The National Banner, Volume 5, Number 4, Ligonier, Noble County, 25 May 1870 — Page 2

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‘Besistance to. Tyrants is Obedience to God.’ WT T e e s éB, BTOLL, EDITOR. }.‘."' M - ~_._‘ w.—__.:...“.“”..__{,.’_—.——._——-" eA—WEDNESDAY, MAY 235, 1870. DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET el F e —— 4 { For Secretary of State: ; ‘Col. NORMAN EDDY, of South Bend. For Auditor of State: : JOHN C. SHOEMAKER, of Perry Co. : For Treasurer of State JAMES B. RYAN, of Indianapolis. : For Attorney-Generpl ¢ BAYLESS W. HANNA, c;j’l‘erre Haute, i . For Bup't of Public Instruction: * Rey. MILTON B. HOPKINS, of Clinton, . .z For Supreme Judgés: JAMES L. WORDEN; of Fort Wayne, A. C. DOWNEY, of Ohio County, * SAMUEL H. BUSKIRK, of Monroe Co., JOHN PETTIT, of Lafayette.

~ *Damn the Duteh,” , The' following article appeared in the Indianapolis Duily Telegraph of April 11, Although several. weeks have elapsed since its appearance, the contents will be read with interest by politicians through. .out the State. We translate as follows : “Damn the Dutch!” recently exclaimed a politician of this city who draws his salary out of Uncle Sam’s capacious purse, when he heard, of the resolutions of the Gierman mass meeting in Mozart Hall; “damn the Dutch, let them go to hell,” was the answer of ope of our State officers, when apprised of. the dissatisfaction existing among the German Republicans and its attendant injurious effect upon the party. It can do no harm to call to mind these expressions of the most uncouth nativism, and to remember on future: occasions who were guilty of such infamous expressions, We have placed the names of the ‘guilty parties upon the black list, and shall not neglect, when tinmie and circymstances 8o require, to hurl their ownfilthiness into the faces of these miserable wretches."! ] : =

During an excited ' discussion in Congress, on Thursday, Mr. Voorhees took occasion to refer to the hostility which had of late. manifevsted‘ itself in this State against adopted citizens. The telegraph informs us that “/Mr. Orth called his col“Jeague (Voorhees) to account for his ** statement in ‘his speech that in Indiana “it was said; ‘“let the Irish go; let the “ Dutch go ; we have got the negroes 1n ‘“ their place.” | He wanted to know who “gaid that;" whether it was said by any “ responsible and_respectable man, in or “ out of Congress.” Mr. Orth can obtain the desired information by addressing the editors of the Indianapolis Telegraph, who are members of bis own party. The “State officer” referred to in the quotation from the Zeleyraph is either Treasurer Kimball or iAuditor Evans, .

by eE— | Revolution in Porfugal. . Portugal was the theatre of a sudden, sharp, and decisive revolution on Thurs- ‘ day of last week. The ministry of the Duke de Loule has retained power, in spite of the manifest dissatisfaction of the army and people of Lisbon. The Duke de Saldanah, the leader or the favorite of the troops, has been for some time preparing a coup d'etat. On Thursday he was ready, and moved at the head of the Army ' against- the strong fortification at Lisbon known as the Castle of St. George. This place after a short struggle, was carried. He then marched with his victorious soldiers to the royal place.. The governor of the palace rallied the household troops and attempted to make a defence. Some shots were fired, when the defenders broke ranks and fraternized with their comrades nunder Saldanah. The soldiers, volunteers, and citizens then poured into the Gngarded palace, waving the popular l flag and shouting, “Long live the King?” “Long live the army and Saldanah!” The Prime Minister, the Duke de Loule, finding that all was lost, tendered his res: ignation, and the King consented that ; the triumphant Saldanah should form a | new Cabinet. Seven men were killed and thirty were wounded during the fighting. Though the course’ef the Duke de Saldanha is popular with the peoplé of Lisbon and Oporto, che deposed’ premier has strong partizans in ‘the provinces; -and it is feared the trouble is not yet over. ¥ TS T The Question of Infallibility. - -'The debate on” the dogma of Papal infallibility is progressing in the Ecumenical Council. The" Archbishop ot Paris, and the Bishops of Dijoin, Spires, and Rothenburg have made speeches in opposition to the dogma, and at the last.accounts Cardinal Schwartzenburg bad the floor; and was speaking on the same side. One of the organs of the Vitican says, however, that the resistance tozinfallibility is practically extinet. ‘ The attitude of Austria towards the Church is becoming daily more menacing. Itis reported now that Prime Minister Von Beust and Count Andrassy, the ITungarian ‘Premier, have agreed ‘to for. bid the promulgation‘in their country of any decree of the Ecumenical Council deelaring the infallibilty of the Pope: It is reasserted that the Austrian bishops will ‘vote with practical unanimity against the dogma. S

The Ligonier BANNER employs a gay young rooster to crow over the Democratic victory in New York. The fowl strats quite lively, but has marks of being & novice in the business of announcing such victories. There has been so little use for Demoeratic roosters and the stock sa low of late, that we are ecurious to know where our enterprising neighbor procured the breed.— Kendallville Journal. We'll tell you, Doe. Just before the Octobjer election in 1868, we invested something over six dollars in emblematic ‘euts” that were:to adorn our columbs in announcing the result of that contest.— The superior ability of your party in counting, bereft us of the pleasure of exhibiting our ‘majestic chsnticleers, tri. umphant flags, and booming cannons.— "Ts trae, our pafience has been ‘subjected 1o 4 severe test, but at last the time seems to have arrived when we can frequently make eppropriste use.of these suggestive illustratlons, .¢t vuts aii ,

TRt A B e ( The Supreme Court of the State of Michi?an has carried tbe railroad ques tion, involving the validity of granting local railroad aid, to a special term of the Uourt in the latter part of this month, when it is expected and hoped that w:? _final disposition .will be made of it. 1t ought to be uttled'?oedily“ for or against the grant, and the interests of the State of% clearly demand that iu&d. he decided in favor ot;;bp”&?nt,mdm against it Lagrange Standord, - |

tion show a democratic majority for the judicial ticket of 88,000! In the radical counties in the interior a compl i polibi cal revolution appears to have talien Indeed, the figures indicate thatiihe rad cal party of the Empige S is couy pletely overwhelmed. - :

The World, in speaking of thissplendid _victory, sattributes . its schievement . to. causes that,deserve the earnest considera: e e, e TGy 2We pre &ofl yjopiient % tickef, & sound plu_tform. and & wise, disI creet party maniagement. | ; ! { “ Another thing,” ‘says the = World, ' ‘which contribnted t the greatness of ' our success in the recent election, is the l‘ unobjectionable war record of all our candidates. This is of little intrinsic im- } portance so long after the war has closed; ' but it prevented appeals to a decaying l prejudice whose revival might have overcome the inertness ol many repablican voters. That fraittulitopic of invective has hecome quite obsolete in this state. Tn i all probability it will never be revived. The; commendation which the republican journals bestowed on Governor vaoflman for his uprightness and patriotism when acting as Recorder during the war, and _the excellent record of all our State officers without exception, have made this ‘kind of slander a pointless weapon.” There is undovbtedly much force in this argument. Its correctness has been illustrated elsewhere — in Connecticut, California, &c.- 'Wherever the leadership of the democracy has been placed .in Jjudicious hands, wherever impracticable theorists yielded the reins to those who have not forfeited public confidence, the i battalions of that grard army of freedom ; came out of thecontest with flying colors. Radicalism tfembles beneath the vigorous | blows of the Young Democracy. ‘lt vanquishes. before the onward march of t.hat"! mighty element as',dianppcars the mist be- | fore the morning sun. | 1

But, let us heed the ceunsel of our victorions brethren of the Empire State.— They ask the atteation of the Democracy of other States to the circumstances that led to thie glorious suecess. The World, with the utmost propriety, says: “As they will take courage from our victory, we hope they will also :consider its causes: Ifthey can devise wiser methods or a better’ policy, we shall rejoice in their success. But, tor the present, we offer them our example. We shall have confidence in our management until its results are eclipsed by more brilliant Democratic triomphs in our sister States. They had better keep step to our music in a united march to victory, than gsk us to learn of them ‘how not to do it."” PR e ity W O — e ' Emforcing the Amendment. Just before the -Honse adjourned on Monday of last week, the radicals rushed through a bill, which has been agreed on for some time in the Judiciary Committee, to enforce the fiftcenth amendmens. It imposes pains and penalties, in the way of fine and imprisonment, for preventing or hindering in any:possible way any col ored person from voting who is' enfranchised by said amendment. Messrs. Randall, Wood, and Eldridge denounced the manner of passing this important bill as a great outrage, but it was no use; -the rules were suspended, every word of de bate was cut off, and the bill was passed by a party vote. - i 4

In the Senate, on the same ‘day, the pending appropriation bill and the bill to abolish the franking privilege were both passed over at'the expiration of the morning hour, which brought up Mr. Stewart’s bill to enforce the fifteentb’ amendment, To this thé Nevada jurist moved the bill to enforce the fourteenth amendment, and to secure the equal protection of the laws as additional sections, and gave notice that be wanted the bill passed before the Senate adjourned. Mr.. Vickers opened the attack on the bill in a thorough and well considered speech. He was f(;illowed by Judge Tburman, whose speech soon engaged the entire attention of the Senate, and was a most crushing exposition of the mingled outrages, usarpations, and absurdities of the bill. It had begn the game of Mr. Stéwart and his allies to have the debate all on one side, and force the ‘Democrats to speak to empty :benches, but the fire of Mr. Thurman was so hot and effective that even Stewart was forced to speak at last. Section after section was examined, until soon Meskrs. Carpen ter, Conkling, and Morton and many other Radicals were laughing.over upid blanders of Mr. Stewart’s grea{ measure. After Mr. Thurman had concluded, Mr, Ferry moved,to strike out the seco e tion of the amendment, to enforce the fourteenth amendment, which led to a very sharp discussion between him and Mr. Morton. The:latter made a most bitter and malignant address, trying to renew sectional bitterness, and in opposition to a genéral amnesty. Mr. Ferry re _plied with great power, rebuking Mr. Morton for his course, and characterizing ‘his speech on the Georgia bill as disinge--nuous and (unfair,and as leading to nothing but mischief. Mr. Warner alse took issue with Morton’s doctrine in favor of -perpetuating disabilities. The debate had settled the question that Stewart could not rush his bill through, and so the Senate passed into executive session.

Another Atrocious Wife Murder. An atrocions wife murder was commit 18th inst.,, by a man named Samuel P. Boardwell. The victim had separated ted in Franklin square, New York,on the from her husband on account of ill usage, and he had made repeated efforts to in‘duce her to retarn to him. To earn a livelihood ; Mrs. Boardwell accepted the situation of housekeeper of a respectable hotel in Franklin square. Wednesday afternoon, Boardwell yisited the place and renewed his importunities to hig wife to live with him. She persisted in her refusal, when the murderer drew a revolver and shot her in the abdomen, -inflicting a mortal wound. The unfortunate lady was taken in a dying condition to the Bellevue Hospital. ' Boardwell was arraigned at the Tombs, and being questioned as to the cause of his_crime, answered ingolently; “That's my business.” He did not even take the trouble ‘to play insanity after the menner of the popilar -mardorers of the day. The gouple lived /in Dover, N..J;, o mfimwbe separs‘tion. . Mrs. Boardwell i«-said to be & we‘man of exemplary character; and’ since Tovin o Buatad ar conduen er.

~ The acquittal of Daniel McFarland telicit'ed a lively discussion by the paper, press of the countr l% all i discion, fee W 8 beeflf maglifestad on rt of Bhoscßvho Maveltakell sides Wvith [ eitlilr o icifi actPs i hétr"ag edy. Numerous articles on the result of ' the trial have made their appearance, and “from aniongst these we select the folJowg AN . e i oet anr ~ “We arg greatlysurprised that any one h;shnll cahirigx and &gfiberuel; approve the "verdict that has set the prisoner free in ‘this’ case, for such approval invblves directly the sanction of principles subver'sive of law and order, and direct license ‘ for private revenge. To approve the course of McFarland is to approve the ac_tion of the mch that takes out an offend--er and hangs bim ' without jodge or jury. It is to make every man the judge of his own injuries, and bid him, while smarting under bis lacerated feclings, to then and there decide as judge upon the facts of his dishonor, and become the executioner that ‘shall avenge the crime that bas been com~mitted against him, This is eontrary. to all the principles of jurisprudence as practiced in civilized nations. But : mong the statute laws of no nation under the sun-do we find that death shall be the penalty for seduction in its most aggravated forms, No legislator would dare to vote for placing such a law upon the statute books No jury would bring in 4 verdict of death against any man for the seduction of another's wife. Why then- is it that this depraved public sentiment obtains that gives license to ignore all law, and invests one man with power to slay and kill without let or hindrance, it is difficult to eonceive. -% * = " “We have nosympathy with the friends of Richardson, that lead us to theabove reflectiong 'We have no doubt that Richardson, and -the friends of Mrs.. McFar- . land, had mueh to do with the separation, of Mrs. McFarland from ber husband.—~The evil counsel no doubt loosened the ties of marriage, in the estimation of Mrs. McFarland, and caused her to finally de-, sert him: ‘But whatever may have been the wretclied and depraved sentiment that was inculcated in her mind, or whatever may have'been the conduct of Richardson, neither the law of God or man demands for it the punishment of death, and he who assumed the power to afllict such a punishment, becomes an outlaw, and deserves the punishment due for :'memit'ting 86 heinous a crime. The guilt of an offender will in no way legally extenuate the- actual offence of him who without law kills the offender—even though the offence committed is worthy of death.—Much less can the crime of McFarland be extenuated wien we consider that no law’ and no jury could under any circumstances ‘Lave been justified in condemning Richardson to death, or even to an hour's confinement in the prison, for anything that he was proven to have done.” | . {¥rom the New York Sun.) :

It was proved that Richardson, aided i by a nwmber of his.friends; had seduced | the allegiance of McFarland's wifé; and | in acquitting the prisoner the jury bave | virtually declared it to be their opinion | that any husband is at all times justified | in slaying the paramour of his wife. = * i ¥ ok k% Theipablic feeling in connection with this trial has been I much intensified by the evidence brought | forward to show that the theory of free love, or of love governed by impulsé alone and not held within the limits of apylaw but its own desire, entered largely into the causes which took Mrs. McFarland away from her husband and handed her ‘over to a paramour. It is trué that this theory was not presented in 80 extreme a form in the evidence. It appeared there in the shape of the idea that a wife who disagrees with her husband and no longer loves him, or who is'not properly maintained by him, has the right to sepa . rate from him,.and to form a new relation | with any man who is more agreeable to’| her tastes and feelings; but in.the gener *l al judgment this milder application of | the free-love principles does not differ es- | sentially ‘ from the other. It was seen | that this pernicious theory had played a | great and unscrupulous part in the early | stages of this tragical affair, and its advo- | cates and ‘adherents appeared in the court ] room as witnesses to justify and defend | it. This shocking manifestation of s deep | rooted social disease was believed tobeon | trial quite as much as. the wretched pris- | oner, and the verdict of the jury is even | more & condemnation of free love than an | acquittal of McFarland. . In this point of ’ view it may be regarded as a whelesome | thing, even by those persons who, without | any sympathy with the poisonous philosophy which stimulated the coadjutors ‘of ! Richardson in taking away McFarland's wtjfe, are still unable to regard the killinfi | ofi the seducer as anything but a dark and | ‘unjustifiable crime. f i (From the LaGrange Standard.) . |

As predicted in our last paper, the jury, | after a two _hour’s deliberation, rendered | a verdict of acquittal in the McFarland- | Richardson case, releasing the prisoner on | the grounds of paroxysmal insanity. — | This plea of insanity, however, js merely ! a matter of form, the true meaning of the | verdict Is, tAa¢ aman or woman s justified, l in taking the life of another, if the onetaking life has reason to believe that the other | i 8 or has been ‘interfering with his or her marital rights orprwileges of affection. — | This is an extremely dangerous precedent | to establish, but we may as well under- l stand that by the verdiet of juries it has | become such ; and there .is such a strong disposition to maintain it, that in a defense of murder, where such a plea is.offered, the etatement. is taken as true, and the burden of proving that it is' untruthful rests upon the prosecution, and in the absence o? satisfactory ;proof to the contrary, the plea of invaded ' marital rights oryiolated pledges of affection is accepted as-a' justification of the killing of a hu.man being. Again, we say that it isa dangerous precedent to establish ; it will most as<uredly prove subversive of good law and good morals, and will ever bein conflict with good common sense and sound policy. + ? 5 (From the Chieago Times.) “The verdict in the McFarland case is another affirmation of the long and well- . established law alluded to by Mr, Graham in the remark : “When a man gets in between the man and wife;, he must be shot. I have always said that this is the law," and always shall. There can be no other law for thisclass of cases.” * ¥,k * & “Until the very foundations of our civilization are upturned, there can be no other law for such cases. Had thejury: convicted Daniel McFarland, the verdict would have been an approval of that foulest form of liccnt?dhbnésg which strikes at the foundation of eur saéjltl_ structare. The issue the jury had tmi&y» was. not The good of society vs. Daniel; McFarland ; it was The free-love lechery vs. The good of society. In the finding. of their verdict, th’é‘*j’ugy"‘could not possi- | bly escape the determination of this issue. The person standing in the attitude of defendant, stood, at the same time, in the attitude of society’s defender and bene. factor. To have found him guilty of a crime would have been to find ‘society guilty of dishonesty and false pretense; to decide that what we eall civilization is a sham, and its most sacred law a farce, The verdict of not guilty is the vindication of our civilization against the assaults of its most indecent enemies, and is anoth--er approval of its law- that ‘when a freelover gets+in between' thé man and wife, hem’!‘fibfi;%” i dpid hog yiivies %i.eg' 'l.’l ts‘;; 313 fattened ih digtiliety Hog pens i‘?[‘ rine nati’ WW‘ o death i s conflagra.. C e gy Al SHREO M Dl tio ne ol the ofher Week,, ..,

pe Monrocville Demfgrat has a lengthy “article oc the app }ng democratic c@ivention in' Allen dBun it i t n against whom#¥g charges cdfguption have been préferredishall fiide. The editor saygille haS*“epélbegh the uncompromising’ foe of political corruption and venality, and while conduct--ing .a pablie-journal we-shall-ever de‘nouncet sithall the'pawetsat-our com.: it may be found in.” That is the correct eblingß + 12 AVET B OF o, Returns from the State at large show Republican gains in almost every municipal election.— Whitley Commercial. : “Returns from the State at large” show no suchi thing, Mr. Commercial. llf any significance can be attached to the results of the municipal elections; your party willbe most gloriously “scooped out” next October. ' ; : Hon,' John S. Reid, who was fairly elected 'to a seat in Congress from the. Fourth Indiana District, but has thus far been deprived thereof by the saintly Juli an, announces that he will not be a can didate for re-election. Among other reasons for thus declining, Mr. Reid assigne the withdrawal of Mr. Julian, and the following : il * *“Since my former nomination and election, new principles have been introduced into.the Constitution and new measures, financial and commercial, are endeavored to be incorporated into our system as the law of the land, which require a most searching examination and thoro’. knewledge by him who attempts their discussion, demanding bosh time and study to’ master, which I would be unable to give with my present contest pending here.” i This being the case, we think Mr. Reid ‘ acted very wisely in leaving the field to Judge Gooding, who finds it less difficult to inaster the issues that will enter intoA{ the next canvass. | - Y ¢

The New Albany ZLedger takes exception to the “Cincinnati Enquirer's stric‘tures on the victorious Democr'acy of Conneeticut and New York. Pastevents furnish aubundant proof'that the Enquirer is ot very fortunate in its leadership; whilst, on the other hand, the Democracy of Connecticut and New York managed their political affairs- with far better results. Hence, we think the £n qui'rer might profit by pursuing a policy that in sures success, instead of denouncing others for refusing to follow a course that invariably leads to defeat. - i

The Lagrange S.tamh_c'rd discusses the acquittal of McFarland at length and with considerable ability. There is much in the article that- meets our approval, though we are of opinic!n. that Richardson’s conduct is not sufficicntly condemned by our contemporary. If not too delicate a task, Bro, Devor would conter a favor by being a little more explicit in his reference to an alleged offender belonging to the “corps editorial”-—the individual alluded to in the 50th line of said article. Who is he? ! .

The notorious villifier, Morton, recently undertook to show that a cownspiracy ex18ts in the South’to break down the *“ union party ” by deeds of blapd and- violence. He was promptly rebuked by the colored Senator Revels, for gtterixig 0 barefaced a falsehood. Poor,Moxa!

On Monday the U. S: Senate military: affairs committee dccided to report against the house resolution fixing upon the 30th of May to be observed asa public holiday, and to be known as “Decoration day.” The committee thought that législation would not tend to its observance, whilé there were many 'reasons why congress should not seleet it. !

. The adjournment of congress has finally been fixed upon July 15th. The country will rejoice to learn that the day on which the assembled wisdom—rascality would be better—will shake from their shins the dust of the national capital, is not more remote; i

~ The nigger business is being pushed with unabated zeal. The latest sensation at Washingtonlis the appointment of a color:d woman named Kate Jennings to a clerksbip in the Treasury department. Dispatches state that the appointment has caused: quite a feeling of. indignation among the white female clerks. We are too thoroughiy disgusted to offer a comment. e :

e el < —— Muarder at South Bend. Sourn Bexp, Ind, May 20.—T0 (day, our city is alive ‘with various rumors of the fearful tragedy of last evening, wherein. Charles A. Thibets, of Nilesmlfichigan, met his death at the hands of O. G. Stage, of Walkerton, Ind. The excitement has subsided somewhat, but it s still the main topic. It appears that the parties were at sword’s points ‘on account of former difficulties, At one time they had some blows, in whicl Stage séems to have been worsted, and the evidence elicited shows that Stage harbored a thirst for révenge whenever opportunity should offer.. As far as can be learned, their meeting here was by accident, but the sight of Thibets seems to have infuriated him, and he'is said to have made remarks to the effect that he would Kkill him before night, displaying a largekenife. The coroner’s jury was empaneled as shon as possible after the fatal occurrence, and by a post mortem examination the deceased was found to have received two wounds, one breaking the setond rib on the left side, entering four or five inches, and severing'tlie main artery from the heart ; the other in the left arm. The verdict of the jury was that the “Deceased came to his death by wounds received at the hands .of ‘one ..Btage.”. ' No weapons were found |on the body of the murdered man. The 'knife has not, as yet, been found, which - gives ‘-ri;g,to some. doubts as to whether all the facts have been ascertained. A scabbard was ‘taken' from the prisoner, showing the weapon to have been a large dirk. The prisoner isstill unrelenting, expressingno sign of regret for his attrocious crime. LG il : R . , Modersd Féllies. - Representative Pierce, of the Fifth Mississippi distriot; has nominated . & colored cadet to West Point. © © " ey . Wendell Philips favors the granting of the right of suffrage to the Indians who are now menacing the frontier. He sees no gther way . to civilize them and make theth good, indpstrious itizons. , O, the lunatic Weadel !+, i ioin « biinil Hon, C, L, Vallandigham has promised %&Ayfiam;ta; hammer & fow tacks, in the Obio Demoeratic platform for female, suffcage;: ~ .. mindd maawied - oy 1 5 g 2L x e Rt QradetEAMe Al oh (TR LY 3‘; % h Bend Union failed to reach, aur sanctum last week, Send them along.:

| TUESDAX, May I¥.—ln the Senate, Mr. Stewart’s Dbill to epforce the fifteenth iien d rgdnt 'y d?fed atlenglh. The diSeussion shewed awide diffsrency - ioff amgig t ngl 4 [ F%, | (Rad.) of Connectient, made the ¢ of | the day and bitterly opposed the bill.— { He declares that the stcries of rebel out. ; fages Georgla were manufactured to. | order iy a “vensl press “in Washington Tm—imwm HHRE B Bad Toaght for the rights ‘of the black man, o p i ko £ P A LARNE . : ' not because he was black, but because he was a man; and ndpw we are bound to | take care that the rights of man himself { were not lost.” Mr. Morton replied to | Mr. Ferry, and took oceasion to read him #out of the republican party. Speeches | were made by Sawyer, of South Carolina, ‘ and Johnson, of Virgifiia; gg_ainst the bill, ian*d by Drake and Caméron in favor of | Visitiog | the white people of the South | with continued vengeance. The negro Seoator Revels testitied that Mississippi was orderly and worthy of a general amnesty. Inthe House of Representatives | the bill to revive American commerce and navigation was discassed, and speeches were made by Mr. Wood, of New York, and Mr. Washburn, of Wisconsin, Mr. Wood objected to the bill because it did not reach the causes of the decline of American ‘shipping. - He described it ps only a little “soothing syrup” to ship builders. Mr. Julian presented two petitions, praying for the impeachment of Associate-Justice Stephen. J. Field, of the Supreme Court,and District-Judge Hoffman, of Calitornia, which were referred to the Judiciary Committee, The Naval Appropriation bill was debated during the afternoon and through. the evening sestion. Several Radicals criticised the extravagance of the nayal establishment, and Mr. Dawes made a powerful speech in the same spirit. ‘ : ,:WEDNEsD.w', May 18.~In the Senate, Mr. Casserly, introduced a bill to facilitate the. transmission of Asiatic goods across the continent in bond. The Senate bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment was laid aside, and the bill recently passed by the House was substituted, and Messrs. Sawyer, Warren, and others made | speeches.. The evening session was con“sumed by Mr. Cragin in & lengthy speech in favor of the bill to abolish poligamy in Utah. The House of Representatives passed the. entire day and might session | i in considering the Naval Appropriation

bill, which, after being amended in various particulars, was passel. An amendment materially increasing tlie pay of officers of the navy was carried by a large majority. The Committee on Elections | reported on the contested case of the Fourth South Carolina District, and in l favor, of course, of the Radical pretender., Mr. Simpson, the Democrat who' was elected, had 4,291 majority ; and. now the House is about to perpetrate the outrage of declaring Wallace, the defeated’ Radical candidate, entitled to the seat. ~ Fripay, May 20.--In the Senate the resolution fixing the final adjournment of Congress on the 4th of July was taken up and amended so ds to change the date toJuly 15. In the course of the debate Senators ‘Drake, Cameron, and Tipton indulged in personalities, and the latter ‘made a fierce personal attack on Forney's Ohronicle. He insisted that harmony . within the Republican ranks could not much longer be maintained unless the dictatorial overbearing course of some of its memberg was repressed. The ¢vening session wag devoted to a discussion of the ’ bill to enforce the fifteenth amendment, :@uring which the Radicals began their first. movement towards interfering in the New Y ok City elections. Mr. Sherman favored the advance step in a bitter speech. The proceedings: in the House of Representatives were devoid of interest. The Senate’s amendment fixing adJjournment to July 15, was concurred in. | THURSDAY, May 19.—1 n the Senate the judiciary committeg reported in the mat. ter of the investigation of alleged attempts to bribe Senators on the Georgia question. The report shows that Gov. Bullock paid Forney three thousand dollars for the/use of his Chronicle in the advocacy of the Georgia infamy and that about $lO,OOO mere were paid for a like purpose to the lobbyists. The committee | find, therefore, that improper means were brought to bear to influence senators’ l votes against the Bingham amendment to ' the Georgia bill, and censure Bullock and ’: Forney for being concerned inthem. In the House, there was one of the sharpest debates of the session this afternoor, on the quesiton of providing, in the diplo--matic bill, for a mission to Rome. The ‘ bill only: provided for a consul, and the’ | democratic members proposed fo substituto a minister resident, and in the course. of the discussion they.charged that the republicahs opposed a mission there on the ground of the religious tenets ‘which held sway in Rome, and cited the fact that in the next line of the bill provision was made for a minister to the polygamous country of Turkey. Some of the republican members denied this, and others did" . not. Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, defied the democratic members to indorse the doctrine of infallibility, proposed in the Ecumenical council, and ‘denounced it as | 8n attempt to fetter the frecdom of. thought, of conscience, and the press.— Mr. Dawes charged. Mr. Brooks with baving been a know aothing. . Mr. Brooks replied that Mr. Dawes told a falsehood, and knew it wasa falsehood while he was telling it. Messrs. Voorhees and Bingham had a tilt on the Catholic religion, and altogether, for nearly two hotirs, the discussion was one of the warmest kind., e o | SATURDAY, May 21. — The Senate was: ' in session all night, - Stewart’s nonsensi- ' cal bill for the enforcément of the fifteenth amendment wasadopted at 7 o'¢lock by a | Moxpa¥, May 23. — The Senate, by a vote of 20 agaiast 25, appropristed #lOO, | 000 for an expedition to the. north pole.. In the Honse, Stewart's bill to enforce the -fiftconth. amendment, was mon-coneurred in by a large majority, and sent to a cop-: ferenoe committeo in the denate; ' Thie bill is very generilly dencuried’ay ofie of the moat “radical ' meastires wyfc’lfi"?fiijfméfi : been corisidered in congress, anf-at lenst o oA diied gy Fodiaad daliy e three fourthis of the members of tho hoyea. ‘-flf doubtless he produced, from the.onCEaNenoe T ROt A B e el

| STATE ITENMS. : T hghdrug gists-of Fort Wayne as talkildg . about establishin Q) S s citing s G ' e Indianapolis Sentinal hwars tamored that the teeth W ¢ rebe ‘dead Meing exhomed™ ar;%eing extracted for sale to “dentists. ‘Can such a horrible rumor have any truth MYy?” e : i - The Fort Wayne Democrat says a iaried PRAST that eity: whoso figa. tions with a'young girl have attracted a good deal of notice, will find himself -unpleasantly notoriong unless he dries gup. ) by : A Michigander was relieved of his -pocket book, containing $l5O, on the show grounds yesterday, and failed torecover it.. His ticket cost a ‘‘right smart sprinkle of change.”— Ellhart Union. ' e A bachelor club of Mt. Vernon have resolved that any member of the club who shall marry before January 1, '7O, shall be fined twenty-five dollars and a basket of Champagne, to be paid within ten days after marriage, __‘‘Another Richard in the field.” A child was born in Attica, Fountain eo., a few days ago, with four well defined teeth! * Naturally clamorous for a living, the teeth had to be extracted to give the little fellow a chance!at the ‘maternal fount. ‘ » The Columbia City Post says :— “Potato bugs, by the. million, have made their appearance within the last week, in this vicinity. They are making fearful havoce of the early vines. — The general opinion of farmers is that the crops will be equal to ?;st years.” ' The spirit of ambition which has seized the hens of Indiana this season, has cropped out in Vernon, Jennings county. Mre. Vandergriff of that glace, set a portion of her enterprising rood on 85 eggs, and out of that number 83 chickens were hatched. . Next ! ‘Wells county, which has just been brought from darkness to light, puts forth as her representative, J. P. Gutelius, Esq., of Bluffton, who was made a magon on the 15th of January, 1520, and has consequently been a member of that order: for fifty years. Who next? . The prisoners confined in the jail at Warsaw, Kosciusko county, made an attempt to escape from confinement 'a few days agv, and came within an ace of accomplishing it. The sheriff happened to be wide awake, and frustrated their designs — but he only had two minutes, by the watch, to do it.in. A lady in Kokomo got disgusted with the world on account of a little disarrangement in her household affairs, and took a large dose of anconite. The dobctors had a tussel with the poison, and came out ' victorious; and the lady is still a dweller upon the beautiful earth. She’s not as much disgusted with/ it as she was. The people of Randolph township, Tippecanoe county, got mad at the depredating foxes, tarned out, en masse, and killed seven. They got the sly divils into one hole,” and “went for” them. The account does not state what number of the population were engaged in the slanghter, but it was a “big thing’’ nevertheless. . A Michigan horse thief was arrested about ten miles west of Peru, a few days ago. He had taken two horses and a buggy, and when captured was industriously digging roots in the woods—Deing a *‘yarb”’ doctor. He has been taken to Michigan, and will probably soon have a chance to try his botanic skill on the inmates of a penitentiary. Charles Schultz, the old man who ‘has been on trial in Hudson City for the attempted murder of his wife, by catting her throat with a razor, has been acquitted by the jury. The defence was insanity. 'The verdict gives great dissatisfaction’ in Hudson City, where the people are mnot at all easy under the consciousness that another throatcutting lunatic is prowling .at large. ' _ ‘Quite an excitement was created in Terre Haute, on' Saturday, over the competition among the dry goods dealers. ' One establishment offered prints of common grade at six cents a yard ; another offered the best prints at eight cents a yard, and another offered ten yards of prints, a full dress pattern, for twenty-five cents. At these low figures there was a rush upon thelow price stores during the day. - 2 The New Albany Ledger thus notes some of the amusements of that city: An exciting fight came off between two women in the lower end of the city. The husband of one of the women stood by and witnessed the melee, every now and then exclaiming : “Lick her, Betsey ; you'’re my wife ; if you don't, I'l fic{ you.” ‘And Betsey did “lick her.” ' The matter was adjudicated in the police court. A carresponaent at Montmorency ‘promises to give us the full particulars of the recent trial and conviction of Rev. Hogan of the Methodist Episcopal Church, for scandalous and-liasgii vious conduet. The clerical rascal was a “loil” man during the 'war, and -wouldn’t allow Democrats like William T. Murdock and William Buck, of Wayne township, to remain in the churcfi? All suc‘h.fefiows are fast coming to grief.— Lafayette Dispatch, .. A week or two since we were induced to denounce Mr. D. A. Williams, of Bristol, in pvetz{,' severe terms, for ‘the manner in: w.h% he had punished ‘his son, to break him of chewing tobacco. We have since been informed by old and . respectable citizens, who are well aéquainted'with Mr. Williams, thatno such "fiunishn_nntz was ever in-: flicted, and that the boy voluntarily: left home, after being hlzedgl:o‘b' his father, for the way he had been og%!ate‘ canducting 'hi&: and ‘is now living: at Laporte.. ‘We -hope people will be more carefal hereafte:{;bonf. eefi;:g&l:&ng false stories upon ‘their neighban — Goshen Democraf. «'- . 00l

'The Bounty bill which passed the Thirty-ninth Congress is to be again reported,.and will probably. pass the. House, but; if. is; lgmly- to {e defeated in_the Senate. It provides that all #oldiers mustered in the United States service are .entitled. to. eight: and enethird dollars for each: month’s:servige, being at the rate:of one hundred dollars a year, the amount already re.: ceived by each soldierto be deducted therefrom, : °lt had been estimated that thebill would entail an'expense of one' hundred millions of dollars at least,” ¢

~ POLITICAL ITEMS, =~ "mm A. Logau has been reelectgd Commander-in-Chief of the Gra Mz'An’nj of the Republic; a triumf ) for &gchampion - of Free Trade and a redaetion of the army. : Ww York Sun says “the Refiublicnns of New York lack both rains and integrity.” The Terre Haute Gazetlesays “there is.a want of capacity and integrity upon the part ' ?nblic&nr party.”." These expressions rom leading Eastern and Western editors, aré certainly remarkable coincidences, and no doubt both are correct. A Fexas magistrate postponed a case for ”p{:vo weeks in . of‘ge_t to find out whether the state was in or out of the Union. He was one of your careful kind. Tn the meantime the citizens hung the horse thief that was going to be tried, because they hadn’t any jail. Herein they committed a terrible out: rage upon the radical pa_rZy. That fellow should have been elected to Congress. AR RRY

Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, has appointed Messrs, Simrall, Tarbell and Peyton as judges 'of the supreme court of that State. The one- is an out and out southerner, in sentiment and feeling ; the second is a “scallawag’’ who sold his opinions for -office, and the third is a professional carpet-bagger. All are said to be good lawyers, - We think the court shounld. be made to consist of four judges, so as to make room for a fifteenth amendment. Then all classés would be represented. The radicals- are now engaged in raising a_corruption fund to buy up the Maryland negroes withal. It is said that the management of the campaign against the White men of Maryland, has been entrusted to Postmaster General Cresswell. All office-hdlders under the I'ederal Government hailing from that State, are assessed 1 1-2 per cent. per month on salaries from $5OO to $2,000, and-2 per cent. per- month on salaries exceeding the latter “sum, which amount they are required to pay over regularly to the Chairman of the mongrel State Committee. -~

. el - e s T GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Senator Thurman is suffering from fever and ague contracted during his campaign tour three years ago. General Longstreet: was chief marshal in the celebration of the fifteenth amendment at New Orleans. - - The famous Chicago breach of promise case.” Amanda Craig vs. Elisha ‘Sprague, tried about a year since, is to be repeated, the Supreme Court having remanded the case for a new trial. “The Coroner’s jury in the Missouri Pacific Railroad disaster at Eureka have rendered a verdict against Odor, the conductor, and Tracy, the enginecr, of the freight train, for culpable negligence, .+ fite o itk s America, unlike @i the older countries of the civilized world, is without a patron saint, and: Rome .is about to supply the deficiency with a “Saint Christopher.” A dispatch from the Holy City says that the -canonization of Columbus by the church is in contemplation. ; i The final and exhaustive punishment of man’s original sin is recorded in Towa in the birth of a female child with three tongues, Should that girl live to fu'fill the transitional stage of wifehood, .and culminate into aZmother-in-law, then will the fall in which we sinned all be mere than expiated. -

Indianapolis papers announée that General O. 0. Howard will attend the meeting of the Young Men’s Christian Associatiou there in June. "His conviction and sentence for stealing and swindling while in the Freedmen’s Bureau might prevent his attendance at that time. - Don’t be too sure of Mr, Howard, gentlemen,

General - Thomas Jordon hag ‘addresagd an appeal to the ladies of the City of New York in behalf of the wretched and almost naked women and children of Cuba. He asks for clothing, even the remnants flung” aside. in the stores ; which will be received with gratitude by all, and even by many once used to refinement and laxury. - Hon. Henry R. Selden, the defeated candidate for the Chief-Justiceship of the Court of Appeals of New York, when in' Europe last season, had an artificial breatEing appliance inserted in his neck, or throat, and breathes through this instead -of the nostrils.— His health was very much impaired before this was applied,” and all depends upon this method of respiration,

A few days ago a lusus naturae was played in Williamsburg, N. Y., whereby a child was born with a head shaped like that.of a horse. -The parents of this monater are very poor, and as it is. impossible to rear such an offspring without inconvenience. .and expense—providing that it can live for any length of time—the strange being will be publicly exhibited. So remarkable a freak of nature .is interesting not only for purposes of science, but also for.curiosity’s sake. - : 5l fom

When McFarland was acquitted he was -immediately surrounded by a crowd of prostitutes, who hugged and kissed him until the officers were compelted to extricate him from his perilous condition. ~ Per Contra: A large number of the most respectable and influential ladies in N. Y., City and vicinity 'are taking steps'to cause MeFarland to bé put into a lunatic Asylum, on the'strength of his own admissions. His getting on so cheaply in the' Richardson murder “cage, leads many thoughtful person to fear that he ‘may at any moment go into another paroxysm of‘inaani‘t'{f. which might re‘sult in the killing of ra‘Richar(stn or some of her friends.— Lagrange Stan--7 ‘e 5 % -—.___—_*' '“—_ ~"’A i : ! Colombja - Oity,: Whitley: county, claims to have the’ handsomest court houge yard in Nothern Indiana. =~

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