The National Banner, Volume 10, Number 48, Ligonier, Noble County, 23 March 1876 — Page 2

¥ e 1 D : The JAational Banner 7 l-m;LL.mnud Proprietgr y LIGONIER. IND. MAR. 23, 1876.

. T=x cligue of small politicians-at Indianapolis who are trying to foist Frank Landers upon the Indiana wemocracy as their candidate for Govermot, Will find that the heaviest job they have gver undertaken.. :

- SexcE Pendleton is ont of the way, #he friends of Senator Thurman feel werr-confident that Ohio will give the Bmiter its solid vofe in the St. Louis

m Pe,ndlétoh himself is understood to be favorable to Thurman’s momiination. This leaves the Ciucinmati Ewguiper in a sad, forsaken preI‘ < { I-': : : fod g

- ¥r 3 evident that Orville, Presid@emt Grant's brother, has been letting Tis tongue wag too freely when in his wine. sud be now finds himself ungieasantly hauied before investigatimg committees of Congress. Orville should lave taken lessons . from his silent brother. The wan in the White Hease woild never have g%de’ such & Tool of himseif. .

. SowE Republicans who were wont %o taik vervy glibly about Democrats “sasting erow,” !during the Greeley mgn,glmw" wish in their heart of Bearts that they had joined the Liberal movement in 1872. Eating crow was not half so unpalatable a job to Democtats as swallowing Grantism with its unsavory Cabinet scandals is #a these Republicans. AR

. Bzo. MusseLMAN, of the Stark Co. ¢lnd) Ledger, wants national affairs shaped in this maniier: “The Demoeratic National Convention ‘will be held at St. Louis on the 27th of June, at which time and place geod and honest men will be put in nomination. Let it be W.S. Hancock for President and any other good man for Vice President, then goodbye to crooked whisky and revenue stealing.” -

»TEE diplomatic appropriatiionébill wihich has passed the Houge redpces —the expenditures 'in this départment ‘of the public service to the extent of $460000.° Nearly one-half of the expenditure of the foreign service of the country for ministers and consuls “is lopped off. The Democrats inCon-~ gress are resolutely redeeming the . pledges of economy and retrenchment which they made to'the .people, in _spite of the resistance of the republi-

. Tae Freeman’s Joumal,Ja paper of j great influence, published at Coopers: . town, New York, gives the\éubjofned warning to the Democratic| National +fOomvention: “We say in all frank‘mess to our Western friends that: the ' Democrats can not hope to carry an Eastern or Middle State on ‘any.platform that does not pledge the Demo- - eratic party as foes of inflation, as " friends of hard money, and in favot _ of as early a resumption |of specie . payments as the conditidan of the _eountry will allow.” There is a good deal of truth in this timely admonition. T e

~ FRAXTIC EFFORTS bave been made, for some time past, to trump up some charge that would damage the character and reputation of Secretary Bristow. These effortsare mainly the work-of the whisky ring which' has been so vigorously and boldly prosecuted by Mr. Bristow. The latest charge 15 that Bristow had the collection jof 2 mule claim against the govermment from which he realized an cxmblhixt fee. Mr. Bristow, as soon - as the charge was publicly, preferred, - woluntarily appeared before the con"gressional committee and 'made a full and explicit statement, which is to be followed up with further explanations,

A FRIEND in Pennsylvania writes us: “Our State convention will meet. at Lancaster on the 22d of this month. lam adelegate and expect to be there, I don't think we shall be so suicidal to ourselves as we were at Erie last year. We want no rag baby platform, Had our men been consistent and true to the party at Erle, relative to bard money, &c.; we would have carried the State by 20,000 majority, I don't ‘think Pennsylvania; will . instruct her delegates to the St. Louis conveation. If Pennsylvania doesn’t put forth Gen. Hancock, I'am for Gov. Tildenf\of New York.” The writer is ‘a prominent democratic politician of Central Pennsylvania. =

- A LETTER has been received at Washington from a well-known exmember of Congress, from Louisiana, ~ stating that the negroes throughout ~ the South are organizing for a grand amovement en masse in favor of Morton for the Republican nominee for the Presidency. Delegates will be sent to the convention, not alone - pledged to support Morton, but who . are known to be eut and out Morton men. The gentleman referred to as'serts positively that the Southern col- - ered vote will be cast solidly for Morton. That may all be true; but Mor- _ %on wil] nevertheless be badly beaten. _ln eomvention. The darkey delegates | won't b:iit}l itl:Je ;)altanf’gt of 'pggler, | meither hey do to bet on'! ey ~are slippery- chaps. S s

. GEXERAL MERRITT, in an intetview which we copy from the Chicago Times, speaks some plain if not palafable truths concerning the Black - Hills gold graze. He warns simple - folks who may be tempted painfully %0 go thither that the auriferous caM of that part of the country . which is now accessible has been over%m that the diggings are already - overcrowded, that the most fortunate i@mdt more than make wages hy _ hard work in thie midst of danger and discomfort. His language, that the - business is worsq than a stupendous Bumbug, an infamous trafic, may appear strong, but is without a doubt Jusited b i Laie tormation v oulated by interested persons to attract o the Hills By the touté the

' THE CASE OF MR. PENDLETON. On the first page of this week’s BANNER will be found a full statement of the cise in which Mr. Pendleton is so conspicuously involved as the attorney for the Kentucky Central Railroad and the gollection of a large claim_ from the government. Thestatement is one of exciting interest, and, therefore, worthy of an attentive perusal.

* Mr. Pendleton, it will be observed, freely admits that he received $BO- - or $90,000 for procuring the allowance of that now famous claim of $148,000. He,. however, denies that: corrupt means -were used to secure the endorsement of Secretary Belknap: The ~Cincinnati Enguirer, which ‘is very devotedly attached to the political fortunes of Mr. Pendleton, strives hard to convince its readers that there was nothing improper in that. gentleman’s management of the case, as will be noticed from the annexed extract: e . “Mr. Pendleton,” the Enquirer says, “ made what must seem. to every one “who reads his testimony a fair and “ honest statement, and one completely « vindicating himself -and the Bel“knaps from any charge of fraud or “corruption in the matter. In truth, “he left no loop-hole for suspicion of “ improper use of either money or in“fluence as fo the manner in which “ the payment of the claim was receiv“ed. What fee or compensation Mr. “Pendleton may have been paid.for “collecting the claim is a matter be- @ tween himself - ‘and his® clients.— %" They} were very well satisfied, as

< Senat'or Stevenson,one of the owners « of the road, testified; and four-fifths “ of the stock being owned by Mr. Pen“dleton’s sister it is not surprising «that. shé should Be willing to pay “him liberally. -If shé founa mo “grounds for complainf, the Govern- “ ment ‘eertainly has-none. A nolle “pirosequi may be entered in -M\r. Pen- “ dleton’s case.” e i ” This sounds very pretty.. The only trouble we see about it is this: $BO,000 or 890,000 as a fee for collecting $148,000 appears enormous, and natarally gives rise to the suspicion that the claim itself must have been one of extreme weakness. Indeed, one ‘would be strongly tempted to regard it as being the next thing to fraudulent. If just and valid, any number of able attorneys would have prosecuted it for a much smaller fee. That Mr. Pendleton’s clients, of whom he, himself was one, were satisfied with the arrangement, only tends to show that they-had no faith in its validity ‘and that every dollar obtained was so much -clear gain. ' The fact that Mr, Pendleton made his crowning assault upon Uncle Sam’s' treasury after the present Mrs. Belknap had attained to a. position of commanding influence in official circles, is largely against the assumption that: sirictly legal considerations induced the allowance of the claim. . R o

~ 'Fhe plain facts in the case are,that Mr. Pendleton has got himself into a very uncomfortable predicament. We regfi'rjl his action in this matter a clear case 'of uppardonable- “grab.” Being a man of great wealth, heshould have sp'uméc} the very thought of taking from thie government a sum of money.to which he manifestly had no just claim. R o

LANDERS TO THE FRONT.—Messrs. MecDonald,- Myers, Cropsey and English, a delegation from the Hendricks Greenback Club of Indianapolis, are here, fixing an arrangement, by which Landers is to be the demgecrati¢ candidate- for. Governor.- There was a consultation &t the;Capitol yesterday, which was attended by Senator MecDonald, Holman, Landers and other ludianians. The field was canvassed, and there was an understanding that ‘Landers should be the democratic candidate for Governor, and Holman acquiesces: in ‘the arrangement with hopes of being the democratic candidate for the Senate to succeed Morton. Governor Hendricks indorses Landers, who, it is asserted, is to put up slov,000 to run the campaign, -~ The Tall ‘Sycamore of the : Wabash is here looking on, and it'is hardly possible that he will give his sanction to the Senatorial. part of this programme.— Washington telegram to the Cincinnati Enquirer. s That is a very pretty arrangement, it must be confessed. The statement, however, must be received with several large grains of allowance. -We don’t believe a word of the story that Holman “acquiesces in the. arrangement,” noris it at all probable that Gov Hendricks would so stultify his manhood as to favor .the nomination of that monstrous humbug, Landers—the lauglfing\‘tock‘ of Congress. -

To the young gentlemen named in thie above telegram we beg leave fo suggest that in this corner of ‘the State it has been popularly supposed that the 19th of April convention at Indianapolis wag designed to transact the business which these ambitious young men have-assumed to perform at Washington. = Or dees their membership in the *“Hendricks Club” entitle them to .a monopoly of the nominating business? We would like to know. , .

WE REGRET exceedingly that the Goshen 7T'imes deemed itself justified, inits last issue, to apply a local squib intended for an- individual of this county, to Mr. Murray, of the Goshen Democrat,—especially in view of the fact that we took occasion, while at Goshen, to explicitly contradict such imputation. . When we have anything to say of Mr. Murray, we usually do 80 in 4 manner-that ‘cannot be misunderstood. Mr. Murray has given us no. occasion, recently, to apply any such offensive remark to him. In justice to all concerned, we hope the T'imes will see the propriety of making proper correction. 1

WHEN Ben Hill, who does not even pretend to be’a Democrat, delivered his ill-advised and vindictive speech, the republican press at once charged the vesponsibility of the same upon the ' democratic party. When Belknap’s shocking knavery was exposed, the same press plead piteously that the republican party ought not in justice be held responsible for .the bad conduct of one of its most prominent officials. Consistency, thou art indeed s jewel!. -- |

R. K. Brusn, of the Elkhart Observer, assures us that he is not the author of the squib commented upon in last week’s BANNER. In justice to that gentleman ‘we very cheerfully

ELECTION OF DELEGATES. To the Democratic-Li beral votera of Noble County: You are hereby requested to meet at the usual places-of holding township caucuses, e o oala ' On Saturday, April Sth, 1876, at 3 o’clock P. 1., for, the purpose of elécting the number of 'delega.tes tothe next Democratic State Convention, to which each township is entitled by virtue of the apportionment made by tlre State Central Committee, to wit: one delegate for every 100 votes cast for Gov. Hendricks in 1872. Upon this basis the several townships of the county are entitled to the fol}howing number of delegates and the same number of alternates: | ’

“Washington, 1; Sparta, 1; Perry, 3; York, 1; Elkbart, 1; ‘Noble, 1; Greeun, 2; Jefferson, 2; Orange, 2; Wayne, 4; Allen, 2; Swan, 2; Albion, 1. . The members of the County Central Committee, whose names were ‘published in No. 47 of THE BANNER, ‘are expected to make the necessary arrangements for the holding of these township caucuses, and to send a report of the proceedings to the chairman of the committee, at Ligonier. By order of the Committee, E. B. GERBER, Chairman, D. 1. PEREW, Sec'y. 48-w3.

) Committee Mecting. Pursuant to call of the chairman, the Democratic-Liberal Central Committee of Noble county met at the office of THE BANNER, at Ligonier, on Tuesday last—chairman Gerber presiding ‘and -D. H. Perew, of Orange township, acting as Secretary. - On motion ‘of C. G. Aichele, the chairman, was directed' to issue a call upon the Democratic-Liberal voters of Noble county to meet at their usual places of holding ‘town?s,hip caucuses; on Saturday, April 8, 1876, at 3 o’clock, p. M., for the purpose of electing delegates to the mnext Democratic State Convention to which such townships may be entitled by virtue of the apportionment made by the State Central Committee:. 5 b

" The time of holding a county cunvention for the nomination of county officers was left to the diseretion ot the chairman—the expression of the members ‘present being that the convention ought not be held before the middle of August. -

- - THE COMMITTEE on Expenditures in the Navy Department, of which Mr. Beebe, of New York, is chairman, is beginning an-investigation into the expenditures which Secretary Robeson has made in his department. Mr. Beebe has obtained from the Naval Bureau of Construction and Repairs a list of the men employed in various capacities at the different navy-yards for various months in the years 1872, 1874 and 1875. The exhibit is an interesting one, showing, as it'does com: pletely, the manner in which the navy-yards have beeén prostituted by the administration for political purposes. TFor instance, at the navy-yard in: Norfolk, Va., in June, 1874, that month being one:. when business is most-a'c_t»ibve in the navy-yards, 103 laborers were, employed. ~ln October, just precedié g the eleetions, 513 labor‘ers were on the pay-rolls. At §lle Philadelphia navy-yard, in June, 1872, 86 laborers were at ‘work, and in Oc.to,ber, 1872, 904 laborers were employed. Twenty-seven laborers in June were increased to 63 in October, and S 0 on in'every Branch of the service. Mr. Beebe is in possession of important evidence affecting the management of the naval service. e

SoME TIME before the meeting of the _Repnbliczm State Convention, the Republicans of Daviess county = . * Resolved, That it is the opinion of the members -of this Convention that a plank in the State platform of the republican party, demanding the repeal of the statute authorizing the contracting for interest at the rate of ten per cent. per annum would meet the approval of a great majority ot the voters of this State. :

The Indiana republican platform is moustrously lengthy, but we haven’t been -able to find the above *“resolve” in Dick Thompson’s tapeworm production. 3

' MARGARETHE, wife of Hon. Carl Schurz, died on the 15th inst. in New York, nine days after having given birth to her:fourth child—(two boys and two girls)—aged 44f’years. Mrs. Schurz was a ‘very intelligent and highly educated lady, of lovable and amiable disposition, devotedly attached to her husband and children. She was married to Mr.Schurz 23 years ago, and came to‘this country in 1853. Her father was the noted Hamburg patrician, Heinrich Christian Meyer, from whose estate Mrs. Schurz a few years since inherited $73,000 in gold.

Tue Warsaw Union says: “Mr. Mitchell is a fine young man and would make a good candidate "—for Governor. Quite correct, Bro. Zimmerman. The more we reflect over the méd®ter the inorq thoroughly are we convinced that he is the strongest man whom the Democrats could nominate ' for Governor. } 2

+ THE Logansport Star warmly advocates, the claims of Dr. Graham N, Fitch, of that city, to the democratic gubernatorial ?n‘Qmination. Dr. Fitch is a man of fine ability, but he would not prove near as formidable a candidate as Capt. Mitchell. j

The Indiana Democrats on Landers. [Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Enguirer,) - INDIANAPOLIS, March 20:—Political circles were amused to-day over the Enquirer’'s speeial from Washington, announcing: that several members of the Hendricks Club had gone to Washington, and tendered the nomination for Governor to Landers. (/The Hendricks (Club could not pledge a single county to any candidate. It is composed of a few young Democrats who carry small artillery. Cropsey and Meyers bad no instructions from the Club to sell out Indigna to Landers, and could no more do so than: Brll Holloway could tender the Presidency to Morton. Governor Hendricks has no. candidate. - Democrats of influence here sccut the idea that Landers will receive the nomination, and claim that Holman is the eoming man by a large majority. :

A severe storm siruck Elizabethtown, Mo., on the evening of the 10th, which destroyed - seyenteen houges, killed five persons and injured several others. At Hasgard, Mo., three dwellings and the railroad depot were blown down, and three persons were killed. Much damage to property was “done’at Calitornia and Other poiuts in

OUR WASHINGTON LETTER. - \’f@smfiade, D. C.;-Liarch 18, ’76i THV. DEMOCRATIC HOUSE

deserves much more credit than it will ever get from the people for the unfi flinching course it has pursued, and is still industriously pursuing, through its several investigating committees, in exposing the swindling operations of republican officials. No one. outside of Washington, and even very few residents, have any idea of the temptations to which a Congressman is subjectéd, and the influences by which he is sometimes induced to play, unconsciously, into the hands of thé - Washington ring. vl'l‘his' ring. which is composed of all the government “beats” in' Wuéhingtoh, and of which President Grant is the virtual, and A. R. Shepherd the ostensible, head centre, styles itself the Metro politan club, and is as thoroughly organized as a pirate ship. Its members are all detailed for work according to their respective tastes and capacities. There are no drones among them. It isan important point with the ring” to “capture” Congressmen, irrespective of politics, race, color, previous condition, &c.; and the impunity with ‘which the public treasury was robbed, before the 44th Congress convened, shows that they were very successtful. 2 ; ‘ THE GAME OF THE WASHINGTON RING. When a new Congress is elected, a committee is appointed by the ring to discover, by all available means, the peculiarities, tastes, and;f general hab"its of all the new members elect, so that the necessary traps may be laid for them when they arrive herg as strangers. If anew member is known to be of a “pious turn,” two or three “members of the ring contrive to get introduced to him, somehow, and “snake” him off to a prayer meeting if heis an evangelical Christian, or to the cn‘urch’ of any dénomination to whiéh the victim might belong. The ring comprises men(.r'ofva}l re]igipus sects, from the orthodox TRoman Catholic to the Spiritualist; or, more correctly speaking, comprises men who ‘are” willing to represent themselves to be connected with any church

under the sun, if anything is to be “inade” by it.. The ring owns, through its members, one or more pews in all the principal churches in Washington. If a new Congressman be & temperance man, he is snatched as quick as lightning and lugged off to the Sons of Jonadab, and those who take their “tod” are escorted to all the »‘,‘l)es:f‘ places,” and, finally, to'the Metropolitan club, where they are allowed to swill, .ad libitum, without cost, and are assured that they will be welcome and hospitably entertained whenever they call—that they can not come too often, &c.; &e. The “gay and festive” member is driven around and shb_wn the “pictures,” and, in due course of time, it is intimated to him that if he has a lady “friend” whom he would like to place in one of .the deépartments, the thing can be managéd for him. If he ‘ls -needy, and fond of draw poker, and his vote is wanted, he is allowed to win at the club a few hundreds or thousands, according to the importance of his vote and inHuence. The ring’ goes strong for Corgressmen of slender means who ‘have wives and daughters to go into “gociety” and make a -splurge. These men are in special danger of going astray. ~ They, of ,all men, should pi‘:ly ¢ # i = g

“LEAD US AWAY FROM TEMPTATION,” and should endeavor to keep "themselves and their families away -from it. .If they once commence to frequent the houses of the vulgar ring shoddyites who have constituted Washington “society” for several years, they ‘will be sorely tempted to go into expenses beyond their means, and, afterwards, to lend tl 7emselv.es-; for money with whicli to I&l.;ct;'ricate ‘themselves from their difficulties, to the schemes of the ring. It is pleasant to be ;Ible to record the fact, in these degenerate times, that only one or two democratic members of the 44th Congress have been successfully approached by, the ring. Whatever congréssional' support it gets now is nearly exclusively from Republicans. g

lION. ROBERT B. VANCE, OF NORTH . : CAROLINA, | |

chairman of the Committee-on Patents, and his'colleagues on the' committee, have earned the” gratitude of every family in the land by reporting adversely upon the application for an exténsion of the Wilson patent for the “four motion feed” used by the sewing machine companies of the great monopoly combinafion. This is of ifnportance to: every household, and esvecially to those who are dependent upon the sewing machiae for alivelihood. The committee report that the average price of sewing machines has been $65, while they can be sold at a fair profit for $22. The difference, amounting to many millions of dollars, has been absorbed Ly the owners of the patents, who have been already sfifficmn’tly well paid for the benefit conferred upon the community; and it is not intended to grant them any further power for-ex-fetlon - L 3 » * HON. S, 8. COX | ] has beén seriously ill for several days, but is on the mend again, and will resume his duties in'the House, where his absence is always felt.,

" The Facific Snow Blockade. | - OMAHA, Neb,, March 19.—The passenger trains due from the west yesterday and to-day will arrive to-night. Passengers from the west state that the snow fall between here and California is far greater than has been known for many years pastj that it covers almost the entire country; that in many places the road be§l is from ten to twenty feet below the top of the snow; that it has required almost superhuman efforts to keep the roads wwpen at all. Most of this snow has fallen within the past month. Sevein inches of snow fell here last night and to-day, and it is still falling, with cold northeast winds. :

THE PAPERS are very severely crit-\ icising the passing of the bill to adwmit New. Mexico, as a State, if the inhabitants so elect: “T'he mental and moral state of the inhabitants certainly malke this a doubtful proceeding. Almost every white man in the borders of the territory is a criminal and eight-tenths of the inhabitants are the. .must ignorant, brutal Indians. . The: - poliey of taking such a mass of rough material into the political maw is a poor one and New Mexico has noneof thie sequisiw;uaufl.fl& to become a State—~South Bend Tribune,

NEW HAMPSHIRES FOLLY. THAT INCREASED REPUBLLCANMAJORITY. IT }IS MAINLY .D—I;E TO WHOLESALE BRIBERY OF VENrAL : ~ VOTERS.

And Partly to Democratic Stupidity. The returns from the New Hampshire election are-all in, and foot up a republican majority of 3,280%—-soméwhflt larger than we have Leen accustomed to seeing for the past few years. We have paid but little attention to the New Hampshire campaign, and are not, therefore, qualified to speak kKnowingly on the subject. The papers say that vast sums of money were -expended to corrupt voters-~that as high as $5O were paid for asingle vote. New Hampshire elections have been noted as very corrunt affairs, numerous.individuals a! w;fis_hoiding themselves ready to seil vut to the highest bidder. The Republicans were very anxious to carry the State, in order to keep up .the courage of weakening brethren. The Democrats wanted success that the other States might be assured of the speedy and 'complet'e downfall of -the republican party. That our readers may know what is generally thought ofthe result, we append a few extracts ffoln leading papers of various shades of opinion: ~

[From the Baltimore San (It}d.)] i There has been too much reason to fear that .of late many Democrats hiave been beginning to hope that the Belknap business and the rest of the scandals,/present or prospective; would relieve the party from' the necessity” of taking any -action at all. Let the result in New Hampshire undeceive them. One sound, practical measure {of financial. reform would have been worth a whole bushel of such campaign éoy_cux‘hents as Marsl’s testimony before the House committee about Belknap and his’ wife. [From the Springficld Republican (Ind.) ] Both parties in New Hampshire spent heavily, the Republicans -much the most, and the open corruption of the ballot-box was extensive, flagrant, shameful. The Republican majority was a purchased majority. The knowledge of this will go far to neutralize all party advantage. ~ The publicmind is in condition now happy to make a note of this, and count it against the Republicans. -~ ', 7it ~ (From the New Haven Register (Dem.) ) The corruptionists -at "Washington could mot afford to have New :Hampshire speak in condemnation of their doings—and so they “unloaded” heavily of their plunder in the weak places. It does not seem’possibie that bribery could be so effectual in any New England State. - - [From the Reading, Pa{, Eagle (Dem.) 1 The democratic miajority in Congress is responsible for the defeat in New Hampshire, and let the people hold them responsible for it.. Democrats in /Congress, stop your blundering, go to work, show that you mean business. stop your buncombe speeches, show up the thieves, cut down expenses, give the people a good financial policy, and with good candidates you can still win. ! — [From the Worcester Gazette (Dem.) ] If the Republicans take their victory medestly, it will be well for them. If the result encou}nges the friends of Morton and Conkling, not to say anything about Blaine, to come to the front with pertinacious demunds for recognition, then the party had much i better have been defeated in New - Hampshire. _ : i s }\ {From the Philadelphia Times (Ind.)]

And now Hill, of Georgia, threatens the Demucracy of the House with another set speech in vindication of himself and the South. The answer to his fitst ‘speech is:given by New Hampshire in some, 3,00 republican majority; even with the mill-stone of Belknap about the neck of the’party, and if Hill shall repeat his folly, how much will Connecticut give against Ingersoll ? T

: i A BIG LAND CASE. Suit by the Heirs of Gov. Duncan McArthurto Oust Gov. Allen from Fruit Hill Farm. - CINCINNATI, March 17.— Proceedings were commenced in the United States Court here, to-day, by Allen Campbell McArthur, and other grand-. children of Duncan MecArthur, a former Governor of Ohio, to eject ex- - Gov. Wm. Allen from his farm near Chillicothe, known as Fruit Hill, and 1 compel him to account to the legal heirs of Duncan McArthur for all ‘rents and profits of the estate, alleged to beillegally withheld from the heirs. 'lt appears Gov.” McArthur, who died in 1839,'the owner of immense Janded wealth, left’'a will bequeathing all his property to his wife and William XKey Bond, as trustees, to hold until his youngest grand-child became of’ age, with annual dividends of profits of the jestate 'among the heirs. When the youngest grandchild became of age the property was to be divided among all the heirs. The will was set aside, and the larger portion of the estaté came into the possession of Mrs, Coons, daughter of MeArthuarg who afterwards married Gov. Allen. - The principal contestant Decame: of age about a year ago, and havinglearned the story of the will and its disposition in court; has commenced a suit, with others, to recover. Should the suit be decided against Governor Allen it will leave .him a poor man. The estate involved embraces about 8,000 agres of land in. Ross county, including a portion of the city of Chillicothe, =

CHARLESTON CHICAGOED. . A Large Portion of the City in Ash- ! -es—Loss Half a Million. CHARLESTON, 8. C., March 20th.—A fire broke out at 3' o’cloek this morning, at the corner of King street and Roger alley. No water being in the neighborhood, and the wind blowing a gale from the ‘south-east, the whole block from Columbus to Line street, on the east and west side of King -street, was soon destroyed. ‘About T o’clock the fire crossed Lineé street, the sparks and timbers being carried by the gale three-quarters of a mile up King- street. The houses, fences and barns along that road were burn“ed out, and to add to the confusion a band of negroes robhed and sacked every house to which they could gain admittance. In the morning Mayor “Cunningham took ‘command, and order restored. By haif past 10 o’clock’ the fire had’burned itself out. Hundreds of persons are homeless and penniless. The loss i at least half a million, and very little insurance is: reported. ; e oy ; | Origin of the Gatling Gnn Stories. { {Washington Bpeginl to Cincinpati Enqglre‘r.) The stories about Gen. John Love, ~of Indianapolis, ‘and Gov. Hendricks, in regard to the Gatling gun. transactions, have been traced to Bill Holloiway, of the Indianapolis postofiice, who was l;aire ;’lt the time. ;‘H_,e hadi; it is - supposed, two objects in starting the story; first, to injure Hendrifigis and help Morton; second, to avengs bimsélt on Love, who acted us fore. man ‘o thegfané&:zf’@huiw Harry Holloway for " whacking up. With Meson, o oo e G o

NPT e T e e o A "f"*_j't_#‘vi}\‘fi;i Gold Hunting and Starvation. Statements Made by Gen. Merritt. é (From the Chicago Times, March 17.) o Gen. Merritt, of the headquarters of the military division of the Missouri, and an esteemed officer in military circles, returned yesterday afternoon from: an expedition to the Red Clond Agency, west of Ft. Laramie,situated in the northern portion of the: Terri jory of Wyoming, and what is known. as the Sioux Indian reservation, or the Black Hillscountry. In'the eourse of conversation with a representative of the 7'imes, General Merritt alluded to a variety of topics in connection with the Black Hills, and much of the information which he detailed will be found to be of significant public interest at the present time. ~ = :

: ; THE.BLACK HILLS. 1 Reporter—Tell me something about the Black Hills country. Anything fresh from there? =~ ! e ! General Merritt—l suppose you mean in reference to the gold sensation out there. | .~ = o .- Reporter.—Precisely so. There is a faint impression among the timorous, non-adventurous souls who stay at home, that the chivalrous souls who. are flocking to those inhospitable plains will gét badly left, as the Hon. Bardwell Slote would say, “by alarge majority.” | : . 4 General Merritt—Well, I'm free to venture an opinion on that subject. Now, mind: you, I don’t say there is no gold' there. There is gold there, even in the area they have opened up alredy for mining purposes. But it is a-fact that the area in which gold is found-at presént is so’limited that it wouldn’t support one halt of the people who are there already. The goldyields at the ‘best will not pay more than wages, and wherever there seems to be a promisinglocation it is already covered with experienced and practical gold-miners with whom the crowd of people going there now could| not possibly compete, even if they had a chance. Away up north, now, it is asserted that the region is more largeIy auriferous, but how are they going to get there—north of Ft. Fatterman with wild bands of Sioux on every side? . General Crook ls after them ‘now with a; large force, and I think will give them a threshing. But such an idea as going a gold-mining up there with swarms of hostile Indians to meet them'ls the most preposterous folly that any lot of too credulous people ever took into their heads. CrazyHorse, too, has gathered a band of young and moody redskins from Red Cloud’s band, and gone up north to join the insurgents. Had they not a ‘econviction that alarge force was-after them to whip them these malcontents would attack miners even:in the already cleared mining area. ‘ : INO| RESTRICTIONS. |1 >

Repoiter—The troops donot impede the passage of the colonizers .into the Indian reservation any more, do they? ~ General Merritt—No, they do not impede it; ‘but beyond Laramie the people haye no protection, for it is.an acknowledged reservation, and settlers and miners must'go at their own risk. The army authorities preserve a sort of tacitly understood neutrality upon this spoint. . Red Cloud and Spotted Tail both seem to regard the loss of the land as a-foregone conclusion, and simply consider it.an’additional encroachment. They lay the blame of their loss in the matter, however, upon the shoulders of those who were prominent in opposing the sale of the fand. : : ! Reporter—Dßut you say the miners are making but poor headway anyhow, General 2, : | b General Merritt—Yes, under the most favorable circumstances, the whole thing is a wretched showing. Produce is high; and the people cannot get enough to live on. Besides, they are not used to such a country’ work they cannot, for they are not experienced miners; and there is no other work for them to do.! They go out there as a:forlorn hope,; totally unprovided with -the means of obtaining for a reasonable time the necessities of life, and leaving the crowded cities from the fear of steffl'ation,-rhey find themselves in a strange, bleak and inlrospitable country, face to face. with, the certainty of starvation. The great majority of the poor deluded people going there are broken down city people. ~ Their dress, demeanor, and habits prove it beyond & doubt: Recruited by these lying adventarers, ‘ greedy to skin them. of what little. means friends have contributed to ‘ ‘sustain their delusive hopes, they come from Philadelphia; Boston, Chicago, ‘and other cities in parties of 300 and 400, and when they arrive at Laramie City, Sioux City,'Sidney, or any other .of the depots in which they are swin- | dled and fleeced by those harpies for *“implements,” “outfit,” and what not, they find themselves ushered into a new country, into what is for the most of them a wholly impossible life, and at their wit’s ends to preserve them ! selves from starvation. ; i

. Reporter—Not a very pleasant pict ture, General ? ; : £ General Merritt—No, indeed; but there is positively a worse phase than that. There are people in hundieds—tramps, seedy clerks and porters and so on—who, having no money at all, tramp it thirough the snow, living-up-on the wages of their daily labor, from hand to mouth, and though their condition can scarcely be less destitute than what it is, yet when they reach their destination, their case is the more necessitous from the fact of their being no work to do even for food, It is all very well for these as far as Laramie City, ;vl%:ll say, but beyond that what are tifey going todo? I have seen these fellows myselt trudging it through melting snow, and borne up through many privations simply by the'delusive hope that when they reach the Black Hills they ‘will reach fortune. . In my opinion the present spring will see many of these unfortunates prostrated by exposure and disease, and 3

" LITERALLY STARVED. TO DEATH. What can they do? - Even putting the most favorable construction upon the ¢ase, they eannot mine tfor months, even. if tney are fortunate enough to sub%jst. The snow is deep on the ground, the streams are all frozen hard, and the only runnihg water at present i 3 upon the superficial surface on the ice, and it won’c break till July. I told you how dreadfully cold it was out there; ‘the warm, mild weather which we experience here has but very little effect out there. : ‘Reporter—Did you meet any parties coming back, General ? ‘ General Merritt—Yes; I met just as many partiesi coming back as I found were going. ° Of course, they all said that they were going back again later, but there were very few who, when candidly interrogated. didn’t admit keen disappointment. A number were either rewarded or intimidated, and I'have no doubt as to the existence quite generally of the latter influence by these ranchmen,. stage-line people, and the fellows who make a profitable busginess of pickin the poor gulls clean. All these fief—lows talk very doydly, and say they are going back again, but those men who do not erack it up to the skies are moody aund dispondent, and have nothiu%tosa){,: : e AU : eEorl;er?—*Then. in plain English, this Black Hills business is a stupens. gogs [iabug Y L e General Merritt—lt is more than’ that; it is an infamous trafie, _ And this efl%gtimrvgiwnj

House building in Angola, during t.he ‘coming season, promises to be ful1y equal to thiat of last summer. -The worst form of the measles. i raging innthe southern part of the State, and the schools are closed on account of the epidemie. - !

TheNorth Indiana Annual Conference ot M. E. Churc¢h convened at -Richmond -on- Wednesday, the 22d lust., Bishop Harris, D. D., presiding. The Lay coufereuce, ‘which - meets ‘only ounee in every four years, also. convened at the same time and place. .On Wednesday' of last week at Otter, Creek, near ''erre Haute,' William Ross, an old citizen, tovk poison. Ten “days betore he had stvlen two bushels of wheat from a neighbor nawed Stalkner, and was. to have been arrested, hence the deed. He had loug been’ khown as a very honest mau, and theft was perpetrated to procure tooud tor his starviug family. A terrible cutting affray| occurred at South Bend last Friday evening.in which Wm. Quinlan was stabbed to death by Jaek Sullivan. The parties were both, disreputable, guarrelsome =ersons, and to their own natural evil, they had added alarge supply of whisky. Quinlan died a tew hours -after thie cutting and Sullivan is in jail, awaiting the action of the grand jury. : S G i FOREIGN ITEMS. !

‘A landslide on the night of the 10th at Coalcant, a small town on the Rhine, in Northern Germany, caused by the recent' heavy rains, buried eight ‘houses and twenty-six persons. ‘A Buda-Pesth dispatch of- the 12th announces the coutinuance of the great inundation. Between the Tth and the 9th, in five small{ townships, 521 houses had been carried away. A frightful railroad aceident occurred Saturday, lith inst., in France, a passenger train going through a-bridge over the river Ille, near Lautterbach. Thirty. corpses have been recovered from the wreck. ; S :

A furious gale prevailed along the French and English coast on the 12th and 13th, and immense damage was done. An unknown brigantine was seen to founder off Portland, at mid= day on the 13th, and all on board were lUSt. - £ i S

London dispatches indicate * that while the Arctic wave has bedn sweep-; ing over the North and West, accon-T paunied by furious gales aud heavy snows, a terrific storm prevailed thro’out England, and;destruetive inundations occurred. ' . e The inundations in France stopped work in the government tobacco factory and |in the foundries of Alfort-. ville. Two hundred houses arg flooded at St. ‘Maur. The gale of Sunday caused a frightful destruction of life and property. Eleven persons were killed. in Cambray. At Sellers, the river Roer rose 20 or 30 feet, inundating the country. At Coblentz, the Rhine rose behind the railway bridge like a water-spout to the height of the houses. - Hamburg. and Frankfort have also suffered. The bridge of Austerlitz has been dploséd., It is‘reported that the bridge has partially given way under the pressure of the | ‘waters. : o |

i | New Hampshire. .~ . (From tite Missouri Republican.) First blgod for Grant! Tally one for-the Radicals! New Hampshire wheels into line with a clear majority for the party of Babeock and Belkvap. Hereafter there will be one State less in the “doubtful” ¢olumun; for that this Mareh election fixes the status of New Hampshire next Novem%r there is, unfortunately, no reason to doubt. The event is more: significant than most Democrats will be willing to admit. It means that Blaine struck the key-note to the next campaign; that Jefferson Davis was right wlien he wrote that it is more difficult for the party which has irfjured another to.be magnanimous than for' the!injured party to forgive and forgeti | In 1832, ’36, 40, '44, ’4B and "'52, New Hampshire chose Democratic ‘electors, but ever since the first formation of the republican party has repudiated those principles of which it had previously -been so consistent an adherent. New England will lack but the singl&Btate ot Connecticut, and possibly not even ‘that, toward presenting an-unbroken front eight months hence. Nothing but the nomination of Tilden; of New York, or Thurman, of Ohio, will suflice now to' carry any of -the Eastern States, and without' New York, New Jersey and Connecticut the election is lost.” . ALBERT WARREN KELSEY. . .

Sl e, R O B—— Hoosiérs as Real Estate Speculators . (From the Lagrange Standard.) A ‘congressional committee is trying to find the inwardness of a real estate pool in 'Washington, of which Kilbourne and Latta, formerly of Eikhart county, are chief. Hallet says the:pool is entirely a private business association, and 'had- no- ¢onnection with the government of the. United States, except to pay taxes and obey the laws, and refuses: to exhibit the ‘books of~his firm; or to testify in relation thereto. 'The committee allege that Jay Cooke was a party to the pool, and that he is owing the government, and they want to khow how his account stands in the firm. Hallet says they have settled with him, and fully paid him off, but the committee are not satistied, and at last reports were preparing to bring Mr. Kilbourne before the House. i T :

L A Plucky Baby. : .. DES MOINES, 1a.,, March 19 —Last Thursday a child two years old of Hiram Gosnel, at New Sharon, fell into a well 22 feet deep, in which was a pump. The water was fifteen feet deep. The mother of the babe, hearing its cries, went to its rescue, when she found it lying on its back holding fast to the pump. Shelowered a rope to it, but the little fellow would-not touch it, and losing his grasp of the pump, sank into the water. The father, who was a quarter of a mile away, heard the screams of his wife, ran to the scene, and, as he came up, the babe rose to the surtace of the*water and again grasped the pump, which he held fast to until his father descended and rescued him.

A Rain of Frésh Fish. — | WINCHESTER, Ind., March 13.—We had the greatest sensation to-day in the history of the .county. The people are wild with excitement, and at this writing are visiting the scene by ‘hundreds. About 10 o’clock to-day,: the sky being clear-and the' sun shining,there was a rain from the heaveéns~of acres of living fish, some as long as four feet. Mr. Joseph Hull had a calf killed, and & horse gat his baek: broken by one of thesefish falling on it. I visited the place about 11 o’clock, and the field and creek were full of fish, and men and boys trying to stop up the creek to hold ;them. I have got one of these fish in" my pond that, weighs about thirty pounds' that I picked up on the field. i ¢ e o il & — b : The attempt to create: the impression in certain circles that Mr, Holman is in favor of the nomination of Mr: Landers as the Democraitic candidate for Governor, is an act of injustice to the §ofid sense @and Democracy of Mr. H. He does not favor his nomination, and looks upon it as a little--188 than pblit;ie‘hfilv suicide if the party bl m, RTAN,; faF, WASNa% ) & FROR TFURRIDOA | & T W R TP N od i R %é@i

. NEWS OF THE WEEK. TR R et ~ The wife-of Senator Burnside -died at Providence, R. L, on the 9th.. ~ - ... Memphis,was astenished, Monday, 1 -by the heaviest snow storm that ever visited that torrid eityy --~ ~© ° <« . ~ A tremendous snow storm raged in_ Seotland Sunday and Monday, and the raillways.ire badly blogked. = -~ .~ . ° The . Mississippi State Senate has found. Lieut.-Gov. Davis guilty ‘as; charged in the articles ‘of impeachment by avoteof32todr o 0 01d Sile Doty. the- notorious thief,. well known in ‘Nortliern Indiana and Southern Michigan, died at Reading, Michigan, on the. 12thiof this: month. Daniel Drew, -the * famous - Wall street operator, filed his petition to be adjudged albankrupt, on the 12th. His liabilities are estimated at $1.500,000. The Central Hotel at Sturgis, Mich., with all its -contents was totally destroyed by fire Sunday. The loss is. | $lB,OOO or $20,0¢0; ‘insured for $5,000. The Judiciary Committee of the Massachusetts Legisliture has reported against Partonss petition for a special act legalizing lis: recent marriage. ooclnoii s il S

The Republicans who voted against the admission of - Pinchback, were Senators. Edmunds . and - Morrill, of Vermont, Morrill, of Muine, Paddock, ‘ of Nebraska, and Christiancy, of Michigan, . o se s I e

Maj; Richards, Chief of Police in Washington, formally arrested Gen. Belknap on/the Bth, and ‘brought him before the Police Court where he gave bail in the sum “of $25;000 to, appear when wanted. - i asir e

. Telegrams from all over the eountry report that. St. Patrick’s day was very generally observed last ‘Friday. The Philadelphid Irishmen postponedtheir observance- of theday till next Fourth of Julyky g Sty ‘Cardinal MeClosky is reported to: be, seriouslyill, the result.of general de--bility. -The fatigue’ incident to his journey to Rome, and *his arduous religious duties, have affected his health to asvery seriousg.extent. ;iz

The poor-house at Norwich, Conn., was burned on the night of ‘the 12th, and fourteen persons perished. - Five: were .injured by jomping from the windows, two.of them fatally.” The victims were mostly old people. « On the 14ty the Bank of the State of New. York, New York City, suspended payment. - The eapital of the bank Is $2,000,000; - 1t isBaid the de-: positors and note-holders are fully secured, and that the stockholders will be the only-losers, -7 fsit:d o Pekin, 11, has: closed a contract with ‘two legal irms in that ¢ity, to collect $50,000 in taxes that have been delinquent for -several years. The lawyers receive . a commisgion of 10 per cent. on the first $10,000! collected andi 15 per cent. on the remainder.

: A new story of corruption from Washington. It .is charged that a heavy mail contractor mamed Barlow paid an investigating cominittee $40,000 to stop proceedings and; inquiries into his condaet, of the Portlind, Oregan, mail route. The' congressional committee is looking into the report. Josephus Sooy, the defaulting State Treasurer of New Jersey, has been sentenced to the State Prison for three years, and until the costs of the prosecution are paid; He wept bitterly on hearing the sentence. : Mr, Sooy is over sixty years old, and has a highly respectable famdily. ' 0 Liva

Telegrams received throughout: the northwest indicate that the. storm ending last Tlhursday nrght was the most widely extended that bas visited that settion for months,” Telegraph pules-and wires have been prostrated in every direction. Streams have risen in every loeality, and have insome instances-overflowed. Snow fell from twoi to six inehés in depth Thursday nights = e e ~__The Jatest reports from the Black Hills are very couflicting, many accounts ‘being glowing with descriptions of Deautiful scenery and mention of liuge nuggets picked up it every turn. - Other reports stdte that these famous nuggets are bogus, and sume letters received from there, state tlhiat the mining amounts to nothing, and the éxcitement is raised by fraudulenit speculators. ot o s e s

-1t was reéported ‘in newspaper circlbs ' last week that Storey had sold 49-100 of the Chicago Z'imes stock to prominent Democrats, ' who were: to_ couvert itinto an “organ” ‘while re~ caleitrant Wilbur was to take a trip to Europe during the: political campaign, in order to spare his . feelings the shock oceasioned by the change of tune. But: the Times 'spoils the pretty - story by denying its: truthfulness. S GA g i S e R e e

. AtanTearly hour on the morning of the 13th, at Indianapolis, the boiler of a locometive exploded at the Union depot, completely wrecking the engine: and jalsol.another standing adjacent. The ;fingi—ne_e‘r of the litter was-instant-ly: killed and the fireman’ badly injured. A’l‘he engineer and fireman of the exploding “machine ‘were uninjured. The whole west end wall of the depot. and &m portion of the roof were demolishedi 2idcina o sasians saiidi eLo

Reports from the:Black Hills-state that a driving snow storm has raged there for several days and that somemen are there in a-pitiful "c%xdit,‘mn. Parties that contemplate a ivisit to thut Eldorado will show wisdom by delaying their trip till settled spring weather, Dying in-a'region of terrible storms,.a winter in the -Hills, if it approach ordinary severity, is' a thing to be dreaded, und the spring storms rise to a fury wholly unknown here. Mrs. Belknap has arisen from the nervous stupor that succeeded the ex~ citement - of -the exposure, and she puts.in a bold: face, She sdys that she has done no more than all people in power‘are doing, that half the men in Washington have ecommitted more crime than she’and taken more bribes in a day than" her family have in a| litetime, ‘and she proposes to expose the iniquity of then all.. If she does half she threatens there will be writhing in Washington. . © © T

e oL Em, 5 " WHEN Babcock went ‘to 'Washington he was so poor that -he could rent but one-third of a residence, and at no time since then hus his salary. more ‘than sufficed to keep his family in the style they assumed. -Yet Babcock is ‘a heavy real estate owner and is cansidered rich: - Taking this fact in connection with the large sums of money that constantly passed through his’ hands, and ‘Grant’s dismissal of him, the latter being. direct” evidence that somefhing behind ‘the throne was. wrong, one would conelude .that an investigation of his accounts should be made. ‘He might be forced to refund a few thousands to the government.— South Bend Tribune. .- . 3

. MARRIBED. = | SHEFFER--CRAWFORD—March 15th, "1876, . at the residence of ‘the'bride’s father, by the Rev. . D: B. Siums, Sylvester 8. Sheffer, of Kendall: ville. Ind , and Miss Ella M. Crawford, of near; Mt. Gilead, Qhiv., - SR S SHEFFER“HADSELL—March 16th, 1876 at the residence of vhe bride's’ muther, by the Rev. M. M. Gleason, Dr B, 8. Sheffer, of Ontario, 0., and Miss Rva 8 , danghter of the late Elder Jumes Hadsell, of Waterloa, lod, - Sl S HADLEYIn Ligonier, March 16th, 1876, of tmhoid.mnngm;p.;n:.’ous_noeyfa&udl_m_tx'd: AAeNe e, - v s BTt wie ana aree small Shidres to mourn mm'f\w‘mfi% e e elimidio sy d oey G S e R A e sl e e e PRI ANEC R el A TR St B %0058 RMY S 7

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