The National Banner, Volume 5, Number 47, Ligonier, Noble County, 22 March 1871 — Page 2

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J. B.STOLL, EDITOR

WEDNESDAY, MAR. 22, 1871

- JDITORIAL CONYENTION. ; The I»‘(’% rg:gg\}iiir'scss-i;',\nlof the Lditors’ and Publishers® Association of the Tenth zi;i:«l Lleventh District s’c'»'f‘_}ll3§iiils will be ;'iat-%\i:ét’t' (v}u.s‘hénﬂim'f 1*"1:,.1.1),1\',; April 14th, 1871, The uftﬂ*ﬁ!fumté pf{cvcry”mcmbcr ‘of the Assoéi\a}}i'(:i:x;;is’eam,.cstly requested, wsbusiness of the-utmost importance will be-submitted. | [, B. STOLL, Pres't. . ‘@ 31, Crase, Secrebary. . 17

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wo] e Kgehered, o b ~ # A sharp gawe bis been plaged in ArJansas. & Qur réaders will remember that some time since Gov. C}fayit;)n- was c_lec‘ted‘ * U.. S, Senator, dnd that in order'to get rid of Licut. Goy. Johnson, articles of im- | ;{n::xczl{tncgf, were{(ﬁfrct’crregi} against that " officer. . The ‘chances’ of procuring his ‘convictign being rather slim, Clayton con- + cluded to resign the Scrx‘mtarshfp,’nnd thus retain control of the gubernatorial ,chair. A compromise was then agreed upon.be: Nt \\'egnq({lay,’tonnml Johnson, by which the Jatter - redigned the Liewt. Governorship . and ,;\(:_(;Ljitcd the office of Secretary, of State. Now for the denouement: On Ctlie-14th inst. Gov. ‘Clayton was ‘again -clected to the United States Senate. He " now pr{il_)psc"s to oust liis recently appointed Secrgtary of State. Tt is reported that * Claytoh intends to gue out g writ of guo “warranto against Johnson and have him brought bgfdré';liis Sfl{x?cme Court, under ‘u provisionof the Gorj situpion-which eaygl . no executive ‘officer shall be eligible to any office during the term for whiclt he .- was elected. T.;,nde; this -pr(‘)v’is_ion Clayton's court will declare Johnson ineligiblé to the office of Secretary of State at “this time,: and he, having resigned the Ligutenant Governol'rship, will be got rid '; of altogether, and owerrcaclied ih his bargain and sale with Clayton. A © Fer “ways that are dark, and tricks that are vain,” commend us to a political ~'gharper. ! L i i

‘ ‘Neeret Political Soéieties, : The St. Louis I_lﬁcpc&bhtun exposes and denounces 8 new, secret . political society ~ recently organized in that State and else~where. It aftords us much pleasure to - note the tic that democratic papers gen“drally fike a.very dccided stand ‘against ~these Iniéc_llicVQLxsinstitutions‘f Below we copy the remarks of several democratic papers on this subject : i To know that such a thing exists is enough to.make us denounce it. ‘We want Ro secret politieal societies under any circtinstances—much less such societies pre_tending'to be in the intérést of the Democratic party.” All true. Democrats will shun them.— Kvansville .Courier. o " That is'the way to tglk. We had rather sce our party. mustered to the mgrave- . yard and there sburied beneath the sod, than to sce it enter the meshes of Knownotleingism. or any any other political organdzation., "We want none of"it in ours. Let the wora ‘CONDEMNATION'. bé written upon its very inception.— Rockport Democrat.: i = b

~The ddy for political secret organizations: has passed. The people have not forgotten the dark -and thisthievous doings of the Know Nothing . party, and the Anasses are too ﬁnt’clll_igept to countenance auything that precludes an open, fair_dis‘cussion of the political questions which Qow or at any time in‘the future may agitdéte the country. There'is no need -for seercey and plottings ; ‘the peopleare honcst enough' to be trusted, and we favor in politics; asiin private life, straight fcrward transactions.—Pittsburg Paper.. - :

The Party Lash-No Longer a Terror. The , tollowing brief article is clipped from the columns of the Rockport “Demo- : orat, edited by our esteemed friend, Col. Calvid_ Jones. - The language employed » in}l)q concluding sentence is udmirable—wdmight say, noble, brave, and what is still better, strictly true. The article re- . quires na comment; it speaks for itselt : - The Chicago . Triljune - says some time " agp there was ‘intense excitement among “+the Democrats of Peoria, in. which all the deteated candidates for office and their friends attributed their misfortunes to the / editor cf the National Democrat of that place. Resolutions were adopted reading the paper out ot the party and pledging the public to stop the paper. The Democrat, we notice, still lives, acd, so far as ' the appearance of the journal goes, is in a - flourishing ‘condition—the editar not hay- . 'ing lost either courage or cash in conse -« quence of the political spasm of Peoria. - - Newspapers now a days live or perish ap- -~ op theirown merits, and it will be found v, in'the long run that those journals which honestly do their 6wn thinking will never fail of the'support and confidence of the . people, | Salial e i

: : New ¥Paper. ; We are in receipt of the first and second numbers of the Demoeratic Messenger, an eight column paper recently established ‘at Vidlparaiso, this State, by our esteemed friend; Engelbert Zimmernian, Esq., lafe -of the Wyandotte (Ohio) Union. The Messenger is a paragon of typdgraphical “heauty, and contains a vast amount of varied reading matter. We are particularly well pleased with Mr. Zimmerman’s salutatory, containing as it does” sentiments that cannot fail to meet with a cordial responge -in the hearts of ‘all who love honor, dignity. vand,taiﬁnegs in the editorial [profession. A papér conducted vpon such pridciples always.commands respect, and we trust thée Democracy of Porter county will extend 'to Mr. Z. a support ‘that will enable him to place the Messenger upon a paying, permanent basis. With _our knowledge of the man, we can gssure them that if Ze does not succeed in this respect, no other individuil can. -

Temperance Movement,

' The Board of Managers of the Indiana State Temperance Alliance at their last meeting, divided the State intb five districts, and arrangements' were made for the formation of branches of the alliance in every county and disgrict. In accor: dancé with this programme the Central district met in Indianapolis, March 14 and 15; the Southeastern ‘district at Lawrenceburg, March 21 and 22; the Southwestern district will meet at Vincennes, April 4,5, 6, and 7; the Northeastern district at Fort Wayne, April 28 and 26; and the Northwesterh district at Lafayette, AprillBand 19, =~

NEW HAMPSHIRE,

The first State election held in the present year resulted gloriously for the Democracy.. ‘! , A :

_ The gallant Democrats of New Hampsbir¢' send greeting to their brethren throughout the Union.. The Radicals, ‘who have beld the Granite State 1 grasp for the last sixteen years, have at last been routed, horse, foot, and dragoons. Since 1856 the Republicans bave had uninterrupted control of that Staté, annually cnr‘iryiqg,the elections by majorities ranging from three to eleven thousand. Against these disheartening odds year by year the gallant' Democracy 6f New Hampshire have straggled. And now they reap the reward of their fortitude and pluck in the great triumph of the 14tl'1{us;t. e s ‘ T'lgc,lﬁitcst' returns from New Hampshire confirm’the complete and disastrous defeat of* the Radicals. The Democracy have made a clean sweep of'the Congressmen, all three of whom were Republicans before, and sre all Democrats now. . In thie Con"grcssionnLDistricts, it was a square fight between the two parties, the labor reform paeople running no candidates.— The fact that the Demoerats have carried. every district, shows that Gen. Grant’s unpopularity pcrvai'des’.eéery part of the Stategand that the Democratic ‘ triumph is not ;owing to local reasons or the personal qualities of candidates. ’ There seems to be no longer a doubt that we, bave gained a majority in the Legislature. According to the very latest returns the Democrats have a majority of one in the Senate, and two, in the House. Last year the Senate stood ‘ll Republi: cans to 1 Democrat, and the House 201 quhblicans‘ to 126 Democrats. . It now appears that there has been no choice tor Governor by the popular vote. In New Hampshire the highest candidate is not elected, unless he has an absolute majority of all the votes cast - The Téturns from-218 towns give Weston, Dem., 33,881 votes ; Pike, Rep,, 33,339 ; Cooper, and scattering, 1,074, Although Weston is ‘ahead of his Republican competitor by 542 votis, the indications .are that be is not elected by the pecople,' but will be chosen by the Legislature. If wé add the labor leform to the Denidcr_atic vote, the Republican candidate is in a'minority of 1,616 ; a loss by the Republicans of nearly 9,000 since the Presidential election. ' “ The glorious victory of the New Hampshire Democracy will be felt in every othér State ‘election to be beld this year. The same causes will operate elsewhere with a ‘constantly increasing influence, for the tide runs out rapidly- when once it has fairly turned. Connecticut will next be heard from, and the voice of her people will e still more emphatic in condemnation of the wrongs perpetrated by the administratjon of the great usurper, Ulyses Grant. ot L

The Effect of the Fee and Salary Bill.

In the Huntingten Democrat we find the following : , o - ‘John C. Cushman, Bsq., Clerk of the Marshell Circuit Court, declines-to continue in office under the fee bill passed at thie late session of the Legislature, and has fendered his resignation to Governor Bakeér, © The' reasons assigned are: The law is too complicated and will lead to erroneous and disastrous consequences ; it increases the labor and responsibilities of officers and interferes with the dispatch of business; it assumes that officers are dishonest ; the ‘salary is insufficient and the law makes no provisiens for the payment thereof ; and, says the retiring officer, “as the act 7ncreasés ‘the expenses of litigation from thirty to seventy per cent., it is a gross-wrong perpetratéd upon the people as well as officers, and must remain for the next two years a monument of the ignorance and stupidity of its authors.”

We are convinced that the law is one that should not have been enacted. - It is calculated to drive competent and efficient officials from the public service, and to cause & vast deal of confusion and mischi¢f. While at Plymouth, on Wednesday last,Mr. Cushman illustrated to us the impossibility of litigants escaping ‘the increase in the expense of litigation from 30 to 70 per cent,’ of which he speaks in his letter of resignation. e * Thus, while assuming to benefit the public, the effect of the law is to impose still heavier 'burdens upon them. The law does not meet the ends for which it was enacted, and its repeal should be one of the first acts of the next legislature.

- The, Democrat is doubtless correct 1 its eriticism of this' piece of botchiwork.— There are so many upjust provisions in the bill that the few really judicgs features thereof are completely overshadpwed. We had intended to refer to this uxatter heretofore, but as certain parties were so ready to attribute anything we might say of the last Legislature to a “growling disposition,” we had almost concluded to Temain silent. But few papets in the State speak approvingly of this eftmordinmx specimen of legislative wisdom. \

General George W. Morgan,

" The compliment bestowed by the Democrats of the lower House of Congress, by voting for General George W. Morgan, of Ohio, for ;Speaker, was a well deserved tribute to a gallant, high minded gentleman and true Democrat. 'No member of Congress approaches nearer the beaugdeal of a Representative of -Democratic simplicity, integrity and firmness in the discharge of public duty than General Morgan,— Rockpert Democrat.

We fully subscribe to the above. The democratic members of the last as well as the present Congress exhibited excellent judgment in -the selection of candidates for the speakership—Hon. M. C. Kerr for the former, and General Morgan for the lay{er. Both are pure, able men and sterling Democrats, and weli worthy of the mark of distinction conferred upon them by their political associates.

Simon Cameron.

. Donn Piatt, the racy Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial, thus carieatures the gentleman selected by the Grant administration to supersede Senator Sumner as chairman of the committee on fofcign relations: - ITe has openly bought his way: into the Senate, and used the Senate to ireplace the purchase money. As Secretary of War, he inaugurated the ‘system of stealing that has since nearly destroyed our Government. His civil service consists: of a conjugation of the verb steal: “I steal ; thou stealest ; he, she, or 1t gteals; we stcal ; ye or yousteal ; they steal,” and 80 on down to the imperative mode of “Steal thou or let him steal.” When at last kicked out by an indignant country, he signalized his departure by carrying off whole barrels of money. And all this was done while the capital of our country was actually invested by the enemy, and the roar of their guns throbbed upon the very walls of his' Department, where he sat like a huge spider, weaving political webs and stowing away spoils stolen from - the Government and an oppressed people,

- NOFES AND COMMENTS., - The Plymouth’ Democrat of last week: contained 414 columns of Sheriff’s sales. Profitable business for the printer, but hard’ on the poor. fellows who have got themselves under the hammer.

Mr. Sumner is in constant receipt of despatches and letters from sympathizing Republicans throughout the country.— He says tbhe SBan Domingo job is dead beyond the reach of the hand of resurree: tion. He !counts a clear majority in the Senate against any tresty of annexation, of whatever character.

We . are pleased to notice the appointment of James B. Edmunds, of the Terre Haute Journal, as the official printer of Vigo county. Mr. Edmunds, we are confident, will furnish the county geod work, and discharge his duties to the entire satjsfaction of the people.

~ The currency question is to have another stirring up. Gen. Butler bas introduced a self adjusting currency bill, which authorizes the issue of interest'bearing currency nots to be exchanged for legal tenders, and. when the holder of tbese bonds demands it he isto be paid in legal tenders again. This, in effect, provides for paying interest on all iegal tenders in circulation as currency. -

~ The San Domingt correspondent“ of a leading German papér in the west, states tliat Samana has about seventy houses, the most of these having simply openings instead of windows and doors. Many grown people walk about half-clad, or lie in' groups inthe tropical ‘sunlight as innocent of garment as their African ancestors. They are filthy, idle and immoral. Excéllert enlightened citizens Mr. Grant will make out ofthem. -

Hon. Peter M. Zenor, Representative of Harrison county, is in the city to day.

He tells us that he has retired trom the political arena.. He designs travelling through several of the Western States during the coming season, after which he will become a citizen of this city.—New Albany Ledger. ' ! We have heard several members of the late Legislature express an intention of retiring from political life. There is an evident inclination on part of many heretofore active politicians to devcte more tife to business and less to politics.

" In a recent case the Supreme Court of the United States have decided that the process by which the territory of West Virginia was wrested from old Virginia during the was were legal. In order to reach this conclusion the court were compelled to adopt the theory that the bogus state of which Pierpont was governor, . and which consisted of soldiers, sutlers and stragglers from Alexandria to Acquia creek and Fortress Monroe, was in fact the state of Virginia, and capable of giving a legal and valid assent to the separation. o | |

LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.

Frl. WAXNE, IND., March 20,"71. ~J. B.StoLy, Esq.:—Please find enclosed $2 to pay for a years- subscription to the NATIONAL BANKER. _

Although I take more papers now than I have opportunity to read, yet I think it due you' for your indepepdent and mas‘terly exposure of the disgraceful conduct of certain democratic Senators, who fora dishonopable eonsideration violated their oaths and betrayed a confided ‘trust, by corruptly. joining the Republicangin a foul conspiracy to deprive Hon. John Sarnighausep, a Dc‘mocratic___Senator, of his seat to which he had been honorably and fairly elected by the free and unbought suffrages of this County and District, and the seat given to O. Bird who had not the shadow of a claim, as was well understood and 'admitted by every Senator, and who.bad been just repudiated so decidedly at the polls. As an act of perfidy and legislative in‘famy that transaction has no counterpart in this country, or indeed any other, and the perpetrators, since the plot has been tully exposed by Senator Steele, in open: session of the Senate,and not denied by the guilty parties then and there present, have no apologists now in either party, but are branded everywhere as perjured conspirators against free suffrage and the ballot box. = AL ety I have said this act of depravity had ro counterpart—but the nearest approach to it that now suggests itselfis the forfeiture of the pledge made by these false Demo cratic Senators to their ‘Republican colleagues, in failing to fulfill their part of the shameful bargain—revealing as disgusting an act of sneaking-cowardice, and forfeited honor as the conspiracy itself was bold, daring and corrupt.. vetes .« With considerations of regard, { ] A LIFE-LONG DEMOCRAT.

J. B. SrotiL—Dear Sir :—Your advocacy of the claims of W. C. DePauw for Governor is eminently judicious, and I trust you; will follow the same line “41l summer.j" Our majority in the last election was less than oneé ‘per cent. of the ntire vote of the State, and though we ‘have good reasons for e-xpectin%»our majority to be largely increased in '72, we should not be sanguine enough to be careless or reckless in our movements. - It is & well-established maxim in political warfare that when the' majorities of either party are not larger than the number of voters who are ordinarily indifferent as to attending the polls that the winnipg party is the one that makes the fewest: mistakes.) > .

We sliould make no mistake in offering to the peeple of Indiana for their suffrages a candidate for ‘Governor ; hence I most cordially endorse the candidacy of a man of such broad and comprehensive traits of character as centered in W. C. DePauw.

One of the most prominent, intelligent and sagacious members of tbe Indiana Democracy, residing in the south-western portion of the State, writes us as-follows in regard to the proposed momination of W. C..DePauw for Governor:

* x % % % «f believe Mr, DePauw would accept & nomination, but he will never ask for one. And that is the proper feeling for a candidate for Governor.— The place is too high for a scramble, and there is.no room for jockeying in such a contest. - e e :

“I am quite sure that DePauw is the man who can win—not only for himself but for the general ticket. ‘Though not an orator, as Brutus is,’ he hsg business

capscity, is a thorough economist, a pure and honest man, who will not practice deceit or deceg’tion himself, nor wink at it in others. The State want§ a man at the kead of its affairs whoiis no politician by trade, but who thoroughly understands the great industrial interests of Indiana. I think ‘weé have had quite enough of a class as our leaders and candidates, and might with advantage fall back, now and then, on the most numerous class of our. people. We must have a little sprinkling of new men as our leaders. We have several old schemers in a state of decomposition, and the sooner they are put out of sight the better,” : BER e ,

MarcH 14.—The feature of the day in Congress was the debate in the House on Representative Beck’s bill to remove all pelitical disabilities growiog out of the Jate rebellion. Mr. Elliott, 8 nogromember from South Carolina, made & bitter speech against the measure, which he regarded as delivering the loyn)gxl men of the South over to.the tender mercies of the disloyal. After adopting by a vote of 128 to 57 an_amendment préviding (hat the act should not remove the disabilities of members;of Congrees and officers of the army who took part in the rebellion, as well as the members of the pretended State conventions - which adopted the ordinance of secession, the bill was defeated, not two-thirds voting in its favor as required by law. ' In the Senate, Mr. Sumner attempted to present a protest of Dominicans against the apnexatiox% of San Domniingo, but on a point of order it was ruled out as inadmissable. The House joint resolution to repeal the duty on coal was called and read, but objection being made to its second reading it lies over.

~ MarcH 15.—The House did not seem to be under control of the Radicals to-day. A bombshell was thrown into the radical camp by the introduction of a resolution requiring the appointment of a committee of thirteen to investigate the condition of the Southern States; with power to travel South, such committee. to report to the House in December next. ' This measure was a counter-movement to the Butler policy. It appears that the radical caucus had fixed upon the enactment of the Butler-Moarton Ku-Klux Bill; it may readily be understood, therefore, that the. introduction of this resolution was intended to defeat that extreme measure.. The bearing of the,proposition was at once seen by the House. : The great body of the Democrats voted for the resolution, and only & few against it. On the other land, Ben Butler, seeing that it would be a heavy blow to his policy, made the most active opposition to this proposed investigation. He voted against it, and was followed by Coburn, Creclev, Hoar, Porter, Shanks, and other Radicals, but the resolution was carriefl in spite of them all, by 125 to 64. This result was a most emphatic defeat of the ultra KuKlux Radicals, though the Speaker -in some measure )neutralized it by putting Butler and seven other-ultra Radicals upon the committee. There are five members given to the Democrats, namely : Beck, Arch--er, Robinson, Cox, Waddell." After this set-back to Butler there followed another, by the adoption of a resolution to adjourn on the 20th inst. This passed by 117 to 78—all the Democrats voting aye, and most of the Pennsylvania delegation aye, so as to avoid legislation on the tariff.— Butler was troubled by the day’s proceed'ings. When his name, as Chairman of the Investigating Committee, was read out, he said to those around him that he was “too old a bird to be capght with such chaff;” that if he went South and returned home unharmed, as he probably ~would, the cry would at once be raised that there was no such thing as a Ku. Klux Klan. !

" MarcH 16.—Te-day’s proceedings in the House were a stunning defeat to the Ku-Klux Radicals, of whom Butler and Maynard are the leaders. The proposition appointing a committee to investigate affairs in.the South was deemed’a triumph of the moderate: Republicans. The Speaker's hand was visible -in the entire proceeding, and he has been in Butler's way ‘of late. that this wortby could contain himself no longer, but put forth a letter severely reflecting upon Speaker Blaine and the Republicans who voted for the investigation resolution. This document created & tremendous sensation, and its natural outscoop was & grand Radical quarrel on the floor of the House. This row cdme oﬂ.this' morning, and was of a most unprecedented character. Nothing like it has been seen in the House since the days of the impeachment trial. First, Mr. Kelley rose to repel the charge that the high tariff men, of whom he is the leader; were acting in unison with the Democrats. Butler replied, assailing those Republicans who had voted tor the resolution. The sensation of the morning, however, came in when Speaker Blaine left the Speaker’s chair and replied to Butler's attack upon him, denouncing him with & degree of scorn and contempt which- evidently came.from his heart.— His exposition of Butler was of the most withering character. It appeurs that Mr. Blaine had ‘drawn the resolution and exhibited it to Butler, who had suggested hut one alteration.’ Mr. Blaine denied the binding power of the ‘caucus as to measures, and boldly charged that Butler had been ready, as he knew, to accept democratic votes if he could bave got enough Republicans, to elect him Speaker. In conclusion, Mr: Blaine staﬁé;i}tgit he regarded the letter as an insult to the Speaker, and he denounced it as mean, insulting, and -as groundless ‘and false.— It 'would be wholly impossible to give any idea of the severity of Blaine's manner, or of the intense suspense and interest with which the House listened. As for Butler, he wilted under this pitiless fire, and”when he came to reply seemed to be upon the rack. He declared that be had not wished to bring this subject into Qe House to- the disgrace and destruction of the Republican party, and intimated that Blaine was a candidate for the' Presidency.. There was a good deal of other speakiag, mostly by Republicans, wrangling with each other, and only serving to reveal their hopeless divisions. MarcH 17.—The Senate passed a concurrent resolution for an investigation of the political condition of the Southern States by a joint committee consisting of seven Senators and nine Representatives. Mr. Robertson, from the Committee on Disgbilities, reported, without amendment, his bill to relieve all persons, except members of Congress and' officers of the army and navy. Bills were passed defining a gross of matches and permitting the Pacific and Atlantic Rallroad Compa: ny to mortgage its road. Mr. Anthony offered a resolution to limit the businéss of the present session to legislation affecting the Southern States. Mr. Sumner objected to the resolution and to adjourn: ment until his Sapplementary Civil Rights bill was disposed of. Before he had concluded the Senate adjourned. In the House Mr. Butler asked for unani. ‘mous consent'to have his KuKlux bill read; many objections were made. A

joint 'resoltition extending the provision¥ of the:act of 1862 to aliens who had entered, or shall enter, the afmy or marine corps; and have been or shall be honorably discharged, soas to place them on the same footing as to naturalization and citizenship was passed—lBs to 8. Mr. Batler insisted upon the regular order of business, the call of States in-order to offer bis Ku-Klux bill ; but the House, to head bim off, adjourned by a vote of 163 to 80. w

Marc 20. — Butler finally succeeded in introducing his Ku Klux Lil!, but it was quietly strangled by being referred to the judiciary committee, greatly to the annoyance of the old despot. He was in very bad humor. Mr. Whecler’s resolution for the final adjournment.of Congress on the 23d inst. wasadopted in the House by a vote of 121 ayes to 54 nays—another defeat of old Butler. . :

eel @ R — STATE POLITICS.

" The Ft. Wayne Journal is one of the few papers that approve of or at least apologize for, the removal of Mr. Samnuer. It is in the habit of shouting Hosanna to every act of the federal administration.

Here is the Mount Vernon Democrat's commentson Col. Whittlesey's allusion to Jason Brown's f)ratorica.l gffort in that unpretentious icown: - - Ah! “well do we remember” that memorable whang doodle oration of the great Jason. It was highly appreciated by several good old ladies who are wont to give vent to their pent-up feelings at camp meetings. We drop a tear for poor Jason. How the mighty have fallen.

~ To which the Evansville Courier adds: “Fallen so low that none do the mighty honor. Let Jason blow his ‘bazoo.””

Hon. Godlove 8: Orth has turned his back upon his disappointments at Washington: and is.at his home in Indisna.— Some of the Radicals of this State are disposed to still further humiliate him, and. place him in_ nomination for Govermor in‘ 1872, -to be. beaten by some good Democrat. What has bcen done that he must thus be sacrificed? Has he crooked his finger at, Morton! If so, he will be the Radical candiiate certain, and “our own Morton” will be the first to rejoice at his defeat. Godlove should remember that Morton always forgets friends, and never. forgets his enemies.— New Albany Ledger. |

SARNIGHAUSEN was a member of the State Senate of Indiana, elected from Allen county. His seat was contested on grounds which appeared trivolous and untenable. The contestant was admitted and Sarnighausen removed, by &'vote of 21 to 17—six Democratic members_being absent from sickness or on/ temporary leave. Four fishy Democrats voted to expel the German Senator, and seventeen Radicals (all present- but one) voted the same way. All ‘the. Democrats present but four voted to retain him—all the Rads but one voted to expel him! A meaner procedure has not happened in the State Senate for many years. It was one of' thore “high moral” exploits which distinguished the Radicals of Indiana.— Terre Haute Journal, i

And now comes the Evansville Courier _with another “dig” at’our whilom friend, “Jagson Bazoo,” Copying a paragraph from the Journal of that city, with the comments of the Sullivan Democrat, Col. Whittlesey proceeds to say : We overlooked the foregoing tit-bit in the Democrat, but find it reproduced in the Ligonier BANNER. We might also ‘remind ;our virtuous neighbor that the Radicals not only fell gladly under the ‘lead of Jason “Bazoo” Brown to do'Mr. “Sarnighausen an act of'outrage and injustice, but even the Radical press, all over the entire State of Indiana made the most violent war upon Mr. Sarnighausen during the three wecks he was' a Senator. The Indianapolis Journal led off in' the assault, while i 1 , “Tray, Blanche and Sweetheart—little dogs and all,” i . ; followed closely at the big cur's—tail.— Last and, least of the pack, was the Evansville Journal. We guess Mr. Sarnighausen will survive the howlings of the entire kennel—little and big—including j- b. brown, of Brownstown. P

Revenue Reform Triumphs.

The New York World claims that the first victory of the session over the prdtectionists was won 1n the lower House of COngress on the 13th, and it was decisive ss far as that body is concérned. “No attempt was made to take up the heavilyladen bill pending last _vé*%k, but under the rules in force on Monday the House was brought to a square vote. ‘Without a word of discussion, and to the consternation of the protectionists, free salt was carried by a vote of 148 to 486, there being but seven Democrats votibg in the negative, and free coal by a vote of 130 to 57, there being eleven Democratic votes in the negative. After these' overwhelming successes of ‘the revenue returmers the protectionists appeared to be completely demor alized, and a resolution putting tea and coffee bn.the free list was passed with scarcely any opposition. The friends of revenue reform in Washington were quite jubilant, as they now consider their strength to becrystalized and consolidated in the House. The joint resolutions will go to the Senate, where, of course, another battle will be tought over them, and, if they -are successful, then to the President for approval. - The struggle will be watched by thy whole country with intense interest.” TN

Deluge in the Southwest.

Dispatches from Memphis, Tenn., dated March: 16, state that 'a “severe storm, amounting almost to & tornada, swept over that city on Wedngsdsy noon; unroofing about a dozen large buildings, prostrating awnings, signs, &. Several persons were injured by ‘the flying debris, some severely, but as yet no loss of life is reported. The hurricane was followed by rain, which lasted until night, peuring down in torrents, and rapidly swelling fall the small streams in the vicinity, as well as in other portions of the State,and ‘some portions of Mississippi and Alabama, 'interrupting and totally suspending railway travel from the city.” | :

“High” all Around. . Says the Harrisburg Patriot: *The joint high commission are baving a high old time in the national capital. All diplomacy to be .effective must begin and end with dining. " The co nmissioners give proof of thie possession of .capital appetites, and it is gratifying to all friends of a last-/ ing peace that the digestive faculties of the commissioners are quite equal to the task imposed on them. The patriotic observe with pleasure that the 'American Commissioners are & match for their Eng. lish associates in the-gastronomio confliet. Should+it come :to a national game o #“draw,” after:dinner, our Schenck will be found to be more than a match for any of the Britishers.” . ' ; :

< 7 STATETIEMS. 7§ i ; | All the Wabash ministers preached | on the subject of temperance on Sabs ‘ bath evening last. ey ) 3 The “Woman’s Suffrage- Convention” 2t Fort Wayne hatched out nearly a yard of.resolutions, John L..Géodwin, of Steuben.co., committed sui¢ide in his barn a few days ago, by shooting himself.

- Bishop Luers,of the Catholic Church Kokomo,preached a‘strong temperance sermon on Sunday evening,the 12th. _ A youth, living near Stringtown, Vanderburgh county, measures gix feet and two inches,and is not quite sixteen years old yet. o Frederick A. Goetz, editor bf the Union at Evansville, ' is six feet seven and a half inches in height, and weighs two'hundred and eighty pounds. . Rumors have been prevailing in Huntington that the shops of the Toledo, Wabash anud Western railroad are to be removed to that place.

St. Joseph county boasts the youngest horse t,gief—twe]v.e summers only having passed over the head of this appropriator of other people’s horse flesh.

One of the oldest colored citizens of Lost Creek township, Vigo county, is reported to be worth the handsome little fortune ot thirty thousand dollars.

An anti-treating society has -been organized in Lawrenceburg, the members solemnly swearing to go solitary and alone when they desire to imbibe. A fellow down in Crawford county looked through the key hole of a girl’s. bedroom, and ever since the doctors have been trying to get a knitting needle out of the place where his north eye usged to be. . A married lady of South Bend attempted suicide on Saturday night, the 11th inst., by the combined use of ether and laudanum. Her life was gaved only by the greatest exertions. No cause assigned. v

At Kendallville, Saturday the 11th, two men named Burnham Z.ud Greenwalt,quarreled over some trivial affair. The former wag stabbed four: times in his body, and dangerously it not fatally wounded. Greenwalt gave himself up, and he is held for trial. .. There has beén a great loss to the maple sngar makers in this section, by the breaking down of the branches of the maple trées by the ‘ice storm some weeks ago. The sap has wasted wonderfully from these wounds. and nearly one half of the sugar crop is thus sup-, posed to have been lest. — Elkhart Union. S

Hon. Gilbert D. Robertson, from Warrick county in the late Legislature, died at his residence in Booneville on Thursday last. Mr. R. was present at the openiug of the session,but ill health obliged him to return home, and he was confined to the house from then till the day of his death. His diseaze was consumption. -‘ T

A German named . Phillip Luxemburger has been missing from his residence, in Fort Wayne, since Saturday the 11th, under circumstances that give rise to the gravest- fears for his safety. He has been employed in the shops of the Pittsburg, I;‘ort Wayne and Chicago railroad in that.city, and was a very steady workman. " ‘Marshall county is building a miagnificent court house, at a cost of nearly $lOO,OOO. When completed it will be surpassed by no court housé in the ‘west. ‘The commissioners of that co. have managed its affairs with admirable tact, and when the court house is finished it is said there will be little or rio debt against it. - The. measles still prevail in the city and county. A gentleman wholives in Franklin ywnship informs-' usl that more grown people have been sick with this disease in that part of the county this year than was ever known in any previous year. - In some cases whole families were sick of this diseaze at thesame time:—New Albany Ledger

The commissioners of Howard co., refused to grant any liquor licenses for the town of Kokomo, and there is only one saloon left in that flourishing f))l'ace.v It is expected this one will be abolished, on the expiration of the present license. Temperance men of that entire section are well organized, vigilant, and enthusiastic in their work. The New Albany Ledger has been informed by a gentleman, who recently passed through several counties in Southern Indiana, that the whéat crop looks finer than he ever saw it, at this season, in forty years’ experience. In Gibson, Pike, Dubois, Harrison, and Orange counties he saw wheat eight inches high, looking green and flourishing. b i Fifty tenement. houses are wanted' by people who are now rushing here like a torrent, and can find ‘no place to shelter. themselves and families.— The like was never known before, and to accommodate as far as ‘possible, those having a surplus of room should try'and put up with a tempprary inconvenience to furnish . them with an abiding place until new buildings can be constructed.—Elkhart Union. - The trial before the county commissioners of the case of a large number of citizens vs. the saloon keepers of Greencastle, in which the former are trying to show the unfitness of the latter for their business, iz creating great interest. The coart house is crowded daily, and in the crowd is noticed a large proportion of ladies. The legal force employed on the side of the eitisens consists of Eckles and Brown,and for the defense, Matson and Claypool, Williamson, Daggy and Turman. - It is reported that a drunken father nearly murdered his young son in the third ward last Sunday. That day is usually too much for a drunken man,. and if we had our desire gratified, all such brutes would be turned into a den to torment each dther instead of punishing innocent women and children We were unable to ascertain how seriously the, child was injured, as the mother seemed afraid to answer the #fons of our réporter.—South Bend on. : Y

he extensive bridge of the T'oledo, bash and Western Railway, over Cat Creek near Lafayette, was burned about 2 . o’clock on Tuesday orning. the 14th. The structure was four hundred and fifty feet in length, d one of the best on the road, - The watchman made hia usual rounds after he passage of freight train No. 6 went ‘east at 11 o’clock, but discovered: no signs of fire. .He went to bed at that time, and shorﬂly afterward was awakened by -the light from the burning bl’idgﬁ. 7 T Ivvrs 3 Srevd o

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

. Thie latest addition to South Bend’s industrial enterprise iz a manutaetory for eroquet sets and ball clubs. .~ .

The Hon. J. Proctor Knotf, who made the Daluth speech in the last congresg, resides at Lebanon, in Kentucky. Ttis to be regretted that heis not'a member of the forty second conoTess. 2

Two men in Louisville married’ twin sisters about two years ago, and have been in a jangle ever since because they look 8o near aii-kes that they can’t tell them apart. , They think of removing to Chicago, where it don’t. make any differenee. G

A brute named Wadkins, residing in Towa, about one week since whipped his wife in such a manner that she died within an hour. She was on the point of confinement, and the uuborn child was killed at the same time. Wadkins etill lives outside the walls of a prison. Buttermilk is eaid to be a remedy for ,dyspepsia. It should be drank at meals in lieu of coffee and tea. The acidity of buttermilk is due to the presence of lactic acid, and as' this acid assists the digestion of any food taken with it, it is hence recommended to those who are troubled with indigestion: : An exchange lets fly the following: “Pulverized alam and common salt put on -a piece of _cotton and shucked into a hollow tooth, will shut up its aching so quick you will want ‘to hug us for telling you—but - you "can‘t unless you have a certificate of good moral ckaracter, are a married woman,and over 25.7 . Foees W T 00T

An exchange says : Brandreth the pill. man, and Grant are worth about two millions of dollars .each.: Grant made his money by “going through” his friends, while Brandreth wasn’t so Earticu_lar.» The result shows that it as taken the pill producer ten times as long to blue'mass a fortune as our respected President: e

The French authorities have been called upon by the German-Govern-ment for information in regard to'the decree of the Government of -National Defence ' expelling Germans from France. They desire to know whether the decree has.'been cancelled, and Frauce degires time for Iconsideration, and it has been granted: { " Anold court house and jail at Depree, Wisconsin, were burned on Sunday morning, and two young men confined for drunkenness perished in the fames. Itwas supposed that the jail was set on fire by Buckley, one of the prisoners. Both were young men of promise, but had unfortunately, been tempted into the indulgence of strong drink. . -5 - e

This is what Wendell Phillips says of the radical party, and he ought to know, for he was pregent at the birth and baptism, and is claimed.as the putative father of the concern: “The Republican party . itself with its brow covered with laurels, is rotten to the core—rotten to the core with the servility to wealth and capital at Wazhington,” And no honest man would dispute Phillips’s word in regard to a matter with which he is so thoroughly acquainted. '

Revolution in Paris.

'The revolutionists are in forge at Montmartre, and have captured ‘and shot two of the Generals (Thomas and Lecomte) who were sént"to,dis]odge them. It is reported that they havé also shot General Vinoy, the Governor of the.city. - The Jowrnal des Debats eays_that revolutionary pillage is mistress of Paris, and that Saturday will be considered one of: the gloomiest hours in the history sof France. — Thiers has addressed a 'proclamation to the madcaps,” warning them that the ~strongest mearures will be inaugurated ‘to bring ‘them into ‘obedience to the constituted authority,which he declares to be a Republic, though they seem to know it not. o=y - LATER.—The murders of ‘Lecomte and Thomag were p'erfet"ratqd Ly order of Riceiotti Garibaldi, who: directs ‘the insurrection. They were shotina garden of Rue des Rosiers. Thomas resisted - vigorously, but Garibaldi ordered him held against' a wall while his body was riddled with bullets.— | Lecomte died with the utmost coolness, gmoking his cigar and refusing to have a bandage over his eyes. . Many other _executions occurred. v

‘Private despatches from France state that the revolution in Paris has its origin in an anti-church movement, incited by Italians. | This accounts for Garibaldi being-at the head of the insurgents. It will be remembered that Thiers sent last week M. Arago to Florence, apparently to get Victor Emmanuel’s aid in withdrawing the Gatribaldians from France, but really, as is now known, to tell Italy that France, now as heretofore, intends to protect the pope. ' Thiersis strongly in favor of the temporal power, and his views beécoming known, along with the effect of Arago’s mission, has driven the Garibaldians ‘to form an <open alliance with ‘the Paris malcontents.— The revolution now ‘progressing is really more a war against the church than against a monarchy.

From Indianapolis,

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., March 20. — The auditor of state has accepted J. V. Bemusdaffer’s offer to take charge of the sinking fund department in his office, in the place of Rev. L. 6. Hay.— The change will take place the first of next month. g LXA Two additional test cases in the new fee and salary law were up in the com: ‘mon pleas court-to-day. Clerk Wallace brought suit against the city commissioner, to recover back money pa‘d to° the connty treasurer,as required by the law, under protest. The court sustained a demurrer to the complaint, thus sustaining the law. The plaintiffexcepted to the ruling, and will carry the case to the supreme court at once,— The other case was a motion to require the elerk to retain certain witness fees under the old bill ‘instead of the new. ‘The mation was overraled, and an appeal- granted to the supreme court.— These cases; with the'one passed upon on Saturday, willtest every feature of the fee and Balary bill. A The ease invo'{ving the constitutionality of* the law: for the distribution of the sinking fund came up for hearing yesterday, Lewis- Jordan appearing for the -auditor of state. -~On - motion, the Yearing of the application for an injunction restraining the auditor was continued gutil next Wednesdayy -~

" The Alleged Southern Outrages. - "'l'bé reports of the majority and minority of the committee appointed by - congréss.to il}]veitigste alleged southern outrages, have been made and published. ‘The majority report, as was expected, endeavors to establish the tzuth of the charges heretofore made by the leading republicans in congress, Whether the majority are in this suc- - cessful, can be best shown by a glance at ‘the report of the minority of the committee. ~ .. . The minority report, that as soon as the committee were appointed, they proceedéd without delay to organjzey and examine witnesses, who appeared to be “ready in waiting.” Ne opportunity was giyen the minority to inspect ‘the report of the majority, or ‘to:ex‘amine the testimony, other’than that - which a single reading in the senate “afforded them. They deny that congress possessed any power to appoint the committee, no law, in any ot the ‘southern states ﬁEving been passed, in“terfering with any of the laws of congress. They deny that there is any organized resistance to the public authorities in any of the southern states, and that all the'troublgg which have: been represented as having an existence in North Carolina .and other southern states, could have been sup- - “pressed by the local authorities, with-. out o much as -calling upon the gtate: ‘militia. It is shown clearly that the ‘whole seheme of investigation info the local affairs of the southern states was _for the purpose of obtaining the testimony of digreputable witnesses against the people in the south, and to screen | a lotof gouthern and northern scalawags from just retribution, prominent among whom ig"Gov, Holden, of North Carolina, who was, at the time the investigation was being conducted, on trial before the legislature of his own state, for high crimes and misdemeanors. -This man Holden, says the minority, has beggared the treasury of his state, and plundered, outraged and. betrayed his people, and now looks to the strong arm of the federal govern-g‘ ment as the only means of rescuing himself and his followers from the just “punishment due their, crimes. " The majority of the witnesses brought to testify-in-the.interest of radicalism are denounced by the minority as reckless. irresponsible persons, who ;have no abiding interest in the state whose citizens they testify againgt, o It is by the testimony “of such geape graces, whose evidence .would be impeached in-any court of justice, that an attempt is being made to bolster up the- - fortunes of the republican party, which bas outlived its usefulness, if it ever had any.—Plymouth Democrat.

Postmasters—Mutilated Currency. Some persons have got an idea into ‘their lead that ‘postmasters are required to redeem mutilated currency. The instructions from the Post Office Department are as follows relative to this matter : “You are not required to “receive mutilated notes, (by the term mutilated is meant notes not worth their full face .undex the usual rules,) which notes are redeemable by the Treasurer of the United States, and by no other officer. . Nor will you receive notes so much soiled or defaced | that 'tl;_pir genuineness cannot be clearly and satisfactorily ascertained.” .

In direct opposition to. the above decision, Treasurer Spinner has decided that postmasters mustreceive mutilated currency for its full value in stamps, when in case of United States notes, not more than one Lweugieth. of the note. is missing, and in cases of fractional currency when not more than one-tenth is missing. Whes such notes and fractional currency-are mutilated beyond the standard referred to no one is.com-. pelled to receive them for any part of their valae, and the only place where such notes may be redeemed is at the United States, Treasury. =~ -

" Warden of the Northern Prison. - Charles Mayne, Esq., the popular ex-Sheriff of this,connty,was appointed ‘Wardén of the Northern State Prison, at MichiganQ;City, orr Saturday last.— The directors could not have conferred the responsible position upon a more ‘worthy, experienced .and competent gentleman, nor one who will reflect greater credit, in its management, upon those who-appointed him and the party whose representative he is in this position. Under the administration of Mzr. Higgins, the working of the prison has attained an efficiency difficult to excel. The prison was excellently managed in all its parts, and from an expense to the State became self-sup-porting. 'We have no apprehensions that, if the Board of Control cordially co-operates with Mr. Mayne, as ﬁhe late ‘Board did with Mr; Higgins, the earn-. ings of the institution will realize a fair surplus- for the State. So, far as we have been able to learn, the appointment of Mr. Mayne gives general satisfaction.—Huntington. Democral.

Emperor Napoleon left Wilhelmshobe on Sunday for England. He was escorted to the railway station at Cassel by a guard of honor composed of two companies of the 83d' Prussian regiment” He arrived ati Dover at 1 o’clock nextafternoon. Immense crowds were waiting at the landing of the stage including 'a large number of French refugees, who cheered enthusiastically as the emperor made his appearance on the docki: - .

) TRUSTEES REPORTS. e Pergjy Township. ' A synopsis-of the report of the Trustee of Perry Township, made to tke County Commissioners of Noble county, State of Indiana, this 7th day ef ‘March, A. p. 1871, of the Receipts and Expenditurca’ of Perry Township, durinﬁ the preceding year;— also of the amount on hand : .Whole amount of funds on hand at the . - date of last report and since received,.ss,26o 86 ‘Whole gmount paid out during tha year.. 3,325 53 ! Whole amount’on hand, «.vavseess...sl,93s 31 Whole amount of Dog Bunds an hand at . date of last report and since received., $382 70 Whole amount paid ont during the year., 332 70 ' Amount on BADd s..eiiteeiniini... B§so 00 Whole amount of Road Funds on hand at | ¥ date of last report and since received.. $639 54 Whole amognt paid out during the year.. 551 09 ; Amonnt 6n haud «u.vveieeinnninnnes ~——BB§g4s Whole amount of Twp. Fund on handat . ¢ ¢ dale of last report and since received.. 8425 61 Whole amount paid out during the year.. = 200 40 Amount on hand /..., uevn.erieie.s $133 21 Whole amount of Special School Fund on hsnd at date of last report: and since YeCOiVed. s . s #ia sdnivivn s Shndanndiie eneve 509603 Whole amount paid out during the year.. - 589 86 Amount on hand ..., iesseeenere.. $lO6 37 Whole amount of Com. School Fund on Zhand at date of last report and since re- - COIVOA o v v yi s swmvederders i veed+ 9,116 98Whole amount paid out daring the years: 1,561 50 Amount op Jag 1, G & tin s 4 & 81855 48 : 810 s SO ﬁc"éonniz:m.’ i 3R © © Trustee Perry Township. "Mal‘@ 2’, 18‘".0 .5 i ; 3 t HOWARD SANITARY AID ASS'N. For the reliéf and.eure of the ‘eﬂhmd unfortun*ll ate, on prlncl%es of Christian P! nthml&y. ‘ . “E:ssays on the Errors of mehi;sd the Follies of Age, in relation ‘to. Mﬂ‘riag and social evils, _with sanitary aid for the- Porwarded free in sealed em%lmeb' AM’?B.‘ , HOWARD Assoura10X, Box P, Philadelphia, Pa, - . . ' June 16y