The National Banner, Volume 11, Number 40, Ligonier, Noble County, 25 January 1877 — Page 2

The Fational Lanuer - 7 L ot Ni I s ":\". R (‘f\ Y - : . RR\ y & e ————— . #.B.STOLY., Editor and Proprietor. —_—— e —————— LIGONIER,IND. JAN. 25th, 1877. Jack LoeAX is laid on the shelf. "Ifis goese is cooked. Boutwell is repudiated by Massachusetts. This takes two arrant demagogues out of the Senate after the 4th of March. Verily, the work of reformation goes bravely “Mn. Tue Cincinnati Enguirer snorts against “the vlan” at a terrible rate. The same paper also snorted violently against Tilden’s nomination at St. louis. The Enguirer is at times in«lined to be erratic. ' s

MEETINGS o£' business men have been held in most of the larger cities in support of the congzessional “plan” for adjusting the presidential controversy. The business men of the entire country appear to be almost a unit on this question. '

Tur COMMITTEE which originated. and agreed upon the electoral vote lill was composed of seven Republicans and seven Democrats. All the members of the committee agreed to

iis provisions except Morton. That iells the whole stox;,—“. 5k . e 2GR

- Tae BANNER is’ unreservedly in favor of “the plan.” We are not afraid 1o submgé the points involved in this controversy to a commission of fifteen minent men, selected from among alile statesmen of the two houses of <'ongress and the eminent Judges of the Supreme Court. (RS

Tue republican members of the Indiana Legislature have held a caucus at which they “endorsed” Senator Morton in his opposition to “the plan,” The men who participated in -this cancus to do the bidding of theif master- will some day feel, ashamed of their action. .

- It is so very amusing to hear Morton and his followers talk about State rights, in connection ‘with the electoral system. If they are in favor of State rights, why don’t they allow the people to rule in Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina, without the infervention of federal bayonets?

“IT’S ALL WRONG,” says some excitable Hayesite, “to allow a commission of 15 men to decide the points in dispute in - eounting the electoral votes.” But Fhis’ excitable ITayesite finds it entirely consistent with his #deas of right and justice to allow the four infernal scoundrels of the Louisiana Returning Board to substitute the will of the minority for that of the majority. - - )

CONKLING; Edmungls,' Frelinghuysen and several others on the republican side of the Senate have emphatieally repudiated the theory that the President of the Senate is authorized 1o decide as to what electoral votes J' shiall he counted: The democratic i Senaters are‘a unit on that question. } As it only requires eight or nine republican. Senators: to deny that authority fo Mr. Ferry, what would the -rampant Hayesites gain by defeating “the plan”? . .

- No SENATOR has yet been chosen inlllinois. The Democrats voted for Gen. Palmer until Friday last, when that gentleman, in a patriotic speech, withdrew his name. The Republicans voted -for Gen. Logan, who, finding that hecould not be elected, also withdrew after about 30 bailots had been casi.. A majority of the Democrats and Independents have been voting for Gen. Anderson, while the Repubiicans have trotted out Judge Lawrence,.of Chieage. The contest is very c¢lose and doubtful. : : :

- THE DEMOCRATS of New Jersey izave elected John R. McPherson U. S. Senator by one majority. He succeeds Frelinghuysen, Republican. Thi§ gives us two democratic Senators from New Jersey; but we hardly think ‘that John R. McPherson was the proper person to fill this position,when such eminent men as Parker, Green, or Bedle might have been drafted into the service. McPherson may be a very excellent gentleman, but his fitness for the place is yet to be attested. This is no time for .running chances.

. Hox. SEmproxius. H. Boyp, of ~pringfield, Missouri, formerly a Republican Representative in Congress, from that State, has written an open letter to the New York 77ibune declaring his belief that the prima facie case is in favor of Tilden and that any attempt to deprive him- of the office would be fevolution. He supported Hayes, but thinks that the inauguration of the latter would prove the ruin of the republican party, while if Tilden were installed Blaine would come to the front 3nd build up the broken fortunes of the party. '

SoME diminutive “statésman” of the Indiana Legislature every now and then pops up. in his seat and. offers a resolution touching upon national affairs and “instructing our Senators and representatives in Congress” to oso and so. If these diminutive “statesmen” only had sense enough to realize that considerable less than onehalf of their number have the capacity to perform the duties assigned them, {p say nothing of their qualifications for ‘instructing congressmen as to their obligations, they wounld probably mind their own business and thus avoid making asses of themselves,

JERRY BLACK and a number of other “fiery” Democrats are violently ~ opposed to the electoral count plan. ~ They say Tilden and Hendricks are fairly and squarely elected, and they ~must therefore be inaugurated. Agreed. But the very fact that Tilden and Hendricks are fairly elected places - iheir frlends in excellent position to - submit their case to a tribunal com‘posed of trustworthy and honorable ~ men. We believe in being accommodating. There are Republicans who affect to believe Hayes and Wheeler elected, and we feel like giving them - an opportunity to establish the validiLy ot their claim before a commission of eminent statesmen and jurists. That is certainly fair. e o b e {

REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT. The New York Nation says with commendable ardor: “We think we shall before Idng see the public in full concurrence: with Governor Robinson, of this State, that a State which has a Returning Board -like that of Louisjana does not possess a Republican form of ‘Government.”. That is the gist of the whole Louisiana controversy. - The Republicans, who are splitting hairs with a great show of fairness over minor- constitutional points of technical interest, forget that at the bottom of this whole unhappy dispute lies the great fundamental wrong that. the Government of the United States does not guarantee to the State of Louisiana a Republican form of Government, as. the Constitution requires. ' What is the use of splitting hairs over the right of the President of the Senate to cast the vote or tlte-power of the two Houses or the duties of the tellers, while back of all the machinery of counting the vote lies the one appalling fact that the people of a sovereign State have no means of saying how their vote shall be cast? The Constitution of the United States makes every possible provision for|protecting the right of a State to make its will heard in the ;\'(Oiee of a President, ‘but the framers of that instrument did mot contemplate for a moment such @ condition of affairs as exists in Louisiana. The people, of that State elected McEnery, Governor, and } Kellogg was éounﬁea in; they elected Nicholls, and Packard was counted in; they cast their vote for "Tildeb, and it was counted for Hayes. Year after year their voice has been stifled. This is not a Kepublican form;of. Government; it is not Government at all. 1t is usurpation and tyranny. |

Do you think. this language too sweeping? . Hear what the man says who framed the law under which the Ilouisiana_l{eturning Board acts,Judge Hugh L. Campbell. His view, impartially stated by the Nation, is that “the ballots put in the boxes are merely -ballots until the returns are made up by the Board.” In the eye of the law the Board is constructively present at all the polls, receives-all the ballots,‘and purifies and assorts them, bjut they do not become zotes until the Board has passed upon them. In fact, the Board casts the vote of the State and properly holds .the State elections.” Is this what you call a Republican fofm of Government ?

CARL SCHURZ FOR “THE PLAN.”

Ex-Senator Carl Schurz, in an interview with a Western Associated Press agent, the other day, gave the following ‘as his opinion on the eléctoral bill now Dbefore the TUnited States Senate: s g

.~ The bill'reported by the Conference Committee serves the same end which ex-Senator Henderson and myself had in view when; several weeks ago, we addressed a peétition to the Senate. It furnishes.for a decision -of the Presidential question a tribunal that has the . character of impartiality, and whose verdict will command universal respect. .1 supported Gov. layes in the campaign in- goodifaith and for good reasons of public interest, and, if I had not strongly fesired his success I should not have worked for him in the same manner. Others have supported Gov. Tilden, but what the patriotic men ‘of both ‘parties now want, and what;the Republic needs, is a President” wghose legitimacy cannot ‘be seriously disputed. To that end ‘he must not be, and he must not even appear to- have been, lifted into the Presidency by the mere use of party power the legality ‘of which is doubtful. Ido not mean to speak here of the troubles that might-ensue. . Perhaps the country would, in any event, generally acquiesce for-the sake of peace, but the President whose title can be seriously questioned would be miserably at the mercy of the- opposition, whiech, of “course, would grow immensely in. consequence of - that’ very fact. The moral authority of the National Government would be terribly weakened, and that is always a most dangerous condition of things in a Republic. Moreover, the.successful resort-to the exercise of doubtfiil powers by a party for the purpose of lifting “its candidate into the Presidency would be a precedent fraught with the most pernicious consequences for-the future, for such precedents are alwaystnot only taken advantage of, but improved upon by unscrupulous politicians. TFor thesereasons I deem it of such extreme importance that the decision of the Presidential contest should be removed from the theatre of party strife and referred to a tribunal net controlled by party interests. : S

Mg. HENDRICKS, the Vice President elect, was .interviewed last Saturday as to his judgment of the constitutionality and efficiency of the measure reported by the joint committee on the electoral count. He expressed himself ‘satisfied as to the constitutionality of the measure, and as to its general features he remarked: “I am gratified that so fair 'a bill has been reported. = It.may not satisfy those who demand success in advance, but I think it will be accepted by the country. Certainly the commissioners may make a proper and righteous decision under it.. - It will allow such latitude of investigation and judgment as will comp‘il them to decidein the right. If in its present shape the bill will not allow | the commission to consider -all ‘matters of evidence as the two Houses of Congress could do if considering the questions directly, ‘the necessary amendments can easily be made; but fts provisions’ appear ample in that respect.,” :

- Hox. Geo. ¥. HoAR has been elected U. S. Senator from Massachusetts, to succeed the bloody shirt demagogue Boutwell. Mr. Hoar is one of the members of the joint committee which devised “the plan” for counting the electoral votes, and his election was undoubtedly in a great measure due to his patriotic efforts to ensure the success of that proposition. The Massachusetts Republicans, or at least a large majority of them, are strongly in favor of “the plan.”

THE DEFEAT of Sehator Boutwell for re-election does.great honor to the Massachusetts Republicans. He is a pestiferous demagogue of the Morton stripe, and his retirement from the U. S.Senate Will_bé"ha(i]e(f with delight by all who desire to see that body made up of men of statesman-like qualities. . Lol ;

. Tuar pretitily told tale in the N. Y, Sun, -of ; Senator Blaine’s probable course on .the presidential contest; publishied in last week’s BANNER, appears'very well on paper, but our prediction is thal Blaine won’t do anything of the kind! S

- ARBITRATION. A PLAN TO SETTLE THE PRESIDENTIAE DISPUTE. Agreeinent of the Joint Congres- . sional Committee, - G, MARER =t e THE POINTS OF DISPUTE TO BE 'REFERRED TO A BOARD OF ' ARBITRATION, :

Consisﬁing‘ of Five Representatives, Five Senators, and Five Supreme E: | Judges.

‘The joint committee appointed some time ago for the purpose of devising a plan for counting the electoral votes, agfreed:upon a report and a bill which were submitted to both Houses of Congress on Thursday of last week. All the members of the joint committee, except Senator ‘Morton, signed the report, to wit:. Senators Edmunds, Frelinghuysen, Conkling, Thurman, Bayard and Ransom ; Representatives Payne, lunton, Hewitt, Springer, MeCrary, Hoar and Willard., The report of the committee, which is in every sense a thoroughly patriotic document, recites the constj’éu‘tional reasons upon which. the committee acts, and adduces in support of } the precedents under which Congress "has acted in the past. The tenor of those precedents, the committee holds, ‘places plenary power to decide these rquestions in the hands of the two chambers; and that power, - under this bill, the committee proposes by suitable legislation to wvest in the hands of a commission, whose reports shall be subject to the revision -of Congress, avoiding in this way the error of a delegation of the execution of delegated powers, since the power finally returns to the Legislative. The title of the bill reported by the committee is as foilows: “A bill to “provide for and regulate the counting “ of votes for President and Vice-Pres-“.ident, and the }d‘ecision of questions “arising thereon for the term com“mencing March 4th, A. D. 1877.” The first section provides that the Senate and House of Representatives shall meet in the hall of the House of R%presentatives at the ‘hour of one o’clock, post :meridiem, A. D. 1877, Thursday in/ February, A. D. 1877, and the President of the Senate shall be the presiding officer. It further provides for the appointment of two tellers on the part of each House of Congress, to whom the President of the Senate, presiding -over the joint convention, shall hand all the certificates as he opens them. - It requires the President of the Senate to open “all the certificates and papers purporting to be certificates,” and to hand them all to the tellers. The certificates are to be opened in the alphabetical order of the States, and the tellers are to read all of them in the presence and hearing of the two Houses. Any objection to the vote of a State must ‘be made in writing, state the ground of the objection, and ‘be signed by at least one Senator and one Representative. On such objection being made the two Houses shall separate for eonsultation. If the objection is to the vote .of a State from which but one return has been received, the vote can only be rejected by the concurrent action of both Houses. This provision, however, does not touch the case of a State from which there are double returns’ or centesting certificates. These States are Florida, Louisiana, Oregon and South Carolina. The Plan provides that in . every case where there are contesting returns both certificates shall be opened by the President of the Senate, read by the tellers, and then referred for.final judgment and decision to-a commission consisting of five Senators, five Representatives, and five justices of. the Supreme Court. The five Senators and Representatives are to be chosen (on Tuesday, January 30,) by a vive voce vote’ of each House respectively; and of the five justices of the Supreme Court who are to act the bill designates four,—(Justices Clifford, Field, Miller and. Strong)—and these four select the fifth. ‘ln every case where there are double returns, or double sets of papers purporting to be returns, from a State, they are to be forthwith referred with all the accompanying papers to this commission, which shall consider them and render its judg-. ment and decision as §o who are the legal electors of the State and for whom its electoral votes shall be counted. The powers of the commis- - sion are very great. The Plan provides that when |a case of double certificates is reterred to the commission it shall “proceed to consider the same, with the same powers, if any, as now possessed for that purpose by the two Houses,-acting separately .or together, and by a majority of votes decide whether any and what votes from such State are the votes provided for by the constitution of the United States, and how many and what persons were duly appointed electors in such §tat;e; and may therein take into view such petitions, depositions and other papers, if any, as shall by the constitution and now existing laws be competent and pertinent in such consideration.” The decision of this commission is final and coneclusive, unless both Houses shall decide to overrule it. : G

The commission will be sworn to render impartial judgment according to the constitution and laws of the United States.. No time is specified when the decision -of the commission shall be rendered, but it is provided that the commission shall convene upon the questions being referred to them, and immediately proceed to their consideration and determination.

JouN PATTERSON, aged 64, was tecently married at Philadelphia to Miss Emma TLynde, aged 15. Patterson’s two daughters,_ aged respectively 40 and 42, stubbornly refuse tocall Emma “mamma.” . Emma;, with equal tenacity, insists upon being thus recognized, and has forbidden the disobedient “children” the house until they come to terms and beg pardon, Insubordination, under sdch circum‘ﬂagance‘a, would hardly seem censurae, Shdapdin i .

FROM Wﬁ%s_HING'ToN.

it He ‘mspn{sme THEME, The compromise bill on the counting of the electoral vote was taken up in the Senate on| Saturday and supported at length! by Edmunds, the chairman of the?tommittee,-and was also incidentally debated in the House. On Monday the consideration, of the bill was resumed /in both Houses and will be continpeg‘l until dispesed of, which, it is hoped, will be before Saturday next. The opposition to the measure is solidifying, and promises to be somewhat formidable. Messrs. Morton and Sherman led off in opposing it in the Senate, and. Garfield and others will speak against it in the House. Some democratic members will pppose it, though it does not appear as yet that any democratic Senator has made up [:his mind to speak or vote against it.| Amendments have already been pr}epared proposing to substitute Morton’s bill and to name the justices of ‘the Supreme Courp who are 'to act |as arbitrators in the pending measure, but in the face of all this growing Pppdsition the ardent friends of the new bill declare that the country willggverwhelm Congress with a sentiment which will secure its adoption. Mr. Morton has despatches from pﬂ,ominent Republicans in his own State, including his party ‘friends in the Legislatureand elsewhere, begging him to stand firm againsp it. ‘Onf the Democratic side letters froth Gideon Welles and others ‘have been recgived denouncing the | project as a higher law schenie.

: B?tll parties #n the Se‘nate‘eaucu“sed Saturday morning. The republican Senators had quite an animated time in questioning Mr. Edmunds’ defense and - explanation of the bf‘ll, and one Senator went so far as tojsay that it was intended t¢ elect Tilden, to which Mr. Edmunds rfeplied that Democrats had complained to him that the bill was’ intended to put Hayes in . the Presidential chairs The caucus, however, did not decide what should be done with it. |i |

PRESIDENT GR#NT m\IORS THE PLAN

President - Grant, in conversation with a friend, |is reported as saying that the compromise bill to settle the presidential question was -in his opinion as fair as could be made to both sides. -He thought it would pass Congress by a decided majority, in which case he would cheerfully sign it. The very popular manner in which it had been receiyed by the people of both political parties was to his mind asure indication that they were determined to have a peaceful settlement of the presidential question. The fact that ‘this bill was pop&ular \\Zitlx the masses, and also received the support of eminent men of both parties, would no doubt relieve in a great measure the anxiety under which the country had labored since the 7th of November. MORTON’S ‘OPPOSITION TO THE PLAN. ~Senator Morton spoke against the electoral bill, proposed by,,_}the jointA committee, on Monday- to a crowded Senate. He was rambling and incoherent in" his argument, and snappish and vindictive in his manner. He branded the republican advocates of the bill as cowards in making any concession, and after thrusting oub the stale falsehood thut Hayes had been elected and must be i urated, he proceeded to charge thating Democrat on the committee woyld have favered this measure if it /had -not been the only chance forsGovernor Tilden, thereby acknowledging that Hayes had no case before a fair and honest tribunal.- He asserted that the Vice-President had counted the votei" for thrée ‘quarters of a century, but? made n:o attempt to prove ﬁﬁ?.t that/ officer had the power to decide upo disputed votes, and he failed mosl‘é signally in his undertaking to refute the masterly arguments of Senator Edmunds.. He claimed that Congress never could go behind a Governor’s certificate. His speech was full of partisan venom and low flings at his superiors in patriotism. + Even his’ supporters were disgusted with his effort. Mr. Edmunds, later, had an encounter withyhim and -Sherman, and routed thedby his cool and cutting retorts. The Democrats in the: Indiana delegation all favor the bill except N.T. Carr, Mr. Kerr’s successor. ‘John H. Baker is wagged by Morton. A e

———— - —— A Golden Opportunity.

We have no doubt all of our readers have carefully read the large doublecolumn advertisement of Messrs. Kennedy & Co., Pittsburgh, Pa., Proprietors of the Great Remedy, SEVEN SEALS or GOLDEN WONDER. The firm propose to assist their agents in every manner as will bring the great remedy prominently before the peoplg. This they will do by judicious newspaper advertisiug. Posters, bills; show cards and beautifgl chromos, and each new agent they offer a splendid coin hunting case watch to be sent with the first order for the Remedy. Such inducements are rarely offered a second time, and we urge upon our readers the importance of writing to Messrs. Kennedy & Co., at once and secure the agency for this county as it is now open. Adv.

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At about 8 ‘o’clock last Sunday morning a fire broke,out in the plan-ing-shops of the Rockford (Ill.) Furniture Company, and did not stop until the three-story warehouse and large stone factory: were burned to the ' ground. The night-watchman, Mr. Nelson Upson; brother to the proprietor, was burned in the building. Deceased ‘'was a respected citizen, and a man of considerable property.— Loss, $30,000 or $40,000; insurance, $6,000. The fire is supposed to be the ‘work of an incendiary, as a Buspiciouslooking character was about the building. About fifty mechanics are turned out of employment by this accident, which will add to the distress already caused by reducing the numbfr of hands in all the factories of that place. ; b e b

JUDGE LAWRENCE, of Ohio, a Republican member of the South Carolina House Investigating Committee, in conversation with a Washington correspondent of the New York Hejald, said with referenceto intimidation by republican negroes: : 1 “There was, and a great deal of it. Republican negroes in South Carolina understand that business quite as well as the white men. There are bldck Democrats in South Carolina, a large number of them, and their political opponents of the same color in the late election used every influence they possibly eoudd to influence their opponents’ votes,” ; K '

Viseount Gage, of Treland, is dead.

Indiang News Items.

The Peoplg Sayings Bank of South Bend has deeyred a dividend of-8 per cent. The St.Toseph County Savings %anlg has dechred seven-per cent. dividend. :

The Union Jotel at Walkerton was bnrned downtlast Sunday evening. The fire caugk from a flue. Insured for $2,500 in Ye Pheenix and Underwriters. 7 '

A Swede wumed Johnson, while chopping onegday last week, in the woods near jJPorte, was instantly killed by a faing tree. He leaves a wife and twothildren. : S

urant countiwas highly favored in the distributio; ¢f places within the gift of the lo%er hranch of the Legislature. Eighipf her Republican citizens were prajided for.

O. B. Scobe, Prosecuting Attorney, was shot at frough the window of the depot wailng room at Richmond, on Thursdaynjght last. . This is the second attenpt made to assassinate SCObGY m :Rl’(]mond_ Wt |

_At Indianipylis, Wednesday of last week, an infirmal meeting of Mayors of several'cijes of this State was held at which it Wy determined to hold a convention Olithe 31st inst. to discuss what legislatiog is necded for the cities of Indiana, ‘nd to memorialize the legislature orthe subject.

__ Charles C. ¥ood, a brakeman on the Indianapols &St. Louis railroad, was caught betwen two cars at the Indianapolis Unin Depot last Sunday night and waserushed to death. The deceased was #gon of the superintendent of thevroac&at; Terre Haute, and was about 20 yeys of age. | 20

The stockholders of the Evansville and Crawfordgyitle, railroad are preparing a bill to present to the Legislature of Indiana, asking that their charter be;so amended as to allow them to changt tie name of the road to the Evanswale and TerreiHaute railway compaty. The road has never reached Crawfe¢isville. . :

Among the ibms mentioned in the complete inveifory of the Ohio and Mississippi roal just filed in the United States Courtiat Indianapolis, were the following: | The road owns 1,063 box cars, 370 - Ine cars, 52 stock ears, 607 coal cars, 36 flat cars,s6 cabooses, 5 sleeping cam, 3 parlor coaches, 52 passenger coahes, 11 baggage cars, and 8 mail cau. It has also 121 locomotives. | In he telegraphic department it has' 6 sounders, 63 keys, 70 miles of wire, a‘nd 59 miles of posts.

The report 'f the Directors of the State Prison Swuth was recently made public: The indebtedness of the institution is $18.337.20; receipts for the year, $32507.52; disbursements, $32,333.67; - carvicts(received during the year, 251 died. 6; escaped, 3; discharged, 7;expiration of sentence, 192; pardond, 34; recapturved, 3; present numhbgr,s23., The ratio of in-crease-shows convicts in 1874, 388; 1875, 41155; 1876, 581. Sentenced for murder, 68; rape, 19; - intent to rape, 8; larceny, 823; -burglary, 31. . But 255 of the number can read.

. Roseanna Frinks, of DeKalb county, has begun suit against Jacob Souder,' a wealthy farmer of Allen county, for breachof promise and seduction, placing ler damages at $lO,OOO. Plaintiff is » vidow and defendant a widower, and both have [children. Plaintiff . asseits that the day for the wedding was fixed, and that- 2 weeks before that time she submitted to defendant’s embyaces, with distinet understanding that he would make her his wife at the appointed time, instead of which he chose another, and was married to her on New Year’s day.

C. N. Walls, editor of the Indianian; published at Danyille, bitterly attacked the Rev. S. P. Colvin, a Methodist minister, in his paper of recent date, as a hypocrite, ete. The preacher called at the office to get a paper, when he and the editor-had some words, resulting in the two clinching, the preacher simply holding Walls off at arm’s length. Walls got hold of & ‘side stick’ and struck him three blows on the head, land he is now in a critical condition. Walls has been indicted by the grand jury for assault-and battery: with intent to murder. The opinion of the village is strongly against Walls.

A most heinous outrage was perpetrated -at Galveston, a small village six miles north of Kokomo, recently. A young girl of sixteen years of age, went to the school house a Sunday morning to get her books which she had forgotten on the preceding Friday. Two desperate-looking tramps, who happened to be passing, saw her enter the house and followed her with hellish intent. There, alone and frightened almost to-death, the poor girl was brutally ravished by the monsfers, each holding her in turn while the other accomplished his diabolical purpose. An approaching footstep alarmed the human brutes and they fled from the house, leaving their victim shockingly outraged, bleeding, and in halfdead condition. The fiends have thus far evaded the terrible punishment their:horrible crime merits. A

Foreign Items.

" The young Cuban harpist, Senorita Esmeralda Cervantes, is to be married to Mr. Sterling, a wealthy avocate of Havanna. She is 16 years of aZe and speaks 8 languages. : A Constantinople dispatch of the 10th says a report prevailed there that a Rusian army in Turkistan, 40,000 strong, had been destroyed by an uprising of the inhabitants. Lie - A telegram of the 13th says the Spanish steamer Montezuma, captured by the Cuban insurgents, was burned on the approach of a Spanish war steamer, and her captors fled to ‘the Venezuelan coast. = S

London telegrams of the 14th say the importation of American beef had proved an unmistakable success. The English butchers had been compelled to reduce the British beef threepence a pound to compete with it. A London dispatch of the 19th says that stringent regulations have been issued concerning the importation of cattle, sheep and goats from Germany, France, and Belgium, in consequence of the ;outbreak of the rinderpest. Denmark and the Neitherlands will be included in the restrictions, unless the importation and transit of German beasts is prohibited. In Germany measures have been taken to pre-: vent the rinderpest spreading. o

London dispatches of the 12th say the Conference, under 'instructions from their Governments, would make a last appeal to the Porte on the 156th, and demand a categorical answer on the 18th. The Sultan had announced that he would recommence hostilities with Servia and Montenegro-on the first of March. Roumania had sent a note to the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs demanding ofiicial recognition of the fact that she formed' no ‘integral part of the Ottoman Empire. ; :

The representatives of the Great Powers presented, on the 15th, what they called positively the last proposals to Turkey. The former propositions were essentially modified, the only contested points insisted upon being the appointment of Governors and the Supervisory Commission, and’ these were made an ultimatum. The vepresentative of the Porte asked time, for consideration, and have subse%uently rejected the proposals of the uropean powers and defied them all, War will Frobably'follow immediate--Iy, if Russia doesn’t back down.

~ News Items. James Gordon Bennett sailed for Europe on the 13th on the steamer City of Richmond. The report that he and Miss May had been married was supposed to be incorrect. ; Theisixtieth annual meeting of the American Colonization Society was held in Washington recently. The total number of emigrants forwarded to America since the organization of the society is 15,125. e K A freight train bound north on the Grand ‘Rapids and Indiana railroad was wrecked about one mile south of Sturgis last Sunday morning, caused by the breaking of a caraxle. Trains were delayed about 10 hours. No person was injured. e b

Rumors are again revived that the Grand Jury of the District has obtained evidence likely to secure the indictment of parties other than Ferd. Winslow said to have been implicated with him in the robbery of the $ll,000 of the National Bank of Il]iqois. Since the Ist of January, according to a New Orleans dispatch of the 19th inst., 117 new cases of small-pox have been reported to the board of health, including one case from the StateHouse. Several cases are reported among the troops in the custom-house. At Jacksonville, 111., a union religious revival has'been going on some ten weeks, and is still\in progress and exciting much interest. Religious services in the saloons have been of frequent occurrence since the revival began, and are causing considerable comiment, pro and con, as to the final. result of such meetings.” - - There seems to be a serious drouth prevailing in California, according to the following from the Calayeras Ciétizen : ' .“The farmers of this county as well as stock-raisérs are considera‘bly exercised over the continued ~drouth. The early-sowed grain is -either dead or dying in many instances and in places the grass has dried up. “Without rain soon we may expect considerable loss to farmers and stockraisers.” 2 : St

A Baltimore dispatch of the| 19th says: Late reports from the river and bay to-night indicate that navigation will be fully resumed tormorrow. The ice has been broken up by the boats, melted by the thaw, and driven oceanward by favorable winds. To-day some vessels jarrived and cleared. Shippers are jubilant, especially grain men, over the relief afforded, after a month’s close blockade by the ice. . 1 A [Spring Lake, Mich., dispatch says: Anunother severé wind and snow storm visited this section on Saturday. Snow has fallen here every day in succession during the last six weeks, and is fully-three feet in depth on the level, and roads leading into the country are so badly drifted and blockaded as to render them impassable. Trains on the Detroit and Milwaukee, and Lake Shore are experiencing much trouble; and are usually delayed.

The truth in regard to the BennettMay duel is out at last and it places May ina very unenviable light. A correspondent of the New York 77ibune, who was ‘an eye witness, says arrangements having been completed, the two principals took their position at a distance of about 12 yards apart. The pistols were loaded and handed to them, and the seconds retired to one side. Then came the question, ¥Are you ready?” Immediately, and before “one” could be given, Mr. May raised his pistol, took hasty aim, and pulled the trigger. The weapoh missed fire. On receiving the intimation that it was his turn, Mr. Bennett raised his pistol, cried scornfully, “I could kill you-if I wished,” and pointing it into the air, fired quickly. |The duelists then saluted one. another, when, suddenly overcome by shame and mortification, to the utmost amazement of all present, Frederick May turned and hurried away, unable longer to \face his disgrace. ' e

THE MARKETS.

LIGONIER. /

GRAIN AND SEEDS.— Wheat, red, $l- - Rye, 6vc; Oats, 35¢; Corn, 40c; Flax Seed, $1 25 ; Clover Seed, $8 50. PropuceE.—Hogs, live, § cwt $5 00, dressed $6 50@6 '75; Turkeys, live, @ Ib, 6¢; Chickens, 4c;-Bees Wax, 28¢; Butter, 17c¢; Lard, 10c; Eggs, ¥ doz., 20c; Wool, §lb, 85@40c; Feathers, 70c; Tallow, Be¢; llried Apples, s¢; Potatoes $1; Hay, 1@ ton, marsh $B, timothy $lO. i

KENDALLVILLE. /|

GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, white $1 383, red $1 40; Corn, 47c; Oats, 35¢c; Clover Seed, $8 75; Flax,sl 25; Timothy, $2 25. . _ C ‘ OTHER PRODUCE.—Hams, P I 12¢; Shoulders, 10c; Liard,llc; Tallow, 6¢; Wool, 35¢; Butter, 18¢; Beeswax, 25¢; Apples, dried 414 c, green, { bu., 25¢; Potatoes, 85¢; Eggs, 8 doz. 22¢. = |

'; CHlCAGO—January 23. 18%7. | . Chicago produce markets were mod“erately active, with but slight change lin wheat and other grain. There ig'a ‘decline in pork and lard since last week’s quotations. Gold closed at $l- - %. : e GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, $130; ’ Corn, 4314 c; Oats, 835 %s¢c; Rye,72¢c; Barley, 6014{c; Clover Seed, sB6o@B 85; | (’foimothy, $1 70@1 85; Flax, $1 55@1-

- PropucE.—Mess Pork,Bcwt, $l6 80 @l6 85; Lard, $lO 80@10 85; Hams, green, P 1b,814@9%%c; Shoulders, 515¢; Dressed Hogs, Bcwt, $7 15@7 50 ; Butter, fair to good, 18@25¢, choice, 27@ 32¢c; Eggs, § doz, 30c; Potatoes, 90c @sl 15. ; i PouLTrY.—Turkeys, dressed, ® 1, 9@1l1c; Chickens, B@9d; Ducks, 8@ 9c¢; Geese, T@9¢. ' '

TOLEDO.—January 24, 18717.

GRAIN AND SEEDS.— Wheat, amber, $1 47%,No.3white Wabashsl 43 ; Corn, 44Yc; Oats, 39¢; -Clover Seed, $8 50@ 9 15; "Timothy Seed, $1 65@1 70; Flax Seed, $1 35@140. ¢ ‘ ' GROCERIES—PROVISIONS, &C.—Por tatoes, ¥ bu. 85@90c; Flour, P cwt., fine $4 50, superfine $5 50, extra $725; Lard, 11@12%4; Butter, fresh rolls, 20@22¢; Eggs, ¥ doz., 28@25¢; Dried ‘Apples, 4%. | ied ] MEeATSs.—Dressed Hogs, $7 50@7 65 ; Hams, 1215@14c; Beef, hind quarter, B b, 615 c, fore quarter 434¢. , PouLTRY. —Turkeys, dressed, 11@ 1214¢; Chickens, 11c; Ducks, 11 ; Geese, B@9e. : ;

LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

The Chicago live stock market was moderately active, with better supplies and higher prices than prevailed last week. We quote as follows: = |

CHICAGO, Jan. 23.—Cattle, ext heavy, P cwt, $5 60@6 00, good to choice $4T6@4 90, common to fair $4 00@4 25 cows and heifers, $2 75@3 75. Hogs, extra heavy $6.75@6 80, common to choice heavy $6 40@6 65, light $6 00 @6 15. Sheep, good to choice heayy, # cwt, $5 00@5 50, fair to medium $4 26@4 6. o

NEw YORK, Jan. 28.—Cattle. Mar+ ket dull, good shipping (1200 to 1400 1) $5 25@6 1214, butchers’ $4 50@5, stock cattle $3 50@4 50. Sheep, prime choice 96 Ibs, $5 00@5 75, medium to good $4 4 5. - Hogs, market quiet, good $6 74 70@6 90. Yol A London dispatch of the 21st inst. announces the arrival of the Chinese Embassador at Southampton, ?

A TELEGRAM from Washington says the Lonisiana returning -board is to be locked up for contempt of the house. If its members could get | their deserts, they would be locked up for life, as are similar thieves and scoundrelsin other communities.

A telegram to the London Daily News from Rome says the Pope has privately notified four Italian, two French, two Spanish, and fw9 Austrian ecclésiastics that they are.to be nominated Cardinals at the next Congistory, . . : “

e BIRLTHES. SlMMONS.—January 12th, 1877, in Ligonier, a son to the wife of David Simmonus; werght 9 pounds, siroog. e e | Congratulations, Uncle Davy! w MARRIED. - | | QUACKENBUSH-MAYFIELD.—At Jonesville, Michigan, January 18th, 1877, by Rev. J. H. Potts, Mr. Jonas Quackenbush to Miss Hellen Mayftield, both of this place. = TS B RN B W DIED. i ! KUTCHER.—In Jefferson township, on Monday’ morning, January 22, 1875, Mr. Jacob Kutcher. D’%ceased was a respected member of F. & A. M. Lodge in Albion., ' - . o rED | neA @5O ¥xins UNIVERSALISM, ¥xkns ¢ The STAR IN THE WEST, Cincinnati, 0., is ! half a century old in 1577. All interested in UniverL salism should subseribe for the semi-Centennial year. 1t wiil shine for ALL. Eight pages, weekly, all the News; Markets, etc. Large portrait of JOH&' MURRAY, free toall subscribers for 1877, Terms, $2.5 er year, postage paid, ~ Address, WILLIAMSON 2 2 baxrwnm, PusLisHING Co., Cincinnati, O. : z o PIMPLIES, ' | « T will mail (free) the recipe for ?reparinga sim- | E‘]e VegeTaßLE Barny that will remove Tan, RECKLES, PIMPLES and Brorcues, leaving the skin, goft, clear and beautiful; glso instructions for producing a luxuriant growth of hair on a bald head or smooth face. A Address, Ben. Vandelf & Co., Box 5121, N 0.5 Wooster St., N. Y. T AR RTR ENEE S G TO CONSUMPTIVES. N % o The advertiser, having been permanently cured of that dread disease, Consumption, by & simple remedy, is anxious to make known to his fellow sufferers the means of cure. 7T'o all who desire it, he will send a copy ol the prescription used, (free of charﬁe), with the directions for preparing and using the game, which they will find a svRE oURE. for CONSUMPTION, ASTHMA, BrONOHITIS, &C, Parties -wishing the ;escription will please. address, %‘ev. E. A. WILSON,: ° 194 Penn St., Williamsburgh, New York. e eb - L - A GENTLEMAN who suffered for years from Nervous Debility, Premature Decay, and all the effects of. youthful indiscreticn will, for the sake of suffering humanity, send free to_all who need it, the recfpe and direction for making the simple remedy by which he was cured, Sufferers wishing to profit by the advertiser’s experience can do so ({g addressing in perfect confidence, JOHN B. OGDEN, 42 Cedar St., New York. s 37-6 m-a and co : Isl9ooooo PROFIT ON $100! Made any day in Puats and Calls. Invest according to your means. $10,850 or $lOO in Stock Privileges has brought a small fortune to the careful investor. We advise when and how. to operate safely. Book with full information sENT FREE. 'Address orders by mail or telegraph to _ BAXTER & CO,, Bankers and Brkers 17 WallSt, FiY I - . slay . - Dissolution of Co-Partnership. = o e = THE co-Partnershlp heretofore existin g between L. N. Reed and J. C.Hill, under the firm name of Reed & Hill, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. L. N. Reed is authorized to settle all claime against or to receive all amounts due the dbove named firm. Thanking you kindly- f%r your patrorage in the past, we hope you will remember the saccessor in the future, - . L. N. REED. January: 10th, 1877, ; J. C. HILLg NOTICE. o ALL those knowing themeselves indebted to the LA late firm, will call at once and settle all accounts, before forgetfulness causes hard feelings, If this notice is complied with at once it will-save trouble. Books and notes will be found at all times at my office near factory, on Mitchell Str., .| Kendallville. Very Respectfully, } 40-3 w Y {N. REED, .

BLOODED COLTS FOR SALE! . ABLACCO LT : White hind feet, nearly 15 hands high; foaled April 25th, 1875; Sired by C. Palmiter’s Trotting Stallion ** P. H. Baker.” Dam, ‘ Currency,” the dam of “Calamity.” D i Price: One Hundred Dollars., . Algo, : : ] ORSOL.A, : Brown Filiy; foaled April 29th, 1874, Sired by “Lexington” (Miller’s). Dam; ‘ Currency,” as above. Broke to Saddle. - ; Price* Three Hundred Pollars. Both warranted sound and kind. Offered for- - . salé to make room by _ o * W. W.LATTA, 38-w4 Four miles north of Ligonier.

| BEAUTIFUL ' L’ ® | Silk Handkerchiefs, © U ptihe~ ! ‘, - LADIES BAZAAR, ; —in the— ! Banner Block, Ligonier, Ind. CI—IEAP" for CASIKI. KMB N*lr-,s‘“H"mé‘ff Positively One Day Only. - FRIDAY,JAN. 26,1877. TWO PERFORMANCES DAILY. AFTERNOON at 3, EVEI}ING at 8 o’clock. Doors opeh at 2 and 7 o’clock. ] SYLVESTER BLEEKER ...............Managér * ~ The Great Original and Renowrned GEN, TOM THUMB AND WIFE Together with the Infinitesimal - - MISS MINNIE WARREN, '/ and the Skatorial Phenomenon and Comic Genius, MAJOR NEWELL, : - Wili appear in a variety of ; NEW AND FASCINATING PERFORMANCES, Consisting of SONGS, DUETS, DANCES, DIALOGUES, COMIC ACTS AND LAUGHABLE SKETCHES, i In addition to their attractiveness as the most - perfect, refined and intelligent LADIES and GENTLEMEN in MINIATURE, in existence, their Ectertaioments are unequaled For Semtiment, Fun and Frolic! At each entertainment the Ladies will wear several new and elegant Costumes, magnificent: Diamonds, etc. /s Admission,only 25c. _Children under 10 years, 15¢; reserved seats, 50c. Children under 10 years, to reserved seals, 25c. Ladies and Children are considerately advised to ettend the Day Exhibition, and thus avoid the crowd and confusion of the evening Performance. 9-w2, . GEO. PECK, Agent. SHERIFF'S SALE. BT VIRTUE of an EXECUTION on TRANScript to me directed by the Cleark of the Noble Qircuit Court of Noble county, Indlana, in the case of Solomon Mier vs. Abraham Beanblossom, I will offer for sale at gélbllc auction at the door of the conrt house in the town of Albion, county of Noble, and State of Indiana, on % o] Friday, February 16th, 1877, | Bétween the hours of 10 o’clock, 4. . and 4 o’clock ». M., of said day, all of the right, tfitle and interest of the said Abraham Beanblossom inl%nd to the following described real estate, towit: : : Lot number Three in Richmond’s Addition to the Town ot Ligonier, Noble County, IFdiﬂan [ ; . NATIANIEL P. EAGLES, Sheriff Noble County, Indiana. I. E. KnIBELY, Attorney for Plaintiff- - Albion, Ind., Jan. 22, 1877,-42)v4w-pf $6 25 - ——e e e § 1w . Notice to Non-Resident. State of Indiana, Noble County, Ss. ISABEL KELLAR, ) : vy VB. } DIVORCE. g SAMUEL KELLAR. ' | In the Noble Circuit Court, January Térm, A. D. 1877. ; o BE it remembered that in said court, on ﬂhe }Sth - day of January, 1877, came said plaintiff by her attorney, Isaac E. Knigely, and filed her affi--davit in these words (hfi)‘showln&;. among other things, that the residence of said defendant 18 unknown, but believed to be somewhere in the State of Illinois. Thereupon, on motion of glalntiﬂ; it was ordered by the Counrt that notice of the filing and pendency of a complaint for-Divorce therein | by said Isabel Kellar against said Samuel Kellar, be given by publication in the NATIONAL "Bmmh 2 “°°3'{3§?f to the statute in such case:made and ‘Said defendant, Samuel Kellar, is therefore notified of the Alling and pendency of said complaint against him, and that unless he ?pear@t the calling of said cause, on the .secon ‘-..daay of the next term of said court, to be beznél and held at the Oou‘it House in Albion, on the third Hond&g_ L K T e 8a 56 ned in sence, E 0 Wenr: " sAMUEL . AlvoßD, e R T LT tCoart, L E- orney for Plaintifli -~ .= = 3 Mﬁé-aumugm 1877,-30wS:p £ §B.OO

e (s oo AnEREEEMIRE. | LARGEST AND LEADING CLOTHING AND HAT HOUSE IN © NOBLE AND ADJOINING OOUNTIES, BENGEx & CO. . Offer Ballance of their Large Stock of CLOTHING! ' AND OTHER GOODS L | MEN'S AND BOYS' WEAR, e jit‘a Gregt' . : | Reduction From Regular Prices! Do No't Buy a Dollar’s Worth of ~ Goods Before You SEE THEIR STOCK & PRICES. - ENGEL & CO., The Popular 'CLOTHIERS, HATTERS & TAILORS, YREET Keadallville, Tnd GREAT CLODING OUT SALE! The IT .n_(;leréigned“;;;fil—l.,— ]‘) uri’nf‘g ~th';e’ | I\T‘_e‘xtu | 80 DAYS, Ll Sell Apything in hls Llne, Such ass" : RESUL-NADE CLOTHING |Gents’ Furnishing Goods, | HATS AND CAPS, &c., e Withqut Regard to Cost, ;

THIS IS NO HUMBUG THIS IS NO HUMBUG : . AslHave Gotto Sell . %! Worth of Goods within' that time, on account of making a - o - change Imy business position. | ‘ s Gl v ' ; ‘Jo STRAUS, ’Jro,l : Original Boss Clothing House, LIGONIER, INDIANA. Ligonier, Nov_ember 30, 1876 -47-tf . o J. DECKER Is stili 1n ‘_the Fiéld with one of the L.argLy | est Stocks of : . Table Cutlery, - . : _ YVl]‘ﬁch he offers for sale at 7 ‘ GREATLY REDUCED PRICES! The Greatest Bargains 1n ‘,.‘ . .' -} . : i < ’ : ,That. have ever béen offered to thﬁ%e of Northern Indiana. 4 Pt amoﬁegngﬁ V o ‘ Japan Tea for 50 cts. per Ib. which ‘can‘n‘ot ba bought . elsewhere for less than 75 cents per pound: Hundreds of my customers can attest to this fact. lam Making a Specialty in Tobaccos. ' MYSTOCKOF ' | DUEENSWARE & GLASSWARE sk ln the most complete in this ﬁsect}io-n of ‘thF eountry. . | .. ICan Save You Money, . By calling and examining my goods before buying elsewhere LIGONTER, IND, NOVEMBER assm'mm . Sralvia sl rlic eil i eDI AR SO e e i O