The National Banner, Volume 9, Number 4, Ligonier, Noble County, 21 May 1874 — Page 2

R e S s T ey (‘ﬂ'll mto l N : L K ‘ Che dlational Banner | g o oy, A&6 = ",(\'\‘ < A, N 3 S 2 o /‘ Q‘:\“f\\‘ : * 4 :.' - ‘ot e e 1 e N PSP :;'._:T:_'.": S ,/‘\'. B.STOLL, Editor and Proprietor. | _ i : LIGONIER IND., MAY 21st, 1874. A e R M A Y SRB Tne Senate of the United States has voted for the final adjournment of Congress on the 22(1 of June. '

ITappy will be the American sovereign who with truth can declare: 1 am not a candidate this vear, -

To-pDAY Miss Nellie Grant, daughter «f the President, will be united in the ponds of ‘wedlock to Mr. Sartori, an Tnglishman ()f»la;'gesl”ortuné.

I AappeAßs that J. Enos Neff is not 2 candidate for Secretary of State, but that he is .desivous of becoming Attorney General Denny’s suceessor,

Tie Marshall connty Grangers have issue(l a eall for the holding of a coxmty convention on the third day of August ior the nomination of candidates for the several local offices to be filled at the next October election.

PronisrrioNsTs will not be delighted 1o learn that the Massachusetts Senate has, passed a license law, not\\'Ethstnn(lhig‘\ the factithat a majority of the committee - Nadireported in favor of the presént prohibitory law.

Tur all-important question at this moment is: which of the two old political parties will succeed in forming some sort of alliance with the farmers’ nfowr_nvnt? This question is hegining to trouble some men who are looking with a certain degree of mjh..\'i(‘ty 1o State offices. | ¢

Pnar would-be @ hage joke—if the 8 u!im"l's‘f'r:md,"\;ts the Jouwrnal was pleased to term the Farmers (10th of June) movement should happen to assume such proportions as to. render the success .of their ticket a decided L{lﬂl)?\i})i“ty. It looks just now as ita great upheaval would soon conyulse all Hoosiérdom. :

T Plymouth Democraf wants it distinetly understood that the “rural Democeracy” will not consent to the arrangenient proposed by Indianapolis politicians . for the retention ni"".lug‘dge Osborin on the Supreme bench. Mr. Osborn showed a little too inuoh partiality during his administration as cireuit jlev to “eo down’! well. with his old demderatie neighbors::

Tie democeratie Legislature of (lonnecticut yesterday elected ITon. W, W, Katen 10 8. Senator, to succeed Mz, Buckingham, Republican, M. Eaton is an eminent lﬂ\;'_\'l-‘l‘, a 4 man of fine abilities, and an extreme, old-fashioned Democrat. Ie has the reputation of being @n honest man, and is -¢onsid-

cved in every sense worthy of oceupying a seat in the mpper house of ConCTOSS. ! i

- s #CTr A S—— =N order to ascertain the exact sentiment of ‘the western press on the finance questionghe Chicago 77ibune recently :uhh:vs;‘g*d @ cireular of inqui1y to'every paper published in the nine north-western States. lLast week ithat enterprising journal published a tabular statement indicating the po-

ritions of 462 newspapers. Of this number 263 sustain the veto of President Grant, qﬁﬂ oppose and 29 are on thie fence. ’J‘\\'cntx,of the journals of indiana sustain the veto, 17 oppose, and none are on the fence.

AFTER voting down and voting up nunerous amendments, the U, S, Senate last Thursday passed the Finance Committee’s substitute for the House Free Banking bill, amended so as to provide for free banking, with a redemption of 25 per cent. of legal tenders for the amount of new bank notes issued. The legal tenders are to be runded into. four and a half per cent. coin bonds, to be issued in 1878 and running for fifteen years. The legaltender maximum is fixed at $582,000,000, 5 £

PrrsoNs with decided inclinations to rush into print for the. settlement of little variances that occasionally turn up in every locality, will do weh ﬁo ponder over these sensible suggestions hy one of our exchanges: “When two gentlemen in, I;igh estimation of* the cominunities in which they live, differ bin a matter of no vital importance: to anybody, the best thing they can do is to come to an amicable understanding without the aid of a newspaper. Men who can stand almost anything in private conference, almost invariably get “fightin’ ' mad” when they get into print. Newspaper editors are the only exceptions to this rule.” o

[T will be seen by referring to the Couneil matters that the total tax the. present year will be only $1 on the $lOO instead of #51.25 as it was last vear, This is a good beginning for the mew Council and fully demonstrates that they mean to reduce our tax to the lowest possible amount.— Cambridge City Tribune. ‘ And by referring to the proper noticesin our advertising columns it will ho observed: that the tax for corporation purposes in-the town of Ligonier will be only 25 cents on the $lOO instead of 35 cents as it was last year. I anybody feels inclined ‘to. growl at this late, we would advise such person to-emigrate to—Halifax.

OUr READERS will doubtless be delighted upon learning that the Arkan«as muddle has come to a l@ppy termination. Brooks, who surreptitionsIv obtained possession of the executive mansion, discovered_ that the “powers that be” no. longer looked with favor upon his conduct, that the people of Arkansas were becoming disgusted, anid that sooner or later he would be obliged to surrender. Taking all these things into consideration, he quietly folded his tent and affurded his more fortunate rival an opportynity to take possession of the gubernatorial chair. = Péace being thus restored, we do not begrudge Baxter the honor.of ﬁllinian, office to which he was mot elected by a majority of the people. : ;

-7 THE CLERICAL INQUISITION, -~ For some time past there has been an inquisition in full blast in Chicago, and Prof. David Swing, a noted Presbyterian minister, has been arraigned by Dr. Patton, ef the same religous order, before the Presbytery of that city. It is charged against Prof. Swing that he has been guilty of preaching divers sermons in which he failed to ex pressa sufficient amount

of faith in the leading features of Calvinism ; and in some instances it’seems that he has even gone so far as-to express certain doubts regarding the so called “Five Points” in the Calvinistic creed, to which all genuine, oldfashioned Presbyterians pin their desires, and by which, or a belief therein, they expect to march straight into heaven. In the trial, whigh is conducted by members of the Chicago Presbytery, (Dr. Patton in the chair of Pontius Pilate) it has been shown, that Swing repudiated the dogma of infant damnation—one of thlea-:‘Five Points™—and that he did net believe in man’s total depmvi‘ty—i‘another “Point”-—and thav he has preached Jesus Christ without creeds to such an extent that it becomes necessary to make an example of him for the benefit of all those who'are yet safe from heretical(!) teachings. But the people and the press are for Swing, and his conviction is a thing which camrnot probably be brought about. This is an age of critical investigation and advancement. Men are demanding consistency and truth from all qunrter's, and if Prof. Swing saw fit to swing clear from the creed of total (I(,lpmvi't»y, election; predestination, &e., he not only had a perfect right to do so, but he was under solemn obligations to take the course hedid. One is somewhat surprised, on reading the charges of the Rev. l‘)r.T Patton, to find that, after all, there is not a line in the testament of Christ in which there liS even the remotest reference to the peculiar teachings of John Calvin. And yet Patton imagines, and no doubt seriously believes, that he is faithfully serving God by coiulu_cting a trial whieh is ridiculous; fanatical and unjust.. It cannot butl result in bringing aliout the very condition of things which Patton: denounces, and, ‘in this sense, he'may do the world no little good. e N '

SHIPPING GRAIN DIRECT FROM CHICA- ” GO TO EUROPE. - : When, some time since, ‘it was suggested that grain might be shipped direct from Chicago to Eurgpe, doubting Thomases incyednlbusly- shook their heads., It was Dbojdly asserted that no sueh scheme could be successfully inaugurated. - Now all of a sudden the grain merchants of the East are startled with the announcement that the exportation of grain dil{‘ect.tn Burope had not only entered the mind of Clhicago, but that Chieago has actually set about doing this very thing. ‘The success and the profit which shall attend the doing of it remain to be learned by actual experiment, but the ship-owners who are the pioneers in the projected traffic are confident that neither success nor profit will be lacking. It is claimed that grain can be loaded into sea-going vessels of light draught at Chicago and carried out to sea by way of the Welland Canal and the St. Lawrence River quite as cheaply and with less trouble than it can be carried to sea by way of the Atlantic ports. -~ The lake marine, it is said, has out-grown the capacity of the canals which connect with the lakes or the demand for freights to be carried by the canals, and the owners of lake vessels which would otherwise be idle are; loading them with grain for Europe. The vessels thus far loaded for the new venture have a tonnage of 350 or 400 tons, and will each carry abont 25,000 bushels of grain. The New York papers care loud in demanding additional facilities for the cheaper transportation of grain to the eastern market. They fully :Lpbreciate the importance of being placed in position to compete with the “innovations” of the ever-on-the-alert Chicago merchants. That the latter have ample grounds for complaint iséndicated in this brief extract from a leading editorial in a Chicago paper:” ; :

The whole grain business of New York is conducted now precisely as it was twenty years ago. It invelves a cost to the grain producer, on an-aver-age, of four cents a bushel on all kinds of grain,cand this sum is an enormous tax to pay to pérpetuate ;dishonesty and monopoly. . It is no wonder that the entire Western country(zs seeking some other route to the ocean, and to an Eastern market.

FREE BANKING. We incline to the opinion that the definition of free banking, as given by the World, will be accepted as eminently sound, both by contractionists and inflationists: Free banking, provided the obligation of banks to redeem their own issue in the cdrrency ‘of the world is made instant and imperative, is the only way yet discovered to prove a sound and elastic currency. Free banking, when it means the unrestricted power of issuing notes not instantly redeemable in coin at the will of the holder, is mischievous precisely in proportiqn as it is ef-. fective. The phrase “free banking” has no meaning in the anomalous condition of our own currency. It has its fullest meaning in the system of Seoteh banking in which the interference of the Legislature is reduced to a minimum, and under which no depositor or note-holder has lost a pound by the failure of abank within the past half century. A bank note redeemable in gold is worth precisely its face. A bank note redeemable in a legal-tender bank note redeemable in a bond redeemable -in gold, “at the “pleasure of the United States after “ten years” is intrinsically worth no man knows what. It is marketably worth its face in gold, less interest to the date when the man whe takes it believes it will be paid in gold, and as his belief fluctnates, the market value of the bank note will flucutate with it. There is no hocus pocus by which a promise to pay money without interest can be made worth what it

promises to pay until it is paid on demand. There can be no sound currency which is not convertible into coin, and convertibility of the currency into coin is the one object at which ‘Congress ought to aim. When thatis accomplished it can wash its hands of the currency and resume its proper work of legislation. .

et et~ DM—— ; A NEW SUGGESTION. | A distinguished California clergyman, Dr. Patterson, who 'formér]y resided m the city of Chicago, proposes in a communication to the Herald and Presbyter, that the State shall take the whole business of manufacturing, importing and retailing liquor into its own handsi shall manuf actl‘ife, import, and retail liquor on its own aecount; shall prevent competition by law; shall give the purest possible article at the lowest possible prices; and shall confine the traflic to one locality in each town. In his own'language he says: “Thus the revenue would be sécured.,zmd far more than secured; it would be doubled, since all the profits would go tothe Government. Let the retail price be lowered below the present figures, so as to. reduce the premium 6n smuggling, and to induce the drinkers to vote for Govérnment beer at 3 cents instead of saloon beer at 5 cents. Let the liguor be made genuine and pure, and free from strychnine, and poisons generally.” - Of course, no one will seriously ‘entertain the proposition of the .government running a more or less §(-xtel{sive saloon in each town and. city of the Union.) We merely give publicity to the scheme on the score of its novelty. Tlmpracticable theories on the liquor quosthm are not worth,the paper unto which they are reduced to writing. . We concur in the opinion so often expressed by the Chieago 7'ribune, that the true remedies for the curse of intemperance, are the cultivation of a higher public opinion on the subject, the encouragement of the use of light wines and beer, the lightening of the taxes upon thqm in order that they may be sold more cheaply than they can be now, the heavy taxation of “liquor,” properly so-called, the thorough inspedtion of all drinks, and the summary destruction of those that are found to be adulterateds.”

: ' CHANGING ITS TUNE. / The Indianapolis Jowrnal, whieh contemptuously spoke of the 10th of June convention as the “Sentinel’s fraud,” has all at once discovered that the convention is not likely to turn out quite as mueh of -a “fraud” as the Jowrnal had hoyed and prayed for.— A few days since the editorial columkns of that devoted organ contained this significant concession: Judging from present indications it is not iinprobable that the “Farmers’ Convention,” to be held in tliis city on the 10th of June, will be largely attended. There is a good deal of political restlessness throughout the State, and the enthusiasm resulting from the successful organization of the grange movement makes farmers unusually prompt to embracé every suggestion that looks to the betterment of their condition or to a reform in politics. The democerats are of course anxious for a new deal, and not a few honest republicans seem disposed to think the old party needs chastening. To many minds change is always. reform, and many well-imeaning persons are always ready to join in any new movement that promises reform, without having any well-defined ideas of how tlie reform .is to, be reached or where the movement will end. Under these i¢ircumstances we shall not be surprised if the convention called for the 10th prox. is quite largely attended. This is virtually a conféssion that if the jmovement ‘was originally a i “fraud,” the “young man” of the Sentinel has been exceedingly successful -in' having it endorsed by the sturdy yeomanry of the'State. = - ‘

HOW GRANGERS MAY TAKE POLITICAL ACTION. ~ We clip the following from the call of the Marshall county Grangers for a county convention: o According .to the laws governing the organization, its members are not allowed to digeuss the question of polities in the Grange. As an outgrowth of the ardeér, there has been formed in almost every county in the State of ‘lndiana, an organization known as the County Council, composed of delegates from each subordinate grange in the county. There are no restrictions on that organization. Any question can there be brought up, discussed and acted upon. : This is rather an easy way of getting around the “national restriction.”

For Supeintendent of Public Instraction. * | - We see by our exchanges that the name of Rev. W. W. Hibben, of Marion county, is favorably mentioned in connection with the office of Superintendent of Public Instraetion. His nomination would undoubtedly be an appropriate as well as a popular one, and we would be glad to see such a man as we know him to be nominated. For thirty years he preached ovier Indiana when they paid poverty prices and on account of poor health he retired from the active field some years ago. ‘The liberal sentiments of Mzr. Hibben and his well acquaintance over the State, in connection with the fact of his being one of the most popular writers in the newspaper line we have, would give him a great advantage over any competitor. Men of all parties would support him. If nominated he will be elected.~7"ipton T'imes. ]~ R - ; Good Bye, Brooks!

" LitTLE RoOCK, *May 16.—Brooks’ forces surrendered to-day. An agreement was made by which Gen. Newton, the commanding general of Baxter’s forces, is to send home without molestation, all of the Brooks men.— The State arms ‘are to be left in the State armory. The men are to retain’ their side arms. General Newton will disband his forces as rapidly as the public peace will justify. ~'Two hundred of the PBrooks men leave for above on a steamboat to-night. The others will follow as rapidly as possible. Five hundred guns at Pine Bluff, one hundred at Augusta, and another hundred at Newport and Fulton were fired tast night in honor of Gevernor Baxter’s trinmph. The secretary of State took possession of his office today, and the keys of the two halls of the legislature have been turned over ot the proper authorities. -

General O, 0. Howard, head and front of the Freedmen’s Bureau, has been “vindicated” at last.. The committee let him off with a character for honesty as white as the driven snow. Freedmen’s Bureau Howard is indeed a fortunate man.

: AWFUL CALAMITY. Massachusetts \-’i‘iru.-;.'es Swept Away by a Fieod. Immense Loxs 'of Life —13;1 Destfncﬂou of 'Prgp- < W erty. : : At daybreak last Saturday the dam of a reservoir on Mills River, in Hampshire county, Mass., broke away and flooded the téwns along its banks, Williamsburg, Haydenville, and Leeds, causing a great loss of life, reaching 145, men, women, and children, and the loss of 85,000,000, worth .of property.‘ A large number of houses were swept away with the inmates yet in bed, and some of the factories wﬁ’e full of operatives. A large share of the property belonged to the Hayden estate, and the rest was owned by va-rious-companies and private individuals. :

ORIGIN OF THE DISASTER. The large reservoir about feur miles north of Haydensville burst about eight o’clock Saturday morning, and the water came rushing downthe hills, carrying everything” before it. It struck the southern portion of Williamsburg village, about two miles north of Haydensville, carrying away a large number of dwellings; thence to Skinnerville, where it swept away Mr. Skinner’s large silk.mills and his boarding and dwelling houses. Continuing on it struck the large brass manufactory of Hayden, Gere & Co., sweeping it away in an instant. Large stones and machinery were swept through the main streets at a fearful rate, and well-built, houses were instantly crushed, not giving .the inmatés a moment’s warning. The flood then struck the village of T.eeds, where a large number of shops, dwellings, &e., were swept away. The loss of life was very heavy, whole familiesin some instances having been carried away over the dams and were either killed or drowned. Twenty-three bodies so far have'been taken out of the rubbish on the shore. | Whole blocks of tenement-houses, filled with women and children, were swept down the stream, and all the inmates of course were lost. Bodies are coustantly being brought in and laid in the church., Most of them.can be recognized. {

BREAKING OF THE DAM, A twenty-four-inéh pipe in the dam of the great Ashfield reservoir, bad been leaking for weeks, and some jeople had shaken their heads, said che damn must be attended to or it might break. It did break. At eight o’clock on Saturday morning the masmry around this outlet gave way, and then, | all il & nrinute, an if « picvehad beésn bitten out of the dam, a great wall of water seemed to spring up into the air and leap out'into the sink below. The standing joke of Mill River Valley, “Liook out, the dam is broken,” was provéd no joke at last. [The torrent was upon Williamsburg: in ten minutes, and sent its spray aboveé trees. sixty feet high. It crunched one house like paper, and killed a woman and her children ; then another and another swept the woolen mills and rushed on at the rate of twenty miles an hour.: As it came raging down the valley, it dug up houses and swallowed them in an instant, leaving no trace. 'Tree butts and great stores came down with the fleod. The mountain of water, roaring like a thunderstorm- of hail., reached Skinnerville and lifted the silk mills upon its shoulders before shredding them into bits. At Haydenville 1t swept away the factory in a moment. At Leeds it came down a wall of water, faced by an abbatis of timbers, trees, and iron boilers, which struck the village in full front. There was an hour and a half of flood and then ebb, and' at noon those who had escaped came buek in crowds to see the ruin. Tt is an awful sight. . Ilouses are twisted like crumpled paper, trees stripped of their bark and limbs even when their roots have ching to the soil. The beautiful valley is a waste of mud and muddy water, laden with distorted and strange shapes. Great boilers have .been carried hundreds of yards and ‘left ecrushed together and buried. A man was picked up from a tree upon which he had ridden six miles on the torrent, cheering and waving his coat. The poor fellow’s mind was gone.— Everything was ground fine. ~ When the flood was past, the timbers were in toothpicks, and seraps of iron, bricks, great stones newly become houlders, and here and there a eorpse or a piece of a corpse. All the windings of the valley were filled with the delbris—a terrible picture of waste and death in the most beautiful valley of Massacliusetts. _ THE LONG LIST OF DEAD. Between 100 and 200 lives were Jost and upwards of $1,000,000 in treasure and property swept away is the record of the breaking of an insecwe dam in the town of Williamsburg. e . Never before in New England, and rarely in the country, has an accident of a similar nature been attended with such'sad and fatal consequerces. Even the terrible ' floods in Louisiana and other sections of thé southwest, still go fresh in the public mind, seem to ‘sink into insignificance compared with the terrible catastrophe which in one half hour swept out of existence two or three of the most thrifty manufacturing towns in New England, cast a gloom of sadness and sorrow over the community which it will take years, if not a generation, to recover from. During the preceding twb days there had been a few mild showers all along the Connecticut Valley, but the aggregate of rain which fell was not suflicien te cause any very perceptible . rising in the mountain streams, and therefore the terrible disaster cannot properly be regarded as ‘one of the consequences of an unusual flood or freshet. On the contrary, and as lamentable as the fact may be, the calamity is nothing more or less than the fruit of an insecure and probably an Ul-constructed reservoir. It was located in the town of Williamsburg, about ten miles northwest of Northampton and the terminus of the Neyw Haven & Northampten Railroad. The surface of the reservoir was about 123 acres, and the average depth of water at the time it gave way ‘was not less than thirty feet. It was the joint property of the various manufactur. ing establishments in Williamsburg, Leeds, Haydensville, and Florence, and was used for the treasure of water during the spring and wet seasons, to be used. for the running of the mills duaring the summer and other periods when the streams did not afford sufficient water-power. The whater thus gathered was from the eastern and western branches of what is known as Mill River, which empties into the iConnecticut River, a few miles below Northampton. The dam itself is about nine years old, has received but few if any repairs since its construction,' and common rumor in ‘Williamsburg says, has been pronounced unsafe as long ago as three years. The break came very suddenly, almost before the inhabitants of the inundated villages had partaken of their morning meal, and in some instances before they had awakened from the slumber of the night before, The morning was dark and cloudy, as if in. keeping with the melancholy event, and the operatives in. the various mills along the line of the stream were generally wending their way to their'

daily tdl. It was not far from seven ‘o'clock when the first symptoms of the break were discovered by the watch in careof the dam. ; These consisted of a small lead through the lower embankment in the direction ot&?ﬂlliamsbirg. At first the wat€hman thouglt little or nothing of the circumstance, but atlength the gap began to widen and he very properly became alarmed and hastened to notify the inhabitants in the villages below. He stared. on a run for Williamsburg which was less than two miles distant, but long before he had got there. e whole embankment gave way. and the stream of terror, death, and destruction was there ahead of him. He had to take refuge upon a neighboring hill to save his own life, and thus became an oganized and helpless witness of the calamity which he had done all in his humble power to avert.

The rush of the waters and fear and | consternation which ensued among the | besieged citizens was heartrending to witness. The flood came without the slightest warning save a heavy rumbling not unlike thunder or the sound of a heavy train passing over a covered railroad bridge. Almost in a moment the torrents swept successively through the villages of Skinnerville, Williamsburg, Haydenville, and Leeds. The three first-named hamlets being about three-quarters of a mile apart, and the' latter about two miles below Haydenville. To those who saw the terrible volume approaching it looked in the distance as if a terrible fire was sweeping across the country., The spray or foam had the appearance of heavy black smoké, and the deception, was 8o complete that in the village of' Haydenville the fire bells were ringing for a few minutes before the devastating flood struck the town. The loss to the industrial enterprise in the vicinity may be safely reckoned at not less/than $1,500,000, and many of the manufactories destroyed will probably never be replaced. In fact all of the villages inundated may be said to be literally ‘destroyed. All the large factories and very many small ones are completely wiped out of existence. The work of destruction is three times as thorough as if a second Chicago or Boston fire had swept over the territory. lLarge brick and stone mills crumbled like so many piles of sand, and small, wooden dwellings were no more to the raging current than so many toy. steamboats would be inithe surging waters of Niagara River.— The: scene was most horrible and frightful, and made even the strongest men go frantic with fear. Women fainted in the streets. and were borne away' by the relentless current. So sudden was the inundation that many lost their presence of mind and rushed avildly from points of safety into very death itself. Others who remained to save loved and dear ones were themselves lost. One painful case was that of Dr. E.N. Johnson, of Williamsburg, who seized his two children and in company with his wife started for a high prominence just outside the wvillage. . He became: exhausted and stopped for a moment to rest. The flood came before he could get away, and all were lost, his wife preferring to share death herself than abandon the ones she so dearly loved. There are nwmerous cases of whole families being swept away.

ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. . Later advices in regard to the Mill River disaster estimate the number of lives lost at 145. Another reservoir in- the neighborhood has been emptied, in order that the dam may be inspected, and it is likely that the example will be followed by many millowners in Massachusetts. Thereneed be little apprehension of a second accident of this nature in New England until the present one has been comparatively forgotton; and yet it is t'ue that there are many considerable sieets of water in that section of the country, and especjally in the Berkshire hills, which are kept in bounds oy 'single stone dams. - It will be no evidence of foolish fright for the people living below these enormous artificial ponds to insist upon the strengthening of the damsupon which they depend for security to life and pioperty.. . :

The Southern Inundation. " A map has been published in New Orleans showing the extent of the overflow caused by the crevasses in the Mississippi and the swoilen condition of the rivers in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. According to this map, which clearly indicates the limits of the various inundations, the country lying westward of the Mississippi, from a point above Memphis to the Gulf of Mexico, is almost altogether under, water. Its measurment would show nearly 200 miles in length and in many places fifty milées in width. It is noticeable that the spread of water from the b_réaks in the Mississippi levees along the Louisiana coast are comparatively small, being chiefly confined to the vicinity of the crevasses. The greatfloods are due'to the overflowing of the large interior streams of three States. In Arkansas the valleys of the Arkansas, White, St. Francis, and other rivers are under water for distances on either{side varying from five to fifteen miles. The same is true of all the Louisiana bayous laying between Bayou Teche and the Mississippi River. I.ower Louisiana for about 100 miles in every direction is almost entirely under water, only two or three small tracts being marked on the map as free from overflow. In Mississippi the inundation extends from Friar’s Point, on the Mississippi, to Vicksburg. It presents the spectacle of .an unbroken sheet of water twenty-five miles long and from twelve to thirty miles wide. This tract is flooded by the rise in the Yazoo River and its tributaries.

~ Dr. JosEpH WHARTON, who owns the only nickel mine in the United States, and has a monopoly in the only metal that is used in the currency of the country, wants a ten per cent. increase. in the tariff all around. He does not ask for this increase in his own selfish interest but in behalf’ of the 'industry of the country. Such a manifestation of the pure altruistic spirit on the part of the nickel monopolist is calculated to inspire more encouraging notions of human nature.— Few people are so truly benevolent as to ask that A shall be taxed for the benefit of B without having some slight personal interest in the operation. Mr. Wharton is a rare exception.

A STRANGE statement is made in Washington dispatches in regard to the reasons for Gen. Sherman’s removal to St. Louis. He is said to be a candidate for the Presidency and to favor an arrangement by which Gen. Grait shall be again placed at the head of the Army. The rumor in its present shape is not worth much, except as being something new ; and the substance is of so fragile a texture that the whole matter will probably evaporate with the morning’s mist of to-morrow. S

Ourt. of thirty-one influential German newspapers published in the United States, including the cities of New York, . Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Buffalo, Newark, Louisville and Indianapolis, only one favors inflation. ' The Louisville dnzeiger is the only paper of its class .oppoped to the veto. The Scandinavian press all oppose inflation. e :

STATE ITEMS, 1 The meanest man in the State lives in Henry county. He stole the coal oil can from a church over there.— Greenfield News: = : The Bloomington Progress says: “Agents for a Chicago Granger store are selling coffee by sample, 30 Ibs. for $2, where clubs of sixty are made up; one-half the money paid down, balance when goods are delivered. The goods have not been delivered.” , After favoring the Baxter temperance law and indirectly throwing .its support to the side of total prohibition, the Herald now comes'out and very sensibly advocates a license lasww for the government of the sale of liquor, and as it is better late than ﬂeg\"er we do not care to stop and enquire what has brought about the sudden conversion, although we could guess it at the first trial.-—LaPorte Argus. '

An Irish woman was recently walking along the street, carrying a pitcher of yeast when she was stopped by a crusader and the contents of the pitcher thoroughly examined. The Irish lady thought it was a piece of decidedly cool impertinence, but the erusader thought she had a perfect right to know what pedple carried in their pitchers and she was determined to find out.—LaPoite Argus. | - Dr. Rerick is Clerk of LaGrange county and is editor of the Standard of : Lagrange. Germ Brown is Clerk of Steuben county and is one of the editors of the Angola Republican.— Eli W. Brown is Clerk of Whitley county and is editor of the Columbia City Post, and Reub Williams is:the editor of the Warsaw Indianian and is the Clerk of Kosciusko county.— Patent applied for.—Butler News. |

A Vigo county farmer hugged his

neighbor’s wife against her will; she informed her husband and he called on the hugger with a pistol for satisfaction. A note of hand for ten dollars settled it, until the note was traded off and the treacherous or lecherous cuss refused’ payment on the ground of want of consideration.— The holder now proposes to fly to the law for relief. and get the legal value of an illieit hug. ‘ , : . The religious society known'as the Dunkards, of which there are a large number in Wayne county, was first organized in the year 1820. They now have 1,200 ministers, of whom several hundred are bishops. The number of churches is estimated at 400, and the membership at 20,000, of which ninetenths, ministers included, are farmers. Ministers are only remunerated when engaged in missionary work.— Spiceland Reporter. v Great excitement prevails in Rochester, Ind., over the failure of the People’s Loan and Deposit Bank of that town, which was “run” by one Williamp Ashton. The bank had obtained the confidence of the people of Fulton county, and . everybody, from the poor girl with her $5, up to the treasurer ‘with his $B,OOO, trusted their money to the keeping of Ashton. It is said that he will not be able to pay ten cents on the dollar.

Last week; we stated that J. H. Crawford, of Washington township, had two uncommonly heavy sheep—a yearling weighing 180 pounds and a two-year-old- weighing 260 pounds.— Now comes Mr. John Swisher, of Liberty township, who | deposes and says that he is the owner of a yearling that tips the scales at 200 pounds, and that Anthony Swisher lras one weighing 196 pounds, which didn’t get a mouthful of grain during the entire winter. Both were raised by J. H. Crawford.-— West Lebanon I'imes. ’

‘The Plymouth Democral says: On the 7th inst., some rather lively work was done at the saw. mill owned by Hartman & Bro., located near Walnut Station. The mill was manned by thirteen workmen and they worked just ten hours and three minutes.— The result of their day’s labor footed up as follows: Sawed 68 cuts, ranging from 187 to 766 feet, green poplar lumber, into 25,000 feet of flooring strips’ 14 by 6 inches, 3,006 feet of box boards 1 by 13 inches, in all 28,006 feet. The mill was manufactured by Thomas Shape, of Salem, Ohio. Engine 11 by 20; 72 inch saw and green slabs were used for fuel.

Notes from the National Capital. An unsuccessful attempt was made by the House Gutrency Committee on Monday to agree upon some course of action with regard to the amended hill recently passed by the Senate. There is now reason to believe that the bill will be reported back to the House with amendments allowing National Banks to keep reserves in- cities of redemption, and restoring 50 per cent as the proportion of greenbacks to be retired on issue of bank currency.— The first of these amendments is designed to propitiate New York bankers, and the second to make sure of President Grant’s approval.. If the programme indicated is followed, the inflationists will not only surrender more than they need, but more than they ought to surrender. The provisision for keeping at home currency reserves is a wise one, and in the light of the late panic seems to be absolutely essential to sound business interests. A broad view of the currency guestion .would suggest that sure measures should be taken to prevent commercial disaster even though the Wall street heathen should rage. The Indiana Association of Journalists, last Saturday paid their respects to the President who received them cordially, giving%o each of the 150 ladies and gentlemen in the party a warm shake of -the hand. Leaving the white house, the editors proceeded to the capitol, having been invited on the floor of the House by Speaker Blaine® In the evening the Indianians resident in Washington gave a card reception in honor of the editorial association at the Masonic Temple. During their stay at the capital the party visited all the places of interest in the District of Columbia. Tuesday they left for Richmond, returning ‘Wednesday night on their way north.

A resolution has been introduced in the Senate providing for the sine die adjournment of Congress on June 23 Its fate depends in some degree upon: the temperature of the next few days, and the question is one that may properly be submitted for the earnest consideration of Old Probabilities. Hot weather in Washington will not be endured by anybody who has the means of getting away. ; '

Mr. HENRY WATTERSON, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, sticks to it that Grant is a candidate for a third ferm, with a good show of success, and he makes the point upon his own critics, who have been poking fun at his vaticinations, that they will be the first to acquiesce in Third Term, Ceesarism, and what not when the procession begins, Mr. Watterson does not say whether heis in favor of third term and things or not. He only tells what he seeés through the bottom of the glass'of destiny, after the champagne is out, '

A land agent in Colorado remarked to an inquiring emigrant, that all that was needed to make the place a paradise was a comfortable climate, water, and good society. “That is all that is laeking in h—ll,” was the reply.

. GENERALITEMS. IT is doubtful if the detectives have got hold of Bender after all. - S¢ far, the man in jail has even chances as to whether he is Bender or not.” The Topeka Commonwealth is inelined to the belief that the man is not Bender. . Postmaster Birt, of Boston, and Mosby, the Virginia guerrilla chief, are attempting to write General Grant into a third term of the presidency.— General Grant would find 'cdqsidé,rable trouble to secure his election if the ‘Republican party should nominate. him. Figuratively speaking, Grant is a dead cock in the pelitieal pit. .

A recent telegram from Paris states that the late severe frosts have done considerable damage to the vines throughout France. Itisestimatedthe grape crop for this year will not be above half the average one. Hence, the great wine and brandy fountain‘head has been to a degree ‘shut off.— There are no ecrusaders over there eithier. Bt S

- The Michigan pineries have again commenced their annual burning.— Presently the Wisconsin lumber regions, Illinois prairies, and Towd wildgrass will join in and we shall have.a general blaze. The closest watehfulness is unable to prevent these conflagrations, Every year vast valuesand many precious lives are sacrificed by these burnings. S e

North Carolina is detlermined that if the people will drink they shall have pure liquors. The Legislature of that State has passed an act swhich provides that any person who manufactures, sells or deals in spirituous liguors as a drink, of any name or kind, containing foreign - properties or. ingredients poisonous to “the system, shall be punished with five years” im~ prisonment in the penitentiary. = . Two murderers were taken from tlie jail at Shreveport, La.; early last Sunday morning, and hanged by a mob of masked men. The victims were.not gentlemen of such character and standingiin the community that it is easy to work up sympathy in their behalf. One Lad killed several inoffensive per: sons before committing the crime for which he was arrested, and the otlier was a circus-performer of bad antecedents. i PERI e

A R INDEPENDERT COXVENTION. Mode of Proceeding. ./ An executive meeting of -furmers. was held in this city yesterday, looking to the adoption of measures for. bringing the delegates together on the 10th of June. After a full discussion. it was decided that all reform organizations should be cordially invited to: take 'part in the deliberations of the convention. = Delegates from counties where no conventions were held will be received hy producing proper guarantees of sympathy and earnestness in the purpose of the movement. The apportionment for delegates will be one. vote for every 500 voters of the county, basing their population on the census, of 1870. The convention wilk be called torordew at 10 o’clock ‘on the morning of June:lo, for preliminary organization, the selection of committees and such other work as may. be necessary. : e By order of the committee, - = . - 'THoMAS W, REESE, Secretary:. -

Tie ,bill appropriating :tliree millions of dollars to the Centennial job came to a vote in the -House.of Rep resentatives on the 7th, and was defeated by a vote. of 92 to 138. . ‘Afterwards, by a majority of two, this.vote ‘'was reconsidered, and pending a motion to lay the bill on the table, the House adjourned. We hope that the decided majority who ranged . themselves against the spoliation of the National Treasury for the beneéfit.of Philadelphia will adhere to their convicttons, wnd after the present meastire is thoroughly killed off, that a resolution will be passed indorsing some sort of a national eelebration of our one hundreth birthday. The occasion should be a marked one,and it should be made so without draining” the government money chest in the effort to ¢ompete with continental countries in cost1y “shows.”—lndianapolis Journal.

SCHUYLER COLFAX seems to be in: bad odor in government cireles. The ‘Washington Republican, an administration organ, says: “Schuyler Colfax has written a letter on resumption. Presumption is -the® word that should- be used to characterize it.— Faithful and discreet friends of the Republican party will carefully avoid giving it any publicity, as" Schuyler’s attempt to resume his place as a leader will not add to the good name of the organization. ILet "him be satisfied with a back seat. He may feel lonely just now, butlet him be pa-. tient; the people are getting tired of frauds, and the party is purging it'selﬂf‘f' of them with such rapidity that. he! will soon have plenty of company.— Already he may find congenial spirits among the, ranks of unemployed Christian statesmen.” Alas, poor “Smiler.” o Lo : —'—'*~'~“h—f‘_*—‘7~ A , TaE liberated judges of the Arkansas Supregne Court have rendered a decision in favor of Brooks’ claim for the Governorship of the State, In view of the former decision of this same tribunal; to the _effect that no State court had any jurisdiction of a: suit to settle the contest for the Gubernatorial office, this latter judgment seems about the most flagrant pieceof judicial burlesque that has disgraced even such a commonwealth as Arkansas. We are_of the opinion, now, that the General Government should build an official fence around the State, and let the different factions fight till one or the other is exhausted. It would hot be a bad idea: if both should be completely wiped out of existence.—lndianapolis JourFoßr many years the fate of unlappy Poland has furnished an unfailing theme for the poet and the novelist.-— No people in its"vain struggle against a merciless fate has commanded a more wide-spread and profound sympathy. Russia is at this moment waging a most cruel warfare upon this devoted people. Notcontent with depriving them of their country and their freedom, Russia now attempts to denationalize them by attempting to force upon them the Russian religion. Already the Polish language is. not permitted in the courts and public schools. ' But against these disadvantages the brave Poles have remained to "a large degree distinct, and they are offering the most stubborn resistance to these encroachments upon their religion. PR

The Germans of Cincinnati are making efforts to introduce into the State of Ohio the song-birds of their native land. A few days since 1,300 birds of different 'varieties arrived from. Germany, and were set free near the city. They immediately began work build~ ing their nests. Among them are the nightingale, the skylark; and the blackbird of Germany. A few birds imported and set free the year previous are returning after the winter, and it is hoped that those set free this year will do likewise. Meanwhile the En%}ish sparrows - imported into New ork a few years since to proteet the trees of Central Park from the: ravages of insects are making their benevolent.way all over thgcountry.:‘ B

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- THE LIGONIER = ACADE) SICY ACADEMY OF MUSIC. o | Sl : - JNO. H. HILL, Principal. © . FIRST TERM COMMENCES i MONDAY, JUNE 15, *>74. _ = SECOND. TERM COMMENCES " MONDAY, AUG. 31, °74. /. THIRD TERM COMMENCES MOND AN, NOV. 11, 4. . -4 NORMAL COURSE ; Will be opened for the benefit of those who may” ; -~ desire instruction in the Theory and. - Practice ot Teaching. . f . Terms of Tuition—Payable in Advance. Per quarter of 10j weeks, Piano, Ist grade, 20 lessdns pertermi: .Lo i ol il 1. 0. 81000 Per quarter of 10 weeks, Piano, 2d grade, 30 Tessons Perterin- .. ua.e .o tlllio 0 12 50 ‘Per quarter of 10 weeks, Organ, Ist.grade, 20 T P(gre ?&ﬁ?&%ﬁﬁﬁeeks, Organ, 20 gralie, 30 104 lessoniniper termdl. Lo Dol cnl 0 L A 19.60 Cultivation of the voice and singing, 20 lesSORNPEETErML 00l il iie cieiasi Lo 1000 Thorqngh Bass and Barmony, 30 lessons... 1500 Clergymen, who*are dependent upon their salaries for support, and who gend their.children to us, will be charged twg-thirds of the above rates. . Competent Assistant Teachers will be employed. All the adyantages of a good home Music School are offered. No effort will be spared to make the term pleasant and profitabie., Tuition fees will be refanded in cage of protracted illness. .. ROOMS AND BOARD Can- be had at reasonable rates. The Principal .~ will'agsist in procuring Rooms and Board. o ' LOCATION., ol s Thé Academy is on the second floor of Landon’s Block ;-entrance first door north of Jackson’s Hat Store."- The Principal will )Five his attention to teaching Singing Schools, Musical Conventions, Church Choirs, Glee Clubs, &c. For further particulars apply to or address % . JOHN H. HILL, Principal, 4-tf - LigoNIER, NoBLE COyNTY, INDIANA.

TINEMPORIUM! JOEN ABDILL, | 5 . At the old stand of Geo. McLean, has constantly - on hand a large and complete assortment of Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron Ware Forkﬁ. Hoes, Butts.Screws.Locks,iLatches.Straps -~ Ringes, Pocket and Table Outlery, &c. Also, & full line of the celebrated . 4 MISHAWAKA PLOWS, All of which will be sold at bottom figures for cash. T Ty ¢ _o_ Espec@é’l atteixtion given to the laying of TIN ROOFS, PUTTING UP OF EAVE TROUGHS, . and all kinds of : S JOB WORK. Call and examine goods before buying elsewhere. £ BRMEMBER THE PLAOR! * “ | SIGN OF THE LARGE COFFEE POT, May 21, "13-25¢f _ JOHN ABDILL. "~ LIST OF LETTERS JPRemainingin the post office at Ligonier,lnd. R during %he psstvlv,eek: » | Anderson, James g&?ﬁt. John ‘ ﬁ;ia;r’mpg, aﬁrs, Phebe Wh;tl;: g‘o:m !h ndle,John - - 0 188 Jul Morrell, Miss Jate . Waniz, Mas. Hancy 3. Letters adgremd_ I‘:Dlgnge&ﬁg}:é Cherry Vale, ansas,” and *‘Mrs, L. T. Cummn ,Xt Wayne, Eul..” are detained, having been mailed without the required stamp. .. ° e ! -Persons calling for aﬁ;@ﬂhe above Jetters will please say “Advertised.” = o 3 . H.M.GOODSPEED, P. M. .- Ligonier, Ind., May %Ist, 1874, '~ .~ Executor’s Notice. = N OTICE is hereby given that the undereigned N AT County, Indiana, bn P ioo o] blysolvent. 1 Wi ASMITH, May2llBt4ew3 . . Executors, CoashinEal e e S O e