, Noble County, 15 December 1869 — Page 2

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“Bosistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God.’ —_—————————— J. B. QTOLL. EDITOR. . - WEDNESDAY, DEC. 15, 1869, e ——————— | TO OUR READERS, : Upon mature reflection, we have determined toadopt the cash in advance system with all our subscribers. No paper will be sent from this office after the first day of January next that is not prepaid. Bills will be made out against all who ‘are ‘in arrears, and if mot paid at the above stated time, their names will jbe erased from our list, and the amount collected according to law. We earnestly call upon all our readers to-aid us in inaugnrating the advance system—the only one'upon which a paper can be successfully published. ' i i iy f INSTRUCTING DELEGATES. In speaking of the Elkhart county democratic convention, held on the 4th inst., the Goshen Democrat says : “The convention was eager to instruct its delegates to give the unanimous support of this county to J. B. Stoll, for Auditor of Btate, but it was announced by those who knew, that it was not the desire of that gentleman that any such action should be taken.” '

" 'Wa have so frequently expressed our self ifi opposition to the practice of instructing delegates that its countenance at tiis time, when our ‘name is ‘before the public as a candidate, would at once be\gny a lack of sincerity which we cannot permit to be attached to us. We are well satisfied with the hearty support extended to us by the press and prominent Democrats in this part .of the State, and théir expressed determination to use all honorable means to secure our nomination by the Bth of January convention, leaves no doubt in our mind that instruction could not add one particle to their zeal, even if that were the only eonsideration with us. A short time ago we took occasion to address a letter to one of our warmest friends on this subject, taking decided grounds against a proposition to instruct for us, to which he replied in these words: “Your ‘““suggestions, in reference to instruction “are modest, and, in my judgment, politic “and correct. This matter of instructions “is well understood by sll persons, and is “too well recognized as the effect of wire- “ working. That you are the choice of ‘“ the Democracy of this part of the State ‘‘is not susceptible of a doubt, and the fact *is generally conceded by those who are “capable of judging popular sentiment.” A gentleman in the southern part of the: State, residing in a county that generously instrugcted for all who applied, speaks thus of the value of instruction : “ So far ‘aB county recommendations are concern- “ ed, I would not give a fig for them. Any“body can' persistently dog a few party “men, into giving him ‘a county recom- ‘“ mendation.” These are weighty reasons, but not all that can be cited against that practice. . i

v It is our judgment that delegates to the State convention should be free and untrammeled. 'We take it for granted that the wisest and best men of the party will be in attendance at Indianapolis. The convention is to be composed of oyer twelve hundred delegates, upon whose shoulders must rest the responsibility of the selection of the ticket. It is reasonable to suppose that these delegates will thoroughly canvass the merits of the candidates presented for public favor, instead of ¢clamoring for the nomination of this or that individual who may have been agreed upon for such-and such a position by small rings of interested’ politicians. Delegates who come to the convention instructed for certain.candidates are, of course, not in position te act in accordance with that suggestion, but are expected by those who hold the ban of instruction over their heads to meekly cast their votes for him who had the impudence to cause to be” engineered, through slimly-attended caucuses, a resolution of instruction. ‘Such delegades are not to be permitted to consult with men from other parts of the State with reference to the strength of less pretentious candidates—not to be allowed to cast their votes for one whom they must know to possess superior populm"ity. They are the tools of aspirants to office who ‘have but-one object in view—their selfaggrandizement. it 3 - We desire to state here that we do not “seek ‘a nomination under such circum- - stances. If the Democraey of Indiana, represented in convention by twelve hundred of her delegates, sea fit to place us upon the State ticket, the honor conferred will be duly appreciated. Those who know us fieed have no assurance that we / will faithfully contribute our share to‘wards securing the triumph of the whole ticket. We would not consider it an honor, however, to be placed upon the ticket by wire-pulling, and petty schemes for thwarting the honest will of fha- people ; ‘indeed, if we know ourself, 4 nomination sécured under such circumstances would - not be accepted by the writer. /

No man attending the State convention, even our nearest neighbor, need cast his vote for us unless he is fully satisfied of our fitness for a position on the ticket. If, upon examination, another individual is found ‘who possesses greater strength — who can contribute more to the success of the ticket—let that man be the nominee. We do not want to stand in his way for a moment, but should extend to him our most cordial support. . ~ If the Democracy of Indiana were in the majority by several ‘thousand votes, there might be some excuse for the effort now being made to saddle certain individuals upon the party. But in-as much as we arestill in the minority, and honest Democrats everywhere are desirous of pro¢uring the nomination of a ticket that will give assurance of success, we hold every effort to bind delegates to' certain aspitants a 8 being in direct antagonism to the welfare of the party. I we would rescte % na from the baneful influence of radicalism, the upk!:nnhﬁmofthe Democracy must be left free to select for the suffrage of their constituents a ticket, which o g o b larity, and which is formed, not by the v e e .}.,(‘ Dt gt | \.\“

~ The President says in his message : * The unsettled political condition of other countries less fortunate than our own sometimes induces their citizens to come I to thie United States for the sole purpose of becoming naturalized. Havingsecured this, thog return to their native country. and reside there without disclosing their change of allegiance;’ To which the St. Louis Republican replies: Thisisa very infelicitous manner of stating the case. The general terms in ‘which the President expresses his views on the matter of fraudulent naturalizations, or rather of naturalizations by which naturalized citizens seek to escape' the duties imposed upon them by the laws of this country and of that whose allegiance they assume to throw off, certainly can not be admitted. Not one among ten thousand immigrants becomes’ naturatized for the sole purpose of shaking off his duties towards either country. On the contrary, these: cases are rare exceptions and apply almost exclusively to the sons of wealthy people injlarge cities, who by becoming naturalized, citizens in_ America, hope to escape enrolinent in the armies ot the North Grerman’Confederacy, a thing which should be entirely indifferent to our own government. On the oth-: er hand, the proportion of foreigners in this country who refused to perform military service during the last war under the plea of foreign protection, notwithstanding they had previously declared their intention - to become citizens of the United States, is not conspicuously great when compared with the naturalized foreigners who actually fought for their newly adopted country, or with the native born Americans who preferred to stay at ‘home and talk of victories rather than help to fight for them. An immense majority of immigrants, at any rate, have become citizens in good faith, and we prefer to ascribe this imputation upon our foreign born ppopulation to a want of fa cility on the part of the President to express what he intended, rather than to a voluntary or premeditated slur, which the ‘above quotation might imply if taken in its literal meaning. ; Voorhees on the Issues of the Day. In the Tippeca?oe county Democratic Convention, held at Lafayette, on the 3d inst., Hon. D. W. Voorhens speke, as usual, eloquently and very plainly upon the questions of the day. He opposed the 15th Amendment, and justified the democratic membeérs of the Indiana Legislature in resigning. He doubted if the statements of the Treasury Department were true. He did not belive the public debt was being reduced. He also said: “The legal ‘tender act was an act of repudiation. Not one half of the value of the bonds now held, ever found its way into the United States Treasury. If the bondholders were too exacting they might not get anything.” This foreshadows what the tricky aud dishonest party, who now rule and who will ruin us, may expect from the able and fearless defender of the people’s rights, Dan. Voorhees, in” Con'gress. He propases. to preseiit the question of paying the debt of the nation in gold in rathera new light, and from the facts he will offer, and the logical deductions to be made thergfrom, he will startle the Radicals, that; they for a moment permitted their servants in Congress to’ advocate, in the interest of a class, such a monstrous outrage on the tax-paying community. Mr. Voorhees announces himself a candidate for the next term, showing his faith in the truth and success of what he advocates. - '

! An Outrage on Farmers. Of late years Washington has become famous for the mbany ridiculous decisions réndered by one and another, but one of the most absurd facts that have lately peen announced thei‘e, is the decision of Internal Revenue Commissioner Delano, that farmers who take their.crops to market and sell them at retail, are brokers, and must be made to pay a broker's tax of ten dollars. Such an extmbrdinary decision, coming at a time when farm produce, no matter how sold, are barely | paying the cost of raising it, will not exalt farmers’ estimate of the present tax laws, nor of the party that made them and that executes them. The- ruling bears particularly on small farmers and gardners, for they are the only ones who sell their produce by retail in the markets; and to charge every one of this class ten dollars for the privilege of selling his watermelons, potatoes and cabbages is a phase of liberty so strange and unique as to deserve the earnest attention | of all whom it may concern. - e o~ P : The Correct View. ~ Every Democrat who sincerely desires the success ot the party next fall, will give the following timely remark with reference to the selection of delegates to the State convention, his most cordial approbation. We copy the same from the Indianapolis Sentinel : ‘ ~ We hope most of them will come here ‘uninstructed, -and all of them without .prejudice, ready to surrender individual preferences for the success of the party xd the weltfnret‘htg the.coqptry.f S:iccke 8 “composed of the besb, e that i bo found in the state, and we have every confidence that the delegates, when they assemble in convention on the eighth of January, will caml; survey the feld, and nominate the best men, without regard to whether the gentlemen they desire to be nominated, have been announced as candidates or not. T

The Minnesota Election. The following is the official result of the late election in Minnesots : -Austin, A s i a 3 TDAD 0t’i5,(Dc(a11:)f})p.?.......... «+4425,366 Cobb, (Independent) ....... 1,751 Total vote.... ..........54,686 Austin’s p1ura1ity......... 2,155 . In 1868 the vote for President stood thus: ' s : AT A U T T “eymsur.. .00, L. 00 980800 Grant’s maj0rity..........15,888 It thus appears that in one year the Republican majority in Minnesota has fallen from 15,888 to 2,165. This is do: ing very well for thé Democracy under the circumstances, ° o et} B—— y il Secretary of State. ~The Goshen ' Democrat warmly urges the nomination of Hon, Samuel H, Buskirk, of Monroe County, for Secretary of Btate. . The Lafayette Dispatch publishes 8 communication, with favorable ‘com: Wﬂ,ﬁr‘ﬁ!m Wo,’r{ o 0 Boanists

A GROWL FROM THE EAST. - Thelndianapolis Mirror says New England hss just discovered that the income tax is mot sufficieatly. oppressive to the g o consequently, clawmorous for its rapa% Not satisfied with favoritism ‘shown New England and the Eastern ‘Btates by the tariff laws, Boston now de: mands the abrogation of the income tax, because, as a general thinq,; the heaviest incomes are those of castern men. The Boston Travelersays: . - The West, which is fast becoming more tyrannical and exacti‘n%f than the Sou‘th ever was, or ever thought of being, is understood to favor the continuance of the income tax, because it is largely paid by the Eastern and Middle States—as it wiil be paid by the Southern States as soon as the rehabilitation of Southern industry and enterprise shall be effected, which can notbe long in coming, seeing how rich are Southern fields, and how great is the demand for all the productions of those fields. The West grobably reasons that a rightly ' enforced five per cent. income tax would yield an enormous revenue, as it would, the tax never having been very harshly collected ; and possibly an hundred millions'a year might be derived from it, after the South’s “restoration” in every sense. » S The temptation to put such a burden: permanently on the old States mnst be very great, and were the West as powerful now in Congress as it will be four years hence, there would be no hope for the Atlantic country. Therefore it is that the income tax should be disposed of now, while the relative strength of the sections is such as to allow us to hope for an approach to fair action on the part of ‘ Congress. Four years from this time, the first Congress under the new apportionment of representation will meet, and in the popular branch of that body, the West will be strong enough to have its' own way; and then it will govern the country—and we have no faith in its justice, no belief in its mercy. 2 . We agree with the Mirror that the ap- ‘\ prehensions of the Z'raveler are not groundless, and that, in the future, the West will be less subservient to New England, and as she begins to feel her power, it is possible that she may retaliate in kind for the many grievous impositions to which she has been subjected. ¢ Kind of Candidates Wanted. We have received a note from a friend in the northern part of the State entering complaint that we, down South, were disposed to moenopolize the nominations at the Democratic State Convention. We must Xr‘étest against any partiality in this regard, and only say, once for all, that we want good men on the ticket. There are good Democrats in the northern part of the State, who would make most excellent officers, if nominated and elected, but toere are so many good men down here, where there arc so many very good Democrats, that we may have loverlooked our friends in the North, not intentionally, however. Let us have the names of all good Democrats, qualified, and who willaccept office, in the State, and then we hope that the Convention when it assembles will select the very choicest among the best, without regard to any other qualification than those of capacity, fidelity, and honesty. If this is done, we. cannot fail carrying the State for the whele ticket.—New Albany Ledger. ; If the delegates from the southern part of the State will-come to the convention imbued with a spiritalike to that containted in the concluding part of the above, that body cannot fail to nominate a ticket which will give satisfaction to all. As the North sends her delegates uninstructed, they will be found ready to act in accordance with the suggestion of our excellent contemporary. ! ; e eTR O G Grant—Sherman—Sheridan. Don Piatt, the inimitable correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, is one of those bold, honest thinkers who never ‘mince matters in giving his opinion of men and things. ::/He recently took occasion to speak of our “military heroes,” and pays three of these the following “compliment :” + s “As for Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, I fear that the impartial pen of military criticism, especially after the Confederate side is heard, these, our sbadowing laurels, will wither and fade and the verdict. be that these officers had the good luck to be in command when the Confederacy fell to . pieces from exhaustion. Of the three, General Sherman is certainly the most unfortunate. From the time he and Grant threw a portion of their army on ‘the wrong side of the river at Shiloh, and permitted it to be surprised. and butchered, (with the only excuse that I ever heard, that one officer was drunk and the other crazy), to the march: from Chattanooga to Atlanta, where he lost more men killed and wounded than his enemy had under him, we have a succes‘sion of military blunders.” = = . . It may be wellenough for a gound Radical to speak thus, but if a Democrat should hazard such an expression, our ‘loil’ friends would doubtless brand it as rank treason. _ i

WE BELIEVE that the only man who is “running” Col. Tucker and. Mr. Funk, is Stoll of the BANNER. He is terridly anxious for some candidate in this part of the State, to beat Capt. Fisher with, in Convention, but the tﬁing can't be did! - The above item appeared originally in the Kendallville Standard, and is, of course, reproduced by the Elkhart Review. We are neither “running” Col. Tucker nor Mr. Funk, and care not a snap of the finger whether Ede Fisher receives the nomination or not. The Columbia City Commercial and the Northern Indianian were decisive in expressing a preference for Mr. Funk, which fact was duly published in these columns as an'item of news, Col. Tucker’s name was mentioned by a prominent Republican of Goshen, in connection with the State Auditorship, and a brief notice thereof appeared in this paper. The little man of the Elkbart Review made 8 great fuss about it, and apparently has not yet recovered from the spasm. loty Y ; , i Action. : It will require all the power of the Democratic party next year to carry Indiana. bk ¢ : 1 * First, it will require union of all Democrats—second, some assistance from forter republicans. To get these, we want a live platform, live candidates and a forward movement. ,A live platform must deal with the present, ot of thepast. | Live candidates means men not spavin--ed or jaded by former races.— Monroeville

TaE Indianapolis Mirror, in speaking of the President’s Message, says: “We search it in vain for new ideas, or & new presentation of 6ld ones. ' Asa State paper it is unwoatly s place beside those of his prededessors. .~ As an essay it is only SOt s o o 'Go. to Canfield & Emery’s for cheap Bootsand Shoes. T

PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. T TUEsDAY, DEC! 7.—ln the Senate Mr. ‘Sumner introduced a bill to promote the Teturn of specie payments by issuing more ‘pational bank ' notes and retiring a like {mber of greenbacks, Mr. Trumbull intioduced a bill to relieve members of Congress from the importunities of officeseckers, by making it a misdemeanor, with fine, for membels to recommend persons to office. Mr. Spencer, of Alabama, offered a bill to qualify negro witnesses in all State Conrts; and Mr. Morton, of Indians, a joint resolution providing for the admission of Virginia. v In the House, Butler appeared as champion for his old friend and admirer, the ‘President, and introduced an act to repeal the Tenure-of-Office act. ' There were also bills to abolish tLe franking privilege, to establish & uniform system of naturaliza tion, to prevent membzrs of Congress from holding office under the President, and to prohibit the sale of coin on the part of the United States, and to provide for the redemption of United States legal-tender notes in coin at par, f W EDNESDAY, DEc. B.—ln the Senatd, s joint resolution was introduced, with the view of heading off the democratic legislature of New York, to declare null the action of any State rescinding the ratifi: cation of an amendment to the Constitution. A bill to remove the political disabilities of from 400 to 500 ex-Confeder ates was passed. Stewart, of Nevada, made a speech’ upon his bill to remove everybody’s ‘disabilities after thejratification of the fifteenth amendment, ;

In the House of Representatives, bills were introduced to fund the debt at a lower'rate of interest, and create a free national banking system ; to exempt from taxation the property of ex-soldiers and sailors to the same extent as that of bondholders ; and, to providé?n annual reduc tion of ten per cent. on import duties.— Noah Davis, of New York, brought forward a timely and welcome bill to abol. | ish the duties on coal, for which millions of poar housekeepers will rise up and call him blessed. Garfield, of Ohio, remarked that, after the disposal of the negro question, the next great fight of Congress and the country would be with the monster railroad corporations. - | THURSDAY, DEC. 9.—ln the Sebate, bills were introduced to fix the second Tuesday in October as the day of the Presidential election, and also of the Congressional elections in all the States; to Taise the salary of the Chief Justice of the United States to $12,600 per annum, and of the Associate Justices to $lO,OOO per annum; to repeal the charter of the Medical Society of the District of Columbia, because it black-balled a black applicant for membership. v ~ In the House of Representatives, bills were introduced to coerce the State of Georgia to adopt the fifteenth amendment; to take the entire duty off of tea, coffee, molasses, rice, salt, lumber, hides and pigiron; and to authorize the additional issue of forty four millions of dollars in greenbacks. A debate springing up upon the latter, it was withdrawn, John Fox, of New York, asked leave to bring in a resolution to create a special committee to inquire into the causes of the recent gold panic in New York, and whether the President, Secretary of the Treasury, or other government officials were interested therein. Several Radicals promptly objected. The House then’ went into Committee of the Whole upon the Census bill. { i - FriDaY, DEc. 10.— Only the House of Représentatiqes was in session. A large number of bills were presented, but none were of general public interest, except one offered by Mr. Coburn, of Indiana, to gell the coin in the Treasury. In ‘Executive session, while discussing the Census bill, Mr. Wilkinson, of Minnesota, moved an important amendment to the effect of imposing a fine of $5,000 on any corporation which shall refuse or neglect to give any information required by the act. In sustaining his amendment he declared it as his belief that the two States of Minnesota and lowa paid to railroad corporations for the tramsportation of produce $10,000,000 & year more than they ought to pay, and when the people came to know how they were victimized by railroad companies, it would awaken a degree of indignation which would require the government to take hold of those mammoth corporationsiand restrict their power to rob and plunder the people. - The amendment was-adopted. ~The House, before. _adjourning, resolved to have a session on Saturday. | B

SarTUrDAY, DEC. 11. — The principal portion of the day was occupied, by the House of Representatives, in discussing Mr. Ingersoll’s finance bill, and the census bill. The section of the Census Bill to give the census officers the franking privilege was discussed at great fength, and all the old debates on this question were discussed over. The House laid it aside for a future vote. Very little interest seemsto be felt in the measure, for as high as 60 members were absent during the day. . Moxpay, DEc. 13.—The principal feature of the action of the Senate for the day, was the introduction and consideration of Morton’s bill for the re-reconstruc-tion of Georgia, with amendments. The bill, as amended, provides for convening the old legislature on a certain day, to be named by the Governor. Its organization shall be effected by sumimoning all the personsielected to the general assembly of the State as appears by the proclamation of Gen. Meade, dated June 25th, 1868, and excluding all persons ineligible under the 14th Amendment. ' No'person shall be refused a seat in the Legisliture .on- account ot _race, color, and previous ‘condition of servitude. The President is authorized to employ, on ‘application of the Governor, the military and naval forces of the United States to enforce the provisions of this act. Finally, it is provided that the legislature of Georgia shall be regarded as provisional only until further action of Congress. Mr, Morton, by unanimous consent, snbmitted an amendment to his Georgia bill, making the admission: of the State conditional on the adoption of the 15th Amendment. )In the House of Representatives, the following bills were introduced and’ reabolish the franking privilege; to provide a wmﬁsm&"m and, to provide for ‘the constriction of the Niagara éhipcanal. ~ © ,

POLITICAL ITEMS, The legislatare of South Carolina has recognized the independence of Cuba.— This is a little cheeky. South Carolina should not make herself so fresh on short soguaintamee« . -0 g

The Roumaninan government has confiscated the possessions of the cloisters.— The Austrian government has aleo taken possession of the estates on the Bukowina which belonged to Maldvavian- cloisters A Radical journal boasts that no Democratic paper is printed in Utah. Of course not—only Radical sentiments are popular in such a community. A Democratic paper is not wanted there at present. 4 i :

The funded debt of Philadelphia, as per statement of Finance Committee of Gouncils, is $44,797,096 34. When the Democrats managed city afiairs it was only $19,000,000. This is a marvelous increase in less than eight years. .~ ‘The Washington specials to the Cin« cinnati Oommercial say that Senators Morton and Pratt, accompanied by the Indiana delegation in the House, called upon the President Wednesday. - What they were after has not transpired. Secretary Robison is so much of a lawyer that be occupies several pages of his Teport with an attempt to show how run down the navy was when Secretary Welles left it last March, and how much Messrs. Borie and Robison have done for it since they assumed charge of it. - Because a few murders take place in the Southern Btates, the editor of ‘the New York 7ribune thought that martial law should be established over them. A murder has just occurred in the Tribune office. Shouldn’t the military code lay its claws upon the concern? 558

The New York ZTribune says: “The significant fact that the Democratic party is still strong and hasa great hold upon the people stands out prominently in the result of the election.” Fora long time that paper has been declaring that the “Democratic party is dead.” A temperance party has been organized in New Hampshire. The resolutions of the convention denounce both Democrats and 'Republicans as being uader the control of ram. There must be some mistake about the former assertion. Next spring the party will enter the political field and run candidates for State officers.

‘Texas dates of the 12th inst. say that returns have been received from 13 additional counties. All the majorities for Hamilton aggregate 1,970, leaving Davis a majority as far as heard from of 7,107. Flanagan, radical, has been elected lieutenant governor by a large majority.— The legislature is largely radical. The union league of the United States, beld its' annual meeting at the republican headquarters in New York, and after the adoption of resolutions indorsing Grant’s administration; and the election of officers for the ensuing year, adjourned to meet in Washington, in February next. Gov. Geary, of Pennsylvania, was elected -president. B

It has been ascertained in Washington| that.Alcorn was elected Governor of Mis sissippi because he was a Confederate during the late war, and Dent was defeated because he was a-’earpet-bagger and broth-er-in-law of the President, and that the great Radical victory is no victory at all. Which'is distressing after General Ames’s effort to bayonet the State into the arms of Radiealism. - 4

© Sumner has a fresh grievance. A colored Sawbones made application for membership in the Medical Association of fhe District of Columbia, and was blackballed, whereupon the valiant knight-errant rushes into the Senate with a bill to re peal the charter of the Medical Association. Charles will never be satisfied until the last vestige of the “absurd prejudice” is eradicated. What a pity he has no daughter to offer up on the altar of .equal rights. AT A Bouth Carolina correspondent says of the Legislature of that State: “The Senate number 82, of whom 19 are white and 18 colored. Politically classified, there are 6 Democratsend 26 Radicals (not Republicans). In the House of Representatives there are 81 whites and 70 colored. Politically classified, they stand 14 Democrats and 107 Radicals—iu; all 121. In joint ballot there are 70 whites and 83 colored. Politically classified the united Houses show 20 Democrats and 133 Radicals. g 5

‘The government directors of the Pacific railroad declare that the great problem of fighting the snow will now present itself. -This is truly an important problem in connection with the great national ‘thoroughfare. If the road can be kept free for travel Quring the winter months, its success cannot be measured. But, if a snow blackade is to bar progress for any ‘length of time, the drawback will drive a considerable portion of the trade and travel in another direction, The Suez canal being now open, we must make gigantic efforts to compete with that channel for reaching Asia. | ,

. The' 'French official Yellow Book is /just ‘published. It givesa favorable ac. count of the condition of France, and states that her relations with foreign powers, and their relations with one another, ‘are still more amicable since the conference on the dispute between Greece and Turkey, held in Paris. The book makes an important declaration in regard to the Ecumenical council. 'This body, it says, is beyond the pale of political power ; so the emperor has resolved to use his incon testable right to intervene its- deliberation, and through' their representatives, ‘all the Catholic powers approve of this P I

A message from -the Presidént was transmitted ' to the Semate; on Monday last, enclosing the report of the secretary of the state, of the states that have ratified the Fifteenth constitutional amendment. The report enumerates the following states as those from which officials notice of such ratification had been re ceived up to December: Missouri, defective ; Kansas; defective; North Carolina, West Virginia, Massachussetts, Wisconsin, Maine, Louisiana, Michigan, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, ‘Arkansas, Con: necticut, Florida, Tilinois, Indiana, New York, New Hampshire, Nevada, Vermont, and Virginia. 2

e STATE ITEMS. L " A new papar has been started at Leavenworth. ; kL A Evansville man has been drank for seventeen years. P * Four hunters shot seven deer, in Allen county, in two days. Vincennes is going to sell two hand fire engines, and buy a steam machine, 8.. T. Montgomery issued the first num?e: of & new paper at Kokomo on the 7th nstant,

John Brickle, of near Tipton, had a 25 foot tape-worm removed from his body recently. . sled Hogs brovn‘%ht from $9.50 to $9.75 per hundred, at Indianapolis on Tuesday of last week. B el An artist at Crawfordsville makes ‘spirit photographs’ when ‘thé conditions’ are favorable. : - L Mrs. Whickear, of Attica, died from lock-jaw caused by a splinter under her finger nail. “ ~ The Evansville Courier put the entire message of the President into [less than four columns. L . _Hiram Tallboy, a blind man, was crushed beneath a cord of wood, the other day, in Boone county. ~ The Temperance folks of Tipton are urging the revival of the Temperance Society of that place. i A Fort Wayne wood-thief was recently shot in the back with a heavy charge of pepper and salt. ' J. W. Farley, an ex-editor, is selling spare-ribs and other garbage in Franklin. ‘To what base uses,’ etc. ot Jeremiah Greene, a Methodist minister af Vermillion county, is missing under suspicion of murder. : : A resident of Goshen who had a cow killed by the lightning train, last Summer, has failed to secure damages. ~ A young man named Wm. Derwent blew out his brains last Friday night, near Memphis, from pecuniary motives. ‘ The Crawfordsville Reviewr says the belle of Covington wears number eights and is passionately fond of bear meat. David Vanskile, a Bloomfield boy, was knocked in the head ‘and nearly killed while playing “shinny” a day or two since. i i i

A new born infant, wrapped in a news paper, and partially devoured by hogs, was recently found on the streets of Fort Wayne. L Billy Woody, of Lawrence county, has just failed in bhis one hundred and fortyfitth attempt to drink all the whisky in Bedford. : ; Z The negroes of Indianapalis will celebrate Emancipation Day, January [st, 1870, in an appropriate manner. Mr. James 8. Hinton will be the/orator of the day. . - : : k) F A whisky seller of Mitchell, by name of Morgan Kean, got drunk because a law suit “went agin him,” laid down on a railroad track, and was made sausage mest of. : - Henry Harter, a manufacturer of cutlery, near Richmond, brought seventeen men . whom ‘he employs E‘om Europe, where they had previously worked for him in the same business. ik The clothes of a young lady at Fort Wayne was set on fire by the oaxplosion of a lamp, on Tuesday evening of last week, and she was so terribly burned that death ensued the following day. ! - Robert Rowland, a blacksmith living in Jeffersonville, suicided Tuesday night of last week by cutting his throat from ear to ear. Cause, intoxication and spiritualism. He leaves a'wife and three epilgran. -y o Pt A young gentleman from the East married a Wells county lass on short acquaintance, and in three days had an ag?iition to his family—for all of which the editor of the Bluffton Banner vouches, but isnot responsible. i ik The Seymour Democrat tells & rough yarn on the Mayor of that loveliest village of the dplain, who attended a ball in Stuck-In, danced with a grass-widow, got drunk, fell in the ditch, and otherwise made an exhibition of himself. ~ Mr. Pryor, a business man of Logansport, has just been tried, found guilty, and senteuced to the penitentiary, on a _charge of obtaining endorsers of his paper under false ]l)retenqes as to his finan‘cial situation. It might be well for men soliciting favors in the way of endorsement to remembel; this case. W

The following dispatch recently passed thrcugh the telegraph office: “I lent you one year ago to-night, four dollars and eighty-seven cents. -If you have not had it- long enough, please keep them one year longer.”, To this delicate hint this answer was returned ; “Had forgotten it, and hoped you had. 'Let her run another. year."—Ft. Wayne Democrat. 5 The Elkhart Union says that Jeptha Farmer, a young man about 18 years of age, whose parents reside about a mile and a half north-east of that place, was thrown from awon jon which he was riding, on Thursday the 2nd inst., and striking his head on the frozen ground, was rendered insensible. =He continued in that condition until 8 o’clock Friday morning when he expired. :

The enumeration for school purposes shows that there are 8,400 children between the ages of 6 and 21 years in this city. According to the generally accept-. ed rule that school children constitute one-fourth of the population of a city, Fort Wayne contains' 33,600 souls. We scarcely believe our population to be so large as this rule indicates, yet we do'not think it will fall very far: below the figures given above.—Fort Wayne Democrat. Hon. Thomas Dowling will probably be the next Chairman of the Democratic State Central - Committee; and- under his' able management, with the people anx. ious to rescue the State from the rotten and perquisite fostering management of the Radical party, the Democracy will surely march to a glorious victory in Oc‘tober next.. Give us & bold, able, fearless and ' honest organizer ef our forces, and the Democratic army of 1870, like the 'old Guard of Napoleon, will be found in-vincible.—-l?'rankg:', Herald. i

The editor of the Bloomington Progress must have some very hard customers up that way from his manner-of talking out in meeting, Hear the “Coolie.” A. sure cure forAdly:pepsia;is to attempt the collection of bills for a newspaper establishment. ' If tha don’t Five & man an appetite, he might as well sell his ‘stomache ' for old tyl&e,;. or take to circuit preaching. -We have a number of accounts, forjob printing done several years ago, which we will take & malicious ‘pleasure in loaning to persons in need of violent exercise. . : g

Some four {ears: 4go 8 woman' came to this city for the purpose of gaining a divorce, engaged her attorney, and in order to claim a residence ‘left her trunk in their charge. These 'transactions ‘were finishéd in a few hours;’and she left for parts unknown and she has never retarn: ed,’ Consequentlyithe attorneys in ques-' tion, in order to obtain their fees, levied on the trunk—which, by the way, was a veriy)epbor one, '!‘m contents were found to bea worn ont calico dress, four brickbats, a picture frame, & two cent wood engmvin%:nd a stone jar. The lawyers are active in making a' just distnibution of %e ?dlg.?but»ihbmmg to bgsno ﬁxothof settling unless t !2 ' 18 split in two mmm%m i e e ad

Free-trade leagues are heing formed throughout the country. Most of the nickel used in making cents comes from Camden. N. J. " Galveston is-ap;l:lying'twenty thousand barrels of shells to its streets. .. The Virginia tobacco crop is about seven thousand hogsheads short ' this season. . : e - The returns from Texas - are still indefinite, though Hamilton continues to lead. ‘ i o Four hundred bishops have already arrived at Rome to attend . the Ecumenical council. 5 :

It is stated that Pere Hyacinthe has recieved a dispatch from Rome to come there immediately. - = The French Ministry have resigned.. Napoleon is now free to make terms witﬂoth'el “reconcilables’ of the opposSuon. - o A contract for one hundred thousand brick at eight dollars per thousand, has been made at Cli)Lumb'ua. Georgia. s Cotton-picking -in Carroll Parish; Louisiana, has been suspended for three weeks by 'countinuous stormy weather. (ORI S Palmetto leaves are a new article of export in South Carolina, Forty tons were recently sold in Liv'eripool, at two hundred and fifty-six dollars per ton. S ' ot The hog cholera ‘has broken out again at Cincinnati ‘among the slop fed swine. At one distillery at Comminsville 20 to 25, mostly stock" hogs, have died. i : i ~ Sheriff G. M. Steinberger was shot dead at New Iberia, near New Orleans, recently, by a negro. - The murderer was soon afterwards capturedand hung by the citizens. = .- - The bed of the,Ashley River in South Carolina is composed of fertilizing phosphat rock, 'an‘({) a-dredge has been invented to bring it up in quantities sufficient to make it valuable to commerce. SR G e The guardians of John T. Bigelow, a boy: who, was injured in the Carr’s Rock railroad disaster, have -obtained a verdict of sls,ooo'against the Erie Railroad in the Orange county Supreme Court. % i ~ The London Railway News predicts that in a few years an unbroken- journey by rail will be made from London to Pekin. The English Channel will be bridged or tunneled ; ferry -boats will teke whole trains across. - Seven million dollars of Northern capital is being invested in- Georgia this year. And yet the abolition papers North keep up the howl about: its being unsafe for a Northern man to show his face down there. Queer, isn’t it? ! i ' Ex-Deputy Blatchford of whom 8o ‘much has been said in connection with the drawback frauds, returned volun-: tarily to New York for the purpose of “showing up” the custom house ‘swindles, and interesting developments are-expapted. - o o o T ety The robbers of the bank at Gallatin, Missouri, and the murderers of Jobn W. Sheets, its Cashier, only obtained five dollars from the bank.— They have not yet been captured; though several parties are scouring the country for them. i . Both houses of the Georgia Legisture adopted resolutions expressive of sympathy for Cuba, requesting recognition of the Insurgents as belligerents by the United States, pledging-the last dollar and the last man to the Government in case of war.

The funeral services of Eckel, the whisky operator, who died at the Al-’ bany penitentiary, were celebrated in’ New York city on the 7th inst, Mrs. Cunningham and her daughter, with whom Eckel boarded at t%e time of the Burdell murder, being present. = From an abstract of the report ofthe - secretary of war, we learn that | the total expenses of the ‘Freedman’s Bureau has been $1,119,402,810.— There may be some mistake in thesefigures, if not, we think 'the country has paid dearly for its negro whist_le.,] Samuel Dryden, suspected of comlicity in the murder of a colored famiFy, mnear Kingsville, Missouri, six" weeks- since, ' was killed 'at his. lEarm,f ‘ three miles from Kingsville, Thursday night of last, by five men who rode up to him while feeding his hogs, and shot him, : : ( A large ball of fire was seen rolling along a hill, near Cuba, New Y;rk,’on | the night of the 18th ultimo, 'an% next morning . a farm on the hillside was “ found to be scratched as if a- fire had passed over it. The ground ap[‘leamd | convulsed, it is said, at the time of the phenomenon, the windows' ré.ttled, ! and those who did not sée the meteor" imagined it was an earth q’n:}keT, § sk

J. O. Btacy, late revenue detective at Nashville, Tennessee, was arrested, on Friday, at the instance of Supervisor Emory, charged with levying black mail on di'stli’ﬁzra.‘ Affidavits of distillers from different parts of the State show that he obtained large sums of money from them. Commissioner Campbell ' has required him to give bail bond for his appearance: at the next term of Court. den

. The New York’Herald priuts a leti ter from Edward W. Tulidge, one of the apostles of the Mormon reform, and one of the schism in the Mormon Church, on the cause of the pending tronbles among the Salt Lake Saints, He says that &e peogle have been re; duced to)atemg'oml. ondage by the power -of Brigham : Young, and thaf the spiritnality of Mormonism has died out of the &hmh.l The reformers propose to revive these - spiritual doc: trines by war agaim’t}jßriggifm Young’s policy, {ut not against himself. { . An exchang,e},ﬂv'kes an, account of the discovery of Lake Nipigon, probably the last of the chain of the “Great Lakes,” which find their outlet in the St. Lawrence, That a lake of the size of, or larger, than Lake E’é{ shonld have so lon}' existed withou discovery is an evidence that “there are more things in heaven and earth” thm;lmzfet “heen dreamt of.”. . The distance of the newly discovered lake from Lake B:gtbrio only thirty miles, and the connecting stream is réfﬁtﬁd navigable. Of how much valfie t will ‘ be to the world remaina. -to-fle sobn, v TKR

" 'While #b many of our opponents are speaking of the qualities and fitness for the office of friend Stoll, of the National Batner, and are pressing his superior ferits as -a candidate for State Audiitor, it would be a superfluity for usto puff him, or undertake to show wbAt 1s known and understood by all. -Jf he is put forward as a candidate - for that office, there is not a doubt in the world but that he will be elected by a triumphant majority. He stands a better chance than any other man in the State, a 8 the German element will go almost to & man for him. We hope the Convention will be wise enough to select his “corpulency,” as he well deserves the compliment.

~ In closing up an article on the merits ‘of the above gentleman, the La Grange Sandard, Republican, u{s_: “Mr. Stoll's career in this State bas been of a flattering nature; he has done a p.eat deal of hard work for his party, and did it well, and .we are not.disyosed to begrudge him any of the houors his party may feel dieposed to beistow upon him.”—Elkhart Democrate Union. ——

- J. 8..8t011, -of the Ligonier Banner, is proposed for Democratic ¢andidate for auditor of state. Mr. Stoll is the best timber that the party hasin Northera Indiana, and they can not do betier than to “trot him out.”’,” When he first started his paper in iigonier, a few years ago, we remember that g broad grin was visible .on the countenances of the “knowing ones.”— They evidently thought the man erazy. No Republican paper could live in the town ; how could a Democratic organ austain itself 7 But Stoll went to work?,»"and;kept hard at it. No man ever ran through'a moere severe - trial of abuse, curses and maledictions. In a year’d time the Banner was the most populat Democratic paper in the Fenth | Congressional | District, ‘and since then its circulation has reached higher than any other on the Air Line road. | A man who could do the like of thai is well calculated to make an energetic and ' popular candidate.— Waterloo City Air Line. .. .~ .-

- The Goshen Democrat’s announcement of our bulky friend Stoll, of the Ligonier Banner and Laporte Argus, as Democratic candidate for auditor of state, is recieved with general favor among the Democratic Jgoumals of the states He is a good public speaker, both 7in English and Geérman, and could thus aid his party very materially, Baying nothing of {is two papers ~—both weekly. If the present outﬁ»ok were as favorable for his election as it i 8 for his nomination he would undoubtedly be the next auditor of state.— South Bend Register. The Goshen Democrat urges the holding of the Democratic state convention on the Bth of January, in accordance with the old-time custom, and expresses a preference for John B. Stoll, Esq.; of Noble county, as a candidate for auditor of state. Mr Stoll is an dccomplished and talented gentleman, widely known and popular, a good! sgeakeri in both the German and Enghish languages, and would add great strength to the ticket.— Huntingtow Democrat, ‘ o

{" . The Cumback War. : 'P?very great man must have his organj The statesman called Christian has ‘an organ, called the Standard, published at Greensburg. The organ hasispoken in a column leader, which we publish in this number ot the Mirrory ‘The article was evidently writteny or at least inspired, by Major (why will he persist in writing himself Colonel§ - Cumback, and as such may be considered a manifesto of that small ‘but vindictive faction of the Republican party known as the Cumback wing, It is a declaration of war. Every man who contributed to “defeat the nicely-laid schemes by which Major Cumback wag 'expecfég'to lift himself into the United States Senate is to be pursued, Dbitterly and relentlessly.— Powerless for the gratification of Major Cumback’s ambition, they can only hope to- revenge themselves on the prominent Republicans who contributed to his humiliation and defeatlast winter. The article from the Standa;d is directed at Judge Frazer, who " ig spoken of as a ‘candidate for renomination. to the Supreme Bench ; but it ‘equally involves every Republichn who assisted in breaking the conBpiracy to disgrace the State of Indiaha by sending a weak, incompetent man to succeed Thomas A. Hendricks in.the Senate of the United States.— The ‘Standard aceuses Judge Frazer: of the unpardonable : crime of; disregarding the mandates of King Caucus, and it threatens, on the part of the ‘Cumback faction, to' pursue the same course if Judge Frazer is re-nominated.. “Don’t rub this thing in,” is the diabolical language in which this threat is couclied. The Standard -even intimates that Major Cumback and his friends will have their revenge, if it costs-the success of the entire ticket.-

( . Now, as an independent journal,” ‘we are not alarmed by this threat of Major Cumback’s even if it were car‘ried out to its fullest extent. But we take the liberty of giving Major Cumback some wholesome advice. -If he has any ambition to figure in paublic life, after the expiration of his term as Lieuienant-Governor—if _he still cherishes that dream “about the United .Stated Senate—we can tell him he is playing his cards very badly. He'is too weak to “bull”® his way into the ‘Senate or to punish his enemies in the ‘party. .He had better study Machia-. vel and Joe Bgfptock, and learn to be ely—devilish'sly. Bat if he'is satisfied that his political goose is ‘hopelessly.cooked, E; him gratify his malice by . doing all the:harm he can, .Revenge is sweet, even to a christian statesman. —lndianapolis - Mirror. ... ..~

The Erie county; Ohio, Treasury offico, ‘at Baudusky, was entered by burglars on Monday morning about 2 o’clock, the ‘sate blown open with ni. tro-glycerine, and the .contents abstracted, The :loss of ' 'money has not yet been ascertained. The safe is a v;perfeltatl wrecl;, ;.lnd _the - court’ house building is badly damaged — The thieves were prob'a{ly'_ alarmed at the force of ‘,the»ex{ﬂosiqn, as they left moat_of their tools and considerable money scattered on the floor. - Professor Newsberry, of Columbia College, has dqhkvemda.,le}%g before tions made by him in Utah and Arizo8. -He said that Wﬁ |