The National Banner, Volume 5, Number 51, Ligonier, Noble County, 19 April 1871 — Page 2

Hational Banner,

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‘Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God.

J. B. STOLL, EDITOR.

WEDNESDAY,APRIL 19, 1871

] . . THEN AND NOW. iy It will be remembered that during the ~war between Germany and France, quite a purfijmr of American journals were both carnest and enthusiastic in ‘espousing the _cause of the latter. This was eéBpecislly the case after the disastrous defeat of thg French at Sedan, and after the estfiishment of what was termed a “ Repußlic.” Bismarck was freely denourced for waging war upon thie * liberty-loving people “of France,” and' the sympathy of Americans invoked in their behalf, This- sort of reasoning sbiundedfery v p#es_fla:it, but ' recent events havé wrought quite a change “in the minds of these enthusiastic qha\mpions of the French cause. Now, that ‘bloody ¢ivil war bas been inaugurated by thé French themselves, these same journals are clamorous for German inter‘yention to suppress insurrection and riot. Listen what theChicago I_i_epublioqfi of the ‘l2¢h inst.-bas to offers . :

.- It-is clearly the duty of the Germans, having destroyed the Government =of France with the armies that supported it, ~ to put an end to the horrible condition of anarchy into which the country has fallen, The occasion is one of so grave exigency /that hesitation on the score of quibbles ¢ #bout international law, or of the objec "tions of one of the (,)fl‘lelé of -the parties etruggling for supremacy, is inexcusable. That higher law, which defines the dutics which nations owe to civilization and common humanity, ought to be at’once adopted as a-rale of action by Bismarek and his Emperor. App'e?ling to that law for justification, they should occupy Paris immediately witha sufficient force to maintain ; order until -the country shall elect and install its future rulefs, and arm them with sufficient moral and ma-. terial powers for the effective administra: tion pf the laws., Such a movement, it is to,be hoped, will not be much longgr delayed. - e

That steps should be -taken for.the speedy sippression of the horrible acts of " violence thiis.now disgrace the people of France, there can be o doubt ; but we cannot perceive that such intervention is, " incumbint upon Germany ‘alone. It is. trie that the valor of German troops de-’ , strbygd" the Napoleonic dynasty, -but it is net true that-the government which the " French themselves sifibstitgted,in jts place - bas been thus destroyed. Hence, we believe the appeal of the Republican should _be directed as well to other powers of Europe as to Germany. .- G ' The Pittsburg Post, a paper that was +in cordial sympathy with France, is con:, Strained to make this doleful ‘admission :' . “The civilized world will be miore shocked at the blasphemous -conduct of - ‘the Red Republicans of Parig ‘than at the . loss of life. Temples dedicated to the - worship of the living .God, sacked and .desecrated ; the archbishop, one.of the most> venerable anq,jlc’arné}i prelates in -.Europe, stripped naked, bouhd to a pillp;( and scourged, Priests and Sisters of Char; /ity and other societies of religious'women | ‘outraged and murdered, the name of God, - scoffed and jeered by these demons, under . the lead of Garibaldi. It may be in the ~ order of Providence that the return otthe _-German army will be necessary and terminate’ih the destruction of the city itself—(})L:ttcr ‘that than thé present state of af- \: fairs.” . (e . !

‘ Editorial Convention. | 4 . Thie cotivention of editors and publishers of the](}th and 11th Dislricts,‘ at-Go-shen, on Friday last, was unusually largely attended and proved quite intcresting to the fraternity. Several editors who had not heretofore identitied ‘themselves with the association, - parficipated‘. in'its delib-

erations. Among this number’ may be mentioned Dr. Thomas of the Winamac Democrat, who, by the way, is a very in telligent and -well-informed gentleman ; ‘Sam Winter, the sprightly. inlslinger of the Huntington Democrat; jovial Tom . Mays of the Auburn . Courier; Platt MeDobald, forcibleeand graceful writer, of ‘the Plymouth: Démocrat and®Rochester Sentinel ;' and .t.he’ cémic:{lly-dramatic (68 iver- Cromwell Musselman of the Stark county ‘Ledger. All séemed remarkably ‘well pleased’ with the proceedings, a full report of which will appear in our next. The next méeting of the association will be held in October, at Plymouth.

Bohemian Revelatioms. ' The Cincinnati Commercial has a very enterprising special correspondent at Indianapolisz A few weeks since the editor of 'this paver, accompanied by Mr. Sarnig: hausen of F't, Wayne, visited the city of New ‘Albany, which at once furnished gaid “ Bohemian” materidl for a quarter column dispatch, in, which he ventured 10 reveal the object of our mission. His version of “that conference” is decidedly amusing, and furnishes new evidence that “gpecial correspondents” frequently draw very largely upon their imagination in furnishing the public with information in regard to “important political movements.” The Commercial's “’special ” contains 80 mahy gross mis statements that a general * denial ié ‘sufficient to refute the whole . story of the alleged combination for the control of political affairs in this State.

Death of Gen. Ebenczer Dumont. - Gen. Eb. Dumont, ex member of Congress from the Fifth District, and but ‘lately appointed Governor of Iduho, died ‘at his residence near Indianapolis on Sunday morning. He had been in bad health for & long time, and had narrowly escaped death in two or three instances within the pist year. He was's native of Ripley county, this State, and was in his 58thyear. He¢ has held numerous offices of honor in the State, and, at the opening of 'the war, was commissioned-Colonelrotgthe 7th Regiment; leaving the service as Brevet Major General to take a seat in Congress, to which he was elected while in the field. His disease was typhoid pneumonia. ; o The lower House of Congress on Thursday voted (by three majority) to repeal “the law requiring Congress to meet on the 4th of March. Some of the leading republican members were very much opposed to thie aetion, as they are very anxJjous that the Forty-third Congress, at least, shall meet on the 4th of Mm‘ch,fi 1878, ‘The Senate'will probably non-con-v L

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS. =

Aprir 11.—In the Sepate Mr. Sherman (Rad., O.) offered a resolution instructing the Committee on Finance, during the*recess of Congress; to carefully examine the existing eystem of taxation, with a view to propose such amendments to the bill of the House repealing certain taxes, now pending in the Senate, aé will simplify and reduce’ both the internal taxes and the duties on imported goods now in force. The resolution went over, .gnd ‘the K¢ Klux bill was taken up.— This bill was debated by Mr. Edmunds (Rad., Vt.) in favor of the measure and ‘the amendments of the Senate Judiciary ‘Committee, and by Mr. Trumbull (Rad., 'Til.) in opposi‘tion' to the amendments.— He combatted the theory that under the recent constitutional amendments our government had become centralized and its principles changed. - He denied that the tourteentli amendmeht confetred any - rights of citizenship not contained originally in the Comstitution. While that amendment enabled Congress to protect a'citizen from a' discrimination against his rights by a Stite, it did not allow Congress to exercise police power to the destruction of State authority. Congress had no right to substitute the Federal for | the State courts. The latter weré nearer the people, and the nearer the administration of justice between man and man was brought to the people themselves the safer would®be their rights:in person and property. When the Federal ggvernment took to itself the entire protection of the individual citizen of the State in his person and property, | there would be an end to the State government, resylting in an unwise change in our governiental system. =No-vote-was reached. The House of Representatives spent the day in de: bating the Senate amendments to the Deficiency bill. The comments upon:the| extravagance of the administration were very severe. Mr. Cox (Dem., N:. Y.) addressed the House in condemnation of all. deficiency bills, as'they were the result of extravagance and of a bad system of revenue. Deficiency billg were proofs.of unthrift ; they were frauds on the people. 'And Mr. Brooks -showed that the government was now raising a surplus revenue of $100,000,000 beyond what was necessary for the’expenses of the govern ment, and that the natural result was to tempt the flouse and the country and thé _lopby to demand erronecus appropriations. Without dieposing of the bill the House adjourned. : ArriL 12.—1 n the Senate the debate on the Force bill was continued, Mr. Pool, of North Carolina, making his fourth speech on the subject. The two Delaware Senators spoke against the bill. In the House of Representatives there wis | an, animated discussion on the ~ Senate smendment repealing the act, requiring the meeting of each new Congress on the bth of March., Messrs. Dawes and Farnsworth advocated the repeal, 'but B. F. Butler opposed it in a characteristic apeech. He declared boldly that he meant to legislate for the benefit of the Republican party ; he despised the. platitudes of men who said they would not legislate for party. He hinted that Con: gress might be required, in 1872, to throw out the electoral vote of States “which may be carried by fraudulént retutns.”— This looks like divulging prematurely one of the Radical schemes to cheat the, Democrats out of the next Presidency.

Aprin 13.—The Sénate debated the Ku.Kluxall day, and bad an extra session for that purpose in the evening. In the day session lengthy speeches were made by Mr. Thurman and Mr. Davis jn opposition to the bill, and by Mr. Boremsn and Mr.. Sumner’in support of the measure. "In the evening sessign Mr. Osborn (Rady Fla.) advocated the bill, and Mr. Sawyer (Rad, 8. C.) denied the charge of /Mr. Blpi'i' that the failure of.reconstrucsion was owing to the mal-administration ‘of Southern officials. Mr. Blair rather took the wind out of radical charges of. outrages in the South by asking for the reading of the proceedings of a vigilance committee in Virginia City, Nevadas, and various outriges of a recent occurrence in that State, and quoting from the ZTerys-. torial Enterprise, a Refublican paper of Nevada, to the effect that within the last “ten years 200 'murders had been committed in one county of that State, tor which bat two lives has been exacted as the forfeit—one by law and one by violence. . APRIL 14.—The Senate, after its very lengthy debate, finally adopted the KuKlux bill in & much more stringent form than it passed the House., Messrs. Trum-’ bull, Osborne, and Blair labored bard to perfect the bill by omitting some of the 4obn9xiolus sections, especially tha? in relation to the suspension of the habeas corpus at the mere will of the President, but ' without avail ; the party discipline was too strong, except that Hill, Robertson, Schurz, and Trumbull voted witlr the Democrats in nearly every instance.

"+ APRIL 15.—The Senate refused to consider the House Amnesty bill, which was 1 persistently advocated by Messrs. Robertson, Bawyer, and Trumbull. In the House ‘of Representatives the Senate amendments to the Deficiency bill, providing fora large extra outlay of money, were voted down and a committee.of conterence asked for. On motion of Mr. Shellabarger, the Senate amendments o the Ku-Klux bill were taken from the Speaker’s table, and the House proceeded tg vote on theamend‘ments. The amendment extending the right of the*President to suspend the writ of habeas -corpus ‘till the end of the next regular session of &pgrése, .instead of tlll June 1, 18%2, was rejected by 86 yeas against 93 nays. The amendment in relation to the oath-of jurors was rejected without the yeas and nays.. The amendment known as the Sherman ameridment, . agsessing damages on localities, was rejected by 45 yeas against 181 nays. All the other amendments were concurred in, ‘and a.committee of conference was ordered ' on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses. ‘ Messrs. Shellabarger, Scofield, and Kerr mere agpointed.” - T

It has transpired that in. order to aid the Radical party in the Connecticut elections, the President sent advices to the leaders there that he had °retrieved his'steps on the Ssn Domingo job. The President fearing to bring further disaster upon his party authorized éx-Governor Hawley to communieate the intelligence to the Radical party. That New Hampshire election rather took the starch out of little Grant. -~ : :

LETTENS FROM THE, PEOPLE. fUnder this head brief commnunications on any topic of public interest will be published. Theed-

itor wishes it distinctly understood, however,ithat ‘he does not hold himself responsible for opinions ‘here'expressed.] ot : Moty ~ In reading last weeks BANNER we*no‘ticed an article from the pen of “A Patron’s Wife]” in which were set forth a few points of controversy, in behalt.of this wonderful topic (?). This is a free country yet, and as one woman has expressed ‘her opinion candidly, we opine that it would do no harm to express ours, if permitted, through the columns ot the same paper. She does not wish to.agitate woman’s rights ; neither do we, but with the co-operation of our finer feelings we hope to always throw up our bonnet on the negative side of the question. . .

’ ' The hobby tbat there should be no difference in voting for officers ot &xte, } and in voting for officers in the church, ‘sabbath school; &e., is very plain ; pro- ‘ viding we can see the difi'elfe'nce"betwegn jpbliticvmd religion ; between the laws of God *and those of man, and between the teachings of the Savior and the doctrines of wrangling politicians. ‘This seen, we may easily distinguish the propriety ot the one, and the palpable impropriety of the other. It is urged that voting in the . church is allowable, for the reason that it is a time-honored custom,fand it is said we hold up our hends in disgust at female suffrage because it is of & progressive naturé, thus asserting that we do not ‘believe in it for the very weak reason that it'is new. We, be it understood, re not writing Jor any one but ourselves, and, are ‘ready to deny. the charge in our re. spective position as a non-believer. We don't care a splinter for “public opinion” when we believe that God, the bible, chastity and right are on our side. ' We verily believe that there are many réasons for this 'insolent hobby -pow before the people, couched in woman’s rights. There are thousands who are ready to jump at the toss of a hat, providing it be progressive, and there are dozens of Sorosis dpplauders who shout, without ever scanning thé crowd they are shouting with, and also their own grounds.- We do not see the progiession, unless it be the sort that perched on. the banners of Jack and Jill at the foot of the descent. , We have said that God and the bible were on thie negative side of this so-called progression, and we sincerely believe that the voice of woman's great emancipator, Jesus Christ, rebukes the audacious im:prudence of these modern introducers of novel hobbies. The commands of our Lord never sent woman torth as a public teacher in the political highways of life; nor did they presume to call ber to his side as an apostle and preacher. Yet, He l had an oppertunity and plaugible reasons for doing so, if he deemed it tight, for ‘ does he not tell his disciples, in Matt. ix and xxxvii, that ‘“‘the "harvest’ truly <s plenteous,* but the laborers are few.";—.,'f‘ Now, should we not infer from this that l God never designed woman to be a public tedcher?” He would certainly ‘have then‘ commanded her to act. . God’s love enters’

he ' heart ‘of woman and .dedicafes her

skill to deeds of merey,; aud the Savior permitted her to minisMo his wants, to linger around his pathway as an angel of love, ‘and to listen to his voice; but the religion that he taught never produced a bold declaimer, a shameless disputant, and contender for political and ecclesiastical honors and rights. It increased the power of the current of her sweef, soothing home influence but never ch;i)ged its channel. Inharmony with this, her physical constitution protests its inefficiency, and her true woman's nature revolts with indigoation,” and notlung. but the spirit of an Amazon would dare to prompt her to be unsexed by the filthy cesspool influences of political harangue. 7} - As for rendering the morality of politics better by tendering the right of suffrage to woman, Wefal} to comprehend the assertion. By plunging a snowy counterpane into a tub of filthy suds we. “do not better the condition of either, nor - by placing a sound delicious apple with unsound ones we do not render the rotten fruit sound, but the sound apple, if al-' lowed to remain, will be contaminated also. *“Evil communications corrupt good manners,” and morals too. If God designed that both sexes should move in the. same sphere, then why ,'x':ot applaud the | masculine ladies and hail the Martha -Glar’s, the Jael’s, the Queen Elizabeth's, the Joan of Arc's, and the thousands of .others that’ haye unsexed -themselves by stepping out of their sphere which God gave them, as models of our sex ? If masculine ladies, pseudo reformers and strongminded wonsen are models, then why did it happen that such men as George Wash-

San-SShevbad ¥ oriper et At it LN Sl T s e S 78~ LT SR ington, John Q. Adams and John Wesley had - mothers that deemed it a woman's highest privilege, most sacred duty, and most noble characteristic, to dwell in the _holy sanctuary of home, as the center of affection and holy incentives, to a life of -nobleness conducive to the good, the true ‘and the beautiful ? - Why not some Amazonian upholder of Donremi shepherdesses, or flaunting Sorosists ? . Perhaps they were not progressive. = | That is an humbling statement for the ‘mothers of to-day, that woman must look to herself for protection—decidedly humbling..” But let us see where the root of the numerous evils exists. Not in withholding the ballot-from the softer sex, surely not. Lord Brougham tells us that “ the child receives its unchangeable ‘bent’ of character before its fifth year.” Perhaps | it may appear to be mere sophistry to some, yet we believe that the morals of to-day are based upon careleds training, ill management, and absence of unswerving love of christidnity in the mothers and teachers of these immoral, impolite ‘young men, and gay, giddy, tkoughtl'ees, | dressy girls of modern society. Thefault _can not be remedied by the- votes of wo‘men, politically, for it is in the run-at-large system of bringing up the children. Parents thiak that if they can only get the children out of the way, off to school to be looked after by:the already overtaxed teacher, or’out upon the streets to whoop and hallo! or anywhere else, so they may have an hour’s rest or quiet, it is the acme of good management. It may be, but may God take care of the youth, | when mothers think more of quiet than | they do of their children’s future! In fact it is the don't-care, fast young Amerjcan government of our youth that has brought this wretchedness upon us. In the times when. mothers did not care so

much about flouncing; frizzing, puffing, trimming, painting, powdering, and all the gim cracks of the thousand and one fooleries, and cared more for the good name and welfare of the rising generation; there were not so many fallen sons of men, nor was there female suffrage. ' :

Only think of a fashionable woman voting !—and she would vote if any one did, because it would be popular—think of her voting who worries more over the ; set of a satin fold than she does over the welfare of an ,Immortal soui! She, who ~peruses fashions by the hour, while her "bible is neglected, think of her making laws for an enlightened, christianized; and powerful nation. While she indulges in dress, receptions, &c., her children are cuffed about by Bridget, simply because their model (?) marha is too weary ; too ‘busy to bother with them—‘the noisy children.” She is always worried aud tired. How far could this devotee march in a day with a soldier's knapsack on her back and her chignon ¢n herhead! “O, well,” says one, “the ‘women need not fight nor engage 1n soldiering.” -But this seems & one-sided view of “Sorosis.” We believe ¢/ it is a woman’s duty to vote, ‘nominate, and be nominated, to bold offieet—in tact grasp the reins of a government in times of pesce, it should be her ‘duty to defend it in time of war and peril, ' Perhaps the “Patron’s Wife” will number us with the class so, ignorant as to “burlesque” this top round of the ladder, but we cannot help it. We are so far ‘bebind the glorious (?) progression too, as to applaud the doings of those women whb were entitled to vote in Clarendon, Towa ; those who did not present a single ticket at. the polls, and “who were highly indignant that they were expected to do political duty.” Perhaps they ate as oldfoggyish as we are, but, in our humble opinion, ‘they were as sensitive to their interests as any Sorosis. e We do not write for the sake of controversy, nor do we intend to provoke the displeasure of the Wawaka correspondent, ‘whom we believe to be candid, truthful, and honest in ber opinion—as we are in ours—but we simply write because these are our opinions, and for the same reason that she did, viz: the good ot our sex.— We do not think the editor is on our side, for we know he is, ) i —

; MANDA LEVERING, Maple Ridge, April 18,1871, “

Western ‘Corre’spoqdeneo. ) NEvapa Crry, VERNON Co., Mo, ) e - . April 11th, 1871, } J. B. BToLL— Dear Sir:—According to promise, I shall. attempt to give ;ofi;a short account of my proceedings since I saw you. Taking the westward bound train, at Ligonier, last Tuesday afternoon, I arrived in Chicago “on time,” nothing, unusual-occurring on the way. . At Chicago I barély had time (after bussipg to the Union Depot) to shell out $25 for a ticket to Fort Scott, ‘when “all aboard " wasgounded and we commenced a long night's ride at nine o’clock, upon the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. Arriving at Galesburgh at 5 o'clock next

morning, we stopped twenty minutes for

—slop, (the Galesburghers call it coffee.) Reaching Quincy at 9 4. ai, I concluded to look around there for awhile. I spent the day with the families of those model gentlemen, Willis and Milton Van Frank, whose estimable wives are daughters of our old friend Isaac Tibbott, of Wawaka. They sparcd neither pains’nor trouble in their efforts to ;entertain’ me — bringing out their ca;rifiges,'and giving me some splendid drives in the suburbs;of their | beautiful city. But all things end, and st 11 » M. I took passage upon the “ Old Reliable Hannibal & St. Jo. R, R.,” as they very largely advertise it. If what I'saw is a-fair sample I'would warn all travelers to avoid, if possible, said “Old Reliable.”, There is no accommodation, no gentlemanly conduct shown by the employegs'at. the depot, or by the train conductor. lln making up the train at Quincy, although all of the coaches were lighted, the two réar cars were kept locked, while an offi-. cer went into the others and crowded the passengers three in a seat, putting those of us who had first class tickets into second class coaches, with dirty, filthy emigrants’; and so, with the seats crowded, and the standing room all occupied, themiserable, squalid old eoaches moved out,. leaving the comfortable first class coaches empty 2xjd locked standing in the depot. That’s what they did on*‘Old Reliable.” After a whole night's ride, ‘under such’ uncomfortable circumstances, we arrived | in Kansas City next morning, and after a few minutes delay, took passage on'the Missouri River, Ft. Scott & Gulf R. R.— What a contrast! Coaches all new, clean and comfortable; everything seemed in-:

viting you to take a ride: The road is splendid, passing south through some of the most beautiful scenery I have yet beheld. Large, fertile prairies stretched out to illimitable distances upon either side, give to the traveler an impulse to spring from the cars and strike out on foot to explore the beauties of nature. But I. didn't jump. I shall say nothing of Ft. Scott. Same evening I ran down from Scott to Nevada City, upon the Sedalia branch of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad. 55 ‘ e

:Nevada City is about the size of Ligonier, is county seat of Vernon ppunty,Mo. I am at present “located” a'few miles from Nevada, and from my window hundreds of cattle can be seen feeding upon the broad prairies. : i I had a splendid ride a few days ago—a kind of border ruffian ride. Madea raid, in ‘company with a friend, over into the southern part of- Bourbon county, “ bleeding ” Kansas. Our ride was 15 miles across the rolling prairies. Seated upon & large, spirited horse, I was just in my element ; ;the day wis warm but the wind was “high;" for fear of losing my old slouch hat, I put it under my arm and fode for miles in a gallop that would bave dope honor to a Comanche. But, our ride home—you should ‘have seen us. With the heavens black with thunderclouds, coming up from the south-west, vivid streams of lightning seeming to run over the very prairie, wind whistling around our ears 80 that it ‘was impossible to hear each other spesk, the prairie on fire in sight upon oar right and upon our left, occasional large cold drops blown -upon us from the overhanging clouds, the lasteight miles of our ride were really stirring; we did not pretend to keep trails, but crossed the trackless prairie. - - Excuse me—l am making my letter too long; I'll simply add we got wet some. Yourd, &, -~ W.H. FRANKS,

STATE l‘l'“fl?

The gospel is expounded from twen-ty-five pulpits in Fort Wayne.

A jury has decided that it is only worth 81 to kiss a Winnamac girl.

- Qver one hundred business and dwelling houses are under contract at Fort Wayne. ST .

Dr. 8. H. Rerick, clerk of Lagrange county, is suffering from a severé stroke of paralysis. - - :

| Vice President Colfax will bein Lafayette on the 26th instant and deliver an address at the Odd Fellows celebration. - 0 :

The proceeds of the German Peace ceiebration at New Albany on Easter Monday, about 81,500, will bé‘sent to Germany. ) |

~ In Rising Sun there is a general oppogition manifested to nominating tickets for municipal officers by the political parties. - "o

In Mis}mwaka, when they want a full house to hear a preacher, they get up a wedding = This is said to be a perfect success. : 1

The Catholics of Jagper, Dubois co., are building a magnificent ‘church, eighty by one bundred and sixty feet, which is to cost $85,000.

John Murphy, a South Bend butcher, was found dead in a barn on Sunday last. An empty demijohn byyhis side told the story,.

«A Moral and Social Union” has been established in Vincennes, and. as an incentive to morality, a ten-pin alley 18 connected with the institution. }

The ladies of Valparaiso have discarded sea-sideg, sun-shades, ‘and the like,and adopted the old fashioned and almost forgotten sun-bonnet. Good.

Vigo .county mothers, when having their children’s pictures taken, gpank them lustily so that the taces of the little innocents will show a healthy color.

Some hardened wretch, without any fear of a hereafter before his eyes, recently stole ten dollars from the résidence of a Methodist ministerat Worthington. e )

A correspondent of the: Chicago leublican hoists the name of the Hon: -D. W. Cunningham, .of Fountain co., for President in 1872. So says the Covington Friend. . .~ One of the beautiful female leopards with Robinson’s menagerie gave birth to a sprightly little cub during the exhibition in Terre Haute Wednesday afternoon, of last week. =~ -~ The Mount Vernon Democrat has temporarily suspended the publication of its-daily edition, owing to the difficulty experienced in\grocuri'ng the tel‘egraphic_news. It hopes to resume ‘goon. . 3 N ‘

~ Jacob Beard, an old Latayette woodsawyer, and who has_received a par: tial support from tb@poor fund for several years, has fallen heir to an estate in Pennsylvania valuéd at forty thousand dollars. - ; |

- The people of Ft. Wayne take such an absorbing interest in the noble game of base ball that they: tear down the fence surrounding the grounds and use the boards to make pig stys, hen coops and other mementos. '

Fort Wayne is frightened over the proposed removal of the shops of the Toledo, Wabash and Western road from that city, and the papers frantically call upon the people to devise gome’means to retain them there.

. The editor of the Valparaiso Messenger ag?)tised for a girl to do housework, and his wife next day presented him a “lively girl baby. But the advertisement is renewed this week ; he says he wants' one who is older and has had experiénce. o On Saturday a Lafayette father arrested his son, a boy of sixteen years of age, on a charge of assault and battery. This so incensed the lad that he entered complaint against his parent, charging him withhaving stolen a saw from one of the churches of the city. A coal oil ]amp exploded in an Evansville dwelling on Saturday night, Bth instant, and a little heroine, only eleven years old succeeded in saving a baby brother from the flames, though in 80 doing she was so badly burned that she died in a few hours: =~ =

~ On Wednesday of last week, a:man named Feathers, whilé at work in a saw mill about three miles southwest of New Carlisle, was struck on the head by a piece of scantling which caught “in the saw, with such force as to mash in his skull and break some of the bones in his face. He lived about an hour after the accident and died unconscious. .

On Thursday morning the 13th inst., about 5 o’clock a fire broke out in the extensive furniture manufactory of the Knoblock Brothers,at South Bend, and from thence the flames soon enveloped the chair factory of Huey Brothers and the Taylor saw mill, all the buildings being entirely destroyed. Each of the factories had a saw mill in connection, and the destruction of the three leaves the place without one of these establishments. 'The total logs will not fall short of $50,000.

" Latest from Washington. : _ On Monday the republican senatorial caucus, with-86 out of 58 Republican Senators. voting, decided, :by 16 to 20, that thefi:‘lod‘se amnesty bill should not be con sidered by the Senate at* this session.— Little Graut ordered that it be thusly. . Argument commenced on Tuesday in the United States Supreme Court on the following points: First, is the act of Congress known as the legal tender act constitutional ? Second, is it valid, as applicable to transactions since its passage? ' : o : -The ‘committee on contested elections -nanimously decided”against reopening the case of Gen. Schenck vs. Lewis D. Campbell. s ‘ The conference committee on the disagreeing votes of the two Houses on the Ku Klux bill bave not reconciled all the differences, but will probably reach a result by Tuesday morning. So far there is a prospect of a more liberal bill than was passed by the Senate. ' It is agreed by the conference already that the test oath for jurors shall be abolished. The principal point of difference is on the Senate proposition that required that persons shall bave indemqigs from the citizens of the county in which they live. ‘i

Senator Sumner is preparing a speech in denunciation of Secretary - Fish's man, agement of the-State Department.

THE CIVIL WAR IN FRANCE:

APRIL 13.—There was heavy fighting all day yesterday on the gouthern and eastern outiskirts: of Paris. The canonade between 'Chatilion and Issy, which are in possesion of the Communists; and the southern forts, was incessant, and infantry and artillery were also engaged. The main battle of yesterday, however, seems to have been fonght in the Bois de Boulogne and at Asnieres, a little to the north, and in this conflict it is evident that- at the close of the day the Communists were holding their own:successfully. The Commune was forwarding reinforcements to the troops engaged, and the. wounded were coming into Paris in large numbers. The losses are reported to’be heavy. The reports of the. gacking of churches and murders of priests by the Communists scontinue to reach London from Versailes. ‘The French prisoners in Germany are being forwarded home rapidly, those who favor,the Versailes government receiving the preference. . j - APRIL 14.—The loss sustained by the troops of the Vergailles goverment in the attack on Paris on Wednesday night turned out to be very severe. — Thiers has concluded to await reinforcements before renewing the fight. From communists sources we are informed that the capitulation of the government is hourly expected. This, of course, is mere bravado. It is rumored that the returned Metz prizoners are tinctured with commun‘sm. M. Assy and Genéral Bergeret have been condemned to death by the commune. — Their late victories have made the insurgents bolder than ever,and inspired thent with renéwed faith in the success of their cause. : ; APRIL 15.—The communists have triumphed, the Versailles army, after two days’ battle, has bfen beaten. at every point and is in retreat. MacMahon is on the defensive and fortifying himself beyond Choisy le Roi and I'Hay, and, at Versailles, the opinion ig now expressed that the red republic will ultimately be successful in France. This, in a few words, is the news from the seat of the civil war this morning. Dombrowski, the victorious general of the communists, now- occupies with his troops Asnieres,” on the northeast of Paris ; Neuilly on tho cast, Villejuif and Chatllion on the eouth, and Vitry on the southwest. MacMahon’s army still covers Vergailles, and the Marshal announces that he will make no fresh attack on the metropolis until he 'is heavily reinforced. It is probable though that Dombrowski will force another fight by advancing. The brunt of the battle on Thursday was at Asnieres. The commander of the Ver sailles troops made persistent assaults, but was finally repulsed. 'Previous. to the general failure of the opporations against Paris, M. Thiers was waited upon by a deputation from the Com-* mune with proposals for peace. He expressed a willingness to guarantee the continunance of the republic, but firmly refused to recognize the beliger ancy.of the communist authorities, or, even to enter into a treaty with them What will be the fate of Paris under the new regime it is not difflcult.to conceive. The reds are utilitarians. They not only propose to turn the palaces and parks into cash, but are entertaining a proposition from American specs ulators to dispoze of the Vendome monument for old brass. - A -APRIL 16.—There is a lull in the fighting, and Paris is, making preparations for a siege. - Thiers has issued a circular, in which he says that the late fighting was unimportant; that the Versailles troops repulsed a sortie; and that everything looked well. DBat he says nothing of making a forward movement. General Cluseret reports. that on Friday night he repulsed the Versdilles troops. : APRIL 18.—~The fighting continues around Paris, with alternating successes by the government and communists. Great devastation has been caused by the bombardment. The crisis is believed to be approaching, the government expecting a speedy surrender of the insurgents, who have sustained heavy losses during the last engagements.— A coalition of Bourbons and Orleanists is reported. o

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

A colored page har been appointed in the House of Representatives. An oil train was destroyed by fire on the Erie road the other Sunday.— Loss about $60,000. , :

A fire in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Tuesday night of last week, destroyed thirty buildings. Loss, $300,000.

An Indian massacre occurred near the Mexican boundary line on Wednegday last, In pursuing the marauders the U. 8. troops came in collision with some Mexican troops. .40 of the former were killed. o

The sorrows of the Spanish government in Cuba seem to be increasing.— The latest advices report that the organization of the insurgents is more complete than ever before, and that the situation is very embarrassing, especi‘ally at Santiago and Sancti Spiri?us. Several engagements have been fought, in which large losses are reported and ‘some successes for the insurgents. i ~ Besides being corruFt and pig-head-ed, Grant is ungrateful. A few days ago he removed Moses H. Grinnell from the custom house of New York. Grinnell gave $5,000 toward the purchase of a house for Grant, by which act' he received the appointment of which he has now been deErived_. It was but a few weeks ago that he gave $l,OOO to carry the Connecticut election. : ;

There is - another bit of corruption coming to the surface in Washington, Ex-Representative Hamilton, of Florida, publishes an affidavit in which he charges Senator Osborne with offering him, through his brather, $20,000 and 2,500 shares of railroad stock to vote for a railroad swindle that Osborne was trying to engineer through congress. It is needless to say that all the parties are radicals and howl lustily about the Ku Klux.

~ Brother-in-laws are fit for other uses than filling good fat offices, They are now successfully engaged in Chicago in shooting their sisters’ husbands whenever it suits that hysterical feminine to grow jealous. The latest case of murder in that city of matrimonial infelicity was precipitated by one of those cunning' deviges of the devil, an anonymous letter. How much misery bas ieen wrought in households by this means it is mpossible to relate, but it is a sad fact timt as many thoughtless, as really wicked, people practice it everywhere, « :

- LIGONIER MARKET REPORT. Wheat-—-white, ... 143 (C0rn,.........40 to 46 Wheat—Red,..... 135 |BeesWax, .. ... 30 0818, . cuvoeensnns 45 |Butter. ... ~,. 15 Potatoes; ......... 70 [Lard,....i....... 10 Flax 5eed,....... 1 75 'Eggs,_..;g..-..’... . 08, W001,.........40 to 42 /Feathers......... 80§} --——————‘———-._'-———————p——j———‘ EENDALLVILLE MARKET . (Corrected Weekly by William Grok.) Wheat—white, ... 1 45 [C0fn,.,....;...... 48 Wheat—red...... 134 |BeesWax,....... '3O 08t ...cceune.e... 47 |Butter, ... ..... RS P0tat0e5,......... 60 |Lard,............ 09 F1ax8eed,........ 115 | BRSOy, cv.div... v 08 Wool .........40't0 45 |Feathers,........ 90 Clover Seed....... 6.15 Ta110w.......... 07 POTK. . eveevrnins 820 |HAY.oenrnrorrrn 650 ‘Turkeys, Live,.... 08 |Chickeng, Live... 05

To Nebraska, California, Kansas;and the B, &X, : Railroad Lands. P ' The'starting-points of this route are at Chica go and Peoria. The central point is the city ot BURLINGTON, on the Mississippi.. It traverses Illinois and the whole breadth of southern lowa. Near the -Missouri, its trunk forks into three branches, forjt has three western termini. -

Its northern terminus is Council Bluffs, where, crossing to Omaha, it connects with the Union Pacific for all places on the, intra-continental and Pacific slopes, Over-land travel and traffic choose this reliable route more and more.

Its next terminus is Lincoln. the capital of Nebraska, fifty:five miles west of the Missouri, af Plattsmouth. This is the only diréct avenue to the South Platte country, where the sales of railroad land last season, rose to half a million. . ‘ltav third terminus is at Hamburg, and at Ne-_ ‘braska City. At Hambfirg',_it makes close con- 1 nections, twice a day, for St.,Joseph, Leaven- | worth, Kansas City, and the whole South-west, 1

}n journe_ving then, from the East to Kagsas, via Burlington, you enjoy advantages you can secure in no other lime. You both pass over a road second t¢ no other in speeéd, safety, or any Pullman luxury of modern travel; and while on your way, suryey the garden of Illinois and Missouri, as well as 400,000 acres of prairfe in Soutt-western Jowa, now in market at low prices and long credit. o

Keep it then before people westward bq;npd, ‘““to take the Burlington Route.”’ i Mr. Isaac E. Knisely is agent for ' the Company -in this place, and ‘will farnish any desired information, on application. .~ . -

gBNDPARLVILg o FOR'T VVAIVX’NIvE‘. DOWN GO. = | THE PRICES! Wm. GROH’S SN Price List!

OFFICIAL PRICE LIST, ~ FOR CASH oxrr! | Young Hyson Tea, 50 ,cté Ib. - do- do- 75 - i'dol do 80 v Sdo ' dol 00 ~“ _ do B dolé:')}‘jy“ Best ever import’d 160 « . Gunpoivdé'r Tea, 125 « | ©do! do 160 « Imperial 100 | do gy i Golden I{iokC(f)ife;e,: 20 cts. Choic)e} Ca !22} . | J m:'a,t Gemiine old Gov't, 250 Syrups .qf all kinds at the low.est prices. | S’}ivel’ .Dr‘ips, down to $1 a gal. N. O. Molasses, best made, $l. Crushed Sugar, 14 cts. per lb. Powdereda do 14 - « ‘Granulated ¢ -~ 14 “

Havemyer & Elder’s A Coffee Sugar, for 124¢. per pound. Brown Sugar, good article, Be. Best Demarara Sugar, 123 c.

Pepper, very ¢lean, 80c. “White Fish, 100 Ib. packageé, . Warranted fresh and good, $7.75 per half barrel, Pickerel, Cat. Fish, Trout, Cod

. Fish and Mackerel, at very low figures. - Bk Fine Salt, $2.25 bbl. X. Y. or - Michigan. ~ Baby Wagons that cannot be " beaten 1 price and quality. Fine Cut and Plug Tobaccos, ~ ab greatly reducee prices. Liberal Discounts Made on Teas, -+ lin b Ib. Packages.: '

Also, GOODS JOBBED T 0 RETAIL

DEALERS AT LIBERAL RATES.

lam also Selling the :Celglirated BU’!"l‘éß CHURN.

- Oome and give me a trial arfd you will be satisfied, as all my Goods are warranted as repregented. .- Sty e

The above aré Oash Prices, or to ‘exchange for Produce. When'sold on time, five per cent, will be added to the above prices, as I cannot sell as.cheap for long-winded paper as I can for Cash or Produce, . Wm.GROH. ‘Kendallville; April 18, 1871+ :

HOOFLANDS = . GERMAN '~ MEDICINES. HOOFLAND' GERMAN BITTERS, HOOPLAND'S GERMAN TONIC. HOOFLAXD'S PODOPHYLLIN PILL THOOFLAND'S GREEK OIL -

— ’ i . Hoofland’s German. Bitters, o A Bitters without Alecohol or Spirits of any kind, Is different from all others. It is composed of the pure'juice or VITAL PRINCIPLE OF RQOTS, HERBS and BARKS (or as medicinally termed,. extracts), the worthless or inertfportions of the ingredients not being used.. Therefore, in one bottle of this Bitters there is contained as much medicinal virtue as will be found in geveral gallons of ordinary mixtures,— The Roots, &c., used in this Bitters are grown in Germany, their vital principles extracted in that country by a scientific Chemist and forwarded to the manufactory in this city, where they are compounded andbottled. Containing no spirituous ingredients, this Bitters is free trom the objections urged ngalnst all others ;.no. desire for stimnlants can be induced from their use, they .cannot' make-drunkaids, and cannof, under any -cireumstances, have any but j beneficial effect. . ;

Hoofland’s German Tonie.

Was compounded for those not inclined to extreme bitters, and i 8 intended for use in cases when some alcoholic stimulant is required in connegtion with the Tonic properties of the Bitters. Each bottle of the Tonic contains one bottle of the Bitters, combined with pure SANTA CRUZ RUM, and flavored in such a manner that the extreme bitterness of the Bitters is overcome forming a preparation thatis highty agreeable and {\lea.sant'»to the palate, and containing the medicinal virtue of the Bitters, - The price of the Tonic is §1.50 per bottle, which many persons think toohigh. They must take into ‘consideration thatthe stimulant used is guaranteed to be of a pure quality. A poor article.could be furnished at a cheaper price, but is it not better to pay a little more and have a good article ¥ A" medicinal preparation.should contain none but the best ingredients, and they who expeot.to obtain a cheap compound will most certainly be cheated. . LI

They are-the Greatest known

a " Remedies X & For igVER:GOMPLA’:INT, DYSPEPSIA, NERV OUS DEBILITY, JAUNDICE, DISEASE OF ' KI‘DNEYS,%ERU.PTIONS or.'rmz: SKIN, R t_md all dise-e: axfising from a DisAA . ordered . Liver, Stomach or. } ‘ SN ‘IM’PURITY OF THE ' : 'BLOOD.

Read the following symptoms : : Constipation, Flatulence, Inward Piles, Fulness of Blood to the head, Acidity of the Stomach, Nauses, Heart-burn, Disgust for Food, Fulness or Weight in he Stomach, Soar Eructations; Sinking r Fluttering at the Pit of the Stomach, Swimming of the Head, Hurried or ;Difficult Breathing, Fluttering at the Heart, Choking or Suffocating Sensations when in a Lying Posture, Dimness of Vision, Dots or Webs before the Sight, Dull Pain in the Head, Deficiency of Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin and Eyes, Pain in,the Side, Back, Chest, Limbs, &ec., Sudden Flushes of Heat, Burning in the Flesh, Constantimaginings of’Evil, and Great Depression of Spirits. All these indicate Disease of the Liver or Digestive Organs . combined with impure blood. The use of the Bitters.or Tonic will soon cause the above symptoms to disappear, and the patient will become well and healthy, ;- Lo 1

9 A . P Dr. Hoofland’s Greek oil, Lightning Cure for all kinds ot Palns ' and Aches. APPLIED EXTERNALLY.—It will cure all kinds ei Pains and Aches, such as Rheumatism, Neuralgia Toothache, Chilblaing‘ Sprains, Bruises Frost Bites Headaches, Pains in the Back and Loins, Pains in the Joints or Limbs, Stings of Insects, Ringweorms, ete. . : TAKEN' INTERNALLY:—It will cure Kidney Complaints, Backeches, Sick Head Ache, Colic Dysentery, Diarrhoea, Cholera Infantum, Chelera Morbus, Cramps and Pains in the Stomach, Fever and Ague Couglis, Colds, Aslhma, etc, :

Dr..Hoofland’s Podophyllin,

I'vvo Pills aDoso.

The most powerful, yel innocent, Vegetable Catharti . ~ known, 5 o

It is not negessary to take a handful of thege Pills to produce ‘the desired effect; two of them act quickly and powerfully; cleansing the Liver, Stomach, and ‘Bowels of all impurities. The principal ingredient is Podophyllin, or the Alcoholic Extract of Mandrake which is by many times more Powerful, Acting, and Searching, than the Mandrake itself, .Its peculiar action is upon the Liver, cleaning it speedily from all obstructions, with all the power of Mercury, ye tfree from thle injurious results attached to the use of the mineral. : i i 58

For all diseases, in which the use of a cathartic ia indicated, these Pills will give entire satisfaction in every case. They never fail. o W ‘ln cases of Liver Complaint, Dyspepsia; and ex treme Costiveness, - 5 '

Hoofland’s German Bitters or Tonic

should be used in connection with the Pills. The tonie effect of the Bitters or Tonic builds up the system. The Bitters or Tonic purifies the Blood, strengthens the nerves, regulates the Liver, and'gives strength ‘énergy, and viggr. : : ; Keep your Bowels active with the Pills, and tone up. the system with Bitters or Tonic, and no disease can retain its hold, or ever. assail yon.: - _ These medicines are sold by all Druggists-and ‘dealers in medicines everywhere, X Reeollect that itis : o

' DR. HOOFLAND’S . GERMAN REMEDIES,

that are unlvoml:{ used-and highly recommended and do net allow the Druggist to induce you to take anything else that he may say is just as good, because be makes a larger profit on it. These Remedies will ‘he sent bfi Exémm to ang locality, upon. 3”"““““ to the PRINCIPAL OFFICE, at the GERMAN MEIIX[CINE STORE, 631 ARCH ST., PHILADEL, PHIA. T : Sy ;

CHAS. M. EVANS, Prop’r.

' Formerly C. M. JACKSON &CO These Remediss ‘are for Sals'by Driggists, Store keepers. and Medieine Deglers, everywhere. throughout the United States, CanudasjSouth A - vrice; and the West Indies, : 1351