The National Banner, Volume 5, Number 22, Ligonier, Noble County, 28 September 1870 — Page 2

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‘Resistange to Tyrants is Obedience to God.’ T - : . J. B. BSTOLL, EDITOR. ' m WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28, 1870 s 4 [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 proseriptive feeling ; no sacrifice of the cause to gratify pérsonal ambition or resentment. . ._~_—-_._______'______l___.______.___——-—‘— DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET o For Secretary of State: Srs Col. NORMAN EDDY, of South- Bend. For Anditor of State: 4 JOHN C. SHOEMAKER, of Perry Co. . For Treasurer of State: - . JAMES B. RYAN, of Indianapolis. > . For Attorney-General: ‘ BAYLESS W. HANNA, of Terre laute. b For Sup’t of Public Instruction: Rev. MILTON B. HOPKINS, of Clinton. : For Supreme Judges:- i ‘JAMES L. WORDEN, of Fort Wayne, A. C. DOWNEY, of Ohio County, SAMUEL H. BUSKIRK, of Monroe Co., JOHN PETTIT, of Lafayette. - . DISTRICT TICKET. ~ * Independent Chndidate for Congress: Gen. MILO S. HASCALL, of Elkhart. For Joint Representative, Noble and Elkhart: ‘JOSEPH ZOLLINGER, of Elkbart. For Prosecutor, Tith .Iglicinl Circuit: WILLIAM C. WILSON, of Elkhart. - For Prosscutor, 19th Common Pleas District : ‘WILLIAM G. CROXTON, of Steuben. COUNTY TICKET. ; ~' -~ Representative: - HENRY (. STANLEY, of Green twp. e OleEk W. R, KNOX, of Albion. [ me e Andstors : J. ¢. STEWART, of Noble twp. | i« Treasurer: J. J. LASH, of Kendallville. = = Sheriff : ‘ 3 DAVID HOUGH, of Perry twp. / Lo Surveyor: . Wm. GREEN, of Kendallville. | Coroner: I

Dr Wm; H. FRANKS, of Orange twp. . plores Commissioners : . : North District—Wm. IMES. Middle District—F. AMOS BLACK. South District—J ONAS STRAUSE. i ~ Public Speaking. ‘ ) J. B. Stoll and others, will address their fellow citizens of Noble county on the political questions of the day, at.the following times and places : : Avilla, Thursday, October 7th. Kendallville, Friday, October Bth. : Ligonier, Saturdsy, October 9th. ‘Speaking to commenceat 7 o’clock, P. M. e - — ' WHO PAYS THE TAXES ? «The manner in which the speakers and writers of the Radical party go before their Republican followers in Indiana and 'rest their claims for public approval on- what they are pleased to term ‘‘a great reduction of the taxes,” deserves attention from the voters who are soon to pass judgment upon them. ; Their claims are false and unworthy in almost every particular, To iliustrate the manner in which these pretenders legislate for the tax payers of llndiana, it will scarcely be necessary to _refer to more than one or two subjects.— By radical legislation spirits-;nnd tobacco will be the only articles that will yield anything to the internal revenue fund after the first day of next May:. From these sourced alone it_ié expected to raise about one hundred million dollars per annum. Now let us make a comparison and see just how this attempt at reduction will cffect the people of Indiana. Darjng the fiscal year ending June 30, 1869, the following revenue was collected from tLe subjoined States upon spirits and

tobacco: - i © Apirits. - - Tobacco. Ma55achu5ett5............551,311,602 $537,115 Connecticut.. .. oo v, 202,831 161,667 MAalngisi il s s s J19,0a3, - - | e3sts New Hampshire,......... 28,975 19,380 NVermomt. . ... i biiiiiiv 14,150 10,714 Rhode [email protected] _ 34,635 49,960 TOMAL. .o ovvsupaveseers §l/000,806 . §819,051 -+-making a total of $2,443,187. Spirits. Tobacco. State of 1nd1ana..........52,177,660 50RT,196 — making a total of $2,464,856. In their effort to reduce the taxes it will be seen that these legislators have, true to the instincts of the radical party, so arranged the articles upon which tax is to be continued as to draw from the pockets ‘of the people of the single State of Indiana a greater amount of money than is taken from the six New England States. In other words, six of the wealthiest States of the Union, will, after the first day of next May, pay less internal revenue tax than the State of Indiana alone. And yet these men who strike hands with the rich monopolists of New England, and cheerfully aid them in throwing the burdens of the government upon the western peo ple, have the hardihood to go before intelligent men and ask an approval of their acts. : i The reckless manner in which the radical representatives from Indiana blindly followed the lead of New Englanders is again illustrated when we state the fact that the people of the third internal revenue district of Massachusetts have been relieved of dsuble as much tax as the whole State of Indiana. If the taxes have been reduced, let the candid voter ask who has been benefitted, and he will find that it has not been the poor man of the west. IHe will find that all the legislation of Congress is in the interests of the wealthy, and that the boasted reduc tion of taxes .will be of no considerable benefit ‘to the people -outside of favored New England. He will find that about six cents a yard is the tax on cotton cloth, that is in daily use by all poor people, and that the tax on such luxuries as pri vate billiard tables has been removed.— He will find about seventy-five per cent. tax on leather for shoes and boots, and no tax on gold or silver plate. Poor people wear boots and shoes, but only the rich are benefited when the tax on gold and silver plale is abolished. The laboring ‘man, who has tor pay abou! one hundred per cent. tax on the woolen cloth in his coat and pants, will receive bug little benefit from ‘the one hundred per cent. lowering of the income tax. , The man who thus analyzes this high sounding reduction of taxation will find M whole policy of the Republican partyis in the ests;upon the poor men of the country.

A e ineen " In pursuance of an anaouncement, conspicuously advertised during last week, by posters, etc, in this locality, Schuyler Colfax visited Ligonier on Baturday evening last, and delivered to his political friends his “elaborate,” stereotyped; “twohours speech.” It being an unusual, and heretofore unknown thing for a VicePresident to go “stumping,” we concluded that there must be something of vast, vital, national concern in the canvass; or else that the party which Mr. Colfax represents was driven into a state of hopelessness and despair for the success of their ticket in the State, by the brilliant triumphs of the Democracy at the recent, elections in Connecticut, New York, Ten nessee, North Carolina and Kentucky, and consequiently they had determined to make an earnest, desperate effort to avert defeat at the coming election. In ¢ither case we were anxious to hear him, and made one of the number of « Democrats on the outskirts of the crowd.”

In reyiewing the glorions record of the radical party, he enumerated a pumber of pledges made by that organization in the last political contest, dnd then proceeded to show how those pledges had been redeemed by drguments taore specious than sound, ®nd of mare sound than soundness.

The firsifitopiu to which Mr. Colfax referred was the pledge, of “ equal, civil, and political rights toall,” &c. He dwelt with the old,. customary pathos upon negro slavery ; the bondsman’s wrongs, his pains, his oppression, and his emancipation and enfranchisement under ‘the auspices of the radical party. This, as a “pledge,” fulfilled by Mr. Colfax’s party, was certainiy nota very happy adwnissien, or cause for congratulation. When the question of the enfranchisement of the negro was being agitated, Mr. Colfax and his party disclaimed the remotest inten tion or purpose of bestowing upon the negro -the eleetive franchise. But no sooner did they secure & majority in Congress than they set about enacting a law and an amendment to the constitution by force, fraud and in an unconstitutional mantcer, extending “equal political rights” to megro as well as Caucasian. Rather thah the enfranchisement of the negro being the fulfillment of a pledge, it may simply be ealled a confession of the deception and treachery of the radical politician. :

In the next place he proceeded to show that he and his party “condemnod ropudiation of the public debt,” etc, etc.— On that score they certainly cannot claim any merit over the democratic party, which has never proposed anything of the sort ; but, on the contrary, always upheld the strict and just payment of every dollar.of the national debt.

“And that is not all.” Mr. Colfax admitted that the radical party had pledged that “taxation should be equalized.” How truly and faithfully this pledge has been “redeemed” we leave the working class to decide. Every laboring man who earns his bread by his daily toil has been compelled to learn, whether willing or unwilling, that the radical members in Congress tor the past eight years have been discriminating, by a system of class legis--lation, in favor of ‘the rich and against the poor, in a manner heretofore unknown in the-history of this country. The bondholder, the banker, the iron manufacturer, the railroad and all other' monopolies, who, by their money through “rings,” control congress, are nyrsed and protected, and the burden of taxation shuffied upon the workingman. Some taxes are, indeed, laid upon the m®iufacturer; he shifts them. upon the wholesale dealer, he i# turn upon the retail dealer, and finally they find a last resting place on the shoulders ‘ of the consumer, or laboring man, already oppressed with mare than his share of the tax-burden of the bountry. Mr. Colfax also referred.to the reduc--tion of the debt under Gen. Grant's administration, saying that “while nothing’ was paid on the debt during the last year of Mr. Johnson’s rule, the reduction under President. Grant has been gratifyingly, large.” This statement, like many more, don’t tally with the speeches made by the speakefs of his party two years since, when great stress was laid upon the claim that the public debt was being monthly reduced at a rapid rate, : He also paid “ his respects,” as he said, to the 'democratic party, devoting considerable time to a review of its history and indulging in very inelegant, not to say abusive, slanderous expressions entirely uncalled for, unfounded, and altogether out of the way for one occupying the sta‘tion of Vice President of the United States. - His effort was more worthy .of a demagogue than a sta*esman, and has bad the tendency to detract not a little from the admiration and respect with which many who heard his speech have always ‘been disposed to regard him. :

Cost of the Army in Time of Peace. A distinguished contemporary asks why $0 large an amount is expended for the maintainance of a standing army in time of peace? The war has been ended five years, yet the expenditures for the army for the last fiscal year, ending June 80, 1870, were $57,655,675.40, England, with a standing army of 100,000, expends only $75,000,000 per annum, while the United States, under a Republican government, with her TWENTY FOUR regiments, under % Radical administration, spends near FIFTY EIGOT MILLIONS per annum. . Contrast the army expenses under Radical and Democratic administrations, and the extravagance of Radical rule becomes apparent. The expenrses of the army for the year ending June 80, 1860, was only $14,472,202.72 less than one quarter the cost of the last year! During the war with Mexico the expenditure’ for 1846, uader Demoecratic rule, was between ten and eleven millions; in 1847, between thirty five and thirty-six millions; and in 1848, between twenty-seven and twentyeight millions—an average of $24,000,000 per year, and less than: one-half required by General Grant for one year in time of profound peace. In the fifth year after the Mexican war the war expenses were reduced from $35,000,000 in 1847, to less than $9,000,000 in 1851 and 1852, under the administration of Mr, Filmore. — Mark the difference. Now, after five year of peace, we are paying more . than aiw times nine millions for army gxpenses under afiadical administration, and a party that claims to be economieal. . . PO LRI osedn

A heavy battle was fought on m the 19th, in the neighborhood of Wissous, fourteen miles south of Paris, on the Orleans Railroad. The number of troops engaged is estimated at 50,000 Prussians .and 30,000 Frenchmen. The battle raged. all day, and the Prussians were forced to retreat. No advantages were gained by either party. : ‘lts estimated that at least tw> hun dred thousand German soldiers have taked up pcsitions on the south and east of the city. Fighting around Paris continues with varying results. The French seem to'accept the probability that military disasters are inevitable for the present. They hope by holding their fortified. cities and harrassing the enemy, to keep their cause alive until their new and enormous armies are fit to put in the field. A preliminary meeting has been held between Jules Favre and Bifinatk in the Chateau of Ferrieres. Bismarck received the French Minister with great courtesy and opened the subject of peace negotiations at once. Favre asserted that the provisional government could put Prussia in possessian of such material guarantees as would make it certain that she could lose nothing by the effort after peace, even should the Constituent Assembly reject the treaty that might be agreed upan. He also declared that the commanders at’ Metz and Strasbourg would obey any orders his government might issue to tliem. It is now known that peace will not be concluded on the basis of the temporary occupation of Alsace and Lorraine by the Prussians and by the surrerder of Metz and Strasbourg, as was proposed by Bismarck. .

Intelligence of a startling character comés from Eastern Europe, which, if true, will' change the whole aspect of the pres-s ent conflict. Russia, it is said, is in mo. tion to seizé the Black Sea and the Dardanelles, and wai between the Czar and the Sultan is believed to be imminent.— There is evidently something very disqui--eting to the European powers oa foot.— Austria and Italy as well as Russia, are massing their armies on 'tbeir -frontiers, and there appears to be a -perfect accord between the three nations. Great Britain is vigorously employed in shipping military supplies and troops to Gibraltar and ‘Malta.,

-~ A formal resistance to the occupation of Rome by the Italians has been made; but the Eterpal City has fallen and tbe temperal power ot the Pope is ended.— The Ttalian troops assaulted the city on Wednesday, the 21st inst. They effected an entrance throuygh the Porta Pia. - The Papal Zouaves made some resistance, but fell back beé?@g the steady advance of Italians. - The fighting lasted half an hour. It was stopped by his Holiness, who ordered the white flag to be hoisted. The city was then occupied without fur ther opposition. Ny The Pope has been permitted to retain a guard composed of his late troops of Italian birth. Allthe rest of his army have been: dismissed. A plebiscitumn is to be taken in Italy to decide whether Rome shall be the capital of the kihg}dom. ! T — : The Fair, The Fair held at this place by the Noble county Agricultural ‘S'ociety'during the 21st, 22d and 23d of this month closed on Friday last,and was in the main as complete success as the Society had untic-' ipated. The time chosen was an excellent one; the weather being throughout fair and pleasant anl with the exception of thé dust, which at trmes’ was. very heavy, the exhibition could not have been blessed with a more favorable season.

The attendance of visitors was large, as was also the number and variety of ar ticles on exhibition, with the exceptions of stock and one or two other classes, which though not large in number was of the first quality. Ofthe horses entered for competition for the premium on trot. ting was a fine bay “Stephen A. Douglas—and “White Stockings,” both owned by’ Alvin Brush of Laporte; the former taking the firs€ premium of $25 in the Sweepstakes, making the heat in 2:42. Mr. A. H Smith ot Elkhart township had on exhibition as fine a colt as we evor saw by the side ofa mare. ‘lt is a mare colt, of a bright sorrel color, large frame, squarely built, and.- presents a handsome subject fora picture. The colt of course carried off the red ribbon, to which it was justly entitled, as it ws the best ' animal of that class on the ground.

The thorough bred cattle of Messra,: Kimmel and Carr, and pure bred finewool sheep of Mr. Carr and others, were certainly of the first grade, and will no doubt have the effect ot inducing our farmers and stock growers to devote more of their attention to the improvement of their stock. ' ‘ Of the other classes, such as fruit, farm implements, and farm products, Comestic manufactm,'es, ladies, fancy articles, flowers, fine arts, &e. The display was fine; the articles in the last two or three classes bespeaking for ‘the ladies 'who took such an active interest and part in the exhibition, great credit and gpraise. Descrving of special mention also was the display of oil paintings by Miss, Mary C. White of Albion; though not qualified to judge ourself, the work, by others competent to judge and decide, was pronounced as specimens of the finest production of the arh. - - i e The receipts were as large as usual; yet it is nevertheless hoped that by next :year the farmers and stock-growers of No‘ble county will feel a deeper irterest in the welfare of the county and put forth stronger efforts to secure the objects for which Agricultural Fairs are designed and are so well calculated to produce.

Only 950! ) Remember that Baker had. only about 950 majority at the last election, and that was obtained by fraud; and remember, too, that he had Cumback, the “indecent and corrupt,” to help him. Now Cumback and Baker are at swords points, and the rotten concern is going to pieces,— Remember, also that a change of two votes in each township in the State will elect the Democratic ticket, T

A FALSE ANNOUNCEMENT recently appeared in the Warsaw Indianian, placing the name of Varaum J. Oard. before the people, %@h& Tenth District as an inde pendent tandidate for copgress. The apnouncement was without authority from Mr. Card, and bas been withdrawp,

T -~ The Democracy havegained over seven thousand votes in the State of Maine within one year. The radical majority in that State two years ago wag2B,ooo. Ope year ago it was 14,000. This year it will not exceed 7,000. This is an excellent showing for one of the worst of the Neiv England radical States, and it foreshadows the conquest of the whole country by the Democracy in October and November.

“lam proud to belong to a party in which, during the rebellion, there was not 8 man who fired on the American flag."— Schuyler Colfaz. , : sl Did not General Longstreet fire on the Ameri :an flag, and also into the bodies of Union soidiers? Is be not a republican, and does he not train in the same ranks with Schuyler? How about Akerman, Jo. Brown, of Georgia, and Ex Governor James L. Orr, of South Carolina ¢ b

When ‘the Fifteenth Amendment was before the Legislature of the State for consideration, it was claimed by the Radicals that its adoption or rejection would bave but little effect upon the condition of our society, as there were but few negroes in the State. Our proximity to the Border States, however, makes a difference, as the Radicals, bent upon carrying the election at all hazards, 'n‘l'e'importing negroes by the scores and fifties into the border counties, and doubtless before the election, many will find their way to more remote districts of the State.

.An exchange tells a good one on Gen. Sheridan, who burst into tears while witnessing the recent battles before Sedan.— The party of officers present thought he was tender-hearted, until he went up to Bismarck, and pointing to a barn on the right, with a lot of womgn and children looking out of the loft, he s.id: “Please send a squad of soldiers to burn that barn, aud let me lead them. It would seem so home-like.” The request was not granted.

Mr. Boutwell, when a member of Congress,” in 1868, said in a_public speech that Andrew Johnson's administration, in two years and nine months. paid off $l, 087,000,000 of the indebtedness of the United States; and yet how quickly that is forgotten when the same gentleman, as Secretary of the Treasury, makes the statement that Grant’s. administration paid $170,000,000 of indebtedness in one year and six months! . ! b

The Fort Wayne Democrat asks how Senator Sherman came to be so rich. In 1855, when he went to Congress for the first time, he was not worth/more than $2,000, and has been in public life ever since on a salary never larger than $5,000 per annum and yet he is worth $75,000 in real estatc at Mansfield, Ohio; owns the greater part of a street railroad in Washington ; has $700,000 in bonds and money ; qnd is interested in immense tracts of Western lands.. How did it all cone? . i o

" Above all ‘otliers stands tl&lflsh,}egntistical, ignorant official; who owes his elevation to the fact that he was the unfeeling instrument in the hands of the great War Secretary when he hurled huge masses of fresh troops: upon the thinned battalions of the dying ' confederacy, and’ he has no more apprehension of the great republic, which he represents as chief magistrate, than the worm has for the past greatness of the dead hero on whose body it fattens.— Cincinnati- Commercial. - -If our radical friends are inclined to complain of the severity of our criticisms of the present administration,| we hope they will turn their attention t jlre radical tountain head from whiclr gughed the above. . 4

Republicans who are opposed to the tariff swindle should bear in mind the advice of the New York Eveniny‘l’ost, to vote for their principles and not their party ; to vote for Democratic candidates for Congress, rather than vote for radical protectionists. Every onc of the candidates for Congress upon the Radical tick et in this State is in favor of the present swindling tariff, and every Radical member of Congress from this State voted for it. And all stand pledged to continne the present radical revenue policy. 'No aboring man should vcte for them. The laboring men of the country are the consumers, and they pay all the tariff tax that is levied to advance the profits of protected capital.. Protection increases the profits of the especial interests pro tected, and that increase is'wrung from the hard earnings ot labor. 3 A radical exchange says that the English Mission has been handed round so much that “no one will take it—at least no one with ability and self-respect enough will be fit for the place.” It is not disgracetul énough that the Mission to the Court 'of Saint James be peddled over the country, so it is presented to Senator Moxa Morton for his faithfulness to the Radicals.; “God save the Queen !”

The Cincinnati Commercial (Radical) says that the eagerness of the organs of its party to encourage the palicy of evasion, which would leave the Republican party without any principles upon live political isdues, and in the sorry attitude of lacking moral courage to decl:}re itself, is evinced by their tone upon the situation in Missouri. The trouble they have taken to suppress the fact that the division in the party in/that State is between those who would address themselves to the political questions now to be dealt with, and those who ignoring these would conduct the canvass on issues of the past, is'ludicrous

It is reported that Colfax is disgusted with the pleasure expressed by leading Republicans over his published letter announcing his contemplated retirement from public life, and proposes to have petitions presented to him asking. him to reconsider his rash determination. Schuyler thought the “ declining ' @odge a good one but to his grief bhe found his penple willing to take him at his word. What Napoleon the Third said at Na mur, during his journey from Sedan to Wilhelmshoehe, about the excellent discipline’ and military superiority ‘of the Prussian soldiers, and especially his declaration that Paris will be unable to withstand the Prussian arms, will call forth another outburst of indignation and hatred toward him throughout France.— The conduct of Napoleon the Third, pre#ioys and subsequent to the capitulation of Bédap, is ugterly ynaccoyntable,

Genergl Samuel F. Carey has received the Working man's nomination for Cangress in the Becond Ohio District. ‘Three counties bolted John A. Bingham’s nomination in the ‘Republican Nomninating Convention in the Tenth Obio District.- \ - ' The Newark, New Jerscy, Radicals' have split into factions, one nominating George A. Halscy, and the other Major George B. Halsted. . - ; :

Senator Morton’s appointment as Minister to Eng_l\and' gives dissatisfaction in Radical quarters in the West. The Sen-: ator has definitely adcepted. / - The .name’ of Colonel Jno. 8. Moshy, the famous Confederate partisan, is men tioned in connection with the TUnited States Senatorship from Virginia. - - " Advices from Missouri report that B. Gratz Brown, anti-proscriptionist candidateé for Governor, will be elected by 40,000 majority. . - MY All the Radical Congressmen from Maine were compelled, during the recent canvass in that State, to abandon the protective tariff platform and favor « tariff for revenue. ' 7 :

The carpet bag thieves in South Carolina have not only brought t"l;_é ‘State but the people to the verge of Mnkr,uptcy.—The State debt was incresed about eight millions last year. ~ . 3 ;

St. Louis has been obliged to- oust another Republican treasurer (Krausnick) for “irregularitics” to the extent of $26,437.22; and iostall & Democrat in his place, to make sure tlic rest .of the money would not go the same way.

If Wendell Phillips is defeated for Governor of Massachussetts He proposes running before the Legislatu'rc for the United States Senatorship against Wilson and Butler. “He must have something. . The New York Nation (Radical,) speaking of Congress, says: “It is tolerable clear that nobody in the Republican party looks back to its performances in Con gress, during the last two years, with any pride or satisfaction.”

Mr. Dawes urged in the Maine canvass that raw material for ships ought to be admitted -duty free. Thbat was not Mr. Dawe's -doctrine in the House, and the Democratic gain of 10,000 in Maine shows ‘how many Republicans have discovered the right way to free trade ; g

The official retnrne of the late clection beld in Maine give the following result : Perbam, 54,051; Roberts, 45,176; Perham’s majority, 8,875. Radical majority last year, in a vote of 93,858, was 17,178. The aggregate majority on the Congressional vote is between 10,000 and 11,000.

‘The new Legislature of North Carolina stands in the Senate: Cohsc'rva,tiées, 838 Republicans, 17. In the House—Conservatives, 72; Republicans, 46 ; Independent, 2; Conservative majority on. joint ballot, 42. . In the last Legislature the Republicar majority on joint ballot was an 3

There is another of the splits now so common in the Radical ranks in the Sixth Michigan District, Strickland, defeated candidate, issuing a pronunciamiento against Driggs, regular nominee, and announcing his (Strickland’s) determination to vote and work for the Demoératic candidate. A

General John C. Brown of Nashville, was nominated for Governor on the 13th inst. by the Democratic State Convention of Tennessee. The platform denounces the tariff, calls for reiioval of all politcal disabilities, pronounces the act to enforce the fifteenth amendment unconstitutional, and opposes national banks. ; . The Radical committee at Washington is loading the mail bags with lying campaign documents. Nearly a million of these have been printed, and are being sent out as fast as Congressmen’s franks can be put upon them. The labor will not save the party, however. It is hopelessly corrupt and the people know it. John Sherman, who represents the National banks_in the United States Senate, is in this State. He will tell the Hcosiers all he knows about banking, of course, and how the Government pays the ‘banks a bonus” of twenty millions a yqfir, and endorses their paper for three hundred millions, to compensate them for doing what it sbould do itself. . : The new law for the Georgia clection enacts three days’ voting, so as to rotate the negroes from poll to poll; forbids all challenges ; authorizes Governor Bullock to appoint all the judges of election, and fixes no higher penalty than $lOO on the' withholding of any county return, which will enable all the Democratic majorities to be thrown out cheap. :

~ Ex-Governor Vance reported a complete pacification in North Carolina. He says all the troubles have been taken into the Codurts, and nothing seems likely to suffer but the pocketsof some of the politicians for damages. Josiah Turner, editor of the Raleigh Sentinel, has sued out writs against Governor Holden, S, A. Douglas, his aid, and Bergen, of- fhe militia, and others, for false imprisonment.

In the Kansas Democratic Staté Convention, meeting in Topekaon 'the 15th instant, the following resolution was ta bled: “That as the fifteenth amendmens s onfers the right of suffrage upon all male citizens, irrespective of race or color, the enfranchisement of women is in our judgment the most reasonable and timely enterprise, and cannot longer be justly postponed.” : : :

The first political battle in Delaware, at which the Radical recruits were allowed to fight, has taken place at Wilmington, and the result isa decided Democratic victory, by about the customary majority. Wherever the fifteenth amendment fraud has been brought' into operation, is has been shown that emough whites, formerly Rephblicans, - affiliate with the Democrats, to. counterbalance ‘the negro voters. : .

A duel is considered-imminent between Kelley, the editor of the Loujsville Commercial . (Rep.), and General Burbridge, the difficulty growing out of . political causes. A Kentucky papér describes the combatants: thus: “Kelley is & man of pluck, a scholar, and a gentleman. Burbridge ;has shot a great many men in his day; but if our recollection serves us right he used to take the precaution of tying their hands behind their backs first, putting a handkerchief over their eyes—and ordering somebody else to pull-the CHEERE (v Bl e

. TENTH DISTRICT ITEMS. ey BILLY WILLIAMS. It is only tor the purpose of defendin the journal we have the honor to eo’nfir:% that we notice the infamous blackguard and villain, who has basely and maliciously assailed us in his foul nionthed speeches at different points in the county. We retaliate, only to let an outraged and betrayed public know how often they have been dishonored and abused by this sinscarred imp of Batau, this filthy and disgusting monument of ‘crime, shame and indecency. We ask pardon for the recital of truthe so much to hisdiscredit,and deem it a sacred duty to uncover the damning pits of hizdepraved and unholy charac. ter. His attacks on this'paperare only the outcroppings of the wild waste which has spread its sable wings over the dimly lighted fields of his dissipated and degenerated mind The foul assertions he made Against this journal are” specimens of his immoral composition ; faint representations of the villainy that has so wide and extensive a range throughout the blackened walls of bis poor, besotted soul.— We'lift ¥he veil on this low mass of corruption, that his dark deeds may be indelibly emblazoned on the sky of popular contempt, and transmitted to posterity side by side with the dishonored names of those who violate innocence, destroy domestie bappiness, and plant the stand--ard of ruin on the virtue of a wife, a daughter, or:a mother. - Ie has no rights decent men need respect; he has no asylum: but among thieves, liars, libertines, prostitutes, vagabonds and devils ; he has no heritage on earth, no hopes of heaven, and purgatory, red-mouthed as it is, will - vomit him forth as too vile to inhabit its fire bronzed chambers, too degraded to dwell with anything that God has created. “To steal” is the prominent commandment in his catechism, and, practical as he is in crime, he would leave the couch of virtue to revel in the ‘embraces of the swaggering and »degenerated . denizens of the lowest cells of pollution. DBors to disgrace, he steadily follows the instincts of vice, and William Williams, the. Republican member of Congress, stands at ‘the. head of all villains, the prince of scoundrels, and the primemover in every deed that makes men feared as dangerous; and fatal members of community.

He has winced under thesolemn truths we alleged against him,' and, in order to divest the finger of scorn, has poured His vials of wrath on'us, thinking that we would care for the low productions of his besotted - mind. We reiterate kere and will continue to proclaim the fact, that he was diunk, beastly drunk, drunk.as a-hog. “He may crawl behind the walls of 'his gassy proclagmutions, but we will always brand him a coward, a villain, a drunkard, a poltroon, a vicious pimp, ripe for any and everything low and degraded. It sickens one's sense of reason to hear him call upon #n ipsulted God to attest’ his ‘ loyalty, when evrey honest man in this District knows how he spread pestilence - with his unwholesome rations, and how ‘many brave men sleep in the crimson fields, victims of his insatiable greed.— - While the war of battle filled the northern homes with woe, this impious wreteh poisoned. the bold defenders of liberty, that he might steal their food, and pocketed the wages they laid down their life to secure. = Loyalty ? Great God! What a debt this foul fiend =« ill have to cancel; -what a load this brazen-faced imp must remove before ‘he can, stand out among even the lowest and vilest remnant of humanity. The;‘i, red hand of retribution will fall with a deep vengeance on ‘the head of the .political demon, and the grave, as it gives up its'dead, will testify | against one so dead to honesty, so low in sin, striped with the wrongs lie has com mitted. The honest constituents he has so basely represented ‘have been ignored ; and proclaiming himself open to bribery, 'he has sold, and that repeatedly, his vote "in Congress to, the soulless corporations ot the East, and, by his conduct oppressed the men he now Las the impudence to ask “to support him. § c His conduct in the .army has been enough tostamp hima’double dyed villain, and the vast monument of infamy he has erected to himself by patient and conscant labor in depravity fixes beyond doubt the fact that he is not fit to be en” trusted- with the’ confidence or support of any one, no matter how low or disgraceful. That he sold Sutler positions; that he poisoned soldiers with loathsome and spoiled rations; that he drew money while paymaster that the widow and ber half-famished children should have had; that he has, time after time, and will yet, at any. moment, sell his vote for five dollars, are {facts he cannot deny, truths that will be recited in connection with his pame for yearsito come. That he will get drunk is another dish we wish to set before him, and hope he will remember that the only cause we have to mourn is that words will not express but.an imperfect idea of one so steeped in the cess-pools of iniquity. We pity, from the bottom of our heart, those innocent children of color he has 14ft in the. regions that.witnessed ‘his military conduct, and while their dusky mothers have been so ‘foully disgraced, the name entailed on these smoky jewels will ever debar them from occupying any prominent point in negro society. He has thus even went beyond the confines. of his own race, and damned the humble laurels the negro has claimed, and which must have went down beneath his destroying touch. =~ -~ ; ' The poor asses that are so ready to applaud him by their actions, have become parties to his villainy, and, with few exceptions are dirty pukes and leatherheaded sleeve pluckers, ready to lick his feet or even do-more. e e

We shall make it our business to hoist his coat-tail with our editorial boot each week, and in the language of the distress ed, he can exclaim, *“No rest for the weary.” We will give him political hash with hair in it,and will raise a more lively air in his vicinity than ever came from the rotten butter and eggs he palmed off on the soldiers he says he loves so highly. He will find that his asgertions will be promgtly paid with compound interest, and his pedigree so repeatedly painted thal the way-faring man, though as big a fool as himself, can read it as he runs, For the present we' will bid this political ass, this perjured wretch, this low type of crime, this abortion from the womb of iniquity, good-by.— Columbia Qity Post.:: = ;

How T 0 GET UP A REGULAR NOMINATIoN.—We learn that a gentleman Zi in the confidence of Billy Williams, who was very active in drumming updelegates to the Congressional ccnvention ia the interest of the aforesaid Billy, went into the bank at Kendallville a day or two before the Goshen convention, and laying down a fifty'dollar bill, desired the change in one dollar bills. . The banker requested him to call in an hour or two, and in the meéantime marked the bills in red ink.— The next day after the Convention the bills were all redeposited in the bank by the railroad station agent, having been received by him for tickets to Goshen.— And this was the way fifty unbought, unpurchasable republican delegates .came from Kendallville, to vote for that pure patriot, the little demagogue. of Warsaw.: Is it not time for the people to shake off these unscrupulous leaders? — Goshen Democrat. Shisl >

.Tne workmen engaged on the ap. proaches: of the new iron bridge just completcd at Elkhart, have unearthed the skeleton of two aborigines. The Review says that one is the remains of a young squaw, and was found under a tree which is now about two hundred years old.— They were buried on high am!__%rydand, according to: the custom ‘of the Indians, and-have been kept in a remarkable state' of preservation. T

... " STATEITEMS. . : —_— : “ili] J. R. Jackson has assuméd the editorship of the Union City Eagle. e . Perry county has a matried couple whose united weight is 625 pounds. One apiarist in Fountain county expects to have, this season, 2,500 pounds of honey, in the comb, - - : _"The corn crop throughout southern Indiana is so far matured as to Be out. of all danger from frost. - = = " The * walls of the railroad shop at Elkhart are now completed, and the workmen are raising the wings. -~ | The National convention of Spiritualists was held in Richmond,- commencing on the 20th of this month. - ‘A spring has been discovered in ‘Marion county, the waters of whichare claimed to be a specific for fever and ague. | : ' o

Harry Gifford, of DeKalb- county, wad relieved of 500 dollars by highway robbers on Monday night -of last week. Lide ol G z

Men of capital will find Columbia City a_splendid point for manunfacturing when the Eel river raiload is completdd. e | By the census returns it.is ghown that Fort Wayne has been swindling the school fund in the enumeration of schovoinchildren. O Py ~ Abel Snodgrass of Miami county, was 'attacked ‘by three masked men last Friday night, and beaten until life was nearly éxtinet. - ; - Greensbourg children are gent to school at:so tender an age: that the teachers request parents to send cribg, cradles, ete., along with them. = - .

The annual state Fair ‘will be held at Indianapolis, eommencing Monday, October 3d, and continuing until the Bth. The premiums to be awarded amount to $11,500. .. -

" The hom’e for the. friendless women was destroyed by fire at Indianapolis, on the afternoon of the 22d; *loss estimated at twenty thousand dollars ; insured for five thousand. = - = ¢

Mrs. Ruth Harding, of Benton co., has just cloped with a youth "of eighteen, leay'ng herihusband to care for three children, the youngest of whom iz only four months old. - - The decaying remains of three persons, all in a pile, were found in the woods in Jasper co., last Sunday. No clue to the identity or the cause-of their death has béen discovered.

. There has been'a greater mortality recontly in Fountain county, from cholera infantum, than has been known for years. Physicians describe it of the most maiignant - and unmanageable type. A ¢

Harvey Me(aslin, one-of the ‘pioneers of Johnson county, died at his home in Franklin, on Monday night of last week, at the age of 57. ,He emigrated to that pßice from Kentucky in 1826. i e e

The attendance at the state Normal school at Terre Haute is decidedly slim. The white people of Indiana are not quite willing yet to go to school in the same rooms and claszes with the negroes.. . ' ir

The Brownstown DBanner office em. ploys a printer who went at the busi: ness in 1818. The editor. ¢laims that he is the oldest printer in the staté,his age being eixty-eight. Ilis name is Robert Harrison, - | ' - A young lady named Emma Minton’ died near Star city, inFulion county, last week, after five hours sickness.— A rumor is floating about the neighborhood that her death resulted from poison.. No post mortem was: held. - The New Albany Ledger meutions the presence in that city, on a visit, of Mrs. Christence Huston, oue of the early settlers of southern Indiana.— Mrs. Huston, is 91 years old, still hale and hearty, and has 60 grandchildren and 43 great-grandchildren.

James Roberts, the convict who escaped from the southern Prison on the 12th, returned voluntarily to the prison Monday morning of last week. - Roberts stated that he felt mean as soon as he got:out of prison, and heartily wished himself back where he rightfully:belopged. .~ .« o 0 it While three men were working -on the steeple of Bt. Andrew’s church at Rickmond, on Friday of last week,one hundred and fifty feet from the ground, the scaffolding suddenly gave way,and one of them fell eighteen feet and was caught on a gable. He was seriously if not fatally hurt. 'The other, two escaped by clinging to theropes.. = -

We understand that Mr. Daniel B. Hendricks, while boring for: blasting purposes on his farm, four miles north west of New Washington, in Clark co., struck a vein of coal oil, which poured out slowly from the rock, and it is believed that if he would bore deep enough an abundance of coal oil could be obtained. . His farm lies on John’s creek, a celebrated stream which empties into Fourteen mile creek, just below the farm of Mr. McGannon Barnes. —New Albany Ledger. - i

At last the skeleton- mystery, heretofore ‘mentioned in the ZLedger, has been explained. The gunfound along gide ‘or near the bones was brought to, the city this morning by Mr. Ulman, whose son found it, and wag recognized by its jowner, Mr. John Evans, as the one borrowed from him by Joseph Miller the day he left New Albany on a hunting excursion. This leaves no doubt that the skeleton is'that of young Miller. The bones still remain unburied, where found, near Edwardsville. They will be brought to this city to day by the mother and brothers of Miller and buried in the northern burying ground.— New Albany Ledger. Sunday morning of last week Mr. Augustus Lewallen, residing near Bennington, Vevay county, met with an accident which resulted in his death, — He had hitched two mules to a spring_wagon, in which two young ladies were seated, When about ready to start, the. mules became somewhat unruly, and he went in front of them and took hold of their bridles for the purpose of’ controling them_ / They jumped very suddenly, causing him to fall, A portion of his clothing became entangled ‘on the end of the tongue of the wagon, and the mules dragged him about two hundred yards, when some fijiflimv ered them and stopped their flight.— The -unférfinfigf@“ ‘man was_injured so severely -that he was unconcious, and o‘xgz lived about an hour . after the ac-

" GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. - : "I“he fimeral ‘of ,Admir&l Ffifragtzt will take place on Friday next. ‘Senator Morton has received the appointirnt of Minister to England. | _The republican deputiés in the Spanish cortes are agitating the subject of the unity of the Spanish peninsula. ‘On the 13th, New York bankers had ceased to draw on Paris—the first practical effect of the siege in this counMy O L Cengus returns in 319 districts of that city give New-York a population of 876,000. Eighteen more districts remain to be heard from. - . . . 'Mr, James Fisk Jr., is out in anoth‘er card in which he denies the statement of Maretzek that he has spoken ‘disrespectfully of members of the press, ~ Work has been recommenced on the ‘railroad bridge across the Missouri river at Omaha, and it is. expected that the structure will be finighed by next SFORe. e ol 5 :

- A-Hong Kong despateh says that the feeling in China against foreigners - is intense, and fresh outbursts of vio- - lence “on the part 'of the natives are. feaved. -+ - - . ~ John Kitts, served as a teamster in, the Ameriean army during the revolution, died on Monday of last week in Baltimore at the xemarkably advanced : age of 108 years. - o ? . Louis Ayléstaran, recently the Cuba representative at New York, has fallen a victim to Spanish barbarity. ‘He was court-martialed and ‘eht}f Sat: urday in Havana. A P T ~ Mme. Marie Seebach, the great German tragedienne, made her first appearance in America in the Foprteenth Street Theater Thursday night before ‘an audience composed about equally . of Germans and Americans. = ..

Miss Marina Thompson, a youug lady who has just completed a three years’ course of study in a theological gchool, and graduated, is now preaching -at Grand Rapids, Michigan to a : large and influential ‘church. o - Forty armed United States soldiers on Thurgday night of last week made a raid on Provo city, Utah, beating and, bayoneting ' citizens, sacking the houses of two Aldermen of the town, and committing other outrages, - _ The coolies engaged for labor in Herveys laundry, at Belleville, N. J., have entered upon their ‘work. No ‘demonstration of opposition was made, and the citizens scemed to regard their coming a 3 a-choice “sensation.” | Russia is asserted to be preparing for war. If so it is probably in the direction of Turkeéy. During the Fran-co-Prussian excitement, Italy has gotten into Rome. Russia may consider the time a good one to getinto the Bosphorus. i G ? Negroes living in the vicinity report that the wife and child murderer, Dan. - McKannon, is in a cave above General Pillow”s farm, in Maury county, The cave is in a dense thicket; and the colored people shrink from goirg into capture the demon.

The British chooner Billy Butts left her pier at New York, in the East river Saturday, ostensibly bound fer Cuxacoa, but in reality, as believed, on a filibustering expedition to one of the West India Islands. She had on board a large stock of war material. '

some - weeks ago ‘a cargo of refuse salt was purchased at Goderich for the Bruce mines, Canada, for the purpose of extracting the copper from the ore, by means of salt and sulphuric acid, without smelting. - The experiment succeeded, and a new branch’ of business is likely to result. -

The executive mansion is being rapidly placed in condition to receive the President, who, with his family, will aeturn about the first of October. It is not thought the President will make a visit to Washington prior to that date, at which time all the members of the cabinet will also have/ géturned. - The legislature of Oregon has elected J. B. Kelly, Democrat, United States senaror v suceeed Hon. George H. Williams, Radical, whose term expires March 4, 1871. Mr. Kelly isa leading Democrat of the Pacific coast, and was the democratic candidate for Governor in 1864, - = 5

In return for shot and shell. Caba sends to Spain dreaded vomifo. A vesfrom Havana took the pesfilence into Barceloua a few weeks ago, and now it is spreading rapidly in all directions. More than one' thousand cases have been reported in Barcelona alone. -Of these about four hundred have resulted fatally, ; 5 :

The clergymen will not leave the girls alone, On the recent trip of the Idaho from Liverpool to New York, the Rev, W, D.' Walker, a christian, and the Rev, Apostle Hyde,a Mormon, had a lively set-to after a quarrel over Levina Jackson and another girl, both steerage passengers and Mormons.— The Rev.'Hyde had the best of the fight, and carried the girls off to Utah.

A dispatch dated Utica, N. Y., Sept. 21st., says the Herald of to morrow will contain a cummgnication from Dr. C. H. F. Peters, a" director of the Litchfield - observatory of Hamilton college, announcing the discovery - of another planet, the 112 asteroid. The discovery was made on Tuesday morning. On Wednesday morning the pogition of the planet was established, viz:' 15 degrees and 28 minutes of right ascension, and 10 degrees and 13 minutes of north declination. Its brightness is that of a fixed star of the I'l3l magnitude. It is named Iphigenia, The planet discovered on the 14th of August hasbeen named Ate.

A pugilistic encounter of maddening interest to the public took place last . Tuesday morning on the stage of the ‘Grand Opera House in New York..— The community will be astonished to learn that the gladiators were Colonel James Figk Jr., and Mr. Max Maret: zek. The latter has been acting as” ‘manager of Colonel Figk’s Opera Bouffe company, but at the same time had ‘been negotiating with Mr. Stratkosch for couducting the Nilsson concertsat Steinway Hall. The casus belli was the application of the terms “liar and thief” to Mr. Maretzek by Col. Fisk, Three rounds were fought and the Col‘onel was badly punished, not, however, ‘so'much as to prevent his %Eg:mgnce ‘ in a proscenium box at the:theater the ,fo'll“i.n company with the