The National Banner, Volume 4, Number 45, Ligonier, Noble County, 9 March 1870 — Page 1

TJE" NATIONAL BANNER, . Published Weekly by : JOWMN B. STOLL, LIGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY, IND. |l e i, e 3 | TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : , S{Tictlyin AAVANCE . vi'sneerirrieoesnees +..82.00 8T his paper is published on the Cash Principle,. its Proprietor believing that it is just as right for )fim X to demand advanee pay,us it is for City publishers, . 8%~ Any person eendinfz aclub of 10, accompar nied with the cash, willbe entitled to acopy of the paper, for one year, free of charge.

. Mii;:lean South. & N. Ind’a R. R. On and after April2s, 1869, trains will leave Stationg as follows: .- 1 GOING EAST: . | { Ezpress. Mail Train. ChicBgo. .y« bpueshesn s 5205 P M. ... 8200 A, M. SRIRhEe e 988 180 oo Goshen il i, iisi o 948 % il iR eM. 'Mlllcrsburg......‘..(d(pn’tstupi.....'..... Rt Tigoniee 50 0, 000 10018 DU UTRNe Y Wawaka............(d0n’t8t0p) ....... 1:10P. M. Brimeld oL vt o Ny 1520, Kendalvile .ol 10308 *¢ L 08T Y Arrive at T01ed0.,.....2:80 A M ..,.....5:08 ** ) GOING WEST: ] Zpress: ' Mail Train: TOIeRO s esevorionseves)2ilo A, Maol oil 12250 P. W, Liv-Kenda11v!11e........... DD sWi i A, M, b BrmteldiL i giiid 54200 00000 L Bob 4t Wawaksi,i.i, viaesqe s Lig0qi%r...............4:20 ollin b Millersburg.ci.vvvvvnes e e Goshen 1o i .48 Yl B 0 YRIKRRYT o 0 i s o Belh e 68l e Artive at £hicago.. .. 9:25 ** ~.......8:386 ¢ *Stop 20 minutes for breakfast and supper. : TExpress leaves daily joth ways. Mail Train makesclose connection at Elkhart with trains going East and West. } C. F. HATCH, Gen’lSupt., Chicago. J. JOHNSON, Agent, Ligonier.

EXCELSIOR LODGE, NO. 267, I. O.of 0.F., Meects at their Hall on every Saturdayevening of each week. - A. JACKSON, N. G. M. W. JOE, V. 4. 'R. D, KERR, Nov. gsgh. 1868, —tf. / % Seeretary. WM. L. ANDREWS, Ay Surgeon Dentist. CTTPPP Mitchel’s Black, Kendaliville. All work warranted. Examinationsfree. 2-47 v J. M. DENNY, Attorney at Law,— Albion, Noble co., Ind Will give careful and prompt attention to a business entrusted to his care. e 3-6 'LUTHER H. GREEN, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public. LIGOCNIER, - - - -.INDIANA Office on Cavin Strcet, over Sack Bro’s. Gro- ~ cery, opposite Helmer House. ¢ 41-8-1 y ' D. W, C. DENNY, - Physician ‘and Surgeon,—Ligonier, Ird. Will promptly and faithfully attend to all calle in the line of his profession—-day or night—iu town or any distance in the country. Pecrsons wishing his serviees at n(i{;ht, will flng him at hir father's residence, first door east of Meagher & Chapman’s Hardware Store, where all galls, when absent, shonld be left. - : Lo ' E. RECHMOND, @ Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer, ; Cavin street, Ligonier, Indiana. Special attention given to conveyanclné: and collections. Dé&eds, Bonds aud Mortgages drawn up, and all legal business attended to promptly and accurately. A May 26th, 1568. HELMER HOUSE, A.J. MATTISON, Prop'r, LIGONIER, » - -« INDIANA. This Heuse.has been Refitted and Refurnished ! ; in First Class Style eLt b bet st et e A DRR. E. W. KNEPPER, Releetic Physician & Surgeon,—Ligonier. Al] diseases of the Lungs and Throat successful.y tréated by inhalation. No charges for consultation. O_t)‘lce with W. W. Skillen, esq.. 1-8

- DR.P. W. CRUM, § . o Physician and Surgeon, Ligonier, = = = . Indiana. Office ane door gouth of L. Low & Co's Clothing Store, np stairs, A )Iny,leth, 1869, G. W. CARR. W. D. RANDALL. CARR & RANDALL, e ° R % 3 Physicians and Surgeons, { LIGON:IR: - ™D Will promptly attend all callsintrustéd to them. Office on 4th St,; one door east ef the Narionan BaxNer oflicg. ; 3-43 @ i »...-—..._.—-..L_._____..',._—-_—a.——-——-—-——— ' SAMUEL E. ALVORD, Attorney at Law, Claim Agent, and Notary Puablic, Alhion, Noble Co., Ind. Business in the Courts, Claims of soldiers and heir heirs, Conveyancing, &e., promptly and carefully attended to. Acknowledgments, Deposi- ~ tlons and Affidavits, taken and certified. SACK BROTHERS, Bakers & Grocers. Cavin Street, Ligonier, Indiana. Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes, &c., Choice Groceries, Provisions, Yankee Notions, &c The hi\ggest cash price paid fer Country Produce 1 May 18, '6B-tf. A SAC& BRO’S. e _...:___._L__..,n,, bt s aposbil et e byt W NEW FIRM AND NEW GOODS ¢ T e AT — WOLF LAKE, IND. - Notice is hereby given that C. R. Wiley and Samuel Beall have entered into aco-partnership n the Merchandise business, and that they have just unpacked a lurge stock nf Dry Goods, Boot~ and Shoes, &e. Call and see for yourself. : : WILEY & BEALL. Wolf Lake, Nov. 3, 1849 27tf |

J. BITTIKOFFER, * DEALERIN ; ‘ HES, CLCCK WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEW'LRY,SILVER WARE,NOTIONS, Spectacles of every Description, &e., &e. &eu, &e. All kinds of work done upon the shortest notice ‘and warranted as to durability. ‘Shop in Bowen’s new Brick Block, Kendallville, Indiana. §a : ro2-81 H. R. CORNEKILL, Who may always be found at his PHOTOGRAPI ROOMS, Is prepared toftake all kinds of pictures in the " latest styles of the urt. | ° 1 PARTICULAR ATTENTION paid to copying old Deguerréotypes and Am | brotypes into Cards, and Enlarging. . ( Work warranted satis:actory in all cases. | Ligounier, Ind., Feb, 23, 1870.-48 - ‘ ELKHART BOOK BINDERY, .1 . J , il |at the office of the HERALD OF TRUTH,” ELKHART, - - - - -~ - . IIND. We take pleasure to inform our friends and the public in general, that we have established a ‘ - Book Bindery, @ In connection witn our )'rinting Office, and are now prepared .to-.go’ all kinds of Binding, | ; such as Books, Pamphlets, Maga- | ; . zines, Mua{c, promptly and on reasonable terms, | | apr. 29th, '68,-tf, . JOHN F. FUNK., A NEW MOVEMENT ! . . Solomon in new Quarters ! Tag subscriber would respectfully announce that he has just moved into the building formerlly oceupied by 8, Mier & Co , purchased a large stock ol : : GROCERIES, &c., and is now prepared to supply évery deman in his line at rates fully as row as any otheres tablishment in town, e 5 | * Refreshments at all hours. e gl /| SOL. ACKERMAN, Ligonier, Sept. 15th, 1869, S BAKERY AND RESTAURANT - B. HAYNES, Opposife the Past Office, Ligonier, Ind. My Bakery will be supplied at all times withi fresh Biscn\its,' i ]‘ hißready v A i ibeng 1 4 '~ Cakes, ¢ % . Crackers, . &ec,&ec, Wedding parties, pic-nics and private pattiey - SRI A ors il 14 thin & 000 p p%:”é%? e T RS oty e, el

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- : From the Buffalo Express. “NO LITTLE PRAYERS TO HEAR TO-NIGHT.” {While at the lonely home of Prof. E. L.'‘Baker, when:little Clara and Louisa lay in the sweet sleep of itexih, the heart-stricken mother made the touching eémark to a friend, “‘l’veno liitle prayers to he.ir to-night.”] . y ; Rileph Over the pictures the shadows fall, il Slowly thie light fades in the West, Under the window and garden walil, . ; Stilly voices are whispering *‘rest!” Sa i isthe thought 1n the waning light—{*No little prayers to hear to-night.” | Voices are hushed in the noiby street,: | |+ Children have left their haunts « f play; | Round the table the dear onogsmeex.( : | | Gladly they welcome the cldse of day; Fondly the mother is bending there, Softly whispering the little prayer. | 1 Precious the honr of early eve, i i - Folding the dear ones to theéir rest, e ‘Watching the course of the early dream, Moviug the gentle, guileless breast, . ; Is time o+ earth more fair and bright, ' ' Than the hour of the little prayer at night? : Bnfi the lips are sealed, and their rest is cold, . And they cannot hear me any more, And strangely still is the snowy fold - That covers my cherub children o'er; They dresm no more in‘the waning light, I'v¢ no little prayers to hear to-night.” {1 | Ylf 1 should die,” says. the liitle prayer, O take m¥’ sonl 1o its halpPy home, Whiere all ix beautiful and fair,” - [ And the answering ange)now has:come;’ Ani so, in the Jand of love and. light, : T 'l‘h;xey:are singingitheir beautiful song to-night. . O rimihers. who list to the music wild,— | - 'Phe songs that:the merry children eing, | Who bring of the pleasure undetiled, : [ That childhood’s pure affections bring, . O weary not, your reward is bright, = .~ For the sweet litlle prayers you hear to-night. . : 7 X J. Wi BARER. THRILLING SCENE IN A DIVING i BELL, ¢ S I followed a very bazardous calling, or, at all events a calling in which, if yvou choose to face dangers for the sake of higher remuneration,. perilous adventures are common enough. I am not too presumptuous when I say [ am as brave as most men, naturally, and my scnse of fear has been further blunted by a constant companionship with danger. The adventure I am about to relate is horrible enough to me when I was a principle actor in it, and to this day an involuntary shudder of herfor accompanies the recollection of it. ‘ i :

~ Some years ago a lage vessel, laden with a mixed cargo, was bound to ‘New York from South America.— Striking a dangerous recf off the coast of Florida, she was wrecked, and a few of the passengers or seamen 'es‘caped. The owner, who was also ¢aptain, was drowned. His heirs lived in New York. 'lt appears the vessel 'had setiled down in the ocean, having escaped the attack of any storm, so, as wight be supposed, her cargo might be pretty well recoverable, but it was a useless and foolizsh attempt to try to get anything from her in a lonely sea, aud a dangerous coast. However, one of these men whom nature has formed for the out-of the-way modes of getting money in this world, having obtained ihe consent of the heirs in New York, fiucd out a large yacht, and promising money only on condition of suceexs, I was prompted to hazard the spec—it agreed with my adveuturous disposition, and I sigued art’cles and shipped myself. Atter a deal of trouble we picked np another diver, a coarse, hrnial, rascal, whose conduct, as herein, after geen; will sufficiently justify these remarks, Krom the begiunibg, I had a kind of antipathy against the fellow, wd shiauk from his “society as from' some loathsome reptile. His ‘profile was that of a bxboon ; his eyes peered from under his heavy brows, wrinkled with a satanic wickediegs, and seemed to b® looking all ways at once; and when he laughed, his satanic majesty himself might have envied his ugly grins. My employer shunned him, and ‘would gladly - have part-d with him," but no other could be got to engage in such a foolhardy scheme. . Having got the diving bell and other apparatus on board, we at last set «ail on this novel pursuit of luere.— ['be voyage was fine and having nothing to do I enjoyed it very much, and was even sofiened toward my fellow diver when we reached that part of the coast of Florida where the sunken wreck lay, and where. our fortunes were buried beneath the waves. We were a considerable time in discovering the wreck, but we found iv at last, gxr down in the depths of the still blue sea, where troops of sharks were pursuing each other about it and through it for the want of better prey. N pleasant sighs, I can assure you. My fellow diver gave them a fearful curse, and took an extra pull at his brandy flask. As for myself the affair seemed mo e dangerous than ever. The vessel would have to be moved above a bed of reefs, and if a storm were to arise, ill fate would catch . us, for there is little mercy to be expected for a ship from the : cruel and jagged coral. However, I plucked up my best beart, saying to myself: My dear fellow, the more danger the more money. Jim Crow—that was the diver’s name—gave utterance to a nowise pleasant oath, about having been swindled, muttering at the ead, but I'll pay them off deuced sharp, or I’m not —concluding his sentence very snspiciously, which did not tend to increase my confidence respecting his intentions. G

We pulled back to the ship, after placing a buoy to mark the spot. The next two days Jim Crow and I were busy in preparing our things for the attack on the sunken wreck. ' The tide of my thoughts was checked by my work, but T still noticed that Crow ‘was in an evil mood. After @bout four days were spent, the ship was anchored. The bell was swung for the plung, and I went below and dressed. My suppicions seemed now on the increage, and my ‘readers may thivk that I was very fearful, but' 1 provided myself with a long and sb'm;ip knife, which I placed unobserved,. down my long leather boot. Crow: stuck one in his belt, saying with a di-° abolical laugh, “I think it is better be-’ ing prepared for-water shark,” and T’ almost think he added, “land sharks.” This opened my eyes a little, and some rather curious speculations. flitted through ‘my brain. He was a man to be feared, {eing hugely big and strong and wicked withal. .

With many such reflections I took my place in the bell, and amidsi the burrah of the craw and excitement of the master, we dipped into the sea.— Common life had passed away, and to a novice, a new life opens to the eyes beneath the wave, and even to me the scene was fresh, - The coral reefs, like

grand architectural structares, covered with webs and shells of the decp, of every possible variety and eolor; the fish, large and small, darting ‘about the water, and flying at the approach of the bell as before the sweep of the shark, and even they grinned' with their long jaws, and fled upon, our approach. = Down, down, down, till the light was dim. and then we struck the wreck. Armed with crow bars, sharp at one end, to repulse the shark and other monsters of the deep, we planted our feet on the bell. Instantly we separated. Crow burst open the cabin door, and after a while I joined him By this time he was in the cabin, searching about. . I watch‘ed him as well as I could all the while. Thus we spent four first journey. and after lading our bell, gave the signal,'and were hauled up on deck.— The sailors crowded round us gloating oyer the various things we had brought up ; they also hauled on deck several things we had attached.ropes to. Thus our first day passed. All were exulting, and the sailors cracked over the galley fire the possible prize money to each, and the master dreamed of a princely independence. Several days thus passed over; we had broken into the cargo, and what we considered of value and the sea had not damaged was hauled on deck, and the schooner became pretty well laden. Ithink it was about the last day of working, that Crow again wended his way to the cabin. By this time my suspicions regarding his evil intention were quieted ; yet there stilllingered about him traces of obstinate sulkinegs, so that | took very little notice of his operations, and busied myself about different_things in the hold of the vessel. 1 think about halfan hour must have passed away when I returned to the bell,and I was startled by the cunning, wicked cast of Crow’s countenance; he was shuf fling | something beneath his diver’s clothes; as the last of it disappeared I guessed it was'a bdg, and the thought flashed across my mind—a bag of. money. I quietly asked Crow what it was. ; T ‘

. “Humph! nothipg. - What have you to do withit?” he growled. My curiosity was further aroused by this answer. i , “Well, you must tell me what it is,” I said, keeping myself as quiet as posaible. . o | . “The devil T will,” he shouted savagely. : “T'hen you shall be forced when we get-on deck,”-I replied resolutely. - “Ha! ha'! forced!” Here he quickly drew a long knife. Quick as thought mine was out too, for [ always carried it in'my boot. I suspetied something of this.” I giid. : i B But, nothing daunted, the ruffian cried, “l will see you dead first.” - I knew his ‘mighty strength, but I also knew my own activity and skill. Crow said again, * "Tis a bag full of gold I found in the cabin, and if you hold your jaw I shall go ye a third.” ~ *“Never shall I be dishonest,” I gaid, after some deliberation, looking pale, I dare say, but perfecily calm. Let the reader imagine the scene in ¢ bell forty feet under water. It would take at least twenty minates to pull it up. A fierce fight, perhaps a deadly one, might be finished by them. Suspicion might be hushed ; the body could be flang co the ravenous sharks which we had sometimes to combat with our sharp pointed crowbars ; but our frighttul, gloomy appearance might have been enough to terrify the inhabitants of the .deep. , We stood eying each other - for some time; he for attack, and T for resistance. I offered to pull the bell, but he clutehed it from me. I attempted nothing furtlier. ‘ 5 After a few minutes pause, he said, “Will you take shares 1 : ~“No!” was the firm answer. “Perhaps it is not large enough 7’ - “All is to small.” J - “You woni’t give in?” he said. “Never!"” I repeated atlength. “Then, to death !" he yelled, springing at me. | ;

‘Quick as thought I ‘caught his elevated arm, poised in the air for a stab. I made a lunge at him, for my blood was roused at this fiendish attempt at my life. He parried it, but it caught bim on the shoulder; however, he clutched my wrist, and there we were, scowling at each other; the foam burst from lis bloodless lips, and his passion wrought face intimidated me more than his bloodthirsty strokes. 1

At last he made a forcible effort to free his arm, but I held it with, desperation. Amid oaths and curses he struggled. Sometimes he was quiet, and the only sound was the horrid panting of our excited chests. At laat I wrenched my hand from his, and stabbed him in the hand. His knife fell, but with a curse that rings yet in my ears, he threw himself at me, and grasped my body and arm in his gigantic ciasp. I siezed him by the throat. With the hug of a bear he tried to break my back ; his strength seemed almost superhuman, but, shifting off the bars of wood by a wriggle, we plunged into the sea beneath. Down we sank ! ‘No effort was made to loose the hold of either. Tighter and right. er we gripped till we fell on the coral reef. Death itself seemed to me a trifle. Passion and hate seemed but the consummation of my heart. . My strength was "that of Hercules under the influence of this demoniacal conflics. But want of air stifled our efforts As the fires began to flash before my eyes, and the disc of unconsciousness ‘to creep over me, I released my hold ; Orow also loosened his. 1 knew little about this part, bat being an excellent swimmer, I struek out with all my force. The water whizzed by me-~1 was stifling, choking, dying. When I reached the surface, '%ith‘ a gasp of air 1 recovered and was enablecf to shrick, “Help ! belp |” when I fainted away. As a dream floated béfore me ~men, ropes, boat and rescue, : I awoke ; but: the pain and dizziness and confusion in my ‘head defy all description. Afier a few hours'| could rise, but still I was feeble. I inquired for Crow ; he was delirinm.—

LIGONIER, IND.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, IS7O.

They told me that when the bell was brought up he lay on the bars as dead, grasping the gold bag with both bands. They also told me t{mt they but rescued me from a shark hovering near the schooner. N » ~ Nextday we get sail, and arrived not long after in New York. A thous-. and dollars wae my fee, but the master gave me two hundred dollars more for my honest resistance. Crow s still bad in his head. They put him in a hospital. I called three months after, and he had gone: to the backweofls of the far West, Lt ; ' From the Stfi Louis Republican, February 14, Another Enoch Arden Case. A case has been developed in-this city which illustrates how fully within the bonds of ghe possible was the sorrow of Teunyson’s Enoch Arden.— About thirteen years ago a German named Koop, left St. louis for the Western El Dorado, to seek his fortune. ‘'ln order to be completely unembarrassed, he left his family behind him, congisting of his wife, a handsome young woman, and four sons. His adventures in California were varied and exciting. =He may not bave forgotten the wife of his bosom and his children, but, at all events, he ceased to write, and, as the years rolled on, and no word came from the wanderer, his friends concluded ‘that he was dead — His wife, doubtless through dark passage of grief, arrived at the sande conclusion, and she no longer sorrowed as without hope. A blooming widow is seldom without friends, -and in the, nature of things no feminine could’ hardly be expected-to everlastingly | mourh ove - a dead husband when there is a living one to be had. In course of time a respectable German, ‘named i Kriegar, well know as proprictor of a oy stand, which he has carried on for I the past ten years, on the eorner of. Fourth street and Franklin avenue, proposed honorable marriage to the supposed widow and was ascepted, and they were duly united about three years after Koop had disappeared from the gcenes. ’ o

Years passed on and nothing occurred to ‘mar the happiness of the Krieger household. . Oue of Koop's son’s died, and three others advanced toward manhood and became able to take care of themselves. During these years, the blessing of heaven was be stowed ou the secona marriage in the shape of three children. 'Whether or not Mrs. K. had any visions in winter nights of her vanished first love does not appear. Most probably not, for } surely she felt assured of his mortal exlinetion 'ere she surrendered herself to second wedlock. . . Now comes the Enoch Arden part of the business. After 13 years absence Koop has recently reappeared on the scenes. Having had reasonable success in California, he came to St. Louis to look after his wife and children. He soon learned the position of matters, and was doubtless somewhat surprised. Being, however, a practical and sensible man, he did not pursue the course of Tennyson’s hero : ; : ‘‘Beating it upon his weary brain i As tho’ it were the burthen of a song, ~ ‘Not to tell her, never to let her know.'” ‘He determined not to disturb the happiness of his wife, but he insisted upon having nis children. As the boys are now.grown up to an age when they decide questions for themselves, he had of course to apply to them, and is endeavoring to persuade them to return with him to California. How the matter will terminate will probably be developed in a little time. gt Romantic Marrlage, From the Rarnesvilie (O ) Enterprise. . The- numerous friends of Miss Rebecca, danghter of Mr. Thomas Jones, who resided in this vicinity twenty years ago, will learn with pleasure that she ie at last happily married to the man of her choice after waiting for ‘many years for him. In 1849, asis. known by many of her elders, she was betrothed ‘to Mr. E. Pierce, an officer who served in ®ur volanteer army during the Mexican war. Mr. Pierce however was smitten with the “gold fever,”. that prevailed “extensively at_ that time, and went to California to make his fortune. He led ' a party across the plains, and afterwards was ‘at the head of several exploring expeditions to the mining regions of the Pacific and Rocky Mountain States, a¢quirng an. intimate extensive knowledge of that section. Fortune was changeful, but finally, he conquered all difficulties and became wealthy. Sev: eral times he started to the States to marry his. affianced, but something always occurred to prevent his coming. Stiill *the girl he left behind him” remained true through.all the passing years, and they were married in’ Indiana l:st November., A few day= gince they made a brief visit to’ this place reviving old friendships and making new ones. = They start for Califorvia in Febraary, intending to | make their home at Oakland, a beaun- | tiful town on the Bay of San Francisco ten milesout. - - :

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s church at Brooklyn has decided, byatwothirds vote, .not.to require of candidates for membership assént to the articles of faith, but only’ to the church covenant. Bhis is virtaally the abrogation of thé-creed, for a creed to which the members are not - required to subscribe is only an expression of opinion by an indefinite namber of the members. Mr. Beecher spoke earnestly in favor of the change, saying that there are gaod Christiang who are Universalists and Unitarians, or who otherwise dissent from the orthodox creed, and that it is not right to exclude such from the church. This will ‘startle many good * Christians as too great a stretch o%Ohriatifm liberality. Itis one step towards ‘‘thechurch of the future.” ~ = - : ,

The ‘Columbia City Post says: The pzosrect in/ this county, as far as'we can learn, fora good wheat ¢rop the coming harvest are extremely discouragiog.” The:wheat is very thin on'the ground, andof small growth. The winter, so.ar, ias béen very-unfavora-ble for ite protection, - 8 0T

SR - From the ~t. Louis Hepublican. || -The Indiana Republieans. 'J‘he ndiana Republie.n Convention singularly fails to justify the large share of, public attention it at racted. Oue of ita resolutions, .if reported cor rectly by telegraph, declares an untruth ; it “rejoices in the ratification of thejfifteémh amendment, which forevér secures an « qnality of political rights to ‘all men.” The fifieenth amendwent does not secare such “equality of political rights to all men,” -It merely secures the right of voting to them.— Auother resclution furnishes us with what afew years ago was called by the Indiana Republicans a prima facia evidence of dizloyalty. It avows a “reverence for the constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land.”/ This is borrowing the prin ciples and the ‘treason’ of the Democracy at the same time. *‘When:yon hear a man talking about ' the Constitution, spot him for a traitor,” was,-a short time since, the genuine;republican doctrine. But the resolution is an untruth, besides. =We assert that neither the republicans of Indiana, nor the republicans of any' other Siate, “reverence the constitution of the United Srates as the supreme law of the land. People 'do’ not butcher and debase things they reverenee; The tariff re solution is at direct variance with the tariff sentiment of the party in: the east, and of the present: congress,:and in the teeth of the opinions of Senator Morton bimself. Senator Morton, in his speech before. the convention,: declared himself in favor of “a reasgnable protection. but regarded any: attempt to reconstruct the tariff as a whole, on the basis of any prinéiple, as practically impossible.” So that we have the Indiana republicans and their leaders giving forth two different sounds on this important question.

Béfore the discovery of America, money was so scarce that the price of a day s work was fixed by act of the English Parliament in 1351 at one penny per'day, and in 1314 the allowance of the chaplain to the Scotch Bishops (then in prison in England) was three half-pence per day. =At :his time, 24 eggs were sold for a penny, a pair of shoes for four pence, a fat goose for two and a half pence, a hen for a penny, wheat three pence per bushel, and a fat ox for six shillings and eight pence. _So that, in these days, a day’s work would buy a hen or two dozen of eggs ; two day’s work would buy a puir of shoes, and a fat ox cost eighty day’s work. On the whole, human labor bought in the average about half as much food and pe hap ; as much cloth or clothing as it does now.

MR. GREELEY, in urging the immediate payment of the national debt, has discovered that “paying off debts destroys no wealth. Itsimply transfers it from those who do not, to those who really own it.” Whereupon ‘the Cincinnati Gazette pertinently observes “What could be more satisfactory to the payer? That which the Government takes from him in taxes, destroys no wealth. It simplx transfers it from his%o other hands. 'How can he com plaini g 0 long as the wealth i 3 preserved? - What if the Goveriment takes half or the whole? It is all the same. He that earned it by the sweat of his face, has the assurance that it is not destroyed, and that in other hands it will be well taken care of.”

A PASSENGER on a New England railroad the other day, presented to the conductor a pass for bimself “and a cor _ge.” The conductor looked at the man’s companion, who was sitting bolt ‘npright.and looking | very red in the face tor a dead man, and the passenger thereupow explained that he took a corpse with him from Boston, and as. he had none to bring back he thought the road would be quite as willing to! carry a live man, and he took his brother with him. . The conductor passed on. i 5 MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. A New Albany jickass lias invented an ice velocipede, o s One dealer in New York has sold 40,000 gross of comic valentines this year, and another 78 valentines valued at $5O each. * - R g

" Farmers say that the prospect for wheat does not look very flattering at present. It had a bad start in the fall, and the alter‘nate freezing and thawing during the winter has almost destroyed it in some fields.— Waterloo City" Press. The “oldest inhabitant” has been found in: the mountains of North Carolina, not far from Greenville; South Carolina. He is said to .be 143 years old, in perfect health, possessed of all manhm%d's attributes, has survived seven wives, and insteadof thinking of dying, wants to marry raghiniics & hue gy T Georgia planters want ‘hands to till their ‘lands: Many have flocked to the railroads now building; the towns have ‘absorbed a go~d share; some have hired or bought lands and gone to work on ‘their own account, and the women, as a ‘general thing, have entireiy deserted the flelds. - susite 5 W 0 Jatiaoe sty ‘Captain-General’De Rodas, has issued an important decree. ‘lt grants liberty to over two thousand negroes, prisoners ‘of war. ‘The meastre meets with warm approval from the liberal and progressive parties. A Cuban juuta, composed of 18 persons, has been discovered in Bantiago. .The members were all arrested and exeP e ity - An ald'fool by the name.of Fox lately died -in New, York and bequeathed his fortane; amounting to three or four hun‘dred ‘thousand " dollars, “to the ““United States’ Qoverpmpt'mflishingtou,fi Dis‘trict of Columbi, fur‘tbép&r,pose*bf assising o Hlschwnis.tus 004 contindtod by the war for the sulijgation of the reet gt ek Hae e that the old man imagined that one dollar of his money.would be applied for thatipurpose, is ,prima’ facia évidence of /insanity.- The willshould! be proniptly Wfidflflflm‘wfin““w “éwsidnd bieces; Who are’ifi indigent circumstances - : e Y -

A BUSINESS OPERATION. ‘There ia a report, that an attempt is to be made to saddle on the State of Indiana & debt of about fifteen millions of dollars. It is simply the matter of the Wabash and Erie Canal, which has oc capied the attention of our State authorities more or less for -a'n,umber of years. — Ihe story is an/old one, but in view of the present ramors will be repeating, in or der that we may get g clear understand ing of tie matter. The construction of the Wabhash and Erie Canal was undertaken by the State about twenty-five years ago, by which it incurred s debt of over tourteen millions for the purpose.—~lt was assisted also by|the cession ot a large grant of land tg_): Congress. In 1845 a company offered toi take the work off the hands of the. State on the following “conditions, which were acceded to, All the rights and privileges bf.the canal were trgusfer. red to the company, together with 800,000 acres 6f land, and the State was to pay one-half of the [bonded debt, and the company the other Half. The State has long since discharged its indebtedness, both principal and |interest, while .the company has not puid anything. In accordance with the terms of the transfer, the State called in its old bonds, which, if not sur-, rendered by, a certain date, were to be repudiated.. In lieu of the old bonds, new ones were issued, the State assuming half. and the.Company the other half. As we said before the State ' has discharged its indebtedness, while the bonds to be paid by she eompany bought up at a nominal rate, have faller into hands of a few capitalists, who are taking preliminary meas. ures to have the State pay for them also, which, with the accrued interest, would take out of the pockets of the people of Indiana some fifteen millions. )

The ground 6n which the claim is based is'this: When the time had ar rived after which the_ legislature had enacted that the pid bonds would be -repudiated if not presented before, there ‘were still outstanding two hundred and eleven of them ($1,020 each). There found their way into the Interior Department, as the funds of some Indian tribes. The Secretary demanded their payment, principal and interest, 'which was allowed, the honds surrendered, the amount credited to the State, and taken ont ‘of the war fund due from the National Government to the State of Indiana. Because these bonds were paid, the holders of thé com -pang’s bonds contend that the State is responsible for them also. 7 ‘The action of Gov. Baker allowing the claims of the Interior d«pa.r;mént, has not been indorsed by the Legislature which has refused to acknowledge the- responsibility of the State in the matter.

Now let us/ look ‘at it. The amount claimed by the holders of the Company’s bonds amounts to s.me fifteen millions for which they may possibly have paid one million. They could very ecasily af ford "to spend ten or twelve millions in buying up the legislature, and make a wvery fine finangial operation out of it. . Say there are one hundred and fifty members of dth branches of the Legislature, and say that one hundred of them would have to be bought, und that ten millions could be brought to bear on them, or one hundred thousand dollars per member, how many of them would be able to withstand tke temptation? In view of this would it not be well to be careful in selecting wembers for the next legislature ? —Fort Wayne Gazette, - “Sprig of Royalty.” ° =~ The Elkhart Uneon reports the following: In the western part of Lagrange county, near the line between that and Elkhart county, there is now residing a “wood chopper” by the name of “Hess,” who it is said is soon to sit. on the throne as “reigning King of Hanover!” He has for some time past been in the employ of one Joseph Schmidt, and has labored chnpping wood, as a hired man, and also, occasionally has been employed by others in the neighborhood, . Lately, so the story goes, he recéived a peremptory order from the authorities, comprehending the “dukes and nobles of the ‘fealm,” to depart immediately for Europe, as_the legitimate and only surviving heir to the throne of Hanover!

A long roll parchment containing the notification, signed and sealed with all the pomp and display of the Old. World, is now in the hands of the 7s to be Hanover inn Kiag “Hess,” and be bas already selected & portion of his Cabinet, Joseph Schmidt is to be one of his ambassadors, and to another friend he forgave a debt of $7O, as such small items are but pin money with |kings. -He is soon to leave theshores of America for Europe, toascend the throne in royal majesty. Van Buren township is the-abode of monarchs—oh ! what adeif in the history of the “loos. dors 12 nh #i ;

B . Pretty Goed. L Yankees are generally known to be cute enough for anybody, but in the following instance the Frenchman was too much for him, ' et A Yankeeand Frenchman owned a pig in ‘co-partnership. And when _ killing time came they wisbed to divide the meat; the Yankee was very a_nxinjus to divide so - that be could get both hind quarters, and ° persuaded the Frenchman that the way to divide was to cut it across the back.— The Frenchiman agreed to do it on condl ‘tion that the Yankee should turn his back and take his choice of pieces after it wus cut.in two, The Yankee turned his back -accordingly. SE e - Frenchman—Vieh piece will you have, ze piece vid ze tail -on, or ze piece vidout R R e - Yankee~The plece with the tail on, . Frenchman—Zen, by gar, you can take ‘him, and I yill take ze ozer one. ; . + Upon turping around the Yankee found, that the Frenchman. had: cut off the tail: Bnd stuck it in the pig's mouth. .. . * | Tuiiusa visiting Keadulivile t purIchasé grodbties will ot fail'to call at the grocery store of Geo. ©. Glatte, .~

| . CHARMS OF MARRIED LIFE. If in that chair yonier—not the one “your feet lie upon, but the one beside you, closer. yet—were seated a sweet. faced girl, with & pretty little foot lying out upon the hearth, a bit' of lace running round ‘the swelling throat,.the hair parted to s charm over a forehead fair as any of your dreams; and if you could reach an arm around that chair's back without fear of | giving offense, and suffer your fingers to play idly- with these curls that escape down the neck, and if you could -clasp with your hand those little white taper fingers of hers, which lie so temptingly - within reach, and talk softly and low in the presence of the blaze, while the hours slip ‘without knowledge and the winter - winds whistle uneared. for; if,;in,short, you were no bachelor, but the husband of -some sweet image, would it not be far more pleasant than a cold, single night, sitting counting the sticks, reckoning the length of the blaze, and the hight of the falling ‘stow? @ "". - ; Surely imagination would be stronger and purer if it could have the playful fancies of dawning womantiood to delight it. All toil would be torn from mind labor if but another heart grew intq, this pres. ent soul, quickening it, charming it, bidding it ever God speed.. Her face would. make a lovely halo, rich as & rainbow, a stop of all such noisome things as we lonely souls call trouble.: Her smiles would illumine "the blackest of crowded cates, and darkness that now seats you de spondent in your solitary chair for days togetlier, weaving bitter fancies, dreaming ,bitter dreams, would grow light and thin, and spread and float away, chased by that beloved smile. Your friend, poor fellow, dies—never mind ; that gentle-clasp of her fingers, as she steals behind you, tell- |- ing you not to weep, is'worth ten friends. | Your sister, sweet'one; is dead—buried. — [ The worms are husy with all ber fairness { How it makes you think earth nothing | but a spotto dig graves upon. It ismére, | 'she says she will be a sister, and the wav ! ing curls, as she leans-upon your shoulder, i and your wet eyes turn to meet those oth { er éyes—God has.sent his angel, strely. - Your mother—alas! she is gone!. Is there any bitterness to a youth alone and friendless, like this? -But you are not | lhomeléss, you are not alone—she is there, |/ her tears softening yours, her grief killing i yours; and you live again to assuage that “kind - sorrow of hers. = Then ‘these chil I' dren—rosy, - fair-haired ; no, they do not i disturb you with their prattle now—they | are yours, Toss away there on the green [ sward; never mind the hyacinth, the { snow drops, the violets, if S 0 be.any ar: { there; the perfume of these healthful lips [ iy worth all the flowers in-the world. No ! need to gather wild bouquets to lave and cherishy flowers, tree, gun, are all dead ‘things; things lovelier hold your soul Anl she, the mother, sweetest and fairi est of all,. watching, tending, caressing. and loving, till our heart grows pained with the tenderest jealousy, and cures it i 8 If with loving. You' have no need of | & cold lecture to teach thankfulness ; your | hieart is full of it. * No need now, as once. ‘ of bursting blassoms, of trees taking leaf i and ygreenness, turning thought kindly | and thankfully’; foreyer beside you there i is bloom, and ever beside you there is fruit, for which eye, heart and soul are full l of unknown, unspoken—because unspeak- | able—thank offerings. - B : THE PUBLIC DEBT. 7 The republican press and 'the republican conventions of late have been engaged ‘in the disreputable purpose of trying to make the people believe that the pablic ! debt is being ‘decreased every month.— Such is not ‘the fact. The New York' - Herald has A tahle compiled from the i February stgtg’mehtnf the public debt; and - compares it with the Ist of January report, which we would like. to publishifu full, but cannot for want of room.— This tdble shows an increase of the na- ; tional debt since January 1, 1870, of $l3, 205,492, "In this statement’no mention is | made of accrued interest, and the bonds issued to the Pacific railroad company are { -calculated as part : of the public debt, Tas ' was the practice uncer Mr. Secretary Mc- ‘ Culloch’s administration. According to ‘the report of Secretary Boutwell, who adds accrued interest and ignores the bonds issued to that road, ‘the total debt exhibits & decrease during the past month amount, ing to $3,933,664, R ERE The official table shows that fhere was on the Ist of February, $101,600,730 in coin-in‘ the treasury. *Of this sum, $50,892,180 is represented by goldcertificates; that is abont one-half of the hundred and one millions in the treasury is owned by outsiders, and liable to be withdrawa at - any rhnfip]_eht. - It iy supposed that most of - this gold represented ‘by certificates ‘is owned by the “national banks,” and by them reported as “‘gold in the vaults.”— This is about the only species ‘ot economy knbwn to be practiced by the party now in‘control of the finances of the coun- " A statement of the imports and exports of the city of New York, siuce the 15t of July last; shows a balance of trade against that city,‘alone, of $70,415,074, on which there has been paid in casm, only the small amount of $19,338,944. While last year during the same months we paid in cash $25,023,378, or nearly six millions more than has bgen.'pai:lv}hi_s year, and still it is believed .we have less gold and silverin the country, now than we lisd a | geabihgwm isl T B i e - ‘But this'is not all. Nearly all this im-’ ‘mense commerce, both wags, is carried in | foreign vessels, the treight on which (both | ‘imports and exports) must be charged up against us a 8 that'much more:additional. balance against the trade of onesingle/portof the United Statesl ..~ .. [ o . How long, intelligent: reader, do you ‘think the present blundering et of plun--drers, who 1458 siEped the goverament to enrich themselves, can run the machine ‘at this rate without bringing bankruptcy | ad ruin_ upon Hhe covatry, wich must, inevitably end fo that repudiation which fl!fi “loyal’" thicves profess so mueh to NS b g 1 sk i 4 or:fo - but edi ishor :t eo A S eMR cessity|—Boanmille Courior, |

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... .. . . Fromthe Kokomo Jourpal, . EMIGRATION. . While in company with a few friends, a few evenings since, the conversation turned to the subject of emigration. Some advocating that Kansas was the great and - only country destincd to hecome the garden spot of the world. Others advocated the claims of Minnesota, Wiseonsin and Missouri, Each had his favorite State or 1 territory. ~We gave it as our convictions, that should we decide to emigrate, we would neither, go to Kansas, Montana, Missouri or Minnesota, but to the rich | Shenandoah. There the climate s healthy, l soil rich, winter six weeks (sorter than in this latitude) and not so_changeable, 3 while the products of the soil was from | four to eight hundred miles nearer the seaboard or head of market than Kansas, nence, the cost of transportation, which alwaysmust be borne by the producer,is - saved and is counted as profit. - Since the conversation was had, we read an article in the Journal of the Farm upon this subject, and as it so}‘fully expresses our ideas of emigration or choosing a location for life, we copy a portion for the considerstion of our readers. Read-and ponder well what is said upon the subject, then . decide for yonrselves: ] G “Oneofthe strangest things in the histo. ry of the settlement of various sections of the United States, is the disposition tochooge the wilderness as a-place of abode, under the impression that there only tands are cheap, and a- living easily obtained. Apart from the consideration that the settler is almost isolated, and must content to live where neither church nor school house can cheer his eyeés fmi week “days, it is unacceuntable that people should choose such ‘locations, under an_ impression of the ‘kind. Thousands of acres of land, quite as susceptible of - improvement, a 8 productive and as cheap, abounding in game of every description, may be found in the Southern and Middie States, and are rapidly becoming accessicle by railroad and steamboat comminication, 80 that unless & man is deterwined to plunge into the wilderness, merely for the sake of living the life of # backwoods hermit and exiling himself, from all the comforts of civilization, there is really no conceivable reason why he <hould prefer a little this side of the Rocky Mountains, ‘to one’ in the valley of the- - the Shenandoah. Truly, ne may have to pay a fex dollars more per acre for the latter than for the other. His Rocky Mountain farm he may seize : by right of squatter sovereignty, and dispute with the gr zly bears for its posses~sion ; and if he likes that kind of litigation well, who shall blame him or deny his right in this great country to vote wimself o farm outside of U.'S. " fencing ? - But commend us to thé more civilized nections, where good™ land is to be had, and just now, on very reasonable terms,”

¢ e — -—— s { FAMILY SECRETS. ~ In Coles county there lived a man named Isaac Dobson and his wife, who were both firm believers in the prophecy. of Fatber Miller; and not doubting for a mo‘ment the correctness of their prophet’s calcualations, they set about making active preparations for-the evenful day that was 'to terminate the existence of all sublunary things. . : After having “set the house in order,” | the following conversation took place. - Husband —My dear wife, I believe 1 bave made every preparation for to morrow. I have forgiven all my enemies, and prayed for the forgiveness of my sins, and I feel perfectly calm and resigned. : Wife—Well, husband, I believe I am ready for the sound of the trampet. Husband—l'm rejoiced to hear it, But, my dear wife, I have no doubt there are many little domestic secrets which have been kept hidden from each other, which, ’ bad they been known at the time of their occurrence, might have produced unplesa: ant . feelings, but .as we have but oné day more to live, let us nnbésom ourseclyes freely.to each other. oA Wife—Well, hushand, you are right; “there are some litile things that T never } told you, and which I intended should | remain between me and my Ged ; but as we have but one day left, I reckon it's right to make a clean bredstfi"fio each other. lam ready—you begin, husband. l : * Husband—No, dear, you begin. Wife—No, husband, you begin. I can .ot ; b Husband—No; you know, my love, Paul says husbands have the right to command their wives. It is your duty as a christian woman to obey your husband, and the father of your children. So begin, love. : Wife—ln the sight of God, it's right; 80, I will tell you, dear husband, our eldest son, William, #s not your child. . - Husband — Great God! Mary, I never dreamed of your being untrue to me! Is that so? e 3 Wife (in tears)—Yes, God forgive me, it is true. Iknow that I did very wrong, but I am sorry for it; but in an evil hour I fell, and there’s no help for it now. Husband—William not mine/ In the name of God, whose child ishe? ' . Wife—He's Mr. Graham's, the constable. The Lord be near your poor wife.. Husband—Bo, William ain't my child! Goon, - Eiiav e : ~ Wife—Well, our daaghter Mary, named after me, ain't your's neither! : Husband—Salvation! ' Talk on, Mary, —come right out. Who is Mary's fether? g ~ Wife—Mr. Grider, the man that built the meetin’-house, and went to the lower, country. st 0 . Husband (resignedly)—Well, as there is but one day more, I'll bear it, 80. go on, 4f you bave anythivg else. . - Wife—Well, there's our youngest—- . Wife—No, dear husband, Jemmy, that e both love wumwm-; f‘ - Husband—Merciful Lord! 'ls thatso? In the name of thie Savior, who's ishe? - | Vit 86 s o neeyed ehomajers RE & eh Rt S ik AR & rodds 0 s e Blow your horn ! T want to go now! ©