The National Banner, Volume 4, Number 46, Ligonier, Noble County, 16 March 1870 — Page 2

| " . """“’""“"“.‘: _._ \ w"'*.” 6’- % 2 wm..‘. JUaLIonR L 2y anner, | i‘ :'\\,:.r 7 2 ﬂ\-‘ "Kt S ¥ . \\.,\‘\. i & ! f o T::’.Zl:.":".‘.‘.:.Z‘_...,.‘__.”;*'T““‘” e Resistance to Tyrants.’is Obedience to God.” §: 7. B STOLL, EDITOR. - | WEDNESDAY, MAR. 16, 1870, | IDEMOCRATIO STATE TICKET i ~ For Secretary of Stnté}"! st b Jol. NORMAN EDDY, of South;Bend. | For Auditor of State: ' fuid JOHN C. SHOEMAKER, of Perry Co, ! | For Treasurer of Statg : i ¢ JAM‘;!ES B. RYAN, of Indianapolis. | o For, Attorney General = JAYLESS W. HANNA, of Terre Huute, ~ For SBup’t of-Publie Instruction: MRev. MILTON B: HOPKINS, of, Clinton. § For Sugreme Judges: ;. -~ i 1 HAMES L. WORDEN, of Fort Wayne ‘A. C. DOWNEY, of Ohio County, @ - BAMUEL H. BUSKIRK, of Monroe Co,| JOHN PETTIT, of Lufayette. | | THE PLEA OF A DEMAGOGUE. . Of all the unprincipled and unscrupudous demagogues that this country ever | produced, Oliver P. Morton undoubtedly stands at ghe head of the list. {‘le has a | faculty for disewrding his professions of | yesterday wih®an alacrity and ease that | is truly astonishing. Oblivious to every | iprinciple of consistency, he assumies the | Echampinnship of évery hobhy or doctrine | ?tlm't promises to cnure to the ' benefit of ! his partisan purposes. To such aaiex. | tent has he manifested bis total indiffer- | ence to past professions that the leading! organs ‘of the republiean party do not iés- | itate to refer in appropriate language tQQ, this fact. : [ The “little ¢reatures” who edit there- ‘ publican press of Indiana, and who, with | G -~ very few exgeptions, lacked the courage to boldly and manfully advocate negro suffrage, are just now engaged in publish- | ing 'the speechi delivered by Senator Mor: | ton before the 22d of February convention a 8 the most convenient, method for carrying couviction to the loyal heart shat Sambo should be admitted to the hallot.” A‘little over four years ago, these innocent c¢haps, with a similar alaerity, treated their readers to a speech delivered py the same Morton, and could_seareely, find language adequate to the (éxpr'essinn”. of their admiration for the,seniimeuts?'éxpressed thercin. To mark out the con- ! trast .hetween these two speeches it is on: | 1§ necessary to lay them side by side. In bis 'recent speech before the Republican ! State convention, wherein he “sounded ! the key-note” of the:impending campaign, | he enumerates among- the victories in- ! scribed on the, gxepnbli_can’ banner, “ani- | versal liberty, equal civil rights, i the citizenship of all ‘reconstruction of the nebel States, the destruction of caste, and crown. | ing all, impartial suffrage.” This may sound very "eaiitiful to the loyal ear, and it might be deemed cruel to destroy its. charms by citing his utterances 'of a little hetter than four years ago, but x due regard for ‘the inextinguishable truths re- | vealed by history leave us no choice in the premises. Hence we ask the reader | to compare this outburst of eloquence by the great demagogue on the 22d of Feb- | ruary, 1870, with the following extmucts from his celebrated speech at lliclllué»lld, ! Ind,, on the 9th of September, 1865 : |, = | “I believe that in the case of four millions of slaves, just freed from bondage, ) there should bea period of probaticn and preparation before they are brought to ! the exercise of political power. * ¥ & What is their condition? Perhaps hot ! one in five hundred—l might say onc thousand —can read, and perhaps not éne | in five hundfed is worth five dollarsiin | property of any kind. e e “Can you ronceive that a body of mépn, | white or black, who have becn in tliis | condition, and their ancestors before them, | are qualified to be immediately lifted from | their present state into the full exercise | of political power, not '6nly to govénn themselves and their neighbors, but to take | part in the government of the United | States? Can they be regarded as intelligent and independent voters, The mere state of facts furnishes the answer to the | (uestion, ¥ s To gay thab | such men—and it is no fault of theirs ; it i 3 simply their misfortune, and a crime of this nation—to say: that.such men, just ' cmerged from slavery, are qualified for | the exercise of political power, is to make | the strongest pro slavery argument I ever | heard. It is to pay the highest complit | ment to the institation of slavery.” i | . Ifa politician zver succeeded more ad‘mirably in swallowing his own vomit, we would like.to hear of it. B ~A,...-—__‘,.—..‘....,.,.-.._’ 1 i Where the Money Goes, } . Gen. Farnsworth, radical mefnber of Congress from Illinois, is authority, for the statement that desks have been bought’ by the Treasury Department for the use of its (»!ﬁciaLQ at a cost “of §l,OOO eacly ~and that in the Internal ‘»Revgnue Burean in Washington, there mj\e $25,000 worth of mirrars “for the clerks to comb their hair by." All this comes out of the pock ets of the people, and not a little of it out jof the hard earnings of men who are obligedito scratch away all dayion cheap pine decks, and dress’ themszlves before . broken scraps of looking glass. A strange world, my masters! the tax-payers toiling and trying to save, and their servants dawdling in Juxury. Erets

; FASLCCPINE st e RS Thax pispray of a savage ill-temper and the utterance of furious threats by the editor of the Columbia City Post over our notice of his alleged adventure in the Republican State convention nccessitates a retraction of the statement. We do this cheerfully and without qualitication .—~we take back every word contained in our narrative. It was evidently a great iistake on our part to accredit Mr. Brown with sufficient good sensc to appreciate what was intended for an innocent, harmless joke, given in such friendly language that its animus could not well be misun: derstood: - Since theaggrieved gentleman, however, waxes 80 wrathy over what was intended as a well-meant joke, and soem. phatically denies ‘having been’in the convention at all, we bumbly and reverentially apologize—not only to the enraged editor, but equally 8o to the other offendtw. the ¢ s g ” ed parq.y,the Viee Pfﬂesndenf.y at }urge. The Washington special to the Cincinnati Gazetle says:; " Julian's - contested eleetion ' case, which was one of the first to go to the printer during the recess, has heen ehntinually delayed, ,Jmtil‘nm;it is. one of the last in the order The matter mimww m%’ﬁecwse of the "qu;? nig%alv’%‘laﬂ stmoﬁ: ”nlom‘ ¥ p% 0 aswrr whif 1} pes ;!!%‘;'.m‘.f‘f—fi ¥ b et S NRREE A PR ) & ¥ ¥

?"Wﬂﬂo HE ELECTION FRAUDS OF 1868. + Ifany one still seriously doubts that the | Radicals of Indiana carried the elec“tion of 1868 by fraud, the recent devel ~opments in the Fourth Congressional ' (Julian) Distriet are well calculated to dispel the delusion, Tt is as clear to our ~mind as the rising of thesun that the democratic ticket washonestly and fairly e!ccted,ﬁ;and that the true verdict of the people was annulled by the most shamel less freud ever perpetrated by a reckless and unscrupulows party. © ! The startling developments of fraud were elicited by a bitter feud between the friends and opponents of Mr, Julian—all ‘Republicans. The Sentinel .of a recent 0.. G ‘ date gave publicity to a number of affidavits that fully verify the charges contained in the introductory to this article, It will be remembered that Reid and J‘uF lian were the opposing candidates in the Fourth Congressional District, and Reid received a majority of the legal votes, bt ‘in order tg secure the certificate of eléd--tion, Julian, and his associites in infamy in Wayne eounty, at once planned a 'wné’ and succeeded in throwing out from thpe count what is known as the South pol, at Richmond, while the North poll, with its large vote for Julian, was counted.— ‘This alene, is certainly evidence of intended fraud, but now we find that two of the judges of the poll have made ‘affidavits, which have been forwarded to the Commlucu“nn Elections, in the lower Hnusg,_‘ in favorof Reid; who is contesting Juli an's seat, which fully show to what depth in villainy the Radical party will delve to aceomplish party ends. Among others implicated by these loyal judges, we find the name of Nim. H. Johunson, Judge of the Wayne Criminal Cireuit Court, who published a card in the Indianapolis Jousnal, charging that the ballot-box at the South poll bad been stuffed, and who seems to have been the prime mbver in. the Wayne county fraud. We extract, from pne of the aflidavits, the following ¢ “Mr, John 8. Lyle, one of the judges, and I went out together, and atter we had eaten the oysters I told him to go up to Mujor Popp's office and wait there urtil I went to Payne's office and got the tickets. When I went into his office, Payne was sitting at a desk in the front room, He pointed to the back room and said, “You will find those thingsin the drawer of the table in the back roorh, they are wrapped up ina plece of paper.” [ went to the table and got the- tickets, and as I came out Péyne said, “there are one hundred and ten.in that bunch, and here are fifteen more.” 1 took all of them and went to Popp's office where I found Lyle and Major Popp. We then opened the tickets, which were folded in a varie ty of ways, and saw that ihey were all Julian tickets. Ithen quTthu whole bunch in the stove and burned them, after which we returned to Bragg's office to finish our counting. - s The day after the election Judge Johnson met me and asked why I had not carried out the plan. I replied ®bat I did not have an opportunity to duso. He asked 'me if I did not think the other side beat us stuffing, but I informed_ him that there had been no dishonesty prac ticed at the South poll. A day or two afterward the grand jury convened, and I being a member of it, was appointed foreman by Judge John son. He directed the jury to investigate the alleged fraudsat the Souath poll in Richimond. He came down to the jury room and said to me confidentially that we must get possession of the poil books and tally sheets of the South poll, in order to keep Reid's Attorney from getting them.” He then gave me a summons to appear and produce -the poll books and tally sheets of the South poll. I took the -summons and showed it to the Clerk of the Conrt, who gave me the books. [ ook them to the jury room when Judge Johnson looked at them and asked per mission of the jury to take them awsy, which was granted, and I have never seen them: since. I had several talks with Judge Johoson about the matter nfterwards, and he ‘told me that Mr. Julian ~did not believe that I had tried to serve him.” L :

Radical Négroes Howling in Texas. The Washington correspondent of the World writes that the very indignant growl which somé of the negroes.in. that city utter because of the exclusiveness of the. representative of their race .in the United States, .in refusing to sce them during office bours, is oaly equalled by the howls which reliable reports say are indulged in by the negro element in Texas, becausé of the disregard paid to their claims by the late legislative assembly in that State. The negroes wanted more offices than they could get; in fact they wanted. two-thirds of the offices, because their vpte, they asscrt; elected two-thirds of the legislators. The white Redicals entertained precisely opposite views, and retused to let the negro enjoy the pick’ iigs except wlicre they were such as fell in the most servile places. | Another honest objection that the colored people entertainis, that the worthiest among the race were ignored to provide for those who could be used by white politicians, no matter how degraded or unscrupulous they might be. The result is that the better class of the coloredf‘pen’ple will cast their suffrage differently af the next election. : / :

el < — gt A Terrible Threat. 5y It bas been announced that Governor Holden, of North Carolina, has given assurances to his radical’fricnds in Washington, that he will have a negro named Harris sept to congress, in place of the loyal Mr. Deweese, who was kicked out for selling cadetships. The proposition is not a bad one, but it no doubt originates in necessity. The dishonored Mr. Deweese was the prince of the carpetbaggers in his district, and if another is selected, he will only be a trifle meaner thap the dirty dog that has been exposed for his'meanness. In no way can the radical party of North Carplina avoid sending a bigger scamp than Deweese to congress, except by sending a negro..

i The Cadetship Traflie. | .- The cadetship committee have at last taken action in another case by agreeing to a resolution to censure Roderick R Butler, of Tennessee. The evidence shows ‘that some time after he appointed a cadet he received several hundred dollars from the party who received. the appointment, which sum he spent with the republican papers in Tenpessee opposed to Senter’s election for governor. iy - e - Andrew Ellison has become the sole proprietor of the Lagrange Democrat, and has revived that shegt, . The question aris- - es whether he onght to be recogniged by | the publishers of Northern Indiana, until he pays the claim of Bm{ Beane of the Goshen Dembzaé, imdlmno;a the amende : honorable to J. B. Stoll, of the: Ligonier . Banner,— Northern Indianian. -~ .

[SPIRIT oF THE INDIANA DEMOoI CRATIC PRESS. e Ly . | Under the caption, “Want of Harmony,” | the Plymouth Democrat says: . = A A ¢ P S | | “The sigps of the times uﬁgmstaksg I"indicate thie growing restiveness of Re- ‘_ publican leaders, and especially Republit'ean Congressmen, under the rules; regu-’ | lations and politics adopted by the pres- | et admipistration. . The radical, portion 1 ?ot the Rudicals do not materiaily disagree |[with/the principal measures adopted by |[the administration, but in the manner in {/which they are presented to Congress. — / This manner is complained pf as being ! dietatorial, with not as much as “by your i leave,” &c. The man at the other end of -the capital, being of a commanding turn ; of mind, presents his men and measures ' in a manner sometimes distastetul to rep resentgtives and senators in congress of many years’ experience, who tbink they understand their business, who have partisans to please, and re elections to secure. Probably it no one particular hss the President given more dissatisfaction thun in his appointments, Aside from insulting congress and the nation by appoint ing' all his relatives to office: first, and those who - had made him presents next, | He has in very many instances selected men for important political positions who were decidedly nnpopular with the leaders of the radical party. All this has its ef feet, and that effect is not one calculated | to produce the utmost harmony.” The' Booneville. Enguirer says: “The Evansville Courier seems to think that the only objection: of the I emocracy. to ‘the Fifteenth Amendment becoming a part of the Federal Constitution, was that it took from a State a prerogative that justly belonged to it, namely—to de-terniine-upon whom “should be conferred | the clective franchise. It Istrue that 'hat,‘ objection wasg urged by the Democratic " party, but that was not tlje only or most | umportant objection. Thé Democratic I party objected to the principle of negro suffrage as in itself pernicious, and ealcu ! lated to injure the country and derogate ! from the respect and dignity of the bal“ lot. We believe that every honest, true- | bearted Democrat would hurl the Fif | teenth Amendment into oblivion it ité were in his power.” : The Huntington Democrat thus speaks ‘ of the recent election in that city.: | We have no disposition to hide the fact i that, at -the municipl election on Mon- | duy last, the democratic party,-as an or- | gunization, was most ingloricusly defeat | ed by a coalition, and a ticket incubated | by the republicans, clected. It iy true | that the ticket eleeted is said to be com posed of democrats; but the fact that it | was nominated - without the pale of the purty organization, and by a republican | -caucus, to run against a regular organiza tion, vitiates the force of the claim that : they are Demoerats, and gives the Republicans a victory worth crowing over. We confess to a most humiliating defeat. * In another column the same paper says: “A very couspicuous feature of the late ! election was the happy blending of the so called Milligan and Slack wings in a barmanious oneaess to defeat the regular Democratic ticket. The lion and the lamb lay down togetlier and a Republicin “clique affectionately stroked them. The | old snd new school doctors—Billy Lyons and Q. Gourd—also lovingly embraced.” | "The Warsaw Unidon draws the follow- | ing picture of “tax paying time,” which | is applicable to other Jocalities: “Almost - - eévery du?' ;we meet men—old farmers— 3 going to/the County office building, say- i ing thvy' are goi'ng ll)erc‘-‘ for the purpose | of “paying their rent.” According to these statements, Kosciusko county; or its | agents who inbabit the public sjuare, must be very.wealthy in landed estates. But neither the county, nor its agents are’ } . . uncommonly wealthy, especially the for mer. It is true, ourcouaty officers, after serving a term or two, generally find themselves possessed of fine houses and good ; tarms, but the fact is, the present taxes “amount to an annual rent of ten or twelve | years ago. DBut tax-payers you know these are the good times® promised us by

the party now in power; we are living. undeér ‘the best government the world ever saw,” and similar nonsense. The farmers, the nwechanics, the laborers are the “hewers of wood and drawers of water,” while the bondholders are the lords of the land, and feast upon the sweat and industry ot the toiling millions.” ; That able and influential journal, the New Albany Ledger, saye: “Senator Morton, in his recent speech -at Indianapolis, ‘says that the next ‘generation will sustain the same relation to the men who put down the rebellion, that the prcseni generation does to the fathers of the Revolution. And hence he argues that the next generation, of right and justice, ought to assume the payment of part of-the debt contracted for their intercst’ as well as ours.. Now we do not hear that any one in this day, or any of the immediate successors of the Revolutionary fathers, were very keen to assume the obligations left by them. We have a distinct impréssion that there is now lying around in varions old pocket books, sundry promises to pay, the legitimate debt of the Government, ranging from thousand-pound notes downwards, that are only worth their value as old relics of tke past, mementoes of the

time when true patriots yielded up their produce for these dusky imprints. The ~debt was repudiated by the “next generation;" and, by parity of rcasoning, if the next generation after us sustains the same relation to the obligations of the Government, now called bonds, then these niéely illuminated documents will lie side by i side with the Continental morey, as rusty ' and musty relics of the past. Thus Morton's argument is not encouraging to the I bon@héﬂders.“ : ; t The Evansville Courier has the follow ing: “The cold-blooded massacre of two bundred Indiang, principally women and ! children, in Montana, not long ago, is { spoken of by a “loyal” paper out there as the “late brilliant dash of Colonel Baker - and his command.” 't issad that the . wholesale slaughter took place 1n obedi: | ence to the command of Sheridan, If this [is true, it will add much to the laurels ! which Bheridan won by the burning of defenceless barns and haystacks in the valley of Virginia. = His sword, once red with the blood of “rebel” cattle, 'now‘i streams with the blood of Indian women and children.”” i -' | WE are happy to notige that our friend Zimmerman, of the Warsaw Union, ap- | preciates our “notes and comments” §o ! highly as to copy them by the column.— It is sound reading matter, and will bear reproducing.—lf not oo inconvenient, we ~would suggest the substitution of the - name of our paper for the word “exchange,” in crediting one among fourteen different. "items. b B i¥ee ',:.‘.\s‘ g ; -

Ti’ﬁiﬁi’”dr'mt'édi:l’i“béliﬂlﬁﬁbi“, o o INQUEST. | The Congressional Committee »n the | Gold Conspiracy has reported, and the re- | port is reviewed as follows Ly the Fort | Wayne Democrat : The Republican mem- | bers .of the committee have returned, iﬁﬁx the form :of a majority report, a ver|dict of “ Guilty” as to all the parties " alleged to be implicated, except Grant.— . As to them, all that has ever been charged | by the Democratic press, and which was | s 0 indignantly denounced by Republican ; papers as false, is explicitly found to be { true, The establishment of a direct con-: | nection by Grant with the affair sould | hav- involved his. utter disgrace, deposi ! tion from office; and the immediate and ! total overthrow: of the party of which he ’is the figure head. Hence; as was to be {‘expected from the antecedent action of } “the party” in. all similar cases, in hisca‘sg | the result issimply—whitewash! Butter . - field, the petted favarite of Grant, hold: g all the while a commission in the ar- . my, and given in addition ene of the | choicest tit-bits in the gift of the Executive, as Assistant Treasurer, is found to be covered all over with iniquity. Cor- . bin, the brother in-law of the incumbent . of our republican “throne” —Corbin, upon | whom n» office had been bestowed, not- - | withstanding his close affinity to “Mr. President,” by being the worser half of | one of the female Grants, because he want~ed to make more: money by basking in’ the sunshine of executive codfidence, and | who has thereby been i)ﬂing up untold | wealth—this -beautiful pink of propriety {and sanctiloquent saint, who was the | right-bower:of Grant. in all previous op % erations; comes out of the ordeal stigma- | tized as & wretch “who used the opportuj nity which his relationship to the Presi- ; dent afforded, and under the worst form | of bypocrisy which puts on the guise of ireliginn and patriotism,” jningd in the | vile conspiracy, on the assumption that he ' could ascertain Grant's views, and influ- | ence his intentions. But Grant himself ( is without the smell of smoke upen his ' garments! This. will do to tell to the ; marines. The facts are, as. known to the ' world, and shown by the testimony, that | Grant appointed Batterfield knowing his . previous character. He (Butterfield) op--5 erated with Gould, Fisk and Corbin, and

got'his share of the spoils, Gould, be he knave or no, is not a fool to pay vast sums to Corbin for nothing. Gould, to keep Corbin all right and pay bim for h's ser: vices, invested $3,000,000 in his name, and_paid over to him, week by week, the immense profits realized. Does any sane man believe that Jay Gould did this thing on the mere “pretense” of Corbin that he could nperate with Grant?® Before thus banding over to him these efiormous sub‘pidies, did he not know thxt he was about? Madame Grant,.the formerly unpretentious little wife of th¢ whilom Galena tanner, had at least one check 'fo['s2s,ooo gent her at one time, which the committee conveniently find was a halance on “other operations,”! without its being shown what those “other operations” -were. The Grants and the Corbins, are meanwhile, cordially hobnohbing togeth-

er. Not content with written communi cations, personal interviews are brought about. The New York financial Lcauldron, which has been some days bept ooiling, now boils till it.boils over. Someth_ipg must be ‘done to cover up tracks, and the order to sell goes forth, which brings about the final crash. . The sequel is, not that “nobody is to blame,” but nobody is who has the power to screen himself from clear and explicit proof. This is- virtunty the opinion of the Republi: can majority of the committee. The minority -of the committee, composed of Dewocrats, “decline to give any certifi,cntes of immaculateness to any party.”— They very properly say : “The public may draw its own inferences, as well from the testimony AS FROM ITS ABSENCE. We have none to draw,and by this statement we make no insinuation or charge.” This is probably right. .No charge should be plazed on record,in any form, until affirmative proof is forthcoming. But here are circumstances from which, in the ab“sence of other evidence, the- public will, “and must, draw its own conclusions. . If | that evidence were explanatory, why. was it not allowed to'comeout? “Its absence” is because it would bave been so damaging as to be damning. ; | R+ — . The Canal Debt and Gen. Milroy. The Republican party is virtually committed to the canal debt: swindle in the nomination of General R. H. Milrey as E its candidate for Treasurer of State, and in the recognition of the validity of the - old Internal Improvement bonds by Gov- - ernor Baker and the Republican State officers, and paying those held by the Gen i eral ‘Government, the payment of which ' Governors Wright and Willard always ignored.-—Staté Sentinel. . The Indianapolis Journal suggests that | Governor Baker convene an extra session | of the Legislature for the purpose of hav ! ing an amendment to the constitution of | the State of Indiana passed adverse to the i resumption of that part of the old State | debt which the bondholders assumed when | they unidertouk the completion of the Wa- | bash and Erie Canal. It assigns as'a rea- | son the wecessity of heading off a senti- | 'ment that may favor the payment of that | debt. The Eyaqsvillc‘;"(}’ouﬁér, in notic- . ing this suggestion, remarks: - L

.- “As no persen except Milroy is known “to be in' favor of such a debt, we think the same end may be reached by the Republican State Central Committee kick: ing Milroy ‘overboard and putting a man in his-place who can be trusted! ; “It is a little strange that the republicans, who put this canal debt plank in their platform should bave nominated Miirpy on their ticket. But then nobady cries “stop thief” louder than the thief himself !” S '——‘——"—-__*' The Repudiation Movement in Ohio. A large number of names have been added to the call for a repudiation con ventionat Bryan, inclulding those of 19 Repoblicans. The Demacrat ‘says there are ‘scores of other Republicans who would have signed the call if opportunity bhad ~offered. The Waterloo City Air Line, -an independent paper, speaks as follows of the movement : o . “That is putting it rather strong; but if the people cannot be relieved in some way "F the byrden of tax and revenpe, “there will be a feeling of this kind prevailing more or less. It is no worse to propase repudigtion outright than to swindle the people by making false res _ports of the moathly 3ecreue of the pub: lie debt and then try to dodge the whole ‘thing at last by proposing to fund the ; geb‘t’.; and thus make it & perpetual bur-

Twelve Articles of Faith of the West= ' erm Farmer. ‘ - Colonel Frederick Hecker, the wellknown German revolutionistof 1848, had the good sense to chose a practical avocation when he came to this country, and’ Succeeded in beeoming a wealthy man.— From the St. Louis, Republican we learn that he has cultivated a large farm in the vicinity of Lebanop, Il and bas acquired, moreover, the reputation of being a ra. tional agriculturist, and one of the most competent farmers in his nge. If he now, as that paper remarks, speaks ez cathedra of one of the two topics with which he is most familiar—politics and farming —he is certain to find more believers in his views concerning sgriculture and farming than in his predictions as a politicianand a retired revolutionist. He has

chosen the present moment of depression among farmers for showing them the causes of their desponding condition, and he closed a long address on this subject with the following “twelve articles of faith of the Western farmers :” L What ought our farmers to do? That i 8 the question. 1. We onght to remeniber, every hour of the day, that in'the Old. World the nreans of communication are so improved and multiplied that coun tries which previously had no market for their products can now ship them whereever they are needed, wherebhy they are enabled to increase even their former productions. We, therefore, can no longer calculate npon permanently paying lucrative prices for our wheat. 2. Weare unable to pay wages snch as were justified at the time when our products brought paying or lucrative prices. 3. We will be obliged to cultivate smaller farms, and {0 raise better crops on a smaller area of kind by better ¢ Iture, manuring, change of products and cultivation of clover; beceuse 40 acres- at 16 bushels to the acre are more expensive than 15 acres at 25.— 4, We shall be able to employ, less paid Isbor and to work en the co operative system. 5. We ought to abandon the sys tem of cultivating only one kind. of prodnets, and cultivate many, in order to have always semething for sale. If everybndy, this spring; cultivates corn, as they sty they will, corn’will be run down exactly as wheat. 6. 'We ought to entreat Congress to reduce the-duties 'on coffee, tea, salt'and sugar. - 7. We ought not to buy ‘more land, and not go in debt for more lard than we can cultivate. 8. We ought to avoid every superfluous expense. 9 We ought to lay more land in grase, clover and timothy. 10. In this country, where more meat is consumed than anywhere else, we oughtto raise more hogs, and of a better quality, and siould give much more attention to gobd beef cattle. 11. We ought to improve our gardens, orchards and vineyards, and. pay more attention to the destruction ot injnrious insects ; and, '12.! We should, by.all" means, practice ecohomy in our Federal, State and County heruseholds, and never elect that smart class of.men to office who regard the farmer merely as th-ir flourand feed:bags. . [ This really excellent advice deserves to be pasted into the hat of every farmer in the country. Every word of it coincides with our’ views on the subject. Let the advice be generally heeded, and the condition of .oursturdy sons of toil will be matenallly(x-mprovcd. eoile o — - — A Word to Parents. d The following from an exchange is commended to the attentive perusal of every parent into w_l}ose hands this number of our paper may fall: ] A school teacher who has been engaged a long: time in his profession, and witnessed: thé influsnce of a newspaper on the minds of a family of children, writes! ws follows: “I have found' it to be the’ universal fact, without exception, that those scholars of both sexes, and of all ages, who have saccess to newspapers at home, when- compared with those-who havig not; are better readers, excelling in pronunciatiorn, and consequently read understandingly, They are better spellers, -and define words with ease and aceuracy. They obtain a practical knowledge of geography. in almost half the time it re quires others, as the newspaper has made’ them familiar with the most important places, nations, their governments and do--Ings on the globe. Lo Bl They are better grammarians; for having become so familiar with every variety in the newspaper, from common place advertisements to tbe finished and classical oration -of the statesman, they more readily comprehend the meaning of the text. and, consequently analyze its construction with accuracy.” i

A Good One. R From the E~ausville Courier we clip the following:: i - Donn Piatt, in his letter to the Cincincinati Commercial, convicts our member of congress, Judge Niblack, of having been guilty of an unmerciful act toward poor Whittemore, just as his radical friends wer. hoisting him sut of congress. Donn télls the story 1n this wise: One lady, entering the gallery, asked another what was going on, when she replied : “Niblack said a good thing.” . “To what extent ?” ige “He ‘went over to poor Whittemore, while the matter was pending, and said, 'T'll tell - you, Whittemore, how .you can keep your seat in spite of them.” ‘How ¥’ eagerly asked W. ‘Why,’ responded Nib lack, “get some democrat to contest it.” We call that the refinement of cruelty. e el M —— ; Gold. P

A Washington special says that the heavy' fall of gold excites comment in Congressional circles. ‘The opinion of the shrewdest p#litical financiers is that specie resumption will not occur this year, notwithstanding. the recent decline in gold, Rumors say Mr Bowtwell holds this view also. Another dispatch says that Secretary Boutwell would have preferred that the premium remain for atiine as high as_eighteen or twenty per cent., but he will not interfere in any manner with the gold market, and will pursue the ling of policy heretofore marked out. ! —-——‘o.————— R The Experience of a Darkey. A Georgia paper says: “An honest old darkey,” whase expectations of getting a ’fforty-gere plantation and a domesticjack asg, for voting the Radical ticket, were entirely sincere, now goes back on his friends in this wise: “Dem carpet baggettin” scallawag fellers, dey tell us dar war per‘visions in the Constitution for we collad folks, but dat wasa lie—dem pervisi na didn’t ccme. 'Fore God, massa, [ ain't seen de fust mew'ful? - . 7 Loiae

The Logansport Pharos says : “We are asked why we don't eomment upon the conduct of & ‘Demncmtic' editor, in inviting the'negro Douglass to accept the hospitalities of his hoxe. We don’t know that any comment is’ necessary, Every man's house beh’fg_ his castle we suppose the Demogratic editor had an undoubted right to invite a negro to his table if he was so disposed. The whole thing is 8 mere matter of taste, and 1f the aforesaid editor wished to put himself on an equality with his colored brother no one should 'objectw?’ Bk j“f:.:ff'_- irakot e

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. *.‘I.DWY, March 9.—ln the Senate gbotheigbba'sympatby resolution (said to ‘be inspired by, Geueral Quesadn) was introduced and laid on the table. The Senate then tqs%w"up the FundingﬁbSE ind discussed it during the afternoon and evening sessions, In the Houses of Representatives, Mr, Garfield offerred a resolution of inquiry into the expediency of admitting . small packages in the mails. which was adopted. The fight on’ the New York and Washington Air Line ‘railroad bill began with an effort by its patron, Mr. Ingersoll, to rush it through the House. . Several Democratin members denounced the bill, Mr. Wood declaring that the House was being asked to give away to a few men a franchise that could be sold in Wall street for twenty millions of dollars. ‘After a spicy debate, Mr. |[lngersoll’s motion for the previous question was voted down, 67 to 71, aud the bilt went over. Mr. Stevenson, from the Postoffice Committee, reported a bill relucing the mileage of members of Congress. - THURSDAY, M:irch 10.—The Senate devoted a full day to the discussion of the funding bill. In the House, Gen. Logan made an earnest specch in favor of redue ing the number of dfficers in the regular army. The bill passed. | = Fripay, March 11.—The Senate, tonight, after ‘a most protracted .discussion of nine hours and the defeat of numerous amendments, finally passed the bill to fund the public debt.by a vote of 80 to 10. Notwithstandipg all the propogitioxis to modify the rﬁeaglxre, and the struggle of the national bank interest in that direction, the bill passed almost asfit originally camé¢/from the finance committec. The section to pay the interest to foreign holders in foreign countries was;stricken out, and the 1 per cent. commission to negoti ate the loans was reduced to one-half of 1 per cent. These were the only important changes. The efforts of the bank interest to provide for a different exchange of the old for the new bonds, an.@‘ to se cure reduced . taxation when the new bonds are made usc of for banking purposes, were defeated, The rates of interest at 5,414, and 4 per cent. were retained. The, bill now goes to the House. The House discussed at great length the deficiency bill. ‘Speeches were made on the republican side by Dawes, Benjamin, Schénk, and Lafflin, and on the democratic side by Messrs: Beck, Cox, Voor-

hees, McNeely, and Marshall. . Moxpay,” March 14.—1 n the Senate, Mr. Sumner-introduced a bill to strengthen the legal reserves ofthe’t}ntinnui banks, and to provide for the resumption|-of specie payment. The Georgia bill was de bated for a couple of hours, Mr, Trambull, as chairman of the judiciary sicom; mittee, making a strong speech in support r;f the House measure, limiting Bullock’s term of office. A large-audience, balf of] whom were negroes, gathered, expecting the colored Senator Revels to spenk, but he has postponed his ‘remarks till Wed. nesday next. Tt is barely probable that a vote will be reached before Friday. There seems to be no reason to change theopin ion that the bill will be amended in the Senate and sent back to the House, with a view of satisfying the demands| of the Georgia niggers and the villainous Gov. Bullock.—The most important feature of the House proceedings was the introduction of a resolution by Mr. Marshall (Demoerat of I 11.) declaring | That the depressed condition of busi‘nees, and. the various industrial interests of the country, demands of Chngress prompt actioa in relieving the peppie of all burdens of taxation not absolutely ne cessary to provide for the wants of the government, economically administered, and that, in reforming the existing tariff laws, legislation should be on these prin ciples, to wit : 45 aptlt . - 1. That no duty should be impased on any article, but at the lowest rate 'that will yiela the largest amount of revenue. 2. That the maximum revenue duty. should be imposed on luxuries. f 8. That the duty should be so imposed a 8 -to operate as equally as possible ‘throughout the union, -discriminating neither for nor against class or section. ‘The House refused, by.a vote of 38 to 118, to lay the resolution on the table, but subsequently referred it to the committee of ways and means,

Amendment to the Constitution. The Scymour Times, a Republican paper, does not appear to be altogether in love with the negro departure of the Republican party, and in a recent issue it proposes “for the peace and welfare of the country, for the benefit of the colored race, that a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution ehould be immediately submit ted to the States and passed in the words following :” . i Article 16. ‘No -person of African descent shall be eligible to any office of emolument or trust in the United States. Section 2. No person of African descent shall be eligible as a juror in *he United States; except in cases where one of his own race is to be tried. | : Rebel-Radicals. S ' . An exehange states that. among the new Congressmen’ from Mississippi admitted ‘to seats in the House of Representatives were twn ex Confederate fighting officers, men who fought by the side of Beauregard and Forrest to sever the Union of States. ~ln spite of their recard, the House admitted them without hesitation. Why? Because they are converts-to rad icalism.. If they had been Democrats, their credentials would have been thrown. in theix faces; - Loyalty would have stocd aghast at the impudence of these rebels.

Says the Boaone oowityA;Pioneer; “About three hundred million dullars of the United States -indebtness is held in green‘backs by the people, who charge no interest; for so .doing. The financiers in ‘Congress are not satisfied with this;and are extremely anxious: to devise some scheme by which this three hondred millions ‘can be placed ‘in bonds, held by a few persons, who will require at least/|five and a half per cent. a year. This amounts tu fourteen millions dollars a year.thrown -awny for nothing. This iscslled financial wisdom in bondholding circles.” ° - _ The Pall-Mall Gazette sces nothing to “admire in the American policy of appro priating all odds and ends of territory in the market, regardless "of value” In which opinion the ‘Pall Mali has the concurrence of nine-tenths of the American people.—lndwanapolis Journal. . . - EvERY reader of this paper should peruse the article from .the New Albany Ledger, under the caption of “Pictare of the . Coming Contest,” published on the ﬁr&tp@g& : 2T };‘: ;

! .~ STATEITEMS. | ,‘ . m’sé“iﬂte Elde.t.' agédblé,"was mar- | ried. in ‘Adams county, to James Bide aplimrh . 0 | Two fast young men of Shelbyville, | were eoraets, which a young lady of | that place says is shamefal, Of corset LI e M - The “doctor” who killed a* woman rat Dessar. station, 'by putting eroton . oil'in her eye, was still unhuung at last. . accounts. - S P

Miss Maggie Sweat, of Ohio county. recently adwinistered a stff dose of cowhide to Joseph Elliott, a young wan who had-imp}née'utly“lyemured to “zass’’ her. ® e A S

" It cost Mr. Baker of Bedford, $5,500 for the privilege of seducing the wife of a neighbor named Ross,—that being the amount of damages and costs assessed by the jury. £k Gl

Silverthora, of the Evangville Journal, has purchased a farm out in Pogey county, and eent a boat dowh to Tennessee for aload of .corn:cobs to stop up the craw-fish holes. - o . The constitutionality of the railroad’ law passed at the last session of the Legislature. is to be tested at Lafayette. A test case has been made up, and Hon. john R. Coffroth is to prosccate it. , A 3% The report of the State Geologist is now in the hands of the State Printer, and will be publizhed for distributation before the cﬁ)se of the month. The report will be published with that of the State Board of Agriculture. . .. - The Terre Haute Journal learns from a reliable source that Hon. D. W, Voorhees will shortly visit Indianapolis to answer Senator Morton’s spéech, and says he will “show up Morton’s fallacies in a way that will set people to thinking.” e iaes The Lafayette Journal says ot the wheat crop in that county, that the guccessive freezing and thawing has -entirely déstroyed the roots. . With an early and warm spring’ it may, howev-. er, recuperate and turn out better than: is now expected. e i Jason B. Brown is announced ag a candidate for the State Senate. - This probably leaves the track for Congrees in the Second District tolerably clear to Hon M C. Kerr, though Dr. Sherrod and Hon. S. K. Wolfe are understood to be aspirants.—Fvansville Courier. - i i

The local editor of the Fort Wayne Gazette recently interfered in a matrimonial fight, and lost six equare iuches of cassimere and a little flech, carried away by a large dog which mixed in on invitation of the male party.— He expresses a determination to “let 'em fight it out” next time. ~ - ' | ‘One of the XV’s, in this place, styles the late’ amendment the ‘Fifteenth Commandment,” ;and anticipated the forthcoming of Grant’s proclamation by hiding five pinte of benzine 'neath hiz jacket; and is now: on the “‘gsicklist,” mourning to get back to *qld, Kentucky’s shore, dnce more.,"—'_.'lf(}])l ton Times. | ; e . Within a short time past about 2LOO laborers on the Indianapolis & St. Louis Railroad bave been discharged, and the city has been the scene of drunkenness, broken heads and black eyes, in consequence. Since Monday morning twenty persons have been arrested and lodged in- jail by the police.— Greencastle Banney.

We are informed by parties who secm to be posted on theé subject, that’ buds on the fruit trees are in a safe eondition. = The appearances thus far are favorable for a fruit ¢rop the coming seuson. The use of good fruit is productive of health, and hence ‘its cultivation should be encouraged.— Lagrange Standard. =~ L E We learn by the Co’umbiaCity papers, that our friend Hon. A, J. Douglas, of that place, has been delivering temperance lectures ‘which are highly spoken of. He has also. become a member of the Lutheran Church.. Mr. D. is a gentleman of fine abilities, arid we wish him God speed in all his good intentions and christian resolution.— Warsaw Union. - : ; Samuel Moszier, a man whom we supposed possessed some little charaeter and honesty, we are informed has run off, leaving sundry little bills unpaid, and among others one due this office. However, the country is well rid of the worthless scoundrel ; and if he will only stay away and not show his apish face in our: place again, we think his creditors will ‘be willing to call’ it even and balance accounts.— Lagrange Standard. : Ca An intelligent Republican of this city, who has lately had occasion to travel over mearly the whole State, gives it as his decided opinion that the Democracy will carry the State by a Jarge majority at the next election. =The €énormous and wunnecessary taxation ‘put upou the people by radical rule, having the effect to open the eyes: of thousands upon thousands of oppressed and suffering votore. who have fnally made up their minds that we must have a change.— Lafayette” Dis patch. } AR A At a divorce trial,. before Judge Sample, in Muncie, last week, the principals in the sait, in relating how lovingly they used to live together when first married, became 8o affected ovem the recollection of their lost happigess that they began to cry. The Judge followed suit, the audience joined in; and handkerchiefs were in general de. -mand. . Judge Sample, when they had all ‘got through crying, suggested to the husband and wite the propriety of trying to live happily together once more. After consulta.ion. they concluded to try it again, and the case wag thus ended, . .. . oo - The Waterloo City Post Office was broken into, last Friday night, and the mails were overbauled 'in a manner that Post-master. Hague don’t very mu.h approve of.. The Angola letters were especially ripped about promiscuously. ‘Whether any great amount of value was obtained is not known. P. Morrell lost two or three pairs - of boots ; the rogues being determined to -secure a boaty of some kind:. - As usnal no clue can be féund:to the rebbers. It used to bean old paying~<‘set a thief to catch a thief;” but the thieves now a-days are too smart, even: for ‘honest men. One great trouble ig ‘that many of the detective foree ofithe ‘country are reputed ptofessional gam‘blers and swindlers, and don’t! hesi: tate fo “take a litile hush money from a fellow. in w tight box:"— A Fine.

. PNERAL AW e . The Cincinnati Commercial indicatcs its preference: for- Gen. George, H. Thomas as President Grant’s: successor. = Llatng =.' / ‘Colonel John Wilder, editor of the Kansas City Journal of Commerce, was shot ‘and killed Wednesday, by a ‘buteher named James Huatchinson. . The loosdners with. which affair are_ carried on in government offices can hardly be better” illustrated than' by the cage cf ' Philip’s employed in the Internal Revenue office ofthe Fifih New York District, who **defaults” to the extent of 840,000, - So- far the present Congress has ousted every Democrat whose seat has been cotitested, no matter how mach his majority may have been, or ‘how strong a.case he¢ may bave presented to the body to which he was selected by the people. ol ~ The fashions this spring in New York appear to be demoeratic victories, and most of them with largely increased majorities. We look with confidence for these victories to'extend to Conuecticut next month, and all over the west at the fall elections. = - - While the South Carolina Legislature was in session the notes of a me--nagerie band were heard outside the Hall, when a mémber made a motion that “dis honorable body move-to de winder to see de show pass.” Of course it moved.. -

- Colonel E. M. Baker's official re- - port of the expedition against the Pie- - gan and Blood Indians states that 173 were killed and 100 taken prisouners.— The- prisoners were liberated. 300 horses were “also captured. Colonel Bzker had only one man killed. - Joe Murphy and Elijah Vivett were engaged in a game of cards, on Saturday night of last week, at Spring Place, Davidson county,six miles from Nashville, quarrelled and fought. Vi: vett was s({xqt dead 'on the spot. and Murphy received a'wound of which he died last evening.. Both had been drinking. " ; : % Gredt excitement prevails in the extreme southern’ counties of California - over the discovery of rich gold fields about sixty miles from Santiago, The quartz exhibited is free from. gulphurets or other metals, and is literally full |of free gold. The people are leaving in great numbers for these rich mines. : ' K _General yobn C. Breckinridge, in an argament in a criminal case at Lexington, Kentucky, ‘denouneed the men who belong to the “Kla-Klux” as eith-er-idiots or villaing, and asserted that he was free from any fear of them, and. would readily respond to a summons from the Sheriff as one of a posse commitatus to arrest and bring these men to justice, £g -

" At Elkhorn. Wisconsin, on Friday, Dr. Davall, charged with killing his wite, was found guilty ot murder in the first degree. A motion was made for arrest of judgmient on account of the insufficiency of the indictement.— ‘The question was sent to the Supreme Court, and the sentence of the prisoner is reversed, till after a decision is given by that tribunal.

The Judiciary of Wyoming'sustains the right.of women (o serve as jurors. AIE the ladice drawn as graud jurors were present at 110’clock A M A motion was made to quash the: panel, but it was nos spstained. 11: 55 A. M. the first pane'l,:o?lady grand jurors in the world were sworn, None asked to be excused. A lady bailiff was appointed for the graud jury. A-eplendid address was delivered by Chief Justice Howe.,: . -..:... : CEREEL

- General Mungen has eatisfactorily shown that not a trace of suspicion can attach to his disposal of his nomination ot the -Cadetship at West Point. - The slander of the N.'Y. Post against Mr. Voorhees has been emphatically denied by that gentleman, and his denial has been supported by Mr. Logan. Gen. ‘Butler has nominated a colored youth possessing the distinguished names of Charles Sumner Wilson as a cadet at West Point. : ; fore

The French -revolutionist, Henri Roche fort, has made so much fresh tronble with his diatribes written in prison and published in the Marseilaise, that the French authorities have shut him up entirely. -He is not now permitted even to receive the visits of" his friends. A report, which cannot: fail to be disagreeable to the friends of the radical martyr, s circulated in Paris. Itis to the effect that “small~ pox has broken out among the political prisoners. R c - In the correspondence between Generals Sheridan and Sherman, just published, Gen. Sheridan asserts that in the last eight years, 800 persons have beén murdered by Indians within the limits of his present command, man being fearfully tortured and mutilate?{' and some women -being ravished fifty. and sixty times succe eively. Shejidan declares thit Vincent Collyer is undoubtedly in the interast ‘af +ha 212 Isdiaa Riug, and says that the problem to be decided is, who shall be killed—whites or Indians? -°© =~ . .

. Senator Revels, of Missiesippi, lectured last week at Bethel Church, ‘Baltimore, to an audience of four or five hundred persons, onefourth of whom were white. The lecture was - chiefly on the improvement and welfore of the colored race, and was replete with practical sound advice and admonitions. He earnestly enjoined education and economy, and at the close of his address: said that the colored people must be true to' the conntry.to themselves and to the republican party. Bah! ‘ "

The resumption of epecie payment - is to be hailed with a great deal less enthusiaem than any one would have . dreamed of eight years ago. Ttisaltogether probable that gold and'silver + hich has been hoarded by parties expecting to gecure a large premiom will . - now come into. market; from. Canada and el ewhere, but the people have become 8o accustomed to handling the lighter and more convenient paper eurrency, that ‘coin. will Hot be ‘usedite ‘any great extent for commercial purposes. InEurope our national securities are in.such a demand that a great advantage is given us. The premium on silver is now only 3 per cent. below ‘gold, and 10 per cent. aY:ove paper ; 8o that American Silver will soon begin to find its way home. Thus we find, after all the trumpeting 'bm’m‘& ‘payment, nobody cares for the boon, ‘Dasticularly pow that it scerhs g 0 near. . at band —Waterloo Air Line. .