The National Banner, Volume 4, Number 35, Ligonier, Noble County, 29 December 1869 — Page 1

THENATIONAL BANNER, | T 8 I 3 A sl ' , ge *, Published Weekly by - ! JOMN B, STOLL, uf.IGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY, IND. | Ti G Sil G W B i 4 i . % TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : i Sprietly fn advamee....c.........pveeeie. . 8200 | If ot paid withinthree m0nth5,..,.......... 2.25 | If not paid withinsix m0nth5,........ccv... 3.50 At theend ofthe Year,.... i . ceceeseansssss. 8.00 ! s Any person sending a club of 20, accompaq‘nied with”the cash, will be egﬂtledtoncopy of the paper, for one year, iree of char e. NATIONAL BANNER | Newspaper, Book and Job |

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POWER PRESS “PRINTING OFFICE. - We wonld respectfally inform the Merchants .- and Bpsinéss men gonenlli that we are now I+ .. prepared to do allkinds of : PLAIN & FANCY PRINTING, " nas good style and ataslow rates asany publishing house in Northern Indiana, Michigan -Sonth. &N. Ind’a R. R. On and after April 25, 1869, trains will leave Sta~ tions as follows: ! e . GOING EAST: = _ ! : E'?rm. : Mail T'rain. Chicag0........c.0uv....5:08P. M.......8:00 A. M. "ElKhart it oivi .o DB 90 01 UL 1000 B, . GoghelLiy, . oiidicivds 9B % .. ..0..19:35p. M, Millersburg. .......(d0n'tgt0p)......;... 1:11 ¢ Ligonler: it viCu 20318 % 00,1900 ¢ Wawaka............(d0n"t 8top) .......-1 10 2. M. Byimfield ... . i vaivms Mosisxeis e @2BO 4y Kendallviller =055 VllO 28% ¥, 70, 0 VLo ¢ . Arrive at T01ed0......,2:80 A M ........5:056 ** 3 GOING WEST: i © Express: Mail Irain; Tole@o ... Jovaiviipi. < 1830000 58, .7 . 19300 Pl W Kenda11vi11e.....i.....8 45 A. M. ........4:45P. M, Brimfaldivii vovivsioearohsoo 198 Ly o 208 4 . WaWRKR, .y ¢ omesispiss R | Liﬁonler... siiß WL Ls 24 Mi11er5burg,........... wshasnrataDo. 4 Goshlettl: 3%, i i SRt L G bAT T B RT T L R T (g = 'Arrive at. Chicago.... 9:28 * ... ......8:85 * *Stop 20 mlnng\n for breakfast and supper. Ex?rem leaves daily osoth ways. - Mail Train makes close connection at Elkhart with trains going East and West. Lan C. F. HATCH, Gen’l Supt., ChicagoJ: JOHNSON, 4gent, Ligonier. i

_ .M., DENNY, ; Attorney at Law,—Alion, Nobleco., Ind . Will give carefal and prompt attention to al bnsiness entrusted to his care. 3-8 LUTHER H.;GREEN, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public. - LIGOCNIER, - - - - INDIANA. Office on Cavin Strcet, over Sack Bro’s. Gro- , - cery, opposite Hclmer House. 41-8-ly ] D. W. C. DENNY, Physician .and Surgeon,—Ligonier, Ind. Will promptly and faithfully attend to all calls in the line of his profession—day or n%hz—in town or any distance in the country. Pecrsons wishing his serviees at n}fbt, will ﬁnhim at his father’s residence, first door east. of Meagher & Ch?man'a Hardware Store, where all’ calls, when abseut, should be left. . Y JUSTICE AOF THE PEACE, Conveymclnf done. ~ Notes collected promptly. Office, opposite 'the llsloj:mer House, over Sack’s < ' Bake \ LIGONIER, - - - % _ INDIANA. May 26th, 1869.—1 y. : : E. BICﬂMONn, : ‘ Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer, - Cavin street, Ligonier, Indiana. \ 'fsxieclal attention given toconveyanclng and collections. _Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages drawn up, and all legal business attended to omptlgagnd accurately. §5O & m;rﬂt_h,l X

WM. L. ANDREWS, ~ Surgeon Dentist. Mitchel’s Block, Kendallville. All work warranted. Examinations free. 2-47 egte s, e QR; E. W, KNE;,I"PEB, : Eelectic Physician: & Surgeon,—Ligonier. All digeases of the Lungs and Throat successful- ¢ .y treated g{inhalamon. No charges for consul- | tation. Office with W. W. Skillen, esq. 1-8 '~ 0. WOODRUFT, i ' @, 8, WOODRUFF. , WOODRUFFE & SON, ECLECTIC PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS, LIGONIER, ‘- & « - « = INDIANA. Will attend promptly allealls from town and country. Office in Drng Store of Barnett & Co,— Residence north side of Railroad. 4-11 DR. P. W. CRUM, 98 Physician and - Surgeon, ! Ligonier, = = « , Indiana., ‘ Office one door south of L. Low & Co’s Clothing Store, up stairs. 5 May 12th, 1869. el e U e LB B L G. W. CARR, W.D.RaANDALL. ’ GARR& RANDALL, Physicians and Surgeons, . LIGONIER, --- == = - IND, ° Will promptly attend all calls intrusted to them. Office on 4th S{.,A one door éaet ef the NaTIONAL Raivwwen offlees - § 3 348

. SAMUEL E. ALVORD, Attorney at Law, Claim -Agent, and Notary Public, Albion, Noble Co., Ind. hBim)::;: ien theCo:rte, (g:fms of s‘clbldlel‘-is and elr ONve, 3 i fully ‘attended toy.. %ﬂwfq%%ti“%egmt tions and Afidavits, taken and certified. e e et et A A NEW FIRM AND NEW GOODS } s AT : . WOLF g.A.KB, IND. Notic‘egl‘qxheraby ven that O, B, Wiley and Samuel Beall have entered into.a co-partnership nihe Merchandise business, and that they have just unpacked a Inrge stock of Dry Goods, Boots end Shoes, &o. Call and sexp for, younrieif. i 8 WILEY & BEALL. . Wolf:Lake, Nov. 8, 1869.:27f SPECIAL NOTICE! All those indebted to' Jacobs & Keller, either by note orbook account; sre'herewith earnestly requested to - - ? Call at once and »ffect Settlement, As those neglecting to comply with this, will find onr, ? ms against ghem in the hands of an attorney for collection, after the Ist of January, 1870, ; JACOBS & ’;{ELLER. Kendallyille, Deg, 8,1850.14 J. BITTIKOFFER, Sl DRALRRIN. o y WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWLRY, SILVER WARE, NOTIONS, Spectacles of every Description, £al &c., &e. &e., &c. ] * All Kinds of'work done upon the shortest notice and nted as to durﬂd o&i t{, o iy Bhop #n'Bowen’s new Bri lock, Kendallville, Indiang, LN AT VIR gY & { . -l -l - & ‘- - '. .' | GANTS & MILLER, A SSNE Revtswisat Bondisty :, GONI v, ANDIANA. (... B fate Baane il anins asoed 7 WUE MBS pritesful pracs AR S o oof over 10 _—— { Ju 41'.’e "JS g f Y A on Rmk b, GRT WY .(e cirtre it stow t! satronage, I : Covia Bl 9ﬂ°° w 35 flding, . . ". e e : i L bv,' A NEW, MOVEMENZY Si i s ogl oA Tas sibscrilide wobld Féspecifally fanounsce. that "a;fi:'.»,w;z,gﬁa % 's!(".‘:#:{“ 1 ;"’ﬁ"{“‘*&m{ ) ”)‘ 4 / erlly_ocoupied,by-S. Mier & Co., purchssed o m" ock ‘ ik w o vﬂlﬁ&hé‘:ﬁg«;*pé&hh i . GROCERIES, &c,, N gl TA B e A ~ tablishmentin SoWm.: «ido« laninany Ll

Vol. 4.

SACK BROTHERS, Bakers & Grocers. Cavin Street, Ligonler, Indiana. -~ - . Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes, &c., Choice Groceries, Provisions, Yankee Notions, &c The hlqhutcuh price paid fer Counu} Produce May 13, '6B-tf. - : SACK BRO’S. KELLEY HOUSE, : Kendallville, Ind. This is a First-class ‘House, situated on Main Street, in the central part of the City, making it very convenient for .%Fents, Runners, and all other transient men visi nﬁlonr City, to do business without goin&fnr from the House. General Stage office for the North and South, Stabling for forty horses. , Livery, and Free 'Bus. J. B. KELLEY, Proprietor, G. W} Geeexn, Clork. . ; : PRODUCE BROKERS. STRAUS BROTHERS Would ruFectﬂ,lly announce to their customers and the public in general that they continue to &nrchaee PRODUC% at the highest market grlces. aving no bntyer n the streets, farmers having .grodnm for sale will please call at our office in the rick Clothing Store. ; Ligonier, April 29,1869, —tf

F. W. STRAUS. > JACOB STR»AUS. Exchange and Brokers’' Office, 4 LiGONIER, IND. : B‘t‘%?_nnd gell Exchange on &ll principal cities of the United Stdtes, and seLL Exclmn%e on all prin%ﬁﬂ cities of Europe, at the very lowest rates. ey also sell passage tickets, at very lowest figure?, to all Erincipal geaports of Europe. 4 @3B-52tf N. B.—The ;ireaenl. price of passage in st¢erage from New York to ’Hambnrg, Plymouth, London ».nﬁl Cherbourg has been reducéd to only §2O in gold. -

JOHN B. GOODSELL & CO., HATS, CAPS, STRAW / AND Men’s Furnishing Goods. 131 WATER STREET, CLEVELAND, OHIO. May 27,768.~1y.

ELKHART BOOK BINDERY, fial at the office of the HERALD OF TRUTH,” URERHABRY, o e mg o o JIND. We take pleasure to inform our friends and the public in general, that we have established a Book Bindery, In connection wita our Yrinting Office, and are - now prepared to do all kinds of Binding, . guch as Books, Pamphlets, Magazines, Music, promptly and on reasonable terms. : apr. 20th, *68,-1. JOHN F. FUNE.

.2 GO ANDBEE . ' GOTSCH& BECKMAN’s : —NEW—JEWELR . BTORE, Main Street, Kendallville, Ind. Tkey have just received th? finest assortment and latest styles of | JEWELRY, | : ! SILVYERWARE, 3 ) CLOCKS, ETC., Algo the best American Watches. Only ¢)me and see them. ; gll fine work done and satisfaction guaranteed. hop orpoelte Miller’s new block. Kendallville, Ind., June 26th, 67. tf.

BAKERY AND RESTAURANT BY B. HAYNES, Opposite the Post Office, Ligonier, Ind. My Bakery will be supplied atall times with fresh Biscuits, | Bread, Pies, Cakes, : . Crackers, . &e.y &, Wed rties, pic-ni nd private parti will bo futnizhed with anything in the pastry line, on short notice, and in the very latest style, on reasonable terms. 'Oystere and warm meals furnished at all hours. Charges reasonable. Farmers will find this a good place to satisf’y the “inner mah.” ; Jan’y 6, "69.-tf PHOTOGRAPHIC. H. R. CORNELL, Having purchased the PHOTOGRAPH ROOXMS, Lately occupied by J. F. Christman, 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.

Particular Attention Paid to copying old daguerrotypes and ambrotypes into cards or enlargin%. _ * Work warranted in all cases satisfactory. Ligonier, Ind:, May Bd, 3866. FANNING MILLS! ‘ ; . The \;ndersi’gned is now prepared to sell J. - J. BRADNES” Celebrated Patent . Separating Fanning Milt In the Counties of Allen, Noble, Steuben, La Grange, Whitley, Kosciusko, Elkhart and De‘Kalb. They have been manufactured by Mr. P. D. BEINVILLE, — & workman of twenty-five {ears"‘ experience — from the hest seasoned umber. This Celebrated Mill is the | Best Separator in the World ! Having a separator attached which divides the different kinds of grain, clover and grass seeds in a perfect manner; also'a bagger, which fills the bags as fast as the grain is cleaned, thus saving the expense of at least two hands.. | 2 AESO: — A large assortment .of Bieves, Screens, &c., kept constantly on hand, - : il LEVI DILLER, s Meriam, Noble county, Indiana. ' Orders may be addressed to P..D. SminviLLe, Agent, Ligonier, Ind. Aug 11th, " HIGGINBOTHAM & SON,

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: SEUARL For the Banner. AMONG THE DEAD. _ BY 6. W, KLING. ~ Amiong the dead! all silent still!— The sun has sunk beneath the hill Tpon his saffron bed.— No soand I hear, no gleeper’s breath, i In this domain of reaper, Death; |~ This city of the dead. Lol dnr i T move with slow and measured tread Among thte mansions of the dead,: . A . The scene is lone and drear; “The graves o'ergrown with thorns, look 0ld; ' The piercing wind la-chnf‘md cola; v And T:alone am here. ‘ ' The tolling bell I seem to hear, /' 'The funeral wail, the creeking bier; ‘ . ' And *“dust to dust returns.” ; . The death-groans of the sleeping dead, - Whose spirits many years have fled : To the *“mysterious bourne,” . i Here sleep the good, the fair, the brave; And here I see *“the drunkard’s grave.” » “There’s one event to all.”: ¢ I find not, as I look again, : The strange partialities of men; Death heeds them notat all. R ! The reverend head in dust mustlie, Death’s film o’erspread the beaming eye, ; The ruby lips decay; ) 2 - But soon & mightier power shall : Bay, ‘“Death cease your carnival; : This is your dying day.” & Then will the grave resign its trust, : And life re-animate the dust ; ; Of thy pale tenants, Death ! . _ Then, though the frame cannot endure, . " Oh! let us keep the jewel pure, _ For life is not a breath, i “Nor life’s affections transient fire, - /Whose sparks fly upward and expire.” MAN AND THE MONKEY. Since the publication of Darwin’s views on the gradual developement of new gpecies in the animal and vegetable world, by slow and long-continued changes in species preceeding them, and in consequence of the discussions to. which these views have given rise, great interest has been felt among scientific men in the qnestion how far any indications can be found, in any part of the world, of the existence of links of connection between man and the lower animals. Thus far the general conclusion among naturalists seem to be that no such links and no such indications of the existence of any can be found, : : ;

The nearest approach of the human to thé animal organization—using the term animal in the restricted sense in which it is sometimes employed as antithetic to human—seems to be in the Andaman Islands, for here the race of men is of the lowest and most degraded type; while, on the other hand, there are some species of ape or monkey occupying the islands with him that simulate more perfectly, perhaps, than any other brute the functions of human intelligence. Thus in the lowest menand the highest monkeys come into close juxtaposition. - The superiority of the Andaman monkey is shown strikingly in a recent specimen which has attracted some attention even among men of science.— The case referred to is that of an Andaman monkey which, or who—for it is rather difficult to decide which relative ought to be used—was received not long since at the Zoological Gardens in London. The monkey is a female, and her pame is Jenny. Jenny’s history is somewhat romantic. She was procured at a port at the Andaman Islands by the sailors of the British ship Vigilantin 1864. She remained on board the Vigilant for -four years, while that ship was cruising in the Eastern seas and engaged in co-operating with the Abyssinian army in the famous campaign for rescuing the English prisoners from King Theodore. The sailors made a great pet of her, and took quite an interest in her education. They taught her to smoke a pipe, to draw the cork from a soda bottle, &fter first carefully untwisting the wire, and then to drink the contents, holding the bottle by the neck with both hands, and lifting up the bottom of it with her foot to make the contents run into her mouth. The education she thus received was no sham, but was genuine, for Jenny would really drink the soda-water and really smoke the pipe, and not merely make believe. She was intrusted with the charge of a chicken which the sailors had on board for one of their pets. Jenny took good eare of this chicken in her cage at night, and often carried it about in her‘arms during the day. - 'T'he sailors, moreover, not properly 1 appreciating, it seems, the importance of strict temperance principles for mon-:‘ keys, taught Jenny to drink grog, of which she became ini‘moderatejlg- fond. At length when in due time the ship returned to England, and the company separated in_dne form of having well and faithfully served ber Majesty during the war, and also, decorated her with a silver chain and medal as a badge of her ' distinguished merit, and then consigned her to an honorable retirement in the Zoological Gardens of London, where as the account from which we gather these facts states, she is waiting quietly for her share of the prize money. to be divided among the ‘crew of the ship when the circumloention office shall have completed its labogs ' 7 v g ;

Jenny ‘is two feet four inches high. She has a mild and good natured countenance, with no marks of savageness or ferocity in its expression. The character of her face was observed to be agreeably affected by her hbad-dress, which consists of a black mass of short, but ‘very' fine hair, soméwhat in the form of the letter V, and parted in the middle. : s anaih iy ' Notwithstanding the gentle, and quiet,and very inhocent expression of } enny’s.countenance, she is not always to be trusted in respect to propriety of behavior. - On one occasion when the distinguished geologist Buckland was visiting the Garden; and came to pay his respects to Jénny, with a cigar in ‘his mouth, which he was smoking, she suddenly ‘séized the cigar, snatching it from his mouth, and began very cool'y amoking it herselt.’ She wenton until she’ =ha§» finished the eigar, and then threw; the' end” away in time 10 save ». bgmfngé ‘her movith.— Harper's Maga“gie. Co e Mok o e T l&wmw%mm@w% ‘has expressed’ liimself n favor.of witarifl _for protection, Lo

LIGONIER, IND., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, IS6O.

l Chairman .of the State Central Coma f mittee. | ; Fromthe_Euns'vﬂleConr&eg. b, . The selection of the chairman of our state central icommittee is & matter of great importance which has not received, of late years, the attenfion it de- l mands. Upaon 'this officer really depend the arganization ot the democratic forces and the conduct of the contest in the state. If he is efficient, energetic, persevering, with a strong and decided will, and leisure as well as in-> I clination to devote himself to the great - work before him, he will infuse these qualities intp his colleagues on "the committee and into the leaders and masses of the democracy all over the state, stirring them up to enthusiastic and determined contest for success.— These qualities Gen. John Love, of In|dianapolis, displayed in a remarkable 'degree last year in the organization of the White Boys in Blue, and we do not entertajn a doubt that if he had l been at the head of our state central | committee, he would have succeeded | in carrying Indiana for the democracy -at the October election, at least. | I

It cannot be denied that the éreat bulk of the soldiers returned from the war highly incensed againet the democracy. This was especially true of the Indiana soldiers, whose minds had been inflamed by most scandalops accounts of the terrible Dodd conspiracy. In the army, none but radical papers were allowed to circulate. All the efforts of the democracy to disabuse their minds of these false impressions, had failed until Gen. Love took the matter in hand in 1868. He had certainly a herculean job before him, but 'he was equal to the occasion. Though ! disappointments crowded around him he persevered, and at last, had the gratification of seeing success crown his efforts. . There is not a doubt but “a majority of the Indiana soldiers voted the democratic ticket last yean, and it cannot be denied that the efforts of Gen. Love in organizing the White Boys in Blue led to this result. We ~want his fine organizing abilities at the “head of our state central committee.— Gen. Love is an indefatigable worker, and has the leisure to devote himself wholly and' entirely to the great and important work of a thorough organization of the democracy of Indiana.— He has not and is not mixed up in any of the squabbles in Indiana politics—indeed, he has taken but a mere voting part in politics until last year, when he was placed at the head of the White Boys in Blue, and did such a+ useful work in their organization. It is not often that such a man can be found to abandon his leisure, to take upon himself the onerous, responsible and pay-nothing position of chairman of the state central committee. And now that such a man is found—in every way highly qualified, efficient, honest, energetic, patient, persevering and with leisure and inclination to devote himself wholly to the organization of success—we trust the democratic state convention will have the good sense to give him a unanimous election, and thus secure the best man in the state for the position and at the game time bestow a worthy compliment upon that gallant organization, the White Boys in Blue, who are, we understand, unanimcus in asking that their loved commander should receive the endorsement of the "ndiana democracy for this position. ' It may not, in this connection, be out of place for us to say that the sgeleetion of Gen. Love will tend to harmonize the difference that has manifestkd itself between the Semtinel and Mr. Talbott. From our standpoint we are disposed to think that General Love will be acceptable to both parties to this foolish contest. In addition to Gen. Love’s masterly ability as an organizer, -the fact that he is personally unobjectionable to the™ friends of Mr.. Bright and the friends of Mr. Talbott, will give him a powerful weight at Indianapolis, and prevent a local division that otherwise might prove unfortunate. We tully agree with our re-. spected contemporary of the Mt. Vernon Democratin assuring “gentlemen at the capital that the<democracy in this part of the state care very little about/ what Mr. Bright thinks of Mr. Talbott or what Mr. Talbott thinks of Mr. Bright. What we must have to insure success is perfect harmony and concert of action, and those who would throw the first ‘apple of discord’ should be properly reguked -at the coming gtate convention.” ' . - 1

Scandal at Wilbraham, lmn‘ghnseus. The depths of Wilbraham society are profoundly stirred by a case of scandal in high life. The unmarried daughter of a well-to-do ‘mérchant. in that place gave birth, ‘on Monday, to a fine healthy boy, and although great efforts have been made to keep the matter secret, it is now town’s talk. The paternity of thelittle stranger is said to be somewhat in doubt. It'is, perhaps, traceable to some one of the Good Templars, of which organization its mother has been an 'active member, but more likely belongs to a young Methodist exhorter who 'was formerly a student in Wilbraham Academy. ' The young man’s license to preach has ‘been revoked, and he disappeared ‘from the town several months ago. The girl was doctored: for various diseases, until the true cause of her troubles could no longer be concealed, when, it is said, she claimed that force ‘had been used upon her.— Both the newly-made mother and her father are prominent members of the Methodist Church, which fact, of course, ‘'only causes greater comment, and makes the affdir the more to'be deplored.— Springfield Republican, i - £ -'li’”l"‘ rv‘: A ¢ -' 'u - E. P, Ferry havingan interest at Montague, near Witchall, donated $lOO.OO to. the Forum, the new paper: just started at’ | the latter place. )It Mr. Ferry/could’ sce it to'his fnterest to give one hundred dol’ lars towards’ cstablishing o, paper in o ‘neighboring, rival town, how much would oo e BLoan IF it WA o s 1 ‘his own town ?—Michigan Erchange. | Lt ~Erdernii S e fesnd | B s A dispatch from}ﬁ 'exas; says Davis Congressmen have been elected.”©

- THE STATE CONVENTION., ° !, STATE AUDITOR.—For some time past we have been watching the political movements, in relation to the probable actior, of the Democracy at the coming State Convention. ' There seems to be an undue desire now “manifested in the Central and Southern portions of the State, to bring out men from those sections, and when the Convention is fully organized, to rush them through so that all the prominent and more lucrative offices, will be filled by those who are now already selected for all these several places of trust and %roﬁt. We Democrats of Northern Indiana will have, at least we think so, a word or two to say in reference to this omnibus mode of procedure, if such an intent is made manifest at Indianapolis, when :the Convention meets.

We have claims uf&x that body, and if it is 'to be a meeting of the Democracy upon the broad principles of equal and exact justice to all, without interfence by ‘rings’! and “cliques,” to foist their peeuliar pets as candidates to fore-stall and heasg off ariy and all others, then there will be no cause for contention or complaints from this section of the State. ‘

By preference and common consent of the Democracy of these Northern Districts, they ‘have brought farward J. B. Stoll as a suitable person to fill the office of State Additor. He has peen endorsed by many of the leading party journals throughout the State at large, and none have or can say ought against his qualifications or fitness for the position; even many of his politl- - opponents have admitted that he is fully competent, and have signified a desire that he should occupy the sitnation. : f i In view of this we shall claim his nomination as a right that belongs to the Democracy of this part of the State, 'and if justice is to be the rule in the Convention, rather than pipelaying and wire-pulling, a 8 it is some times the case, there will be without doubt, peace and harmony throughout its proceedings. We shall agk nothing but fair «end honorable dealings, and in distributing the several chances for official position, that they give us what rightfully belongs to us and no more, — and nothing less. — Ellhart Democratic Union.

THE APPROACHING STATE CON‘VENTION.—As the time for the assembling - of the convention which is to nominate the democratic ticket for the important campaign of 1870 draws nigh, the interests and anxiety of the people interested in the ultimate suecess of that ticket, deepens and increases. We have observed this peculiarity so far, and that is, that the democracy are deeply interested that active, vigorous and progressive men are placed on the ticket. They want active, working-men—men who in the past have comprehended the true interests of the party; and have had the sagacity to place themselves fully up to the condition of the country, and the party as the changed status of affairs demanded. L

Such a man will the north presentas a candidate tor auditor of State, in the person of John B. Stoll. .We can affirm that Mr. Stoll has not sought the nomination, has entered into no combination to secure it ;. but his intelligent, active, and assiduous efforts in behalf of the party has made his host of friends to feel thet he is the man for the place. He will go into the convention with friends who will ask his nomination, not because he has failed to get it at some previous time, nor because of any combination of circumstances, but because they feel and believe that he is the fittest man for the place. And if it should be the pleas-. ure ‘of the convention to nominate him, his name will go on the ticket fresh from active labor in the cause, and 8o will command the enthusiasm of his political frieads, and the re spect and good opinion of hig adversaries.— Goshen Democrat. POLITICALITEMS, ;. : The Legislature of Texas will be Conservative instead of Radical, as heretofore supposed. i __The Chicago Post alludes to the Con-. gressional Globe as ‘that expensive ma-. chine for grinding out immortal obliyBon e R

- A member of Congress' from the South has prepared a vill ratifying the proposed annexht;ion of a portion of the north western part of Florida to Alabama. =~ - | The: aetion of the Liegislature of Tennessee in passing a bill forbidding the importation of Chinese into the State is bailed with satisfaction by almost the entire press of the State. E The Conservative journals of Georgia are denouncing Governor'Bullock and his “destructive programme.” They indignantly deny that' Georgia is lawless, or that Unicn men have no security. ; - It has been recently discovered that the Smith family: :and :President Grant are related. -~ Will the President follow the precedent- already established ‘and _provide each one of his relatives withan office il doaoe oy oad IBiE n

The President is about to appoint enough Radicals to the Supreme Court to assure his party the majority in that tribunal. ‘At the same time Congress is proposing to extingnish the power of that court to declare’ unconstitutional any of' itg politicalacts.’ Prom whichiis a dotbe inferénce i’ Congress isafraid of dn in -quiry into jts owp laws; and is also afraid to trust its .own :chosen: statesmen whom _it willymake judges with an opportanity ,to trdverse' the politieal acts of the national ‘Tegislature.” A politician made & judge ‘for Tife i’ apt to_become Both Joarsied 'and decent that lie ingensibly :0 ~—’\f’if!‘m‘s‘%‘é¥‘ﬁ’ tga;w‘i‘:é":“’x 5 - The Bpanish fleét ‘was to have sa’l--ed at daybreak oﬁff&%p rning of the 16th, from New York, Q‘ﬁ; Te Was a grad chowil 1 tho Wity o the Dol amﬁzz‘ ds yesterday, x an_attemptwis mudhih gt s i iy’ tn indignation meefing!” < ¢ "

~ TRANSFUSION OF BLOOD, The Philadelphia Ledger relates that this operation, ‘which consists in the actual tranafer of the blood of one living body into the veins ot another, has been recently performed in the Pennsylvania hospital, under the following circumstances : e

“A young man in the upper part of th:f city ’t:valel wonnde;l ori the inner surface of the upper lip, by trippio and falling on the?ggmgnts{)f a gitclﬁ er which he had been carrying in his hand. = The wound continued to bleed for ten days, after which the patient was sent to the surgical wards of the hospital, which were, at the time, under the charge of Dr. T. G. Morton. . Several remedies were then applied, and the arteries supplying the face? were tied, but without success in controlling the flow of blood. Recourse was next had to cutting down to the common carotid or great artery of the neck, and applying a ligature, so as to obstruct entirely the course of the blood in it. This was done on the 18th of October last. = The oozing of blood still continued, but in lessened quantities. - ] “On the following day, or the 19th, the patient was in such a state of ‘extreme exhaustion from the long continued hemorrhage that his death seemed to be imminent, and, as a last resource, Dr. Morton resolved to try the effect of transfusion. 'We shall not pretend to describe the apgaratus usedp on the occasion, er-the details of the operation. Let it suffice for us to say that two medical students bared. their arms and gave the blood required for the occasion. - Five ounces and a half of their blood were infused into the vein of each arm of the patient, the marked good effects of which were evinced in five minutes by a rallying of the pulse and otherwise beginning reaction.— There was no further discharge of blood from the original wound, and in ‘ ten days the patient was able to walk | in the ward, and rapidly regained his strength. ‘ i)

“Whatever may be the termination of the, cause, regarded as one of a wound with complicated symptoms, there can be no question of the entire success of the operation of transfusion, and of its saving life and restoring the patient, for a while at least, tothe exercise of his ordinary -tunctions.— Transfusion was first practiced in the early part of the seventeenth century, although its use in England and on the continent generally dates from the middle of this century. The first operations were on animals, and the first instance of one being performed on man, if we except that described by Libarius, was in Paris, by Denys and Emmerez, in 1666. L ¢ “In the succeeding year their example was followed by Lower and King in England. In these and other cases of subsequent date, the blood was taken from an animal—a sheei or calf—but grave objections to ‘this course present themselves in the different character of the globules of the blood of animals from those of the human subject, and in latter times the transfusion is always from one to another of individuals of our own species.— The profession is much indebted to Dr. Blundell, an eminent English accoucheur, for his ingenious researches concerning transfusion, and his improved method for its suceessful use. ‘He showed in the result of cases of excessive exhaustion from loss of blood occurring in his large obstetrical practice, and when life seemed about to ebb away, how it could bé suddenly and completely rescued by transfusion. The New York Medical Record, of October Ist, contains an account, by Dr.. Buscher, of a successful case of transfusion, The patient was a young German woman who had lost much blood 'by typhus fever. The fresh blood was taken from the arm of her husband. - it |

THE BIBLE QUESTION. | - CINCINNATI, DEC. Ist, 1869. Correspendence of the Indianapolis Jovrnal ; ; A question of vast importance is being ‘agitated here—the bible in the public schools—and ‘as your readers are all more or less interested, I will endeavor to give them a few of the most important facts in the case, Sometime since the majority of the school board decided to order that the reading of the scripture and singing of hymns be discontinued at the opening of school. (This was done at the instance of the Jewish and Catholic git-' izens.) ,Therenion Mr. John D. Minor, and some other citizens, swore out an injunction restraining them from the enforcement of that order; and ‘the injunction suit was' commenced in the Superior Court herelagt Monday morning, with Judges Storer, Hagins and Taft on the bench, and some of the brightest lights of the legal profession engaged as connsel on both sides.~ Judges Stallo, Hoadley and Goldson ‘by those in favor of its éxpulsion, and Messrs. Mathews, Ramsey and Sage by the opposite side. - : Listening to the speeches a person will be very wuch qnsprised at the amount of swﬁiﬁﬂ.@nn .Teasons, that «can be nsed, both in favor of its ;dis continuance and its not being read.— At first thought persons of Protestant belief will very natarally suppose that thereis no good ‘reason why the bible: should not be read at any time, and in any place, but, such is:not the ease, _considered as a point of law .and :jue_tice. There are really: mgg igood reas.ons why thereading of it should be dis“pensed with, and especially in this city, ‘where'a ve 'y large class of voters, and ‘owners, and &;frpﬁym on’ Jmi‘llib‘;sgof dollars’ worth -of property, are Jews: .and Catholics, @&'in;aylmim&mtu; «of its free; institntions, and where @il _are guaranteed by the constitution’ of ithe eountry the'right to worship God afte:*dthbé‘ﬂieiﬂﬁtég %ﬁwa _her own, consclémes. “Ogn you eompel &, més %ot e sappart.o 3‘&% Iy 0 Nenich e MAY DRAD.SANEYS Srom, Eupe eegy A I "“ ol RmR R oL ;‘kf'

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! THE SUEZ CANAL. 5 B wi .of a hemisphere. yos WA ths Yoibnol Anpuisshere. o, the center, the commercial sigdiﬂcance of the new canal, throu%h‘whxchtbe first fleet passed on the 20th of November, can be best represented. It will thus beseen that the isthmus, which during the uncounted ages of the past was the natural bridge between Africa and Asia, and indirectly and by a long circuit between Europe and the first-named continent, has now become & part of the immense water way, which, on the Eastern hemi~sphere, connects the Atlantic with the Pacific ocean in’ the same manner as‘a -canal across the Isthmus of Panama would _connect the same oceans on the Western hemisphere. What has been performed in{regard to commerce between America ‘and Asia -by our Pacific Railroads and - what will eventually b&done much more effectually by cutting a’canal somewhere acroes the Central American Isthmus, has now been perfected by the Suez canal in regard to the commerce between Europe and the East Indies. Formerly an English or a French steamer or merchant vessel, starting from Liverpool or Havre, had: “to sail along the coasts of Portugal and Africa, go around the Cape of Good Hope, to the 82d degree of latitude south, and then navigate ag:in in a north eastern direction to the 19th degree of latitude in order to reach Bombay. Naw a vessel enters the Mediterranean by axe Straits of Gibrnlter,puses by the Suez canal into the Arabian gulf, enters the Indian ocean by the Stmg,:’ of Babelmandel and ‘sailing thence in a atm‘iight line between the 12th and the 19th degrees of latitude, may reach Bombay on a route which is about one-third the length of the former, besides being incomparably safer. . " It will be observed, moreover, by a planisphere, upon which Suez lies at the centre, that an entirely new road is henceforth opened to Russian. commerce in the Black sea, inasmuch asan. uninterrupted navigation is now. possibls between the ports of Odesa and Sebastopol to the Pacific ocean. Bhips starting from these Forts ma{ now, very nearly on a straight ine, reach Aden by passing Hhrough the Bosphorus, the new canal and. the straits of Babelmandel. = The greatest advantages, however, of an” enterprise which is principally due to the energy of a Frenchman, will evidently be secured by England. Heretofore, nearly all maritime business between England and the sea: ports on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, say from Alexandria to Swayrna, including the islands of Candia and Cyprus, has been transacted by the merchant fleets of Great Britain. Only a small share has been done by French vessels and by those of Trieste on the Adriatic. The English, therefore, have only to extend their old lines, make Alexandria, Beyruth and Jaffa intermediate stations,and thus get in advance of all the other stations, the' Triestines, perbaps, excepted. = - : | It will be observed, from a map drawn with Suez for its centre, that ‘the entire east coast of Africa, including Madagas car, has now a short and direct maritime outlet for ‘its products. into the heart of Europe. And yet, great as these advantages are to the-trade of the world; there is still another feature of this. wonderful exploit of modern civilization, which is more apt to show its significance than the combination of all its advantages lately explained in so many essays ands newspa: per editorials. It %S the observation that the circumnavigation ofithe globe in‘a lon%itudinal direction can be effected entirely upom ' the northern hemisp’he&, without at any point crossing the equator, the moment the same thing shall have been done across the Isthmus of Panama, which has been so successfully achieved by M. Ferdinand de Lessept on the Isthmus -of Suez, Between the.tenth and fortieth degree of latitude north, the cir-cum-navigation of the earth. might be ef: fected in the same vessel, if a-canal were dug across the Central American Isthmus. The greater mass of the water isin the southern hemisphere, but the mass of human intellect is in the northern; and intellect, by transforming a small strip of land into water, triumphs over even the mightiest attribute of the mightiest element.—B¢. Louis Republican. . -

Rules to Keep a Farmer Poor. - - L. Not takinga good paper. ~ . 11. Keeping no account of hotne operations, . Paying no attention to the maxim, ‘a stitch 1n time saves nine,’ in regard to sowing of grain and planting of seed at the proper season. i 111. Leaving the reaper, plows, culti. wvators, ete,, uncovered from the rain and heat of the sun. . More money islost in this way than people are willing to believe. : B IV. Permitting broken implements to be scattered over the farm until they are irreparable. .Ome of the seven wise men of Greece said only this to prove his'sense: “The time to.mend the plow is when the plow breaks.” g V. ‘Alttendin‘gs auction sales: and purchasing all kinds of trampery, because in the words’ af the vender, the articles are “veryicheapt s oifoi Pt . VL Allowing fences to remasin unrepaired until strange cattle are found grazing in the meadow, and bruising fruit " VIL Planting fruit trees with the expectation of baving . fruit, without giving the trees half the attention required to make them produce. .. = = o - VIIL Practising false economy by depriving stock of proper. shelter Aduring the winter “and giving them unsound food, such as half rotten hayand mouldy fodder. ST e e L

White House Etiquette. “Mack,” the Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Hnguirer, has 'some rather curious experiences in his' perigrinations about the national capital and is frequently, from his repu'tatii%x asa writer, thrown in contact with the promi. quent fen of the country. ' Recently hesc- - comspanied a friend to the White Hoitse, who had’ some business with the President, and as he ¢ntered the: inner sanctu--ary, Mack waited for him outside. He was not unaccustomed to the place, and | took a'seat, as on wany former uccasions. Just then a “gentleman in waiting” rashed up to him in something of trepidation, 88 if he were about to atorm: his works or, otherwise annihilate him. - Said he, ‘Look here, you wnust't sit down. If the old wo ‘man comes along and &ees anybody sitting down liere she’ll give me h—l © So .be yielded to the demands of the new etiquette, and ‘more astonished &t the “ro.’ ‘publican simplicity” of the ‘door-keéeper's language than at anything else, he stood spdot: 1 a 0 Tealidl oW L e A ) horenty.-seven law making bodies, besides the: Constitutionst Convention in ‘Tenticssce, will be it seaston fu thiis conn[;m;’ “g‘m”" * e u 3«‘ “* z*m ee vt sl LT }, e Virgioia papers of al mﬁﬁ% Jnuies "“W“#W%w 8 speedy readmission of the State.

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A CAPITAL ANECDOTE. . Constitutionalist, is the most laughable incident we have read for many A day.—. It goes straight to the center : - a - Soon after the opening of the East Ten. nessee & Georgia Railroad, there chanced to be traveling ovér the line, in a car where . there were but few passengers, a gentle‘man who was seated opposite the stove, wrapped up in his shawl and meditations. Night came on. Presently in bounded a brakeman, loudly slamming the door behind him—one of those country geniuses -who, with a laudable ambition, bad, a ‘day or two ago, abandoned the girls, the- - and the plowtail, to “climb in the ‘world,"” and became a brakeman. . . He bad been the king bee of all the neighborhdod frolics, at the house raisings, corn huskings; and at the cross-roads doggery fightiug ground, and now he felt sure that he was the king bee on railroads. Strutting - up to the stove, he slammed down his Jantern, kicked the mud from his hugeboots on the foot of the seat, spit tobacco Jjuice copiously and noisily on the hissing stove, crossed his muscular thighs, took a survey of the aforesaid boots with harness leather straps, and then betho’t him-: self of the customer sitting opposite, on whom he proceeded to bestow a length- : ened and saucy look, as though he doubt- " ed t,ll;‘e customer’s right to be in the coach at all. : : . .- At length he sought knowledge. Whar are yon gwoine, minister ? = To Dalton, sir, responded the gentle: man, quietly. j Preacher, ain’t you? No, sir, I ani not; but why do you ask ? =

Oh! nothing, only I thought I saw ‘Hark from the Tombs' sticking out all over you, like the measles. You know me, I reckon ? : : I am sorry to say that I do not, - . Well, I'll just be dam; why, whar the divil was you raised ? o At Marysville, East Tennessee. - Oh't that excuses you, for if I ever hear'n tell of that settlement afore, I wish I may be durned, and I knows?every _place; I does. ' : You seem well acquainted with the place you are now occupying, remarked ‘the stranger, almost choking with the'ef- - feets to suppress his laughter. ' ; 1 - What place do you mean, Mister? This | ’ere red bench, covered with dried cows tongues or my office. : A I alluded to your office, and by the way, what is your position on the road ?" Brakeman, by the jumpin’ jiminy, I tho't everybody know’d -that; brakeman ovel('i the Yeast Tenrcessy & Georgia Railroad. Unfortunately I do not know it. : . Well, you'd soon found the fac’ out if gou'd cut up any shines roun’ yere, huggin’ wimmin, or cussin, or tryin to steal anybody's carpet-bag, or ‘talkin sassy to the couductor, or sich. 'Why I'd a choked "you bottom foremost thro’ the cracks of a barn, for I mean to run this ere train on high moral principles, I dus. And you did not know that I was brakeman on this ere lailroad ? ; Indeed, sir, I. did not. : Well, old Slideeasy, all I have got to . say is that for a man of your looks_you know less than apy other man I ever saw. How do ycu manage to make a living any--how? : : I receive a salary; I am President of this road; Wallace is my-name, but I have not the pleasure of knowing yours ; Will you be kind enough to inform me? All symptoms of king bee disappeared at this thupder-bolt" announcement, and in thestead were seen timid humanity; crushed pride of place, a strong ‘get up and git’ expression, and a most doggoned appearance generally. The brakeman slid. i e> —— . : The Radical Legislaiurc of Alabamn. The Montgomery Muil thus describes the radical negro legislature of that State. The editor says : % Syt - The legislature “convened yesterday in regular session, at 12 M. All the thieves, penitentiary conviets, yankee bummers, bigamists, barbers, and shoe-blacks were in their seats. Had there not been present ascore of true Alabamians, in the shape of the little band of democrats, the concern might have been mistaken for a lunatic asylum or a penitentiary. The: Assembly may be generally characterized as Jow-browed and empty-pocketed. It is suggestive of wharf rats, plug-uglies, and sneak-thieves. Tobacco spittle trick- | les down from thg cornerg of its month. Crow feet radiate’ from the -contracted eyes.. The skin is drawn ‘tightly over its nose. Its breeches are greasy. -Its boots are unblacked. It smells of cheese and | odor dafrique. : ! Na wonder the legislature of Alabama made haste to ratify the 15th amendment.

T The Cup of Aloes. ; Jt will be observed that old Ben, Butler is less liberal than Horace Greeley, who has some pretensions to the paternity of the radical party. - : . Old Ben,, the brute;: was-importuned a few days since by Mr. Greeley, tarough the Tribune, to place himself at the head of a liberal movementTooking to universal suffrage and universal amnesty. Mr. Greeley was willing that the rebels of the south should vote provided they ac- - corded the negro the same privilege. . Ben is not as liberal as Mr. Greeley. The telegraph informs us that the hero of New Orleans will not accept the leadership proftered him by the white-coat philosopher. “He don’t think the southern re- - bels should be forgiven until they repent of their sins to a degree sufficient to vote ‘the straight radical ticket! That isthe standard. Let repentant rebels understand that they must not ounly repent in sack-cloth and ashes, but in dirt and slime, and in the filth of the ditch; for Ben. Batler, the insulter of the virtue of | ‘the women of thesouth, hasso decreed it. - It matters not that the hands ofa rebel may be “dyed red in the blood of a union soldier,"—we believe thatis a popular - phrase in loyal literature~-yet if hie will come:into the radical honsehold, and vote the radical ticket, ail his sins shall be forgiven'him! . .- G e _ It matters not that he returns to his allegiance to the union—it is nothing that he claims again the ,protectirp:g and: yields allegiance .to the’American flag, if’ :. be fails to vote the radical ticket, in loyal | parlance his repentancé is insincere, and aot worthy of'regit! (" =~ 0 A . Let ‘the rebels of the south learn their whole duty. - Let them crawl in the dust of humiliation ;= lct them wallow In the 2 slime of self abnegation ; let them deny their manhood ; let them deny their man. hood let them acknowledge that Butler's _insult to their'wives and sisters, and daugh - ,férg‘gﬁfn_l;_. Let:h:imit;zf:ﬁ ical tickﬁdlwoﬁmgk et be Toy ?fé B Te o P giwven [—Band not tid then ! . . s “"Tile Gup presonted to theie lips wy git What bes boen soliomed by, S e );"i‘i"' ; % ‘;3'; b- \"‘;";‘ » "‘ “.i{?‘f"f‘l:: %Qi:ﬁm; . I