The National Banner, Volume 4, Number 39, Ligonier, Noble County, 26 January 1870 — Page 1

THE NATIONAL BANNER,| ~ . Published Weekly by th SOHN B, STOLL, uIGONIEFf_@,,,NOBLE COUNTY, IND | i d -A\,.,‘..wq.w\‘.,:-., B i , /TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : i Serictlyin SAVRRORL Lo L Es i s 9800 g7~ Any person sending a club of 20, accompanied with the ‘cash, willbe entitled to acopy of the paper, for one year;tree ofchar e., | NATIONAL BANNER | Newspaper, Book and Job

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POWER PRESS PRINTING OFFICE. We would re:pet:l.l'ulU inform the .Mer«hz;nts and Basiness' men generally that we are now ~ prepared to do all kinds of PLAIN & FANCY PRINTING, n as ;;ood style and atas low rates a 8 any publishing house in Northern Indiana, . » Michigan South. & N. Ind’a R. R. On and after April 25; 1889, trains will leave Stations as follows: 1 ! . GOING EAST: 4 I Ezxpress. Mail Train. Chieago. ... .iviit i 0208 2 MJ, . 1 50.8:00 AM. *Bikhart ... ..o el 190 Pow, Goshen. . i, ot Rl A TSO PM, Millersburg.. ......(don’tstop). ... .si... 1211 4 Ligonler ... icie oo iT08: 8 o 19:50 Wawaka............(d0n’t stoP) S 1210000 Brimfiel@ coi ol il e e Eendallville ociol i 1088 8- o 0 JIiBT Y Arrive at T01ed0.......2:80 A M ........5:05 ** GOING WEST: i . Ezpress: Mail Train: T 01640 .. . icisiiorie BTOA, M. o oo 2REOO P Kenda11vi11e...........8: 45 A, M,........ 445 P, M. Beimtield v oo o aaliD s o 0 B 0 0 Wawales, /o 0 i e eLI L1ﬁ0n1er.‘..‘...........4:20 A bDO % Millersburg. ... :i.oois PR S Goshen'. (.. i aiiiud Bl L, 0010 Y SHIRNASE 0o Gl R Arrive at Chicago.. Ca IRI v 8 M *Stop 20 minntes for breakfast and supper. Ex?resa leaves daily ooth ways. Mail Train makesclose connection at Eikhart with trains going East and West. & . C.F.HATCH, Gen'lSupt., Chicago. J. JOHNSON, A4gent, Ligonier, : EXCELSIOR LODGE, NO. 267, I. O.of 0.F., Meets at their Hall on every S-\tm‘d? evening of each week. A. JACKSON, N. G. M. W.COE, V. G. R. D, KERR, ~ Nov. 25th, 1868, —tf. : Secretary.

: J. M. DENNY, ] Attorney at Law,—AWion, Noble co., Ind Will give careful and prompt attention to a buginces entrusted to his care. - ; 3-6 e, ee e . L LUTHER H. GREEN, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public. LIGOCNIER, - - - - INDIANA. - Office on Cavin Strcet, over Sack Bro’s. Grocery, opposite Hclmer House. 41-8-ly D. W. C. DENNY, ¥ Physician and Surgeon,—ZLigonier, Ird. Will promptly and faithfully attend to all calls in the line of his profession—day or night—in town or any distance in the country. Pcrsons wishing his serviees at n:lght, will ﬂng him at his ~ father’s residence, first door east of Meagher & Chapman’s Hardware Store, where all calls, when abseut, should be left. 1-1 - E. RICHMOND, Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer, o Cavin street, Ligonier, Indiana. S;iecia.l attention given to conveyanclng and col- * lections, Deeds, Bonds aud Mortgages drawn up, and all legal business attended to promptly and accurately. . May 26th, 1868. HELMER HOUSE, . A, J. MATTISON, Prop'r, LIGONIER, - - . INDIANA. This Heuse has been Refitted and Refurnished : in Wirst Class Style. : , WM. L. ANDREWS, Surgeorr Dentist. ; Mitchel’s Block, Kendallville, All work warranted. ‘Examinations free. 2-47 A A s s e kot it i - DR. E. W. KNEPPER, Helectic Physician & Surgeon,—Ligonier. All diseases of the Lungs and Throat successful.y treatedgiyinhalation. No chargés for consultation. Office with W. W. Skillen, esq. 1-8 : . \\'QODEUFF, - 3 G. B. WOODRUFF. " WOODRUFF & SON, ECLECTIC PHYSICIANS AND ;SURGEONS,‘ LIGONIER, « « « - . = INDIANA. Will attend promptly all calls from town and country. Office in Drng Store of Barnett & Co.— Residence north side o Rai}road. 4-11 ~ RB W CRUM, ;P i . 9 $ oS Physician and Surgeon, ' Ligomier, = « « , Indiana. . ' Office one door south of L. Low & Co’s Clothing Store, up stairs.. May 12th, 1869, e G. W.CARR, : . W.D.RANDALL. ; CA;R.R;&;RANDALL, Physicians and Nurgeons, LIGONIER, - - - -/ - - IND, Willipromptly attend all calld iritrusted to them. Office on 4th St,, one door east ef the NATIONAL BaxyEr office. fe 3-43

- SAMUEL E. ALVORD, Attorney at Law, Claim Agent, ‘and Notary Public, Albion, Noble Co., Ind. ' Business in the Courts, Claims of soldiers and .~ heir heirs, Conveyancing. &c., promptly and carefully attended to. Acknowledgments, Deposi~ tionwand Affidavits, taken and certified. | NEW FIRM AND NEW GOODS 4 i — AT — WOLF LAKXKE, lIND. Notice is hereby given'that C. R. Wiley and Samuel Beall have entered into a co-partnership n the Merchandise business, and that they have just unpacked alnrge stock of Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, &c, Call and see for yourself. ; fade, T WILEY & BEALL. Wolf Lake, Nov. 8, 1869.-27tf J.BITTIKOFFER, . DRALER IN WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEW'LRY,SILVER WARE,NOTIONS, Spectacles of every Description, ‘ g &c,, &c. &e., &e. - All kinds of work done n‘s)on the shortest notice and warranted as to durab ltﬁ Shop in Bowen’s new Brick Block, Kendallville, - Indiapa, : 2-81 . GANTS & MILLER, - Burgical and Mechanical Dentists, il uqonm,- = =« TINDIANA. i 2 : Are prepared | B R i : » . tice.of orvgtr‘ft-) i e, e {em Justifies i e hem in saylug i ’ / ” zha: etﬁh.ﬁ{e::: | GEF WY "Q‘” Et;enonto all CEE R W PLAS who may deW 8@ Ofiée nmy buildin Bireet.: g 3 TRIET O e T A ~ Solomon in new Quarters! SR e L s“m 3 b hes % Wlm&gfum : %W‘xm % Co., purchased a U GmOCERUNS, ke, SRR S s in his line at rates-fully as low as any other es

Vol. 4.

_ SAO‘K BROTHERS, Bakers & Grocers. Cavin Street, Ligonier, Indiana. =~ Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes, &¢., Choice Groceries, Provisions, Yankee Notions, &c The hiﬁhest cagh price paid fer Countré Produce May 13, 68-tf. SACK BRO'S. KELLEY HOUSE, : Kendallville, Ind. ? . This is a First-class House, sitnated on Main Btreet, in the central part of the City, making it very convenient for AFente, Runners, and all other trangient men visit nﬁlour City, to do business without goin%rar from the House. ' General Stage office for the North and South. Stabling for for%y horses. Livery, and Free 'Bus. : J. B. KELLEY, Proprietor. G. W. Greexn, Clork. = . - STRAUS BROTHERS Wounld resPechnlly announce to their customers and the public in %eneral that they continue to %urchase PRODUCE at the highest market )pri(ms. aving no bu‘yer on the gtreets, farmers having %rodnce for sale will please call at onr office inthe rick Clothing Store. : Ligonier, April 29, 1869. —tf i F. W. STRAUS. JACOB STRAUS. Exchange and Brokers' Office, ‘ LIIGONIER, IND. Btg and sell Exchange on all principal cities of the United States, and sxLL Exchan%e on all princlgal cities of Europe, at the very lowest rates. They also sell passage tickets, at very lowest n%ures, to all Erincipul seaports of Europe. 8-52tf . N. B.—The g‘resent price of passage in steerage from New York to Hnmbur%, Plymouth, London and Cherbonrg ‘has been reduced to only $3O in gold. : JOHN B, GOODSELL & CO., HATS, CAPS, STRAW . AND ‘Men’s Furnishing Goods. 131 WATER STREET, : CLEVELAND, OHIO. May21,%68-Iy. . © - ELKHART BOOK BINDERY, i at the'ofnce of the : HERALD OF TRUTH,” ELKHART, -~ = = &, ‘= = 'IND. We take pleasure to inform our friends and the publicin general, that we have established a Book Bindery, ' . In connection wita our Yrinting Office, and are now prepared to do all kinds of Binding, such as Books, Pamphlets, Magazines, Music, promptly and on reasonable terms. apr. 29th, '6B.~tf. JOHN F. FUNK. GO AND SEE GOTSCH & BECKMAN’s JEWELR . STORE, - Main Street, Kendallville, Ind. Tkey have just received the finest assortmentand : latest styles of - : | JEWELRY, , : SILVERWARE, : i CLOCKS, ETC., Also the best American Watches. Only ¢ me and see them. 3 All fine work done and satisfaction guaranteed. Shop opposite Miller’s new block, Kendaﬁville, Ind., June 26th, ’67. tf. BAKERY AND RESTAURANT

B. HAYNES, Opposite ‘the Post Office, Ligonier, Ind. My Bakery will be supplied at all timeg with fresh Biscuits, Bread, Pies, Cakes, Crackers, &e., &, Wedding parties, pic-nics and private parties will be furnished with anything in the pastry line, on short notice. and in the very latest style, on reasonable terms, Oysters and warm meals furnished at all honrs. Charges reasonable. Farmers will find this a good place to satisf’y,the “inner man.” = 2 Jan’y 6, ’69.—tf PHOTOGRAPHIC. H. R. CORNELL, Having purchased the PHOTOGRAPH ROOMS, Lately occtipied by J. F. Christman, respectfully announces to the public that he is prepared to take Any one’s Phiz;- : Just as it is, L 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 ambrotypesinto cardsor enlarging. . - Work warranted in all cases satisfactory. Ligonier, Ind., May 3d, 3866. FANNING MILLS! The undersigned is now prepared to sell J.. J. BRADNES’ Celebrated Patent Separating Fanning Mill In the Counties of Allen, Noble, Steuben, La Grange, Whitley, Kosciusko, Elkhart and DeKalb. They have been manufactured by Mr. P. D. SmiNviLLE, — & workman of twenty-five {ears’ experience — from the best seasoned umber. : : . This Celebrated Mill is the ; 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 sav.inﬁ the expense of at least two hands. ALSO: — A large assortment of Bieves, Screens, &c., kept constantly on hand. . ! ‘LEVI DILLER, Meriam, Noble county, Indiana. Orders may be addressed to P, D. SminvlLLE, Agent, Ligonier, Ind. Aug 11th, |

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The Xational Banner.,

‘WOMAN SUFFRAGE. : Fiddie faddle! what’s the use? You can’t make her a man: : The great Creator fashioned her On quite another plan. - Man’s joints are strong and firmly knit, . His thews and sinews tough; But woman is of daintier mould, And formed of finer stuff. Men are the dprose-—tbe timber half | Of this sad world of ourg, And women are the Jmetrﬁ, ; The sweet fern and the flowers, Throughout the blessed Book this thonght Runs beautifully clear, T That woman lives to sanctify, To grace and to endear. Don't let her, then, be smatched and =oiled By minilln%x; the fray, : But keep her from grosser actz To win her own sweet way: . ° Levgvpur!ty remain her shield, : ithout a blot or stain, ; To guard her mental bloom from taint Or touch of hand profane. Forbid it, Heaven! Forbid it, Fate! Forbid it, men of sense, i That she herself should aid the plot To shame her own defense. : She is all glorious as she is— : ‘Why should the fretting few C‘onspire to banith from her sou! - The fragrance and the dew ? A Whﬁ take aw:g her chiefest charm — The crown that’s her’s by right, - The quiet influence that compels Pround man to own her right ?| She knows her power—why can’t the séx Remain contented, then, ‘ To rule us in:the ugood old way? Lord love us all—amen! {

THE WRONG COFFIN. Highly Probable Story from the South of Franee. _ln the south of France lived, a short time ago, a worthy carpenter, who through misfortune, got in arrears and was obliged to borrow of a friend to provide his family with the necessaries of life. As time went on, through sickness and other unforeseen circumstances, he was unable to repay the amount borrowed, and finally begged of his friend to take some piece of ?urniture as part payment. ‘The friend was perfectly willing, to accomodate him,' and consulted his wife as to what he should order of the carpenter. They could think of nothing of which they stood in need of, as their house was very well furnished, and finally the wife, in a joking mood, suggested that they have their coffing made.— “Nonsense,” said the husband ; “what an idea! don’t mention it again. But as time went on, and they could discover no other article: that they stood in ‘need of, the wife did mention it again, and this time the idea was not 80 repugnant; so, after they had talked the matter over for some time, they came to the conclusion "that nothing but a foolish gentimentality stood in the way, which they, as sensible people should pay no attention to, and finally the coffins were ordered. The carpenter came one fine day and took their measures, and shortly produced a couple of as nice coffins as any one need desire. The gentleman and his wife looked them over, tried the fit, approved them, and they were put away in an upper room until such time as they should be needed, In this room the wife kept a'l her pregerved fruits, candles, soap, &c., and as she became accustomed to seeing the coffins there, she began to think it apity that two such nice boxes should be put to no use whatever, and finally she began to use them as depositories for all the miscellaneous articles that are found in the store room of a well conducted household, But after awhile the husband took it into his head to die, and as he had been a spoiled child in his youth, and accustomed to always doing as he pleased, he went off one day, and there was great mourning in the little town, where he had been highly respected for his many virtues.

One of the coffins was cleaned out, preservefl fruit pickles, &ec., put into the other, and the husband laid out in state. - On the day of the funeral the coffin was carried to the church and mass said by the priest. It was sprinkled with holy water, and the Reverend Father declared that the rites had been efficacious in releasing the soul of the idiseased from purgatory.— From the church the coffin was borne to the grave, where a friend pronounced a touching- eulogy that d[;ew tears from all presents the coffin was lowered, the.earth thrown in, and the company dispersed. A few’' days after some friends called to condole with the widow, and before their departure, being hospitably inclined, she went up to her store-room to procure some cake and other articles to set before them. Opening the coffin, she started back with a scream. that alarmed her visitors below, who, rushing up.into the room, beheld;a dreadful sight—the face of the dead "husband staring at them from out the opened coffin.

: Failures Last Year. The total number of business failares in the United States in 1869 was 2,799, against 2,608 in 1868, and the aggregate liabilities were $75,054,000 against $63,774,000 the previous-year, In 1867 there were 2,780 failures, with $96,666,000 liabilities, the largest number since 1861, during which year there were 6,993, with liabilities amounting to $207,21(,000, which sum was exceeded by 1857 with 4,932 failures, and liabilities aggregating $291,750,000. From this it appears that the failures of 1869 have not been excessive, neither in number nor amount, in view of the dullness of trade, the depression existing the greater part of the year, and above all the large depreciation in values which the year has witnessed. The unpaid obligations of the parties who faileg, in propertion to' the volume of trade and to the capital now employed in business, form a per centage tar less'than in any antewar year subsequent to 1850 ; 8o that, instead of creating as to the present, or distrust as to the future; &e failures of 1869 indicate a atre;ngth;gnd stability at once gratifying and assurbg. . Fubia & o ot - The first case on record of an innocent girl entering a house of ill-fame of her own mo:f occurred a few days sinco- ot Couneil Blaffs, Towa. She became tired of hertiard lot, bfgihs;#ﬁ’f rphan, e, enved o gandily dres- °¢ Brls who passed on the streets, P e S i St lastingly too late. e

LIGONIER, IND., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, IS7O.

. THE WINCHESTER CRIME. N Smith_iss g?u??mmt‘," g - From the Winchiester Gazeite, 18th. Near 11 o’clock on the night of January sth, 1870, one of those terrible affairs. which occasionally startled even the most quiet and sober-going communities, occurred in Winchester.: - Mr. William P. Arney was in E. R. McConnell’s confectionery store, about ten o’clock at night, with several others, and started out, going up street in the direction of his house. ghortly thereafter the crash of breaking glass was heard, and immediately a pistol shot rang out sharply on the night air. and Mr. Arney was seen to stagger or plunge out into the streets from the stairway leading up to the rooms immediately above Hill & Arney’s gro-' cery. He made a step along the sidewalk, fell nearly to the pavement, thén recovered himself, staggered a step or two further, and dropped down dead, making no outcry, uttering no intelligible word—passing out of time into | eternity with only a groan. =~ | | Judge Bilas Colgrove and Gideon Shaw were standing on the sidewalk but a few steps from where Mr, Arney fell, and assisted in carrying the body in the billiard room of Elijah Corbin. Drs. Bosworth, Cunningham, Bruce and Carver were called inimmediately, and made a post mortem examination. The ball entered Mr. Arney’s left shoulder about four inches from the point of the shoulder, and near the susuperior angle of the shoulder-blade, passing down thg chest and entering the thorax, or.chest, between the fourth and fifth ribs, fracturing the fourth rib, the ball striking the aorta, or main artery, about the articulation of the eighth or ninth vertebre, ripping it open three inches in length. | The stairway on which Mr. Arney was shot leads up some twelve or fifteen steps into a hall rnnning through the building east and west. Miss Smith | occupied the first room or rooms on the soutg gide of the hall ; the west front of her.room looking out on Main street and a small portion of it extending north over the stairway. There wasa window in this wing of the room which gives.a view of the hall-way and the greater portion of the stairway. Mr. Arney (it is supposed from the course of ‘the ball) was upon the fourth or fifth step from the oottom of the stairs If this was the position of Mr. Arney when shot, Miss Smith was almost directly over him when she thrust the pistol through the window and /fired the shot. :

'~ So far a 8 we can learn, there were no eys witnesses of the shoot'ng save: the parties in the sad affair ; nor is there any positive evidence that any person heard any conversation or noise which might have preceded the firing. The terrible tragedy was enacted in the dark ; at least, there could have been but little light in the hall. Under these circumstances, Miss Smith is the only living person who can give a; true account of the affair, and we pub--lish her statement for what it is worth, belieying that she is entitled to a hearing, as the ‘community is full of rumors and contradictory reports. : In company with the sheriff, William M. Campbell, we visited Miss gmith, in the county jail, on last Monay. - 1 %Ve found her lying in bed in one of the cells. She was suffering from a severe cold, appeared greatly depressed from the circumstances of her case; and, we are informed, has laid in bed most of the time since her confinement, tasting scarcely any food. She showed us ier left hand, in which shestates the pistol 'was held when it “went off,” and we observed that it was cut and swollen from contact with the windowpaue. - =~ During her conversation with us, she was affected to tears when speaking of her early life and her children, and she statedjthat she was a broken-heart-ed woman, and that no one knew how much she had been wronged and suffered in this life ; that she had nothing to live for. : P

MISS SMITH'S STATEMENT. She said she was raised in Noble county, Indiana; parents both dead ; married in Noble connty, and. moved with her husband to lowa, where he went into the army, leaving her with three small children and only $5 in money. Bhe had to sew for the tailors to support herself and family ; she algo drew $7 per month on account of her husband being in' the service.— When he eame home from the army he treated her badly; she had to support. him ; and she finally refused to live with him on account of his cruel treatment. He took her children from her, and applied for a divorce in Huntington, Indiana, on the grounds of desertion; which he secured, as she made no opposition ; otherwize he could not have got it, as he could bring no evidence against her good name. 5 She did not give her husband's name, and said that “Carrie Smith” was her maiden name, which shé iow goes by." Refres' to General James R. Slack for her character while in Huntington. Says she belonged to the United Brethren Church in Noble . county, Indiana, and joined the Christian Church at Indisnapolis. ' Came to Winchester an entire stranger some four months ago, hired a room, and’ had earned her liﬁn‘g"by the needle; stating that she had never hadag:?’ wron%eoniieeti@* with any person, al--though she had recently learned that. bad reports were in circulation in regard to her character gince she came to this glaee. Stated that on several occasions men came to her door and tried, to force their waﬁ;intn ‘her room, and had threatened her so that she was almost afraid of her life. ; She had stated these facts at the honse of a married lady in Winchester, with whorl o'l stuusivid, hac. the lady’s hiisband soon after bronght. hes & piltol 1 profiss INE psal with, Siis Rusleghty Sowl wiis do.an fiag thoughepC IS ety O (e night of the .ﬁpﬁ eptodoeome A i i g vfm o Shat ohe told bim 16 go away or ghe would shoot ; that & 1e waited :x*,pg. utes to give the dnknown persons

time to leave; and then dashed the istol against the window-pane to El‘enk= k it out, and in doing so tE: pistol was accidentally discharged. Then it was that Mr. Arney was shot. She says she did not know who he was, and ‘did not see the person when she thrust the pistol through the window. She appeared very sorry that sg:a had killed% Arney, and said she had no thought of really killing any one, but intended to scare whoever it was. Miss Smith is some thirty-three years of age, dark-complexion, with glack hair. : The community is full of reports derogatory to the character of Miss Smith, although we have failed to find any persons who are willing to state that they have any positive knowledge that would substantiate the ‘commen talk. Letters were found in her room, (from parties living away from Winchester,) which “are said to make against her. Miss Smith stated that she came from: Huntington to Win: chester.

How a Darkey Distinguishes a DemoT crat from a Radieal. It can ne longer be denied that the ‘colored population are considering the probability of being made voters, in the State of Illinois, and in connection with the subject, the following will show how some of the loyal color feel, politically : In one of our groceries a few days since, one of the sons of Ham (who is an exception to the general rule—and industrious specimen of loyalty in the extreme) sat in the door while many citizens were passing by to . dinner, soliloguising thusly -— ‘You’ns are Republicans; dat am a Democrat ; dar comes a Republican,” etc, until the proprietor became interested in his conversaticn to, himself, and asked how he could tel' a Democrat from a Republican. The sable philosopher raised himselt to his full length, and reylied,“why by his clothes, 0b course! You see dem republicans pays de nigger for sawing wood in old clothes, and de democrats always pay cash ; so hard times am come, and de democrats wear his old clothes; but de republicans have to wear him’s best and can afford it, as dey charge de' nigger enough for de oh{ ones to buy new one.”. The philogopher further adds ' that he sawed wood for a lady whose politics he did not know until the wood was sawed, when he learned, to his regret that it was a republican job. But as the lady had told him in the evening that her husband would be home at night, and could call next day for his pay, he felt somewhat encouraged. He called and thelady answered the bell herself ; had a pair of pants in her hand as she opened the door, which he took, making the remark, “all right, I expected 80,” and started to look upa cash job, when he was halted by the old lady who accused-him of stealing and took the pants away from him, and threatened him with arrest, if he came around their premises again. The darkey added; “so I got nuffin for sawing dat two cords of wood as/far as heard from.” _«lf dis nigger ever votes’ he continued “and votes for a republican in Cairo, he hopes he will have to comb his wool with a fine tooth comb every week, and go without watermel?ens for ten years.”—Cairo (1i1.,) Bultin. |

The Platform amtl; ‘t)llllﬁlnanelul QuesIt will be seen that the Democratic State Convention takes strong and positive ground on the financial question, such-ag whll receive the hearty endorsement of every Demoecrat in the State. There is to be no repudiation of the national debt, but on the contrary the resolution declares, that the national faith is pledged to its redemption, and hat it must be paid in accordance with the terms of tﬂe several contracts under which it was created. It opposes the policy of the Administration, which is squandering millions of money in buying certain bonds at a high rate of premium, when the government has the clear right to redeem them at Ea.r. This is precisely the ground taen by our able Representative from this District, Hon. M. C. Kerr, in voting against the $44,000,000, bill of Mr. Ingersoll. It was the payment of a large premium on the bonds that received iis condemnation, and which, in effect, would have increased the national debt some eight or nine millions of dollars. -We are rejoiced that the Democracy ofthe State have so plainly and explicitly placed themselves upon the record on this subject. There is no doubt of the purport of the langnage contained in tgef resolution ; neither can it be/perverted by the Radical press and stamp orators. =We are willing to abide by the issue made, and hope that it will be fully discussed before the people during the progress of the. canvaae.—Nm'-Allbany'L':%er; —

. A Real Estate Incident. We must relate a real story on Kansas City, related to.us on a train and vouched .for.: An Eastern-man visited Kansas: : City to .invest-his money.— Like all Eastern men he wanted a corner lot, and an. agent went out to show him one. The price was high. But, said the buyer, I cannot build on that lot. ' There is a bluff forty feet hi'%n upon it. The lot is usless. Do "you see that ravine lot down there? asked the ‘ageni, pointing- it a 8 X, e Well, the man who owns that lot will give you $5,000 :for.this bluff to fill up his K)t.’ : : oy This sounded very well,” and the buyer said ‘he woald sec. That day he went tothe agént for the’ ravine lot and asked the price, He was told, and the figures sounded high. . = But I cannot. build upon it withont ;fntt‘in‘g' the building upon stilts forty The agent winked ‘ﬂghgly. - Do you gee that blaff up there? he , Yﬁl’i Shiials lue o daild ',-::«;»"ﬁi?:»f iy ~ Well, the owner-of that lot will give you $5,000 - for.the privelege of put: ‘ﬁ N;.wgh équnhm, iltati i " baye. dhongh i, sounded ’phrchue- ust then.—FErchange,

1 TRAGEDY AT PARIS., _ Prince Bonaparte Kills a Demoerat. _ A dispatch from Paris (evening), of the 12th, says: - : The Marsellaise publishes the following statement of %I de Fouvielle,: On_the 11th of January, 1870, at 1 o’clock, Victor Noir and myself repaired to the residence of Pierre Bonaparte, No. 59 ‘Rue d’Antonie.. We were commissioned by M. Paschal Grouset to demand of Prince Bonaparte reason for injuribus articles against M. Passcal Groussett published in the Javenir de la Corse. We handed our cards to two servants who stood at the "door, who ushered us into a small parlor on the ground floor at our right hand.— Afier a few minutes we were conducted up stairs to the first floor, passed through a fencing room, and finally entered a drawing room. A door opened, and M. Pierre Bonaparte entered.— We advanced towardps him, and the following words passed between us: “Sir, we come in behalf of M. Paschal Grouset to deliver a letter to you.”— “You are not come, then, on behalf of M. Rochfort, and you are not tools of his f!” 4 i

Sir, we are here on other business, and I beg .you to look at this letter. I handed him the letter ; he approach‘ed a window to read it; he read it, and after crumbling it in his hands he turned towards us. “I have provoked M. Rochfort,” said he, “because he ‘is the standard bearer of the rabble; -as for M. Grosset, I have no reply to ‘make to him. Are you representatives of these carrion ¥’ “SBir,” I answered, “we come to you to fulfil, loyally and courteously, the commission entrusted to us by our friends.” “Are you the representatives of these wretch: es?” Victor Noir replied, “we " are the represeniatives of -our friends.”— Then 'suddenly advancing a step, and without provocation on our part, he slapped Victor Noir with his left hand, amf at the same time drew a revolver of six. chambers, which he had held concealed in his pocket, already cocked, and fired upon Noir, with tge muzzle of the pistol close to him. Noir staggered, pressed both hands on his breast, and sank down in the doorway by which he had entered. The cowardly assassin then turned upon me and fired. I then seized a small pistol which I had in my pocket, and while endeavoring to free it from the sheath, the wretch rushed on me, when he saw that I was armed he retreated. stood behind the door,and aimed at me. It was/then that, comprehending the ambush into which we had fallen, and reflecting that, if I fired there would not be wanting those who would say, that. we had been the aggressors, I opened the door behind me and rushed out crying “Murder!” as I went out. A second shot followed, and again passed through my coat. In the street I passed Noir, who had strength enough to descend the stairs, and who was then dead. These are the facts just as they transpired, and I look for prompt and exemplary justice for this crime.

How the Debt is being Redueced. “Mack” writes to the Enquirer from Washington as follows: ; “Nothing is more simple than the process by which Mr. Boutwell is enabled to issue his bulletins every moanth, telling the people how the National debt is being reduced. I have suspected all along, but never knew until to-day, what was the modus operandi. Adapted to private business, it would enable the worst bankrapt in the United States to “stand erect,” as Mr. Micawber did after he had given his I. O. U. to Traddles. The secret is thi§: An order has been given to the accounting officers of the Treasury to allow no claims whatever against the Government—to pay nothing, to repudiate everything. There are just two exceptions ‘made to this general rule—the bondholders and the officeholders. These gentlemen are paid to the uttermost farthing. All. other classes of Government creditors are ‘denied even a hearing. And so, for the sake of appearing to pay off the -debt, hundreds of millions of just and equitable claims are repudiated. Now, why not go & step further, and ‘say to the hondholder we can’t redeem his coupons? Is the debt cf; the bondholder hedged round by any sacred obligation that does not apply equally to the man whose claim is not in({yonds but in Quartermaster’s vouchers ? I fail to see it in that light, at any rate. Eut the fact is the debt is increasing every day, notWithstandinﬁ Mr. Bout‘well’s lying bulletins. = All the claims now being denied will have to be paidsome_ day or other, or bury the w,l;;o‘le' -mass of claims, whether in the form of bonds or anything elge, in a common grave, to the “Music of the Union”— which is the latest name for the Rogues March. “Equal and exact justice to ‘all men’ is the bogus motto of the Republican party. Equal and 'exact Justice to all ereditors should be the rule and. conduct of every honorable man. - el E

A Fanny Case. _ o A young man in East Tennessee by the name of Liyon has just married his step-mother. Step-mothers are not, as a rule, very nice things to have about a family. . But this case is rather peculiar. Old Lyon, like Robin Gray, had moneg., Young Lyon had none. But he had a sweetheart and. of course he went to seek his fortune. Time ‘passed. This is a peculiarity with time. It'is somehow always passing. 'The war came on and young ‘Lyon “went for a soldier.”>. He became ‘a gay and festive “butter milk ranger.” He was wounded. He was a prisoner. The reader has probably . Kenrd :something of this sort before, but this particular instance is ‘‘an oe’r true tale.” : Young Lyon returned from the _war; and'not to ‘make too long a story out_of our material which " alfeady “giving out, he found his father married _to his sweetheart, He did not commit any nonsense, however.” He -went to work soberly rw 8d at'Home ‘quietly, waited till theold ‘man died, vlﬂé\ik&f'mﬁﬂ;‘n‘z m&&m «The’ L G O TSI cdmiepeid: o ARpeasdmCiniey:

No. 39.

From the Buffalo Conrier, Dec. 25th, "69. o A t_hundet‘bolt‘ launched from aclear sky were not so sudden and thrilling in its effect as was the stroke which, yesterday morning, smote Edwin M. Stanton dead. On Sunday, urged by a pressure which he could not resist, President Grant called on the ex-Secretary of War, and proffered him the appointment of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The tender was accepted, and, the day following, the radical majority of-the Senate eagerly consummated the appointment they had dictated. At the open threshold of his high office Mr. Stanton has met- the summons of Qeath. e > ‘Speak nothing but what is'good of the dead.”

We accept the msaxim as applicable even to this extreme case, and will respect it, though it be hard to doso. We hope that the future will be able to look with kindlier eye on his character and career than we have becn able to do.” We shall help, if opportunity be ever given, to set such virtues of his as may be discovered, in relief against the shadow which for us rests upon his name and memory. We will .not allow ourselves to ‘talk of the man, now, but rather, sincé the spectacle of 'death forces itself on consideration, and must be viewed ir connection with the circumstances it affects, we-will think of him as a player in a great drama and speak only of the part in'it which he seemed to sustain. . » 3

- In urging Edwin M. Stanton toa seat upon . the Supreme Bench, the radical ‘Congress expressed the utmost of its in-. tolerance of judicial restraint. The bill of Senator Trumbull to cut the rein which the Supreme Court still nominally holds over legislative action in the political affairs of the nation, will not be, should it become a law, so direct a thrust at the judicial branch of the government as was the appointment of Stanton. In the exSecretary, Congress recognized the embodiment, almost in caricature, of its 'worst, its most relentless, its most arbitrary self The wooden horse of the Greeks carried less of menace into Troy, than Mr.. Stanton would have embodied had he survived to represent the assumptions of Congress and the radical party in the Supreme tribunal of the United States.— The career of Mr. Stanton ‘as the American Mars is fresh in all - minds. We will not discuss it. ~ Perhaps even his friends ‘will agree that a better incarnation of the spirit ot war would be difficult to find in modern history. We speak of the spirit, simply, not the seience, of war; and we shall say nothing harsher of Mr. Stanton than that he was, essentially, such an incarnation. It was a mighty stride, therefore, toward unquestioned power, when Congress sacceeded in placing such a man within the citadel it now .seeks to storm. What could not his imperious will, his impetuous force there achieve® To Edwin M. Stanton, the thing he desired and willed was law, before which right, justice and all else sacred must give l way. With him in the Supreme tribunal, we repeat, Congress-had opened the way —whither, we shall not say. e ‘The holy of holies of the American temple of liberty is the Supreme Judiciary. Against that sanctuary Congress has lifted ‘up its hand. It went a step further and sought, in the very midst of the sacred enclosure to erect a sign of its ambition and its supremacy. ' Buf it was not foded o ; b I e i

' Radieal Hypocrisy — Appeals to the Germans. - From the Boone County Pioneer; Jan. 15, . Certain radical papers are engaged in a frantic effort to make party capital out of Mr. Stoll's defeat for Auditor of State at | the late Democratic ‘Convention. They think the Germans were badly treated in the failure of the Democracy to give them a representation on the State ticket, and that they should therefore renounce their political faith and come over to the Rad: icals. These hypocritical appeals wiil fail of their object, anl will be regarded by the intelligent Germans of Indiana as dishonorable and insulting bids for their votes. If the Radieals think that in | choosing their politiéal associates the Germans are acttuated by no higher motive than thirst for office, they are sadly mistaken. A very large ‘majority of them will vote for the ticket nominated and the principles enunciated by last Saturday's convention, bécause they remember and-abhor the way in which Radicalism, under the banuner of Know-Nothingism, attempted to proscribe and disfranchise them but a few years ago. ~ They understand the feeling of Radical leaders and legislators 1n regard -to naturalization, Sunday laws, and the temperance question, and know what estimate to put on their pledges of friendship. =~ = ° The truth is—as every one krows—there was a very large majority of the delegates to the late State Convention in favor of Mr. Stoll for Auditor; and he would unquestionably have been nominated but for the fact that he resided in the samé portion of the State as Col. Bddy, (who had previously been ehosen for Sec. retary,) and every sensible man will recognize the importance of making a fair | distribution of nomibations: among the several localities. It will -hardly be:de"nied that the Democracy have not hereto. fore been, unmindful of the Germans in ‘choosing their standard ‘Desrers. = Their mationality has been represented upon every Btate ticket for many years past; and S noble manner in which Mr. Stoll se. port, to his successful competitor and the whole ticket—insures him s clear track. for the nomination o years hence,in Ld‘? 9’@; i ) 1 _ E‘ ockacy throughout: -the il ”“ il ‘ m *gm‘“

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A Little Serap of Pernonal History. From the LaGrange Standard. e i " . Andrew Ellison returned from the Democratic State Convention last week in a - state of gleefulness bordering on intoxi ‘cation. His joy seemed to well up in great waves from an overburdened heart. and slop over into the ears of every person who was willing to endure his presance long enough to hear the cause of his ~vain-glorious boasting. He nssumed re‘markable attitudes on the street corners,. stretched himself to his full hight, loosened his shirt collar, and with the most positive and convincing gestures informed -the passers that he had fixed that d——d Bh——s of Ligonier— k¢ had defeated Stoll in his aspirations for the Auditorship, How did be doit? Why, A just nominated Fddy for Secretary of State and that did the thing for the editor ot ‘the Ligonier Banner,” Hut our readers would possibl,fy like to know why Andy, ‘not content with traducing the character ~of reputable Republicans, and thrusting his nose offensively into the private affairs of his neighbors, must needs make war upon.a member of his own party—a man who a little over one year ago, - by persistent efforts; and the ‘exercise of ~more than ordinary newspaper talent, 'did more towards strengthening Andy Ellison's chances for an election tc Congress than' could the said "Andy have ac- ‘; complished if he were to live a thousand - years. Well, here is the reason: Nearly two years ago Andy Ellison met John B, . Stoll at a District Congressional Conven‘tion at Ligonier, and ' there discovered that Mr. Stoll was more popular and in. fluential with the Democrats of this part of the State than himself; from thattime Andy Ellison has been a malignant personal enemy of J. B. Btoll, and has ever since persistently labored in the most un- - der-handed and disreputable manner to do the said Stoll injury. Mr. Stoll'is a man of culture,—very much the superior of | Ellison in everything which constitutes a gentleman, and that fact also aggravates Ellison to commit serious.breaches of propriety toward the former gentleman. - Mr. Ellison left here boasting how signally he would defeat Mr. Stoll for the nomination for Auditor, but when he got there he found that his strength with -the members was about equal to that of & six months old child at a log rolling.— We are informed that he distributed secret circulars of an infamous nature about Mr. Stéll, and strained every nerve to de‘tract ‘from that gentleman’s great popu larity with his party, and the result was “that almost the entire north end of the State went solid for John B. Stoll. Was ‘anything ever so humiliating as the treatment Ellison réceived at the hands of the ~members of the Convention? They treated him like a very -renegade as bis con- . duct plainly proved him to be. There stood the honorable Andy, wrapped in the sombre folds of his malignancy; and. while the delegates fronr the entire north end of the State were engaged in earnest, honorable efforts to carry their representative man ipnto the honors of a nomination, Andy doggedly refused to even participate, thereby not only grossly violating the trust committed to his keeping, but offering downright insult to the members of the Convention angd to his constituency at home. What a gentlemanly l'ep~,L resentative of the Democrats of LaGrange county ! Mr. Ellison doubtless feels keenly his great'mental and moral inferiority to John B. Stoll, and to this feeling of humiliation, which in him almost amounts to madness, we charitably attribute his grossly indecent conduct in the Conven- - tion. In this matter Mr. Stoll haé been ‘wounded in the house of his friends, and he feels, as it is reasonable that he should, as one basely betrayed by him who should have been a friend instead of an enemy—and that enemy a diligent worker in the dark. . e ; : . ' . Had Mr. Stoll received the nomination we should have faithfully labored for his defeat, and believe it would have been accomplished ; but still he is a neighbor ; he is identified with our local intercsts; he has worked zealously and unselfishly for the success of hie party and the elec: tion of the one who now stabs him in the back, and, under these circumstances, when there was an honor to bestow we think he ought to have had it, and that Mr. Ellison’s course—though pitifully impotent for harm—was prompted by the impulses‘of a very” wicked heart, the eontrolling feelings of which are batred for his fellow men. > ;

| Anether Case of Repentance. | We have published the remarkablecon: fession of Parker Pillsbury, who for twenty years has been one of the most ultra of all the New England abolitionists, but who finds, by a personal visit to. South Carolina, that the negroes are not what he supposed them to be. He says they are unfit-to be made voters, and that both 'sexes arée more in ‘need of s‘oap‘ temperance lectures, and fine tooth combs, than anything else. He is thoroughly astonished and diggusted; and declares that it was a mistake to force the ballot upen them. , Ly . £ Here- is another instance of political penance, in the shape of a card from “Impending Crisis ” Helper, published in the Raleigh (N. C.) Sentinel: .. ... . . - Bmr:+-I haveseen it stated in the news_papers that certain membars of the legislature, from facetious impulses, or from = motives exclusively their own, have voted for me for clerk of the house of repre.sentatives, That any such preposterous . Action was cver contemplated or intend-, ed, I had not the shggm i until 1 saw it pubﬁﬂi@;f would be a matter of regret to. me.to suppose that -any man, possessed of a good and well. béwed nind, would do mo the injos. ticé' to believe that I would or could, ‘under any conceivable’ circumstances, ac“*W%l@ %h m&éuthe \, ot