The National Banner, Volume 7, Number 21, Ligonier, Noble County, 18 September 1872 — Page 2

A Iy ® : | : fational Hanner. -= ¢ m S e — e e L v Niors e oo et WEDNESDAY, SEPT., 18, 1872,

‘*We have turned our hacks on| the past—we stand in the present and look to the future. The past is lost.to ug—the future is ourg, lét us make it a glorious one.”—THos. A. HENDRIOKS, NATIONAL REFORM CKET. FOR PRESIDENT? ! HORACE CGREELEY, : Of New York. FOR ylon-ru;smm'ré) B. GRATZ BEROWIN, Of Missouri. e i DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET. For Governor—THOMAS A, HENDRICKS. Lieut, Governor—JOHN R, CRAVENS. Congressmen-at-Large} JOTIN'S. WILLTAME, Secretary of State—OWEN M. EDY. : Auditor of State—JOlN B, STOLL. : Treasurer of State—JAMEg B. RYAN. i Supt. of Public Im}tr’n—-MIL’I“ON . HOPKINS. Atlorney General-BAYLESS W. HANNA, Clerk of Supreme Court—ED, PRICE. Reporter of Supreme Court- J. C. ROBINSON. . - DISTRICT TICKETS. : Congressman, 10th Dz'slr-z"c.t :-E. VAN LONG. Common Pleas Judge, 19th Dist.— L.|E. GOODWIN. Prosccuting Attorney—D: G, HUSSELMAN. Joint Representative for Elkhart & Noble Counties i HARRISON WOOD. A . COUNTY TICKET. " Representative—HENKY C. §TANLEY, ; Treasurer—JAMES J. ASH, ! Sherif—DAVlD HOUGH. / g ! Recorder—CLAßK SCOTT. Corongr—JOHN A. SWAGER. : Surveyor—JOHN GUTHRIE, = s Real Estate Appraiser—JOHN| A. BRUCE. | i Commissoners. 1 South District—JAMES CUNNINGHAM, 1 Middle District—SOL. HARDENBROOK.

SENATORIAL CONVENTION. To the Democrats and Liberal Repub--licans of LaGrange and N{)ble»;counties:' You are requested to meet at Wolcottyille on the 24th of the present month to put in nomination a candidate for Joint Sen ator. ' Each county to e entitled to the same number of delegates that they had ‘at the last Cohgressional Convention. A. 8. PARKER, Ch’m of Ncble Co. , G. A, CUTTING, Ch’'m LaGrange Co, - B—- ' 'The Elections, At'the Maine election, on the 9th inst., the majority of Perham, radical candidate for Governor, over Kimball, Democrat, was about 16,000 ; a radical loss on the vote for Governor in 1868 of 4,000. In that year the vote for Governor, the largest ever polled in the State, stood : radical, 75,834 ; democratic, 55,431. This fall the radical vote reaches only 70,000, and the liberal, abont 54,000., L In Vermont, at the election on the 3d inst., the wajority for the Grant candidate for Governor wus 25,000'; a radical loss of 12,500 on the vote for Governor in 1868. In this State the vote of 1868 was: Rep. 44,167; Dem. 12,045. In 1872, Rep., 42,000; Lib., 17,000, ; - These figures show that even in Maine and Vermont the Grant party, aided by the Boutbons (who at the time of these clections were hopeful of success at Louis.ville), the lavish 'expenditure of money, -and .strenuous efforts by all the well known federal appliances, the liberal par. ty has gained, and the Grantites lost; the gain for the Liberals beigg about six per cent. 1n each State. A gain in each of the - other States of one-balf of six per cent. will elect Hordce Greeley by a fine majority. DBut a much greater gain than this is confidently anticipated in the Middle and Western States. As there never were any hopes entertained by the Liberals of carrying Maine or Vermont, their organ--ization was neglected; énd their efforts less active ‘than they have been in the other States. : | :

; Be on the Alert! Whateyér one’s opinion may have been, in the past, of Hon. Thomas A. Hendricks, men of all parties ever have, and do today, concede his konesty, His fingers are clean; no dishonest act can truthfully be charged to his account., Above all other things, the people should be mindful of a candidate’s honesty. With Hendricks for Governor, the tax payers of Indiana may rest assured that no schemes of plun: der willfbe countenanded by the chief executive officer of the State. No one will dare to approach him with a dishonest propoesition. The lobbyists know this. But how is it with ‘Tom Browne? His most intimate associates at Indianapolis are the men who for ye;'us have been connected with schemes tér plundering the people. His most enthusiastic supporters in the convention that ﬂominhted him for Governor were Ham Conrer, the Douglass boys, John D. Evans, and Tom McCarty. It is reasonable to infer that these men would exercise scme influence over Tom ‘Browne, in the (not #m)bhble) event of his election. Therefore, we say, let the people be on the alert, hn,d elect a gentle: man to the Governorship who can neither be bribed nor cajoled |to perform a ques. tionablé act. A Grant Mathematics. Onr radical friends| endeavor to figure up an dnereased majority’in Maine by comparing the vote of this year with that of last. Elections for Governor occur annually in this State; hence little interest is taken by the minority party, until the Presidential year, when some effort is made to get out the full vote. In 1868 Grant's majority was 28,000; in 1869 the Governor’s majority vae only 6,981; in 1870, 9,506, and in 1871, 10,631, whilst in each presidential year,for twenty years, the average majority has been 23,284, So we see what reliable |scholars our Grant friends choose to become by adopting an absurd system of com%amon to count upon probabilities, - = . This year their majority is 16,000. Of ‘course they compare this with last year tl% ggoortain the gain, ﬁmtead of the year

SEVEBAL prominent persons, accused of accepting Credit Mobilier stock in return for - their legislative influence, held a _meeting in New York City on Friday eveniog last, for the purpose of drawing up & formal denial of the charges against ,them ; this paper was prepared and placed before Mr. Oakes Ames for Lis sigoature, and that geavleman; when it came to the point of signing and sending out such an enormots falsehood, f ukly acknowledged that he could not i‘r perjury upon his soul. . Buch being the case, the equivocating personal denials made by two or three of the alleged beneficiaries will have “but little weight wiﬂ? the thinking public,

REVENUE REFORM, . One of the distinctive features of the political discussions of this campaign congists in the labored efforts of the Grant partisans in defence of the Administration and its candidates. When a denial is useless by way of defence, they “confess and avoid” after the manner of the legal disputant; and what attempts at “avoiding” or justifying the wrongs and shortcomings of the Grant administration ! What remarkable specimens of political sagacity,candor and logic they do exhibit ! The leading Grant organ of the State, tte Indianapolis Journal, in an article of the. 2d inst., on the topic of revenue reform, charges Senator Hendricks with “gross misrepresentation” in saying that “one fourth of the revenues of the Government is annually lost in the collection.” In order that our readers may see how this astute political writer attempts to screen his party from the responsibility of this abuse in ‘the Government, we reproduce his own argument: “The Democratic press of the State are commenting with much gusto on a statement that Mr. Hen dricks makes in Lis speeches to the effect that ‘one-fourth of the revenues of the Government is a»nhually lost in/the colléction,’ and in proof of the statement he cites a report of the Civil Service Commission of December 18, 1871. If this were true it would Indicatc a very bad state of affiirs; and if the report cited by Mr. Hendricks supports his statement, he is entitled to the benefit of such strong ‘e‘vidcnce. But it does not say what he says it does, nor any thing that can be fairly construed that way, or indeed as, applying to Grant’s administration at all, then: Mr. Hendricks is guilty of gross_ misrepresentation.” The Journal continues: “The report in question, after discussing the weak points of our prescxm;ﬁ civil service system, and the cvils which bad grown up from Jackson’s time to the present, says ‘lt is not easy to compute in figures the exact economical difference between a 4 good and bad system of the civil service. It is necessarily a matter of inference and of comparison between the probable opération of a careless and careful method. But it is calculated by those who have made a careful study of the facts that one-fourth of the revenue of the United States is annually lost in collection, and for a large part of that loss & system of the service which is fataily unsound may reasonably be held responsible” The same journal then adds: “The Commissioners do not say that one~, fourth part of the revenue is lost, but that of a loss, which those who have studied | the facts estimate at one-fourth, ‘a large part’ is owing to ourfatal@ unsound system of ciyil service. The Commissioners were not trying to estimate nor to fix the luss; they were simply aiming to prove that our system was seriously defective, and they were of the opinion that a large part of all the lost revenues of the government, which somre persons estimated at one-fourth, was owing to such defective system.” Now, we appeal to the candid Jjudgment of any honest man, who understands the English language, with the abilitvy to discriminate between the import of the plainest of terms, if the Journal in the last sentence above quoted, has. not completely contradicted ‘its own assertion in saying that the report of the Civil Service Commission did -not say what Mr. Hendricks said it did.” The clause of the report relating to this subject as given above is quoted from the Journal article, Itthen must be correctly stated. = This report says that “cne-fourth’ of the revenue of the government is annually lost in the collection.” But that is exactly what Mr. Hendricks said verbatim et literatim. Then where is the “gross misrepresentation” with which Mr. i Hendricks was chargeable? The Journal says, “It (the report) does not say what he says it does, nor anything that can be construed that way.” We will next expect the Journal to enter into a learned disquisition to skow that black means white. Truly, a wonderful system of logic that. - ; 4 : ~ :But an equally ridiculous fatuity is exhibited by the Journal article in at. tempting to show that what the Commissioners did say is not true as applicable to Grant’s administration. He says the calculation upon which the estimate of the loss of the revenues wag based was made under Jobnson's regime; and that the report of the Civil Service Commission only referred to the administration of Andrew Johnson, May we not ask, could absurdity further go? The report does not so éay; on the contrary it says, “onefourth of the revenues, &c., is lost;” not. was during Johnson’s or Jefferson’s admgnistration, but 18 ANNUALLY lost. This report is dated December 1871 ; this includes nearly three years of Grant’s administration, yet the Journal assumes’to say, on behali of the Commissicn, that they did not mean to include Grant’s, official term. The Journal says “the Commissioners were not trying to estimate or fix the loss, they were simply aiming to prove that our system was seriously defective, &c., and that a loss of one-fourth of the revenues was owing to such defective system.” Now the system under the Grant regime is the same that existed under Johnson’s, and to that system, in th very words of the Journal, it is estimateg * this loss is owing. Says' that paper: | “They (the Commissioners) were simplyaiming to prove that our system was seriously detective, and they were of the opinion that a large part of all the lost revenues of the government, which some persons estimate at one fourth, was owing to such defective system.” A;‘i to whether. or not the Civil Bervice Commission were aiming to estimate or fix the loss, we will not say ; it is sufficient to know that they did estimate the loss at “one-fourth of the revenues of the Government;” and that they did fix the loss, attributing it to “a system of the service which is fatally unsound,” in the words of the Commission - ers. We opine the Jouq‘nal' man would rejoice exceedingly it the Commissioners bad not only “not aimed to estimate or fix the loss,” but had not so estimated or fixed it at all. It would no doubt be & relief. If Mr. Hendricks told the trath, and from the Journal's own showing he did, then “jt (our present seryice) would indicate a -very bad state of uffairs,” and, as the report sustains »‘l{x,.-vﬂ‘end;r%k!; according to that paper “he is entitled to such strong evidenos" in anpport of bis stetement. for Governor, by tho Liberal snd Demo-. ctatic Convention of Massachusetts, <

THE CREDIT MOBILIER, ' CONGRESSIONAL CORRUPTION. ' More Bribery in High Placeb. : With the recent exposure of facts and circumstances in connection with the enactment ot the scheme for building the Union Pacific railway, and in the management of its finances by the officers of the company, a fearful state of venality and corruption among members of our national legislature is developed. 'This development is nothing less than that certain members of Congress have received bribes of from twenty to thirty thousand dollars each, the object ot which was to secure their support in certain measures of interest connected with the Union Pa-~ cific railway company: These charges have been before the country for three or tour weeks, and permitted by those who can answer and contradict them if untrue, to pass without an attempt at contradiction. They have, likewise, not been invented by partfzsans for political purposes, but have been produced through the regular progress of judicial proceedings

We give the facts of the case briefly as follows: The Union Pacific railway was organized in 1864-5 ; the company received, in addition to the donation of land, a money subsidy of $16,000 per mile upon the eastern plains, $48,000 per mile in the mountainous region, and $38,000 for the western plains. In addition to this the company were permitted to issue its own bonds to an equal amount per mile. The company, instead of contracting for the construction of the road as all other roads have been built, contracted with its own stcckholders at a fabulous price under the name of “The Credit Mobilier of America”—an organization chartered by the State of Pennsylvania. The price 'contracied_for.by the company with the “Credit Mobilier” being many millions above what the latter paid for the building, enabled the company to realize a princeli profit through this fictitious proceeding.' One of the principal proprietors of this “Credit Mobilier” company was Henry -S. McComb, a wealthy citizen of Wilmington, Del., who subscribed $50,. 000 for 500 shares; J. B. Alley and Oakes Ames, members of Congress from Massachusetts, being among his associates. Mr. McComb subscribed also for 250 shares for one H. G. Fant ; Fant failed to pay and assigned the subscription to McComb. The company (Credit Mobilier) assented to and recorded the transter, but owing to some difficulties it did not issue him a certificate. The stock in the company becoming immensely valuable, selling at over ‘BOO per cent of its nominal value, McComb brings suit in a Pennsylvania court against the “Credit” Mobilier” for recovery of his stock and accrued dividends. Defore a commission, appointed to take testimony in. the case, McComb testifies under oath, producing the company’s'books and other documentary evi‘dence to show in what manner the “stock” in this company was disposed of. Mr. Ames, 2 member of Congress, having demanded that a portion of the stock should be placed in his hands for disposal to aid the company,'the witness states as follows in apswer to the questions ‘by the commission ;

Q. What distribution of it was made by Mr. Ames? * A. He gave it to members vf Congress, Senators and Representatives. Q. What was paid into the Credit Mobilier for that stock which Mr. Ames distributed in the wa{l you mention ? A. This stock which Mr. Ames took as Trustee had paid to it all the dividends of the Company from the date of the or‘ganization of the Company down to the time when that stock was delivered to him, and none of these proceeds, amounting to several hundred per cent. in par value, were paid in. The par value only was paid in. ' Q. What was the gash value of this stock at the time it was issued ? A, It would sell in the market at $260 per sharé cash value, and very little could be had at that—more buyers than sellers, a good deal." I was offered $5OO per share for mine shortly after that time. " Q. What has 'been the highest value reached by the Credit.-Mobilier stock ? A. T was offered s§6oo per share ‘for mine. This was in 1868, long before this suit began. I retused to sell at that time. I considered it worth $lOOO per share, and it would have been readily worth that, honestly and fairly managed at that time. ot Q. Do you mean by giving, that these shares were gifts in the nature of presents? i A. I do. . Q. You understood, then, Mr. Ames to mean that these shares were to be pre--gented without value paid to members of Congress? ' ; A, I understood from Mr. Oakes Ames that they were substantially .a gift, the parties to whom the stock was said to be appropriated receiving through him as their Trustee mole than sufficient available assets as dividends to pay for the same, and that he,out of their-assets, paid into Treasury the par value of the stock. . Q. Did you understand from Mr. Ames what was the motive for allowing tuese persons to take this'stock at par when it was 80 valuable that part of the dividends sufficed to pay the par value? . A. The motive, I understood, was to secure the influence and support in Congress of the men to whom the stock was given, ] i el . Q. Influence and support of what? A. For anything affecting the Union Pacific Railroad Company in Congress. Mr.-McComb also produced a letter addressed to him by Oakés Ames, saying, after relating the manner of distribution, “I bave used this where it will produce most good to us, I think.” On the letter was the following indorsement; - “Oakes Ameg’s list of names, as shown to-day to me for Credit Mobilier, is: - - I , Shares. Blaine, of Mame......... ...8,000 Patterson, of New Hampshire..3,ooo Wilson, Massachusetts. .. .....2,000 - Painter, (Rep.,) for Quigley...3,ooo ' 8. Colfax, 5peaker...........2,000 " Scofield and Kelley, Pa.......2,000each Eliot, Massachusetts.... ~ ... .3,000 ; Dawes, Massachusetts...,.;...2,ooo Fowler, Tennessee. .. ¥o s isun 23,000 ‘Boutwell, Massachusetts. . .... .2,000 Bingham and Garfield, O. . '.,,‘,zv,QOOeacl{ “Indorsed: ; OAxES AMEs, Jan. 30,'68," In a letter from Ames to McComks dated Jan. 25, 1848, occurs. the following 'Pﬂf'}g?ﬁphf’ e e “You say I must not put too much in one locality. I bave assigned as far as % ‘have given to—four from Massachusetts ; one from New Hampshire; one Delaware ; one, Tennessee ; %'lzﬂf..@hiﬂi— two, P.egn:smanial; ne ] diana;; 'oue'.'"l!-ihm&: and 1 have three to place, which I shall, i wggfé, they will dpo‘ mg%“sp us,. T am here on thie spot, and can judgs ‘bette t%mmegm M Or o b From McComb's testimony and thé porrespondence he produged, it 8 clear these official persons, Congressmen: snd: Sena~

tors, were made the recipients of shares, some two and some three thousand each ; being worth at the time $22,000 and $33,000 to each of these gentlemen. And for what purpose? Mr. McComb states “to secure their support in Congress for all measures of interest to the Pacific Railroad Company.” Thcse men are all in office; some candidates before the people for re-election, with Wilson as a candidate for Vice President, and all support - ers and defenders of the “Great Gift Taker.” We had hoped for the sake of our national honor that these charges were unfounded ; that, peradventure, the testimony of this witness might be contradicted by sufficient statements and facts. This has not only not been done, but not attempted ; bence we must conclude they have no answer to make. Nay, more, their silence implies an admission of the truth of all these charges of bribery, and the corrupticn with which our legislation is invested.

[ Editorial Correspondence. 'LAGRANGE, Sept. 16, 1872, We have been mingling some with the people in La Gn;nge and Elkbart counties within the past few days, and besides the enjoyment we bave had on ac: count of ‘our christian work,—making Greeley and Brown speeches,—we have felt as though we were among true and faithful friends because of the many kindDesses shown to us by those with whom we came in contact. One of the lLest political meetings that we have had IK]O pleasure of attending this campaign was at Bristol last Saturday evening. The Democrats and Liberals of Bristol and vicinity are wide awake, and will give a good report of themselves on election days. Dr. E.A. Burns, who was reared almost under the sound of Charles Sumner’s voice, and who bas been a life-long Republican, is now working like a hero in the interestsof Greeley and Brown and the State Democratic and Liberal ticket. Dr. Fowler, who is one of the oldest settlers of Elkhart county, and who, toe, has been connected with the republican party since its birth, is also working earnestly in the ranks of the Liberals and Democrats to-day. There are many more men of influence and ability whom we met at Bristol, who voted for Grant four years ago, who will vote for Greeley and Brown this fall, and for the whole Liberal ticket fromi{Governor down to Coroner. Through the kindness of Dr. Fowler, C. C. Gilmore, 8. B. Romaine, Esq., and others, we had the pleasure of a most delightful ride to the fine peach orchards and vineyards that lay within a couple miles of Bristol. The whole country in the vicinity of the town is interspersed with most beautiful lakes,and the hills and plains are covered with peach orchards and vineyards which produce much fruit of the best quality. A visit to these lakes and orchards will well pay any one. Hower Adams, Esq., placed us under obligations to him for a bux of delicious grapes of several varieties. Lo -

During our stay in Sturgis we were cared for by E. W. Pendleton, Esq, of the Exchange Hotel. This is one of the best hotels at which we ever stopped, and all who go to Sturgis should stop there. The country surrounding Sturgis is most excellent, and the wkeat crops in that vicinity are never excelled. Sturgis is a beautiful town of about 2,500 inhabitants, and the citizens are enterprisingand thrifty. ‘There is ‘no prettier country any where thas Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan. IR B L e ———— : Bill Moreau. This miserable scalawag, who played 8o conspicuous a role in Blanton Duncan's menagerie at Louisville, continues to act as chief fugleman of the left wing of the Grant party. - Last week he made hisap. pearance in the city of New York, as spokesman of the committee that was to persuade Charles O’Conor to accept the Louisville nomination. With characteristic impudence he talked “patriotically” of the wants of the country and the purposes of the organization he represented. It is astonishing that Mr. O’Coanor would allow bimself to be softsoaped by so des. picable & scalawag as Bill Moreau—who was dishonorably dismissed from the army for stealing, who only a few months since was compelled to flee from Indianapolis for having defrauded-a grocer of that city, and whose wife felt so ashameéd of his drunkenness and debauchery that she obtained a divorge from the worthlessscamp. It is true Mr. O’Conor emphatically and finally refused to accept the proffered nomination, but it seems to ushe might very properly have manifested his abhor. rence of sealawaggery by simply kicking this bummer Moteau from his premises. Such treatment would have been eminently deserved. ;

' Men of Enterprise: o Has it ever occurred to you, when in need of a loan of a few hundred or a thousand dollars, that the financial policy of the land is so shaped as to require the borrower to pay usurious and exorbitant rates of interest. The effect of this policy—enacted in the interést and at the instigation of eastern capitalists—is to retard the development of business enterprises in the West, and to enable Wall street speculators to control finances at their will. It is for this reason that the monopolists of the Esst are so anxious to secure Grant's re-election. = Reaping enorwous profits under our present system of finance, these sharks can well afford to spend millions of dollars to buy votes and corrupt our elections: “Fhey first rob the industrial clasees of our population, and then use & portion of their ill-gotten gains to influence the weak and venal at the polls. B G

: Think of It. ; Farmers, mechaunics, and labarers-—will you just consider for & moment whether the Grant party has done anything for the past two or three years thiat was calculated -to_benefit you lin any respect? Then, when you have given thig matter due reflection, go to some competent an:. thority and inquire, how much has been ‘done for railroad corporations, capitalists, bankers, and thesmonopolists of the East. You will find that the latter class has had: compléte control of Congress and that’ Gﬂ? has ever béen a willing tool in thei. ‘hinds. Why, then, should any farmer,’ mechanic, or laborer give his vote to a. patty that absolutely refuses to recognize | their intorests in shaping the lsgislation. of the covmtry? = Will some one be kind enough toanewery. . oo oo ol

. An Immense Demonstration. ~ Onpe of the grandest political demonstrations that hias yet taken place in the union during this canvass was held in New York on last Thursday evening, the 12th inst., in the interests of Greeley and Brown. A host of the most eminent public speakers of the country were present and delivered addresses to the thousands assembled, from a number of stands in Union Square, and in Tammany and Irving Halls. Among the most prominent of the speakers wére Hon. Francis Kernan, Democratic candidate for Goy - ernor of New York, General Banks, Hon. R. M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, one of the most gitted statesmen of the South; Hon. Chauncey M. DePew, of the same State, Hons. 8. 8. Cox and Fernando Wood, of New York; Gov. Walker, of Virginia, and several other prominent speakers from other parts of the south and west. Charles A. Dana, Esy, editor of the New York Sun, was President of the assembly. In commenting upon the demonstration the World says: “It would be imposaible “to. estimate the thousands who packed “Union Square and its vicinity last even“ing; and it-is a far greater impossibility “to picture the enthusiastic feeling of that “multitude.” . AR

At eight o'clock the band in front of Tammany Hall sounded the key-note,and soon the bands stationed at the various stands took up the strain, and the;n the excited throngs began to press forward and encircle the speakers, eager to hear the arguments in favor of _Gréeley and reform. ' Duting all this time the whole vicinity was brilliantly illuminated with calcium lights, rockets were shooting high in the air, dropping their fiery spray; cannons were booming, drums were beat ing, and lime lights of various colors were burning, ‘casting a glow over the tall buildinge, the trees, and the passing cars and stages, o ¢ ' The camp fires of Democracy and Reform are burniog brightly in the Empire State, which will be carried for Greeley and Brown in November by a majority falling very little short of one hundred thousand. :

The Curse of Carpet-Baggery. “Figures are tiresome,” it is true; hence we always endeavor to abbreviate as much as possible. The figures piled up by the carpet-bag government in the Southern States are very tiresome, at least to those at whose doors the taxation is laid. We give below, the increase of debts in the Southern-States, except Louisiana, and by! these we may judge of that also. Used as we are to the exbibition of long debits, here are some large enough to thunderstrike the most indifferent. The record is worth looking at, for it shows what a frightful picking and stealing mnst have been going on at the South. The public debt in'the several States has been increased by millions upon millions. We condense their financial sitation as well as we can. It is as follows: e Norta CAROLINA.—Debt in 1861, $l2689,245; debt in 1871, $34,887,464; increage, 22,198,219.—80nds sold at 10 to 30 cents on the dollar. Nothing to show for the debt. Taxes, $1 80 on the $lOO. SouTH CAROLINA.—Debt in 1861, $4,407,958; debt in 1871, so far as can beascertained, $31,008,000; local taxes in 1861, $1,200,000; in 1870,52,700,000. Decrease in area of improved lands, one.third; decrease in value of farms, from $139,000,000 to $45,000,000, FroripA.—Debt in 1861, $370,617; in 1871, $15,797,687; State taxes averaged before the war, $83,000 per annum; in 1871 were, $471,811. Local taxation increased from 28 centsinrlB6o, to $1 50 on the $lOO in 1870. . . GEORGIA.—Debt in 1861, $2,670,750. In 1871 no man kuows or can guess how great it was. Bullock andwhistonfederates have bolted ; what quantity of bonds they carried off can only be guessed. The known liabilities are about $20,000,000. AIABAMA.—Debt in 1861, $7,945,000; in 1871, $36,761,917, with a further indebtedness for railway bonds of $16,000,000. MississtpPL.—The cost of the State goyernment in 1860 was $350,000 yearly; in 1871, over $2,000,000. Local taxation in 1860 was $954,806; in 1870 it was over $2,000,000. - : . TExAS.—Debt in 1861 was 2,000,000; in 1871 it was $14,930,000. Cost of gov - ernment yearly in 1860-61 was $250,000, and in 1870-71 it was $1,876,487. Rate of taxation in 1860 was 1614 cents on the $100; in 1871 it was $2,084,179. : AREANSAs.—Debt in 1860 was $2,084,179; and in 1871 it was $7,998,000, with_ over $11,000,000 of railway indebtedness! besides. The rate of taxation has increased from 40 cents to $3 on the $lOO.

Cheering Assurances from Ohio. [®rom the Cincinnati Enquirer, Septemberl2 ] We can assure our friends abroad that the supporters of Greeley and Brown will carry this State both in the October and November elections, if . there is anything 1n indications. The change in the German vote in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Toledo, Dayton, Columbus, and the northwest will be more than sufficient to change the past political character of the State. A very large part of the German vote, socalled, has been against us for years, but now there are few among them who will touch General Grant or any of his tickets. This county gave nearly 5,000 majority for Grant. It will give that same figure now against him. In many other counties the change will be equally marked. We have never in our political experience seen the political skies.as bright as they are this fall. All that 18 necessary is effi. cient organization to give Greeley the State by full 20,000. majority. Friends, push on the ball!

~ Dr. N. Teal, Several irresponsible scribblers of the Grant persuasion, in & recent number of the Kendallville Btandard, have sought to create the impression that the support given by Dr. Teal to' the nomination of Judge Wood was prompted by insincere or dissembled motives. We have the authority of Dr. Teal for saying that he supported the Judge's nomination from the coaviction that Judgé Wood possessed every desirable requircment for the place; that be deemed his nomination proper and expedient, both as regards the judge’s personal and political standing. The doctor intends to work and vote for the élection of Judge Wood, giving him his unreserved support. : ; ;

; : Young Mamn! Remember, id selecting your position in the present political contest, that you must choose bet ween honesty and reform .on the one side, and corraption and official debauchery on the other. It ought to be a matter of pride with every young man in thel4nd to cast his first vote on the right side, and for those candidates whose ‘election would contribute most largely to ‘the welfare and prosperity of the country. 'Greeley and Brown' are pledged to hon“esty and reform, while Grant's re election ‘cannot inspire the remotest hape of re} forming the public service, or of relieving ‘the coyutry from the grasp of the monopolists and the rapacious plunderers of the

STATE ITEMS., - A’woman who had long led an abandoned life, and who went by the nathe of Irish Sarah, drowned herself in Pigeon creek, at Evansville, on Wed nesday of last week, Owen county has a mottled limestone, said to be equal in appearance to Scotch granite. A monument cut from it will be exhibited at Indi'z;:apolis, at the State Fair. : Doaring a storm at Edinburg on Wednesday evening of last week, the cupalo of the Presbyterian church was struck by lightning and set on fire.— Only the cupalo was destroyed. . ‘Captain Henry Bruner, of Jeffersonville, took an over dose of morphine on Sunday of last week, died, ‘At one time deceased was worth a half million dollars, made by a speculation during the war, but died at last a poor man.. - Two step-children of William Bell, of Noblesville, have died withina few days past from poison. They had partaken of what was*supposed to be boneset tea, but was, in reality, a poisonous decoction, the nature of which has not been determined. G ~ The Mishawaka Enterprise says :— The Mishawaka fire will compare, in proportion to the size of the place, with that of Chicago. Forty-nine business houses, dwellings, barns and church were swept away in an incredibly short space of time. There are but six or seven business houses left standing,but the manufactories were all saved, and these are, in reality, what make Mishawaka.

- The Waterloo Press says: A young man named Gerber, who lived on Dr. J. 8. Stough’s farm south of town, died yesterday morning, Sept. 11, from the effects of a kick.of a horse. The accident occurred on the Sunday previous. The father of Gerber died a short time before, and by these dispensations a large family of small children are left without any one to provide for their -wants | - The Dearborn Independent says: A most dastardly attempt was made on the life of Mr. John Geyer, of Lawrenceburgh, on Monday of last week. Two emall pistols were found above the doorof an out house on his premises, placed in such a manner thatany one entering would strike a string at~ tached to the weapons and discharge them. The would-be-murderer is unknown. PR e

The Warsaw Union, of September 13,say8 : “While Hon.J. B. Stoll, Democratic-Liberal candidate for State Auditor, was on his way last Saturday from Goshen to Wabash, to fill an appointment at the latter place he was suddenly and seriously taken ill on the train before reaching this place. Hon. E.V. Lon ho was on the train with him tg‘)ok‘{lim to the residence of Dr.T. Davenport, where he was kindly cared for'until he was able toretrace his steps homeward.

The Logansport Pharos says :—“A shooting affray occurred at the distillery on the North side last Saturday, A Negro named Henry Wilson grew angry with a white man named Segraves, and shot at him four times. Fortunately the shots did not take effect, but Segraves says he objects to the pistol practice, Both men were employed in the distillery. A preliminary examination was held before justice Pettit, and Wilson placed under bond in the sum of $2OO tor his appearance at court, v The Lafayette Journal says: “Benjamin Lucas, an old gentleman living in this county, had on exhibition at the Fair last week, a powder horn captured from an Indian chief of the Pottawattamie tribe, near Detroit, 58 years ago. Lt still bears the marks of the blood stains—the blood of the Indianm from whom it was captured, and who Mr. Lucas killed. The center of the horn was ornamented with an eagle surrounded by stars, and bearing the motto “E Pluribus Unum.” It had evidently been stolen or captured from some Americam soldier.” SR

A horrible murder occurred in Clarke county, eight miles back of Jeffersonville, on Thursday night, Sept. 12, in which Pat Conroy was stabbed 'to death by James Crawford: Crawford applied to the proprietors of a cement mill at Rellersburg for work., Failing to get employment, he charged Conroy: with interfering, and threatened to do him harm. <.astevening Crawford walked iuto a shed where Conroy was at work, and using abusive language, knocked him down, and drawing a long bladed knife, plunged it into Conroy near the breast. The wounded man died in a few hours. The murderer was arrested and lodged in the county jail. ~ ! The Terre Haute Gazette says: “An interesting and enterprising, though virtuous family in Vermillion county, have a systemized system of blackmailing the wealthy roosters of that county. A man known to have money passes by the house, the wife beckons for him to come in ; of coarse his curiosity leads him in. No sooner does he get into the house than the blinds are closed, the door locked, and a thundering rap is heard at the door, which is opened by the affrighted wife, and her husband enters with a ponderous navy revolver in each hand, demanding the heart’s blood of the destroyer ‘of his happiness. From ten dollars to one hundred dollars, however, usually effects a compromise. aed

The Auburn Courier says : Master Charlie Koltz, only son of Charles, Koltz, Esq., merchant of this place,went across the street on Saturday morning, the 14th inst., to neighbor Palmer’s to play with the children, taking with him a pocket knife, which he had lost several days before, and which he again came in posession of that morning. He had been in the habit of climb: ing an apple tree in the garden of this neighbor, and it is supposed, for there was no one present, that he had done 80 that morning, with the knife open, losing his hold fell from the tree.— Wheun discovered he was near the kitchen door. He said to one of the women of the house that he had fallen and was going to die. She laid him down and ran quickly for his mother and they found him rapidly sinking.— His father and the doctors were ae;; for but he only gazped once or twice afe ter their arrival. 'lgm cause of his death was not yet known, and Mr. Totten who hagpenéd to be near, went to the s;l)gt and found the knife, still open and blood upon the blade and ground. He went back, and on examination a small iucision just large enough to admit the blade was found between the rigl}t»-‘ shouldor and breast, In'its course it had severed an ar&e_?;}wi,lﬂtls Oharlie actually bled to death internally.”

; ' NEWS OF THE wﬁlm Ve 4 The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows is in session at Baltimore this week. e There are eighteen murderers confined in the Toombs, in the ity of New York. Chea There was quite 'a snow fall on the, Colerado mountaing, on Sunday the. Sthingt. S ‘ "Forrester the supposed murderer of ‘ Nathan, the New York jew, has been_ arrpsted.” . o ", * Mr Schayler Colfax is spoken of asthe prospective editor of tg"e _Chicago Inter~Ocean.. . 1 o =

' Mr Stanley has selected the modest title, ‘How I found Livingstone,” for ‘his forthcoming book. . i The California and Oregon railroad. was formally opened on the Ist inst.,t6 Redding, 195 miles from Sacramento. ' - There are three Wheat farms 'in the Saint Joaquin Valley whose respective areas are 36,000, 23,000 and 17,000 BBPOB,, 1 oin Lt sTt Since the 28th ‘of June last, fortya one ehips have left San Francisco, loaded with wheat for the European markets: o o e - Horace Greeley will visit the Cincinnati Exposition the latter part of this week. In the course ot his western tour. he will visit Chicago. = o _The: 9th instant was celebrated in San Franeisco, it being the twentysecond anniversary of the admission of California into the Union. . = Lieutenant Hundt Von Hafften, a battle scarred veteran of the ‘Prussian army, has eloped to Utah with two daughters of a Berlin Banoker. -~ . James Teviatdal, bookkeeper of J. V. Brown & Company, clothing. mer-. chants of St. Louis, has absconded with $12,000 of his employers’ money: . Mr, Hiram Ainsly, of Watertown, Michigan, harvested 455 bushels of wheat from nine acres of land. It is the third wheat crop grown in succession on the same field, G The yield of grain in the west, so far as heard from, is generally good. In threshing, the grain-turns out well, though some injury has been inflicted/ by the recent rains. Pitmei - When a younglady in Cincinnati went to the White Sulphur springs,she had more than fifty gentleman to go to the railroad station with her, Jook ‘at their watches and say farewell. e The Governor of Pennsylvania has signed the death warrant of George Grant for the murder of Mrs; Spence’ last October. The day of execuition is' fixed for the 12th of October next. " - A farmer'in Concord, Michigan, has kept account of the potato bugs he has gathered this seasen from ‘an 8 acre piece, and he says they amounted to twenty-one bushels, actnal measure.

The Texas cattle fover has appeared among the native caitle in Sangamon and Morgan counties, IlL.| Fifteen valuable milch cows have already died from the disease in the first named county. b et e A western journal thus alludes to an editorial neighbor: ‘He wasfoo weak to eat crow,’ but seven columns of Government = advertisements each week made him relish bull-pup most won-_ derfnlly, .. oo I A one-armed Irishman at. Salem, Magsaehusetts, having got into trouble with hig wife, applied for -a divorce. re. cently, and claimed that he was free from her, on the ground that the hand which he had given her in marriage was now gone. - Ll William Showers; of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, went to Cincinnati to visit the exposition, -and: has been missing. from the Gibson House since’ Monday last. He'had between $9OO and $l,OOO on his person, It is supposed that he has been murdered for his money. The number of distilleries at work in the United States is 215. Their daily capacity is 217,672 gallons, and their yearly product 65,304,000 gallons,— Computing the voting population to be 5,000,000, this. would be over a third of a pint of spirits per day for each male adult in the United States. s -John G Fentore, of this county, aged 78, has recently taken to himgelf in marriage a young and blushing bride of not quite 14 years, and such has been the effect on his venerable head that his hair, which was silvery white, is rapidly assuming the black color of his youth.—Georgetown, South Carolina, Times. Slets el e A Wilmington, North Carolina, despatch states that two men named Gilebrist and McClennan, had a difficulty at a church meeting on‘the 10th inst., and meeting each other in the road on the 11th, Gilebrist shot MecOlennan,— The later responded by emptying tour shots into Gilebrist’s head and’ then fell dead Rimgelf: >il i i

_ Fifteen thousand eight himdred and ‘eighty pounds of crude - bullion from the Stockton mines and a ton of pure silver bullion from the Pioche mines were received last week at Salt Lake City. Besides this a number of bonafide mining transactions are reported for the same time, involving a large. amount of capital. . : .. T Two well known citizens of Chester, Illinois, named Hugh Longbran and C. E. Robinson, had an altercation on the street on Wednesday .of last week, which resulted in Robeson having his skull fractured -and receiving a - pistol ball through the right. shoulder, and Longbran being shot through the lungs. Both are considered mortally wounded. The decision of the Alabama claims tribunal was read before that body on Saturday last. The amount awarded to the United States, a 8 before reported, is fixed at $15,500,000. Congress; at its coming session, will probably appoint a commission to arrange for t£e distribution of this money ‘among the claimants. It is thought that after all claims have been paid there will be a surplus of two or three millions of dollars to be pocl{:"?ted- by Uncle Sam,

IT was concocted: at ‘Washington that on & certain day all the Grant orgaus throughout the country and all the officeholders were to shout “that- the tide for Greeley had been stayed, and that there was a reaction in favor of Grant. The shout was well executed, but the effect .{: upon the Greeley movement was like that of beating upon ten thotsand Chinese ‘gongs to shake down a great fortress, Ex-Gov. CURTIN has been nominated oy the Democrats and Liberals of Pennsylvab_ia,’ 88 a delegate to the Constitu- - tional Convention from the State at large.. .’l‘h:’ san}e géntlemun‘ hb&é—;décli,ﬁed ‘glx}omﬁ wation tor Congress, by the Republicans of the Centre Distrct, T

PNy Conn&puves. . e < The advertiser, having béen permanently cor--d of that dread disease Consumption by a simple remedy, is anxious to make known to his fellow safferers the means of cure. To all whé, desire he will send a copy of the prescription nsed free of charge, with the directions for pre--paring and using the same, which they will find a sure cure for Consumption, Asthma, Bron. hitis, &c. ;Parties wishing the rescription will please #ddress Rev. ED&ABII)) A W,}LSON 3 so3oy] 194, Penn. St., Wil!ﬁamsbqr%, NY. weih Rs g h—q‘, ‘ - 'The special merits of SMoLANDER'S Buouy are that it thoroughly invigorates an enervated system, and that it is'a perfect atid truthful specific for kidney, bladder and glandular diseases, mental and physicai debility, gravel, diabetes, all complaints of the urino-genital organg so frequent‘in the female sex, whether married or single, and the fact of its being prescribed by family physicianspshould be enough to'endorse its superiority. | | ! 3 R ——————— ¥ © . Errors of Youth. : _ Every nervous Young Manin the Union, wil ‘recive, free, a Recipe that will prove a bless--iaz through life, by addr‘essin%. in confidence - (6-39-y1) JOHN B. OGDEN, ‘Box 5172, P.rO." ‘ 42C darSt., NY.

it MARRIBD: - PWWMWWWV'v < Tuesday evening, Sept. 10, 1872, at theﬂuthemn : Church in Albion, by Elder C. Blanchard, MR. dJ. M. CHAPMAN, of Ligonier; to MISﬂ MARY C, WHITE, of Abfon, e oae oA fnunber of our citizens availed themselves of & kind invitation to witness the ceremonies at the capital ofithe county, It is needless to say that the best wishes of Ligonier's population are extended to Milt. ahd his estimable lady, both having earned the highest esteem of their acquaintances. In the language ofithe poet we feel-constrained to exc‘.ai_mv ——“Happy they! the happiest of their kind! - Whom gentler stars unite. and in one fate : 'Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. *Tis not the coarser ties of human lawe, Unnatural oft, and foxéiﬁn to tne ming, That binds their li!xeace, ut harmony itself, Attuning all their passrons into love.” 3 Hes T Feo ————————— P Wednesday evening, September 11, 1872, at the Discigle_ Church in Ligonijer, by Rev. J. M. Monroe, MR. L, H.GREEN, to MISS JENNIE BRADEN, both of this place. " e : The happy 'bride and groom, on this occasion, ¢ were attended by Miss Eva Humphreys and Mr Wm. ¢. Hamnétt, and by Miss Sade Chestnutwood and Mr. Thnd':i‘aylor. The estimable bride, in.the freshness 6f her. womanhood; has given her hand and heart to one eminently ’v&otthy of so rare a :- Jewel. He will, we know, ever cherish »the;nAas the rarest of treasures-that may be committed to his charge.” While it is written that i - - *'There’s nothing half so sweet in life | . Asloves’ young dream,” ; It will be found by our young friends in their new venture, that in journeying in life’s pathway, with heart and hand together, the young dream of love will be & cheering reality, in riper years. = - - “Let me not fo the marriage of true minds, - * - Admit impediments; love is no love, - 'Which alters when-it alteration finds.” We are cqnﬁ@cnt'that the newly wedded pair will find no alteration as they walk the Jjouruey of life together, but that at the end of it, it may be said of. them in truth; that they‘possessed - ““Two souls with hut a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.” ¥

Lo - IDEEDY. o o . In Spaf_tz_x tow'nship.‘ou the 18th inst, ALICE, daughter of Henry Schlabangh, aged about? years ;

-LIGONTER MARRKET REPORT.

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Shhe INSTITUTE. . | The annual meeting of the Noble Co. Teacher’s. Institute for 1872, will be held at Albion, commencing Noy. 11, and remaining in sessioa 5 days. - We have & well tounded expectation of securing free-entertainment for members of the Institute. o : ) T. M. EEES, Examiner. “7 ANTED We will give enérgetic men . and women G , 2 il - Business That Will Pay from §4 to §S per day, can be pursued at.your own homes, and is strictly honorable. Send for samples that will enable you to'go to work at onee. - . Address’ ¢ J. LATHAM & CO., 19w6 ; : 292 Washington St., Boston, Mass. e M SRt DR T s T Unclaimed Letters, Ligonier P.O.

! Southard, C. W, l Shields, Green Stone, Henry Stough, Joseph - Vernon, Eli. Yoder, Menno 8.

Davis; Smith . Flowers, William Hart, Miss Mary Harper, Miss Ilig Moman, John Nell, George C.

Persons calling for anieof the above letters will plense say “‘advertised.” Letters not called for with - Fn one week after advertising are sent to the dead. letter office: ! H. M. GOODSPEED, P, M, . Ligonier, Indiana, Sept. 18, 1872. i

Executor’s Sale, NOTICE is hereby given that by virtue of the last will and testament of Isaac W. Kern, late of Indiana, deceased, the undersigned Executor will sell at private sale, at his residence 1n Sparta township, Noble County, Indiana, on . Thursday, October 3d, 1892, or, at any time thereafter, ‘the followin% described land, situated in the county of Noble, State of Indiana, to wit :—The ncrth east jquarter of the north-west quarter of section eleven (11,) and the north-east quarter of the south-east quarter of section two (2,) and the south-east quarter of the south ‘east quarter of section (2,) excepting six acres out of the last described tract, all in township thirty-four (34,) north of range eight (8,) east.. . _TERMS OF SALE:—One third of the parchase money to be paid in hand, one third in one year, and one third in two years, the defered payments to be evidenced by purchasers: notes, secured by mortgage upon the land sold,, bearing intererst from date. ‘ . : NATHAN WHITE, Executor.

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