The National Banner, Volume 11, Number 45, Ligonier, Noble County, 1 March 1877 — Page 2

| = g I~ | T cat S @ Sead / | | '\\" - R > 8 ,‘\é\\‘ S . ¥.®.STOLY., Editor and Proprietor. LIGONIER, IND.MAR. Ist, 1877. e eey i 4/,__.,—‘:«,________.:_————'———‘——- ~ ATTENTION, HAYES! 1 | &5 ey : |_. Just after the .election in NovemLer, when the result was still in doubt, . #seneral Grant telegraphed to Senator ~ Sherman as follows: : «&hould there be any grounds of suspicion of . srendulent counting on either side, it should be . zeporied and denonnced at once. ; ~%oman worthy of the office of President shotild +he willing to hold it if counted in or placed there oy swy frand. REither party can afford to be dissqipainted in the result, but the country cannot «flurd 1o huve tie result tainted by the suspicion «f ilezsl or false returng.” - "We recall these words for the benefit.of our republican contemporaries who seemed at one time to approve Ihe sentiment. It will be gratifying to Mr. Hayes, perhaps, to. find pasted «n the door of the White House this weleome, in Grant’s own hand-writ-ine: ~No man worthy of the office of President should be willing to hold it if commnted 1 on placed there by fraud.” BackBONE, gentletsen of the Scnate . amd Tiouse of Representatives! % el A —eee e CONSERVATISM 134 good thing at the right time. But this isn’t the right time. . o

- NEXT WEEK we shall probably be enabled to inform -our readers who is Ilve suecessor of President Grant.

A TEW terse sentences from Presi-dent-elect Tilden’s vigorous pen would !7. read with lively interest just now.

i SEXATOR THURMAN has resigned kis seat on the Electoral Commission. liis suceessor is Senator Kernan, of New York., - : :

It ysed to be: *“Anything to beat Grant™ The battle-cry now should be: Anything to beat'the Returning Board Fraud. L e e —— -B— P | . - FiLipUSTERING is what the Republicans mow term going along slowly, all it what you please, if it only checks the Returning Boa{‘d villainy.

~ Ir “Qld Hickory” had been chairman of the national democratic committee instead of Abram, S. Hewitt, things wouldn’t be as thev‘are to-day. There would be music in theair. -

- _Evex such well managed papers as . the Northern Indianian, Goshen Demwcrat, and the LaPorte Argus allow Ihemselves to be duped into gratuit- " ous advertising for eastern swindlers, nide Holloway & Co. o

_ JeyTICE FIELD, it should be rememIsred by our republican friends, is an original Republican. He was appoint&l a member of thé Supreme Court v¥ President Lincoln. Bradley and Sirong were appointed by Grant, and a precious set of judges they are!

If the Suppression Board, alias Electoral Commission, had let in light, we would have been enabled to present to our readers one of the grandest documents ever submitted to the American people, viz: Tilden’s inangural address. As it is, we can’t.

VERY LITTLE can be said in praise of the retiring administration. The most favorable mention that can b® made of Gen Grant is that he held an undisputed title to his office, : He was undoubtedly elected both times, and! that, toe, without the aid of Returning Doards. | .

(WEENNVY the Ohio Democrats. ‘They have an opportunity to pass judgment ‘en the Returning Doard crowd next fall, in tlkeg’e}ectio‘n of a Governor and n?embersi of the Legislature. If they Jun't make it red hot for Hayes, Garfield (& Co., we shall be greitly disappointed and no little chagrined: _‘

~ Tux Boonville Enguirer, organ of ifae Warrick county Democracy, brings out its rooster and beneath that proud Lird unfurls the banner of Tilden and iTendricks for 1880. A good!selection, Lro. Swint; but four years is a long war ahead. DBesides, the contest of 1876-77 ought to be first disposed of Lefore arranging matters and things for 1880. _ s

It sEEMS to be pretty definitely settied that if R. B. Hayes is inaugurated F'resident, Senator John Sherman will e made Secretary of the Treasury. The latest cabinet rumor indicates.

the appointment of two Southerners, oune a, democratic Unionist, (John Hancock, of Texas,) and the other {Senator Alcorn, of Mississippi) a republican ex-rebel. =

Drurixe the late campaign the average republican politician would hon-«v-fugle his demiocratic neighbor in Ihis way: “We Republicans ‘have no

«distrust of northern Democré.ts; but, 1 t¢ll you, we can’t trust these southerners.” Nowitis: “Justsee how admirably Ben Hill and the southern congressmen generally are conducting themselves. What a noble example for mnorthern Democrats.” Oh ye deable-faced demagogical twaddlers!

AN EASTERN contemporary calls attention to the fact that the Hon. David Dudley Field, in his speech on the Florida decision showed what has fllowed from the refusal of the Electoral Commission to allow proof of frapd. One of the electors of Florida whe is certified by'the Commission is

a convicted felon. This elector, C. H. Pearce, a Senator of Florida and a minister of the gospel, is shown by the eriminal records of the State to have been convicted for pffering a bribe of $5OO to a member gt the Legislature for his vote. He appealed to the Sus

preme Court, and the Supreme Court (afirmed the sentence; Thig elector under the decisionof the Commission carries Hayes into the Presidential wofice, if he is carried in at all, Mr.

Justice Strong in' his reverence and

piety is relactant to interpret the con~stitation until it contains a distinct verbal recognition of the God whom be worships. Yet Mr. Strong has helped to drive this hot gospeller tkrough the constitution bearing with

him the electoral vote that makes , Hiayes President of the United States. . There are various kinds of manifestations of piety. Thatof J ustice Strong is of one sort and that of the convicted Fioridaelector of another,

THE SITUATION.

~ No material change has taken place in the presidential situation since our last week’s issue. Oregon has been counted for Hayes, by the usual 8 to 7 decision_of the Bradley-Morton Suppression Board. South Carolina has also been dispogsed of in the same manner. Objections - were urged against sundry ineligible electors from Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, but nqt a great deal of time was consumed thereby. E L e The South Carolina case before the Commission was managed, by Frank Hurd, Montgomery DBlair and Jerry Black. The former expounded the law, while Blair and Black, who. were enlisted in thefcase only a few hours before, contented themselves with a ‘most terrific arraignment of the unfair and partisan conduct of B_fadley and his coadjutors. " Mr. Blair charged them with being the refuge and shelter of thieves, perjurers, and malefactors, anfi that to them tihe, country would 'look as the Tesponsible authors of this most irl'ecfncil'able wound ever given to I'epubli‘q‘ n institutions. . He did not argue to any extent on the law and facts in the casé. TIIe had been induced to take up the arguinent at a ‘moment’s notice and of eourse had no time for learned citations, but his remarks were quite as effective as the ~most 'exlmusti\'r_e summing up of law ‘and facts. Judge Black was even more outspoken and severe than'the gentleman who preceeded him. He made no bones of his purpose.’ e acknowledged that he expected no de’\cisio'n in accordance R}zith the law-and ‘faets from men acting as they had. He félt confident, indeed, that their opinions had been made up long before ‘the case opened,.and he would as soon expect honest judgmert from the ‘marble tigure of Apollo or Jupiter as the eight.. Everybody expected to hear the abusive advocate called to order, but to the surprise of everybody he was allowed to finish unmolested, having lashed the members with inconceivable fury and defiance. This ended the case, bare three hours having been taken up in its presentation. The Republicans announced that they had no arguments to -present, thus plainly indieating that they had such absolute control of the infamous eight that a favorable decision was secured at any rate, in advance. ' ‘ The Senate has approved the Coinmission’s South Carolina decision, but the! House had not, as late as last evening, ,disposed of the matter. ‘Strong efforts are ‘being made to se‘cure delay, but too many Deth&c,p%its ‘are voting the Republicans for a completion of the ceunt to warrant the hope that the final declaration of Mr. Hayes’ right to the Pr.evsideilcy may be defeated. . - )

Mr. Hewitt, on Friday.and again on Monday, took accasion to ven@late the duplicity and treachery of Commissioner Hoar. Mr. Hewitt’s remarks on Monday created considerable excitement, and the House presented a turbulent appearance. -Mr. Ifoar?s defence was a tame affair. =

- A very import;iaut measure was put through the House on Tuesday. The ever vigilant David Dudley Field, from the committee on privileges, reportéd a bill, providing that in the case of a failure to elect a President and Vice-President, the President of the Senate, or in case of a vacancy in that oflice, then the speaker of the House, or in case of there being no sgeaker, then the Secretary of State shall assume the oflice of Presidens until a President has. been elected. After Mr. Field - offered the above there was considerable sparring enp:aged:in between both sides, but the bill was finally read a third time}md passed by a vote of 130 to 89, a party vote with the exception of Purman, of Florida, who is a‘Radical. = The Senate is not likely to give its assent to this bill, the Republicans regarding it a dangerous measure calculated to aid the designs of the filibusters. ! Just before going to preés we learn that, at the urgent solicitation of Mr. Hayes, President Grant is tg} recognize the Nicholls government in Louisiana to-morrow, leaving the Wade Hampton government in South Carolina-to be recognized by Hayes after his inauguration. This arrangement is designed as a guard against filibustering by the Southern representatives. .

Mr. Grant has been known to give utterance to expressions that savored somewhat of common sense. But these instances have been rare. He is now credited in one of his periodical interviews with the agent of the Associated Press in Washington, held on Sunday, with having stated that he does not intend to recognize either of the state governments in Louisiana or South Corolina, for insodoing it would be a virtual marking out of a policy for his successor. -And, further, a republican government in either of the States, would necessitate a mainten’ ancg of the same by military rule, and the people, he says, have had enough of that. 'What they now desire, more than any thing else, is to take care of themselves, and they will do it if left ‘to themselves and not interfered with by federal bayonets. .=~ . b

So little respect for Grant is :left among his lately subservient supporters in the house -of ‘representatives, that they voted against a resolution, Tuesday, declaring his views on the Louisiana question to be “eminently ‘sound and patriotic.” The resolution was offered by Mr. ‘Watterson. It recited briefly the president’s remark to an inferviewer to the effeet that Nicholls is the rightful governor of Louisiana, and characterized'that expression in fitting terms as above quoted. Undeniably truthful as is General Grant’s statement of the case, every Republican in the house refused to indorse it. Such disrespect to'the chief magistrate of the party is positively shocking.

" The New Albany Ledger-Standard nominates Hon, ‘. A. Hendricks for President in 1880, ' The Franklin Herald nominates Don Piatt for President, and Hon, N. T, Carr for VicePresident. : S “ Wouldn’t' it be in better taste to dispose of our funeral before making new engagements for four years

WE URGENTLY recommend the attentive perusal of an exceedingly able editorial of thd New York World, of Feb. 24, headed, “Not Quite éo Fast.” The article ought to be read and pondered over by every American citizen.

- Mrs, HAvEs is having her inaugural dress made in Cincinnati. It is fo be a gorgeous out-fit, . :

LEGISLATIVE ITEAMS.

Gleaned From the Daily Reports of i the Proceedings,

| —The Legislature has passed a bill removing the county seat of Clark county from Charlgston to Jeffersonvilie. : :

—The House has passed a bill authorizing county commissioners to offer a reward for the capture of hi)ise thieves. = sk

" —The Senate -has passed -a bill amending the ‘law regulating marriages so as to forbid the marriage of first cousins or of boys under 18, or girls under the age of 16. —A bill-has passed the House by a vote of 70 to 16 authorizing Boards of County Commissioners to construct gravel, MacAdamized .or paved roads upon the petition of a‘hg*:xj'ority of the resident land owners along and adjacent . to the line of any such road, authorizing: them to issue the bonds of the county to raise money for that purpose, and to provide for the payment of such bonds by taxing theadjacent lands. LA St

-—An Indianapolis telegram of the 25th ult. says the Legislature has done nothing yet of special public interest, and thisis the last week of the session. - There is a good deal of talk of a special session, but the-Governor is averse to calling it. 1f the appropri‘ation bills are passed there will be none, although the result of the session will 'show but little important legislation: -of a .general. character. Some hopes are still entertained that a State-Ilouse bilt ean be passed, and the Senate will consider the subject of appointing a Joint Committee on the part of the Senate and House as a spe cial order on Monday. The prospects of agreement are very, slender., : . —An important bill has been introduced in the Senate by Senator Reeve. It is designed to facilitate the settles ment of estates of decedents. It authorizes the court jto appoint a competent person to act as probate commissioner, the salary to be fixed by the% court, and to be proportioned to the business required of hién. and to. be paid on the order of the court either quarterly or from term to term. T;ie commissioner is required to keep an office, to have a seal, to keep a record and note briefly his proceedings and findings. He shall have general supervision of all estates of decedents and of minors and persons of unsound mind, and -see that the laws relating to the administration and settlement of estates are complied with. He shall examine all claims, reports and petitions, and report to the court such. matters as he shall deem of importance. He may report matters of importance to the Judge in vacation, and the court may, in vacation, make orders for the protection of estates. Hé shall see that' the administrators, etc., are diligent, that they make no u'h just allowances or charges, and that their bonds are kept good; that no incapable person be allowed to act as administrator or guardian ; that estates are not wasted nor assets endangered, and in the absence of the Judge may temporarily suspend the action of a trustee in order to protect gstates until the court can take action.. Court may refer petitions and reports to the commissioner. 'The province of the commissioner is not to adjudicate, but to examine, make findings, and report ‘to the court for its guidance and action. lle may preserve evidence and may summon parties and witnesses, and generally relieve the court of the details of the labor in the settlement of estates. e S

ALBION RUMMAGES.

The weather is again settled, the sun is shining beautifully, and the busy sounds of toil are heard on every side. To the north we hear nothing, save the rumbling of wheels, ever and anon, as a carriage leaves the livery, or an occasional oath from the|loungers in front of,{Kifp,ney’s saloof‘g. To the east and south; we ‘hear tlfif pondeérous school bell calling the students to “come,” and we see them hurrying away to the work which so few now know what it has in store for them. In the south we also hear the loud, jarring noise of the carpenter’s hammer as he faithfully toils on, always “hitting the nail on the head.” Quite a large bundle of BANNERS comes to'this oflice every Friday.

Farmers are now flocking in from all parts of the county to settle their rents with Treasurer Black. - What is the difference between Florida and Oregon? .= None, they are the same; but the Commission treated them as being different. But it gave the members thereof a terrible wrench to do it.

Last Sunday evening we had no preaching in town, in cdnsequence of which a prayer-meeting was held at the Lutheran church. This ils the first time we have been so neglected for a long while. : e Our little village is disturbed by some sickness at present. ; If those hogs and cows are not kept off of the street I should n’t wonder if the hogs will be caught by 'the collar-a, and th€)cows be taken by the cowcatcher. . - ! s

“Ego amo te” is a nice way to say it, and yet it had n’t thé same effect that it would had he used the plain English, and said to-her, ‘I love thee.”

- Next Monday the legislative body of Noble county meets. At that meeting their attention might be attracted to the.consideration of the convenience of a good well near the county jail. | el dabi s : s

Last Saturday our town was made lively by theé great number of “Hoosier school-masters” in attendance at the monthly examination. Each one must have that little slip of paper, furnished by the County Superintendens, before entering upou the good: work of expanding the juvenile mind. + : We are happy to hear the flattering praises of the success J..C. Wolf is having in the management of his school in Port Mitchell. Jake has a point in view. S

In Albion the justices of the peace fine a man $l,OOO for 'committing suicide. N 3 )

Sheriff Eagles and (_l:tugtxter start to Indianapolis to-morrow (Tuesday) taking with them an insane lady who was ordered to be taken to the hospital for the insane. Aeneren i :

Ilow%many of the correspondents of Tne BANNER ave going to witness the inapgural ceremonies of the coming President next Monday ? JAP,

OREGON GIVEN TO HAYES.

The Commission by a Party Ma- ' jority Admits the Vote of Postmaster Watts,

The Usual Eight to Seven—A Motion to Rejeoct the Vote of Cronin ' Unanimously Adopted. :

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—The Eleetoral Commission reached their conclusion upon the Oregon case at 5:30 o’clock this afternoon, and decided to count the vote of the three Republi-. can electors to Hayes and Wheeler. The. vote of the Commission was the same as on Florida and Louisiana—B to 7. The virtual decision of the Commission was known some two hours before the formal vote was taken. The tenor of the discussion which indicated it leaked out of the secret session from Republican sources from time to time till just before 3 o’cldck, ‘when Justice Bradley concluded his opinion in faveor of Watts, the ineligible elector, and it was no.longer possible to keep the fact'from the public. A telegram was’'sent to Gov. Hayes ag early as 2:30 from insidethe Commission, informing him of the, result. The delay ot the formal vote was occasioned by the illness of Senator Thurman,. who was unable to leave his room, and the Commission proceeded in-u body to his residence, -where the vote was taken in his library, whence they returned to the Supreme Court room and removed all njunction of secrecy from their proceedings. & 4 The debate in the secret session of the Commission was not able nor as protracted as in the Florida or Louisiana case,and took more'of a colloquial form ot expression. Most of the members agree that the discussion on the Florida case was one of the ablest ever heard in a consultation-room, and there is very general regret expressed that these and the other conferences have not been reported, but the Republicansevenrefused to admit the official stenographer, and nothing is preserved of them except inthe recollections of the Commissioners and the bare journal of the resolutions and the votes thereon. e

_ The only formal opinions given today were by Senators Bayard and Edmunds and Justices Bradley and Miller. Representative Hunton spoke briefly, and Messrs. Morton, Abbott and Payne, and Justices Field and Clifford controverted by their questions many of the legal®assumptions of the other Commissioners who supported the eligibility of Watts. The disctission had not gone far before it was, evident that the Commission were quite unanimous in the opinion that the certificate of Cronin, the Democratic °elector, should not .be counted, and subsequently the vote was unanimous to exclude it. The entire debate was, therefore, centered upon the eligibility of Watts and the legality of his appointment under the laws of Oregon on the day the Electoral College met. It was lield against Watts that he was not only ineligible at the latter time, but: that the law of the State did not provide for filling a vacancy thus created, and that his election was a violation of both Federal and: State:law. -

Although. the decision has been very generally discounted, there was nevertheless a keen interest shown atthe Capitol and throughout the city-to learn it finally. The Democrats have thought that it was the forlorn hope for the triumph of the law, as well as the justice of their course in the Commission, and though latterly, whether justly or not, they have telt that the morale of the Oregon case \{as against them, they nevertheless lingered to the last for a decision that would lift the law and the equity of their whele case above the partisan passion that rules the . hour, ¢+ So great was their disappeintment that the majority of the IHouse moved a recess at once, when the decision of the Commission was known, and carried it. The Democratic members were then requested to remain in the hall for conference. OREGON COUNTED. , On Saturday the ‘two Houses of Congress ‘met in joint convention-at noon, and the decision of the Electoral Commission touching the votes from Oregon was read. The brief ground of the decision, which is in favor of all the Hayes electors, is that “the said electors appear to have beeu lawfully appointed, and they voted as such at the time and in the manner provided for by the constitution of the United States, and the law; and the Commission are further of the opinion that by ‘the laws of Oregon the duty of canvassing the returns of all the votes given at election of. President and Vice-President was imposed upon the Secretary of State, and upon no one else; that the Secretary of State .did canvass these returns and ascertained:that J. C. Cartwright, W. H. Odell, and J. W. Watts had a majority of all the votes given for the electors, and had the highest number of votes. for that office; and’by the express language of the statutes those persons are deemed elected; that in obedience to his duty, the Seeretary of State made a canvass and tabulated statement. of the votes showing ‘this result, which, according to law, he placed on file in his office on the 4th of December, 1876 ; all this appears by the official certificate, under the seal of the Secretary of State, and signed by him, and was deliveréd by him to the electors, and forwarded by them to the President of the Senate with the votes; that the refusal or failure of the Governor of Oregon to sign the certificate of the election of-the persons 80 elected does not have the effect of defeating their appointment for such electors; that the act of the Governor of Oregon. in.giving.to E. A. Cronin a certificate -of his election, though he received one thousand votes less than Watts, on the ground that the latter was ineligible was without the authority of law and is therefore void; that although the evidence showed that Watts was a postmaster at the time of his election, that fact is rendered immaterial by his resignation, both as postmasfer and elector, and his subsequent appointment to fill thé vacancy in the Electoral College; that the Commission has in consequence of the foregoing and upon the grounds before stated, decided that a paper purporting to be the certificate of the electoral vote of Oregon, signed by E. A. Cronin, J. N, T. Miller, and John. Parker, is not a certificate of the votes provided for by the constitution of the United States, and they ought not to be counted ag such,” ‘| Senator Kelley objected to the decision on the following grounds: First, that Watts was not elected; second, that he was not appointed ; third, that he was disqualified to receive any appointment as a Presidential Elector, or to sit as such, ag he held an office of trust and profit under the United States; fourth, that Cronin was elected a Presidential Elector for Oregon, and “In° accordance with law cast the legal vote as such elector for Tilden, and that such vote should be counted.

The “liquor law” in Maine has just been amended so as to include native wine and cider among the kst of intoxicants. Under the law as amended thie manufacture of all intoxicating liquors is prohibited except cider, and heavy penalties are imposed for convictions under the search and seizure clauge. For the first conviction any person who sells any intoxicating liguor manufaetured by him in the State, except cider, ig liable to a punishment of two months in the county jail and a fine

HIS INAUGURAL ADDRESS.

Betur}nl’nz Board Hayes, Esq., Returng Thanks for the Fraudulent \ Presidency. ' (From the New York Sun.) ,

It is assumed that the policy of the Fraudulent President will be conciliation, after the manmer of the cock among the cattle, who said, “Don’t let us tread upon each other, gentlemen! In furtherance of this purpose, we suppose, the first copy of R. B. Hayes’s' Tlnaugural Address has been presented to-the Sun in advance of all other papers. It'is as follows: FeLLow Crrizexs:, The first ‘duty of a ' man, who has been elevated to a high office, is to return thanks to these by whom he has been made successful. Accordingly, I begin wn!;h, expressing my vrofoundest sense of gratitude to Mr. J. Madison Wells, and his three associates, who, by such a rare exercise of ingenuity, audacity and fidelity, were enabled to turn a majority of 8,000 against me iq Louisiana into a majority of 4,000 in my faver. The feat is altogether unparalleled in political history, and shall receive, as it deserves, a high reward. I must also remember the services of the illustrious High-Low Commissibn, which, sworn to- ascertain what electors were ‘ditly anpointed to each State, stuck so \maunfully together in the noble resolve that no evidence should be taken té prove that anybody was elected anywhere exeept the persons who cast their votes for me. Where the merit was so impartially distributed, it might be invidious to single out particular individuals for honorable mention; but I cannot refrain from extolling the names of O. P. Morton (Onlyfor Party Morton), who, two years ago, introduced a bili authorizing either House . of Congress to reject the electoral vote of a State, but, as a Commissioner steadily. insisted that neither House could £0 behind the veturns, where they were in my favor; also G. F. Edmunds (Great Fraud Edmunds); who, two years ago, .denounced the ever blessed Returning Board of Louisiana as “a contrivance of thieves,” and not fit to be regarded in seating a Senator, but who asserts that it is to be sacredly regarded in seating a President: and, finally, the immortal Jack Bunsby, I mean Joe Bradley, who, chosen as umpire in a board equally divided, always voted on my side. Hig fidelity can never be forgotten. : | Let me, besides, compliment the perspicacity and consistency of the Senate, which, having twice voted for Morton’s bill, allowing either ‘House to throw out; an electoral vote, at length discovered, when 1t became necessary to elect me, that. it was highly improper and unconstitutional for either House:even to think of -trampling upon the rights of a State, lespecially when it was represented by a board of knaves and perjurers. It is no easy matter for a grave body of Senators to overcome their’ often-ex-pressed convictions, but in ‘my case it was done with the utmost facility and without hesitation. As some of these Senators are soon to retire from their office they may count upon me, 23 they have al*ready counted for me. * 3 k * *

‘Having thus returned my thanks to those to whom I am chiefly indebted for my place by one vote, against a general popular majority of 262,000, against a- majority of one millioh among the white citizens of the country, against an electoral majority-in the two stolen States that were counted for me, it might be expected of me to announce my policy for the future, But I have not yet consulted with Chandler, Morton, or ‘Wells, and do not desire to be premature. As, however, while fi was in Congress, I voted for every bill to inflate the currency, for every subsidy to the gigantic railroad corporations, for nearly every job, and for all of Thad. Stevens’s extremest meg’ures of Southern oppression, ypu may infer that lam not going tg forget my old friends, whatever I or anybody else may say to the contrary. +

RETURNING BOARD HAYES,

The Feople’s ’il)isappointment. [From the Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.).]

The Tribunal was, from the outset, trusted with the patriotic hopes and honored with the fullest confidence of three-fourths of the people of the United States,in the belief that the solemn circumstances attending: the necessity and the. act that brought it into being, would cause all its members (with -possibly three .exceptions) to rise above all party considerations in the discharge of their momentous duty. In thelight of this antecedent hope, and confidence, and in view of the votes written on the record of the Commission, it is pitiable to observe that every important question thus far submitted to the Commission has divided the Commissioners, eight to seven, on strict party lines, accordingly as the decision would help the case of Gov. Hayes or hurt the case of Gov. Tilden. It was not believed by fairminded, intelligent men that such a division could come about. The outside adherents of each party mutually charge this as a discredit on the opposing members of the Commission. The zealous Democrats reproach the Republicans with these partisan votes of the eight republican Commission.ers, and the zealous Republicans retort by pointing to the partisan votes of the seven Democrats on the Commission. This is about what might be expected from that kind of discussions But that which will live in history and in the minds of the vast majority of the public is this: That the seven voted to look into the evidence, voted to-take testimony, and voted to let in light, so as to get at the truth; and that the eight voted all the time to turn away from evidence} to shut out the light, and so to close the door up-on-all efforts to find ;the! truth. The seven voted in a way to 'promote the great object for which the Commission was created; the eight voted in a way to make the Commission utterly useless for the principal purpose for which it has any reason for being in existence at all. The Senator, the Judge, the presidential aspirant, tfie party that supposes the eyes of the American people can be closed to this vital aspect of the matter is making a signal and perilous mistake. The American people know what is honorlable, fair, manly and just, and their ultimate decisions always show, that they not only know, but that they act upon their knowledge. Ly

A Red Hot Declaration. ; (From Slater’s Franklin Democratic Herald.) ‘When the Democratic party consents to the inauguration of Hayes, it acknowledges its imbecility and incompetency to deal with the great question necessary to protect our system of free government. It :was a party that grew bolder, braver and mightier under the defeats of the last sexteen years, but it is a party which the people will abandon, - loathe, desg}ise and spit upon, when it cowardly consents to be robbed of its just rights and honest victory. Its death and disintegra~ tion dates from the preface of its cowardice. The Republican who can no longer tolerate the crimes, rascalities and corruptions of his own party, will not find or seek a haven of rest or gecurity in the arms of a party whose leaders are notorious cowards and incompetent imbeciles. The pulling politician who thinks our party will command respect and strengthen in number by submission to fraud, had. better go and commence his education in the primary iethics of logic, where his first lesson teaches that God hates a coward, and that men possess that one attribute of Deity, ' o

Eighteen members of the present Congress are natives of Vermont,

- NOT QITITE; SO FAST! (From the New York World, Feb. 24th.)

The, revolutionary backers of Governor Hayes are betraying their true spirit daily in their hot and tempestuous urgency for a prompt consummation of the great national erime in which they are.engaged. 1t is already ‘certain that if Governor Hayes ever gets the Presidency of ‘the United States at all, he will get it with a vitiated title, and as the result of a series .of deliberate frauds upon the American ‘people. So far from seeking to cloak these frauds any longer under some decent semblance of respect for the forms of the Constitution and the law, the -spoilsmen of the nepublican party have flung aside all reserve, and clamor for the immediate closing up of the tra‘n#‘ction. On the merest intimation from Washington that there may be serious informalities in the votes to be offered from certain States not yet reached on the roll, their organs with one consent. are breaking Qut into a chorus of execrations on all iconservative members who may venture to insist on seeing these informalities fully, fairly and legally looked into. “Close up the count!” they cry out; just as of old Titus Oates cried out/ that every man who asked for a fair trial of his fellow-subjects accused - of high treason, was himself a traitor, and bent on “stifling the plot!” . Why should there be this tremendous haste in “closing” a count which, when it is closed up by the law and the forms, will yet remain forever open in equity and in faect, exlialing its pestiferous vapors to poison the atmos;ghere of American polities, and corroding by its exhalations the lustre of our national character in the eyes of all mankind? Certainly not for the sake of restoring public confidence and reanimating the business interests of the country. Let there be no delusion on.this point. Public confidence will not be restored, nor will business be reanimated, by the consummation of this wretched eight-by-~seven ‘fraud upon the American people. If Governor Hayes /had been lawfully elected in November last,and ‘ his election ‘had been established by lawful methods, there would already be a general acquieScence in the result. Governor Tilden was lawfully’ elected in November last; and until the revolutionists and conspirators at Washington began their bedevilment of Southern returns to defeat this lawful election, the whole country acquiesced in the result, confidence began to revive, American securities gosein all markets, and our merchants expected a real new birth of prosperity. The American people are not politicians in the modern and dangerous sense of that word. They have their party beliefs; they hold them strenu--ously, they battle for them warmly at the polls. DBut when the legal battle is lover they settle back quietly into the ordinary relations of life, and accept the upshot with a degree of good mnature and good sense amazing to foreign observers not trained in the principles and practice of English constitutional liberty. @ When _ this abnormal Electoral Commission was established it was acquiesced in by the masses of the American people, in the belief that it would eonform in spirit, if not in form, to the equitable system of our ancestors. Had it fulfilled the expectations of tilmle people, had it made even adecent show of ascertaining before it decided what persons were legally chosen electors in November last, the masses even of those who voted for and elected Governor Tilden would have acquiesced in the result, as plainly intended to be just, and as reached by fair means, understood by ‘both! sides and .by both sides agreed to. DBut the Electoral Commission has disappointed the expeetations of the people. It is child[ish to discuss the question whether ithe eight members who have saddled themselves forever with the responsibility of making this Commission a mockery, a failure and a fraud, have or have not legal covers and excuses for their action. As a matter of fact, they have left undone what the people expected them to'do, and they have done what the -people expected them not to do; and there is no health, theretore, in them; nor can be in their work. e i !

If, now, through the regular and orderly operation of the forms of law, the Commissgion and Congress | between them fail to reach a definite conclusion of the Presidential matter before the 4th of March, in what respect will the American people be the ggorse for that fact on the morning of March sth? Of course, the office: holders and the office-seekers will be the worse forit. Are they the only persons worth econsidering :in the United States? - Suppose Governor Hayes, Governor. Tilden and all the members of the Electoral Commission were to die to-day? There would be tears for some of them,no doubt. But would not the <American people be able to keep their institutions going, down to and even after this pretentious date of the 4th of March, about which so much cabalistic ‘and calamitous nonsense is now talking? [The better class of the partisans who/ expect office from Governor Hayes, while they admit that Madison Wells is a rascal, and that Florida and Louisiand have been virtually cheated of their votes, bid us reconcile ourselves to the result as due to the operation of thelaws. Should wereach and pass the 4th of March, through the operation of the laws, withoutselecting a successor to President Grant, what reason will there be in that for convulsions and despair? Certainly it‘will be impossible for the Senate of the United States to give the country any President less truly representative of the will of the people than a candidate who was beaten at the polls in November and hopes to be “counted in” byl Returning Boards, State and National, in December and February. Certainly no President appointed dd intertm 'by the Senate can hold the country with & grasp less firm than a President who must be a President ad tnterim forever, since his title, beginning in fraud, must be, continue and end in fraud also! : -

All good citizens yearn ald long for peace and the restoration of confidence. ~But on what can confidence rost, if [not on' good faith; and how can good faith co-exist with the triumph and coronation of fraud? At this moment our streets are full of industrious men starving for lack of work. . Our banks are full of capital which goes a-begging for employment at 2 and 3 per cent. 'Why is not this capital setting these arms at work? Simply because no one feels sure of the political future. And it is insuch a state of things that the country is urged to make haste in proclaiming a lie, in order that faith and truth may once more leap up and develop confidence! Could anything be more absurd? So far as our commercial relations go this is certain: that the great decline in our commereial interests has been chiefly caused by want of confidence abroad in ‘the honesty and fidelity with which American enterprises are managed. Nobody has lost faith in our resources. Many people haye lost faith in our Government and in our national character. Does anybody in his right mind imagine that the demoralizing effects of Grantism, of Belknapism, of Emma Mine swindles, and the like, are to be done away with by the election to the Presidency of a candidate beaten at the polls, and installed through the action of Returning Boards ? - It is superfluous for us to say that we have mever counselled any factions or unnecessary delays in the verification of the : Presidential votes, and the eonsummation of the Republican crime, But that is no reason why we should refrain from denounei’ng, as it deserves to be denounced, the nauseous hypocrisy of people who, after twist:

ing the sanctities of the law to serve flat public dishonesty, are, now trembling with terror lest these same sanc~ tities of the law should in some way cheat them of their spoil. This Presidential question- was settled by the people at the polls in November. It was unsefttled by the Republican conspiratorsimmediately afterwards, and has been kept unsettled by them till this time. It is the height of folly as well as of impeértinence for these disturbers of the public peace now to pretend to a sudden and spasmodic longing for peace. Sl ; e} 0 TR | A Dead Body Found. : The body of an unknown woman was recently*found near Mace, a small. station on the I; B. & W.railroad, near Crawfordsville. The left side of the body was horribly mangled, having been eaten by dogs, and presented a revolting sight. - The flesh had been gnawed from the waist to the crown, of the head, and the left arm was torn® out of the socket; One. tooth wag missing from the left side of the lower jaw. The face was so mutilated as to destroy the features. There were no wounds on the person that would indicate that she was the victim of violence, so far is could be seen. The body had evidently lain tliere a month or six weeks.” Her clothing was marked Frederika Bodine, but farther than that there was no clue to her identity. Sinee the above was in type we learn from the Kendallyille Standard that. Frederika Bodine was sent from that city to the insane asylum Esevex"al lgnoncps, ago, and that'she had wiy:mdered away from that institution.

. Death of Naj. General Eaton. ‘ Maj. General Eaton died on the 21st ult., while visiting his son, Prof. Eaton, of Yale college. He was born in New York in 1804, entered West Point in 1822, was engaged iun‘the Florida war and in the Canada border disturbances, served as chief commissary of subsistence of Gen. Taylor’s army in the Mexican war, and was in the Battle of Buena Vista. From 1861 to 1864 he ‘was depot commissary and purchasing commissary for the armies in the field, in New York, and during this time was promoted successively to the ranks of Major, Lieutenant-Colonel, Colonel and DBrigadier-General. Imr 1864, as Commissary-General, he took charge of the subsistence bureau at Washington, and in 1865 was made Brevet Ma-jor-General. In 1874 he was retired.

: ~ Extra Session. : It is hinted that there will be an extra session. Gov. Williams is opposed to calling a special session. He thinks sixty days amply sufficient to complete all the legislation the State needs. . He don’t believe in much legislation. His idea is that but very few new laws are needed. He will not call the General Assembly together- unless compelled to do so, by the present body failing to make the necessary appropriations to carry on the State institutions. It is thought the appropriation bills are being held back with a view of forcing a special session. It is to be hoped no such calamity will befall the State.—Franklin Herald... - o o e ~ THE MARKETS. . LIGONIER. GRAIN AND SEEDS.—Wheat, red, $l- - Rye, 55¢; Oats, 33¢; Corn,4s@so¢; Flax Seed, $1 25; Clover Seed, $8 75; Timothy Seed, $2 00@2 25. : PropUcE.—Hogs, live, {8 cwt $4 75, dressed $5 25@5 50; Shoulders, {3 b, 08c; Hams, 10c;. Turkeys, live, per b, 7c; Chickens,.s¢; Bees Wax, 25¢; Butter, 15¢; Lard, 10c; Eggs, ¥ doz., 10c; Wool, ©lb, 35@40c; Feathers, 75¢; Tallow, 614 ; Apples, dried, s¢, green, #3 bu. 25¢; Potatoes 75@90c; Hay, 33 ton, marsh $B, timothy $lO. -

KENDALLVILLE.

-GRAIN AND SwEDS.—Wheat, white $1 43, red $1 40; Corn, 45¢c; Oats, 36¢; Clover Seed, $8 75 ; Flax, $1 00; Timothy, $2 50. : - ; OTHER PRODUCE.—Hams, @ 1b 10c; Shoulders, 08c; Lard,llc; Tallow,7c; Wool, 33¢; Bufter, 15¢; Beeswax, 25¢; Abpples, dried 414 c, green,{ bu., 25¢; Potatoes, $1 00; Eggs, ¥ doz. 08c.

CHlCAGO—TFebruary 27. 1877.

GRAIN AND ‘SEEDS.—Wheat, $120; Corn; 39%4c; Oats,33¢c; Rye, 63c; Barley, 52¢; Clover Seed, $S5O@B 60; fsl‘imqthy, $1 50@1 75; Flax, $1 50@1- % i i ! £

Propuce.—Mess Pork, Pewt, $l4 20 @l4 30; Lard, $9 60@9 70; Hams, green, @¥lb, 73/ @Bc; Shoulders, 514¢c; Dressdd Hoés, Bewt, $6 00@6 20; Butter, fair to good, 16@117¢, choice, 25@ 28c; -Eggs, @ doz, 13c; Potatoes, Tsc @sl 1244, ! : : PouLTßY.—Turkeys, dressed, @ Ib, 11@12¢; Chickens, s@loc; Ducks, S@ 10c; Geese, T@9¢c. -

TOLEDO.—February 28, 1877

GRfIN_AND SEEDS.—Wheat, amber; $1 4314, No. 2, Wabash $1 42; Corn, 4334c’ Oats, 34%5c; Clover Seed, $8 9(; Timothy Seed, $175. | - : GROCERIES—PROVISIONS, &C.—Potatoes, ¥ bu. 75@95¢; Flour, Y cwt., fine ss+oo, superfine $5 50, extra $7 25; Lard, 12@12%5; .Butter, fresh_rolls, 18@20c; Eggs, ¥ doz., 11@12¢; Dried Apples, 415. MEeATs.— Hams, 12@12%4c; DBeef, hind quarter, ¥ 1, 615¢c, fore quarter 415 c. e > - PouLTßY.—Turkeys, dressed, 11@ 12¢; Chickens,9@loc; Ducks,ll ; Geese, T@se. 1 gl "

LIVEISTOCK. MARKETS.

CHoicAaco, Feb. 27.—Cattle, ext heavy, B ewt, $6 00@6 25, good to choice SH45@5 25, common to fair $3 90@4 20; cows and heifers, $2 75@3 75. Hogs, extra heavy $6 20@6 25, comman to choice heavy $5 To@s 90, light %5 25 @5 50. Sheep, good to choice heavy, P cwt, B 4 Ts@s 25, fair to medium $3 00@4 25. : ity : BUFFLO, Feb. 13.—Cattle. Moderately active, good shipping(l3oo to 1500 Ib) $5 @5 75, butchers’ $4 40@4 90, stock cattle $3 90@4 00. Sheep, prime choice 1001bs, $5 60@6 50, medium to good $4 50@5 5. 1 Hogs, light $5 50, good heavy $6 40. ! e i

A special telegram dated Toledo, 0., Feb. 23, says: “A death from smallpox occurred last night, and several more are in the small-pox hospital. At a ball at Blissfield, Michigan, recently, where the disease is epidemic, a man fell dead with it while dancing, and nearly every unvacecinated person in the room at the time was subsequently taksx with the disease. Among them were Toledo residents, who are the only vietims thus far here.” B e

Last Sunday Deputy Sheriff Anderson arrested, near Monroeville, Allen county, one George Jones, a notorious ;xgrse thief, who has for a long time beén plying his subtle villainieg upon the good citizens of that county. This is considered the most important capture that hag been made for several years, as Jones was the leader of a gang of horse thieves that have in fested that part of the State for several months, © : o i

| MARRIBD. - ALKIRE -HANEY.—-February 25th, 1877, by and at the residence of Jefferson Addis, Esql.; Ceo. Alkire to Miss Mary A, Haney, all of Noble Co, STOCKBERGER—ALLYN.—In Hiram, 0., Feb. 21, 1877, by Rev, A. 8. Hayden, at the residence of thehrid);‘s parents, Mr. G, M. Stockberger, of Ligonier, Ind;, to Miss Minnie E. Allyn, of Hiram, Ohio. : s The numerous friends of Mr, Stockberger in this vicinity join us in congratulations toihe happy couple, We wish them longevity of y¢ars and the most sublime felicities of connubial assoclations, Gt o

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SEE THEIR STOCK & PRICES. . ENGEL&CO., The Popular CLOTHIERS, HATTERS & TAILORS RegSUeRIOVIMeeI | Kendallville, Ind. Jnnuflryu,l‘_.B77.‘-10-37‘-_ i o Ly : . : s z! g o a ——— - L The|Undersigned Will, During the Next 80 DANS. Sell Anything in his Line, Such as

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~ HATS AND CAPS, &c., -JI - Without Regard to Cost, : e 0 . . THIS IS NO HUMBUG THIS IS NO HUMBUG e -As I Have Got to Sell G $25,000 Worth of Goods within that time, on account of making a 1 ./ change in my business position. e J. STRAUS, Jr.,, Original Boss Clothing House, LIGONIER, INDIANA. ; ; ¢« Ligonier, November 30, 1876 -47-tf | ; ]

Is still in the Fiéld with one of the Larg- | | e - est Stockfs of” oo | WROCERIES, QUEENS-w AR VUL QU I 8 - Table Cutlery, - ‘ | Wh‘i’ch he 'ofi'ers for sale at _ . GREATLY REDUCED PRICES! The Greatest Bargains in T'li‘a{t hzfire elVer been: off'erédrto :fhe people o% Northern Indiana. i ety L S 8 amoffering @ ‘ J a,panTea,for S5O cts. pér Ib. Whiéh cgn;ibt be bought ’elsewlhgre for less;tfiall 75 cents per 'p_omid., _ ,Hfi;ldreQS of my'custbfmers can att}est to this fact. - lam Making a Specialty in Tobaccos. .. MY STOCK OF ol DUEENSWARE & GLASSWARE : - ;I_s'.t;hle filé)éié; completem this'section ‘of .I‘;he 'cogmt;'y. L - IlCanSave You Money, By callmgand -ex;;xpjni»iig"my goéd’s before vi;%fiying'elsev?rheré :

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