The National Banner, Volume 9, Number 30, Ligonier, Noble County, 19 November 1874 — Page 2

~ 13 2 1 "G‘w""‘\:“‘w‘.' M. _‘*l*“f NI 03 A A R | The glational Banner e | v i o I ,’..,g‘;»*;r.' e \-\‘ ) J. B.STOLL, Ellléur and I’roprictor." LIGONIER, IND., NOV. 19th, 1874. A Proclamation of Thanksgiving. . THE STATE OF INDIANA, | EXEOUTIVE DEPARTMENT. The President of the United States has appointed . THursbAy, NOVEMBER 26, 1874, as a day of thanksgiving and prayer to Almighty God. As Governor of the State of Indiana, I recommend to the peovle thereof a general and prover observance of that day. : Together with the people of the other States, we have occasion to be; thankful for many blessings, but in a special degree, the people of this State should he grateful for the abundant harvests that have rewarded their labors. In their prayers to God and in acts of beneficence, I ask thenr to remember the people of the stricken portions of our country in which drouth and devastating insects have brought want and suffering.

In witness thereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the State to be affixed, at the city of Indianapolis, this fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventyfour, and of the State the fifty-eighth. ‘ TuaoMAs A. HENDRICKS, - [Seal] Governor of Indiana. W.:W. CURRY, Sec’y of State,

TIHOUGH re-converted into a republican paper, the Chicago T7ribune still maintains in asgreat measure its former independence. Vigorous protests are raised by that able journal against the, misehievous, measures here and thére proposed by unscrupulons paiti.ﬁa‘né‘- of the republican school. s e e COUNTVON ARNIM, the recalcitrant German ex-minister to France, has been arrested for a second time on the supposed ground of having given several of the missing documents to his counsel. The moderate newspapers of Germany insist upon an explanation. Bismarck will comply, when it suits his convenience. | :

THE FLORIDA RADICALS tried hard to figure up a radical majority in the Legislature,but their designs have been frustrated by the vigilance of the Conservatives who -gave the carpet-bag-gers to understand that there must be an honest count or somebody would be hurt. This had the desired effect, and thereby we secure a U. K. Senator.

Tue ract that Bro. Seibly, of the Lawrenceburgh Register, warmly recommends the election of R. D. Brown for director of the Southern Prison, is strong evidence of that gentleman’s fitness for the positiont” Mr. Brown is an energetic worker in the party harness and has evidently * earned something at the hands of the victorious party. ; .

I PrirosoPHEß MEDILL asserts that the Chicago 7'imes is vapidly becoming a republican organ. On the other ~hand, it is stated that efforts ave being made to buy out Story and convert the Zimes into a liberal democratic paper. ' There is great need for a paper of that character, and we earnest1y hope a trade may be effected causing Story’s early retirement. -

IT APPEARS, after all, that the Republicans succeeded in electigug one of their number a member of Congress from Kentucky. His name is J. D. White and his‘majority is aLon_t 500.— Ife will represent the Ninth District. Our-side of the house can well afford to let"the‘]\'entucky Republicans have onerepresentative from that State.— Our maj&‘ity is still larger than necessary. | P

; I¥ POLITICIANS Treally desire to do ‘something that will plegse the people, - let them go fo work and change the constitution so as to make United *.“States Senators elective by the people. We can see no good reason why Sena- - tors should be, chosen by the Legis- | lature. There may have been. valid grounds for so doing many years ago, but at present the masses regard this matter in quite a different light.

HoxN. JAMES R.DooLITTE, one of the ablest and most honorable statesmen in the Northwest, recently delivered aspeech in which he clearly showed that the President of the United States was well paid at $25,000 per an- - num 4nd could lay up anicelittle sum * forarainy day. Polk, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln and Johnson each saved from five to ten thousand dollars per year. Mr. Doolittle therefore urges a return to the former salary of $25,000. . oL . ~ CHARLEY MOORMANN'S TeuchtThurm, a German weekly published at Brookville, Ind., feels impelled to correct the statement that Congressman Holman belongs to that class of inflation financiers whose most enthusiastic champions are Dan Voorhees and the vivacious editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer. - The Leucht-Thurm assures us that Judge Holman is in favor of an early return to specie payments and that he is a man of too good practical sense to be carried away by the sophistries of the inflation theorists. Afl of which is deubtless correct.

TWwO VERY IMPORTANT POINTS have been -gained by the Democracy in obtaining a majority in the lower house of Congress, to wit: The Republicans will not be ableto throw out any of the eléctoral votes that may be cast against them in the next presi. dential contest, as they did in several instances two and six years ago. Another advantage gained is this: If there should be no choice for President in 1876 {in consequence of a probable triangular fight) the election of Grant’s successor will devolve upon the House of Representatives, which, with its 70 democratic majority, would be certain to give us the right sort of man to occupy the White House for four years. It will thus be observed that the November elections were of far greater national importance than most people had calenlated on,

A LITTLE MORE giguim IN AREAN.It seenis to be impossible for some men to get along without creating something of a commotten, *To this clags of restless individuals belongs one V. V. Smith, who cluimﬂ to have been elected Lieut:'Governor of Are kansas in 1872, and who, now that the people of that State have elected a new set of officers, has the audacity tq set himself.up as entitled to the gubernatorial chair. The gist-of -the whole

matter is this: After the settlement of* the Baxter-Brooks difficulty, the Governor convened the Legislature. This body called a convention to amend theState Cimstivtut’iolf; that constitution, framed by the convention, \°vu.s almost unanimously ratified by the people, and under it a new State Government was elected. Baxter,the Governor, at once yielded to the- constitutional ¢hange, and Garlad, elected under the new constitution, became Governor. Now comes this pan Smith with the impudent d(?ciai‘atioh that the Legislature, in call}iqg.asmte Conventiorn and ;sm:n"nit‘ti'ng{ a new constitution, and the ;penixleﬁf‘x ratifyine that con-:_ stitution, all acted outside of some. statute, as if the action of the people in‘adopting a constitution is not final and binding upon all, no matter what the statutes of the State may say. As a matter of course, Smith must telegraph to the President asking for troops to enable him to oust Garland and put himself in. Inthe meantime, Giov. Garland has issued a warrant for Smith’s arrest, bul according to late accournts, the wlhereabouts of the would-be Govérnor are not to be ascertained. President Grant will of course pay no at{tention to Smith’s crazy de-. mand, but allow the prol')erml'thorities of Avkansas to settle this little matter in their own way. His experience in meddling with State affairs is such as to convince even so stubborn g man 43 he that it would be worse than foolish to encourage the wild scheming and plotting of an ndventiu‘er like Smith. ' - : g e v THEY LOVE THE FLAG. The demonstrations in the South over the democrafic victories furnish abundant proof of an earnest desire on part of the southern people to establish fraternal relations’and to reassert their devotion to the glorious old flag. "Never was the star-spangled banner more enthusiastically cheeered than at the recent demonstrations in Mobile andNewOrleans. The following dispateh signiticantly mirrors the temper of the South and interpretation placed upon a Democratic triumph: “One of the most notable features of the grand .demonstration here last was tlie number of United States, fli gs on publie and privatebuildings. Every man whot could make, beg or borrow a Star Spangled Banner had it fioanting from his house, and all were greeted with.cheers by the people, fifteen thousand in number, It was the grandest Union demonstration witnessed..in the South since the war.— Some of the negroes are going about selecting new masters under the impression that they are to be sold again into slavery. 'The whites in vain endeavor to reassure them. 'Fhe Conservative blacks mingled with the whites in the ’procession last night, andall refjoiced together. The universal expression is of renewed kindness to the colored race.” ' , i e et 4 D . I A CASE IN POINT. . In glancing over one of our leading ‘democratic exchanges of a few weeks lsince. we came across the following item: 2 e It seems hard o 1 o juan in these degenerate times to say a decent and clever thing for a' political opponent without his language being perverted or miscongtrued. Gov. Hendricks a few avenings since, in aspeech at Indianapolis, took occasion to speak kindly and complimentary of the Republican State officials with whom he has been associated, and the Lafayette Courier is so ungracious as to construe his language into a reflection upon the Democratic officers that. are to succeed them, when doubtless nothing was furthet from Gov. Hendricks’ intention. It is a pity that a man can‘lot speak well of one of his neighbors without necessarily casting reproach upon another. ; i It is searcely necessary for us to say that the above contains a most stinging rebuke to the course pursued by the common scold who presides over the Goshen Democrat — Charles 1.. Murray. . /

HENRY WILSON, the fifth-rate politician who was, in an evil hour, elevated to the Vice Presidency, hias been shooting off his mouth since the recent disastrous defeats of the Republicans. According to his version, most of the blame falls upon the shoulders of the administration. Grant, on the other hand, says it is all due to the bad conduct of Congress. This affords the Brooklyn Eagle an opportunity to get off a neat little point running thusly: “Little as people think of the last presidential ticket, they yet think more of the head of it than of the tail of it.” Bad as President Grant has proved ‘himself, there is no doubt that he stands incomparably better in the estimation of the American people than does Henry Wilson and all hypocritical demagogues ‘like him. Henry is beyond doubt the biggest fraud that ever figured in politics. ,

Brsipes voting for the various officers to be elected in the State, the citizens of New York at their recent élection voted upon several proposed constitutional amendments. These were carried and will-make considerable change in theirfundamegtal law. The Governor’s term of office will be extended to three years instead of two, and he will receive $lO,OOO salary Instead of $4,000, and will be required to approve bills within thirty days after the adjournment of the:Legislature. “There are still other important amendments. o ;

IsnMARLITE MURRAY, of the Goshen Democrat, is evidently puzzled as to the best mode of getting between Capt. Mitchell and the editor®of the BANNER. He might as well abandon that little project. The constant abuse heaped upon the Capt. by Murray lias cemented our friendship, for what greater leviﬂéghcé of a man’s Wqr(ti:t;'mesés;_,co-lﬂc_lr be required than being abused by ¢\ L, Murray ?

"ALL OVER THE STATE. ‘Personal and Political Paragraphs. Judge David Tugpie stands the best chance of being elected Speaker of the luse;}jlle is an able man. ome unsophisticated Independents still pretend to Velieve that they will hold the balance of power in the next Legislature. Dispel the illusion. T E. Wadsworth is favorably spoken of as 4 suithble pergon for director ofthe Northern Prison. The interests of the State wounld be well gnarded by Wad, ' - i :

Congressman Packard, of the LaPorte Clhronicle, attributes republican defeats to unguarded criticisms of republican officials by the republican press. ‘yYhefoipOn the Indianapolis Journal reminds Packard that the sreatest mischief was done by republican congressmen who piunged their little fists into the public treasury and committed various other offenses which eould neither be defended nor extenuated. The Journal is more than two-thirds correct. The Connersville Zaxaminer has hoisted the name of ¥Hon. W. S. Holman as the p“éople’s choice for President. If it were possible for. the 'J',udge to canvass every State, we believe he would carry the entire electoal vote of the Union. His brilliant congressional races have made him the most successful campaigner in the whole country. .

The Evansville Courier nominates Mr. Thomas Collins, of Posey county, for (I()(;u'—keepm of the House of Representatives, and vouches.for him as a Democrat from his youth up. We cordially second the nomination., Tom is one of the best, most cuexjgetic and sensible young DemocreuS in Southern Indiana. His election wounld be a proper recognition of his numerous merits. ' . '

Jaohn R. Coffroth, Samuel C. Willson, Gen. Manson, Judge Niblack, and Alf. Edgerton are also, once in a while, named for the U. S. Senatorship. Somebody has proposed Alf. P. Edgerton for U. 8. Senator. If it be the purpose to reward that gentleman for lelping to defeat the democratic ticket. two years ago, ‘the suggestion is 'entif‘ely in order. o -

There is some talk of Dr. Rice contesting the seat of congressman Hunter, of the Terke laute district. We liave an idea that Dr. Rice had better defer the matter until 1876. e

Several democratic papers down in the “Pocket” are decidedly averse to Dan Voorhees’ Senatorial aspirations, but the majority is unequivocally committed in Bis favor.

e T Al Bt Rloderation in the South

. The Southern Demeccrats, says the Cincinnati Enqguirer, aze not the worst or the most- unreasonable men in the world. One of them was elected Governor of Arkansas the other day. It must be remembered that the hour of victory is always dangerous, and is especially go for the plundered people of the South, who now see light just ahead. But Governor Garland said in his message: . “But while we do congratulate ourselves and the people of our sister States, we must use the victoiy prudently and-wisely, and show the world that we are worthy of it. Let no animosities of the past mar this beauty, let’ no bitter memories of other days spoil its charmis or lessen its benefits. Liet us forget the past only as far as it may serve to warn us against evils in the administration of our Government, and go forward toremedy those evils and make and enfor<- 4 Government for all alike, witt ' benefits and its burdens.”

“We want no strife, no turmoil ; but we want, and musy have, peace and order, and to this end the ldws should and must be enforced rigidly; but no man living under them should be unjustly or illegally deprived of one iota of- his rights, and let no man be put in fear or injured, or denied any right on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude, or on account of former residence or difference of political opinion.” ' There is every indication that the people of the South intend to “right dress” with this docrine. If they do the future of the Democratic party is secure., . ; _ ' ‘ Clerk of the House. - The name of Mr. Peter T. Luther, of Clay county, will be presented to the Legislature, at its next session, in connection with the office of Clerk of the House. Mr. 1.. is now and has been a true and unflinching Democrat, and has, under all circumstances and upon all occasions, proven his faith by his works. Aside from these considerations,Clay county, notwithstanding her large population, has never, to our recollection, been honored with a clerical position in our State ILegislature. It is neither ‘our intention nor desire to intrude or press the claims of Mr. Luther upon our friends, but merely suggest his name as one worthy the earnest, and favorable consideration of a democratic legislature. —Clay County Herald. . There is certainly no discount on Peter’s democratic ardor. . Ile is one of the livest Democrats in all Hoosierdom. = We know.this from personal observation. We believe'ouiﬂlegis]ative Solons !would be pleased with Pet_ér’s management of the office to which he aspires.

- If being a member of the democratic State Central Committee in the time of the recent democratic victories in the State of Indiana entitles a man to the United States Senatorship for services rendered the party in a brilliant campaign, we aredecidedly of the opinion that A. T. Whittlesey, Esq., deserves the place. If the Senator is to come from the State Central Committee, give us Whittlesey by ail means. Booneville Enquirer.

Not a bad idea, Bro. Swint. Men of considerably less merit and ability than that possessed by Col. Whittlesey have been sent to the Senate. “Whit.” would make Rome howl. ’

s ! 5 i . Ir HorATIO SEYMOUR is elected next United States Senator from New York, it will give to Oneida county both Senators. Nay, more; both Sen“ators will bé in the same family, since ‘they are brothers-in-l Jaw. This will probably be a consideration against Mr, Seymour’s election.—Cincinnati Enguwirer.

The New York Democracy is composed of material that will not be led astray by considerations of this character. Residence and: relationship are of no importance in this particular instance, : ; .

INDIANAPOLIS LETTER. THE GREAT VICTORY AND ITs LESSONS. o 'l‘x"u:e and False Beqoémﬁc Gospei." The l 8. Scnatorship—Voorhees, McDone ald and Edgerton. : - . INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 14, 1874, The recent elections, their lessons, and their probable effect upon the country, oceupy a large’ share of publie attention at this moment. . Here, at the capital of IIoos;erdom, however, we are more deeply interested in coming events—in the assembling,_o:f the newly chosen Legislature and the clection of a United States Senator.

, You may deem it a strange remark, coming from this source, when I say that the Indianapolis politicians are a sort of mutual admiration society, or I might 'say, mutual assurance company, and seem to take it for granted that all the larger places in the State belong to them, and the small favors are to be put where they will do the most good, that is to Indianapolis. There ought to be power enough in the State to demolish the Indianapolis ring. Whether there is or not remains to be seen. From present indications, Joe McDonald has. the lead and will probably be chosen as Dan Pratt’s succeSSQr. Many Senators and Representatives in various parts of the State are already, I think,’ committed to him, as is also a large por: tion of the press. His most active, if not formidable, competitor will doubtless be D. W. Voorhees, To my mind, the BANNER has named a gentleman for the Senatorship who is far preferable to either McDonald, the Indianapolis ring i'avorite, or Voorhees, the champion of the rag money doctrine. I cordially second your nomination of the Hon. Joseph K. Edgerton, of Ft. Wavne. ‘ o .

Some one once said of the Church of England, that it was “a church with a Calvinistie creediand an Armenian clergy.” Voorhees would make the democratie '_‘pzu'ty' of Indiana about as consistent a party with a greenback or paper money creed and hard money votels, for I cannot believe that many of the Democrats of Indiana have so lost their senses as to uphold the financial theory of Voorhees and his State econvention platform, ' A great victory has been achieved this year Dby the democratic party. Political leaders, so called, have had little or nothing to do with it. It is not their thunder, as the common saying is, though they will be the first to rush in and eclaim the Credit and the spoils. It has been a spontaneous movement of the public mind, springing from causes long existing. Itis a hopeful sign, not only of the vitality of the party, but of the vitality of an intelligent and independent patriotism among the people. Ithadthe aid of a large republican vote, and hel%qin is one good fruit of the magnanimity of the demaocratic ,p:irty in supf—porting Greeley in 1872. That suport broke the iron-bound prejudice of years, which had caused Republicans to look upon the democratic party as secessionists and traitors, and it led Republicans to see that there was yet in our party, not only vigorous life, but the surest hope of an early restoration of good government. = Tod thoi'ough restorasion of democratic power it is of vital necessity that the party in the selection of its representative men, and in the shaping of its policy, shall commend itself to the intelligent patviotism of the whole country.. We want men for office: who are, f)eyond question, **honest and ¢apable and faithful to the Constitution.” ~We want constitutional free government, with restored freedom to State governments, involving a policy of “reconstruction” in the Southern States, which, while it will accept the new relations which civil war, and fcor,astitutional amendments have produced, will be a true reconstruction and restoration, not' only in form, but in spirit and substance. Let the people of the Southern States have free course, to harmonize all races and relations among themselves, anddo develop their own prosperity, as they best Cani; in short, liberty to govern themselves. '~ We want the military kept Wbe‘re it belongs, in subordination to the civil power, and the Federal government confined to its own constitutional sphere. We want the strong hand of public power, legislative and judicial, laid wpon the ‘monopolizing and aggressive tendency of monted corporations, and especially railroad corporations, so that the chartered power of money shall be made to know in all its dealings and relations that the law is its, master, not its servant, and that corporations are made for public ends, and not for mere private gain, and that the people, and not eorporations, makb'the law. Gy : !

We want gold and silver coin, as in better days, and as the Constitution made it, the basis of our currency, and the only legal' tender in;payment of honest debts, to the end that all paper circulating as money, and all government obligations, shall be as good qs gold. 'We want no inflation from spasmodic gusts of irrédeemable paper money, nor from anything else than the natural production and §growth of substantial values, measured by the standard of gold; .nor-do we want contraction or shrinkage of values from the artificial and unhealthy panics which an irredeemable paper currency is sure periodically and fitfully to produce. We want the United States, in which alone in our country is vested the power to coin money and regulate the value thereof, to cease being a trader and speculator in the coin' which its obligations promise to pay, and to ‘stand again and always among the nations, as well as before its own people, as a government which honors its own debts. It is time, ten years after the war, for “war measures” to cease, as well in finance as in reconstruction of States. - The public will, in a voice in the recent elections not to be mistaken,

has demanded reform and better government. It has again trusted the democratic party: The.details of reform, finaneial and political, will demand the highest wisdom and patriotism of that party. I trust it will not fail in its duty. e - Such, in general, are my views of the politieal situation. They are worth no more and no less than those of any other private citizen. As a Democrat I would like to see them generally adopted by those elevated to representative positions. While I have my preference in the selection of a United States Senator, I freely accord the :same privilege to others. Above all things I want to see a fair contest for so important and honorable a place, and that it shall not be taken for granted that the politicians at the State capital can forestall the public sentimhent of the peoplefat large, by handing over in advance such an office, as if for a price, or as a spoil of war, to any favored one of their own number.. JACKSONIAN.

THE probabilities are that Massachusetts will send Charles Francis Adams to the United States Senate; New York, Horatio Seymo:r; Pennsylvania, Jerry Black; and Tennessee, Andrew Johnson. Those States could not do better. = These gentlemen are four of the giant intellects of the Union.—Kokomo Democrat.

There is doubtless a great deal of truth in this observation, and yet we beg leave to di\ﬂer with our contemporary as to Jerry Black. Ileis unquestibnitbly aman of great mental power; but, at the same time, he is “chuck full” of erratic notions. e is in most things an éxtremist, and, withal, fickle minded. While a member of the late constitutional convention he made a perfect ‘dunce of himself. Because the democratic members of that body could not see some things in the same light he viewed them, Jerry became furiously indignant, packed his duds, and fled for parts unknown. Men of such a temperament are not calculated to do the Democracy much good in the Senate of the United States. We want men of good common sense, of well-balanced minds, and of sound discretion. Pennsylvania has such, but Jerry Black is not -one of that number.: :

There is probably no man in the State better fitted for the Senatorship than Judge Holman, but we trust he may be permitted to stay where the people have elected him—to represent the Fifth District in Congress. The District* is. largely Republican, and there is probably no other Democrat beside Mr. ITolman. who could be elected, should he be chosen Senator. ILet Mr. Holman, therefore, stay where he is, and let us not run the risk of losing a Democratic Representative in the Fiftht District. — New Harmony. Reyister. : . 1

We beg leave to assure Bro. Slater that there is not much in this objection. With a majority of over 70 in the lower house of' Congress, we could well afford to run the risk of losing one member. But we do not apprehend much danger of the Richmond liistricﬁ’electixxg a Republican to Congress, should a vacaney be created.— The tide does n’t set in that direction; our opponents are too badly demoralizedite recover from their sfmmiug defeat for the next six months. Desides, we expect a new apportionment before a special election would need to be ordered, And then you must recollect that J-Enos Neff had about 12 majority in the District as now constituted. ' ; b

WHEN the republican convention met at- Kendallville we saw Johnny Stoll perched upon the stand, “as big as cuffey.” and were informed by several leading Republicans present, and several leading Democrats, that Johnny Stoll had been in the field in that county, working up delegates in two townships in favor of Baker’s nomination. When Baker was nominated, on our way home we were informed by a leading Republican of Elkhart that Johnny Stoll had expressed the opinion to him but a few minutes before, that Baker was such a popular man that it was not likely that the Opposition would run a candidate against him, or that no man could be found who would consent to run against him. To this we emphatically dissented.—Charley Murray. ~ The editor of the BANNER occupied a seat on the stand’as a reporter, ‘while you “moused” around among the delegates—for what purpose, we never deemed worthy of inquiry. As to working up delegates in two. townships for Baker, we have only to say that whosoever asserts or repeats that statement can be proved, as we now stamp him, a double-distilled liar. Statement No. 2 is equally false, as we can prove by the “leading Republican of Elkhart” referred to. We have ‘the proof in our pocket, Mr. Champion Liar Murray.

So FREEMAN was the democratic candidate after all, was he? Yetevery democratic paper in the district persisted all through the campaign in saying that he was on the independent or reformticket! Oh, consistency, how thou art abused by this latter-day Democracy -—lndianian.

- Beg pardon, Reub. The democratic papers of the District did no such thing. The convention which nominated Kelley explicitly styled itself a Democratic-Liberal body. The committee on resolutions so worded its report, after due consideration and deliberation. It is true that Charley Murray requested the chairman of that committee to erase the words “Democratic-Liberal” and to substitute “The People,” but the modest request was not complied with. The chairman of said committee is not in the habit of doing things in that way.

THOSE 'who have been in the habit of promouncing the Democracy a defunet political organization, will find something to ponder over whileglancing at the list of democratic Governors who may be found at the head of 21 of the 37 States, as follows: Alabama,’” Arkansas, Connecticut; Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin. . i el Laporte has shipped 175,000 bushels of wheat this year. wae

A Man Ki!ls His Wite and Burns Her ; - Body in a Log-Heap. St. Louls, Mo., Nov. 13—The Waterloo, Monroe county, I, 7Times today has an account of the arrest and preliminary examination-of Barney MecMahon, a farmer living three miles from Bnrksville, Monroe eounty, for the murder of his wife on the 9th of last August, ahd subsequent burning of her body. 1t appears that McMahon and lits wife lived unhappily, frequent quarréls occurring between them, and his children by a former wife treated her very badly. . Mrs. McMahon left home several times under harsh treatment, but had always been persuaded to return by her husband. On August 8, MeM hon sent his children to visit friends, and on their return the next day they were told that their mother had started for DBurksville, since which time she has not been seeén or heard from. On the day of the alleged disappearance of the woman, MeMahon had fired a log-heap some distance from the house, and kept it burning tygp weeks. It emitted a terrible stenel, and, when a#ked ‘the cause, McMahon said he was burning chickens that had died of cholera.— Suspicion having recently been aroused that Mrs. McMahon had been foully dealth with, Samuel Protene, independent detective of St. Louis, was employed to work up the case. Protene and Prosecnting-Attornéy. Russ arrived here to-day, and the Evening Dispatch gives guitea lengthy account -of the affair derived from them. After McMahon's log-heap burned down the ground was plowed over, but -on examination by detective Protene, a few days ago, several hair-pins, small buttons, and bones which looked like finger bones, and part of an upper jawbone, with teeth attached, were found. This led to the arrest of Mc¢Mahon, and the evidence addueed at the preliminary examinaticn. aud the improbable and contradictory statements made by McMahon and his children, led to his being held it $lO,OOO bond to answer to a charge of manslaughter, Great excitement exists in the neighborhood. MecMahon is well advanced in life, and has several grown-up children. , 4

i, Advice to Democrats, : The interest we take in the welfare of Democracy promptsus to give them a word of advice in this very trying hour. The hour is critical because it is an hour of victory—mno more fragment of victory, but a deluging sweeping triumph. The Democracy have proved that they can bear defeat with oaken fortitude, it is success that tries them most severely. Success in the past has been fatal to them by provoking them into excess which forfeited the popular- confidence and brought on defeat. Mu. Benton used to' restrain the savage and dangerous ardor of his party in the midst of their trinmphs by wagning them in his slow measured -way, that “moderation is the ornament of victory.” The Democracy will do well to remind themselves of the Bentonian maxim.— The supreme duty of the vietorious party in this erisis is to keep a level head. The contest fought in November was very important, but it was a skirmish.. It was the prelude to the real battle for national power in 1876. Victory in that battle seems at this moment to be within the easy reach of the Democracy. - Nothing but an exhibition of that inexplicable and inexcusable folly which the party have a habit of manifesting at tlie most inopportune times can forfeit it. What they need is patience, self-control and a wearing'of their honors with becoming meekness.—St. Louis Republican. .

The Eind of FEan he i‘s»i (From the Plymouth Democrat.) We must decline a personal controversy with the editor of the Goshen Degnocri 7. 80 long as he knowingly quotes tie sayings of other men, and attributes them to'us. A man so totally de,\'oid'qf’ journalistic honor, as he has proven himself to be; by quoting and crediting. to this paper, the sayings ot a correspondent, published under his own signature, is just the kind of man who merits nothing beyond the contempt of the newspaper fraternity. - o - (From Lhe.\\fars:nv;lndi;mi;m-.) . Without .an exception, in newspaperdom, so faras we have ever observed, the editcr of the Goshen Democrat (C. L. Murray) gets up the most intoelerant, bigoted, unscerupulous and mendacious sheet published anywhere in the country. He stabs friend and foe alike, and no doubt calls it an “independent” paper. e ; L eelb P— - ! , Prison Dirvector. (From the Lawrenceburgh Register, Oct. 22d.) Two years ago our fellow citizen, R. D. Brown, Esq., of Wilmington, received the united vote of the Democrats in both branches of the Legislature for Director of the Southern State Prison. We understand that he will again be before the lLegislature for the same position, at the ecoming session; and we make mention of the fact to say to those of our friends in the Legislature who are not personally acquainted with Mr. Brown, that he is a gentleman every way qualified to discharge the duties of the office, a working Demoecrat and a useful man, in whatever position he may occupy. His election would be eminently satisfactory to the people of this Senatorial District, which gave a Democratie majority of 4,400, and we have no doubt to the people of the State at large. ; .

The Rev. Father N. H. Gillespie. Advices from South Bend announce the death, at the University of Notre Dame, of the Rev. Father N. IH. Gillespie, at the age of forty-five. Ile was born at Burnsville, Pa., and graduated 4t Notre Dame in 1849.. In 1854 he went to Rome to complete his ecclesiastical studies. Two years later he was ordained a pries*, and became Vice-President of the Universlty. In 1859 he was made President of St. Mary’s College, on the North Side. In 1863 he again went abroad, but returned to South/ Bend in 1866, became editor of the dve Maria, a religious weekly. He was a very graceful writer, and a sound thinker and scholar. el —— A Word from One Who Hnows. (From Ti'm{Maw’ Aunburn Courier.) An item from the Warsaw Indiantan in regard to the course of the Ligonier BANNER in the late congressional campaign, in our issue of last week, does the dditor of that paper an injustice. 'We know that Mr. Stoll labored for the success of Mr. Kelley, and even made personal efforts in his behalf. . We were absent when the paper went to press and did not know that the item had been copied. Because the BANNER did not indulge in fulsome notices: of Mr. Kelley that'is no indication that he was not in favor of l’xiselectign. Lt ion . e e ]- I 73 2

[‘ Three of ' John Martin’s children, living neur Fort Wayne, two girls and one boy, were abducted last weék.— The girls were stolen, it is supposed ‘- for prostitution, and the boy for a re- - ward for his return, On Saturday last, the father received the following tele- - gram, the first and only indication of their whereabouts: Ll v el BE ANNR L NV wholin Martone .2. i ouis il . Write > full - description’ of your daughter. 'Do not come. Safe if her, ; 85 0 BUR. NODYRE,

STATE ITEMS, - - - Turnips are worth five cents a bhushel in Dubois county. - . » o The yearly meeting of spiritnalists is in session at Richmond, = " Seth Way, one of the oldest citizens of Laporte, died last week. = =~ = Jonesbore, Grant county, liad.a $2000 fire last Tuesday a wéek. =~ - The new Odd Fellows hall at Wabash is nearly completed. It has cost the society abbut $8,500. = About sixty Grangers will liold seats in the next Legislature, and they were not elected as Independents either.

It is estimated that from 1,000 to 1,200 tons of hay have been destroyed by the recent fires in Laporte county. W. C. DePauw, Esq., of New Alba--Iy, gave a social party on last Thursday, at which over 300 guests were present. dooan el S

It is baid that Jeftries, the man who defeated Baxter for the Senate in Wayne county, is a one-armed soldier and a “straight” Republican. -~ . The Covington Friend comes out handsomely for Voorhees for United States Senator. Covington is the Tall Sycamore’s old stamping ground. . - It is reported that a company has been organized in New Albany to establish a manufactory of stone for paving and building purposes, from cement, s Candidates for positions i the Legislature, this® winter, will be mumerous. There are sixteen men in Allen county who wait to be door-keeper of the House. . e Nearly all the liquor stores of Elkhart have been closéd up by the law. The dealers ‘were obliged. to plead guilty to violations of the law and couldnlt get license. o ‘The Booneville Enquires tells of a man in that place who tried to commit suicide by swallowing a pockelknife, It lodged inhis throat, and he was relieved by the doctors, = -

We notice that much of the wheat on Rolling Prairie is turning vellow, especially on the ridges. It is said that both grubs and flies are working in it, but after all it is asplendid looking crop.— Laporte Argus. - = - According to the' Danville Union it costs $21,000 a year td keep the mud roads of lendricks county in repair, and then they are almost impassable half of the year. The evidence against our present road system is overwhelm-

Westville, Laporte county, has a small sensdtion in the way of bastardy case, in whieh & -white girl charges. a negroswith both rape and bastardy.— The case is evidently mixed to :some extent, and is likely to be filled with disgusting details.” 1t was set for trial onthe 18thinst. ' - @ L Last Friday night, Miss Catherine Schell, of Fort Wayne, aged eightytwo years, dropped dead at-the reésidence of Charles Kraubs. The lady. had been up to the time of her death, enjoying good health. “The coroner’s jury found that death wasg caused: by embolism, the result of organic diseaseof theheart, = 0 =2 A dispatch from Auburn, November 14, says: A young girl, who has lately sthrted out a 8 a prostitute, became tired of the lifg she was leading and committed suicide by taking arsenic last Saturday. It is impossible to learn her name. She is expected to die every moment, as the physicians can do nothing for her. o L Marion Clirvonicle: *“Thereis amcase now in our courts in which a man appealed from an assessment of $l2 for aid in the construction of a diteh, anfl thie court costs are now over . $8600.— To say that the case has-¢ost the parties and witnesses (of which theré were over eighty) $3,000 intime and mouey, is putting it at-a low -estimate.l

- Miss Rebecca Myers, of Union township, was in the-citiy one day last week. She is 21 years old, is 81 inches high, and weighs about 40 pounds.- She has traveled with the Great Eastern -eircus the past scason, but is now at home tospend the winter. . Sheis very much of & 'ady. and has seen-a great deal of the world—Plymouth. Democrat: e Pl

A Crawfordsville exusader wants to know ‘what has become of the $lOO,000, subseribed some time ago by a juint stock company to carry on the temperance war. - She says the women have incurred considerable expense in making the fight, and have applied -to the treasurer of the agseeciation for a little aid, but hot a-dellax will- he furnish. S L

‘About 2 o’cloek last Saturday morning a fire broke out among: a numberof stables in the western part of Fort Wayne, and, a strong wind prevailing, bid fair to do great damage. TRain fell, however, in time to confine the conflagration to the block in which it started. Sqyen stables and one small dwelling house were destroyed; igvolving a loss of about $6,000; insurance light. o o '

Last Friday a man named Julius Noirol, aged forty-two, residing in Jaekson township, Allen county, while engaged in digging a cistern, - was strugk on the ‘head by a hrick which fell from above. He took no notice of the hurt for a time, then complained of being unwell, experiencing a severe pain in- his head, and expired shortly afterwards. His wife was sick at the time, and is now lying at the point of death. Ileleavessix children. Her i

The special election in Knox county for Representative in the State Legislature resulted in the choice of a Democrat. This gives the Democrats .a majority in the House and a majority of 6 on joint - ballot, over both Republicans and Independents. Some of the Independent will beas reliably Democratic as any members of tho Legislature, so that it is safe to assume that the Democrats will have things their own way in both:branches. —.Crawfordsville Jowrnal. = - William McDole, tried and convieted at the term of the Circuit Court in Lawrenceburgh for the murder of the Bradley family, made a confession ‘before his removal to the State Prison, to Josiah Campbell,foreman of the jury which tried him; Dr. (l}:;tCII, a(ild sgver,others, saying that he murderéd the %&Lﬁnily,vbut was so drunk %at?i%?:d not know what he was doing at the time. . :He:said that he had no ill-feel-ing toward the murdered omnes, but was so affected by the whisky he drank that he could not restrain his passions.. He could not be induced to give any of the particulars, but did not think he ought to be punished for it because he was drunk when he did it. It will be remembered that the humane jury who tried him yery magnanimously fixed his punishmenf at imprisonment in theState Prison for life. «iiwma o . PAARBTRL e b e R

There is going to be_a very good chance for a clean prohibition ticket’ in this State two years hence, as the republican party has ‘about settled: down to the determination of “settingon” any set of menthat: talk about. augmenting. its majority on a prohibition, . plattorm. —Bartholomew, Co. Demoerat, ¢ e o

.~ GENERAL ITEMS. S - The United States Assay office at Washington received three and a half tons -of silver bullion from the San Franecisco Refinery last Tuesday. This is the largest amount ever received at one timey . o o Father Gerdemann, ex-pastor of St. .Boniface Church, in Philadelphia, was arrested last Saturday in Baltimore on a charge of embezziement. Father -Gerdemann has formally renounced Latholicism., - e ~ The London Daily Telegraph states that: a Socialist conspiracy has been discovered in Russia, and adds that 3,000 [persons, including many ladies - and several persons of highrank, have k been arrested. - Lo ' The vote of Spencer, carpet-bag Sen- | ator from Alabama, was c¢hallenged by }a life long citizen of Decatur, Alabama, on the grounds that it was not | his residence. 'Sueh is carpet-bag Sen- | atorial greatness. , ' t The town of Ayer, Massachusetts. | which was named atter the defeated | Congressional aspirant, Ayer, of bitter aloe and unpleasant purgative notoriety, recently burned in effigy the genial old pill man. | M IA A boy very much resembling Char- ', ley Ross has beén found in. Barboursi ville, W. Va.' A small-hearted, benev- ! olently disposed gentleman has the { child in keeping, and will return him | to his afilieted parents for the sum of ' $5,000, i (0 t Ex-President Johl- Las upbn his place: ab Gre_envilkle, Tennessee, two ; large weeping willows that have | grown from sprigs taken by a traveler from a tree that formerly overshadowed the grave of Napoleon at St. Helena, o i

The citizens of Louisiana have thre their committee appedled to the President to withdraw the Federal troups from their State. Fhe eléction is over, the carpet-baggers are overwhelming- * Iy defeatgld, and are past need of bayonet support. . - The I_)l‘oll'lb'it-ury liquor law, in the opinion - of the Detroit 77ibune, is doomed in Michigan. The 77ibune trusts that the ultra prohibitionists, who have been knifing the Republican party in Michigan with increasing vigor and unreasog}x for the last few years, are satisfied with the results they have finally achieved. ‘ - Gen. Sherman’s annual reportto the Seeretary of War shows a total of 26,441 enlisted men in the army at the close of October. The General thinks this number will be reduced to 25,000, the limit of the law, before the close of the year. e regards the army as “altogether too small for the demands .of so larze 4 country as this. -,

Congregssman-elect Seelye, of the Tenth Massachusetts Distriet, isa Professor in Amherst Collegé. He never before took any active part in politics, and was nominated and elected by the people, without the aid of ordinary machinery. His total personal expenses on account of the campaign ;were one three-cent postage stamp, .

The republicans feel how sharper than a serpent’s tooth pick it is to have a thankless child. lere’s this Louisiana mnegro, who has been generously and regularly Kkilled every canvass since the war by the republicans to prevent his being put back into slavery, going to the polls and voting with the rebels. Ingratitude, thy name is Louisiana negro. o . We giye for what it is worth a )tumor that the counsel engaged by Beecher, Tilton, et. al., have decided to withdraw from the various libel suits on the ground that they would involve private matters not fit to be made publie. It is not possible that the eminent legal gentlemen mentioned in our dispatches are such fools as to think that it is in their power to save the reputation of both Beecher and Tilton. One of them must be pilloried for a rascal, or the people will never be content.—Chicago Tribune.

A gentleman. from the west” who has witnessed the ravages of the grass‘hoppers says that it was found necessary to. protect the eyes of horses and cattie. The constant irritation arising from the springing up of the myriads cf these creatures when cattle undertook to feed in the fields or in driving them about soon. destroys the sight if not ¢:red for. The same gentleman says that unless public or private aid is furnished to settlers on Jthe devastated streteh of country over which the grasshoppers have passed there will be actual starvation before winter sets in.

. Father John W. Geidemann, pastor of St. Boniface Roman. Catholic Chureh, Philadelphia, could not withstand the allurements of Mammon and female beauty. It was only the other week that the Reverend Father weakened in his vows of celibacy and ran off with his organist, the beautiful and worldly minded Miss Witting. This is not all. . The Reverend Father hdd been acting as both spiritual and material banker for hisflock. $50,000 had thus been intrusted to his keeping by his confiding parish. This the father took too, leaving his flock a poorer but wiser people. He has since been arrested. ! v :

. The Mayor of Philadelphia the other day received a letter, purporting to come from a Committee oft Workmen,, ‘which only needed to be written in blood and signed with a skull and cross-bones in order to fill out the measure of audacity and bluster. The tenor of it is that the men will have bread, with work if they can, and without'if they must. = The committee gives notice that if the factories, shops, and railroads do not “make a start” by Nov. 25, the laborers eut of employment will “go ahead at all hazards.” The suggestion of a substitute for Merry Christmas in Philadelphia 15 not pleasant. The letter probably emanates from some pot-house oracle, who cares little enough for bread when beer is on the boatd; yet it may be the despairing cry of honest men. It ought at least to suggest a careful investigation of the facts. L

Respectfully Dedicated te Charles : Murray. . I . (From the T!pton(’l‘i‘lﬁes.) | Thére are some men we do not like. There are a great many men who have beeni guilty of mean, contemptible conduct. 'We might devote the greater portion of otr available space to abusing them, and informing the. peo--ple of the mean things they have been” guilty of doing; but, reader, would that interest you? A newspaper is taken by subscribers for the informat tion it contains, not ag a vehicle of | personal spite; and to gratify a little spirit of malignity in the editor against l well known and respected citizens. ‘When a paper has become a mere or- ' gan to gratify the Detty‘\iigﬁiiggvgness | of the editor, it is prostituted from its | true mission to unhallowed purpgiges. | Such apaper is not worthy of suppért. _or patronage. “What do the readers | care” wliether the é@gggfme‘smﬂ-' ton Bugle likes John Smith or Jacob Jones best. - They mmlggmbw fer ‘seeing their papers filled with inter- - esting reading matter to seeing the 101‘)'9’*10&“%% NEUSE AR SOUAC- | 1084 ViluneEan Wit out By A vemomous pen of the ed ROk 00l