The National Banner, Volume 9, Number 31, Ligonier, Noble County, 26 November 1874 — Page 2

5 * The Fational Banney| J. B,.STOLL, Editor afid Proprietor. { e LIGONIER, IND.,, NOV. 26th, 1874. S TO OUR SUBSCRIBERS. On and after the first day of next Januarg-\&o.postage on the BANNER, to subscribers who do not receive it within this county, will be paid by us at the post-office here, in accordance with the new postal law which takes | effect on that day. Our subscribers at a distance will please take notice that from and after that date the subscription price of the BANNER to partjes residing outside of the county will 'be $2.10 per annum, or $1.05 for six months, positively in advance. As there is no postage on the BANNER to subseribers whose post-office isinNoble county, such persons will receive it at the old rates, to wit: &2 per annum, or $1 for six months. - : : e — A — - Tue republican majority in the Michigan Legislature is only 10 or 12. Zach Chandler is apprehensive that he may not be able to control the entire vote of his party. Mt e e 1 IT APPEAERS, after all, that the darkey Lee, who was taken to South Carolina by his friend, the negro congressman Rainey, was not'elected over his benefactor. Rainey is said to have been elected by 807 majority. .

AND Now some of those queer fellows who are editing democratic inflation papers apprehend that the election of a western Democrat as Speaker of the House will be followed by the nomination of an eastern man for the Presidency. - Horrible thought!

Tue World’s special correspondent in the Pennsylvania coal regions writes that the reports of the “Molly Maguires” are pure fabrications; that the only disturbances that have occurred have been due to drunken brawls; and that the Schuylkill region has never been more quiet than now. o ; :

From KANsAsS comes the sad intelligence that destitution prevails in at least twenty-four counties of - that commonwealth. In eight counties the destitution is very general, and almost the whole population will need more or less agsistance. At least fifteen thousand people must 'be jassisted during the winter and until' another crop is grown. Shall these unfortupate men, women and children be permitted to suffer for food, or will the afflwent of the middle and eastern States come to their relief ? . ‘ iDLkI @ it PRESIDENT GRANT is at present engaged in the preparation of his annual message to Congress, to be read before that bedy on the first Monday in Decerhber. All reports’from Washington agree that Mr. Grant will take strong grounds in favor of an early return to specie payments. In this he is warmly supported by Secretary of the Treasury Bristow, who is so determined 1 his views that he required Treasurer Spinner to erase an inflation argument (the 3.65 bond scheme) from his annual report.

A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, in discussing the recent elections in the United States, naively declares that they indicate a serious split in the republican party, one faction rallying under the banner of Grant and the other under Greeley! The knight of the quill who _perpetrated this blunder has evidently ‘never learned that Greeley died two vears ago. But his ignorance is no greater than that of the American editor who recently asserted that if

greenbacks were only made a legal tender, times would soon become better! f A

- Tre Memphis Appeal emits a stunning blast in favor of Dan Voorhees’ election to the TU. S. Senate. Its arguments are of the old-fashioned balderdash order, just the kind of stuff ‘that admonishes sober-minded Democrats of the North to see that the style of men so highly eulogized by the Appeal are not elected to high and responsible positions in the councils of

the nation, The .less such noisy fellows as the Appeal man have to do with the election of democratic U. S. Senators, the better it will be for the Democracy. ;

IN CONSEQUENCE of the extensive emigration from Ireland to the United States, the population of the Emerald Isle, which exceeded eight miilions thirty years ago, has been reduced to five millions. It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that Irish emigration is largely on the decline. This decrease; however, is more than made up by immigration from England and Wales. During the year 1873 more than 200,000 Englishmen made the United States their home, while the Irish added only one-fourth of that number to our population. :

Frrtz HASSAUREK’S Cincinnati Volksblatt makes a capital hit by de.claring that nothing adds so much to . the. deadening of our business as the miserable protective tariff system.— Formerly -we exported shoes and boots to the West Indies, Mexico, Central and South America, but we do not do sonow. Formerly we exported agricultural implements, sugar-presses, edged tools, and thousands of other kinds of things and articles fabricated from iron; now we scarcely do anything in that line. We have deprived ourselves of the competition with the markets of foreign countries. Formerly we built ships, and now we do not. Formerly all business was in a prosperous condition, and Amerita was the promised land; now everything is dull and the times are bad.— " Notwithstanding this the people <hedse to remain in their state of blindness, and regard with great satisfaction the Chinese wall with which they have sarrounded themselyes,

CANDIDATES FOR LEGISLATIVE POSITIONS. :

New additions are almost daily made to the list of candidates for the various positions which are to be filled by the incoming Legislature. We append the names of those who have been publicly mentioned fup to this time: . - For Secretary of the Senate—Frank M. Trissal, of Noblesville, a horny-fist-ed Granger-Lawyer, who expects to be able to consolidate the democratic and independent senatorial vote in his favor. Geo. W. Denbo, an! éx-Senator from Harrison county, is an applicant for the same: position. ; For Assistant Seeretary of the Senate—Olney Newell, of Lebanon, Boone county. - o

For Door-Keeper of the Senate—lTiram McCormick, of Shoals.’ Eor Librarian — Miss Maggie Fitzgibbon, Miss Laura Ream, Mrs. R. S. Sproule, Mrs. Emily Dyer, Mrs. Sarah A. Oren, Col. A. T. Whittlesey, George B. Tebbs, and James DeSanno, the former Librarvian. : Clerk of the House—Peter T. Luther, proprietor of the Clay County Herald; A.G. Smith, a talented young lawyer of North Vernon; Samuel W. Holmes, of Seymour, Clerk of the House in 1871 ;-Wm.T. Scott, of Corydon, Harrison 0011n§y ; and Thomas C. Mays, of the Auburn Courier.

Door-Keeper of tihe House—Samuel Marsh, of Jenningb county; Dunecan Montgomery, of J ofihnson; Wm. Martindale, of Marion ; Thomas Collins, ed-

itor of the Mt. Vernon Democrat. Director of the Southern Prison— Capt. John Kirk, of Madison; R. D. Brown, of Dearborn; Frank M. Byrd, of Jefferspnville; ahd Dr, T. A. Sparks, of Morgantown. | ; Directors of No;thern Prison—Wm. B. Loughridge of Peru, Gottlieb Bloch of Valparaiso, and|Capt. James Smiley of Greencastle, w]fxo were elected in

1871, are all understood to be candidates for re-electf&on. Besides these the following gentlemen are candidates: Geo.T.B. Carr, alawyer of Marion, Grant ‘co{mty; Dr. T. Davenport; of Warsaw; John P. Early and H. E. Wadsworth, editoi‘ Argus, of LaPorte; ex-Senator Addis m F. Armstrong, of Kokomo; and Fl¢ming T. Luse, a political dead-beat of Anderson. !

Willis S. Webb| and John Caldwell are candidates fov; Director of the Insane Asylum. o o ! N S ; * THEY FEEL BETTER. o

In speaking of the late elections, the Tennessee corresxlondent of a republican paper imparts this gratifying intelligence: 4 . ‘ - “There is no q\iestion" but what the result of the election in the North has had what might g)e termed an inspiring effect upon the Southern people. They feel better. | They are encouraged. They aré hopeful. - They say that

it is the first break in the clouds which overspread’ the sky fourteen years ago. It has been all dark since, and occasional glimmerings of light were only followed by greater darkness. Then, too, it has given them a’ better opinion of the motives and impulses of the Northern people than they have.had in all these years. They have thought that the controlling idea in the North was, as they term it, to ‘degrade them to a level with the negro;’ not out of any love to the negro, but out of hate to the whites.” _ -

The Nofth is vitally interestedl in the restoration of a feeling of safety and security among the,people of the South.. Business must reviye and prosperity take the place of depression’ and despondency. Good,;\\:holesome’ ‘ gbvernment will encourage domestic enterprise, allay strife and contention, and eventually lead the whole country to unparalleled prosperity. e — - DB~ - NOBLE SENTIMENTS OF A SOUTHERN , GOVERNOR. The newly elected Governor of Alabama, Gen. Houston, was inaugurated at Montgomery on Tuesday in the presence of a great number of citizens. In his address he said: “I will regard it as one of my highest and most sacred obligations to see that the Taws are faithfully executed, and the rights of all citizens, without regard to race, color, or previous -condition, duly

guarded and protected. The citizens of Alabama truly desire peace and perfect restoration of fraternal relations between all sections of our common country. They are loyal to the Government of the United States, and will readily yield cheerful obedience to its authority and laws. They only ask to be permitted, under the constitution and laws of the country, to exercise, secure from unwarrantable interference, the right of governing themselves at home by just and wiselyexercised laws for local self-govern-ment.”. United States flags were conspicuous in the procession.

THE RIGHT KIND of inflation of the currency is mentioned in Monday’s Indianapolis Journal : “It is estimated that the movement of currency from New York to the West at present averages not less than $1,000,000 a day. This is mainly for hogs, and will continue in a greater or less degree during the packing season. Most of it comes to Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, where it is paid out for hogs and passes into immediate circulation. It cannot be doubted that such a steady and considerable flow of currency to the West will soon make money more plenty here and cause a perceptible improvement in trade.” This confirms what we have asserted over and over. 'Whenever the western people have anything that will bring money, the locks, of eastern capitalists open as if by magic. In production there is wealth. Legislation does not create it, whatever rag money theorists may assert to the contrary, ;

It is Charley Murray’s inordinate ambition to be looked upon as a great leader that causes all that bluster to which he has treated us since the, October election. If some one would just be kind enough to say that Charley alone produced the great revolution, he would feel much better. As it is, he realizes full well that his sup‘port is generally regarded a detriment ‘tather than a benefit. Indeed, Wwe firmly believe that if Charley had been locked up in 4 dark cellar during the campaign, Kelley would have been elected, ‘ e

THOSE BAD, BAD SOCIETIES. x ‘Chicago has just withessed one of those remarkable gatherings which semi-occasionally remind the ’casual‘ observer that there is in this country such ia thing as an anti-secret society party. The Illinois branch of this ‘ singular / organization assembled in that city on Wednesday of last week ’ ‘and remained in session two days.— There were numerous “prominent ! speakers” in attendance; but Rev. | Blanchard, of Wheaton College, evi- | dently enjé)yed the distinction of being | on top of the heap. The usual arguments against Masonry were advanced. One of the orators of the occa.sion, a Rev. Horlers, assigned as his ‘ chief objections to Masonry that it didnot require of the members a declaration of faithin Christ, that it shielded ‘criminals; that it sowed distrust between man and wife. Rev. Dr. Faning denounced the order as one which favored only the rich members and gave the poor the cold shoulder, thus giving the lie to the claim that its work was a charitable one. The .convention resolved that its members® would not give patronage to any newspaper which did not open its columns to fair and free discussion of thé question of the influence of secret societies. They also resolved that there could be no hope for the correction of political abuses while secret societies flourished; that the impunity of criminals and the outrages in the South were the natural outgrowth of secret associations; that the oaths and obligations of the orders were of no use except to enable a man to erslave his fellowvs as voters, witnesses, jurymen or officers; that Masonry is subversive of the religion of Jesus Christ; that Masonry received its- most eflicient support, from such orders as the oOdd Fellows, Patrons of Husbandry, ete., and that therefore these are also. to be frowned at; that all men should labor by all honorable and gospel means for the overthrow of Masonry ,and kindred orders, and much more to the same effect. They also unanimously resolved that they had penetrated the mysteries of the ritual, and that it- was all foolishness. These people will meet again, in DPeoria, next year. In the meantime, the In: dianapolis Journal observes, the lodges of the various orders will hold their | stated communications as usual. | THE GREAT STORM. Rain - Storms and Hurricuneé Al Over the Countr,{'. o The great storm on Sunday night ‘and Monday seems to have sweptover the whole country. Great damage was done in various localities. The brick wall and rafters of the round-house building at Keyser, on the Baltimore & Ohio road, in West Virginia, were blown down, burying a number of workmen under the ru{ins. Two laborers were Kkilled and several severely injured.

The storm unroofed several houses in Covington and Newport, Ky., inflicting about %5000 damage, but causing no personal injury or loss of life. Crossing the Ohio River, it passed up the Little Miami Valley with abated strength, unroofing only a few houses, and blowing fences down. . InMilwaukee,trees were blown down in every part of the city, cottages un‘rjoofed, and outhouses overturned or split apart, and a heavy piece of the court-house roof was broken off.

In' New Jersey the storm proved especially destructive. The city of Trenton was damaged to the extent of $50,000, and the country north of Trenton $40,000 or $50,000. In Trenton, Morton’s row of six houses,Kline’s Hall, the Washington Market, Golding’s flint-mill, Figh & Green’s sawmill, Hutchinson’s bow factory, Watgon’s foundry, and a portion of the Catholie parsonage, were- unroofed. Boats on the river were upset, and boat-houses and sheds entirely demolished. A brakeman was blown from a train on the Belvidere & Delaware ‘Railroad and killed. Two other persons in Trenton were killed. The meadows back of Elizabethport were flooded from six te ten feet deep by the extraordinarily high tide, and thousands of tons of hay, in stacks, floated away or was destroyed. On the Lakes, a corresponding number of fatalities occurréd in consequence of the storm. Considerable of property was destroyed.

THE REPORT of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shows that the rceeipts from ° distilled spirits for the last year were only $49,444,090, a falling-off of $2,655,281 from the regeipts for the previous year; and that the receipts from tobacco were only $33,242,876, being a decrease of. $l,143,427 from the receipts for the fiscal year of 1873. When it is remembered that the whole amount of receipts from internal revenue is less than $103,000,000, and . that of this amount about $82,000,000 comes from the tax on tobaceco and the intoxicating beverages, it must be seen that a falling-off of nearly $4,000,000 in the receipts from these two sources in a single year is a very serious matter. The question therefore comes up whether we shall drink more whisky and smoke and chew more tobacco, or whether the loss shall be made up by taxing something else. : ”

Toe Toledo Blade don’t want the claims of Jeff Davis overlooked in making up the political slate of 1876.

Whenever you pick up a paper that is filled with such meanigless phrases as “Jeff Davis,” “reviving the spirit of rebellion” and kindred expressions, you may set it down as a fact that the editor thereof is either an abominable blatherskite or an infernal rascal, or both. : ] ‘

WorrH KNOowING.—The oldest, largest, safest and best accident insurance company is -the ‘Travelers’ Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn, It has cash asgetts of over $3,000,000, has written over 830,000 accident policies, aud has paid over 21,000 claims. It has paid over $2,000,000 in direct benefits to its policy holders. -

ALL OVER THE STATE.

Personal and Political Paragraphs. The Goshen Democrat warmly recommends 11. E. Wadsworth for direetor of the Northern Prison. Col. Robert D.! Dumm, of the Fort Wayne Sentinel, is at Washington to fix up a slate with his name on for Postmaster of the next IHouse. We | fear Bob will be disappointed.. The Indianapolis People makes bold to assert that if the people had their say, Dan. Voorhees would be elected Senator hy a rousing majority, -We would like to see that thing tested.” The special election for Auditor of Fulton county (occasioneéd by a tie vote in October) resulted in favor of the democratic nominee by 25 majority. The Rochester Sentinel is very jubilant over the result. v _ Voorhees’ Terre Haute organ is trying to show that there was nothing so very bad about the salary grab. But it must acknowledge that the disease killed about nine of eévery ten who got it. So speaketh the Bartholomew (. Democrat. The Terre Haute Gazette, of Satur~day, has a very strong artilcle against Voorhees for Senator, opposing him | principally, on account of the salarygrab. Tom Dowling and a number of other influential Terre Haute Democrats oppose Daniel for the same and sundry other weighty reasons. | ‘Col. Whittlesey doesn’t care abpufl being Dan Pratt’s successor, but he is credited with a decided hankering after the State Librarianship. This, considering Whit’s valuable services to the Democracy, is a very moderate request. If the victorious party can’t grant so small a pittance, it must in- | deed be a niggardly concern. Hon. David S. Gooding, the hornyfisted Granger of Hancock. county, is announced as a candidate for U. S. Senator. We cannot ¥y that we recognize an eternal fitness in Dave’s aspirations to that position, but if he will consent to “stand” for Sergeant-at-Arms of the national House of Representatives, the BANNER will sound his praise as in days of yore. The Marion County Herald favors Col. Charles Denby, of Evansville, for United States Senator, on the ground that “he is'thoroughly identified with the wants of the people.” Itoccurs to us that the same remark has been applied to a number of other politicians, and yet no one seemed to be impressed with the necessity of electing them to ‘the Senate. Py ~ The Vevay Reveille sounds the following warning: The coming Legislature should promptly repeal the $8 per day law. : All other .salaries should also be reduced to correspond with the hard times that are now upon us.— Let there be a general overhauling and reduction of all fees and salaries from Governor down to road-viewer. Taxes must be reduced, and the only way to do so is to reduce fees and salaries, and cut short on every éxpenditure of public money. @

T(-l'rihlf(} Tornado at Tuscumbia, Alabama. : A terrible tornado swept over the town of Tusecumbia, Alabama, on Sun-' day evening about 7 o’clock, destroying about one-third of the residences. Eleven lives were lost. = Miss Bettie Sheord, daughter of John Sheord, living 4 miles'southwest from town, was killed, their house being biown down. Mrs: Ella Moeore, ivife_ of State Senator J. B. Moore, and two children, were killed. T.D. Hodglins, editor of the Tuscumbia Chronicle, his wife, and four children were instantly killed, and their house was entirely destroyed. Mrs. Judith Winston was killed by the falling in of the rpof and upper walls of her house. Mr. Martin D. Patterson was dangerously injured, his house being blown away. Mris. Thomas Gibbs was badly hurt, and her house blownaway. She was blown across the street. The railroad bridge was blown away, and the easternbound train from Memphis, which was due at about 7:30 o’clock, was wrecked at the bridge. No lives were lost. An appeal for aid has been sent to President Grant by the inhabitants of the village, and refused by him on the ground that the army supplies are barely sufflcient forordinary purposes. A general appeal to the publié is also published in the journals. Tuscum‘bia is impoverished and speedy relief is - required to save its- inhabitants from still greater suffering than al ready inflicted by the stoym. '

TuaT CONTEST.—We learn that Mr. Kelley has concluded not to listen to the reckless advice of old Charley Murray, and others, in the matter of contesting Mr. Baker’s seat in Congress. That is the conclusion we expected he would.come to, when the question was first agitated. No matter what we may think of Mr. Kelley, personally or politically, we will cheerfully say that he has too much pride and self-respect to wish to occupy a place when he has not received 'an actual majority of the votes, no matter what advantage he might get by clinging to mere technicalities.— Wgterloo Press. The proposed contest was chiefly engineered by Murray, not so much with a view to ousting Baker as for the purpose of demonstrating his rare qua]ificatidns for “kicking up a muss.” The old reprobate never feels happy unless he has a hand in some “sport” of that kind. He managed to get Kelley inveigled into a disgraceful “flareup” with the editor of the Goshen Times, just to keep up a little excitement, you know, and now, after subjecting Kelley to a great deal of needless expense and annoyance, the contest business is dropped. Mr. Kelley has probab}y learned by this time that the unostentatious counsel of candid men is far preferable to the exnberant demonstrations of political guerrillas of the Murray stripe. No man can long associate with such tragh without endangering his reputation and character. :

. ELlgu B. WASHBURNE, our minister to France, is soon coming home on a brief leave of gbsence. The telegraph assyres us that his yisit has no political significauce. - He is oply coming over to have a friendly ghat with Grant. e

POLITICAL NOTES. Gratz Brown is named as Carl Schurz’s successvr. His chances, however, are nqt the most brilliant. Senator Thurman is growing in popular favor as a Presidential candidate. He would adorn the White House. . Does it not sound a little singular to hear politicians speak of democratic Massachusetts and republican South Carolina? It was once different. -

Out of sixty Congressmen elected in North Carolina, Maryland, = Georgia, Texas, Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee, the Republicans get only four.

There will be seven members named Williams in thj'e‘ next national House of Representatives. Happily, “our” Billy Williams is not one of the seven:

The “Molly f\l_:tguires" of Pennsylvania discount the Ku-Klux of Tennessee. We would like to have a written opinion from Attorney-General Williams. X

Congressman Alexander 11. Stephens is reported to have become so comparatively corpulent with returning health as to weigh eighty pounds avoirdupois. :

There is a democratic majority of five on joint ballot in the Legislature of Florida. This gives the Democrats the Umnited States Senator in place of the carpet-bagger Gilbert.. ; New York has notelected a democratic U. S. Senator since 1851, when Daniel S. Dickinson was chosen to that position. Horatio Seymour is an admirable figure to mark the new era. The- most influential demotCratic journals are outspoken in the declaration that it would be suicidal for the Democrats to elect a salary grabber Speaker of the next House. Correct.

Elihu B. Washburne for President and Postmaster General Jewell for Vice is the latest presidential programme proposed by republican pol.iti_ci:ms; The combination is not a bad one.” 2 :

~ Zach. Chandler, of Michigan, claims his re-election to the United States Senate as beyond doubt, while on the other hand his enemies in the republican camp say they are determined to defeat him. : - o Ex-Gov. Andréw G. Curtin is named as the probable democratic nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania next year. e ‘was twice elected to that position by the Republicans—in 1860 and ’63. Andy is a good man.

Some of the Ohio rural democratic papers are trying to induce the Cincinnati Enguirer to take the back track on the finance question. ' The in‘ention is worthy of praise, but ‘the Enquirer man is tremendously stubborn.

“'TCarl Schurz is in favor of the whole people uniting upon ‘one man for President of the United States. He thinks this would be the most appropriate centennial celebration of American Independence that could be devised.

The Cincinnati Enquirer has figured out that had the late elections been a Presidential contest, the Democrats ‘would‘ have elected 299 electors, and thie Republicans 58." With good behavior we can do nearly as well two years hence. v ; Gen. Banks has given his friends to understand that he will not be a candidate for Speaker of the House. He prefers to make himself useful on the floor and to oecupy an independent position on questions of a political character. g '

- Horatio Seymour declines to become a candidate for U..S. Senator. We hope the noble New York statesman will reconsider that resolution. If he declines to do that, the T.egislature should elect him gnyhow. e counld not refuse to serve.

- The Pennsylvania Democrats elected three of their congressional candidates by, respeetively, 11, 83, and 121 majority.. Three other Districts were lost to the Republicans by internal dissensions—running two candidates against the united Democracy. The Canton (Ohio) Herald wants Geo. H. Pendleton for President and Richard Schell, a Wall street speculator and inflationist, for Vice President. 'George would answer, since he has repudiated repudiation, but Dick Schell, mark you, will never preside over the Senate. , -

. A bitter fight is already being made for the U. S. Senatorship from Pennsylvania. Hon. Wm. A. Wallace, for 14 years a member of the State Senate, seems to have the best chances. Ie is a man of excellent abilities and from a partisan stand-point has earned the position.' / :

The only Republican elected to Congress from Kentucky, John D. White, will be the youngest member of the House of Representatives, having barely attained his twenty-sixth year.‘ We trust the young man will start out in a way that his daddy need not be ashamed of him, ' Senator Slater, of the Franklin, (Ind.) Herald, a pretty stiff-necked democratic organ, has this to say:— “Diémocrats will now have an opportunify to convince the niggers that their best friends are the intelligent white men of the South, and not a thieving horde of carpet-baggers.— Such a revolution would be to the interest of the entire.country; and we think if it once begins, there will be 1o holding it back. Letitroll on.” All right, Slater. : But, let us whisper in your ear, if you want the colored citizens to feel at home in the democratic household, you must quit calling them “niggers.” L

~ AN ENGINEER wgs scalded to death amidst a horrible accident on the Hyde Park (Chicago) dummy road, on Tuesday last. Theengine jumped the track, crushing the engineer and fatally sealding a newsboy by the escaping steam.

THE STATEMENT is made upon seemingly authentic foundation that President Grant is determinedly opposed to the civil rights bill and that a yeto may be counted on should Congress conclude to pass that measure, :

BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD.

Mr. EpiTtor:—Will you please insert the following article from the N. Y. Pribusie, which supplements well | yours in"a late number of the BANNER, on “Reform in Grain Shipments?” This brings to mind that the writer urged several times before the road was located, that those who had influence should use it to bring the road to .our lllnce. That -119 t as much labor or means would be required to secure it as seemed to be necessary to bring the (Canada Southern here, while we would have the help of those energetic men locating it at Albion. That having a different eastern terminus,there would be greater surety of competition, which would benefit both producer and purchaser in the West. - But our inter—} ested ones would not look at the idea. They talked Canada Southern through : the day, dreamed of it at night, it alone was to be the genius tliat would make Ligonier world renowned, all “other roads seeking a western termii nus would haste to make this a point tin the@i‘ route. Tl}'eA consequence is, the Baltimore & Ohio is located with- ! in five miles of us, to our Anfinite ;damage, running its through: {rains, 'and the Canada Southern——is nowhere. Evenif the project of resusci- ' tating the Canada Southern is brought “about, is is hinted by late journals, ‘the same long-continued labor and excitement we have gone through to secure its location, will have to be repeated with no certainty of success in theend. Itbehoovesourbusiness men and others of;’mélzms-, in fact all of us, who have any interest in the growth of our place, to seize upon any and 'everyfprojeet that will tend to this result. : R

RexMAßrK.—The article referred to by, our correspondent is too lengthy to be published entire, but the most salient points will be found embodied in the following epitome: Commodore Vanderbilt, controlling the Ifudson River, the New York Central, and the Lake Shore Railways, Col. Scott and others, controlling the Pennsylvania roads, went to Baltimore, ashort time since, to obtain the Baltimore & Ohio agreement to the rules laid down at the Saratoga convention of railroad managers. It is hardly necessary to add that the Saratoga convention looked only to the aggrandizement of ‘ the roads participating in it. It is said that Mr. Garrett gave them to‘ understand that his road would look propérly to its interests, by looking also to the interests of its customers, and gave them his ideas of the proper management of railroads in all their béarings. The Tzibune then gives its own idea of the rules that should govern railroads, just such as should govern individuals in an honestly intended and properly luecrative business, and adds: “It seems to us that more than one of the above maxims have beén more faithfully adhered to by the Baltimore & Ohio company than by its northern rivals. The managers of that corporation appear to have been less susceptible to changes in the atmosphere of Wall street, more devoted to the growth of the. commerce of the city ‘at the end of theiy road, more free from- parasitical corporations, less ambitious of pomp and display, less distrustf ul of the action of sunlight on the pages of their ledgers, and more aliye to the identity of the interests of the corporation and its freighters than either of the other greult. organizations I'epl"esepted at Baltimore on Thursday. The advice which the President of the Baltimore & Ohio bestowed. so liberally upomwr Commodore Vanderbilt and his associates in return for the trouble they took to go and see him, seems to us to -be warranted by Mr. Garrett's position and by theirs. If the stress of the times should drive the Commodore to make more such visits, he might probably learn more; and the city.of New York, which is losing today by his pooling arrangements just what Baltimore is gaining; would be glad to observe the process of his education.”” ' !

“George T. B. Carr, Esq., is a cahdi date for Director of the Northern Prison, and from our knowledge of his eharacter for energy, industry and honesty, we predict that should he be elected by the Legislature to that position he will make a faithful, efhcient and excellent officer.”

- We clip the above from a recent issue of that stzid and able democratic journal, the New Albany Ledger. Mr. Carr, who is a prominent member of the Grant county Bar, was raised in Jackson county, being a nephew of Hon. Geo. W. Carr, whose name is familiar to Indianians as President of ‘the convention which drafted our present State Constitution. Afterleaving the army, he located in old Dubois county, ever taking a deep interest in the success of democratic measures.— When but twenty-four years of age he was regarded one of the most effective stump-speakers in the Southern part of the State, several of his speeches serving as campaign documents. Mr. Carr has many warm friends in So uth‘ern Indiana; and as he becomes more generally acquainted among our northern brethren, the number of his friends will be largely increased. He would make a faithful, efficient and prudent director. ,

STOREY, the journalistic blackguard who runs the Chicago T'imes, is just beginning to realize that the business of libelling better men than himself cannot be carried on with impunity. The Grand Jury of Cook county has just found two indictments for criminal libel against him. Mr. N. K. Fairbanks was the complainant. He was charged in the Z'émes with having appropriated funds belonging to the Relief and Aid Society. Storey is now vigorously engaged in proving that the grand jury which indicted him was not legally i'mpfanneled. In the interest of common decency and journalistic dignity it is to be hoped that the Chicago smut machine will be properly punished for its outrageous abuse of the freedom of the press.

For oNCE, the Toledo Blade is right. It demands the reduction of the President’s salary. : o

STATE ITEMS. el CARROLL COUNTY. ' .+ 1 The: burning of lime about. Delphi | is making great havoc of the timberof | that region. L ; e TLAPORTE COUNTY, " o ol by One Mary E. Thornton, aged fifty-} three, committed suicide by taking poison at the Tremont House, in La-| porte, on Wednesday of last week, | through shame and grief caused by the seduction of her daughter by a colored | man named Alexander Fowler. The® mother was called to testify in court| during the day before in a casebrought | by the girl against Fowler foi Das-| tardy. ' L e | WAYNE COUNTY. '« %.5 ~ ‘The Cambridge City 'Tribune an-| nounces from the pen of Liither Ben‘son a series of short articles detailing | the cause of his' late downfall, and | giving the particulars of its continuance, ending with a deseription of the ‘horrible mental and physical sufferings, which wound up in a -prolonged fit of delirium. Probably thé most Aimportant particular in the case was that while perfectly sober one day he went and swallowed whisky. After that there is little need of description. WABASH @OUNTY. =~ = The Free Trader says: Cranberry culture in the northern part of this . county, and in the counties adjoining. on the north, ig growing to be quite a | business. Fulton and Kosciusko. counties take the rag off of the bush in cranberry raising, and furnish the greater part of Indiana with this delicious fruit. . . ' e Wabash City has ahole costing $12,700. It was begun for an artesian well, and only lacks 'water to be just: the thing they wanted. The Council: has ordered the bore to be stopped. - . ST. JOSEPH COUNTY. .= = . Last Saturday afternoon, at -South Bend, one-of the Studebaker Bro. wagon shops in. proecess. of rebuilding from the fire in. August last was the. scene of a terrible accident. While a number of ldborers: were digging a trenrch for putting down water pipes - along side of the partition wall in the south wing of the building, the foundation: became weakened, and the wall, without any warning, was. thrown down, burying a number ‘of the workmen among the debris, and killing two instantly: Under; the direction .of J. M. Studebaker and Mr. Hine, superintendent of the shops, the work of exhumation commeneced.’ : | ATLEN COUNTY: =% o ot Frank Newby seduced widow Butller’s daughter at Fort Wayne and refused to marry. Ile was forced to a | compromise, paying $2OO to the- girl; nowamother. "=« .t b A canal boatman named James Tilberry, 40 years old, met with-a frightful death at New Haven at 11 o’cloek: on Monday morning. While passing through an open bridge Tilberry slipped and fell, his head being caught be- '| tween the boat and the heavy timbeér of the bridge, mashing it to & jelly and | producing instant death. The body /| fell into the water and was soon . xre‘t covered. His head :was found to Dbe | greatly flattened and frightfully disfigured. The deceased was a large -xobust man and leaves a large family.

O BENTON COUNTY: @ o A few mopths ago, as stated in these columns, uflximwss’ escaped from a circus traveling through Benton' county. Despite the Lest efforts of an alarmed populace, the animal has so far bafiled its pursuers. Considerable damage has been done by the lioness, her; latest exploits being thus chronicléd by the Brookston Reporter: About two and a half miles north of Fowler’ . A. L. Hays, J. Elmore and sistér and another gentleman, while en their way from William Elmore’s -to. Robert Trett’s to attend a party on Tuesday, the 10th, while drivinga two horse wagon, going in a fast trot, the Benton county beast, emerging from a corn field, pursued them. They -put the team to the top of its speed. Several times it bounded for the wagon, and as often tliey fouglht it off with the seat board, frequently with heavy blows, with little effect upon the beast. It' never ceased its efforts to reach them until they arrived atan intermediate house on the way. - A heavy war expedition went for the enemy in the late snow, and she is «<¢losely pursued, perhaps taken before now.— The people hardly dare go out of doors,. ' ELEHART COUNTY. . A crazy stranger named McMahon, last Friday a week, undertook to knock himself in the head with an ax. He did knock himself down, breaking the scalp. He was taken and put in jail, and daring Sunday night following succeeded in "hanging himself.— He was found dead on Monday morns ing. . f Bl al The family of R. K. Mann had a narrow escape from a calamity last Friday night. Some neighbors chil‘dren were playing with Mrs. Mann’s children when,in some way they upset the Jamp. It rolled off the table intotlhe lap of Mrs. Mann who -was unable to cateh it. It then rolled on the floor, leaving a stream of oil in its track.— The oil penetrated Mrs. Mann’s clothing andignited. Sheat once, with great presence of mind, smothered it and picked up the lamp still burning and threw it out of the door. By this time Mrs. Mann’s clothing was afire.the second time. She smothered them again, and then seized a shawl, and extinguished the fire that had by this time gob to burning in the carpet. But for her presence of'mind she would have been burned to death, the house burned up and perhaps the children with it— Mr. Mann was not in the house gt the time, and the children: were too badly frightened to render any assistance.— The escape was most fortunate.—E7khart Review. ' ; St VERMILLION COUNTY. =~ A funny story comes from Vermillion county. A school teacher in Helt township was arraigned before the Trustee by some of the patrons of the school for immorality, The offense charged was that he asked a boy,“How old was Washington when he was in--augurated ?” The parties who brought the eharge thought inaugurated meant “born,” but the Trustee stood by the teacher and insisted that it didn's.” o jeo KOSOIUSKO COUNTW o The growing wheat in this region, although injured somewhat Dby the exceedingly dry weather, promises fairly, and with no unusual or unforseen disaster, the next year will witness a bountiful harvest, as the area put in this cereal is very large. There is no. better wheat producing region in the world than Northern Tndiana. —lndianian. G e ¥ LAGRANGE COUNTY. . We understand the railroad frglghts will be advanced on the 20th, and that the increase from Fort' Wayne to Toledo will be four cents a bushel. This will, we understand, bring the freight up to the usual figure, in the winter season. R

There have been shiixped from Lagrange, between the 25th of July last and Tuesday of this week, 417 car loads of wheat—in all, about 160,200 bushels. This is a remarkably good showing in the wheat buying line for: Lagrange—Btandard. ..o o -.._.;_,..7_-—-*’:,'—-',——-—’-—“"—“ g ": : TrE American Expréss office at Cini:innati was g%bbgd tg; Sunday, thflggfih“ t., of #575,000 by three men, 3 spav--12_231 rifi%ibémdx 5%& bfack horse, and a rickety green wagon, W

Missouri State Grange — Embezzle--5 3 ment.

St, Lovrs, Mo., November 20.—Reports have been circulated for a few days past that €. T. Quisenberry, Treasurer of the State Grange of Mis‘souri, was defaunlter to the amount of $20,000. The Evening Dispatch of today has information, which is believed to be reliable, regarding the matter, -and is to the effect that at a recent meeting of the State Grange, held at - Kansase(ity, Quisenberry was called upon for the whole sum in the treasuTy, $20,000, it being wanted to invest in a manufactory. It then transpired that - Quisenberry had invested the funds of the grange in various ways, and that they could not be realized at -once. -Ie raised $4,000 cash and has given to the executive board of the grange deeds of trust on two farms, said to be worth %18,000, and executed a bond, personal security, which have been accepted by the beard, and has: agreed to pay the whole amount by July next. Quisenberry’s friends. do not believe he intended to defraud the grange, but think he simply acted injudiciously in using its funds. Be~ sides the two farms he has a-herd of thorounglibred cattle worth over2o,ooo, and it is not believed there is any danger of the grange losing anything. - el BE— S State Finances. The Auditor of the State in his antnual report says of the assessment law that it is not perfect in all of its provisions.. Fhere are some defeats which need the attention of the Leg--islature, ‘but any radical changes, he thinks, would not. be for thebest interests of the State. The officers and the people are just beginning to understand the law. 5 weSl

© Property to the value of about twenty-one millions of dollars is exempted from taxation under the present laws of this State, as follows: Property of the United States, $639,;024; 1,250, churches, $5,611,880; 199 benevolent and charitable institutions, '8947,707; 54 fire en®ines and buildings, 8462,625; 3,180 educational institutions, $5,161,518; State property in 42 counties, $3,470,000; other property $4,692,392. ILarge as this amount is it is only a little over two per cent. of the taxable property of the State, which is reported by the Auditor of State at s%96s,2Bo,23o.—Crawfordsville Journal. — e i

The startling announcement ismade this morning that Mullett, Supervising Architect of the Treasury, has resigned. Mullett has for years been controlling, in his department, in direct violation of the law, a contingent fund of about $lOO,OOO. ' This bit of pin-money was ostensibly used for“furniture” for publie buildings. Secretary Bristow called Mullett’s atten‘tion to the law, and praposed | to abrogate the time-honored custoih which had ‘made the contingent fund the charming feature of the' Architect’s ‘office. Mullett declared tl‘_m/%je would rather not have the office if the contingent fund was to be taken away. from him, and in a moment of passionate grief tendered his resignation. Tt was accepted: " Rather thap comply with the law the noble Mullett would throw laway a pearl richer than all his tribe.. ‘The country edn stand the loss of Mullett.—Cincinnati Enquirer.

'Reljet for Nebraska Sufferers.

OxAmA, November 17.—The Secretary of War has authorized General Ord to issue army clothing to needy sufferers -in the grasshopper district, and directed him to report by telegraph when it will be most needed.— This welcome order will go far to relieve the wants of the men. The wonien and children will still have to be furnished by private contributions. The: Burlington &\ Missouri Railroad” Company, with near two score suits ‘Dirrecord in the courts against them ‘brought from vielation of the laws enacted by the grangers, donates $lO,OOO to the relief fund for the Nebraska sufferers. Other companies have also made liberal donations, and all are carrying free all contributions.

In a speech at Newark, N. J,, a few days after the elections, Sunset Cox found an application for the following story: - The position of the republican party reminds me of the position of a doctor who went-out west to practice his profession. An old friend met him on the street one day, and asked him how he was succeeding in his business. “First rate,” he replied; “I’ve had one case.” “Well, and--what wasthat?” “It wasa birth,” said the doctor. “How did you succeed with that?” “Well, the .old, woman died and the child died, but, by the grace of God, I’ll save the old man yet.”.

THE “MOLLY MAQTL*IRES” is the ti{ tle and style of a secret organization composed almost exclusively of Irish miners. Its membership is quite extensive in the coal regions of Pennsylvania. Of late, reports of numerous murders and other crimes. emanate from’ those localities, more particularly from Luzerne! county. As a general thing these reports are greatly exaggerated; yet if but one half is true, thée authorities should resort to stringent measures to execute the law

Will C. Moreau was assassinated by ‘a negro while sitting in his room at ‘his home in Georgia, on the night of the 9th instant, Moreau was a candidate for Congress in this District in 11868. He was a man of brilliant powers and attainments, but was erratic, mercurial, hypoeritical, heartless, and - vain.. He figured prominently in the Bourbon Convention at Louisville, in - 1872, and for a season edited the Lo-~ . gansport Sun.—Kokomo Demo_ora,t. et &G—--CORRESPONDENTS assert that the Argentine Republic is on the verge of a.fi;esli civil war, arising, it appears, . from the introduetion into a SpanishAmerican republic of the Anglo-Amer-ican ipstitutiofi;?)f “Counting in.” Gen. Mitre has been counted out, entirely to his dissatisfaction, and Gen. Avellaneda counted in. The latter must have taken lessons of “ Gov.” Kellogg. . We learn that Thomas Collins, editor of the Mt. Vernon :Democrat, will be 4 candidate before the Legislature for the position of door-kepper. “Tom” . ‘will make a good one, and being a hard-working, “never shrinking” Demomerat, we hope he Ignay secure the- - Democrat. To all of which we say Amen! * Tne Indiana State Grange miet at Indianapolis on Tuesday. The attendance was large. According to.reports submitted, thete are now 1,999 Granges organized in the State, = : - Swmrra, the Arkansas usurper, has utterly failed to awaken sympathy for ‘himself with the administration at - Washington. His, aspirations. haver 'Lthéfefogfe.cnme to grief. ~ *‘" e . GIRLS, a 8 you value your lives,don’t ot p And ok brenkfadt In the oM inablageofglory. =