The National Banner, Volume 4, Number 45, Ligonier, Noble County, 9 March 1870 — Page 2

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‘Resistance to Tyrants Is Obedlence 10 God.’ R R RR I RT I e e : J.B.STOLL, EDITOR. - e i e s WEDNESDAY,MARCH 9, 1870 A —— DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET 5 For Secretary of State: - | Col. NORMAN EDDY, of South Bend. | gt For Auditor of State: = =~ | JOHN C. SHOEMAKER, of Perry Co. . _For Treasurer of State : - JAMES B. RYAN, of Indianapolis. For Attorney General : BAYLESS W, HAI‘?N A, of Terre Haute, . Far Bup't of Publie Instruction : liev. MILTON B. HOPKINS, of Clinton. For Sugreme Judges: . JAMES L. WORDEN of Fort- Wayne, .A. C. DOWNEY, of Olio County, " SAMUEL H. BUSKIRK, of Monroe Co,, JOHN PETTIT, of Lafayette. - . Proposed Re-Reconstruction of Ten: f j nessce. ot - Washington dispatches convey the announcement that a bill has been prepared to rrconstruct Tennessee, something on | the (Georgia plan, and the proposition, i it is understood, has the support of Gen. ’ » Butler and most of the congressional del- | gation of the state. The programme for this rascally proceeding is stated as folHdows: It is not intended to'set up any provisienal government, or to interfere with the present regime just now, but a hill is ta be prepared to secure a new registeration of the voters, in accordarce with the present copistitution of the state, | and after the registration is completed an election is to be held for a gdvernor and legislature, which when they are elected, are to take the place of the present ad. | ministration. The justifieation for this is said to be found on_ the right of eongress to secure to each state a “republi-can”-form of government, and that the present one, is “illegal, and totally inade(uateito protect the people in their pur- | auit of life, liberty, and happiness.” ¢ " Tt/is said, in some quarters, that a bill of this chinracter is 8o extraordinary that it can never pass the heuse, but the disposition evinced to pass the Georgia bill shows that Gpinion not to be well found ed. The propositiop, howejcr, that con- i gress can interfere in a state fully repre- I sented meets with warm comment. But, ! who can entertaina doubt of its enact- ’ ment, with the long list of outrageous, un | constitutional legislat.on 'tlvlat, stands enrolled on the statutes of the Union since g the commencement of that stinking infa- | 'my commonly termed "re’c'd‘nsfirnctik‘m." '

‘Ehe Case of Comgressmam Golladay. Governor Stevenson, of Kentucky, re_fuses to accept. the' resignation of Con _yressman Golladay. He says! the interests and honor of his immediate constitucnts, and the State of Kentucky, no less, than bis personal honor, demand & full in-| vestigation of his alleged connection with the sale of cadetshii‘)s, by the only tribunal to which, under the Constitution, he *is amenable. |, ‘ : : (u‘nngress\. decided gon Monday, after considerable discussion, that the refusal of Gov. Stevenson to accept the resignation of Mr. Golladay, could notin any way alter the latter’s relation to'the House, which is that of as ex member, and ithe | praposition to allow him to‘wi_tl:drsagw; his ‘notice to the Speaker that he had tendered his resignation to the Governor \was not even permitted, nor a reference to the Judiciary Committee for iuvestigation into what constitutes an A;:tuul resignation. “The objéet songht by (Gov. Stevenson, in, undeavorihg to have Golladay continue & meniber of the House till the charges against hiny are retated or affirmed, fiill- " he attained by the Military Committee, who intend to report on his case. If they find that he did sell a cadetship, a resolu: tion will be proposed censuring his con: duct, and dcclavring him u‘n}“vc)"rthy to be a representative of the peop}'ei. If the con“frary be proven, he stands acquitted. |

' e et | . Uit Morton, ' | netn It is a fact that in 1864 (tov. Morton | had a strong desire to become Lincoln's | successor. As the Republicans werd em | phatically opposed to “swapping. horses” | at that time, Morton prudently desisted | from pressing his claims. Four years lu-‘ ter the party was so badly scared that the | nomination of Grant was regarded as an | absolute necessity, consequently - Morton j found it neccssary to wait a little while longer. © Well informed Republicans u‘mv¥ d declare that Morton’s ‘ambition can be bridled no longer—-with the year 1872 | wust come g recognition of his great ser- i vices to th({ party of ‘“great moral ideas.” it was Morton that decured the fraudu- | lent «atification of the fifteenth amend- l ment—it is Morton who expects to have its henefite first bestowed upon himself.

; ° The Whisky Tax, i An effort is now being made to increase l the tax on whisky, or, as the Indianapolis 1 Journal’ expresses it, “a caT of some sort : . is getting ready to seclude itself within the Congressional meal tub.” A resolu- I tion has been referred to the Ways and Means: Committee for the raising of the | tax onwhisky to one dollar per gallon. — | Experience, remarks the Journal, hias dem | onstrated the success of a low rate of tax- 1 ation, and this méasure is intended simp1y to incresse the value of stocks of spirits now on ‘hiand. If will do to keep at | least one eye:upon this new attempt at a “Whisky Ring” 0 il P s . Giet Naturalized. ! _The Cleveland Plaindealer gives this advice to persons born in a foreign land, who have failed to take the nccessary _means to get aturalized :, | | ' Every unnaturalized citizen now entitled to his naturalization papersshould at once take them out. The paturalization ob*struction’ bill is being pushed throogh Congress with all possible epeed, and as _ soon a 8 it becomes a law every foreigner " not then a citizen will be ‘;ilaced by its provisions in the position of one who has ust immigrated to'the country. He may _tne ‘rgsided here @ score of “years, or he _may have qggl_,rqd_lzip ;in,trn,iom. but the law of Congress wil tg?{l'r'g:him to renew his declaration in a ffh ted States Court, - and'live five years longer before he can | becbme a eftized.) V. [oooa ... The result of the town elections in ke SRS DEVL S ARAT A R i AT v Bl o i o ST lIPNE Wi moleppios - | iy a 0 “‘"“i"' %Lk ;! e Wy

! AN EARNEST PROTEST. f We are happy to note the fact that dur ing the discussion of the Georgia Bill iy i the lower House of Congrees, on Saturday | last, the democratic members to@--a bol¢ | stand against the revolutionary doctrine | of the dominant party. .+ ; . Of the Indiana delegation the Hon. M i’i C. Kerr delivered a scathing speech ir "b,.fiennncigtion,nf the Georgia abomination | He declared the bill to be the pioneer in | an. infamous system of congressional leg | islation, the initial movement in a new ‘E carecr of aggressive, unconstitutional, and | unwarranted legislation. Therefore, he desired to enter his protest against it, and ;‘:’to call the attention of the country to the \'novel.and extraordinary character of the l@proposition. If congress could prolong Efthe ‘tenure of' office of the Governor and | Legislature of Georgia, as proposed, it ;{could, also, with the same logic, declare 'that the Forty first Congress should con tinue until the 4th of March, 1880, ;j Hon. James B. Beck, of Kentucky, reIplied in the following terse language to ‘the remarks of Ben. Butler, who is the ‘champion of the proposed new policy of the radical party : : . " “Dangerous as was the avowal of the gentleman from Massachusetts, that he intcnded by this bill to give a new lease of power to the Governor, the Legisla ture, and the present State officers of Georgia; revolutionary as was that announcement, it is as nothing compared wita the other avowal of a purpose which I knew the radical leaders of the republican par ty were rapidly approaching. Fhat avowal of the gentleman was, in substance, that. he wanted to pass this bill as a |precedent to show to the people of this reountry that congress has the right to exereise the same power over any State, no imatter where, that, in its opinion, does not properly protect life, liberty, and property within its borders; that congress claimed the right to seize that State by the: throat and compel it to do what congress chooses to say it should do, He pointed to the State of Tennessee, and announced that, if his friends would stand by him, he would seize her as he now pro posed to seize Georgia. I knew that the mare radical men of the republican party were rapidly approaching that point, but this is the first time that I have ever heard the purpose deliberately avowed upon this floor. It required a bold man, like the gentleman from Massachusetts to avow it now, and it is well thatit has been avowed. 1t is well for the country now to un derstand it. It is not particularly because the republican party want to retain lppwgg in the State of Georgia that this bill"is to be passed, but because they want a principle established which will author ize congress to seize any State, no matter when, that does anything that congress may think is wrong in the treatment of the citizens of that State within her own borders, in regard - either to the parsons, liberty, or property of her citizens.” b oa e ——— - A ——— ' Resistance to the 15th Amendment. . - . Hon. B F. Harris, of St. Mary’s county, ex-member of the House of Representatives from the Fifth District of Mary " ‘lun'd, hag{ written a lengthy letter, in | which ke advises opposition to-the enforcement of the Fifteenth Amendment in Maryland, and proposes a plan where by le thinks his ideas of resistance to the Constitufion of the United States may be successfully carried out. He makes the suggestion that the registry laws of Maryland be amended so as to require that every register of voters shall take an oath that he will not obey the requirements of the Fifteenth Amendment; in other words that he will place upon the registry as voters none but white men.— This, done by the Legislature, brings the. matter to an issue ‘at once. IHe believes that the Supreme Court will have juris diction in any case likely to arise under this amendment, and he professes to have no doubt what their decision will be.— Mr. Harris, in this connection, advises the people of Maryland to stand firm, regard less of the threats of knaves and tyrants, and the victory will seon be won. ] One Out of Many, It is strange how certain things go together. Two weeks ago, A. J. Fletcher, the Radical Secretary of State of Tennes. see, addressed a long letter to a friend in Congress in favor of another reconstruction of Tennessce. He says: : . The general government must either abandon "its’ friends in Tennessee, white and colored, to a wretched fate, or it must take them under its immediate protectior. To this end the State will have to be reduced to a territorial condition, and the protective power of thé government brought to th¢ doors of the classes protected. : i i 0f : If the latter is impossible, the whole loyal/ population must quit the State. T}e last news we have from Tennessee, says the St. Louis Republican, is that Fletcher is about to be tried qn a charge of shameful frauds in the sale 6f the agricultural eollege lands granted to Tennessee by Congress. It is possible that he had-it in mind to escape this “wretched fate,” when he entreated the réduction of Tennessce to a territorial condition.

The Right Kind of Religion. . I The high prices of everything we eat, and the scarcity of money to buy with, has caused the poor people to cry out in . the following manner::“ We all want a réligion that not only bears on the sinful ness of* sin, but on the rascality of lying and stealing; a religion that banishes all small measures and short weights from the counters, small baskets from the man- ‘ gers, pebbles from sugar, rocks from wool, chiccory from coffee, slum from bread, lard from butter, strychnine from wine,’ and water from milk cans. The religion that is to advance the world will not put all the big strawberries and peaches on the top, and all the bad ones under.” e el : Beasons for Repudiation. - Among the causes that led to the call for a repudiation convestion at Bryan, Ohio, the Democrat of that place enumerates the following : - | “The persistent Jegislation by Congress for the benefit of rich men, the promotion and fostering of swiadling rings, the maladministration of public affairs, the extravagance and corruption fin every department of the admipistration, the unserupulous exereise of power for the furtherance of radical measures aud the refusal or nefglect to legisiate for the amelioration of the laboring classes, the continued ‘tax on the necessaries of life, the prostration of every branch of industry, and the necessity for a change in the rul--ers and rulingsof this country.” e 4 AR — e - © A Strange Story. ' The New York World’s Paris corrcspondent comes to time with a sensational storyg that Napoleon I died on the 9th of last September, under the knife of ‘Burgeon Ricord, and that m“vrmce [m“perial reigns nnder the title of Napoleon LIV, with the Empress 45 Regent, Napoleon is m‘)frn&bxwm rolative, who beats a_striking resemblance to the daceated Emperor. |

} NOTES AND COMMENTS. | The Bryan (Ohio) Demoerat publishes ' call signed by 108 citizens— some of them quite prominent—for a meeting of Ig]l “who favor a repudiation of the bonded debt of the United States” to ‘elect | delegates to a congressional convention. i It would appear from this that Gen. Mun- | gen is not the only repudiationist in Ohio, ! The lower house of the Colorado Leg’“islature has postponed the female suffrage ' bill indefinitely—which means a rejection “of that proposition. The vote stood 10 t 0 15. The Governor favored the extension of suffrage, and at his suggestion the ambitious damsels brought tea parties, smiles, flatteries and every art possible to bear upon members of the Legislature. - The Anderson Plaindealer says the effort that was recently made to establish & new republican paper at Indianapolis, in opposition to the Journal, has proved afailure. It was to be a stock concern, the sfock-holders to consist principally of country publishers, who thus expected to get a portion of the rich drippings that find their way iato the coffers of the “state organ.” iy !

The advocates of a prohibitory law are making strenuous efforts to carry. their theory into practical execution. In Chicago they opened the campsign on the 22d ult., with a monster public meeting, but a still more monstrous petition, three hundred feet in length, and signed by twenty thousand persons, in faver of requiring the saloons and' beer houses of that city to be closed on Sunday. '

Congressman Butler, of Tennessee, who sold a cadetship and expects to be expelled shortly unless he concludes to resign, is trying to shield himself by whispering the frightening announeement inte the ears of his loil colleagues that if he must vacate his seat, Andy Johnson will surely be sent to fill the place. Andy is such a terror to the Rads that Butler may pdssibly hold his seat, if he did sell a cadetship. Eitn

The Committee of the Colored Laborcr's Union Association of New York, have resolved to hold a meeting to celebrate the ratification of the Fifteenth Amend ment, the day previous to the Anti Slav. ery Scciety meeting, and to invite Wen} dell Phillips, Fred. Douglass, Senator Morton and Senator Revels. It is not probable that Morton will repeat on this occasion the celebrated speech which he delivered at Richmond, Indiana, a few years ago, and wherein he pictured the great danger that would result to the country by giving negroes a right to vote.

The Fort Wayne azette says thatlsrme of the northern delegates to the State Con vention, whe should have supported Oakley, sold out to secure the nomination of Judge Osborne, and that the injustice done to northeastern Indiana will cost the party several hundred votes.—Fux.

From all the facts we can gather, Col. Oakley 'was treated very shabbily by the delegates from Northern Indiana. Even some of his Immediate neighbors assisted in procuring his defeat. It is by such means that this section is usually deprived of a rqi)resentatan on the State ticket.

" The Crawfordsville Journal publishes at the head of its editorial column, in black letters, and under the title, “A Deinocratic Epistle,” the letter of A. T Whittlesey, of the Evansville Coureer, inviting Fred. Douglass to enjoy the hospitalities of his hoise. - The Journal expects thereby to silence democratic thunder against negro suffrage, but the little piece of strategy will fail, as the democratic press, with entire unanifility, have disavowed all sympathy with Mr. Whittlesey's singular course. . e

An exchange informs us that a leading radical negro, and member of the Charleston (8. C.) Council, recently remarked : | The colored man is by nature a, Demo. crat; his sympathies are with the white laboring masses; and when the lapse »f time shall have consigned to partial ob livion the animosities engendered by the: war, the black race will be found shoulder to shoulder in the Democratic ranks ! The remark is a very good and truthful one, but it is expressed in such elegant language that we are somewhat skeptical -about its authorship. | ' ; ~ Speaking of the admission-of the negro Revels to the U.S. Scnate, a republican exchange says: LEsile “His stay is brief, as his time expires to-morrow, but he has been there, and drawn his stationery, and franked hislet‘ters like a white man, and the country-ex-lbits no signs of political or revolutionary spasms.” The first part of the above paragtaph is a mistake. Revels' term does not expire until March 4, 1871, when he will be relieved by the rebel-radical Governor “Alcorn. e ' E

Senator Brownlow, who has astonished the world by keeping remarkably quiet since his election to the United States Senate, published acard in the Knoxville Whig ot last Monday, in favor of setting aside the present State Government of '%ennes see, and the appointment of a “military /Governor backed by National troops, who ‘will put a stop to the wholesale murder of white and colored Unionists,” | -

The vold villain, since the clutches of the devil seem to him more remote than a few months since; manifests the same spirit of malice toward mankind that characterized his conduct whilst domineering over the people of Tennessee as her Governor. Hell-fire seems utterly inextinguishable in the old reprobate

This is what' Congressman Orth said to Lingle, of the Lafayette Courier, recently in response to a question as to. whether he should be a candidate again: “I.am really weary of Washington, and the only people I envy are those who are privileged to sit down under their own vine and fifg tree, at home. I shall make no contest for the nomination. T have sought to do my duty to my constituents, and if the practical experience of my successive terms of service is esteemed of no value, I shall step aside.” : ; -

“If the practical experience, &e.,” simply means that the member from the Lafayetto District is extremely anxious for an endorsement of his course by being renominated. The people have acquired a thorough understanding of these pretended declinations, and in & majority of cases view them in the light of & ruse to gain advancement under the shadow of sffected indifference. An honest, candid avowa] will peflect infinitely move credit 4pon 8 public man thep to extend sly invitatiops fo be “pressed” into sexvice by the “desr people.” - i

SPIRIT OF THE INDIANA DEMOSk CRATIC PRESS. | The Bluffton Banner says the republi . can “piatform is clap-trappy, being susceptible of almost any interpretation.” * The Evansville Courter suggests that “Democrats carry a copy of Mr. Dawes’ speech with them, and whenever they hear radicals prating about democratic perversion, draw the speech, and gag them with the fact that Andrew Johnson beats i Mr. Grant to the tune of $49,682,507.01 a year,”—that Is, it required so much less to carry on the government under John- | son that it does under Grant. |

- The Anderson Plaindealer heartily “concurs with the New York Tribune in the opinion that it would bea blessing for the country if Congress would adjourn for three years. However, if the Triune | had said thirty years, instead of three, it would have been better, and the blessing to the courtry would have been increased in the same ratio. Since 1861 Congress has been nothing more than a conclave of thieves, idiots, and tyrants, who have used their positions to rob the treasury, oppress the laboring man, blot out ghe last vestige of constitutional liberty, and establish a ' military despotism.” . ' The Princeton Democrat, the organ of the. Democracy of old Gibson county, ‘says: “If Mr. Whittlesey wishes to take ‘the negro to his house, on an equality with- himself, he has that right; bdt we deny that he expresses the sentiments of . the Democracy in doing so, even if he “is the editor of their organ in this Congres. | gional District.” Ifthe Radicals—through the lying, scheming and bribery of their leaders, aided by the “bargain and sale” of weak-kneed Democrats— have, as it seems, succeeded in ‘foisting, for a time, the odious Fifteenth Amendment upon ‘the country, is this any reason why the Democracy should bow the knee and kiss the hand of the negro and his radical friends, in order to gain power and feed upon the “loaves and fishes®” The: Democracy have ever opposed the “social and political equality” of the negro with the white race. Let us stand by our record and our principles, and if we, as a I party, “go down,” let us' do so with our colors flying. ““White men ean and must rule America.” ; [

‘The Covington F'riend, in speaking of the proposed 'law for the enforcement of the fifteenth amendment, argues that “a negro must be worse than a fool to vote a Déemocratic ticket. We would hold no office upon their suffrage, were wé‘in power we would disfranchise them in a twinkling of an eye, and/hang every white despot and law-breaker in tlic land. When Constitutions and laws are no longer binding upon our rulers, when the National Capitol is' made a den of thieves, and a vast harem fer the use of the Hon. (?) Representatives of the great moral reform () party, when the white man, aye, the white soldier too, is driven from the polls by *‘niggers” supported by bayonets, bought and paid for by white men for the protection of white men, then these white men, if not born ‘to.be slaves, will Jight, and - when that 'fight comes, as we pray God it. may (if our liberties can be maintained in no other way) there will be an end ot Radical usurpation in this country forever. The vast additionsl expense of more than one hundred thousand officers and their attendant military support is the least objection to this damnable outrage. . It is the liberty of the people that is in danger. Then let the people,prepare to resist, not the laws of the country, but the tyrants that aretrampling those laws under foot. To this they are driving us. Let the people beready. It despots must rule in this once free country, let their rule rest upon a batren and blackened waste and not upon the . necks of men who have once tasted freedom!”

I We Are Coming, Father Abraham. . The emigration to Indiana from Kentucky has. fairly set in, and promises to be much larger than in any previous year of the State’s history. The emigrants are coming in small armies. Yesterday some twenty-five families passed through the city for Washington county. To-day forty families passed through, their destination being Lawrence and Monroe counties, most of them intending to settle in the towns of ‘Bedford and Bloomington. -, There is one peculiarity about these emigrants—they are all black. "We asked an ola, gray haired patriarch of the gang that passed through the city this morn ing if there were any more of his fellow citizens to come yet? “Lor’ bress you, ‘éhile, sartin. . Dere’s a heap of 'em comin,’ for dere’s white folks over ‘thar in old Kentucky stirrin’ 'em up.” | e | We guess the stir 1s a pretty big one, from the size of the stream of colored emigrants it has started. These emigrants all seem to have a peculiar fancy for the counties in. the Seventh Congressional district.—New Albany Ledger. —Large numbers of Southern negroes are daily flocking into this State. The Bloomington Democrat reports the artival at that place, of twenty two on one train, on Monday last. The Fifteenth Amend- { ment means business, and the poor white trash had better begin to look out.— Bloomington Demacrat. » gl

The correctness of the report which the Crawfordsville Review gave of Rev. Godfrey's pgayer, copied into this paper, isdenied by the Journal and a number of citizens of that town who were present.— They admit that he declared “we had too many drunkards, thieves, embezzlérs and debauchees in office,” but deny that he “mentioned the name of Beecher, Harlan, or any person whatever.” . The admission is ample—the public understand which party has control of the effices.

A letter from a gentleman at Fort Scott says: The town is now divided between religion and the devil, and up to the time of writing there were no odds to be got on either winning.— ‘The devil was represented by a lot of pretty girls, who were doing the “leg business” to crowded houses every evening. Every morning there was a heavy revival, and the pulpits were shaken in denunciation of the leg.- In the evening the leg was shaken at the pulpits, and so the thing was rnnning,

Muyngen of Ohio, in a recent speech in the Houge, referred to the Chief Magistrate of {2{ natjon as_the gifted President ;bt he remarked, if he had violated any rules by saying so, he would take it back. By

Rev. James Lynch, the colored Secretary of the State of Mississippi, has üblished a card: defeniifi "‘&np&or %fivm»frvip the. charge made against .

~ CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. - Tuespaz, Maron I.—lu the Senate the ‘Funding bill'was further diseussed. The : negro Se‘patot{fßevéh,fl made his debut in the presentation of & petition from sundry negroes in Philadalphia, praying for the passage of & bill enforcing the fifteenth amendment. Mr. Howell, the new Towa Senator, also made his first speech in support of a resolution against the grasping spirit of the railroad monopolies. =

~ .In the House, the Senate’s amendment to the Post Route bill was taken from the Spedker’s ‘desk ‘and . concurred in. Mr. Bird, (Dem.) of New Jersey, attempted to get the Sheridan atrocity before the House in the shape of a resolution calling upon the President for infox‘ina_tion, but a radica] member objeéted. The bill extending to three ?yegu's the time for keeping distilled liquors i bond was passed with an amendment fixing the amount to be paid after Lhe first year at one cent per gallon. Mr. Logaa from the Military Committee reported a resolution declaring John T. Deweese, the cadetship selling carpet-bag-ger, who has evaded expulsion by resignation, unworthy of a seat in the House. After a long debate the House decided to instruet the committee to continue the investigation only so far as it affected mem-: bers of this Congress and other officers of the government. ) '

- WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2.—The Funding bill was debated again in the Senate, Mr. Sumaer making an elaborate speech. The joint resolution authorizing the Northern Pacific Railroad company o issue its bonds for the construction of its road, and to secure tlie same Ly mortgage, was also dis: cussed, but without action. In both. Houses new railroad land jobs were introduced, and n the House one of the swindles met with a vigorous opposition from the Democrats, Among the nominations sent to the Senate by the President were those of Charie’s’s H.. Lewis, of Virginia, (brother of Senator Lewis), as Minister Resident to Portugal, in place of Mr. Skiellaherger, resigned, and Commodore John A. Winslow, who commanded the Kearsarge in the fight with the Alabama, as. a Rear Admiral in the navy. ' In the House, the bill atthorizing the construction and maintenance of a bridge over the Niagara River, at Buffalo, ‘was passed. Mr. Cox made a persohsl explanation, denying the story of a sensation paper in New York of his having sold a cadetship. : : '

THURSDAY, MARCH 3.—ln the Senate, Tr!}mdu!,l introduced his bill to change the Supreme Court judicial circuits, and eliqitq}j’a warm discussion.- The. effect of the bill will be to prohibit the confirmation of Judge Bradley and compel the President to select a carpet-bagger judge from the South. The Senate thefix resumed the discussion of the Funding bill, and listened to elaborate speeches by Senators Morrill, of Vermont, Morton and Sumner.

In the House, Mr. Ingersoll attempted to procure the passage of a resolution calling upon the Secretary of the Interior for informe}tion‘ about the “massacre” of the Piegan Indiaus. Mr. Stevenson, of Ohio, who has taken upon himself the hard task of apologizing for General Sheridan, objected to the word “massacre,” and refused to permit the resolution to' be entertained. He offered it himself'subsequent. ly in another shape. Mr. Ingérsbfl‘intro-‘ duced thre New York and Washington Air Line Railroad bill, and endeavored to rush it through the House, but' several democratic members made so much oppositiord that it was forced over the morn. ing hour. The bill will probably pass the House, as it has before, and be throttled in the Senate. The Tariff bill Being under discussion, Mr. Brooks, of New York, opened the fight for the free-trad-ers with a long and very able speech. — Before the House adjourned an amusing, though by no means unusual, quarrel took place between Ben. Butler and a brother Radical. Butler, it seems, reported back from the Reconstructipn Committee a bill for the admission of the Georgia Congressmen. Mr. Farnsworth, one of the Committee, denied that Butler had authority from the Committee to do so.— Butler regarded this as an attack on his veracity, and finally the Speaker called upon the House to decide whether the Massachusetts statesman spoké the truth or not. Just as a vote was about to be taken, Butler yielded to a friend to introduce a bill, and thus dodged a verdiet.— The House adjourned without further action. ‘ . 3

FRiDAY, MARCH 4.—11 n the Senate, Mr. Ttumbull's bill changing the circuits of the Supreme Court was considered, and speeches Jere made by Mr. Trumbull and Mr. Davis, Mr. Sumner moved to take up his bill repealing the charter of the Medical Society of the District of Columbis. It is by means of thigbill that he proposes to punish the white physicians of Washington for their refusal to consult professionally with negro doctors. Greatly to Sumner’s disgust, his motion was lost by a vote of 21 to 26. */ = In the| House, Mr. Butler, of Massachusetts, opened the discussion on the Georgia bill. In the course of his speech he intin{ated that as soon asg Georgia was reeonstfucted to his mind he should turn his attention te Tennessee. He proposed to exhibit to the Tennesseeans the power of Congress to regulate the internal affairs of a State. - Mr. Farnsworth (Rep.) made & speech againet the bill, and it went aver until next day, when it will be debated, to the exclusion of other business. : S .

SATURDAY, MARCH 3.—ln the House, the Georgia bill was discussed. General Farnsworth, Republican of Illinois, made an earnest speech in opposition to Butler's effort to . prolong the term 'of the swindling Governg; Bullock, and to reduce thas State to a territorial condition. MoxpAY, MArcH '7.—ln the Senate, Mr. Morton ‘introduced a bill to admit the State of Texas to representation in Congress. It imposes the same conditions as.in the case of Virginia. The funding bill was discnssed at length,— The House considered the Georgia infamy, Golladay's resignation, and some business of minor importance, - ; Roderick R. Batler, the Tennessee ‘ Cc;t‘xlgmemnn who sold his cadetship, used $5OO of the money to aid General Btokes in: the” late: Gubernatorial canvass in that state.’ Owing. to: this fact, Giovernor Senter -refuses -to receive 'Butler’s resignation, and it is therefore-probable l&n Mr. B. will be the first member to suffer expnlsion.

bl svaemrems. L i m, measles and. *Shoo Fly” are qmefi pr’bgglent Jjust nowbelEbflrt | "Phe flonring mille of Da; Ity Mar- ’ tig & Co,, Lafayette, grind fitty thou - sand barrels of flour per annum. : | The Elkbart Review says that a | large number ot buildings are to be erected in that town during next sum- ! mors "TR : ’ I“*Scarlet fover is rigiflg in 'Atqigo]a.— | A little son of R. H Weamer, 3 th | Republican, died of that disease, week ! before last. ; sha | The Petu Sentinel says that in that gection the peach buds are said to be all “hunkadora” yet. In Kasciusko county, ditto. s i A Mrs. Ashley has been lying un- ! buried in Evansville gince the 25th of i February. They dont’t know whether | it is death or a trance. - |

' JamesSorrell, an Adams county carpenter, had his neck broken by a fall from a barn Friday a week ago. He left a wife and seven children,

The decision of the Supreme Court, sustaining the constitutionality of the gravel road law, is thought to also vir tnally sustain the ditching law. The attorneys of Mrs; Elizaßowles in her divorce suit against the notorious conspirator, lave brought guit for $7,000. Rather a heavy fee for a plain case. - -

Dr. Brittingham, of Lafa.ye!ttze, produced an abortion on the body of a young woman named Louisa Smith, and as usual insuch cases, cansed her death. haly g

When our clocks are a little fast we always set them right at once. People ought to do'as much for their fast sous and daughters, but they generally let them run. .

- The Bluffion train - leaves Fort Wayue for Bluffton at 3 P. 3, and arrives in Blufftorr at 6. o’clock. Leaves Bluffton 7. A. M., and arrives at Fort Wayne at 10:05. - ' % A Quack Doctor is_holding forth in town this week. As soon as he fleeces a sufficient number of suckers, he will “warble on his bright sunny way.”'— Waterloo Press. =~ ;

The citizens of Elkhart have subscribed 'over $6.000 to the stock of the Elkhart and ‘Plymouth Railroad. A meeting will be called in afew days to organize the company. - |

- Ansan V. Burlingame, when a boy, once lived in ‘Dry Piairie, Indiana.— His father, Joel Buarljngame, removed thither from Coldwatkr, Mickigan, in the time of the Fourie&ies. [

- A : A terrible accident becurred near Oxford, Mississippi, lastiweek, involving the'loss of a number of lives.— Among the victims was S./C. Morehouse, nephew of P. Morehouse, Esq., of Elkhart. Pl v The Goshen Times says Mrs. Solomon Culp, of Olive Town:hip, gave birth to three babes, two girls and one boy—average weight 5 lbs., each.— An exchange pronounces this culpable extravagance. - L ‘ An Evansvillian lives lin a hay mow, and hasn’t had his shirt washed for a year, all because a girl wouldn't marry him. This is scandalous, while arsenic is so cheap, and| for three months in the year there -is water enough in the Ohio river to drown a man.

_ Daniel Shooks, a hard-working and very respectable farmer living some three miles west of Tayloreville, Bartholomew county, committed unicide on ‘Wedneeday afiernoon cf last week, by hanging " himeelf in his barn. No motive i 3 known for the act.

1 Tn a civil case before Esquire Turnock, on Tuesday last, it took the jury all night to determine their; verdict.— In the outset eleven of them weré in favor of awarding the plaintiff-37, but the twelfih dinsisted thgt it should be only. $6.50.. About daylight in ‘the morning they compromised and called it 86.75.—Elkhart Review i

Upon a close and careful calculation, it is found that the “fifteenth amendment” will enfranchise about a score of negroes in Miami county, and from thirty to forty Indians, the latter all democrats to a man. The democratic vote of Miami is hurt by the amendment—not much.—Peru Sentinel. A e ek

A case of child smothering occurred in Madison county last week. The parents- retired to bed as usual, with the babe between them, on themother’s arm. About one o'clock in the mbrning the mother awoke and found that her child had slipped off herjarm. She reached down under the thick covering of the bed and found her babe. It was dead. = | ] ;

In his last trip (made 4 few days ago), Prof. Cox found a splendid vein of block coal in Clay county, near the town of Carbon, and on the line of the new Indianapolis and St. Louis Railway. He is coufident that there is enough coal in Clay county to supply the country, estimating the amount of coal in Clay county at upwards of 6,900,000,000 tons !—lnd. Journal.

" There are 92 counties in the State ‘of Indiana, and at the least 8o of these reached by the railroads, which is a re‘markable fact, and in contrast with the facilities of 25 years ago. The part of the State which lies north of the Ohio and Mississippi is 8o provided .with railroads that there is scarcely a ‘county ‘not reached. South of that line, among the hills, are several counties which have no railroads. -

. A Mrs. Wolfenberger, living about three miles from Plymout}\. was shot and dangerously wounded Saturday afternoon 26th . ult.. The dastardly deed was committed by one of three drunken men who : were passing her house in a wagon. The woman looked from . the door of her dwelling on account of the great noise that was being made, when the ruffian, without provocation, .shot her. No arrests have been made, Gk b

At Wabish; ‘on Thursday, the Directors of the Grand Rapids, Wabash and Oincinnati railrond met and agresd to engage A. G. Wells ‘& Co., of Kal--amazoo, Michigan, to bnild 'their road immediately. This is ‘an important northern and gouthern’ road; running from White Pigeon, Michigan, via Goshen and Wabash to Anderson. It i expedted; under the contracts, to ‘have it in ruoning. condition to : War‘saw, by the middlé of the summer, and -may be to Wabash by January,

_GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. | ":“-.i,‘b‘.,"‘:‘m ——— ~ - Loy s R - Tl:glong’ deferred payment. of the reward for the capture of Jeff. Davis is soon to be made. . Privates of the '4th Michigan cavalry will receive fsgg& "’;}_ v',.d'h s "’ s.’ Those Radi¢al members of Congress who have been doing a nice- thipg in the business of cadetships are swearing mad at Whittemore, Theysay he has ruined the business by his . indis~ cretions, - S . An Indian stole a blanket from a Missouri river steamboat, in. Meuntana, lasteummer, which was infected with emall pox. He thus introdueed it intohis , tribe, and out of a population of 2900 Ibdians, 740 have sinee died of the disease. AL BT a 1 L

- A Radical Congressman who eold a cadetship and was to ‘use the money for-educational purposes, gave nearly all of it to thesßadical editors in his district. Perhaps he thought they were in greater need of “education” than all others. UG SN ST

o An exchang2says that before Whittemore ‘was elected to Congress be traveled about over the,_plantations of South Carolina re-marrving the freedmeén for a dollar a couple; He made them think that their marriages while glaves were not valid,

A silver mine of nnparalled richness has béen dizcovered " in Greyson county, Ky = The ore was found' to. contain a larger per cent of silver than any hitherto disecovered. The, mines are almost ,inexhauvsarible and. will be - developed in the spring. : A

~ Aryoung lady- at Cavendish, Vi, killdd a skunk with a Butcher knife, one Wednesday. Her lover came to .gee her that night, and told her that he couldn’t marry her unless she quit using that hair oil. How fastidious Bome men are. et T .

The government pays moge for transporting its mails by rail anfi:‘dacb than is charged for any other article transported at the same speed ; and -at the freight rates paid for postage, it would cos two hundred -and forty dollars to traneport a barrel of flour from Washington to Portland, Oregon. e )

~ Gen, Hazen, -of the Department of Arkansas, reports that the Indian tribe of the southwest held acouncilat AntelnwiH@ll in December, and agreed to wagea war f extermination against tlie whites, but ithey have since changed their policy, and are peaceably inclinpd. £ .. ‘o vlg A

The wife of a white. man in Van: Wert county, O, recently gave biyih to twins, black as theace of spades.— The Times says that she declares it's all right; that her “husband’ had béen burning logs, and was 0 black ke frightened her.” But, he indignantly: inquires where “the wool came from 12! Sarrogate Richings, of New York, has decided for the validity of the will of Chatles Fox, bequeathing:- three hundred thousand. dollars " worth of real estate and personal property to the United States. -Notice has. been given through the councit for thenext. Of'l;liu’ of their inténtion to-contest”the’ will, - RN -

Advices from -San ‘Domingt’ state that the péople of the Dominiean Re: public have formally declared for annexation to the -United States.- The vote swhich wae officially prapaced hy the Government has been taken, and shows au overwhelming majority in favor, Nowhere was there any ‘visible opposition. ¢ R s A'cable has just been successfally laid by the ship Great Eastern from Bombay to. the Red Se = The fiyst (dispatch received on it contains the re\cord of a terrible marine disagter, the collision of the Uunited State corvette One:da and the steamer Bombay by which the former was sunk:and one hundred aud twenty lives lost. | The obsequies of the late. Anson Burlingame were celebrated in St. Peterburg on the 20d, ‘amid a great assemblage of ‘people. * Nearly the en+ tire diplomatic corps and many high Russian = officials were present. - The! Czag testified = his respect for the degea%d Minister by calling in person. on Mrs. Burlingame, - . 1

A letter from Rome says that the Archbishop ot Baltimore has formed a third party in the Ecumen cal Coungil in Rome. Archbishop Spaulding thus heads the American Episcopal force intermediary between the extremists of Italy aud Germany. On theinfallibility question, and other vexed subjects, the American prelates may thus carry off the greater namber of the vacant scarlethats. - ¢ it

More clamor for protection. - The peanut is one of the staples of North Carolina; and is potent enough even'to move legislatures. = Senator Abbott on’ Thursday presented, in the United States Senate, the resolutions passed: by the North Carolina Legislature ask: ing Congress to put a tariff on foreign peanuts. Referred (o the appropriate committee. P R :

The male citizens of Zanesville, O, have petitioned that women may be invested with all the rights of citizenship, and also with all its duties :— namely—that they be liable to military, jury, and road duty ; liability for their own and their hnsbands’ debis ; and that if a wéman refuse or neglect to provide for the support of her husband, and family, a diverce shall be granted awarding all :meuky to the husband. PR e e e R

¢ A'meeting of the friénds of Ben. Butler was held at: Washington ¢n Saturday evening, 261 k ult.. Eulogistic speeches were made, and Butler credited with having, with a company of Massachusetts troops at the beginning of the war, saved the government, A resolution was adopted tendering thanks to Butler for services in' the army and out of the army, in Congress and out of Congress. = A few colored men were present, with a colored band. The meeting is thought to be the begioning of -a movement to elect. the Beast to the Presidency. . .. . - ‘A prize fight ‘between ‘two wellknown ruffians, Sam Collyer and *Billy” Edwards, attracted a large gang of th eves‘and sporting men to Mystic. Island, near'New London, Cont:, ‘on 2ud inst. - The stakes were one thousand dollars and the laurels<—the ‘lightweight championship’ of America. — After a fight of forty rounds, lasting forty-seven minutés, Edwards was declared the winner. The unfortunate Mr: Collyer ‘was'so ' badly pummelled that he had to: be taken ‘to-hie" hotel, where he vomited 'and remained insenaible for a long timé.~ "~ =" o

".~ To-the Editor of The Chicago Times. ‘ - The coarsé you baye.always adopt‘ed towards the irrepressible agitators of female rights and female suffrage. has been so gratifying to i'?yself aud many of my triends, that I feel as though I should assure you of the fact. I hope that every woman and mother may strive’ to un(h*rstand'f what iz really ‘their proper sphere and their, true liberty. lam satisfied- shat the great foundation for ‘all the unladylike conduct of:"t»he,‘many'self-c(}nscitmed champions of so call-d woman’s rights is iguorauce; not ignoran¢e of stump ora“tory, but of all the duties of wives and mothers. - You may depeénd, -Mr. Editor, that most o'f;(bem%are in that denditfon, which sours: all the milk of human - kinduess and that their great pleasure during their Liybrid existence Is to annoy more sensible people. It i* to_be regretted that our country is vot the home of a true advocate and ‘worker for the good of our sex. The American “corps of termigrants have suceeeded in calling forth the contempt of every true woman here or elsewhere. If there were more good housekeepers and pure-minded yom)lg women, there would ‘be “fewer single men, fewer druvkards, fewer hardeped, unblughing female pl’)j"siciahs,;}fé)d'er indecent dancers, and female srunp speakers, and - more happy homes ard truly pleasant occupatione for woman. It is to be boped that you, and all others who really liave the welfare of what should be the gentler sex at heart, shall in.an unobtrusive way put down the humbngs. - | : MOTHER OF A FAMILY. " —The Rev. Mr. Hatfield, of Chicago delivered a lecture in that city, on Phursday evening, against female snffrage. . He made some good points against .that theory. When he met a woman iu the cars, or elsewhere, with Lair eut short and parted in tomboy fashion, several suspicions in regard to her arose in his mind ; was she from the: hospital, penitentiary, or ~insane asylum;. or was rhe too lazy to “take care of that which the apostles of old declared tobe the chief crown and glory of woman? But the. best point:of all was- where he said that the abandoned women would not be slowd to take ‘advantage of the ballot, but the respectable women in onr midst, as a rule, did not want any more rights than they now possess, And that is, the meat in the women suffrage nut, after all. " Tt is just those women who are good for nothing as women who are shouting at these suffrage conventions. The good wife and mother is 8o happy in her home affections that ghe has no time 16 think .of the ballot box ~<~FEz.

- Endinana and Kentucky. ‘ - Indiana-and Kentucky arenow united by iron bands. The great rail~road ‘bridge aeross.the Ohio river at” Louisviile is completed. | Thé ceremonies of opening the bridge téok place on the 28ih -ult. The bridge from ;abutment to abutment is 5,299 feet long, and this bridge is almost directly on the line between Pensacola or Mobile and * Chicago, and completes the direct north and south all-rail route.— It furnishes the missing link. in the connection between Memphis, New ‘Orleans, and points in the lower Missizsippi Valley and in’ Texas, and New York, Boston, Washington, Baltimore, and the principal cities in the Naorthesstarn States. formjne a continwons and unmbroken line between the.. Sontliwest and Northeast. S efn ] L —— v : * Cause and Effect. | - A contemporary says one result will be pretty sure to follow the adoption of | the XV amendment and that is REPUDIATION. Thenegroes will have nointeresiin the bonds, and will all voté to wipe them out. - They will feel no bouor ble responsibility resting upon them and will not care to fulfil irksome obligations ~ especially if they perceive they deprive him of lavish.rations Un- . less the military despotism at Wash- ' ington is st:ong enough ‘to control elections at will, as the French government now does, three autumns ‘will not pass.until the discordant voice of the mob will put an end to other distinctions than those ot color, and among | the first will be the manifest injustice of exempted wealth and oppressed induatry. .. -7 i ‘ . The democratic governor of Kentucky declines to aceept the resighation of Mr. Golladay, the democratic congressman who is implicated with a half-dozen or more scalawag radical congressmen in the corrupt business: of selling official appointments. The- action of the Kentucky governor is right and praiseworthy. Tt.may be according to radical morality that radical governors should shield radical congressmen from the disgrace of expulsion by accepting their resignation ; but democratic morals are measured by a higher standard. - If Mr. Golladay is guilty,—of which,, his offer to resign is better proof than any which the investigation comm’ttee ‘has been able to discover,—let them receive the punishment of expulsion, which is the very least the offence deserves.—Chicago Times. :

A large sum of money was collected gome time ago to build a goldiers’ monuvment at Pittsburg. The foundation of the structure has never been laid, and' the parties by whom the money was._contributed are now anxiously in searchof ‘the spot “where the woodbine twineth.”” 'y The New Albany Ledger tells a story of. a Cincinnati man who went there to obtain a divorce; but being immediately ' attacked with fever and ague, concluded that he had better return home, and have his wife nurse him; oo el : T'he Chicago Republican says “there is no Mrs. Senator Revels.” Then, asks the Lonisville Courier, what old negro was it that Sumner and Tipton ‘were flirting with in the gallery of the senate the other dey? =~ The Hessian government has forbid‘den the exhibitions of children of echool age by travelling showmen. It has al--8o forbidden the employmen of ¢hildren as rope-dancers, horse-riders and gymnasts. - ’ o e .. Private letters from ana, an‘nounce that Gen. Jfi%fiu% resigned the command in chief of the Insurgent forces, and FeenabeiJorona alias Bem-’;bgttgh-a?ppoin(ed;in‘his "pla’o.e' ) « A venerable individual in Scotland, sonre 106 years ollbds just lefooff the use of tobaeco, because its efects are Tdjurious and it tends to shorten life. . Abill appropriating. five - hundred thossaud acres of and to pay tate railroad: bonds has passed the Minne‘sota legistature. e e