The National Banner, Volume 4, Number 40, Ligonier, Noble County, 2 February 1870 — Page 1

THE NATION AL BANNER, ~ Published Weekly by . i JOI!_N B. S'!‘O.LL, LIGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY, IND ? - :J‘»k,,..{,»«.»--fww»vw-v % ’ v . 'n;;nx\s OF SUBSCRIPTION : { Strictly in advance,.........ocoonniiennn ... 82.00 .. % Any peréon éending a club of 20, accompanjed with the cash, wil] be _entitled to a copy of the paper, f_or one year, tree of char e. S - EXCELSIOR LODGE, NO. 267, Met;ltﬁs at their Hall on eyery Q'\turdagv evening of each week. : A. JACKSON; N, G, M. W. COE, V. G. n R. D, KERR, Nov. 26th, 1868, —tf. -/ | Secretary. . J.M. DENNY, Attorney at Law;—A lbion, Noble co., Ind Will give careful and prom pt attention to a busineces entrusted to his care. - - 3-8 —————————————————— 0 LUTHER H. GREEN, {’Attormy-at-Law & Notary Publie. {0 LIGOCNIER, - - - - INDIANA. Qffice on Cavin Strget, over Sack Bro’s. Gro?ery;, opposite Helmer House. - 41-8-ly B D. W. C. DENNY, | Physician and Surgeon,— Ligonier, Ind. Will promptly and.faithfully attend to all calls tn the line‘of his profession—day or night—iu town or any distance in the country. Pcrsons wishing*his ‘serviees at nH;ht, will'find him at his father’s residence, first door east of Meagher & Chapman’s Hardware Store, where all calls, when abseut, should be left. - 14 'E. RICHMOND, Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer, ‘Cavin street, Ligonier, Indiana.| Special attention given to conyey’anciné; and col- | " lections. Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages,drawn up, and all legal business attended to promptly and accurately. + 7 ':May 26th, 1868.

HELMER HOUSE, A.J. MATTISON, Prop'r, LIGONIER. = = « INDIANA. This House has been Refitted and Refurnished i 7 .in Wirst Class Style.’ e e i DR. E, ‘_}’. KNEPPER, Felectic Physician & Surgeon,—Ligonier. All diseages of the Lungs and Throat snecessful.y ireated &y inhalation. No charges for congsultation. Office with W. W. Skillen, esaq. 1-8 0. WOODRUFF, ' G.B. WOODRUFF, WOODRUFF & SON, ECLECTIC "H YSICIANS AND SURGEONS, 'LISONIER, - - - « - - INDIANA, ' Will attend promptly allcalls from town and country. Office in Drug Store of Barnett & Co.— Regidence north gide of Rsilroad. 4-11 " DR.P. W. CRUM, L ‘o 0 . ‘Physician and Surgeon, . Ligonier, = = « . Indiana, Office one door south of 1. Low & Co’s Clothing Store, up emir.s{(‘)". ¥ ~ May 12th, 1869, G.W. CArr, - W. D. RANDALL. CARR & RANDALL, Physicians and § ysSlCians an urgeons, LIGONIER, = - - - - - IND, Will promptly attend all calls intrusted to them. Office on 4th St., one door east ef the NaTioNawn BANNER Office. 3-43 SAMUEL E. ALVORD, - Attorney at Law, Claim Agent, and Notary Public, Albion, Noble Co., Ind. Business in the Courts, Claims of soldiers andheir heirs, Cnnveyuncini. &c., promptly and carefully attended to. Acknowledgments, Depositiong'and Affidavits, taken nnsd_ certifled. SACK BROTHERS, Bakers & Grocers. 2 e . Cayin Street, Ligonier; Indiana. Fresh Bread, Pieé, Cakes, &c., Choice Groceries, Provigions, Yankee Notiong, &¢ The highest cash price paid fer Conntrﬁ Produce . May 18, "68-tf. SACK BRO'S. KELILEY HOUSE, ' Kendallville, Ind. This is a First-clags House, situated on Main Street, in the central (part of the City, making it very convenient for Agents, Runners, and all other transient men visitﬁ);:hour City, to_do business without goinifar from the House. Generil Stage office for the North and Southi Stabdling for forty horses. Livery, and Free 'Bus. ; . J.B. KELLEY, Proprietor. G. W. Geeexn, Clork.

NEW FIRM AND NEW GOODS — AT — WOLF LAXKE, IND. Notice is hereby given that C. R. Wiley and Samuel Beall have entered into a co-partnership _n the Merchandise business, and that they bave just unpacked a Inrge stock of Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, &c. Call and see for yourself. WILEY & BEALL. -. Wolf Lake, Nov. 8, 1860 27tf e STRAUS BROTHERS - Would r‘eslpectfull y announce to their customers and the pnblic in %;eneml that they continue to urchase PRODUCE at the highest market grices. ﬁaving no bu?'er on the streets, farmers having roduce for sale will pleage call at our office in'the ; flrlek Clothing Store. : _~ Ligonier, April 29, 1869, —tf ¥. W. STRAUS. : JACOB STRAUS. STRAUS BROTHERS Exchange and Brokers' Office, < LiGoNIER, IND. Bug and cel Exchange on all principal cities of the United States, and serr Exchange on all princiga! cities of Europe, at the very'iowest rates. They also sell pnssa%e tickets, at very lowest figures, to all principal seaports of Europe. 3-52tf N. B.—The present price of passage in steerage from New York to Hamburg, Plymouth; London and Cherbourg has been reduced to only $3O in - gold, '} s : L . 1 ELKHART BOOK BINDERY, ; }u At the office of the 'MHERALD OF TRUTH,” ELEKHART;, - -/ « =~ - - IIND. We take pleasure to inform our friends and the public in general, that ave have established a : Bogk Bindery,. In connection witn our Printing Office, and are & mow prepared to do all kinds of Binding, * puch as Books, Pamphlets, Magazires, Musi¢, promptly and - : : on reasonable terms. apr. 29:h, "68.~tf, ' JOHN F. FUNK. e e e e ee et A 'NEW MOVEMENT! Solomon in new Quarters! . Tre subscriber wouid respectfully announce that he has just mdved into the building formerlly occupied by S.fMier & Co., purchased a large stock ol - 4 : : : S GRQCEIFIES,.&.c., and is now prepired"to sdl)ply every deman in his line at rates fully as low as any other es #ablishment in town. | Refreshments at all hours. : : "~ BBOL. ACKERMAN, Ligonier, Bept. 156th, 1869, , .

; GO AND SEE GOTSCH& BECKMAN’s . —NEW— - JEWELR ~ STORE, . Main Street, Kendallville, Ind. ‘They hiave just received the finest assortmentand e latest styles of - JEWELRY, ‘ ! i SILVERWARE, . . CLOCKS, ETC., -Also the best American Watches, Only e me and see them. 4 All fine work done and satisfaction guaranteed. Shop or_‘posite Miller’s new block. Kendallville, Ind., June 26th, '67. tf. : BAKERY AND RESTAURANT L ; Bt . - B. HAYNES, ~ Opposite the Post Office, Ligonier, Ind.. My Bakery will be supplied atall times with fresh Biscuits, | - Bread, ‘ " Pies, Cakes, ; Crackers, &c., &c., Weddin jic-nics and private parties will be Ml&":m? unmlng in fue putfy line, on short notice, and in very latest style, on A i&ﬂ‘!n.!. Oysters and warm meals tare SAooet iy i e this a lace to 88 ‘nner man,” L » S aa:\?y 6, '69,~tf

Vol. 4.

L * ON THE ICE. There’s u‘othing 80 pretty in all the wide world A 8 a beautiful girl on the ice; ! Though ANy girl dressed in a skating costume, .Of course, must be pretty and nice; How smoothly she glidéso’er the silvery sheen, And gracefully bends to and fro; With undulcus motion, light-hearted and free, Her bright eyes and cheeks all aglow. And then should it happen to be her first trial, So confiding she leans on your arm; =~ . While the rippling of water, is music less sweet Than her sharp little shrieks of alarm. How delightful to pick the dear little one up Just after each comical tumble — ; So gratefully smiling, provokingly sweet, That your heart will be all in a jumble. A skating*pond, toe, on a clesr stilly night, With the merry stars twinkling above, And the moon looking down with encouraging . Bmile, - . : Is an excellent place to make love.: For examplé, ’shevcalls you a “‘darling sweet love ;’ S s “What a trouble to you she must be.”’ ‘Lhen whispers, “'you’d think it no trouble at all To be trouble for life.”” Do you see? . Then there’s the lacid{ and unlacing skates, And thounsands of other delights; * .. Besides the walking home with the angelic one ’Neath the brightest of bright star lights, And then as ¥ou bid her good-night at the door, - Sweet words you can breath in her ear, If I didn’t love Summer, I almost could wish That skating would East all the year’ : AMERICAN SLANG. A Junior Partne: Buying Gobdu in ; ; Londomn. Lo The utter ignorance of the English of the signification of the American s'ang expressions often causes pome curious scenes among them, and Yankee buyers in England, who. scem to think that because their language generally is understood, all their American idioms will be. An expert buyer, junior partner in one .of our large American firms, at a recent first visit to his correspondent in an English manufacturing city, was complimented by the senior partner of the house, who insisted on personally showing goods to his American purchaser. | “There, sir,” said Dowlas, throwing out a roll of goods, “what do you think of| that ?” i | “Oh, that’s played out,” said the American. " “It’s what ?”” said Bull. : “It’s played, I tell you, said the customer. ’ Poey - “Played, ah! really; we call it plad, h’yar in England, but this isn’t plaid—plad you know.” “No,” said Yankee, “I don’t mean plad ; ’ter say it’s gone up.”

. “Oh, no,” said the Britisher, “not at all; it has not gone up—quite the contrary, - We've taken off from the price.’ gl “Over the left ; it’s three-pence too high now.” : ~ “No doubt of it, but our neighbors you know on the left are not manufacturers, you know.” * 4Very likely, but I don't care to be ‘stﬁck’ when I get home.” “Really. Most extraordinary. Is it as dangerous in New York as the newspapers gay ¥’ “Yes, but I don’t wan’t these goods: I’ve got some already that will knock the spots out of ’em.” . “But, my dear sir, there’s no spots on the goods, I assure yah. They are perfect.” gt “Well, well, suppose we ‘switch off’ on these goods, and try something else.” o i “Certainly !’ said the. Englishman, to'the infinite amusement of the American’s friend; called a clerk with a wisp broom and directed him to “switch off”” any dust he could find,| while he proceeded to s‘lfow something else., ' ~ “There,” said the Englishman triumphantly spreading out another fabric, “there’s the handsomest piece of goods in England, ’alf a guinea a yard.” : “I can‘t gee it,” said his customer. “Can’t see it 7 why you are looking right at it ; however, suppose you try the light of this window.” - “No, I don’t mean that,” said the American. “I haven’t gof the stamps for such goods.” :

~ “Stamps! no stamps required but a bill stamp, swhich we are happy to furnish.” . ' This misunderstanding might have continued longer, had not one of the younger members of the house, seeing his senior’s perplexity, rescued the American and “put him through” after the manner of his countrymen.

How Sut Lovengood Killed his Dog, < When I wer a boy dad fotched home a wuthless, many, flee-bitten, gray old fox houn, good for nuthin but to swaller up what orter lined the bowels of hig brats. Well, I naturally took a distaste to him, and had a sorter hankerin’ artér hurtin his feelins and.discomfertin of him every time dad’s back - was turned. This sorter kept a big gkeer allers afore his eyes, an awful yell ready to pour out the first motien he seed me meke. So he larnt to.swaller things as he. run, always kept his legs well ander himself, for he never kpew he might want to use them to tote his infernal carcass beyond the: reach of a flyin’ rock. He knowed the whiz of a rock in motion well, and he never stoppéd to see who threw it, but just let his head open wide enuff to gin a howl room to cum, and iset his legs agwine the way his nose happin‘ed to ‘be a pintin.- He’d shy around every rock he see’d in the road. for he looked at it as a calamity to cum arter him sum day. I tell you, Georgy. that running am the greatest invention on yearth, when keerfully used.— Wb@ar‘"d I bin by this time, ef. I hadn’ relied on these ere legs? Dy’d se’em ? Don’t they mind you of a pair of eompasses made to divide a mile into quarters?' They'll do. Well, one day I tuck a pig’s bladder nigh unto the size of a duck’s aig, and filled it with powder, nnd corked it up with a piece of punk, rolled it up in & thin sculp of meat and sat the una a fire, and threw it out ; he swalﬁsrek it at ajerk, and got to get away from doin’ it. I 'heard a noise like bustin sumthin, and his _tail lit on top _of my hat. His hed was away down ' the Kill. and his teeth took a death hold unto a root. His fore legs were were fifty feet up the road making run_nin meshuns, and his hind ones a straddle ov afence. Es to the dog himself, a 8 a dog, 1 never seed him agin,

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. - ROUND DANCES. The following dialogue is from the Catholic Literary Magazine published in Philadelphi, called Our Own : . What eye can follow. the course of a couple of modern whirligigs as they describe their’ wondrous circles over the ball room floor ? Like seaworthy crafts they alternately dip and fitch. and skim—now appearing in full sail before what would seem a steady. breeze ; then obeying the sudden rising of the instrumental gale, they swing to the leeward, roll to the windward, and after a brief struggle are submerged altogether, and found at last in some. out-of-the-way corner, panting, gasping, perspiring, but supremely happy, and ready for another cruise. Now the question arises, in what does the extreme pleasure consist? Perhaps the following conversation between a young lady and a clergyman may throw some light on| the subject: i I “Please tell me, Father, is it a sin to dance the round dances ?”’ “What am I to understand by round dances ¥ “Waltzes, polkas, galops, ete.” . “Describe a galop”

“Why, it’s something like a waltz, only swifter, and the steps are different, and there are severaﬁ’ changes as you make the circuit of the room.”

cetiSlame ! ol L e “By no means; a partner, of course.” “Gentlemen, I presume? ’ “Well, yes; gentlemen preferred.” “Takes the lady by the hand 1’ “Not exactly ; atleast,by one hand.” “And how ‘does he dispose-of the other.” 5 i ' “Well, why”—blushing - deeply—“you know the lady has to be supported, and so her partner just touches her waist slightly, and—"" - et “But that would afford no support.” " “Well, she rests on his ar—hand just a little, Father.” b : “But then she must have a superfluous hand if he takes but one.” “Oh, she rests her other hand upon his shoulder, just enough to steady herself.” (More blushes:) “But—very matter.of fac/r—}"“lfthat comfortable ? ;

“Oh, yes, Fatheér, very comfortuble.” “If many couple dance at once, I ghould think there would be danger of there coming in contact,” . “Sometimes, but they recover them. selves immediately.” “And the lady is not thrown away from Ler partner ?” - ' “Oh, not at all; he holds her too closely.” oo - “I think—taking a pinch of snuff—“l understand now what you mean by a round dance, which I presume . you enjoy very much.” ‘ “It is perfectly enchianting ! particularly when the musie is fine and one has a good partner.” - : i - “Do you dance with any gentleman who is introduced? In’ society there must be some bad men.” y "~ “Well, I'd rather dance with a bad man who is a good dancer, than a good’ man who is a bad dancer. It don’t make much odds about the character of the gentleman, so he is a good dancer. But then, to be sure, I enjay it a good deal more when I know the character of a gentleman, and like him.” "

“And you think this is proper and "modest, and maidenly; to go careering over a ball room floor in the arms of a “man whom you might not have known ten minutes previously.” B “Well, no ; but it is the custom.” “Would you have a strdiger entering your father’s house, to assume the position of a gentleman it the round dance, and econduct you through your parlors 7 B (.t

- “Of . course - not; that would -be ghocking.” - ; : JisE “My child, in the eyes of God it is the same.” e -

: Premature Burials. A great many persons have allowed themselves to be tormented by imaginations about the possibility of their triends having been buried before life was extinct. These afflicting conceptions are helped on by accounts sometimes given of exhumed bodies giving evidence of being disturbed in position after burial. The New York World offers the following rational explanation of that occurrence, which may relieve many painful anxieties: Hardly a week passes that we do not hear of a premature burial. The story always comes to us in nearly the same shape. A coffin iz exhumed, for one rea on and another, and the corpse is found to have changed 'its position, while the shroud is torn in several places. Immediately, every one -who is cognizant of the event jumps to the very unnecessary conclusion that the coffin was interred with a living inmate, who, on returning to consciousness; had struggled violently, though hopelessly, to escape. Now, the theory of premature burial in such cases as these is entirely gratuitons. - Every medical man knows that the gasses generated by the decomposition frequently ‘act with sufficient force not only to change the position of a corpse after burial, but even to burst open a coffin. Were the inmates of any cem_etery to be exhumed, the same appearances which are now dccepted as evidencer of premature burial would be found to exist in scores of cases ; prob‘ably, indeed, in the majority of instances in which -the burial had been sufficiently recent to admit of the posgibility of detecting any change in the. position of the bo§y. Unfortunately, this well-substantiated fact is not generally known; except to scientific men. Consequently, we hear continually of premature burials, which are’ certainly among the most disagreeable (items of news which one can meet, and ‘which brings incalculable grief ‘and horror to the friends of the quposed victims. It is not impossible that, in rare instances, some unfortunate person is buried before life is en‘tirely extinct, but to conclude from the mere appearance of an exhumed ‘coffin that tEe inmate has been the victim of any such accident is “in the ‘highest degres unreasonable and unORIy, - e e

LIGONIER, IND., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, IS7O.

CONDENSED HISTORY OF STEAM. About 280 years B. C., Hier, of Alexandria, formed a toy which exhibited some of the powers of steam, and which moved by its power. =~ . A. D, 450, Anthemius, an architect, arranged several cauldrons of water, each covered with the wide bottom of a leather tube, which rose to a narrow top, and which pipes extended to the rafters of an adjoining building. A fire was kindled beneath the cauldrons, and the house was shaken by the efforts of the steam ascending the tubes. This is the first notice of the power of steam: recorded. L e - In 1543, June 17, Blasco D. Garoy tried a steamboat of 208 tons with tolerable success, at Barcelona, ‘Spain.— It consisted of a cauldron of boiling water, and a moveable wheel upon each side of the ship. It was laid aside as impracticable. = A present, however, was made to Garoy. T

In 1650 the first railroad was constructed at Newcastle-on-Tyne.. - The first idea,of & steam engine in England was in the Marquis of Winchester’s “History of Inventions,” A. D., 1663. : In 1710, Newcomer made the first steam engine in England. ' “In 1718, patents were granted ‘to Savery for the first application of the steam engine. . ) In 1764, James Watt made the first perfect steam engine in England. In 1736, Jonathan Hulls set forth thé idea of steam navigation. ° In 1778, Thomas Payne first proposed this application in the United States. ! Inl7Bl, Marquis Jouffroy constructed one in Saone. <ol In 1785 two Americans published a“ work onit. - s In 1789, William Tymington made a voyage in one on the Clyde: ~ln 1802 the experiment was repeated. w 0 ; ’ In 1782, Ramsey propelled a boat by steam to New York. i ; ~ In 1788, John Fitch, of Philadelphia, navigated a boat by a steam engine, on the Delaware. =~ - In 1793, Oliver Evans, a native of Philadelphia, constructed a locomotive steam engine to travel on a turnpike. # In 1793, Robert Fulton first began to turn his attention to steam. =~ The first steam engine that crossed the’ Atlantic was the Savannah, in the month of June, 1819, from Charleston t.o’Liyerpool. ﬁ

The Seven Wonders of the World. The first ot these were the Pyramids of Egypt. The second was Mausoleum, or tomb, built by Artemisia, for her husband, Mausolus, king of Caria, in Asia Minor, at Halicarnassus, B. C.,'350. It is now in the British- Museum, where it was placed in 1857. Tbe third was the T'emple of Diana, at Egphesus, which was tour hundred and thirty-five feet long, and two hundred.and thirty-five feet broad. It was destroyed by fire on the night of the birth of Alexander the Great, by a man named Erostratus, who perpetrated the reprehensible act inig‘rder, as it is said, that hia pname might be handed down to posterity. © The fourth comprised the walls of the hanging gardens of the city of Babylon. These gardens were raised in terraces, one above another, on the tiers of arches, and reached by flights of steps. Flat stones were laid on the arches, and thése were cemented together by bitu4 men, and covered by sheets of lead ; earth of sufficient quantity to allow trees and shrubs to grow was spread on the lead. The gardens were five in number, and in the form of an amphitheatre. The fifth was the enormous brazen image of Apollo, at Rhodes, which was erected B. C.,200, and was thrown down by an earthuake about seventy years afterwards. (11“ t stood across the entrance to the harbor, with each foot on the extremity of a mole. The sixth was Phidias’ statue of Jupiter Olympus, which was ‘made entirely-of gold and ivory: The seventh was the Pharos, or lighthouse, built by Petolemy philadelphus, King of Egypt, which was built of whiie marble, at the entrance to the harbor of Alexandria; and a light was kept constantly on the top of it to aid the sailors ofy the Mediterranean in steering direct for the bay. ;

i The editor of the Rural World says: %A short time ago we met a gentleman from Iliingis, who gave us a piece of information in regard to "ascertaining the age of a horse, after he or rhe bas passed the ninth year, which was new to-us, and will be, we are sure, to most of our readers. It is this: After the horse is nine years old a wrinkle comes on the eyelid, at the upper corner of the lower lid, and every year thereaf . ter he has one well defined wrinkle for each year over nine. If for instance, a horse has three wrinkles, he is twelve; if four he is thirteen. Add the number of wrinkles to nine, and you will always get it. So says the gentleman and- he is confident it will never fail. As a good ‘many people . have horses over nine it is easily tried. If true, the horse dentist must give up his trade.” e

Every woman should be a worker. Her sphere, like man’s, is bounded only by God given talents. She has the right to do anything she can do well.: Her noblest work 'will ever be at the fireside. Home is the holiest temple in which she is ever called to minister. ‘“Blessed art thou among women,” was said of a mother. In the ministries of home,/in the endearing relations of friend, wife, mother, is where God' crowns woman with the brightest, rickest diadem.

If a top of a carrot, cut off at this season, or later, is placed in a saucer of water, with a few bits of charcoal tosweeten it, it will form a radiant feathery plant by no means nnworthy to grace a lady’s table. :

‘A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker recommends adding one pint of salt to every pailful of whitewash. .He says this makes a covering “‘as ‘hard as: enamel and almost equal to paint.” A ikl cees

? THE NEGRO. Wisdom of a/Colored Solomone--A Ne--Bro Court in Charleston. In Charleston, South Carolina, the other day, a peddler representing a ‘Boston bucket factory, came ashore from a steamer, carrying about a dozen diminutive specimens of his merchandise, and, taEing-np the first street he came to, offered them right and left. He had not progresssed far before a negro policeman accosted him and carried him before a coal *black Justice, charged with peddling without a license. The sagle magistrate not only fined him the cool sum of $lOO, but roundly lectured the man of buckets on his conduct. He paid the fine and left “the court” and city in thorough disgust. On the same day a drummer from New York was arraigned before his sable honor for the same offense. The drummer ingisted that he had spld nothing, only been offering, but had made no gales. Whereunpon the black dignitary told him to prove that, but while hunting up -the proof he must leave $5O by way of bail. The drummer handed over the money, went out and brought in two or three merchants who all stated that he had- sold nothing to them. After the witnesses got through the following decision was delivered: “Djs Court hab heard de prefixes and de!conclusion tp de kase in in doubt; and it bein de law to gib de State de benefit of de doubt, dis Court will keep de fifty dollars.” ,

Do AT ROME AS THE ROMANS Do.”—A young English lady making her first visit to this city, assisted in the New Year’s receptions at her host’s house in Fifth avenue; but knowing nothing of the customs of the country, she asked for:instructions as to the manner of proceeding. *Oh! you -must do just as you see us do,” said the ladies of the household. Now it happened that the first caller was a brother-in-law of the young ladies, and he was rapturously received, wished a happy New Year, and affectionately! kissed. T'he young lady stood aghast when she thought of the hundred or more like receptions which were to come and in which she was to take

part. Timely explanations relieved her from her dilemma, though she privately admitted that, strange as the custom seemed to her, she had -made up her mind to “do at Rome as the Romans do.”—XN. Y. Post. )

During the past eighteen months about one-ninth of the able-bodied white population of Arizona has been killed off by the Apache Indians. There are now only fifteen hundred troops stationed in the Territory, and the term of service of about half of these will soon expire. The Governor has petitioned the Administration to send him three or four thousand troops, who are now running the political machine in Georgia, Mississipi, and Texas, that he may make them useful in: protecting ‘the lives and property of citizens of Arizona. He thinks a good force of three thousand cavalry and about a thousand infantry could whip out the Apaches. Gen. Hancock and other officers endorsed the plan. .

Old Thad. Stevens was an original. He desired a simple tablet laid level over his grave, but said : “I suppose, like the rest of the fools, we shall have to get @omething stuck up in the air ; let it be plain.” He wished flowers planted at once above his remains and renewed often, and for this purpose left $l,OOO. Forflowers he had a passion; he always planted them on his mother’s grave ; also for musice, though he ‘said, “I’ll be hanged if I know one tune from another.”” When urged not to talk about the matter of his funeral and the arrangements of his grave, his reply was, “Why not? I am settling up my business, and this is my business*”’ )

. The Florist and Pomologist says that attention has, during the last few years, been directed to a disease to which the buds of the black currant trees are subject in spring. This disease has been traced to the presence, between the scales of which the bud consists, of large numbers of a minute insect which lives by sucking out the fluid mattor of the tissnes, thus causing the bud scales to shrivel, and in this way preventing the development of the em%ryo bunch of flowers which they enclose. oAI

® Bleeding from the Nose. : Put a piece of paper in your mouth, chew it rapidly, and it will stop your nose from bleeding. This remedy has been tried frequently, it is stated, and always with success. Physicians say that placing a small roll of paper or muslin above the front teeth, under. the upper lip, and pressing hard on the same, will arrest bleeding from the nose, checking the passage of the blood through the arteries leading to the NO8L: - i \

IF Nor WHY Nor?!—The N. Y. Commercial puts this pertinent inqairy : Suppose the outraged brothers of Miss Johnson should overtake the elerical scoundrel Cooke and give him his death wound, as they say they will, and suppose the wounded man should then send for Beecher and Frothingham, ask them ¢o unite him in marriage with his fugitive companion, could they refuse his request in ‘view of “what they have been to each other.”

RUNNING UP STAIRS.—Often practiced, it is ruinous to health. =An emineat physician once said to us that he wouldn’t go up stairs faster than a walk if the house was on fire and he had valuable property to save; and we believe he wouldn’t. Much walking up stairs is especially injurious to women, and frequent running. up stairs is a sure ticket to heart disease,” e ~ “Tkey,” said Mrs. Partington the other day, “this Economical Council they are going to have in Roume is a good ‘thing, for things is' awful dear since the war.” Jue . The fellow who lay in wait says he -prefers a feather-bed.: 0 [ < ;

/' | EDWIN M.STANTON. His Position and Sentiments Whilea . Member of Buchanan’s Cabinet. A Card from the Hon, Jeremiah S. Black. - Since the death of Mr. Stanton, some newspaper writers have revived the scandalgus accounts which began to be propagated, I think, in 1862, concerning his conduct while a member of Mr. Buchanan’s cabipet. It is asserted that he came into that administration with views entirely opposed to the president and.the men who were to be bis colleagues, all of ‘\frﬂom,except Messrs. Holt and Dix, were in favor of the southern confederacy and ready to sacrifice the union ; that supported by these two he bullied the rest ; that he terrified the president by threats of resignation into measures which otherwise would not have been thought of ; that he urged immediate war upon the southern seceding states to crush out the rebellion; that though defeated in this, by the treason of his associates, he carried with a high hand other pointsiof sound policy ; that by these hardy disfﬂays of hostility to the administration which trusted him, he promoted the interests and--won the gratitude of its enemies. ,

This is the substance, expressed in my own plain English, of many statements, coming from various sources extensively circulated, and so generally believed that if not soon contradicted they are likely to be received as authentic history. They are not only false, but_they must be injurious to Mr. Stanton’s reputation; and they are grossly unjust to others, dead as well as living. I am not the special defender of Mr. Stanton, and I certainly would not assail him. Before he fell away from the democratic faith our friendship was intimaté and close. There was no separation af terward except the separation “which is inevitable between two persoms who differ widely on public subjects believed by both to be vitally important. Gur corres poudence of last summer and autumn (began, by himself ) shows that I was able to forgive him my particular share of the injury he had done to the liberties of the country, and he had my sincere good wishes for his future health and welfare. His political attitude toward the Buchanan administration, previous to his appointment as attcrney general, is ‘wholly mis‘understood or else wilfully misrepresented. He was fully with us at every stage of the Kansas question, and no man felt & more loathing contempt than he did for the knavery of the abolitionists in refusing to vote upon the Lecompton constitution, when nothing but & vote was needed to expel slavery from the new state, and thus terminate the dispute by deciding it in.the way which they themselves pretended to wish. He ‘wholly denied Mr. Douglas’ notions and blamed him severely for the unreasonable and mischievous schism which he had created in the party. The know-nothingism of Bell and Everett found no favor in his eyes. In the canvass of 1860 he regarded the salvation of the country as hanging upen the forlorn hope | of Breckinridge'’s election. We knéw the abolitionists to be the avowed enemies of the constitution :and the union, and we tnought the republicans would riecessarily be corrupted by their alliance with them. ‘As we saw the march of these combined forces upon the capital we felt. that the constitutional liberties of the country were in as muth peril as Rome was when the Gauls were pouring over the broken defenses of the city. Whether we were right or wrong is not the question now. It ic enough to say that*Mr. Stanton shered these appre%ensions fully. He more than shared them ; to some extent he inspired them, for he knew Mr. Lincoln personally, and the account he gave of him was anything but favorable. ! The. 6th of Noveniﬁer-égme and Mr. Lincoln was legally chosen president by the electoral college machinery of the con- I stitution, though the majority of the popular vote was against him by more than a million. The question was now to be | tested by actual experiment whether a party. which existed only in some section, and which wasorganized on the sole principle of hostility to the rights, interests and feelings of the other, could or would administer the federal government in a righteous spirit of justice, or whether the predictions of all our great statesmen for thirty years must be verified, that the abolitionists when they got into power woulddisregard their sworn daty to the constitution, break down the ‘judicial authorities and claim obedience to their own mere will as a “ higher law” than the law ‘and constitution of the land. The danger wds greatly aggravated by the criminal } misconduct of large bodies in the south, and particularly in South Carolina, where preparations were openly made for resistance. Whatwas the federal executive to do under these circumstances? Make war? He had neither authority nor means to do that, and congress. would not give the one “or the other. Should he compromise the ‘dispute? He could offer no terms and make no pledges which would net be repudiated by the new administration.— Could be mediate between the parties? Both would refuse his umpirage, for both: were as hostile to him as they were to any’ other. Nevertheless he was bound to do them the best service he could in spite of their teeth ; and that service consisted in. preserving the peace of the nation. It 'was his special and most imperative duty ‘not to enibroil the’incoming administration by a civil war which his successor might be unwilling to approve or to prosecute. It was undoubtedly right to leave | the president elect and hig advisers in & situstion where they. could ‘take their choice between compromising and fight: ing, In fact, Mr. Lincoln was in favor of ‘the former, if his inaugural be any sign iof his sentiments,. o:: oo

- The mind of no man was more deeply imbued with these opinion’s than Mr. Stanton’s. The idea never entered his head—certainly ncver passed his lips—that the presidént oughit to make ‘War up:

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on states, or put _the whole people out of the protection of the laws, and expose them all to indiscriminate slaughter as public enemies, because some individuals among them had done or threatened to do what was inconsistent with their bbligations to the United States. He knew: very well that no sucli thing was either legally’ or physicully possible. Gen. Scott reported that five companies constituted the whole available force which could be sent to the south for any purpose, offensive or defensive. Is it possible that Mr. Stanton would have undertaken to conquer the south with half a regiment? He ‘was thoroughly convinced thata war at that' time of that kind and under those circumstances would not only “fire the southernheart,” but give to the secessionists the sympathy of all the world, and ultimately insure their success, while it could not help but cripple, disgrace, and ruin the causc»of the union. Nor: did he feel: pleasurc in the anticipation of “any ciyil war between the two sections of the country. From the standpoint which he then occu pied he said the war was disunion ; it was blood, conflagration, terror and tears, pub - lic debt and general corruption of morals, all ending at best, not- in the union of states, but in the subjection of some to the despotic will of the others. He was apt to take a sombre view of things, and he looked at the dark side of this subject.— The glory, profit and plunder, the political distinction and pride of power which brighten it now, were not included in his prospective survey. S On the 20th of November I answered the president’s questions conce}ning:ﬁh‘is legal powers and duties, holding that the ordinances of secession Were mere _nﬁllif ties; that the seceding states were and would be as much in the union as ever; that the federal executive was = bound there as well as elsewhere to execute the laws, to hold public property, and to collect the revenue; that, if the means aljc} machinery furnished by law for these purposes were inadequate, he conld not adopt l others, and usurp powers which had not been delegated ; that neither . the executive gr legislative. departments had authority under the constitution to make war upon a state; that the military power might be “used, if necessary, in aiding the military authorities to ‘execute the laws in collecting the revenues, in-defend- | ing or retaking the public property. but not in acts of indiscriminate ~hostility against all the people of the state. This ‘ is the “opinion” whicti has since been 80 often, so much, and so well abused, de- ‘ nounced, and villified. Mr. Stanton did not stultify himself by denying the plain, obvious, and simple truths which it expréssed. The paper was shoewn him before it went to the prcii_de'nt_‘, and, after a slight alteration by himself, he not only. aporoved, but applauded it enthusiastically. , EEE et - It dissppointed the president. Ile had hastily taken it for granted that congress might make secession a cause of war ;-and in the draft of his message already prepared he had submitted the question of war or peace to their decision. But the advice of the law department, supported by a powerful argument from Gen. Cass, convinced him of his error, and that part of the message was rewritten. The substance of the message so modified received Mr. Stanton’s hearty indorsement in everything that regarded secession, and the treatment it ought to receive. ~ Soon after this Gen. Cass retired. I was requested to take the state department, and Mr. Stanton was appointed at-_ torney general upon my declaring that he was unwilling to leave the care of cer-. tain causes pending in the supreme court. to any bands but his. This appointment alone, without any other proof, ought to satisfy any reasoning mind that all T have said of Mr. Stanton’s sentimentr must be true. No man in his sober senses can believe that I would have urged, or that Mr. Buchanan would have made, the appointment if we had not been known with perfect certainty that he agreed with us en-: tirely “on the fundamental doctrines of constitutional law to which we were com - mitted. The faintest suspicion: of the country would ‘have put the attorney general’s office as far beyond hie reach as the throne of France. -We took him for what he professed to be—a true friend of the union ; a devout belieyer in the constitution; a faithful man who would not violate his oath of office by wilfull disobedience to the laws. lam still convinced that he did not deceive us. If he abandoned those principles in 1862,the change, however sudden and unaccountable, iz not satisfactory evidence - that he was an -imposter and a hypocrite in 1860.

He did not find Mr. Holt and Gen. Dix contending alone (or contending at all) against the president and the rest of the administration. - Mr. Holt, on the 8d of March, 1861, appended to his letter of resignation a strong expression-of his- gratitude. for the “firm and generous support” which Mr. Buclianan had constantly extended to him, and pays a‘'warm tribute: to the “enlightened statesmanship and uineullied patriotism” of the outgoing president. Gen. Dix was not there at all when Mr. Stanton came in. He was appointed a month g.ftérwand, when - there was no disagreeament in the cabinet. - Ie took up his residence at the president’s house as a member of his famnly, and re. mained there Jaring the whole time of his seryice a 8 head of the treasury department. He performed his duties faithifal- | ly, firmly, and’in a’ way which met with universal approbation.’ I:do not recollect that he had one word of serious con: troversy either with the president or any: body else. If, therefore, Mr. Stautoun was at anytime engaged: in-dragooning the president, and lecturing his colleagues, he could, ‘not have had Mr. Holt, and Gen. Dix for his backers, . There were disputes and serious differences of opinion jn the cabinet, during the' period of Mr. Stanton's service ; but his share of them has not been truly stated. — I am not ‘writing the history of “those

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times, and therefore I say nothing of what others did or forbore to do, except so far as may be necessary to.show Mr. Stanton’s ‘acts and omissions in the true light, =~ * Before ‘the election it was determined that the forts in Charleston harbor should be strengthened 80 as'to make them impreguable. The order was given, but the ‘execution of it was unaccountably put off, Whern Gen. Cass ascertained that fhe delay wasacquiesced in by the president, he resigned. Two weeksa fterward, Maj. Anderson, commanding Fort Moultrie, and apprehending an attack, threw his garrison into Fort Sumpter. Simultaneously came_certain_commissioners from “Sonth - Carolina, demanding the surrender of the fort to the state. The character of the answer - that should be given to the come e : ¢ missioners, and the quegtion whether Fort. Sumpter should ve furnished with men and provisions, were discussed for three days, each day running far into the night. On the onc hand it was luslsted thab the surrender of the fortress was so utterly i imcompatible -with our plainest duty that the demand itself was a gross insult. To -leave it in a condition which would enable rebellious citizens to take it if they pleased was still'worse, for that would be .merely another mode of making the surrender, and a worse one, because it would be fraudulent and deceptive. . Maj. ‘Anderson should, therefore, be immediately so reinforced that “his castle’s strength would laughea siege to scorn,” and then noattack would be made. This last, instead of being dangerous, was the only measure that gave us a chance of safety ; it would not bring on hestilities, but avert them, and, if war must come at ' all events, the posession of Fort Sumpter, which commanded the other forts, the harbor and the citiy would be of incalculable value to the government of the Un10n. o

To this there was absolutely no answer, except. what consisted in saying that the fort could not be relieved without difficulty and danger of successful opposition , that South Carolina would take it as an affront; and that it was a tantamount toa. threat of coercion. The replication was easily made. There was no danger of ev- - en an attempt at resistance to a ship of war, the statements made of the hostile power were mere brag; if South Carolina took offence at our preparations for the safety of our own men and our own property, she must alremdy be in a temper to make reconciliation impossible ; and, as tocoercion, let her take care not to coerce us, and'she would be safe enough. At length the president produced his decision in the form of an answer to the commissioners. While it was far from ° satisfactory to the southern members, it fllled us with consternation and grief. - Then came the desperate struggle of. one alone to do what all had failed to effect. Tt was painful in the extreme, but unexpectedly short and - decisive. The president gave up his first-ground, yielded the pointson which he had seemed most tenacious; the answer to South Car- . olina was essentially changed, and it wag agreed that Fort_Sumpter should have men and provisions. . ‘During these discussions Mr. Stanton was always true, but the part he took was by no means a leading one. - He. said - many times that he was there only that I might have two ‘voices instead of one.— On no oceasion was there the slightest conflict between him and me: He exhibited" none of the coarseness which some of his later friends have attributed to him. He never spoke without the greatest respect for his colleagues and the profoundest deference to the president. He said no word to the president about « resigning.— He told me he would resign it T did ; but when certain concessions were made to my - wishies he expressed himself perfectly sat-: isfied. He did not furnish one atom of - the influerce which brought the president round on the answer to South Carolina. Nor did he ever. propose or carry any measure of his own, directly or indirectly, relating to the secession troubles.’ He uniformly professed Lo be as anxious for the preservation of the public peace as any man there. g ST It would be a wrong to the memory of Mr, 'S\tahton not to add that; so far as I know, he never gave countenance or en'courz_igement to those fabulous stories of his behavior, JEREMIAH S. BLACK.

- Royalty at Washington. The. Washington 'correspondent of the New York Sun is responsible for the following promonition of royalty in-the purlieus and privacies of the erst-while oldfashioned White House: i " The ‘regular annual round of pleasure and. social festivities in the capital of the Republic was inaugurated during the last week by an unusually libera! programme at the White House. On Tuesday Mrs. Grant gave ber first grand dress reception in theafternoon. On Wednesday evening occurred the first of the winter series of Presidential dinners. On Thursday evening the President held his first levee. - The inauguration of these fashionable dissipa- - tions at the White House was anticipated with unusual eagerness by-the butterflies that gather here for their winter’s pleasure and show, the more 8o because of the prevalent expectation that the Presidentialentertainments promised for this winter will be far ahead of anything ‘in the past, in. point of splendor and display. Not only had the elegant salons of ‘the Executive Mansion been extensively overhauled, brushed up and refitted for the entertainments, but what added more to their attractiveness was the style and pretension that characterized them. The mere fact that the President’s wife was to be present, in her ever-varying and magnificent toilettes, the product of the akill, taste and resources of the famous Parisian man-milliner, Worth, who alone “has the honor of making her dresses, would of itself have been an attractivecard. But “beyond ' this, European style was introduced for the first time in the elegant. official costume of the servants and attendants. ! g e belnhfaci‘;, the :Vhit‘e House i:,f no longer to _be the plain, homelyabode of an unpre3teudin%) Reépublican President, but the air of regal grandeur and the costly sumptu- - ousness of the g:inugly courts of the old | world are to be introduced w&%ﬁ lﬂmdbmnﬂlom vorking citizens 'of this boorish country. e