The National Banner, Volume 5, Number 38, Ligonier, Noble County, 18 January 1871 — Page 1

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i . . | Watcamakers, Jewelers,i ‘: AND DEALERB IN i Watches., Clocks, | JEWELRY AND FANCY GOODS [ Repairing neatly and promptly executed,and | ; warranted. / i Gold Pens Repointed at City Prices. Agents for Luzarus & M orris’ Celebrated ‘ . Spectucles.. : E¥~Bign of the big wateh, CavinStreet, Ligonder, Indiana. g 3 may 8, '6%.-“._ . A, GANTS, Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, LIGONIER, - . INDIANA. ; T ; Is | d o 1o &g /é;“;//' : > : n e;u)ne. : R@% e o erto e e 7 years justines 'ﬁi?&?! *""ﬁ Cim (o ‘a:yiué PR & ) ;;@ chat he “can” e S Fi{veteintire uatﬁ‘ AW v 8 onto a e e A ' g wl:;: mnyube. stow their patronage, E¥ Office one door north of Kime’s, over Canfleld & Emery’s, Cavin St. . ———-—————-—-—-——-—-————_— - J. BITTIKOFFER, : ' DELER IN ' | X WATCHES, CLOCCKS, JEW'LRY,SILVER WARE,NOTIONS, Spectacles of every Description, . - &e., &, &e., &c. e Al kinds of work done nPon the shortestnotice and warranted as to %nrab litg. ; Shop in Bowen’s new Brick Block, | Kendallville, Indiana. 2-81 ELKHART BOOK BINDERY, i i _, 8t the office of the ; n L HERALD OF TRUTH,” | ELKHART, - - . o . L. IND We take pleasure to inform our friends and the publicin general, that we have establisheda = | a - £ ¥ .10k B.mdem i In connection wita gur Frinting , and are - now &uwod to do_all kinds of Binding, | : such as Boo::{ Pamphlets, Maga- ‘ zines, Music, %nmptly..gd s . on reasonable terms. ! ’f.m‘.'“.—".' : 10“ r' m‘i

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- WM. L. ANDREWS, Surgeon Dentist. Mitchel's Block, Kendallville. All work warranted. Examinationsfree. 3:4% ' C. PALMITER, Surgeon and Physician, ; b 'Office at Residence. Ligomier, « « « = Indiana. - W. D. RANDALL, i Physician and Surgeon, LIGONIER, : : : INDIANA. Will prompﬂﬁs_- attend to all callx, day or night. Office over Moore & Tharp's drug store. November 2, 1870.-27 23 ——— e e ————————. | G. ERICKSON, M. D., Will give agecial attention to Office Business, from 10 A. M, to 3 ». M, for the treatment of Chronic and Surgical Diseares. Charges reasonable, Officein rear of Drug Store, No. 1 Mitchell’s Block, 'KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA., ° June 1, 1870, ~ DR.P. W. CRUM, Physician a ysician and Surgeon, Ligonier, « « « ~ Indiana. Office one door south of L. Low & Co’s Clothing Store, up stairs. ; May 12th, 1869, - D. W(" Dexxy, M. D. ' P. H, ALorion. DENNY & ALDRICH, Physicians and Surgeons, LiGONIER, INDIANA, - | Wil pt_qmgtl{ and faithfully attend to all calls in the lineof their profession—day or night—in town or any distance in the country. G. W. CARR, . o 0 Physician and Surgeon, | LIGONIER, - - « - .- - IND, Will promptly attend all calls intrustedto him. Office on 4th St,, one door east ef the NaTioNay Baxnkr office. - ] .43 | e e ~_~4+-4'L——-—_—--7- b iey i - D. C. Hosteitter, Surgical and Mechanical Dentist, - LIGONIER, -.- INDIANA Artificial teeth insertedin full or partial sets upon rubber, gold, silver, and the new adamantine base. Eepecial attention given to ﬂlllnﬁ, cleansing ard preﬁervin% the natural teeth. KEntire satisfaction warranted in all cares. Examinations free. EW™ Office over Moore & Tharp’s drug store. JAMES J. LASH, 3 General Fire & Life Ins, Agent, KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. | Office in Mitchell’s Biock. Repreeenh allfirst-class companies in the United States. 5

. L. COVELL, : | S ‘Attorney-at-Law & Notary Publie, | "~ LIGONIER, INDI/VNA. | \ Office, 2d Floor in Mier’s Block, Cavin Street. i . LU'HER H. GREEN, Attorney-at-Law & Notary Public. . LIGOCNIER, -- -' - - INDIANA. | Offfte on Cavin Strcet, over Sack Bro’s. Gro- | cery, opposite Helmer House. 41-8-ly D. W. GREEN, -~ Justicg ofthe Peace & Callection Ag't, " . = Office with L. H. Green, ovet Backs’ Bakery, opposite the Helmer House, 2] LIGONIER, - - INDIANA. 9 ~ E. RICHMOND, g Justice of the Peace & Conveyancer, Cavin street, Ligonier, Indiana.. Special attention given to convexzuc{ng and collections. ‘Deeds, Bonds aud Mortguges drawn up, | and all legal business attended to promptlyand.| accurately, ; ' May 26th, 1868. 1 : H. G. ZIMMERMAN, | ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office, on Cavin Slreet,‘ over E' B. Gerber's : Hardware St ore, ) LIGONIER, . - - . - INDIANA. August 17th, 1870, Sy ' BANKING HOUSE of SOL. MIER of LIGONIER, INDIANA. rF.orpigﬁ and Domestic Exchange bought, and gold At the lowest rates. Paksage Tickets to and from all smrtu of Europe. Collection Department ° hae special attention. - Merchants’ accounts kePt oh favorable terms. ‘Money received on deposit. ‘July 27, 1670.18 = - AMERICAN HOUSE, LT W HALL Propr., LIGONIER, - - . .'. INDIANA. ! HELMER HOUSE, . S.B. HELMER, Propr, | LIGONIER, « -« - INDIANA. ‘This Heuse has been Refitted and Refurnished bios in ¥irst Class Style TREMONT HOUSE, ! KENDALLVILLE, INDIANA. : NEW COMMODIOUS THREE STORY BRICK Hotel, only ten rods trom the L. S. & M. S. R. R. De&»ot, and four m}nares fromthe G, R. R.R — Only five minutes walk to any of the principal businees houses of the ai'y. Traveling men nm{) strangcrq will find this & first-clags houre. ~ Fare §2 per. ay. J. B. KELLY, Propr:etor, | Kendallville, Aug. 3, 1870.-14 e e ek ) Mrs. Joanna Belt’s, | On Cavin Street, 7 | NEW STYLES FOR THE NEW YEAR, 1870, Just received from Baltimore and Chicago, Fancy Goods, Huir Braids, Switches, Wedding Bonnets, Mourning Bonnets, Baby Caps, &c. March 30, 1870.-48 ¢

- SACK BROTHERS, Bakers & Grocers. Cavin Street, Ligonier, Indiana. . & Fresh Bread, Pies, Cakes, &c., Choice Groceries, Provisions, Yanke Notions, &c Tl;: m%hest cash price paid fer Countrg Produce. ; ay 13, '66-tf, SACK BRO'S. - . JOHIN GAPPINGER’S HARNESS, SADDLE - And Leather Establishment, Has been removed to Gappinger & Gotsch's New | Block, (formerly Rossbacher’s Block,) KENDALLVILLE, - - INDIANA. The highest price E)aid for Hides, Pelts, &c., and ' the trade supplied with Leather, Findings, &c., at lowest figares, - ) : April 6, 187649 L EMPIRE MILLS. Notice is hereby given that the new Empire { Mills have be:n completed, eand are now IN RUNNING ORDER. the machivery having bgen selected from among the best in the country, and the mill being operated by one of the best Millers in Indiana, we are enabled to guarantee satisfaction. ‘We are prepared to do ‘ . Custom-work on Short Notice. - FLOUR AND FEED ' Constantly kept on hand, and for sale in all quantities, L | “We have an excellent Bmut Machine for the ‘purpose of cleaning Buckwheat. ﬁ"r»rms poritively Cash, . he il'zgheat Market Price pard for Good, Clean W heat. ! ' j : STRAUS, HENDERSON & Co. - Ligonier, Nov. 16, 1870..29 FINE JOB PRINTING | i Beewtdet The National Banner Office. ‘ %— PERRY LODGE, No. 161, Y I. ’Oo Of'Go\ To : LIGONIER, ~ =~ =~ = < INDIANA. M ' Friday Evening, of each week, at their L n«uﬁ'mndms. G Miss L. JACKSON, W. P. JOHNSON, . w-grm ETEES, W 4. Ot 8, it v N ST T N g ;

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THE HUMORS OF HI_&I’QSCEPIIOX. " The following curious ‘[ncident of the War,’ by Mr. Bret Harte. which was first}publishedlin 1863 in a California paper, and is now having a second run through the general press, will be sccepted by the author’s great ¢rmy of admir~ersas athoroughly enjoyeble contribution. Its representation of the patriotic farmer’s incor_rigible eagerness toanticipate the ‘‘aged stran\wer’s’ fancied tidings from the battle field where " his son is engaged, and of the stranger’s répeat‘ed attempts to complete his sentence, has a lu‘dicropnsness of suggestion admirably elimaxed by the dramatic reaction of the last stanza : : I was with Grant”’—tke stranger said ; : Suid the farmer : ‘‘Say no more, But rest thee here at my cottage porch, - For thy feet are weary and sore.” ‘I was with Grant’’—the stranger said ; Said the farmer : ‘‘Say, no more—--1 prithee st at my frugal board, © And eaf of my humble store. : “How feres my. boy—my saldier boy, Ofthe old Ninth Army Corps ? : I warrant he bore him gallumly 5 " In the smoke and the battle’s roar.”” “I know him not,”’ said the aged man, ; **And, as [ remarked before, [ [ was with Grant”’—**Nay, nay. Tknow,” ' | Said the farmer, "Sgy no-more; i : He fell 1n battle—l see Wit oo Thou did'st smooth these tidings o’er— Nay ; speak.the truth, whatever itbe, . Though it rend my bosom’s core. | “How fell he ; with his face to the foe, Upholding the ﬂuﬁ that hesbore - i ~0! say not that my boy disgraced | ;- ’l The uniform that he.wore!” | V' b **l can not tell,”” said the aged mnn: **Ard should have remarked, before, ¥ - That I was with Grant —in Illinois— | Some three years before the war.” {0 Then the furmer,upike him never a word, But beat'with his fist full sore, 5 That aged man who had worked for Grant ‘1 Bome three years before the war. “

A Cheap Fire Escape, . _ - The featful calamity at the Spottswood Hotel, Richmond Virginia, where at least eight of the inmates of the hotel loat their lives by the fire which destroyed ‘t@ building, h#s started suggestions to guard against the recurrence of such disasters. One corres: pondent suggests that every hotel should bhave an alarm bell with a wire rope to be used in such emergencies to give instant and effective alarm — Another calls to mind a suggestion made at least twenty vears agoin the. Ledger that in all bigh dwellings and hotela there should be in every room a coil of knotted rope, strong enough to bear the weight of a heavy man; and long endugh to reach to the ground, with a gtout iron hook bracket beneath the window to fasten it to. Since that guggestion wag made, some prudent travelers have adopted the plan of car rying such ropesin their truuks. A writer in the New York T7ibune mentions a case where half a dozen persons were enabled to make their -escape fiom a buruing hotet by the u=e of these ropes, which a friend of the writer was lucky enough to have in bis trunk at the time. He tells the story as follows: ‘A friend, with whom I was traveling, upon hearing that the hotel was on fire, rematked that he was fully prepared for such an incident and coolly took from his trunk a coil of half.inch rope, about thirty feet long, knotted every two feet, to give a better hold. Afier seeing me eafely down, he lowered our baggage, and only came down himself after helping half a doz: en guests down. Ever since then I carry a rope. It takes but little room in a trunk, and, as there is no, patent on it, every one who can coaveniently epare fifty cents may be'able, in case of a fire, in a~dwelling house or hotel, to save himaelf and probably some others. fode

Unwilling to be Shot-s=An “Editor’s } Farewell to His Lady Friends. A Emotional insaunity having so often 1 been pleaded successfully by husbands | in California in defense of shooting or | knifing suspected gallants, the San 1 Francisco News Letter says: - ‘ ‘All men’s wives who have hitherto ’ enjoyed the advantage of our acquain- | tance are hereby notified that this | ceases to-day, never to be renewed.— | It is with deep regret that we disrupt | the social relations which promised so much, but we feel impelled thereto by the first law of nature. Our lady friends who have the misfortune to be married to other and inferior men will please stick like a leech to their legal protectors, ‘and not recognize us on the street. We have taken consziderable pleasure in their society—a pleasure which we flatter ourselves has been ‘mutaal—but thig thing can no longer go on. We trust that our motive—which is pure cowardice—will not be construed. Somebody perishes ‘ingloriously every day for being upon speaking terms with married women, and we do not care to have our turn come round. Deeply gratetul for the past forbearance of aggrieved husbands, we make our bow and retire. Hereafter our nods and smiles will be lavished i npon girls aud widows exclusively | no others need apply. Whosoever | shall “attempt to introduce us to his | own wife, or that of anothér man, will be regarded as a conapirator against our precious life, and subjected to abuse in the columus of this journal.— Nature is strong in us, and we do not wish to die. Whenever we shall feel a derire that way, we shall treat somebody’s wife with- common courtesy, get shot, and go quietly to our reward.”’ .' |l B—— > December in Caiifornia. 1 " Although the dial haud of the year points to the closing hour, we arz en- 1 Joying our roses, out fruits and our sunshine with all the summer’s zest. W grieve to remember you, with your storms, pinching wind and ankle deep slushes. This morning, when a small | native-born of California came bound- ! ing into our room, with face aglow with excitement, exelaiming, lispingly, “There’s ice in the gutter! there's ice in- the gutter I’—and going forth ‘to ‘behold the maryel, we found a filmy flake or two of congealed water formed under the shadow of a rose tree in rich bloom, we hardly knew whether to call the phenomenon ice or crystalized rose petals. But ice it undoubted! was, for the ‘oldest inhabim‘inﬁonﬁ’dently asserts that no such spell of winter weather has ever been parallel‘ed in his experience—and for all that, our ‘uxipnul‘l’edvvin;ei-' is like a buoyant. crisp October day in the East.— Cor. Chicago Journal. . e

| ‘““The Darned Man, » The people of the northern towns of Rhode Island have been for many years familiar with the venerable form: of an itinerant known to old and young as'the “Darned man,” and only by a very few by any other name. Fora season or two past-he bas been missed from his accustomed routes, and there ’ is no doubt that his earthly pilgrimage | is over. Of the' quiet life and unheralded death of this strange personage but lit--tle can now be known. Ifthe history of his youth was important it is ir- | reclaimably lost—hidden within the ' arcane of the churchyard. Those who | are aged themselves tell us of *the | great age of this wanderer, and say l they remember him looking almost the |'same a 8 at the last of his pilgrimage | while they were only boys- By them | it is claimed that he wa« not less than | ninety years old, and from the scanty’ details of their gossip we learn what ;we know of his singular life. _ When a young man he was engagi ed to be married, and on his wedding I ' day he had attired himself tor tbe cer- | emonies, when word came that hisaf fiauced had been suddenly takenaway by death. The blow was too much for a sensitive organization ; his mind | was disordered and became “like }feweet bells jangled out of tune,”. and | he began those singular wanderings, which were only-terminated by death. But he wore his wedding suit ever af. terward. Starting from the western part of the State of New York, hei - .cluded in his regulat route certain roads across the mnorthern part of this ‘State, and parties along the chosen . path were accustomed twice a year, at the same seasons, to expect his tall and s'ender form, habited in the same suit of gray. . - Constant ‘exposure to the elements and his unremitting travel wore out the fabric of his marriage suit, and he would stop and ask of those who treated him kindly for the only articles which “he ever. begged—thread and yarn—to mend his clothes, when he would sit down in.the house, take off| his coat and proceed to darn the worn out garment with his trembling fingers. As'years passed on, the re- ‘ paire to which his garments weve sub- | Jjected o altered and covered up the | origiual that no one could tell of what | color they had once been. Tle lite he, | led was a harmless one, and children | vever raf from hini in fear. T.ue to | ‘the object of ~ his early, affection after : time bad whitened his, and shriveled | his once: handsome form, as in that ‘ liopeful hour of promise, he patiently | traveled his weary round, which end- | ed, we trust, where -~ = co

“‘Bwee! fields beyond the swelling flood __ Stand dressed in living green.” . His name was Addison. — Providence Press. ‘ el g : : ¢Never Mind the Old Lady.» As a ‘war incideut,’ how is this 7— During the_troubles a young Confederate miss was passing through one of the hospitals, when it was remarked that a prisoner, a young lieutenant had died that morning. | : ‘O, where is he 7! Let me see him! ‘Let me kiss him for his mother!’ exclaimed the maiden. " : The attendant led het into an adjoining ward, when discovering Lieutenant H, of the sth Kaneas, lying fast asleep on his hospital couch, and thinking to have a little fun, he point‘ed him . out to the girl. She sprang torward and said: ‘O, :you dear lieutenant, let me kiss you for your mother !’ What was her surprise when the awakened ‘corpse’ ardently clasped ber in his arms, returned the salute, and exclaimed: = ' ‘Never mind the old lady, miss; go it on_your own account. I haven't the slightest objection.’ ° :

A Mathematical Puzzle. The following is decidedly the neatest little mathematical puzzle that has come to our notice. It occupied the attention of one of the clubs the other evening until a late hour, and same of the members are said to be puzzled over it yet : A man has 60 apples ; he sells 30 for 15 cents, which is a half a cent apiece, or two apples for one cent. He sells the remaining 30 for 10 cents, which is a third of - a cent apiece, or three apples for one cent. Thus we see that for 5 apples he gets two cents ; now, how many cents did he get for 60 apples'? The problem seems plain enoagh, and by the rule of three the immediate resuft is 24° But on the other hand, if he gets 15 cents for 30 of his apples, and 10 cents for the remaining 30, it seems evident that he gets 25 for the 60. -It is raid that it is a poor rule that won't work both-ways, but this one seems utterly to refuse it. . Officious-Benevolence. B ~ The Bt. Bernard dog has his own way of saviog people. Soall-of-a rush with eagerness ‘he is to do the chris tian thing, that he will take hold anywhere—by the arm, by the leg, by the throat. He is well up to physics, too. Fully appreciating the preliminary importance of a good hold for a long pull ‘and a strong pull, he zlways makes sure that his teeth meet, and that they get a good clinch on a bone or something. Then he knows where he is, and feels a glorious confidence that he will have you out. unless something breaks. KEnthusiastic, no-ble-hearted fellow! there is nothin balf way about him. Strongas a bqg falo, every fibre in him is at your service,.—T he Aldine for January. _

IT is a dingular but not less true remark in a late work, that Jefferson was born just eight years after his pre decessor, Adams; Madison eight years after Jefferson, and John Quincy Adams eight years after Monroe. An“other curious fact to be observed is that Adams was just sixty-six years old when he retired; Jefferson was sixty six : Madison was sixty six, and’ John Quincy Adams had be been elec: ted to agecond term, would have been sixty-six. Adaws, Jefferson and Monroe all died on the #th of July. RSR s B . " The poor man who tried to “carry the day,” has been weekly ever since.

A PUZZLED DUTCHMAN. . ~ The following article- has appeared in several of our. exchanges, and we cut it out some time ago, thinking we mjght publish it; but not being exactly of ‘the style we like, it has thus far lain “ shust cluse py or ncar to” the paper— that is to say, in the “ pigeon hole "—but at the re peated request of a subscriber it now goes Sigto " it - - One who does got believe in immersion for baptism was holding a protracted meeting, and cn2 night preached on the subject of baptism. In the course of his remargs he said some believe it necessary to go down into the water, and come up out: of it, to be baptized, But/this he claimed to be a fallacy, for the preposition “into” of the Scriptures, should be rendered differently, as it does not mear wnto a@all times. “ Mozes,” he said, “we are told went up into the mountain, and the Savior was taken into a high moun. tain, etc. Now we do not supposé that either went into the mountain, but upon it. = 8o with gning down into the water, 1t means simply going down close by v near to the water, and being baptized ir the ordinary way, hy sprinkling or ponring.”

| He carried this idea’out fully, and in due season and style closed his discourse, when an invitation was given for any one so disposed to arise and express, his ' thoughts. Quite a numbéf of the breth- ( ren arose and said they Wwere glad they had been present on. this occasion, that they were well pleased with the sound sermon they had just heard, and felt their , souls greatly blessed. Finally, a corpulent gentleman of Teutonic. extraction, a stranger to-all, arose and broke a silence that was almost painful, as follnws : “Mr. Breachier, I ish so glad I vash-here here to night, for I has had explained to my mint some tings dat I never-could pe lief pefore. O, I ish so glat that into does | not mean into at all, but shust close py, | or near to, for now I ean pelieve manish tings vat I could not pelieve pefore. We read, Mistur Breacher, that Taniel was eagt into the ten of lions, "and come ont alite! Now I neber could pelieve that, - for de wilt peasts would shust -eat him right off; put now it ish verry clear -to | my mint. He vash shust close py or near - to, and tid not get énto the ten atoall. O, -1 ish so glat I vas here to night. | “Agnin, we reat dat the Hebrew chil dren vas cast info de firish furnace, and dat-air alwish looked like a peeg story, too, for they wounld have been purnt up; put-it ish all blain to my mint now, fir they were shust cast near py or close to the firish furnace. OIT va, so glat I vas hereé to night ! L : “And den, Mr Breacher, it ish said dat Jonsh was cast iifo the sea, and taken in to the whale's pelley.” Now, T never codTd pelieve that. It always seemed to me to be-a peeg feesh storyy put it ish ali plain to my mint now [« vash not tak | en into the whale'sh belly at all put shast shumped onto his back and rode ashore ! — O, I vagl so glat' I vash here.to-night. | “And now, Mr. Breacher, if yoa will shist explain two more bashages of serip- | tures I shall pe O, so habby dac I vash | here tonight! one of them isli vere it .saish de vicked shall be cast into a lnke | that burns with fire and brimshtone al ways.| O! Mistur Breacher, shall I pe | cast info that lake if Tam vicket! or shust near enough to pe comfortable? O! I “hopes . you tell me I shall pe cast only shust py, a goot-vay off, and [ vill pe so glat 1 vash here to-night! The other bashage is dat vich saish, plessd are they who do “these commandinents, tiat they may have right to the tree of life nnden ter in through the gates into the city. O! tell me I shall get énto the city, and not shust close py or near to, shust mneaf | ‘enough to see var I have lost, and T shall pe s 2 glat I vas here to-night 7

A Wedding Secret. The most singular ingident in the eventful life of Sam Houston, and one never hitherto explained, was his abandonment’ of the Governorship of Tennessee only threc days after marrying a young wife. He became a valuntary exile among the Indians of the plains for years thereafter, was mude a great chief, and only reap peared in puolic life when Texss was struggling for independence. The Gal veston News hifts the vail from the secret chamber of Tlouston’s heart by this strenge narration. ‘What we know about this matter is so honorable to him that we shall, for the first time, put it in print.— We may premise that our information is derived indircetly from one, now deceused, who, during her life, had a right to know what caused that strange episode in the life of the great man. Gov. Houston's first bride wasa Tennessee belle of surpassing beauty, and of considerable secial rank. She was, if nottheaffianced bride, at least the :swcethea‘rt of a neighnoring gentleman, when Gov, ‘Houston sought her band. - Her family being very ambi tinus, forced the match, and she was mar ried. After retiring to her bridal chamber, her deportment was such as to cause him to suspect that while her hand was his, her heart was anothers. She confessed the truth when "interrogated, and while promising fidelity and wifely duty,. declared herself unable to love him. He at once retired from the house, leaving bis bride as pure and sputless as ever: [He then resigned his pésition and went among the Comanches, * vodietp 6 Food'to Maintain Life, , The question has been considered from every point of view. of lite years, by writers’ on dietetics and alimentation, and it is now the most important of all questions 'to the besieged of Paris. A French phyesician has therefore rendered an immenze . service to - his eountrymen by demonstrating upon what diet human life can be most economically sustaived for a considerable period of time. Singularly enough a Smyrniote pbysician, investigating the same problem at the same time, has arrived at a precisely similar conclusion, which is, ‘that the wasted coffee berry is the substance that will best conserve the bodily powers. . : Thé Frenchman tells us that a man ‘may live for many mouths on an ounce and a qaarter per diem of “the following mixture : T'en parts of cocoa powder, five each of coffee and sugar, and two of tea. Provisions, therefore, for a long siege should include these articles in large supply. The loss of tea and coffee was mge greatest of the deprivations of the Southern States during'our war, and the wretched substi‘tutes employed for the latter ariicle es-pecially—-wheat, rye, sweet potatoes, peanuts, Indian meal—might 'of themselves have reduced the disloyal driukers to subjection, ot

| ¢ _Death of Hon. John Covode. | PirrsnUße, Pa, Jan 11.—The death of - Hon, Jufin Covode shoeked every one in | this community this morning who was i acquainted with him. He was- in tlis | tity a day ortwo agonand returned to Har rrishurg last night, together with Mrs. | Covode. - He sat up a couple of hours talking with Hon. John Cessna, and after | 11 o’clock returned to his room in the ; United States hotel, intending to take -the morning train for Washington' city. ' About 4 o’clock he anoke and complained, ahout the. heart. A physician was sent ' for who told him he would be: better in ~an hour. He exclaimed : “Have Ito wait ' so long.” Just as the doctor was leaving. the room he said: “MyGod! [am dying!” His eyes became fixed and in a moment he was dead. Senators White, Pierman, - and Brooke, and Representatives Fulton, ’ Bloan, and Humphries, a joint committee of the Legislature, left with his.remains “to might fof the deceased’s late home in Greensburgh. - RN

. Mr. Covede was born in Westmoreland county, Pennsyivania, in the summer of 1808, and was éonsequently in his sixtythird year at the time of his decease. He entered into pulitics at an early age, and from the time of 'his‘: appearance in the arena was a man of fprominence in his :nalive atate. Of a very’ energetic lispo sition, ‘he was calculated to appear to strong advantage in the turmoils of the life/he had marked out for himself, and it- was more -by diot of a determined character than through any especially claimed fitness for the Pposition that he eventvally worked his:«way into congress. He retained his place as congressman during the sessinas of the Thirty fourth, - Thirty fifth, Thirty sixth, and Thirty-sev-. enth Congresses, and was subsequently retarned for the Fortieth, Fn'rty’-ﬁrsi; and Forty second. For his seat in the present house he was npposed by Hon. Henory‘J. Foster, but through a vigorods cnntésting of the place, that was supposed to belong rightfully to his competitor, he;was again triumphant. Daring all the' tiine he was a member of congress, he was of no inconsiderable service to his pnfty, by whtom he was admired, while lie was so fortunate as tn secure in. the main, the esteem of most of his political opponents, He was ar times chairman of important committees, and was viewed as one ofthe icaders by ‘many of those of his own political faith. vode At the times of the Kansas difficulties, while the Thirty sixth C%ngross was in session, Mr. Covode was, perhaps, brought more prominently into pqlitic@l notice. than ever before or since. -He took a very decided stand. against the Bughanan ad winistration, and was one of the prime movers inthe. famous “investigations” of . that period. He was, up to the time of his death, & man of no listle influence. in Pennsylvania, although his poweroutside: of his native State was rarely felt. - Y i b »————-—*’b—-——-—-i : ! s "Qf)mmunlcntqd. f . Loafing. . BY N. E.. D. , ,Lna'ﬁng' is fé.stif‘heqoming & professsion,. and all that seems ‘\rfecmsary-to complete it is an organization, in fact this isall that is necded to make it even respectable.--We would, therefore, advise ovur young men, living in towns and villages to or @anize at once. :-Ii would compel all keep ers of saloons, corner groceries and low

doggeries to be at least. polite and deffer ential, and to furhish proper accommoda tions. Another long bench, half a dozen more old tbroken:bucked chamrs, a little nore saw-dust on the floor, so that old stumps of cigars, throwa a(nny by those who happen to havea dime to spend, may not hecome too much contaminated with the filth upon the floor, tor the use of their younger brethren, whose mustaches are not of sufficient length to be in the way. And then, too, these low stature loafers would need a sort of step-ladder to reach their lignor from the bar, to prevent spilling the precious, stuff on their shirt bosoms,. o s

i The walls should be properly hung with the portraits of celebrated deceased drunkards, to keep company with Tom Hyer, Yankee Sullivan, Mike Coburn, etc, and those veiled obscene pictures that protrude so winningly just over the bar; a d_eclf’r?f transparent French cards; a stereoscopic jack knife or so, are as es sential for the little boy loafers’ first les gong as picture slphabets are to infants. Andas each new comer makes his appearance, his attire should be strictly and thoroughly examined by those present as it saves much anxicty and maneuvering ou his part to show it, besides that, you know the dress always denotes the nufhber of degrees taken, or what advance ment has been made in the-art iof loafing an 1 drinking. ' _ The Policc Gazette should always be found upon the center-table or corner of the bar, It will give the doings of New York loafers and keep you posted in the. new "i'ssu‘es of that delectahle literature pertainiug to first-cluss members, -~ -

By a proper organization poor orphan boys, made destitute by the use of rum. can be taken in, sheltered and calfed,jf()r‘ in the same manner that their fathers aere. . And when'once embarked in the cause keep straight onward, forward and downward ; never turn back; care nothing for. the tears, of your mother, or the pleadings of asister, they k'nreg only poor, weak-minded women, you knew, they can’t appreciate the delightful bliss there is contained in the bowl; nor the pure jnnocent enjoyment in playing “seven up” or “crack loo” for the whisky. | But might do better than whining abiout your business by plying the ncedle late and early or take in washing to procure something to eat, while no doubt. your fare is slim enough at that, Then n’fev'@fér mind, the women but go ahesd; let your mofto be “onward and downward,” and your re ward will be a crown of snakes in the end,

. Itis said that the acquisition of San Domingois a fixed fact, because Senator: Wilson, of Massachuset ts, has pronounced in favor of it. The Hon. Senator is always on the winning side, and waverers will govern themselves accordingly. :

NO. 3=,

. SPEAKER MACK'S ADDRESS, - We give below the felicitons response of: Hon. Wm. Mack, of Terre Hsute, ‘u'ppn' his electioa as Speaker of the Hose, on Thursday, Jan. sth. "It é‘fnnés up to the. measure in- neatness, bravity and elegance of style, for which its- author js'so well known. TheDemocracy and the people of Indiana should be. prnud' of their Rep reséntative ,Trnm\"igd. . But the speech is as follows: o S A

Geu‘(lemen of the quu.ec-ﬁ_t' Representatives : To be selected by the hundred Repre sentatives of the great State of Indiana to preside over your deliberations, is an honor that 1 fully appreciate. And I hope; -with.your patience and assistance, to be able to so discharge the responstble dutws of the office that when the time shall come for me to surrender this gravel, I muy still retuin the respect and eonfidence of the members-of this honorable body. L Cen _Gentlemen: The political canvass of 1870, which resuited in our clection was marked by less partisan feeling and po litical acrimony than. any canvuss in the last twenty years. - ’ : ‘ We were chosen not to advance the in-

terests of any political party, but-to legislate for the whole people ;. and the men who sent us hereexpect ys to examine with zealous care theé financigl condition of the State; to remove with.a firm and steady hand all the superfloities wnd %ex cressences Qf’_th(: body politic; to adopt and enforce a rigid systern of economy in every department from the highest to the lowest, to correct tlie abuses of which the citizens justly complain, growing out of the fees and salaries of officers ; in short, to see that every dollar that is wrung from the bard earnings of the peaple shali be appropriated solely THhr tae public good. ’ P ‘ They will expect you.to protect and guard the “public fonds! with the same zealy fidelity and watehfolvess. that each

j of you would guard the little estute left in your bands by the death ofa, dear hrother for the support of his widow and helpless children, ‘ i l But while .you are adopting’ measnres *of economy and reform, it behooves us the i represchtatives of a great State, to be just and liberal.” Parsimony is not ceanomy. In providing for the educations of opr ‘-Childrcn. for the henevolenv institutions | of the Stateaud other like matters, dard ’i do all that may become nien; who, proud { of the present exalted pocition of .nr ! State, yet are :xuil{itinus to see her advanee | still higherd .« 5o : e “In the consummation” of thifs: wark. of i reform, ket me caution you against tie Febanging of o umny iws The | jrist y history of our legislation” shasws flint onr " laws have heeh ~o ofien amended) revisad, Crepenled and Teenacted that” nong. but ; .L,lén;:c who nuike the diaw aprofession e LKeep: pace.with these various . changes, ' [tis better that lawsnot Atterly ‘l"“',"f‘"'vt { should stand as they wre, than be subjected ! to these constant ! mutations. If this sysi tem was adopled the people wonld be l.come tamiliar with the laws, and thiereby “avoid much of the troubles srising in 1 business dind litigation in"the courts, I You will pardon e {or allusicn to s another, matter. We - hedr talk on all sides_jand read jih every Hewspaper we . examine of organizations, rings, or combi ¢ nations of men, who " uuiting. wealth, . intellect, beauty, and all the means by i which mankind . mny Ge approached, use o their influnce snd-power toobtain legis §,lmi“‘nn for their private inteéres, to the 1 detriment of the pablic gond, @ - 7 - The measures of mighty import which

{ you pave to consid¢r may invite them to | this assembly. : .' ¥ Can ['not have the assurance of each member’s 'pledge of honor, “sacred as the { oath he has this day tuken, that in what | emer shape or guise 'this hydra headed | monster may approacli him, whether with | the sweet voice of the fabled syrens, the | 'specious wisdom of venal intellects, or the i more potentagency of moneyedinfluences, ! you will in the dighity of insulted man - linod, stamp the proposers with the brand | of infamy ; that you will shun and avoid { them a 8 you'would avoid the contact with {the leper, whose touch is death; That | whatever may “be their name or proposed | object or intellect or social position, they ' are to hmve neitlier aiid-nor comfort, sym i pathy, friendship, or power within this | Legislation Hall, -~ ©.~ ' May I not hope that we may so dis- | charge our duties that when our arduous E labors have_closed, “and we have bidden | adieu to each other and to this beautiful | and pleasant city, and shall have returned i to.our shomes and avocations, we may find ? not oply those of onr constituents who give us their support, but even those who voted against us, extending to us the open } pam of welcome, and lexclaiming, well i done, well done faithful servant ! :

The Corrupt Influences of Capital. | The strength of a government lies not | so much in the intelligince as in the | wealth of her people, yét-the two, taken:| together, mare a nation, invincihle as t against the machinations of her enemies. The influences. of wealth, however, arcf corrupting as well as elevating.: a matter | which depends eatirely upon théwature | of the mind which controls it, and hence, f in many instances proves a power foi evil | instead of gaid, ~ The gréatest' dangers to | be apprehended from a pernicious use of | capital are of a socizl-and - nationul char | acter, and of the two the latter at the | present time|is tife most to be fearad — | In - social Tlifd there is tan ever vigilant ' “guard in the hopest and virfuons iinpulses | of the heart to challenge its insiduonsap | proachesy but in transictions more direct | ly pertaining to affairs of a national char | scter, there wre tew who'feel it their duty | to lgok after the intérests of the many. — | It is a mistortune well ‘understood at the | present.time by the informed portion of : community, that the municipal affairs of I many of our ‘largest citics are entirely in ! the hands of-corrapt men possessing great ! wealthe who dictate the) control and dis | position of affairs with ds complete power | 48 that of the Superintendent. of a manu. | facturing corporation. | This state of af. | Ntirs is brought about hs;i esmbination and | the corrupt influencesof wealth in *he” “hands of unserupplous politicians. There | is another /growing evil -in our, midst | -which is rapidly attaining gigartic pro | portions, and which must sooner or tater ] waork seri g injury to the welfare of the | luboring classes of this country, and that | ‘is'the soulless and heartless combinationg | -seeking to morniopolize the railroad iuter- I ests of the country.: We do not mean in | this connection to reflect upon railroad | ent.erprises, for they are the lite of traffic ! and a blessing to cummunities, but upon | ‘thase| combinations ot capital which, in 1 the hands of unprincipled villains, are | hetng used to consolidate the raifroad in- I terests of the country and place them ing ! position -u‘l anfagonism to the welfare nl;‘ \thie" people.| Our’ remedy against these lpml‘it?:al and corporate, evils must Jm; : sought in the hallg of legistatio ',f&pgm re | ,alim;el can we fi d£@lny@ for our grievan - ces. . And ypt it is well k 'W-n“tha,t:_ﬂ?e very. E@nsm gis a‘k«mam q_tjiah':geqnen'f-‘ Iy tarned Thin gmbling & L‘tm R influenpe of legislations manipul ted tosuit | the reqine %ﬂtﬁ! Floémﬁ )t corporations, and_ eﬂga entciclts lof b f;(;‘bﬁhdleﬂ ns deftly as are dice in' the hands of an ex- | pert. gambler.x-‘%a@any‘e'[&qndagd; o

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2oree 0 A Law Needed. ; ‘The Board of. County Comimissioners’ sit'tour times a year and, there is a growing necessity. for publishing _the - proceelings ‘of the Boards of County. Commissioners. -Most of the time is consumed in copsiiieting ‘and allowing accounts. — The allowances made each guarter aggregate a great number of dollars, and on the record are scattered through each duy's “proceédings. Even Tpermiatted to vse these -books, and to'copy” from them, no- publisher * has the- time to spend to sift ot these tacts that should be published. And then besides he is not paid for bis trouble. . ! o

~We coincide with the Boonville Zx’gu’/wr; and would propose something like Alids: Muke g law fequiring the County. “Auditor, within a rms_tnmmle‘timvvfrnm the ‘adjournment of the Bosid, to make out a certified copy of the proceedings of ‘the Conimissivners, and pub'ish them in one ot more. pspers in the county, the publisher to receive his regular advertising rates for one insertion. In Knox county the expense each year would he but small; and nothing in comparison to the amount of official information such reports would. t‘%rni;h the people, and virtually saving -ore, in .both time.and expense, in searching the records ipdividually . for the, proceedings of ‘the court, than the pnblication would cost. "We have ficquently heard thiis matter alluded to, and we know that if, Messrs, Williams and Cauthorn will give it the proper attention, ttheéy will reccive the warm comwendation of thélr constituonts, — Vincennes Sun, Q7th. . e - B— . " A Triamph of Inventive Genlus. - *Two lads the other day went riding after their fathier’s dobbin, sound and well bottomed, -but provokingly slow. No ‘whipping or yelling could inciease his speed beyond the trot of a (Bw. It-wass ride sltogether protracted, and the inventive gerius was called in to devise some mwethod farslightly accelerating the specd’ of the ‘howme- trip. . Various plans were proposed - and ‘voted down, when the younger brother suggested tliat a long,vrooked switch be fastened to the rim of the torward wheel ; at each revolution of the wheel it would hit the borse aad - relieve them at least of ‘the labor of con stantly -urging' him. " “ The very thing,” said thie other ; and he immediately apphied the improvement. For n while the thing weot well, until Dobbin, becoming wiked up, started off at aran, “Rickety spar U rickety gpat 1" went the long, crooked stick, and faster flew the inturiated Dobbin, Jobn Gitpio's ride was a stroll, campared tothie lrht ot t.:m'v;‘_rrr:'.t_ inventerss s The roadsides tock on the appear. anee of rihbon glusﬁ, Qumtl bhoats lnnkuP_ Hilce weavers shuttles, the telearsph posts” resembléd the teeth of'a fine toath comts, Mhere was o, whoa” to the coneern, — fhere is nothing now of the-wagon, Doe torafave dressed the fwounds of the (wo Doys who were run alway with, who beg us notto mention their names.— 20 sz le (Mich.) Business, ' = ‘ . —~—~—‘—'l~—;—‘o-—-‘—- e ) 5. The North-West Passage Made, A late number of the Commerciul 'Ad vertiser'of Honolulu relates the fact that one of the whale ships in that harbor ye ™ cently eaptored a whale inthe Anctic sens which had in its careags a harpoon, This barpoon” wus known to’ belong to a ship which wuas at that. time eruising ‘in the nonthern seis, 'on théotherside of the con s tinent. The whale liad evidently, pasyed from «dne open sea to the other hy way of thelpole. "He must have! found open water, for even a whale must come vp 4t short- #tervals to I)lmyf Itiscertainthat, the Polar'sea is vavigable for whales from one side of the continent te the ‘other.— Bat ‘while 1t does not follsw that ships wonld follow the=same track, the fact cit-. ed g one of considerable interest, Ship . masters may beable to navigate the Polar sea when they know ss much abous navi gation in high latitudes as this whale with w harpoon sticking in his back.

~ Rip Van Winkle Jeffirson!'wenf last weeK into a New York bank- to get a, chieck cashed. - Nobody knew him: out of the buskins. He looked about the bark, glunced over the “ queues” of customers, - bot saw np familiar face. "He turned to the paying tagler, and in the tones famil* i#r to wll New York, said, “If my little ¢ dog, Schneider, was bere, he would know we.” The sentence identified the actor, and every clerk knew him at onde —in ~ fact, had known him all the time. - Jef ferson got his money and the bank was relieved from the dreadful suspicion.of buving a corps of clerks who do not attend the theatre) - o —— Nothing More to Do With Politics. Just after the close of the war 1t was very common to -hear men. declare that they would have nothing more to do with politics. They seeméd to imaging that it would spite somebody for them to refase to exercise the privileges of citizenship. Itis a habit of leaving politics to a class of compa atively irresponsible persons that has brought on such a state of political corraption as is now universaily _ deplored thrcughout the country.’ Mﬂﬁ leave the manipulation of primary meet ings to offize holders, office seekers, and the very large class who have axes to grind. Tt is no wonder -that “rings” are formed, the public treasury deprecated:” upon, anél~fmx=as increased. The man who can register and yote and fails té.dly so, A has no right to complain if enworthy and incompetent men/are put in (\‘?‘ﬁ;e,\.ﬁnd ) bis taxes are very high. L

. When the intglligen, substantial tax paying citizens bdgin to take wpre interest in electiiﬂ}s, a ré:ricd_y will -be ﬂnmq for political Corrouption so udiversally coniplained of throughout the country.: ST, e e The Secretary ot the Treasury, Mr. -Bautwell, Senator Morton ant n;lfwr leaders of the Radical party, say the country WA§ never so prosperous as now, and we sup,pnse the following items must be accrpted as illustrating -the. reliability of those gentlemen’s statements: - : _“Dnripg‘ the past two weeks’i{i number of heavy fuilures are reported among the mannfacturers, cpmmission’ houses, nmi johbers in the Philadelphin shoe ‘trade. Fnurté‘éjn tirms suspended, the heaviest of which were O j.\ Claflin & Cn, who failed tor $179,000, and Goslon & Vacliel, whose liabilitics are $755.000" = -~ - A New York dispatch says: “Esciting né&iﬂ} has been r(-.cfaived from Hayti. © The population have heard of Grant’s message, and they see that not only does our President desire to annex San Domingo, ut the whole of Dominica. Meetings tnvé,been held all over Hayti, denouncing f@be United States, arms’have been distributed, and the Hg-;ims’suy;thﬁy wiilf;ﬂrst. burn their villages before being annexed: to the t*eﬁubfiiof-tbe United State.— The excitement Was the most. extraordinary ever kiown there.” .