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‘Besistance to Tyrants is Obodionce to God.’ i - J.B.STOLL.EDITOR, = e WEDNESDAY, APR. 27, 1870, e ————————— DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET For Secretary of State: Col. NORMAN EDDY, of South Bend. For Auditor of Btate : v JOIIN C. SHOEMAKER, of Perry Co. ' For Treasurer of State : JAMES B. RYAN, of Indianapolis. | For Attorney General: BAYLESS W. HANNA, of Terre Haute, Tor Sup't of Publie Instruction: Rev. MILTON B. HOPKINS, of Clinton. ; ° For Supreme Judges: JAMES L. WORDEN, of Fort Wayne, A. C. DOWNEY, of Ohio County, SAMUEL H. BUSKIRK, of Monroe Co., JOHN PETTIT, of Lafayette. . T 4 E Ry A Notice to Subscribers. | The présent issue closes the fourth volume of ché NATIONAT, BANNER. As we‘ send no‘paper after the subscription has expired, all of our patrons‘who began with the: present volume will ‘please observe that their time hg{l now expired. To snch we wouh‘,llrespei%fully urge a renewal of their; patronage, and hope to be able to supply them with a paper that will.be'a welcome visitor to the family,— We trust that our friends throughout the county will aid us by doing what they can-to retain all our present subscribers, and add as many more to our list as are able to take a good live local paper.

_.MORTON AND THE PRESIDENCY. _That there exists, in .the republican ranks of Indiana, a fecling of intense hostility to Senator Morton, has tong since ceased to be a political secret ; and that this opposition is steadily gaining ground, is a fact which none who have an oppor tunity of gaining information from political opponents will for a moment call; in question. Witkin the past two months ive have heurd prominent Repliblicans denounce this unscrupulons demagogue in the most violent terms—the epithets ap-

- plied to him exceeding anything that ever reached our ear ‘in. hearing judgment - passed on one who occupies so prominent a position in the council of his party.— [ Others, less vehement, have no hesitancy * in.expressing it as theéir conviction that Morton is a bad man, and that all his actions are guided by selfish motives instead ‘of "devotion to principle. Whilst these Republicans concede higs ability, they have - learned that his unscrupulousness unfits him for a safe and trusted leader. [n proof of this fact, we submit the following from the Indianapolis Sun, a re- " cently established independent republican paper. Under the caption, “Morton and the Presidency,” it says : o * The Journal yesterday morning contained a seven column bid from O, P. Morton for the Presidency. The contortions of this magnificent artist on the Presidential tight-rope are quite as voluminous a 8 those of George Francis Train, but not half so sengible. As a political ‘jumping-jack, Morton is a success — Whipped to political death in the Demo cratic party by George W. Julian, he : lubnndoned his natural associates, and by a dint of strategy, fastened his public kite - to the tail of Henry\S. Lane's coat; and * on the personal popularity ‘of that distinguished géntleman, sailed into the Guhernatorial Chair, where he served three years and a half before he discovered that fie had not been Governor atall, but only ‘acting.” . Another turn at. the kite under ‘the management of Major Schlater, and jthe manipulations of a few politicians and the “IHome Guards,” made him Governor, | ”l‘l‘en came the Senate as a rewarl, and hext the Presidency., if any political shyster in the country “has? succeeded in making himself believe ‘that he has made a large report with an extremely small piece of artillery, that man is Motton. Five years ago when honest lovers of. liberty demanded the freedom and . enfranchisement of the ne- . grg, but when the question was one of . Joubtful popularity, Morton’s natural instincts led him to make a speech—he always makes speeches, having a weakness in that direction—in which he tried to prove the negro still lower in the animal scale than the most bigoted friend of slavery had ever asserted him to be. A few * yeard later the pation, through a majority of ‘the States, conferred upon the negro the natural rights which he should have enjoyed years ago, and the-Presidertial aspirant raises upon his stick and compla. cently eyeing the White House, says:-— “Behold my work; I have not only lib- .- erated the colored man, but have Ufted him to all the rights of citizenship.” He has the impudence to claim' the credit of ~ doing ‘a work which the people did in spite of him, and more than that, believes the colored people are as ignorant and besotted as he has claimed they were, and that therefore they must believe it. He will probably discover his mistake two ! years hence .when he presents his claims - tothe National Convention for' the Presidency. ; .

'fo Democrats. ‘ A contemporary very justly remarks that every Democrat ought to take his County, District, or State paper. If he loves the Democratic prindiples, he sure--1y ean afford four cents a week to spread them. ' The cost of a paper is no excuse for not taking one. ' There is not a week passes by but that five times four centsare - spent foolishly, which might have been ~better invested in a newspaper. Two dollars invested ina pgpér like the BAXXER, buys more reading matter than twenty dollars will in the shape of books, A man may ﬁ d books all his life, but if he [ails to rei&a the papers, he may be called ignorant, 5; Without a newspaper, a person is virtually out of the world, and by raising aclab ot ten for ‘the BANNER, you “will secure a copy for one year gratis, be- . sides the handsome present of a book, as ‘will be seen by reference to our prospec- /!| ) < i ‘hlqy‘unt' Tone in Business Circles A New York dispatch states there was a buoyant and improved tone in business _circles, on receipt of the news from Washington that the senate funding bill had ‘been rejected entirely by the ways and menns committee of the house. Nothing .is knmown positively in regard to the new fandiog bill which will bo reported, but there are good seasons for t_;hbo’ﬂnion urbved; { 0 - N 0 com e ,;.‘.'jii g bonds will bear a dow rate of interest, say 4 per.cent,, and s Ny

“THE GROUND-SWELL AMONG THE PEOPLE>” | " Nothing can be clearer to the o}mrver of political events than the fact that a mutiny of enorimous dimensjons is immi- | nent in the ranks of the republican party. The spirit of insubordination to the behests of heretofore trusted leaders is manifested in every locality. Prominent journals, noted for their readiness to defend the action of the party in power whenever defense was possible, stand aghast at the iniqnities enacted with astoundin rapidity, and in vain seek to disguise the feelings of disgust engendered thereby. The more independent portion of the republican press have long since entered their ‘earnest protest against the follies and crimes committed under the guise of party necessity, and it cannot be otherwise than gratifying to the friends of Jjustice and truth that journals of minor importance are gradually advancing to a similar standpoint of independence. The disposition of Congress to destroy the civil government of the first recon - structed State of the Union—Tennessee— | and substitute in Its place a military despbti‘slﬁ to appease the cravings of public plunderers, has aroused a storm of indig- | nation that struck terror to the hearts of | Congressmen who were loth to admit, until now, that the voice of the people shoul 1 i _be regarded in legislating upon these sub | ‘jedts. The high-handed performances of | 'a military commander- in applying his | power to the achievement of political dis- | tinction, sf_pd procuring bis election to the United States Senate from u State of ~which he has not even expressed a desire to become a citizen, has caused thousands ‘ to pause and ask themselves, “What are | ~we coming to?” The speeches of Trum- l -bull, Schurz, Edmunds, Carpenter and Conkling, in opposition to a total destruc- j tion of constitutional authority, have not fallen upon barren ground, even if treated with derision by that reckless band of political jobbers who, unfortunately, con- ! trol the Senate of the United States. That these are not mere assertions, we have only to turn te the. pages of such republican papers as are not altogether governed by hopes of reward for partisan drudgery, and quote from their columns. Read, for instance, the following extracts :

(From the Janesville, Wis., Ga-zenpgj v Any, candid man will admit that the fitst“cast of Grant’s Cabinet was a blunder, and to deny ‘that our party has not been guilty of othef grave mistakes and follies,” would be to deny facts that are as patent as the universal testimony of the public can make them. ‘We need not go into details to illustrate this subject, as the general statement will be accepted as true by every -man wlio hus the average kpowledge of public affairs. G * * & % Inthe earlier days ot the republic, parties were so nearly equal that the one out of power was a constant check upon the one that was administering the government’s affairs, but the Republican party of to day knows no such restraint, and unless men inside of its own ranks raise their voices in rebuke and warning, on proper occasions, its purity and usefulness will soon end. If we turn to the Senate of the United States, that body which used to be the battle ground of conflicting politics, we find the remnant of the Democratic party so small and insignificant that it is incapable of making a protest, much less of offering any oppo sition to any measure proposed by the Repuklican majority. 8o it is not strange that we see some abuse of this unlimited power in the Senate, or hear, as we did the other day,a distinguished Senator proclaiming in his place, that a certain thing ought to be done, “constitution or no constitution.” In the darkest days of the late rebellion, when the blackness of despair covered the land as the waters cover the great deép, a Senator was re minded by a colleague that a certain proposition of his could not be carried out on account of the constitutional objections to it. He answered promptly, “Let us do it, then, in the name of God.” In the trying agony of that hour it might have been excusable to act first and look up constitutional warrants after all danger was passed, but the country isnot willing now tosee the constitution violated, even upon the high authority proposed by the Senator, and we prefer toat things may go on “in the name of God,” though according to the constitution of the United States. )

~ The Bloomington (I 11. Pantagraph, in a very able article in commendation of tge boldness with which the Chicago 77ibuygie leads the van of the opposition to corruption, fraud, and disregard of constitational rights, uses the following language: L | !

“We hold that no paperis worthy to be the agent of the Republican party which has not sufficient, discretion to discern its shortcomings, and sufficient independence to say sO.: The great hody of voters who compose the party are not blind, and it is quite evident just now that they do not mean to be dumb.— They are everywhere giving signs of discontent, like those which preceded the fall of Vaa Buren and the election of General Harrison. Independent tickets, citizen’s tickets, and mixed tickets of all kinds, are the indexes to this feeling.— The people demand reform, and their representatives heed not the cry. They dre too busy in personal axe-grindings.— The franking ug)euse is uncorrected ; the taxes are not reduced; the banks and the monopolies rulé: all le%'i*slat.ion; and the people are offered the placebo of a Mormon war. Reconstruction ceases to be a na‘tional necessity and becomes a party pretext. Congress violates its own laws, contemns its Judiciary Committee, and subﬁs Il to partisanship. Its own most patriotic Republican members, like Senator C rgeuter, tell it to its face that it no longer' regards the constitution. Senator Behurz demands of Congress whether it - has become so powerless as only to be able to execute its laws by brcaking the law.— The black Senator from M ississi ppi shames his white compeers by a liberality and ‘a forbearance which are the highest states manship. And yet the great body of the peo({;le's representatives go on from day to day without discerning the signs of the ‘times. Tl }

“I¢ is time there was a new deal. Republicanism is more important than party organization, and the party is more than its reckless representatives, The coming Congressional election will make such a rattling of dry bones as jwill astonish all who have forgotten the great uprising of 1840, when reform swept the country like 8 besom. Mere party machinery cannot alwlys control the populaz vote, nor will official patronage buy back an office which has-been prostituted td selfish purposes.”

_ Let all who are not totally blindcd by partisan prejudice rejoice that there is at last an awakening to a sense of justice.— And now, we call vpon all friends of good govermment to unite and make a common issue against the despoilers of the nation’s honor. . 5 2

'The Irish Force law has aot enforced’ submission” on the Irish. The Fenians are reported to be unusually active.— Large seizures have been made by the pe- | lice of arms and other war material.— Even in London, the men who make Canada shiver have fri‘fhtened an obnoxious newspaper half to death, : :

NOTES AND COMMENTS. The New Albany Ledger is authority for the statement that Judge Perkins is on the verge of insanity, and, as a natoral consequence, manifests a- disposition to Join the radical party. - It is stated that Geo. W. Julian will run as an independent-candidate for Congress. - This, we think, is a mistake. He will, in gll probability, loom up as a candidate for United States Senator, to succecd the disgusted Pratt, in the event of the latter's resignation.

. The Indianapolis Journal expresses an earncst desire that Jesse D. Bright may be elected Governor of Kentucky, for the reason, as it naively remarks, that! *he is an outspoken enemy of the Government, and would better represent the feelings of the people of Kentucky than any other of her leading men.” Cogent argument, for a loyal paper !

The Indianapolis Vollsblait contains a lengthy and ably-written editorial, 1n which the writer forcibly demonstrates the atter impossibility of the German Republicans éantinuing their present party relation. The accession of the negro vote, which can'readily be manipulated in the interest of monopolists-and political demagogues, has produced among radical leaders an indifference for the wishes of the Germans, that must soon ripen -into open hostility in the West, and result in the final disruption of the republivan party.

Before .the adjournment of the Ohio Legislature, the democratic members of that body submitted a protest against the pretended ratification of the fifteenth amendment. They denounce its adoption as a base fraud, and predict that the pre: cedent ecstablished thereby will finally work out the avnihilation of the party that perpetrated the frand. The speaker refused to allow the protest to be entered® upon the official record.

As the convention has now been called, announcements of candidates will be in order. Our terms are $4 to subscribers, and to those who do not take their home paper, $6. By this process, we endeavor to prevent the pitiable sight of having a candidate before the convention who does nothing to sustain his party organ in the county, while at the same time expects it to labor for his success, night and day.— Northern Indianian. g {

We have no heqiiancy in saying that we wouldi not supoort a man for a county of: fice who is not a regular subscriber to the local organ of his own party. A man who is too niggardly to support hLis home paper should be given to. understand that his name shall not disgrace a tieket for popular soffrage. e * Judge Bradléy shonld be impeached. He has declined to sit on;the case involving the validity of the legal-tender act, for the reason that he was once counsel in & suit involving the same qucstion.q Such consistency i 3 out of place in a ridical judge. 2 e Various county clerks in California refuse to register colorqd citizens as voters, unti! the apinion of the Attorney-General ot the State is received. Over fifty democratic members of the legislature have addressed a letter to the clerk of Sacramento, congratulating him on his refusal to enroll the colored people as voters under the fifteenth amendment, stating that they will support him with all the mora, and, if need be, aly the physical force God has given them, ! . Colonel C. L. Dunham bas announced himself as a candidate forthe democratic nomination for Congress, in the Second Indiana District. , Col. Dunham is a most ¢xcellent man’ anl would make a worthy representative in Congress, but candor compels us to say that the Democracy of the country cannot well afford to dispense witli the services of the Hon. M. C. Kerr, who, we think, should be re-elected for at least one more term. s : S

Editors of democratic newspapers, having the temerity to aspire to official positions, do not fare well this year in the conventions that usually determine these trifling preliminaries. 'ln tLe State convention, two editors—DMr. Matthews of the New Albany Ledger, and the writer of this paragraph—met with a slight reverse; in' Johnson county, M. R. Slater; editor ot the Franklin Herald, was recently de feated for Representative, and in Frank: lin county, W. B. Maddock, of the Brookville Democrat, was denied the pleasure of devoting his attention to the duties of the Auditor’s office. ~What does it mean ? Morton recently delivered a speech on the eorgis question in which he took the most ultra grounds in favor of military despotism and scalawag rule in the South. As usual, its contents consisted of gross misrepresentations and vile denun ciations. A desperate effort is being made by the Indianapolis Journal to give the speech espesial significance, but rightthinking Republicans freely denounce its bloodthirsty tone. A very intelligent gentleman visiting Washington writes to the Sentinel that “Morton’s speech is a confessed failure and has fallen still born here. It was the lowest pot house stuif ever delivered in the Senate.” The same gentleman says the following comment of a Washington newspaper expresses the ‘prevailing sentiment in regard to the ‘character of the speech : ; : “Senator Morton has seen a “Ku Kluxer,” and has given us an elaborate history of the wonderful creature, the sketeh of which makes eleven yards of type in the @lobe. By the way, the elegant Chandler rather upset the Indiana Senator in declaring his twenty-seventh effort upon the Georgia fraud, a plate of hash. That announcement came with bad grace from the just, virtuous, charitable, honorable, cultivated chairman of the Smelling Com- - mittee, Oh! Senator, for shame!” i Prom the perusal of several articles copied into this paper from the columns of the Evansville Courier, it will be ob‘served that our friend Whittlesey has _completely discarded his negro suffrage proclivities. He has made the discovery that the Democracy.can gain far more by holding the Radicals to strict accountability for foreing an odious measure upon the people than by a vain effort to divide the negro vote; and.being convinced of this fact, the editor of the Courier returns to his former position and is doing gal. lant service in battling for white suprem ‘acy. We now pertise tbecdiom?gaﬁfor “ous editorials with much more delight than was the case two months since.

- CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. - Tuvespay, April 19.—The Senate was in session for fifteen consecutive liours to-day, the session holding until 2 o’clock ‘on Wednesday morning, the principal part of the time being devoted to the Georgia bill. The Bingham amendment has been rejected. - After the close of the morning hour, the bill came up, and Mr. Fowler, of Tennessee, opened the debate. The Senate voted on the amendments, and Mr. Pomeroy’s substitute for Mr. Wilson's amendment wasadopted by a vote of yeas 87, nays 24. It declares the existing government of Georgia provisional, constitutes the State the third military district, and provides for.an election for a Legislature in November next. In the 'House of Representatives the contested ‘election case of Sypher ¢Rad.) against St. Martin (Dem.) was discussed during the nforning hour. The latter had only 28,000 majority over his competitor, but by the shameless partisanship of the House will be rejected. f

WEDNESDAY, April 20.—The Georgia bill, with Mr. Psmeroy’s amendment, passed the United States Senate at the close of the protracted session of Tuesday night by a vote of 27 to 25. The Democfaats présent did not vote, but the extreme /| Radicals all voted in the negative: The | bill, as amended, turns the State over to milimrg rule again, and requires an election for a new Legislature in November next. [t also wirtually defeats the pians of the Bullock' carpet-baggers to perpetuate their power. The bill Was returned to the House of Representatives, and on motion of Mr. Butler was referred to the -Reconstruction Committee, In the House Mr. Paine introduced a bill to reduce the | duties on imports ten per cent. The contested election case of Sypher (Rad.) against St. Martin (Dem.) was taken up, and the House, by a strict partiz n vate, | passed the resolution to admit Sypber, notwitbstanding that he was defeated by the people by over 12,000 majority. Just as Mr. Sypher was advancing to the Speaker's desk to . take the oath, Mr. Brooks, of New York, arese and objected,

on the ground thate bargain had been made with Sypher by the irbn interests of Pennsylvania to have hid vote on that side. The annonncement fell like & thunder clap orf the western frec trade Radicals. A motion to] reconsider the admission of Sypher was carried by a vote of 85 to 79, and a substitute adopted declaring the election in' the First District of Loui- . siana invalid. After this grand defeat of the carpet-baggers, the House adjourned. Tuurspay, April' 21.—1 n the Senate; Mr. Spencer, from the Committee of Commerce, reported favorably, and with out amendment, the bill incorporating the Cincinnati and Chattanooga Railroad Company, -with a eapital. of $5,000,089. 1‘ Mr. Kellogg, from the same committee, re. i ported, without amendment, the House | f!)ill declaring the Towa river north of the 1 ‘town ‘of Wapella, Colorada, a public: | highway. The Northern Pacific Railroad bill ' was discusséd. by Messrs. Casserly, Stewart, and Howard, and an amendment. l requiring free transportation of troops and munitions of war, was rejected. The amendment that the lands not sold in five years after the completion of the road be subject to pre-cmption at two dollars and ‘ fifty eents per acee, was agreed to. The amendment. that Congress may at any time alter or amend this joint resolutinn | was ‘adopted. A° proviso was inserted ;&.thys‘it American iron and steel be exclusive-| 1y used in the construction of the road.— the bill was then passed 40to 11. In i‘ the House, the discussion of the-Louisiana electi'n case was proceeded with, upon | the resolution offered yesterday by Mr. i Kerr, providing for the notification of the Governor of the State. Mr. Stevenson | made-a speech in defense of Mr. Sypher‘sA} claim, remarking that if the House had | abided by its vote all the seats from Lau- | isiana: would be vacated. ' He ‘proposed, l therefore, that the resolution be withheld until that fact could be decided. [The resolution was finally tabled, and the House resumed the- consideration of the bill to revise, consolidate and amend the statutes relating-to patents and copyrights.” The House thén went into Committee of the Whole on the naval appro- | priation bill. The bill appropriates $l6,- | 641,845, Mr. Washburne, of Wiseonsin, | made a general statement as'to its provis l ions, and condemnued: the action of Secre- | tary Wells'in réviving the!allowances to | naval officers that were in existence prior ! to 1835. “As to the condition of the navy, i he said the ships of the ravy did no good to the country at home or abroadi Fhe ! position of the navy was most humiliating, the war ships of the United States being the derision of the world. Referring %o the commercial iron steamships of England, be said by them what | ttle | ‘of American commerce there was left | “could be swept from the ocean in sixty | days. He thought it well to consider ‘ whether the United States might net i divert a part of the money now spent for | the navy, in encouraging the building of § a class of ships that would be peacefut in | peace and useful in war. The House, in committee of the whole, resumed its eonsideration of the tariff bill. Several additional amendments were offered to the section relative to scrap iron, but all were rejected, which was finafly passed over; while the discussion of such amendmente in' relation to . serap-iron occupied the principal portion of theday. The entire evening was occupied in an effort to obtain Aaquorum. . S : /FRIDAY, April 22.—1 n the Senate, Mr. | Sumner, from the committe on foreign relations, reported adversely the bill to pay Mr. McKensie $44,800 in addition to 50,000 already paid him for defending Fenian prisoners. The Senate then took up Mr. Chandler’s resolution directing the president of the United States to appoint commissioners to open negotiations for’ the anuexation of the Winnipeg district as a territory or state. After alengthy debate the resblution was referred to the committee on foreign relations. _ BaTumpAY, April 23.—There was no session. of the Semate to-day. In ghe -House, Erasmus D. Peck was admitted to tho seat 'vacated by the death ot Mr. Hoag, of the Tenth District of Ohio.— Indefinite leave of absence is, in no case, to extend beyond the 2d day of May,— | The House has refused to concur in the Senate gubstitute lor}*hziinoom&mwz; : ﬁr MMMm.amu the amend. _ment inemnb}gthe amount of exemption,

and said that the committee on ways and means would, in due time, report a general bill on that.subject less inquisitorial. The nature of the tax would also be mod. ified. He did hot believe the tax could be abolished witbout continuing other taxes more odious and vexatious. The to tal number of persons who paid the income tax .was 272,843, Of this number over 107,000 paid $2O or less, and if the excmption were raised $2,000, that class would becut off. The second class, that paid between $2O and $5O, numbers 69,184 ; the third class, that paid between $5O and $lOO, numbered 41,196 the fourth class, that paid between $lOO and $2OO, numbered over 45 000 ; and those who paid over $2OO numbered 19,464 — M. Voorhees favored the continuence of ﬁhé income ‘tax, and declared lit as his opinion that the most Lnpopular thing the House could do would be to abolish it. — Instéad jof being too inquisitorial, ‘he would make it more so. Messrs. Coburn, Jucd, Mchry, and Farnsworth express. ed similar views, after which action was taken as above stated. Al

MoOXNDAY, April 25.-—-A hill was introduced in the Senqte to provide for theenf"oﬁ'cement ofthe fifteenth amendment,—. In thie House, Mr. Sargent presented a bill. providing that on the 30th of June next there shall be a’reduction of 15 per cent. on internal taxes, and 10 per cent. on import duties; except 6n spirits, tobacco, and cigars. The paragraph of the tariff bill relative to iron in slabs, &e., was reached and verbally amended to correspond with that relativé to iron bars, rolled or hammered. Mr. Burdett, from the election committee, reported in the election case from the Fourth District’ of Louisiana, that Michael Ryan is not entitled to a seat, and J. P. Newsham is.

~ Tukspay, April 26.—1 n the Senate, a bill has been introduced to reduce the army to 20,0000 before July 1, 1871. The bill reported 1n the House for fortification appropriations, appropriates $1,264, - 750. The principal ‘portion of the day was devoted to the tariff bill, the sections discugsed relating to duties on iron. ¢ s ot —**b—r__ F ey i i ) How to Advertise, The following excellent remarks relative to the most judicious mode’ of advertising, are.from the Hartford Courant.— As the business season has opened, and. the enterprising dealers arezcogi‘tating on the best method of securing the attention and patronage of the public, the sngges: tions will prove useful to them :

” The sccret of advertising is not yet dis- : covered. by al! who advertise. A good deal of money and space i§ wasted in clumSy anaouncements which -nobody reads, and:héavy standing placards which no more stimulate purchiasers than the names ﬂon signs. Much money is also wastdd in E cir¢ulars which are thrown into entries. ' and down cellar ways, and always receivad i with contempt ; or in so-called advertis ! ing sheets, which nobody~reads. There | is no medium that comes jinto such close i contact with the people as the newspaper; and-f advertisers only understand their business they could make their part of the paper as interesting as any other part of it.' In many of the German papers ad--vertising is carried to an extent of which we bave no idea. The newspaper is the real exchange. Everybody igoes to iit. with all his wants, and almost all his WQes. The consequence is that the sheets are'as lively as neighborhood gossip, and often { the pages devoted to advertising are the - best parts of the paper. “And the papers are read through. The anuouncements’ are always short, and one looks at thém to see what the world has to offer him ‘that_day, by way of business or amusement. Somebody, somewhere, announces ‘something “that interests you every day, ‘and so life is made more endurable, trade is quickened, and wants.are supplied.— We lock to see a more general use of the advertising columns of newspapers in this ‘country for all the wants and queries of life. . v el P—— Enfor¢ement of the 15th Amendment. The bill to enforce'the Fiftcenth Amendment, reperted in the United States Senate, provides that all citizens of the United States, otherwise qualified by law, sball be entitled and- allowed *o vote at all elections, without distinction of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, Penalties of fine and imprisonment are provided for the failure of official s to al-. low opportuanity to perform any necessary: prerequisites of state or territorial laws: Persons deprived of any office, excpt thatof member of congress or of the state legislature, by reason of a violation of the foregoing provisions, may recover possession through the United States courts.— United States district courts shall have, exclusive of state courts, cognizance of all crimes and offences against the provisions of the acs. All officers of the United States are required, under penalty of $l,OOO, to institute and enforee - proceedings thereunder, and the president is authorized to employ the land and naval forces or the militia to enforee its exeention. ] R f

[ Buying Senator’s Votes. _ The World's Wgshington corréspondent’says that notwithstanding the denials of Bullock and of others that the investiga{tion of the Judiciary Committee have led ‘to.any important results, there is authority for the statement that the evidence when published will be very damaging: to the Bullock branch ot the Georgia Rad‘icals.. It Issaid that there is evidence: which leaves no sort of doubt that Bul- ‘ Tock’s friends'werelready to put up $10;000 in order to get Mr. Carpenter’s vobse for their scheme of prolonging the terms of the Georgia Legislature, but Mr. Carpenter, of course, repelled the sugpestiom. Mr. Edmunds, who moved in this matter, is not apt to go off halfcocked. It has ) beer observed 'thﬁt for several days past ) Bullock has been hardly seen in the Sen_ate at all, so that Edmund’s resolation of \l inquiry§has done some good already. b — 4 —— ' 7 'fhe Mormon Question.

~Utah’s newly appointed governer, Col. Shaffer, arrived at Corinne, on the evening of the 20th instadt, and was publicly received by the mayor and citizens of the city. In answer to the reception speech by the mayor, the governor replied briefly, stating that be was in Utah for the purpose of enforcing the laws of the United States, aad when he could not do this he ‘would return home ; that the constitution and laws must be respected every-, where, and that Utah Territory would not be made an exception. ' J udges Hawley and Strickland, of the Supreme Court,and General Maher, register of the land office, followed the governor, showing the intention of Governor Shaffer to suppress polygamy, and compel Utah to submit to the authority of the government at YYashe ington, e o

. POLITICAL ITEMS. - A& million ¢nd a-half has been added to the deficiency bill. We suppose ¢his must be another evidence ofp radical economy. - St : The test of Thomas Jefferson when selecting men for office, was ;| “Ig he capable? Ishehonest ? Is he faithful to the Constitution?” Grant .inquires, *“Did he give me anything.” . This notorious Radical Congress has chartered a Foundling Hospital. Of course such a beneficent act does not mean that these chaste men intend thereby to make their luxuries a charge upon the public treasury. Oh, no ! ? b

It is said that the new Senator, Morgan C. Hamilton from Texas, never smoked a cigar, took a drink, or kissed a woman We predict he will be like the new hired girl, when asked if she ever had any experience as a wet nurse. She said she hadn’t, but she could soon learn. ek

~~ There is one Radical paper in Ohio, the Columbus Journal, and only one, that appreciates the gituation exactly. Speaking about the time occupied in Congress Ly useless measures, it says : “Tlie people don't care so much about polygamy in, Utah—they want their taxes reduced.” ' :

~An important meefing of editors and other influential persons in the Republican party favorable to free trade was held in Washington on Thursday, and a committee appointed to call a general reform convention. This is an cntering wedge to a split in the Republican ranks. ) T

- The Terre Haute Journal says that at the recent celebration of the colored people in that city, an orator of that pursuasion :made the prediction that “by the time the 20th century comes to-hand the icolored race will' be so much the intellectual superiors:of the white people that the latter will have to .“stand back !”’ ) ,

The Terre Haute Journal says : 1t is understood that the regular politisians in the Radical party were very much disappointed in . the thow of voters in the negro demonstration last Thursdiy. They expect to .see at least four linndred Vigoounty colored votere, but as the number did not reach half that amount they are beginuing to be again friendly with our naturalized citizens. . .

If Judge Wilson is the Radical candidate for Congress in the Fourth Congressional District, he may get the negro vote, but he will lose many white men’s votes, for the Judge never run much with the common people. ‘He is, in his manner and spirit as well as in his habits, aristocratic as he.ig both selfish and penurious. Such a man can never represent the interests of the common- people.—lnd. Sentinel.: There must be a striking resemblance between Judge Wilson and onr whilom friend, Andy Ellison. i P— Effect of Negro l:q:mllg_v. As our readers are aware, the negroes of the-country have now been made the entire equals of Americans by birth, and the superior of German's Irish, French, ete. : : . The result- of this is exhibited in the recent elections. At Springfield, 111., the negro voted the radieal ticket, solid, and yet the democrats carried every thing. : : g b In Clexfmout county, Ohio, four hundred negroes voted the. radical ticket on the Monday previous, and " yet the county gave an increased democratic majority. : ' "~ At New Richmond 107 voted the radical ticket. On the same day the Germans joined the democratic party in a body, and with their aasistance the radicals were completely routed. At Felicity ninety-five blacks voted the Tadical ticket. while respectable republicans voted with the democrats, giving them a majority of 10S. - . At Batavia the blacks came down on the pollslike an avalanche,bat without effect. They were drilled during Saturday and Sunday, and taught how to reach the ballot box. They were met at the polls by the German republicans who voted, almost to a man, with the democrats. With two inconsiderable exceptions, all the townships show an increased democratic gain.— FEvansville Cowrier. .. - = w

Negro Women and Children Peclared 3 to be Voters by Grant! - In Grant’s proclamation notifying -the two houses of congress of the ratification of the fifteenth amendment, he Bays : : ~ “A measure which makes, at onte, ' FOUR MILLIONS of people voters * ~* * * s indeed a measure of l grander importance than, any other act of the kind, from the foundation of our free government to the present time.” - If Grant’s proclamation is sufficient - authority to make negro voters, or as radicals claimed then, according to ! the terms of that proclamation, every | negro man, woman and child in the land }is avoter! The negro population -of the country is known to be alittle less ‘\tban four ‘millions, and Grant’s pro- ' clamation declares that the ratification of the 15th amendment having been accomplished, “ths measure makes at . ouce FOUR MILLIONS of people votérs "who were heretofore declared by the highest tribunal in the land not citizens of the United States,” According to | the proclamation,by authority of which | negro men of this city voted on last | Monday, negro women and children | are entitled to the ‘ballot, or, as Grant elegantly. expresses it, are. “made voters.” How da white woman’s suffrage advocates like it? — Evansville Courier. A i o el -Carr, who was hung in Belmont Co., Ohio, the other day, admitted that his first sin was voting the radical ticket. | A frightful tragedy occurred in Baltimore on Thursday, and threw the “whole city into intense excitement.— Mre. Qaroline Marsh butchered her five children and cut her own throat. She was not dead at the last account. A gold gamblers’ canard about the ;imminency of war between the United States and Spain agitated Washington and New York on Thursday.— President Grant authorized correspondents to deny the report. Gold advanced ‘slight{y on the receipt of the first news. Sk A ~ After some weeks of preparation and attempted compromise between capitalists and laborers, the Paris strikes have begun in earnest. - The foundrymen ‘ang_“monlders. about fifteen thous- | and strong, led off on Wednesday, and were fomdé by the tailors, sugar-re-finers, and hat-makers. ‘The houseP“WMWN strike soon..

The Denth of Lopes, = = ' _ The news of the defeat and death of exPresident Lopez, of Paraguay, is- fully. confirmed. The ‘Brazilian General Ca-. mara, who commanded in the final attack on Lepez, has sent three “dispatches toRio de Janeiro with particulars of the action. Lopez was wounded, and, ref"tié-‘ Jing to surrendor,a-weus at once dispatched. One of his sons was also killed. * His two families, the legitimate and the illegitimate, including Madame Lynch, fell into the bands of the conquerors, . Madaine is to be shi_mied back to Europe with her children. Perhaps her hushand, the deserted Irish surgeon in tlxc:’i'?tcnch"nrmy;_'_ may be looking for her, Notwithstanding the fall of Lopez, it does not ‘appear that the last, spark of opposition te ;Bmzili_nn‘ domination is crushed out. General Ca: balh}o is still in the field, and - may ‘give the Brazilians as much trouble, before he is caught, as his plucky master..’ s ity O A —— ik : - Gov. Baker made an‘nass of himself by declaring at a recent gmgrd ju“bpilqe in Lafayctte that before the ratification of the fiftcenth amendment the negroes had *no country”—just ‘as though ‘there was no Afrie. . T iaian oy 5Y 7o i i es T Qucen - Victora and the Princess of Wales had a narrow eseape from . being dashed to pieces by a ruwmaway- horse, while riding near Iste of Wight, on Friday. The driver of the royal carriage was lucky enough to save the royal lives by skilful handling of the reins. = . = : e — - PD—— Governor Palmer, of Illinois, says-: “I'am an o6ld fashioned states. rights man. . I would not interefere with the proper duties of the federa) government, and would resist all enroach"ments from that quarter upon the proper powers and duties. of the states,” There iz wisdom and truth and courage in - these words—such.as we have not often heard in these recent years of perjury and madness and ty--ranny. If Palmer would act as boldly, as he.speaks patriotically, there would be a share of caution apparent in the violent “acts of congress,.—FEvansville Courder. -.. v Daw o g gl

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July 21, 1869.~1y ) : S s e Corporation Ordinance. : Bsit Ordained by the Board of Trustees of the- - of Ligonier, 1k oy That the following pieces of sidewalk men: tioned “in this Ordinance, shall be built 'in accordance with s;:eciﬁcatinns furnished by the Marshal of said Town.. to be completed by ihé first day of July, 1870: 2 X e On south side of Fourth street, between Cavin ~ - and Mclean streets. e & 3 On south- side of First street,” between Martin and west line of said Corporation. From railroad track ruvuninE north, on west side of Chatham street, to Fulton street. | v ‘On eust side of Chatham street, to the interseetion of Miller street. : Kor further particulars and specification, parties are referred to the Marshal of the Town of Ligonier, . & | . By order of the Board of Trustees.: : : E. D. MILLER, Clerk. April 13, 1870.-504. . Corporation Election. 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