The National Banner, Volume 5, Number 3, Ligonier, Noble County, 18 May 1870 — Page 1

IHE 'WATIONAL BANNER, | ' Published Weekly by JOHN B. S'_I‘OLL, HWIGONIER, NOBLE COUNTY, IND l /+~—+‘f—-~-»v~4.r— ¥oo ety | 4 ,’HEEIS- OF SUBSCRIPTION : Strictlyin SAYANCE. .. oeeivnieenniininer. . $9.00 B This bﬁxﬁr is ipubh'ahed on the Cash Prlndrk, its Proprietor believing that it is just as right for hym to'demand. dvance pay,as it 18 for City publishers. | g An 't:-soxi aendi'nF: club of 10, accompan"ed wltg the cash, will be. entitled toa copy of tRe paper, for one year, free of charge. :

| #on :ﬂd a;er}day 1, 1870, trains will leave Sta«jong ag follows : e : 5 i GOING EAST: { : Express. ' Mail Train, Chicag0....L...........%0?.-!.......7:50& t PRlRhart oLI BA, M, LI e Goshen. .bi s i YOB L 0 10UB R, ﬁillegsbnrgs. sUL RTOBY. ..o 0 108 ¢ igomier Jibd . oiiniih FOBS L Ll 1480 4 Wawaka..;...... ...(don’tstoP) AR TR TR grlmneld e R o T enaaliviling ..i Qe 0L L Beoo | Arrive at Poledo ......10:80 A x ........5:56 ** GOING WEST: : Ezxpress: Maillrain: Toledo .«.viiiviiivivic BRORS M. ... 980 & Kenda11vi11e..........12:85 A. M. .........2:00 P, M, Beimfeld. Ll o k 0 Ysol Y Wawska. .. i....i.00u by pe v e SOO . A 4 Liﬁ0n1er...4’...........1:25 B i 0 Mi11er5burg............ St DO . AROSBeN LS LT SR R e S FHIRNAYY Lfvo it o s 328 L B ‘Arrive at t‘hicu (R 1) BSR1) [ L *Stop 20 mlnutges for breakfast and supper. ¥ Exfress leaves daily soth ways. i . Mail Train makﬁ close connection at Elkhart with trains going East and West. The Lightnlng Express Tratn leaves Ligonier going Fast, as3:lo r. M., and thoing West at 12:2]1 ».~. C. F. HATCH, Gen’l uPt..C!eveland. J. N. KNEPPER, Agent, Ligonier. ° & WM. L. ANDREWS, ‘ Surgeon- Dentist. o Mitchel’s Block, Kendallville. All work warranted. Examinations free. 247 Lok J.M. DENNY, Attorney at Law,—Albion, Nobleco., Ind Will give caréful and prompt attention to & business entrusted to his c‘ari. , B-6 | ‘ EUTHER H. GREEN, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Publie. EIGOCNIER, - - - - INDIANA. Office on Cavin Strcet, over Sack Bro’s. Grocery, opposite Hclmer House. 41-8-ly

. D: W. C. DENNY, ; ' Physician and Surgeon,—Ligonier, Ind. Will promptly and faithfully attend to all calls in the line of his profession—day or; ni}gbt—l‘n town or any distance in the count:g. crsons wishing his serviees at naght, will ind him at his father’s residence, firet door east of Meagher & Chapman’s Hardware Store, where all calls, when , ‘abseut, shonld be left. Ai- 1-1 E. RICHMOND, : Justice of the Peace & ‘Conveyancer, - _Cavin street, Ligonier, Indigna. Special attention given fo cbnveysneing and collecgons., Deeds, Bonds m#d Mortgages rawn up, and all legal business atténded to promptlgvagnd accurately. ! May 26th, 1868. AMERICAN HOTU SE, & et L. B’HATHAWAY, Paop's,, i LIGQNIER, voel e 0 INDIANA. HELMER HOUSE, S. B. ﬂfILﬂIER, Prop'r, LIGONIER, - - - INDIANA. This House has been Refitted and Refurnished in ¥irst Class Style. ; e L. €OVELL, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Publie, " LIGONIER, INDIANA. Oflice, 2d Floor in Mier’s Block, Cavin Street. DR. P. W. CRUM, °« o .*’ ; : 2 Physician and Surgeon, fils el . - Ligompier, =~ = - . Indiana. —i Office one door south of L. Low & Co's Clothing iStore. up stairs. ; May 12th, 1869. SAMUEL E. ALVORD, Attorney at Law, Claim Agent, and Notary Public, Alion, Noble Co., Ind.

Business in the Courts, Claims of soldiers and heir heirs, Conveyancinﬁ. &c., promptly and carefully “attended to. Acknowledgments, Depositions and Afiidavits, taken and certified. ; P L G. W. CARR, L. g i Physician and Surgeon, [ ATIGONINR, - - 4 .« <" o IND., "'Will promptly attend all calls intrusted to him. Office on 4th Bt,, one door east ef the NaTIoNAL BAnNer office. - 83-43 E. D. PRESTON, M. D., HOM@EOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, Vo LIGONIER, INDIANA. Office vne door south of L. Low-& Co.’s Store, up stairs. Office hours from 9to 11, A. M., 2to 4 and 7 to 8 ». m; Can always be found by inquiring at 'the quge House. 448 F. W.STRAUS, B.!ANKEB, Buys and sells Domestic and Foreign Exchange. Passage Tickets to and from all the principal parts of Edrope, at the most liberal terms — Special attention given to collections. Money . taken on deposit, and Merchants’ accounts'soo licited, and kept on most favorable terms. 42 SACK BROTHERS, ' Bakers & Grocers. Cavin Street, Ligonier, Indiana. { | ¥Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes, &c., . | Choice Groceries, Provisions, Yankee Notions, &c The highest cash price paid fer Countrﬁ Produce. Mayqs. "68-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 n the Merchandise business, and that they have just unpacked a Inrge stock-of Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, &c. :Call and see for yourself. : 1/ WILEY & BEALL. Wolf Lake, Nov. 3, 1869.-27tf e . NEW MILLINERY GOODS, —AT-- e Mrs. Joanna Belt’s, ; On Cavin Street, ; NEW_STYLES FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1870, Just received from Baltimore and Chicago, Fancy Goods, Hair Braids, Switches, Wedding Bonnets, Mourning Bonnets, Baby Caps, &c. . .March 80, 1870.-48 : . JOHN GAPPINGER’S : HARNESS, SADDLE 'And Leather Establishment, * Has been removed to Gappinger & Gotsch’s New B Block, (formerly Rossbacher’s Block,) - KENDALLVILLE, - - INDIANA. " The highest Price ;faid for Hides, Pelts, &c., and the trade supplied with Leather, F’lndlngs, &c., at Jowest fignres. % Py RN J. BITTIKOFFER, DRALER IN JEWLRY,SILVER WARE,NOTIONS, Spectacles of every Description, .. &c., &c. &e., &e. All kinde of work done llll’Bon the shortestnotice . and warranted as to dural ltg Shop in Bowen’s new Brick Block, Kendallville, lndl:_a.m.‘f . 2-31 H. R. CORNELL, . -Who may always be found at his - : PHOTOGRAPH. ROOMS, 1s prepared to take all kinds of pictures in the : -} latest styles of the art. . PARTICULAR ATTENTION paid to copying old Deguerreotypes and Ambrgvty'm intongtrdn,»;hg Enlnrfinq. : ; ork warranted satisfactory in all cases. - Ligonier, Ind., Feb. 23, 1870.-43 7 A. GANTS, Surgieal and Mechanical Dentist, i £ ‘uaomn, « « INDIANA. ot Tt s ) . lls prepared - 5 - todo Inx ; BN intheirifine, A i b __tice of over 10 AT i SRRV lUIN iy v eTR R T

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' HOW THE GATES CAME AJAR. : BY th:x L. BOSTWICK. "Twas wﬂipreréd one merning in. Heaven How the little white nnFel %hy, ‘ .Sat ever beside the portal, X Sorrowing all the day ; { . How she said to the stately warden, . He of the golden bar— ' “0, nnﬁel, sweet angel I pray thee, ' Set the beautiful gates ajar; . Only 4 little I pray you, . : Set the heavenly gates ajar.”’ : ““I hear my dear mother there weeping, She is lonely, she cannot see, . A glimmer of light in the ddarkoess. ; ther“e the gates closed after me; One gleam of the folden splendor, 0, warden, would shine so far;”’ : Bat the angeél he whispered “I dare not Set the beautiful gates ajar; & Spoke low as he answered **l dare not, Set the heavenly gates sjar,” Then up arcse Mary the Blessed, . Sweet Mary, the mother ef Christ, Her hand on the hand of the angel, She laid, and her touch sufficed ; Then turned was the key in the portal, Fell ringing the golden bar, And lo! in the little child’s fingers, Stood the beautiful gates ajar ; < And lo! in the child’s angel fingers, Stood the heavenly gates ajar.”” |3 ~**And this key for no further using, { To my blessed Son shall be giv’'s,” ‘Said Mary the mother of Jesus, ' Tenderest heart in Heav’n; . Now never a sad eyed mother, But may cateb the dglory afar, Bince safe in the Lord @hrist’s bosom, Are the keys of the gates ajar; Safe-hid in the dear Christ’s bosom, ! And the gates forever ajar. The “On:raxe“p” in Georgia. The sudden cessation of ‘‘outrages on loyal men” in Georgia is a mystery that some persons are suprised at.— And well they may be, for the explanation of it is the singular fact that the aforesaid ‘“outrages” did not exist.— They were fictions manufactured to order, to accomplish a 'purpose. That puxgqse“ was the protraction of the rule of Governor Bullock and his gang of favorites, whose influence with congress had been in direct proportion to’ their worthlessness. While the Georgia bill was before the senate, Bullock desired to have struck'out the Bing-. ham amendment which ended his term of office in November 'next. He ‘set his “outrage” mill actively to work. and burdened the telegraph with lies enough to have made the bloodless wires blush with shdme, if such a thing were possible. The object of the system of slander upou the ' peaceful and orderly people at Georgia was to portray at Washington a false picture of things which Bullock alone could correct, and induce congress to maintian, him on the necks of a suffering people for two. years longer. But when the senate passed the ! Georgia bill; without protracting Bullock’s term, he had no further need for *“outrages,” and his mill suddely suspended operations. It is now discovered that the whole radical policy in Georgia has been based on falsehoods, and that congress has been used as a tool to effect the personal work of a liar. ,

-The Income Tax. We understand that Mr. Kerr, Mr. Holman and Mr. Niblack occupy the. same pogition upon the income tax’ ‘question ‘that Mr. Voorhees does.— %‘hie makes the Democratic delegation from Indiana a unit. upon ‘this question.. In fact_no public man will gobefore the people of the West and sustain himself who votes to relieve the millionaire’s income from taxation.— It is the rich that are moving to get ridsof a burden which they are able to bear. The law, as it stands, is no doubt defective, and should be modified in many respects. The amount exempt from taxation should be increagsed, and the unjust features of the law removed, but the bondholder, the corporations, the banks. the s)rivileged classes and the wealthy should be held to a strict accountability under the law. - The opposition to an income tax does not come from the plain people, but from those who have large incomes and whose study it is to place the burdens of the Government upon the industry of the country.—lnd. Sentinel. ' : Time’s Changes. Mary Clemmer Ames remembers this of Senators Revels, Brownlow, and Drake:' There was one, now a Senator of the United States, who eight years before asked for an obscure seat in the Senate gallery in vain. He could not pass its doors because his skin was a shade darker than that of the door-keeper; though his mother was & Scotch woman and father a freeman. There, quivering with palsy in every limb, sat another, who a few 'years ago prayed that if he died at the North his coffin might be made open at one end, 8o that he could crawl away from the abolitionists. . There was another man shaking hands with the Senator of a darker face, who a few years ago presented a bill to the Legislature of Missouri that all the freemen of colorin that State shonld be sold into slavery, which bill would have included that Senator with whom he was a shaking hands. These three men are all friends to-day. - Well, the old earth moves. , il | ———— R—— ; Lok . Decoration Day. The 30th of May has been selected as the day for decorating the graves of the Nation's dead, and if we are to take part in the ceremonies arrangements should be made before the say approaches too near. The House of Representatives has adogted a resolu~ tion recommending this day as a great National holiday, and, after providing. for their widows and orphans, there is no better way to '—manifgst our respect tor those who died under the Union flag than “by strewing their graves - with flowers.— Crawfordsville Journal.

A thief attempted to steal a carpet bag, containing $5,000, from a railroad car at Fort Wayne, a night or two gince, but was prevented from getting away with his ill-gotten prize by a dog belonging to the owners of the money— two horse-drovers—who gripped him in the rear, in a fleshy part, and held him with a vice-like grasp. His cries aroused the men, who were asleep at the time, and they allowed the xog to retain his grip until they bhad recovered the money, when they took off the dog, and let the prisoner gO, minus about a guart of blood, and MMdTh“ 9‘ d“med a gOOd breakfeast, and we hope he gotit. e . 1 ;

THE ST. DOMINGO SWINDLE. Full Resume -of Ee Piot to Acquire West Indian Territory, &c. . (Currespondencemhe N. Y. World, © ~ WASHINGTON, April 28. When President Grant took his seat he found Seward’s treaty for the purchase of St. Thomas languishing friendless in the Senate, and the public sore and indignant over the corruptions by which it was supposed the appropriation to satisfy tEe Alaska treaty had been lobbied through the House.— Seward had gone out of office covered with contempt and with suspicions which were even worse than contempt. His essays in the acquisition of foreign territory had brought him anything, or everything, but the honor and applause which had followed each of his predecessors into retirement. They had rendered him probably the most odious, and certainly the most ridiclous public man 'in America. The party of the new President, including Mr. Secretary ‘Washburn- and his brother in the House of Representatives, had been especially scandalized by Seward’s proceedings, and they had vented and vaunted their indignation i no sparing terms. i .

But Seward left two ‘jobs’ unfinished. One of them-—St. Thomas—-had an outward semblance which was almost decent. A regular and fair election had been held, by which the people had declared themselves willing to be gold, while their legitimate sovereign was equally willing to sell them at a somewhat exorbitant price. This legacy Gen. Grant refused to accept and it reverted to the estate of the testator, which, in a political sense, may be said to be bankrupt. The other job—the most shameful and shameless of all Seward’s operations in that line—Gen. Grant took off his hands, with a spirit that betokened a real zest for the business. It had, in his eyes, the merit of a double perfidy, for it was a fraud upon the wretched inhabitants of the land he proposed to:buy, and a fraud upou the people of the United States who were to pay for it. It has, also, the charm of mystery. Seward has long pursed it in secrecy. Upon this mission a vessel had departed about 1867, with a strong box containing gold, and Frederick Seward as supercargo. Thecrew broke into the strong box, and ‘the broker ithat was to buy a nation returned home discomfited — The scheme was no less than the purchase of St. Domingo. Seward first bargained for it with a chieftain named Cabral, who at that time happened to have a part of the miserable country under his heel. But the fact that Cabral had- listened to the hase whispers of Seward becoming known in St. Domingo, the people roge upon him with the fary his detestable crime was calculated to arouse, and, driving him out, a fugitive and a public enemy, they installed in his place Gen. Baez, who had won popular favor by loudly protesting his loathing for the treasonable plot in which Cabral had been detected. But no-sooner was Baez seated than he also began to listen to the tempter. He had fled the country once before. He already had a competence deposited in France, and his children were there at school. Why unot sell the country to the United States, take the price of his treason, and leave the purchaser to fight it out with the betrayed and exasperated people ? Santanna had set him a notable example in the sale of Spain.in 1861. He accordingly laid his plans gpeedily, but circumepectly, so that the reward might not be wanting.— He made grants of lands, of mahogany forests, of mines, of guano islands, and concesgions of banking, navigation and other priviliges to various companies and associations, of which he himself was a principal stockholder. ‘Add to this the issue in great quantities of “natiopal” promises to pay, which were to be redeemed at the Treasury of the United States, and it looked as if he had done enough to insure himself an enormous fortune. His con, federates in these enormous swindles, and the sharers in his prospedtive Eroﬁta were chiefly the Americans who aél originally gained the ear of Seward.

For a time things went smoothly enough. The correspondence between Seward and Baez was charmingly plain and practical. . The latter said : “My government is composed of men who do not compromise themselves uselessly.” He therefore .demanded $200,000 bribe money, cash in hand, to begin with. He also intimated that ‘when the news of the sale should get abroad, the |people ‘would probably make short work of him and his “government” unlese the United States would “send troops and a fleet to. the island.” In short, they ‘“must” be gent. It was an indispensable condition. The United States might take up any military ‘positions’ they should ‘deem necessary,” but they must also provide the forces to hold them against the people whose property they were. He could engage for no peaceful transfers. He said he knew that the American Congress would not be disposed to undertake an ‘undisguised war .of conquest’ for the sole benefit of the parties to the present agreement, but he had hit upon an excellent expedient for obviating this importaunt diffi. culty. He would order one of his own peculiar elections, and could stipulate, without further parley, to produce a ‘rational declaration’ in any ‘form’ that would be ‘satisfactory.’ ‘lt is necessary, however, that the United States should at first give the assurance, by means of a formal despatch, that the measure proposed by the Dominican government is accepted, and at the same time send out to this city a vessel of war with a treaty and the sum of $200,000. One vessel of war would be sufficient at present.’ £

Baez insisted on having his money paid down; but Seward had not the courage to take it out of the Treasury without an appropriation. He could not accede to the proposition without committing a felony under the statute. ‘Meanwhile Baez got into warm work at home, He: began to be suspected. His position was becoming precarious, and 'Oabral was steadily - gaining ground. He clamored piteously to

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Seward to hurry up the cousnmmation of the bargain, and at length declared positively that ‘unless speedily assisted’ he must go to the ground. = And now Seward’s bowels yearned toward his. hapless accomplice. He had at least that species of honor which the proverb assigns to men of his class.— He had the project broached in Congress, first by Mr. Banks and then by Orth, but each time it sunk by overwhelming majorities. He had entirely neglected to provide the over-zeal-ous promoters of the measure with any decent pretext for its passage, and” when Judge Woodward: pressed Mr. Banks to tell what it really meant, as presented by him, he was forced to confess that he did not know. Then Mr. Banks wrote a ‘noté to Seward about the sad lack of explanations.— There was nothing definitely known about the debt of St. Domingo, npr about the grants of lands and franchises that Baez had been making. Mr. Banks suggested that “Mr. Fabens” would be a good man to send down for statements. It is true that Fabens then had a commission in his pocket to act as the confidéntial agent of Baez, but it was all the same in practice, and 80 Mr. Seward straightway commissioned him as the “agent” of the United States. . He remained two whole days in St. Domingo, and returned the most pleasing accounts ; but it.was too late ; the thing was blown. Seward wrote condolences to Baez, and promised to try it again in the House, but he never could sunimon the courage. And so matters stood when that good man was forced to lay down his office.’ But General Grant was made of another sort of stuff. He was not a nerveless and powerless man like Seward. He had enormous patronage with which to coerce the acquiescence of Congress.” He did not hesitate to run his' hand into the Treasury, and take out the money that was needed. He himself declared the ‘protectorate’ which Seward had asked Congress to declare. He himselfannexed, paid for in part, and took posession of the ter- | ritory (Samana) which Seward had | importuned Congress to annex and | pay for. It was little odds to him where the Constitution had intrusted the war-making and ""treaty-u‘)&k‘itjg | powers. It suited his purposes to use those powers, and he did so with secret, sudden, and tremendous energy that bespoke his contempt of law and his indifference as to the public wrongs he ‘was about to commit. He began by sending to St.. Domingo one véssel, whose lading consisted of cannon, small arms, amunition, two treaties, Babcock, and $150,000 in gold: Baez sneaked on board the ship, signed the treaties, got his gold. and then turned over Samana to ‘Fabens’ as ‘Governor.” Then Grant sent a whole fleet of war steamers to hold the people down, andto warn neighboring nations not to help Cabral, for he said the man Baez had sold -him St. Domingo, and all the inhabitants thereof. Baez ordered the election he had promised Seward.— There was really no voting at all, for not ene in a thousand koew how to vote. They never vote in St. Domingo ; they merely ‘pronouce’ and shoot eéach other when they want a change of policy. The returns were, of course, all fabricated, alike except that here and there an opposition vote was stuffed in to save appearances. In the mean-time the 'Dominicans. were gtirred to madness by the discovery of the corrupt and brutal plot of their ruler. Baez was compelled to fill the: dungeon with his opponents, and even to exhibit a few corpses to terrify the the people. He made public proclamatign that he would smash the heads of those who resisted annexation.— Among the number upon whom he laid his bloody hands was an American, named Hatch, an old man, who was hastening home to tell his countrymen what he knew of these atrocious proceedings. His voice 'was smothered in an out of the way prison in'the barbirous province of Agua. Grant and Babcock were duly informed of this last piece of infamy, but they thought it to their interest to leave the troublesome old American to rot amongst his vermin. Nevertheless, Cabral actually held almost half the country against Baez and had the sympathies of the other halt. : The above is the condition of affairs in Bt. Domingo at this day, while the ring of “just twenty speculators” are endeavoring to lobby the two treaties through the American Senate. It is true, the Senate has asserted its independence and personal integrity of more than one third of its members. 1t is true that the House Committee on’ Appropriations have informally declar:’ ed that they will never vote a dollar to meet. the treaties, and that the time for the ratification of them expired long ago. But Grant says that Baez will accommodate ‘him with an extention of time, and the greedy conspirators gtill haunts the corridors of the Capitol. The President goes there in person to bully or coax. Babcock continues to pour his drivel 'into the ears of reluctant Senators, and Porter waylays them to the committee rooms.— At last it is announced that “seven Senators” have yielded to the discipline and “cast conscience to:the devil.”” Do these seven imagine that they can give seven manifestly dishonest votes in the secrecy of executive session and their offence remain unknown? ‘ Was it to shield them that the administration party defeated the effort to ‘ make the proceedings of these treaties | public? ‘Thongh; ot precisely pertinent to the foregoing, the country would like to be - informed why the President declines to answer the resolution of the House calling for the facts as to this whole subject. Why ! Sew‘ard.'and Fabans learned on a former occasion that it was possible to conceal too much. whad il This is by no means a petty pect: h}ion._ It 18 a gigantic eclﬁamz o? outrage and plunder in which an unfortunate nation is to be the victim. Even Simon Cameron s appalled by its mag: nitude, and the _carpet-baggers ,m‘:&; at the rapacity of the authors, It isa proposal to buy the negroes of St. Do-. mingo from a man who does not own ‘them and has neither right nor power

to sell them; to cleave down the right of self government which those people imagine themselves to be exercising ; to blot out a nation by force and fraud; to.make a cruel, bloody and expensive war upon those who have never -offended us, and_finally, to partition their public property amongst a gang of swindlers. they do not want us for rulers and we ought not to want them for subjects, ,'Tbty -do not speak our language ; they are not of our color, race, or :eligioi A very few of them —such as are’ civilized—are Roman Catholics. The rest hgld to a faith which requires them to dance around kettles in which. old women boil babies and snake skins. But they are formidable warriors—the countrymen of L’Ouverture—and will fight as he fought the French. In times past they have defeated great armies led by accgmplished captains. These may be divided on everything élse, butthey are always found united against :foreign domination. Shall we pay down ¢1,500,000 for the privilege, and then make war upon tgem merely to enrich a few favorites at the military court of Baez, and a few others at the military court of Grant? s , A GOOD STORY-ANGLING FOR A s DOG. " We were traveling en ground we had no right on. The only excuse was like that of a military necessity—it was far better fishing through the farms where the tront had been preserved, than in open lots where all could fish. : : It was early in the morning. We had risen at three, ridden -ten miles and struck the creek as the trout were ready for breakfast. Looking carefally for a sheltered place to hitch our eteeds, we slyly crept on behind the fences, ete., until we reached the part of the stream not generally fished. A farm ‘house stood not a quarter of a mile away. We saw the morning smoke curling lightly from a stovepipe; and saw a man ‘and two ‘boys ‘come out to do chores; saw a woman busy about the house, and a ferocious bull-dog wandering about the yard. "If ever we watched close it was then. Not a whisper to disturb the birds or the owners of the lind. We crawled through the grass and dodged behind clumps of alders, lifting large gpeckled beauties out of the water until our baskets were fall. | £

This was the time to have gone, but the trout were so large and bit so readily that we could not withstand the: temptation, so we decided to hide what we had and take another basket full, So at it we went. No sooner would the hook touch the water than we had a trout. We forgot the house, the man, the boys and the dog. Suddenly thert% was a rushing through the oat fields as if a mad bull were coming. We looked toward the house and saw the farmer and his two boys on the fence, the woman in the door, and the dog bounding toward us. We saw it all—we had been discovered. - The well trained dog had been sent to hunt us out, and as the matter appeared, it was safe to bet that he was doing that thing right lively. L iy To outrun the dog was not .to be thought of. Therewas no time to lose. He cleared ‘a fence and came for us just as we reached a tree, and by great activity took a front seat on a limb aboveé his reach. Here was-a precious ga! A vicious bull dog under the tree, and the farmer and his two big gons ready to move down upon our works. #Ft was fight, foot race or fangs. : e : K The farmer yelled to his dog,*‘watch ’em, Tige !” et ; | Tige proposed to do that little thing, and keeping his eye upon us, seated himself under the tree. al Then spoke this ugly farmer man: “Just hold on thar, strangers, till we get breakfast; then we'll come and see you. If you arein a hurry, however, you can go now. . Watch ’em Tige.” ' We surmised trouble ; quite to much, for thrice had that bold man of bulldogs and agriculture elegantly walloped innocent tourisrs for being seen on his premises. = His reputation as a peace man was not good, an% there arose a large heart towards our throat. :

Time is the essence of contracts, and . the saving ordinance of those in trouble} We had a stout line in our pocket, and a large hook tended for rock bass, if we failed to take trout, And as good luck would have it, we had got a nice sandwich and a piece of boiled corn beef in our other potket. Ly We called the dog pet names, but he'wasn’t on it! ' Then we tried.to move down—when he moved np ! At, last we trebled our bass line, fastened the great limerick to it, baited it with: the corn beef, tied-the end of the line to a limb, and angled for a dog. Tige was in appetite. He smelt of the be¢f; It was very nice. He swallowed it, and sat with his eyes on us for more; but with no friendly look beaming from his countenance. Not: any ! : Then we pulled gently:on the line—it was fast. ige yanked ‘and pulled, but it was of no use. o We quickly .slid down from -the tree ; almost blistering .our back doing it, seized -our pole, and straightway went thence somewhat lively. * We fouud our string of fish, and reached our buggy and a commanding spot in the road, in time to. see the sturdy yeoman move forth, ... - We saw him and his eohorts, male and female, move slowly asif in no haste. 'We saw them look up inio the: tree. 'We saw; an anxious crowd en--gaged about the dog.. We came quickly home, and kindly left the bass line and hook tothe farmer.: =

Near Everton, Fayette county, on Saturday of lagt week, Miss Mitild_ai Sample, a young lady 21 years old, drowned herself in a cistern.. No cause for the act is assigned, except that the -*young lady left an affectionate let~ ter for her parents end friends, stating that she was tired of vhe world. “The event has cast a gloom over the neigh‘borhood where it occurrad. | 7

.STATE ITEMS, | . The colored people of North Vernon, Jennings county, have a Good Templars’ logge in successful o'fera‘tion. ' They have no drinking saloon. The anniversary of the “birthday ot St. Joseph, the father of our Savior,” was celebrated in Lafayette, on Sunday, Bth inst., in a becoming and satisfactory manner, = = The Noble County Journal is a humanitarian sheet. It cautions drunken men and dogs to be aware how they place any confidence in the sidewalks of Kendallville.— Indianapolis Journal.

A little son of Colonel Prather, of North Vernon, had his foot so mutilaited by a raijroad train last week, as to require amputation. He had been in the habit of jumping on and off the trains when in motion. : 5

The New Albany Ledger is informed by an attorney of that city that there are “fifty soldiers of the war of 1812 residing in Floyd county, six or eight of whom fought in the battles of Tippecanoe and Fort Meigs.” Next. Samuel Stanley, the oldest member of Hopewell Church, of the Society of Friengs, ‘near Butlersville, Jennings ‘county, and who for many years occupied the highest seat in the church, died last week, having lived out the full number of his days. - Nearly all the prisoners in the Kokomo jail escaped on Saturday night last; "A wife-murderer, who attempted to escape, was held back by Lieutenant Daugherty until assistance arrived. The escape of most of the prisoners was rather gratifying than otherwise to the citizens of Kokomo.

A brute named Macher, living in Lafayette, almost killed his . wife with an ax on Saturday night. The woman was terribly injured, having received seven or eight serious cuts on the head, penetrating to, and fracturing the skull, a bad gash over the eyebrow, her left shoulder dislocated and two ribs hroken. °© ° o \ 1

" The conductor of a- freight train which was passing under a bridge, on the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railway, on Sunday morning, was struck on thé back of the head, knocking him insensible into a dat car, on the redar of the one on which he was standing at the time. He was severely injured, but it is thought he may recover.' "His name is Moffitt. L A former member of the Good Templar’s organization in New Albany, Las made a stupid and silly expose of the method of initiating a cangidate into that order. He is trying to emulate Morgan, of Masonic notoriety ; but is probably so drank most of the time that “there is no fear of his sharing Morgan’s supposed fate. ' - The farmers of St. Joseph county anticipate from potato bugs this year. In some parts of the county these little pests injured the grop seriously, last year. The prospeet for. wheat in that county is very flattering. It was supposed some time since that the fruit was badly damaged, but there is but little- apprehension in regard to it now. B

3 Whéatu ' A commercial writer gives two canses for the recent advance in the prices of wheat, which has made.a flurry in the grain market and excited the hopes of thoge still holding on to last years wheat, that the prices were about to be realized which would encourage them to bring their grain to market. One of these causes he says is artificial and the other natural. The portion of the rise from artificial cause is of no benefit to the wheat grower, for everything else that is governed by gold rates has gone up in the same proportion. The other cause which is a foreign demand, will make a part of the rise an actual advance, positive as well as relative. An English newspaper recognized as the first commereial authority says that an importation of 24,000,000 bushels of wheat from the United States will be necessary very soon. Though this is not a great deal, but little over the product of Minnesota last year, it, will sensibly affect the market. The last wheat crop of. this country might have been a little, though it was only a little in excess of the demand for home use, and for seed. 'Of this crop, 20,000,000 bushels. have already been sent to England, and probably 6,000,000 to cther countries. This with - the proposed export of 24,000,000 bughels more, makes . 50,000,000 in all, or one sizth of our total wheat crop. When the margin between production and the home supply is 8o parrow; this. is a large production to afford for export, and is likely to make a sharp demand also. Between these two causes, the advance in wheat must last at least till the prospects for the next harvest are fully developed, and it must be greater’' than it mow is. The writer would not be surprised: to see: wheat 85 cents per bushel at the vari-, ous railrood depots in the State before the first of June. ;. s el -—— e f Whither Drifting. A Senatof Drake, of Missouri, offered & resolution the other-day for a new amend-: ment of the constitution, virtually making the President a Dictator. The New York: Tribune objects to this summary: process, and thinks Senator Drake will find few sympathizers. Innocent: Tribune! Drake. and Morton constitute the advance guard in & new progress, as.did Lloyd Garrison; Joshua R: Giddings, and John Brownlin': that . which ' insugurated the: late -homewar. We are told that revolutions doxiot gobackward, and the present Congress_-‘ ional . indications would'jséem to confirm the trath of that remark. Greeley canno more stop this_flowing stresm_ than he could the revolutions, of the%{h He may protest, and ridicule the legislative Radical movements, but “life and death” are inexorable in their demands, and the_ exitenco of the Radical party dopends upon “contintied injustice,” which can ex. ist only by military power. .~ “ o petially o SSNEL pibaslci sl . Buxwous s i whe Mwﬁuﬁ;;g m‘“gm‘ ment "%‘ E ‘ ﬂgﬂmﬂﬂ’ j

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) | The Yankee’s Bet, = . “Reckon I couldn't drive atrade with you to-day, Bquare,”- said a genuine jspecimen of the Yankee peddler, as he stood at the door of a merchant in St. Louis, - “I reckon you caleulate ahout right, for you can't-ne way. " 7 vl ' “Waal, I guess you needn't git huffy abeout it. Now, here’s a dozen ginooine razor strops, worth two dollars and a halfj you may have 'em for two dollars” - “Itell you I don’t wan't .any of your traps, so you may as well ‘be just going along.” bl e , “Waal, neow, look® here, Square, I'll bet you five dollars that if you make me an offer for them ’ere strops, we'll have a trade yet.” R S ““Done,” said the merchant, as he staked themoney. = - .. v “Now,” says he chafingly, “I'll give you sixpence for the strops.” 331 = - “They’re your'n!” said the Yankee, as he quietly pocketed the stakes. “But,” continued be, after a little reflection, and ‘with a burst of frankness, “I calculate & juke's a joke; and if you don't want she strops, I'll trade back.” g ' -~ The merchant looked brighter. - . “You're not so Bad a chap atter all;” said he. “Here are your strops—give me the money.” . i .

“There it is,” said the Yankee, as he took the strops and handed back the sixpence. - “A trade is a trade and a bet.is & bet. Next time you trade. with that ‘ere sixpence, don’t you buy ‘razor strops” A Relie of Barbarism. ' The. Courier-Journal very pertinently remarks, that, their out of mind lawyers have been allowed a wide latitude of egpression, and they have used the privilege without s‘tjﬁt; It has been fashionsble to brow-beat witnesses and blackguard litigauts. In the progress of the McFarland trial we have seen the attorneys as unsparing and as reckless of their epithets ag usual. But the question arises, {s it not time to have an end to this sort of thing? Long ago the press was obliged, by the pressnre of public apinion, to give over its senseless personslities and its willful misrepresentations. - -No journal can flourish at present that'makes a habit and a merit of its violence. ‘Readers do not wish their intelligence affronted or their good taste set at -defiance by falsehoods excused by their party zeal and billings-: gate sprung from, party spleen. The courts are proverbially slow. They yet retain many-things that have no merit except that they have come down covered with the moss of the middle ages. . Much of this is positively absurd, whilst not a little of it is palpably wicked. Of the latter class is the bad manners of counsel; and the .quicker tbey reform this altogether ‘the better both for decency: and justice.. S ol

v o The: Negre Voters, : On. Monday last, says the Plymouth Democrat of May 6, the negroes of Indiana, for the first time in the history of the. state, participated in the choice of officials who shall have charge-of the municipalities of the state; and to day a large number of city and corporation officers in the state owe their elections to the negro vote. Those men who have always insisted that the negro never would vote in Indiana ‘may now relieve their minds of all doubt on the subject ;-and those who have promised that they gever would support the party giving to the negro a right to vote, may now.consider whether they made the ‘pledge in bombast or whether in earnest in their statements. It is certainly a fixed and accomplished. . fact that the negroes do vote, and have voted in Indiana, and are now atas perfect liberty to cast their ‘ballots as any white man in the state. It is true the colored gentleman has no legal right to vote, but it it also true that under radical rule it will make -no difference as to the right or the law, the ,political necessities of the party constitute the law that governs them, and which they govern and outrage the people: Good Templars’ Revelation. ' The Lodge of Good Templars in New Albany having ‘thrown up its charter, a former member feels at liberty to disclose the mode of initiating a candidate into a lodge, which he thus deseribes: = . .

In the first place, the victim of initiation is blindfolded, bound hands and feet, and thrown into a cider press,and pressed for five minutes. This is done for the purose of clearing his system of old *‘drunks.” %e is;then taken out of the press,-and by means of a force pump is gorged with,cis--tern water, after which a'sealing plaster is placed over his' mouth; and he is rolled in a barrel four or five times across the room, the choir at the: time singing the ‘‘cold water” song. He is now taken out of the barrel, and hung up by the heels till the water runs out through hisears. He is then cut - down, and.a beautiful young lady hands him a glass of cistern water.. A cold water bath is tken furnished him, after whi¢h he is showered with ciscern water. " He is'then made to read an estimate, ~published many years since, of the amount of water which: falls over the Ohio, ten times, drinking a glass of cistern water between each reading, after which theold ‘oaken bucket is hung around his neck, and fifteen . beautiful ‘young ladies; with Aquirt guns; deluge bim witli cistern wa. ter.. Heis then forced to eat s peck of snow, while the brothers stick %is ears. foll of icicles. He is then run through a clotbes-wringer; after which he is handed & ‘glass of cistern water:. by a_beautiful young lady. He is then gorged again with cistern - water, his boots l’glled’.vgigh : ‘the same, and he is laid away in a refrig‘erator. After remaining in the refriger. ator for sthe space of. half an hour he 1s _ wr,.eni mt'-ﬁlnd given '!ls!ass. of cistern ik tet, run througly a clothes-wringer, and, '?beéj)mesa(}d;?‘g'gmp!&:._ Hilhais i . A'NEwsPAPER organ of the protection’ windle ‘wishes' to know why. emigrants leave free-trade England_ to crme to pro-: tected Ameriea. : This, is about as sensi--:ble a 8 the average'of the logic put out by Atariflifes. - They 'comc Because' lind. is' «cheap; and. Because they can get bomes mlvg;mm);h;x&exwm<,m‘s;gammg Wert this- country as deusely:populated 4 gued, doamevanbiot i bl wOHLF B palos Rder our priaet iy Aem of high tariff and high taxes, = .

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A-writer in thelate number of the Gentlemen’s Magazine says: i -Curing shonld be as importdnt as'killing 1 tﬁe arts -of war; extracting your enemy'’s bullets from your own flesh is the next duty after putting your bullets intohis flesh. Now, bullet-probing is a tire” some and painful operation, one that ought to be reduced to. the perfeetion of simple.certainty. So humane philosophers have thought ; and they have done their best to give.their thinking tangibility. But we are bounded by our means; and while there were none known whereby a lump.of. buried lead..conld.be. told from a shattered bone, probing was slow work. However, the next time—far be it—that wholesale bullét extraction has to be performed, it is to be expected that the army surgeon’s -labors will be lightened by the help.that electricity will afford, for two inventiors have independently proposed 'methods of searching for and drawing ‘out metallic missiles from the wounds they have inflicted. ; Both men told their ideas to the French Institate at one and the same meeting du--rng the past month. M. Trouve was one. He it was who made the electrical Jjewels that delighted fashionable Paris for a few months, two years ago. His new bullet-probe is a double pointed ‘needle, each point being connected with a wire with a little electric battery bell, which rings whenever the two needle points are united electrically ; that is to say, whenever they both touch a piece of metal. With this dividing rod, bullet searching is a simple business. The suspected part of the'body is probed with: it, and the instant the points touch lead the bell announces the fact. The bullet found, ,the worst half of the éxtrator’s work is over. This plan was suggested by an Englishman, I fancy; some two years ago, but was not- put on trial till M. Trouve made an instrument. The other proposed is one of more limited application, M. Melsens is the author, and he promises to draw fragments of iron or steel from a flesh wound by the help of powerful mag: nets. -He can do. nothing® with lead though, because it does-npt follow the load stone. Trouve's is the best idea.— ‘There is quaintness in the position of a bullet telegraphing its whereabouts. ————— - —— > - Tired of Reconstruction, " - Greeley is tived of the unsettled condition of the suspended States—held in suspense solely to advance Radical party interests. In an article upon the subject, he thus moralizes : i “Finally, let us bave done with reconstruction. The country is tired and sick of it. So long as' any State is held in obeyance, it will be plausibly urged that the Republicans are afraid to trust the people.. Let us give every State to herself, and then punish any who violate or defy the guarantees of public and personal rights now firmly imbedded in the Con« stitution: I:et us have peace!” | -, | These suggestions contain some valuable hints, in a party aspect. The country is sick of reconstruction, as Greeley says.— Bat the trouble with the Radicals is, if every State is permitted to have herself, the same rights of selt-government as in olden’ times, they will at ‘once raise the Democratic banner. The feanof this puts. off reconstruetion, but the longer it is deferred, like the walled up fountain when the accumulated body of water forces an _opening, the more overwhelming will be ‘the deluge; so that the delay of the Radicals is Only laying up for themselves a: greater day of wrath. “ i 3

Tl ey it ‘Feather Beds. : Feather beds, though much in repute, are“opeun to numerous objections. In the first place the feathers used for bed filling are seldom prepared and purified.- As ‘stripped from the skin of fowls, the small feather shafts are charged with animal matter that undergoes a slow but sure putrefactive change. The result may not be enough to percptibly affect the atmosphere of a bed room, but enough to be unhealphy. : i oy i ! Now, in country places, nothing is more common than the use for bed-making pur poses of feathers that - have not been subJected to any purification. Town upholsterers purify, or profess to purify, the feathers employed by .them for bedding, but we are called upon to inquire in what the purification consists. It consists in baking, beating, and in some cases washing. Granting that these processes arc followed, ' that the feathers are purified, and sewed when absolutely pure in the ticking, yet what then® Night by night animal emanations from the sleeper get. absorbed into the feathers, and there remain, in despite of shaking up, exposure to the air, or any other process of domes: tic ‘purification that either is or can be adopted. : ; |

I have assumed the best conditions :——E take now such as are the ordinary conditions of not the worst. Feathers never| wear out; it may be said—never come to| an end. To day a patient afflicted with fever or other mortal disease may lie on‘s, feather bed, to-morrow he may die upon it, then after a few days the bed may.he sold, and then who shall be answerable for what becdmes of it, or the injury it may do? We know what ought to be done with it at the very least: the feathers ought to be taken out and purified be- ° fore closure ina feather bed again. Even then the idea of using such feathers'is repugtant, but frequently no sort of purification is. performed, in which case the result ‘may be easily imagined. — Good. Health, e

| © T Cark Sehurs. s Washington correspondent deseribed, some days ago, Senator Charles Schurzin , the following manner: “Senator Schurz had the floor and made a powerful appeal _in ‘behalf of peace, conciliation and the good old Republie. I wish his yoice could "go out, as his words will, to the people. They were sosearnestly: uttbred. and his tall, ‘imposing person, really Senatorial, “without effort or pretense, was so striking that the delivery was dramatic, and tomy ‘mind’s eye the Senaté widened to & stage, ~and Tieould’ feel, if not see, ‘the ‘spellbound people listening. - Every day this _mah’ grows in iy -esteem. Hé isa student gathering vast stores of information; ‘a patriot whose heart goes out from his7past ‘people (of Germany) to the present - nation that is proud to call him son;and “an honest man, so true to himself, chat he .can not be false toany one.. Catl Schurz's - true’position in the 'Senate is at the head -of the Comimnittee on Foreign Affairs.—He has'‘not only thé intellect to under;sma;m;mmsumymtmm ‘clothed with #nch poyer as Senator Suny SiSiar T ‘heretofore unknown.” et