The National Banner, Volume 5, Number 3, Ligonier, Noble County, 18 May 1870 — Page 2

: ’ : Fational Banner, - v"-/k\,'\;\v/zi/\/r\/'.t“\l./’»w-,/\/\ A 2 v i : ¢ ! D S & ‘Resistance to Tyrants is Obodionch to God.’ J.-B. BSTOLL, EDITOR. WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1870. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET £ : “ For Secretﬁry of sme Col. NORMAN EDDY, of South Bend. ¥ For Auditor of State : : JOHN C. SHOEMAKER, of Perry Co. For Treasurer of State: I JAMES B. RYAN, of Indianapolis., For Attorney-General: = BAYLESS W. HANNA, of Terre Haute, ik For Sap't of Public Instruction: | Rev. MILTON B. HOPKINS, of Clinton. For Supreme Judges: JAMES L. WOI?DEN, of Fort Wayne, A. C. DOWNEY, of Ohio County, SAMUEL H. BUSKIRE, of Monro¢ Co,, JOHN PETTIT, of Lafayette. .

. THE PEOPLE’S RESPONSE., Connecticut was first to respond to the grandiloquent electioneering proclamation ' of President Grant, announcing the rati. fication’ ({f the fifteenth amendment, by giving a Splendid democratic majority.— No State election has since been held, but the recent municipal elections furnish the most conclusive evidence that whilst people may submit to an obnoxious measure, they will resent the insult at the first opportunity which presents itself for so do. ing. |° : F{Vé have closely watched the results of the Idcal‘ elections where strictly political issues were raised, and it affords us pleas: ure €q announce that in almost every such locality the Democrats made most decisive gains, Among those that have come under our observation and not already noti‘:ed in these eolumns, we - mention the following :

The ¢ity of St. Louis, with its usual repuablican majority of from 2500 to 5000, wheeled i‘_hto the -democratic line by 347 majority. S The Rockport Democrat récords as a very noticeable feature in the recent corporation election that every candidate who paid moreé attention fowards getting the negro vote, thag he did the white man’s vote, was laid on the shelf. For every negro dragged up to the polls,;and madf vote the radical tickét, two white republicans left the party and voted the democratic ticket. : e

At Springfield, lils,, the old home of Abrabam Lincoln, the negroes voted the radical ticketsolid, and yet the Democrats carried everything. _ It has been the boast of the radicals for some tinde that the negro vote would give them Delaware, Maryland and Kentucky. BBut the result of local elections held reiently in those States, shows that they shave reckoned without their host. A

A few weeks ago an election for a memher of Congress to fill. the vacancy occasioned by the‘resignation of Mr. Golladay, was held in the Third District of Kentucky. The democratic candidate was clected by a majority exceeding 3,000.

At Westminster, Carroll Co., Md., the Democratic ticket was elected by majori ties ranging from 21 to 75. The negroes, ifty in number, voted the radical ticket. Last year, when the negroes did not vote, the Democrats were beaten Dy & small majority. -l - in s o - At Neiwv Castle, Delaware, 'the Democratic ticket was suecessful by a handsome -majority, more negroes than whites voting the radical ticket. S

. Elkton, Md., the home of Postmaster (ieneral Cregswell, has a large negro popniation, and the contest for Jocal suprema acy. was considered of sufficient importanice to attract the personal attention of Mr. Cresswell, who led the mongrels to

the polls. - To his utter astonishment and chagrin, the count of the’ vote demonstrated the (to him) unpleasant fact that wlrilst the darkies votedf as commanded, nearly every white Republican joined in with the Democracy and elected its ticket by increased majorities.. J It is plainly to be seen from these reports that the effect of the consummation of the Fifteentb Amendment swindle, is to weaken rather than to strengthen the radical organization. The mongrelization of that concern has driven thousands of white men-out of it and is daily alienating thousands more who are just begin ning to reslize the true character of the disgusting ‘coalition to which they are invited. : : ;

" We regard these manifestations of the popular will as a~prembtﬁtojy wind from the political sky, the precursor of the coming storm-which will sweep out of ex istence sham republicanism and all its attendant humbugs. - There can be no mistake asto it real import. The usurpation (of the people's rights by the miserable ‘oligarchy which rules at:Washington, the dedtruction of the Constitution, the degradation of the elective franchise, the.surrender of the Federal Administration to the Money Power, the continuance of an oppressive and odious gystem of taxation, these are the very natural causes of the political storm before which the republican, party must inevitably succumb.— These victories are but the first. faint'muttering of the approaching thunder. In the language of another, we say to our ‘democratic brethren : “Wait a little long‘er, and thé forked lightnings will flash “(romthe zenith, and the deep diapason of the great revolation will boom through the air from one end of the continent to the other.? .~ ! . | | il & I — Alexander H, Stephens. It will be heard with regret that Mr. Alexander H. Stephens writes from Craw-’ fordsville, Ga., under date of Apgﬂ 12, in such a strain as to leave no doub’ that his health is far from as good ae was recently stated, and as has been hopefully believed hy his numerous friends. He says that he is a little better, but hardly able to set up and scribble a letter. He can neither stand - nor walk without aseistance of some kind ; sriting has become so painful that anything of thet kind is now done.for bim by others, ' His letter concludes thus: “I never expect t:ﬁj; ﬁom again. The tieavy work on which I have been engaged 20 long being sow completely off my hands, the visits of congenial friendsare the more weleome. This will be read with the hope will assure bim s promise of many yesrs of

[ 6REAT bui?nc VICTORY. IN g NEW YORK.

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| The State Demoeratic by 75,000 Majority ! The election for judicial officers for the State of New York took place on Tuesday, May 17th. Hon. Sanford E. Chutch headed the ticket as'candidate for Chief Justice of the court of appeals. New York city alone rolls up a democratic majority of 59,915, Brooklyn about 9,000, and the interior. furnishes an addition of 6,191 to this' magnificent vote«making 4 grand total of 75,106 majority as far as -heard from. All the principal cities went democratic. The election for local officers resulted about the same. ! How are you, Fiftecnth Amendment? . THE PLEBISCITE. : The word Plebiscite has of late oécurred 80 frequently in the papers, that numerous inquiries as to its origin and meaning have been made in almost every community. The recent election in France, in volving the adoption of the plebiscite, has greatly flightened this anxiety; hence we deem a definition of the term as being very desirable to a large portion of our readers. N :

‘ Before proceeding to the discharge of this duty, we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of giving ou® readers the benefit jlof a humorous explanation of the plebiscite by the New Orleans Times, in response to the anxious inquiry of asubscriber to that journal, who enclosed $lO in a’letter containing the words: “What the devil is a plebiscite?” ' and to which the importuned editor replied as follows: “Measuring our correspondent’s anxiety by hie liberality, both gratitude and compassion prompt an early reply. Having once passed through a similar condition of mental exhaustion in endeavoring to understand the ‘Schleswig-Holstein question,’ we can feel for our friend's dazed condition over the ‘Plebiscite, and shall therefore proceed to answer it. =~ “A ‘plebiscite’ is a thing . only a few ‘fellers’ can understand. You see, when, in the course of human events, the policy | of a government, in its transcendental relations with the political economies of a State, becomes imbued with the spectral analysis of abnormal influences, infringing ugon the perpetuity of institutions, at once detrimental and nugatory to the abstruse interests of theocracy; why, then, a decent respect for the opinions of man- - kind »re(‘uires the promulgation of a popular analytic manifesto, in which * * * % In short, a ‘plebiscite’ is plainly a plebiscite ; or, in other words, it is French ! for ‘Shoo fly, don’t bodder me.’ There!” | Fearing that this explanation may not be sufficiently clear and comprehensive, we deem it necessary to say that the word plebiscite is derived from the Latin, and simply means “verdict of the people.”— It was first introduced by Napoleon 1., as the “vote of the entire people.” His reign, as well asthat of the present emperor, was based upon a plebiscite. The purpose for which the recent elec-

tion 1n France was held, is ‘more difficult to explain. The French Ministry, incompliance with the wishes of the Emperor, deemed it advisable to/ make certain changes of a liberal tendency in the ‘constitution of France. This concession was doubtless intended to satisfy, to a certain extent, the demands. of the Republicans, but after all is nothing more than a cunaing device of Napoleon to strengthen his reign by procuring an endorsement at the hands of his subjects. The ‘‘concession, reform, liberty,” embodied in the plebis cite, are of precious small value, and were met with open ‘ridicule by the liberal press. Before the election Napoleon issued a proclamation to the people of France, in which he spoke in glowing terms of the prosperity and calm which the constftation of 1842 had secured them, and fervently appealed to his subjects to give llimganothe}' evidence of their devotion to the Empire by voting for the revised constitution. His appeal, as a matter of course, met with a favorable response. The soldiery voted solidly as requested by Napoleon. In the city of Paris, where the Republicans are the most numerous, the majority against the plediscite is upwards of 40,000, but in the rural districts the majorities in its favor are immense. Thé complete vote stands as fellows: Yes, 7,336,434 ; ¥o,l,s6o,7o9—majority for the reformedempire, 5,775,725. French opposition and clerical ‘organs question theresult of the election. They maintain that, while the vote may have a numerical value, it is without social, political, or religious significance. Napoleon has accomplished his object. He is endorsed by an immense majority of his people, as.a grateful acknowledgment of his generous action in liberalizing the constitution and — perpetuating his power. L R 4 j " Martial Law for the Nation. The World's Washington dispatches state that it is the intention of the Southern Radical Senators to push through Congress an amendatory civil rights bill, in which a section will be engrafted ; to give the President power to employ the military and naval force, or the militia of any State, to protect any person in ‘the lawful enjoyment of lifé, iberty, and property. In a section already drawn up “proposes to declare that it shall be unlawful for an yone to refuse to employ or to discharge from employment any person, with inteut to restrain his free exercise of any rights, or bzcause he has exercised them. The whole plan is made up of such stuff as this; but the mischievous por‘tion is that giving the President the Power to usetroops in any State on almost any gereth,'angl without being called on _by the Governor or Legislature thereof. 1t is believed that this proposition will be discussed at the forthcoming Republican catcus. : : g - ; : Obitusry. , Hon. William Montgomery, ex-member of Oongress from the g{the;‘;.?nmstrict, died at his residence in Washington on Thursday night last. Mr. Montgomery ‘was 8 pal iqixpnt in eome of those grand mmm and incidents attendant upon the national laihmion several years ago, and was a faithfal representative ofm interests of the section he served. He was & staunch Democrat of the old Jacksonian schocl, and in both his political and social relations was highly esteemed ST i whid ' oné "By ‘oue. A A - | nent men, leaving us but memories of the fot our guidepos, — Pitabyrgh Pos, 10k

- THE CONTEST IN INDIANA. The New Albany Ledger has a most excellent article on- the result.of the recent ‘municipal elections in Indiana, and the prospects of the Democracy next fall. It ‘ruthfally remarks that :the people are beartily sick and tired of the misrule of a party that has no higher aim than to perpetuate its own power, which has been the constant struggle of the Radical party almost from the hour that it came into possession of the reins of government; first by the bayonet, and then by the most unwise and unholy legislation. Its maladministrations will make ita hissing and a bye-word throughout the land, and its very name will become a stench in the nostrils of honest men. :

. “At the present time, especially in In diana, the prospects for the success of the Democracy were never brighter. All its elements are consolidating for a grand effort to wrest the power of the government from the hands of the vandals, who for the last few ' years have been-sapping its' foundations, and laying broad and decp the seeds of anarchy, and which must result, if unchecked, in absolute despotism. The time has arrived when the American people are becoming justly alarmed for the ultimate safety of republican institutions, and are determined to bring back the administration of affairs to the purer days of the government, when fraud, corruption, and personal aggrandizeg;e!}t were not the ruling passion of the highest officials and statesmen. :

“A retrospective view of the history of the country. for the-past few yearscansesa shudder to thrill the hearts of the true patriot, as he beholds the departure from the principles upon which our Government is founded by the present deminant party, and the intensified corruption that permeates every department of the administration. From the President down to the most humble office holder a longing desire appears to have seized upon all to promote self, utterly regardless of the public welfare, and to consolidate the powers of the Government and strip it of even the semblance of Republicanism, save in name,

~ “While this is the fact with reference to the party in power, there is just cause of rejoicing that the people are becoming aroused to the absolute necessity of making a change in our rulers. They see that longer delay only renders the peril the more irremedial. It only remains for the Democratic party to pursue the even. tenor of its way, adhering to those grand principles of truth and justice which have ever been characteristic of the party, and ‘which underlie a genuine republican government, in a ehort, time to restore it to its primitive purity. The peple cannot expect to accomplish such a result with our present rulers. They are steeped in corraption to such an extent that it is now impossible to retrace their steps, and every eftort made by them only plunges the government farther into the difficulties that surround it. The great and leading feature of the Radical party has been ex-. treme anxiety to perpetuate its power, and in its efforts to accomplish this result it has blindly dragged the fairest fabric of human government to the very brink of destruction. 5 § :

“The Democracy are fully alive to the importance of the struggle pending in the immediate future, and are bringing into the field the very best elements of the party to overthrow those who now are determined to rule or ruin. In their pri mary ‘meetings, in their county conventions, and wherever they meet for deliberation a note of preparation goes forth that cheers every patriot. Union and harmony in the grand object before them pervades the entire mass. The candidates are selected from the best men in the ranks, and a disposition is manifested to sink every consideration of self in their efforts to restore the government to the hands of those who for so many long years fostered it with so much care, and which was followed by the happiest results. : e Wi

“There is no mistaking the signs of the times. Radicalism is losing its hold upon the power it has wielded with such disastrous consequences, and if oar Democratic friends are only true to themselves; true to the genius of our institutions, radicalism will go dowa before the power of the people. Let our friends in every sec tion of the State thoroughly organize, consolidate their forces, and make the’ fight-for truth and right with the same spirit that they manifested before the country was placed at the mercy of the military power. If thisbe done, we shall have no fears of the final result. The ob-: jects to be attained are the grandest that ever nerved a true patriot, and can only bé accomplished by earnest, self sacrificing labor. .As surely as they buckle on the armor, and go forth with the determination to conquer, so certainly will victory perch on their standards.” el P—————— Proposed Reconstruction of Virginin. Washington dispatchessay advices from a radical:source in Virginia indicate that the republicans of that State intend to make an gppeal to Congress for a supplemental veconstruction, on the gronnd that ‘the conservatives are inciting outrages against the freedmen, and are endeavoring to keep the colored republicans away from the registration now going on all over the State. Tt is possible that this is s mere threat, but the dissatisfaction of the Virginia radicals at the eonservative cowrse of Gov. Walker is strong ' enough for them to appeal to Congress to remand Virginia to the condition of Georgia.— Congress, however, declined to interfere in the Richmond mayoralty contest, and it {9 somewhat doubtful if it would heed & demand for interference with the geperal condition of affairs. A good’ many republican members oppose Butler in his -belief that Cangress has the right to.in‘terfere with any State in the Union which isduly mﬁgted by Senators and members. . § ; ol

Tag Czar of ll the Russias has ponferred on Mr. George Wilkes, editor of the New York Spirit of the Times, the order of the Grand Cross of Bt. Stanislaus. Wilkes' paper is the organ: of the dog-fanciers and gamblers in horse-flesh whom Grant meets annually at Long Branch, and who have the entree of the White Honse. Alexander knows how to. cultivate friendly relstions at Washington. Russian sbsolutism and Americasn radicalism shake hinds on thé turf and in the rat-pi. i

.. NOTES AND COMMENTS, : ~ Since the 14th of April thé sale of beer, ‘wine and cider, has been prohibited by the authorities at Des Moines, lowa. Tocircumvent these prohibitory enaetments, numerous “social clubs” have beén organ.. ized .whose members claim and exercise | the right to drink whenever it suits their | convenience. But evén these orgauiz--;-;i tions are to be reached by law. Experi- ‘ ence furnishes proof that if people feel | inclined to imbibe in spirituous liquors, i no earthly power can prevent it. |

. During the present term of the Floyd County Cireuit Court, one hundred and one citizens of foreign birth were granted their final papers and wnade full citizens; and twenty-four declared: their intention of becoming citizens.— Sentinel. it

Every foreign-born citizen who hasbeen -five years in the country, should at the earliest possible period procure his Snal naturalization papers’ The Radicals iin Congress propose to enact a new naturalization law. of a most stringent character and under which it will be both difficult ‘and expensive to be admitted to full citizenship. / g . As an evidence of the sincerity of radi.cal promises of retrenchment and reform, we cite the fact that the radical city council of Indianapolis,now have under consideration a proposition to so increase the salaries of municipal officers as to enlarge the expenses for such purposes fully $25,520.75. And yet this party has the audaéity to solemnly resolve in favor of economy in public expenditnres. *_“Our ‘great soldier is dead. The rest of us are only boys as compared with old Pap Thomas!” was the exclamation of ‘Fighting Joe’ Hooker to Gen. Logan, over the grave of Gen. Thomas, : Yes, and one of these “‘boys” managed somehow to get into the White House, where he now officiates as the feceiver of munificent gifts at the hands’of designing nabobs. Pap Thomas never consented to become the recipient of presents, which probably accounts for the indignity offered him by Grant in commissioning the little upstart Sheridan Lieut. General over the hero of Nashville.

¢ In'the moral city of Boston, over twe hundred ot the demi-monde were arrested in one evening of week before last. A Boston paper boldly asserts that the *hub, “in spite of her many philanthrcpic institutions for the reclamation and suppression of wickedness, has for the last ten or fifteen years been, in a moral sense, emphatically the most abandoned city on the American continent. Fhe “social evil,” as it may be delicately térmed, has not only flourished there in the usual organized forms, but licentiousness seems to have existed every where upon the very surface of society, and spotless virtue has been the exception rather than the general rule. All classes of society —from the very aristocracy of the South End and ‘Bacon Hill down to the denizens of the North End and Fort Hill — have been tainted and diseased, until there has been produced what may almost be called a plague.” g 4 ’

Ex-President Johnson has announced his intention of running for Congress in hie District, the one now represented by Rnderick Random Butler, of cadetship fame, if his friends desire him to do so.— As between the ex-President and Cadetship seller Butler 'we have but little, if any choice. 'The only point of difference is in the size of the pile which will'bring them down.—lndianapolis Journal. - The concluding lines of the above paragraph are simply infamous. Whatever may be said of Andrew Johnson, his political record stands clear of the c¢harge of corruption. His most inveterate enemy cannot point to a single instance in his eventful life that would justify the Journal's base insinuation. How deplorable that partisan feelings are so frequently permitted to override truth, fairness, and justice. :

This is about the time ot year for young girls in their gigglehood to be eloping with poor devils with colored mustaches. Several cases are reported within a week. Mothers having such girls. on hand, had better ‘watch them extra carefully for a month or so. The season will be over about the middle of June.—Ez. " = The advice contained in the above is most excellent, but we are at a loss to understand” what is meant by “the season being over about the middle of June.”— Can’t some one throw a little light on the subject?.

Almost every day brings a report of some sort of rascality practised by carpet: baggers. The latest case is that of W. W. Sampson, chief clerk of the State Treasury Department, at Columbia, South Carolina, "who was arrested on the6th inst. for counterfeiting State funding coupons in connmection with L. D. Metealf, who had the counterfeiting done in Auburn, N. Y. Sampscn pleads guilty, and ‘Metcalf has been arrested in New York.

Men like office as naturally as pigs and ducks like mud, or negroes sunshine and sleep. Throw an American up into the air five miles, wheel him around five thousand times, and when he comes down his arm will be stretched to the utmost for an office.— Connersville Hxaminer.. ;o The case may be rather strongly put, but there is nevertheless considerable trath in it. . The quescion of woman suffrage is not to be submitted to.the people of Illinois, the Constitutional Convention having reconsidered its action in this respect. It is claimed that this retrograde is all owing to a lecture delivered by Mrs. Wheaton, of Kalamazoo, Micl;.,%gainst woman suffrage in Springfield some two weeks since. Hon. Andrew Johnson, ~ This distinguished gentleman arrived in our city on yesterday, and is stopping at the Lamar House, We understand that he does not speak in very fattering terms of the present Congress. We-also learned that he is of the opinion that Tennessee will be reconstructed. In this view, we hope, he may be mistakén. = That event may happen, but we do not thick 80, though: Mr. Johnson is much more competent than we- are to judge of this mﬂttﬁl’. ' 3 3 E H “

Mr. Johneon iz one of the marked men of the age. ' He is,emphatically, a republicap, not in its modern acceptation, but in its original purity and simplicity. He is in sympathy, and has always been, with the masses, more thar any living man in America; he has comprehended their wants, and for forty years has labored, assiduously, to promote their bighest interests, It is a misfortune that he is not, today; in some position in which his %;eat talents and _hi? b;":}d &M&Nﬂf ; be: F'dﬁ ade subservient to the welfare of ;Wye and of the nation. — meté% ‘Whig, bth inst. e

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. TugrspaY, May 10.- In the Senate, Mr. ‘Wilson called np and explained the pro yvisions of the new Army bill, which reduces the army to 25,000 men, and provides for the honorable discharge of surplas officers. In the everiing session, Mr. Morrill, from the Committee on Public Buildings, reported an %gnendmeut appropriating $500,000 towards the erection of a new building for the Skate, War; and Navy Departments, which will eventually cost $6,000,000. The entire session of the House of Representatives was devoted to a struggle over the Northern Pacific Railroad land-grab job. The scenes of Thursday were repéeated. 'The friends of the swindle, who were ina majority, refused to, permit amendments to be offered, and the opposition restored to parliamentary tactics to- prevent a vote. Fifteen times the yeas and nays were called ow dilatory motions, and it was not until 5 o'clock that the House became exhaust: ed, and consented toan adjournment.— Both sides refused to compromise, and there is a prospect that public business will be blocked until Monday, when the rule, can bé suspended, and amendments will’be in order. ‘

WEDNEsDAY, May 11.—The Senate resumed the consideration of the Appropri.ation bill in the Committee of the Whole. The amendment appropriating $300,000 towards the comstruction of a new build‘ing for the State Department was passed by a vote of yeas 41 ; nays 15. This vote was regarded with interest, as indicating to some extent the feeling of Senators upon the question of removing the capital to the’ West. The ¥arge majority in favor of putting up new and costly public lhuildihgs in Washington shows that the Senate is not’ yet ready to respond to the demands of the Mississippi Valley. In the House of Representatives the struggle was renewed- over the Northern Pacific Railroad bill, and this time the land-job-bers met with ‘an ‘inglorious defeat. A motion to order the bill to be read a third time was lost by a vote of 77 to 92, and this let in a flood of amendments, which, with the bill, was referred to thé Committee on the Pacific Railroad. The House, in Comnmittee, debated the steel car-wheel pparagraph of the Tariff hill, and the revenue reformers succeeded in cutting down the duty prbpused by the'Ways and Means Committee, :

THURSDAY, May 12.—The Senate de voted the sessieé o the Anh-y bill, which ;‘was elaborately debated, amended in sevL cral particulars, and passed. - The amend- - ments to fix the reduction of the nnhy_,ﬂt - 80,000 instead of 25,000, and to prohibit i any officer on the active or retired lists from holding a civil office, were adopted. E In the House of R.epresentativés, after a short debate on the Dbill ito remedy the 'decline in American shipping, Mr.. Schenck moved to go into committee on the Tariff bill. Mr. Férnando Wood ask- ’ ed him if, in view of the impossibility of passing’ the bill this session, it would not ‘ be better to abandon it and proceed to practical legislation. Mr. Schenck, with | some indignation, refused to accept Mr. Wood's suggestion, and insisted upon going into committee. . FRiDAY, May 13.—1 n the Senate Mr. Sumner introduced a bill supplementary to the Civil Rights bill, to secure ‘“‘equal lights” for negmes‘[oh,railroads and steamboats, and in hotels, theatres, common 'schools, colleges, churches, juries, &e.— ' Mr. Sumner ' said that when this bill | s}alould become a law he knew of nothing further necess.ry in the way of legislation for;nigger-equality in this republic. We ‘should think not! The House went 'ahead with the Tariff bill i}i cowmittee, -and figured over the duties ondlour, wheat, “fruit, and vegetables. The tariff on potatoes was raised to 25 cents per bushel, to protect New England against the competition ot New Brunswick, and North ‘Carolina’ came in for protection on her peanuts. The rates on peanuts unshelled were fixed at 2 cents per pound, and on peanuts shelled, 8 cents per pound. After disposing of the peanuts, the committee Tose from its arduous labors, and the House adjourned. = ; Moxpay, May 18.—The bill granting public lands in the state of Alabama to the Decatur. and Aberdeen Railroad com- } pany was passed by the Senate, as was 1 also the bill granting lands to aid in the. construction of a railroad from the western boundry of Minnesots, at the junction of the Siox Wood river with the Red river of the North, to the Winnipeg district, of British America. A postponement of the consideration of the tariff bill was’ made in order to take up the bill for the enforcement of the fifteenth amendment, and the senate dismissed the bill until its adjournmert, without coming to a vote. A bill is before the .House for a reduction of internal taxation. An indefinite pestponement of the tariff bill was made. A bill to enforce the right of citizens of the United States to vote in the several states of the union, who have hitherto been denied that light on account of color or preivious condition of servitude was passed, when the House adjourned. A Happy Hit. - Theawfully satirical paper, the Nation, has a mercilessly sarcastic article advocating “baby suffrage” as a necessity for the protection of infantile rights. The article besrs the marks of having been written by “Tetterby’s baby” and corrected by some “mother’s darling,” who Eas been turned: over to the'tender care of a hired nurse. The baby, it is boldly asserted, should have the ballot in order to enforce his or her rights in hotels, cars, on ‘the street, and in places of public amusement. The suppression of babies under the present system, and the tyranny unier which they groan, have embittered their lives, and the smoldering fires which have, until now, lain dormant are about to burst forth and overwhelm their oppressors. i Fardon Mrs. Lincoln. The Cincinnati T%mes pitches into the -widow of the late lamented, in a manner quite unbecoming a “loil” paper. It says ‘“Widow Lincoln is a pauper,” and her ‘casc an extraordinary one of pauperism, “ag well as of national disgrage. - "It was. ‘understaod that her husband was worth $lB,OOO when he beeame President, and $75,000 at the time of his death. Besides this Congress gave his widow a year's salary, $25,000. Here was, thmg;e a i wxdaw with an estate of 100,000—fully | half of it in her own exclusive right—and | now a_pauper, disgracing the nation to. the view of all the world by her beggary. | 2 A mﬁ}m ,g; 4 most striking illusiratiop of ‘dirt gorap:-- o 0 0 o) R o

POLITICAL ITEMS. : . Governor Geary bas appointed one Ulysses B, Vidal, a ‘negro, notary 'gublic in tire city of Philadelphia.— ivery oneto his taste, as the aged female remarked when she went through the process of kissing her cow. But we so not see the necessity for the Grovernor’s | inceasant toadying to the negroes in order.to secure their votes for his party. The democrats cannot afford to be so inconsistentas to ask the negroes to vote their ticket ; therefore, the radieal politicians will have no trouble whatever in organizing their mixed and ‘mongrel army. But we presume the negroes demand offices, and Geary fears to deny them.— Harrisburg (Pa.) Patriot. :

- The negroes of Cincinnati recently held a meeting to detérmine their future course in regard to politics, or rather to' decide whether they would vote as a unit with the radical party, as they did at the late municipal election. Their deliberations resulted in an agreement to disagree, but.they resolved almost unanimously not to support any party which advocates a high tariff. 1t would be a sort of po: etic justice if the monopolists who have fattened on tariff bounties, were beaten in the end by the negro vote, the very instrumentality introduced by them into politics to perpetuate themselves in power. | _ The mongrel party in Washington city, is trisected into three factions by the corrupt - re-nomination of Mayor Bowen._ Chief of Police Richards has been nominated by one wing and Matthew G. Emery by another. The Washington Star, Richards’ organ, declares thatthe Bowen regime has made the City a “Buzzards” Roost.’ The evil of which the Star complains surprise nobody. It is only one of the inevitable results of negro suffrage.

- There is sore trouble in the radical household. The Funding Bill, the Tariff, the Income! Tax, the Georgia outrage and the Civil Service Bill are go many apples of discord of which the happy family are daily obliged to taste. To arrest the rapid disintegration of the: party, a caucus of Representatives and Senators in Congress of the loyal faith, has been called to meet at ‘an ear*y day. The indications are that on none of the disturbing questions now before Congress will the caucus be able to“"harmonize. The Tariff and the Georgia muddle, however, more than any other subject, are likely to divide the radical councils. Although both political parties make a laudable effort to draw comfort from the result of the recent municipal elections in this state, it is safe to say that they give but a slight indieation of the state of public sentiment on - political queations; being controlled by ‘purely local issues. The Fifteenth amendments voted to the. entire satisfaction of the Republican party. — Plymouth Democrat. N i 7 s i " RAILROAD SLAUGHTER. Collision on the Mis{t&;i Pacific Railroad.—A Misapprehension of Orders.—Nineteen Persons Killed and Twenty Wounded. Sl. Louts, Mo., May 12th.—At 6 o’clock this morning the night express train on the Missouri Pacific Railrpad, which left Atchizon, Kansas, last evening, collided near Eureka, twentyeight ‘miles from here, with an eztra freight train going west. Sizteen persons were killed outright and twenty wounded. Two that have been taken home will die. No names of the sufferers have yet been ascertained. The wounded are being brought here, and further particulars will be obtained when the train arrives. The dead will be brought here as soon as the coroner reaches the seene: of the disaster and holds an inquest. = A special train left here early this morning with physicians and all the necessary applicants for the relief of the wounded and care of the dead. Another train will leave at noon with the coroner, reporters, and another relief party. Both the locomotives were completely wrecked and the trains totally smashed. The collision occurred through a misapprehension of orders given to the conductor. ] Hudson E. Bridge, President of the road, and Thomas McKistock are on the spot doing everything possible to relieve the sufferers and to clear the track. [ :

Most of the killed are persons returning from Kansas, destined to points in Illinois'and Ohio. . Although many of the wounded are serijously hurt, it is believed .all will recover. They are well cared for. The people and phygicians in the neighborhood were on the ground promptly, and have been laboring incessantly. Everything has been done that could be done to make the wounded comfortable. Augustus A. Flemington, Chief engineer of the T'aboo and Neosho Railroad, is reported killed, but this needs confirmation. The misunderstanding of orders seems to have been made by the engineer of the freight train. It is said he has not been seen since the accident. Another train, with coffins for the dead and comforts for the wounded, has just' started for the scene of the disaster.. 337 :

‘ FIRE AT LA CROSSE, WIS, A Steamboat, Railroad Depot and Elevator burned—Two Passengers drowned—Loss Heavy. LA CROSSE, May 15th.—A¢t 12:30 this morning a barrel of kerosene oil on board the steamer War Eagle was found to be leaking. A man attempted to stop the leakage, when a boy ‘passed along with a lantern, and when opposite the kerosene set his lantern down, thus communicating fire' to the kerosene, and the steamer was soon in flames, which in a very few seconds spread to the Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad depot and elevator buildings, which were also consumed. In consequence of a report that there were 8 barrels of powder in'the hold of the vessel, it was impossible to get men to work to eztinguish the fire. ' The boat was full of passengers, who made their escape from the. hurricane deck by jumping into theriver. Asfaras known but two persons were drowned—a negro employed on the boat and a lad of La Crosse, whose pame we were unable to learn. Everything on the boat was lost andall the freight in the depot consumed, ‘not a single thing being saved. The damage 'is very heavy, but can not be estimated. = - '~ Conviet Murdered at Sing Sing. " ~ Bing Sing prison was the scene of a terrible murder on ' Weduesday afternoon, A conviet named Hine brained a fellaw prisoner named Green with an imnfbgﬁ* - An’old -grudge’ was ‘the cause. el SIRE

, GENERAL NEWS ITEMS, . * 'Mike .- McCoole, the pugilist, has challenged Mace, the winner of the last fight, to another of the same sort, within six monthg, for from $2,000 to $5,A girl of sixteen, néar Montreal; recently took arsenic to whiten her complexion. None could question her success, as she lay in her coffin the following: day.. .ottty Peru has a young man, ten years of age, in jail for assault and battery on the person ofi his mother. - He says “these women needn’t think they can controel us men.’” > o g v In Elyria, 0.,a little girl came home from sehool, fdund a small package on the sewing machine, tasted the white powder it contained, and died in an hour. The rats had better be allowed run, than to risk the poison around where children can get hold - of it. ~ Ifa 'Vienna despatch may be believed, the Austrian government contemplates a serious attitude towards: Rome. - It bas resolved -to resent the proclamation of. Papal infallibility by a restoration” of the imperial authority cver the church in Austria, which was abolished by ﬂxe concordat of 1855.— Russia also threatens to take extreme measures. General Ostensacken de: clares that the apostolic vicars will be forbidden to enter Poland. :

t The fire which nearly destroyed the town of ‘Medina, Ohio, resulted from a jollification held by a number of colored boys in a barber shop. Some of the party had gone home, bt one or two were left in the shop ina drunken sleep. One, who was dozing with his head on his arm on the table, .chanced 'to knock off the kerosene lamp, which broke, gcattered the oil on the: floor, and in a moment the room was ablaze. The flames continued to spread, until the greater part of the’town was in ashes. 25 : o The Word White in. the Naturaliza- . tion Laws, ; It is stated by -a Washington correspondent that a_ bill will soon be introduced into Congress to strike out the word white from thé naturalization law. When this is done the Chinese will be eligible as voters upon the same terms as white emigrants from Europe. . The fifteenth amengment did not do-the business. Tt reguries this supplementary act. -~ When it passes the pagan Emperor of China, with his population of nearly 400,000, 000, he can send 2,000,000 or 3,000,000 annunally to our shores without feeling it, except in the good which the empire will derive from the diminution in’ ‘the excess of population.— What will be the effect of this upon our institutions ? -Is therc any one so blind who cannot see. it? The Chinese are pagans. They have been-ed-ucated in the. -absolute school of des- | potism. Of liberty, such as we enjoy, they have no more condeption than the beasts of the field. 'What an idea, to cloth - them with the right cf suffrage, and in afew years to give them the entire control of that-part of the United states lying west of the Rocky mountains. So stronglyare their sympathies in favor of their own country, that when they die they will not even allow their ashes to repose in this soil. ‘They must be taken to China, where’ all their_ earnings have previously gone. It is to this class of foreigners. that ‘Congress virtnally proposes to remit the destinies of the western half of the United States.—Cincinnati Fnquirer. ot g 5 e —— 4 —— — - T Equality. - E The Philadelphia Age says the recent decision of Judge Giles in relation to the case in which a negro was compelled to occupy the front platform of a’ passenger caf in Baltimore- covers more ground than was exhibited in that suit. The pith of the decision was that the negro- can demand of a railroad as good ‘accommodation as ihat allotted to white passengers ; but, this provided for him, he has no right to insist on forcing himself into a car ‘set apart for white men: Will not this principle apply to Public Schools # If separate buildings are %roﬁd‘ed for negro children, ean they be forced into schools with white children to .the score of equality granted under the Fifteenth Amendment'? The ultra ‘negro party say they can and are preparing to put such a system in ope--‘ration in some of the school diswricts: The State Sentinel says that Profesédr Hobbs is in favor of breaking down all-: distinctions: in color in. the public schools cf Indiana, and candidates for ‘trustees will be’ brought forward inmany. localities pledged tq the policy.: This movement will not cease until the negro is forced ‘into hotels, theatres, school houses, in common with white men. In view of this fact, the principle laid down by Judge Giles is worthy. of the serious attention of white men in all parts of the Union. Egquality gained under the law, the next step is amalgamation. Are white men prepared to take tirat step? = - Tl & Wy : A Cute Irishman. A Recently; ‘in a thriving village, an Irishman took a contract to dig a public well. When he had dug about 25 feet down, he came one morning and found it caved in ; filled nearly to the top. - Pat looked cautiously around, saw that nobody was near ; then took off his hat and coat, hung them on the windlass, crawled ito some bushes and | awaited events. , In a short time the citizens discovered that the well had caved in, and, seeing Pat's hat andcoat on the windlass, they supposed he was at the bottom of the exeavation. Only a few hours lof briek digging’ cleared the loose earth from the w‘elE‘ ' and just as the eagér citizens had: reached the bottom, and were wondering where the body was, Pat goodnaturedly ' came out from the bushes, and then thanked his friends for relieving him of “a sorry job.” Some of the tired diggers were disgusted ; but the joke was too rich to allowany‘.thini more serious than the hearty langh_ that soon followed.— Waterloo AW T e e

" _© A Brutal Prize Fight. ' Yesterday morning’s daily papers eontain the particulars of a brutal prize fight that took-place the previotis day, near New Orleans, between Tom Al‘len and Jem Mace, a couple of worth: ies who' elaim nativity in Englandi=~ They pounded each other for forty-five’ ‘minutes, for the edification of a crowd .6i_‘mushs‘ and loafers, when Allen was t:objlige “to{ suécumb to -the superior ‘brute:force of his opponent, %hﬂ a /commentary: on the sivilization 6f ‘the ‘nineteeuth mnﬁwgﬁﬁ&a,bﬂ?&iﬁj*iﬂl}i sodes afford !—Elkhart Review, 13th.

hiel I NTATEITENS, The érection of a' starch factory is among the latest enterprises at Elkharel oo ~ 'The ‘Mishawaka ' Enferprise -says there is an organized squad of burglars in that place. =~ & e o ‘Africa was represented in the jury box last week for the first time in the history of Logansport. - e A‘p!h_'otographer at Waterloo, named. E. Beck, quietly “lit out” last week, leaving sundry debts as a memento. Dygtberia.bas been raging to a considerable extent in Mishawaka, St. Joseph county, for the last two weeks. ~Bill Baldwin bit off Hood Nelson's nose, and Hood bit off Bill's finger, in Crawfordsville a da’y‘; or two ago. Bill got the worst of it. ’ e - Kendallville has the heaviest bet of the season. Myers and Teal wager their printing offices against each other, on the sense of the community upon the renomination of Billy Williams. An office has gone begging in Mishawaka. The editor of the Enterprise was elected Trustee, but declined the honor. Editors are remarkably mod--est out in that direction.. :

The.town council of Pierceton, pdseed an ordinance afew days since, taxing each saloon keeper $2OO per annum, for the privilege of retailing intoxicating drinks inside. the corporation limits; also, levying a tax of $25 on each billiard table. = . . :

One of the printers of the Air Line office set 15,000 ems of solid reading matter, one day last week. We think of putting him in training to meet that brag New Yorker. Please coant Erhest Crevest among the fast typos, Mr. Exchange.— Waterloo Air Line. ) ‘The * contemplated new hundred thopsand dollar hotel at. Indianapolis is -an ageured fact, and work will be comamenced in a few days. The building is to be five stories- and located at the iutersection of Pennsylvania and New York avenues. -- - {

i The sink-hole, half-way between Auburn and Waterloo, is proving more of a botheration than was thought possible at first. Yesterday the water was 23 feet deep over the sunken track. Men are now at work catting timber to throw into the opening, which is only 100 feet across,— Air Line. .

Governor Baker,-in response to an inquiry from the Auditor of Lawrence county, ‘gives it‘as his judgment that a county commissioner elected in 1866 and qualified at the December term of same year, as jt does not conflict with the- four years constitutional limit, holds on until his successor is elected and qualified, whicli can be done at the next October-election. !

- Mr. Cobb, an old radieal ‘euss’ living in‘the first Ward, on Tuesday last discharged a young man named Ezra Munson Kizer, who had beeii in his employ, for-voting the democratic ticket. If it were not'that he has one foot in the grave already, we would be in favor of swinging him. in. He ought to be tarred and feathered at all events. —South . Bend Union. =~ - .l

1 7 < . T'wo young ladies, both between fifteen and sixteen years of age, daughters of highly lespectable parents, living in Charlestown, Clark county, followed off a circus, a few days since, ‘which had' been giving performances in that place, and notwithstanding the persistent efforts of their parents and triends, have not been heard of. They ~made the acquaintance of a eouple of “men attached to the circus, and it is conjectured that these men induced “them o elope and join the “show,’”” but -probably with a'deeper and more dev- - ilish purpose at heart. 'This strange affair has created a good deal of ex“citement in that town, and-the parents and:the relatives of the deluded girls ‘aréplunged into' the deepest grief in. congequence of their conduct. - = Deud-beats seem to be numerous.— The- Bloomingtén (Monroe county) Progress reports one Professor Beal as high up. in the pictures in:that line.”” He went to Bloomington for the avowed purpose of opening a “Commercial - College,” remained six nights, collected a good round sum from pupils, went out for a little recreation, and didn’t. come-back. He left:with his landlord: a valige, requesting him to take good' ‘care of it, which the landlord has sinee: opened, and found it to contain old. boots, wads of paper, etc. The Professor is evidently on it.. He has a sandy ' complexion, is five feet, six :inches in hight, and a voluble:talker.. '"The Progress oftice was a sufferer by -him,as well as several others in Bloomington, :He is said to be now in Crawfordsville. .- o e ! °

+ The Jeffersonville correspondence of’ ‘the Louisville Commercial furnishes the following item : There is a great. sensation at the little town of Memphis,. thirteen:miles out on the Jeffersonville: railroad, in regard to what is eonsidered a great freak of nature. Tltis asserted that a female member of the feline family has,within the last few days: increased’ the number of her race by adding thereto three sprightly kittens, and -at the same time giving life to three specimens of rats. This statement is supported by the declaration of four as good men as there are . Union township. - While we cannot give credence to the genuineness of the phenomenou;. we fully believe. that. alt who have seen this hybrid family have full confidence. in its reality. We shall give-the matter an immediate investigation, and report the result of our obgervation, £ 2 §

. 'The Fish Law. ; A writer in the Warsaw Nalional Union, who seems to be well versed in piscatory matters, goes inon the fish law savagely. ‘He ‘calls it the ° “fish destroying law,” and makes a number of: sfatements, : which, ' if' correct, fully establishes his position.— He says that pike lay their eggs in March, suofish and bass in the fall months, and that the oﬁlg fisies in the Indiana ‘lakes, .protected by the fish ° law, are gar fish and dog fish, which are ‘full of eggs in the months of June and ‘July. If this be true, .oug so called fish “protection. law” is:a humbug of the worst character, Every one has ‘heard the old expression of aversion, ias mean as gar broth, and, outside of .%hd.;ﬂ%;:ﬂb{ahiﬁamang a dog fish has ‘never been considered a loxury. We: ‘don’t know but'the Uni f;fﬂ% respo _ 80,/or the' legislators who Ppasged the law are a great sef of asses. The lat. theory ~Perw Sentinel.