The National Banner, Volume 4, Number 47, Ligonier, Noble County, 23 March 1870 — Page 1

THE NATIONAL BANNER, 1 Published Weekly by JOHN B. STOLL, uIGONIER,"’ﬁOBLE COUNTY, IND .| TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : . Sirictlyin BAvADCE. ..vaevereiiinrarianne +2.82.00 8¥ T his paf:r is published on the Cash 'Primiiik, its Proprietor believing that it is just as right for hvm to demand advance pay,as it is for City publishers. I#" Any person eeudinF aclub of 10, accompanied with the cash, willbe entitledto acopy of the paper, for one year, free of charge.

Michigan South. & N. Ind’a R. R. . On and after April 25, 1869, trains will leave Statians as follows: . ¢ 1 GOING EAST: ] 4 Express. Mail Train. Chicago......uyveenee . 8108 P M., .....8:00 A, N¥ SEIRhRNG ... cccioneiee 9:88 0 00.12:01 ». . G0abeta............... 05 * L., .0...18:200 M. Mi11er5burg........(d0n't5t0p).......... 1:11 * Tigoniby oo iicio A 0216 0t L o)L 1880 Wawaku.....'.......(don’tatoPr e RTIO PO, Brimfeld .o 0D Tl o X B Kendsliville .il ioai i 30108 o 0000 8T o Arrive at T01ed0.'......2:80 A M ~......5:05 * GOING WEST: {7 : 1 Express: Maillrain: TONAO i . vsniivsinonicniPtlo &M, 50y 5190079 |, Kenda11vi11e...........8:45 a. M..........4:45P. M, Brimtield oo it aiikioo (55 00l nBOB . ¢ Wawaka.....lveeiaees Ceseere 8218 8 Liﬁ0n1cr...............4:20 Y e ieea Bl At Millereburg...vocvenene R 5 ) Goslen ;..o b BT YBO Y VRIRBATY /. it b il Lo UlOB O Arrive at Chicago.... 9:25 * .o ... . .8:38 *Stop 20 minutes for breakfast'and supper. Ex{»ress leaves daily 7oth ways. : Mail Train makes cloge connection at Elkhart with trains going East and West. R ) e C. F, HATCH, Gen’lSupt., Chicago. I§, JOHNSON, Agent,Ligonier. ;

EXCELSIOR LODGE, NO. 267, Meets at their Hall on every ‘if\tnrdnév eveniugof cach week., ' A, JACKSON, N. & M. W. COE, V. G. R. D, KERR, - Nov, 25th, 1868, —tf. - . Secretary. ~ WM. L. ANDREWS, : , Surgeon Dentist. Mitchel’s Block, Kendallville. -All work warranted. Examinations free. 247 '~ J.M. DENNY, : Attorney at Law,—Albion, Nobleco., Ind Will give careful and prompt attention to a bugriness entrusted to his care. - 3-6 : LUTHER H. GREEN, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public. LIGOCNIER, - - - - INDIANA. Office-on Cavin Strcet, over Sack Bro’s. Grocery, opposite Helmer House. 41-8-ly A Sy R 7 : D. w. C. DENNY. Physician and Surgeon,— Ligonier, Ind. Will } t 1 d faithfull tend to all-call 1n the Mioe. of pis profoselon -dhy OF Dight—tu town or any distance in the countrg. !gcreona wishing his serviees at nilght, will find him at hig father’s Jesldonce, first door east of Meagher & Chapman’s Hardw‘arc Store, where all calls, when abseut, should be left. - e 1 '-";’:'-" ‘:—*‘——‘l"_‘—_"'—+——“’—"’—_"—'"‘”' o TR i ' E: RICHMOND, Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer, Cavin street, Ligonier, Indiana, - Special attention given to conveyancing and collections.: Deeds, Bonds and Mortgages grawn up,and all legal business attended to prnmptlg and accurately. - 3 May 26th, 1868.

HELMER HOUSE, A, J. MATTISON, Prop'r, . LIGONIER, - = -« INDIANA. \i!l‘hi.q Heuse has been Refitted and Refurn:ishedb= in Ficst Class Style. i ‘ DR. E. W, KNEPPER, Helectic Physician & Surgeon,—Ligonier. All discases of the Lungs and Throat succéssful--y treated glyinhalnﬂtiou. No charges for consul- - tation, Office with W. W. Skillen, esq. 1-8 DR. P. W. CRUM, oob ) : : . Physician and Surgeon, ~ Ligomier, = = = . Indiana. Office one door south of L. Low & Co’s Clothing Store, up stairs. May 12th, 1869. G. W. CARR. . W. D. RANDALL. CARR & RANDALL, Physici d® ysicians ana durgeons, ‘" LIGONIER, ;. - « =« = = IND., | Will promptly attend all calls intrusted to them. Office, on 4th St,, one door east ef the NaTIONAL - Baxneroffice.” | - . .+ 848 SAMUEL E. ALVORD, ; Attorney at Law, Claim Agent, and ~ Notary Public, Albion, Noble Co., Ind. Business in the Courts, Claims of soldiers and heir heirs, ConveyanclnE, &c., promptly and carefully attended to. Acknowledgments, Depositions and Affidavits, taken and certiflied. : SACK BROTHERS, . Bakers & Grocers. . Cavin Street, Ligonier, Indiana. - Fresh Bread/ Pies, Cakes, &c., Choice Groceries, I’rovlsi‘ous,’Yankee Notions, &c The highest cash price paid fer Countrﬁ Produce May 13, '6B-tf. : SACK BRO'S. NEW FIRM AND NEW GOODS, : — AT — : WOLF LAKE, IND. : - Notice is hereby given that C. R. Wiley and ; Samuel Beall have entered into a co-partnership fnthe Merchandise business, and that they bave just unpacked a Inrge stock of Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, &c. Call and see for yourself. gl WILEY & BEALL. Wolf Lake, Nov. 8, 1869 27tf J. BITTIKOFFER, : J DEALER IN - WATCHES, CLOCKS 9 9 JEW'LRY,SILVER WARE,NOTIONS, . Spectacles of every Description, i &c., &c. &e., &c, ' All kinds of work done uﬁmn the shortest notice . and warranted as to durability. o * Shop in Bowen’s new Brlck%lock, Kendallville; Indiana. o : 2-31

H. R. CORNELL, Who may always be found at his PHOTOGRAPH ROOMS, Is prepared to take all kinds of pictures in the latest styles of the art. PARTICULAR ATTENTION paid to copying old Degu'er,i-eo'.ypes and Am brotvpes into énrda. and Eslarging. Work warranted satis!actpry in all cases. Ligonier, Ind., Feb. 283, 1870.-43 . A, GANTS, - . . Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. o e Is prepared A P to do anlyth{ng gy, i { ;\% tice of ovgr 10. e e e years justifies - R them insayiug {L@ e ?I'3; enht?re ::? b . “fstaction to all -_‘k’ o 8 MW “ﬂ who may be. stow their {mtrons?o. I~ Offiec inmy building Cavin Street, { 5 Foe A NEW MOVEMENT! ‘Solomon in new Quarters ! Tae subseriber would respectfully announce that he has just moved into the building form-. erlly occupied by 8. Mier & Co., purchased a large stock ol L GROCERIES, &c., and is mow prepared tosupply every deman in his tine at rates fully as ro'w a 8 any other eg tablishment in town. ; : Refreshments at all .hours. ' SOL: ACKERMAN, Ligonier, Bept. 15th, 1869, BAKERY AND RESTAURANT gy o - : KRBT B. HAYNES, Opposite the Post Office, Ligonier, fad. My Bakery will be supplied at all times with fresh Biscuita, . | Bread, . - G Orackers, &e., &e., ing parties, pic-nics and private partie e e A e T davyk e

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: £ Forthe National Banner. . [ OLD LETTERS. I BY M{BB MANDA LEVERING. ~ ' Ah! here they are; the desk is filled, And it’s been Jocked so long, ‘The key would hardly tira within The:lock, 80 old and strong— They *re old, too; yes, old and worn, But let me read them o’er; ‘ I know full well they haye not lost : The melody of yore. - Here :l’ve found a score of letters, | Neatly tied with ribbon blue, ' And € brilliant thoujﬂ comes o’er me, | As [ think of her, the true, j | True? yes, when yet a maiden, ' Her heart was but the home of glee ; ‘ But now another claims her love, ) An@ she writes no more to me. : Let me'see, can I remember ] | The tenor of this yellow.pack ? 0! yes, the thought ‘s vivid, painful ; ey pray thee, let me put them back! For the writer looms béfore me; ¢ And my eyes grow strongly dim ; ; And my heart grows’sad and bitter— | ' 0! I would not think of him. | ! | " His was but a treacherous héart, ! As here his words you see’ Tie'them up, they ’re only pledges Broken ; faithless but for me. ' ; Here are others—tender missives— : ‘ Yes, and here’s a dozen more, 'Round them lingers yet a halo, ¢ © ' Precious as some anciént lore. Here ’s a roll of letters older, ‘ Dearer yet than all the rest, But the crape that’s notted 'round them, - ; - Has their mission sabl, drest. f « Dearest friend, the pearls of sorrow Fall on pledges true asthee ; And, obh, God! why, in his manhood, Hast Thou taken him from me ? : Put them back ; the rest are only Letters from the girls at school, Beratehed with truant pen, or pencil, In defiance of the rule. I am unnerved; the fast is placed Where they have lain so long! The key. turns easier now, within b * The lock so old and strong. :

: PUTTING UP STOVES. ; 1 MAI;{-—T\TAIN‘ We do not remember the exact date of the invention of stoves, but it was some years ago. Since then mankind have been tormented once a year, by the difficulties that beset the task of putting them up, and getting the pipes fixed. With all our Yankee ingenuity no American ks ever invented any method by whicHthe labor of putting up stoves ican -be lessened. The job is as severe and vexatious as humanity can possibly endure, and gets more 8o every year, ' [ e Men always put their stoves up on a rainy day. Why, we know not; but we never heard of any exceptions to this rule. The first step to be taken is to put on a very old and ragged coat, under the impression that when he gets his mouth full of plaster it will keep his ghirt boromclean. Next, the operator gets his hand inside the place where the pipe ought to go, and blacks his - fingers, and then he carefully makes a black mark down the side of. ‘hisnose. Itis impossible to make any headway, in doing this work, until this mark is made down the eide of his nose. Having got his face properly marked, the victim is ready to begin the ceremony. : The head of the family—who is the big goose of the sacrifice—grasps one gide of the bottom of the stove, and his wife and the hired girl take hold of the other side. In this way the load is started from the woodshed toward the parlor. Going through the door the head of the family will carefully swing his side of the stove around and jam his thumb nail against the door post. This part of the ceremony is never omitted. Having got the family comfort in place, the next thing 18 to find the legs. Two of these are left inside the stove since the spring before. The other two must be gunted after, for twenty-five minutes.— ‘They are nsually found under the coal. ‘Then the head of the family holds u one side of the stove while his wifz Euta two of the legs in place, and next e holds up the other side while the other two are fixed, and one. of the first two falls out. By the time the stove is on its legs ‘he gets reckless, and takes off his old coat, regardless of his linen. . »

Then he goes for the pipe and gets two cinders in his eye. It don’t make any difference how well the pipe was put up last year it will always be found a little too short or a little too long. The head of the family jams Lis hat over his eyes and taking a pipe under each arm goes to the tin shop to have it fixed. When he gets back, he steps upon one of the best parlor chairs to see if the pipe fits, and his wife makes him get down for fear he, will scratch the varnish off trom the chair with the nails in his boot heel.— In getting down he will surely step on the cat, and may thank his stars that it is not the baby. Then he gets an old chair and cfimba up to the chimney again, to find that in cutting the pipe off, the end has been left too big tor the hole in the chimney. So he goes to the wood shed and splits one side of the end of the pipe with anold axe, and squeezes it in his hands to make it smaller. -

Finally he gets the pipe in shape, and finds the stove does not stand trae. Then himself and wife and the hired girl move the stove to the left, and the legs fall out again. Next it is to move to the right. More difficalty now with the legs. - Move to the front a little.— Elbow not even with the hole in the chimney, and the head of the family goes again to the woodshed after some little blocks. While putting the blocks under the legs, the pipe comes out of the chimney. That remedied, the elbow keeps tipping over, to the great alarm of the yvi&. - Head of the family gets the dinner table out, puts the old chair on it, gets his wife to hold the chair, and balances himeself on it to drivé some nails into the ceil'ng.— Drops the hammer on his wife’s head. At last he gets the nails driven, makes a wire swing to hold the Piﬁ’e' hawmmers a little here, pulls a little there, takes a long breath, and announces the ceremony conclnded. ? _ Job never put any stoves, It would ‘have ruined his reputation if he had,

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. WORDS THAT BURN. Somebody in the Clevelaund Plaindealer strikes hard. This shoulderhitting writer says: | The men whom we at present style the Government of the I})uited States, were drawn from obscurity by the late war. By it they were raised to an el evation: that their most sanguine dreams could not anticipate. That their ascent was due to any peculiar virtues, merits or talepts in themselves, their ‘most partial friends will scarcely claim. = Their rise is entirely due“to the army of brave men who, throygha loug and painfal siruggle, persevered in maintaining the integrity of the country ; and the people, filled with gratitude, in recognition' of this service at the end of the war, elevated those who, by accident, were found most prominent at that auspicious time, | §

And how have those of accidental greatness treated the gallant men who l raised them to a par with the thrones of the earth? Alas! Their elevation - only makes conspicuous their paliry ' meanuness and fetid ingratitnde. Ma‘ny of the worthiest of these soldiers ' who, through years of suffering, through weary, scorching summers, through famine, shivering winters, and over red fields of sickening' carnage, “clung tenaciously to the fortunes of their country, are now wasting their lives in dungeons of a foreign Government, and bitter foe. Some for words ispnkem in the United States, where they were pleasantly ‘suppose to be -amply protected by the “sacred folds” of our over toasied flag. From under ‘the most ignominious cruelty they have looked in vain for relief from this country, which they have served =o well 5 and this country tells them, through its President and Ministers, as expressed by the lips of Mr. Moran, of the United States Legation at Landon, that the United States Government had washed its hands out of, and had abandoned them, believing, without further inquiry, they had had a fair trial.© What gratitude must they not feel in being citizens of a country for whose welfare they had staked their mortal existence, and which now makes a present of their lives and their liberties to their mortal enemy! Just think how. that same English Government was treated by us in the late war-—when its subjects were taken prisoners with arms in their hauds, red with the blood of our citizens, they were | surrendered on demand of its Ministers without any question, when our citizens are surrendered by our Ministers to a far worse than galley slavery on a bare suspicion, based upon words spoken in this country. | The Alabama claims sink into insignificance beside these facts ; for, if this ‘revolting humiliation is permitted to ‘remain on this country, of what val‘e is citizenship ? : It may be said by the friends of Mr. Grant and his Anglo minions, that | “our Government cannot be expected to interfere for every ¥roublesome pergon who may choose to mix himself up in matters not concerning it,”” but the American people ought to know that the sydopgancy of their Government prevented it from demanding an interview, personally, with its own citizens, in order to ascertain what they had to say in their own defence, but accepted therefor the words of ‘their English goalers., Did the English accept the word of Theodorus, of Abyssinia, when he was goaler of their subjzcts 7 No! To their credit be it spoken, instead of parleying, they equipped a powerful army at an enormous expense, and under their best general, marched it over almost insurmountable difficulties, and, blowing Theodorus’ goal and throne to fragments, and himself to “kingdom come,” brought their subjects home in triumph. Americans, contrast this with the contemptible action of our Government ! 1

It is, undoubtedly, said that the American people are indifferent to the fate of those men, they being of Irish birth or decent But thisis a flagrant falsehood. 'Though some express it in; agony of indignation, the American’ propie do not entertain such bigoted, mean partialities. The fault lies entirely with vulgar sycophants, who were raised to positions for which nature never fitted them. :

These imprisoned soldiers were, in civil life, respectable men, Their citizenship belongs to various States, particularly the Eastern, though some are of the West. To Ohio belonged Wm. G. Halpin, and as his case comes more directly home to the people of this State, it \may not be inappropriate to explain wha he is and how he stands. This gentleman is an accomplished civil engineer, and was serving the city of | Cincinnati in that capacity. about the time the war broke out. At his own expense he raised a company in 1861,'and with it joined the 15th Kentucky Infantry, a large portion of which wias raised in ‘Ohio. He was no sensationalist, but a steady, dutiful soldier ;| always with and attending to his command.

Wm. G. Halpin was taken from' aboard a vessel at sea, on his Way‘| to America, and taken back, and by Brivish Jaw imprisouved for words spo- ' ken in America. Mason and Slidell | were taken at sea and brought back| to America for acts done there, they being the emissaries and repesenta-: tives of ja fiery rebellion then raging, and thousands of lives already lost by it. Yet they could not be tried by American law, for England would not permit it, bat compeﬁed America to surrender them at once. We have sapient sophists who reason that the two cases are not exactly alike; but, is it possible that we can assume no rights where England does not set us thé right pattern ? . A question is here suggested : would England dare attempt the usurpations with France or other Powers of Eu: rope that she does with America? With France, at least, she dare not think of it, for well she knows thal Napoleon would resent the least infringement, or, with all his power, his throne would mot be wortﬁ a week’s purchase. Now we have the assurance 10 say as well ag think, that we arg %ut a 8 good and strong a nation ag ETAnCE, o o e f

LIGONIER, IND., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, IS7O.

- THRIFTLESS FARMING, &= | The idea may seem absurd, yetl | have always thought that it was | enough to make an angel weep to see | how some men manage farms; and | most writers give only the sunny sidé | of the picture, allow me to draw a trué | one from a ehabby point of observa- | tion—one which will be recognized by | western men. - : The house, sometimes frame; some- | times logs, is surrounded by an apology for a rail fence, and the broken gate stands sentinel at one side of the gateway ; next you clamber over a pile of long, green logs, whkich the owner calls a wood pile; he hauls his wood in long lengths, and chops it into fire‘wood as necesgity demands; the windows have but four lights in them, bats, pillows, coats, &ec., being handier and less liable to bie broken than glass. The sides of hiq’ house are covered with'ekins of various kinds, your ghiftless farmer being ‘a lover of the chase; dogs, brindle, lean and gant, he has instead of bars and gates, “port- I able gates,” we call them out here. _A | grindstone about three inchés in diatieter with a crank two feet long, hangs - between two fénce rails. The manure has never been hauled away from his: barn yard, afact which his poor crops and fields attest; never beds nor curries his horses, so that the manure forms a kind of bark on their hides, excellent to help them keep warm in their cold stable. G

On cold days his cattle shiver and try to keep warm by leaning against the sunny, side of the fence. You see no fanngz;g millg, cutting-boxes, hayforks or mowing machines around bis barn, and what few farming implements he has stay all winter just where he quit using them. His fences are poor, land worn out, and he complains of poor crops and hard times; he never plants a fruit 'tree, but sponges on his neigbors for what the family ures. ; A £

~ fuch men never take a newspaper, but speud their time mostly at the village grocery..or if there happens to be a country blacksmith shop, you are nearly gure of finding him there. His children get but little schooling, for the father has not means to get them clothes or books, and they grow upto follow in the footsteps of their parent. Will not this sometimes account for the number of boys who leave the farm? I think if parents were to encourage their boys and let them manage a little more on “their own hook,” fewer of them would be willing to exchange the happy life of an educated and well-to do farmer for g life of care and toil in the city. Most .parents want their sons to farm just as they bave done, and boys generally think that they know how just as well as the ‘parents; a difference arises and the boys leave the farm.— Germantown Telegraph. . /.1

The Fence Question, Shall we fence our stock out or in. Europe has learned a more rational method than to build roadside or boundary fences. There are five times as many fences in Illinois as. there are in Germany ; and Duchess county, New York, has more than all Fravce.— New England has five times as miny as Véld England. In France, Germany and Holland farmere generally bold their lands in common, with only narrow paths between. b £ It cannot be difficult to demonstrate the great injustice of the present sys- ‘ tem. Johnson owns a farm on which he grows wheat, but he keeps no cattle. Jones owns an adjacent farm, devoted to stock raising; but he has vo wheat. Johnson needs no fence for his own use ; his wheat will not go off his land to prey upon his neigh Jor’s hogs and cattle. Since Ceress in a benign mood delivered to Triptolemus the first grains of wheat, the crop | has always staid where it was put.— Jones needs fences—he cannot live without them—for he owns locomotive property. Now, to compel Johnson ito build fences which he has no uge ifor, and to excuse Jones from building fences which he cannot gesalong without, is the very reverse of equity. . To compel Johnson to fence against, Jones’ cattle is morally and socially wrong. It inverts the responsibility. It virtnally takes property from Johnson to build Jones’ fences ; and this is opposed to the fundamental principle . of law itself, which Blackstone says “Is a rale of society authorizing what is right and forbidding what is wrong.” Corn, cereal, fruit trees, and vegetables are not capable of tresspass; they have neither legs nor horns, neither grinders nor a graniverous appetite. Shall we continue to put the onus of fencing on thg man whoss .property, anchored to the soil, stays where it is put and cannot get away ; or on the man whose property is hungry, destructive, saltatory, and marauding, In such a state of things is there any question where justice lies,! A writer in the Illinois Agricultural Report asks: “Is there any good reason why « man should be compelled to ibui]g, from one to ten miles of fence to protect his crop from his neighbor’s stock, when such neighbor might do it with one-tenth of the fence ? Can any man give me a reason why the law. should be that a man shall stand guard ‘ over his one hundred and sixty acres of grain, rather than his neighbor over one cow? Does it not seem right that every man shall take care of his own stock ; and, as a corollary, that he shall be compelled to make only 86 much or go little fence as is necessary . to do that thing ’— Hearth and Home.

A BAROMETER.—When there is to be a change of weather from fair to windy or wet, the thin flakes of the gum in‘a camphor bottle jmill rise up; and sometimes, when there is to be a great storm, the gum will rise to the top. When they settle d?n clearly at the bottom, then you can’ be sure of grand weather. ‘A farmer who will watch his wife’s camphor bottle for a season, will never have occasion to watch the birds, or locusts, or ants, for indications of a change of weather.

It is thought that five. yeiirs more will make sewing machines 8o cheap that every seamstress cun easily purchase one.

JOYS AND CUTTINGS. . ~ There is something the matter with these New England postmasters. Brother Loudon, of Salem, Mass., has misappropriated 86000. Misappropriation used to be called stealing. :Circuses traveling through the South have to keep two sets of hands, one to do the work, and another to fight the niggers out after the show is over.— Tﬁey want to stay all night. ; The people of Sturgis, Mich., will give $5,000 to any party who will erect a factory of any kind there that will employ a hundred men, and théy will furnish the means themselves.

And now the Revolutiou" complaing because a Washington woman keeps a farobank, - where Treasury girls and other looseness go to buck the tiger.— That that papetyghould complain because women doas men do. For shame, Susan ! ; ; A manufacturer of wagons at New Haven has an elegant baby-carriage, which was made to be presented to Gen. Grant, but.the man got disgusted because there didn’t appear to be any prospect of its being needed at the White House, and then, before he got it done, another man was appointed Postmaster at New Haven. There was a general miscarriage of his beans,

A negro at Stevenson, Ala., fired a gun iato :a house where there were women and children, although without killing any one. A party of disguised men knowing how good the negro’s intentions were to kill gome one, took him away to the woods, and his wench now dresses in black. They say it becomes her.

A western paper has a communication, from Washivgton, which alludes to &bvels;as the “strongest man on the genate.” | Asthe boy said of his ‘feet when his father told him they smelled strong, “you ought to smell them in the summer time.” We picy the poor devil who eits next to Revels in July.

" A Suunday-school teacher in New London, Conn., asked a little scholar what he would do, if, on the way' to Sunday-school, the devil should whisper in his ear, and try to get him to go to same bad place., The boy dréw liimself up to his full height, and said, “I should say to him, Shoo fly’ don’t bodder me.” This brought the'house down. y :

Realf, a partner of old John Brown in his horse-stealing raids and nigger expeditions, has turned his wife outdoors, at Augusta, Ga., and married a nigger wench. The white woman was left in destitute circumstances, and be¢ause'she took with her some articles of farniture, her husband had her arrested as a common thief. All those chaps’ “souls are marching on.” -.._.-.‘—_‘—? - Em— Home Papers—Why they should be Taken. No man who owns a foot of ground or is interested in the prosperity or future growth of his town or county, should neglect to take his home paper. The local press is an index in a great measure, ofy the condition of the county in which it is published. And if a mean, dribbling and niggardly support is given it must eke out asickly, miserable existence, reflecting little credit, upon itself orany locality in which it is published, exerting no influence for good or evil on the place or its people. ; ‘ ; When our people refuse to take their local paper and send away (paying invariably®cash in advance) for some Eastern publitation, made up in many instances from the fragments of some. daily paper, they stand in their own light, and commita folly which they will probably become cognizant of when it is too late to make reparation for the oversight. et An enterprizing home paper should be enceuraged at all times. It reflects the business of the town in which it'is published, it champions the interests of the people where located, and gives prestige and promineuce to the county of its adoption. As a recorder of passing events, it is the daily written history of the community in which it is edited. in* which every citizen is directly orindirectly interested and affected,— Exchange. : ;

A Terre Hautéan Elected President | of a Republie. The city of Galena. Ills., is not much ahead of Terre Haute after all. The Liberian House of Representatives 'has recently finished an examination of the returns of the election held last May, and declared the Hon. Edward: James'Roye to be chosen President of the republic. Mr. Roye, who is of pure African blood, was born at Néwark, Ohio, February 3, 1815. He was educated at Athens University and Oberlin College ; taught school at Chil.~ licothe in 1836, and, from" 1838 to 18- ‘ 44, was engaged in the barber business in this city. He emigrated in 1845, and became ia merchant at Monrovia. He was successful, financially, accumaulating a fortune of $200.000, while his talénts gave him political eminence, Having hé%i the position of speaker of the House of Representatives, Senator and- Chief Justice, he has now been placed in the highest office which the suffrage of his fellow-citizens could give him.— Terre Baute Journal. Fill Your Lamps in the Morning. - Bearcely a day passes but'we read accounts of frighttul accidents from kerosene lamps exploding and killing or scarring for life women and children. A simple knowledge of the inflam! -mable nature of the fluid would probably put a stop to all such accidents.— As the oil burns down into the lamp, a highly inflammable gas gathers over its surface, and as the oil Jecreases -the ‘gas increases. When the oil is nearly consumed a slight jar will often inflame ' the- gas, and "an explosion is sure to follow, causing, in many cases, death and destruction. A bombshell 18 not more to be dreaded. Now, if ‘the lamp is not allowed to burn more than half the way down, such acci--dents are almost impossible. Always | fill your lamps every morning, then ‘you searecely need fear an explosion.

| Chicken on the Brain, % Near Erie there lived a colored person by the name of James Stewart, whom the community by common consent have dubbed Commodore Stewart. He is a talented but eccentric individual, and has a weakness for chickens. On one occasion, being found near a poultry yard under suspicious circumstances,. he was interrogated by the “owner of the premises rather sharply as follows: - “Well, Jim, what are you doing here 7” a 8 “Oh, nuftin, nuffin; jess walkin’ Tebn ook ; - “What do you want with my chiekens ' by L e S “Nuffin at all. I was only looken at ’em, dey look so nice.” , This answer was both conciliatory and conclusive, and would have beén satisfactory had it not been for Jim’s hat. This was a rather worn soft felt, a good deal too large for its wearer’s head, and it seemed to have a motion entirely unusual in hats, and manifestly due to some unnatural cause, It seemed to contract and expand and move of itself, and clearly without Jim’s volition. So the next inquiry was : . *What is the matter with your hat "’ “My hat? dat’s an ole bat. I'se fond of dat hat.” - : “Well, take it off and let’s look at i X .

‘“l'ake off dis hat? No, sah. I'd ketch cold in my head, sartin. I al ways keep my hat on when I am out of doors.” il And with that Jim was about - beat‘ing a hasiy retreat, when, at his first step, a low ‘kluk, kluk, kluk,’ was “heard coming only to clearly from the region of his head-gear. This was fatal, ana Jim was stopped and forced to ~remove his hat, when a plamp, halfgrown chicken jumped out and ran away. The air with which the culprit gazed after it was a study for a painter; it expressed, to, perfection, wonder and perplexity, .bit not a trace of guilt. Slowly he spoke, as ,though explaining the matter to himselt, and accounting for so remarkable an incident : : “Well if dat ain’t de funniest ting I ever did see. Why, dat dar chicken must have clum up de leg of my pantaloons.” Truth from an Unexpectced Source, Harper's Majazine, a very radical publication, says: One hundred millions of dollars, one-fourth the revenue to be raised by our tax and tariff laws, vanishes before it reaches the Treasu. . ry.” That’s so, and Harper’s Magazine is the ready apologist for this state of things, ana has been for eight years. But that Magazine further says : “One-fourth of the impost laid for the sypport of government upon the labor of the working-classes and the ability and capital of those who do not live by wages, goes to maintain idlérs and cheats in:the public offices. One-fourth the price paid by toil for its protection by law feeds the worthless lives of those who creep into places to corrupt or break law. It has come to this, that the government founded for the greatest good of the greatest number manages its pecuniary affairs for the benefit of the worst few at the cost of the many. Iu the customs department, it is estimated by the highest authority that from negli‘gence and connivance, which defects /in the’law assist, the government does not receive more than one half the duties it is-entitled to.”” Here.is a frank confession that the men who now man-, age the affairs of the (eneral Government, and those who have managed them for nine years, are incapable of securing honesty and integrity in the revenue service of the country. The taxes collected on the labor of the working-men, says the Magazine, “go to maintain idlers and cheats in the public offices.” As the Radical party has bad complete control of the Executive and Legislative branches of the Government since March 4, 1861, the question will natarally ariee; why are not such abuses correeted ? Who stands in the way of geiting honest men in offices? The answer is, simply, ‘that Grant and Congress are so intent on “reconstructing’> and’ cheating the South that they have no time to look after the knaves and cheats nearer -home. - T

The Pope’s Infallibility. The question of Papal infallibility approaches a crisia. Other Catholi¢ powerB join France in her demands for apecial representation in the Ecumenical Council, and the appointment of the Prince de la Tour d’Anvergue as the French commissicner is already expected Meanwhile the Pope is urging the Council to render a decision at once, and thus enable him to avoid the demand of the agents of the foreign powers. It is feared that his course will precipitate a collision. The oppogition in the Council iz consolidating. The German and Austrian bishops have agreed to oppose the dogma, and with them are most of the French prelates. It is probabl@that his Holiness will succeed in forcing a vote within a week, and if the proposition of infallibility is carried out, the gravity of the situation cannot be over-estimated.— The first result, if Olivier's threat' is carried out, will - be the withdrawal of the French troops from Rome. |

THE editor of the Rural World says: “A short time ago we meta gentleman from Illinois, who gave us a piece of information in reggrcgl to ascertaining the age of a horse, after he or she has passed thé ninth year, which was new to us, and will be, we are sure, to most of our readers. It is this: After: the horse is nine years old a wrinkle comes on the eyelid, at the upper corner of the lower lid, and every year thereafter he has one well ‘defined wrinkle for each year over nine, If for instance, a horze has three wrinkles, he is twelve ; if four he is thirfeen. Add the number of wrinkles to nine, and yon will always get it So says the gentleman and be is confident it will never fail. As a _good many, people have horses over nine it is easily tried. = If true, the ‘horse dentist must give np his trade.

| SMALL-POX, - . ~ . BY AN EMINENT PHYBICIAN. = L — ; (o It may safely be affirmed that there is no single disease in the long catalogue of human pestilence that has created greater bavoc and been more justly dreaded than small pox—eariola. Other contagious disease have slain their thousands, but small-pox has slain its tens of thousands, It has destroyed armies, raised sieges, and seattered whole tribes and communities of people. The barbarian devoutly sacrifices to:its defied representation when it appears, and the Christian flees as from the presence of death. LB Lt

The date of the firstappearance of small pox is doubtful. There is a tradition in the East that it’ was first derived from the camel ;. but there is no proof of the truth of the statement. The “sore boils” of Job hdve been attributed to. the smallpox, but foolishly. There is no evidence even that the Greck and Roman physici ans knew of this “disease. Procopious, who lived in the middle of the sixth century, gives a graphic account of a disease closely resembling svmall;‘p‘ox, which began A. D. 544. in Egypt, and spread to. Constantinople. In A. D. 569, the year of the birth of Mohammed, an Abyssian army was compelled to raise the siege of Mecca by a pestilence very like -small-pox, which created a terrible mortality. The first medical writer who gave an authentic description of the disease was Rbazes, an Arabian physician who wrn;te about 910. 'From that period the pestilence has had many historians, and we have no difflculty in tracing its progress- from time to time, and estimating the extent of its. ravages. It has spread most widely where there nave been the largest ‘movements among nations; as in the conguests of the Arab. and Saracens, during the crusades, in the emigration of the Spaniards to America, ete. . oLT

Wherever it appeared/in-those early periods it was regarded as an evening angel. Tt is estimated that 45,000 000 of the people of Europe died of small pox in the one hundred years preceeding the introduction of vaccination. =As late as 1720, 30,000 persons died 0 small pox in Paris. It did not respect.rank or condition.— The profligate Louis XV., of France, died ot it, abandoned by courtiers and friends.” The wife of King of Burgundy was attacked by It, and accused her physicians of poisoning ber; she requested their execution; which 'Wgs carried into effect over her tomb. “In general the sick were abandoned by their most devoted friends, and left to dié or recover alone.

The mode of propogation of small-pox long remained doubtful. That it could be communicated by actual contact (to touch) of the sick with the well, or by contagion, was early apparent, and it was soon-demorstrated that the sick infested the air of the room in which they lay. It became in time well established, therefore that the disease. was both contagious and: infective. ' Tt was also discovered that the bed and clofhing of the sick absorbed the poison,and afterwafd gave it'off when exposed to the air, and thus communica ted the disease,. The clothes or other ar ticles were called fomites, from their pow er of retaining the poison. - The porus walls of the room ‘also received the virus, and would give it to the next occupant.— So subtle, indeed, did thepoison seem to be, and so many sickened without known contact with the sick,” that it came to'be believed that the disease was éommuni(:a, ! ted by sight and by bearing and even by imagination. ~ 7. - 50

- More recent-inveéstigation - have led to the adoption of the theory that the human subject is born with certain materi. als in his blood or tissues, which the poison of small-pox; scarlet fever, or measles act upon as yeast acts upon the dough—namely, a 8 & ferment, In this fegentation the peculiar poison multiplie itself infinitely, and shows itself in the effjorescence eruption. But~it destroys wholly or in part the original "material upon which 1t acted ; whien it entirely destroys ‘this niaterial, the disease can never repeat. itself in the same person ; when -the fermentation is partial; the disease may recur. This theory explains also. the na ture of' the process of inocculation and vaccinnation—the two great prevehtive measuresof small-pox.— Hearth and. Home. , e — : : Sad, Indeed: A letter from Huntsville, Ohio, says: “We are compelled this week to note one ‘of the saddest incidents; in connection with the ravages of scarlet fever (which ‘has been scourging our neighberhood for’ some time) that has yet-come under our notice. Mrs. Stephenson, a very worthy lady of our village, has becn deprived of all Ler children, consisting ot three esti‘mable : daughters, in the brief space of five days. The hand of affliction waslaid upon Carrie, a young lady of twenty summers. She suffered about six days, and was buried ohi'Saturday,;ﬁhe 19th inst.— She was soon followed by her ‘sister, Euphemia, aged seventeen years, who was "bu‘ried’ Wednesday, the 22d Feb. We involuntarily exclaimed, could not the Court of Death be stayed? - Must i. hold:another session ? Must 'little Ada; of thir(een bright s[l)‘r‘ings, be another cheerful flower transplanted by his decrees? - She died ohthe Ml o Pap sl sl

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: From the New Albany Ledger. NEGRO EMIGRATION TO INDIANA—--3 ITS OBJECTS. Twenty two fifteenth amendments arrived here on the train yesterday trom the South, and seventeen families are expect ed toarrive in a few days. The Radicals think there were at least nine voters among the number afready arrived.— Look out, “white. trash,” the fifteenth amendment means business.— Bloomington Democrat. : o : The attention of the public has, upon several occasions recently, been called to the fact that a large number of colored persons are emigrating to this State, and, as light as the matter may be treated by many people, there is:evidence that a great tide of negro emigration is flowing from Kentucky into Indiana. Every day additional factsare coming to light, which g 0 to prove that a systematic effort is being made to override the white vote of Indiana, by bringing a horde of negroes into the State from Kentucky. What is the purpose of this movement ? | The Radicals know ' full well that they have no hope, even with the entire negro vote, of carrying an election in Kentucky, and as a consequence that vote can be of no service to the party there. But jin Indiana the case is different. . The Radical leaders of Indiana know full well that the ehances for the success of their party in October next are most desperate, and that without the aid-of a very large imported vote they cannot hope to carry the State. Hence they are determined to fill the State, particularly the border counties alopg the Ohio river, with the newly to be enfranchised voters from the Southern States.— To acquire a citizenship, required by the laws of the State, they have but about thirty days to carry out their scheme, and they are boldly engaged in putting forth their best endeavors to accomplish their nefarious purpose, What the inducements held ot to these men to emigrate to Indiana are, we have not the remotest conception. We can hardly believe the negmés'arehs mean as the men who are using them, and we give them credit of a want of knowledge of the purposes for which they are to be used. The negroes will bé in a far better condition among those with whom they have been reared, than among their pretended friends in Indiana, who care nothing about their future personal welfare, They wish to use them at the State election; and when that is passed, they will be left to struggle in penury and want, where the rapid irferease of the laboring population will prevent the possibility of their obtaining a I’velihood. 2 i)

If the Radical leaders were alone to suffer, it might be permitted to pass without comment, but such will not be the case. The negroes who have heen induced to move into the State will suffer most intensely, when too late to retrace the step. We warn the negroes against these pretended friends. They are scheming for the destruction of the negro race, and we cannot, in justice to them, permit it to be consummated without raising our voice against it. What inducements can there: be for such an influx-into Indiana of the black population of Kentucky and the Soutli? It isa well known fact that there 18 a surplus of labsr in all parts of Indi. ana, and this adding to that surplus can only damage the interests of white ard black laborers” alike. Kentucky and all the Southern States need the labor, and a constant cry comes up from planters and others . that they are unable to cultivate their ficlds to advantage and with profit, without a better supply of labor. Efforts have been made to supply this demand from other sources, but these have, so far, failed. £ o

We again caution the- colored people against this scheme of inducing them to leave their old homes to seek this State for the purpose of finding employment, as it ean only result in disappointment.— Let them be content to remain wheére they are until they can learn|with a certainty that they can find employment, and we care not where that may be. If the people of -Indiana demand labor, and the . blacks come among our people with the object of bettering their -condition, they can be assured that they will be welcomed, but if their laboris required in the cultivation of the fields, or in any of the active enterprises at their old homes, and we believe it is, let them remain there. It is a duty the colored citizens in this State owe to their friends in Kentucky and elsewhere, as' well as to themselves and their children, to caution them against this general emigration, upon the advice of interested political tricksters, who caie nothing for the interest of the black race, farther than their own selfish motives prompt. Colored men of Kentucky, be warned in time. £ ok

The design of the ‘movement,‘ we have no doubt, has for one of its objects the neutralizing the Democratic majority in the Second Congressional District, as well as to affect the First, Third, and Sixth Districts. The whale force necessary. to carry the State ticket for the Radical candidates will be concentrated in these four * Districts, with the hope of overriding the present Democratic majority, and making a change in the Congressional delegation. We know enough of the past history of the Radical leaders to believe that they will engage in this echeme, and that money will not be wanting to carry it to a sic. cessful issue, if not counteracted by watchfulness on the part of the people. Let the Democracy, therefore, watch the move- . ment, and be prepared, if possible, to prevent its consummation. , ettt & — A 4 A Pennsylvania cemetery contains seven graves, side by side, in which repose ‘the lifeless remains of a man and his six wives. ‘When the first wife died the third . was three years old, and the fifth an in. fant of twelve months; while the ‘last wife was not born until the year follow‘ing ‘the death of the first. S A Wisconsin man who had separated from his wife, went back to her last week, ‘hopitg to effect a reconciliatipn, but the next morning after his arrival's *@ e : ‘mfﬁi@ ind told him “g a 8 his breakfast was not quite ready, and . then shot him through the hesd. ." .