The National Banner, Volume 4, Number 51, Ligonier, Noble County, 20 April 1870 — Page 1

THE = NATIONAL BANNER, ] . Published Weekly by e l JOHN B. STOLL, ] LIGONIER, NOBBE COUNTY,IND ¢ b e b o B e : } TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : { l Steietly Inadranee.s oo s v i 508900 | BT his paper i 5 published on the Cash Principle, its Proprietg;' fiwfi that it 'is just as right for flm ; to demani advance p%/,ae it 18 for City publishers. BP~ Any persoh _kending a club of 10, accompanied with I:be cagh, wHFbe entitled to a copy of the paper, for one Year, free of charge. 5

Michizan South. & N{gnd’a R. R. On and after April 25, 1869, traYis will leaveStafons ag follows: : Wi GOING EAST: 1 i S - Ixpress. Mail Train. v ORICRRO. Lol il i 8108 e, M. L 800 AL M, L YIRIRHArt LG s 988 T 8 g, COBMeN. S sb T S 1R R M Millersburg. .......(don't 5t0p)........:. 1311 ¢ U Ligopter i, iUI L 006 L 10 . Coawakald e (don’tatop)y i v 1110 PMG (Brimfield ... e g 1 LT BRI | B R B Y SR Atrive at T01ed0y......2:80 A m .. ..., .5:08 ¢ X . GOING WEST: : j Express: Mail Train: Mool e e ANt A M P o, Kenda11vi11e.a.......0.8:45 aca. .. OoL 4845 P, W, 157, T OAe & T RRT i d WAWBES. ... .. Ve e iDL Ligoter . . ioiv i dißo 30 200 B 0 ¢ ;- Mlllersburg. ..o ik eAt e Qoahen., ... e I Lao YHIRhArt . Bl e L e Arrive at Chicag0.....9:85 ... ......8:85 ¢ JStop 20 minutes for breakfast and supper. lixpress leaves daily 9oth ways. Mail Train makesclose connection at Elkhart , with trains going East and West. O, F. HATCH, Gen'lSupt., Chicago. *J. JOHNSON, Agent, Ligonier. . WM., L, ANDREWS, f&aay Surgeon Dentist. () XYY Y PMitchel's Block, Kendallville, All work warranted: . Examinations free. 2-47 i J.M. DENNY, ’ Attorney at Law,—Albion, Noble co., Ind Will give careful and prompt attention to a husiness entrusted-to }lis carc. 3-6

| LUTHER H. GREEN, | Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public. LIGOCNIER, - -'~ .- INDIANA: | 1 Office on Cavin Strcet, over Sack Bro’s. Gro- | cery, cpposite Helmer House. » ° 41-8-ly ] .3 D WeOL DENNY, | Physician and Surgeon,—Ligonier, Ind. Will promptly and faithfully attend to all calls | ‘ln the line of his profession—daycor night—iun town or any distance in t-hke conntry. Pcrsons wishing his ‘serviees at night! will ind him at his i “ father’s, residence, firat door east of Meagher & | Chapman’s Hardware Stage, where all calls, when aheeut, eliould bedeft, | 1-1 | i ey e g e t“" (E. RICHMOND, | Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer, <" (avin street, Ligonier, Indiana. . Speeial attention given to convoygncing and collections. . Deeds, Bonds aud Mortgages drawn up, | - and.aMilegal businesg attended to promptly and aceurately. | . May 26th, 1868, ;‘ HELMER HOUSE, A.J. MATTISON, Prop'r, f LIGONIER., - - - INDIANA. Thive Hinse has been Refitte d and Rn‘-l'(\rnisl;(‘d : ! in Wirst Class Style , R, Bl W. KNEPPER, “eloetio Physician & Surgeon,—Ligonier. All diseascs-of the Lungs and Throat successfuly treated by inhalation. No- charges for consultation, Office with W. W, Skillen, esq. +l-8 1 Li COYELL, | Attorney-at-Law & Notary Publie, l . LIGONIER, INDIANA. | (_)llice;..‘_'xl‘liiw,nr' in ‘(.“'iel."s Bloek, Cavin Street. l - DReiPe Wiy CRUM, | $ } d S 2 Physician and Surgeon, : ‘ ; : ]

; Kigomnier, =« ~ . Indiana, Ofice one door south of L. Low & Co’s Clothing y Store, np stairs, May 12th; 1869, SAMUEL E. ALVORD, . Attorney at Law, Claim Agent, and + : Notary Public, Albion, Noble Co., Ind. . ; Business %1 the Courts, Claims of soldiers and heir heirs, nnvoymlcinfi; &ec., promptly and carefally attended to. ¢ Acknowlodgments, Depori- " tiong and Afildavits, faken and certified. _ ; - : C.'i' ! W‘_-j. CARR, ! 3 S Physician ‘and = Surgeon, LIGONIER, - - - - - - IND, Will promptly attend all calls intrusted to him. Office on 4th St,, one door east ef the NaTiONAL Banxer offiec. . 3-43 B E. D, PRESTON, M. D., ~ HOM®EOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, 4 LIGONIER, INDIANA. {Oflice une door south of L. Low & Co.'s Store, up stairs. = Office hours from 9 to 11, A. M., 2 to 4 and 7 to'B p. s, Can always bé found by in quiring at the Dodge House. s 4-48 F.W.STRA s, » ] BANKER, i Buysand sells Domestic and Foreign Exclfange. - Passage Tickets to and from all the principal * parts of Europe, at the most liberal terms — Special sttention given to collections. Money taken on deposit, and Merchaots’ -accounts solicited, qu kept on most favorable terms. 42 -t SACK BROTHERS, : Bakers & Grocers. I Cavin Street, Ligonier, Indiana, . Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes, &c., q Cheice Groceries, Provisions, Yankee Notions, &c ] The highest cash’ price paid fer Country: Produce ~ Mayls, 68-tL. . SACK BRO'S. NEW FIRM AND NEW GOODS . L e AT — 2 - | . WOLF LAKE,IND. . Notice ig hereby given that C. R. Wiley and Samuel Beall have entered into a co-partuership | nthe Merchandise businegs. and that they have - just unpacked alurge sto 'Dry Goods, Boots ~ and Shoes, &e. - Call and see for yourself. e 7 WILEY & BEALL. | * Wolf Lake, Nov. 3,1860 27tf o AR

Mrs. Joanna Belt’s, ; OniCavin Street, NEW STYLES FOR THE NEW' YEAR, 1870, Just réeeived Jrom Baltimore and Chicago, - Fancy Goods, Hajr Braids, Switches, Wedding Bonnets, Mourhing Bonnets, Baby Caps, &c. March 30, 1870 48 5, JOHIN GAPPINGER’'S HARNESS, SADDLE - And Leather Establishment, Ilas been removed to Gappinger & Gotsch's New ‘Block, (formerly Rosshacher’s Block,) b KENDALLVILLE, - - INDIANA. The highest {)rice paid for Hides, Pelts, &c.,and the trade supplied with Leather, Findings, &c., at Jowest figares. fi - April 6, 1870.-49 ' s J. BITTIKOFFER, DEALER IN. : Sk WATCHES, ~ CLOCKS, JEW'LRY,SILVER WARE,NOTIONS, Spectacles of every Description, o &c., &c. &e., &c. All kinds of work done upon the shortest notice and warranted as to dumbilitg § Shop in Bowen’s new Brick Block, Kendallville, Indiana. et : 2-81 ee e b H. R. CORNELL, Who may always be found at his =~ PHOTOGRAPH ROOMS, 1s rrepared to take all kinds of pictures in the 3 ‘latest styles of the art. o - PARTICULAR ATTENTION Paid toqcopyingaoid Deguerreotypes and Ambrotypes into Cards, and Eolarging. “Work warranted satistactory in all cases. ~ Ligonier, Ind., Feb. 23, 1870.-43 - T TA. GANTS, o » Sgr;]gflgnd}lechnnieal Dentist, " TIGONIER, - . INDIANA. . ) wlk O 8 R Is prepared e to do l’.?gmx g, |in thelr fine, [ @ tioe of over 10 i 1 _-~»mi,=:s:f b eat g i L + < stion to sl TR J&U-fi.@;‘:‘g:’.g‘v‘ RN | SR S AT D ST e ORTR L R

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SHE ALWAYS MADE HOME HAPPY, Inenold oimrcbyard stood a stone, : ', Weather marked and stained ; ' The hand of Time had crumbled it, 80 only part remained. | Upon oue side I could trace “In-memor‘)" of our mother,” - An epitaph which spoke of ‘home"’ . Was chiseled on the other. I'd gazed on monuments of fame, f High towering to the skies, e I’d seen the sculptured marble stone ; Where a great hero lies ; ; But b,{ this epitaph I Jnnsed, d L .__And read it o’er and o’er | For I had never seen inseribed Such words as these before. : “She always made home bappy,”’ A noble record left— . : A legacy of memory sweet, - To those she left bereft, v - And what a testimony given ) .By those who knew her best, ; Engraven on this plain, rude stone 7 That marked the mother’s rest! _ It was an bumbled resting place ; I knew that they were poor, But-they bad seen there mothers siuk, And patiently endure; | ol ~ They had marked her cheerful spirit, Faits When bearing, one by one, ; Het many burdens up thehill, $ ol b Till all her work ‘'was done. ‘ 80, when was stilled her weary heart, . i Folded her hands so white, i And she was carried from the home, : 5 She’d always made so bright, Lo Her children raised 8 monument ¥ ! That money coald not buy, '; As witnesa of ber noble Lfe ; L Whose record is on high, 3 A noble life! but written not | In any bouk of fame, . ; i Among the list of noted ones . i None ever saw her name ; ‘ For only her own household knew * .. : The victories she had won, : ) And none but they could testify ‘ How well her work was done. ; Better than costly monument’ - Of marble rich and rare, Is that rude stone, whose humbled fsée : Such words of honor bear, Oh !'mav we chisel on the hearts Of those at home we love, And epitaph whose truth may be . . Witnessed for us above. i 5 A PR ——-—’.‘———"—‘—‘———, I | THE TIN SAVINGS BANK. ! Charles Linford was a young mechanic in goeod business. At the age | of twenty-gix he had taken to himself | a wife, Caroline Eustis, the :daughter of a neighbor, who bhad nothing to bring him- except her own personal | merits, which were many, and the habits of thrift, and economical house-hold | under the teathing of necessity. . i . It was well perhaps, that Charles | Liuford should obtain a wife of char- | acter, since he himsclf. found it very ! diffiqult to rave anything from hig in- ! come, - P : i)

. It was not long before Caroline became acquainted with her husband’s failing. She could not feel quite easy in the knowledge that they were living fully up to their income, foreseeing that a time would come when their family would grow more expensive, anl perhaps her husband's business now flourishing might become less so. - Accordingly ote day she purchased of a tin-peddler who came to the door, a little tin safe, such as children frequently use as a ;savings bank. - This she placed conspicuously on the mantle piece, so that her husband might be sure to see it on entering® : “Tlallo! Carrie, whats’.that ?” he asked curiously. o : “Only a little purchase I made today.” said his wife. “But what is it méant for 7"’ he asked again. ! “Let me illustrate,” said his wife playfully. “Have you a ten cent piece about you ?”’ ' Charles drew a dime from his pocket. His wife taking it from his hand, dropped it through a little slit at the top. 5 -' ‘ pCharles laughed. * “So you have taken to hoardiug, Carrie ? My little one become a miger.” “No, only a ‘little prudent. But seriously, Charles, that is what I want you to do every night.”” : “What! drop a dime into that new fangled arrangement of yours.” “Exactly.”

“Very well, that will be easy enough. A dime is ‘no great sum.— But may I know what you are going to do with this newly commenced hoard 7 ¢ ¥ “Lay it by for a rainy day,” answered QCarolirie. i

Charles laughed merrily. i “And what will a dime a day amount' to ¥’ he inquired. a “In a year it will amount,” commenced his wife, seriously—“Oh, never mind—spare me the calculation. It sounds to much like business, and I have enough of that during the day.” e “But you: don’t object to my plan.” “Not in the least I have no-doubt it is very prudent and commendable ; but you know Carrie, I never was gifted with much prudence.” “I am quite aware of that,” said his wife smiling. This ended the conversation for the time. i i

The plan inaugurated by the young wife was steadily carried.out. She was not one of those,’ of whom there are so many, who enter upon a new plan zealously, but soon tire of it. In the present case, she was thoroughly satisfied of the wisdom of her purpose, and resolved to carry it through. Every morning she called on heriusband for a dime which was forthwith added to the accumulation. Frequently he had not the exact change, but would toss her a quarter instead. She would assure him laughingly, that this would ‘ answer her purpose equally as well. More than once Charles would banter her on the subject of her little sav--ings bank but this sbe bore gaily.— But these were not the only accessions the fund received. Her husband had early arranged to make ample allowance for dress. I say ample, thoughl dare 'say some of my city readers might not have considered it so. But Caroline, who was in the habit of making up her own dresses, providing herself with a good wardrobe at much less expense than sume not so well versed in the scitnce of managing could have done. | : After a congiderable calculation she came to the conclusion that out of her allowance she should be able to make a daily deposit equal to that which she exacted from her hueband. Of this, however, she thought it best on the whole, not to inform Charl -—-engoy ‘ing in anticipation, the ‘p'_u?m of beivf able, at some time, to surprise him with the unexpested amonnt of her TR i

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| * At the close of every month the tin . box wae emptied, and the contents ' were transferred to a savings bank of | more pretentions, where interests would .bé allowed. When the sums deposit- ' ed here became large enough, Mrs. | Linford, who had considerable busi- . ness capacity, withdrew. them and invested in bank and other stocks, which . would yield a large per cent. .Of her | mode of management her husband re- - mained in complete ignorance. Nor ' did he ever express any desire to be ' made acquainted with his wife’s man_agement. He was an easy, careless fellow, spending as he went, enjoying the present ans not feeling .any . particular concern about the future. At 'the end of eight years during which 'he bad been unusually favored by - prosperity in business and uninterrupted ‘health, his books showed that he ' had not exceeded his income, but on , the other hand, that he had absolutely saved nothing. | Twenty-five cents “alone stood to his credit.’ . “Running pretty close, isnt't it, Carrie 7”” he said langhingly. “I take credit to myself for keeping on the right eide of the line. But then I suppose you have "saved an immense sum.” : “How much do you think !’ asked his wife. ; : “0, perhapsa hundred dollarse,” said Charles Linford, carelessly, “though it would take a good ‘many dimes to do that.” : ; His wife smiled, but did not choose to enlighten him as to the correctuess of his conjectures. | b So things went, on, till at length came the panic of 1857—a panic so recent that it will be remembered by many readers of this; sketch. It will be remembered how - universally trade and business of every kind wera depressed at that period. Among others, the trade which occupied Charles Linford suffered. . One evening he came home looking quite serious—an fexpression which seldom came over his cheertnl face. Caroline, who had watched the signs of the times, was mnot unprepared to see this. She had expected that her husband’s business would be affected. “What is the matter, Charles ?” she asked, cheerfully. e “T'he matter is we will have to economize greatly." “Anything unfavorable turned up in business matters 7" I ghould think there had. 1 shall have but a half a day’s work for some time to come, and lam afraid that even this will fail before long. You haven’t an idea, Carrie, how dull bueiness of every kind has become "’ “I thiok I have,” said his wife quietly. “I have read the papers carefully, and have been looking out for gsomething of this kind.” - it “Do you think we can reduce our expenses one-half?”’ asked her husband doubtfully. il “I think we shall be able to do so. Both of us are well provided with clothing, and we shall not need any more for a year, at least. That will cut off considerable expense; then there are a great many superfluities you are accustomed to buy—little things you are kind enough to bring home to me frequently, which I can | do very well without. Then we can live more plainly—have less pies and cakes ; and I have no doubt it will be' an improvement 8o far as health is con- 1 cerned.” e : “What a calculator you are Carrie!” ' said her husband, feeling considerable | easier in mind. I really think, after what you have said, that it won’t be 8o hard to liveon half our usual income, for the present at least. But—and his countenance again changed—*suppose my work should éntirely fail, I suppose you couldn’t reduce qur expenses to nothing at all, could you ?” “'That certainly surpasses my power,” said his wife smiring, “but even in that case there is no ground for dis couragement. You have forgotten our 'savi%s bank, have you ?” “Why no I didn't think of that,” said her husband. I suppose that would keep off starvation for a few weeks.” His wife smiled. “And in those few weeks,” she said, “business might revive.” : “To be sure,” said her husband, “Well I guess it will be all right ; I'll not trouble myself about it any longer.” The apprehengion to which Mr. Linford has given expression proved to be only too well tounded. In less than a month from the date of the conversation just recorded, the limited supply of work which he had been able to secure, entirely failed, and found himself without work of any kind—thrown back on his own resources. . . ] Although he had anticipated this, it seem unexpected when it actually came upon him, and again he returned home in a fit of discouragement.— He briefly explained to his wife the new calamity which had come upon them. - > . “And the worst of it is,” he added, “there is no hope of better times till spring.” L “Do you think business will revive then ?” said his wife. ! “It'must by that time; there are five or six months between. I don’t know how we are to live during that time.” L “I do,” exglaimed his wife quietly. “Yon 'n B i i “Yes ! Your income has never been more than six or seven hundred dollars a year, and I have no doubt we can live six months on two hundred and fifty dollars.” e “Yes, ceruinl{ ; but where is that money to come from ? I don’t want to run in debt, and if I did I should not know where to borrow.” " “Fortunately there is. no need to,” said Mrs. Linfird “You seem to forget our litflei&fit;sa bank."” : - “But isit possible it can amount to ‘two hundred and fifty dollars 7' = “Yes mflfcix-humfléd more.” . “Impossible 1" | it “Wait a miouteand I will prove ~_Oaroline disappeared a moment, and e bty sidatr i e

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cates of bank and railroad shares, | afmounting to eight hundred dollars, ‘ | and a bank book in which the bal | | ance was depoeited to her credit. | ! ‘“Arc¢'you quite sure you havn't had ' a legacy? Surely a dime a day l co_nlg not produce this"' ; | “No, but two dimes a day have with a little extra deposit now andthen. I think, Charles, we shall be 1 | able to ward off starvation for a time.” +““All this I owe ty. prudence; how 1 can I repay you?” L - Charles Linford remai’ngd out of employment for some months, but, in the spring, as he had anticipated, business revived, and he was oncé more in receipt of his old income. More than two-thirds of the fund was still left, and henceforth Charles was no less ass;;:iuous than his wife to increaseiit. he | little tin savings bank still stands on the mantle-piece, and never fails to‘receive a depogsit daily.

el P— e SPEECH OF GEN. PACKARD. Duriog a recent discussion of the Tariff Bill in the Housc of Represen: tatives, Gen, Packard made the following remarks. They will be found interesting and instructive to men of both political parties : : i MR. CHAIRMAN : — When the commander who has lost the day on the battle-field looks around him it is easy then to see how the plan of battle . might have been so changed as to | give him the victory. His mistakes i stand out in relief; and he regrets { when too late that he did not foresee ! the consequences of this movement or ; that, Baut it was his business to fore- ; see, at least enough to understand { something of the effect on the people | of the passage ¢f a great measure of | political economy. i I ghall not, in the few moments al- ‘ lowed me, eriter into any detail on the ! provisions of this bill. I only wish to | bring one thought into prominence. -It l { i 3 a thought that should blaze in this . Hall, and refuse to hide its light unt il it compelled adoption., It is reduc- | tion of taxation. We are now near | the close of the discussion of this bill, J and I do not see that it is lifting the - weights from the shoulders of the people as it ought. It was my purpose | to remain silent to the close, and then ~vote as I thought the interests of the ' country required. I have waited for some ringing voice, some voice of in: fluence and power, to sound the alarm _and tell this House that_the burdens ’_, of taxation must be lightened. I bave \frequently assured the people that the Forty-First Congress would do three | things :' that it would reduce expendi- | tares ; that it would reduce the iuter- | est on the public debt; and that ~it'{ would reduce taxation. It hasalready | done and is still doing the first; it is about doing the second ; and here and ’ now is an opportunity to accomplish | the third. It is a measure which the } peogle demand, one which their ne- | cessities require; and we shall not | prove true to the constituencies which | we represent if we return to them having made no effort” to remove the crushing burdens they bear. We have ; reduced and are still reducing expen-. ' ditures; let that be taken out of the | taxes. We shall reach a lower rate ot , interest on the.debt; let this saving | be taken from the taxes. Then let us:| stop 8o rapid a payment of the debt.' I know it sounds well to say that we | are paying out debts at the rate of | $100,000,000 per year; and if the Government owned a fund on which it could draw at will without going to the people I should ineist on the ‘'most | rapid payment possible. Bat every‘ dollar that goes -into your Treasury | must comé out of the property and labor of the country. The Government stands on one side, the people | on the other. If we regard the Gov- | ernment alone, in its organic being, we l should say that it ought to pay its debts as tast as money could be found to discharge them. But what effect has this rapid payment on the people ? It takes from them much of their | earnings. It cripples their energies. | It swallows up tfie products of their industry. It retards the material progress of the nation.. : I want to see the surplus revenues diminished until $150,000,000 each year and no more shall be applied to | the payment, first of interest, and the remainder to the payment of the principal of the debt. I want to see the ‘ debt becoming each successive year a little less than the preceding. Itshould be all the time in the course of gradual extinction, but its liquidation should not be so rapid as to seriously’ burden the people ; not rapid enough to place fetters on the accumulation of wealth or the increace of population. The progress of the nation.in population and wealth has been most remarkable ; remarkable both in the rapidity and in the regularity of the progress, the minimum rate of increase in a decade being 32.67, and the maximum rate 36.42. The last seven de~cades show the following increase of population : Shd iy

Year, o Puopulation. Rate of ; x : s Increase. AO, .5 oy il it 300 Roy L - e. L sokeny b W 0 ol i e e S e e Ry 1830 .. .0 cu il e nesets --12/966.0200 334 D WD, .o cilenr oy Senne, TR 39 EY R s T e 1800 Ll Gol S BRBOO 3550 Taking the ratio from 1850 0 1860 the increase in population to 1900 will be as follows: . Bl Year, o ulation, 0. L s e WL i L e e TR s e ~ If our population in 1870 is in round numbers 40,000,000, and our debt in round numbers is $2,500,000,000, there must be assessed against every man, woman, and child the sum of $62 50, and the amount to each individual will diminish during the succeeding decades as follows, supposing the debt to remain stationary :

Te » 4 Amount ear. ebt : vl’bpulatmn. per unmf 1880....... $2,500,000,000 58,000,000 $43 00 1890....... "9,500,000,000 = 78,000,000 3200 1900....... 2,500,000,000 106,000,000 23 58 Thus the déebt will in thirty years bave diminished nearly two-tl{irgs by the increase of population alone, for this calculation is based on the suppo-

sition that the principal of the debt is untouched. e : Taking the regular increase of wealth as a basis, the relative dimi~uution of the debt is still more strik‘ing. From 1820 to 1830 the increase of wealth was 41 per cent. ; from 1830 to 1840 the increase of wealth was 42 ver cent.; from 1840 to 1850 the increase of wealth was 64 per cent.; from 1850 to 1860 the increase of wealth was 125 45 100 per cent. Our total wealth was in 1850 $7,135,780,225; our total weslth was in 1860, $16,159.610,068. : Adopting this percentage our wealth in the future will stand thne: Fear. ; - Wealth. Woc.o o L e e 80, T e e e e . et T a 0 LR T e e - Hence the debt, calling it constant and’ giving only round numbers, will show the following percentage. in the future : i : : Fear. Wealth. Delt. Ferientage. f eaemamen) (2 o s€9o. ."167,000,000,000 [ #%.500.900.0°0 1 ‘0135 abont. 1900.. 423,000;000,000 ) -1..005 about*

Thus in the brief space of thirty yeas, should not a dollar of the principalbe paid, the debt will bear so smalla proportion to our immense national wealth, that it will be almost imperceptible. There can be no doubt, in the face of these figures, of the wisdon of cutting down the taxes, and leiting the debt, in large measure, pass over to the future. ‘But where shall the reduction be made? On internal or external taxes; oron both? And on which of the many items of either? I haveonly time to ask the question. What I most want to see is an earnest effort to reduce somewhere. . Begin anywhere. We can scarcely go amiss; but reduce. Only let the reduction be so made thai the remaining taxes will rest on the people with the least bur.den to the largest number. In my opinion many of the articles iu the present bill should be added to the free list, and on others the duty should be diminished to the reliet of the consamer. Salt is one article that should be free; and the daty should be reduced on tea, coffee, and perhaps - suar. - » : ’ The American people arc honest. They wish to pay every dollar of their indebtdedness ; but they prefer not to be crowded in the payment of it. The security is ample; and the people only ask that you will .not hurry them, that you will not cripple progress by exceseive burdens, that yonr care shall be to “undo the heavy burdens and let the oppressed go free.” |

State Fair 1870. ‘The Indiana State Board of ‘Agriculture offer the following extra large premiums in addition to their nsual list to be awarded st the Fair to be held at Indianapolis in October next: . - Best five acres of corn.. ... ....$lOO.OO Second best: i Vi S 0 1500 Ehirdibest oo iao 50.00 Best acre of corn to be raised by a boy under 16 years of age..... 20.(0 Best essay on planting and culti- - vating corn. . oLI v o. 20.00 Best report of actual experiments - in subsoil . plowing, giving all the facts and effects of th. same 25.00 Best herd of six head of cattlecon - . sisting of one bull, one cow, one - 3 year old, one 2 year old, one year'ing and one calt under one - year old oo or fo e 0 V 106,00 Best sewing machine made in In- . digbas o e sl 2000 Best collection of all grades.of pig iron, gold medal valued at.... 100.00 Best collecti® of glassware mannfactured in 1ndiana..........~° 25.00 Best display and greatest variety: obeom eTI 9000 Best early field corn, any variety.. 'lO.OO Best display and’ greatest variety of wheat of all kind 5......... 20.00 Ivis very desirable that these premi. ums should be brought to the notice of every farmer and manufacturer in the State as early as possible, and that each farmer and manufacturer pursue such a course as will enable him to make the most interesting display of their respective productions. Let every farmer go to work, properly cultivate and take care of their crops, and determine to contend for the pr:smium‘.on field crops ; they should farnish their boys under sixteen years of . age with onej acre of nice, rich alluvial land, with all ‘proper and necessary facilities for its cultivation, and proper advice and gncoumgemerg%tn contend for the $2O premium. : : The papers in the city and throughout the State will confer a favor by copying this notice. =~ Jos. PooLE, : Secretary State Board of Agriculture.

A Specimen Brick. ‘ A Washington dispatch says that some two weeks ago a colored doctor, J. B. | Young; appeared at the head of a colored delegation from Tennessee, belaboring the : reconstruction committee and radical congressmen to reconstruct Tennessece. He \ read a f«:rmiflable address to the commit- 1‘ tee, reciting alleged outrages, etc., and afterwards appeared with his delegation before the p esidemt and made a similar: statement. A few days ago, at least a dozen congressmen received copies of a Republican paper published at Knoxville, East Tennessee, containing an advertisement signed by the colored pastor of the Methodist Church there, denouncing this Young as having committed an infamous crime, and warn%mg the community against him, fThe details are unfit for printing again ; but they served to show the committee the character of some of the men who are at the head of the movement for congressional reconstruction. It is believed that all the rigmarole that this Young and his delegation “submitted about outrages in Tennessee are false. ; L ———— e ———— { 4 ~ Away With Caste. An'earnest Radical at Bloomigton, lil., ‘was not satisfiled with the ordinary manifestations of joy at the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, but signalized hig idea of an appropriate inauguration of the Dhew era by parading the streets arm in arm with a young colored lady, with " a band of music preceding the pair. We rather think the young lady disgraced berself, and it appears from the record thalfi she dm\pgmed when the Radicals mmenced & | nm)gn_e to the crowd of boys that followed them,

! EDITORIAL CONVENTION. : The Editors and Pablishers Association | of the 10th and 11th Congressional- Dis- ‘ tricts met in" Convention wt the Good Templars Hall in South Bend, Ind., on ’ Friday, April Bth, at 2 o’clock r. ¢, Pres | ident J. B Stoll in the chair, > The Recording Secretary. being absent, the Corresponding Secretary was chosen } to act in his stead. 3 Jus. G, Clark, the great American bal- § ladist, sang “The Promised Land To-mor- | row.” : o : i Prayer wag then offered hy Rev, N. l Crary. ! | His Honor, Mayor Humphrey, next delivered the following address o welcome : Mr. President, Ladies, and Representatives of the Press of Northern Indiana : ;. ' The pleasing duty assigned me on this | occasion, is accompanied by a wish on my - part, that one, more able and gifted, had ' been sélected to extend to you a ecrdial greeting and . gencrous welcome to the ' hospitality of our gréwing and ambitious little city, upon the picturesque banks of the beautiful St. Joseph River. After another hait gear of toil in your “useful and laborions professional duties, you have again assembled for the anjoy- - ~ment of all "the pleasures and hopes of a social and, journalistic re-union. Your coniing among us has been anticipated and provided for, by your confreres resident “here, in o spirit of fraternity and hospitality, and to-day their wishes are realized in your presence, as representatives of the press from all parts of the most beautiful of our beloved State, Northern Indiana.~ Your first pleasant promptings, doubtless, are in an overflow of joyous enthusiasm. Welcome then, thrice we]. ‘come among us; not as strangers; for the same spirit that invited you here, constituteés a tie of common brotherhoed, in the editorial and jpurnalistic profession—- & profession that is truly noble in its aims, objects and- principles—one that consti tutes in a large degree the ¢ducational . means of our age. You sustain the rela tion to the masses as educators, in the dif-. tusion and inculcation of general khowlcdge. You, ina measure, the extent of which even the editorial profession may not fully realize, “do the thinking” fora | large pereentage of your readers, moulding and fashioning the-politics, morals, and, to some extent, ‘the- religion of the public. ' You are the daily and_ weekly historians of the world. Its commerce, its benking, its business tiansactions, its legislation, its forms and changes in governments, its wars, pestilence and famine. | its good and its evil, its crimes and fol-. lies, its nobleness and depravity, natures convulsions, the progress in the arts and - sciences, improvements, discoveries and inventions, are all duly chronieled, col--lated, digested and commented upon by | you. The responsibilities of the editorial profession, who can estimate them ? Eternity alone can unfold and answer. | Some censorious, uakind critic in the cact, has said “that the only divinities to . which the western people paid homage, were locomotives nad flour barrels.” However unjust and -untruthful this may be, and is, the press might have been added asanother divinity “that shapes our ende.” You know how unjust this deelaration is and that your ‘readers, o day, will coin pare favorably with ani unequal number of inhabitants in any part of the world, in gencral inteligence, . miscellancous knowledge, benevolence, charity, morals | and religion. What right minded, right thinking cisizen of ‘this land: does not properly appfeciate his‘ “home paper " which i 3 to him a business mirror for the day or week, of his town and county, his neighborhood and personal fiiends. Tts energetic, 'vitalizing magnetic - influences can not be supplied by any foreign paper, though ‘it may be double, mammoth in | size. That. person, especially the “head | of u family,” whoi~fails to support and | patronize his home paper, bas no proper | appreeiation of its refining and elevating | influences upon his househeld. Who does not recall the séenes of youtly and childhood, associated with the happy fire: | side family circle, with song and music, | glee and mirth, the instructive ook, and | above all the last issue of the home paper, fresh .with the odor of printing ink?— | How eagerly its columns were scanned for | the market reports, new " goods and pure | groceries, the latest news from' Washing | ‘ton, all parts of our country, South America, West Indies and from all Eurose, the | marriages and deaths, the stories upon the | first page, the poets corner, and, most fas- | cinating of all, the local news of city, | town and count;, village gossip, and the | spicy editorials, aye, how many fond re- | collections spring up at the bare mention 4 of all these. MHallowed memorics are | they, calling vividly to mind those dear | ones who have long, long since departed | for “tbat better land.” The home news. | paper i 3 one of our ch_rished institutions, [ as well asa free press, and our people | would spring to arms in its defence if ne | cessary as they did in the early days of| the Republic, when our liberties were as- | sailed. The shrine of Lares is not to be ! compdred with #n untrammeled press. | Are there any here who were pioneers | on some far off frontier? Do you remem- | ber how the hearts of the people pulsated | with joy, and the countenances of the en | tire population were lit up by the an- | nouncement that a local newspaper was | to be estaplished in your town or village? | And when the first number of the paper | was issued, how the editor’s salatatory was eagerly devoured? It was as sounds " from far off native home, around which | clustered so many fond memories. And what a,f@éling of contentment.and satisfaction was experienced by the sparse. population at “the advent of the local | newspaper bringing with it civilization, | culture and refinement. The press is a | great missionary, and its light is next to | that gospel which proclaims “peace on | eafth and good will to man.” ' . Most of you here to day are “mewmnbers of the craft” in the “art preservative ot all arts,” an art as antique as the bricks of Egypt and Assyria, the seals and signets of ancient Israel and Rome, known in the early ages to the Chinese, Japanese and Tartars, but remained . incomplete until movable types were broaghtinto use by Laurens Jaanzoon Koster, of Holland, improved and perfected by Johannes Guten berg, assisted by John Faust and Peter Scheeffer, of Germany. To day, may be seen in the Patent Office Museum at Wagshington, the little hand printing press of wood, and a few pieces of brass and iron, upon which the printer, states‘man, diplonat, and philosopher, Benja: min Franklin, worked as a journeyman when in London, England. Its capdcity is about the size of a sheet of foolscap paper. Step into the Government ‘printing house a few squares distant, or go to New York, and visit the offices of the Herald, Tribune, Times, or World, and behold in operation the 10 cylinder presses of Amie?%fl'@ Binigglfi?n' and mtmufnctln‘:e,: prope 195 by übiquitoys steam, giant-like, Ehrowing off 15't0 20,000 dhuble mam. ‘moth sheels per hour, qt@ésjmfii%fi%in:fi!%on Brplil &1 exeelieues and beauty. In tiis ~we have wfijflmm‘imqtmmm that g boen made i the art of printing. ‘But we must not det SUSS ongel WY ‘congratulate- you upon the proieéssional

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‘through the instrumentality of your association. - Youthful as it is, may its motto be FEzreelsior; and may your deliberations ever be characterized by kindness and harmony. May no bitter -or unkind re collections growing out of the {alfs and. tourn rments of editorial lifé ‘enter, or fol low your circle to mar your peace, or disturb the happiness of your re-unions— Finally, in tuture years, as each of you shall pz\fis down life’s declivity, may the events of the present occasion in the growing little city of South Bend, constitute one of the most pleasing reminiscences inthe life of each and all of you, . Once more we bid you welcome and Godspeed. . To which the President of the Associa:” tion responded as follows: = =

Mr. Mayor, in behalf of the mexbers of the Association, I tender you, and through you, the citizens of South Bend; onr thanks for your cordial greeting. =~ S _The following newspapers were repre: sented : Ligonier Banner, Laporte Argua, ‘Goshen ])egwcmt,' Mishawaka 'E'nterjfi'iec,, Laporte Herald, Warsaw Tndianian, Waterloo City -Press, South Bend Register, Crown Point Register, Lagrange Standard, Kendallville Standard, Goshen Times, Val paraiso Videtle, Elkhare Union, Waterloo City Air Line,South Bend Union. =~ = The following resolution offered by Mr. Powell, of Liporte, and adopted after a debate in which Messrs, Devor, Brower, Wadsworth, Beal, Molloy, Powell, -and Hossler, participsted, shows the.sense of the A.As‘éociatinn {wi‘th' regard to “dead beats:” .. A L

+ Resolved, That it be the duty of everymember of this association to.report the names of all parties who prove swindlers in advertising ‘6r job printing, to the publisher -of every paper represented ‘n this organization, together with a state ment of the particulars; and that tlie Secretary be required to furnish-a list of members of the association to all entitled to the same.. : 0 L

- The tollowing resolution, offered by Mr. Gurney, was also adopted as the sense of the Convention, after being debated by Gen, Williams and Messrs. Gurney, Devor and Beal : e e

Resolved, That a committee be appointed by ‘the Chair, to report at our next meeting, whose duly it shall be to - quire into the expediency of establishing an agency of this. Association in New York, Chicago, and other principal cities, which shall- have the exclusive right to contract for advertising in our respective papers ‘at. our ddvertised rates, and not otherwise, ‘and ‘to. furnish the names of parties who are willing to act as'agents for this Association. ! ey

Messrs. Gurney.'Deer and W:“\d‘swm'.t_h, wer¢ appointed a Committe. =~ - The following resolution was ‘introduced by Mr. P-\\sf(a_l-li.;t‘)f the Laporte Her ald s o J 52 T E R EER L e

- Resolved, That this Assaciation depre, cate the practice, so freely indnlged in by the members of our profession, of personalities, false representations, ete,, charging each other with unworthy motives, of being. “subsidized,” and in various other ways impraperly influenced, and that we sincerely hope every member of this Association will do “his atmost 'to-inculcate courteous intercourse, and a gentlemanly. beating each toward the other, as well as to all: memberz of the néwspaper pro fession. I SRR -

Mr. Sweet, of the Elklnrt', Union,suggested that an amendment be offered to include the presens Congress, B Mr. \Vndswqrfl) having been called to the chair, the President, M. Stoll, editor of the Ligonier Banner anlthe Laporte Argus, took the floor, and spoke at.length on the resolution j;:xstofi'er:ed: ‘He thunght that indulgence inthe practice alluded to was anything but an‘indieation of ability on the part of ‘an editor. Tt afforded a proof rather that there was an absence of a fair measure of common sense. Such a practice might have hocn.z{dmis:sablc“ in the first stages ofiournalism, but the press has advanced to a standpoint fc_m lofty to permit such wallowers in filth, to lopger guide its action. -He was'in favor of a revelugion in this respect, aid would give the resolution his ‘hearty .stipport, and those who favored its spiri¢ his most earnest co operation. ST

. Mr. Williams® thought the resolution did not apply to .members of this Association.. .0 AR e S e

Mr. Devoif favored the .adoption of the .rcs«;lutirda., He believed it would have the effect of at feast placing the Association right before the pfiblié.. T g T R

. Mr. Brower thought it was lii e inaking an adniission ot onr weakness, S * Mr. Molloy thought that it yvas a guaestion metely of géod or bad taste. The adoption of the resolution would convince the public that we possess & stperabundance of the formerrather than the latfess o T i

After Some timely remarks from the au thor the resalution was adopted with on iy one dissenting voice. - B Mr. Beal offered a vesalution, =

That a committee of three be appoint: ed by the chair, to select from the-mem-bers of the Association, a persoun to deliver an address at the next regular meeting, on a subject pertaining to the art of printng. A ; Letasleaand s

This was adopted and' Messrs. Beal, Williams and Sweet. appointed & ‘committee. i : o The following resolutions vn the death of a memtier of the Association, were off ered by Messts, Gurney, Molloy and Nich: ols ond nnanimously adopte i hy the,Conventioflz . o e : Resoleed, That -in ‘the death of P. H. O’'Brien,. late editor of the Rochester Standard, this Association has lost a prom ising member—oné who was an oroament to the profession, aud that, single-handed, had fought his way to the position lie pccupied, with honor to.himself, and to the satisfaction of the community in which he resided at the time of the demise. =~ It was decided to haveé an editorial excursion sumetime in'June next. Bt. Paul, Minnesota, being the objective point, provided suitable arrangements can be made with the transportation companies.— Messrs. Beal, Williams and Myers appointed committee of arrangements. ~ On motion of Mr. Stoll it wes resolved that the Secretaries be reimbursed for expenses incurred 1n furnishing the neces: sary printing of the- Association, the motion to include the detraying of Mr. Powell's expenses incurred while he was chair: man of the excarsion commjttee last fall. After some remarks by Mr. W. H. Dra-

Space/ Iw, [2w.|Bw.| 4 w.| 2m. &l‘m.jlym lin. | 100| 150| 200] 950 400} 500/ 800 o 21in. | 175 260| 895 875| & I'oo4ooo 18 00 Sin. | 250] 398| 400] 450! & 8 200 60 4in. | 300] 400| 500! 600! 7 9 50|14 00| 22 00 "A{col} 500] 635 725! 525/11 00{14 0020 00| 88 &6 Jgcoll 9001109511 5012 50{16 00/90 00/38 50! 60 &0 1 col. |l5 00{18 0030 00|28 00|37 00|36 00/80 00!100 6% " Local Notices will be for at the rate of fifteen cents per line forcmlnnmon. - _All legal ur:erusemenu must be paid for whep affidavit is made ; those requiring no affidavit mnet be paid for in advance. . 3 A { &¥"No deviation will be made from thess ritlés.

‘pier, of Indianapolis, and Mr. Luse, of Chicago, the Convention adjourned, first returning thanks to the citizens of South Bend for their -hospitality and courteous treatment, to the Good Templars for the: use of their Hall, and to James G. Clark, The next regular meeting will be held at Valparaiso, on the second Friday in O¢., tober. 3 : ey

. Of the entertainment, the Soutli’Bexid | Register speaks as follows: “The events i ofi the cditorial gathering follow each | other so thickly - that we can only give a ' condensed report — & mere epitome —of -the doings ot Friday night and the day following. The editors and their wives l(there ‘were but few 'bacnelors present} assembled in the Dwight House parlors - } in the evening, and it must be a joy for- - ~d¥er, in an editor's remembrance, to have been oue of that ‘fjovinl company. The atmosphere was fairly charged with the electricity of social feeling. The bangquet ° was a most bountiful and tempting one and the Dwight House has added one more to ita.laurels. Mr. Allen, the proprietor, had but a brief interval in which to prepare it, and how well he. improved that interval the repletion and unmingled satisfaction of the partakers thereof gave suffici€nt proof. As several of the visitors reniarked at the close of the entertainment, “it was good to be there.”, The music of the evening —the singing of Prof. Clark, was especially noteworthy ‘and was one of the pleasantest features, enlivening the occasion in the most acceptable manner.” . | ol A Gninen Gobbler at a State Dinner. " Mrs. Senator Revels, the wife of the distinguished “man and brother” who sits in the scat of Jefferson Davis in ‘the Upper Housc at Washington, arrived in that city on Thursday last, the 17th ult., and . was entertained the next day at a State dinner party by General Grant. General Butler, General Schenck, General Garfleld and other military imbeciles of note, ac. companied by their wives and daughters, were among the. company. The Easton ‘Argus says, Mrs. Revels passed from the drawing reom to the dining room on the arm of Senator. Samner, ‘and occupied & seat at the table bet\gee'n ‘that gentleman and the President. | (er conversation charmed the company even more than her appearance, although the refined and instinctive taste in dress in which the ladies of Guinen are -distingnished was sweetly apparent 1o the decoration of her person. A turban of mild scarlet with yel ' low border — a crimson moire antique, with blue and green floéhnces and buttons of dsinty brass--red" slippers with white rosettes—with a massive necklace of har - baric peatls—half a dozen “breast pine o curions workmanship-—a fow nnat’"rihgu and a gilt belt united to form & toilette in which purity and simplicity were ex quisitely united. Mrs. Revels partook freely of the Execitive nourishnient and avowed her satisfaction over the caokery at almost every bite with®a frankness . quite - refreshing in the saloons of the State. *See heah,” she remarked, 8s she passed her'plate for another cut of the ham-—“of all dem dishes guv me de hog and honiiny—Golly! but dat’s a sweet piece of bacon! Yah! Yah! ip ‘migds me of possum fat. Dese is good ¢ wokins, Hiram.” " This last observation was of course addressed to the partner of her bosom.— There was a general feeling at the-table that the “Court Circles”. had received in this estimable matron a remarkable addi- - tion. Om her departure at the “close of tha contertainment, Genergd Grant with his wanted urbanity, remarz:i that he ‘would like to see more of her, to which Mra Revels, with uncommon tact; replied: “Yah' Yah! Can't see no more of me dis tine: | but Tl'se gittin low-necked dresses. -Dis yeah high one was made down Souf.” ;

__The Death of Pure Whisky. A letter from the Bourbon region in Kentucky states: “The forty eight hour . system of fermentation now being enforced by. the revenne officers will effectually break up all the small distillers who de not use the patent chemical yeast.— So we are to have no more pure whisky. The making of good pure whisky is & slow and tedious business, ‘and the time required for fermentation is from four tosix days. - The whisky made so rapidly in - all the distilleries in Kentucky, and palmed off on credulous dealers as bourbon and copper-distilled, is very similar to the common Cincinnati article, being made in the same way, with the'same yeast, the only material difference being - that it is “doublea,’ while the latter is not. The ‘“beer” and “singlings” are all run at such a high degree of temperature as to foree fusil oil and other impurities’ into the spirits, msaking a compound which should be dubbed “fusil oil” instead of bourbonm, etc. The law was framed for the Lenefit of. the large and wealthy distillers at the instance of the “ring,” and to break down the smaller ones, and this is being effectually accomplished. : : e~ — e e Children that Never Cry. . . There is a lady in this city whois the mother of five bealthy, and intelligent children, the ‘oldest of whom is about vight years old. A singular fact in con: ' ‘nection with these children is, that not one of them has ever been known to cry.. They have been victims to the pains and aches that child flesh is heir to, yetall . the signs of pain they have ever manifeated are low moans, They nevercry. In other things they are as other children, fall of fun' and mirth, and, more than ordinary healthful. A physician pow in this city, who h}: been steady in the practice of his profession for a third of & century, says this is the most remarkable thing' that ever came under his olserva-tinn,'f_:-%A_flam New Era. Sl g £ Jolin ‘s&;izh'b@ép?wim’ our lesson. ‘What does g.al-w-:ssza;gel ' ‘Well I knew ‘Pshaw ! :n;}m'&:i@;:m wothet's Window. | snshes? ‘There is so many things that - pw‘m Din ,«" 3 ‘jfim)c,w’s%"ffig@m&s:& s,, Patienod’s be » I B e R R ) S e S