The National Banner, Volume 9, Number 20, Ligonier, Noble County, 10 September 1874 — Page 2

The Fational Sanney

; - ; | . L - ’Qgi ;" 4 PR ) ‘V‘ a 1 |s2y K\*\- « 1 ) 2 Al | | J 8. STOLL, Editor and Proprictor., LIGONIER, IND, SEPT, 10, 1874. SMOKERS will regret to learn that the tobacco crop in.XKentucky—the most extensive tobacco-raising region “in the Union—will be unusually light this year. A rise in the price of that luxurious weed may consequently be anticipated. :

A CrrcAco female Spiritualist named Suydam has been#ust(‘)nishing the Terre ITauteans by her wonderful performances. She pours blazing alcohol and coal oil over her face and hands, takes glowing coals into her mouth, and otherwise defies the operations of physical laws from which she suffers not the least inconvenience, by reason, we suppese of being Suydam well developed in spiritualism.

THE STATE ' SUPERINTENDENT of education in Mississippi has been made acquainted with grief. ITewas arrested at Jackson, August 23, charged with a fraudulent issue of jury and witness certifieates while circuit elerk of Warren county. In’ default of bail in the sum of $5,000, hejwas committed to jail. Being a colored man, we expect this may be set down as an additional episode in the “war of races.”

Oxg of the most disastrous investments of the current year has been the monuy paid out by the people of Ohio for a new .constitution. They employed one hundred and five men, cighty-eight of them lawyers, who produced such an abortive instrument that no partof it, not even authorized license, met with the \upp_mval_of the stockholders. So Ohio stands by what she has and has tried, conservative and safe. 5 ‘

RurAL DENTISTS watch with interest the progress of a trial in New York wherein the dental profession,is largely interested. A dentist filled four hollow teeth for a young lady and claimed as his ecompensation the mod--est sum of $1,025. The lady very naturally declined to foot this exorbitant bill. The matter is now pending be“fore court,the dentist,’in the meantime, being required by the .’Tu(’lg'g to “make out an itemized statement of the precious material used for filling the lady’s teeth. : ol Rl e THE KANSAS REPL’]};L](;A'xs are on the stool of repentance. Their resolutions declare that the powers of the general government have been stretched to an unhealthy extent by war and reconstruction; that there is recklessness, corruption and waste in the management of affairs; and that the idea of a third term is preposterous. ."This is very well so far as it goes. - If they will now put Pomeroy in the penitentiary, and send good, trustworthy statesmen to I'epresent*tlmin in Congress, there will be good works as well as good words frony Kansas. - DR WE DEEPLY regret to learn that Luther Benson, the talented young orator who some time since abandoned the cup and engaged in delivering temperance speeches, has again fallen from grace. Ile got onto a regular “high old drunk” at Columbus a few days since, shogtly after havihg made a strong temperance speech. Luther, it ‘ would seem, permitted himself to falter, and once obtaining a taste of - whisky, was unable to restrain his appetite. Though an inebriate for many years, we yet hope he may finally succeed in asserting and maintaining his manhood. _

Tue Christian Union, a paper published in the interest of Plymouth Chureh, has discovered that Mr. Beecher is a'pure and steadfast saint, in the fact of his receiving from sixty to seventy letters a day, congratulating him on his acquittal from the charges preferred against him! Will the Christian Union be kind gnough to inform its readers what it thinks{o’f Mr. Moultogx. . as he, too, is receiving a numberless lot of letters c'o\ngratulatingfihim on the . course which he took in Plymouth ' Church on the night when the Blymouth Church commune undertook to mob and murder him for raising a voice against the report of 11. W. B’s whitewashing commlbteie? Let the free-love organ speak. ! JUDGE SoL. CLAYPOOL, a distinguished democratic lawyer of Putnam county, proposes a mnovel method of doing away with saloons. “Says the Judge: “My observation is that drunkards are not made at home; or,if ever, very rarely. Drinking saloons make (11'1111kards§; I would, therefore, almost be willingito compromise this question upom the basis of having no drinking saloons, and of allowing every man who might wish to do so, to keep two jugs, one of whisky and one of milk, and administer to himself and family of children as his taste or judgment might prompt.” The Judge adds, of course, that he should recommend the milk. As there is nothing to hinder a man from keeping two jugs under existing laws, we can’t see much' of a compromise in Mr. Claypool’s suggestion, ; el A — e i GOOD MEN FOR THE LEGISLATURE. Our intelligent contemporary of the ‘Crawfordéville]}oumal makes a good - point in these words: “The ‘peo‘ple make loud complaints, and justly too, of our bad legislation. Who is to blame? The people themselves. Look at. the quality of timber they make legislators out of. Men of no ability are chosen to represent wealthy counties; men who have no ¢onception of the wants of the people, ignorant and uneducated, are sent to make laws regulating the intricate affairs of a. great people.” There isonly too much truth in this observation. Let the people determine upon nominating none but good, eompetent and honest , men, and all the complaints of bad ~ Jegislation will be hushed into sjlence,

- HUGH McCULLOCH'S LETTER, Mr. Hugh MecCulloch, being called‘ upon by the citizens of Cincinnati for his views on.the currency hues‘tion,‘ responded in a lengthy and important document to the Cincinnati fOommei'cial, in which he explicitly set forth his deliberate views on.the subject.— Mr. MeCulloch is & man well qualified to pass an opinion in regard to it. Ile has had valuable experience—first, ag a private banker secundly as Director of the State Bank of Indiana;, thirdly as Secretary of the National Treasury after Mr. Chase, and lastly as a menber Jof the fraternity of bankers in London. Ie is a man whose ability -and patriotic devotion cannot be ques‘tioned. The questions embodied in his letter are of vital importance. Ile attacks with invigorating energy that plank in the platform of the democratic convention of lmliun'a, which calls for the redemption of the-five twenty bonds in greenbacks. e denounces it as a blunder and crime, and declares that when thé law was invoKked to ‘sustain it, there was a lack of legal knowledge in the convention, for the reverse of what is St:w;i(}l in the platform is'true. He believes in the re- | tirement of legal tenders after a time1y notice, for the reason that so long as they remain afloat, there can be no resforation of specie payments. The plan whieh he submits for substituting free banking for government banking strikes us as & good one. The go\"— ernment, he says, cannot and ought not to be bankers. The attempt is an effort to accomplish ‘vhat is practically impossible: A couvertible currency cannot be kept.in cireulation Dby the government. A devartment created for that purpose would require to be a | bank of issue, and that would not suit the spirit of our institutions.

Mr. McCulloch believes that there should be “a definite policy” established, that.the subject of money should ‘be withdrawn from politics, and that there should be a gradual return ‘ to specie payments. © The opportunity for gambling in business should be removed by not encouraging uncertainty in place of solid security. As it is, the farmers and working men of the country are swindled by the false and unsettled state of our currency. - e says there need be no fear of scarcity of-money by the withdrawal of United States notes. What the West and South need is not more money but better money. Mr. McCulloch favors a gennine revenue tariff with a view of raiging money for the government at the least expense to the people. The present plan of taxing. fqreign manufactures for the protection of favored slome-interests is not in the people’s favor. All consumers are fleeced by it for tlie benefit of a few producers. A new tariff revenue should be the object and not the incident. It is suggested in this letter that a commission, which would fairly represent: the interests of the .country, should be appointed by Congress to frame a bill to secure revenues from the smallest number of articles, and, this bill should be framed in lzu-igung‘('z} simple and clear enough for common people to understand. ITe shows that the ery of “the pauper labor of Europe” is false and ridiculous. “Skilled labor,” he says, “is in as' good. demand and just as costly on the other side of the Atlantic as on this.” ’ His letter is closed with a vivid description of the manifold resources of this country and the mechanical skill and genéral intelligence of our people. We have not the space to follow his letter in detail. Suflice it to‘say that it is a arave and powerful argument throughout in favor of -an early and rational return to specie payment. It is a stern rebuke to the inflation theory, and a convineing' docuntent on the return to a money basis which will give security and peace for the present vexed condition of our national finances., - : ‘

JUDGE POLAND’S DEFEAT

Judge Poland was a republican member of Congress from Vermont.— ITe represented a district in_which the numerical force of Democrats was ridiculously small. Judge Poland has been the suppliant tool of Conkling, Carpenter, Butler, and others. Judge Poland sought to push through Congress the famous gag law by which corrupt government officials sought to keep their acts hidden from the public by kéeping newspapers f rom reporting and commenting on them. Judge Poland was opposed to free discussion of public acts. Judge Poland was called upon by his constituents recently to answer several questiohs. Judge P. was the author of the report on the Credit Mobilier which witewashed all concerned in that glaring swindle— Judge Poland voted for and took, and never returned, the back pay. The doughty Judge was also the author of the bill granting a local court in the District of Columbia the power to issue warrants of arrest of any person in any part of the United States. But the liberty-loving and virtuous republican party met in convention and without regarding the flagitious outrages which have marked Judge Poland’s career, they nominated him for Congress and adjured the pecple to vote for him once more. To conclude, Judge Poland has met with a humiliating defeat. lle was once elected with 11,000 majority, and now he finds himself rejected with even fewer votes than a gentleman who was not a candidate at all. Truly, the people will not forget 'the offences of such faithless servants tas Judge Poland. _ e — - E—— L HARD ON ULYSSES. The Washington; Capital, referring to his Excellency, President Grant, asks: “Is it not perfectly amazing that such a mass of stolid ignorance and ill-breeding should be tolerated by a -people supposed to be civilized ?” and then adds: “No man ever held office in this country who has been so tenderly freated as this man, with his brood of brutal relatives. We have a very high opinion of the people; but if they knew what the ecitizens of Washington generally know, Grant would be hooted out of the White House.” L | :

[ THE LAFORTE SCANNAT. 1t does seem' that the (’?ihflOf the

Seven Lakes is destined to f _t},i"nfih the public with a full share of sensation. | What with the Steamboat, the Editorial Convention, the burning of au? opinm quack in effigy, with sundry and diverse other matters of common ‘3 and uncommon interest, the goodly town is in a fair way to outdo all othet towns of Northiern Indiana iffmaking itself famous. The last excitement at LaPorte is of an unusually grave and sad charaeter. 1t is a ruined home -the old story—a charge of adult-eiy brought, against Mrs. Dr. Robinson by her husband. Dr. Robinson has been known as the LaPorte “SpeCi;fxlist,” but however that may be, he has warm friends among the leading citizens there, who iseem to think that he is one of the ablest physicians in the State, and that he has always been met with unjust opposition. Ie is a homeopathist, and his portrait and biography are given in a recent publication of an octavo volume describing the more prominent M. D.s of the Homeopathie school. ; ~The first telegram to the Inter-Ocean states that the Doctor charges his ’ wife \\jfih"ChlfifliihLi}]g aduttery with several persons and particularizes a !yuuhg man by the name of Ajalma Nathurst, formerly a student under l]xim. It is reported that Robinson has used foul means to make his wife and others admit guilty intorcnur:#e, and it is further stated that the citizens of LaPorte ealled an indignation meeting volunteering to raise any amount of money to defend Mrs. Robinson, who has been regarded as one of the most interesting, intelligent and worthy women of the city. Robinson, it is charged, has been married three times, and that he now purposes to get his present wife put aside in order to take. another lady whom he Jhas lately fallen in love with, i Such is the tenor of the first dispatch. But the succeeding number of the InterOcean contained an editorial which places the affair in another liglit. " #We confess,” says t_hb _]llf’,‘l'-‘(){,‘(f(fllvl, “that this is one of the most remarkable eases we have ever known. The official papers, with all the evidence, were submitted, and we do not hesitate to say that if any faith or credit is to be attached to human testimony, Dr. Robinson is a most wronged and suffering man.” It is further thought that Dr. Robinson will be vindicated from the charges made against him. LaPorte is in a fever of excitement about the malter, and there are many who still believe that Mrs. Robinson is the victim of a deep-laid conspiracy to ruin her. Others believe that the husband and wife are Doth victims of designing enemies. We will report the final. result of the investigation and suit"fxowpen_ding in court on the ‘subject. I~t is an affair that will long be remembered by thgse particularly who have known the p:u'tier.sf,x and we presume that nothing has ever shocked our neighboring town as this has. . e — - o ‘RESOLUTIONS WITH A MEANING. In response to a call very similar to that issued by the Democratic-Liwbral ~committee of Noble county, the DemO(fl‘l'ilt_s,‘; Liberals and Reformers of Porter county metfin convention last weok,find, after nominating a strong ticket, ;ulopted the following resolutions as reported by ITom Thomas J. Merrifield, a gentleman widely known as o distinguished Tawyer and prominent Democrat: ;

, I\’6s‘()}ll‘(:([, By the independent voters of Porter county in Convention assembled: | : 1. That we are in favor of an honest payment of the National indebtedness im the money of the civilized world.| 2. That we axe opposed to any further/inflation of the National currency; that pieces of paper of no intrin‘sic value, bearing upen them the profession of being equivalent to certain denominations of° money, cannot constituté a safe and reliable currency unlesg exchangeable for Gold and Silver¥at the pleasure of the holder. 3. That we are opposed to the imposition of duties by the Government of the United States upon commodities imported into this country except for the purpose of revenue for the support of the Government only. 4. Whereas, the law of this State, ~commonly known ias the Baxter Law, regulating the sale of intoxicating liq‘uors,has proved to be meddlesome and oppressive to large classes of good citizens and has utterly failed to suppress the evils of intemperance; and whereas, large numbers of people throughout the State, professing to be temperance people—have, in a most extraordinary and unmistakable manner, manifested their unwillingness to abidé¢ by said law, therefore we are in favor of its repeal and of 'the enactment of such license law as shall be efficient in maintaining the public peace and order without encroachment on the individual liberty of the citizen, and such as will annually add a large sum tothe common school fundfof the State. ‘ 5. That we are in favor of the repeal of the law creating county assessors and of the restoration of the for‘mer law giving to each township the right to select its own assessor. : 6. That the common’ schools of the Staté ought to ‘be open to all upon equal terms without distinction of racey color or former condition. _ 7. 'That the law providing for giving aid to railroads by townships, counties and municipalities is unwise and injurious, and that the same ought to be repealed, . - 8. That we are unalterably opposed ito all legislation, State or National, for 'the benefit of monopolies and privileged classes, and that all such legisla- . tion lought to be repealed. ‘ ‘ 9. 'That the Government, beoth State and National, ought, to be conducted, in all its departments upon the principle of the most rigid economy, and that the recent enactment of the Legislature of this State known as the “grab law” ought to be repealed. | Wi declared a week or so since that the advance position of the Liberal <Denl’ocracy of Noble county would } meet with a cordial response in the future. The Porter county Independ- ! ents|de themselves infinite honor by | their bold declaration in favor of an | honest currency, and we iféel satisfied that their course wjll:He ~approved in l other localitiesalso; - = . =

" SPAIN's republican government, under the presidency of Marshall Serrano, has been recognized by all the foreign powsers except Russia. Bismarck was the leadipg spirit to bring about this resnlt, ;

~ HARD MONEY ADVOCATES. - ‘At this time, when attempts are made to convict the advoeates of hard money for all, or a curreney based upon specie, of being “Wall street tools” or as laboring:in the interest of the “moneyed énj:istocmcy," it may not be wholly void of interest 'to bring to public noti@ the opinions held by men who are credited with having, in their time, rendered some service to. the country and as having been statesmen of no low order. . £, We will first introduce to our readers Gen. George Washington, who, as a 4 military chieftain, ‘as a patriot, and as i sagacious statesman, will be admitted to bear a favorable comparison with that eminent /warrior and financieri John A. Logan, of Illinois. The great Virginian stands on record with this declaration: - \

“I have never heard, and 1 hope never shall hear, any serious mention of a paper emission in this State; yet such a thing may be in agitation. Ignorance and design are productive of much mischief The former is the tool of the latter, and is often set to work suddenly and unexpectedly.” Thomas Jefferson, the apostie of American Democracy, is' venerated as foremost among the great statesmen of the Republic. We hazard nothing, in our judgment, by claiming for him the possession of at least equal power with the Hon. Daniel W. Voorhees.in dealing with questions pertaining to finance. In’the year 1813 Jefferson wrote: ; : z

“Every one knows that, although not literally, it is nearly true thatevery paper dollar emitted banishes a silver one from the circulation. * * =* To trade on equal terms the common measure of valties should be as nearly as possible onia par with that of its ‘corresponing nations whose medium is in a sound state; that is to say, not in an acciderntal state of excess or deficiency. Now, oneof the great advantages of specie as a medium is that, being of universal value, it will keep. itself at a general level, fowing out from where it is too high into parts where it 18 lower. * *x * The trut]r is that capital may be produced by industry, and accumulated by econemy; butjugglers only will propose to cheate it by legerdemain tricks with paper. * * * Instead, therefore, of yielding to the cries of scarcity of medium, set up by speculators, projectors, and commercial gamDlers, no endeavor should be spared to begin the work of reducing it by such gradual means as may give -time to private fortunes to preserve their poise and settle down witli the subsiding medium.” o '

By way of another camparison we introduce John C. Calhoun to confrong Oliver P. Morton. Speaking of paper money issued by national banks, Mr. (Calhoun said in 1837: .

“Never was an engine invented better caletilated to place the destiny of the many in the hands of the few, or less favorable to that equality and independence which lie at the bottom of all free institutions.” _ As an off-set for the labored arguments of the ponderous Senator Pratt we cite the vVigorous language of James Buchanan as uttered in the year 1837 : s

~ “The evils of a redundant paper circulation are now manifest to every eye. It alternately raises and sinks the value 6f every man’s property. It makes a beggar of the man to-morrow who is indulging in dreams of wealth to-day. It eonverts the business of society into a mere lottery, while those who distribute the prizes are wholly irresponsible to the people. When ' the collapse ‘comes, as come it must, it casts laborers out of employment, crushes manufacturers and merchants, and ruins thousands of honest and industrious citizens.”

- Gen. Jackson, a pretty fair specimen of a public functionary, besought Congress in 1833 to so 01“g'unizc the Treasury Department as to dispense with banks entirely. Ile also proposed to banish' all paper money under $lOO notes, in which effort he was fully sustained by the great Tom Benton. All the greab lights of the old democratic party were staunch hard-money men. Rag money was alwaysadvocated by monepolists, speculators and the anti-democratic elements generally.— 1t is so to-day. Seymour, Thurman, %churz, Palmer, Kerr, Cox, Horace White—all good and true friends of the people—stand where Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Van Buren, Cass, Benton and Silas Wright stood in years gone by. We have faith to believe that ‘these great and noble men are bétter guides than Morton, Logan, IY oorhees, Singleton and Pig-iron Keley

CIVIL RIGHTS,

A'desperu'tquttempt will p‘robm_)ly be made by the republican party to carry the civil rights bill. By its passage the “old reliable” will trust to success in the next Presidential election. The defeat of the bill will lose them hundreds of thousands of votes. It is of the utmost importance, viewed in any light. The South very naturally revolts at the odious equality which it is presumed to bring about. The republican party will argue that it-is better to ofienad the whites of the South than the blacks. Give that party the support of the negroes and they will not seruple about violating the trust and honor of the hosts of white men who entertain other views. All the ignorance,superstition and eredulity of the blacks will be wrought upon and called into ret&)isition to further the cause of men who at heart have not a shadow !of good will toward them. The Radical organs are busy grinding out dolorous tunes about the indignities heaped upon their colored brethren in the South, and if misrepresentation and chieanery can advance the republican standard, it will wave in triumph over the solid vote of all Ameriean citizens of “African descent.” g

SLIGHTING MORTON, |

" The DeKalb county Republicans, in their .recent convention, deliberately gave Senator Morton the cold shoulder, - They ;

Resolved, That Hon, Daniel D. Pratt, by his ability and purity of character, has been an ornament in the National Senate, of which this State has just reason to be proud, and that wisdom dictates his return thereto, " That we approve and heartily indorse the nominees on our State ticket and of John H. Baker, as the nominee for Congress in this Congressional District. - Hon. T. R. Dickinson was the chairman of the committee on resolutions,. ‘What has Morton done to that gentleman that he should thus be stabbed in the household of his friends ? o

THIRTEENTH CONGRBESSTON- : AL DISTRICT. l)e_m'orratfl and Liberals in Convenlion_ at Kendallville. ; o ADOPTION OF ASOUNDPLATFORM. Hon. Freeman Kelley Nominated for B Congress., B Puarsuant to. eall, the Deniocmtie Liberal Convention of the Thirteenth Cougressional Districtmet at Kendallville yesterday and was called to order at about half past ten o'clock A. . by W. S. Marshall, ehairman of the Districet Central Committee, who stated in a few words that the object of the conventiqn was to nominate a candidate for Congress. : On motion, €. A. O. McClellan, of Waterloo, was called to the chair and c 1. Murray, of the Goshen Demorrat, and B. F. Dawson, of Steuben county, chosen secretaries. : :

‘A committee, consisting of one from each ;‘k:oun’ty; was appointed to draft resolutions expressive of the sentiment of the convention, to wit: DéKalb—J. D. Kelley, Elkhart—Michael Cook, o Kosciusko—Dr. T. Davenport,; Lagrange—A. Eminger, : ' Marshall—Not represented, Noble—John B. Stoll, Steuben—Capt, O. N. Bennett. The following named gentiemen were appointed a | _ (‘O)I'MIT"I'EIS ON APPORTIONMENT: DeKalb—D. Y. Husselman, - Elkhart—John W.. Egbert, Kosciusko—Wm. Dunlap. Lagrange—Henry Kromer, Murshall—Xnt represented, - : Noble—A. C. FF. Wichman, . Steuben—J. K. Howell.

On motion of T. C. Mays, of the Auburn Courier, it was agreed that the chairmen of the several county committees shall eonstitute the District Central Committee for the next two yeas. V. S. Marshall announced to the convention that he had received a telegram from D’:zmiel MecDonald, ehairman_of the Marshall county central committee, to the. effect that no delegates would be in attendance from that county and requesting! him to represent them. The telegram was readbefore the convention, whereupon it was unanimously agreed that Mr. Marshall should represent Marshall county and that his name be added to {the committees already appointed, : There being no further business at hand, the convention took arecess until after dinner. = ’~ AFTERNOON SESSION. _ The epnvention re-assembled at one o’clock p. ~ with its chairman, Mr. MecClellan, presiding. o - The Committee on Apportionment, by its chairman, W.S. Marshall, reported the following—taking the vote cast for Governor in 1872 as its basis —as the number of votes each county is entitled to cast ‘in the contest for candidates: ; ~ DeKalb, 19; Elkhart,29; Kosciusko, i 22; Tagrange, 10; Marshall, 23; Noble, 23; Steuben, 10. Number of votes L)requéred to nominate, 69. “{ 1.8. Stoll, chairman of the Committee: on Resolutions, reported the following which © were unanimously adopted: : , Resolved, by the Democratie-Liberal convention of the 13th Congressional ]')iitrliet, : Ist! That we are in favor of the restoration of gold and silver as the basis of eurrency; resumption of specie payments as soon as possible, consistent with the business and industrial interests of the country.

2d. "That we demand.a rigid restriction of the government, both State and National, to the legitimate domain of political power, by excluding therefrom all executive and legislative intermeddling with the affairs of society, whereby monopolies are fostered, privileged classes aggrandized, and individual freedom unnecessarily and oppressively restrained. 3d, That weassert the right and duty of the State fo protect its citizens from extortion and unjust diserimination by chartered monopolies. 4th. That we are opposed to governmental grants of public lands to corporations as tending to general corruption and the demoralization.of the public service. sth. That we favor an honest and economical government, lopping off every needless expense, a reduction of the number of office holders, the abolition of thelfee system, local and national, and the return to the moderate living and plain customs of former days. ey 6th. That we denounce the civil rights bill of the last Congress, believing its passage to be @ gross invasion of the right of the States to control their domestic concerns in their own way, and that it would result in incaleulable evil to both tlie white and the negro races, : 7. That we demand the repeal of the act giving the President of the United States a salary of $50,000 per year and favor the reduction thereof to the former basis, S Bth. That we are in favor of a tarift for revenue only, . -9th. That we are in fayor of repealing the national banking law and the substitution therefor of a uniform free banking system throughout the United States—on a permanent specie basis. - i After the foregoing resolutions had been adopted the chair announced that the convention was ready to proceed to the nomination of a candidate for Congress. The names of the following gentlemen were then announced: Freeman Kelley, of DeKalb; Col. W.C. Williams, of Noble; John B.Howe, of LaGrange, ane George W, Baldwin, of Steuben. .

An informal ballot being taken upon the names presented, the following was the result: Kelley, 68: Williams, 23:; Howe, 35 ; Baldwin, 10. “The convention then progeeded to ballot regularly by counties for the several candidates, dropping the name of Mr. Baldwin, and the result was the choice of Mr, Kelley upon the third ballot. ' - FIRST BALLOT, : Kelley — DeKalb, 14; Elkhart, 14; Kosciusko, 22 ; Marshall, 12. Total, 62. Williams — DeKalb, 1; Elkhart 15; Noble, 21.¢ Total, 37. . _ Howe — DeKalb, 4; LaGrange, 10; Maxrshall, 11; Nable, 2; Steuben, 10.— Total, 87, ' ' : . SECOND BALEOT, ; : Kelle{'——_—DeKalb, 14; Kosciusko, 22} Marshall, 12. “Total, 48. ' | Williams—DeKalb, 1; Efkhart, 15; Lagrange, 1; Noble, 22; Steuben, 5.— Total, 3@. ‘ How *‘DeKfllb, 4; Lagmnge, 0 Marshall; 11; Noble, 1; Stenben, 5. — Totnl 80

- On this ballot Elkhart county divided her suppoit, giving, Judge Hiram S. Tousely, of Noble county, 14 of her votes. Tousely then came forward and addressed the convention briefly. He said that he was not and would not be a candidate, but that if any of his friends present thought enongh of him to give him their votes he was thankful for the honor; that he wanted the people to nominate 'somebody who can be elected, and that he wants pen elected who will put down corruption in the land. The name of W B. McConnell, of Steuben, was thena nnounced and the convention proceeded to take the ~ < | .. THIRD BALLOT. ; , Kelley—DeKalb, 18; Elkhart, 10; Kosciusko, 22 ; Marshall, 23. T0ta1,73. . Williams— DeKalb, 1; Elkhart, 10; LaGrange, 17 Noble, 23. Total, 35. ~ Howe—LaGrange, 9. / : ’ McConnell—Elkhart,9; Steuben, 10. Total, 19. R : - Mr. Kelley. having received a majority of all the votes cast, was declared duly nominated, and amidst loud and repeated calls took the stand. | Mr. Kelley said he fully appreciated the rtesponsibility of the position to which he had been assigned. He expressed himself strongly in favor of reducing” salaries, legisl:iting ‘in the interest of tlie workingmen and farmers, and inaugurating honesty in every department of the government. Ile said that although. he might- not be able to cope with' his competitor in round periods of sp(éech, yet he felt that he could serve the people by votEing for honest nu::{&nrcs, for reform, and for the good of the couniry. He recognized in his nomination that the convention entertained a proper re gard for the men who till the soil and develop the resources of the land. ' Judge Tousely, in response to loud calls, said he felt good over the nomination —the selection of an honest man, the noblest work of God. Kelley is for the people, for honesty, for reforih. Ie is therefore the proper man to go to Congress. You have selected a man who earns his dollar by honest labor, therefore I ain for him. Kelley would not pack a convention. Why was DBaker nominated? Simply to carry out the long-laid plans of the Defrees family. They had to get Wm. EA\. Woods out of the way by making him Judge, then they discarded mass conventions and substituted the delegate system that they might the better be enabled to pack the convention. They- turned Judge Clapp—an honest, faithful servant of the people—out of oflice, and but recently slaughtered diim in,convention because he did not belong to the Defrees Ring.

Col. Williams said: While not successful in this convention, T hope you will do what I hereby pledge myself to do, viz: work for the election of the nominee. * * * Will doallin my power to secure vietory—on the stump, if desired. If we do not aecomplish our aims, we at least deserve to'su‘cm.‘ed. : ’ . | CIRCUIT PROSECUTOR. On motion of T. C. Mays, Mr. W B. McConnell was unanimously nominated for Circuit Prosecutor for.the counties of Noble, DeKalb and Stenben. Mr. Mce(Ponnell acknowledged the compliment in a neatlittle speech, whereupon the convention adjourned sine die. g , il i} A SRi— . .THAT “WAR OF RACES.” That able and independent journal, the N. Y. I'ribure, very sententiously tells the whole story of the late trouble in Kentueky, When it says, "‘lt:is_a war of races between two white men.” It is evident that there is to be a renewal of|the terrible stories of Southern’ outrages which always precede the fall elections. “Civil Rights,” as understood and :’ulvo(ruted by the late Charles Sumner, are to be forced upon the people under cover of the same blind fury and passiocnate hppeals which have served so well heretofore in th_e’criticzml periods of doubtful legislation. Such miserable neighborhood fracases as the late affair in Mississippi, and the still later Kentucky scrimmage, are artfully elaborated by. the republican press into matters of great pith and moment.” Asthe emergencies of the campaign develop, the attrocities committed by the white people of tlie South will deepen and darken to suit the demand for partisan rancor and excitement. Weshall have the Ameses and Kelloggs telegraphing’ for military aid and interference on the part of the national government, and all the pomp and circumstance of war, until Noyember comes to cbol off excitement and relieve the threatened darkies of the South from imniinent destructio o : L e e— . The Black Hills C Y.

As many are anxious to know something of this new El Dorado, where gold grows ;on | bushes, we make the following extract from an exchange, regarding the location of the gold region* '

“The region lies on the Western side of Dakota Territory in the same latitude as Nova Scotia. During almost one-half of the year the ground must be covered with snow. This will not be favorable to mines. It is situated hundreds of miles from any place from which supplies could be drawn. Miners, after exhausting the washings in the streams, would have to abandon their operations or secure machinery, which is in reality an impossibility.— They would have to be prepared to resist the attacks of hundreds, or even thousands, of Sioux warriors. The distance between the mountains or the area of gold rocks is only. abou’ sixty miles, so. that only a comparatively few miners could receive any profit for their labors. All of these points should convince gold seekers, and the public generally, that the Black Hills are not as desirable as. those afflicted with the gold fever would persuade ‘ Custar’s expedition may have an importance to scientists or the government that is not visible to the ordinary mind; if it has,thisis very well. But the prospect of receiving supplies of gold from this region is so distant that only the persons who are called “far sighted,” out of compliment we suppose, can pass judgment as to the exact date.” s - 'We would advise our readers not to be in a hurry about goix%g to the Black Hills, but on the contrary would suggest that they give the matter serious consideration before emigrating. :

: - STATE ITENS. e Two woolen mills at Laporte have: bought 130,000 pounds of wool this sea-, SO, Pl e One South Bend dealer purchased 1,100 bushels of Hn‘ck}ulmrri,vs,llt;l‘,illg_ the late season.’ et South Bend has just concludedl to. employ a night police. The pay is 5600 a year each. W L Mrs.. Sehnable, of St. Joseph, in twenty-three years becante’the mother of twenty-one children. o e A Gibson county farmer raised this sgason 4315 bushels of wheat to the -aere on 1115 acres of ground. 7 A Jefferson county farmer sowed five bushels of wheat this season, from which he-garnered 210 bushels. B Fred Myers, of the Leesburg Mills, sawed from one tree a few days ago, lumber to the amont of 5,669 feet, . - The ery for rain comes up from every quarter in Southern Indiana. The crops are scorching, burning, dying. The fifth arinual reynion of the Nineteenth Indiana Volunteers will be held: at’ Richmond, Monday and Tuesday, the 14th and 15th inst. .- It has been requested by the' Goyernor, thgk the death of -.Hon. M., B. _—llka‘ins be announced in every school in the Sfate on the first day of the next session. : o A sik Year old Delaware grape vine near Broo¥lle has branches measuring in the ageisgate 200 feet in length; and upon these Dxagches are hanging 2,175 well developed Dunches of lTusclous grapes. bt

Ray’s “temperance statisties” make out that the drinking salvens in 69 counties in Indiana pay for labor, rent, fuel and light the sum. of $1,169,600 a yvear. Twenty-three counties.are omitted i}l the showing,. : et Dr. Green, the Jackson county fruit k‘zi,n;:, ‘has 6,000 trees in bearing this vear, and 9,000 more coming on.- IHis peach (~'§up this year'is not very heavy, but of the best quality. - Ilis prospect for grapes, he says, is wonderful. .

Owing to the low price of ‘gr;,lp‘/es this year the extensive growers in Jackson county will convert a large part of their product into wine. The Seymour Democrat says that atleast 4,000 gallons of wine will be made on the ridge south-of that place this: season. Senator Pratt had an appointment at Laporte last Monday. Ife arrived. on the 9 o’clock morning train, but owing to sudden illness was not able to speak. The rain hindered many coming to hear him from the country. He received calls during the day in his rooms at the Teegarden House.. -

A large amount of swamp land has been burned out this season. = The rain a week or so since was not suflicientpthen to subdue all that,were burning, and since then new fires haye been started in several places. The burnitig out of the sod in the .swamp lands is a serious damage to them, and destroys their value for some years.— Lagrange Standard. . e e Two men have been committed to jail for the atrocious murder at Henryville, last week noticed in thes o]~ umns. It will be remembered tl;gt the murder was accomplished by tying the yictim to the railroad track; and that there was no motive for it beyond a desird to escape punishment for robbery. A Vigilance Committee has been lying in- wait for the murderers since their arrest, and it will not be a surprising item of news any of thesg mornings that there has Dbeen :m:e.\_’eg3 cution 'm;Shnt- neighborhood not recognized by faw. Ein e &

The Stoiry of the 3an Tied to a Railrmul Track by Robbers.

Near llGm'y\'i’llv, Indizma,' Qli‘S:\@urday night, Aug. 29, August Gardner was robbed and 'afterward bound to the track of the Jeffersonville, Magison & In}i‘liunup’olis Railroad. = e lived long enough Mt{er being taken'to Jeffersonville to tell the story of this unexampled ‘atrocity. It is as follaws: = o e 7y

“MyTname ‘is August Gardner. . I was born in France,and-have been from that country but a slort time.— I am but 23 years old. I have no relationss or friends in this country. My father is dead. I was going down to Louisville in search of. employment, and as I had but little money I thought I would walk., It could not have been past 10 o’cloek last night, when three men came up to me while I was walking along the track. : One-/of them demanded my money. I told them that I was poor, having only a few dollars. This did not do any good- for they seized me, two holding me and the other searching my poekets and taking my pocket-book and everything else I had. They then -threw me down on the track. I thought that they were going to kill me, and I begged them to spare my life. - They said nothing;but one of them produced a long piece of rope from his poeket, and they commenced to tie me to the track, over a cattle-guard. I was badly frightened, and begged them hard not to do that. I told themn that I'never knew them, and had never done. them any harm, and if they would let me go I would say nothing apout what occurred.— While I was talking and pleading with them they still kept on tying me to the track over the cattle-guard.— They tied me lengthways to-the rail. The rope was tightly fastened around my body, legs and arms. When they ‘got through I could not move my arms and legs. While I was begging ‘them not to leave me there they went off. Iknew that the cars would be along soon, and I tried my utmost to free myself and loosen the ropes that bound me. At first I did not think I would be able to move at all, but after repeated efforts I succeeded in working imy arms and body off the track. In .swinging down, I tried to. get my leftleg off, but I could not. I yelled with all my might hoping that somebody would come and save me, but no one came. It was raining hard at the time, and very dark. I had been lying there about half an hour when I heard“the cars whistle. I can not tell you my feelings. [A perceptible shudder here passed through the frame of the dying man.] In a few seconds the cars were mearly up to where I was laying. 1 gave a wild shriek and closed my eyes. The cars passed over me; thé wheels cutting off my leg and cutting the ropes loose that bound me, I suffered intense pain, and crawled and dragged myself a few feet from the track. I fainted away, and when I came to I was very thirsty. It was still raining, and T dug a hole in the ground by my face with my" fingers, so that it would fill with water.. By doing this I managed to get a little water. 1 was so weak that I could not move, and I hallooed frequently during the night for help, but no one came until morning, when 1W..&8 fO\llld,” Sl Fionn e

Parson Brownlow has written another letter, in which he positively declares the passage of the Civil Rights Bill will cause the utter destruetion of the Republican party in the South. He says that the bill will destroy -the public school S{stem, ~and that it i not needed for the protection of the negro, The Parson evinces some wis= dom at the small end of his career,

| GENERALITEMS.

The Arkansas constitutional convention rejected the proposition to repudiate any part of the bonded debt of the State.; * ! e

- The tax rate in Philadelphia is twentytwo dollars for every thousand dollars of property valuation, and yet the people. of that infatuated city continue to vote their oppressors into office. The steady revival of the Pennsyl-’ vania iron {rade now going on is one of the best signs of returning prosperity. - Not only have the great Cambriairon works,of Johnstown,resumed . operations, but many other rolling mills_and blast furnaces in various parts of the State have *blown in.”— Thus by degrées the effectsfof the panic and subsequent depression are passing away. : e

An item marking the progress of trade is the purchase in Chicago and shipment hence, via Montreal to Liverpool; of 300 head of cattle. A steamer has been fitted up at Montreal with. stalls and other conveniences, and it is proposed té make the trade in beeves between Chicago and Liverpool a permanent one. This is a new outlet to the already enormous cattle trade of Chieago. i Stories of great fortufies unexpect--edly falling to impecunious Americans are mostly fietitious, but a real case has occurred by which two worthy printers are made rich. ,The lucky men are- W. F. Boardman, a printer in the office of the Portland, (Oregon) Dulletin, and his brother, Joseph 11.. Boardman, proprietor of the Highland News, Ohio. The fortune left to them amounts to about half a million dollars, and they liave received from England the neccessary papers to put them in possession. -The windfall comes from a dear departed aunt, who ~died about three years ago. Gcen. Sheridan has again forbidden the invasion eof the Sioux Indian reservation, in-which the Black Hills are included, and his language is so plain that it can be understood by the most obtuse. The Department Commanders are instructed. to capture expeditions trespassing on- the reservation, Imrnthe trains, destroy the out-fits, and lodge the participants in the nearest guard-house. If such expeditions penetrate the country, they are to be pursued by cavalry and overtaken. The General says, with delicate irony ‘that is as creditable to his head as his heart, That he will be most happy to assist in the settlement of the Black Hills region when it has been thrown open to the men by the Secretary of the Interior. Until then, persons who are really bent upon hunting for gold in that direction will do weil to try ‘their chances with Mr. Delano. An offer of shares might secure the desired permission. . e Iniiammatory speeches in South Car--7 : iolina. t ! WASHINGTON, September 6.—Whittemore, the "Radical ex-Congressman from South Carolina, who was expelled from the House of Representa-* tives for selling a cadetship, contributes to inflame the passions of the negroes. Advices have been received ‘here that at a recent political gathering at Simmonsyille, S. C., at®which there ‘was a large negro attendanece, he made an ineendiary harangue. No argument was adduced, but his whole aim seemed to-be to inflame the negroes against the white people. Ile massed his whole strength against rifle clubs and grangers. Ie was particularly sévere on the” latter. He even made an attack on the temperance cause.— Everything that could be said to prejudiee the negroes against the whites was said. The negroes were téld not to aftiliate ' with the whitds in any ‘manner. Other speakers also did all they could to inflame ‘the passions of! the negroes in every conceivable shape. And yet such men as Whittemore are the most persistent in circulating the rumers that the Ku Klux organization has been revived. -

. A sénsation in Wall Street, N, Y. One day last week a middle-aged lady, with six children in single file, marched up and down the sidewalk with placards pinned on the backs of . the latter, informing the public that a certain brokers firm had defrauded her of $50,000 by selling her bogus bods, in consequence of which she and her -children were left to starve and to beg their bread in the streets. The spectacle attracted a numerous crowd, and for a time there was quite : a lively excitement. ~ , . One of the firm alluded to, not relishing this mode of enforcing a claim against them, made a complaint against the woman at the nearest police office, and after a while she and her family had their line of march changed from Wall street to the Tombs, in Central street, a miseellaneous crowd following and indulging in various discourteous comments up- . on the various dark ways of the average Wall street broker. -

PRESIDENT GRANT has been advised - by his intimate adwvisers .within the party that something must be done by the National Government to restore order in the South, and incidentally reclaim the republican vote in that region, He hag accordingly requested the Secretary of War and Attorney General to confer together as the best measures of relief. The results of their deliberations is set forth in a eircular letter of the Attorney General to Marshals dand District Attorneys. It is a general direction for active proceedings against political conspirators, but it may be, and was probably meant to be, considered authority for repressing all lawlessness. The propriety of presuming so much weé will not here stop to discuss. The officers addressed by the Attorney General are advised to call upon the military for assistance whénever it may seem necessary. All arrests of murderers by the National Government will, of course, be justified by that convenient phrase in the civil rights enactments which describes them asy being “for other purposes.”’” . Ps

Gov. KeLLoea, of Louisiana, has offered a reward of $5,000 for the apprehension and conviction of any person concerned in the Coushatfa massacre.. Appended to his proclamation is a statement purporting “to give the facts in the case. We should be more - inclined to believe the murdered men whollfi innocent if they did not seem to be high in the esteem of Gov. Kellogg. He accepts and promulgates the very worst construction the circumstances will admit, assigning purely political reasons for the murder, taking for granted the treachery of the guard which undertook to remove the prisoners from Coushatta to Shreveport, and crediting the White League of Louisiana with the inception of the affair and its. deliberate acco;nphshment. Adyvices from democratic sources deny all these allegations, but it is only fair o say that they also are not - ‘deserving of entire confidence, - The-Cincinnati Enqulrer says: We have not had for many years, in'the . valleys of the Miami, such a severe drought as that which now prevails. It .being several weeks since tgexe was. rain, all kinds of vegetation is being parched and burnt up. . Water is becoming very scarce, and the people . SRRy flmm much distressed and put to great inconvenience for wantof i, - e