The National Banner, Volume 5, Number 46, Ligonier, Noble County, 15 March 1871 — Page 2

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sßesistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God.

J. B, STOLL, EDITOR.:

WEDNESDAY, MAR. 15, 1871.

EDITORIAL CONVENTION. The ncx‘t‘regulux_‘—s-c—s.s;ion of the Editors‘

‘and Publishers’ Association of the Tenth and Eleventh Districts of Indiana will'be gld at (gdhen, on Frivay, April 14th, fB7l. The attendance of cvery member of the Association is earnestly frequested, as business of the utmost importance will .be submitted.: J. B;S’I‘OLL, ‘Pres't. ‘C. H. CuasE, Seoretary; -\ = .+ ' | 5= All the papers in the two Districts are requested to copy. CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR. " During our recent visit to Indianapolis we learned many things which may be of interest to the Democracy in the future, Se me of these things are pleasant to know ; others the reverse of pleasant. They will form matter for future reflection and comment. co

- - Amongst matters 7ot unpleasant we heard the name of a prominent Democrat “of Southern Indiana méntioned in connection with the Governor’s office. And he is not'a prdfessional politician eitber, but ‘a man who has made his way from the humblest walks of life to the highest position of a BusINESS MAN, He is neither lawyer, doctor, nor & member of any of the learned protessions ; but a bold, ener] getic and’ most wise operator in the industrial,pursuits of life. -He is one of the peopfg, and has no interests but in the grand march of improvement to State and national prosperity. . © We heard the name of WasuiNGTON C. DepAuw mentioned for Governor of Indi-: ana, and it struck us with some favor.— Mr. Depauw # a citizen of Floyd county, and a native “hoosier,” having been born in'this State forty-nine years ago. . He is i the prime ot manhood-—of unexceptionable morals, a devoted christian gentleman, in whom there is no guile. ~ His father’ before- him was a Democrat—=for many years a member of the House aud Senate jof Indiana, and one of the purest of the old Andrew Jackson school of politicians, His son inherits those traits of character which marked the politics of Indiana forty years ago. He beiongs to no cliqu?, no ring, and no faction, and would not degrade that high office for any earthly Lonor, ‘With an lample fortune, acquired by honorable industry, ere he had reached the ‘‘sear and yellow leaf,” and liberal to all good objects, Mr. Depauw would assume the Governorship of Indiana only to administer its affairs witix economy, uprightness, and dévotion to the true interests of the people. “Such a man, it is not too much to say, would honor the office, and secure to the people of Indiana an upright administration ‘of its high functions.”: : 7

In thus presenting the name of Mr. Depauw to the favorable consideration of the Indiana Deémocracy, we have no desire to forestall the action of the convention upon which will devolve the duty of selecting a candidate for the gubernatorial chair. Nor do we:wish to be understood s being:inimical to the ‘aspirations of other gentlemen who have been mentioned in connection with- this position. The sole object we have in gv’rigw[;is A 0 call at: tesition to the importance of “mature deliberation preparatory to entering upon the great contest of "72—to elicit an ex pression from our:political brethren as to the feasibility of a plan calculated to mark a new era in the political history of

Indiana, | i 7 - 1s there a solitary thoughttul Dethocrat “in the-entire State who does not recognize the fact that success-depends upon the wisdom of our deliberations in ‘the next ‘State Convention? Is there a sagacious - politicianf}vithin the ranks of our party who does not at once conceive the neces sity of perfect harmony in the selection of a candidate foervel“hor? And, we further inquire, can any one question the practicability of a movement so promisin . in its results and beneficial in its succ ful execution? i . Thecontrolling idea of these suggestions - is simply this: Mr, Depauw is not, in the general acceptation of that term, a politician ; he has no enemies to punish, nor friends te reward. His nomination would _proveacceptable to every individual member of our party, and no jealousies would ; mar the progress of the campaign. The important advantageof harmonious action | in the prosecution of the impending con- " test would thus be secured from its very - beginning. Coupled with this gratifying state of affairs. we might safely assume the awakening of an enthusiasm for the. people's candidate that in the -vei'y nature of: things would prove irresistible at the. * polls.” The active sympathy ot that por- ' tion of our population which is now wont to look upon political contests with indit- _ ference might reasonably be expected to | become enlisted in such a movement, and the moral eftect of that result would at ~ oncé insure a great and glorious victory | Furtfiermore, we believe Mr. Depauw’s - election to the Governorship would prove an incalculable benefit to the toiling masses * of the State. The business interests of Indiana require the fostering care of a man of ripe. judgment, of unquestionable bﬁginens qualifications, of a well-disciplin ed mind—in short, a man whose vast ex: _ perience in industrial pursuits renders him peculiarly ‘fﬁt't‘ed to accomplish for the . people at large the game results that have characterized his efforts in an individual . caphibyaiiuls 5o gy i i ‘The attainment ot these desirable objects are certainly worthy of our most ser. jous consideration. That the interests of . the people and the democratic party would be promoted by the nomination and election of Mr, Depauw, we feel well asgured; ~whether the suggestions embodied in this article 'shall be favored with a ‘practical test, must be determined by the -people, to whose judgment and decision they are most respectfully submitted, .

The latest returns from New Hampshire indicate the election of a democratic Goy- - ernor and three democratic. Congressmen.

CHARLES | SUMNER.

~ This ,distinguished Senator, who has for many years officiated as chairmsn of the committee on foreign relations, was removed from that position by the action of the republican caueus on. ‘Thursday last. By a voteof 26 to 21 it was decided to remove Mr. Sumner, not only from the chdirmanship but from the committee. His successop is the .notorious Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvanie, who bas done more to. corrupt American politics than any other man living or dead. :

‘That the removal of Mr. Sumner creates intense excitement in _political circles is not at all surprising. 'te is a represcnta tive man’. of a certain ‘element .in the republican party which almgst Idolizes him, and which regards Lis degradation as an act of ‘gross injustice.: Others denounce it because Mr. Sumner, Has shown peculiar [ fitness for the position, while still another class manifest their indignation by reason ‘of the fact that it was brought about by the connivance of President Grant. When it became known before the meeting of the caucus+that the distinguishéd chairman was to be removed, efforts were made by, prominent Republicang to induce: the' President to yield his demand for the displacement of «Mr. Sumner ; but Grant was immoveable.— 'The Mwssachussetts delegation in Congress deputed General Butler to visit the President for that purpose, and the result is thus “told by the Washington corres‘pondent to the Cinginnati Gazette : Butler opened his case, by stating at whose instance he calied, and then asked if there could be no compromise on tlie part of the Administration. The President was very prompt in his reply. He gaid Sumner could not be retained on that committee unless it was against the earnest wishes:of both himself and the Secretary of State. The Administration had some very important matters to submit to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which, would “require that its chairman should ‘'be in full and free sympathy with the Executive and Secretary of State.— Among these vital matters were the re;ports of the San Domingo Commissioners and Joint High Commission on the ‘Alabama claims and theé fishery question.— Sumner’s views on these .questions were both very pronounced and very hostile, and his removal was thus rendered absolutely necessary. Butler thereupon withdrew and reported the President’s ultimatum to those who sent him. TUnder this state of affairs the caucus assembled. - This decree of President Grant is not without a parallel in the political history of our country. A like decree was issued by James B uchanan for the displacem'ent of Judge Douglas from the head of the committee on territories, and its effect is distinctly portrayed in the history of the past ten'or twelve years. The democratic party, by obeying the mandates of Mr. Buchanan, has been severely punished—and if the present incumbent of the presidential chair were possessed of ordinary sagacity, an jmportant lesson might have been drawn from that failure of executive intervention, which,is thus forcibly illustrated by the Chicago Times of Friday:

“The parallel between the two cases is remarkable, even in the inferior details.— Buchanan, a man vastly greater.in pigheadéd obstinacy than in statesmanly abilities, and surrounded by counselors who knew how to manipulate him, determined. to force the admission of Kansas with a bogus constitution which the people had not ratified, and to which, as Buchanan perfectly well knew, they were uncompromisingly opposed. It was an “administrative measure;” Buchanan and his cabinet said sp, and that they further said was enough. Mr. Douglas said it was not enough ; his understandix‘lg-of the demo: cratic creed led him to suppose that the people, and not the president nor his minions, were the rightful sovereigns to frame and adopt their own organic law. More! over, the QOngress and not the President, was that branch of the government upon which deyolved the decision of the question of admission. ‘Buchanan threatened, and reminded the senator of General Jackson. The senator retorted: ¢ Mr., President, General Jackson is'dead !’ ‘and left his presence. The fiat. went forth that the senator should be degraded from his place on the committee, and it was done. The democratic party was destroyed, but the democratic principle which the senatoradvocated and the President caondemned was vindicated and firmly established. - ‘“Theé attitude of Mr, U. S. Grant on the San Domingo swindle is taken in defiance of all considerations of the popular wish, and upon counsel of the same ques-. tionable and sinister character as in Mr. Buchanan’s case. The San Domingo speculators can onlythope to carry out their swindling scheme by cracking the administration whip, through Grant’s pig headed obstinacy. It is an administration measure ; that is enough.. It7is the Buchanan argument revived. The chairman of the committee on foreign affairs stands in the’way of an administration scheme ; he must be degraded from the post. It is the Buchanan precedent that must be enforced.” e g g

From a purely partisan point of view, Democrats have no reason for regretting this action of the republican caucus; rather have they.cause for. rejoicing, as the nomination of Grant is considered inevitdble by prominent politicians because there is no man of sufficient strength to oppose him, and then hig defeat will follow asa necessary result of the bitter: discussion occasioned among republicans; But Dem‘ocrats naturally ‘abhor the domiheering spifit of a tyrannical ruler; hence, their sympathies are very properly enlisted in behalf of the victim of Mr. Grant’s mali-. cious persecution. The united vote of the democratic Senators against Mr. Sumner’s remeval -therefore meets the cordial endorsementof the Democratic press thro'out the eoudtry, 70

As an indication of the popular feeling against President Grant, the names of prominent public men are mentioned with a view to their posgible candidacy for the republican’ nomination ' for President.— Among others the names of Colfax,Blaine, Sumner, Logan, Schenck, and ex-Secretary Cox are chiefly mentioned, and it is thought that the entire body of New England Republicans will be hostile to Grant on account of Sumner’s removal.

A Prédiction That Will be Verified.

That spicy and vigorously conducted journal, the Chicago Republican, gives utterance to these truthful and prophetic words: 5 bE

The three Senators the most urgent to ‘do the Presidential bidding in the degradation of Mr. Sumner, were Cameron, Morton, and Sherman. It is proper to remask that if any well informed man _were called upon to name the three most "corrupt men in the United States Senate; his first would be - Cameron, his second Morton, and his third Sherman. The difference between them is in kind, rather than degree. The terms of Morton and Sherman expire with the present Congress, and it is some satisfaction to know that ‘Mr. Sumner will'be in a conditios to - preach their political tuneral sermons from the seat he now occupies and.dropors.

STATE POLITICS.

The Evansville Courier, in noticing the Daviess eounty. Democrat's statement of Jason Bazoo Brown’s refusal to“play second fiddle to Tom Hendricks,” farnishes the following additiona) “episode” in the history of the Reno champion : o

Jason'is a éreat mar in a very small ‘way. Some tite in the suinmer of 1868 he went to Mt. Vernon to makew speech’ in the interest of Seymour and Blair.— "Whén"ﬁefﬁrﬁﬂﬂ"ﬁ“%i"b' town_he was disgusted because it was'not quite as big as Cincinnati, and said be was not in the habit of speaking in country vjllages.— After some persuasion he contented to get off his stilts, and actually ‘did speak. But the Mt. Vernon boys to this day treasure a healthy hatred \for the gentleman's “‘style,” and don’t bank very extensively on: Jason, the “ young and rising statesman.”! i ; ;

_'True to their promise, the Democratic majority in the General Assembly have succeeded in reducing taxation for State purposes, to the lowest posgible limit, in this, thay have repealed the law for State debt sinking fund purposes, and by the passage of the bill, to raise State revenue tor the years 1871-72, have reducéd the tax to five cents on the one hundred dol lars of property, thus lightening tté burdens of the people to the extent of twenty cents on each one hundred dollars yaluation. Is not that reform?— Zawrenceburgh Register. - _ 4 We understand that this action on part of the Legislature is mainly due to the efforts of Mr. DePauw, the gentleman elsewhere spoken of as a suitable candidate for:Governor. - : . :

The New York Herald thus adds its appregiation of the ex-Congressman of the Seventh District: . ¢ . - “Ex-Congressman Orth is not to have the Berlin mission. His greatest claim to it seems to have béen chat his constituents have not:returned him to Congress. Iff such reasoning as this becomes a part of the political system of the administration, we shall have the families of all our Congressional candidates on the %iepubhcan side electioneering against them, because ‘if pa is not elected he'll be sent to Europe,’ and the ladics of all our families would rather go to Europe than Washington.” . :

: A common political fever is raging fearfully at Fort Wayne. Office seckers are as thick as Jund bugs, and it's lucky that they can’t both exist at the same time.— The second Tuesday in May acts as a blighting frost, and the next morning they are scarce as hen’s teeth, -Of course everybody is going to be elected. There is cgnsiderable “shenanigan” about these spring elections, and' as we are not interested we can stand off and see the fun.— @o in, boys, and may ‘the best man win.— Auburn Courier. ‘

'ln a lengthy article on the next Presidency, the Kokomo Democrat arrives at the conclusion that Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks will be the democratic- standardbearer, and adds : : : it

; Injthe event of Hendricks’ nomination, new enthusiasm would be inspired in the democratic heart, and all the doubtful States would be fixed immovably in the democratic ranks. - .

. The Democrats of Indianapolis ‘have nominated John Fishback, Esq., brother of the- editor of the Journal, for Mayor. He opposed Gen. Macauley two years ago, as the Reform candidate for the same position, but was defeated by a' small nfa‘jority. . Mr. Fishback was an original Republican, but has become * sick and tired” of his former party association.

Lieulenant Governor Cumbdck is promised something far ‘more-lucrative than five dollars per diem during the session of the General Assembly. It is péported from Washington that our Sengors are to recommend him for the best collectorship of Internal Revenue in the State, towit: that of the Fourth District. The dispatch conveying the rumor pleasantly alludes to distilleries and $7,000 to $lO,000 per year.— Wabash Republican.

The Louisville Commercial, a republican paper, contains the following : S Quite a number of our Indiana exchanges are mentioning W. C. DePauw, Esq., of New Albany, as the probable nominee of the Democracy for Governor of the State in 1872. It is not too much for us to say that he is the best man yet named by the Democracy for the position. °

- The Evansville . Courier corrects the statement of a Washington correspond ent that Judge Niblack was opposed to Stephen A.:Douglas in :1860, by saying that he zealously advocated thé eléction of that great statesman for the Presidency. We cheerfully give this exp“lgnation‘ a place in, our columns. 2

The Brownstown Banner, published at the home of Jason Brown, recently contained an editqrial most bitterly denouncing the dutrage by which Mr. Sarnighausen was expelled from the Senate, coupled with a scathing rebuke to the Democrats “who aided this outrageous and unparalleled lawlessness.” : A correspondent of the Evansville Courier, writing from Indianapolis, says: “Dr. Norman Eddy bids -fair to make one of the most accomplished Becretaries of State Indiana has ever had. Asa business man and Christian gentleman he has no superior in the State, and he is too well- known over the whole State to require eulogy from any quarter.” 2 M S . The following named gentlemen (all Democrats) were elected to office in Huntington on Monday of laﬁt week : Porter Ajyres, Mayor; R. A. Curran, jr., Recorder; Joachim ' Fernaundez, [Treasurer ; Charles Urshell, Marshal ; and the same Council that served last year. o

It is ramored that President Grant is about to bestow an appointment upon A. W. Wright, editor of the Fort Wayne Gazette. Mr, Wright recently had an interview with his Excellency; Ulysses 8. ~ The Vincennes Sun, Franklin Democratic Herald, and Warsaw Union have declared in favor, of Mr. Hendricks' nominatiﬁ for President. . S s ————

~ The South Bead Union emphatically éndorses our ticket for President and Vice President—Hendricks and Hancock.

We inquire of our exchangeé if any of them bave, received pay for publishing an article headed “Helmbold’s Pirates,” sent them by old *“Bucku,” and to be inserted as paid matter.—Anderson Herald. - | We are very sorry to say that we have not. We received it direct from Helmbold, with orders to publish and send our bill, and, as we supposed Helmbold to be good, did so. We haven’t seen the greenbacke yet.—Noblesville Register.

We are happy to inform our friends of the Herald and the Register that we have. We received the'order the 'sdme way and e? our. bill ‘accordingly. In due time the greenbacks turned up all right, and at no half rates eitixér.—LC'raob%ordm‘lZa Journal. S We are also enabled to add our testimony to Helmbold’s ‘ready respouse in the shape of a neatly executed Draft. ;*Qld Buchu” never “cats” a printer’s bill.

MORE ABOUT THE RESIGNATIONS.

Mean Obsiinacy of the Republicans in the House, &c., e, -~ -

T NEAR WaßsAw, IND, Mar. 11,°71. ; J. B. BroLl, Esq. :—Sometime ago, in ' my wanderings through Northern Todians, I gave you some facts in regard to the op--erations of the-Jate House of Representatives, &c. I/have been onthe wing much of the time, since my last, and picked up some items for another dose for the very “nice leaders of the very nice party of Moxa Morton, Cumback, Conrad Baker & Co. I find the masses of the peogle,c~ without distinction of party, 81l over Northern Indiana, condemning the action of the t resiguefé." " All right thinking men der clare it was causeless and criminal, and that the. good people of the State, without distinction of party, should give -the said. resigners, their advisers and abettors, a political burial in'lB72 from whirh no %kind of resurrection can raise them.— These 84 things who resigned are trying to justify their acts by saying : “Why, the Democrats resignediin 1869 to defeat the 16th Amendment, and we had a right to do the same to defeat the amendment to the State apportionment.” Well, let us see about this matter: = The Dembcrats did resign to defeat the monstrous swindle—the 15th amendment. 'l’hf;y did right; the people said eo at the ballot box in March, 1869, by réturning every man who resigned. The Democrats, in May, 1869, again resigned on the same issue, and the"‘i ‘democratic party and the conservative republicans both came to the rescue in: 1870, and endorsed these Democrats who ( resigned a second time. That the Democrats carried the Sfate because of the base treachery of the Radicals in 1868 and 11869 is scarcely susceptible of a doubt.—> Further, in 1868, .the Radicals carried the State election by less than 1,000 majarity for Baker. Then they, through their trick on the white people, added some 7,000, negro voters to' their ranks, and withl all the State and federal patronage, the action of the Democrats who resigned to prevent -the infamy, . was scundly endersed by an average of nearly 3,000 ma., jority in 1870. Don’t forget, that everything in the shape of State and national | patronage was against the democracy.—— The radical party even went so far as to put off the election for two years, so that they could have time to whip in the rank’ and {ile; in this they failed. If these political hacks think the good people will endorse their acts, why did not Governor Baker call a special election for their re: turn as he did in 1869, for the Democrats ? | Then the 15th amendment ‘was to be put: through—now he is afraid his house rentwill receive a .democratic pruning. He snuffed the air of retrenchment from the democratic gale which he began to see sweeping down after his very ldvely $5,000 per annum, in shape of house rent. Baker and the Indianapolis gang well knew what was coming. They had to retreat in some 'direction‘or' l}avgz" their many iniquities brought to light. They fear the people —the people have been turning upen them for their many political attrocities enacted since coming into power in 1861. They rode into power by deception; they bave maintained the same Fhrough deception and fraud on the peo: ple and their treasury. First, these Radicals deceived the northern - people; then when they saw the people deserting their ‘ standard, the soldiers were to be deceived and ¢ajoled into their support. It was | not long till the gallant ﬁg_htﬁng soldiers ‘ began to quit the pestiferous ranks of the plunderers. Powér was sweet to them ; it must not be lost. They were being deserted by the white people of the nation. Then a new appliance, & néw ally, must be brought in to aid in holding power.— This ally has failed "in glorious Indiaca to save the fast sinking cause of the most corrupt;, plundering party the world ever saw rise, Teign, and ruin. Now, their last game in Indiana—revolution to save themselves and their 'corrupt leaders.— Their every act in the late House of Rep-, resentatives will show their designs. Never in the history of deliberative bodies was there such obstinate meanness shown as was by the radical leaders in that assembly. Everything was done by them to consume time, spend money and bring ] disgrace on the-State. Take their acts, | for instancs, in the contested election cases : In the case of Davidson vs. Weakley* from Lafayette, when fraud and violation of law was clearly proven and Mr. Davidson (Dem.) was shown beyond any ques- | tion in any decent l}mu’s' mind, te® be en- ‘ titled to the seat—after Judge Taylor, ‘the ablest man and’lawyer of their party, had made a-clear and ‘convincing argument in favor of Davidson’s right to a seat, the corrupt and selfish minority went solid in their yote to'keep Weakley ! in the seat— Judge Taylor refusing to vote with them. 'On. all the political gquestions they acted in the same way. And now these same individuals have the low, unblushing affrontery to proclaim to the good people of the State that the majority was tyrannical, &c. - A more contemptible plea was never set up in that much English. - Just think of such men as Q. M. Wilson, RuddeN, Friedly, Netherton, Calkins of Fulton, and Biggs of this courty, talking, about tyranny. Why, sir, had -they their just. deserts, they would have been expelled from the House for disorderly conduct. Never was the presiding “officer of any body of men so abused and insulted- as was Mr. Speaker Mack by these same creatures, who had pre-arrang--ed to break up the House. . parid - The Democrats are anxious, yes more ‘than willing, that the lying and false ad- - dress, which these revolutionists saw fit to put forth to the country, shall go out side by side with the Journal of the House. ‘The republicans 'have, to use a common ‘expression, “put their foot in.” They have now to go before the people and allow these records to be compared ; the ‘democratic ‘members are eager for the contest ; and mark me, sif, when I say, that the democrats have nothing to fear. Let Baker call a special election for his resigning apostates, re-¢lect or let them go over till 1872, just as they please.— ‘These Radicals are feeling sore over the coursé ‘of the Laporte Herald, the Ft. Wagne o tho Obftng Bepubiison, ‘and oflier décent republiéan organs.— They begin to heat the muttering storm coming on them. - - o n}., £3" . Wel, T gk T ot wite o o, X atory gl in my talk L barebold | you-nothing but the trath, in a plain snd homely mafiner, In talking with many

men of both parties, in my travels, I am enabled to judge accordingly of the public ‘sentiment. By the way, Myers of Kendallville isnot taking much stack in this “bolt,” as he calls it. I find the old and ‘well meanitig Republicansabout Kendallville rather shaky. At-Ft. Wayne the Gazette, Judge Taylor and others talk just Tight; Tsaw many of, these men at’ “Ft. Wayne Jlast week, they are “down in’ ‘the mouth.” At Columbia City, I saw: Senator Hooper ; he doesn’t say anything on the subject. .He will probably be a candidate for Congress, and'should win, if the winning man is t%be a Republican. - Hooper is the best man “they have in the Distriet. T saw Ccl. McDonald, the Representative' from Whitley. He is rather ‘quiet and hard at work in hisoffice. He “says old Baker ought not to have vetoed his State Agency Retrenchment Bill. He “is down on the “Revolationists”—speaks ~well ‘of such men as Defrees, Taylor, Martin of Wayne, and*Hooper, as well ‘as 'many other Republicans.” I will tell you more of him hereafter. Hereat Warsaw I find the real; “hot bed” of Radicalism. Reub Williame, Dodge, the Fraziers, Joseph A. Funk, and the other leaders are ut a balt. They don’t know what to do. One of them saia to me, ‘things look badly, (it was a mistake on part of our boys, but we must keep up a bold front or all s lost.”— The man Biggs lives here—thinks he is smart ; doesn't like McDonald of Whitley; says ‘Mac. made him quit gabbing one day and ordered the Sergeant at Arms to seat him. Mac. ought to have sent bim home in order to keep him still_ I had expected to have a talk with you at-Michigan City on Friday night, but was compelled to come to Warsaw on Saturday morning. I must close. Go on in the good work; I may call on:you soon. Some don’t like some of your late articles.on the Legislature and some phases of the Sarnighatisen ‘matter ; but you are right. Do right and abide the consequences. From one who is posting as he goes RouxD ABoUT.

Distributlon of the Sinking Fund.

The Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners, embracing the Secretary, Treasurer, and Auditor of State, ‘are preparing to distribute it among the several counties for popular loan. The Act,upon the subject, passed by the last General Assembly, provides that, when the amount of the fund exceeds $4,000, 1t shall be apportioned t 6 the counties of the State according to their respective inhabitants as determined by the last census. The mecde of operation is thus prescribed by Section 1 thereof:

The said Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners shall notity the County Auditor of such county or counties as may be entitled to such distribution, shares or parts, from time to time of the amount so ready for distribution, and thereupon the said Connty Auditor shall draw his warvant in favor of his respective County Treasurer, on the Board of Commissioners of the Siuking Fund, for such sum or sumsias he may have been notified is ready for distribution for such county. Such Treasurer shall present the same to the Board of Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, who shall pay the same to such Cougty Treasurer. " Section II provides for the prompt loan of the fund so distributed, as follows: The County Auditor and County Treasurer of their respective counties shall proceed to loan out and invest in said funds so held in trust for common |schqol education, by loaning ‘the same upon real estate security, in the same manner, and subject to the same condition, as the other common school funds are now loaned by law ; provided, that the amount of interest arising from the loans made ynder this act shall be disbursed by the County Auditor and Treasurer without diminution. - Section 111 fixes the rate of the loan at eight per cent. Section IV makes it a felony for any officer to ‘‘receive any bonus or interest for deposit of any part of the fund>? !

How We Stood in 1860

The Huntington " Demperat *facetiously inquires of us: “how did you stand on the ‘political heresies of Stephen A. Douglas#’” = Although only seventeen years of age at that time, we a{% happy to inform our contemporary that we were “body and soul” for the.great statesman of Illinois, as the following article from the Pennsylvania State Sentinel, published at Harrisburg, and bearing date July 31st, 1860, will conclusively prove : C iy

THE GERMAN DEMOCRACY.

A large and enthusiastic meeting of the German Democracy of Cambria county, was held‘'on Wednesday evening 'last, at Johnstown, to. ratify the nominations of Douglas, Johnson and Foster. The meeting was large and enthusiastic, and was addressed by JouN B. SToLL, the talented young editor of the Beobachter, the German organ of Cambria, at considerable length ; Mr. HEYL also addressed the assembly in English. Strong resolutions were passed, endorsing Douglas, Johnson and Foster as the regular nominees, = A Douglas Club was then organized, when the meeting adjourned amidst enthusiastic cheers for the suc cess of the ticket. The German vote of Western Pennsylvania is a beavy one,and will be cast as a unit -for Douglas, Johnson and Foster. A : o

Great Demoeratic Victory’ in “New

Mampshire.

Prom the Chicago Republican, March 13.

The first rebuke of the recent follies of the ' Administratian comes from ‘New Hampshire, wkere 'a. State election was held yesterday. The result asto State officers seems to be in doubt, with a probability in favor of the democratic candidates. In the Flirst Congressional District a Republican is undoubtedly elected. In the Second.the Republicans lose their trusted representative, Mr. Stevens, who, two years ago, was elected by 1,647 majority; and in the Third, which two years ago gave a republican majority of 563, the defeat of Gen, Griffin, the républican candidate, is greatly feared. i

Resignations.

Jdhn C. Cushman, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Marshall county, and Charles W. Heath, holding ‘a like position in Switzerland county, have tendered their resiguation to the '‘Governor, and the vacancies occasioned thereby have been filled by the respective county commissioners. The new fee and salary law is the cause assigned by both gentlemen for resigning their offices. g e

A Good Move.

* A proposition ‘is now pending ' before the New York Legislature to change the time of holding elections for State officers from November to the second Tuesday of October. 'Theré are many reasons for making the‘ehange at:this time, and it is to be hoped: that the Democrats will at once insist: upon’ the passage of the bill for that purpose. »

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

’ ~ MarcH 7.—Both Housesof Congress | were vinvge._‘ic'm, and it beﬁ%b ﬁn ‘though the adjournment, which seemed so near at hand, was to be postponed for gome time, in order to concoct messures | for the further reconstruction of*ithe _South. In the House there was & curious and suggestive debate on 4 resolution to instruct the"Spesﬁér to appoint the regu!lﬁ? standing committees. The expressed | wish of the President. alone seemed to.decide -the action of the House, which, is { that noadjournmeut shall take place un- | til he communicates a message in the. | course of a week. The reading of a long. : series of affidavits in relation to alleged | Southern outrages was objected /to, and E the point of order sustained. In the Sen- | ate the committee appointed to wait upon | the President and inform him thut Con-

gress was ready t 6 receive any communication he might have, reported that that functionary desired further time to think whether, or not he would send ‘a message to both Houses, and was therefore anxious that Congress should remain in session fpr at least another week. ‘ M.'mcx'{ 9.—The abolition of the duties on coal and salt was the only topic dis cussed in the House of Representatives: The management of the question was earnest on the part of thLe free trade majority, while the protectionists minority resorted to the old obstructing tactics. Motions to load the bill with so many amendments a 8 to insure its defeat were renewed from all quarters. They were often rejected by Mr. Pcters, of Maine, who introduced the ball, and his action sustained by the majority of'the Committee of the Whole, 1t was then préposed to reduce thz duty on salt, This tos was voted down, \vhgn_ the House, without proceeding further, adjourned. It was bill day in the Senate, and nothing beyond the. introduction of several important bills tor facilitating commerce and other purposes was done.

MArcH 14.—The house free coal and free salt bills came up in the senate, and were laid aside. The chairman of the ?ﬁnancej committee is of the opinion that there will be no action upon them &t this session, while that committee is so constituted as to render it a matter of doubt! if they will ever pass. . '

Gerrimandering.

The Ricbmond Herald, speaking of the bill introduced in both houses of the Legislature, proposing a re apportionment of the State for Senatorial and Representative purposes, says : ' -

The present apportionment is very unfair and unequal, and was made for party purposes. 'The apportionment should be made so that‘the different counties will have the representation that their population entitles them to in the Legislature, and not gerrymandered in the interest of a political parby. '

That is all the rank and file of the Democracy asked for. Having beaten the Radicals even under the present notoriously unfair appottionment law, the democratic party required no gerrimandering to give them control of the next Legislature. No candid man will deny that the present apportionthent is wholly in the interest of the radical party, and that its unfair provisions shoald uhgergo an entire change. '~ The enlightened judgment of the people demands it, and the party that stands opposed to so simple an act of justice will tooner or later Le pushed to the wall. : .o

Morton’s Designs.

" The New York World is of opinion that Senator Morton is anxious to succeed Senator Boutwell in the Treasury Department, but will be content with the Secretaryship of State. AsSecretary of Treasury, Morton would become powerful by the distribution of federal patronage among politicians, whose services in manipulating conventions are of immense value:— Morton’s eye is fixed upon the Presidential chair; hence his anxiety to get into Grant’s cabinet and engineer his own'advancement. Grant is becoming more and more obnoxious to the Republicans, and Morton will contribute his share toward killing off his only formidable competitor in the party. The Sumner imbroglio comes just in time, and will be adroitly used by the Indiana Senator.

Well Stated.

The Lagrange Standard very appropri ately says that “it is difficult for & disinterested observer to feel any great amount of sympathy for the French people on dccount of their humiliated condition in 'view of the lawless and perfectly impracticable spirit manifested by them. They are so- profuse with bombastic threats when modesty and discretion are required, and so pacific and conciliatory where reckless daring is demanded, that one looses all patience with their queerly organized temperaments. Théy permitted the city of Paris to capitulate to the Prussian army; and then tear their shirts and foam with fury because the victorious forces choose to march in'and take possession.”

siColored” Convention.

: A convention of the colored citizens of Indiana will be held.at Indianapolis on Wednesday, March 22nd,>to “exchange “sentiments upon our future course as ci“tizens.”" The call is signed by J. T. Mahoney assecretary. The circular containing this call bears the frank of * O. P. Morton, U. 8. Senate,” who thus misuses his franking privilege for the purpose cf gaining favor with the negroes and with a view of eventually placing them under his control, Verily, Morton’s demagoguery knows no‘hounds;. . g

Impertant te TaxsPayers.

‘ The Auditor of State decides that in listing property for taxation, a taxpayer has no right to deduct his “bona fide debts ™. from money, either at interest -or on deposit. But deductions for indebt, edness, are to be made from his “solvent claims” and the words “solyent claims” are not to be construed to cover money at interest, (whether secured by mortgage or not) or money deposited in ‘bank, orcertificates of deposit from either banks or individuals. : . ; :

The new Congress is ihagpy in.the possession of a member named William Williams. There are two of him, by the way “—one hailing from an Indiana district, ‘and the other from New York; and the unpleasant possibilities of confusioti in the delivery of his New York letters to his Indiana subdivision; and vice versa—especially if the epistles happen to. come from the gentler sex, on ‘snbEthq of general interest, of course, like the suffrage ‘movement _hro udérstood. obe giving \th‘efhoixorsble'geh'ﬂetﬁen‘oomi&m e uneasiness.— Qhicago Repudlican.

STATE ITEMS,

The Fourth District Fair offers a premium of $BOO for the fastest trotter. A bocietzito g}rov‘ide for the enfo_réément of the fish law has been formed in Goshen. - .

" An Evansville fiend attempted to outrage the ‘personof a five year old girl, and he has not been hung. . -

~. (koshen is to have a new hearse, the people having become too aristocratic to ride in the old fashioned one.

-~ All the newly elected county officers of Wayne county are soldiers, four of whom were disabled in the service., -

Senator Elliott has not begn seen by his constituents since the ad%xrument of the legislature, and they rejoice in the hope that he has gone to Kansas. . Two distinguished citizens of "Fort Wayne, Commodore Foote and sister, have departed eastward, and will exhibit themselves to the Nova Scotians.

- The question of licensing doggeries is exciting a great deal of interest in Kokomo, and nearly - all the leading citizens of the town are signing rémonstrances against the applicants.

The ministers of South Bend'are not allowed to become worldly minded by wearing new hats, the offending tiles being promptly stolen and appropriated by leading members of their flockg,

A spirited woman of Kendallville, threatens herhusband with a divorce because he complains. of being compelled to sleep during the night onithe back side of the bed and take care of the baby.— Lagrange Standard. -

Two citizens: of Medora, Jackson county, went to law over a rail fence, the outside value of which cod® not have exceeded $3O. .The case is now before the Supreme Court for 'final adjudication, and up to the present time, the costs have exceeded $3,000. There is a citizen of Jeffersonville ‘who, some years ago, bought a piece. of ground in Chicago for which he paid a mule and fifteen dollars in money.— He sold the property a short timeé atterward, and it is to day worth one million of dollars, and the aforesaid gen. tleman ajn’t worth acent. - - . Mr. James. Skinner, a young man of 82 summers, was married, on Friday evening of last week, to Mizs Nancy Platter, aged 23, both thie parties be: ing residents of ¥t, Wayne. There was considerable excitement over the affair, and they received a hearty serenade in the shape of an old fashioned “belling.” ey John Shoup, who had gone into the woods near Silver Lake, Kosciusko county, to cut some timber, was found dead under a fallen tree, with his head crushed. The Indianian makes the singular statement that some people in that community think the act was premeditated, and not an accident. Truly agingulan method for committing suicide. - 5 :

The fifty thousand pound hammer is being placed in position at the New Albany steam forge works. Under this monster hammer is imbedded eleven thougand feet of timber, and upor. the gides i 3 nine thousand-feet, making iun all twenty thousand feet. of oak timber for a foundation, This hammer will be capable of forging the largest kinds of iron shafts.— New Albany. Ledger.

Temperance movers are very active in Greencastle. Kg[eetimgs are being held every day. ‘A petition with an immense number of names attached, has been presented to the county com. missioners of the county agking them not to renew the license 'of any of the saloon keepers. The saloon keepers have come out in a.card in the county papers, withdrawing their patronage from all who are working against them. A man by the name of John Sommers, residing in this county, entered attorney Plum’s office, in the court house,last Tuesday, and seeing S:Cary ‘Evans, Esq:, sitting at the desk, asked him in regard to the right of way through . some property. While Mr. Evans was answering him in a quiet, gentlemanly way, Sommers advanced upon him and struck him like a coward, twice above the eye. Such conduct is disgraceful and unmanly, and we are sorry to know that we have a citizen in this county mean enough to do it.—Auburn Courier. .

~ The . Dunkards have been doing their share in the greatreligious revivals that have been going on in this gection of country - during the past winter. A subscriber, writing us from Middlebury, says that Elder Berkey and Rev. Davis Younse have just closed a protracted meeting at the Lake School house, in Middlebury township, at which 55 'members were taken into the Church. From 250 to 560 persons attended the different sessions of the meeting, which was pretty good for a country school house. = We are glad to hear of this good result of this effort. —@Goshen Times. o et ia)

The Jeffersonville correspondert of the Louisville Courier Journal says :— Great interest is felt in the question : When will the Directors of the State Prison South meet to elect new officers and’ who "will be the new Warden ? _The next regular meeting will be held "on the first Tnesday in April. A called meeting may possibly convene before that time. Who will be elected to fill the position of the present incumbent 'of that institution, of course, has not yet transpired. -There is. a multiplicity of candidates, and several competent gentlemen among them, but it is likely that even the Directors - themselves ‘have mot yet determined upon whem the lot will be cast. ~Colonel Shuler, the present Warden, tlaims that his term runs two years longer, and declares his intention to yield up his of;ici_al functions only at the emf of the law,

The Hog Trade.

From a statement pablished in the Chicago T'imes of & recent date, it appears that the number of hogs packed at the principal packing points in the West is 2,724,563 the present season, against 2,033,650 during the preceding seagon. - Beside the excess in numbers for the present seagon there is an increase in-the gverage weight sufficient to make an actual excess of more than amillion hogs. The total value of the hogs. thus sent to market,fot which the farmers have received the money, i little less than* $50,000,000.

~ Victor Hugo, while making a speech in' the Assembly, warmly defending Garibaldi, was interrupted by a storm of higses. He immediately announced ll:il:teﬂgnam and guitted the Cham- | er. e

‘A Small Business f’or s_;a‘,e Officinls

- The retiring state officers at Inai- .. anapolis have been guilty of asinfipite - a sgecimen of littleness as we haye ev.' er heard’ of. Before giving up the offices of the state, they stocked them. with all the stationery that could possibly be needed for the next four years. They had no respect to the wishes or taste of their successors in office, but purchased, even since they knew they were to_go out of office, the material to be used by their successors. Piles of this stationery are on hand in all the offices, and in some cases there not being room for the amount:purbhla%‘d-)'uf the office, it has been stowed in the'.ccjl-' lar. Every hody can see at once the meanness ofsuch a, proceedure,and the partisan greed that prompted it. A few - dollars of gain tolthe party organ at Indianapolis, the state printer, whose drain upon the state finance was aliout to close. So the state officers handed over;an extra amount of pabulum, in view of the fact that the public teat was to be taken from its mouth. We know not just how to characterize such consummate meanness. There aregome . of the State officers, from whom we might expect just such conduct, but there are others whom we thought had a soul above_such small trickery. lor instance,. we could not have been persuaded, in advance, that the gallant Gen. Kimball would have descended to do such 2 small meanness. Yet, we are informped, that he, like Hoffman and Evans, filled his office with an even cord of stationery before leaving. Of course-our present state officers are too' careful of the public interest, and too economical of the public expense, | to refuse to use this stationery, as they might legally do. - They will. use up the material bought, no doubt, at an -exhorbitant price, and will have no bill of expense’ themselves- for stationery “during their term of office. But the people will not forget such a specimen of meanness, which we 'are sorry, to ‘have to lay to the charge of: General’ Kimball and the rest.—New Albany Ledger. . g :

Territic Murrieane at East St. Lonis

‘A most. terrific hurricane passed over East St. Louis on Wednésday of last week between 2 and 3 o’clock. It unroofed or demolished all the railroad depots and the grain clevator, 'and a number of dwelling houses, ~ T'he derricks and other appliances used in the construction of the Mississippi river bridge were torn from their places and blown down -the river. Whole trains of ‘cars and locomotives were blown from the tracks. ‘Everything within a width-of from two to three hundred yards was actually torn.to pieces.— Trains as far out as nine miles from East St. Louis, gome of them of forty cars, were overthrown. ' The round house of the Chicago and Alton road, after being blown dewn, caaght fire from an engine and its ruing burned The engineer of the locomotive was, burned to death. The number of' wounded and killed cannot be stated at present, but seven are known to be killed, between. thirty and forty seriously—some dangerously—wounded, and a good many more slightly injur ed. Tt is. believed that a number of persons - are still buried beneath the ruins.. The scene is frightfal in the extreme ; houses are tornto fragments others unroofed or upset, and still oth. ers .carried bodily from their foundations. Scarcely a building or tree or anything else within the track of the storm is standing. The wreck and ruin is complete. The pecuniary-loszes are estimated as followg : Chicago & Alton railroad, $500,000; Ohio and Mississippi, $200,000 ; Toledo & Wabash, $125,000; St. Louis & Vandalia, #50,000; South-eastern, $30,000; Wiggins Ferry Company, $25,000. . Two or three steamboats lying on the east: ern slde of the river were also very seriously damaged. L

Why Grant is lostile to Sumner.

Thé Chicago T'imes gives the following as the cause of Grrant’s vindictiveness towards Sumner, and~for not being on speaking terms with him, It Bays.: . o oo o

““Grant ig a person whose vindictive ‘nature is casily aroused by any disparaging allusion to his personal shortcomings aud vices, Mr. Sumner is a polished and scholarly gentleman, although vain,egotistical and overbéaring He has punctillious notions. of the social proprieties, not modified by a large ‘measure of charity for vices that are ‘unglossed. He has been more than ‘ once shocked by Mr. Grant’s vicious _habits; but. when the President- ap‘peared in a state of intoxication in the ‘senator’s own drawing rooms,the latter was personally offended, and did not permit the exalted station of the officer to shield the vices of the man from gome disparaging comment. In‘a word, the sehator did not scruple to say-that the man Grant had disgraced the President and abused the seénator’s hospitality by appearing as the guest of the latter. while in a state of intoxication. Of ‘course Mr. Grant heard of tho ‘genator’s disparaging comments upon his behavior, and the circumstances, instead of working the reform of a vicious habit,only aroused the revengeful temper of -its possessor. Socially, Messrs. Grant and Sumner stand in ‘the relation of two persens who have cut each other’s acquaintance. But this is of course no.reason whatever why there cannot be any official intercourse between them.”

-The Cincinnati Commercial says :— “It is not Charles Sumner who will be injured by’ the change in the senate committee on foreign relations, but the gycophants who have done the bidding of the President. A better selection than Simon Cameron, for the place of Sumner, could not have been made, if the object was to illustrate the intense meanness of the whole transaction.” ' ;

The Champion Poker Player.

The Washington correspondent of the New York Sun writes: = : In Washington the test ot statesmanship is skill at draw poker. The Hon. Robert C. Schenck is unquestionably the first ‘poker player in the United States., He has retained his prominence in politics by the boldness with which he sees a bet, and the ,peculiar sphynx like way ‘in which he reads his hand. Being prob- - ably the ugliest man in the world, there is no way of determining his situation on a blufl. -He hag extraordinary longevity in sitting out s game, and seldom retires before four o’clock in the morning when by any means whatever he canj find anybody to keep up the vigil with him. . The correspondent further asserts that Gen. ck lost as high as $ll,OOO in .two successive nig] Is it not & terrible thing to reflect that professional gamblers are at the helm of the ship of State ?