The National Banner, Volume 4, Number 39, Ligonier, Noble County, 26 January 1870 — Page 2

4A . ; Sutional Hanuer: Lk 'ﬁﬂ}’[“»w‘! R ol BOW AN , 1 g, Ol ¢ - AN o ' T WA LISY 0 ‘Resistance to Tyrants Is Obedience f 0 God.’ J. B. STOLL, EDITOR. v sttt ::Z A‘,._____m.‘_ i .ﬁ.m' . WEDL,EGDAY. JANY: ”. 1870

DEMOORATIO STATE TIOKET For Secretary of State: ; Col. NORMAN EDDY, of Bouth Bend. + For Auditor of State: - . JOHN C. SHOEMAKER, of Perry Co. For Treasurer of State: ' . JAMES B.RYAN, of Indianapolis, £ For Attorney General : BAYLESS W, HANNA, of Terre Haute. For Sup’t of Publie Ingtruction : Rev. MILTON B. HOPKINS; of Clinton. For Suﬁrem‘e Judges: ' JAMES L. WORDEN, of Fort Wayrie, A, C..DOWNEY, of Ohio County, SAMUEL H. BUSKIRK, of Monroe Co., JOHN PETTIT, of Lafayette, i

©1 Ham Conner. e The Republicans of Floyd county recently met in convention to elect dele@ates to the State convention on the 22d day of February. -Aftereulogizing the administrution of Ulysses I, they adopted a tesolution highly tomplimentary to the * patriotism, honesty and executive powers of Hon. A. H. Couner; chairman of the Republican State Central Committee, who has piloted the republican party through two bitterly contested campaigns in this State,” and instructed their delegates to . vote for his re election to that position. That Ham thoroughly understands the “ piloting ‘business” no one will undertake to deny, and that he is likewise capable of “fixing up” radical majorities with the most embarrassing lack of radi: cal votes, is equally clear. ‘DBnt these con. siderations hardly justify the malicious charge of “ honesty;” as Ham would surely not consent to destroy his usefulgess by departing from a rule that has proven far mote efficacious than the fossile idea impliediin the term * honest.” !

The Fifteenth Amendment. Both diouses of the Ohio Legislature having ratified the' 15th amendment, the total number of ratifying States’ is now 27—including Indiana and New York, which States cannot properly be counted, the former not having legally ratified, and ‘het latter recently withdrawing its assent, Nebraska and Texas will undoubtedly ratify, and in order to remove the little difficulty about Indiana and New York, Georgia will be compelled to go through the disgusting farce, "thus securing the required number of States (28) to give validity to the measure. It makes one's blood boil to think of the infamous conduct of the dominant party in forcing this fraud upon an ynwilling people, but it is useless to waste‘words on the subject. We cdn only mourn over the ‘gradual disappearance of constitutional freedom and the downfall of popular government.

Plain thinnge. ) Don Piatt iin one of his Washington letters says: “ Don’t be in & hurry to welcome new| republics, nor grant belligerent rights to people not prepared to receive them. One would suppnse that with our heavy taxation, wide-spread. corruption and infamous oppression from accumalated capital,in the hands of irresponsible men, we would have enough to occupy our intellect without meddling with the affairs of others nations. Our Nenators are openly assailed as thieves; our Fxecutive charged with imbecility ; one half our revenue can not be collected, and the other half is wantonly misap plied, and yet we are dying to extend these blessed results of free institutions to all thewearth. As old Staley used to assert : “There is something said in the Holy Writ about a mote in one eye and a beam in another,” and that is our jackass--Ical condition.” ..

‘ Senator Pratt. | * The Noblesville Register contains thefollowing' letter from Senator Pratt to - Hon. Isaac Williams : ‘ “On my retarn from New York to night I find your kind letter of the 30th ult,, for which I am very thankful, 11l health; accompanied with great depression of spirits, led me to think of resigning for a time, but I have abandoned the idea, in view of the demoralization it would cause in our party, and the increased activity it would stimulate in the Democratic party in order to obtain the succession, Ifl resign at all, it will only be when'a Republican Legislature shall have been elected . which will fill the vacancy. : Very truly yours,. D. D. Pratt.”, Every ambitious radical whipper-snap- » per will now “go in” on hismuscle, a la Cumback, and by an indiscriminate use of “cloquence” establish claims for the succession of the unhappy Pratt. : sl .Semsible. The democratic members of the Pennsylvania Legislature acted very wisely in uniting with a number of reform republicans in the election, of State Treasuror.— The republican caucus had nominated the present. treasdrer, Mackey, for re-election, but quite a number of Republicads were dissatisfied ‘with ‘his conduct: in making use of the public funds. Gen. Irwin, an hongrable - Republican, was thereupon clected to that office by receiving. the sol"id vote of “he Democrats and 14 Republicans, . Forney's Press and other radical shéets fiercely denounce this coalition, and unceremoniously read the: bolters out of IR T et iy

A Negro. Elected U, S. Senator. The Missiseippi Legislature, chiefly com: posed of niggers and northern scallawags, after choosing the recently elected Gov. Alcorn {rebel-radical) and the little military despot, Gen. Ames, U. 8. Senators for'the long and short terms, clected a negro Methodist preacher named Hiram R. Revel for the nnexpired term. = As soon as Mississippi is admitted, this Ethiopian will take bis seat'in the U. 8. Senate.— We have no mclination to comment on the sickening subjcct. oo 7 mewily of Geo. D. Premtice. G%gr D, Prentice, the brilliant p:é aud for many yeafs. editor of the Loufs: ville Journal, died at the. residence of his: son, near Louisville, on Saturday morning. His death, though not entirely unexpect ed, was received with every mark of pro-. MO ie ) on abre g ot oo

e Ot R o e i c ’ Jan. | 5 - - AxprEw ELLisoN, Lagrange, Ind. Sir :—I am in receipt of your circular issued in December, 1869, a¢ i “To, | the Deémocrats of Elkburt M@? g . Before proceeding to an examination: ot your alleged grievauc%, perg:né tgi say that although you may tofore have succeeded in bullying attorneys, inSulting individuals, sod . intimidating gqjghbors,ﬂ these favorite practices cannot be indulged in with impunity when you, select ‘me as the object of your malice and vindictiveness. I fear neither your browbeating spirit, ‘yoqr'weal_thf nor your influence, but place myself in bold, defiant opposition to yourself. The controversy is not of my seeking—the responsibility therefore rests entirely vpon your shoul ders. ... 94 i Yout circular is ostensibly issued for the purpose of explaining to the people of Elkhart county the reasons that prompted the attacks of the Goshen Democrat on you for refusing to pay a debt. contracted with that establishment. whilst a candi--date for Congress in 1868. The real object of your circular was to array the Dem~ocracy of the 10th District against me as a candidate for the nomination for Auditor of State before the Bth of January con vention. That you signally failed in the latter, is already a matter of history; whether you have succeeded in the first, will depend entirely on the editor of the Goshen Democrat, Mr, Beaae. You intimate that the difficulty between you and myself originated at Indianapolis on the Bth of January, 1868-—that I desired to be elected = delegate to the national convention, to which you were opposed. s Sl

On this point I desire to inform you that this proposition did not originate with me. During the month of December, 1887, I received several letters from prominent Democrats urging my appointment ;as a delegate to the .natiomal con vention. Some of these letters are still in my posscssion, and if necessary can be produced to substantiate what is here stated. I made no effort to secure the appo‘intmenvt——that others (better men than you) exerted themselves iu this direction, is well known to those who were in at tendance at Indianapolis. Iheard of your noisy demonstrations, your uncouth remarks, but treated them with silent con: tempt. The matter was warmly canvassed—enough votes to secure my election had been obtained, but for the sake of harmony, for the purpose of satisfying the desire of the venerable gentlemen whose champion you assumed to be on that occasion, and’ to insure the election of Gen. Slack as one of the delegates, I withdrew in compliance with an understanding with the gentleman who first urged me for that po sition. . ‘

- Now, Mr. Ellison, if you were ever possessed of the instincts of a gentleman you would have been satisfied with this result. But your malignant nature would not permit thereof. During the entire deliberations of that convention you availed yourself of every opportunity to give vent to those sneering remarks that invariably characterize the conduct of an ill-manner-ed booby. When I was placed upon the committee on permanent organization, and subsequently selecrted that sterling Democrat and gallant soldier, Capt. Lucius Barney of DeKalb county, as one of the Vice Presidents, you not only spoke in contemptuous terms of the sclection in the convention, but repeated the coarse ness at the dinner table of the hotel. = -

With reference to being a candidate forCongress in 868, I have only to say that | had it been my desire to receive the nomination, it would have been an easy matter to have defeated you, Mr. Ellison.— From the moment that Mr. Beane suggested my name in his paper, I announced that I was not in position to make the race. Indeed, when Mr. Beane first broached the subject, I entered my most em‘phatic protest against the proposition.— I did the same in conversation with Capt. Mitchell, Mayor Wilson, Mr. Osborn, and others. With the exception of an interval of two or three days it was my deter- | mination not to be a candidate, tnless—as publicly stated through the columms of my paper—no other gentleman in the District would- consent to enter into the canvass. That notices of, my proposed | candidacy were reproduced in the BaxNER, was done for other purposes than to procure my nomination—the .real object being to demonstrate to my bitter politi- | cal énemies that, whilst they assailed me | in every direction, the Democracy stood by me in battling against the pernicious doctrines of a fanatical organization, and ‘that I had their . entire 'sympathyin my | efforts tb plant the seed of Democracy in this, the very stronghold of radicalism.— These manifestations of confidence and approbation were calculated to strengthen my paper, to cheer me on in the une'qual struggle with a powerful enemy, and to give assurance that, whilst abuse and denunciation showered upon me from all quarters, my political friends were dot indifferent in witnessing the progress of the | fight, There wasone exception, however; -—you never offered me one word of en‘couragement ;. your envious disposition | would wmot permit you:to wish me-God speed! You found it more congenial to isecretly and assassin-like stab me in the dark—to pursue me on every occasion—_to reward my honest -efforts in‘ your behalf, in two sueccessive campaigns, with. the basest of ingratitude, . . ' Your statement as to'my action as chair‘manp of the eentral committee i& entirely: ‘at variance with trath and candor. 'Bad men usually have defective memories ;— - whether your perversion of facts is attrib ‘utable to tins eircamstatice, or whether ‘you' deliberately attempted to belie the public, is immaterial. T will relate the facts, and cite as witnesses' Messrs. Gerber, Parker, and Wadsworth. ©~ Ota cortain Sunday évening you suddenly wfmfgt% gy in_ ' Wdﬁmwﬁ it w‘ il RYSTE Lt R S P S R o e i e o ola in Nohle couy ; i yon bed | blo otiidber- a il M dShea il b

not know that the lad wasa member)& your family. | g You made three appointments for meet-ings-in this MsMng the re;*mai@er to a subsequent period, ¥ou et 88 yoolmanllh » dliresp e for each ‘meeting. T suggested that one’ poster containing these appointments would answer the purpose just as well. “To this “you refused to assent, stating that you had separate posters printed for‘{

Steuben and Elshart counties; and that you wanted the same for Noble. I then inquired who was to pay for the printing of ‘all these bills, (eleven in number,) to which you replied that that was the business of the central committee. 'ln response to this I 'stated that since the establishment of the BANNER I had ‘done a great deal of printing for which' scarcely any _pay had been received ; that during the ‘then pending campaign quite & number of posters had been printed without compensation ; that I could not afford to hire printers, buy paper and ink for such purposes, all at my expense; and that it was unreasonable to expect this much of one man—to all of which you assented, but remarked that the Democ;‘acy of Noble county must be composed of poor timber if they did not defray these expenses. In course of that conversation I stated that Mr. Beane informed me that the posters printed at his office for your appointments were charged to you, and that he would collect the amount, as had been the custom with other candidates.. The conver sation ended without any definite understanding ; but rather than bave any fuss about the matter, I printed the bills on the following day, and placed them in the hands of Messrs. Gerber and Wadsworth, whom you had designated to attend to the posting of the bills. At a subscquent period eight additional posters were printed for you, for all of which you never of fered me one cent. Understand, now, that these bills were printed accordingto your order, for your special benefit. If you had ‘the decency of a hog, you would have at least inquired whether I' had received compensation for the work, if you 1 wete too infernal niggardly to offer pay. If your posters were not properly distributed, what right had you to censure me, after having designated others to attend to that part of the work? It onmly fur. nishes additional eyvidenee of the infamy, the baseness of a craven-hearted shyster. ~You intimate that because you:were nct indebted to Mr. Bease and myself for your nomination you were under no obligetion to pay for this work. This propo: sition is too absurd to be considered.

Your assumption that an arrangement had been formed between Mr. Beane and wyself to exact pay for work done for you, is' entirely based on the statement conveyed to you as to the intentions of the editor of the Democrat. Even if true, (but I deny it most emphatically,) there would be no impropriety whatever in such & proceeding. Are you better than other men that yon would “sponge” your printing as you did your grub and horsefeed ? - When an itinerant lecturer or the proprietor of a monkey-show calls at my office to procure a job of printing, he does 80 with a realization of the fact that he thust pay for it. What claims had you' upon me to expect an exception to this rule? and pray, wherein were the Democracy of Noble county indebted to you that you could have the impudence to ark them to * foot” your printing-bill ? ‘ But, to more clearly demonstrate the inJustice of your attacks upon me, it is only necessary Lo remark. that I have never ask‘ed you to pay me for the work alluded to.’ Why, then, attack me because Mr. Beane saw fit:to “ punch you up” for his pay through the columns of his paper? If your answer be ‘that these- attacks were advised by me, 8s you privately allege, I take'occasion to say publicly that y:"o}l are an unmitigated liar and the truth is not in you—holding myself in readiness to substantiate this by competent witness. Now fora few worde with regard to your opposition to my election as a delegate to the New York convention. Your objections are briefly stated as follows: ‘lst, That I was not in favor of Pendleton; 2d, that I was a stranger to you ; 3d; that there were older men who desired the ap pointment ; 4th, that I was too young; sth, that I showed strong symptoms of following the lead of the N. Y. World, &c. It would be folly to devote much atten‘tion to these objections. Whether well.founded or not,l will not now undertake to discuss, further than to-say that they - are entirely new to me—that you assign~ed no other reason against my appoint‘ment than thst of a preference for Major Sprott * becanse this would probably be the last national convention that he conld ever attend.” ’V'V ith a genuine reverence for old age I acquiesced, as already stated.

I cannot consent to pass this:point without convicting you of a slight falsehood. You pretend that you were at that time strongly wedded to the financial doctrine of Mr. Pendleton. Have you' forgotten that at the State convention you stated in my presence that.the position of President Johnson on the question of finance, as enunciated through his message, met your} “most cordial approbation "~ that, you had carefully perused the same, and fully endorsed its arguments? When you, were noniinatéd as & candidate for Congress you expressed- a determination to study the issues of the day, so as to be thorough-’ ly “ posted " before entering upon your mission for the enlightenment of the people. | Whether, in’ these -reséarches; you ‘have discovered ia slight' difference” between the views of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Pendleton I cannot say, but will charitably suppose that 86 ‘eminent a statesman, so sagaciots a politician as you have proy~en yourself to be, could not long grope in the dark before making the discovery—if you did miss the mark by over two thousand when you. .expected to drive that famous wagon over three thousand _majority on & bee-line to Washington ! - . There is one passage in ‘your letter ~which T mustiquote entire: - . “A few 'men in Ligonier supposed they could do -wonders, providing they had plenty of ‘money. ' Im!#umtw mmd hands conld: be largely colonized, and in var mpmﬁ wa3e, the fren tse of iy BB O hen SRR ok e v 50 onier made o demand on you.for money [t A oyl ‘er cor od Nolitary cent to a fund in

'W I will ask you the gues. | tibn 2. Did you not st m ' & Parker’s store that yob, b d instructed ett; McKee to t‘rﬂnﬂferéé : b S, : 2 e o - from Lagrange into Noble, abd were not _you the person who informed me that you bad made srrangements with Edgerton. 1o put the, whole, force of railroad men into this county? When you have answered thiése questions, I may submit one or two more, b i * Your pretensions to honesty are 3 mere sham, intended to lead unsuspecting peo“ple into the belief that your actions were governed entirely by principlesof fairness ‘and integrity, when in point of fact you are sadly destitute of these ennobling qualities. You utter a base, deliberate falsehood when you: assert that a combination had beer formed to “ bleed” your plethoric purse. 'With unspeakable contemr I, for myself, hurl back the intamous Bharge into the foul'mouth of the accuser. None but a villainous slanderer would make such a charge unless fully sustained by existirg facts. : . Your apprehensions that Mr. Beane and myself might have opposed your election, is no doubt the result of an awakening to consciousness that your ill-manner-ed, brutal conduct would have amply justified such a course. I will not now enter into details, but in my next due attention will be given to this subject. Let me merely say that whilst I labored earnestly and. zealously. for your eluction, it comes with'peculiar'ill-grace from you to~ throw out such insinuations. It is bad enough, I'know, that I said and did so much in your favor, but if I can procure forgiveness for having endeavored to place a bundle of vanity, conceit and coarsenesr into the Halls of an Amerigan . Congress, I will gladly forget your base ingratitude and malicious conduet. . . A vemark concerning Mr. Edgerton, and I will conclude this letter. You say that it would not have been surprising to you bad Mr. Beane and myself opposed your election on the eve of the election, “just in the same way as Mr. Stoll used his paper to defeat Mr. Edgerton.” This ie another exhibition of Ellisonian maligity and untruthfulness, intended to mislead the public. The basis of your charge is an article published in the BANNER of Scptember 23, 1868, underithe caption of “Where is Edgerton?” and in which-1' took occasion to inquire why be did not comie .to the assistance of our standardbearer for' Governor, Hon. T. A. Hen dricks, and aid usin carrying the State. A political jackass like yourself might discover symptoms of opposition in such an inquiry, but men of sense would ridicule the idea. The facts are, ‘the arficle reflected not. only my views, but those of every Democrat with whom I conversed on the subject. i With assurances that my next shall not - be lacking in interest and pith, I remain, - Yours without fears, : i B STOLL:

2. B.—Since the above was writfen, a friend has reminded me that my reference to your conduct towards Captain Lucius =Barney was not.complete. You had the coarseness -and indecency to make your attacks in the immediate presence of the Captain, and when told that you were in “his presence, you excused yourself by saying that you supposed it was Capt. Bill Barney! Bl S,

A Fearful Picture. .+ A Washington dispatch to the Cincinnati ‘Commercial says that Mr. Dawes occasioned great excitement in the House on ‘Tuesday of last' week, by his attack upon the Administration for the recklessness of its expenditures, especially denonncing the Navy and Postoffice Departments. He ‘cited faets and figures, and his speech was received in astonishment in all parts of the House. - The galleries were very full, and the utmost silence was preserved, His speech is the talk of the office holders.” It is the most important. and effective speech yet delivered in either house during the session. ; The special dispatch to the Enguirer upon ‘the same topic—the speech of Mr. Dawes upon the extravagant appropriations of the Radical Congress—says: The. statement recently made in these dispatches that estimates for appropriations for the present Administration were torty: nine millions more for the next fiseal year than they were for the last fiscal year of Andrew Johnson's Administration,. was fully confirmed in the House on Tuesday of last week, by Mr, Dawes, Chairman;of the Committee on Appropriations, who made a severe arraignment of the Navy and other Departments for theextravagant demands for public expenditures made by them upon Congress. He made an exeited appeal to the Republican party tostand by its promises of reform and retrenchment, and to vote down the millions asked for public improvoments. He said that every Department but that of the Attorney General had increased its estimates over last year, which public necessity did ‘not, in his opinion, demand. The mem‘bers manifested great interest in : the speech, and gathered in groups about the -speaker, for ,ﬂze_siight\,wns rare to see & _prominent Republiean arraign his own _party so earnestly on the. floor of the :HOUSC. ’ e 3RgS o

} L b Magnsoimity in Politics. ' Our excellent contemporary 'of the Evansville Cotirier strongly urges the for‘mation of axeform ticket, to be composed of Democrats and , Republicans, to insure the overthrow of the radical government of that city. Among many sensible sug-. gestions that paper offers the following: In_ times of high. political excitement democrats exert themselves to make converts from the republican ranks. We desire to secure-converts. = All parties strive to this end. " ' _ : With what kind of a face can we ask ‘republicans to act with us in a state or | national election if we spurn them in jour local contests, in which ull have a deep 1 and abiding interest? = . . - " Let us come. %@ltﬁér as ;&%gnds' ina ‘common cause. . thepﬁbe forgotten. l “Let democrats be magnanimous, ' . ‘There Is an abundance of good sense in_ ‘the above, but it will be extremely difficult to convince some men that it is better to achieve a victory over radicalism by .inviting the, cooperation of diseatisfied { Republicans: than to suffer defeat by ia- | sisting on the * close communion” policy. |lf the Courier succeeds in' carrying coniton 1t sl of hiy it il swompah oe ot . ble jonrrials have Beeh sble€o do. '~

the plans proposed for latxﬁg%eu and 'the cﬁ’:reucymogfuthe Pountry, those by A-7%0¢ Sumnce and wen the most prominclt, add will chiefly command public lﬁ oolgmsm attention. ~ . - i S PAUTWERL'S PLAR. . The Secretary of the Treasury proposes : 1. To fand $1,200,000,000 of the fivetwentizs into a four and a halt per cent. “onethird of which shall be redeemablefat the pleasiiré of the government fter fifteen years, and payable in coin af‘ter twénity yedrs ! another third to run for twenty and twenty-five years, and the Temainder _for twenty-five and thirty years, oyl 2. Rigid economy, saving of interest, and rapid reduction of the debt. 8, Resu'm?tion of specie payments as a natural result of the gradual increase ot business and the payment of the debt.

| 4. SUMNER'S PLAN. R . 1. To fund $500,000,000 of the debt to riun ten and forty yearsat 5 per cent.; $500,000,000 to run fifteen and fifty years at 414 peritent. ;' and an optional $500,000,000 toiran twenty and sixty years at 4 per ﬁzew : i : ; |2. The first . series is to be disposed of at par for coin or exchanged at par for 5 20's; the second similarly as to coin or to government obligations bearing a high--er interest ; the’third for coin or United States notes or bank notes. . 3. To make the National Bank circalation $500,000,000, instead of $300,000,000, and to distribute it all, according to population. ‘4. When the premium on gold reaches 5 per cent. legal-tenders are to be received for eustoms, and interest on the three per cent. legal-tenders shall cease.

; COMPARATIVE RESULTS. ‘Thus Mr. Sumner aims at resumption, while Mr. Boutwell would let it come in due course of business. - - Mr. Boutwell thinks that the payment of the debt is the speediest mode of restoring a normal condition, while Mr. Sumner would arrive at the same result by postponing payment and reducing taxation. ° : : ''The Bible tells us that the borrower is the servant of the lender. Mr. Boutwell seems to recognize the force of this principle, and desires to sccure the country from servitude to foreign capitaliste.— Kzchange. ; e

i ‘Proposed New State. | A propogition is now being discussed to consolidate the State of Delaware, the eastern shore of Maryland, and Accomac county in Virginia into a new State, to be called Chesapeake. The thirteen counties in the three States make the peninsula lying between the Chesapeake, the Delaware river, and the Atlantic ocean. It is believed that these counties have a population and identical interests of sufficient. importance to warrant their creation into a new State. Under the proposed plan, Delaware; of course,’ looses its identity, ‘bat" this is to effect the objection which the people of Virginia and Maryland in the counties' adjoining might have to annexation to so small a State as Delaware, which by compromise may become the larger and more important State of Chesapeake. The plan is not a new one; Si mon Cameron, as: Secretary of War in 1861, officially recommended it, and it has been discussed from time to time ever since. The reason given for moving in the matter now is: that, if the new State is to be created, it can 'be ranked ‘in the enumeration, estimates, and statistics of the census about to be taken as the State of Chesapeake, not ‘Delaware.

Revolutionary Mexico.

- Mexico, says an exchange, is on the eve of another general revolution. The rebellion in Puebla' remains unchecked.— The General sent to suppress it has resigned, and the insurgents have gained possession of several towns, driving therefrom the government troops. . In San Luis Potosi a revolution is also in active pro‘gress and is daily gaining strength.— ‘These insurrections will be rapidly followed by others, and in a:very short time ‘half a dozen separate and distinct civil ‘wars will be ‘raging in our sister Republic. If the Mexicans would only agree among each other, to lay down their arms, refrain from issuing pronunciamentos, and invoke the protection of the United States, they might bave a prosperous country. But they are jealous of us, distrust one another, and never seem so hapPy as when they have s few revolutions in progress at one and the same time, with the accompanying skirmishes, forays, and’ executions. Poor Mexico.. ;

‘A New Candidate for President. “Mack,” in a recent Washington letter to the Cincinnati Fnguirer, says : - Talking the other day with a num-' ber of Democrats on the subject of the next Presidency, two of them, who were from the East, and comparatively unacquainted with the Western politicians, mentioned quite favorably the name of Mr. William 8. Groesbeck, of Cincinnati, as one likely te loom up into (frominence between now. and 1872, I don’tknow how far they reflected the views: of their constituents in the matter, but they certainly named a man who, i»f'ele(:ted,y would do an honor to the great office, to which it has been a stranger for many years. They prob~ably knew little of him except his recordin the impeachment trial, which ' gave him a fame he can not out-live.—. However it is little too early in the sea- ' son to cast about for Democratic Pres‘idential - candidates. The first busi- | uess in order is twrt{ the next Congress, 8 work which looks easy from ‘standpoint of to day, and can only be 'made a failure by a repetition.of the old story of bad management, and the selection of bad candidates. When the fagt is duly recognized that the party wasnot made for candidates, but ~can serve no higher purpose than to bring the party into power, then look ~out for Democratic victories. Until then {::’iné: 80 :,thr.dsﬂihthe ‘motions rff political campaigns: with a view to. the i Emﬂ%@t, pb;pzs:;blgfuthy of money and -

~ To CLEAN BLACK OLOTH.—Dis‘solve one ounce of bicarbonate of am~monia ;in one gquart of warm water. With ihis Jiquid rub the cloth, usiog piece of flannel or. black cloth for the purpose. . After the application of this golution clean the ;plog.g well with clear ’ water. Dry and iron it, brushing the. .cloth from time to time in the direction FriD BReAD.—Blices of toasted ‘bread, dipped in milk or wine, and fn:&fn ""2:1{; are excellent, Then, instead of calling them “fried bread,” I_:hé? are torejas, an excellent Spanish delicacy, I can assure you. Please understand, there is neither butter norJard. " mg% melt the honey in a ‘pan, sl 1 i very hot putin the g;«1.,, ich is served hot also, after. being yicszgﬁ;km;aé@» . Lovers of ‘honey can take notice. . .

' CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. «/ WEDNESDAY, JAN. 19.—The straightout radicals of the Senate obtained theix first victory in the Virginia fight. = After another debute ofia couple of hours, a vote was taken on Mr. Edmund’s amendment imposing a test oath on the members of the Virginia Legislature, and it resulted in the affirmative—43s to 16. Thg only Radicals conservative enough to vote with the Democrats were Messrs. Ferry, Kel--logg, Ross, Stewart, and Trumbull. x{r. Nye afterwards changed his vote to the negalive. The Senate also discussed the question ot abolishing the franking privilege. Several morebills were introduced to give away public lands to' railroad corporations. Mr. Trumbull reported adversely to the bill allowing States to determine the qualifications of witnesses in the United States courts. :

In the House of Representatives, two Pennsylvanians, Kelley and Dickey, attempted to reply to Dawes’ speech charg ing the administration with gross extravagance. The plain‘truths of Dawes have made the Radical Congregsmen sick with apprehensions of the consequence of the exposure. £

THURSDAY, JAN. 20.—Gen, Nathaniel Greene, the revolutionary hero, was the subject of eulogistic speeches in the Senate; the occasion being the presentation of his statute from the State of Rhode Island to the national capital. Mr. Anthony made the offering, and Mr. Sumner the Senatoriol response. Two other radi cal Senators indulged in littfe speeches.— The old patriot would turn.in his grave if he knew that the men who are oppressing old Virginil were his eulogists. Mr. Ramsey brought forward his bill to establish a postal telegraph system and to incorporate the United States Postal Tel egraph Company. The Virginia bill was taken up and diecussed. Drake had a new obstruction' amendment prohibiting Virginia from ever hereafter altering her constitution o as to deprive the darkeys of suffrage. A fter several speeches it was agreed to bring the bill to a final vote at 4 o'clock, Friday. - ;

In the House of Representatives the proceedings were unusually spicy. Mr. Bingham asked leave to introduce a ridiculous bill, making it an/offence punishable with fine and imprisonment for any person to propose to repeal the action of a State Legislature ratifying any proposed amend ment to the constitution. Mr. Eldridge objected. = Mr. Hooper, thc Mormon delegate, presented a memorial, signed by 22,000 citizens of Utah, praying admission as a State. ' The House passed the Military Academy appropriation bill. L

FRrIDAY, JAN. 21.—Virginia was rejected by the Senate. 'The debate was marked ‘thh,a great speech by Trumbull, who talked for an hour to a most attentiveaudience against the monstrositivs of the ultra wing of his party. Drake’s obstruc tion amendments were tacked on to the bill by small majdtities, many of the mod erate men, as Trumbull, Carpenter, and Conkling, voting with the Democrats; but the bill as amended finally passed by a strict party vote, 47 to 10. It now goes oack to the House for renewed action.— Previous to the Virginia debate, Senator Pomeroy proposed a sixteenth amendment to the constitution, conferring suffrage upon women, It was referred to the Judiciary Commmittee. . Lattle of interest transpired in the House of Representatives. Butler attempted to get.a chance to reply to Dawes’ speech, but was choked down by the persistent efforts of Benjamin, of Missouri. . BATURDAY, JAN. 22.—The Senate was not in session to-day. . s ‘ln the House of Representatives the principal events of the day were speeches on Tennessee politics, by Mr. Stokes; on the remsval of the national Capitol, by Messrs. Moore and Logan, of Illinpis; and in favor of retrenchment, by Mr. Beck. MoNDAY, JAN, 28.—The Virginia question is at last disposed of. The reconstruction committee met this ?norning, and dectded that it was best to accept tbe Senate amendments, made on Friday last, to the House bill. Accordingly, when it came up in the House they were concurred in, by a party vote. The committec made the discovery that the so-called fundamental conditions of the Senate bill were already in the constitution of Virginia. In a debate on Georgia, in the House, the Democratic members, especially Gen. Morgan, of Ohio, defled Batler, or any of the Republicans, to point to one line of the reconstruction laws which authorized such |a military commission as Terry has sitting to inquire into the eligibility of members of that legislature,

First Radieal Lie of the Canvass. “Breyfogle,” the Indianapolis correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, says that “the talk at the State capital is mostly about the Democratic Conyention.— The Republicans are wondering how the work for which they were called together was done so/smoothly, and why there was no row; while the Democrats are rubbing their ' hands in joyful ' anticipation of a triumphant canvass, It isalong while for a candidate to remain in pillory, but the ticket is one that will bear scrutiny. Theßepublican terriers bark around it, uncertain where to make their attack. The best they have been able to do, as yet, is to revive the stale slander that Bayless W. Hanna, candidate for Attorney General, was arrested in Indianapolis, during the war, for.cheering for Jeff. Davis, | The truth of thisstory isas follows : Mr. Haonna was in company with'a youngman named Hannegan; who was considerably inebriated, and who, for pure devil‘ment, shouted for Jeff. Davis. He was immediately surrounded by a mob of valiant stay at-home patriots and detached service soldiers, who were about to do him personal violence, when 3r. Hanna, as any chivalrous man would do, protected Hannegan and shamed the mob out of their brutal and cowardly designs. Finally a squad of: provost :guards came along and took both Hanna and ' Hannegan before that gory warrior, Gen. Henry B. Caﬁ@pg-’ | ton; since famous as the hero of Fort Phil. Kearney. This is a plain statement of the case, - Mr. Hanna did not cheer for Jeff. Datih? 55 Prapaeiie aees fsid i ] ] ei¢ il mﬁé’é" to;nbg‘ﬁhww“?thm mendation of the Indiana d %&P fe D Korigim wsior.: Wn B will do over there 1 %’g aess, but he. et in w ‘lB 'y obnoxious to

. POLITICAL ITEMS. " Washington dispatches tell us that Mr. Grant apd General Sherman have left everything in Georgia to the discretion of take, as Terry is understood to have no discretion. His public acts will most probably be the reflex of the secret orders of bis masters which they do not wish to avow. e

A contemporary propounds a query in.this.wise : If Congress enacts a law, as is -proposed to enforce the fifteenth amendment in defiance of the wishes of certain States, will the States submit or will there be another‘_“tin[):lemntncgs" for the benefit of parchnient 'g_enérals ‘d__qa shoddy contractors® - It is said that the publishers of the Rev olution, who blow 8o hearty about. the rights of women, only pay their girls twothirds what the men receive for the same labor. . The blatant advocates of women’s political rights are generally of a class who deny them all. natural and personal rights. Byl o

There are some - radicals who begin to have acorrect appreciation of Oliver P. Morton. The Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, daguerreotypes him as a man who “exhibits vindictiveness toward little enemies, and wastes the thunder of his talent upon tadpoles.”— The criticism though not very Fighly polished is extremely truthful and just.

- ‘A radical in New Haven refuses to have his child vaccinated, for ‘fear the vaccine matter may have be:n takén from ‘the arm of a democrat, He wants'to show his loyalty that he may get an "appointment from Mr. Grant. The fellow will not succeed. He is behind the age. ‘Loyalty is no lorger a passport to favor, The presentation of a house and lot ‘would probably be respected. - - - . The New York Evening Post says the forty-nine members of Congress, who vot ed against the admission of Virginia, “voted to break the solemnly pledged faith of Congress'and to perpetuate disunion.” Believing this it prints their names and adds: ¢We are sorry to say they are_all Republicans.” Rather stcep, for & “loil”, paper, - but then the Post does speak out in meeting sometimes. i When Ohio rescinded its ratificaticn of the ‘Fdurteenth Amendment, Mr. Chas, o'Connor, one of the ablest la,wy}ér‘sin'th'e country, gave s strong opinion sustaining its right to do so, which closed as follows “No sound, unprejudiced thinker will ev-. er question the right of a rejecting State. to revoke its rejection, or of an assenting State to withhold its assent, until the Amendment shall become a part of the Constitution. el e

‘Grant wants more money to keep the government gding. Inspite of his pledges of economy and reform, he cannot run the mahine for a cent less than fifty millions more than Andy Johnson required to run it. And yet the departments at Washington are repudiating the most undoubted debts every day, and, so far as paying money is concerned, the treasury is absoI}Qely “closed. "There is-a screw: loose somewhere. . oL Rgk

It has transpired that the estimates for the coming year, which bave bcen sub’ mitted to the House Committec on Appropriations, foot up $49,000,000 in excess of the sum.named in the estimates of the last fiscal year of the administration of President’ Johnson. And worse still, a deficiency bill is being prepared to supply. the shortcomings of last year's estimates, over which the Radicals made such boastful comments. e e

A special from Harrisburg, Pa., states that the Fire Department of that city refused to turn out at the inauguration cer‘emonies, because a detachlnépt of one hundred ard fifty negro soldiers from Philadelphia were assigned a place in the line of procession. The fire bays were sensible. They had a white man’s parade of their own afterward. Talk about “caste” as you will, bunt white men don't like to be put on a par with negroes. That’s the long and short of it. =~ =~ " . ’

A New party has been organized in New York city, under the namz of the New Democracy. - The founders base the party on the fundamental principle of requiring reference to, the people of all laws passed by their legislative representatives, as-in Swiss Cantons. A spirited bid is madein the platform for the votes of women. The new Democrats favor the running of railroads and telegraphs by the Government, and employment of everybody who wants work by national and local authorities, Sl el

The Fifteenth Amendment has introduced many new eléments into the arena of politics. For instance an “American citizen of African descent,” has been elected district clerk of Corsciana, Texas, known simply as “John” He has no other name, and does not remember that he ever halany. All he knows is:that: he is a nigger, a loyal Republican, and: that he was elected. He cannot read or write, and a contemporary says that “a. bottle of castor oil would'm‘ake‘ ‘just ‘as good an officer,” We rather give the preferance to the castor oil, for that at least “goes through” the business, e Mr. Sumner’s late arrogant course in the Senate debate towards members of his own party has caused an examination to be made of his political récord. It was there stated that he did not vote for the thirteenth and fifteenth amendments, though claiming to bespecially the friend of the colored man. It is now stated that he did not vote for the first reconstruction act, but ran off. from the Senate. Notwithstandiog he has been so long in the Senate and undertakes to control so many questions,it seems that there is not:a ‘ single important law on the statute-book dmfled by i, . ° 1L v v A bill has been introduced and referred’ in the House of Representatives direoted virtually agninst. Tennessee. It proposes to declare null and vod all acts of Legislatures and State Conventions which have been passed by the votes of the members: of the same who are disqualified by the third, section.of the Fourtcenth. Amend: et Th bl wes vt i Judl ciary Committee. The members say that i psn Congres .l bk o the Nashville Convention. Thus the Repub:: ﬁm?;@gg*mwfmwfm ward for Congresiotal interferenco in Genera] Terty. This is probably s mis. States fully restored to the Union by com:: Sl e e e Se e T S S

©/ . GENERAL NEWS ITEMS, gAfiThe t:e_!egr:;,phr strike is at anend. _ The'New Orleans’ gambling houses have been closed by act of Legislature, .There are rumors of a new Fenian expedition in Canada. . o A sharp shock of earthquake was felt at San Peardo,; Cal., on the 14th sl e s y

. A $75,000 fire took{‘lace at Rochester, New York, .on Tuesday of last week. Lo : * Hon. Charles Durkie, ‘Governor of Utah, was burjed at Kenosha, Wis--consin, on the 19th. ) 1 MY cbopéfé of Cleveland, eight or nine hundred in number, are on: a strike for higher;wagee. o o A Chicago family have been seriously poisoned by eating biscuits made from a New York baking powder. F. T. Wallace, a Cleveland lawyer and real estate dealer has been arrested for forgeries amounting to $24,000. ~ "The Kansas _Legislature have resolved in favor of a removal of the National Capital to Fort Leavenworth, - Over thirty million eigars were made in the First Obio District last year—an increase of fifty per cent; over last year. ;

The Republicans and Conservatives of Virginia are arranging for a public demonstration over the admission of the state. @ Sy

- The Chinese -quarters, in the lower part of “San Jose have been burned, and -a_thousand oceapants rendered ‘houseless: ¢ ity

Williamr Kriel, the wife murderer, ‘was executed at Louisville last Friday, on the Common; in the .piesence of several thousand spectators. ' ~The Free Ma-ons of Germany have adopted an address protesting against the téndency of the Ecumenical Couneil toward the doctrines of the syllaBose "o 007 , & - Warrants have been issued ag{ainst thirty mecchants of New York for failure to ‘pay special license ‘tax, and twelve citizens for failing to pay income tax. €

- The printers of Quiney, 111., took a recess, and inferentially.a big drunk at the Opera House, on Frauklin's Firthday, and there were no papers issued the next day. 1 g : :

- Rev. Horace Cooke has mysteriously disappeared again. It is thought he has come. West to commence life anew—whether as actor, preacher or lover is not stated. ° ;

The Second Annual Universal Suffrage convention was in session at Washington last week. = Mrs. Stanton predicts that this will be the great. question at issue in 1872, .

- A Chicago policeman went crazy on his beat the other day, and-began a promiscuous revolver practice right in the street. The official lunatic was disarmed: before he killed anybody. - Mr. Hammond, the Evangelist, has preached his farewell sermon in Cincinnati. * During his six weeks stay in that city it is estimated that one thousand additions have been made to the churches. st :

George Seil, a Germau of Cincinnati,- cured his rheumatism on Tuesday by drinking twenty-nine pints of wormwood. The remedy was preseribed by a butcher in the old country.— Seil'is dead.. e )

. The correspondence between Mr. ‘Burlingame and Coant Bismarek has been published.’ The Prussian Government expresees its anxiety for a restoration of imperial authority throughout China, as the best guaranty of order and safety for foreigners,

Some of the citizéns of St. Paul have made the governor of Minnesota a New . Year’s offering of an elegant house, ready furnished, for one year, but hedeclined it. And he was right. Mr." Grant himeelf would hardly accept ahouse of so short a time as that.

-The 8t Louis Republican is defending a libel suitfor $25,000, brought by a handsome young lady of twenty, with alarge, brilliant black eya, rosy com--plexion, a smooth, high torehead; and 4 countenance animated and expressive. . Her “character” iswt stake, and she goesindp win. - .« . &oisioii i

~James Fisk, Jr.,, and J. Gould, promise to go t 0 Washington to be investigated for getting up a great gold corner on the first of September,— Their . alledged parener, Corbin, -still continues too ill to be investigated.— - Some rather remarkable developments are expected from the Erie managers. An Eastern editor has got mad, and wants g’arsonc Cooke, the gallant lovyer of Miss Johnson, “purged.” If: the editor is any relation to the girl, let him seek out the devout parson’s hiding place, and undertake the purgation himself. We would suggest a ‘bundle of stout raw-hides as suitable ingstruments. s R

An immense meeting was held at Cooper’s Institute on Wednesday night in favor of cuban independence.” Hoxace Greeley presided, and spoke in favor of belligerent rights for Cuba.— Cassius M. Clay, Col. Tomlinson, and others, also addressed the meeting, and resolutions were adopted - urging -the Administration ‘to recognize them as belligerents. dagt 17300 } - A letter lated Pembina, January 5, confirms the previous report of the commencement of the Sioux movemetit upon the insurgents, The Indians bad got within a short distance of Fort Garry, but were turned back by Ryal’s persuasions. . The letter states that the English half- breeds are holding meetings to discuss the propriety of making a common ‘cause with the French, = e

Henry Ward Beecher declines to receive the $7,600 additional salary voted by the congregation. Thereis nothing, however, said by him against receiving.it in the shape of presents and donations, Tn._that shape.it will come. Holiday presents, birth-day presents, and regular. donations. will-mere than make up the ‘rejected ‘offering. Mr. Beecher is too great an ad mirer of Mr, Grant to refuse to follow in the shining light of his effulgent footsteps. "~ % The yearly' mortality of the. globe is 33,333.333 persons.. This. at the rate of 71,55 pbr dag 5,830,908 oy J. P, Jewett, the or | publisher of “Uncle Tom’s Oabin,” %%gﬁ;;&;ingz(m:f araeyman printer in Phila-