The National Banner, Volume 5, Number 13, Ligonier, Noble County, 27 July 1870 — Page 1

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S o RSS4 755757 Michigan South. & N. Ind’a R. R. ‘On and after May 22, 1870, trains will leave StaJions asfollows: i ! . GOINGEAST: i y E:cpre_aoé Mai Train. | Chieago..iv..in idaddsn RO PEMG . 00i. TSOA M 0 L PEIKhArt . iveoceinanvns LS IO A, My o 00s . 1290 B, M, Qoshen. . ... oo ci oF% 00 08 EIN, T Milershurg:. i sveisiaiy TedTiiil i e 10080 A Ligonler .5 v oqde co RO =3B L, 000 1040 8 anaka........:...(d0n'tgt01)) vessve e ISOB I Brimfield s iiiouveis BB LOOOO 2900 Kendallvilla: ..o 000 .0 QBBB =6BO ..., B 8 o 8 (Arrive atT01ed0...... Gwa SO . OING WEST: : Express: . Mail Train: AONRO.. . .oiv vohis v denine BIOBR Moo ..i MO AN, Kenda11vi11e........,.12:85 A.M..........1:45P, X, Brimdeld. ~ il ikl e, 0, 0. .3:00 ¢ Wawaka! ... ;i 180 -~ (000000908 4 Ligonter.. .. ..oliiiiuc s 8 0 (o 0 1080 ‘ Millersburg. .. .5 ......1:47 SEieauea BR3OO 88 Goshen. . ... civiivirveid HE gL o 0 31 ¢ CRIRhRRY.. SoS g, 08D Arrive at Cmcn{go....o:w e s e 8110 88 *Stop 20 minutes for breakfast and supper. Ex¥ress, leaves daily ooth ways. - Mail Train makes’closi connection at Elkhart with trains going East and West. ; . The Lightning Express Tratn leavés Ligonier gong East, at 3:35 ». M., and &oin;é West at 12:10 p.x. C. F. HATCH, Gen’l uipt.,Clevehmd. J. N. KNEPPER, 4gent, Ligonier. Girand Rapids & Indiana Railroad. - On and after Wednesday, June 22d, 1870, trains will run between Sturgis and Fort Wuyne, until further notice as follows: ‘ . @GOING NORTH. G 5 GOING BOUTH, 8 80 £y Moo s BOREYVAYNC. L Loy 0000 1015 A 0 M, 885 e MIREIRUION S U oo oo 10710 405 b adbaeallen oo s 0 940 425 Gaeinsh b FRADTOENOWD. .oo ovo oo 920 450 Ve s R IBRACOR. UL LU 860 4.55 I ORII e BDO 505 rigaibk v eV L e 8 85 5925 Vidern ikt BN Sl LUL o R 0 1 538 veonaas e Sondmiville: il .8 10 610 Ceraus sl RNOTIO LY Lo, L, TBD 630 idiesiyDlonttYitiel vl il T9O 655 e VRIS, v oo U 0 715 St aeGßange L 0 0640 : L R R T R 1) . 800 P, u.........'....5m1gi5............. 600 A. . ; . E. GORHAM, Sup't. + H.D. WALLEN, Jr., Ass't Sup’t. 3

~ HIGGINBOTHAM & SON, i i ,Z,eb:“‘;ﬂ‘r&"".b'.._,_, “‘ ‘ C (RN [o ‘ l L ol ?f TR L] | AV ke :.i-:s‘ : g L T\ i Xa b Ry ‘//////////; M '."" ; e\ K o R : \ & B Ay T ; N Watehmakers, Jewelers, + AND DEALERS IN i Watches, Clocks, | JEWELRY AND FANCY GOODS Repairing neatly and promdptly executed,and warranted. | GOLD PENS REPOINTED. o Spﬂe“:;aclea of the best kinds kept constantlyon nan : s 1 JLigonier, e g"&l‘g—n.?f thebig watch’, Cavin %&;e’pg ,I: sg‘o_x:f?r BEMOVAL REMOVAL, JULIUS H GOTSCH, .o DEALER IN WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY Sz C., &C., . &C, v ROV ES = Has removed ioto - = P "'—7-9) bis nev‘v;tnnd, o;z ¢ : R 8 ite Jacoss | LT ! s | BE= {0 see and wait on . : & | #%= all his old friends i ot @5 aond customers.— A @l3 Thankful for past R favors, he respectfuily weks a continudtion of the same from the M of Knndrll‘vﬂla snd surrounding coun_uyfua]'; skagk o oods is complete, Kendallyille, _Mgay 18 1870.-3 ‘ - A, GANTS, . Burgical and Mechanieal Dentist, : LISO¥IER, - - TEPTAXA, - P ; i 6 53 paep;ied o e, ‘lO ao o 0 — B Bt e SR K?.“ Justifies ey, s W W sfaction to R IR @o‘* who may ve- ‘ their.. o d h i, ol Qe JECOE ono doo ot APTTENTION, FARMERS! " 'VOR THE BEST & OHOICEST G ROCERIEKES, ~ OtEyery Description, and for ' : -PURE LIQUORS for HARVEST, T A Extremely Low Prices, Call gt t’_lp'e store on Cavin st., one doorsonth of L, ﬁo'bg‘&i(}o;’s Clothing Store, kept by .. OLEMENS KAUFMAN. x;xggnxg'r.vukygzalxgzga' e A NEW MOVEMENT! , G % i.' ‘xm. h K 3 ' i Solomon.in new Quarters! 'l‘ulnmﬂvl'" seiber would respéctfally announce tHat: e bakjub ,to%b‘bh?lditg formarly ,by B.Migr & Co , purchased a . erge, b ks sty § %ﬁb‘.“&cut and 'is now prepared to supply every 'deman »inshis fine %mﬁm‘;’m es 1. Refres ments gt 01l hours, 3N ey e : 1454 L T e ' Ligonler, Sept. 15th, 1869,

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WM. L. ANDREWS, » Surgeon Dentist. | Mitchel’s Block, Kendallville. | All work warranted. Examinations free. 2-47 J.’M. DENNY, - Attorney at Law,—Albion, Nobleco., Ind Will give careful and prompt attention'to a buginess entrusted to hiscare, 13-6 LUTHER H. GREEN, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public. ; LIGOCNIER, -- - - INDIANA! | Office on Cavin Strcet, over Sack Bro’s.” Grocery, opposite Hclmer House. 41-8-1 y i D. W. GREEN, { : | 3 ) Justics of the Peace & Collection Ag’t, Office with L. H, Green, over Sacks’ Bakery,oppo- : site the Helmer Housey . . LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. 9 JAMES J. LASH, , . General Fire & Life. Ins, Agent, KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. Office in Mitchell’s Block. Represents all first-class corapanies in the United States. - 5 6. ERICKSON, M. D., } Will give sgecinl attention to Office Businegs, from 10 A. M, t 0 3 P, M, for the treatment of Chronic and Surgical Diseases. Charges reasonable, Office in rear of Drug Store, No. 1 Mitchell’s Block,' : = « - KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. June 1, 1870, : AMERICAN HOUSE, L. B HATHAWAY, Prop'r., . * LIGONIER, - - - - . INDIANA. EXCELSIOR LODGE, NO. 267, 4 ‘ I. Oo Of Oo Fo, Meets at their Hall on every Saturday evening o each week. ! © - A.JACKSON,N. . M. W. COE, V. G. | R.D, KERR, Nov. 25th, 1868, —t{. Secretary. s e ee T T HELMER HOUSE, S. B. HELMER, Prop'r, LIGONIER, - - - INDIANA. This Heuse has been Refitted and Refurnisheds in First Class Style. ‘ L. COVELL, ‘ Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public, ; ; LIGONIER, INDIANA. ‘ Office, 2d Floor in Mier’s Block, Cavin Street. DR. P. W. CRUM, * . Physician and Surgeon, Ligonier, = = = ~ Indiana. } . Office one door ganth of L, Low & Co’s Clothing | Store, up stairs; * May 12th, 1869. - | SAMUEL E. ALVORD, Attorney at Law, Claim Agent, and Notary Public, Albion, Noble Co., Ind. Business in the Courts, Claims of soldiers and heir heirs, Conveyancing, &c., promptly and carefully attended to. Acknowledgments, Depositions and Affidavits, taken and certified. ! E. RICHMOND, | Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer, Cavin street, Ligonier, Indiana. Special attention given to conveyancing and col- | lections, Deeds, Bonds aud Mortgages drawn up, | and a]l legal business attended; to promptly and | accurately. : i May 26th, 1868. E. D. PRESTON, M. D., | HOM@EOPATHIC PHYSICIAN, LIGONIER, INDIANA.. : Oftice une door.south of L. Low & Co.'s Store, up stairs. Office hours from 9to 11, A. M., 2to 4 and 7 to 8 p. M. ' Can always be found by inquiring at the American House. 4 48 : " D. W. C. DENNY, M. D., Physician: and Surgeon,— Ligonier; Ird. Will promptly and faithfully attend o all calls in the line of his profession—day or x)ilgm—iu town or any distance in the country. Pecrsons wishing his serviees at anht. will find -him at his father’s residence, first door east of Meagher & Chapman’s Hardware Store, where all calls, when abseut, should be left. : -1 : G W. CARR, . o e : Physician and Surgeon, .LIGONIER, - =« - - - - IND., _Will promaptly attend all calls intrusted to him. Office on 4th St,, one door east ef the NaTioNAL Banner office. i 3-43 F. W.STRAUS, BANKER, Buys and sells Domestic and Foreign Exchange. Passage Tickets to and from all the principal parts of Europe, at the most liberal terms — Special attention given to collections. Money taken on deposit, and Merchants’ accounts solicited, and kept on most favorable térms. 42 SACK BROTHERS, Bakers & Groceers., | Cavin Street, Ligonier, Indiana. Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes, &c., Choice Groceries, Provisions, Yankée Notions, &c The hiﬁhest cash price paid fer Countrﬁ Produce May 18, "68-tf. SACK BRO’S. NEW FIRM AND NEW GOODS | —_T — ; WOLF LAXE, IND. Notice is hereby given that -C. R, Wiley and Samuel Beall have entered into a co-partnership n the Merchandise business, and that they have just-unpacked a lurge stock of Dry Goods, Boots and Shoes, &c. Call and see for yourself. i WILEY & BEALL. -Wolf Lake, Nov. 3, 1869.-27tf _

- NEW MILLINERY GOODS, o T ! bt Mrs. Joanna Belts, ' On Cavin Street, i NEW STYLES FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1870, Just received from Baltimore and: Chicago,. : Fancy Goods; Hair Braids, Switches, Wedding Bonnets, %ouminz Bonnets, Baby Caps, &c. March 30, 1870..48 f !

- JOHN GAPP!NGER’S HARNESS; SADDLE And Leather Establishment, Has been removed to Gappinger & Gotsch’s New Block, (formerly Rosshacher’s Block,) KENDALLVILLE, - - INDIANA. The highest price paid for Hideg; Pelts, &e., and the trade snppﬁed wgth Leather, Findings, &ec., at lowest figures, April 6, 1870?-49 oy il J. BITTIKOFFER, DELER IN s WATCHES, CLOCKS, iAo fd | | JEWLRY, §ILVES{ WARE,NOTIONS, Spectacles of every Description, &e., &e. &e., &c. -, All kinds of work done nH(m.the shortest notice gnd wunﬁnbed as to durab itﬁ. ; . hop in Bowen’s néw Brick Block, Kendallville, Indiana, . 2-81 . H. R. CORNELT., : ",,Who may always'be found at his PHOTOGRAPH ROOMS, 1 dto ta 1 kinds of piot in the o e ,p&’;"pm LAR ATTENTION ‘paid, o.bopm old lz:gdérréoitybes and Am#: gfg?pqi(ﬁ +Cards, sod Enlarging. ; Work w,‘;iu‘a’ud satipfagtory in pll cases.. . Ligovier, Ind,, Feb, 38,1870..48 = = : :.;‘, il ¥ \ \ ELKHART 'BOOK BINDERY, : i o ",;wme‘o_lﬂns Ofshe:. |il i : T Tq " . .“'"HERALD OF TRUTH, e sol i o i s hi o to inform our friends an e pn%ct;g ;eg‘le.m?{gu’t‘,wb hiva established n ”I';':"{"Q ” / bil?%gé En«iaré’ VF*!M ‘gll 'of Binding, - such as Books, #’B‘-\.: i e tehsonable ._d._’ gt

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t " For the National Banner, - MAPLE RIDGE. ; BY MIBB lANDArLE‘VERING. i : There is a rugged, wild-looking place, Where sylvan boys might dwell, By sunlit streams, whose winding trace Their way thro’ beautiful, shaded dells. Tis a picturesque, and lovely wildwood, “That shadows the rustic bridge, = ° {And it is, too, the home of my childhood, . . And they call it Maple Ridge. There’s a cottage half shaded, by maple trees That crown the top of the hill, On which the sluggish summer hreeze Has yet the timie to be still; While at.the foot of.the grassy slope = Spanted by the rustie bridge, : Glides a silvery stream — we’ve named it Hope, - That encitcles—Maple Ridge. ' On' the knoll, that each returning spring Drapes in Orchard bloom— The Whippoor-will comes to softly sing, " A song, by the Blue birds’ home, You can wonder here iy the twilight hour, Near the rustic wooden bridge— ' And here the chimes from a distant tower, As they: float to Maple Ridge. ; There's ah"nrbo'r, and boi‘er, the home of the . wWren— B ? Where the song of the Goldfineh is heard, Yet, just below in the leafy glen, il Far sweeter notes are stirred ; And there, too, stands our trysting tree, - Near the rustic wooden bridge - e The carved initials you can see, , From the foot of Maple Ridge. : ‘ Each wooded hill, so wild, and steep, Has its poetic tale : : Where water nymphs, and fairies sleep In the lilies of the vale. . "Tis here the trav’ler draws the reins, i On the shaded rustie bridge, * i To watch the sunset gild the panes Of the home on Maple Ridge, ey Ah! by‘that pane how oft I've stood, Aud watcfned the blue waves roll, That constitute Old Elkhart’s flood— With an enraptured soul. - ’Twas in the beauty, strangely wild, . That flanks the rustic bridge,- .. = That I first breathed, when but a child, The rhyme of Maple Ridge. 0, Maple Ridge! O, home of mine ! . With rhyme and music franght; % The inspiration, too, is thine, : * My poet soul first caught— ' A poet’s home in sweet relief, Above the rustic bridge—--Its joys are real —its sorrows brief— And life is sweet—on Maple Ridge. e ‘Marie Rince, July 22, 1870.. 1

MISSED HIM. ' ty BY A REAL ]‘)ETE'(‘,TI;\'E. - Well, well, perhaps it 'was my fault —perhaps it was not. He was a clevcr fellow—ah! that he was. They asked me to catch him ; I said T’ll try. Wouldn’t promise—no, I'd only say 'l try. : , Tl I tried. His offense was nothing—merely what is commonly called a “Railway Plant.” - It -succeeded though, and my gentleman was “wanted.” ’ I made a grand hit when I nabbed his companion. H¢ told me his haunts and his habits, but he wouldn’t aid me in catching him. 1 determined to do it myself. 1 was a green hand then. No matter, I had the will. I found the way. He was to be at a tea party on ‘that Thursday night, .1 was invited. Shall 1 take two policemen in disguise and arrest him % - No, all his friends would rescu¢ him. I’ll go alone. Went. Left my little house —a four roomed dwelling—at six. 1 locked the front door, and went to Mrs. Jone's tea party. : This was in the® month of December. We had ‘great fun at the tea party, There was a gentleman there that I believed to be my man despite the fact that, when introduced to him, I was informed that he had just come from the Continenit. We fell into conversation. He began to pump me.-— This was what I wanted,! I was determined to play the simple, and tell him. all that he had asked. - - He stared hard at me. Perhaps he knew me—perhaps he did not. - He was a peculiar man, with short black hair, a clean shaved face (parish priests and pickpockets are alike clean shayed—strange coincidence !), dressed in a suit of very light gray. He looked smart. 1 might have safely have shouted : . “All hands to pump ship.” He pumped in’a most bare-faced manner,, : e ; He asked me where Ilived. I saw no use in deceiving him; besides I had a little plan in view. I mightinvite him to my house, and pin him. Had I any company? None.— Any one else in the house? No; I was ‘a bachelor. I preferred to live alone. . ‘And then in' the most quiet and .inginuating way, he asked me, did I shoot ? He did ; he had been ,shooting lately—last week he was shooting in Suffolk. He went down, there for a day or twg. Ah! I remarked in an innocent way, looking up benifhtly at him, that I thought—that is, .I understood—that he had just come from the coutinent: i o - -He started. . I pretended to be surprised. . But.about the shooting. . : No, I didn’t; I wae timid about firearms ;. the sight only of a loaded gun made me tremble. . Had Ino fire-arms ? He had.a beautiful gun. No, I had none. Then heturned to the house gquestion. Did I sleép on the ground floer:? . No, Where then?. At'thetop of the house ~it wastwo. stories. high. . Oh,.back or front? - Back. - He was. very 'inquisitive, ‘but I seemed to enjoy; telling. him all that I eonld, . He: was doing me—poor devil, - Then he asked me, as if casually, did approve of keeping money-at home, or did: 1 send to the ‘bank ? - I started. I.began tothink ‘this . was too' good; - No, matter, I would go through with i, i, I had told him lies enoughy why- not tell him another—ay; why net: kéep-my moyey’ at home. ' Banks were unsafeq ibut'l assured him I felt uheasy, justthén, beeause lahsp;iqﬁéd:mii:t?e wmore than usual, and it ‘was ‘mine.! Five [hindred potinds ready money, I told bim. ‘Ha, 'ha. ' Five penge in coppérs would have been' u'egm;cbbeuwﬁ&. But no ‘matter, poverty is no-sin.: i Yes, I kept in ' the;house; and he thought it strange F-had ‘no_arms.— St o i%hﬂﬂw pE pusdon bad'ata; yos, Tad 83— ‘might he ask wwm ‘My arms ‘was & boilerstick, with'two'ounees: of TR R g B e R DR

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lead in the top of it. (Oh !—he seemed greatly relieved. : * Told him the doors and windows had 1| bolts on them, and were all well barr- | ed—all but one. He picked up his ' ears, and a faintly murmured ‘which ¢ | led me on, and gave me hope. Itho’t | it best to encourage him—all but one. The front window on the ground floor [ said bad no bars on shutter. They | had all bells I told him. It was very I safe. Thieves never think of getting into a house by the front, you know. | There was no area or garden., The | door opened on the pavement. Yes, it was very safe—wasn’t it? Yes, he thought- it was. Then he talked about politics, etc.; and then he/got up to go—=so goon, and Mrs. Jones begged him to stay; and I begged him to give me a call some night, for. ah, really he was very, that is, his company was very——ah, agreeable, ha, ha, ha. He was going my way.— Would *go with him? or would he wait forme? No, T would stay an hour longer, at least, and then see the Miszes Browne to their home. What a notion I had of it. ‘ He thought me very simple, no doubt, he thought all I said was true. I often wonder now whether he ever suspected that the quiet individual, who did not shoot or put his money in the bank, and slept in this house alone, and put bells "on the doors and windows, was a detective, whe would do his best to see him safely “in quod”’ before twelve hours were over. Ha, ha, ha, we shall see what we shall see, go we shall. : R - He is gone. He shuts the hall door. He looked 'wilaly about him, and then gets off in the direction of my lodging. I am watching him from the window.. ‘Oh'! I forgot to tell him. Ah, really I must go. Good evening, Mrs. Jones; ha, ha, ha, I will clap on my hat and follow him. I shut the hall door quietly, and start in the same.direction. There he is .in the dark, round the corner. He does not think any one sees him. Here is a low wall, how handy. I'll just get behind it and watch him. His position is well chosen ; no one can see him, unless they are where 1 am; - Look, what is he at. Well, I'm blowed, he pulls out a coat from goodness knows where. It is quite black. He puts it over his other coats, and he even pulls of his trowsers. Ah! he has others on under them ; they are black; too, and then he takes off his tall hat, and stows all his traps where ‘the coat came- from. His hat is replaced by a glengary. Then out comes a great black beard and mustache, which are carefully adjusted.— My yah! I wouldn’t know him again. Look again, he is examining something 'in_ his hand; it shines' as he turns it over; it gives a faint click, click, as he holds it up. Ha, I thougt so it is a pistol. He puts it into his breast, and then looks around him. I creep closer in to the wall. He does not see me, although he is coming this way. DPasses me and walks on. I whistle a tune and step after him round the corner. Am coming up to him.— He asks me the time. I tell him the time, and ask, did a gentleman in a high suit pass that. way ? Yes, he ‘Went up yon street smoking a cigar—good night, sir. | Ha, ha, good night. But surely he is following me. Yes, there can be no mistake about it. No matter, will outwit him anyhow. I reach the corner ; he is ten yards or more behind me. I set off at a run down street till I reach the next corner; round it I fly. A glance backward—he has not entered the street, yet. I enter a half open door. The next minute hear his steps ; heis running for death and life, one would think, He reaches the corner foo, and stops. He ‘s not a yard from me, and I am grioning, at him through. the door, Which is about six inches opén. = Looks about him.— ' He is at fauft. “B—t him,” he mutters, «I’ll have him yet.” Sets off at a headlong speed along the street. 1 saunter out quietly and follow him at an easy tread, I arrive at the corner, Heavens, he is. coming up the street towards me. Yes, it must be he, although his beard and mustache are replaced by carroty whiskers, and he has a pea-jacket and jerry hat! By what trick of slight-oﬁ-i)mng ia this done: 50 quickly ? Can’timagine, Tt must be he. Isfilling -his pipe. *My house is just in advance ; stiﬁ he.,fcﬂlows me. I enter the house. Casually he; glances up at the windows. - I bolt the door. Hear him turn into the' lane that goes up alongside the next house. I steal quietly into the front parlor and leave the shutters open, and put back the window fastening. Then go up stairs to the back roomj light the candle, but don’t draw down the blind for reasons ‘of my own. One glance: at the lane ; thought so; he is staring: at the house.. I can see him; the: lamp is not fir off. I draw back out. of sight, and taking my revolver out, ‘of the drawer put fresh cartridges, therein and - slip it into my' pocket.— "Thex goup to the window ‘a%aiuv, with ‘my night-cap fn my hand. "I staré into the glass while a&ﬁsﬁﬁg"it‘) ~Am® full: in. the, glare of the candle light; am, sure. he sees me.. Then, quietly «drawing .down theiblind, extingnished the dight aud thén pull.it (she blind) a little one side, to’look-out. * See! he isFeonaiig drourd (o the front again. . o] ST dowis sl heop ito the parlor; ' thonght 80 ;, some. one, at the windon. Hlplnenaatienty o sash is lifted and the -blind ) pushed ‘back ; -the next moment a man enters Ethpﬁmomi;a]tgis;hg h:ééi{m% ai ei; W -He pulls-6ut hig pistol, coeks'#, and datp It GR e hatle, | TR Bel s 0t 6Gy i o glancea ﬁfplapri;,,w;&;f}ﬁ{ 1 et»ig ;inmﬂx isatistied, .he withdsaa his “head; and then teﬁ)humaf tﬁé{tszftt-g place ;he s going to strike mateh “# T-quietly put-aup’ ‘hand "and prip« e up and face'Wim. He strikes tlie six. g-;‘f%mligiz%ﬁ y i bighten o .es;fs!‘&m oward me. Helights a, %gg i “;L IO il ‘him with my revelver gnd his own' A% Anga ot sdViibe wtamwfs Mk

each other, He mutters. *“No firearms, eh?”’ and I hiss, “surrender !” A moment and the candlestick is dashed in my face. There is a flash, a report—another! He dashes at the window,. Now 1 see why he left it open. I rush madly forward. A heavy blow descends on my face. I stagger back, only for a moment, I start up and take down the gun—in an instant I am standing in the street. He is fifty yards away. 1 fire one barrel, then the next, of course I miss, ,and there 1 stand erestfallen at my window, while the neighbors gather round. ““‘Thieves!” says one; “The ruffians !”’ cries another ; while a third eyes me calmly, saying, “You’ve missed..h'm master.” A pistol for my trouble. “I have missed him!” I never saw him again. ' = ‘ . e — - B— : THE CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS. The time has arrived when the Democratic party should calmly consider before it acts. If it chooses its ~course with moderate judgment, and avoids. mistakes in presenting its is* sues, it will certainly elect a majority of the next House of Representatives. All the late. elections point to this fact. New York, with her 90,000 majority, will send almost a solid delegation of 'Democrats to the next Congress, and the prospect of the fifteen Southern States following her example is most cheering. In those that have ‘not been tortured 'to the very door of death by “reconstruction,” this result may be safely considered as certain. While those that for years have been stifled with the congressional grip, will exercise a liberty of action that has been. unknown to them since the war. The bayonets by which they were awed into voting the Radical ticket have to a great extent been withdrawn, and that powerful engine of ‘Radicalism, the Freedman’s Bureau, no longer exists to control and manipulate the negro vote. The political sagacity which the Southern white men possess will surely point the way for the control of this new element, which the over sanguine Radicals have introduced into their politics. The great mass of negroes will follow their political leaders, and if the bell-wethers are properly managed the flock will follow into the Democratic fold. This will surely be done.: VV?e,;’shall .gain members from nearly all the Central and Western States, and with. the scattering gains which -we shall receive in the East the next House.of Representatives will be under Democratic control. With. this flattering prospect the party should be fully alive to the situation, and ready to betray that energy that will give double assurance of success. With a Democratic House, the next Presidential ‘election will be virtually decided in our favor. The moral effect of 'such a victory could not be overestimated. The people would see that old issues were dead, and that the only bond of union in the Radical ranks was “the cohesive power of public plunder.” ,The negro question is settled ; we ‘cannot open it if we would. Our opponents have always found this issue sufficient to inflame the passions and fetter the reason of the mass of their party. The question is in- our hands. If we desire to remain in the minority, let us supply our opponents with the same old flail to thresh the same old straw. If not, let us drop old issues, assume the aggressive, and boldly charge upon the corrupt ranks of Radicalism. - The people are eager to place their seal of condemation on the acts of the Radical- party. 'lf we but open the doors am? give them ‘a chance it will”’ be done. The Executive and Legislative branches of the government are in like disfavor. As a President Gen. Grant is an. admitted failure. He is snubbed by Congress and laughed at by the people. His appointments are | ridiculed l&{ the -press of his own party, ‘and'the péople believe they are jprocured. by downright bribery. His ‘Cuban policy has been vaseillating ; his San Domingo speculation’ was re- ‘ pudiated by his best friends, and his efforts to settle the Alabama. claims have come to naught. - The only.defense of ;his administration made by ‘his partizans is done by pointing to the reduction of the public debt. If this is a source of congratulation let it be' rémembered that this has been accomplished by onerous taxation, and ‘the most grievous oppressioti of - all “eladses. ./ If < the people '“paid’ a: ‘greater' amount of money into -the pib-) lie: treasury than was ‘necessary to meet the expenditures, what elee could . be done with the surplus ofher ;than_ to, aipply it to_the, liquidation of the public debt? = Are we to congratulate ourselves because the Radfc?tf officials did not steal it ? Aot e A

A long catalogue of charges can be préferred and ' sustained ‘against Congtess.!"Among them may %‘e merition- - ved the failu;t:*w db'a’b]i;l:ing to ]re;'ive American shipping ; their s ations 4dn-land grab ms y tbeilr’eet:riﬂ' bill .Bwindle, :and - their . infamons: Know-, Nothing Naturslization bill. ; Let us assume the aggressive, and assault our enemies in front and on flank, charging them with incapacity, dishonesty, ‘i 811 the Ghidhas Endwn Ta politics.. For proof of “qur“charges let. us summons their own witnesses and canvic--tion will be assired. The people are discontented and impatient, and ' if we: "u\séi"zﬁbae‘ﬂx’te‘jﬁ&gﬁx}éﬁt in conducting, the canvass we shall defeat ouf'6ppo-. nenfs, and take the firit step’foward a. , re!qu:"iitibp of {comﬁﬁ%@l of the, Bovériming o Laporie Argus, . THE: presqnt consumption.of wood i'q;wiigﬁi%h&%%?mwwgne handred .and, fifiy thousang -acres of Itheibest- timber is.-cut:every year to a’upg?lgr thé! demand for railroad dleeperg‘dlone. " For railfoad buildings, repairs, and'icars, the dntual’ expendi: ARS oo 18 AR poeighy .ﬁ g, pf! rdolidesy Tu’ & single'“year theé losomo--Adves | imv shie:- United T States consume: fiftysix million dollars’ worth.of wead.: Aﬁl;:qam.imzth& whole. country, more. I wonds a 1 she pein o * is_one thousand.dolla ar ? e woo '.. terést o t& eg),ny?y e > "6 '‘dolla Y ‘ A A ~‘xtm!ﬁ*&u /1’1;v1:1-!:?-!;éw'-3 825 w

el Nothing Sacred. “‘There is nothing sacred now. The last holies of holies has been invaded ‘and desecrated. One of the Pharoahs is a mummy in Barnum’s Museum. A montebank travels over Europe with a little tent which he exhibits for four sous “a piece of the Holy Cross.”’— Where the genii of the *Arabian Nights Entertainment”’ once reigned supreme, there is now a ten cylinder Hoe press printing the Koran and a “History of the Caliphs.” A newsboy has a stand near the ruins of the Coliseum, and old ladies peddle peanuts in the streets of Jerusalem. A factory has been established on the river Jordan. Recently the cable informed us that a railroad trackis being laid upon the classic plains of Marathon, and now comes the startling announcement that a telegraph station -is being located on the site of what is supposed. to have been the “Garden of E(Fen." Sk

Beeides the tact that ice is lighter than water, there is -another carious thing about it which all persons do not know—namely its parity. A lump of ice, melted, will a'way become purely distilled water. Vghep the early navigators of the Arctic seas got out of water, they melted fragments of those vast monntains of icebergs, and were astonished that they yielded ouly fresh water, They thoug{:t that they were frozen salt water. The fact is, the water in freezing, turns out of it all that is not water—salt, air, coloring matter, and all impurities. Frozen sea water makes fresh water ice. if you freeze a basin 'of indigo water, it will make it as pure as that of pure rain water. When the cold is very sudden these foreign matters have no time to escape, either by rising or sinking, and' are thus entangled with the ice but do not form any part of

PUNISHMENT OF DRUNKARDS IN RUSSIA.—A curious ‘police regulation for the punishment of intoxication exists. in Russia. Persons found drunk and incapable in the public thoroughfares are taken into custody and condemned to work for a day at sweeping the streets ; consequently, well dressed. offenders ‘are sometimes’ seen performing their task broom in hand.— This lesson is intended tor individuals who have not lost all sense of shame.

THOSE keeping horses should,twice a week, throw in a handful of salt and ashes. Horses relish this and it will keep their hair short and fine. "It will prevent bots, colic, ete. A little ground sulphur, mixed with salt and ashes, and given once in two or three weeks, is a%so beneficial. All domestic animals will be thus benefited. - —_——— e — b " His Authority. - Smart lawyersisometimes get hold of a witness who turn the laugh on them. We have rarely seen a neater non sequiter than this: N “I call upon you,” said the counselor, “to state distinctly upon what authority you are prepaed to swear to the mare’s age?” i “Upon what authority ?” said the hostler, interrogatively. “You are to reply and not repeat the -question put to you.” - ‘ “I does not consider a man'’s bound to answer a question afore hie has time to turn it in his mind.” “Nothing can be more simple, sir, than the question put. I again repeat it. Up-on-what authority do yon swear to the animal’s age?” \ “The best authority,” responded he, grufily. Lo “Then why such evasion? Why not state at once ?!" g “Well, then, if you must have it.” . Lo “Must! I will have it!’- vociferated the counsellor; interrupting the witness. [“Well, then, if you must and will have it,” rejoined the hnstler, with impertarbable gravity, “why then, I'had it myself trom the mare's own month. | ' A simultancons burst dflanghter rang through the court. . Thejudge on the bench could ;with difficulty icanfine his risible museles to judicial de¢orum. L e — . No Fee for this Adviee. ~ After it. is too late to protect them against fraud, n(:ly of our people learn the ‘importance of putting a seal after their signature, when attached toa promissory note. When there.is no seal, and: the note is transferred to a third . party betore it becomes due, the maker thereof can -offer no defence in law against its _payment, no.matter that he may have paid most of it to the second party or been. wholly swindled in the consideration for. which it was given. But a seal following his signature, no matter in whose hands e inay find his note, secures to the giver thereot the right to prove full or part payment thereof, or the want of consideration therefor. Patent right men, particularly ifithey are on ;the swindle, in selling a thing that is not patented, or a patented thing, to which they baveno right what: ever, are , always anxious to get notes on time without seals, so,that, they, can readily..disposa of them for whatever; they MUI bring, making a very largndisogunt 49 geb-the maney. 4 seal protects againet i bransaction; and ;erery person giving notes ought, to know just what they are GOOB, & Jithls. santion jp, this mater Jaay protect against sharp practice, but can hurt no honest man. Sosayao.n enste exchange, . . iy . “Ansonßuslingaue, while at the Uni. ygrity, of Michigan,, wrote, on estay, on bistary, i whiol he-expresscd the opin’ dop;that by elose, application, 8 young ‘man, in, ona year's, time, ean, becom; acguajnted with the principal eyents which ‘haye transpired sinee. the oreation of, the Aorid, and thus cextainly twmhiwtf fore,it.seems strange, that any individual will rather waste his time pursning fiction, whicl Jowves i anee o, rogret? And A" bhafticss PHSE T Awayi piekin op ! ot G vron pdi Balait Al b

No. 13.

: For the Natibnal Banner.’ - THE SLANDERER. © BY GRANDMOTHER GRETCHEN. ‘ You've heard of him, or her, very often, have you not? Then I need not go over the details of the characteristics of this miserable class; for T only wish to express an opinion, and then leave you to judge whether my views ‘are those of fallacy or simple truth. . 5] Whatever may be said of the slanderer, we cannot pity him; no, not éven when he falls into that darksome pit, which he has dug for his neighbor. > There rests continually the frown of the Deity upon these stambling blocks and trap-doors of society, and tbe anathemas of a thousand injured innocent victims, are not unheard or unheeded by the ruler of all. When Gbd does not pity them, how can mortals extend sympathy to those that have wandered so far from right; as to give their lives to such low-lived practices, and their tongues to that infamous hypocricy, that tends to tarnish the character of their fel . low man? These are they who are ready “to grasp at shadows, and catch up the dying ember and flourish it about until the blaze attracts society, and until the innocence of their victim is blackened by its dire influence. They go about like their captain, “seeking whom they may devour,” and the neighbors affairs are scanned with‘an evil eye; words uttered unthoughtful- ’ ly are remembered only to be miscon‘strued ; actions are misinterpreted, and _every little paragraph of harmless gossip is manufactured into a long column of ready made slang; and, by the help of a restless tongue, an aching spleen, willing feet, ill-will, and malice, a long yarn is -spun to the opposite neighbor, who happens to be of the same stripe,'and after a gracious “I won'’t ‘breathe a word of it,” which, if correctly understood, - niéans, “Oh! of course, I'll.not fail to tell every body I see,” they go back home to spin something more to hitch on to the article just disposed of. Doubtless they imagine tlrey have done something; and they have ; for they have done the loathsome _work the Devil is ashamed 'to do, and he slinks back into his liot-house, thinking: ‘what a long line of co-workers he has on the footstool. The sluggard may become industrious ; the drunkard is liable to be‘come temperate ; ‘the thief and bighway robber may some day become respectable citizens; and the murderer is.to be pitied, and may be forgiven; but the slanderer, the murderer of character, is farther from redemption, than:the pirate of the seas.— God' pities the victim of the slanderer, ‘but does he extend sympathy to the groveling, unscrupulous backbiter, that renders society a loathsome nuisance? Would to God that cociety might become regenerated, pure and morally better. = Wehave our street yarn spinners, out anmitigated slanderers, and our smooth-tongued, two faced hypocrites, which are more to be detested than a bitter antagonist—in every village and neighborhood. Character is something precious, and easily tarnished; and woe be to those who repeat scandalous forgeries, and ‘willingly add to each feature, -eomething more highly colared, in order to give effect to their impish calling. We. daily see the influence of this degraded, disgusting calling turned intoa blighting curse. May high Heaven pity the slanderer and hypocrite: —we.cannot. Their aiths, their. hearts, and their lives are too-dark and sinful to be overlooked by mortals of simple mold. They merit but the hatred of the community, the finger of scorn, the neglect of posterity, and the deepest shades of oblivion for a burial place. Their. history | should be torn frem the annals of society, | or preserved as an escutcheon of the gates of eternal death. The worms of the earth would turn away from-their graves in disgust, if they could realize their.past history; and, if" the marble could speak, it ‘would warn the world to turn aside from.the resting place of the darkest, most dangerous plagne spot of earth, :

Plunder Holding High Carnival. The Washington dispatches to the Cincinnati Commercial, in referring to-the land grabbing schemes of this Congress, thus comments npon the closing scencs of the session : y 25 . The:ruling passion in. the. Senate seemn likely to continue to the very last day. of the session. Most of the morning hour was devoted to giving away lands to enrich. railroads. © The balance of the day was spent in adding-to the heavy sums which encumbered .the.. Omnibus Bill. Heavy appropriations - wefeadded «for- building public edifices in‘ wariotig: parts of the country, and the Senate secmmed enchgnted with the fascination'of spending money. Finally it was suggested that fecklessness was carrying sway with'a high hand, andsome of the propused sums were ent off. — . Three hundred thousand dollars was voted | to erect public buildings in St, Louis, and one hundred thousand for the same pur-_ pose in Trenton, New Jersey, and Little’ Rock, Arkdnsas. 0 . About Ite Baughters. | The. following is & “floater,” yet it"is ‘nevertheless guite applicable in this loeality: o e “It is a most painful’ spectacle in fami--lies. ‘where the mother is the drudge, to see the ‘daughters elegnntly drea‘w:gl, re« clining at their ease with their idrawing, their music,, their fancy Z?gg;ksm}:dg, their remtmg beguiling themselves of the lapse of . _Qﬁtﬁ.?ﬁe,sﬂ iar‘zd‘,_w;el'e,l%s;_.;ud_d never’ dreaming of gelr responsibilitics, but as a. ‘necessary consequence of neglect and :linty, growing weary of their useless lives, lay - ‘ing hold of every newly inventéd stimu-. lant to rouse their energies, and blaming their fate when.they dare not blame their God for.shaving placed ; them where théy are:! ;'l‘l\te!:e’ i_ndivic%\l:l;-‘wgl ioften tell - ov, with an air of affected compassion: {Pg‘;l‘ '.v;tid‘can be}ieiiei it to be real ;.,—'-&}mb ‘poor mother-is ‘working hersélf to death, i “Yet, no'séoner du wuigmpmmyma ' asgist her. than ’tlixeyv ecla_r; sl;gqunitél' in ber element; in;short, that she: never: o b g I e bnd oy i ¢ | Bpuct Itﬁid"‘ dad o Nowes nd don ) Brodd gy e T T e N ol aadd | e revoltion i, public sentimen con' itinues 1 witheut: abatement;: Amang, the’ latest cinnges ié that!of;the Shiwride (I 11. “Mertiiry, WHEH Fentiinoes thioßephHicany b %w ‘i‘ﬂ?lﬁmi lf‘_a : Cdgiit Bl i *‘“‘ ’m k i!,‘“,.,— TR m?,\” VR ﬁ%}' (ma ot ita. mast/ head. , Welcome to all, who' #ce the ertor of their way.. ;3_:"-;:}91.!}%52@—- o e MART i R R A RS e 0 e

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~ ABSENCE OF MIND. “Doctor Josigh 9&?2@}! Wwho lived for many years on {lic Westefn Rescrve, in Ohio, was askillful physician, but withal one of the most eccentric singular and ab-sent-minde.d persons in the world, except Margaret, his wife, and she was fully his ‘equal. ‘Ope summer morning the doctor “was caught out in & treméndous shower, } which drenched him to the skin. It soon cleared off, however and Doctor Josh rode ‘into his own yard, where he took thie dripping saddle from his horse and let him o i.. adrift into the pasture. The saddle he placed on a stout lag of wood which was _elevated some four feet from the ground ~on two posts, where the doctor had begun to build a platform to dry his peaéhes on. - After having got bis saddle fixed so i ~would dry, he took the bridle, and, putting the bits over the end of the log, he stretclied out the reins, and hitching them to the hoin of the saddle; went in to chabge bis wet clothes and get prcakfast. Josiah, jr, and Margaret, jr., were awag from home on a visit, and so ‘the two seniors sat ‘down to the morning meal. When they were about half through, Jim Atwood, a farmer who lived eight miles distant, came in, telling the doctor he wished he would go over to his house, as he reck‘oned he might be wanted over there, and then went off to the village in a hurry after some necessary “fixens.” . - When the Doctor finished his meal, he ‘took his saddle-bags and put he went into the yard where he deliberately mounted his saddle and set out in imagination for Jim Atwood’s SR AR ¢ For a long time he rode on in éilence, ‘with his eyes intently fixed on Buchan’s Practice, which lay open before him. At length he began to feel the effects of the fierce rays of mid-day sun, and looking up from his book he discovered a house close by him, upon which he sang out lustily for a drink of water, | i, " Aunt Margaret, who had been for the last two hours very ‘busy in the garden, soon made her appearance with a pitcher of milk, and after the thirsty stranger had taken a long draught, they entered-into an _?imated conversation, the Doc. _flaunching out into rapturous-praises of the scen‘ery about the place; the neatnessiof the buildings, the fine orchard of peach and apple trees ; and the lady, who had caoght a glimpse of the saddle-bags made a great many inquiries about the health®of the ‘neighborhood, ete. Lt ‘The Doctor finally took his leave of the lady, assuring her that he would call on his return and have some further conversation with her, as she reminded him s 0 much of his wife, who, he was sure, would be very happy toyke: her acquaintance. )

The lady turned to-enter the house, and the Doctor had just gathered up the reing, when Jim Atwood dashed up . to the gate with his horse all in a-lather of foam. el ‘ Sy ~ “What on carth are you doing, Doctor?” yelled Jim ; “get off that log and come along.” Vo The Doctor was greatly surprised -at first, but after a few minutes itgot through his hair that he had been all the morning tiding a beech log in his own door yard. e -E— : Fishing with Gunpowder. _ - Yesterday we liad a conversation with a gentleman who had some experience at this kind of fishing. Last week, he several times went out with parties of gentlemen to blast trout out of the Carson. The way they practice this new mode of * fishing is as follows: = = i They take a cartridge of Giant powder weighing about a quarter of a pound, in' sert into a piece of fuse, properly capped,. about six inches in length, then lighting. the fuse, the cartridge is thrown into any. deep hole supposed to' contain trout or other figh.: 5 piide it g Immediately after the explosion,all the fish that happen to be within a circle of twenty-five or thirty feet of the spot where tt{e cartridge féll; come to :the, surface, either Killed outright, or so badly stunned that it is some. minutes before they recov--er. Our. informant sags that with two cartridges he saw over fifty pounds of fish killed, counting trout, white-fish and . chubs.. - This is the most: destructive made of fishing we bave heard of—it is a regular wholesale slaughter of great and small, good and bad. Should the Pmct'i'ce gain ground it will be necessary for the Legis- '~ lature to put a stop to' it by an act mak-| ing it a criminal - offence co fish with Gi ant powder.— Virginir City (Nevada) EnWiprise.F " i

2.0: 0] A $3,000 Kiss Case. : ~ Our readers. may remember the case of Seibert and wife against Leeson, reported in these colnmns some weeks since, in ‘which the plaintiffs recovered the sum- of $2.000 against the defendant for' kissing the hand of Mrs. Seibert against her will, “that amount béing supposed to include exemplary damages given by'the jury in, consideration of “all the circumstances.” The case came ; up again yesterday before ’his Hopor Judge. Dobbin, in the shape of | -a motion by the deféndant for a new trial, which was duly argued and the motion granted. /! ‘The Judge took occasion to remark that there swas no proof that the defendant had harbored and attempted .to execute a purpose of seduction, that he was ou his own premises demanding rent which was'dug, and that' it did not! appearito.be a case for exemplary damages. Tlie Court then laid a rule that a . npew trial be dgmnte_d unless the plaintiff remitted $l5OO of the $2,000 verdict given by the ‘jury, thas redacing the price of the ‘alleged -nssanlt to ssoo.—Baltimore .GUO3 rwepinon & Frus bo# : - “That’s & )good gun of yours, stranger, vut Unele Dave fiere; has one that beats Ueßn YO HG far Wit ki o bRk ‘with!'Re:figEa e a 0 aot tis gl “T don’t ‘use’'shot; -or ball’ either,”an--2 { . a 5 s i swered Unclo Dave Tor himselt | | ¢+ Then, whatdo._you, uéwazv{g&we e < 'k shaot salt altogether. . T Kill my Igame so.far; off with my gun thats yithout 54l e game. ol el apile. before I 9‘:“&‘38%&%‘&\.! AT syoldo PRY T LA Fren ch&ggﬁiwmﬁg A ! piece of waolew wloth; which had lodged 0D 8 tree,.envered. with gat aﬁ}htmv;i M the Idea suggested; and pl . wool:°“m§ ’ trees, B *”‘ “really nothing but dying as qilick a 8 poss il 15 Yo io 0 how ovest | TN it Y bty o 5