The National Banner, Volume 4, Number 36, Ligonier, Noble County, 5 January 1870 — Page 2

Hational Banuer, T ——— A ety Wi ‘Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God. e J. B, BTOLL, EDITOR. .

- WEDNESDAY, JAN’Y 5, 1870. , THE CENSUS, Ao There will probably be passed, during the first week of €ongress after the holidays, a bill to provide for taking the census of the country, which promises a fat job for the leaders of the party in power, inasmuch as nearly twelve thousand men, at an aggregate salary of twelve millions of dollars, will be employed under its provisions, [ s, - The bill provides fof the organization of & Bureau of Censts in the Interior Department, with a chief and an indefinite numbes- of clerks, who may continue in office for three years; a district superintendent for each district in ‘the Union, - and several for the territories, who may divide their districts into as many sub districts as they please, and for each of -the latter they may appoint enumerators, . and under certain conditions' may employ several enumerators and experts ; and the Secrgtary of the Interior may additionally ein‘zlaoy other means, agents and officers to gather exceptional and cumulative inforimagtion, & : | . The design of taking the census is to ascertain the number of inhabitants, the products, exports:and imports of the nation, together with other desirable infor- . mation that may assist commerce, science and politjcal economy, but where so much money and so large a force is employed there is danger of the Radicals perverting the object to partisan ends. The radical army who are to “ interview ” the nation will not lose such an opportunity to exercise a political influence that will be dangerous to the welfare of the country. The canvass is to be made during the politiial campaign of pext summer, and it may be well that this effective power for partisan work be well watched by the . Democracy, that it may not be perverted from jts true object ; or if this power of men and means does niot accomplish the object for which it is used, that the respoﬂs?ﬂity» may be placed where it belongg—upon the shoulders of the Radical leaders, who will bave planned, enacted and ekecutod the census law,

.'l‘tl’e Late Mississippi Election. It is a statistical fact that in the State of Georgia there are about forty thousand negro E&ter‘s and nearly fifty five thousand whitg voters, and yet, with a majority of fifteen thousand’ majority against him, Gen. Ames was elected Governor of the State, on the ticket of the mongrel party, at the late election, by a considerable majority. And may we ask how this was brought about? . General Ames was the person who had the power of appointing the registrars, judgésand clerks of the election, and the polls were guarded by soldiers who favored his election; and at places where his opponents were in the majority, either they were not allowéd to approach the polis, ur, in eounting their votes, sufticient were cast aside by the judges to insure the élection of their choice. )

Tt is- difficult to contend against such forces, where military tyranny forms a union with the lowest and most degraded ;portion of the population, for a common object. Power to drive their opponents from the ballot-box, and rascality to eject their legal votes, will insure the success, for a time, of any party who are degene‘rate enough to employ such means. |

A Protection Item. It seems that, by their own.confession, the salt manufacturers of this country do not need the protective dity of 108 per cent. which they have induced Congress to lay on ‘foreign salt, and. which is paid by all consumers of that hinnely antiseptic not to theig{o‘ve{'nment, but to the few score of persons engaged in salt boiling. The Canada papers inform us that the Onondaga Salt Company are offerring salt in Toronto at $1 85 a barrel, while they exact for the same salt in this country $2 45 per barrel, or $1 94 in.gold.— The fact suggests sofpe interesting reflections to Americans, It provesthat the Onondaga salt monopoly repay the Americans, . generosity which taxes itself for their benefit by selling their salt to Canadian hog and beef packers for 20 per cent. less than they sell it to American farmers. It shows that the affection that American consumers are taught to have for home manufacturers is not reciprocated by the aforesaid manufacturers. Angd it shows that, since the salt monopolists can take their salt to a foreign country and complete with foreign salt that pavs no duty, they do not really require the exorbitant protection which weare, good-naturally giving them. i

The reconstruction of the State of TexaB is progressing in about the same degree as that of Georgia and Alabama. It was thought, at one time:before the late election for Governor, that the State: would have to be divided into three §tates in order to thoroughly radicalize her. But it seems that General Reynolds-had enough authority over the ballot-box in the State, a 8 did General Amesin Georgia, to secure the election of the radical carpet-bagger, snd it is now thought by the reconstruction committee of Congress that a divis ion.of the State is unnecessary. -

Demoecratic “Repudiation.” Let the loud mouthed Radicals who are harping the untruth that Demiocrats are in favor of repudiation, read the manner in which the Democratic State of New 'York are to “repudiate” the State debt. Gov. Hoffman, in his message to the Leg: islature, on Monday, recommends that the State of New York, now that it has a ‘thorough democratic administration, pay the interest on the Jebt in coin. g . The Re-Asgembling of Congress., Both Houses of Congress will .meet agaiz on Monday next, and their proceedings 'will be watched with painful interest by the entire natiom, There is an unusual feeling of uneasiness, in every éétib, 48 fo-the dext step’ that will be R et e & B 1 RS M SOTE SR R T competent M%Wﬁémﬁa

How the Republican party, with the constantly lengthening record of its falsehoods and perfidies on the subjegt of Recoustiuction can talk of inviolatef n.j and ‘make itself the custodian of thens-. tional honor, must be put %,ym as one of the inexplicable enigmas of the tfmes.— 'Reconstruction, says an exchange, is a summary of repudiation., It isa record of golemn p”iqqm deliberate'y made at orie session of Congress, to be broken at fhe next. Grant's terms of surrénder for Lee at Appomattox, devised by President 'Lincoln himself; the repeal of the southern ordinance of secession ; the repudiation of the Confederate debt; the formal abolition of slavery by the several Southern States; theadoption of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth amendments to the Constitution; the several Reconstruction acts, with their supplements—all these in suc- | cession were propesed by Congress to the Southern States, ag the terms of their restoration. All of them in succession have been' strictly complied with by those’ Btates, and all of them in succession have been violated by Congress. Such a record of bad faith and broken pledges it would be difficult to find a parallel to in'all his‘tory. In absolute truth, the people of the South do not and cannot believe anything that Congress tells them, nor confide in any promise that Congress may make.— No one can tell where reconstruction will end, because each of its promised ends has been made a new beginning. Every compliance with one specific set of conditions is followed by the exaction of new ones. The very obedience of the Southern people in doing what is asked of them, is made the occasion for making still-harsh-er requests, and harrassing them into compliance. The authors of these enormous violations of faith are fond of call--ing their opponents repudiators; but there ‘are many reasons for believing that they themselves would even' repudiate the national - debt if their tenure of power re- - quired ‘it. :

The National Debt. - The Cincinnati Enguirer says: “One of our Republican exchanges congratulates the people that, in proportion to territory, the debt of the United States ig far less oppressive than that of any other country. Thisis, indeed, a new way to estimate the- oppressiveness of debts.— Since we acquired by purchase the three hpndred thousand square miles of ice ‘and snow in Alaska, and which can never be settled, of course our debt, under this rule, is far lighter than before.— But, unfortunately, it is not the amount of square miles which pays debts, but the number and wealth of the people who live upon them. We have the heaviest debt of any country on the glove. If population is only considered, our debt, per head, is $7l, $234 in Great Britain and $lO7 in Holland. - But Great Britain has twice the wealth of thé United States, without counting her colonies, and the proportion in regard to Holland, when we estimate the amount of her resources, is nearly as great. But it is the interest of a debt, which it is supposed will run for a long time, that constitutes its oppression. 'ln the last fifty years Great Britain has paid $6,000,000 interest on a’ debt of $1,000,000. ' The interest in Great Britain is but two and a half to three per cent. In the United States it is' si per cent. in gold, with no taxation. ‘This renders it equal to eight per cent. The British' debt is $4,000,000,000; and our funded debt a little over $2,000,000,000, yet the inperest on the latter ‘is'as great as the former. Theréforé, in consequence of its yearly payments, the debt of the United States is' the heaviest and 'most oppressive ever known by any people.:— Under the policy ot the Republican party it will be handed down to posterity.”

The State Debt. . The radical papers of Indiana, with the State officers, in jubilating over what they term the extinguishment, or payment, of the State debt are careful tocon ceal the facts in the cage. Instead of there being a little over a million of the State debt nutstanding, the indebtedness is really over six millions of dollars, on which interest is being paid. Over five millions of the school funds have been invested in the bonds of the State, says the State Sentinel, and that much at least will be a permanent debt, the interest upon which will be paid by’ taxation. .Our foreign outstanding indebtedness is being gradually extinguished, but the domestic debt is still sizable, the annual interest being over three hundred thousand dollars. e

But how is the foreign debt, as it is termed, being paid? lls it by the savings arising from economy and retrenchment in the public expenses? “Oh,no. ' The money %o pay the debt is'raised by direct taxation and the levy is being made while our people are burdened by taxation, direct and indirect, which is consumirg their substance as a moth. ~ The figures in the report of our State officers show that State, munt¥, and townshi{ taxation under radical ‘rulé is two and’ three fold" more than when:the ' Democracy were re-: sponsible for the cenduct of i public: af fairs, It requires no statesmanship .nogmy & public debt when the means to liquidate is ground n;et of the people by a forced levy upon their earnings and property--‘and? that- is the wayltl!%:- Radical leaders: of Indiana are J)ayi_ng‘ the debt, and pot by economy and retrenchment. ,

Negro Suffrage in Tennessee. | The overthrow of the Radicals in Ten: nessee naturally. suggested; as.one of the afterthoughts, the question whether the withdrawal of suffrage from the negroes would be one of the features in-the poli--cy of the victorious party. (The Nashville, Banner informs us. that a canvass of the. members elect of the forthcoming State Convention settles the question. The negroes will, not bedisfranchised. The: majority ot the members. say that they find the megro ini possession .of the:anﬁ‘f‘l rage, and. they will neither. inquire.hy. what means she obtained »it;;m;depriu«j him of it, ' The Banner itself remarks: : < mming ';antunent m.» mo C n ‘Le 'y b ?v.q p%o%jér party lin nmm nc?:éb should be' taken” backwatd, ~ The siths. tion i 8 not such ds weshould have it; fea:' tmn ‘been fg;cli‘blynthmlthit:m, system which | . incon- . Stanwih (s w 420 prncpos A s the convention to determine, will.be as. elimination of & thorough’ applicktion o

The Harrisburg Patriot says that the strenuous opposition of the carpet bag: e ?g* PRy “General: does Wot grise from any beo ;m%n that be is disqualified t th%-posi ion by wang.of legal learning ‘or ability. 8o fﬂ-mnimx‘t,‘gy are entirely satisfied with a man who gave the opinion that. the. legislature of - Virginis. might meet, but could not enter on mny duties before ratifying the Fifteenth AR T T eot e markable legal opinion, that war still exists in'Texas. The carpet baggers want this place for-one of their own persuasions. They infiigine that one of their own number on. the bench of the Supreme Court would be a confirmation of the usurpation of which they are themselves the offspring,’ and that while he holds his seat, he would Tesist every decree of the court that might tend to the overthrow of their ill:gotten power, and the restoration of this Constitution. Unfit as Judge Hoar may be for the exaulted place, he is infinitely preferable to any of the vile spawn of reconstraction. Once on,the bench, he might grow ashamed- of the time when he was constrained to defend military rulein a period -of profound peace ; but a carpet bag judge, begotten of the bayonet and the Freedmen’s Bureau, could mever forget his vile origin. We beseech that Hoar may be confirmed, and the country . saved from the .deep disgrace of witness ing a creature of reconstruction squatting on the Bench of the Supreme Court,

The Prebable lfmthn of Senator Last week it was rumored that U. 8. Senator, Pratt of this State had tendered his resignation to Governor Baker. The report was subsequently coatradicted by authority. It seems however, that Mr. Pratt contemplates at no distant day to retire from the Senate.. The Indianapolis correspondent of the Cincinnati Commereial, & relative of Senator Morton, insists that Senator:Pratt will resign the Senatorship. Here 'is'his view of the case : : “The facts' 'sre these: Senater Pratt has been diseatisfied with his position for some time, and almost & week since as sured.- s colleage, Semator Morton, that he would place his resignation in the hands of Governor Baker, within the next week. Senator Morton endeavored to dissuade him from doing so .until the fact ‘became generally known to the leading ‘politicians through the State, when Mr; Connor, the Chairman of the State Central Committe, received a number of letters urging him to telegraph Senator Pratt to withhold his resignation for the present. -~ This Mr. Connor did, and Senater Pratt ‘assured My. Connor that “if his ' resignation was likely to cause any trouble or any embarrassment to the party, he would withhold it for the present.” That is all there is of it. The assertion of the Lafayette correspondent of the Gagette that Governor Baker was inclined to appoint the Hon. G. 8. Orth, of Lafayette, isan error, a 8 Governor Baker h#® been absent from the city for several days, and knew nothing of Senator Pratt’s intention to resign until his return home last night. He has not intimated to any one whom he would ap%oint. But one thing is considered certain ; that is, he would not have appointed any one at present in Congress. A friend . of Senator Pratt, at Logansport, takes a very different view of the situation. He, ‘declares ' unequivocally that the Senator will continue in his seat, The following is his dispatch to the Cincinnatti Gazette, under date of Logansport, December 80 : : T i

“Senator Pratt has given the whole power of his energetic nature to the practice of his Qrofess,mn for. thirty-two years,— Suddenly Senatorial honors fall upon him. ‘After a brief expetience in political life he returns to his home, and again enters, with‘dlmost yéuthful ard%r,_ upon professional duties.’ Returning to his Senatorial labors be finds himself embarrassed by the pressure of public and professional claime. . Yielding to life:long habit, in. fluenced somewhat, too, by, personal considerations, he decided for a moment in favor of the claims of his clients, and essays to resign his high gosition. A broader and better view.of duty supervenes in time, and those who know him best congratulate themselves that the pure, able, and honest, though modest and inexperienced Senator from Indians, will remain at his post. e ol

' 'The Georgia Legislature. In-view of the bill; now become a law, to remand (eorgia to the care of the members of its last chosen legislature, including. pegroes, and excluding 'those whites' who cangot''take the recomstruction test-odth, the compbsition of that body beeomes a matter of some interest. ‘The Augusta Qhronicle says that after the negro- members have been reseated there will still be a‘small Demoeratic majority in both houses. - The Senate was originally Radical, but; the loss of two Benators, by death and resignation,’ destroys ‘the Radical’ preponderance, and makes the division about equal. ~Several Radicals in each house liaye : hecome -disqualified ‘by-the acceptance of Federal: offices, and' if'they should 'be ejected, ot resign, there would be" left,” of the originally elected ‘members, anefficient Democratic majority ineach house;’ - But some of the Democrats ‘will be unseated by the application of the test-oath confained in ‘the Georgia bill. How many, is the question i Hadloals say, tentyfive i hat the Augusta Chronicle ugqx';h‘ere are really none, and that &fter the contemplated reorganization the legislature will still be in' control of thé Democrats and Conservatives. ‘This, it must be admitted, is ‘» sanguine view of the case. It the Radicals do not secure control by fair means, it will be a wonder that they do nos scbiortPlt My foaly - i tiel &00 i B

A’ Hsppy Iluastration.

Don Piatt, the Cincinnati Commereiols Washington corréspondent, illustrates reoonstruction in this wise: , . ; There: ig a toy, common among childrenm, that consists of a grotesque: . little: figure, with lesd in its seat;that will-keop it.in.a certain position. ;.- You tumble it aver, you pnut it head down, and ina few: seqcands as xfl’) after some teﬂe'cltio?, ﬂll;:b--surd thing hounces up in' the ‘limberest manner; . This illustrates mcomaﬁction. i So long as wa sit on.the figure; or load it - down with musket and cannon, it remains - prestrate.: . But the ~-moment we remove: the burden, the figure assumes its upright. position, with the-headsand feet in their pl‘edeltimd Pﬁﬁition. 3 Tr,,/’r;'?:‘-;;?" P - 5 7sop f?o-' L ® Soeguiager nt " The Hornetgville (N, Y.) Tridune, hith.’ erto, & Redieal sheet of the straightest. sect, has. become disgusted with its political nssociates, and cut loose. - It says— In’ the .future we igroposs.to devote the columns of tk ';EMM‘WWM Ot,,‘ﬁ‘. F iy e m S o XE ‘ ‘twlai do, that 1 il-tho«o:'lx rty now t ontains the element and distinguiak aﬁlﬁ‘sary to. bifting. ouif shattered Government the; had ’ s ,- trraagads Kol

s POLITICAL. ITEMS, "R Kercheval, of Speacer county, Ind,is talked of asthe Republican can: © The reception of a note from the United States government, threatening the ‘g»gnitio_n of Cuba, has been officially .@en. R. C. Kise positively declines be“ing a candidate for Secretary of State before the Bth of January. Convention at Indianapolis, : : 'The amount of the public debt, on the first day of January, was $2,658,134,670; and the amount of cash in the treasury is $209,887,716.69. . ; The ' Lafayette (Ind.) Dispatch has information to the effect that Colonel Dick DeHart hias the inside track for the Republican nomination as Attorney General. 1[ Jennings county, Indiana, will present the name of Col. Smith Vawter; atthe - 22nd of February Convention, as & candidate for the nominstion of Treasurer of State. - , : \ ~ The Secretary of the Treasury has al‘ready submitted to the Committec on “Ways and Means a bill to reorganize the Customs Bureau of the Treasury, as soon as Congress reassembles. j The Bt. Louis. Democrat (radical) says that Senator Drake, from that State (also ;radical) “is not to blame if he knows noth: [ing of economy, because he was simply elected as a hater of rebels. :

The attempt to count the vote of Indiana for the Fifteenth Amendment is denounced by a leading Republican politician of this State as fully as flagrant a reconstruction -of the State as has been witnessed in the case of Georgia. Private dispatches are said to have been received in Washington from citizens of Georgia which state that there does not appear fo be any trath in the rumars that efforts are on foot to break up a quorum of the Georgia legislature.

Itisa'singular fact that the President in ‘his annual message did not recommend any steps to be taken in the direction of the civil service reform. ' Was'it possible that he believed it impossible to stem the torrent of corruption that flows in that direction ? : :

The New York Sun declares that Secretary Fish is “killing the Republican party,” and it is announced from Washington that he contemplates an early retirement. He is not acceptable to Ben. Butler and Sumner, and that is now said to be sufficient. < ‘

- Impeacher Ashley, Governor of Montana, is making a most vigorous effort to remain in office. He has written to the President and several Republican Senators insisting on his loyalty to the administration, and on his efficiency as governor, | The name of his successor is still pending in the Senate. - » The Democratic Benatdm"und members of Congress have held.no caucus this winter, and have taken no steps to secure unity of action. The want of organization and concert is realized- by prominent Democrats a 8 a grave evil, and it is proposed, as heretofore mentioned, to remedy this at the ensuing session. e

The radicals want a state or two carved out of Texas, = There is a bill before the reconstruction committee of the House of: Répresentatives to take off a slice. and: call it Lincoln, and another to take off two and call them Houston and Lincoln. If the latter succeeds, there will be a large emigration of radical office-seekers in that direction. : L

The first full meeting of the Cabinet, in Washington, which has been held -for ten days, took place yesterday. It is not known that anything was done beyond the routine of ‘business, The President signed quite a large' number of commissions of unimportant revenue and postal officers, whose appointments have been previously announcel.: =~

One Whittemore, a carpet-bagger who has got into Congress from South Carolina, proposes for Virginia that, after the iron-clad oath of July, 1862, is taken, (which, by the way, excludes every white born Virginian now in the State) the vacant ‘seats ‘“shall be awarded to their ‘eligible opponents who received the next shighest number at votes of the late elec‘tion il ; i

Strong efforts are being made to sécure the defeat of General Sickles' as minister to Spain. His opponents in Washington have got up a/ long series of charged against him, comprising quite a period of his life, and also a record of the Senate, showing. that he was made a Brigadier General by, only one vote of that body.— It is intended to. lay this statement before the senate ‘committee on forein relationg:; Arpniics o )

There are rumors that it is not true that the members of the reconstruction committee have. informally agreed. on any compromise regarding. the -admission of Virginia, by:- which a modified test. oath is to be-exacted. - It is the general opinion among. ‘the best 'informed, regarding the Virginia question, that” Whittemore's bill will #6t be adopted, but the Bof the 44 members of the committee will vote to. report a bill simply declaring the State entitled to'sdmission, without applying fupthartesty . (1 e s

‘We see it stated ; that \Judge: Frazier i will not allow his name to go 'before the Republican State - Convention of Indians’ for & renomination to the Supreme bench:' He deelines in‘ordér“to produce harmony'in the party.”" The fact'is, the follow--ers of that eminently pious statesmin, ' Ctiniback, had " the wires all Taid to beat’ Judge Frazier, and he saved himself the, humiliation by stepping, out of the way,. Well, it will only . necessitate the Dempe--racy.beating somebody ; else. for Supreme. Jtidge‘mxtOctoben sivnilng 3 il-591 |

"' good 'deal 'of ‘curiosity is felt opon th qiestion whether the United States Supreme Court ever mean fo. decide. the ous o the Misou fsh On, sppeled by Gen. Frauk P, Blair. The osse was argued a year ago, and. carried up,a long' time even before-that-on appeal. The rule.of the Court is to- advanice causes affecting great ‘public - interests, but ths cause was - ot -advanced, though it af: fected the rightto vote of over 200,000 whilte ‘persons i Wissoty; West: Virgi: i Tl bl ot Sk 2 1 the coéméufé lack; the nerys to meet, muw'nuwm» ,‘he’im’t dmﬂ P BICy ¢ ey

Sl STATE ITEMS. County papers are publishing delin“Tripo Oli GF the yéry best quality hasbeen Hiscdsired i Dﬁ{s county. t’ T o Tbnndiqlplpe ipers of the state are praisiingthe Indiq;?i State-Bentinel. pn . Boutk Bend has a Doctor named Pagan. who practices among the heathen. “=; Marion county, gent six prisoners to the Northern prison, week before last. - The state treasury had a balance of $204,625 49 on the 1t of January. . Within the year, three couples have been divorced and re-married at Kokomo. - The city council of Indianapolis, passed ' the water-works ordinanoégoaat n?;l::. John Hull has been a constant subscriber to the Goshen Democrat for thirtytwo years. e i : - Christian Bebue, of Connersville, while out shooting on Chrimémas, accidentally killed his son. : - ~_The colored citizens of Indianapolis celebrated the Emancipation Aniversary on New Years day. 5 Jacob Fisher, ope of the oldest citzens of Madison, died on Tuesday night last, at the ageof 65. - ; Joan L. Vance, of Crawford county, a few days since, slaughtered a hog weighing 778 pounds net. : : The papers of the State contain reports of a very large number of festivals and similar entertainwents, .. b G. W. McCafferty, Treasurer, of Daviess county, has made an assignment for the benefit of his bondsmen. 3 - The Elkhart Wagon Manufactory have received an order for one thousand: wagons for the Southern market. B The State Teachers Association was in session at Indianapolis last week, and the 'Editorial fraternity meet to-day. » The Indinapolis papers publish two columns of names of ladies of that city who “received” on New Years day. Santa Claus mude about the usual number of calls throughout the State, and confectioners profited proportionately. : ~ A thoughtful old lady in Muncie bought a shroud for her husband, because she had an opportunity of buying it cheap. . - - The members ot the Lebanon M. E. Church are having trouble over a lottery given for the benefit of the Church. Mrs. Hurd, daughter of Barnum, the great showman, is at present a resident of South:Bend. She wants a divorce.

A young lady at Pierceton, slipped on the side-walk, and broke a leg, while on her way to church, on Sunday of last week. : . When the people of Evansville get sick it's no use to send for Maginnis.. The Doctor was thrown from his horse and badly hurt. ¢ ' v . The convicts of the southern prison had for their Christmas dinner 440 pounds of turkey, bes?des pies, cakes, coffee, and other luxuries. : The entire family of Rev. Mr. Culmer, at New Albany (six children), are pros trated with small pox, and the disease is reported to be prevalent in that place. Geo. Gibbs, a Crawford county school teacher, got into a fight with a young man: named Stewart, and was dangerously stabbed in'the abdomen. There was a young woman in the case. ; One span of the iron bridge across the ‘Wabash river, at Pittsburg, is completed. 1t is said to look meat and substantial.— The remaining portion will be erected as rapidly as the weather will permit. The Martinsville Gasette is authority for the statement that Judge James Huges, of Bloomington, has come into possession of a comfortable" little fortune of ‘5500,1000, a$ an:attorney in some Alabama cotton claims., iapqion ol . On Christmas, while a party of young folks of Liberty were out skating, a Miss Pyle broke through the ice ; and was rescued by .a gentleman of the party, wha jumped in after her. May she some day be his pile. + G - A blacksmith at Monticello, on’ Christmas, was endeayoring to remove the thimble from off & broken axle, when the steam generated in a cavity in the end of the axle exploded, blowing part of the axle into his abdomen. : . A fatal and reckless shooting affair occurred at a, Christmas tree and Sunday. school festival oh‘Saturday afternoon, near Wabash, Indiana, resulting in thé death of an estimable young man named Joseph ‘Oswold; seventeen years of age. =

Mr. J. R. Finley, of Delphi, was badly burned through careless handling of a coal oil lamp. His little girl picked up a torpedo, put it in her mouth ‘and bit it. ‘The forpedo exploded instantly, splitting her . tongue, tearing her lips and -mouth badly. . a 4 wpom ' The Bloomington Progress siys that a woman applying for a divorce in that town, rose while her counsel was demanding provision for herself and children, and said'she “didn’t want provision.”— She had bread and meat enough to last her through the winter, ‘but she : wanted alittle ready money: i The -Goshen: Democrat'says that week before last, Mr. Willieam Alwine, of Elk hart prairie, had a horsestolen. - A young man came to that office and had bills prin. ted and sent out immediately. The result was, that as soon as,_ the marshal of Ligonier received one, the horse was returned to its owner before night. ' 'The thief, however made his escape. 2 On Monday last, 8 woman, apparently about twenty-four years old, suffering from: the'dropsy in its ‘worst form was, hauled in an open one-horse wagon' four or five miles to Bloomfield to receive 8 permit to receive county treatment.— During the ride, the cold drizzling rain and sleet was beating upon her swollen and anprotécled fecey '~ .- T ko The )Lafaﬁ_‘ette{ Dispatch furnishes. the following illustration of total degrayity; in that cty: “The mayor adjudicated the'case of ' two young and apparently respectable looking white women, last week, who were charged with' being Tewd with two' inegroes. . The: crime. was: proved against them and they were committed for 16 days in default oﬂpmﬂgg the . fine. Their paramours were also fined and paid: théiewiysouk” = .- . .- Week before last was a harvest- day with the surgeons of Goshen. - Mr, Lewis: Yeakel, while working about the machinery at ‘his brothers’ mest;bﬁghiﬂeﬁt“on : the canal, had . his 'middle finger so7in jured tha it had to be smputated sbove the second | joint ; Mr. John Freeman; fell down ‘th f’-’%&%"m"' head | quite; seyerely ; Mr. Rob G"}}t ¥, engineer, g E.& . Gortier's michine shops, had his face' badly cut while sawing; and Mr. Ezra ' Robison, living ‘north ‘of ‘ William Vesey's was run over by & wt%n,and severely bruised in the side'and breast. ' oot a s e d sl Blneiar renee - st The 'B.tu%,;‘;l_!micnyg_‘rﬂ society met at. Indidnapoli yesterday morbing., A ou. ber of ‘members were present. ton. I D. @. Nelson' ‘delivered ‘his ‘aiinual’ address, and resigned hisloffice, declining a re-elee-tion, | The repotts of the varions: officers. were ead, sad referred to s committee for. elected for the emsuing year: . President,. Dr. A. Furnas; vice presidents, J. O, Ratliﬁpdﬁn‘m ‘,S x:‘.‘- 5 az “ ?j 8. &umiw. snd Wm. Pa bepittw ookl oo toR o

- GENERAL] NEWS ITEMS, gl g, ———— The Queen of Prussia has a religi‘ous novel in press, o . William H. Seward is on his way ’home from the City of Mexico. . The President-elect of Switzerland. M. Victor Ruffy died in Lazerne on s SIS A ; ;Co’nnecti,cng already reports three hundred divorces this year, with sev‘éral counties to liear from. e * A Colored child having beéen admitted to a school in Washington, seven white children were withdrawn. On Sunday of last week California was visited with another earthquake, which continued during the night. A panic in a London ‘theatre, on Monday night of last week, resulted in the death of eighteen persons. - A new mail contract tor carryi ‘the mail between this - country Q:E ‘England has just commenced opesa‘tion - i s o ~ The latest news from the Winnipeg ~war ig. that the Canadian government ‘has recalled the unlucky Governor . McDougall. f s . The Cashier of the Merchant’s Ex‘change National Bank has defaulted “to the tune of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. L Articles of Association -of the Fort ‘Wayne and Pacific Railroad were fik ed on Thursday. The eapital will be three million dollars. Eilon, Annie Gillmen, a little girl, 4 years old died in Louisville on Thursday of hydrophobia, having béen bitten by.a mad dog two months ago. Ths destination of the ‘monitor Miantonomah is not Samana and war, but Portland aud Peabody. She will be ready to sail on Saturday. : The statement of the public debt is ‘hereafter to be printed in three languages, English, French, and German; one-third of it in each, probably. - _Gen. B. F. Butler is under bail in ' New York, for stealing seventy-five ‘thousand dollars in silver from a lady in New Orleans, during the war. ~ There is to be held*a joint conven‘tion of the maritime powers of the wo(;ld, to provide for the protection and neutrality of submarine cables. . Hon. Horatio Seymour met with a ~serious .accident near Utica on Wednésday. He was thrown from his carriage, and his shoulder was dislocated. ¢ The bullion yield of the South Ari'zona Mine, White Pine, for December, is eighty thousand dollars. Shipments to New York wlll be made direct hereafter. 2

The receipts at Milwaukee of wheat and flour, reduced to wheat, for 1869, foot up nearly twenty-millions .of bushels. The shipments were twenty million. ¢ T g s The mnegroes are after the public lands with vicious earnestness. They have memoralized Congress for the forty acres the Radicals promised them each; but they say notiing about the mules. - ; 5 A plan comes to Congress from Alaska for making $500,000 a year for the Government from the far seal hunting trade. ' The committee of Ways anid means have this promising plan in their charge. e The|losses by fire in St. Louis from Jappary Ist, to November 27, aggregate.one miilion six hundred and forty one thousand seven hundred;and seventy ; insured, four hundred and sixtyseven thousand three kundred and seventy dollars. An important rumor- eirculated in Washington to the effect that the Duke of Argyle is coming over as special ambassador, with a proposition' to settle the Alabama claims by ceding British Columbia and the Winnipeg region to the United States. £ o

. The monarch ‘with Mr. Peabody’s remaing is not expected at Postland until - the' midde of January. ' Our moniters will be” despatched thither to receive the funeral fleet about that time. The Monarch will make the voyage by the way of the Azores. - The international .ocean -yatch race has been arranged by Mr. Ashbury, of the Cambria, and Mr, Bennett, Jr., of the Dauntless, to come off next summer. The yachts are to, start on the 4th of next July, and race from Cowes to New York. TLet us hope there will be fair-play and no Plam Gut. s Letters written from Rome to Berlin assert that the ‘American- Bishops will *“follow blindly the Papal lead’” which is understood to be to Papal infallibility and kindred conservative dogmas. At present the French bisho%s; appear. to lead the liberal wing of t e(g ounel g Aot A Florida = paper reports -that a steamer. with ‘an exploring: party ‘has ascended the Bt.-John river 370 miles, 150 miles farther than ever before accomplished. :The lakes through which they passed are said'to be indiscribably beautiful and the country more diversified than lower down the river. -

-« The' following is' the new French ' cabinet Minister of the intérior, M. ‘Gtieroniere ; minister-of foreign affairs ‘M. Billante; minister of justice, M. Richard ; minister o{ the public works, M. Duvernois; minister of commerce, M. Bourbean ; 'minister of instruction, ‘M. Farien; president of the council, M. Magne. 'Bhe minister of fine arts, ‘M. _V:i?a’ht, as well as Lebonef Rigault and 'Genonilly, retain ' their respective pottfolios, - 1 N et The:French, Ministry resigned. on the, 28th ult., and in his letter of charpe to. M; Oliver, .the : emperor requests him to select persons to the ministry who will represent in letter. and sﬁ:irt the Senatus Consulium of September. The ‘liberal journals of Paris are.evidently mach plessed. with tho impori al mamfmgf for upon, the sirength of it they proclaim the .death of personal government and the inaugurasion .of the liberal empire. . . . | The: fathers of -the » Beumenical , Conncil%erfqu::aeir«hbofa 4n secret: ~session; - but it 'was reported in Rome that the subject: now under discussion is,.*“Whether philosphyis heterodox.” The outlines of the two' great:partiés ‘will support the extremest proposition pad.iniallioii r.; Jupanlonp ‘a majority-of the French and German bishops will form the nucleus of ; the libi"s'win‘. Saaigash ange wea

OUR TAXES SHOULD BE REDUCED. " Queen ! Elizabeth used to say that | money in.the-pockets of her subjects was as safe for her purposes, as in her: own coffers, siuce, as she never extort-; ed from them more than she needed;' they always cheerfully gave her what she did need. That rugged old finan- | eier Andrew Jackson was accustitned to_ovow the same sterling- ‘monétarytruth, as the central idea of his system of domestic economy, tln;_l'Sl'»,et:iAly Commissioner “Wells elaborates it into b:iglixly instructive lessons in his late admirable report. President Grang and Secretary Boutwell, however, appear to have learned their financial. ‘and economical lessons from other and less simple anthorities than Queen Bess and old Hickory. - Their central, gov‘erning idea in their system would seem to-be to pay off the National debt in the | hardest way, and the shortest time—‘and to extort from the people the very maximum amount that the People can séay. Forgetting - that the l‘fqﬁonﬂ‘ ebt is the people’s, and it is their busi- - ness to pay it at theirown time, and in their own way, Mr. Boutwell acts on the assumption that the people would not gsy the debt, if left to themselves, and therefore must be made to pay it by oppressive assessments.—. Good faith to the bondholder and the creditor is, with Mr. Boutwell, a mo‘tive which all but oveitops regard for ‘, the people and the debtor ; ,::g in his ~eagerness to squeeze_the faithful fowl that lays the golden eggs, he is in some. “danger of seriously -impairing her lay‘ing capacities, The reasonable gross taxation acked from a people is that amount which they can pay -easily, cheerfully, and without distress ; and it is not safe for a statesman or raler to venture beyond this, exceptin temporary emergencies, and when the ex-. treme measures are approved by the people themselves. To say that the people should pay all the taxes -they can pay-is unjust to them; and dangerous to their rulers. The uncom:plaining alacrity with which the American ; people have paid, and are still paying, the present vast taxes assessed under the clumsiest and most" partial system to be found anywhere in the civilized world, attests their good faith and their patriotism. 'l'his alacrity is not monopdlized by that portion of the people ‘who belong to Mr. Boutwell’s party ; it is shared in a fully equal de--gree by those who are his political opponent#; and it suggests to the Secretary of the treasury the propriety of according to the people a heartier confiden¢e in a business which is all their own, andin which he is simply their agent. . S 5 Pyl But the time has' come when the popular good nature deserves some substantial recognition. The taxes should be reduced.. The government is exacting from- the people a- sum larger than it has any reagonable use for, larger than it ought “to receive, and larger than the people caun: easily- pay. The increasing surplus in the treasury. .proves the first part of this assertion, and the complaints of depression in busineps whicg we_ begin to hear from the humbler industries and trades prove the latter. The surplus ' remaining in. the T'reasury on June 30, 1869, after ‘paying all expenses of the government, and interest on the national debt, was 849,453,149, . The excess of rceeipts over expenditures for the quarter end ing September 30th, 1869 was $23,351,107 ; and the estimated excess for the three remaining quarters of the present fiscal year ending June 30th, 1870, is $102,000,000. This is Mr. Boutwell’s estimate. That of Special Commissioner Wells, ‘whose opinion is entitled to higher respect,places the surplus on the 30 of June, 1870, at $124,000,000. This large amount of money the government is exacting from the people,.over and.aboye what it needs to. pay its currentexpenses, and the inte--rests.on its debt. What shall be done with it 7 Shall it be applied to the re--duction of the debt, or shall a fair proportion of it to be left nncolkcte£ in the pockets of the_people? = Mr. Boutwell would collect it, and apﬂy it tothe reduction of the debt—for Mr Boutwell has a mania for reducing the debt, even to the neglect of some other things that deserves his attention. © “We shall ‘be in a condition to ‘enter ugon‘ the. work of reducing taxation,” he says - “at the commencement of the next session of Congress”— that is & year from now, The special Commissioner, on the contrary, ‘is earnest in the convie:tion that the people should be released. from the duty of paying a fair proportion of this coming surplus, by a reduction of their taxes. It is not only expedient, he remarks, but it is “absolutely imperative—demanded alike by . the highest economical considerations, and by the almost unanimous sentiment of the people.”” ‘He proposes, therefore, that taxes be reduced $50,000,000, which would .still leave $74,-, | 00(,000 to be @p(flied to the reduction of the: debt; and he would direct the* ‘release of taxes, first to the removal of what he calls *“unnecessary burdens’’ from induatry, so as to allow it to ob- " “tain its material at the minimum cost; ,&nal wly i 9to the’ dl!}linntih}l 01‘ ‘the elements ‘of living to' the great mass of the people in their capacity of _consumers.” Beginning inthe De-_partment:-of Internal' Revenue, he wonld remove: . . G oL EE . Ist. The whole body of what is known as ‘special taxes or licenses, ‘except, those levied on banks, bankers, and manufacturers and dealers in beer,. spirits and tobaceo. . . . 3d../The ‘taxes iofi ‘the gross te‘ceipts of railroads, stage coaches, insurance, telegraph and express companies, canals, ferries, ships;. barges ‘and ds.teagbog Pl N ‘l' ; P 3 ‘. b o ‘{,, .- Y Ln. £ .‘{’v.-.c o 8 ‘not otherw ﬁ“ "‘?r" = ~ These three measu ﬁ‘mat.-'. od, would ralessd to-4hié people $25. " Going pext: inio the departmens of ‘the duty: 01 mwwu ton; on scrap-iron from $5lO 83 a ,'"i‘“l: §;;nd'lll‘_ -reduction from 18 to 9 a hundred, in bulk; &ndfrom 24 to 12 icenu'ia‘l ‘f 1 éntire ‘removal o '2O per cent; duty on lumber, eoal, &‘gﬂ? - ore, | . ; % S of‘:&%a% 17 =) r‘f:s‘o'_ B jute and sun hemp, hides, leather, tan‘ning barks and materials. lastings and ‘serge, bronse, crude sulpher, soda ash, | Torg TR e SRI R VhbAg on an accurate. and intelligent investi: | pation of the “"*’ »f the people, | : gt et fr;%;?xrr . ddad t | & r 55 ';,‘3%"“ ‘;r -. ~ ‘ ,“ﬂ #’ ’g“*w ﬁw

trade, commerce and revenue sources than any other official ia it, deserves the attentive consideration of Congress. The néed of a reduction of Q&xeh' on the people grows greater every day. "andtgz country will not long continue to-be bnr.denedy. with. unnecessary and unwise taxes, which only serve to augment 8 surplus in the T'reasury, with‘out serious murmurs of discontent.— Bt. Louis Republican. s s

‘Scandal at Wilbraham, Massachuset(s. ~_The depths of Wilbrabam' society are profoundly stirred by a case of mﬂg&l .in high dife.. The unmarsied ” daughter xof a - well-to-do mercll&ant ‘in . that place ave birth, on Mondayyito a fine ieamay:bvy.and although great efforts have been made to keep thie matter secret, itis now town's talk. The paternity of the little stran- . ger is said to' be somewhat jp-doubt. It is, perhaps, traceable to some one of the Good: Pemplass, of which rgani ny oR ER R o ¥ zation its mother has been an active member, but more likely belongs to a young “Methodist exhorter who' was Jormerly a student in Wilbraham Academy, :The young man's license: to " preach has been revoked, and he., disapgeared from the town several . months ago. The girl was doctored for various diseases, until the true cauge of her troubles could no longer bé concealed, when, it is said, she claimed that force had been used upon her.— Both the newly-made mother and her father - are prominent menibers' of the Methodist Church, which fact, of course, only causes greater comment,. and makes the affair the more to be deplored.-—Spr‘z'ngﬁeld Republican. ,

DANGER IN A NIGHT Lamp.— Miss Nettie Bulband, of Meridian, Cayuga county, had a very narrow escape from death by suffocation last week ‘under the following circumstances: She took a common kerosene lamp and went to her room, and as she expected a younger sister to follow her soon, she turned down the wick partially and went to sleep. The ivlounger sister followed her.in about alf an hour, when she found the’ room filled with a suffocating vapor, and the blaze streaming ‘up from the lamp, threc.tening explosion.. With remarkable presence of mind ‘she took the lamp and handed it to her father - down the stairs, and he succeeded in throwing it out of doors. The lamp thus ‘safely disposed of, on’ returning to the:chamber they found the daughter lying in an unconscious state—eyes wide open, with a death-like stare—and she could not be aroused. They immediately removed her from the room, and after some little time, - under the treatment of a physician, she was restored to consciousnesg, but suffering a severe pain in her- lungs. ; We give the particulars of this case at some length, because there are thousands of our readers, we doubt not, who are in the' habit of going to: sleep with kerosene burning in lamps at.t.ll;e side of their beds.—Rochester Chronicle.”. . ’ .

. The Mobile Weekly Register, the oldest Democratic paper in the South, is said to. ;. bave reached a larger. circulation than ;was ever attained by any Journal South ‘of Mason and Dixon’s line. ‘lt 'is full of interesting varied matter, having an able - . Agricultural Department, presided over - by the veteran Editor and successful Ag“riculturist, Hon. C. C. Langdon. Its Gen“eral Literature, Poetry, Stories, &c., make it highly acceptable’ to the ladies. ' ~ The coming year will open with a new continued -story, of deep interest, by one ‘of the miost distinguished writers of the day." The price was recently reduced to - $3,00 per year which, for so large a paper, (12 'pages,gis extremely cheap.

s M., DENNY, : Attorney at Law,— Albion, Noble co., Ind Will give careful and prompt attention to al business entrusted to his care, <" = Tae UNiversaL Ory, * What shall I buy for holiday presents-?”’ car be answered best by G. -A. Plummer: & Co,, 40 Hanover St., Boston, who have an immense variety of Holiday and useful articles, such as albkindn of Fandy box-: es, Writing Desks, Glove Boxes, Albums in Morocco, and Gilt and Velvet bindings; real Morocco.‘Shopping ‘Bags, Furnished* Reticules; Bilv-e‘r?med' Ware, and Cutlery. of all descriptions, Jewelry imitations of the latest styles of solid gold, which eannot be diltingmshed from the resal, etc., mﬁo hknndreds of t oc:*late,nt and most interesting Books. _Their sto -contains -almost . evarxthiugéf,uu&rﬁz‘xmimpplj _the _wants and gratify the tastes of everybody, gl:‘gu they claim that {heir aoflies SoR BaFlng drebd" goods enablé to sell at very much under the regular prices paid for such articles! “They want Agenta jeverywhere, to- whom they offer most. «liberal inducements..- We call attention to their: -advertisement in another column. - ' 'B4t4

Read the 'follnwinlg letter trom ane of ‘the oldest and mogt reliable grocery merchants'in the citlg of Davenport: 4 gareteddy ‘Faienp WarLToN : Agreeable to my gmmim to you when here, I write you (for publication if you see moper.) a'true statement of the good ef-: fects 6f Roback’s Btomach Bitters upon myself.. I had been troubled with indigestion for's long ]tim]e,u :ftended with 'a%vere"geaduc:g. particu;larly after. eating, when, fortunately, an- gl ?sold’_i’er'ﬁ-gix& t::gxé into the store and i-tectgrnli‘Eé ' “mended me to use Roback’s Bitters. I did so, by taking asmall wine glassfull just before:each mesl, and to my great.joy I was relieyed at ~once, and am now. well by their._ use. .I ;wo,uh % not'be without them at any, priee. . I have nos “taken any other .medicine, . singe, f[oommenegd 5 | using the bitters. And I can say, with a c'lain ] conscience, try Roback’s Bitters'; they will do all they are recommended to do, if taken accord. ing to instructions. Yours t'miy, 3 opngaan gs e nie Franx . Msnteacy b Of the firm of Biedeback & Miller, wholeasle - grocers, Davenport, lowa. T

The language of n;!ure and experience demonstra}en :il,“t‘h wl:,:c;ver wo;:ld énjoy thtebpl.a‘. "sures of food, the beauties.o Jgpd!fom 2 JOY:, of companionship, the riches of" I :ért’fnré’, or the honors of station and renown, must preserye their health. The effect of foul, injurious-food entering the stomach, is to derange the digest.: ive organs and produce headache, loss of appetite, unrefreshing sleep, low spirits, fevérial' bumin%s, ete., which are the dsﬁlg toms of that . horrid diseass, Dyseersra, which lﬁ&_np‘gqthonsand shapes, and points towards s wiserable life and premature deeay. | PLANTATION Brreurs will ‘prévent, qvércqme and' sotrferacti all of i these effects.. They act with unérring power; | and are taken with the pleasure of a beverage. , ]liA(lnl’Ol;.l’AjWLfll—:snbéfiét€‘; the best im- : ported-German ~Oologue, snd sold-af half the: ’ price. . 2o cal ol o Preasant Hron, Mowk:, April 91868 ' - D=, C."Roßack, Oig‘znuitl b—’»%ufﬂir ;:‘4“; ‘ {;:5: s{:‘“ my 'wifob rhu& th‘e I.lbvor crgmplli!:t'lb © was unable to sit up but a few minutes at a time. - I'had %bﬁy&mg Mﬂgﬁer for some time, bat the medicine thas: he.gave her seemed to do. h%gsz&ime orno M’ I was ¢ lud:;ud "t; %:‘l’h ;’“t g\l&'of “)'r%“b ﬂilrl l:nd et:her.try ‘and see if they: would . help her. Sov,l-;hontght_’thtt if one bottle wonld | " pod, two would be better, and I got her'two bostles, and when she had taken the.last boitle fall she conld do most of herdidhsswork. | got her one, more, which entigély sured her, a 4 ahe tooked the better that I i?ﬁm*’ or for four years. We resommonded (homs foseveeal about Roigh: 34481 Lo o Plokwiek, Winons, 00., ‘L‘ T ‘. s e A genjfeinan. Who ‘suffarbd for JkbsH \ ‘Nehvf b) ,A Pran 1:‘-‘. Deca ,and m% sy Yol sosioy il o it, the receipt and diréctions for m: ting the. 8 e R wHiks ,ﬁ. G kt_:l RS \‘i\‘ ” - m& fiﬁ%‘ ."f‘.'f%r'“gié-# rien ‘;mﬁww_ - ndlife *’x{é’iﬁ““’ e confidenee, - .~ | r;,lé, _OGDEN. "' salyp) fﬁku Now York. 1F you don’t want $0 disgust eyervhods oot " your offensive breath, eare *?ﬁi&;ﬁ_&ef ~,g‘» g oy & 5 ; 5 .. e:! <y£‘. ;p"xv ,IT"; v“_i b propriskmApiel Beet Ot Hoaulo e sl ’#fxi annot S-S S o Ois e i r S sy