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OTT T IR A |TR A gl ' DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKE™ ¥or Secrefary’of S'.fa.% i - £ B ":' 'l‘ EDDY,O o (_‘“" i "1;:)1- Audito{@{?” ~ suth, Bend. JOHN C. SHOEMAK ate: e _ . For “%w' - uR, of Perry Co. v, o ; .er of State: JAM h_% ﬁ:ﬁ - AN, of Indianapolis. = -« Attorney-General: ; BAYLESS w HANNA, of Terre Haute. v ur'Sup't of Public Instriction: : - Rev. ¥ |LTON B. HOPKINS, of Clinton, : For Supreme Judges: : - JA'MES L. WORDEN, of Fort Wayne, A. C. DOWNEY, of Ohio County, - SAMUEL H. BUSKIRK, of Monroe Co., | +JOHN PETTIT, of Lafayette. ; | 2 ~ Congressional Convention. | : Welearn that the Democratic Congres- " sional District Committee will this week issue a call for a convention to be held at - Kendallville, on the fourth day of August, for the nomination of a candidate for (‘ongress, and candidatesh for Circuitsand < Common Pleas Prosecutors, All opposed to the re-election of Billy Williams are {o be invited to participate. . | The names of Gen. Slack, of Hunting- { iYnn, Capt. Mitchell, of Goshen, and E. Van L‘ Long, of Warsaw, have been promincnt- - 1y mentioned in connection with the nom-

ination for Congress. At the time of go- | ing to press we are not advised whether L Gen. Hascall will allow his name to be - brought before the convention or not. If ' not, it is intimated that tdon. J. B. Howe, y of Lima, will be presented as a candidate "~ by the anti-Williams Republicans.. ) a 3 e et A——— b A National Disgrace, 3 It is said that General Anderson, the ' hero of Fort Sumter, is so near a beggar that he has beea compelled to sell his military library, to a second-hand book stall in Paris, in orderto enable him to proceed ~ to one of the German watering places for the purpose of Yecuperating his health, . which was so terribly shattered in the beroic defense in Charleston harbor—a defense without a parallel in modern warfare. Are our national legislators so busy »in'parcelling out the lands of the Government among themselves that they can find - no time to look. after the " real heroes, of the late terrible struggle ? Sl I 1 e el B [ ke / Ackerman Confirmed. ' Notwithstanding the fact that Radical Scnators threatened to defeat the confirmation of Amos T. Ackerman for Attor- " . ‘ney Genéral, his nomination was confirmed ' without opposition, Grant will now have a “rebel” in his cabinet, Ackerman having served on the staff of General: Robert - Toombe., We presume our radical friends will now cease their talk about elevating “red-handed traitors” to positions of trust . and horor under the government, since their chief displays so muchlove for these recohstructed gentlemen. -

; Illinois Election. -| = | The election for the adoption or rejection of the new constitution of Illinois .was held last Saturday, and resulted in ~ita ratification by an overwhelming' majority. Judges of the Supreme and Circuit Court were also elected. Inthe Chi- ' cago District Wm. K. McAllister, Demo~erat, is probably elected Supreme Judge, _ which, if confirmed, will give the Democracy control of that tribunal for 10 years. " John G. Rodgers, regular democratic candidate for Circuit Judge of Cook county, . is' elected by a handsome majority, notwithstanding the fact that fhe 7%mes bit- * terly opposed his election. The Learned Jnage. . The President having appointed a man .to be Associate Justice of the Supieme . Court at- Washington, who never was admitted to the bar, and who is now a ~ twelve hundred dollar department clerk, the Bar of the District of Columbia have held an indignation meeting, and/appointed a committee of three Republicans to protest against the confirmation. - A judge " of the court called on the President, but Grant said ke thought his nominge was competent to be ajudge, as he had read law two . years! ] N : ! I e i Vorhees Re-nominated. [+ Hon. Daniel W. Vo;&'h'ees has been {* “unanimously renominated for Congress by | the Democracy of tbe Sixth District. The | Republicans have placed in nomination a © young man named Moses F. Dunn, who " is said to be a fine speaker and the posses- . sor of a handsome fortune, of which he . isto spend $lO,OOO to defeat Inciapa’s most cloguent orator. Voorhees’ majority two years ago was 128, but it is confidently predicted that this year he will distance his competitor a round thousand.

: Hon. Robeirt Lowry, - The numerous friends of Judge Lowry will be pleased to learn that he was, last Sntqrday(;,'"l‘e-nominated. for Circuit Judge of the Tenth Judicial District. - The convention met at Ft. Wayne. Judge Low- | ry's fitiess for thie -position is unques- " tioned,'and as the District is overwhelm ingly democratic, we may as well corgratalate him in advance upon his triumphagt election .next October. % ; ", [ g et ARt i iTae Kokomo Jeurnal takes a very lively interest in the congressional contest in -this District. Last week it contained the following announcement : . “Dr. Davenport of Warsaw is spoken of as the Democratic candidate for Congress against Billy Williams in the tenth Distriet. It is our opinion Stoll will be: the man “led forth to be sacrificed,” and he shail gnaw a file and flee to the mountains, &c.” e In order to relieve the editors of the | Journal of painful sugpense, we beg leave to say that their surmises are entirely - groundless—that Stoll will not thus be led forth—that he will not gnaw a file, neither will he flee to the mountains, &c. ‘Try-again, Journal ; perbaps you will hit upon the man by-and-by. : :

‘We know of families where children had but few advantages of acquiring education, yet they begame fluent talkers, and ‘were generally posted on the “times”— because they were regular readers of a good home paper. - A trial is all that is necessary for a confirmation of the assertion, b o

e T X s, ' 'WHAT NEXT? e ] Who does not remember the frighten- | ing predictions made by “loyal” stump- | g ers in 1868 that the success of the demas | cratic party would insure the return of | - “red-banded rebels” to the halls'of €~ gress—who has forgotten tho fé#vr : peals of the same demagogues ¢ | Ale calamity be averted by e’ <nt apcal rule? No one, w- TSI o Yet, what do we’ «intaining radie, < are quite certain. FunEe vehold to day? After o t.he ¢ W lease of power, and sce}nho -ountry literally robbed by those

were recommended to a misled people as the guardians of the government, we read in a radical sheet—a paper of no less: prominence than the ntensely loyal Cincinnati Gazette—an article suggesting the election of Jeff. Davis and John C. Breckinridge to the United States Sen‘ate! And why? The Gazette answers the question fully in elucidating its §ub‘Ject. Tt assigns the following as n*re%zsqn for rendering the return of Jeff. Davis to the Senate as very desirable : : ‘ - “His ability is unquestioned. He has large experience in the affairs of our government. T%e Senate needs such members. The leading Southern members were always good watchmen of the public treasury. That 18 what s most needed now. The debasement of the Senate—both by the pumber of Senators who lack that element ot responsibility which is made by adequate ‘constituencies, and by the number whose position is so temporary and unnatural that. it lacks all the elements of responsibility—has given such ease to profligate schemers, that the couutry needs the aid ot the forces that would oppose them.— That is’now the most practical patriotism.” There is a great. deal of meaning in these few words, gbservesa contemporaty. “The debasement of the Senate” is such that new forces of an opposite character are needed in that body to ‘restore the high character it enjoyed when the democratic party was in the ascendancy.— “Practical patriotism,” the Qazette says, is “good watchmen of the public treasury,” and “the leading southern members,” the same paper says, had that cßaracter. It is the influence of such men, the Gazette says, “that is what is most necded now” to overcome the schemes of “profligate schemers,” aud of course it must refer to radical profligate schemers, for it is such that rule inethe councils of the nation and the administration of the government.— What better evidence than this is needed to show that reform in our national affairs and a return to wisdom in the administration of the government must come outside of the radical party. The radical leaderyghave been tried and found want. ing ; i .

Defeat of the San Domingo Treaty. The treaty for the annexation of the Island of San Domingo to the United States was rejected by the Senate, on Thursday afternoon, by a vote of 28 to 27, being ten Tless than the required two-thirds to secure its ratification. -An order was passed to notify the President of the refusal ot the Senate to consent to the ratification. The only debate that took place was a speech from Senator Morrill, of Vermont, against the treaty, after which the vote was taken, which, it is ascertained was, in detail, as follows : . : For the Treaty. — Abbott, Anthony, Cameron, Cattell, Chandler, Conklin, Cole, Corbett, Drake, Fenton, Harlan, Hamlin, Howard, Howell, McDonald, Morton,- Nye, Osborn, Ramsey, Revels, Rice, Sprague, Stewart, Spencer, Thayer, Warner, Williams, Wilson—2B. Against the Treaty.—Boreman, Casserly, Davis, Edmunds, Ferry, Fowler, Hamilton, Md., Harris, Howe, Johuston, MeCreery, Morrill, Vt., Morrill, Me., Patterson, Pool, Pratt, Robertson, Ross, Sawyer, Saulsbury, Scott, Schurz, Stockton; Sumggr,‘l‘lxurman,”l‘ipton, Vickers, Willey— Absent, Paired and Not Voting Members. —Amées, Bayard, Buckingham, Carpenter, Flanegan, Gilbert, Hamilton, Tex., Kellogg, Norton, Pomeroy, Sherman, Trumbull, Yates—l 3. Intelligence of the defeat of the treaty was soon communicated to the President, who said that he had been quite confident of a different result, and was, therefore, disappointed. It isthought that measures will be at once taken to negotiate a new and more acceptable treaty. s

Butler’s Troubtes. General Butler, who has been continually at the head of some committee, investigating somebody, is at last himself the subject of investigation, as Treasurer and President of the National Soldiers’ and Sailor's Home. He appeared before the House Military Commictee as a witness, that committee having been directed to thoroughly investigate that justitution.— He made a statement of the way he had received and disbursed the funds, which the Committee did not appear to be satisfied with, and thqrefore decided to send for persons and papers. It seems that Butler got a bill passed turning over the unclaimed bounty fund and draft coun‘mutation fund, &c., to this institution, which amounted to over a million and a quarter of dollars. He recently drew nearly two thirds of the amount, and Con gress is determined that he shall show what he did with it. e 4 ———— ngernnﬂons. ‘The re nomination of Mr. Kerr meets ~with much favor among Democrats thro’out the country. .Of the nurherous complimentary references to that event, we copy the following from the N. Y. World: . The constituents of the Hon. Mr. Kerr, the representative in the present Con--gress of the Second Distriet of Indiana, have done themselves credit by renominating him. It is always easg for a mem‘ber of Congress to earn golden opinions from his electors by devoting himself to local interests, but Mr. Kerr has done more and better than this. He has wona national recognition by the breadth of his views and the statesmanlike liberality of hig political temper. The true hope of ‘the country to-day consist in the reinforcement of the Democratic ranks at the Capitol by men who, like Mr. Kerr, can give the gfoby to defunct partisan and sectional issues in their devotion to the permanent principles of Democracy and the living and real necessities of the republie.

" CoNGRESSMAN.— A strong effort ‘is being made to induce the Democracy to make no nomingtion in this District, for the Congressiona] canyase this fall, but to join in the support of General Hascall as an independent candidate. The Warsaw Union, Goshen Democrat, and Nation al Banner have been throwing out feelers in this direction.— Waterloo Press,

When the BANNER desires the adoption of 3 political 'pr(igramme, it never hesitates in avowing its sentiments openly and without fear. The editor of the Press has read our paper a sufficient length of time to know that our suggestions in politieal matters are not made 'by innu-

'THE §T»° g Abillhas - eee—resg an’ . ~NDING ARMY. ! Pr - passed both houses of Con- " 4 received the signature of the .sdent, which fixes the standing army of the United States, after July 1, 1871, Eat thirty thousand men. Estimating the | cost of cach man at two thousand dollars | per annum, the expense of kceping up the ariy will amount, each year, to sizty millions of dollars ! L : : Prior to 1861, (says the Harrisburg Patriot) the standing army consisted of | about’ twelve thousand men. The same | extent of frontier was to be guarded then | as now, the same forts were to be garri- | soned, and the service at present necessarily required of the army is certainly mot greater thdn it was then. It is, therefore, indisputable that at least fifteen thousand men, at an expense of thircy millions, of dollars per annum, dre now employed in "the military service of the government, without any duty to perform except to pipe clay their muskets, burnish R buttons on the officers’ vniforms and eat their rations. What employment can there be for thirty thousand soldiers, in these piping times of peace? O jyes, ~we bad forgotten! Grant bad promised 1 the Southern governors that in case they cannot enforce the laws, (that is, control the “elections) in‘ their States, witb the bayonets of their black militia, he’will, on their reqaisition, furnish them U. S. troops. The extra fifteen thousand men not required to garrison the forts and watch the Indians, are, therefore, reserved for;contingencies which may arise during the pext political campaign. Cold steel, when forged into bayonets as well as the raw Bessemer, is a powerful political argument in the estimation of the radicals. It is'a very cheap persuasive, too, to the politicians. It costs them nothing. The people pay the expenses of the elections carried at the point of the bayonet. Now, let the watchward go forth, Down with the Standing Army! One of the chief complaints against George the Third, set out in the Declaration of Independence, was, that he quartered large bodies of armed troops among the colonists. ~ Let the anniversary of the natal day of the Republic, appropriately, celebrated a few days since, remind us that our free institutions are¢ threatened at the same vital point at which Great Britain assailed the liberties of our colonial ancestors. The maintenance, in time of peace, of a large and expensive military. establish. ment, is utterly antagonistic to the theory ‘and spirit of republican government. It is a constant menace to the people, a clog to national prosperity, a barrier in the -way of enlightencd progress. It belongs to the kingcraft of Europe, not' to the stesmanship of America. It is an exotic | which, if suffered to grow in ‘oursoil, will coil its poisonous teéndrils about the tree of liberty and blast it with 'a mildew of death. It has already taken root. The sooner it is plucked up the better. Down with the Stdnding Army! |

The Funding Bill. : The United States House of Representatives,on Friday last,passed the bill tofund and consolidate the national debt. All amendments were voted down, and the bill will go to the Senate as it came from the ways and means committee. A Washington special says that even if it should pass the Senate, which is by no means probable, the bill would not ‘amount to mﬁch,"as it is entirely discretionary with the secretary ot the treasury whether he will enforce it or not, and it is very well known that hé is opposed to it. The bill provides for the. issue of one thousand millions of dollars'in thirty year four per cent. bonds, exempt from all taxation, which thie treasury is authorized to sell at par for coin, and to apply the proceeds to the redemption of any five-twen-ty bonds, at their par value, or the secretary may exchange the new bonds for such five twenty bonds par for par. The secretary ig further authorized, and in this respect is instructed, to use at his discretion any coin that can be conveniently applied to that purpose, to pay at par and caneel any six per cent. United States bonds which have or may become redeemable by the terms of their issue. The remaining feature of the bill authorizes the secretary to receive United States gold coin on deposit, for not less than thirty days, and to issue certificates of deposit at a rate not exceeding three per cent. per annum, which coin may be withdrawn on ten days’ notice. Not less than twenty-five per cent. of this deposited coin in the treasury shall be retained there for the -payment of said certificates, and the excess above twenty-five per cent. may be applied, at the discretion of the secretary, to the redemption of such outstanding bonds as have matured. g

The $50,000 Life Insurance of Grant. It is now: ascertained, by dispute, that one James Wheeler, of New York, has been engaged in raising ffom the officeholders a contribution of $50,000 to purchase a life insurance of that amount in the Equitable Compahy, for the President. The leadiag office-holders all signed liberally, doubtless having intimations from high quarters that if. they did not it'would not be well for them.— The matter having been “blown,” has defeated the enterprise, and the President and his friends will be obliged to resort to some other method of getting up a present, The New York Sun (Republican) says: : 4

“General Grant's fondness for presents has been a matter too often and too conspicuously evinced to be a matter of any doubt. Nor is there any reason why, after having received houses, horses, libraries, and almost every possible form of donation, and after having shown his appreciation of his Benefactors by appointing so many of them to valuable offices, the President should look with - disfavor upon an effort to bestow upon him an additional testimonial. At any rate, for him and for his Secretary to show that this scandalous undertaking was set onm foot without his sanction, and it will be difficult to make people believe that if the policy had beén made up and tendered to him, he would have rejected the compliment.” o | An “Independent” Family ; The Hughes family has suddenly become very independent. Jim, the old man, is an independent candidate for Congress in Vioorhees’ District, and now gomes the information that young Jim, famil: iarly known as “Bock,” _announces him- 3 self as an independent candidate for Rep- 1 resentative in the State Legislature, from i Monroe county, and is at present making speeches thronghout the county in support J of his claims, g

. CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. TuEsDAY, June 28.—The Senate resumed the consideration of the tax bill. Mr. Yates' amendment, providing that no duties shall hereafter be levied un tea and coffee, was rejected ibyi a vote of yeas 9, nays 41. The Senate: reconsidered the vote by which it refused to strike out the House amendment to reduce the duties on sugare, and then, by a vote of 27 to 26, struci®it out, leaving the rates at three cents per pound, according to the present law. The House discussed the civil service appropriation bill, and adopted an amendment appropriating $15,000, in addition to the $20,000 already appropriated, for the bronze statue of General Scott, to be erected in Franklin Square, Washington. The House passed the bill to prevent the extermination of fur-bearing animals in Alaska. The report of the conference committee on the currency bill was called up,and elicited considerable debate, There was a wide difference of opinion as to the leffect of the bill, some members contending that it means contraction; others that it meant expansion. Without reachinga vote, the House adjourned in consequence of the extreme heat. ‘'WEDNESDAY, June 29.—The Tax Tariff bill occupied the attention of the Senate }i during the day.| In the course of the discussion Mr. Chandler gave notice to New England that the West intended to have free trade. - He wanted . the present tariff to remain another winter, and “then, the South and West would unite to make a tariff to suit the people of the United States.” The amendment to strike from the free list books, maps, and charts specially imported in single copies, and of which no editions are printed in the United States, was opposed by Mr. Sumner as a “tax on knowledge.” He was in favor of “free trade in books.” The ‘amendment was agreed to, however, by a vote of 27 to 23. The Senate was engaged on a proposition to strike out the duty on Bessemer steel rails until the hour of adjournment. In ghe House of Representatives the consideration of the conference report on the Currency bill was resumed. In the course of the debate Messrs. Garfield, Ingersoll, and Butler (of course) indulged in personalities. * Mr, Ingersoll insinuated that Mr. Garfield’s head was a ¥cabbage head.” The speaker forgot to call him to order. Upon reaching a vote, the report was ruthlessly slaughtered—yeas, 53 ; nays 132. On -motion of Mr. Judd, another conference coinmittee was crdered. FE " THURSDAY, June 30.—1 n the Senate the ‘ House amendments to the bill to prevent the extermination of fur-bearing animals in Alaska occupied the morning hour, and were concutred iw by a vote of 42 to 9.— After the executive session, the tax Tariff bill was taken up. The duty on steel railway bars was reduced from 11§ to 114 cents per pound. The rate on all railway bars made in part of steel was reduced to 1 cent per.pound. Mr. Sumner at&emp'e-*' ed but failed to get books in foreign or dead language ot which no editions are printed in this country restored to the free list. The Senate held an evening session, and worked away at the bill until it was fonnd that no quorum was present. In the House of Representatives the Senate amendments to the Indian Appropriation bill were considered, and several of them hon-concurred in. The Funding bill was debated until the hour of adjournment, and amended ‘in various ways. Among the amendments voted down was one by ‘ 25 to 97 to subject the new bonds to taxation. 5 2 O

" FripAY, July I.—ln the Senate the consideration of the Tax Tariff bill was continued in committee. A debate took place on the amendment to tax the interest on United States bonds 5 per cent. Several Democratic Senators spoke in favor of it. It was finaliy rejected by u voté of yeas 12, nays' 36. The Radicals who ‘voted with the Democrats in the affirmative were Messrs. Pratt, Fowler, Spencer, and Sprague. The Senate then confirmed| the action of theé-committee in striking out the in¢ome tax by a vote of 26 to 21. In the evening session, on motion of Mr. Edmunds, the Senate reconsidered its action on the income tax, and passed Mr. Wilson’s amendment continu: ing the tax to the end of 1872 at the rate of 214 per cent., with $2,000 exempted. The Democrats all voted against the tax. The reason given by the Radical Senators for taking the back track was that, by the showing of the chairman of the Finance Committee, the country must have either the income tax or the tax on recipts, in order to make up the required amount of revenue. In the House of Represeatatives the Funding bill was taken up, and after considerable discussion was passed by a vote of yeas 129 nays 41, ‘without material alteration, The bill as passed provides for one thousand millions of thirty-year four per cent. coin bonds, exempt from taxation, which may be sold at par for coin, thr'prﬁeeeds of which are to be applied to the redemption of any maturing bonds. Besides this, coin deposits bearing|3 per cent. interest are to be received, for which certificates will be issued. e e

SATURDAY, July 2.—There .wasa slim attendance in both houses of congress today, and aside from the debate on the new naturalization bill in the senate, nothing ‘transpired of special importance.— Quite 8 large number of members of the house have gone north to spend the Fourth, and the president and two thirds of the cabinet are out of town. , The proeeedings of Monday and Tuesday are not iu;'xpo:rtant. ; '

Fanatieal Persistence. Secretary Belknap is reported by the Harrisburg Patriot to have said: “ West “Point is naturally aristocratic, but it “ must come under. Four millions of en- “ franchised men are entitled to.one-tenth “the offices. Their hoys ahall have fair “play. Sink or swim, live or die, they ‘ shall have absolute justice.” So it seems that West Point will have to open its doors to the colored cadet, and white youngsters had as well peaceably accept ‘the inevitable. Sooner or later the colored people will have representatives: at West Point. Secretary Belknap, whose ‘word is all powerful, says so, “Sink or swim, liveor die,” the negro must be made the military commander as well as the civil ruler of his white hrother. Certainly the country had better sink, and liberty die, than that the negro should not rise sfiperior £ the white man,

POLITICAL ITEMS. i Portugal has abolished the death penalty, while Spain, her neighbor,has, one would judge from her policy in Cuba.extended it to almost everything. The proposed amendment to the constitution of the state of Connecticut to strike out of that instrument the word “white,” has bgen defeated in the lower house of the legislature: of that state. Connecticut is not yet prepared for the political am&lgamagon of whites and negroes. : i

Mr. Sampson the North Adams (Mags) shoe manufacturer, who im};orted and now employs coolies in his actory, is an avowed protectionist.— He is in favor of a high tariff on shoes to protect chinese industry. He thinks, ‘however, that free trade in coolies ~ought to be allowed. ' . Theodore Tilton predicts that Towa ‘will be the first, or one of the first ‘States to adopt woman’s suffrage.— 'She has admitted women to the bar, to professorships in colleges, and her lesislature has agreed to submit an amendment of the constitution to the people, granting the ballot to woman. : There are rumors that more changes are about to take place in the Cabinet. It is aseerted, with great/ positiveness, that Secretary Fish will retire before the summer s over, and that secretary Coz is also preparing to depart.— What little respectability, whether of character or talent,at present belongs %o Grant’s Cabinet, will go out with these gentlemen. » Congress and the President are fiving away to mammoth corporations and of twice the acres of Cuba and St. Domingo, and yet wax eloquent over the necessity of more land. The Federal Congress and Executive are willing to buy land with one hand, and give land away with the other, which is certainly not at all consistent; but when, under'Radical government, have President or Congress cared for con.sistency or justice? - | ’

There must be something out of joint in the radical body, at Washington. In a Missouri contested election case the house decided to admit Col. Sweizler to. his seat, and excludéd Dyer, the radical, Heretofore the radical outlaws, called a congress, ha\ge asked no questions as to right to a seat, but “is he of us,” and he got his seat, and when a man became obnoxious; to them, they expelled him because he was a democrat, and without any other reason. Perhaps Dyer was a little shaky. ' . The late democratic victory in New York, when censidered in connection with the next Congressional contest, is of increased importance. In 1868 the Republicans elected nineteen members aund the Democracy only twelve. Now, the Democrats carry twenty-four Disstricts and Radicalism is cut down to seven. 1f this is repeated next November, and we see no reason to suppose to the contrary, it will totally revolutionize the delegation from that State. Here are some of the fruits of the Fifteenth Amendment. : - The smoke city, Pittsburgh, a hotbed of Radicalism, hag for years been afflicted with a Ring of Corruptionists. So ‘corrupt has the radical party be‘come in tEat city that the Commercial calls upon an independent movement for reform: In Philadelphia affairs are the same, and the Inquirer is feigning to howl honesty. There is no use.— The day of your doom is approaching, and that sweet retribution will come, which has been so richly merited.— Democrats keep in line, light is breakng. o,

Young man, your first vote! How are you going to castit? Will you commencea record that will haunt you the balance of your days? Will you vote with a party that has but one idea, and that a false one? Will you identify yourself with the radical bondholder’s party that cannot exist but a short time and then be blown out like a candle? Where will you be next year? Look at it! There is no event of more importance than this.— Begin right. This is everything to you, and now is the time to begin.. et E— e A Radical Row in Philadelphia. - On Wednesday, June 15th, the Radicals of Philadelphia held their nominating conventions amid disgraceful scenes in every one. Pistols and blackjacks were brought into use. From the following extract of a lengthy report of one of these conventions, one can form an idea of the character of the proceedings: Here wasa conflict of jurisdiction, which resolved itself speedily 'into a pugilistic struggle between Stumpey Elliott, and Slim Lane; for the possessipn of the gavel. They punched each other, and wrestled about the stage, which was filled with at least a hundred delegates. Elliott stepped upon the desk, and was knocked down; again be mounted it, and essayed to speak, when the undismayed Lane rushed upon bim, and made a grab for the mallet.— Another fight followed, during which the struggling chairman, and a gozen delegates were hurled from the stage to- the floor, a distance of six feet. With wondrous alacrity, Elliott was upon the stage, displaying not only the mallet with a victorious ‘ whirl, but a coat ripped up the back to the collar. Again he mounted the desk, which had been replaced, and was greeted with a yell of delight, mingled with curses. He hadn’t gone further in his address than “I am your temporary chairman,” when Lane, with “I'm damned if you are,” struck at him. The uplifted mallet, in the handsef Elliott, came down with a swish upon the head of Lane, and a scene of wildest confusion and boisterous excitement wasopened. The delegates fought each other. Blackjacks were drawn, and one man, who exposed a revolver was knocked off the stage. The struggling mass swayed to and fro, breaking the stage chandeliers, sending the speaker’s desk on to the floor for a second time, overturning the reporter’s desk, and compelling the innocent Knights of the Quill to seek refuge n the stage boxes for safelg. Lane wat dragged off the stage and punched, but with “Devil-in-the-band-box” spirit soon regained his position and defied the pugilistic Elliott. Another Straw. - Still another political straw has been thrown up, and again the indjcations are . in favor of a strong current from the Democratic quarter. This time it was away. out 'in Idaho, and here is the way it is spoken of by a Republican journal—the Elko Independent : “Idaho has gone Democratic, electing Sam Merritt demu to Congress by a mq!:ﬁty of from 800 to 800 Egvery pounty in the Territory heard from gives Demooratic - majorities on- thbfmml ticket with the exception of the Mormon count of Qneida, where there is said ta be a tl{ vote. All the county officera elected, with a ;.:imttering exceptions, are. Demo--0 13 . - :

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. President Grant is on a pleasure trip through Connecticut. : A %ent oil couflagration, at Pittsburg, Pa., on the 28th instant, destroyed over half a million dollars worth of ‘ property. - s . A Richmond wag sent an extract from the songs of Solomon to a city paper as original. The editor published it as a “ fair specimen of the trash daily consigned to the waste basket.”

The faithful of the catholic church in America are to be invited by their bishops:to subscribe for the rebuilding of the church in Constantinople destroyed by the recent fire. Gabral still continues in the field against Baez in San Domingo. Grant Kropos‘es to take-Baez’ quarrel off his ands and pay ‘him a nice, round sum in the bargain. ! ; Begpii/;re, 111,, was the scene last week, of‘a grand enternational musical convention, one of the leading members being Prof. Gilmore of Boston.— Concerts were given in which anvils, guns, etc. were used a la Boston Colisinm. §

The Terre Haute Exzpress says: A woman in thiz county has helped her husband to raise seventy acres "of wheat. She helped him by standiug in the door and shaking a broom at him when he sat down ‘o rest, thus keeping him at work. , - Isabella’s abdication of the Spanish throne was signed’in the presence of all the members of the royal family at present in Paris. In a letter to the Pope the ez-Queen ' votifies his Holiness of her abdication, and begs his blessings for the Prince of Asturias and for Spain. - . Silver mines of great richness have been discovered in New Mezico. Fifty miles of claims have been located. A company has been formed to construct a railroad to carry the ore to the river and canal, and to carry water to the mines. They are located in the heart of the Aspache Indian country. An Irish servant girl, named Scott, who has been washing dishes at the Irving Hotel, New York, for three ‘dol lars a week, lately fell heir to a legacy of $75,000 by the death of an uncle,in New Orleans. There is a vacancy in the- dish washing corps of the Irving Hotel. E .

- Of the 48 nominees for cadetships at ‘West Point who were rejected, last week, by the board of examination, at least half have arrived in Washington to see the members who appointed them. A majority of those rejected were from the south, and include the three colored nominations. - The defalcation of the loyal Internal Revenue collector Bailey, of New York, now reaches the extraordinary amount of $600,000. His securities, Messrs. Opdyke,Douglas, and others,have been called upon to make good the $lOO,000 for which they gave bonds, thus leaving the government a loser of half a million, owing to the doings of the immaculate collector. ) : A letter to the Omaha Herald from Fort Laramie says that Red Cloud and the Indians with him, before leaving for the. Powder river country, expressed themselves satisfied with their treatment, by the government, and will endeavor to keep peace. A large quantity of provisions was furnished them by the government agents before starting. _

A hippopotamus in the zoological gardens at Amsterdam gave birth on the 10th of April to twins, a fact which is considered remarkable in natural history. It was previously supposed that the female of the pachydermatous species had only a single youngata birth. - The twins are of different sex. The male weighed about seventy and. the female forty pounds at birth. The discussion .of the efficacy of vaccination as a preventative of the small-pox is in much more advanced state in England than in this country. They have there an “Anti-Vaccination League,” A meeting of the innovators was held in London on Monday of last week, and Professor Newman, editor of the Zoologist, presided. . There were many speakers, who denounced vaccination in the strongest terms, and urged parliament to repeal all laws on the subject. : ; | From the Goshen Democrat. A Letter from One of the People. MRr. EpiTor:'— I did not attend the twin conventions that met in Goshen on the 16th ultimo, to nominate a candidate to be run for redp&esentative in the Tenth congressional district, -but I understand that they had a lively time, and each nominated a candidate. It is now the democrat’s turn to nomi‘nate their candidate; and I suppose it is -8 known fact, that a large majority of the voters in the district, including democrats, are opposed :to the re-election of Williams. Now would it not be good policy, in the call for the convention, to embrace all those opposed to Mr. Wiliams’ election, to-meet and nominate a good man that will be as acceptable as can be, to both politigl _parties; for instance, Gen. Slack, of Huntington, or Capt. J. A. | 8. Mitchell, of Goshen, who.are both war democrats, and| fought faithfully for the Union. Or, if it is thought more safe, to secure success, fo nominate some conservative republican, to be supported for congress, I feel willing for one, to make some sacrifice, in order to defeat the miserable thing that now represents us in the national legislature. JOHN JACKSON.

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; STATE ITEMS, - . A cock-pit has been established at Sullivan, where roosters are “gaft” and made to fight as long as they can stand up, or life lasts. : The monthly statement of the treasurer of the State of Indiana shows that there was a balance of $427,382,45 in the treasury on the Ist of July. =~ A dog in Ripley county bas takena fancy to a venerable gander, and the strangely assorted pair abide - together by day and night. " i gl - The Democratic Standard at Andetson intimates that Col. Thos. N. Stillwell will be an independent candidate for congress in that district. The democratic convention is announced for the 22d of July, at Kokomo. 5

- The New Albany Ledger says the barley harvest in that section of the state is about.over, and the wheat harvest will be in full blast this week.— The wheat crop in Floyd county this year is one of the best ever grown in that county. e 2 Indianapolis has been startled. — What purported .to be the accidental drowning of two young girls, was developed by post mortem examination into doubly foul murder.. The papers demand of the police, and stimulate the public, to the most vigilant investigation. Tt is one of the most horrible atrocities we have geen reported. -

Last Thursday a little boy, son of Brs. Miller, a widow lady, living at Cabin Hill, Harrison township, was so terribly kicked by a horse that the socket of one of his eyes was laid open and the upper part of his nose 80 mashed and broken that he breathes through the opening caused by the fracture.— Goshen Demeocrat. - =~ {

A correspondent of the Indianapolis Sentinel, writing from Aurora, says:— “The democrats from the ‘south east corner’ are enthusiastic-for Thomas A, ‘Hendricks, as the .next Democratic candidate for. the Presidency. ' He is looked upon as the man for ths contest. He -can get more votes in the third congressional district than any man in the United States, for that position.” Two preachers of - Peru agreed ‘to exchange pulpits ‘on the évening of Sunday a week ago. One sof them took an evening nap at his room and it lasted until his brother pieacher had finished the exercises.” The congregation had essembled, waited long, but the minister not coming, the lights were put out and the people dispersed. A few minutes after the sleepy, preacher arrived, but it was too late. It is supposed he had a very queer feeling, and he acknowledged the corn. ™ " At Corydon, the other day, a waiter fresh from the “rural” districts, asked a deaf old-lady if she would have gome peas. Not.comprehending the question, she put a large trumpet to her ear. — The waiter misunderstanding the action, emptied a pintiof hot peas into the. trumpet, impressed with,the con: viction that the aged female took her svstenance by a new route. Thé waitjer has probably keard the old story of “gas suffocation” or"6f the old woman who cured corns by -dropping benzine in the ear.— Leavemworth Independent. The Lafayette Despateh gives the following certain cure for the hog cholera: We are informed by Mr. Moore, a reliable farmer of of Sheffield township, that he has discovered a certain [cure for hog cholera. It consists in completely besmearing the animal with tar, Whenever you discover the first.symptoms of choléra, or difficulty of breathing in a pig, take a paddle and give it a thorough ' coat of tar, all over, and Mr. Moore has tried often enough to, be able to assure his brother farmers of its perfect efficiency. a 8 he has never known it to fail to cure. : S ;

Town Ordinance.. . SIDE WALK, MARTIN ST. } Be it Ordained by the Trustees of the Zowh of Ligonier, Indiana : r v That owners of lots and parts of lots lying adjacent to the | west side of Martin street between Third street in the original plat and Un-: ion street in Chapman’s addition, shagl grade and plank the side walk in front of said lots, five feet wide and to a proper grade. z g BEec. 2, lvshall be the duty of the owners of said lots on said street to grade and plank said side walk with white oak plank, one and ‘one-_ half inches thick and not more than eight inches" wide, nailed upon three white oak stringers three by-three inches square, laid to and with ‘ a regular grade, well connected at -the ends by strips nailed on the side of theth. The ends and ever{ four feet of said stringers to rest on crossties laid to correspond with the grading; plank to be sawed off in a straight line five feet east of the line of said lots. : ; Sec. 3. Baid side walk®is required to be so" graded and built as specified in this Ordinance cl)u_{%r before the first day of September, a. p. Skc. 4. If the owner of each lot shall fail 'to construct such side walk, as. specified ‘in this Ordinance, en_or before the first day of September, 1870, it shall be the. duty of the Marghal of said town, after giving ten days’ notice, to let the building of the same as provided in sections forty-five and forty-six of-the charter of said Town. § A : This Ordinance to take effect and be in fall force from and after its passage and publication. Passed April 29th, 1870. : iany ‘ C. G. VAIL, Pres’t. E. D. MiLLER, Clerk. PN Ligonier, Ind., July 6, 1870,-10t3 G -

Town Ordinance. Be it Ordained by the Trustees of the Town of - Ligonier, Indiana: ' That no person under the age of eighteen ‘ years, ner any person without legitimate business, shall be allowed to play, lounge or loaf upon the Depot Groundsor about any of the Railroad buildings, or geét on board any train of cars while in motion or not, without any intention of leaving town on such. train, oron special business on the same._ ‘ 5 e Skc. 2. Any person found playing, lounging or loafing on said grounds or buiidings, or getting off or on any train of cars-while'in motion, _shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not less than one or more than ten dollars, This Ordinance to take effect and be in full force from and after its passage and publication.: Passed May 27th, 1870. = : A. 8. PARKER, Pres’t, iE. B. Gerser, Clerk. Ligonier, July 6, 1870.-10t3, - . ; emiid S B s e e e e Town Ordinance . TO EXTEND THE TIME OF APPLYING THE ROAD LABOR . TAX, S WaEereas, A large amount of the road labor tax, within the:Corporation of Ligonier for the | year 1870, is required to fill and grade to a pro-. ger height and width at each end of the new 1 ridge now bein& built across the Elkhart river | where the Fort Wayne and White Pigeon State road. crosses said river; and, wheress, said road labor tax cannot be applied before the first day of July, 1870; therefore, He ib Ordained by the: Trustees of:the Town of Ligomet- Ingdiana’ ; Lo : hat the time within which such labor shall be m?rmed, shall be and is ‘hereby extended to October 1, 1870, according to an act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, approved April 27, 1869, - 5 Tbigr Ordm':in:;‘:qi'&mfeﬂ'éct agd- g‘l’ in full orce from and after assage and publication, - Passed June 24, 1‘870? . o R A. 8. PARKER, Pres't. 32 E. B. Gereeg, Olerk, -« ' Ligonier, July 6, 1870.-108, . i g B 5 he Grant Cigar Tipisa INEVERER Y[ M Reoveity and a pleasnre. il‘ r\,'T = HN it 'Pleﬂ’mﬂ-'l.)é- Grant, e - omtn o AL, Ry PSR (e Eugenie is the most useful ar--ST ayqpuie cullars free, Mrs. Morgan, P. . Box ot yon oV BY WILL YE DOUBT by thm%? Ros, ox‘aog . Pr SRS eUi of, Honsor Breeas, i sad P

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