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‘Resistance to Tyrants 1s Obedlence to God. : J. B. STOLL, EDITOR. ‘WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21, 1870 —————‘—-_._______*—-—-___i—-_____— (From the Address of Democratic Congressmen.] © Let there be no dissensions about minor matters ;. no time lost in discussion of dead . events ; no manifestation of narrow or proscriptive feeling ; no sacrifice of the cause to gratify personal ambition or resentment.
'DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET i For Sec;etafy of State: l Col. NORMAN EDDY, of South Bend. . For Auditor of State : : YOUN ¢. SHOEMAKER, of Perry Co. ' For Treasurer of Btate: .« JAMES B. RYAN, of Indianapolis. : : ‘For Attorney-General: BAYLESS W, HAN{‘I A, of Terre Haute, : For Sup’t of Public Instruction: %¥Rev. MILTON B. HOPKINS, of Clinton, For Supreme Judges: = | JAMES L. WORDEN; of Fort Wayne, A. C. DOWNEY;, of Ohio County, SAMUEL H. BUSKIRK, of Monroe Co., JOHN PETTIT, of Lafayette. . DISTRIOT TICKET. b e Independent Candidate for Congress: ¢ Gen. MILO S. HASCALL, of Elkhart. For Joint Representative, Noble and Elkhart: JOSEPH ZOLLINGER, of Elkhart. : For Prosegutor, 14th Judicial Qircnit : WILLIAM' C. WILSON, of Elkhart. For Proszcutor, 19th Common Pleas District : WILLIAM G. CROXTON, of Steuben. COUNTY TICKET. : Representative : HENRY €. STANLEY, of Green twp. e o Clerk: ' W. R. KNOX, of Albion. i Auditor: - : - J. C. STEWART, of Noble twp. . . Treasurers ; : J. J. LASH, of Kendallville. : : . Sheriff . DAVID HOUGH, of Perry twp. 3 Surveyor: Wm. GREEN, of Kendallville. g T Coroner: Geine Dr*Wm. 11. FRANKS, of Orange twp.: o Commissioners? 5 North District—Wm. IMES. : . Middle District—F. AMOS BLACK. South District—JONAS STRAUSE. The Result of the Maine Eteetién. The Maine election presents the result, ~on 4 full vote and decided contest, of a .Democratic gain of eleven thousand votes. The New York World says that some- - thing of this. change is due, no doubt, to the popularity of the Democratic. candidate for Governor, General Roberts, who ‘carried Bangor, in particular, where he regides, by 600 majority — a gain of 1,140 votes ; but the true source of Maine’s most significant vote is to be found in the very general disgust throughout the country with the ‘Republican party. The people are tired of it,-and so far as there have been elections for the next Congress, we can say that they have put the stamp of theirdisapprobation upon it literally from Maine to Oregon. Of course there are other reasons than this assigned by the tricksters who cannot possibly vadmit that their day is over, and prominent among the apologies offered is the statement that local squabbles distracted the party. We think we heard something like this before when New - York, outside the city, went Democratic ; and likewise the same thing when Oregon spoke and when "North Carolina turned. The same authority, continuing, says that so remarkable a coincidence of squabbles all over
the, country seems to sfow that the Republican party everywhere ig’ pretty badly split, and compels one to remember the ancient proverb ‘which tells us that honest men come by their own 'when a certain kind of people fall out. ' No one, of course, expected a 2 Democratic victory in Maine, for the State has been so long accustomed: to go Racical that its people by ill doing have become much demoralized, and their promptings towards purer politics have had to contend with the $15,000 used by the radicals in the canvass. But if figures can be relied on Maine is turn‘ing away from Radical wallowings to its old place in the Democratic fold. We suppose its diminished Radical majority: is one of the “‘encouraging signs” the radicale at Washington profess to sce in the skies, : jinsd
. The Vermont Election, The Demograts of Vermont, says the Boston Post, have nobly anufwered to the hopes of their brethren throughout New England and the }:ountry.," On a larger aggregate vote than last year, they have made decided gains, increaged the number of their Representatives in the Legisla ture, greatly reduced thc majorities of their opponents, and manifested a determined purpose to co-operate with the popular sentiment that is rising all over the country to displace Radicalism from power. The Democrats/of the other States salute their resolute bréthren of Vermont with a fresh satisfaction. Though victory was not expected at their hands, what was expected has been nol ly accomplished.— Towns that have not thrown a Democratic majority in ten yea:f have placed themselves in this canvass on the side of progress and reform; and stromgholds of Radicalism have beén assailed with a pertinacity that has ff)mpelled them to re: linquish a large share of their claims.— Montpelier, Rutland, and other towns ha ve shown s_ym;jloms of diseontent under a rule hithertp accepted as perfection. Federal patror.a;; was concentrated on Burlington to hogld it fast, but throughout the State thef Democrats have shown the spirit that everywhere merits enthusiastic emulation. s
Make Them Explain. The Indiangpolis. Sentinel says that when the Radicals tell you they have reduced taxation, make them explain how it is that the taxes paid in 1870 will exceed thage of 1869 over thirty millions of dollars. Ask them how it happens that ~ the internal taxes collected in 1869 amoun‘ted to $159,124,126, while those of 1870 will exceed one hundred and eighty.four millions of dollars, Ask them how it is that the people from 1861 to 1865, during the "entire period of the war, pail only seven hundred and mninety-two millions of dollars in taxes, while in the five years since the war closed they have been called upon to pay two thousand three hundped and forty-three millions of dollars. These are facts shown by the reports of Radical officials, while the party leaders are harp. ing over the reduction of taxes, .
. THE NEW ELECTION LAW. _''The last Legislature of this State made some important changes in the election law, and while some of them were just and proper, one, at ledst, deserves more than passing attention. It illustrates the tendency of radicalism; and strikes a fatal blow at the freedom of the ballot. Without a shadow of a doubt it was enacted solely to perpetuate the rule of the radical party in Indiana, and its projectors have not yet had the hardihood to deny that this is its object, or to attempt a defense of the shameful manner 1n which it is sought to be accomplished. ~ The section referred to requires the inspector of elections to number every ballot on_the back, to correspond with the number of the voter on the poll book kept by the clerks. Thisat once destroys the secrecy of the ballot, for to ascertain how a man voted, it is only necessary to ex amine the tickets and compare the rumbers en them with those on the poll book. The object being made apparent, the manner in which it is to be worked for the benefit of the dominant party discloses itself. Itis well known that the great mass of the democratic party is made .up of working men and what are termed the ‘poorer classes. Scores of these men are frequently employed by one of .the rich bondholders of the radical party, and of course it frequently occurs that these lords, who enjoy such peculiarly pleasant advantages from the hands of the government, are naturally anxious to see the party that grants them such favors retain the ascendancy. To accomplish the desired end they do not scruple to intimate to their poor employees that a failure to vote the radical ticket, pure and simple, will result in the loss of a situation, and perhaps end'in suffering both to the laborer and his family. The leaders of the favored party know full well the tearful conflict that must arise in & poor man’s bosom who has the ch»ice of exercising his own will at the expense of those who are dependent upon him for their daily support and happiness. They know that the heart of the poor muan is as rich in its abundancy - of love and affection for his tamily as the man who holds government bonds and gives a scanty employment to those who are less fortunate. They know, too, that, revolting as it is to a poor man, he will nobly sacrifice his own principles and happiness to secure the welfare of those who look to him for protection and depend upon him for daily support;— Hence, by giving the radical employer the secret of the employee’s ballot he at once ‘becomes master of the situation, and uses the powerful lever to compel acompliunce with his political wishes.
- It will be seen that our boasted freedom of the ballot, as managed by the republican party, has the despotic ring of a Bonaparte, and says to the poor man, vote as you please, but if you do not vote the radical ticket you shall be ruined, and all that is dear to you made miserable. The law as it stands is as objectionable as the v&a'{ooco.plan of voting, and in effect is identically the same. Every poor man, while he is yet free from the grip of the wealthy Radical, should use his vote fearlessly for the overthrow of the party that has resorted to such shameless means to secure its ends, and aid his less forfiuna_te neighbor in escaping from the clutches of the wealthy. The democratic party is committed to the early repeal of thislaw, and should the reins of our State governmeat be placed in its hands, it will .not only sweep this but many other objectionable laws from the statute books.
Practical Workers in Georgia. ‘ A letter from Georgia states that the | feeling is gaining ground very rapidly in that State among Democrats and Conservatives against placing in nomination for Congress.-persons who are ineligible under the statutes now in force. While! they will sacrifice nothing of principle, they are anxious té avoid the difficulties and dangers that mightattend the organization of the next House, if obnoxious men are sent to Congress. ='E.hey will carefully oppose any action tha# is likely to jeopardize the interests of the State or of the Conservative party. L ' Keep it Before the People. That under the New England tariff and commercial system, the packers of fish (who live, of course mainly in New England), obtain their salt for that purpose free of duty, while the western pack‘ers of beef and pork are charged seventytwo cents a barrel for all they use. This tariff was passed and is sustained by the republican party. It discriminates directly in favor of New England and against the West. Every vote for the Radical ticket is & vote for the salt lords to pile on the tax,. = : ) :
_Grant Repudiated in Missonri. ‘The Missouri Republican, speaking of the nomination of the Gratz Brown ticket by one division of the Republican party in Missouri, says: “ The first striking feature of the Brown platform is the re markable absence of everything concerning President Grant’s Administration.— There is not one word about it, good, bad, or indifferent.” The only hope of success tbe Radicals have in Missouri is based on repudiation of Grant’s Administration. ¢ e+ — ; The ¢ Protection ¥ Humbug. The New York Sun has a sensible arti cle, showing the folly and injustice of protection. Free trade, it is confident, will be the leading issue in the next Presidential election : : il “To answer the question “How are we "to meet the national drain if we reduce the customs?” We answer directly : Reduction of tariff on some articles and entire removal on others will revive industry, enliven commerce, and give sufficient prosperity to the people to insure the pay-ment-of all legitimate national expesses by means of direct taxation. Our:great. need to-day is a reduction of the national expenses to the measure of the national enterprise and industry to such a standard as shall enable| every individual to pay his proper share to the support of the Government without consequent suffering. This can be accomplished only by adopting tree trade principles,” eel < Ry———— —— A Sound Plank. ' Benator Hendricks, in a speech at New Albany recently, spoke as follows ; - “I am not much for platforms, but I have got one plank for myself. T don't care whether it be adopted or not. As far as my.individaal action is concerned it is going to be my aim to have it adopted, and I want to eee it in the Democratic platform, and that is, from this time forward it shall be understood as the highest law of the lanl that the Constitution of B e an ex ‘ peoy "df{ho Unltdpg;{afcbfll have a fufl?o m and honest hearing on the subject.”
THE EUROPEAN WAR. - Bince our last issue, the Prussians have arnved in front of the fortifications of Paris. The dragoons are in the suburbs, and skim;fshing bas begun. The main army is coming up in immense force, and the metropolis is comparatively isolated. All the railroads are cut with the exception of those running west. The Forest of Bondy has been on fire. Most of the bridges over the Seine, outside of Paris, are - being destroyed. The newspapers have generally suspended publication, gas is stopped, the shops are nearly all closed, and all the able bodied men ‘are drilling. The women are clad in mourning. General Trochu is determined to defend Paris to the last stone. He echoes the sentiment that' “all classes are re solved to' fight to death.” Gen Trochu is reported as having 410,000 men, a large part of them regulars, the remainder being fast transformed into good soldiers. The city has been declared in a state of siege. : s
The escape of a part of the French army from Metzappears to be confirmed, though the force numbers but: 6,000 men. Canrobert is in command. The Paris papers assert that Bazaine’s army in Metz is well supplied with provisions. The Prussian King’s headquarters at last acdounts were at Meaux.
- German dispatches say that Strasbourg cannot hold out much longer. Fugitives from the city represent the sufferings of the people asintense. The provisions are served out in very limited quantities.— The mortality and sickness caused by pri vations arc very great. Onthe 14th the citizens made another appeal te General Ulrich to “yield.. The commander replied that his position was most paintul, but he must at all hazards discharge his’ duty to his country. He has forwarded despatches to the Minister of War in Paris, in which he reports that the bombardment is constant and terrific. The city has been badly damaged. il 4 A — e The Alabama Democracy. Tbe democratic.and conservative party of the State ot Alabama, in entering upon the contest for the redemption of the State government from the radical usurpers who control it, adopt and declare as their platform : : : 1. That we stand ready to obey the constitution of the United States and the laws passed in pursuance thereof,'and the constitution and laws of the State of Alabama, 80 long as they remain in force and unrepealed. - ;
o "Tha‘f we are opposed to the unjust, extravagant and unneeessary taxation, both State and Federal, with which our people arg now oppressed ; to the wasteful squandering and embezzlement of the public money and public property; and are in favor of the strictest economy in | public expenditures and of a rigid and’ prompt accountability of all public officers. . 8. That we are in favor of law and order, fair and peaceful elections, free trom fraud and corruption, and.that we shall demand a fair count of the ballots cast. 4. That we are in favor of confiding the government of the State to our own peo ple, to men of known capacity and integrity, who accept office for the general good and do not seek official positions for public plunder. 5. That the party now in control of this State have obtained power by usurpation, against thie will of the people, and they have imposed enormous and unnecessary taxes; they have created unnecessary and useless offices for the sole purpose of feeding their needy followers ;— they have, by profligate extravagance and corruption, increased the debt of the State many millions of dollars, and have even refused to execute the provisions of their own constitution relating to the cl.ssifi cation of State Senators and their tenure of office ; and by numerous other enormities 10 legislation they have shown themselves unfit to govern the people of a free State, and they ought to be ejected, thro’ the ballot-box, from the offices they hoid in defiance of the wishes and in contempt of the interests of the people. - : The ‘County Fair. : /The opening of the County Fair this morning will be marked principally with the entry of articles, and the arrangement in their proper places of goods to be ex‘hibited by the mechanics and dealers of this section. Every facility possible will be afforded by the members of the Board, for both visitors and those who desire to eater articles for exhibition., The po-sition-of officers of Agricultural Societies is & thankless one, and yet no pains have been spared by the present managers of the Noble county Society to make our Fair a success. How well their efforts have been appreciated by the farmers and others will be seen by the variety and number of articles on exhibition, and the number of visitors in_attendgnce at the Fair Grounds. .
As is generally the case the main interest will, be attached to the latter two days of the Fair, and yet those who degire to examine machinery and other articles without the confusion and bustle of a crowd will do well to visit the grounds to-day. Of course everybody will be there to morrow and Friday. : . PRICES UF ADMISSION, The admission to the Fair will be as follows : : : Family tickets... - ............$l.OO gingletickete o 0 0000 95 Two Horse Carriage 5.............. 50 Oune Horse Carriage 5.............. '25 There is positively no admission at the gates without first getting your ticket at the office of the Treasurer. Carriage tickets will be taken up at the gates, ‘and no person will be allowed to enter the ground with a carriage at any time without first having procured their ticket. i e — s ‘ General Haseall, - Independent candidate for Congress, will address the people of Noble county at the following times and places, to wit : ; Green Centre, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2 r. m. Wolf Lake, Thursday, Sept. 22, 7 p. M. Wawaka, Friday, Sept. 28, 2 », m. Rome City, Friday, Sept. 23, 7 p. M. Let the people all turn out. = .
RicHArRD CoBDEN described frce trade as “ the international law of God Almighty.” Speaking at Covent Garden Theatre, in 1846, he said : “I warn the aristocracy not to force the people to look into the subject of taxation—not to force them fo see how they have been robbed, plundered and bamboozled for ages by them. I believe that the man or body of men who should 'be able to abolish customs and excise duties, in this or any other country, would be the greatest possible benefaotor of that country.” : , - The Demoeratic Congressionsl Nominating Convention in Alexander H. Btephen’s old district, the Fafth Georgia, ‘meets at Augusta on the 20th inst,
NOTES AND COMMENTS. ‘The Democracy would have as large a. proportion of the National debt as possible bear no interest, by being in the legaltender form. The Radicals are for it all beipg in five twenty bonds, on which we have to pay a burdensome gold interest,
Bays the Fort Wayne Democrat : “Several State officers took a ‘rip along the Wabash canal, the other day. They remarked to a person, outside the ring, that if they were successful in electing a Republican Legislature this fall, it would enable the canal bond ownersto take a tour through Europe. If they do not count their chickens before they are batched we miss our guess. What say the people? Run the thievish hordes from office, say we. Tax-payers and voters, what say you?”. = |
It was hoped by, reflecting men,that dueling, as one of the fine arts, was dying out, and that as an accomplishment’it would fall into disuse as a recreation for gentlemen suffering from woundedhonor. But, the public mind ne sooner recovers from the shock of an unhappy and fatal affair in Savannah than the particulars of ‘another equally asalamentable comes from Memphis. There are so few tnisunderstandings or difficulties’ which cannot be satisfactorily settled without a resort to arms, if placed in the hands of discreet friends, that there is but little excuse for many of the duels fought now-a-days.
Gov. Orr, of South Carolina, has not been received into the Radical camp with those excellent demonstrations and hearty welcomes he anticipated.. The fatted calf has not been killed, nor is thefe much disposition to put a ring upon his finger and fice raiment upon him being shown. He will have to take his pelitical cold victuals in the Republican kitchen, and will.not be permitted, like the rest of the white “heip,” to'eat with the family.
“Mr. Colfax has performed his full share of the public duty that a republic has a right to require of its wisest and worthiest citizens, and has a right to the retirement which he requires, and is so well qualified to enjoy and honor.— Radical Ez. change.
Is this a trick of the friends of Morton to get Mr. Colfax out of his way to the Presidency ? Be assured our smiling Vice President is not yet tired of the honors that.are thrust () upon him. :
A prominent republican newspaper in New York has repeatedly charged that Bancroft Davis, Assistant Secretary of State, did, as a director of the Erie railroad, receivea bribe of sixty thousand dollars from John 8. Eldridge, president of the Boston, Hartford and Erie road.— The evidence to sustain the charge has been presented again and again, and yet the President has taken no notice of the charge. : i B
The difficulties which threatened to divide the democracy of Perry county,’in the southern portion of the State, have been amicably adjusted. The regularly nominated candidate for sheriff has retired, and so also has the independent democratic candidate for auditor, who, in a published card, advises all democrats to rally to the :support of the amended ticket. Perry county will give from two hundred and fifty to three hundred democratic majority for the entire ticket.
Trouble is brewing in Utah. A dispatch dated the 16tlf inst. says that Governor Shaffer has issued a proclamation forbidbing the assembling of the Mormon militia and of all gatherings of armed persons within the territory. All arms and ammunition now in possession of the militia are ordered to be turned over, at once to Col. Wm. M. Johns, assistant adjutant general. Gen. P. E. Connor is appointed Major General of the Militia.
~ The Radicals of this State are just now claiming that the State:is tout of debt.— ThefColumbia City Post, asks if the State is out of debt, how does it come that the people are paying $215,000-annually in interest. And further, how does it come that this very year we are paying a State debt sinking fund tax of ten cents on each -one hindred dollars of assessed property —a tax-that will yield about six hundred and fifty thousand dollars? Does this look much as if the State was out of debt ? The State is not out of debt. ; The Radical claim that it is, is only made to deceive the people. © A new lease of power.is wanted. < .
What a bitter dose for Horace Greeley must have been his defeat, before the New York Radical State Convention for Governor! Poor Greeley, always wanting an office, never getting one, constantly named, coming provokingly near, and then kicked overboard! Grant went for him this time which may account for his failing to secure the nomination for Governor, but then he promises to nominate him for Minister to England. If he does the Senate will be sure|to reject him, arid he will be dished @? j : -
Luring the latter portion of the administration of President Johnson, the Radicals thought it was a great offense for him to “swing around the eircle;” but mo fault is found with President Grant for fishing and hunting, and smoking his meerschaum at all the svatering places and race tracks in the land.
Ten years ago the great cry of the radical party was “reduced taxation.” Five years ago it was the same. This fall the cry will be shouted louder than ever.— We want to ask the farmer and tax-payer how the party has kept its promises in this respect, and if his tax is not five times as high to day as ten, yearsago? When a Radical talks to you of reduced taxation, show him your tax receipts and ask him to tell you where the Radieal party has made 8 reduction. - L A
The negro President of Liberia, now in this country, meets with amazing success in his pluper campaign. , Already the Navy Department; is ordered to turn over to him a United States steamer on a $ll,000 bond, and the latest is that he hag ‘been in deep converse with Grant on the subject of a rail-fod from the Guines coast, Timbuctoo-ward, The war ship our people toiled to pay for, this Afrioen chief purposes to use in oolleating his revenue, for which purpose, also, the muskets lately prooured are doubtless meant ; but what the railroad is/to do isstill in Joubt.
. POLITICAL ITEMS, e The new Colorado tows that has been named Greeley has thirty Democratic voters; a majority of its voting population. Canton, Ohio, elected a Democratic Mayor a few days since. Democratic victories will be as plenty as blackberries in June this Fall! Oglesby wants Yate’s place in the United States Senate from Illinois. So does John A. Logan; so do all the leading Radicals in the State; not excep.ing Governor Palmer.
Horace White of the Chicago Tribune depies that he is a candidate for Congress, and declares that he would not take of fice under any ' circumstances, even if he had nothing else to do. e ' - As the case now stands, Congressmen bave the means of keeping themselves in Congress, because they can buy support ~with the spoils of office distributed to their caucus packers and personal supporters. : Ly Last year, Wilmington, Delaware, gave the Radicals fifty majority. At the election on Tuesday of last week, the negroes voting, the Democrats carried the eity by two hundred majority—a gain of two hundred and fifty in one year. : Let every farmer, mechanic and daylaborer give the Democratic documents which may tall in his way a careful, unbiassed perusal.. If he wants to vote right he must read Democratic as well as Radical documents, for the former will uncover ‘ti¥e rascality that the latter secks to hide and cover up. The Evansville Courier says, when Morton spoke there he was sick, couldn’t stand on his feet to speak his piece, and for a commencement, asked the band to play the national air 50 as to get up some excitement. As he delivered his speech sitting on a chair the general impression .was that he was “fatigued.” ; Wendell Phillips is out in favor of Sumner and Revels fof President and Vice President in 1872. Theodore Tilton, editor of the Independent, prefers Butler and Revels. An exchange thinks a stronger ticket could not be made, unless there were - two negroes instead of one.: ;
Tt is announced that ex Governor Denison is to be exhumed for campaign purposes for the Radicals this fall. _The law against robbing the graves for “subjects™ should be put in force against the political resurrectionists. Somebody: will be trying that sort of thing on old Ben Wade next,. :
Within the last ten years the Radical. party managers have gathered in taxes from the people of Indiana the enormous sum of $87,000,000! What has become of the money ® The State debt was less than eight millions when the radicals came ipto power; ard the war expenses of Indiana have all been paid by the General Government.
The following . names have been mentioned in connection with the United States Senatorship from North Carolina : Ex-Governor Vance, Robert H. Cowan, Bedford Rrown, Robert Strange, O. P. Mears, A. 8. Merriman, A. J. Dargan, M. W. Ramsom, R. B. Gilliam, and Hon. E. F. Shober. . The disabilities of the five gentlemen last named having been re‘moved. The others are ineligible.
Later returns from the Vermont election show heavy Democratic gains throughout the State. - Towns have gone Democratic for the first time in ten years. Montipelier gives 350 Democratic gain. In twenty-five towns our vote is over 15 per cent. larger than last year, while that of the Republicans is not half that. Even the Green Mountains feel the influence of the great Democratic tidal wave sweeping over the country. There has been a small war of races in West Virginia. Divers negroes robbed a farmer of his pocket-book and wagon load of produce, and, on some white men seeking to recover the property, Cuffsecured reinforcements and charged to wipe the white trash out. Said trash fired into Cuff, and drove him off with holes in his side, Democrats and Radicals uniting in the, fight. Result—a handsome change of votes over to the Democracy. Full returns of the late Judicial ’election in Tennessee' serve to show ‘what a political difference it makes to give the elective franchise to all the people instead of & party. The Conservative ticket received 109,654 .votes, and the Radical ticket 13,500. At the election of Supreme Judges in May, 1869 (when so many of the people were diefranchised) the Radical ‘vote was 45,000, and the Conservative vote 14,500. At the election held this summer the vote was by no means full, as it was only for judicial officers. General Lew Wallace, the' Radical candidate for Congress in the Lafayette District, grieves to find, that he can spend only four days in each county of his district for oratorical purposes. That’s just four more than will be good for -him,— His reputation as a statesman will increase 4n’ inverse latio to the freaquency of his -appearance before the public. Four speeches in each county—or, more properly, the same speech delivered four times in each county—will kill him as ‘dedad as a door-nail. Lew has no more chance of election, any how, than Senator Morton has of going to Hefivgen. | :
The fou: candidates for Congress in South Carolina are all negroes. = This is more than the carpet bagge:s bargained for. That a-negro should aspire to the seat once oecupied by Whittemore, shows that the negroes having once had a taste -of office, will not vote for a white man, be ne ever so Radical. Instead of sending a lot of Radical adventurers to represent them, they have come to the conclusion that they might as well go themselves. This is more than the white ‘brethren bargained for, and is unexpected as it is crushing to their political aspirante) e dind e ; :
It is reported that a few daysago Senator Sprague was summoned before a Washington Justice by a Prof. Groux, to answer a claim for $99, for printing various political essays and speeches.— Prof. Groux claims that at the request of Senatar, and hy his order, under a regular agreement - regarding compensation, he prepared the documents upon the currency. question, tonnage, Alabsma question, workingmen's movement, woman’s ‘rights, the Chinese, and various other subjects which the Benanor then eontem. plated presenting ‘publicly. The Justice rendered judgment against the Senator.’
TENTH DISTRICT ITEMS. ! o i | { We have looked for some time for a'| reply in some of our Republican exchang es, to the numerous damaging exposures that have lately been made against both the private character and public record of their candidate for Congress. But we look in vaifi. Not only are the papers that pretend to support him, silent on the subject, but as far as we have learned,. the same sphynx-like silence is maintained by their usually loquacious orators. What does it mean? Does any sane man expect to receive the suffrages of his fellow citizen, with such charges publicly made, and daily reiterated, as are now brought against ‘him, it he does not at least make an attempt to disprove them ? If Mr. Williams is not ‘guilty of these chargés it is an easy matter to disprove them. His silence renders it doubly eertain that the charges are true, and that l he cannot disprove them. He dare not meet his opponent on the stump, for fear of further exposure, and when asked his ‘reasons for such a course, becomes “Falstaffian” and refuses to “give a reason or compulsion.” Gentleman, why is this thus.— Witterloo Air Line. < [From the Hintington Democrat. | The following is an authentic tran‘script of the lettersent to the Huntington Herald, by the little demagogue who ‘misrepresents this district in Congress, _announcing a canvass of this county. “Hdytors of the IHurald—Sins: I'm. movin% along —slowly along—down tords your place. I want you should rite me a letter sayin how’s Hascall stock in your place. Jes pleace scratch off a few lines sain what pints he makes so I l)Lin'govc_m myself accordingly. I shall 'have my handbilis dun at your offis. “Depend up‘onit. T want you should git up a tremenjus excitement ih your paper howt ‘my unparaleled ability as a orator. We -must fetch the public somehow. We must work on: their feeling—come the moral on’emstrong. If it’'sa temperance community, tell ’em I sined the pledge -fifteen minits arter ise born.” But on tlie ccontrary, if your people take their’tods, isay that Billy Williams is as genial a fel“ler, as we ever met—ful of conwiviality, ' and the life and sole of the soshul bored. ' Take, don't you? Tamanxious tosekewer the influence of the soldiers. I repeat. in regard to them handbills that I shall git 'em struck off up to your printin offis. My perlitical sentiments agree with youts exactly. I know tbey do, because I never saw a man whoose didn’t. e | e OWA MS, ML O “P. B.—Remember the Collectorship and-blow hefty. = Tell the postmaster I expect some wind from him ; and let the Assessor! remember on which ;side his bread is' buttered ; and:let us all stick to the only principle we bave left—“ You scratch my "back and Ile: seratch your back.”: ' oW M 0
Every man who polls his vote for Billy Williams on the;llth of next October, can hut do so with his eyes open to the established fact—established beyond cavil. or peradventure — that - he is supporting the vilest dregs, the distillation of a]l political stench combined, concentrated and condensed. - Theessence of political fraud and’ debauchery; a vile contaminated creeping reptile, wallowing and crawling in the' clotted gore of his countrymen searching and scouring for plunder, while his cowardly heart skulked and trembled at the bare idea. of a howling shell or whistling bullet. . Such-is the man who now for the third time, asks the Republican voters of the 10th Distiict to come up to the polls and give him their ballots. For the last two years there is but one act in connection with his doings, that his constituents are bound to give him credit for. That one act to which we alludg is, that after all Lis open and noto:’ rious violation of all honorakle #nd. man ly principles, his sneaking tréchery and: abandonment of those who were Ws warm: est and most reliable supporters after all this, to then have the effronteyy to push and compel them to work in the¥races, and even dare them to do otherwise, is astep that deserves credit if no other act of his life does: Billy has a boldness, and so has Satan also—but the Warsaw relative is a little ahcad,— Warsaw Union.
The :Postmasters are having a good time backing up Billy Williams. Brush and Bivins are the champions, and are working for their places as if for life. Bivins has backed Billy in the sum of $BOO and Brush says he will dc the same if he can get the money. Let nobody say the office holders aré ungrateful. - We have heard of other soldiers of government office—men who thank God they are not like other men-—declaring that if they bad been in Billy’s place they would’ have done as he did. Undoubtedly—like master like man.. What wonder that rascality and knavery and corruption are rampant, when God's chosen people came out and sanctionit! - .
**Oh for a whik)‘in gvery honest hand,. - To lash the i écals naked through the world!” — Qoshen Democrat. .
We learn from a friend, that Billy Williams in his speech at Auburn made the remark that, the tariff was a subject that not one in ten understood more about, than a hog did about Fourth of July.— It he believes what he said as to the Ignorance of his constituency we do not wonder that he expects to go to Congress with an' increased majority. But we bave a higher opicion of the people he has so gratuitously insulted. We believe that even his Republican hearers, who are usually the most careless and reckless of any class of persons as to matters. connected with the tariff, are better posted than he gives them credit tor. It is doubtless his own ignorance of these questions, that is father to this insolent expression. His votes in-Congress, and his whole course in. Congress and out, prove that he was either ignorant of the nature and effect of the tariff monopoly bills, or that he acted willingly against the majority of the people of his district. Democrats instruct your Republican neighbors, so that Billy need not insult them };vl_len he comes again.— Waterloo Air ne. l
The prospect for.the election of Gen. Milo 8. Hascall over William Williams, in the Tenth district, is good. Both are republicans, but Williams, the present member 1s a violent radical, while Gen. Hascall is a conservative and receives the support of the democracy.— Evansville Courier. . ;
Hascall’s prospects for a seat in_ Congress are growing brighter every day.— Williams and his money ring are dead cocks in the pit. We would be surpriscd if Hascall did not get half of the Republican vote of this district.— Coluwmbia CQity Post. : Erd -
The Democracy of Indiana, 10th Congressional district, met ;&flionvention at Kendallville on the 1 ultimo, and Ppassed a series of resolutions, the last of which declared it inexpedient to nominate a candidate, In this district, Williams, the present incumbent, was re-nom-inated by the Republicans. Gen. Milo Hascsll and “his friends withdrew from the conyention, and Hascall was announced an independent candidate:- The district has heretofore been Republican by a very large majority. Hascall is right on the living issnes which divide the parties .to-dag, and 1t is hoped the Democracy of the 10th district will give him a hearty support, e Republicans in differeut parts of the distriot are quarrelling with each other about their ocandidates, fighting with canes, revolvers. :d&c. = Bowling-Green (Ind.) Archives. o : § | 55
; . STATE ITEMS, ~ The Friends’ Yearly' Meeting -commeuces at Richmond on the 28th. A Woman’s Suffrage - convention meets in Lawrenceburg in October. - Over one hundred thousand kegs of beer were sold in Fort Wayne during the year just ended. | L The wife of Hon. Jason B. Brown, died at her home.in Brownstown, Saturday, the 10th inst.- - g James Ayers, a soldier of 1812, and a resident of Danville since 1836, died on the 4th, aged 83 years. G ' Benjamin Saunders, Esq., an old resident of Fort Wayne, died guddenly, last Wednesday, of paralysis, - : - A proposition is being debated by the commissioners of Hancock county for the erection of a $20,000 jail. -
The Germans of Terre Haute had a pic-nic on Sunday, in aid of the Sanitary fund. They realized $4OO. |- Forty-two acres of land, two miles south of Terre Haute, have just been sold for $12,000, or at the rate of $3OO per acre. : s
The local preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North Indiana conference, meet at Hagerstown, on F'riday evening, September 30. ox Judge Wm. T. Jones of Wyoming "Lerritory, late of Harrison county, was elected delegate to' congress from that Territory, on Tuesday of last week.
- The iron iz all laid between LaGrange and Grand Rapids, and a regular, train; carrying the mail, will be put on the road about the Ist of October.
Daniel Bell, of Decature county, a young urchin of 90 years, challenges any man in the state of his age to wrestle or Tun a foot race with him,
The wife of George W. Noble, of Independence, left her home, husband and three children one night last week for Illinois.” she is making her way on foot. oy :
' Another daring burglary was com: mitted in Bloomington on .Monday night of last week, and about the same amount stolen. In this case they stole boots, shoes and dry goods.. ' 1 - The Knights of St. Crispin and their employers, in Fort Wayne, have had a falling out over a bill of prices proposed by the former. They resumed proper relations a few days since, the Knights going to work at the old prices, ) e
There was a bold robbery of a bardware store in Terre Haute on Tuésday morning of last weefi(. Eight hundred dollars worth of goods were stolenand Ho arrests made. It was supposed to have been done during the alarm of fire. - AR T
The chiurch of St. Vincent de Paul, of Logansport, was .entered on Tuesnight of last week, and robbed of the vesgels and plate used ‘in the sgcrament. The thief, a man named Scott, hailing from New. York, was arrested and lodged in jail on Monday.
‘The first school house erected in New Albany (in 1819) is still standing, it having been removed from its -original location, on state street, to the corner of i?ring and Lower First streets. It is now being remodeled with a view to converting it into a business house. Four -young ladies, daughters- of William. Cross, of . Vallonia, on Monday of last week, attacked and beat Mr.: Jesse' McClelland, whom they chargéd with writing under their father’s 'sale bills a notice that they, too, would be sold with other property. '
* Complaints are made by a number of taxpayers 'in the northern part of Clay county that they are charged as delinquents for taxes already paid,and for which they hold the treasurer’s receipts.. They must have a ldose wav of keeping*the public accounts out there. F, Y [ e
On Saturday *afternoon, 10th inst., Mrs. J. Ross of Indianapolis took, by mistake for magnesia, two teaspoonsful of arsenic, causing her death. She guffered the most intense agonies for twenty hours. before death released her from her terrible pain.” She wasa most estimable lady, greatly beloved by all who knew her. , g ' In April, Esan Whitecotton who lived about eight miles north of Crawfordsville, so brutally beat his wite, who was enciente, that she died.— Nothing was done 'with the monster until the recent sitting of the Grand Jury. He was then indicted for murder in the first degree, arrested and put in jail. and his trial set for Thursday, the 15th. il e T e
A little over a month agoa man came to Terre Haute, from Missouri.— On the Bth. of August he stole a coat, was arrested on the succeeding day, and on Tuesday last was indicted by the grand jury. The same afternoon he was brought into court, arraigned, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to ten years imprisonmentin the peniten: tiary—all within fifteen minutes from his entrance ‘into the room.. = - -
Seventy-six passenger trains arrive and depart from the Union Depot of Indianapolis daily ; twelve extended lines of railway center ; several additional lines have been located, and, without a doabt, will soon: be built.— Indianapolis is surrounded with nine-ty-two counties, representing the civil subdivisions of the state of-Indiana.— The inhabitants of eighty-five of these ninety two counties can visit the Capi--tal and return to their homes each and every day in the year,except Sundays. Four of these great lines of railroads run directly through exhaustable coal fields, the best «of building stone, and accessible fo the most va%uable kinds of timber for manufacturing and building purposes. | - - et
The New Albany Ledger says that od Monday of last week a gentleman came to that city and reported the finding,: near- Edwardsville, late on Saturday, of & human skeleton. Most of the bones were still united, and near them lay a gun, both barrels of which were empty, and the stock was so de‘cayed, that it fell to pleces on handling. The remains were found in a ravine, in an unfrequented place, mnear the road,on the farm formerly owned and occupied by Mr. Enos Edwards, whose mysterious disappearance from his home in New Alfia‘ny, some ‘eighteen months ago, has been the subject of much locmxcltement‘ and oconjecture. As Mr. Edwards was supposed to have wandered away from home in a fit of ‘temfior‘ary insanity,the belief is general that the skeleton found as above stated, is'the missingman.-
| GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. - . Governor Balloek thiaks that a colored college at Milledgeville might be a profitable investment. i Hon. Hiram Ketchem, a well known lawyer and former prominent Whig olitician of New York, died on Frigay at his residence in Riverdale, aged 78 years. = Sty e Complaiuts of the defective manner in which the census ‘has been taken reach Washington from the South as well as from many Northern cities. - The past season at Saratoga has been unprecedented. -Over one hundred thousand persons bave: been. entertained at the hotels and private boarding houses gince June 1. . The French commander at Toul, to a demand to surrender, made an ans~wer more heroic in fact than in form: “I will not surrender till my shirt tail is on fire."—*Quand lo feu aura pris 'au pan de ma chemise 1" :
~The new Democratic administration of Oregon went into operation last Friday. Governor ‘Grover was 'inangurated. . A bill to discourage Chinese immigration has been introduced’ into the legislatare. = e .- The Randalph [Mo.] Citizen of last week says that “one of the blackest darkies iu that or any other county was: disfranchised by the registering officers because he vowed himself to have been “for de souf all de time.” " . Three cases of yellow fever, or “ob:scure typhus fever,” resulting fatally, occurred at 14 Essex street, New York. The deceased persons contracted the diseaze while attending the wake of a relative who died at Quarantine. . - A private letter from a partisan of ~Cabral predicts the ‘overthrow of Pres. ident Baez, of San Domingo,by the end of - October, He is unpopular, and daily growing weaker, while Cabral is preparing to make another attacked on him in irresistible force. - | : . Among the cities and towns of Massachusetts voting in favor of licensing the sale of ale and lager beer were Cambridge, Lowell, Worcester, Lawrence, and Taunton. The majority of “the small towns voted in favor of prohibition as did also New I}fiedf'ord. Since the loss of the captain, it is said that the British government has suspended all its contracts for the building of “turret ships. No further details of the loss of the Captain have been received in London. Admiral Milne is on his way to England. . From New York we have the most “cheering news i regard to the coming election. It is believed by those well ‘acquainted with public sentiment in “the Empire State that its delegation in the next congress will ?e equally divided, which Wye a gain of two. con- | gressmen for the .democracy. '
Mr. Disraeli has been making a speech in Buckinghamshire. He ‘congratulated England for having by parliamentary and other reforms removed all opportunities of internal disquiet; so-that she was now in a position to witness unmoved, vanishing -empires and rising republics. L Advices have been received describing a cataract recently discovered in, British Guiana, in South America; which dwarfs Niagara. There are two falls, one'of 770 feet, and another of 50.. The volume of water passing over the falls is 78 feet deep,” and 100 yards broad during the dry season.— The colonial government is arranging faeilities for visitors. St 2
- The international boat race at Lachme is over, and the English crew are the winners, One hundred thousand - spectators were present,and the ywildest excitemeht prevailed during the race and at its close. An enormous amount of money changed hands. The Tyne boat led from the start. On turning the: buoy it was three lengths ahead, and . it won' the race by six clear lengths, ' Time 41 mi?utes 10 seconds. Mlle. Christine Nilsson, the new queen of gong, arrived from Europe by the steamer Cuba on Wednesday morning. A large crowd assembled onthe dock to welcome her, but she was whisked into a carriage by manager Strakosch and Dr. Doremus-and takento the Clarendon Hotel, where a magnificent suite of rooms had: been prepared for her. Nilsson ‘made her first appearance in America. in concert on last Monday night. | ~
Mystery closes finally over the Nathan murder case. The jury of inquest was called together and informed by Coroner Rollins that the police. were unable to give him any further information. The murderer cannot be ‘discovered. The jury| then returned a verdict to the effect that the crime had been committed Ly “some person or persons unknown” and thus, with their discharge,‘the case ended on the 14th inst., iRI T : From September Ist to.the 7th'there were loaded at Louisville for transportation to New Orleans, and points in Texas, by the New Orleans Express Freight Line alone, 123 cars, being an average of over 20 cars of _through freight per day. The bulk¥of this through freight consisted of potatoes, merchandise, bacoh, coal oil, whisky, and bagging. Besides' this large amount of freight transported by the New Orleans Express Freight Line, seven steamboats were at the Portland wharf, during the same time, loading for New Orleans.: ' The Postmaster General has issued an order requiring the name and address of the sender of a registered letter or package to be affixed to the same and, in case of non delivery, the registered letter or package:will be returned directly to the office from which it is gsent for delivery to the sender, without, as now, being returned thro’ the Dead Letter Office. In case the seunder of a letter or package thus returned cannot be found, it will then go to the Dead Letter Office and be treated as other mail matter. The new canon introduced into the Illinois Episcopal convention, and rejected by -a tie vote on. Wednesday, providing that any _clergyman who appealed from a decree of an ecclesiastical court to a civil, for the purpose of arresting ecelesiastical proceedings against him, be fqusfpende:f ipse facto from the functions of the ministry, was again brought before the eonvention last Thursday night, and, after expressions of strong protest against it by several delegates, was 3‘:00& by a tablished a ppe?: 6 Court, composed of the bishop and cortain_ clergymen, to try appeal cages,