The National Banner, Volume 9, Number 18, Ligonier, Noble County, 27 August 1874 — Page 2

(- W S e : The latvowal Banmwey - s P ; Rt : ] ,’l\’,' ‘: . ""f\. ¢ i P ALY rd J, B. STOLL, Editor and Proprietor; LIGONIER, IND,, AUG.27th, 1874. " . COUNTY CONVENTION. To the Democrats, Liberals, and -al:l the Opponents of the Republican Party: / : The Democratic-Liberal Committee of Noble County, in pursuance of the power vested in'it by the Democratic-Liberal Convention of 1872, hereby gives notice that a County Convention will be held in the town of Albion ¢n Saturday, September 12, 1874, All voters of the county are invited to join in sending delegates to the convention who desire to promote the following purposes: - - First—The restoration of gold and silvek as the bugis of the currency of the country; the speedy resumption of specie payments, and the payment of all national indebtedness in thé money recognized by the civilized évarld. \ Second—A tariff for revenue only. Third —lndividual Nberty, and opposition to sumptuary laws ; Fowrth —~Rigid restriction of the government, beth State and National, to the legitimate domain of pnlitical({mwer, by excluding therefrom all executive and legiglative intermeddling with the affairs of society, whereby monopolies are fostered,. privileged classes aggrandized, and individual freedom unnecessarily and oppressively restrained. Fifth—The right and duty of the State to protect its citizens from extortiom and unjust dis- - crimination by chartered monopolies. : The Committee, believing the opposition ‘to Republican misrale can harmonijously nunite apon the foregoing principles, earnestly eolicit the 'free co-operation of all men, regardless of past political affiliation, in an earnest effort to place the local and general government -in the hands of men who are actuated by the principles above . enunciated. . o Each townghip will be entitled to send one del~egate for each ten voles cast in that township for O. M. Eddy for Secretary of State at the eiectlou in 1872, such delegates to be chosen on the evening of Saturday, September sth,' 1874, at the uzual places of holding elections. » A. S. PARKER, Chairman, E. B. G eruER, Secretary, -

Just as everybody knew, beforehand; fhe investigating committee of Plymouth Church has made a report fully exonerating Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.

. HoN.. M.. A, 0. PACKARD;' of Plymouth, in a letter addressed to the editor of the Goshen Democrat, says that he can under no'circumstances consent to become a candidate for Congress.

" Bro. FRANKS, of the Winamac Democrat, pronounces J. A. Vose, a pretended advertising agent of New York, dishonest amfi untrustworthy. 'The brethren will acedrdingly beware of Vose. . L . 2

THE PROHIBITIONISTS of Pennsylvania, expressing a lack of confidence in the professions of eitherof the two principal parties, have nominated a full State ticket, which they intend to support whether the votes are thrown away or not. o

EpEN H. FISIIER, as chairman of the republican county committee, has issued a call’ for holding a républican county convention at Albion on the 19th day of September, to nominate candidates for the various offices to be filled in Noble county. .

APPREHENDING the too rapid desstruction of their vast forests, the lumber men of Pennsylvania have concluded to proceed a little more sparingly in the future. It is gradually becoming apparent that our people have done a little too much by way of “thinning out” the forests of the lands

WE take pleasure in transferring to our columns & well-considered article on the civil rights bill, from the Steuben Republican of last week. The article in question takes a clear view of the sitnation, and though considered from. a purely partisan standpoint, we see much therein to commend it to public consideration, .

THE DESPERATE ATTEMPT of the leading New York dailies to establish Beecher’s innocence is really amusing. If words were without meaning and Beecher could be presumed to have been drunk when he wrote those sad, sad letters, then and only then, might confidence be placed in the labored editorials of the New York dailies.

PENNSYLVANIA will this year elect a Lieut. Governor, Auditor General, Secretary ‘of the Interior, and two Judges of the Supreme Court for a term -of twenty-one years. In the election of the latter, minority representation is established by the new constitution, so as to enable each of the two leading parties to elect one Judge.

YESTERDAY an immense State convention was held in the city of Springfield by those who endorse the principles eénunciated in the Chicago (hai‘d inoney) call. Many of the ablest men of 'lllinois, both Democrats and Republicans, participated in its deliberations. At the time.of going to press the final action of the convention had not transpired. L

It is less than six weeks until the people of the Thirteenth District will be called upon to determine who is to represent them in Congress. Mr. John H. Baker, as the candidateé of the majority party, should therefore define his position at an early day. He ought to inform' the people candidly and sincerely how he stands on the finance and tariff questions, the civil rights bill, the reduction of the (next) President’s salary to $25,000, and other leading issues now before the people. Let us hear your key-note, John! 5 9

The Hartford Courant saysj? “We believe the party will win in the next political contest which makes itself the ehampion of specie payment and home rule.” The Sentinel has expressed the same opinion heretofore, and the Springfield Republican endorses the sentiment. The democratic central committee of Illinois has evidently struck that long expected key note, —lndianapolis Sentinel. ' And Noble county has the distinguished honor of making the first response to the Illinois key-note. The -Democratic-Liberal party of this county has thus taken early ground in favor of principles that are eertain to be affirmed by the nation in 1876. Its example will be proudly remembered . at the opening of the great contest two years hence, : o .

'~ FOUND WANTING. = It will be remembered that on the 21st of July last, Mr. Theodore Tilton published a series of charges in which Mr. Beecher was accused of the crime of adultery with the wife of Mr. Tilton. The public mind was shocked to the greatest degree by the publication of Tilton’s article. By many it was said that Mr. Beecher stood too” high to-be affected by Tilton’s desperate attack. Others unhesitatingly pronounced Tilton’s sworn statement a libelous falsehood, but the greater part of the world suspended judgment, waiting to hear what Mr. Beecher would have to say in his own defence. After a vexatious delay, Mr. Beecher’s denial of the charges appeared. It was elaborately “and even ornately written. (It satisfied Mr. Beecher’s friends of his innocence, but the public at large was disappointed. .

| It was not the clear and forcible document wlhich had been hopefully looked for. It failed to explain to the satisfaction of the critical, Mr. Beecher’s own words and lstters in which his language implied that he was guilty'of some great wrong doing. But - Mr. Beecher charged Mr. Tilton and Frank Moulton, the mutual friend of the party, with an attempt to blackmail him,and Mr. Tilton’s case began to look hopeless. His (Moulton’s) report to the committee of Plymouth cliurch did not sustain Mr. Tilton nor did it clear himself. Had Mr, Beecher’s own language and letters been satisfactorily explained, his article, weak as it was, would ' have made him appear . guiltless. The world had expected much from Mr. Moulton, but as nothing came from him, it was forced to be silent regarding the conviction of Mr.' Beecher’s eriminal acts with Mrs. Tilton. Following Moulton’s appearance before the committee, came Beeclier's letter. Rumors of all sorts-were set afloat about what was going to be idone. Weuld Beecher’s committee pronounce him wholly mnocent and retain him in the church in which he has so long and ably preached? The a.nsgvér was generally “Yes,”—,~but men said also that that committee would white-wash Mr. Beecher and retain him, no matter whether they believed him guilty or innocent. = - On last Friday evening Mr. Shearman, the clerk of Plymouth church, announced that the committee had finJished their labors and would report on the subject which had received the benefit of an investigation (!) at their hands. But a cloud . was gathering from whose darkness would come a thunderbolt that would shake the very foundations of Plymouth church. | Mr. Moulton, struggling, even when called on for his statement, to shield his friends, has -been outraged by Mr. Beecher’s course as taken in the defence, and he could no longer hold his tongue. His testimony had been concisely and logically written out. It was not handed to the committee.— But, with the addition of a note “To the Public,” it was handed to the Daily @raphic last Friday, and that paper published it in full, even to giving facsimile copies of the letters from Beecher and Mrs. Tilton. Mr. Moulton’s statement, like Tilton’s, bears the clear impress of truth. There is an unmis-w takable air of genuine veracity a.boutA{ it. It mustimpressevery candid reader with a belief that Mr. Beecher is even a greater knave than Tilton himself had conceived him to be. Mr. Moulton says ‘ emphatically that both Mr. Beecher and Mrs. Tilton had confessed to him, time and again, that{ they had been guilty of sexual intercourse with each other for years. Letters are produced to support this state'ment., If Beecher is not convicted on the evidence now arrayed against him, then we saythat noman can be convicted by the evidence of others. Mr. Tilton who has never been written down a liar until quite recently (and then by Beecher’s ill-advising defenders) has given a statement under oath. Mr. [Moulton follows next. Both are everything that a jury would desire—clear, explicit, circumstantial and complete. Mr. Beecher writes a flowery defence of himself (not under oath) in’ which he tamely says that he is inno-| cent, but he can’t prove it!. Those who do not now believe Mr. Beecher guilty, ‘never will, until he himself confesses his crime, and that he is not likely to do. According to the evidence which, we insist, is all against him, he stands forth one of the most monstrous liars the world has ever seen—a libeitine who commits adultery in the name of the Christ he has betrayed, a hypocrite who cairies on deception under the cloak of piety. L This is saying much, but it is borne out by the “stern logic of facts.” Mr. Beecher has for years been identified with the “liberal” movement. His own brother declares that “Mrs. Woodhull has simply practiced what Henry has preached.” In the name of decen¢y, let an end come to thisspitiful farce. Mr. Beecher said he ought to “step down and out.” Now is his. ‘time. But, if he has any adequate testimony to give in his own defence, in the name of God,. why not give it? As the case stands, he is convicted by the sworn testimony of Theodore Tilton and the statement of Frank Moulton, supported by a mass of letters and a damning array of documentary proof. P : ettt - B— :

PINCHBACK, the celebrated Louisiana darkey politician, is pretty thoroughly laid on the shelf. It will be remembered that he tried to get into the U. S. Senate, then into the lower House, but that all his designs were very properly frustrated, not so much on aceount of his external as his internal blackness. The last kick administered this over-ambitious darkey occurred about two weeks ago when he was snugly defeated as a candidate for delegate to the Republican State convention, . Pinch's goose is thoroughly cooked. :

SENATOR THURMAN thinks that President Grant’s friends are working strenuously to secure his nomination for a third term, and that he is looking on consenting. No one but a fool or a hypocrite can entertain or express any other opinion on the subject.

| THE GIRL BESSIE-THE VEILED WO- : - maw . . 1t seems that Mr. Beecher and Ins whitewashing committee have enterl tained the erroneous idea that if they could only make it appear that Mr. Til- { tow’s soul is not wholly white, it would be sufficient evidence that Mr. Beecher is innocent of the crime charged and proven against him. In order to bolster up their failing case, they have brought forward a girl=—a simplewinded simpleton at that—to tell what she knows about Mr. Tilton.— She is brought before the committee to testify. ‘Before giving her testimony, it may be in order to premise that ‘there have been some remarkable sleepers in the world. Rip Van Win"kle, as the story goes, enjoyed a prolonged nap in the solitudes of the Katskill hills. Then there were the “Seven Sleepers of Ephesus” who slumbered in the arms of Morpheus for a’century or so, and woke up in an opportune moment to testify to certain things that had “come to pass” in the days preceding their somnolency.-— { There is a parallel to these remarkable sleeping feats in the case of the girl Bessie. Itis recorded that when Lucrece was assailed by Tarquin, in the dead of night, she woke up and protested against the violation of her honor. The good woman, in fact,broke her heart and died, simply because Tarquin had taken that which belonged only to her lord. ITersleep was not 8o profound—not so much a supension’ of nature’s faculties, as Bessie’s. Bessie, as report shows, was carried by Mr. Tilton from her own bed to the couch of Mr. Tilton and when the in‘nocent girl awoke she found herself in the arms of Mr. Tilton. “*What do you ' mean ?” asked Bessie of Mr. Tilton.. “ILam lonesome,” said Mr.Tilton. Mus. Tilton was in Schoharie. Mr. Greeley was in the house. Bessie, though she awoke in Tilton’s arms, “hardly realized where she was.” Most girls, if modest, would have realized the situa- “ tion. Bessie says she asked Theodore what he was doing that for? Most girls would have. surmised it. Then Tilton told her“he wanted her to come and be with him.” Says the virtuous Bessie, “This isn’t right” and got up (in her night gown) and went back to her own bed. Bessie says she got very indignant when he came to her the second time and wanted her to go to bed with him. Most decent, well-behaved girls would have got indignant the first time that he came to her. But, then, Bessie was in “deep sleep,” and did not know that her precious virginity 'was stolen from her! It was the second attempt that she could not stand. She says she went into.another room and locked the door, etc. "Why did Bessie do that? Well, this sort of dirt is supposed to help Mr. Beecher’s case. It is supposed to be an aid to him while he is creeping through the obscene sloughs of filth into which his “admiration” for Elizabeth has plunged him. 'This story of Bessie is like unto another whereof we have read which was full of sound and fury but signified nothing. It reminds one of Desdemonia’s maid whd opened the door to “let in amaid that out a maid never departed more.” In the:fice of the stern charges of Mr. Tilton and Frank Moulton this sort of side-exhi-bition is anything but entertaining.— What the public wishes to know is why Mr. Beecher “wished he were dead,” ete? Itisdesirable thathe come out and prove that he is not the libertine which the world is forced to believe him to be. :

POLITICAL FOSSILS IN CONCLAVE. . ‘That notorioys fossil, Joe Ledlie, crept out of his phleozoic bed and called a convention of the political skeletons, on last Tuesday, at Springfield, Illinois. A score or so of lank bones, clothed with fragments of decomposed flesh,rallied to his gutterel screech. Precisely whgmt these unseemly fossils did, nobody knows. They met and twined their feeble bones together, while a ‘ghostly fiddler scraped his strings to the dolorous tune of “Turn about, and wheel about, and jump, Jim Crow.” One General Singleton, a political fly-sup-tlllre-creek, who throws filth in one. direction while he flies (if the term can be applied to a musty skeleton of the paleozoic age) in another direction, opened his toothless jaws and howled about gold being a glittering fraud.— No party can afford the expense of burying the bones of either Ledlie or Singleton. The expenditure of the fraction of a cent upon such worthless carcasses would be a limitless waste of money. The grave would be petter filled with the skulls of asses. sSuch fellows lead us to doubt the existence of living principles. The spectacle of these lank-jawed skéletons roaring themselves red on the nose(Bourbon ?) and throwing themselves into hydrophobic spasms in order to catch the ears of the meager crowd of seventeen skeletons which composed their great convention, is one not to be forgotton. Their toothless jaws opened to long, pitiful howls about death, hell, and damnation, and yet the nation goes on and the sun rises and sets just the same as if Joe Ledlie and Singleton had never crept out of their paleozoic beds. : D

: LET IT BE STOPPED. - As the campaign is about being opened in this latitude, we cannot too strongly commend this timely observation by our worthy contemporaries of the Kokomo Democrat: “It is a curious and most humiliating fact' that every political campaign opens a thousand sluices of slander; that men seeking office think it no harm to abuse and lie in the most villainous manner about any and everybody who oppose them. &t is needless to say this is “all v_z‘r ng.” The men who engage in it know that. A good many of them profess to be, and are in ordinary business and social transactions, respectable, truthful and hightoned. How such men obtain their own consent to make black-guards, liars and slanderers of themselves we cannot imagine. If this paragraph meets the eye of any of those who are guilty of this low and nasty practice, and makes them ashamed of themselves, its sole ohject will have been accomplished.”

ALL OVER THE STATE. l'em?ai and Political ' Paragraphs. Three papers support the Independent ticket in Marshall county, and yet the Plymouth Democrat (which stands alone in the support of the demoeratic ticket) calls for the establishment of three miore of the same kind to make the fight interesting. Platt says with only three papers against him, he shall have to spend a good portion of his time fishing and hunting. G ol Jim Wildman calculates on runnirg about a thousand votes ahead of his ticket. Even if he does, \vh'icl{};s not probable, he will still be beaten four or five thousand.

The chances of electing the Independent ticket in democratic Marshall are not considered very brilliant. The Plymouth Democrat, for instance, says: “A good many Republicans have announced their intention of voting no county ticket at all, while others say they will support a majority of the democratic nominees.” A majority of from five to six hundred is claimed for .the regular democratic ticket, while Dan McDonald's majority. for Clerk is likely to reach one thousand. ‘ I

The Republicans of DeKalb county will meet at Auburn, August 29th for t_li_e purpose of putting in llolfiiix:ltioxl a county -ticket which will in ajl probability be handsomely defeated. Wm. S. Edsall, wlio was a candidate for renomination before the demsocratic convention, and subsequently submitted his claims to the consideration of the peogple’s party, and was unceremoniously l\veje_cted by both, still persists in being a candidate—an independent candidate for' Clerk of Allen county. Mr. Edsall deserves credit for his pluck, but we can hardly commend his judgment. . * The Fort Wayne Gazette of Friday. says that a new Independent opposi‘tion ticket has been conceived and parturition has heen accomplished. It is as follows: TFor Senator, S. F. Smart; Repreésentatives, P. Horn and M. Heller; Judge Criminal Court, W. H. Withers; Prosecuting Attorney Criminal Court, S. M. Heneh: Clerk, Wm. S. Edsall; Auditor, F. W. Kuhne; Treasurer, James Stellwagon; Sheriff, W. Schrader; : Recorder, George W. Jones; Commissioner, Frank Gladio. Gov. Hendricks will appoint Prof. A. C. Hopkins, son of the late Spperintendent of Public Instruction; to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Mr. Hopkins.! _ Rev. C.J. Bé\fles,:of Fountain county, writes a card to the Indianapolis papers:accepting the nomination for Secretary of State, tendered -him by theIndependents. '3 Judge Claypool, a prominent Putman county Democrat, made a speech i to a Democratic meeting at Greencastle the other night in which he avowed himself a warm friend of the Baxter law, and declared he would not vote for any man who favored its ref)eal. - : | The Independents have a hard time filling their State ticket. A. H. Graham, their last nominee for Superintendent of Public Instruction, declines to accept. He says he can’t see anything to be attained by the Independents which can not be secured by parties already in existence.

This morning Hon. J. A. Henricks receipted to Treasurer Campbell of the school board for the $6OO voted him by the council for services. Dr. Henricks, however, refused to také but $4OO and the remaining $2OO consequently reverts to the special school fund: Good for Dr. Henricks.—South Bend Tribune. an -

. Two years ago Dr, Henricks was the Liberal candidate for Congress against Gen. Packard, Republican.— Henricks was recognized as a man of the strictest integrity and as an honest, advocate of reform. Yet he was disastrously beaten at the polls, and the T»ibune folks, like other rockrooted pal'tisalng;‘ helped to bring about this result. Packard was elected, and, encouraged by demonstrations of abject party loyalty, cast his vote tor the “big grab.” Point your own moral. : ;

Tue Cincinnati Volksblatt makes a good point by saying: “There are many politicians who consider one office the ladder to another. Against this not much can be urged. But the§ should at least have sufficient sense of propriety to serve out the 'term first for which they have been elected before they apply for another office.— The factis that any one who seeks and accepts an office implicitly binds himself to serve out his term of office. He breaks this obligation when, searcely sworn in, he becomes a candidate for another office, the obtaining of which ,vacates his other office. Such political practices should not be encouraged by the vofers.” . The understanding is that in consideration of the healing of all dissensions in the Democratic ranks, Andrew Johnson shall be the United States Senator to succeed old Brownlow on the 4th of next March. He is the fittest, as he is the ablest man in Tennessee to represent the State in the upper House. We quote the above from the Nashville correspondence of the . World.— As a personal and political friend of Mr. Johnson, we feely highly gratified at the flattering prospect of his elec‘tion to'the Senate. We need a few men of his sterling qualities to restore old-fashioned honor and honesty in l the councils of the nation. .

'THE TENNESSEE DEMOCRACY: met in convention at Nashville on the 19tH. Gustavus A. Heiry, an old-line Whig, presided and made a very eloquent speech, reconciling all elements in | the support of the demoeratic nom-1 inations and platform. The action of | the convention insures victory to the democratic party in the coming con- { test. The resolutions declare that the State crédit must be maintalned at every cost, and favor a revenue tariff only. The election of ex-President’ Andrew Johnson to the United States Senate is considered probable by those who have studied the septiments of thepeople, ... Lol oo b it ]

ORGANIZING OPPOSITION. MEETING OF THE DEMOCRATIC-LIB-ERAL COMMITTEE OF THE 13TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Callfora Convention at Kendallville, Sept. Oth. to Nominate a €andidate for Congress. ‘ ‘GosHEN, IND,, AUe. 21.—1 n aecordance with notices issued by W. 8. Marshall, chairman of the DemocraticLiberal Committee of the Thirteenth Congressional District, together with a number of gentlemen to whom invitations had previously been extended, met this day at the Violet House in the city of Goshen, Mr. Marshall occupying the chair and T. C. Mays acting as sécretary. | : : The objeet of the meeting being stated by the chair, the following named gentlemen responded to the call of committeemen for the several counties: . -

Steuben—Dr. Geo. W. McConnell, DeKalb—Thes. C. Mays. - Lagrange—Not represented. Noble—Oo. D. Willett Elkhart—Vacancy. L Kosciusko—W. S. Marshall. Marshall—Daniel McDonald. The vacancy occasioned by the removal of W. C. Wilson from the county of Elkhart was filled by the appointment of Chas. L.. Murray, of Goshen. On motion of Mr. Willett, the gentlemen present, not members of the committee, werginvited to participate in the deliberations of the committee. . Goshen and Kendallville were proposed as the place for holding the congressional convention On a vote by counties, Kendallville was designated as the most accessible point.

The time for holding said convention’ was | unanimously fixed upon Wednesday, September 9th. The nature and scope of the proposed call for the convention gave rise to a mprotractgd discussion, Mr. MecDonald, of Marshall, advocating a strictly democratic convention, while Messrs. Freeman Kelly, Wm. C. Williams, H. C. Stanley, David Hough, O. D. Willett, LaPorte Heefner, Dr. Davenport, Wm. B. McConnell, J. A. S. Mitechell, C. L. Murray, T. C. Mays, and J. B. Stoll vexpressed themselves in favor of inviting all the opponents of the party in power to participate in the convention. Several forms were presented, but objection being raised to their phraseology, the following was finally adopted with but one dissenting voice (Mr. McDonald), whereupon the meeting adjourned.

Congressional Convention.

To the Democrats, Liberals, and all the‘Oppoueute of the Republican Party, of the Thirteenth Congreseional District: e The Democratic-Liberal Congressional Committee, in pursuance of the power vested in it by the congressional convention held, at Columbia City in 1872, hereby gives notice that a mgés convention will be held in the city of Kendallville,on ° ‘Wednesday, September 9, 1874, for the nomination of a candidate for Representative in Congress. All the opponents of the party in power are cordially invited to participate. - By order of the Committee, assembled at Goshen, Aug. 21, 1874, W.S. MARSHALL, Chairman. THos. C. MAxs, Secretary. : That Base Slander. - : When Dr. Parker opened an office at Ft. Wayne, the Kendallville Standard published one of its characteristically mean flings against that gentleman.—— Natural enough, the item found its way into the columns of the Ft. Wayne papers, the editors of which were credulous enough to presume that there might possibly be some truth in its contents. As soon as the real facts could be brought to the attention of these editors, they promptly made all proper amends, and set the Doctor right before the people of Ft. Wayne. In addition to these explanatory statements, the Daily News of the 19th contained the following card from Mr. Elihu Wadsworth: : . To the Editor of the Daily News: : Inasmuch as an article appeared in your paper copied ‘from the Kendallville Standard, which was meant to be derogatory to the character and habits of Dr. A.S. Parker, who has recently located in the city of Ft. Wayne; and which article asserts that I, his father-in-law, have used some influence over him other than as a well-wisher for his prosperity, I do ask that you permit me, through your columns, to pronounce the above assertion of the editor of the Kendallville Standard false—false in every particular, and in this locality where the Doctor is known it is not necessary to deny base and slanderous reports put in circulation by the Kendallville Standard against him. ~+ ELmEU WADSWORTH. KExDALLYILLE, August 18, :

Mr. Wadsworth is quite correct in his estimate of the weight thatattaches to the Standard’s statements where the accused and the accuser are both known. : .

THERE are those who affect to believe that it is or will be a yery easy matter to encompass the defeat of John H. Baker. The trifling circum: stance of 1,851 republican majority seems to be regarded as a very slight obstacle, This is doubtless correct if we can depend on Steuben reducing her majority te nothing, DeKalb giving us 200, Noble 300, Marshall 600, and Elkhart 300 majority, and Kosciusko and Lagrange cutting down their republican majorities about one-half. ‘lf, we say, this happy condition of affairs ean be brought about, there will ‘be no trouble about keeping Baker at a safe distance from the national capital, ko

Tue Springfield Republican (Ind.) remarks that the opposition of the Democratic party to “temperance legislation,” upon which Mr. Morton has attempted to make a point, is %uite in the line of party logtc and tradition. - The corner-stone of Jeffersonian Democracy was the ability of the individual citizen to take care of himself in most gaincu, and the good policy of letting mn 'A G S )

~ Tne Indianapolis Journal is receiving universal censure for intimating that preachers ought never to visit their female parishioners,except under strong guard, ae

A Destruetive Conflagration at ~ South Bend. = Burning of the Studebaker's Wagen e ;. Faectory. o 5 Loss $300,000; Insurance (isa;aoo. . SourH BEND, IND., Aug. 24.—At 4:30 o’clock this morning a fire was discovered in the paint-rooms of the mammoth wagon manufactory of the Studebaker Brothers, resulting in a loss of $300.000. o These works were erected immediately after the burning of gleir shops June 17, 1872, when they lost, about #75,000. : ' P ’ The flames from the wagon-works spread rapidly. and, owing to the great size of the building, the Fire Department were unable to get the fire under immediate control, but finally turned their attention to where the building connected with one erected four years ago, and there stopped it. o In this latter building was the main part of the machinery, which was all removed and saved from damage even by water. : The heat was so intense that the Lake .Shore & Michigan Southern freight and passenger depots were in danger. Trains were delayed in passing for some four hours. . There was no air stirring, and the flames shot up straight in the air, so many buildings in the immediate vi-. cinity were saved. Floating cinders fell over a mile away. o . The works contained upwards of 2,000 finished wagons, and vast quantities of stock in process of manufacture, ready for shipping, and cars from the Chicago, Burlington & Quiney Railroad,thie Indiana Central Railroad, the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacitic Railroad, and- the I. P. &C. Railroad, were standing at the shipping doors in process of loading: but were got out of the way just in time. to save them from burning. :

- The loss in detail,as near as can be approximately estimated is: Building, $120,000; stock in process of manutacture,sso,ooo ; fimished wagons,sloo,000; Iron -and tixtures, $30,000; total, $300.000. 'This is thought to be rather under the loss. . A The insurance, $126,000,.is divided up among 47 companies. N /

The theory of the fire is spontaneous combustion, though a few aver that it was the work of an incendiary.. The Studebakers empioy in their three shops upwards of ‘3OO hands,who are .thrown out of employment temporarily. - Their carriage-works are situated in another part of 'the city, and are all right. . L . The works were the largest in the world, and one of the most elegant factories in construction te be found anywhere. v e The citizens held a mass meeting of upwards of 2,000 people in the courthouse square this evening, and passed resolutions expressing their heartfelt sympathy for the great loss to the Studebakers, and pledging their moral and pecuniary aid if need. The meeting was addressed by Judge Stanfield, Hon. T. G. Turner, Lexington Pine, Elliott Tutt, the Hon. L. Hubbard, A. D. Dunbar, Hon. John Brownfield, O. S. Witherill, Dr. Humphreys, and others, declaring their full sympathy.— The Studebakers have this afternoon been in receipt of numerous telegrams tendering sympathy and substantial aid. The loss is deeply felt, not only here but abroad. :

The Studebakers are getting out a circular to be addressed to their customers, asking their prompt remittance of balance due, and declaring their purpose to be in running order again in thirty days. They have orders on hand for about 1,000 wagons. The fire is still burning at this writing (10 p. ».), and four large streams.of water have to be kept on to keep it down. : W

: Material for Congress. ~ [From the Goshen Democrat.) M. Al O. Packard, 6f Marshall Co., a schoolmate of John IL. Baker-—grad-uating in the same class—but a democrat of superior ability, is spoken of as ‘a suitable candidate for Congress. Mr. Packard made the best speech at our Court House during the last political campaign, He would be an overmatch for John 11. Baker on the stump. We know them both.

.We have heard Mr. Freeman Kelley spoken of as a very excellent, popular man. .. His being a tarmer and having the requisite abilities, is certainly a great recommendation for the office. We have heard the name of William C. Williams, the present clerk of N ble county, mentioned as a o;mdidn&; for Congress in opposition to Mr, Baker. -He is said to be a lively talker and well posted. -

PRECISELY as it has done in the past, the Inter-Ocean is again devoting its remarkable editorial abilities to the developement of a new rebellion in the South. The approach of important elections always admonishes such party barnacles to cook up something peculiarly startling to fire the northern heart. You never hear anything of the kind except when important elections are pending. Everything islovely at other times. There may be those who can be influenced by such Inter-Oceanic nonsense, but moderate faith in the good sense of the people genel'hlly warrants the assumption ‘that: their mumber is growing small ‘and béautifully less. Se>> P e . v

HERE follows an admission by a republican paper that Morton & Co. enacted a law without understanding i‘s provisions: “The new finance law has effected a contraction of the currency so far to the extent of about a million of dollars. This is the law which-many feared would produce a disastrous inflation,” The question now is, did Morton intentionally deceive, or was he deceived in his own work ? ' : :

Maj. Calkins writes to the editor of the Mishawaka Enterprisers “God bless the Republican party!” The Major was recently nominated for Congress—and that’s what ails him.— Plymouth Democrat, ' Judging from some remarks dropped within our hearing about a year ago, we think the word “damn” would have expressed the Major’s sentiments quite as faithfully then as “bless” does now. L e i

THE Washington Sunday Herald, Demaocratic sheet, comes out with a double leaded article, advocating the nomination of Gen. Sherman as the Democratic and conservative candidate for the presidency in 1876.—Ex. Better allow this matter to rest at least 18 months longer. There is no hurry about it. . o

They have a six-year-old boy at Harriman, N, H, who weighs 146 pounds. The following are his dimensions; Around than&eut,a forty-five inches; thigh, twenty-eight inches; ankle, fifteen inches; wrist, ten inches; arm at shoulder, seventeen inches; lerigth of leg, seventeen inches ; height, forty-seven and a half inches. :

. STATEITEMS. ‘The lady bitten by a rattlesnake near Warsaw died, aleohol and other remedies in her casé failing. = Two oxen are to e roasted whole at. the soldiers’ reunion in North Manchester on the 27th inst. All soldiers are invited. - . e Sl e

" The Commissioners of Marion county will havello applications for liquor permits to dispose of at their September session. ' @ . - - corpetia A

A vineyard near Argos will: yield twenty tons of grapes- this season, worth at least, $2,000, equal to about #333 per acre. . L A Madison clergyman recently received a fee of #5OO for his services at a wedding, besides $lOO to defray his traveling expenses. - e An *“attraction” of the Tippecanoe cdunty fair will be a eripple race; distance 100. yards. ~ Only. men with deformed legs can enter. .

Edwin Stowé, a young man aged 25, committed suicide at Plymouth on ‘Monday night by taking laudanum while laboring under a fit of temporaTyilnsmtey - . : Four years ago a Carroll county farmer planted a grain of wheat that. he gathered from a remarkably large stalk in his field. From that single grain. he has this year thirty acres sown, which will yield from thirty-five to forty bushels per-acre.—Lebanon Pioneer. L L :

‘Plymouth has been infested with housebreakers for some time. Nine I‘éside{nces ‘were burglarized on Saturday night a week ago, and-the inmates chloroformed. The thieves succeeded in_getting away . with considerable booty, cousisting of watches, money, jewelry, silks and other wearing apparel.. Noarrests have yet beén made. Wednesday of last week ‘a young man by the name -of John Simpson, an-ewmploye in the pump-shop of Platter & Co,, at Goshen, was arrested on a charge of seducing a young girl by the niame of Minnie Levingood. She is an orphan, and by a promise of marriage Simpson - aceomplished her ruin. i ~

, Dr.J. H. Green, of Seymour, who sends almost all the good peaches to Indianapolis, has 6,000 trees in bearing this year, and has in all 15,000 trees in his orchards. Thefcrop this year is not very heavy but of thé best quality. The Doctor says the prospects for grapes in thatregion is wonderful. A B

-Boyd Shannon, a well-known farmer near Fort Wayne, Wedneday of last week, filed a charge against one William Thompson and wife for kidnapping and abducting his daughter Ida, aged 15, and taking her out of the State to Paulding county, O. The circumstances of the case are said to. be highly sensational. - - ° Fanaticism has produced serious trouble in Brazil.; A German, calling himself the Savior, has established a sect, which, having committed riotous acts, fled to the woods and intrenched tliemselves. - Here they have already repulsed a body of police regular troops, and have perpetrated brutal murders among the families of seceders from the sect. o S e

‘AB a young man named Charles ‘Paine, in company with his wife, was returning ;home to the north side of Elkhart; and when near one of the races of the hydraulic works, his hat was blown “info the water, and, after making several unsuccessful attempts to recover it, he stripped himself of his clothing, and, in spite of. the remonstrances of his wife, plunged in -after it. ~He sank to the bottom in* stantly. His wife gave the alarm, and search was immediately made for the body, but it was not recovered for nearly an hour. He was intoxicated. GENERAL ITEMS, | It is reported that Marshall Bazaine escaped by connivance of -his guards. This does not change the statement that his wife was really his deliverer. It was probably a part of her plan to arrange matters with the guards. The first choice’ of the.Colorado beetle for a diet, is the potato stalk; but when this fails he will not hesitate to attack many other wvegetables. We have seen him satisfy his appetite on tomato vines,lanb’s quarter, etc.,and it is now a well established fact that he will even descend into the ground and devour the potato itself. This we have seen.—Selinsgrove Times.

Open war has been waged for several days past at Lancaster, Tenn., between two political factions, the one composed entirely of ‘whites, and the other, under the léadership of one Sellers, mostly of negroes. At last accounts several negroes had been killed, and Sellers’ house burned to the ground. Militia were going forward from surrounding towns, and further serious-trouble was threatened. :

The Osage Indians are reported to have formally declared war against the State of Kansas, and Gov. Osborne has applied to the General Government for 2,000 -carbines and 100,000 cartridges for use-in defense of the frontier of that State. * * * A new reservation has been selected for Spotted Tail and his band, but, according to Bishop Hare, one of the Commissioners, the Chief in question will require something more than verbal argument 'to induce him to eonsent to emigrate.; - . , The girl Bessie, connected with the Beecher scandal, who was sent West on account of her supposed knowledge of the affair, and the fear that she would tattle, told queer stories before the Investigating Committee., Shedeclared that Tilton, during his wife’s absence, sought repeatedly to accomplish her ‘ruin; that once she caught Miss Susan: B, Anthony on Mr. Tilten’s lap, and that Tilton and Mrs. Stanton were in the habtt of keeping late hours, till 2 or 3in the morning, all by themselves, over thé ehess-board.

. - Lagrange County. - . + (Items from last week’s Standard.) i ~Jaeob Crusen, of Eden township, sent in his resignation of the office of Justice of the Peace this week. Fires are again raging in the woods in different parts of the county. The . drouth is indeed becoming fearful. It is nota very good time for Female Suffrage lectures just now. The one appointed at the court-house, last week, was, we understand, s,o_slunly ‘attended that the lecturess declined to i __,____..*.“_._____ A Philadelphia Merchant Surprised. ~Messrs. Frank, Brother & Co., merchants on Third street, Philadelphia, ‘had a pleasant surprise. = Thirty years go they kept store in New Berlin, Union county, and before moving tq the city they were robbed of goods to ‘the amount -of $4OO, Last week a man came into their store, and ascer‘taining that tt:{. ‘were the same gentlemen who had kept store in Berlin, informed them that he was ready to pay the $4OO tb?- missed in the robbery, together with the interest upon the same, which would amount to $BOO. Mr. Frank was astonished at the man’s franknpess, but told him if he would give him the $4OO without interest they would call it square, -which he paid over aud departed, leaving the proprietors to ruminate u%m the singular phases of humanity.—Ex,

~ THE VOICE OF. WARNING. @ A Sensible View of the Civil Rights . Bill. ' ' [From the Steuben (Ind.) Republican.) ; We have had many misgivings respecting the policy of the so called Civil Rights Bill and have frequently eéxpressed them. The principal ground - of them has been our inability to find any power in the National Constitution to control the owners of private -property, such as steamboats, railroad - cars and hotels. Within certain limits they may be controlled or regulated b_y State Legislatures as they now are In some States; but we never could perceive how they could be legally controlled or regulated by Congress. That some of the Southern whites are very insolent to and proscriptive of the freedmen traveling on the steamboats and railroads and stopping at Southern hotels, we never doubted for ! a single moment,- Indeed, we know they have been and are; but we have looked jupon that fact as one of the evils in the land which seem to be beyond the reach of any congressional remedy—as one to be corrected by the States where it exists, in some manner, if it is to be corrected atall. - . As to'the effect of the measure upon the schools of the South, whicls are public institutions, if it should pass, we have not been so clear. The political equality of the freedman with the whites is guaranteed by the ! amendments. Social equality with them is not. The question:whether colored children shall be admitted in the same schools witih those of the whites, has a sopial as Wwell as political aspect. It turns out that it is thought to be so far'social that the Democrats made a point of it in the elections of ' North Carolina, Kentucky and Tennessee, and that too before the bill is passed or is very likely to be passed in its present shape by Congress. This negro question has been passed from point to point until it has reached a place where the utmost ‘prudence is demanded from our Senators and Representatives in Congress. 1t ought to be apparent to all of them by - this time that nothing in the-shape of social equality. between the whites and blacks in the South can be forced, or even attempted without producing the most. damaging reactions upon the Republican party. And we think - that they must perceive it now. e

. IThe Cadets. ¢ The response to Hon. H. B. Sayler’s notice for the presentation before him of candidates fer the military and naval academies was quite large, most ;.= of the counties of the old 10th District being represented. = There were sixteen applicants for the military cadetship and four for the naval. -Major ¢ Sayler informs us that the young gentlemen who appeared were so generally meritorious as to make a choice ex- - ceedingly difficult,and it was only after deliberating for several days that he was enabled to make a decision. . The successful candidates are David G. Cutter, of Roanoke, this county, for the army, and Joseph H. Defrees, of Elkhart county, for the navy. The first named is the son of a deceased soldier, the only one on the list, and is said to . - be in every way deserving of the appointment. Master Defrees will alsodo credit to the “Old Tenth District.” ° — Huntington Herald. !

- PROFESSIONAL DEAD-BEATS are so numerous that they are being driven to the most extraordinary measures to accomplish their purposes. The latest of these is that of a German Jew amed Levy, who, desiring a free ride ggeNew York, surrenders himself to Sheriff of McLean county, 111., as one of the assassins of Nathan, who was Kkilled by burglars 1n that city two years ago. He offered to go to New York without a requisition, but his statement of the particulars of the locality, the n&mnerv in which the mur® der was committed, and the general circumstances of the case, on being telegraphed to New York, were found utterly incorrect, and the stupid fraud was discovered. .

- BAXTER'S experiment, which has proved a failure, took about $llO,OOO from the school fund of the State, and - generosity handed it over to the saloon keepers. The Democracy propose to put that sum materially enhanced by ‘a high license law, again to the . credit of the school children of Indiana. As the saloonist is a fixture beyond the power of the Baxter bill to exterminate, it is wisdom to make him : bear a large burden toward the support of our State institutions. It’sthe best, use we can put him to.—Columbus Democrat. » - —%—-‘o‘-; o - | Politics arein a chaotic condition;: very much mixed. You frequently hear men saying, “I don’t know whether Pm a Republican or not,” or “I don’t know whether I'm a Demeocrat,” or “I don’t know what I am now.”— This describes the condition ot thous--ands of voters. The place-men, the office-seekers, and the party-workers comprise about all whe do not know' what they are, and a good many of them in this vicinity have been in doubt ever since the city election.— Indianapolis News. | .

AN ABLE but despondent editor of Southern Illinois has studied the financial situation till he breaks out in disguBt, as follows: “The fact is undisguisable. ~Money is alarmingly scarce. Talk about editorial integrity such times as these. Why, we 'd sell out for two dollars. Not on time, however,- because recent experience assures us that we’d wear ourselves out in efforts to collegg it e . - THERE i 8 no use in talking, the City Drug Store of Eldred & Son is one of the finest and best conducted in the State. Theo. keeps everything so neat and tidy as to always give the store an air of attractiveness. Everything usually kept in a drug store can be obtained at the counter of Eldred & Son. ‘Go and see for yourselves, *

For the best quality of Ceal Oil, Linseed Oil, White Lead, und all other articles for painter’s use, ciH at the Cig}{&ug Store. Eldred & Son defy competition. ' _ * T—— b—— it IroNDEQUOIT Old Port Wine, vintage of 1867, by far the best and purest article of the kind in the country, for sale at Eldred & Son’s. x . —_——— . A new lot of Paint am}gWhite—’Wash brushes just received at Eldred’s Drug Store, which can be bought very low for cash. e ARE YOU READY _ FOR REE ’ i _ . : :‘v.* Noble Co. Fair ? IFNOY, -~ Go to work at once and prepare at lenst ONE ARTICLE for ex. eWA T L